Time passed more quickly than expected.
It had barely been three weeks since Lin Mu sent out the message, and already, a courier from the Smoldering Rock Merchant Union arrived at their courtyard, carrying an exquisitely engraved jade box sealed with radiant golden sigils. The aura that pulsed from it was ethereal—so faint that only cultivators of a certain realm could even perceive it, yet unmistakably potent.
Lin Mu was immediately notified, and the group gathered in the main hall to receive it.
"Looks like the horn made it here sooner than we thought," Daoist Chu remarked, glancing at the courier, who was still trembling slightly from the pressure of being in Lin Mu's presence.
"Lady Kang never disappoints," Lin Mu said with a faint smile, receiving the jade box personally.
"Did she say anything else?" Meng Bai asked, watching intently as Lin Mu examined the seals.
