2279 The Tense Capital City
Lin Mu was pleased by the result as he had been fully expecting for the Death Qi to take much longer than this.
"Four months is good. It'll certainly give us the right amount of time to prepare, I suppose." Lin Mu spoke.
"If all goes well and no problematic changes happen, this does look to be in our favor." Ziran nodded. "I suppose we should update the others on this too then." Lin Mu said before quickly sending out a message through the communication jade slip.
It was giving everyone a timeline to work with and allow them to look forward to the day.
Lin Mu and Lady Kang also returned to their rooms, as there wasn't much for them to do here.
~SHUA~
Lin Mu appeared in the Sleepscape and checked on the condition of Ashy.
"She's still asleep." Lin Mu observed the little bird.
~hiss~
"She hasn't moved much either." Xiao Yin who was in the nest next to it spoke. "Yeah, she usually moves around and makes sounds but she hasn't at all." Xiao Yang chimed in.
"Hmm…" Lin Mu narrowed his eyes and scanned Ashy's body with his Immortal sense, but didn't find any problems with her. "Looks like its just the fatigue from before. I suppose doing that when she isn't in the Immortal realm was a bit too straining on her." He reckoned.
While no damage was caused to Ashy, she was still rendered into a dormant state.
And since Xukong had assured Lin Mu that the bird would be fine, Lin Mu wasn't as worried about her. He was only wondering when she would be waking up and what changes would take place for her.
Having checked on her, Lin Mu decided to return to his comprehension of the Sky Dao. His training with the Crown Prince had given him enough to comprehend on his own and he could now ponder on it for a while.
At the very least, he could do this until Crown Prince Feng Shun had recovered.
But while Lin Mu and his companions were stuck in the Spatial Plane, an alarming set of events were happening in the Rust Sky World.
A tense atmosphere could be felt in the Capital City of the Dao Wind Empire.
The Imperial Capital that was always busy and never seemed to sleep seemed to look drastically different.
The commoners all stayed indoors, while soldiers and guards patrolled the city streets. Even the merchants that never closed their shops seemed to have taken a day off and almost no one dared to walk on the streets among them.
It was a strange sight that had not been seen for a very long time. And that was not all, as the overall security of the city had been increased by several levels. In addition to the normal guards, entire regiments of the Imperials Army had also been brought in as they manned various positions in the city.
The city squares, entrance and exits of the districts, and major buildings all had soldiers watching over them, while the normal guards patrolled the roads between them. The array of the city was prominently active, as millions of runes could be seen glowing in the sky.
No one could fly in the air as the arrays prevented that, and the surveillance was raised to the maximum through the arrays too.
Thousands of formations masters observed everything that happened in the city, noting anything that was unusual.
"Updates!" Head Formation Master Suzi demanded.
The man seemed to have dark circles under his eyes, while his eyes were a bit red. It was clear that the man was under stress and had not been able to rest for a while now. As the Head Formation Master of the Dao Wind Empire, it was unusual for him to be in a state like this.
But he wasn't alone, as the thousands of formation masters that were present around him looked to be in a similar state. Tens of thousands of formations screens were floating in the air and were present on the walls around them, all of which were being monitored every moment by the formation masters.
All of them were tense and had little rest in the last few days. While all of them were immortals and could go without sleep for months, it was a different thing for their mental fatigue.
Especially considering the recent situation which was quite special.
"No unusual activities in all the districts in the southern division!" One of the Formation masters reported.
"Two commoners were caught trying to leave their houses in the sixth commoner district in the Eastern division!" another formation master sitting a bit far from him said.
"A stray spirit beast was caught on the roof of the Little Leaf Merchant Hall in the Western Division." The third formation master reported.
"Nothing to report in the Northern Division." The Fourth and final report was given.
"Hmm… Deal with all of them according to the protocol. We cannot afford even a single mistake." Head Formation Master Suzi stated firmly. "Yes!" All the formation masters replied in unison.
The hall went silent for a few minutes after this until one of the formation masters stood up.
"Report! Fifteen flying Immortal ships have been detected!" Hearing this, the Head Formation Master's eyes went wide as he quickly turned to look at the formation screen that had been enlarged. The screen showed a dark background ,and hundreds of stars could be seen on it along with a swathe of asteroids that floated around it. Fifteen small dots could also be seen in the distance, that were slowly getting larger by the second.
"Arm the cannons." Head Formation Master Suzi ordered.
~SHUA~
Upon his command, the formation masters all spurred into action as the Capital City's grand Array lit up in a flaming red color.
~HONGLONG~
Tens of illusory cannons appeared in the sky and pointed up into nothingness.
The soldiers and guards below all gulped in nervousness seeing this and gripped their weapons tightly for whatever was about to come.