10 Your cousin, Mu Wan
"Elder, are you a member of the Mu Family?"
Number Eight had a flash of killing intent in his eyes.
Mu Lu pretended not to notice. He was sitting down with closed eyes. It seemed as if he was one with nature.
"I was once a part of the Mu Family."
Mu Lu said.
Number Eight seems to have calmed down when he heard Mu Lu's words.
"Once?" (Number Eight)
"Yes. I was trained and brainwashed but due to an elder, I was able to escape the Mu Family and ascend to the Fourth Heaven. From the commotion earlier, your father was betrayed and you were given a Heavenly blessing?" (Mu Lu)
Number Eight felt that he had found his own kin. The torture, the stress and the humiliation that you had to suffer when in the Mu Family was mind-boggling.
Number Eight nodded at the words spoken by Mu Lu:
"My father and mother were betrayed by my second uncle."
Number Eight had a sudden thought which he spoke hesitantly:
"Elder, do you want to accompany on my journey to find the Mu Family's strongest defector?
Number Eight had a very dangerous yet home-like feeling when he talked to Mu Lu. He didn't know why or how, but listening to Mu Lu just felt right.
"Which family branch are you from?"
Instead of answering the question, Mu Lu asked another question.
Number Eight took at is a trial question. If he were to get it correct then this powerful and strange Elder could co-operate with him!
"I was not born from a branch. I am the son of Main Mu Jin and Mu Qi!"
Mu Lu had opened his jaws in shock behind the illusion.
A string of memories flew through his head.
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AT THE EDGE OF A MOUNTAIN
The memory was about a little girl talking to a man who was in his prime. He had horns on his head and handsome features that were matured.
"Qi, don't forget to find the right man! Don't let him be a wimp. After I come back, I want to a niece or a nephew!"
The man in his prime said to the little girl.
"Don't worry big brother, after you escape, I will marry and have a peaceful life."
The little girl smiled. She knew that she would be punished by the family because of her brother's escape, but she didn't mind. She believed that He would be back, stronger than ever, ready to destroy the monstrosity known as the Mu Family.
"Little Lu, we don't have much time, Qi already has a seal that makes it so that she can be detected anywhere in the Fifth Heaven. You know how precious time is, yet you waste it?"
An elderly man in Golden Robes appeared next to the man in his prime.
"Yes, master lets go!"
The little girl smiled yet tears had already begun dripping from her eyes as she watched the man and the elder fly away stealthily.
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-Qi... I forgot about her.
Mu Lu seemed to be becoming more and more angry at himself by the passing second.
-I'm still not strong enough yet. Damn that Evil God for 'doing what was good for me'!
Mu Lu, as the illusion, looked as if he had a calm thinking face.
Gorilla was still crouching. He didn't have the right to interfere with the conversation that Mu Lu and Number Eight were having.
"Elder, may I have your answer?"
Number Eight asked.
"Who is the Mu Family's strongest defector?"
Mu Lu had a habit of never answering a question. Number Eighteen wanted to get mad, but remember the strength that Mu Lu had demonstrated, Number Eighteen calmed himself down.
Number Eight started to have a proud look when answering Mu Lu's question:
"From my Maternal Side, my mother older brother, or my uncle, Mu Lu, was the strongest under the Third Heaven!"
Mu Lu's eyebrow shot up as he heard Number Eight:
"Your mother was Mu Qi of the Side brach right? How come you said that you were part of the Main Sect?"
"Elder, you knew my mother?" (Number Eight)
"I shall give you a quick rundown of who I am!" (Mu Lu)
Number Eight and Gorilla's interest rose. They both wanted to know what such an experienced rogue cultivator could be doing in the Eighth Heaven.
"I am the son of Mu Lu, and I am your cousin, Mu Wan!"
This was the best Mu Lu could think of. If he were to use some kind of other identity, Mu Lu was afraid that Number Eight would catch him out. He had already said he was a part of the Mu Family, he couldn't back out all of a sudden.
Though Mu Lu was putting himself out as an old man, It could be said that higher Realmed beings could breed over a large time. Some breed early and some late. Mu Lu was a bachelor but he knew the general idea of breeding. Even if he called himself Mu Lu's son, would there be anybody to deny it?
"Impossible! Uncle Mu Lu had a son? But wouldn't that Elder Brother Mu Wan was in the sect when Uncle Mu Lu was escaping?" (Number Eight)
"Yes, I only met Aunt Qi once at that time. Is Aunt Qi still alive?" (Mu Lu)
"Yes, mother was still looking about thirty years old 900 years ago, mother should look around fifty years old now." (Number Eighteen)
Mu Lu almost shed tears when he heard about Mu Qi still being alive. He still looked quite calm and indifferent on the outside.
"I have two disciples that I need to bring to the Thirty-third Heaven. I will come back in a hundred years or more."
Mu Lu said as he started to walk away. He didn't even want to stay there for another second, he was already at his limit at maintaining this illusion without the use of Qi. But before he walked away, he turned back and threw some books which came out of his space storage cultivation:
"Take these few books as a gift from your Elder Brother, I want you two to build an army of Demonic beasts that will be used to destroy the Mu Family."
Mu Lu began to walk into the darkness of the forest, it seemed as if he had vanished into the darkness.
"The two of us?"
Gorilla and Number Eight looked at each other and spoke the words 'the two of us' uniformly.
