Everyone watched as the magical compass in Ziran's hand beca active.
It was shaped like a basic compass, having four markers designating North, South, West and East.
The only difference was that the needle of the compass was suspended over a tiny blue crystal whose top had been shaven into a fine point. The needle was balanced on this and spun rapidly, as if it were being pushed around by a strong gust of wind.
"Is it working?" Lin Mu asked, seeing that the needle didn't stop even after a minute.
"It might take a bit of ti, considering the size of this plane." Ziran assured. They watched for another couple of minutes, before finally the needle showed signs of slowing down. ~TING~
Then all of a sudden, it snapped into a certain direction and didn't move anymore. "There we go," Ziran said, feeling pleased.
He then adjusted the compass so that the markers were aligned properly and found out the exact directions.
"Alright, so it looks like we are facing the west right now." Ziran read the compass.
"West?" Lin Mu aligned it with the map they had made and quickly adjusted it according to the compass.
~SHUA~
The map rotated a bit and was now oriented towards the north.
"So our base is basically oriented in the North East and South West direction." Crown Prince Feng Shun observed.
The mountain with the two hills on its sides ford a diagonal line that perfectly aligned in the said direction. And the way the main room inside it was made, it was facing towards the west.
"This will certainly make things easier," Lady Kang said as she watched the new map.
"We can now add all the locations to the map," Daoist Chu suggested.
"Alright, let do that." Lin Mu said and consolidated all the information he had gotten from the jade slips and added it to the map.
Now they had a rather detailed map of about five hundred kiloters in radius, and a more rough map for about a hundred kiloter past that. With the new modification made, they could now see where each of the swarms of the Chiric beasts were located.
"Though we'll have to modify this often, since the Chiric beasts move around according to the Death Qi boundary shift." Daoist Chu stated.
"Indeed." Lin Mu agreed. "Though there might be an easier solution to that." He added.
"What is it?" Qiao De asked.
"Eliminate them from the map itself." Lin Mu stated.
"Eliminate them?" Qiao De and a few others raised their brows.
"Daoist Mu Lin has already done it before, so I don't see why it can't be done again." Lady Kang had plenty of confidence in Lin Mu's abilities.
"That's right." Crown Prince Feng Shun was in agreent, too.
He had seen the scene of slaughter that Lin Mu and his two swords had created, and knew that perhaps he could do that again if he wished to. This was especially considering the fact that the Lin Mu had improved since then and the Chiric Beast swarms were smaller than that one.
"I might advice you to err on the side of caution." Ziran said with a hint of warning. "Considering the fact that there are valuable herbs like the Three Colored Dazzling Mud Lotus here, I don't see why there cannot be other herbs here too. Or other minerals and resources." He reminded.
Lin Mu understood the half elf's train of thoughts and realized that he could have made a mistake.
"Ah, I apologize." Lin Mu replied. "It could indeed lead to a loss for us if the herbs and resources got damaged in the process." He admitted.
"That is true… Even if you can take care to avoid damaging them, the Chiric Beasts will have no such restrictions. They could end up trampling those things while running away or battling you." Crown Prince Feng Shun nodded.
"But on the other side, if we are sure that there are none of those resources present in the area of a swarm or if they are extracted in advance, I see no reason to not eliminate them." Ziran chid in again with a smile.
"That is certainly the better option." Lady Kang nodded.
"We'll do that." Lin Mu replied. "I'll be relying on everyone's experience for that." He said with cupped hands. "We'll do our best to help. It is for our benefits too, after all." Crown Prince Feng Shun chuckled.
The people were a bit pleased by the humbleness that Lin Mu showed. Most of the cultivators that they had seen at the level or even below Lin Mu tended to be quite arrogant and stubborn. It was far rare to find a flexible genius than a stubborn one.
Even in the case of Royalty, like in the case of Crown Prince Feng Shun and Crown Princess Shang, such things were common.
In fact, Crown Princess Shang herself knew that she wouldn't be so forthcoming and adaptive like Lin Mu if she was caught being in the wrong. There was a certain level of pride they developed as being royals, as well as being good at cultivation.
Crown Prince Feng Shun had plenty of siblings and cousins in his family that acted rather arrogantly and could even be abusive to those below them. While Emperor Feng was known to be rather just, he couldn't always monitor everything that his family was doing.
There were a few things that could be spared on the account of maintaining the dignity of the imperial family, but when things went a little too bad, the Emperor would have to act. Or rather, he would designate soone to act on his behalf.
After all, an Emperor personally punishing others would be quite degrading and below his status.
This was where Crown Prince Feng Shun ca in. He often acted as the punisher for his father, at least in the case of the Imperial Family. This is also why Crown Prince Feng Shun had targeted Feng Baxing the Third Prince.
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