Lin Mu was looking on at the old priest and was wondering what this was. He knew that he was gonna read his fortune but this seemed to be a bit unusual to him and he hadn't seen this method before. But then again, he didn't even know they did fortune reading in this temple.

Lin Mu had seen this old man before when he scanned the area with his spirit sense and knew that he was one of the late stage qi refining realm priests of the temple. He wasn't afraid that he may try to attack him, no Lin Mu had far too many methods to deal with him.

"This…

" The old man said after opening his eyes.

His brows were furrowed as he seemed to be thinking about something. Now even Wu Hei was a bit apprehensive of this and was wondering if there was a problem.

"What's the problem, sir priest?

" Wu Hei questioned.

"I… cannot seem to be able to read his fortune. It is as if the ancestral spirits are unwilling, or rather I must say... afraid of revealing his fortune…

" The priest said.

"What? What does that mean?

" Lin Mu questioned, feeling a bit confused and interested at the same time.

He had honestly not expected anything to come out of this, but now hearing this had made him interested.

"We priests can ask the ancestral spirits in this temple for their help in deciphering the fortune of a person. This cannot be done often and will reduce the power of the spirits for a while. Because of this, we don't do it that much.

But there are times when the ancestral spirits can deny our request. If the person we were trying to read the fortune was a foreigner, then it wouldn't work, as the ancestral spirits would not have any relation with them.

But in your case here, the ancestral spirits are scared… scared of the heaven's will.

" The priest answered.

Lin Mu was still confused and didn't fully understand this, but still nodded his head, regardless.

"Well then, thank you for your attempt, sir priest. Your compensation will be sent to the temple at the earliest by tonight.

" Wu Hei said, seeing that nothing had come out of it.

Thankfully, their main aim in coming here was already finished and the fortune Reading was merely an excuse.

"No need, lord Wu Hei. I dare not take when even the ancestral spirits are scared. Lest I endure the wrath of heavens.

" The old priest hurriedly said before almost running away.

"You two can leave now.

" The younger priest said before gesturing to them.

Lin Mu and Wu Hei left the room and made their way to the main hall.

"Well… that was weird.

" Lin Mu said.

"Don't worry about it. The priests give excuses when they don't want to do this. Though it looks like, they did not dare to take the donation seeing the current situation.

" Wu Hei replied.

Lin Mu nodded, and they soon reached the main hall. There most of the aristocrats had already finished praying to their ancestors and everyone was now ready to leave. They looked at their host that had just arrived and a few people even asked him questions on where he had gone.

Wu Hei gave some simple excuse of discussing things with the priests about the marriage events and blessing ceremony. The people lost their interest rather quickly after hearing these words and went back.

"Well then, since everyone is done, we can leave now.

" Wu Hei announced.

Everyone cupped their hands and paid obeisance to the ancestral tablets one last time in farewell before leaving the temple. One by one the carriages started to leave and by the time half of them left, Lin Mu had already checked the cultivation of everyone here.

Wu Hei was telling him, who was going to be his competition in the tournament and thus he was checking who he was gonna go against. So far, the strongest person he had seen was an aristocrat that had the cultivation base at the peak stage of the qi refining realm. That man seemed to be in his thirties, and Lin Mu was sure that he can defeat him in a couple of blows.

Even the sect officials that had come were mostly at the qi refining realm, with one that was at the Core condensation realm. But that was an elder and was not eligible to participate in the tournament, anyway.

"So what did you think?

" Wu Hei asked.

"Nothing much. They don't really seem that strong to me…

" Lin Mu replied straightforwardly.

"Ahaha… that's good then. Though the best candidates are yet to arrive. From what I've heard, there should be two people in the core condensation realm participating as well.

" Wu Hei informed.

"Alright, we'll see it when the time comes.

" Lin Mu said.

"We have about 4 days till the competition and 5 days till the marriage ceremony, what else do you think we need to prepare. I don't know if there is anything that's going to happen seeing so many powerful cultivators will be at the manor.

" Lin Mu questioned.

"Hmm… I am a bit confused about it too, but till now there is no movement of the Gu legion. I think they may be resisting it because of the presence of the Nascent soul realm elder Yi Deng here.

" Wu Hei replied.

"What about that Junior elder Fa Shiu? If he turns up, everything can become problematic.

" Lin Mu asked after thinking for a bit.

"That man is another mystery that we can't seem to be able to solve. All of his traces have disappeared for some reason, and even the Tri cauldron peony sect is in the dark.

" Wu Hei said.

Lin Mu stood there in silence as he started to think of what else that could be done now. There didn't seem too many extra paths left for him to take. All he could do now was to fight in the tournament and see if the Gu Legion decided to attack, but with the Mayor away that also seemed to be unlikely.