"Thank you, Brother Zhu, for the kind invitation, but I just happen to have something to attend to and am preparing to step out today," Xiao Mu tactfully declined Zhu Ping's proposition.

At that moment, Li Gujian appeared at the stairwell entrance and poked his head out, "Brother Zhu, Brother Mu, shall we set off together?"

Zhu Ping looked towards Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu thought for a moment, "Sure, let's go together!"

He decided to leave with Zhu Ping and Li Gujian and wait for Tian Zhen on the road outside the Zhao Family's residence.

The three of them went downstairs together, coincidentally encountering Zhao Jingyan coming out of the house with mutated material and entering the courtyard.

"Brother Zhao, morning!"

"Brother Zhu, Xiao Li, Brother Mu, morning!"

...

After exchanging greetings, Zhao Jingyan stayed in the courtyard to craft treasures and quickly got to work. Xiao Mu, Zhu Ping, and Li Gujian departed. Once outside, Li Gujian and Zhu Ping turned left while Xiao Mu turned right.

After putting some distance between himself and the Zhao Family, Xiao Mu surveyed his surroundings to ensure no one could see him, then suddenly activated his Changeable Divine Technique.

His body rapidly transformed, and in the blink of an eye, he became a small black swallow, spreading his wings and flying towards the entrance of the Zhao Family residence.

After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Tian Zhen drove out from the Zhao Family residence, first turned left, then continued straight west once on the main road.

Xiao Mu unfolded his wings and followed swiftly.

Tian Zhen wasn't driving fast, and the swallow that Xiao Mu had transformed into could easily keep up.

They drove for about an hour until they finally reached a large building complex.

From the outside, the complex looked very much like a grand temple, with a seven-story blue spire in the innermost part, visible even beyond the outer wall.

The courtyard was large; besides the spire, there were numerous other buildings, but without a doubt, the spire was the core.

Tian Zhen parked the car in the parking area outside the courtyard, then got out and walked towards the courtyard.

At the entrance of the courtyard stood guards, two male mutated beings in the early stage of the Yin God Realm.

Tian Zhen gave the two guards a respectful salute, and the guards, with solemn faces, returned the gesture and gestured for Tian Zhen to enter.

Xiao Mu, still in his transformed state, stood outside for a while, observing for about twenty minutes to see who would come and go.

In those twenty minutes or so, a total of more than ten people arrived, men and women, old and young, all ordinary people, and not a single mutated being among them.

Xiao Mu discerned from the incense clouds above their heads that these people were believers of the Great Courtyard and the Seven-story Spire. The guards recognized each one and immediately let them through upon their arrival.

Each person respectfully saluted the guards as they entered, and the guards returned the salute without a hint of discrimination.

The small swallow that Xiao Mu had become perched on a tree branch, contemplating how to get inside.

He had many methods for entering the courtyard.

The first was to simply force his way through. The courtyard was covered by an array, but it wasn't very strong. It might stop mutated beings at the Yin God Realm, but it definitely couldn't stop him, Xiao Mu.

Forcing entry would alarm nearby beings, and in case the mutated beings in the Great Courtyard or the spire were related to the Life and Death Sect's mutated beings or cultivators with divine powers, it would lead to the premature exposure of the matter, causing his plan to find the sect's mutated beings or cultivators with divine powers to fail.

Xiao Mu quickly dismissed the idea of a brute-force entry and decided to use the second method, patience. About half an hour later, a tall and thin ordinary man walked out from the courtyard.

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