After Luna fainted,
Little Mortal rolled her up in his sleeping bag and, after watching the record of his heroic act, took out his guardian token to contact Rose and ask her where they were.
But before that, there was a sound of 'cling' beside his leg.
He looked down and saw three storage rings rolling on the ground, this ti with an extra paper falling.
He first picked up the rings and put them on his fingers,
Then picked up the paper and read it.
After a while, his eyes turned cold.
He brought out his guardian token and said,
"Assistant Rose, this is the sect master speaking.
Tell where the gathering place is, and the address of the city's black market. I need to go there before joining you, over.
...
Not far away from the inn,
in the city black market,
in a secret underground place,
Around fifteen n in black Daoist robes with red patterns were gathered.
Five of them at the end of the place were talking to each other, and the rest of them seed to be waiting for sothing.
"Who went after the hall master?"
"His deputy and two of his underlings."
"Do we have any idea what happened here?
I rember the hall master left because he lost contact with his son."
"He first ca to the Law Enforcent Hall and asked where his son had gone.
I told him his last destination was the Outer Sect City."
"Oh, right, he went there to bring soone and test the technique the Hall Master was going to exchange with that mysterious senior."
"Did he have it when you saw him?"
"Yes, he said the exchange was successful, and the 'sect masters' are going to give the Emperor a visit soon."
"But I didn’t think he’d go missing after coming here to find his son..."
"Who contacted you to co here?"
"The hall master's deputy.
He said the matter of our trying to sacrifice the people in the city might have been leaked.
So he asked and the others to gather here and be ready to start early if needed, while he went to the inn."
"Why the inn?"
"The hall master's son went there and disappeared. That's why the Hall Master went there to investigate, but he didn’t return either."
"I thought none of the top figures in the current world are allowed to do anything to us.
But now the hall master and his son are missing, and even the deputy isn’t back!
Sothing is really suspicious here!"
"If everyone from the Outer Sect City weren’t gathering outside the city, I’d say we’re already exposed and they evacuated them."
"Yeah, I thought so too when I saw nobody was in the city.
But does anyone know what they’re doing?"
"I don’t know. There isn’t a single person inside the city to ask.
I was going to find one on the way, but the sect master's daughter and Lady Butterfly were there with them for whatever reason."
"The deputy said when the hall master ca to find his son, the city was still full of people.
But when he ca to check, he saw them leaving.
I think that’s why he panicked and called us all here."
"We should wait for the deputy to return. Once Lady Butterfly and Rose leave, we’ll make a move."
"What are we scared of?
Even the sect master can’t do anything to us under the deal they made.
We need to wait for the Deputy to co back with the hall master.
Aren’t they all gathering outside the city already?
We can use the opportunity and start the plan."
Then all of them started laughing.
Ti passed.
After around an hour, they suddenly heard a voice from outside:
"MBI, open up!"
...
Luna suddenly woke up to the loud sound of soone shouting,
"MBI, open up!"
And then there was a crashing sound, like a door being broken, and then a 'bang' with an intense light.
A mont later, she heard so people yelling:
'Oh my eyes!', 'Who is it?', or 'I can’t see anything!'
By instinct, she was going to get up and hide or run sowhere,
but found out that she was rolled up in sothing and tied to another thing, impossible to move ...
After the intense and blinding light subsided, the entire area turned dark.
Then she heard a familiar voice:
"Divine technique: Judgnt by Age."
And after that, there were 'crack' sounds and objects dropping to the ground, with people yelling:
"Why do I feel so weak?"
"I lost all of my cultivation base!"
"Who is it? Show yourself!"
*AAA...*
Soon, the cries of pain and confusion filled the air.
It was like a beast was lurking in this darkness, hunting down his helpless prey... one by one.
Soon, silence returned.
Luna’s heart was beating wildly now.
She didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.
'Where am I? What’s happening? Where is my overpowered boss?'
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Then she felt her body and the object she was tied to were moving. It was like she’d been picked up and was now being carried up so stairs.
Not long after, she saw the outside light through a door.
It was as though whatever was carrying her was walking out of an underground place back to the surface.
When she was out,
The first thing she saw was a small tricycle.
Now, with sunlight, she could see herself too, rolled up inside a sleeping bag attached to a familiar backpack...
With a trembling voice, she said,
"S-Sect M-Master, is that you?"
A little boy’s voice ca from below:
"Oh, Innkeeper, you woke up!"
Hearing the familiar voice, tears gathered in her eyes.
With her new boss around, life was so stressful... There were no monts of peace.
"S-Sect Master, why am I tied up here?
Where are we now? I thought we were going to the gathering!
And what just happened down there?"
Little Mortal stopped and placed the backpack on the ground to release her.
"Innkeeper, you won’t believe it.
When you fell asleep, I was going to contact Assistant Rose to ask for the address of our gathering.
But guess what happened?"
Luna, who was free now, looked around nervously and asked,
"W-What happened?"
Little Mortal lowered his voice:
"Let tell you!
My support team suddenly found so secret information about a human trafficker organization in the city!
Can you believe it?
All this ti, there was a whole organization under my nose, and I didn’t know!"
Luna looked around and realized she was in the black market area.
She was going to say:
What do you an by ‘all this ti under your nose’? You just got here today!
But she didn’t dare and just asked cautiously,
"What was the result, Sect Master?"
Little Mortal puffed his chest and asked confidently,
"What do you think?"
Luna thought for a mont and said,
"The organization has been cleaned up, not a single one escaped—another perfect operation under the Sect Master’s lead?"
Little Mortal gasped in shock!
"You, young lady, are really smart! Tell , what’s your na?"
"L-Luna."
"You guessed it right, Lady Luna. And from now on,
Your inn will be our headquarters, and you will be the manager."
Luna hastily said,
"Thank you for your promotion, Sect Master!"
She thought to herself:
That inn isn’t mine—it belongs to the sect, and we’re receiving new disciples there!
But if it becos the headquarters for the Sect Master’s disciples,
and I’m the manager there, I might survive the punishnt for ‘Lazy Sect Master’ he forced to say and record, right?
"Good, welco to the team.
I’ll take special care of the special mbers of the Guardian Team."
Luna raised her eyebrows and was going to ask,
What Guardian Team?
But she didn’t dare.
At first, it was only followers. Then it turned into capturing those people wearing black robes who were supposed to be untouchable. And now, ‘Guardian’...
There was only one conclusion from all the information she had until now:
This little demon is on a mission under the Sect Master!
If Little Mortal knew about her thoughts, he would say:
You’re completely... wrong.
"Alright, let’s go—"
Cling
Little Mortal and Luna, who had been about to leave, looked down and saw that a bunch of storage rings had just dropped on the ground.
Luna knew they were the storage rings belonging to the new victims of her boss, who’d just been caught inside the darkness of that underground place.
She was going to offer help and pick them up, but she saw him lashing out at his cage again!
This ti, he was hitting the cage with a wooden stick,
while yelling:
"Do I look like a beggar to you?
What next? You’re going to drop coins at my feet?"
Luna didn’t know why, but she felt pain just from looking at the stick in action. The cage itself was shaking nonstop.
In the end, the little cage surrendered, and all the rings began floating in front of Little Mortal.
He already had five rings on, but he didn’t care and put the other fifteen on his fingers—two rings per finger.
Just looking at his little hands under the sun would hurt your eyes.
He then turned to Luna and said:
"Okay, ti to go. Everyone’s waiting for us.
Big Guy, Manager Luna will be riding you. You’re going to ride , and I’m going to ride my unstoppable ride.
Let’s go."
Before Luna could figure out what all the riding ant,
One of the backpack’s straps caught her and put her on top of it.
Little Mortal then picked up the backpack (with Luna on it) and sat on his tricycle.
"Put on your seatbelt, Manager Luna."
Luna, who was shocked by what was happening, thought:
What even is a seatbelt that I need to put on?
Then another strap connected to the backpack wrapped around her waist and held her in place.
"Let play the music first.
We’re late, so we’re going full speed. Sit tight, Passenger Luna."
Luna, who didn’t know what was happening anymore, just sat there without a word.
She left everything in the hands of fate.
Then a foreign music that she’d never heard before started playing, and with it, the tricycle began moving slowly.
But the speed beca faster and faster.
At so point, when the singer suddenly said 'Deja vu', as if it triggered sothing, the tricycle’s speed beca so fast that Luna was forced to close her eyes and beg the Sect Master to slow down!
But with the sound of the wind, she couldn’t even hear her own voice.
And so, Luna was forced to experience two minutes of extre speed that she would never forget...
....
Outside the Outer Sect City,
Lady Butterfly was standing beside Rose, looking at the crowd.
So were sitting on the ground; so children were playing in groups,
And so of them were gathered together, whispering to each other.
Seeing them like this, Lady Butterfly thought to herself:
'What’s the use of these people?
They’re weak—so are too old, and so are too young.
What is that unknown brat going to use them for?'
"Hello, Assistant Rose."
While she was thinking, a voice suddenly ca from behind.
Lady Butterfly felt her heart stop for a second.
'This kid’s invisible presence is the natural enemy of a cultivator’s spiritual sense...!'
When the two turned around, they saw Little Mortal get off his tricycle.
And on his backpack was a person?
They looked more carefully and found her familiar.
Rose was the first to recognize her:
"Oh, Sister Luna, it’s you!
What happened to you?"
And she ran over to bring her down from the backpack.
Her hair and clothes were in a ss,
like soone who’d just finished a brawl...
Little Mortal said:
"She experienced a little speed. But because it was her first ti, she’s shocked."
The two ladies looked at this little barefooted monster with 20 rings and didn’t know what to say!
Lady Butterfly was going to give Rose a signal to ask about the rings, but suddenly felt the little monster (with hands full of rings) stroking his mustache and looking at her intensely.
Lady Butterfly’s hair stood on end.
She was being targeted for so reason!
Little Mortal, after a brief mont, asked:
"Have we t before?"
And Lady Butterfly shook her head imdiately.
How could she forget such a person if they’d t before? That was impossible!
"Are you sure?
I feel like I fought you... And you were so hard to beat... I even lost to you 20 or 30 tis, if not more..."
Lady Butterfly’s forehead was now covered in cold sweat.
Her eyes were fixed on the cage hanging on the little monster’s waist, while thinking:
'Is he looking for an excuse to make a move on ?'
She was scared he’d make a move on her and make her disappear.
Little Mortal suddenly beca excited:
"I rember you! You’re Lady Butterfly!
You said the sa thing every ti you beat !
What was that insulting phrase again?
Let think... Oh, I rember!
‘You’re still just a puppy!’"
Lady Butterfly was shocked.
It was her first ti seeing him. How did he know her na? She even had a nonexistent, insulting phrase? And when did she beat him up?
Seeing the little Sect Master getting more and more excited, Rose ca to the rescue:
"Sect Master, this is my grandmother.
Her Daoist na is indeed Lady Butterfly, but her real na isn’t.
Please calm down—you’ve mistaken her for soone else!"
Hearing her, Little Mortal cald down and looked at the horizon, as though rembering so old mories:
"Hmmm, another Lady Butterfly?
Now that I think about it, that Lady Butterfly wasn’t even real... but why do I feel like my fights with her were so morable...?"
Then he mumbled to himself in confusion:
"If she wasn’t real, then how did we fight?
If it was real, then why do I feel she didn’t exist in reality?"
He scratched his head a little and said:
"Forget about it. We have other important matters to take care of."
Relieved the topic had finally changed, Lady Butterfly sighed and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Little Mortal looked around and then kicked his backpack, saying:
"Big Guy, reinforce the stage."
And while so black lights ca out of the backpack and went under the ‘stage’ Rose had prepared for him (and an extra structure appeared underneath), he walked on the stage to start the gathering.
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