After it was established that everything was fine and there was no risk in coming close with the beast shell fragment, the people in the hall took a breath of relief. But the restrictions and formations placed in the Temple were still not removed.
Even if it was confirmed that they were safe, there was still Young Master Shirong who was injured. They wanted to let him recover first and did not want to disturb him. Thus they all waited patiently for Young Master Shirong to wake up.
But after a day had passed and Young Master Shirong had not shown a single response, they were getting worried. Not to mention that they now had tasks to do that had been pending for a day.
"Clan head Lu, what do we do?" Clan head Meng asked with concern.
All of the clan heads had the same question in their minds and they wanted to return to their clans. Normally they were all quite busy men and seldom had time to do something like this. Them giving time to Young Master Shirong like this was already quite a big thing.
But on the other hand, they had no choice but to do this so as to give face to the Ji clan. They all knew the power of the Ji clan, and their influence was spread far and wide. A few bad words reaching the ears of the clan could easily spell doom for them.
"Set up a secure path, we will move Young master Shirong to his courtyard and lock down the city. No one new comes in or goes out." Clan Head Lu ordered.
The people in the room took a breath of relief. Some of the other non affiliated cultivators that had been recruited by the clan for the ceremony were simply watching this. They knew that they had little say in this and besides, they were getting paid by the clans.
The clan heads nodded their head and some of them went to get things ready. Within an hour everything was done, and they were proceeding to the next step. Clan head Lu waved his hand and floated the tile that young master Shirong was sitting on to a palanquin.
The palanquin had been specially brought here and was big enough for the entire tile. The temple hall looked a bit strange with the tile missing, but the people did not bother with it much. The tile would be easily replaced.
After placing the Young master Shirong in the palanquin, it was moved over to the courtyard he was staying in. They moved at a slow speed so as to not disturb the young master. Even a curfew had been declared in the city and everyone was ordered to stay indoors. If anyone was seen outside, they would be sent to prison without any chance for complaints.
People took this very seriously, and the small criminal groups in the city were shaking in their boots. They did not know why a curfew like this was initiated, but they could not help but think that it could be to catch them.
But when the curfew was lifted six hours later, the people were a bit dumbfounded as nothing seemed to have happened. No one knew that all of this was done, just so that young master Shirong could be safely transported to his courtyard.
After placing him in the courtyard the clan heads all took their leave, while the clan head Lu personally set up a protective formation array on the courtyard. There were already a lot of them there, but he personally reinforced them.
A lot of guards were also placed around the courtyard, and the security in the entire district was raised by a notch.
Lin Wu was observing some things but was restricted to the immediate vicinity of Shirong.
~Sigh~
"What am I supposed to do now? Do I just wait and watch?" Lin Wu wondered.
~Ding~
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SYSTEM ANALYSIS: complete.
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Just as Lin Wu thought of that, the notification sounded again. This time it was a surprise for Lin Wu as he did not know what the system had analyzed. He opened the new window that popped up on the side and started reading it.
~Ding~
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REPORT: The system has analyzed the energy that has infected Shirong's core. It is still unknown what kind of energy it is, but the system can remove it from Shirong if the host wants it. Though this procedure has a 60% rate of success and in the event of failure will harm Shirong.
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Lin Wu had not expected that the system would take initiative and do something like this on its own. Still, Lin Wu did not mind it and reckoned it was fine. But this opened up some more ideas for him, and he started to think of how to take advantage of this situation again.
"System, what is the condition of Shirong now?" Lin Wu questioned, wanting to know more aspects first.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: Shirong is trying to resolve the infective energy on his own and is currently attempting to isolate it. System's prediction is that he will eject the energy after it has been isolated. The energy has slight compatibility with spirit qi, but Shirong's current cultivation base seems too low for him to handle it.
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"Hmm, let's see. He's trying to isolate it, huh?" Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He then formed a plan in his mind and took an hour to do this. After it was done, he started instructing the system to do certain things.
"If this works, then I'll be able to control this guy much better." Lin Wu uttered with anticipation.
"System, DO IT!" Lin Wu ordered.
Shirong who had been sitting calmly all this time suddenly trembled. He had cut off his sense all this while and was fully focused on resolving the problem that he was in currently. He had not expected that the connection he had with the Green crystal spear would suddenly activate, when it had been silent for all this time.
Then he felt as if a burning hot blade was stabbed into his abdomen.