Chapter 176

Hiding

After Chu Shen and his mom grieved, they buried Chu Bai. Together they spent an entire day before Chu Bai’s grave. Chu Lai sighed before slowly getting up from her pose on the ground. “Remember to always be vigilant son. Even the strongest warrior can be ambushed. If your father wasn’t taken by surprise, that man wouldn’t have been able to hurt him at all.”

Chu Shen got up as well. “I know mom. Anyway, let me take you back to the Majestic Sword Academy. The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion will be disappearing in three days. I believe I can hide you at the school until then. Go ahead and put this on.” He handed her a Chain of Transportation.

Chu Lai put it on. “I believe that the Blazing Tiger shouldn’t be able to find us in three days. Let’s go then.”

Chu Shen pulled out a communication device. “Hey Lucas, mid teleporting over here? I’ve got my mom here and we need a fast ride to the academy.”

Lucas’ voice came from the coin sized communicator with a slight metallic tinge to it. “Don’t worry Chu Shen. I’ll be there in about five minutes. I’ve got to stop forging a weapon here so I can get you.”

Chu Lai looked puzzled. “How is he going to get here so fast?”

Chu Shen smiled. “Don’t worry mom, you’ll understand soon enough.”

After a little while, Lucas appeared in front of them. He looked at Chu Lai with surprise. “Oh? Is this your mother Chu Shen?”

Chu Shen nodded. “Yep. Mind taking us back to the Majestic Sword Academy?”

Chu Lai was surprised but she wasn’t shocked. Finally, she asked curiously. “You can teleport so you must have the s.p.a.ce element. However, I wasn’t aware that one could teleport another person as well. My husband never could at least. Also, the Majestic Sword Academy has a spatial barrier. If I remember correctly, you should be able to teleport out but not in without the proper authorization.”

Lucas smiled. “Well, my ‘element’ is a bit unique. It’s the first I’ve heard of a spatial barrier but I also haven’t tried to teleport straight to Majestic Sword Academy. Just to be on the safe side, we’ll teleport where we first did, right outside the academy.”

They disappeared right after lucas finished and then reappeared at the bottom of the mountain. Chu Lai gasped, now truly shocked at the change. “H-h-how?! How strong are you?!”

Lucas grinned. “I’m definitely stronger than you can imagine.”

Lucas turned towards Chu Shen. “So, did you get to meet your dad?”

Chu Shen shook his head sadly. “The Blazing Tiger Sect killed him. They were going to capture me and threaten to kill me to force my mom to work for them. Fortunately they didn’t realize how strong I was. They managed to escape so they’re going to be coming after us soon.”

Lucas grimaced. “I’m sorry Chu Shen, I didn’t know.”

Chu Shen sighed before shaking his head. “Don’t worry, I don’t blame you for anything. So, we know that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion will be going to your dimension next. I was thinking that we could hide my mom there somewhere to protect her.”

Lucas adopted a thoughtful look and started to slowly nod. “Yeah, I think we can arrange that. At the very least, she can live on a s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p for a little while.”

Chu Shen nodded. “Thanks, that’ll be really helpful.” He turned towards his mom. “I’ll take you to my house and you can stay there for the next three days. After that, you can depart with the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.”

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Gu Don quickly fled away from Chu Shen. After two hours of continuous flying he finally slowed. Looking back, he realized that no one was following him. Sighing, he landed and braced himself against a tree.

‘This situation is getting out of control. That brat is at the world stage and has an element that allows him to disperse other people's domains. I don’t know what it is but this is serious. We need that wood element woman, we must have her! If we can’t then we must at least make sure no one else can.’

Thinking along these lines, Gu Don grit his teeth and flew off again.

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Three days later, Chu Shen stood outside with his mom. “Alright mom, we’ll be surrounded by a transparent barrier. Then we’ll disappear and reappear in a different dimension. Lucas will be able to help us get to a place for you to stay. That way you’ll be safe. Then I’ll train until I can come back and kill the Blazing Tiger Sect.”

Chu Lai nodded. “Okay son. I trust you.”

They had spent the last three days simply talking with each other and enjoying each other’s presence. Chu Shen had made sure that Chu Lai created a charm for the Chains of Transportation. 

He didn’t want his mom to be stuck like he had been. He also told her about how the charms worked and told her to make sure to create one whenever she went to different dimensions, not that he believed that she would be there long enough. Now it was time for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to leave.

A barrier appeared once again around Chu Shen and then around Chu Lai. They disappeared from this dimension. Aslo suddenly woke up as the barrier appeared around him. Chrissa stopped eating her lunch as her barrier appeared. Lucas though, he was expecting it.

He looked up at the sky as the barrier appeared. “Dad. I’m finally coming home.”

With Lucas’ thoughts filled with seeing Xentus Viri again 

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Gu Don was traveling swiftly with three elders of the Blazing Tiger Sect when he suddenly paused. The elder on the left frowned. He carried a greatsword as big as he was. “What is it Gu Don.”

Gu Don looked puzzled. “I, I’m not sure great elder. My connection with the wind-seeking rune has disappeared.”

“What! I thought you said nothing could break the connection! Only someone who was in the Universe realm would be able to forcefully destroy it.”

Gu Don shook his head. “No, it was not destroyed. I would have been able to sense it. The connection was lost. The only way I can think of this happening would be if the wood element woman entered a pocket dimension. Only in this way would she be able to lose my wind-seeking rune. Even if she was killed, the wind-seeking rune would still guide us to her body.”

The great elder sighed. “Tell me that you can at least find out her last known location.”

Gu Don shook his head. “No. I only know in what direction to head. Finding out the exact location is beyond my capabilities.”

The great elder looked out at the sky. “We can only hope to find her later. If we do not, then the balance of power will s.h.i.+ft in the martial world.”