Upon hearing the name of the Taiji celestial again, Lin Mu couldn't help but want to know more. But knew that this was not the right time for it. 

"I understand how you got through it now. How is your Wu Teng? Since you said those related by blood would be able to resist it." Lin Mu questioned.

"Wu Teng was much more injured by the time I woke up and had been taken away by the disciples of the Tri Cauldron Peony sect to heal. Unlike me, he did not have the Unity Reversal Secrets and thus was unable to break out of the control.

But now that I think of it, that was probably for the best. Because if he really did get free from Gu Yao's control, he would discover the fact that his Human controlling blood curse was less effective on us and restrain us even more.

Since my brother did not have the bloodline of the Shadow Lurk beast either, it would have only been even more difficult for him to hide that he had been freed. Besides, with his personality, I highly doubt that he would have chosen to hide and bide for the time being. 

The most likely probability I can think of is that he would have chosen to directly attack Gu Yao and ended up dying to his servants." Wu Hei answered.

~Sigh~

"Yes, I think that was good, too. But where is he now? I heard that only you, your father and mother are currency living in the capital." Lin Mu spoke.

"Yes, it's only us three currently living here. From what I've learned, my elder brother is living at the Tri cauldron peony sect along with his wife and has been given a rather high position.

Since he is the link between the sect and the kingdom, he is favored by the king as well. Ironically, ever since Gu Yao started controlling the sects, the ties between the Shuang Qian kingdom and the sects have actually gotten better.

But this has been but a mere facade to hide the fact that all of the controlled sects are involved in human trafficking." Wu Hei replied.

"How are they gathering people for the sacrifice now?" Lin Mu questioned.

"Now that they have sects on his side, Gu Yao has only gotten more brazen. You must have heard that the mercenaries have left the kingdom, right? Well, that thing is not entirely true. The ones that are still in the kingdom are free and safe, but the ones that decided to leave get captured at the border of the kingdoms. 

No one knows about this currently and even the king does not know this." Wu Hei answered.

"Why hasn't he controlled the king then?" Lin Mu questioned.

"Every kingdom that is a vassal of the Great Zhou empire has a life wick candle placed at the grand palace of the empire. These life wick candles are linked to the rulers of each kingdom and whenever something happens to them, the effect is reflected on the life wick candles. 

I think Gu Yao has still not been able to overcome this part, and has thus chosen to avoid the king for now. The sects though are a free game and since he directly goes for the higher ups, there is no one left to respond to the changes." Wu Hei explained.

"Damn this Gu Yao… he can't be doing this alone, can he? I mean, I know he now has all these sects backing him, but just that shouldn't be enough. There must be something else." Lin Mu cursed.

"Of course there is. I was doubtful of this as well at the start but then as I spent more time getting involved in his plans I discovered the most obvious culprit; the Northern tribes. We now know for sure that they have their people infiltrated all over the empire and acting according to their agendas." Wu Hei said.

"Hmm… I did actually see a few people coming from the north back when I was in seclusion in the northern mountains. They were wearing beast furs as clothing." Lin Mu said, repeating what Little Shrubby had told him.

"Indeed, those are the members of the northern tribes. They are also supplying Gu Yao and the sects under his control with their expertise in the teleportation formations." Wu Hei confirmed.

"I guessed that as well, when I saw you use that talisman to teleport." Lin Mu said.

"I have to admit, these teleportation formations are much more powerful than the ones that the people in the empire know. Especially the cost of making them. While the top sects also have knowledge about these teleportation formations, they can't just make them how the norther tribes do and use a lot more resources.

It is due to these cheap costs, that Gu Yao has been so fast in taking over all the sects. Currently, he has eight cultivation sects under his control." Wu Hei explained.

"The zither wind alliance… all the sects in that alliance… they're controlled by Gu Yao, right?" Lin Mu asked.

~Sigh~

"Unfortunately, yes… After Gu Yao controlled a bunch of mid level sects, he was able to use their combined power to ask the patriarch of the zither wind sect for a meeting. Then, setting up a trap using all the controlled experts, he managed to take over the Dao Shell realm patriarch of the Zither Wind sect.

This opened up a lot more opportunities for him and he managed to control quite a few of the top sects. Thankfully, the other sects had gotten wind that something was definitely wrong and as such started avoiding any meeting with any person from the Zither Wind sect." Wu Hei replied.

"Then this is much dangerous than we thought… thankfully none of the top three sects have been controlled yet and Gu Yao has also reached his limit it seems. My master communicated with me a while ago and told me that there are only a limited amount of Dao Shell realm cultivators he would be able to control before reaching the Dao Treading Realm himself." Lin Mu spoke. 

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