I grinned. "That's what I'm getting at. I'm starting to think, Gao Rong, that the Heavens sent you to me every bit as much as they sent me to you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, let's just say, I don't even know where to begin to conceal myself when I'm sensing sounds and sights with my Aura. Yet you were able to fool a middle Realm, Heaven Rank Sacred Beast."
"Well," Gao Rong looked extremely uncomfortable. I let him; he had eavesdropped after all. "In my old sect, I did manage to get the attention of an elder who specialized in an extremely rare form of Aura manipulation. It's known as Mu Aura, or just Mu. It's sort of...a state in which spiritual Aura cannot be sensed. The more common practice of concealing one's Aura from other cultivators is sort of like a half step into the Mu state.
