Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu appeared at the side of Shirong who was pretty close to waking up already. He could tell that the man was still adjusting to his new physique and his body was twitching as a result of it.

Lin Wu looked outside the cave and saw that it was nearly dawn and the sky had started to turn a pale blue. It was always hard to see the sun due to the thick forest canopy and thus the color was the easiest way to tell.

Lin Wu then checked upon his avatar and easily switched his point of view to it.

"Whoa, this is a bit disorienting..." The avatar said.

Lin Wu moved around his avatar a bit and got used to it. The size of the avatar was nearly identical to the main body and thus it didn't take him long to acclimatize. Once he was done, he brought up the monitoring formation screen and scrolled to the one that showed the entrance of the tomb.

There he could see Wang Xiong approaching his companions who were talking amongst each other.

"LOOK! Its senior brother!" One of them shouted.

"It really is him! And he didn't appear here directly like us, that means he succeeded, right?" Su Wen questioned.

Wang Xiong had a smile appear on his face upon seeing all his companions safe and sound. Even Su Wen, who had suffered the most trauma relatively speaking, was looking normal and there were no apparent effects on him.

His eyes then went to his junior sister, who had sacrificed her life to save him back in the last trial. He couldn't help but feel touched, and now that she was back to her normal youthful appearance he found himself to like her even more than before.

"I'm here and I got it! I succeeded in getting the inheritance!" Wang Xiong spoke.

"That's amazing senior brother." The late stage Core condensation realm woman said.

"If it were not for you, I would never have succeeded, Ye Jin." Wang Xiong said looking at the woman.

"Senior brother..." This was the first time Wang Xiong had called her by her name, and thus Ye Jin felt a bit flustered.

The others didn't notice this in either excitement and thus got to talking about all that happened after they were thrown out of the tomb. Ye Jin told them what happed to Su Wen as apparently, Su Wen himself had no memory of the thing. Wang Xiong then explained the rest, finishing up everything.

Lin Wu was gonna continue listening, but he felt something touch his main body which prompted him to return his focus.

'Oh, it's just Shirong.' Lin Wu thought.

He had woken up and was now holding Lin Wu in his hand, ready to leave the cave. Shirong had used up a part of the spirit Qi that was given to him by Lin Wu and used that to progress his body tempering realm cultivation to the peak. This had given him a lot of benefits and had raised his overall aptitude.

He still needed a bit more of the spirit Qi so that he could have enough to reach the Nascent Soul realm, but that was not going to be a problem with Lin Wu around. He jumped on his spirit sword and flew ahead while looking around for beasts.

Lin Wu checked on the map and easily found a few beasts on the path back to the city. Shirong had decided that he would only kill the beasts he encounter on his way back so as to save time, and Lin Wu just decided to help him out.

With a little suggestion here and there, Shirong quickly gained enough spirit Qi that was required for him to reach the Nascent Soul realm. And while he was doing this, Lin Wu was controlling his avatar to observe Wang Xiong and his companions.

Wang Xiong had contacted him in the middle and asked him whether he could tell his companions about the Taiji Celestial and the inheritance. Lin Wu permitted him to do that, as it was essential for his plans.

He needed to make an organization of his own and for that, he would need the reputation of someone strong and who else better than the Taiji Celestial himself. Although a lot of things that Lin Wu said about him were lies, there was no one who could verify those claims.

If they wanted to gain even the most basic of information, the only other source they had was the Tomb itself. But the tomb was now in the control of Lin Wu so that base was covered as well. Wang Xiong thus told his companions about the story of the Taiji Celestial and about the hidden threat of the Shadow Calamity.

They were shocked to say the least upon hearing that an existence such as the Taiji Celestial existed. Though Lin Wu asked Wang Xiong to avoid mentioning his own existence for now, as that would only be told to the people who absolutely needed to know or if the situation demanded it.

With all the points explained, the companions of Wang Xiong were lost in thought.

~Howl~

"We should leave the forest now, time to head back." Wang Xiong spoke.

"Umm... senior brother, we may have a problem." The Grey robed cultivator spoke.

"What is it?" Wang Xiong questioned.

"Since we've run out of the beast Inciting powered, how are we going to divert the beasts' attention?" He asked.

"Ahahaha!" Wang Xiong laughed in response.

"Did you forget I've already gotten the inheritance?" Wang Xiong said with a grin, "as long as we don't come across a Nascent Soul realm beast, I'm confident of getting us out of here." He explained.

The eyes of the cultivators lit up as they finally got out of their old mindset.

"Yes! With senior brother backing us, we will have an easier time now." Ye Jin said.

The others nodded their heads and felt a lot calmer than before.

"Let's head back then."