Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Hearing the words of his servants, Lin Wu felt touched.

~Sniff~

"Aww~ You guys..." Lin Wu said before seeing the two bird beasts taking their leave.

He switched the view to a different place. This was a location he hadn't really focused on for a long time now, ever since he actually got it.

"I never got to this one. Wonder what the Black Fur Monkey did with this during these past years..." Lin Wu said before scrolling through the screens and picking one at the very back.

~shua~

The scene in front of him changed to that of a location that looked like a shrine. It was made out of carved stone and wood. There was a large wooden gate at the front that looked aged.

There were certain words carved on it that were hard to read and were written in some old script that was long forgotten. Lin Wu himself though could read and understand it as it was a script that the system had deciphered for him.

"Gate of Perseverance... that's a heavy sounding name." Lin Wu muttered.

He observed the gate and saw that had it been significantly cleaned up since he last saw it. Before the gate was covered in a thick layer of moss and was even tilted. But now it looked to be standing in the proper form and was clean as well.

Behind the gate was the shrine's courtyard, that was filled with grass and small plants. At the center of it went a paved stone path that fit the vibe of the shrine very well, giving off an aura of calmness.

There were six ponds distributed in the shrine according to Fengshui and there were also auspicious statues set up at certain places. They too were cleaned and polished, giving them a rather luxurious look.

Finally, at the end of the path, was the main building of the shrine. It was a simple square building with four supporting pillars and a curved roof. The eaves of the roof were colored red while the wood that was used to make it was brown. Its walls were made out of stone and had many murals carved onto it, giving it an aura of the ancients.

Lin Wu could see a rather large person cleaning the backyard of the shrine right now. He was sweeping the dead leaves that had come from the trees in the backyard. There were several different kinds planted there, including thousand year old peach, Auburn Plum, and Amber Maple Trees.

The multicolored leaves were scattered around the ground, and the man would gently sweep them to the side. He carried out the task very calmly and looked like a monk seeing the way he was dressed.

"Huh? What happened to the monkey beast?" Lin Wu was confused.

He tried to sense the spirit Qi fluctuations coming from him and realized that he was actually at the Nascent soul realm now.

"So he's one of the monkeys that broke through to the Nascent Soul realm... but wait, hang on, wasn't he one of the weaker monkeys? How the heck did he break through first or second?" Lin Wu wondered.

Soon the monkey beast turned around, letting Lin Mu take a look at him. Seeing his appearance, Lin Wu was shocked again.

"No way that's the same Black Fur Monkey!" Lin Wu exclaimed.

The monkey beast now looked vastly different from before. It had grown out the hair on his face more than his body. It looked like he had a long mustache and a beard as well. His eyebrows were drooping at the sides, making him look like an old monk.

The most eye catching part though, was the green gem that glowed in the center of his forehead. It looked like a third eye and even had a hint of white color in it. If one looked at the hands of the beast they would see that while his knuckle had the free emerald crystal on it, there were also white circles on the front and back of his palms.

His nails were also white and shone like glass. Overall, he looked like a holy monk now.

"Yeah, something definitely happened to this monkey beast. Did he gain some new abilities or something?" Lin Wu wondered.

~DING~

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NOTIFICATION: The system can show a separate log for this servant beast.

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"Oh yeah, show me that." Lin Wu ordered.

~DING~

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NOTIFICATION LOG: Accessing

NOTIFICATIONS: Loaded

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ENERGY SOURCE DETECTED: Location- Auxiliary shrine number 1

DATA NODES DETECTED: Location- Auxiliary shrine number 1

ANOMALY DETECTED: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has made contact with the anomaly.

MUTATION DETECTED: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has absorbed the Energy source.

DATA TRANSMISSION DETECTED. Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has assimilated the data nodes.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has obtained spirit Qi.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has gained enlightenment.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has gained elemental affinity (Light).

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has upgraded his cultivation base- Peak Stage of the Core Condescension realm -> Infant Soul Stage of the Nascent Soul realm

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has gained enlightenment.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has learned Qi skills.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey] has successfully mutated.

NOTIFICATION: Host's servant [Black Fur Monkey]'s bloodline has been changed- Currently unassigned.

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Seeing the stacks of notifications pertaining to just one of his servants, Lin Wu was stunned.

"So... basically he gained something from the shrine... was there really something there? If there was, then why didn't the system detect it back then?" Lin Wu wondered.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The said energy source was hidden and was in a sealed state. It only got released when the overall condition of the Tomb's formation array started to increase.

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"I see... and just what was this energy source?" Lin Wu questioned.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The energy source was a statue of a god. The Black Fur monkey touched it and absorbed the spirit Qi while also gaining data nodes which gave it enlightenment.

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