Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu gazed at Feng's core and was amazed.

"This is certainly something else." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

The core was unlike anything that was recorded in the many books and documents he had gathered. Lin Wu tried to probe the core directly but found it difficult to. It was as if his spirit sense got deflected every time it got close to the core.

'Is it defending itself?' Lin Wu wondered. 'No, that can't be. He's in an unconscious state right now and besides, a core shouldn't be able to stop me from probing it.' He reckoned.

After thinking for a few seconds and watching the core, an idea came to him.

"Is this a passive effect?" Lin Wu observed it for a bit more and realized why his spirit sense got deflected.

It was because of the flow of spirit Qi around the core. It was like the water current of a river. While it may seem like a river flowing in a single direction, the undercurrent might take several winding routes which were seemingly invisible.

It was the same case with the spirit Qi here. But now that Lin Wu knew this, getting past it was easy for him. He simply needed to increase the force used with his spirit sense. Usually, he wouldn't need this much power, but this was a rare case.

~shua~

And once he got past it, Lin Wu felt the core and the energy within it.

"This… what did this kid do?" Lin Wu was surprised even more.

He didn't just normal spirit Qi in the core, he also sensed other elemental spirit Qi within it. There was fire spirit Qi, earth spirit Qi, metal spirit Qi, wood spirit Qi, water spirit Qi, wind spirit Qi, dark spirit Qi and even light spirit Qi!

The five mortal and four heavenly elements composed the core, and it was truly shocking.

While Lin Wu could control the five mortal elements and two heavenly elements, wind and lightning, even he had no control over the dark spirit Qi and light spirit Qi. The last two elements were something he had yet to fully learn.

"How's this possible system?" Lin Wu wondered.

~DING~

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ANSWER: According to the system's preliminary analysis, the system-manufactured cultivation technique has allowed Feng to absorb the different elemental sprint Qi all at once. This has somehow allowed him to condense a unique core such as this.

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"But his core is still different, isn't it? We have information about other cores that have the seven elements, but his is vastly different." Lin Wu asked.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The uniqueness of the core might be pertaining to the cultivation technique as well as to Feng. The details would only be learned after further analysis is done.

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"Hmm… Guess we'll continue to wait." Lin Wu muttered.

He withdrew his spirit sense and waited for the system to finish its work. And about an hour later, the work was finally completed.

~DING~

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DATA NODE ANALYSIS: Completed

DATA BANKS: Updated

NOTIFICATION: Memory playback is now available.

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"Show me his memories system." Lin Wu ordered.

~SHUA~

In the next moment, Lin Wu felt his vision go dark and he appeared in a familiar place. It wasn't his first time watching memories and thus it was comfortable for him. A few seconds later, a scene materialized in front of him.

It was the scene of Feng working in the Black Sheep Blacksmith as a pounder.

"Huh… his fitness is certainly up to the mark." Lin Wu said upon seeing Feng work for a day straight in the scorching heat.

He then saw Feng move to the White Sheep inn and start to cultivate for the first time. It was now that Lin Wu saw Feng suffer.

"That shouldn't happen… just like Feng said, it's a drowning feeling." Lin Wu said as he saw the boy gasp for air.

Feng was like that for a while before he attempted to cultivate again. He went back and forth between resting and cultivating. The more he did it, the longer he could cultivate at once.

This was the thing that was bugging Lin Wu. According to the cultivation technique, such a drowning feeling shouldn't happen at all. Instead, one should feel rather comfortable as the spirit Qi was absorbed into the body.

The system synthesized cultivation technique was after all, a top grade cultivation technique at the very least, if not above it. It was also something that was made so that anyone could cultivate it regardless of talent.

Lin Wu continued to watch Feng's progress as he extended his ability to cultivate despite the drowning feeling. It increased from minutes to tens of minutes and finally to hours. And along with that, Feng also kept on progressing in his cultivation, reaching the late stage of the Qi refining realm within three weeks of starting and the peak stage in four weeks.

After that, the feeling of drowning for Feng had become a block. He couldn't increase the time he cultivated anymore, and he was stuck at a bottleneck. Feng spent an entire month in trying to overcome it.

And when he finally felt like it was working, a surge of spirit Qi filled him that directly condensed a core within his Dantian. But that wasn't all as the rapid surge of spirit Qi also caused the defensive array of the Inn to explode.

Feng may have been occupied with his breakthrough and thus didn't notice it, but the system could prepare several simulations, having gathered enough data.

"So that's what happened…" Lin Wu said with an expression of realization.

The surge of spirit Qi that filled Feng created a vacuum of sorts in the area. It exerted some force towards the Array protecting the White Sheep inn.

It was the same as taking all the air out of a plastic bottle. It would collapse inwards.

And that was exactly what happened, except at the same time Feng successfully broke through to the Initial stage of the core condensation realm thereby creating an even stronger burst of energy.