Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Hearing Shirong's words, Lin Wu would be lying if he didn't find them suspicious.

"Wasn't your father fully focusing on the clan just a year ago?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Yes… its strange. But since nothing problematic has happened in this time, the others didn't interfere in his matters either." Shirong answered. "To be honest, one of the reasons I was confident in getting rid of my opponents this time was because of father not being there." He added.

"But he did appear, right?" Lin Wu replied.

"He did indeed. Or rather, he was forced to appear because of my actions." Shirong stated.

"And you don't think your siblings and the other elders were acting as they were because of the lack of action from your father?" Lin Wu asked next.

"There is a chance, but I have no way to confirm it." Shirong replied.

"Hmm… what about your ancestor?" Lin Wu asked.

"My ancestor is even less involved in the clan now. Other than the time when he talked with me two years ago, he has not interacted with anyone else in the clan. Father might have talked with him, but I have no idea about that." Shirong replied.

After hearing this, Lin Wu had a hunch that there was possibly something going on in the Ji clan, but he didn't know what it could be.

"I see… I guess you should keep an eye on your clan for now. A time of uncertainty is upon us…" Lin Wu said, unsettling Shirong.

"Uncertainty… is it… to do with 'that' Senior?" Shirong asked carefully. "I've heard about the Calamity in the south. Are they truly linked?" he questioned.

"I do not know for now. If it is, then that monster is able to avoid my sense's. All I know is that the Shadow calamity is definitely awakened." Lin Wu answered.

"I understand… what should I do then? Should we support the south along with the sects to go against the monster?" Shirong asked.

He was actually a bit confused and worried about this. All the sects and kingdoms had been given the news about the Calamity Fiend and there were only a few that knew more. Shirong was one of them since he had heard about the Shadow calamity long before from Lin Wu.

"For now, I would say prepare. Prepare well. Let the sects and the southern kingdoms act first and observe it all." Lin Wu replied.

"Are you not going to act senior?" Shirong asked curiously.

"I might, depending on how the situation unfurls. It is not the best for me to act right away… My strength hasn't recovered to a point where I would be confident. I can act in a time of distress, but it would push back my recovery." Lin Wu stated, surprising Shirong.

"A-alright senior." Shirong could only accept.

"I'll contact you later if something arises." Lin Wu said and was just about to cut the communication link when Shirong interrupted.

"Umm, senior. I was contacted by someone from the Long clan. He said that he knows you." Shirong suddenly spoke.

"Long Qingao?" Lin Wu guessed. 'Seems like he might have contacted Shirong finally.'

"Yes! So you know him?" Shirong asked.

"Yes, he's the Long clan's envoy that came to the Millennium forest. Don't you remember?" Lin Wu replied.

"I didn't get his name, and he left without us knowing too." Shirong stated. "And I wasn't completely sure about his authenticity too, since he had contacted from an unofficial jade slip. The Long clan usually contacts us from a specific jade slip that they gave us." He added.

"What did he talk to you about?" Lin Wu inquired.

'I did tell Long Qingao to watch out and also told him about the human allies I have,' Lin Wu recalled.

"He invited me for a private meeting and said that we should talk in person. But I denied him back then since I was working on the Ji clan to take over." Shirong answered.

"Hmm… you can trust him. Meet up with him later, and once you do, use the same communication method, you have with me. You should be able to talk to him directly after that without needing to meet him in person." Lin Wu instructed.

While Lin Wu had implanted Pentagem in both of them, he had not told them that it could be used to talk to each other. To do that though, they needed to meet in person for the Pentagem to resonate.

Lin Wu hadn't given the humans direct method to communicate like he had done with his beast servants, as he didn't want any unexpected loss of secrecy. In case of the beasts he could fully control them, but the same was not possible for the humans.

He had also compartmentalized the information about his plans greatly due to that. The less his different allied factions knew, the better it was for the plan to go forth smoothly.

In fact, some parts of the plan needed for some of his allies to act with confidence and go on an offense.

It was the whole reason he had created the new bloodlines for the Avatar. It gave a legitimate method for Lin Wu to direct malice.

Lin Wu talked with Shirong for a few more minutes and gave him some additional details and then cut the link.

~huu~

"Perhaps I should make a visit to the Ji clan… the actions of Ji Shan, the patriarch of the clan don't seem to be normal." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

~Sigh~

"At least the others are doing well…" Lin Wu said while glancing over the monitoring windows.

The Millennium forest was progressing as intended, and the beasts were growing well. The numbers of Nascent soul realm beasts were now about to exceed 70 and a couple were even close to the Dao Shell realm.

In case of his human subordinates, they too were progressing well. Shirong himself had reached the Dao shell realm and was now the strongest among them.

All that was left for Lin Wu to do was to wait and watch…