Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

While many Terre displeased with Shirong keeping such sensitive information hidden, they couldn't do much when it was Lin Wu who had ordered that.

"Like I've said, the Shadow Calamity can control others and corrupt their minds. Which was also what the worshipers of the Skull God were doing in the Dread Coil marsh. They were controlled and were trying to control others too.

It would have been devastating if they actually had people controlling the sects or clans. Thus it was best to keep it secret until I knew for sure they weren't that spread." Lin Wu stated.

The people fell silent hearing this. All of them could understand the implications of such information and how sensitive it could be depending on the scope of infiltration.

"Thankfully, it seemed like the Shadow Calamity had failed to do much. The Skull god had only gained a fraction of his powers." Lin Wu said, reliving them all.

The more he explained, the better they felt. At the same time though, they felt in awe about Lin Wu.

'He has been conducting so many things since the past twenty years?'

'King Lin Wu is truly capable…'

Many were stunned by the list of things Lin Wu had done to 'protect' the Ming Dao world and prevent the Shadow Calamity from rising.

"Still, despite me foiling the plan of the Skull god, it isn't enough. That was merely one of the Shadow Calamity's pawn, now it had two more." Lin Wu continued. "Perhaps even more."

"What was the fire that spread in the Dread Coil marsh then?" The two ancestors asked.

This was something that Shirong didn't know either after all. His memories had been modified and he had a limited perception of things back then after fainting.

"That… was the work of the Vermillion Bird clan's descendant." Lin Wu dropped another bomb.

"Their descendant? But wasn't the Vermillion Sect wiped out?" they were confused.

"The sect was wiped out… but the descendant left behind other means of recovery. All you need to learn is that the Descendant of the Vermillion bird awakened and came to wipe out all traces of the Skull God.

The reason why the Dread Coil Marsh burned was also due to its actions." Lin Wu explained.

"Then fire at the Jiao Dian city…" Lian Xiaojian recalled his brother's demise.

"Indeed, that was the work of the Vermillion bird's descendant too." Lin Wu confirmed.

~GASP~

"How could it do that? How could it kill so many innocent people?" The king of the Bing Kingdom was also present here.

The Jiao Dian city was located within the Bing kingdom and thus they had directly suffered from it. For a long time, they were unable to find the culprit with it just coming down to some unknown beast.

And now they learned that it wasn't just some strong beast, but a guardian beast!

"How can a guardian beast that is supposed to protect, massacre living creature without a care like that?" The King of the Ivory Heron kingdom asked.

They were located right next to each other and were close.

"The answer is simple… the Skull God had actually controlled the Jiao Dian city. It was their secret beast and they were going to use it to expand into the human powers. And when they were found out, they infected everyone with a dangerous plague.

The same kind of plague that turned Dread Coil Marsh into what it is today. If it was not stopped, it would have covered the entire Bing Kingdom." Lin Wu answered.

The Bing Kingdom's King stumbled upon hearing this, as cold sweat appeared on his back.

Finding out that your kingdom might have just been exterminated just like that was not a pleasant feeling.

"So there was simply no option?" They others asked.

"Indeed." Lin Wu confirmed.

The room fell silent after this, as everyone pondered over the information they had just been given. After two minutes, Long Qing spoke up once more.

"Then where is the Vermillion Bird's descendant? Did it enter a dormant state?" Long Qing asked, while others looked on curiously too.

Frankly speaking, the Vermillion Bird's descendant was the same as their sacred clan spirit. But in the case of the Long Clan, it mostly stayed dormant and would only awaken once every hundred years.

Thus finding an active one that was fully awake was surprising to them.

"The sacred clan spirits of the Hu clan and the Gui clan are the same too. They only awaken once every hundred years, during the grand meeting of the three clans." Long Fei added.

"The reason why the Descendant of the Vermillion bird is awake is because it isn't in spirit form like your clans. It is an actual beast that awakened its bloodline before turning into the descendant." Lin Wu explained. "As for where it is?"

Everyone held their breaths in anticipation.

"It is also searching for the traces of the Shadow Calamity independently." Lin Wu finally answered.

"So it is like that… no wonder we didn't find out about it." Long Fei said.

"It had definitely left for the other continents." Long Qing stated.

Lin Wu too nodded his head, knowing that Zhu Tianying had really left the continent. Originally she had gone out to find her origin, but recent scans by Lin Wu had confirmed that she wasn't on the Long Continent anymore.

And considering she could fly, there was a great chance she was in the Hu or Gui continents.

"Speaking of Clan spirits… I'd like to see yours." Lin Wu requested.

"Huh?" Long Qing was taken aback, but quickly calmed himself.

"I'm sorry but that cannot be done. The Clan spirit is still in its slumber." Long Qing stated.

"Oh, I don't mean to talk to it. I just said, I want to 'see' it." Lin Wu clarified.

"Why?" They asked.

"I want to see if there is a reason for their condition. Ideally speaking… they shouldn't need to enter dormancy like that. I've never heard of the guardians doing something like this in other worlds." Lin Wu replied.