Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Becoming the Venerated Guest was not something Lin Wu had expected today.

'It is a surprise sure, but a welcome one…' Lin Wu thought to himself as he watched the all Long Clan members salute him.

That's right, after Long Qing declared that he was a venerated guest, he gathered the entire clan to do a proper ceremony for Lin Wu. This was after all, a major matter and they needed to let all clan members do it.

Lin Wu was now someone on the same level as their Clan spirit, someone with whom they owed their bloodlines too. Thus they needed to treat him with the same respect and gratitude.

The gratitude part was even deeper, as they all heard from Long Qing that Lin Wu had been fighting the Shadow Calamity for longer than their clan had existed. Some even realized that their clan might not exist if the Shadow Calamity had not been suppressed regularly.

The Long Clan even went so far as to organize a banquet for Lin Wu. They already knew that Lin Wu liked human food from the many trades that were made and the huge influx of chefs to the Millennium kingdom, hence they did their best.

Literally thousands of dishes were prepared in large portions. For a beast as large as Lin Wu, consuming hundreds or thousands of beasts was like an appetizer, so the banquet food also needed to be in massive quantities.

Some of the people from other powers also joined this banquet. Though this was mainly those that were directly involved with Lin Wu or were his subordinates like Shirong, Wang Xiong and Lian Xiaojian.

The rest of the Patriarchs and Kings left the Long clan since they still needed to carry out Lin Wu's orders. Not to mention, they had some preparation to do as well if they wanted the weapons manufactured by Lin Wu.

To arm the many people they had, they first needed to analyze the kinds of weapons they used as well as the appropriate costs for them. These were going to be expensive, thus only the strongest experts of the powers would be getting them.

And to determine who was the strongest, the power went ahead and organized tournaments within their borders. This was the quickest and fastest way to gather people while also giving them an excuse to recruit new blood.

Still, not everything was bright and happy.

There was a big tragedy that needed to be addressed as well. The tragedy of the Cang Lan sect.

Since the Frozen Cloud sect was to be the sect of the groom, they still needed to mourn as per the traditions. While Wang Xiong and Cang Qing weren't married fully, the rituals were almost completed.

If they didn't do this, it would look bad to the other power. Even Lin Wu recommended them to follow all the normal traditions.

Ye Jin, who had once been sad about Wang Xiong marrying someone else, was now happy. Of course, she didn't show it on her face and didn't say it outright either. That would simply be disrespecting the dead.

The biggest gain from all this though, came to Lin Wu in the end. And it didn't seem like it was the end of it either.

A few days had passed since he became the Venerated Guest of the Long clan. Lin Wu had returned to the Taiji Celestial's tomb to recover. While it looked like he was fine on the surface, he was actually not.

The battle had depleted both his and the Avatar's spirit Qi stores as well as injured them. Due to his innate skills, it was easy to hide the injuries, but the truth was both his bodies were around 30% injured.

Thankfully though, with his fast healing and endless resources, it didn't take Lin Wu that long to recover.

It was now that he visited something the system had informed him about at the Long clan.

"Now then… just what is that strange feeling I've been getting?" Lin Wu muttered to himself.

He browsed through the logs and saw that the system had obtained quite a lot of extrapolated data over the subsequent days. It had managed to decrypt more of the Taiji Celestial's tomb's formation array from that and obtained further information.

It was like a feedback loop and pleased him greatly.

~DING~

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INNATE SKILL: Updated!

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All of a sudden, Lin Wu saw a new notification appear.

"Huh? Which innate skill?" Lin Wu looked at the next notification and saw that it was actually his avatar that had gotten this.

Closing his eyes, Lin Wu quickly switched over to the avatar.

The Avatar was currently under the Tieba City which had basically become its base. Lin Wu had made it return there as soon as the battle was over, not even stopping to recover.

It was very important since Lin Wu reckoned there was a great chance that the Long Clan would interfere. And that was exactly what had happened. Thus, the avatar escaping was of the prime importance.

~DING~

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INNATE SKILL UPDATED: Chimeric Organogenesis (Great) (Proficiency: Novice) [new]

COMPOSITION: 1. Claw Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

2. Tentacle Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

3. Fin Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

4. Thorn Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

5. Spike Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

6. Carapace Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

7. Wing Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

8. Fur Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

9. Membrane Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

10. Eye Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

11. Scale Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

12. Limb Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

13. Internal Organ Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

14. Bone Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

15. Feather Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

16. Slime Generation (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

17. Humanoid Mimicry (Great) (Proficiency: Novice) [New]

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Chimeric Organogenesis was one of the Innate skills of the Avatar that had increased in proficiency a while back. It had risen from basic to novice. While it seemed like such an increase was slow, one must not forget that it was a composite skill, and upgrading its proficiency was a lot more difficult than normal skills.

Lin Wu saw that a new sub skill had been added to this.

"Huh? Humanoid Mimicry? Give me the full data window." Lin Wu ordered.

~DING~

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INNATE SUB-SKILL: Humanoid Mimicry (Great) (Proficiency: Novice)

INFO: The Humanoid Mimicry skill will allow the host to emulate the features and aspects of any humanoid creature. This includes demons and beasts that have taken human form as well as normal humans themselves.

Note: Due to the beast bloodline's dominance and the host's large size he cannot transform into a human entirely.

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This was another thing that Lin Wu had not expected to gain during all this.

"How did this happen?" Lin Wu looked through the old logs and realized that this was actually the result of several things.

Lin Wu had assimilated thousands of bloodlines to form the Chimeric Fiend Worm Bloodline and this included humans as well. He had also consumed a lot of humans over the years, triggering the Chimeric Adaptation a few times.

The final catalytic change happened when he consumed Cang Qing. As soon as that happened, it was like a bottleneck had been loosened.

"Hah! Never would have thought, she would be the one to give me this." Lin Wu was certainly amazed.

The new sub skill seemed to be a little underwhelming, but Lin Wu decided to try it out first.

A tentacle rose from his body and started to morph. First, a bulbous mass formed on its end, which then split from the bottom. Two long arms spouted from the top while legs sprouted from the bottom.

Slowly, the features became more detailed, and a face appeared on the head. Hair then grew out from it, and clothes appeared on it automatically as well!

And about ten minutes later, a human was formed!

"Whoa! That really is pretty accurate." Lin Wu observed it from all sides. "Though it does have a big flaw." He added.

The human wasn't an 'independent' being. It was merely a puppet that was attached to Lin Wu, quite literally.

From the back of the human, a tentacle was connected to Lin Wu's body. The human would not be able to exist without it.

'The consumption of spirit Qi is also quite high, and it also needs similarly high amounts of vital essence to make.' Lin Wu thought.

It was a skill that didn't have much in terms of offensive power and was mostly for a display.

While it did seem like a weak skill, Lin Wu could easily think of hundreds of uses for it.

"Haha! This will make some plans really better." Lin Wu laughed out loud, his voice echoing in the tunnels.

The 'human' turned around and faced Lin Wu, before his lips moves.

"It will surely be fun." The human spoke.

~HONG~

As soon as that was said though, a strange pressure spread in the area.

~DING~

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WARNING!: Anomaly detected!

WARNING!: Analysis failed!

WARNING!: Hostile Presence detected!

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