Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The appearance of the city lord was a great relief to the guards.

They had no idea what they would do or what they should even do with the sudden disappearance of the city Lord. In fact, the fastest way they could even contact the other cities would be through the city lord himself or the emergency contact slips kept in the mansion.

They had even tried their personal jade slips but none of them worked as all were being actively blocked by the system under Lin Wu's orders.

If the city lord had not appeared, the only other option they would have was to psychically run to the nearest town and ask for help from there. But doing that was difficult and it would take them at least two days to reach it.

The Third Yun city was located rather far after all. It was originally a frontier outpost but then was transformed into an entire city under the guidance of the Tenth Heir of the Hu clan.

But with the restrictions he had placed, it made it so that the city would be utterly compromised without the City lord being there. It was hard to say if it was intentional or not, but now that the man was back, they didn't need to think any more.

"What happened city lord?" The guards questioned.

"Yeah! We were worried!" they expressed their concern.

"There was a little issue with our guest, but it is resolved now." The city lord spoke.

"A guest?" they said in confusions.

"But didn't the arrays collapse for some reason?" They whispered amongst themselves.

"That's not right. In fact, the arrays were damaged for some unforeseen reason and the guest had come to help us. There is no need for you to concern yourselves with it now.

Just ensure peace in the city as the Tenth Heir will be arriving soon." The city lord ordered not wanting them to continue this discussion.

He had been ordered by Lin Wu to keep things normal so as to not alert the Tenth Heir and he was fully intending on doing that.

'I don't know what he is going to do to the Tenth Heir, but I can't guarantee my head of I don't act with him…' City Lord Kulung thought.

While the city lord got the guards in order, Lin Wu was looking into the data that the system had given him on the Qi sapping ticks.

"Hmm, these ticks are spirit beasts but not fully. This limit on them is also quite deep and keeps them from truly breaking through." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

He was wondering if he could modify these ticks and fully transform them into spirit beasts. He was interested in their ability to store large amounts of spirit Qi after all.

'There is bound to be some good use for them. And I also wonder just what kind of change they will experience if I mutate them too.' Lin Wu wondered.

The emeraldine legion bloodline had great potential to strengthen the original characteristics of the beast. This made Lin Wu curious about what kind of mutations would happen in the Qi sapping ticks who had already mutated once before.

"The Hu clan's records about this process will also be quite useful for the system." Lin Wu reckoned.

He continued to read more information from the window and let the city lord do his work.

To Lin Wu waiting was now as easy as blinking and he could pass time and not even realize. Thus by the time the system notified him, the next day had already arrived!

~DING~

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NOTIFICATION: Dao Shell realm cultivator detected!

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"Oh? Is our Tenth Heir already here?" Lin Wu looked at the map and saw that a new marker had appeared.

Though Lin Wu was a bit surprised by the fact that it was simply at the Dao Shel realm.

'Hmm… with all the Qi Sapping Ticks they have bee using, shouldn't they be at the Dao Treading realm already? Why is this Tenth Heir only at the Dao Shell realm. Even his subordinate the City Lord Kulung is at the Dao Treading realm.' Lin Wu wondered.

To him it seemed a little strange for him to be just at that level.

"Nevertheless, let's take a look when he gets here." Lin Wu said to himself before glancing at the Monitoring window.

"The Tenth Heir of the Hu Clan has arrived!"

"All commoners are to kneel!"

The guards of the city gave out orders and the commoners all followed immediately. To them, the arrival of someone as high as the Tenth Heir was simply surreal. This was the first time they were actually seeing him in person.

They had known that he had come to the city before, but it was never openly and only the City lord had the chance to meet him.

Usually just the lower ranked officials under the Tenth Heir would come over.

The arrival of the Tenth heir could be compared to that of a King visiting some distant border city.

In the skies above the Third Yun City, a man dressed in black and white clothes was standing. His robes were white and black tiger stripes were imprinted on it. He wore silver ornaments on his wrists, while a pair of jades hung from his waist.

A dignified aura hovered around him and a fierce look was present in his eyes.

If anyone looked at him, they would think that a large tiger was gazing at them instead.

This was the Tenth Heir of the Hu clan, Hu Dagao!

He was the fourth strongest heir and was a strong contender for the seat of the patriarch, but he was also very versed in business and administration allowing him to grow his territory to the point of being fourth largest size.

"Greetings, Tenth Heir!" The City Lord appeared above his mansion and bowed his head. "We are greatly honored by your presence today!"

"Mmm… Take me to the Mansion." Hu Dagao only spoke a few words.