Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Wang Xiong had obviously known that there were many people displeased with his rise to the position of the chief disciple. But now that there were people openly looking for him, he couldn't help but get concerned.

"Hmm… let's talk at my residence. This is not the right place." Wang Xiong spoke.

"Indeed, senior brother." The disciples said.

Wang Xiong looked at them and noted their appearances. All five of them were familiar to him and he had talked with them before. Thus, he had few reasons to doubt them as of now.

Plus, taking them to the residence had two benefits. First, it would provide him with privacy and second, there were formations arrays there that could help him fight back, if a battle ever happened and these five were actually the enemy.

Wang Xiong couldn't bring himself to fully believe anyone as he had seen many elders who he had thought to be nice before change their stances just the way a chameleon changed its colors.

~shua~

The six of them landed in the residences and the five junior disciples got to see the best residence that the sect had to offer. The residences of the other high elders and even the sect patriarchs were similar to this.

"Whoa!" some of the juniors exclaimed as they felt the concentrated spirit Qi in the air.

It was even denser than the rest of the sect and once could only imagine the benefits it would bring to their cultivation. They basked in it for a bit and Wang Xiong let them take their time. After all, he was doing something else in secret as well.

A few formation runes glowed in his hand that was behind his back, as he controlled the formation arrays of the residence. He had intentionally increased the output of the spirit Qi so as to distract the disciples while he tested them.

An analytical and scanning formation covertly activated and scanned the junior disciple. Wang Xiong kept a calm face outwardly, but internally he was ready if a fight were to break out right now.

Since the disciples were busy absorbing a large amount of spirit Qi, they did not notice the probes of the formation array that had merged in with the spirit Qi. These entered their meridians and Dantian, before sending back the necessary repose to Wang Xiong.

"Hmm… they are normal. No signs of being controlled or anything else." He muttered to himself.

He then waved his hand and returned the formations to their neutral state. The disciples also came to their senses and felt a bit embarrassed. They looked at Wang Xiong, who did not seem to mind their rudeness and instantly felt better.

"So what is it that you wanted to tell me exactly?" Wang Xiong questioned while taking a seat at the stone patio table.

The junior disciple who had spoken the first time walked forward and took a deep breath before speaking.

"We overheard a few disciples talking that there are people willing to pay a good price for any information related to you, senior brother." He spoke.

"Oh? And I'm guessing they already know some things?" Wang Xiong questioned.

"You are right, senior brother." He agreed. "They were looking into your breakthrough and spent quite a lot in figuring out how it was possible. They managed to find out that before your breakthrough, you had gone out of the sect." He answered.

"Hmm… that isn't really any secret information. It is in the sect records as well." Wang Xiong said, finding it to be relatively normal.

"That's not all senior… they know that you went to the Millennium forest, and that you had a fortunate encounter there. Some of them searched the sect records and figured out that you may have found an ancient tomb that was located there." The second junior disciple explained.

Hearing this, Wang Xiong was now concerned. According to the official sect records, he had gone to the Millennium Forest for hunting down spirit beast and bringing back their materials.

It was one of the most common jobs that were always available in the sect and the only difference was that some were in different locations. Millennium forest was of course a bit far from the Frozen cloud sect, but Wang Xiong going there could be attributed to him choosing a place with less competition.

Plus he had gone there in a team, thus there should have been other accounts of this as well. Of the team, only he had gained the most, and the others were pretty much the same when they came back.

Only when Wang Xiong had become the chief disciple had he gained enough power and resources that he could also give his companions some so that they could get stronger as well. 

For others to find out that he did something else there and even discovering about the tomb was really unexpected for him. 

'Did I remove the records from the old library? How did they still find out about it?' Wang Xiong couldn't help but wonder.

Lin Wu was actually the one who had suggested to him that he should not let the others find out more about the Tomb. After all, to Wang Xiong, the threat of the Shadow calamity was legitimate and he didn't know where it could strike from.

He had already heard how it could corrupt others and change things. He had even encountered the beasts in the trials and knew just how terrifying they could get. Plus, with Lin Wu in seclusion, he did not know if the shadow calamity might strike or not.

"Hmm… so they found that out? And what are they intending to do with that information?" Wang Xiong questioned.

"We've heard different things, but most of them involve going to the Millennium forest themselves to learn about it. They think that even if they don't find that fortunate encounter, they might still be able to trace senior brother Wang Xiong's steps and find the sources.

Even that information is valuable and many are willing to pay a good price for that." The first junior disciple explained.