Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The spirit Qi wave that had just come from the distance was far stronger than normal and pulled everyone's attention.

Everyone looked in the distance and saw a large Southern Tusk Tapir Beast appear. It was three times as big as the other ones, and its tusks were a shining silver in color. It looked like a hill flying in the sky and a powerful aura was exuding from it.

"YOU BEASTS HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH! NOW IT'S THE TIME FOR MY GREAT TAPIR TRIBE TO RISE!" The Silver Tusked Tapir Shouted.

All the beasts could feel the pressure exuding and the rulers particularly sensed the cultivation base of the Tapir beast that had just appeared.

"Dao Shell realm… THAT BEAST IS AT THE DAO SHELL REALM!" The Slim Arm ape recognized.

He was one of the few beasts who had actually seen cultivators and beasts with that cultivation base before and knew it very well. 

Once all the beasts heard it, they were scared. A Dao shell realm beast was something that Millennium forest had never seen before. The strongest beast that had even lived in there had reached the absolute peak of the Adult Stage of the Nascent Soul realm at most.

But they had never actually broken through to the Dao Shell realm. Even now, only the Twin Lights Liger King was considered to be the strongest of the beasts with the highest cultivation base in the forest.

Lin Wu was also quite strong, but the beasts did not exactly know what point he was at. While the fight between him and the Olive Viper King was fierce and caused a lot of destruction, it was still not enough for them to estimate if he would be able to fight a Dao Shell realm beast.

"AHAHAHA! Our King has arrived!" The Southerner Tusk Tapirs rejoiced.

~BOOM~

The Silver Tusk Tapir stepped on the ground, making it shake and tremble. The weaker beasts had directly fainted, while the ones that were a bit more strong were now running away.

It was a deep seated instinct that was making them act like this and they could not resist it even if they wanted to. Soon, only the Nascent soul realm beasts of the Millennium forest were left.

This included the rulers, the servants of Lin Wu and a few other beasts that Lin Wu had mutated for the rulers.

"What do we do now?" The Hook winged swan questioned.

It had one of its wings broken and blood was dripping from it. The other beasts were no good and most of them had pretty bad injuries. The same could also be said for the ruler beasts.

A few of the other servants of Lin Wu, such as the mole beast who was holding the beasts in the west back, also sensed the appearance of the Silver Tusked Tapir who was the king of the Southern Tusk Tapirs.

At this moment, they knew that they had very few options left. All the servants of Lin Wu tried to frantically contact him. Even if they knew that Lin Wu would be disturbed, they still chose to do it as it would possibly harm Lin Wu too, if the beasts were not stopped.

~DENG~

It was at this moment a humming sound came from the tomb. 

~shua~shua~shua~

The formation array of the Tomb lit up and hundreds of thousand sod runes appeared in the air. At the same time, a strange mechanical voice was heard.

"Class 3 Threat detected! Activating defensive protocols!"

~whoosh~

Suddenly, the runes started to fly around the Silver Tusk Tapir and rapidly formed into different fomentations.

~ding~ding~ding~

One by one, barriers started to form around the Silver Tusked Tapir. 

"Humph!! IMPUDENT! You think this can stop me?!" The Silver Tusk Tapir shouted.

~DENG~

It then slammed its body into the barriers, making them shape non stop. Seeing this through, the other beasts were shocked.

"WHAT!? The barriers blocked an attack from our king?" the Southern Tusk Tapirs said in shock.

The rulers were surprised too, while the servants of Lin Wu took breaths of relief.

"It's master! He's taking action!" The Beetle beast said.

They had all seen Lin Wu use the formations before and knew that something like this could probably only be done by Lin Wu, unaware that it was actually the system that was controlling the reins for now.

Unfortunately, their excitement was short lived.

~CRACK~

"Huh?" The Split Thorn Horn beetle king said upon hearing the cracking sound.

Everyone looked at the barriers and saw that a crack had appeared in the innermost barrier.

~THUD~

~CRACK~

"YOU FOOLS ARE JUST DELAYING THE INEVITABLE!" The Silver Tusked Tapir shouted as it continued to slam its body into the barriers.

And he was succeeding in his endeavor as well, since the barriers started to break.

~SHATTER~

The first barrier finally broke apart and the second one followed soon after. The more space the Silver Tusked Tapir got to move, the stronger his attacks got. 

~CRASH~

"NO!" The Slim Arm ape and the others shouted.

The barriers finally broke apart, and the Silver Tusked Tapir managed to free himself.

"AHAHAHA! Now prepare to meet your end!" The Silver Tusked Tapir said.

He then raised his head and gathered spirit Qi into his tusks. His silver tusks were like bamboos after a spring rain. They started to grow at a rapid speed and soon reached a length of ten meters long!

"NOW DIE!" The Silver Tusked Tapir Beast yelled and charged towards the rulers.

They all rushed to avoid the attack of the tapir king, but were still too slow as compared to the tapir king. After all, the speed of a Dao Shell realm beast was not something that could be easily overcome.

The approaching body of the Tapir King was like a meteor falling towards the earth and looked very intimidating. The Demon Spine ape was feeling helpless and angry at himself and dark red flames started to burn on its body.

"I'LL KILL YOU FIRST EVEN IF I DIE!" The Demon Spine ape shouted and jumped at an incredible speed.

His aura suddenly spiked and became like a crushing millstone. The Slim Arm Ape who saw this was stunned.

"NO SON! NO!!! Don't use that!" The Slim Arm ape couldn't help but shout.

Dark red flames covered the fists of the Demon Spine ape and even his eyes started to burn. He looked like a demon that had just walked out of the pits of hell and charged towards the Southern Tusk Tapir King fearlessly.

It was his bloodline that made him innately violent and when he was threatened with death like this, his hidden potential was unleashed. Rather than dying under the power of another beast and helplessly waiting for it to happen, he chose to perish on his own terms.

Using all the power that he could muster from his body and bloodline, he came forth.

But just as the Demon Spine ape and the Silver Tusk Tapir were about to collide, a white cloud appeared in the middle of them.

~poof~

Then, as if both of them had hit a ball of cotton, their attacks were neutralized. 

"Huh?"

"What?!"

"WHAT IS THAT?" 

Different questions were asked by the remaining beasts, but their general meaning was the same. They were all confused about the cloud that had just appeared. The beetle beast and the two bird servants of Lin Wu let out a cold breath.

They could feel death creeping upon them and now the appearance of the clouds was no less of a shock.

"Is that master?" The couldn't help but wonder.

To them, only Lin Wu could do something at this moment, thus this was all they could think of. Since Lin Wu had already acted and used the barriers, they just thought that this was his next attempt.

The Demon Spine Ape stared at his flaming hands that were easily stopped by the white clouds and felt rather perplexed. He could tell that they were fine and his attack was stopped. But he didn't feel a recoil, either.

"What is this?" The Demon Spine Ape King questioned.

While on the other hand, the Silver Tusk Tapir was very angry.

"WHO DARES!?" Unlike the other beasts, he could sense more.

"Who dares interfere in my fight!?" The Tapir King continued.

Hearing this, the other rulers and Lin Wu's servants were confused. They had expected it to be some kind of a skill that had been blocked, but now the Tapir King's words were proving to be rather different.

~SIGH~

And then a sighing sound was heard. It was low, but echoed rather clearly within the ears of all beasts.

"I thought this would be a simple and easy job… and now you have to come and ruin it." A voice came from the white cloud.

The mechanical voice made its return as well.

"Defensive Protocols: Successful. Activating Offensive Protocol: Version 3!"

"Okay, okay… I'll do as I promised," The voice from the clouds lazily said.

After that, the cloud split into two, and a person appeared from it.. It was a man that was wearing a white fox mask on his face.