Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Hearing Lin Wu, the servant beasts all felt a sense of pride swelling up in their bodies.

"We shall bring glory to master and rise to the top of this world!" The Mole beast said with great enthusiasm.

The other beasts looked at the mole beast upon his words and had a strange expression on their faces.

"The world already? Pretty sure we would have to be far more strong to even be qualified to say that." The Beetle beast said, feeling doubtful.

"No…" Lin Wu interrupted.

"The mole beast is right. We shall become the strongest power in this world… even above the humans. We are beasts! We are innately stronger than humans when born. We need no cultivation techniques and yet we grow stronger.

All we need is some direction and I'm sure we shall rise to the top!" Lin Wu proclaimed.

After hearing the words of Lin Wu, the beasts finally felt a bit more convinced. Lin Wu had made this goal after quite a bit of thinking. He had read plenty of novels and knew how cultivation worlds worked.

Unless one was strong in the world, it was hard to survive. One couldn't be strong alone either, as then there would be many others changeling them. Rather than being strong alone, it was better to have a power backing them.

Thus Lin Wu reckoned why not become that power themselves. Since it was always the 'proclaimed son of heaven', 'the providence bearer' or just the 'protagonist' who faced the most trouble and courted it as well, why not be the power that stayed at the back and let the main character fight.

Lin Wu knew that even if he had the system, he was not invincible. He was not born as a human and thus had nothing to do with them. Karma and fate existed in worlds such as this and thus he was now linked to beasts.

It was far better for him to be with beasts rather than foolishly try to ally with the humans and support them directly. Rather than that, it would be far better for him to have humans as 'his' subordinates like Wang Xiong was.

Lin Wu knew that this way the troubles would be less likely to head his way and even if they did, Wang Xiong and the rest would probably face them and he would be alerted beforehand to be prepared for it.

It was a long plan and would need quite a bit of preparation. But Lin Wu already had the baseline ready now. He had the tomb and the inheritance that came with it. He had his servants, who while not the strongest, had a decent enough cultivation base that would prevent humans and other beasts from challenging them outright.

But Lin Wu knew that this was not full enough. Just the Tomb would be lacking and he needed to increase his area of influence.

"We shall follow, master!" All of the beasts said in unison.

"Good! Now then… the first thing we need to do is to stabilize our position in the millennium forest. If we want to get strong, we have to fully control it." Lin Wu said.

"Does this mean… we will be removing the rulers?" The beetle beast asked.

While she was indeed Lin Wu's servant, the current beetle king was her ancestor and had been good to her the entire time. She did not want him to suffer anymore.

"No… we will be adding them to our ranks. Why remove someone that can increase our power? Of course, this is only if they accept to join us. If they resist, then… they shall be eliminated." Lin Wu replied.

~phew~

Hearing this, the Beetle beast took a breath of relief.

'Ancestor will be fine with this. As long as the insect beasts are safe and can live without too much conflict, I don't think he will mind master taking over the entire forest.' The beetle beast thought.

"I think we won't have as much problem with this. The Slim Arm ape king and the Demon Spine Ape king are already in an alliance with us and have a genial relationship with us. As for the beetle king, our relationship is even better, as their egg clutches are located at the border of our territory for being safer." The Nascent soul realm Emeraldine Monkey said.

This was the same monkey who Lin Wu had assigned to take care of the tomb and was the one who was writing records in the hall it had taken over. It was certainly smart and had kept up with all the happenings in the forest.

"That's good then. What about the Twin Lights Liger King?" Lin Wu questioned.

In all that Lin Wu had seen in the system's memories, the information about the Twin Lights Liger king and his territory seemed to be minimal. Which was rather strange, as it seemed like they had not acted much during the past ten years.

"The twin Lights liger king… he's been silent… too silent." The Swan beast was the one to answer this time.

"Oh? Tell me more." Lin Wu asked.

"I've been particularly keeping an eye on him and his territory. In fact, that was where I was just a few hours ago. I came when master summoned me. 

As for the Twin Lights Liger King, the last time he was seen was during the invasion of the Southern Tusk Tapirs. He held off the northern part of the forest and only appeared when all of his subordinates were about to be killed.

His power was the same and he very easily killed the six Nascent soul realm southern Tusk Tapirs that had attacked from the north. As for the ones with a lower cultivation base, they were killed by the Lamp Light Ligers." The Swan Beast explained.

"Hmm… I see and he did nothing else? Not even ask around about me or the Olive Viper King?" Lin Mu questioned.

"No… nothing. He just went back to his cave and has been there ever since." The Swan Beast answered. 

Lin Wu furrowed his brows and wondered just what it was that was up with the Twin Lights Liger king.

"System, can you check up on the Twin Lights Liger King?" Lin Wu questioned.

~DING~

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SCAN FAILED: Interference detected

NOTIFICATION: The area around the Dark Bloom Caverns has become unstable.

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Seeing this, Lin Wu was even more sure that something was definitely going on with the Twin Lights Liger King.

"Seems like I'll have to visit him on my own." Lin Wu muttered.

"What do you want us to do, master?" The beasts questioned.

"Hmm… Beetle beast, you can go and ask your ancestor if he's willing to join under me. And you, Emeraldine Monkey, you can ask the Slim Arm Ape King as well. The Demon Spine Ape king will probably agree if his father does and if he does not, he'll probably ask for a fight first." Lin Wu answered.

Hearing about a fight, the eyes of the Emeraldine monkey lit up.

"I would look forward to that. I'd like to see what the Demon Spine Ape compares to us now." The Emeraldine Monkey said.

"You can do that. Or if he wants to fight me, that's fine too." Lin Wu replied.

The Emeraldine monkey cupped its fist and bowed his head in acceptance.

"What do I do with the Frozen cloud sect disciples master? Should I allow them to come to the tomb for the trials?" The 'Monk'ey beast questioned.

"Hmm… wait for a bit. What do they want to do now? Have the asked to come?" Lin Wu asked.

"Of the ten that qualified, only two want to attempt the trials and they are waiting patiently. They have already understood the difficulty of the trials and want to be prepared before attempting the Tomb's. 

They will wait as long as I tell them to wait. As for the rest… they are already inheriting the Sky Bright Daoist's techniques. It will take them a while though." The 'Monk'ey beast answered.

"Hmm… so that's how it is. Very well, let them wait for a bit. I'll let them take the trials after my breakthrough." Lin Wu stated.

"Y-your breakthrough?" The 'Monk'ey beast asked doubtfully.

"Mmhmm… I'm ready for a breakthrough to the Dao Shell realm. I just wanted to know what all was happening before attempting it and giving you all a notification." Lin Wu confirmed.

"Master will be breaking through to the Dao Shell realm? Is it truly possible?" The Swan beast questioned.

"Yes, doesn't the forest prevent that from happening? So far no Dao Shell realm beast has managed to appear in the forest." One of the core condensation realm emerald monkey beasts said.

"No… we thought that there could only be five nascent soul realm beasts before, but now we clearly have several more. Which means the rules of the forest are not rigid… or that they have changed now.." The beetle beast said after thinking.