Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The 'Monk'ey beast looked at the two disciples with a slight smile on his face and spoke, "come, I'll take you there myself." 

"Um, okay senior." Xiaoge said, finding the 'Monk'ey beast to be a bit different today.

Not only was his appearance slightly different, his aura seemed to have increased as well. She could not place her finger on it, but there was a certain change that was hard to tell that.

Disciple Jun looked at the 'Monk'ey beast as well and observed the beast/master that had been hosting and guiding them in the past few years. He had seen him enough to learn that the beast was far more clever than he showed.

Jun was reminded of the elders back in the sect that were always scheming yet never let it be shown on their faces. While it was hard to tell that, there was a certain presence to people such as these that Jun could feel.

And it was the same feeling that he got from the 'Monk'ey beast as well. The said beast had not even given them a name, and had just asked them to call him a monk. Jun noticed that Xiaoge had felt something as well and knew that there was something up with the 'Monk'ey beast.

In the past ten years, he had gotten to learn of his fellow disciples and now knew them very well. Of them all, he had come to learn that Xiaoge was the most knowledgeable of them all and also had a rather strong tenacity.

She could pick up on fine cues that he could not desperate having a higher cultivation base. Thus he knew more than to trust on her judgment now. 

"So how do we go there, Senior?" Jun asked as well.

"Just stand where you are," the 'Monk'ey beast said.

Jun furrowed his brows and suddenly felt something.

~SHUA~

Waves of spirit Qi rose from the ground and runes started to appear in the air. 

"Huh? Formation runes?" Jun questioned as his brows furrowed.

He tried to recognize what runes these were and what formation did they belong to, but he was unable to. This was rather shocking to him as in these few years that he had spent doing the trials, he had gotten to see a lot of runes and formations that were already considered to be rare.

Some of them were something he doubted even the elders of his sect would be able to identify. And even then, he had seen them enough to learn about them now. Thus it was far shocking to him than it was for Xiaoge who saw it from a different perspective.

~HONG~

The runes quickly arranged themselves into a formation that surrounded them. The two of them couldn't even react before they found themselves feeling light, almost weightless.

"W-what… teleportation?" Jun finally realized.

He had actually seen teleportation formations before but none like this. The runes used were completely different and the entire formation had activated with ease. All teleportation formations that he had seen till now needed a very specific control mechanism and would only work in set locations.

But in the current case, there were no such things here. The runes had appeared out of thin air with just a wave of the 'Monk'ey beast's hand. There also seemed to be almost no spirit Qi consumption either.

~SHUA~

And while Jun thought all this, he found his vision going dark. Then about a second later he found the scene in front of him change. Instead of the shrine hall that he was in before he was now in the middle of a forest.

But that was not all, as in front of him was a large hill. It towered up into the sky beyond the canopies of the tall trees. Then there was a structure built at the base of it at the front of which he was standing.

He could see a wide gate built into the hill which extended into a cave of some sort. There were hundreds of thousands of bones lying around. They were piled up into small hills as well and gave the area a dangerous vibe.

"It cannot be…" Suddenly the voice of a girl could be heard coming from the side, prompting Jun to gaze at her.

"What's the matter Xiaoge? Did you sense something?" Jun asked.

"This… tomb… it is the true trial ground," Xiaoge said, changing her words mid way. 

She had actually thought of something else but did not want to reveal it to Jun here and thus changed it. 

'There's no doubt. This must be the tomb of the Dark Celestial.' Xiaoge thought, remembering the records that she had read.

"Go on, enter it. You two are already qualified to do that, the barrier won't stop you." The 'Monk'ey beast said from the back.

"Are you not coming senior?" Jun questioned.

"This is as far as I can go, the rest is for you two to do." The 'Monk'ey beast answered.

~GULP~

Jun and Xiaoge swallowed down the anxiety they were feeling and nodded their heads. 

"We'll head ahead then senior. Is there perhaps anything we should know or you want to tell us?" Xiaoge asked while at the edge of the barrier.

"I don't. You'll learn the rest inside." The 'Monk'ey beast said prompting the two to enter.

~RIPPLE~

The Barriers opened up and allowed the two to pass through them with ease. They stepped in and continued walking until they had fully entered the cave. Once they were gone though, teleportation runes appeared once again and surrounded the 'Monk'ey beast.

He disappeared with the formation and appeared in a certain hall inside the tomb.

"It is done, master." The 'Monk'ey beast stated.

In front of him stood none other than Lin Wu. His back was facing the beast and he seemed to be focused on something.

If one looked, they would see several windows floating in the air in front of Lin Wu.

"Time to get started then.." Lin Wu said.