Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu spent about a week learning about the sect and all the changes that happened there. Usually, it would have been enough for him to gather enough information in just a day or two, but then he learned that Wang Xiong was actually not in the sect.

He checked it through the system as well and realized that Wang Xiong was truly away. Lin Wu had wondered if he should go and find him on his own, but then learned that Wang Xiong would be returning in a few days anyway.

Thus, he just thought that he may as well spend some more days here and learn more things. The system also took this time to analyze the new formation arrays that were made by the sect and add them to its data.

Lin Wu now had the free rein to move around in most areas of the sect, even the ones that were inaccessible to him previously. His cultivation base increasing allowed the system to hide himself better and also unravel more complex formations without it being detected by the others.

During this time, Lin Wu learned a lot of new things, along with stealing some food and snacks as well. 

The most important thing that he learned was the division of the sect. The Frozen Cloud sect was now divided into three main divisions. The first division was called as the Frozen Brook Division, the second one was called as the Frozen Cliff division and the third one was called as the Frozen Plain division.

These divisions were made due to the creation of the three camps in the sect. Earlier they were not as big and the conflict was not enough for them to reach this point of turning into full blown divisions, but over time some incidents happened that pushed them to the edge.

It all started with Wang Xiong becoming the Chief disciple, of course. At that time there were just two camps, the one that belonged to the Elders of the Discipline hall and the ones that sided with them, and the second camp was everyone else.

But the conflicts between them only kept on increasing more and then something was discovered that made their difference irrevocable.

This was nothing but the missing Spirit Qi spring… which Lin Wu stole.

The two camps put the blame on each other and finally, it broke out into a direct conflict. Several hundred disciples died in this and it forced the patriarch and the supreme elder to take the matter into their own hands.

They had to forcefully amend the rules of the sect and allow the creation of the two divisions. But then a group of people expressed their neutrality in the matter and a few elders joined in as well, saying that they did not want anything to do with either of the camps.

This led to the creation of the third camp, which was the neutral camp. 

The First Division, the Frozen Brook division, belonged to the patriarch and Wang Xiong, along with everyone that sided with them. 

The second division, the Frozen Cliff division, belonged to the former elders of the Discipline hall and the Supreme elder who had sided with them.

The third division, The Frozen Plain division, belonged to the members that had decided to stay neutral. It included people from many different pavilions and halls of the sect and thus wasn't fully represented by one power.

"Damn, never would have thought stealing that source crystal would lead to this… oops." Lin Wu said to himself upon learning all this.

Later, he also learned the reason behind the combined invasion of the Millennium forest by the Frozen Cloud sect. It was due to Wang Xiong and the secret of his power being revealed.

Apparently, a someone in the sect managed to find records that said that there was a secret tomb in the Millennium forest and thus implied that Wang Xiong had obtained his inheritance there.

At first, there were just rumors, but then it turned into a full blown mission and was officially issued by the sect. Of course, Wang Xiong knew that it could turn problematic and tried to figure out a way that would help him.

This led him to reveal more information that was spread by his people as more rumors. While normally this would have sped up the process of people joining the mission, it instead slowed it down instead.

The elders of the Frozen Cliff division instantly thought that this was a ploy by Wang Xiong to pull them into some kind of a trap. Even though Wang Xiong had spread them as rumors, the elders had enough people spread as spies to figure out that Wang Xiong was doing it intentionally.

This made them alarmed, and they put a stop to the mission quickly. This led to the mission being delayed for a couple of years. Only after everything was verified by the sect did they issue the mission again.

But this time was exactly what Wang Xiong needed to stabilize his influence in the sect. He had grown rather quickly in power and, with the backing of the patriarch, continued to grow more and more.

His cultivation base was also increasing steadily and he was already at the Child Soul stage and was almost at the Adolescent soul stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Lin Wu got this information from some of the people that were close to Wang Xiong, which included one of the companions that had accompanied him to the Taiji Celstial's tomb.

This companion being none other than Ye Jin.

"Seems like Wang Xiong has gotten a girlfriend now too… that dog…" Lin Wu said, feeling a little jealous.

There were many more minor matters that Lin Wu learned of from the newly updated records of the sect and from the mouths of disciples that discussed it.

Though he still wanted to hear more in detail from Wang Xiong himself.

"Where is he now? He should be close, right?" Lin Wu wondered to himself as he checked the map again.