Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Having heard everything from the Eagle Beast Lin Wu now understood the situation better.

The Eagle beast was basically pissed off due to the appearance of the Olive Viper King as it had suddenly grown stronger while she herself had been stuck at the Adult Stage of the Nascent Soul realm for over a hundred years. 

Then a time came when she could not hold back anymore and she decided to kill all the beasts she could and consume them in hopes of increasing her chances of breaking through to the next stage.

During that, the bloodline of the Vermillion Bird awakened within her and allowed her to progress further. But she knew just that would not be enough for her and she would need more of the bloodline.

She had awakened barely a trace of it in her body, but that was still enough for her to sense that there was more of it somewhere west of the Millennium forest. And thus she left the forest to come to the Dread Coil Marsh.

But this then made Lin Wu question the existence of the Vermillion Bird.

"How is that The Vermillion bird is not known in this world while the other three beasts are well known?" Lin Wu questioned, not knowing if the beast even knew about it.

"The other three beasts? You mean the guardian beasts?" The Eagle beast asked.

"Yes, you know about them?" Lin Wu asked.

"I do. They were part of my bloodline memories. As for why they are unknown in this world, I do not know. But I was able to tell that the other three guardian beasts in this world are not the true ones. 

They are actually quite similar to me, being descendants of the original beasts." The Eagle beast answered.

"Hmm… I see. How many of those red stones or the crystallized bloodline of the Vermillion bird have you gathered?" Lin Wu questioned.

The Eagle beast narrowed its eyes, but still answered.

"I've eaten four of those, including the one now." The eagle beast stated.

"Four? Where did you find them?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Two of them I took from the men such as these. I don't know what they talked about but I've seen them lurking around the places where I've sensed the presence of the Bloodline. As for the third one, I found it in a place such as this." The Eagle beast answered.

Upon hearing all this, Lin Wu felt like he understood the situation a bit better.

'So those servants of the 'Skull God' are looking for the 'god's flesh' which is nothing, but the crystallized bloodline remnants of the Vermillion bird.' Lin Wu thought.

"So you mean to say there are more of such places all over the swamp?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Yes. I can sense when they are about to appear, as that is when the bloodline resonance is the strongest. I can't tell their exact location, but there are more of them spread all over the Marsh." The Eagle Beast replied.

Lin Wu nodded his head and reckoned that this must really be related to the legend of the Dread Coil Marsh. 

"Wait, if you can sense the bloodline of the Vermillion bird and have bloodline memories about the other guardian beasts, can you sense their presence here too?" Lin Wu asked curiously.

"No." The Eagle beast replied in a straight tone.

Shirong who had been stuck in the armor while being unable to move till now, was feeling weird. The eagle beast in front of him would look at him and let out some strange sounds. It looked like it was doing something, but Shirong could not tell what.

He was also confused as to why the beast had not attacked him yet.

'Is that Immortal Crystal Armament behind this? Is it trying to repel the beast?' Shirong wondered.

"What are you going to do now?" Lin Wu questioned the beast, feeling curious.

"I'll continue finding more of the fragments of the bloodline crystal and consuming them to further my Cultivation base." The eagle beast said proudly as powerful waves of spirit Qi emanated from its body.

As soon as Lin Wu felt them, he realized that the beast was stronger than he thought.

'Damn, she already reached the Dao Shell realm with three of the fragments. If she gets more of them, will she keep on getting powerful?' Lin Wu thought while Shirong was just stunned in silence.

Lin Wu could compare the spirit Qi waves of the Eagle beast with the high elders of the Frozen Cloud Sect and could tell that she was definitely in the first stage of the Dao Shell realm, which was the Shell initiation realm.

Lin Wu had yet to see how Dao Shell realm cultivators fought, but he definitely did not want to experience it right now. If his main body was here and he merged with it, Lin Wu may have thought of contending, but not now.

Lin Wu's mind worked to figure out how he could take benefit from this situation. He knew letting go of a beast that had the bloodline of the vermilion bird would be bad, but he wasn't strong enough to kill it anyway. Instead of that, he thought of another way.

"What do you think of making an alliance?" Lin Wu questioned.

The Eagle Beast tilted its head and let out a chirp showing its confusion.

"You've said that you want to find the bloodline crystals of the Vermillion bird, so I can help you with that." Lin Wu stated.

"You, help me? Why would you do that and what do you benefit from it?" The Eagle beast asked with apprehension.

"You've seen these men, right? We are looking for them and want to get some information from them. If they are also looking for the Bloodline Crystals, then our goals are the same." Lin Wu stated.

The Eagle beast did not say anything and stayed silent. Lin Wu didn't know if he would get the beast to agree with him, but he knew for sure that he had piqued the beast's interest. Or there was no way the beast would talk to him for this long.