Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was not expecting for Lin Wu to be back so soon and was surprised when his head popped up again.

"You're back so soon?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.

"Yeah, got rid of the Specter Skull Hound rather fast." Lin Wu said before leaving the gorgon fully.

"And did you get my bloodline crystals?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked.

"Of course!" Lin Wu said before withdrawing one of the bloodline crystals.

This was the time of the test and he needed to see if what the system had said was working or not. Tossing the crystal to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle Lin Wu watched on carefully, ready for anything.

~gulp~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle easily caught the bloodline crystal mid air and swallowed it instantly.

~shua~

Spirit Qi fluctuations came from her body for a minute before subsiding. The vermilion colored feathers on her neck had spread a little bit more, showing that the bloodline crystals were working.

~phew~

Seeing that nothing problematic had happened till now Lin Wu took a breath of relief. 

'It should be fine now.' He thought.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle opened its eyes have having assimilated the bloodline crystal fully and huffed out some flames from her nostrils.

"Where is the next location?" Lin Wu asked.

"The next one?… I can't sense it right now." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

"Can't sense it? How?" Lin Wu asked, feeling strange.

"There are no temples that are nearby it seems like it. There is no sign from my bloodline either." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle answered.

Lin Wu thought over it and found it to be reasonable. It was not like they would keep on finding the temples one after the other. Even the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had to spend a long time searching for them and had only found three after many months of effort.

"What should we do now then? Do we just roam around?" Lin Wu questioned.

"That's what I did till now. The two temples that I've shown you till now were found by me while roaming. The bloodline resonance only works up to a certain level. While I can tell that there are a lot more of these bloodline crystals in the Dread Coil Marsh, the is signal is far too weak for me to tell where exactly." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle explained.

"I see… I guess we can just look around for the time being." Lin Wu said.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle nodded her head and agreement and the two beasts flew away. They flew for many hours in silence when Lin Wu finally got bored and decided to ask a few questions.

"Say… after you gather all the bloodline crystals or… awaken the bloodline of the vermilion bird completely, what will you be doing?" Lin Wu questioned.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle did not respond to Lin Wu at first and flew silently for over fifteen minutes. 

'Am I getting ignored?' Lin Wu wondered.

But just when he was gonna give up hope, she spoke.

"I don't know…" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said.

Lin Wu was frankly surprised by the words of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle and had thought that the beast would have some high expectations or goals.

"So you just want to get strong?" Lin Wu asked.

"Yes." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied simply.

"And nothing more? You don't want to rule? You don't want to have fun?" Lin Wu questioned further.

"Rule?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said in a strange tone.

"Yes, rule. You were one of the Rulers of the Millennium forest before so didn't you like to command other beasts below you? You don't want their servitude again?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Hmm… it wasn't really something I wanted when I was a ruler. I just because one because I broke through to the Nascent Soul realm. Back then the goal I had was to only get stronger and defeat the other rulers since they were the strongest beasts. But now that I'm at the Dao Shell realm, I don't feel like it anymore." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

Hearing her answer Lin Wu felt intrigued.

'Her conflicts are quite similar to that of humans… even though she has the power to take revenge on the old rulers, she no longer feels like it.' Lin Wu thought but then he remembered something.

"You said before that the rulers of the millennium forest were actually slaves to it… what did you mean by that?" Lin Wu questioned feeling curious.

"That forest… it's strange… back when I was a core condensation realm beast it seemed to be pleasant. And then when I reached the Nascent Soul realm I still felt the same and could absorb as much spirit Qi as I could in the center of it.

But when my cultivation base progressed further and over a hundred years passed, I felt that the forest had become strange. There was a strange aura in it…" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said.

"The Dark Bloom caverns…" Lin Wu said in response.

"Yes… that place. There is something there… something that makes me uneasy… it is also something that can control the entire forest, making the beasts its slaves. But how it does that… I do not know." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said.

Lin Wu felt strange as he had not felt anything like that there.

'Is it perhaps related to the Taiji Celestial's tomb? The Dark Bloom Caverns likely contain the main energy source of the Tomb that powers it. If it really is like that then there should be more to it than that.' Lin Wu thought. 

He had not expected that there was something like this to the Millennium forest.

"Have the other rulers not sensed anything like that? Did you ever ask them?" Lin Wu questioned.

"They don't feel it. But the Twin Lights Liger King… he knows something…" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle answered.