Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu watched as the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle broke through temple after temple, snatching the Bloodline crystals from the different statues. Lin Wu also tried to keep up with her but found it hard with her speed.

Seeing this, Lin Wu just gave up and decided to take a look at the statues of the Vermilion bird. When he was at the statue of the fourth temple though, he heard the cry of humans coming from far.

"Ah, seems like she met more followers of the Skull god." Lin Wu guessed.

He continued observing the statues and the different directions they were facing inside the temple. Once he was done seeing all of the temples though, Lin Wu ended up realizing they were all facing the same point.

He cross-referenced it with the map and saw their markers. All of the temples were actually located in a hexagonal formation with the statues pointing towards the center of the hexagon.

"This seems too unique for there to be nothing there. Best check it out…" Lin Wu muttered.

He exited the destroyed top of the temple; courtesy of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, and saw her standing there with her eyes closed. Flames burned around her body as it underwent a changed.

"Looks like eating multiple bloodline crystals sped up the process of her bloodline awakening." Lin Wu said.

~Huala~

The feathers on the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle back started to change color rapidly and soon half of it had turned Vermillion red from the previous yellow color. Even her beak seemed to have a hint of reddish gloss on it now.

~Piiii~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle raised her head and let out a loud chirp, shaking the air. Lin Wu could tell that she was happy and this was a cheerful chirp. But for humans, this may very well be a terrifying one.

"Are you done?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Hmm… yes." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle answered.

"Alright, let's go to the next place now. I think I found something more." Lin Wu stated.

"You did? Is it another temple?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned, feeling a bit confused since she had not sensed anything more nearby.

"I don't know… I don't even know if there is something, but I do have a good hunch. It's nearby anyway, so checking it out should not be much of a problem." Lin Wu replied. 

"Okay…" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied.

Lin Wu nodded his head and flew to the center of the hexagonal fomentation of the temples. It took them about an hour to reach the place and Lin Wu estimated that the center of the cycle should be around here. The Map was not fully accurate right now due to the restriction of the interference field but it could still estimate it.

"Hmm… it should be here." Lin Wu muttered as he searched the area with his spirit sense.

It pierced deep into the ground but did not find anything. 

"That's strange… it should have been here…" Lin Wu muttered.

'Is it perhaps too deep?' Lin Wu wondered.

Thinking that this must be the reason, he decided to go deeper. 

"I'll dig into the ground, so it will take a while." Lin Wu informed.

"Mm… I'll continue my assimilation… it is not fully stable yet." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied.

"Sure," Lin Wu responded before digging into the ground.

This time since Lin Wu was completely unsure that there was anything here, he just decided to dig deep while spreading his spirit sense around him to check for anything hidden there. But even after six hours of searching Lin Wu did not find anything.

He had gone straight deep for over ten kilometers and even then he had not seen anything. He then made circles around that long tunnel and checked if he missed anything, but even after that he was unable to find anything.

~Rumble~

The ground shook as Lin Wu appeared on the surface again. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle sensed him and opened her eyes.

"Did you find anything?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked.

"No… there's nothing there. I went as far as I could, but even there I did not find anything. I don't know what I got wrong." Lin Wu said.

"Hmm… what exactly were you looking for?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle questioned.

Lin Wu then explained to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle how he thought that since the statues in the temple were all looking in the same direction, there must have been something there. But Lin Wu was proved wrong after his search.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle spent some time thinking about it herself. While she did have higher intelligence than a human, it was not like she used it all that often. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was strong and for her most things could be easily solved with violence.

She was stuck at a bottleneck before and how did she solve it? By even more violence!

Killing most of her subordinates before consuming them to further her bloodline. But now that she had met Lin Wu, she could see the benefit of thinking more.

Before the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle used to despise the Slim Arm Ape for acting like humans, but now she realized there were quite a few advantages to them. She reckoned that if she had not met Lin Wu, she would have still been stuck at the same temple, unable to find any more bloodline crystals.

Thus the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle did her best in thinking and came to a conclusion.

"You said that the statues were facing the same direction, right?" the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked.

"Yeah, they were all looking here." Lin Wu said.

"But when I saw them they were also looking up at the sky," The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

As soon as she said this, Lin Wu realized his mistake.