Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu watched on and waited for the Copper Hide Weasel to speak further. He hoped that there was more to this story than just this as he did not want to end this 'quest' of his here. Not when he was just starting to get excited.

"Me can't eat. Me teeth hurt! Me put it in nest. Me eat every night, but me can't eat. Me leave till me get strong. Me was able to eat new things when me get strong." The Copper Hide Weasel replied.

Upon hearing his words, Lin Wu felt relieved.

"So you did not eat it?" Lin Wu asked.

"Me ate." The Copper Hide Weasel replied.

"But you just said you did not eat it." Lin Wu questioned.

"Me teeth hurt, so me eat at night." The Copper Hide Weasel answered.

"You're not making any sense!" Lin Wu said, feeling frustrated.

~Sigh~

"I'll just check it myself." Lin Wu muttered to himself before turning around.

The nest of the Copper Hide Weasel was right behind him and Lin Wu had not gotten the chance to scan it entirely due to the beast attacking him at the last moment. And thus even if the stone feather was there, he might not have eaten it yet.

Lin Wu took this chance to check it and found the stone feather lying deep in at the bottom of the nest. It was covered with all the Cyan Blush Azaleas and branches, which had made it hard for one to see it.

Only with spirit sense did he manage to spot it. 

"There you are!" Lin Wu said before picking the stone feather out from the nest. 

He looked at the feather that was covered in dirt and dust before infusing some spirit Qi into it.

~humm~

The stone feather became activated and three red veins appeared on it.

"Bingo! It really was the right one." Lin Wu exclaimed.

The Copper Hide Weasel though, kept on looking at him as if he wanted more. Lin Wu also noticed this and wondered about its cultivation base. If the beast had found this stone feather in some tree he wanted to know what kind of a tree it was.

If that tree could push a beast to the Nascent Soul realm this easily, then it was bound to be something really valuable.

"That tree you ate, where was it?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Food! Give!" The Copper Hide Weasel demanded.

~Sigh~

"Fine…" Lin Wu responded before making another crystal from his body and weakening it before passing it to the Copper Hide Weasel.

~munch~

The Copper Hide Weasel quickly ate the crystal before licking its paws clean, even though there was nothing on them. 

"Now take me to where you found the tree." Lin Wu spoke.

The Copper Hide Weasel did not speak anything and simply turned around. Lin Wu knew this was his cue to follow the beast and thus he did. The beast took him through the forest, and then beyond the mountains. 

Eventually, they reached a valley after two hours of travel. During the entire time, Lin Wu was keeping his map updated so that he could see if there was anything important here. He reckoned that if there was something so valuable, like that tree here, there were bound to be other things too.

He did end up seeing some good things here. There were a couple of high grade spirit herbs that were growing in some isolated areas, while there were also some nascent Soul realm beasts in this valley.

Here's where Lin Wu could see the difference between the Beasts of the Millennium forest and those of the Bing Kingdom. The ones here were mostly wild and independent. They kept to themselves and did whatever they wanted in the territory.

While the beasts of the Millennium forest were much more smarter in a way and would organize themselves. Lin Wu wondered if this was some unique effect caused by living in that land or something else.

'The tomb of the Taiji Celestial and the Dark Bloom caverns certainly has something to do with it.' Lin Wu thought.

~ROAR~

While passing by one of the Nascent Soul realm beasts discovered Lin Wu and the Copper Hide Weasel. It rushed at them and let out a loud roar, trying to intimidate them. Lin Wu immediately looked at the Copper Hide Weasel and wanted to see how it would reach.

~SKREEE~

The Copper Hide Weasel rushed like crazy and lunged at the beast that had just appeared. It was a panther that had yellow fur but with green patterns on it. Lin Wu recognized it to be a Green Tenspot Panther which was a native beast of the Bing Kingdom.

Lin Wu did not interfere and wanted to see how the Copper Hide Weasel would deal with it. He saw the Copper Hide Weasel which was four times smaller than the Green Tenspot Panther jumping at its head and latching onto it with its paws.

It then directly bit onto its nose.

~GROWL~

"Let GO!" The Green Tenspot Panther yelled in beast tongue.

Lin Wu could see that the Nascent Soul realm beasts here spoke normally, too. It was just the Copper Hide Weasel that was a strange guy. 

"Truly fearless…" Lin Wu muttered.

He then watched as the Copper Hide Weasel ran around the beast's body while biting everywhere. The Green Tenspot Panther could not do much and only thrashed around. Both the beasts had similar cultivation bases, but the Copper Hide Weasel was faster and smaller.

It could easily dodge the Green Tenspot Panther's attacks and actually made it injure itself while struggling. Lin Wu ended up watching the show for about five minutes after which it got boring for him.

~Sigh~

"Stop it now," Lin Wu spoke.

But neither of the beasts responded.

"Ah, I forgot I need to use force." Lin Wu muttered as he shook his head.

"I SAID STOP!" Lin Wu yelled with force as he smashed his tail on the ground.