Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu saw that he was passing over a desert now. There were sparse shrubs disturbed around the area and sand flowed like the water.

"Oh? Isn't this the middle desert? How did we end up here?" Lin Wu couldn't help but question.

"System, show me the route map that you took." Lin Wu ordered.

~Ding~

A new window appeared in front of him that showed the map along with lines that showed the route that the system had taken until now. 

"That's a long and winding route… why did you change directions so many times?" Lin Wu questioned.

~DING~

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ANSWER: According to the host's directions, the system was to avoid populated areas and humans. Thus the system changed the directions and route whenever there were humans in the path.

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Hearing the system's answer, Lin Wu found it to be valid, but what he found strange was the number of humans that it had encountered.

'This is strange… even the route that we planned before was rather empty and few humans passed by there. Why is there so many encounters with them now?' Lin Wu couldn't help but wonder.

"System, show me the memories from the past week." Lin Wu ordered.

In the next moment, Lin Wu's vision darkened and he could see the memories of all that had happened in the last seven days. Most of it was just the avatar sitting on the platform and cultivating, but there were several times when the platform inadvertently came close to humans.

Lin Wu could tell that they were all cultivators and were going somewhere. Most of them were in the core condensation realm and could only fly on spirit weapons, but there were a few that were at the Nascent Soul realm.

If this were in a sect or a big city, such level of cultivators would have been normal. But in the wilderness such as this, it was very strange. Especially because the system had to change routes multiple times.

They had done it enough that they weren't even in the same section as before. Originally, Shirong had taken a rather straight route to the Dread Coil Marsh that passed through the middle part of the Long continent. 

But now, the area that Lin Wu was could officially be considered the southern part of the Long continent. 

"Man, doesn't this just increase the time needed for the avatar to reach the Millennium forest?" Lin Wu said, judging the distance and route.

He thought about the cultivators that he had come across and wondered if all of them were going to the same place. What the system had done was move in away from the cultivators whenever they came in its range. 

All of the cultivators were moving towards the south, which ended up with the system going more and more to the south to avoid them. Eventually, it had gone far enough that it ended up in the southern part.

Lin Wu continued to go through the memories and realized that some of the cultivators that were in the Nascent Soul realm had even managed to sense the platform and had tried going after it.

Thankfully system was the first in detecting them and had already taken evasive measures. So while they had detected that there was someone or rather something else nearby, they hadn't actually seen the platform.

~phew~

'At least they haven't seen it. As long as they haven't, then it could be considered to be any other object. Though I need to change the tactic, I guess… Hmm, that should work.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

"Alright system, the next time you encounter humans, put the platform in the storage and let the avatar hide in the ground. This way at least you won't keep on getting, off course." Lin Wu ordered.

"Affirmative." The system replied.

Lin Wu nodded his head and realized that he should have thought deeper about the orders that he gave to the system before. If he had told it to do something like this beforehand, it would not have led to this point.

~Sigh~

"No use thinking of the past and regretting it. I should just get to work." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

With this out of the way, Lin Wu switched his body again as his consciousness passed from the avatar into the main body. His main body in the Taiji Celestial's tomb opened its eyes and stood up.

"The avatar should be fine now. Hopefully, it manages to reach the millennium forest in a month at least." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

With this little inconvenience out of way now, Lin Wu was free to go back to his cultivation session. He coiled up and started to absorb the spirit Qi according to the methods of the Taiji Dual unity Scripture.

***

Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye and Lin Wu felt that the wind attitude liquid spirit Qi pool in his Dantian had grown bigger than before. If he looked closer, he could tell that it was almost thrice the size than before.

"I should be close now…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.

He continued to cultivate and let the spirit Qi infuse according to the method of the Immortal Sky Shaker art. Three more days passed and Lin Wu finally felt the change in his body.

~shua~shua~shua~

Wind spirit Qi whirled around his body as it passed through his body's pores in and out. The winds turned into blades and would slice anything that dared to come close.

~Ding~

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CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE UPGRADED: Immortal Sky Shaker Art- First level (Wind attribute spirit Qi initiate) -> Immortal Sky Shaker Art- Second level (Wind attribute spirit Qi Adept)

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Lin Wu could feel his control over wind attribute spirit Qi increase by multiple times.

"Is this how Shirong felt when using the Immortal Sky Shaker art?" Lin Wu wondered.

He waved his tail and streaks of wind tore through the air like a powerful jet.

"Mmmhmm, this is perfect.." Lin Wu praised himself shamelessly.