Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu had been keeping an eye on the situation inside the mine and knew the moment, the six men were dead.

"Huh, he's rather efficient. Though he did end up eating the communication crystal…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.

The six dots that represented the men had disappeared from the map, and Lin Wu knew it was time to start the next step of the plan.

"Hmm… do I act directly or wait a little bit." Lin Wu wondered. "Waiting will be a better option. Let's see if they even find out their men are dead." Lin Wu decided.

His choice turned out to be correct as just five minutes later, there was some movement among the elders.

One of the elders opened his eyes and furrowed his brows. He took out what looked like a mosaic glass mirror. There were multiple sections on the glass mirror and it looked like it was made from hundreds of broken glass shards that were struck together.

Three of the sections were dimmer in color than the others and a few seconds later cracks formed on them, before they fully turned into dust.

"They have failed." The elder spoke.

The other three elders woke up as well and looked at him.

"We already expected something like this to happen. It just means the beast is a bit more powerful than we thought. The rumors about everyone only seeing it as a blur was most likely due to it being fast." The first elder stated.

"If they have been killed, it means the beast has awakened. Considering its aggressive nature, it will probably be on the prowl to hunt more. We should be ready for it to come out at any time." The second elder suggested.

"Yes," The three elders said and one of them stood up.

"All disciples are to be ready!" He said out loud.

The disciples simply responded with cupped hands and got to work. Closing their eyes, they let their spirit senses join with the formation array. The elders on the other hand, focused on the entrance of the mine and stayed alert.

Lin Wu who had been observing all this, raised his brows.

"They are certainly experienced with this. Does not seem like this is their first time doing something like this. Are they from a sect?" Lin Wu wondered.

The system had already scanned all of the cultivators here, but it did not find their identities.

"Hmm… I'll probably have to get their memories. If they can do all this and stay hidden, they are probably the secret force of some power." Lin Wu reckoned.

His attention was pulled back to the map as the system sent him a notification.

"Oh? The weasel is coming up… of course, he wants to eat more. Though I guess it doesn't really matter now. Let's see what he can actually do." Lin Wu decided.

While he had a little clash with the weasel beast, it was more of a one sided thing and Tim could not do much against him. Lin Wu wanted to see just what abilities and skills the Weasel had with his new physique and bloodline.

'Not to mention the system will get the chance to do the first analysis as well.' Lin Wu thought.

Thus with this in mind, he let it happen. He watched as the marker showing Tim's position rapidly approached the surface. Plus, as a surprise to the Cultivators here, he was not taking the usual path.

"Did they not take into consideration that he could come through another opening?" Lin Wu wondered.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The formation array is omnidirectional. It does not matter from where the beast approaches, the effect will be the same.

——

The system answered for him. 

"I see. Guess they only set it up here, as it was easy to observe if anyone enters or exits. Plus, this is really in the center of the area. The mines spread out radially from here, underground." Lin Wu muttered.

In about five minutes, the Weasel beast had already reached the surface. The location that it had chosen to appear from was one of the rock piles that were near the side of the entrance.

It had simply burrowed out and appeared right next to a disciple that was sitting on his formation node.

~whoosh~

The weasel beast pounced on him immediately without caring that there were others here, too. It was now that Lin Wu realized another thing about the weasel.

"His spirit sense… it is gone too." Lin Wu muttered.

He recalled his condition and reckoned that with how his meridians had changed, the Weasel had become more dependent on his body directly. Even his sense of smell had been amplified proportionately.

"It's certainly a different path that he has taken." Lin Wu understood.

~BANG~

But before the weasel could touch the cultivator, a barrier appeared around him in the form of a cylinder and blocked the attack.

~KREEE~

The weasel beast let out an annoyed cry and looked at the barrier. 

"THE BEAST IS HERE!" The disciples shouted.

"All disciples, INITIATE!" The elder ordered.

~HONG~

The runes started to glow as the formation array came alive. Barrier appeared around every person and were the same cylinder formed. The Weasel looked around at everyone and sniffed.

"FOOD! TONS!" He said out loud.

Of course, this was only understood by Lin Wu. The others could only hear a sharp and ear piercing cry instead.

The Weasel beast didn't care about the formation array and directly attacked the barrier in front of him. In his eyes, only the cultivator in front of him was important. 

~BANG~

The barrier blocked his attack effortlessly. But that was just the start. The weasel beast clawed at the barrier tens of times in the span of a few seconds. The barrier was certainly impacted and seemed to have been dented.

~shua~

But at the same time, the formation array let out a humming sound and a wave of energy spread through it.

~WEENG~ 

As the energy spread through the air, the spirit Qi started to disappear.. In five seconds, the spirit Qi in the radius of one kilometer was wiped out.