Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Lin Wu who had been watching everything, felt rather pleased with Tim.

"He can certainly carry his own weight. Not bad…" Lin Wu muttered.

For Lin Wu, who had observed many humans and cultivators, Tim seemed to be better than most. His power was good, and he didn't complain about not being able to do anything.

In fact, Lin Wu was sure he didn't even think that far and would just go for anything that he wanted. Him attacking Lin Wu to eat without fear was a sign of that. Though Lin Wu also wondered if his lack of fear was natural or due to some other problem.

It was rather peculiar since Tim didn't seem to be affected by the bloodline aura of Lin Wu either. Almost every beast would feel the pressure exuding from Lin Wu's bloodline and would be nervous around him.

But Tim was the same as he always was and did not seem to care about it. He might be the most peculiar beast Lin Wu had come across till now and it even included Zhu Tianying.

~KIKIKIKI~ 

The weasel let out a cry upon being freed and flipped in the air and pounced directly on the nearest barrier. He started spinning mid air and crashed into the barrier, shattering it like the others.

The Third Elder who had been injured due to the backlash of the technique, gritted his teeth and was angry.

"ENOUGH! WE ARE ENDING THIS!" The first elder seemed to be in agreement now.

All along, their plan was to suppress the beast and take it away for analysis. It was not an absolute requirement, but their master had told them that the beast was of some interest to him.

They were told that if the beast died, it would still be fine, but they would get more rewards for catching the beast alive. They had already lost a few of their people and now even the third elder had gotten injured.

"The formation doesn't seem to be working on it for some reason or it just has a lot of spirit Qi to last this long. We will just attack directly!" The second elder added.

And thus, the first, second and third elders attacked at the same time. Only the fourth elder stayed in his place, as he needed to maintain the formation array in the meantime.

A multitude of skills were used and all of them went towards Tim.

The other junior cultivators watched on in pleasure as the beast that had killed their companion was about to die. But just when the skills were about to hit Tim, something shocking happened.

~SHING~SHING~SHING~

A circle of green crystal spikes suddenly rose up from the ground and surrounded the weasel beast. Curling up on top of the beast, they turned into a dome that fully protected it.

~BANG~

~DENG~

~CLANG~

~BOOM~

The various skills landed on the crystal but were not even able to make a scratch on them.

"WHAT?!" The junior cultivators were stunned.

"IMPOSSIBLE!" The third elder shouted.

"How can this beast do something like this?" The second elder questioned.

The first elder on the other hand, narrowed his eyes and checked the area with his spirit sense. But the moment he went past the first fifty meters, he felt very uncomfortable. His spirit sense started to waver and it felt like he had entered a swamp.

It became very difficult for his spirit sense to move and the more he went ahead, the more strenuous it got for him. 

"What is happening?" He muttered.

The other cultivators also realized that their spirit senses were getting suppressed, and they didn't know why.

"W-what? Why's my spirit sense not working?" One of the core condensation realm cultivators couldn't help but question.

A few seconds later, the situation got so bad that their link to the formation array broke as well.

~RUMBLE~

It was at this time that the ground started to tremble. The Nascent soul elders watched on in anxiety as something started to rise from the ground. 

"It… it's surrounding us?" The fourth elder noted.

~TREMBLE~

The ground started to part as more green crystals rose from the ground. But this time, they all seemed to be joined together from the start. The crystals were in a circle and looked to be several meters tall in height.

Only when the ground near the elders parted did they see the truth of what it was.

~Huu~

A hot breath left Lin Wu's mouth as he raised his head from the ground. The crystal dome around Tim also recessed and turned into the tip of Lin Wu's tail. He had split it apart to make a dome to protect the weasel.

Lin Wu knew that even the weasel might get injured from some of the skills that the Nascent soul realm cultivators had used. Even if it did not die, the injuries might be severe and thus Lin Wu wanted to avoid that.

"You were right." Lin Wu said while looking at the first elder. "That was a good show… but now it's enough." He stated.

~SHING~

Horizontal spikes rose from his body, with each of them pointed towards a junior cultivator.

~Shua~shua~shua~

The spikes glowed with a green light briefly before tens of wind attribute spirit Qi arrows were shot at great speed from them. 

~SPLAT~ SPLAT~

The arrows penetrated the cylindrical barriers like it was paper and burst the heads of all junior cultivators in less than a second.

"NOOO!" The fourth elder shouted.

~COUGH~

He then spat out a mouthful of blood as the backlash from the formation array reached him. The sudden death of the disciples maintaining the formation array's nodes led to them being abruptly disconnected.

The other three elders watched in horror as all their subordinates died in an instant.

"Now that they are gone… let's get rid of this formation array too." Lin Wu said casually and pointed towards a point in the air with his tail.

~KACHA~

As if a sheet of glass had been poked a bit too hard, the formation array was covered in cracks.