Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Gao Qian had not thought that the mission he was assigned to would end up taking such a turn. From all that he had been briefed about and had learned, it was a relatively simple mission and only involved capturing a beast that they had turned crazy from the use of agitation jades.

Their master had started the plan over a decade ago and it was finally coming to fruition. Though he didn't know why he had asked him and his three other senior companions to come here.

Even a single one of them was enough to capture the beast, even if it might have been at the Adult Soul stage of the Nascent soul realm. They had trust in themselves and the formation array.

They had done multiple similar missions that involved the capture of strong cultivators. Thus, this mission was even simpler, with the target being a mindless beast that couldn't even figure out the formation array like a cultivator might be able to.

Gao Qian didn't protest of course and silently listened to his master thinking that there might be more more to it than they knew and their master had a better idea. And now that he had seen everything, he was sure that it was just like that.

'A Titled Daoist… a true Titled Daoist was hiding here.' Gao Qian thought seeing Lin Wu.

Even though Lin Wu was in the form of a beast, he could tell that he wasn't really a normal beast. He had read about the back up a lot of experts kept in case their main bodies died.

Lin Wu with the crystalline body seemed like a puppet to him and he was sure that it was an expert that had lost his body. And considering the power that Lin Wu displayed, including the formation array being shattered, she was sure that Lin Wu was at least an Immortal Ascension realm expert.

'That would also explain how he could use a human technique like soul searching. If he was a human from the start, he wouldn't have any problem using it with a different body.' Gao Qian thought.

Daoist was a term that was often used almost synonymously with a cultivator, but a titled Daoist was not. For someone to be a titled Daoist, they would need to make a great achievement.

It could be the creation of a new top grade cultivation technique, formation array, spirit weapon, alchemical pill, establishment of a sect and many more things. But the most impressive method was to reach the Immortal Ascension realm.

Anyone that could do that was considered to be very powerful and talented. Thus they were deserving of a title. Even if they didn't pick one, others would usually assign one to them.

Gao Qian had read a bit about titled Daoist of the past and current times and knew most of them. Thus, he knew that if he got the Daoist Title of Lin Wu, he would be able to know who he truly was.

He even thought that recognizing Lin Wu's greatness might impress him and he might be saved. 

Unfortunately for him, the reality turned out to be cruel.

~SLICK~

"UGH!" Gao Qian coughed out blood and looked at the spike that had penetrated his chest.

Two more coughs were heard as his fellow elders were stabbed with the spikes as well.

"W-why?" He said unwillingly.

"It's easy." Lin Wu casually said as he raised the four elders up to his mouth and dropped them into it.

~CRUNCH~

In less than five seconds, the elders had been reduced to a mushy mix of flesh and bone while the system extracted their memories.

"There we go. That should get us enough information…" Lin Wu said, as he saw the notification.

~DING~

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DATA NODES OBTAINED: Total number- 9

ASSIMILATING DATA NODES: Parsing

NOTIFICATION: Please wait patiently…

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ASSIMILATION: Completed 

DATA BANKS: Updated

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Soon the system completed reading and analyzing the information from the data nodes and showed it to Lin Wu.

"Hmm… that's quite a bit. Let's filter it down a bit…" He muttered, and the information started to change.

About a minute later, he got the information that he needed pertaining to these cultivators.

Lin Wu learned that these were cultivators who belonged to the Weiyuan Chamber. The Weiyuan chamber was an organization that dealt with a lot of businesses including but not restricted to the sale of pills, weapons, resources. 

While it was quite diverse, it was actually not that well known. It mostly worked as the middle man and did not appear in direct contact with most people. Even if some people knew of their existence, they didn't think of them to be anything big.

They were spread all over the Long Continent and had a wide reach. They owned a lot of businesses under different names and were thus able to maintain their secrecy.

But their biggest secret was that they were actually owned by none other than the Eldest son of Ji Shan, the current patriarch of the Ji clan, Ji Yuan. He was one of the contentments for the position of Heir, but had been pushed out by Shirong due to his inferior talent.

Though his cultivation base was rather high, being at the Adult Soul Stage, which even Shirong was not at. This selection would seem unfair to most people, seeing as the stronger candidate was rejected for weaker, but that was not what the Ji clan was after.

The Ji Clan not only desired strength and power but also personality and talent. This was the one thing that the Eldest son failed in and Shirong succeeded. Thus, even with a Core condensation realm cultivation base, he was selected as the heir.

Though the competition for the position was still going on secretly.

And to continue that, the brothers of Shirong made their own organizations and allies. This was allowed by the clan, but they could not fight each other directly. 

What Lin Wu was most surprised by though, was the fact that Ji Yuan had said that he was not fighting for the position of the heir anymore.