Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

"This is a messed up clan." Lin Wu said after having read everything.

"They are doing everything just for a prophecy that some random beggar made?" Lin Wu muttered in disbelief.

That was right, the entire reason for the strange rules of Tian clan and their tendency to keep hiding was a beggar!

It was said that a long, long time ago, when the first founder of the Tian clan was a child, he had gotten lost in a forest. The forest was vast and full of dangers. The Tian clan founder was the only child of a pair of farmers that worked in a village next to the forest.

They were very anxious and spent all their time in searching for their child. The Tian clan founder was playing with his friends and accidentally wandered too far in. And there, he saw something shining and went after it.

He was merely seven years old then and thus couldn't resist the attraction of something like that. At first he only wanted to go a little further, but he didn't even realize when he had lost his way.

The forest was full of beasts of course, and while there were only weak beasts at the periphery; they were still more than enough to kill a mortal child. In just six hours, the Tian clan founder came across the first danger.

There were several wolf beasts nearby that were hunting for some prey. They ended up smelling his scent and came after him. The child didn't even have the first stage body tempering realm cultivation, thus he would be injured with just a weak flick.

The wolves stalked the Tian clan founder and finally attacked him when they were close enough. The boy screamed in terror, but just as he was about to be killed, something pushed him.

He fell to the ground and scratched his body. But instead of checking that, he turned to look at who had just pushed him, only to find none other than his father then. In front of him, the Tian clan founder saw his father's arm being ripped off.

Blood spilled like a waterfall, and the father protected his son. Without wavering, he swung the sickle he had in his other hand and attacked the wolf beast. The beast was hit accurately on his neck and fell on the ground helplessly.

'Run!' ordered the farmer, and the son obeyed.

Unfortunately, even if the father was stronger than the son, a pack of such wolf beasts were too much for him. In less than a minute, the farmer was killed and shredded apart. The child could only keep on running as his tears clouded his vision.

He didn't even realize how long or how far he had run, but by the time his wits were a bit more in control, he saw his village there again.

Stumbling into the village, he collapsed and passed out. 

When he finally came to his senses, he found a few people staring at him. He was now in a familiar room and another familiar face was staring at him. This was none other than his mother, whose eyes were bloodshot and swollen, as if she had been crying for a long time.

The other people in the room were the other villagers who were concerned about him. 

A lot of conversations happed after that, but in the end the mother of the Tian clan founder heard that her husband had died. She felt pale after that and fainted. The child founder kept silent and stayed in the same place for a long time.

Finding him to be traumatized, the villagers cared for the fainted mother and the shocked child. A few hours later, the woman did wake up and came to terms with the siltation, but the boy never did.

He became very silent and would never talk unless talked too. And even then, there was a great chance he could just ignore others.

He stayed like that for many years, and when he was twenty, he finally changed. This change was brought about by a beggar that the founder had met.

The beggar asked for money for him and as usual, the founder ignored it. But then the beggar offered something else.

The beggar said that if he gave him some food, he would tell him his fortune. The Tian clan founder didn't know why, but he finally responded to the beggar. He gave the man some food and in exchange, he told him his fortune.

But the fortune telling turned out to be bad for him as the answer that the founder got was that he was doing to die.

'You will die the same way as your father did, in ignorance and because of your weakness.' The beggar said.

This thing struck the Tian clan founder, and he asked a few more things, but the beggar didn't answer him just like that. Instead, the beggar insisted the young man follow him for a while.

The Tian clan founder ended up agreeing and went along with the beggar as he wandered the village and nearby towns, begging for food and money. A month went by like this when finally the beggar spoke with the young man who had patiently waited.

'You have patience, but you lack execution. You can work hard, but you can't bide your time well. That will be your undoing and the reason behind your death. But if you are able to overcome that, you will become peerless in the world!' the beggar stated.

The Tian clan founder was easily convinced, because he had already seen the beggar tell the fortune of others in this time and all of them came true. 

And thus, The Tian clan founder adapted the careful approach that the beggar had told him and started to work towards his growth. He still had his mother to care for and didn't want her to suffer or die.

The founder kept true to this and saw his first few gains after a year.