Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

~huu~huu~huu~

Wang Xiong panted and looked towards the distance, hoping his plan had worked.

~SKREEEEEE~

An ear piercing screech could be heard coming from a kilometer away at that moment. It was familiar to them as they had already heard Tim many times before, but in this instance, it was different.

"His cry is not one bit weaker… even stronger actually. Just how durable is this beast?" Wang Xiong couldn't help but say.

"How can something even survive that explosion with no scratches? For heaven's sake, that was a Lava Drake's Fire sac!" Ye Jin said in shock.

"Senior Lin Wu had an eye for the talent. There is no way he would have taken an interest in a beast like that and even protected it despite the things it has done. The talent it has is no less than the top experts of us humans." Wang Xiong had to admit.

"ARGH!" But just as he said this, a loud scream could be heard.

Wang Xiong and Ye Jin looked at each other and nodded.

"Seems like it worked." Wang Xiong said.

"Hopefully this keeps him away from us, and those that tailed us on toes." Ye Jin replied.

The two of them could hear more cries coming from the forest and knew that there was a bloody battle going on there, possibly. But they didn't go to check it out. Instead, the two of them retreated to a safer location and hid.

The place they were hiding in right now was actually a hole in the ground. If one didn't look through the collapsed trees, they would not know that there was actually a hole this big here.

"Senior Lin Wu even prepared this for us." Wang Xiong said, seeing the rather spacious hole.

"Now that we're here, why don't you try contacting him?" Ye Jin questioned.

"Hmm… let's see if the link works now. Earlier he had suppressed it… possibly to make sure that the way we acted was normal." Wang Xiong replied.

He then closed his eyes and tried to link up with the communication system that Lin Wu had active most of the time. After a few seconds, he finally got through and felt relieved.

"Senior Lin Wu…" Wang Xiong called out.

"Did you two get far enough?" Lin Wu questioned directly, his tone plain.

"Yes. We are currently in one of the holes you made for us nearby." Wang Xiong answered.

Lin Wu who was hiding a few kilometer away in the ground, furrowed his brows and tried to recall the location.

"Did I make a hole for them nearby?" Lin Wu wondered.

He quickly switched though the map and indeed found the hole that they were talking about.

"Oh it's there. I didn't even know I had one there." Lin Wu muttered to himself before responding to the two.

"And I reckon, you two understood the situation?" Lin Wu questioned.

"We were confused and lost at first, but I understood after seeing some things." Wang Xiong answered.

"I see… then are you two upset with me?" Lin Wu asked, feeling curious.

Lin Wu could understand if they felt like that, as anyone who was pushed into a difficult situation like that without an explanation would feel irritated. Plus, the one that he put Wang Xiong and Ye Jin wasn't just difficult, it was downright deadly.

'Tim certainly won't hold back, it's not in his nature.' Lin Wu thought.

"No senior!" Wang Xiong hurriedly said.

"Though I did think that it was a test of some kind." Ye Jin too joined in at this point, sensing the connection better.

"Hmm… you could say that it was a test too. Not just for me to asses, but for you two to learn as well." Lin Wu said before taking a pause, "I hope you two understood the lesson that comes out of this?" he asked.

"We do, senior!" Wang Xiong and Ye Jin replied in unison.

"And what lesson is that?" Lin Wu asked, while trying to suppress his chuckle.

'I always wanted to play a teacher, hehe.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

"That we need to be vigilant at all times. We have become complacent and thought that our enemies won't act any more just because they have been silent for a while." Wang Xiong answered.

"And I also learned that fate can twist at any instant, thus being prepared is everything." Ye Jin added.

"That is truly an important factor." Lin Wu agreed.

"If Ye Jin didn't have that Lava Drake Fire sac, I doubt we would have been able to push Tim back that far. Even our combined attacks were not something that could have as big of an effect." Wang Xiong stated.

Lin Wu quickly checked the stored memories that the Pentagem had in the two subordinates and got to know what had happened. He had activated the passive recording feature as soon as he distanced himself.

He didn't know if there would be more than just some Core condensation realm and Nascent soul realm people spying on them, thus Lin Wu decided to be cautious.

'Oh? They certainly came up with some new skills… they are even collaborative ones.' Lin Wu thought, feeling rather impressed.

He could see that the two of them had taken the Taiji Refinement scripture and applied that to some other skill they knew and come up with newer versions of them. Lin Wu let the system gather them and update its data banks for future reference.

After thinking for a bit, Lin Wu spoke again. 

"Those people… they are definitely from the sect. Which means someone ordered them to come after you two and seeing their numbers, I doubt they had any good intentions." Lin Wu stated.

"I… I know senior. They are most definitely from the Frozen Cliff division. They had backed off from having frontal conflicts with us in the past few years, and I thought they would do the same now.

But my thought is now proved to be wrong, and it's evident that they were simply biding their time.." Wang Xiong elaborated.