Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Yun Bai chuckled upon hearing Lin Wu's words and a thought came to his mind.

"Hmm… by any chance do you partake in human cuisine too?" Yun Bai questioned.

"OF COURSE! They make the beast kinds of dishes that taste really good!" Lin Wu proudly answered.

"Hahah! I feel the same. Come, we'll have something to eat. My clansmen have lived here for long and have learned quite a lot of things since they can't cultivate as well; cooking is one of them." Yun Bai replied, feeling happy.

'Is this a dream? Or have I found a kindred spirit?' Lin Wu couldn't help but think.

He secretly pinched himself but couldn't do anything, his skin was not flabby and was instead a hard crystal.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The system had analyzed host's current state and the world around him, and has safely reached the conclusion that this is not a dream.

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The system answered seriously.

"Ah… okay." Lin Wu replied, even though he knew that this was not a dream in reality.

Yun Bai guided Lin Wu and the weasel towards the depths of the grotto. 

"Oh yeah, system scan the area too." Lin Wu said in his mind.

He looked around and found the area to be rather large. 

"Just how big is this place?" Lin Wu questioned.

Even though the system was already working on scanning the area, Lin Wu reckoned it didn't hurt asking the owner of this place. 

'If anything, I might get some information that the system cannot pick up just from scanning.' He thought.

"The grotto is about half the size of the Frozen Cloud sect." Yun Bai answered.

"WHAT? Thats quite big!" Lin Wu exclaimed.

From what he knew, there weren't that many Frost Foxes and they probably wouldn't need this much space to live.

"Well, it was used by the Thirteen Thunder Chamber as a base and they had a lot of people. In fact, this place used to be even larger, but many places collapsed during the attacks back then.

We even thought that there was a secret entrance to a minor plane here, but I never was able to find it. I reckon it has long since been lost after the Thirteenth Thunder Chamber left the world." Yun Bai explained.

"I see. But having a minor plane's entrance here would be really useful if it still exists. There are probably a lot of resources there that can be helpful." Lin Wu said.

"Mmmhmm," Yun Bai hummed in agreement. "Plus back when I was looking for solution for my clan, I also thought of the minor plane." He added.

"The minor plane for the solution, how?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Well, I wanted to see if my clansmen would be able to cultivate there or not. Since the minor is still a bit separate from the Ming Dao world, I hoped that its restrictions there would also be weaker, thus allowing them to grow stronger.

And the same for me, if I was able to increase my cultivation base to the Dao Treading realm, I would have been able to explore more options. It was one of the things I was really hopeful for and searched for it for decades." Yun Bai answered.

"There were no traces of it?" Lin Wu asked.

"No. None at all. I even felt like there was never a minor plane at all and that it was just a rumor. But then I did find confirmation of its existence in one of the old ledgers of the Thirteenth Thunder Chamber they had left behind." Yun Bai replied.

"That could… have been a good thing to fall back on in the time of need." Lin Wu commented.

He thought about it a bit more and wondered if the system would be able to find the traces of a minor plane like that.

"System, try and see if you can find that too." Lin Wu ordered.

"Affirmative." It simply replied.

Lin Wu and Yun Bai talked a bit more as they continued walking. Lin Wu got to see a lot of the grotto this way and saw the unique ecology of it. There were several different farms that grew various spirit herbs and even normal vegetables.

Then there were some orchards that were growing spirit fruits, albeit most of them were weaker. Though Lin Wu still felt some strong spirit Qi fluctuations coming from the orchards, which prompted him to think that there was certainly a high grade spirit fruit hidden there perhaps.

Above the farms and orchards, Lin Wu could see a large formation array that was letting out a warm yellow light. It was one of the few places where there were no blue icicles, like there were all over the grotto.

"A Sun Channeling Formation array?" Lin Wu recognized.

"Indeed. We need this to grow the spirit herbs that need sunlight. The Illuminating Icicles cannot sustain their growth and are also a little too cold for them." Yun Bai replied.

"And I'm thinking there are spirit stone mines below this, too?" Lin Wu guessed from the high concentration of spirit Qi that was there in the air.

"Indeed. There is a single high grade spirit stone mine and a mid grade spirit stone mine down there, for a total of two spirit stone mines." Yun Bai admitted.

"That is a good number for a place like this. Still, isn't the concentration of spirit Qi a bit higher here?" Lin Wu questioned.

He could see the notification of his spirit Qi increasing on the side with his every breath. It was the passive increase, but it was still rather high. Lin Wu could see his spirit Qi stores increasing visibly.

"We don't really mine the spirit stones." Yun Bai spoke.

"You don't? Why?" Lin Wu questioned feeling confused.

"Well… we would mine it if there was a need. But to be honest, all of my clansmen have reached bottleneck and the limit of what they can cultivate towards. No matter the resources they consume they simply cannot progress.." He answered.