Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

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The Nascent soul realm Four Winged Guna Griffins were lost about what had just happened. 

"ARGH!" The leader grunted in pain as blood dripped down his leg from where it was pricked.

The blood was not the normal red color though. Mixed in it was a strange pale yellow fluid that let out an airy aroma. If one took a whiff of it, they would find themselves feeling light headed.

"What did you do?" The Four Winged Guna Griffin leader questioned as he felt its leg going numb.

"Just a little poison to paralyze you." Lin Wu said causally as wind attribute spirit Qi surrounded him.

~whoong~woong~

The wind attribute spirit Qi turned into a vortex around Lin Wu and started to pull all the air around him.

~Huu~

"Time for a new trick." Lin Wu said as he took a deep breath.

~WHOOSH~

He then released a dense cloud of poison breath that quickly mixed in with the wind attribute spirit Qi. He didn't stop releasing it and more and more gathered around him. In just ten seconds, he was covered with yellow stained winds that looked rather terrifying.

The Four Winged Guna Griffins were retreating more and more, knowing that Lin Wu was preparing a rather strong attack.

"GET BACK!" The leader ordered as the poison started to spread even further in his body.

He could feel his meridians slowing down as the poison penetrated them. 

'This won't be good if we can't run away. This beast is not someone we can fight…' The leader Four Winged Guna Griffin thought.

'But why would he attack us out of nowhere? Even if he wanted to hunt, there are easier targets around.' He wondered.

Unfortunately for him, the tragedy was only starting.

~BOOM~

Just as his kin reached a certain distance, an explosion happened.

~FIZZ~

A black jet of smoke shot out of the ground in a circle around them.

~KREIEEEEEEEEEE!!!~

The Four Winged Guna Griffins let out cries of pain as the poison started to sting them. Their feathers started to burn and corrode as the poison was rather acidic. Even at a height of two hundred meter's the poison was potent enough to show such an effect.

Lin Wu had set this up as an additional trap, just in case the Four Winged Guna Griffin tried to run. 

'While it's not enough to kill them, it will stun them for a bit.' Lin Wu thought as he finished preparing his attack.

His body glowed in a green light and looked eerie in the yellow winds that surrounded him.

It was then that a few words were heard.

"Immortal Sky Shaker Art: Fettering Wind!" 

~WOONG~

The vortex of wind surrounding him exploded and the winds spread everywhere around him. An area of over a kilometer was quickly covered with the wind and along with it, the Numbing poison.

Lin Wu had used a significant amount if numbing poison in this attack and had saturated the wind as much as possible without the attack getting unstable and exploding on himself.

Even if his defenses were strong, he could still hurt himself if any of his Qi skills malfunctioned. And the skill he had used just now was a new one he had come up with.

"Let's see if this works as I named it…" Lin Wu muttered and saw as the Four Winged Guna Griffins involuntarily breathed in the poisoned winds.

~ack~ack~ack~

They of course, coughed from the poison, but that was only temporarily as soon the paralyzing effect of the numbing poison set in. 

~THUD~THUD~THUD~THUD~

In just twenty seconds, the four Nascent soul realm Four Winged Guna Griffin lost control of their wings and fell to the ground. They crashed into the ground loudly and created imprints, as if shacked by heavy weights, proving that the skill's name was accurate.

Still, they were tough enough that even after a fall this high, no bones were broken. Though a few feathers had been uprooted and could be seen lying around them. 

Their leader was barely hanging on and was blasted away from the attack. Despite the poison spread in his body, the leader gritted its beak and tried to fly as far as possible. After a minute, he could no longer flap its wings, thus let them spread apart and simply glided in the air.

While it could fly using the cultivation base as well, the meridians being clogged up due to the poison didn't help either. Lin Wu's poison was modified by the system and had its properties modified.

Originally, it should have only been able to affect the bodies and not the cultivation bases through the meridian. But with the system's modification and the addition of properties from the Sapphire Qi, it could enter the meridians as well.

This gave it a dual effect of affecting both raw physical strength and cultivation base, paralyzing the beast more throughly.

"Futile effort." Lin Wu said as he trailed behind the Four Winged Guna Griffin leader calmly.

The battle was already in his bag and all that was left for him was to gather all of them up.

'Where is this beast going to though? I doubt he's just flying blindly. I saw him change his direction a couple of times.' Lin Wu wondered while flying.

This was also why he had not pounced upon the weakened beast right away and kept his distance. That way, if Lin Wu was heading into a trap, as unlikely that was, he would have a chance to react in time and be safe.

After about a minute, the Four Winged Guna Griffin leader could no longer maintain flight and crashed into a few trees. Despite its paralysis, it had managed to fly several kilometers away from the original locations, proving that it was still a Dao Shell realm beast and rather resilient.

But once it crashed to the ground, all was over for him.

"Like I said earlier, you are my prey, and this was a futile effort…" Lin Wu said as final words to the beast.