Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

All the former kings and beasts that were at the Nascent soul realm felt Lin Wu's return to the Millennium forest. 

The status of the king had been limited to just Lin Wu, since there were other beast at the Nascent soul realm now other than the former kings. Though Lin Wu still called them kings, since they were the current leaders of their own kin and Lin Wu presided over them all.

Since Lin Wu had entered from the southern border of the forest, the first being to notice him was the Split Thorn Horn Beetle king. 

~Rumble~

The earth parted as the body of the beetle king rose up from the ground.

"He's finally back? Wonder where he went and what he did…" The Beetle King muttered to himself.

Lin Wu was a Dao Shell realm beast, and to the beetle king it meant that if he had left the forest there must have been a substantial reason behind it. His spirit sense extended but didn't get too close to Lin Wu, as that would be a bit rude.

'If he wanted to, he would stop by the nest, anyway. I don't need to interrupt him.' The beetle King thought to himself and retracted his spirit sense.

He had failed to notice that there was someone along with Lin Wu this time. Though it was not his fault entirely either since Tim the Weasel's unique physique made it so that he let of no spirit Qi fluctuation and spirit sense couldn't penetrate his body either.

If anything, the others would just think that he was some normal beast, considering Tim was not that large either compared to most Nascent soul realm or even Core condensation realm beasts. 

Even compared to Qi refining realm beasts or normal beasts, his side was around the mid level and would not be out of place. Though what might catch their attention would be his body that was black and covered in Earthen Depths obsidian.

In a way, he matched Lin Wu since both of them had crystalline bodies now. Though in the case of Tim, the crystals were just on the surface and not his entire body.

Additionally, Lin Wu was carrying Tim on his self, thus noticing Tim would become even harder. Tim was nudged in some crystal on Tim's back, making it so that only his head was out. The beast slept soundly and didn't care for any movement or disturbance at all.

Lin Wu was currently looking at the map and getting gauge of where everyone was.

"Oh? What's this?" Lin Wu said in surprise as he noticed an additional three Nascent soul realm beasts.

~Ding~

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SCAN: Completed

MAP UPDATED: Markers added

SERVANT BEASTS: Data updated

1. Emeraldine Monkeys (3) 

STATUS: Vitals stable

Cultivation Base: Infant Soul Stage of the Nascent Soul realm

COMMUNICATION LINK: Stable

LOCATION: Available on map

FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE: a.Detonate

2. Emeraldine Monkeys (6) 

STATUS: Vitals stable

Cultivation Base: Peak Stage of the Core Condensation realm

COMMUNICATION LINK: Stable

LOCATION: Available on map

FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE: a.Detonate

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Lin Wu saw that the number of Emeraldine Monkeys that were in the Nascent soul realm had increased. Two of the Emeraldine Monkeys that were t the Peak Stage of the core condensation realm had managed to breakthrough.

'They did really well in the two months I was gone, huh.' Lin Wu thought.

In addition to these two servant beasts of Lin Wu, there was another beast that had managed to reach the nascent soul realm. This was someone Lin Wu had actually never met in person before and neither had he seen them.

The beast that had reached the Nascent soul realm was far in the north eastern part of the fifth ring and according to the system's scan, was a Lamp Light Liger.

"Huh… is it that subordinate of the Twin Lights Liger King that was at the peak stage of the core condensation realm all those years ago? He finally managed to breakthrough…" Lin Wu wondered.

If he checked the map, he could barely tell the changes in the beasts below the Nascent soul realm since there were just too many of them. The increase or decrease in the Qi refining realm and Core Condensation realm beasts was hard for him to tell.

Even with the system's scan, it would only tell him the estimated numbers, and it could still change on its own. Telling which beast was what was hard to do when they all looked the same for the most part.

Unless Lin Wu saw them in person or had the system scan them directly, there was little he could do to differentiate them.

'The number of Core condensation realm beasts have certainly risen though… should be due to the overall increase in the spirit Qi of the Millennium forest.' Lin Wu thought.

~huu~

He took a deep breath and could see the visible increase in the spirit Qi he had. While it was not as high as the Frozen Cloud sect and the Frost Fox Grotto, it was still slightly higher than before.

He could tell how the beasts might have benefited from it in the past two months.

'If the increase is steady enough… the number of beasts with higher cultivation will start to sky rocket until it reaches a plateau. Hmm… need to plan some stuff out to prevent problems at that point.' Lin Wu thought.

Currently, the beasts would stay in relatively 'peace' since there were Nascent soul realm beasts that looked over them. This included Lin Wu's servants and the former kings. But once they too reached the Nascent soul realm, this 'control' would not be enough.

There were bound to be some beasts that would have ambitious thoughts and decide to grow their own power. Among the thousands, there was bound to be some that would be like this and Lin Wu didn't want to take any chances.

Suppressing such beasts would be the better option, but only enough so that they don't rebel and not so that they are weakened.