Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

With two peaks cleared out, Lin Wu only had one of the peaks left. And this was the very peak which was considered as the headquarters of the Frozen Cliff divisor. It was the peak on which the elders gathered.

Even if some had left to check up on the heavenly tribulation, Lin Wu was sure that they won't leave the peak unguarded.

'I mean if they did, it'll just make things easier for me anyway.' Lin Wu said in his mind.

In a few seconds, the markers reached his position and gazed upon his massive body.

"A beast?" one of the elders question.

In total, there were about five elders looking at Lin Wu now. 

"Scan them system." Lin Wu ordered swiftly.

~DING~

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SCANNER: Activated

TARGETS SELECTED: 5 cultivators 

SCAN: Completed 

TARGETS: analyzed.

NOTIFICATION: Two Adolescent soul stage Nascent Soul realm cultivators, two Adult soul stage Nascent soul realm cultivators and one Shell initiation stage Dao Shell realm cultivator identified.

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"Oh? Just the perfect quantity for me." Lin Wu said with a smile.

They weren't too strong nor too weak for him and would provide him with a sufficient amount of spirit Qi as well. 

"Oh hang on… I know that guy." Lin Wu said upon seeing one of the Adult soul stage nascent soul realm cultivators.

He jogged his memory and realized that he was the elder who was present during Wang Xiong's battle with the core disciples in the past. 

While Lin Wu was observing the elders, they were doing the same.

They couldn't feel the passive spirit Qi fluctuations from Lin Wu since they were ruffled by the radiation and thus they ended up extending their spirit sense instead.

"AGH!" One of them grunted in pain as he felt his spirit sense being forcibly burned.

"Don't use your spirit sense! That beast is dangerous." The Adult Soul stage nascent soul realm cultivator warned.

"Tch~ You were quicker than that man." Lin Wu said seeing that the Dao Shell realm cultivator was not the first one to detect it.

"I-it speaks?!" The elders were surprised.

"Shocking I know," Lin Wu said with a nod, stunning the elders even more.

But their shock was only momentary as they became angry after that. 

"You vile beast! You dare tread upon the land of Frozen Cloud sect and kill our disciples?!" An Adult Soul stage nascent soul realm elder said with visible rage.

"YOU SHALL DIE FOR THIS!" the Dao Shell realm elder yelled as he summoned a lance.

"Oof, can't you people find some new lines?" Lin Wu said as he raised his tail to block the attack.

~CLANG~

Sparks were shot out from the impact as the lance hit Lin Wu's tail that was intact. Spike suddenly jutted out from the sides of his tail, reaching all the way up to the hand of the elder, piercing through it.

"Dammit!" the elder shouted as he let go of the lance.

~drip~drip~drip~

"Ah! Humans… so easy to predict these days." Lin Wu said, his toothy smile every present.

~shua~

Wind elemental spirit Qi wrapped around Lin Wu's tail before turning into an illusory spear that stabbed towards the elder.

His eyes went wide as he hurriedly created a shield and retreated. 

"Wind elemental beast?" The other elders noted.

They were confused like many others upon seeing Lin Wu's form that was vastly different. The crystalline body that was translucent was something they had never seen before.

Though one of the elders felt like it was familiar.

'Where did I see this before?' the elder wondered.

But he didn't get long to do that as he felt a sharp wind hitting his head.

"BAH!" The elder grunted in pain as a slick of blood burst out of the side of his head.

"ELDER WE TAO!" the others said with concern.

"I'm okay…" the elder named We Tao said as he held his head.

His ear was now gone and only bloodied flesh was left behind.

"I managed to dodge… somewhat. The beast is fast, very fast." Elder We Tao said as he quickly ate a healing pill.

"Oh, I'm just starting. You're gonna have to do a lot more to keep up." Lin Wu said as his tail elongated.

~SHING~

A long edge appeared on the side of his tail before it started to heat up. 

~Sizzle~

The blood on the tail directly evaporated from the heat as the air turned blurry from the heats. 

~whoosh~

Wind started to stir on it as well, giving it a dangerous look. 

The elders' didn't take Lin Wu lightly this time and used their own skills. One of the elders threw out darts that expanded in the air, another one used a Qi skill that rose the earth from below making it turn into a bed of spikes.

"Useless," Lin Wu said as he weaved through the earth spikes. 

He was more used to the earth than pretty much anyone here even if he didn't use the element. He spent a lot of time digging and his body was optimized for it. He could feel the earth move before the skill was even fully activated.

"How is it doing this?" the elder controlling the earth was confused.

~clink~clink~clink~

The darts that the elder had thrown towards Lin Wu were all swatted away like paper straws with a breath of Lin Wu.

"Elders! With me!" The Dao Shell realm elder said as he created several runes in front of him. 

His hand that was injured had stopped bleeding, but some weakness could still be seen in it. While drawing runes that hand was a bit unsteady. Two other elder came to stand beside him as they made runes in the air.

The other two quickly understood what the Dao Shell realm elder was doing and pulled out some formation array components.

Six flags were thrown out while a pillar was erected some distance from Lin Wu.

"Oh? This is new." Lin Wu said finding it different.

"Frost Heart Entombment Formation!" the Dao Shell realm elder chanted.

~shua~

The runes all took their places as a formation started to materialize. The runes turned an icy blue color and the temperature of the are started to fall. Frost started to appear on the ground and the plants froze over.

The flesh fragments and blood that was left over on the ground was frozen almost instantly as well and Lin Wu could feel the radiation in the air change.

'It can actually reduce the radiation's activity…' Lin Wu took note.

~DING~

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NOTIFICATION: Ambient temperature at negative 120 degrees Celsius.

——

This was possibly the coldest temperature that Lin Wu had encountered till now. Perhaps only Yun Bai's skill could come close to this, but even when Lin Wu fought him he had been protected from it due to the radiation.

'How can this formation reduce the activity of radiation when even Yun Bai couldn't do it?' Lin Wu wondered.

The system started to work on analyzing it as well and a few progress bars appeared in Lin Wu's vision. Quickly dismissing it, Lin Wu decided to finish this up.

"Won't be good if I end up losing after talking shit, will I?" Lin Wu said as more radiation poured out of his body.

~KACHA~

The temperature around his body suddenly spiked, shattering the metals and stone nearby due to the rapid temperature change.

The edge on Lin Wu's tail glowed red hot as radiation mixed with the wind attribute spirit Qi swirled around it. Six cylindrical crystals protruded out from the back of the blade's edge as flames ignited on them.

"I haven't used this one for a bit… but it'll be fun." Lin Wu said as he powered up for the attack.

"POUR ALL YOUR SPIRIT QI IN IT! WE CAN'T LET THE BEAST DO WHAT IT WANTS!" The Dao Shell realm elder said upon sensing the disturbance in the formation array.

"Wind Shearing Blade!" Lin Wu said as he swung the large blade his tail had transformed into.

~SLASH~

The blade directly impacted the Frost Heart Entombment Formation's walls and sliced through it. The cold air was rapidly heated up and made to expand, which only increased the force of the attack.

~BOOM~

As if a powder keg had been ignited, the entire formation exploded.

"AHH!!!!" 

The elders all cried in pain as they were forcibly knocked away. 

~COUGH~

~SPLAT~

The Dao Shell realm elder directly spat out blood from the backlash, while the others suffered multiple injuries.

"Huh… even for a weaker version of that, this is still pretty strong." Lin Wu muttered to himself in surprise.

The attack he had just used right now was another skill he had made, the 'Wind Shearing Blade'. It was similar to the Undaunted Sapphire Blaze cleaver that he had used on Yun Bai, but was far weaker.

But at the same time it didn't have as high of a spirit Qi consumption as that attack either. Besides, Lin Wu didn't need the same level of power either for elders at such a level. 

"Now to end this…" Lin Wu said as he flew up and brought down his tail.

~DENG~ DENG~ DENG~

Each segment of his tail came down like a meteor, breaking apart the ground and destroying all that was around it. The elders tried to defend and used their trump cards, but it was all for naught.

One of them was directly smashed into a meat paste, while one was split apart. All in all, they were killed rather quickly and had little chance to survive.

Lin Wu gazed upon his hands work and smiled.

"Well… time to eat before their nascent souls start to escape."