Rise Of The Worm Sovereign Chapter 36: 351, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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While Lin Wu himself was less than three years old while being at the Nascent Soul realm, this was only because of the System. He really doubted if any other beast could compare with him.

Even a talented beast with a great bloodline might need over a hundred years to reach the Nascent Soul realm. But the Copper Hide Weasel had managed to do it in a quarter of that time.

'Now that I think of it, the way the Copper Hide Weasel talks is similar to that of a child as seen in some Core condensation realm beasts and Qi refining realm beasts. So… if somehow the beast had progressed rapidly, it might make sense as to why it has the cultivation base so strong.' Lin Wu thought.

He looked at the Copper Hide Weasel that was still biting onto his body without fearing him at all. Lin Wu had managed to make even the Silver Beak Sky Soar eagle with her superior bloodline wary of him.

But even then, this beast was fearless and did not react to his aura somehow. This was quite peculiar and unheard of to Lin Wu.

"Wait, don't they say newborn calves are unafraid of tigers? I guess we can kinda consider this similar to that." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

If Lin Wu really wanted to get rid of the Copper Hide Weasel, all he would need to do is to smash it into meat paste. But now that he had learned of its age and cultivation base, he knew there must be something more to it.

"Stop and listen to me! I'll give you more food that you can actually eat." Lin Wu spoke in a stern voice.

~Munch~

The Copper Hide Weasel kept on nibbling at Lin Wu's crystallizing body while listening to him.

"Food? More?" The Copper Hide Weasel spoke.

"Yes! You like the crystals, right? Let me give you one that you can actually eat." Lin Wu spoke before detaching a small part of the crystal from his body.

He had intentionally made this crystal weaker than those in his body so that the Beast could eat it.

"Take this," Lin Wu spoke and shoved the crystal that was about the size of the beast's paw.

To Lin Wu, who was so big, this was nothing and he could freely make more of them if he wanted to do so. He had obtained quite a bit of vital energy and spirit Qi in these few days at the Dread Coil Marsh.

If he truly got into a fight, he could pretty much keep on fighting non stop for over a month at full power and still be fine. His opponent though, would likely get tired and unable to act after a while.

Lin Wu could literally tire his enemies to death if he wanted to do so. This of course, was only valid if the enemies were of the same level as him or weaker. For those that were immensely strong like the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, Lin Wu could only run away from them.

The Copper Hide Weasel stopped for a moment to look at the small crystal that Lin Wu had given and compared the two things. Both Lin Wu's body and the small crystal seemed to be delicious to him and he wanted to eat it.

'Hmm… seems like he's still indecisive. Gonna needs some extras incentive.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

He poured some spirit Qi along with vital energy into the small crystal before forwarding it more towards the Copper Hide Weasel. The beast sniffed it for a second, finding it to be a lot more entrancing than before.

"Food! Mine!" The Copper Hide Weasel stated with excitement before grabbing at it.

~Crack~

The Copper Hide Weasel bit onto the crystal that Lin Wu had just given him and split it into two in one bite.

'Boy… that was something.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

One had to know that even if Lin Wu had weakened the durability of the crystal, it would still be quite difficult for an average beast to damage it. Even some core condensation realm cultivators would find this hard to do so.

"Just as its data said… its teeth can cut though metal like mud." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

As soon as the beast managed to get the first bite in, its eyes glowed with excitement.

~munch~

It happily started to nibble onto the crystal that Lin Wu had given it and quickly assimilated the spirit Qi and vital energy that was present in it. Lin Wu needed the beast to be in perfect condition or it would probably not speak properly.

He watched on as the beast finished the entire crystal after about ten minutes.

"MORE!" The Copper Hide Weasel said, while looking at Lin Wu with desiring eyes.

Lin Wu didn't know what to feel about it. What he had just done could be said to be literally cutting's one's flesh to feed the others. Buddha had once done it to feed a hungry bird and here Lin Wu was replicating the same.

But now that he thought about it, the strangeness only increases even more.

"Only if you tell me about this Stone feather or about yourself, will I give you more." Lin Wu spoke hurriedly while he still had the beast's attention.

Lin Wu waved the stone feather around for the Copper Hide Weasel to see and the beast kept its eyes on it.

"I see feather in tree. I eat tree." The Copper Hide Weasel said, after being silent for a bit.

"Huh?" Lin Wu couldn't help but feel a bit dumbfounded by this.

"You ate the tree?" Lin Wu questioned to confirm.

"YES!" The Beast replied.

"You are everything on it too?" Lin Wu questioned again.

"Yes, me eat all tree!" The beast replied.

"Did you eat this feather too?" Lin Wu questioned, feeling anxious about the feather's fate.

If the Feather was lost or eaten by the Cooper Hide Weasel, he didn't know what he would do next.

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Lin Wu watched on and waited for the Copper Hide Weasel to speak further. He hoped that there was more to this story than just this as he did not want to end this 'quest' of his here. Not when he was just starting to get excited.

"Me can't eat. Me teeth hurt! Me put it in nest. Me eat every night, but me can't eat. Me leave till me get strong. Me was able to eat new things when me get strong." The Copper Hide Weasel replied.

Upon hearing his words, Lin Wu felt relieved.

"So you did not eat it?" Lin Wu asked.

"Me ate." The Copper Hide Weasel replied.

"But you just said you did not eat it." Lin Wu questioned.

"Me teeth hurt, so me eat at night." The Copper Hide Weasel answered.

"You're not making any sense!" Lin Wu said, feeling frustrated.

~Sigh~

"I'll just check it myself." Lin Wu muttered to himself before turning around.

The nest of the Copper Hide Weasel was right behind him and Lin Wu had not gotten the chance to scan it entirely due to the beast attacking him at the last moment. And thus even if the stone feather was there, he might not have eaten it yet.

Lin Wu took this chance to check it and found the stone feather lying deep in at the bottom of the nest. It was covered with all the Cyan Blush Azaleas and branches, which had made it hard for one to see it.

Only with spirit sense did he manage to spot it.

"There you are!" Lin Wu said before picking the stone feather out from the nest.

He looked at the feather that was covered in dirt and dust before infusing some spirit Qi into it.

~humm~

The stone feather became activated and three red veins appeared on it.

"Bingo! It really was the right one." Lin Wu exclaimed.

The Copper Hide Weasel though, kept on looking at him as if he wanted more. Lin Wu also noticed this and wondered about its cultivation base. If the beast had found this stone feather in some tree he wanted to know what kind of a tree it was.

If that tree could push a beast to the Nascent Soul realm this easily, then it was bound to be something really valuable.

"That tree you ate, where was it?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Food! Give!" The Copper Hide Weasel demanded.

~Sigh~

"Fine…" Lin Wu responded before making another crystal from his body and weakening it before passing it to the Copper Hide Weasel.

~munch~

The Copper Hide Weasel quickly ate the crystal before licking its paws clean, even though there was nothing on them.

"Now take me to where you found the tree." Lin Wu spoke.

The Copper Hide Weasel did not speak anything and simply turned around. Lin Wu knew this was his cue to follow the beast and thus he did. The beast took him through the forest, and then beyond the mountains.

Eventually, they reached a valley after two hours of travel. During the entire time, Lin Wu was keeping his map updated so that he could see if there was anything important here. He reckoned that if there was something so valuable, like that tree here, there were bound to be other things too.

He did end up seeing some good things here. There were a couple of high grade spirit herbs that were growing in some isolated areas, while there were also some nascent Soul realm beasts in this valley.

Here's where Lin Wu could see the difference between the Beasts of the Millennium forest and those of the Bing Kingdom. The ones here were mostly wild and independent. They kept to themselves and did whatever they wanted in the territory.

While the beasts of the Millennium forest were much more smarter in a way and would organize themselves. Lin Wu wondered if this was some unique effect caused by living in that land or something else.

'The tomb of the Taiji Celestial and the Dark Bloom caverns certainly has something to do with it.' Lin Wu thought.

~ROAR~

While passing by one of the Nascent Soul realm beasts discovered Lin Wu and the Copper Hide Weasel. It rushed at them and let out a loud roar, trying to intimidate them. Lin Wu immediately looked at the Copper Hide Weasel and wanted to see how it would reach.

~SKREEE~

The Copper Hide Weasel rushed like crazy and lunged at the beast that had just appeared. It was a panther that had yellow fur but with green patterns on it. Lin Wu recognized it to be a Green Tenspot Panther which was a native beast of the Bing Kingdom.

Lin Wu did not interfere and wanted to see how the Copper Hide Weasel would deal with it. He saw the Copper Hide Weasel which was four times smaller than the Green Tenspot Panther jumping at its head and latching onto it with its paws.

It then directly bit onto its nose.

~GROWL~

"Let GO!" The Green Tenspot Panther yelled in beast tongue.

Lin Wu could see that the Nascent Soul realm beasts here spoke normally, too. It was just the Copper Hide Weasel that was a strange guy.

"Truly fearless…" Lin Wu muttered.

He then watched as the Copper Hide Weasel ran around the beast's body while biting everywhere. The Green Tenspot Panther could not do much and only thrashed around. Both the beasts had similar cultivation bases, but the Copper Hide Weasel was faster and smaller.

It could easily dodge the Green Tenspot Panther's attacks and actually made it injure itself while struggling. Lin Wu ended up watching the show for about five minutes after which it got boring for him.

~Sigh~

"Stop it now," Lin Wu spoke.

But neither of the beasts responded.

"Ah, I forgot I need to use force." Lin Wu muttered as he shook his head.

"I SAID STOP!" Lin Wu yelled with force as he smashed his tail on the ground.

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The shockwave created by Lin Wu's tail was enough to knock both the beasts down.

"Enough…" Lin Wu said before whipping his tail like a comet.

~Splat~

The Green Tenspot Panther was reduced to a mush in a second, under the power of Lin Wu's tail. The beast was in the Infant Stage of the Nascent Soul realm and thus was easy for Lin Wu to handle.

Once that beast was gone, the Copper Hide Weasel calmed down. It was obvious that this guy liked to pick fights as could be witnessed from it pouncing on Lin Wu without even thinking.

'He literally tried to eat me, of course he would not be afraid of a beast that was five times its size.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

"Come on now, focus. Take me to the place like I asked." Lin Wu spoke.

The Copper Hide Weasel though looked at the bloody mess under Lin Wu's tail with a drooling mouth.

~Sigh~

"Go on finish it." Lin Wu spoke as he lifted his tail.

~Shua~

~MUNCH~

The Copper Hide Weasel started to devour the meaty paste on the ground and soon finished it all. The bones and fur didn't matter to him as he ate it all, and even licked the blood from the ground clean.

But while the Copper Hide Weasel was doing this, Lin Wu was on the lookout for something else. While he had killed the Green Tenspot Panther, he did not see where its Nascent Soul had gone.

In the case of the Specter Skull hounds, they simply did not have nascent souls and just had bodies that were equivalent to those beasts at that cultivation base. This meant that the Nascent Soul of the Green Tenspot panther was still roaming around somewhere.

The Nascent Soul itself did not pose any danger to Lin Wu, but the thing was he wanted to observe more Nascent souls as his own were quite different from others. His main body had two nascent souls that were in the form of a human while his avatar had one Nascent soul that was in the form of a worm.

Plus due to the Taiji Celestial's inheritance, Lin Wu had the Unity Avatar technique. Using that he could not only create an avatar but also merge it with his main body, increasing their combined strength.

Of course, he had not done that yet and wondered what the effects would be with three Nascent souls. He didn't even know if this was something that was intentional or not; Whether it was the technique that had caused this or if it was his own peculiarity.

Whatever it may be the system needed a lot more data to upgrade its data banks and it would only do Lin Wu good to have more of it. Thus he scanned the area for the Nascent Soul of the Green Ten spit Panther.

'Hmm… did it manage to escape?' Lin Wu wondered. "Whatever, doesn't matter for now."

Once the Copper Hide Weasel was done with its meal, it started to run again and Lin Wu followed behind it. They continued on for another hour before they reached a new area. There was a large pond here the depth of which was unknown to Lin Wu.

There was a meow surrounding the pond and there were many spirit herbs growing around it as well. Overall it looked like a small patch of paradise in this forest. But Lin Wu knew better than to judge from appearances.

After all, this was a cultivation world and there would be danger hiding at every step. The more tempting a place was, the more danger it was likely to be hiding. Lin Wu spread his spirit sense around to check for any beasts.

"How can there be none?" Lin Wu wondered.

The Copper Hide Weasel continued ahead and came to stand at the edge of the pond.

"Here." It spoke.

Lin Wu approached the pond and looked at it, unable to find anything.

"You mean the tree that you ate was here?" Lin Wu asked.

"Yes." The Copper Hide Weasel replied.

"In the water?" Lin Wu confirmed.

"Yes," the Copper Hide Weasel stated.

"Strange… did the tree grow directly from the base of the pond or was it something else?" Lin Wu wondered.

He spread his spirit sense into the water and tried to observe its insides. But in a surprise to him, the entire pond was much larger than he had thought it to be. Not only that, but the pond actually extended below the ground under his as well.

"How can this be?" Lin Wu asked himself.

After thinking for a bit, he decided to let the system scan it in detail.

"System, scan the area and check for anything abnormal." Lin Wu ordered.

~Ding~

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SCANNER ACTIVATED: Perimeter selected

SCANNING: Please wait patiently

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"Huh? No time given?" Lin Wu said feeling surprised.

Usually, the system would complete the scan fast enough that Lin Wu did not need to was, or if it did not then it would give him a time period that would be needed for it to complete the scan. But since it had not given him one it meant that whatever was in the area it was either difficult for the system to scan or beyond its abilities.

Lin Wu ended up waiting for about an hour before he got another notification. During this time, the Copper Hide Weasel had curled up and fallen asleep under one of the trees. The beast was evidently very careless, or one could even say fearless.

Though Lin Wu kind of understood its position considering it had just eaten a Nascent Soul realm beast that was at the same stage as it and was also five times as much in size. That beast had eaten that much volume without slowing down.

It was obvious that its metabolism was also quite strong. Lin Wu didn't know if this was due to its natural ability or if this was something that was caused by its fortunate encounter.

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~Ding~

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SCAN COMPLETE: Map updated

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Once the notification appeared, nil Wu felt relieved. He did not want to see another area where the system would not work, or be limited due to the map. Lin Wu reckoned that if the system could work in the Dread Coil Marsh, it would not have taken him two months that it took him now, to reach this point.

"Show me the updated map." Lin Wu spoke.

On the map, Lin Wu could see the two extra layers that had been added for the area. One layer was for the ground, one for the sky and the final one for the underground. In the underground layer, six more sub layers were present on the map.

This showed how much of the area the system needed to scan and why it needed so much time. But that was not all, as the system would only take this much time if there were too many things in it, or if there were complex, high energy objects present.

Any of those could either be a fortune, or misfortune for Lin Wu.

"Let's see what's exactly below this." Lin Wu muttered as he browsed the map.

On it, he saw that the ground was only about thirty meters deep. Once he went below that, there was just water. The more shocking thing was that this underground lake was spread in an area of over three kilometers.

Then from the western part of it, a branch expanded which went far beyond the limits of the map. Lin Wu could not clearly tell where it went, but he had a good guess about what this pond or lake was.

"An underground lake connected to the ocean, huh?" Lin Wu guessed.

He went through the layers and realized that the water was still going beyond the sixth sublayer of the map.

'The lake is deeper than the range of the system…' Lin Wu understood.

But having learned, this Lin Wu knew that what the Copper Hide Weasel must have said was probably false… or right according to the Copper Hide Weasel.

"Hang on… what if the tree he meant…" Lin Wu suddenly had an idea.

~Poke~

"Hey you! Wake up!" Lin Wu shook the Copper Hide Weasel.

"NO! Sleep!" The Copper Hide Weasel yelled before falling asleep again in an instant.

"This beast…" Lin Wu shook his head before extending his tail and picking up the Copper Hide Weasel who was still asleep.

~splatter~

"There you go." Lin Wu said after throwing the Copper Hide Weasel into the lake.

~SKREEE~

The Copper Hide Weasel let out a loud screech due to the rude awakening. One moment it was happily sleeping and in the next, it was wet and about to drown.

~shua~

It flew out of the water and landed on the ground.

~Shua~

It quickly shook off all the water from its body and looked at Lin Wu angrily.

"Finally awake, huh. Now tell me what kind of tree did you see." Lin Wu questioned in a stern tone.

"A TREE!" the Copper Hide Weasel replied.

"Describe its shape!" Lin Wu yelled back.

The Copper Hide Weasel narrowed its eyes as it tried to remember the tree. It thought hard for about three minutes before starting to speak. It was speaking in the same broken words, but Lin Wu was slowly able to piece the information together.

'So a tree with many large circular leaves that floated on top of the water. Long stems extending from the water while also being attached to the leaves. Then the stem having a single large at the top with hundreds of petals.

And… the color is blue? No dark blue…' Lin Wu analyzed.

After hearing the entire explanation Lin Wu felt like his head would explode. The Copper Hide Weasel was making little sense and picking the right information from its words was also hard.

It was like asking a toddler to explain what something looked like. While they would speak simple words, and they were easy to put together. They would skip on a lot of details thus making it had to understand.

~Sigh~

"System can you analyze this and see if your data banks have something matching to this." Lin Wu asked.

~DING~

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PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS: Initiated

PARAMETERS SELECTED: Manual host input

INITIATING ANALYSIS: Please wait patiently

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Lin Wu waited for the system to complete its analysis and saw the Copper Hide Weasel staring at him.

"Food." It said.

"Go eat those spirit herbs and flowers, I'm not giving you more." Lin Wu denied.

~krrr~

The Copper Hide Weasel growled in annoyance before going to munch on some flowers. It ate the spirit herbs in the area for about fifteen minutes, managing to wipe out a quarter of the spirit herb population.

Till then Lin Wu looked around the area according to the map and gathered more spirit herbs for himself and for the organization. Though he still found the fact that no beast came here strange. He could not even see normal insects and animals here, which meant that there was something that prevented them from coming here or scared them perhaps.

While doing this Lin Wu was reminded of the Silver Beak Sky soar eagle.

"Ah, I almost forgot about her. She must still be searching for the Stone feather." Lin Wu muttered.

He realized he had not given her a jade slip made by himself to communicate and could not inform her right now.

~Sigh~

"I'll do it the next time I meet her. She's out of the range of the system anyway…" Lin Wu muttered to himself.

More time passed and by now the Copper Hide Weasel had finished half of the spirit herbs in the area. The beast had eaten quite a fortune in spirit herbs if one tabulated their value. But just when it was about to eat a rather large fleshy petaled flower, the ground trembled.

~Ripple~

The lake's water started to shake too and Lin Wu wondered what was happening. His spirit sense spread around and he saw something large approaching from the depths of the lake.

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~WARNING!~

After quite a long time, Lin Wu saw the system giving a warning like this. As soon as he heard it, his heart fell to the bottom of his stomach and he felt cold.

~DING~

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WARNING!: Extremely dangerous creature approaching

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"Fuck! If it's dangerous for me despite being in the Nascent Soul realm, it's bound to be higher than the Dao Shell realm. Even the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle did not cause the system to act like this." Lin Wu thought.

He realized that what his spirit sense had observed was nothing but this creature. The only problem was that he did not know what it was yet. But in the next moment, the system gave him another notification. It was for the 'tree' that the Copper Hide weasel had told him about.

~DING~

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ANALYSIS: Completed

DATA EXTRAPOLATED: Target identified

TARGET: Aquadream Lotus

INFO: Aquadream Lotus is a special kind of a creature that can be classified as both a plant and beast. They live in different bodies of water and are of different classes. They eat the beasts that live around them, while letting other spirit herbs and plants grow around them.

Their presence is good for the other herbs as not only does it protect them, but also promotes their growth naturally. Some sects especially rear certain classes of this beast for their spirit herb gardens as they catalyze their growth.

The lowest class of Aquadream Lotus is called as Aquadream Pond Lotus and lives in ponds. They can reach up to the Nascent Soul realm at most and if they want to increase their cultivation base they need to move to a lake.

The second class of it is called as Aquadream Lake Lotus and lives in Lakes. They can reach up to the Dao Shell realm at most and need to move to a larger water body to further increase their cultivation base.

The next two classes of the Aquadream Lotus are the Aquadream Sea Lotus and the Aquadream Ocean Lotus. They can reach the Dao Treading Realm and Immortal Ascension realm, respectively.

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After reading the large amount of information, Lin Wu also saw the appearance of the Aquadream Lotus in a different window. It looked similar to what the Copper Hide Beast had described as.

"Considering the size of the one that the Copper Hide Beast described, it must be an Aquadream Pond Lotus. That must be what it ate… but how the heck did he eat a beast that was at the Nascent Soul realm while being weaker than it?" Lin Wu questioned himself.

'No, wait! It only said the maximum it can reach is the Nascent Soul realm. What if it was weaker than that? But that would still not explain how it was able to reach the Nascent Soul realm so fast.

And neither would it explain how the heck did it get the stone feather from the thing. This all makes no sense.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

But in the next moment, the surface of the pond parted and a long greenish blue vine rose from it. Then more of the vines appeared from the water, before leaves started to appear. Each of these leaves measured over five meters in diameter and there were easily a hundred of them, covering the entire pond in just a few seconds.

Then from between the leaves, Lin Wu saw a large bud appearing. The bud was about two meters long and half a meter thick. The bud faced Lin Wu and the Copper Hide Weasel before blooming in front of them.

But what appeared in front of them was not a beautiful flower but rather a wide maw filled with sharp teeth.

"THAT'S ONE UGLY MOTHERFUCKER!" Lin Wu cursed, before flying back with a flip.

He used his tail like spring before launching himself back in the air at great speed.

~whoosh~

~SKREEE~

"Huh? You latched on too?" Lin Wu saw the Copper Hide Weasel stuck to his back.

It managed to hold onto one of his back spikes and was now flying with him.

"Seems like you can tell when it's dangerous as well… just that your standard is way too high." Lin Wu couldn't help but say.

Once Lin Wu was in the air, he flew back on his own and retreated for over a kilometer before stopping. He then gazed at the Aquadream Lotus in front of him in the pond.

"System, what kind of Aquadream Lotus is that?" Lin Wu questioned.

He wanted to sense the cultivation base of the creature, but when his spirit sense was nearing it, he felt it to be wavering. Lin Wu reckoned that the beast had more abilities than was shown by the system and perhaps they were in details.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The creature is an Aquadream Sea Lotus and has a cultivation base at the Dao Treading realm.

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"GODDAMN! Is this distance even safe?" Lin Wu wondered and started to fly back just to be a bit more safe.

~BOOM~

"What the fuck!" Lin Wu cursed while dodging a jet of water that had been shot out by the Aquadream Sea lotus.

The water jet missed Lin Wu, but it hit the hill that was behind him, piercing through it and destroying the trees beyond it. The power of the attack could be felt from this and Lin Wu was sure that if it hit him, even he would get damaged.

"Yeah, this distance is definitely not enough." Lin Wu stated before flying back more.

But while he was doing this, he saw the Aquadream Sea Lotus acting strangely. The flower head that contained the many teeth started to spin as an enormous mouth opened up from it. The Aquadream Sea Lotus started to rise further up from the pond, like Godzilla from the sea.

"That's not even its full body…" Lin Wu muttered as he saw tens of vines appearing from the pond before the corners of it started to crack and split apart.

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~RUMBLE~

~CRACK~

The ground around the pond started to split apart as more vines appeared from between the cracks. But that did not last long, as the ground which had cracked, crumbled below and water replaced it.

As Lin Wu had seen before, the ground near the pond was hollow and there was a lot more water spread there. The Aquadream Sea Lotus had broken apart the ground in the process of pulling its body out.

When the creature was fully revealed, Lin Wu understood how much he had underestimated it before. The part that had appeared in the pond was not even ten percent of its body.

~SCREECH~

The Aquadream Sea Lotus let out a loud screech from its many mouths that were located inside the flowers. There were currently over fifty such flowers there, along with thousands of leaves.

The total area that the Aquadream Sea Lotus had now occupied was of about a kilometer in diameter. Overall, this was definitely the largest creature Lin Wu had seen till now in this world.

"Oh no…" Lin Wu muttered, feeling the dangerous aura of the creature.

~pew~

More and more jets of water were shot out by the Aquadream Sea Lotus as Lin Wu dodged them. The speed of those jets was very fast and had it not been for the distance Lin Wu had put between himself and the Aquadream Sea Lotus, he would not have been able to dodge it.

Lin Wu simply kept on retreating while dodging the attacks of the Aquadream Sea Lotus. It was getting harder as the number of water jets just kept on increasing with each second. Another thing Lin Wu noticed was that it was getting harder for Lin Wu to use his spirit sense.

"What is happening, system?" Lin Wu questioned, getting worried.

If Lin Wu could not use his spirit sense to the full extent, it would get harder for him to dodge as spirit sense was his basis for that. It allowed him to observe and sense things faster, which would not have been possible with just his vision.

Plus, the range of the spirit sense was also a lot more than what his vision could cover at once.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The Aquadream Sea Lotus has the ability to cause mental disruptions along with spirit sense using the spores that it spreads. These spores are microscopic and are spread out from the flower heads.

These spores are one of the reasons why Aquadream Sea Lotus is considered to be one of the most dangerous creatures of the Great Ocean and kill a lot of travelers when they try to cross it to reach the other continent.

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"Hang on! Why is there an Aquadream Sea Lotus here if they are supposed to be in the Great Ocean?" Lin Wu wondered, but realized the answer on his own.

"THAT CHANNEL!" Lin Wu exclaimed.

When Lin Wu had checked the map earlier, he had seen a branch of the pond extending underground, which went beyond the limits of the map. Lin Wu had a hunch earlier that it may reach the Great Ocean, but now that guess was confirmed.

"The Aquadream Sea Lotus managed to reach here using that underground water channel. Then that meant that the Aquadream Pond Lotus, that the Copper Hide Weasel earlier must have been an offspring of this Aquadream Sea Lotus.

No wonder it attacked now since it sensed us near the pond." Lin Wu spoke.

Lin Wu continued flying back without stopping for the fear that the Aquadream Sea Lotus might chase them. He knew that any being at the Nascent soul realm could fly, and this Aquadream Sea Lotus was at the Dao Treading realm. It was bound to be significantly stronger than that.

"System, can this Aquadream Sea Lotus chase us?" Lin Wu asked.

There were many more information windows that had appeared when the system had given Lin Wu the information about the Aquadream Lotus but Lin Wu did not have the time to read it, due to being interrupted but the Aquadream Sea Lotus's appearance.

~DING~

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ANSWER: The Aquadream Lotuses can't leave water for long periods of time. They need water to survive and even after reaching the Nascent Soul realm, they would not leave the water bodies. Though the higher their cultivation base reaches, the larger their bodies get.

This gives them another method to leave the water, which is to leave its roots behind in water while letting their massive bodies fly.

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"SHIT! No way this distance will be enough then." Lin Wu said before speeding up even more.

He looked at the Copper Hide Weasel and felt pissed.

"YOU FLY TOO! WHY ARE YOU HITCHHIKING OFF MY BACK!" Lin Wu yelled at the beast.

But he received no answer as the beast simply kept hanging onto Lin Wu's back. At this point, Lin Wu could also not care much and kept on flying. He had reached the mountains where the Copper Hide Weasel had made its nest when he saw something new.

~SHUA~

The Aquadream Sea Lotus's body parted as a translucent orb rose from it. The orb was many times many times smaller compared to its body and looked to be about a meter in diameter as well. But the power exuding from that orb was massive, too.

If one looked at it, they would see something blurry kept inside of it. When Lin Wu saw it though, he insistingly understood what it was.

"Dao Shell? That's a Dao Shell!" Lin Wu recognized.

In the Dao Shell realm, a cultivator would create a Dao Shell which was similar to a core one formed during the core condensation realm. The one big difference was that it was not used to birth a Nascent Soul but rather something else.

A Dao Shell was used for nurturing a Dao Embryo and a Dao Embryo was only formed when one reached the Dao Treading realm.

~Weeng~

A bright blue light was suddenly let out from the Aquadream Sea Lotus's Dao Shell as Lin Wu watched.

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Within the Dao Shell of the Aquadream Sea Lotus Lin Wu could see a small blue pearl. The pearl was very small compared to the Dao shell, being about the size of a pea. But it was this very pearl that was letting out the blinding blue light.

But that was not all, as Lin Wu could feel a strong presence from it. He turned on his radiation perception to see things, since the light was too bright and saw an entirely different scene.

The entire Dao Shell looked like an opaque glass container, and within it, an empty spot could be seen. This empty spot was nothing but the blue pearl that was giving out the bright blinding light.

"Why is it transparent? It's almost similar to… THE TRIBULATION LIGHTNING!" Lin Wu recognized.

"The blue pearl should be the Dao Embryo of the Aquadream Sea Lotus and thus is a representative of its 'Dao'. And if this Dao appears transparent in the Radiation perception then… the transparent part I see in the Tribulation part must be fragments of Dao as well!" Lin Wu felt enlightened.

Having learned this, Lin Wu finally understood why he had a hard time controlling tribulation lightning when the concentration of the transparent part increased. The problem he was having was basically in controlling a Dao he had no insight in.

~Weeng~

A strange humming sound was let out by the blue pearl as its light dimmed down. Lin Wu felt a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. He had not stopped flying back, but he still felt that he was not fast enough.

And then it happened…

~RUMBLE~

~SWOOSH~

A Torrent was released by the Blue pearl, which was the Dao embryo. The amount of water created by it was simply massive, instantly drowning out all the mountains in the area along with all the life.

The sea that had been created in mere moments completely changed the look of the area. Turning it from a forested mountainous area into a literal sea. The water kept on spreading at a great speed and was already near Lin Wu before he could react.

"WHAT THE HELL!!! THIS IS WAY TOO OVERPOWERED!" Lin Wu couldn't help but complain.

Now that the area had been completely changed, the Aquadream Sea Lotus was free to move as it pleased. It now rushed at Lin Wu with a speed greater than him, while launching jets of water.

~boom~

The jets of water that missed him eventually fell into the sea, cleaving apart the water all the way to the ground at the bottom.

"Argh!" Lin Wu grunted in pain as one of the water jets managed to hit his body.

A spiderweb like crack could be seen on the surface of his skin where the jet had hit. This was possibly the strongest attack Lin Wu had taken till now, if he excluded the heavenly tribulation.

At least in the case of the heavenly tribulation, Lin Wu could use radiation manipulation to weaken it by splitting it apart. But in the case of the Aquadream Sea Lotus's attacks, there was nothing he could do.

Even flying higher up was not an option as the jets of water easily reached over a kilometer up into the sky.

"DAMMIT! This won't work!" Lin Wu cursed, as his mind ran at great speed to think of a solution.

The distance between him and the Aquadream Sea Lotus was getting closer and closer despite the fact that the Aquadream Sea Lotus was moving in water while Lin Wu was in the air.

"It has the advantage of home ground… then I'll do the same!" Lin Wu decided.

But just as he was about to find a place to dig into, he was interrupted

~SKREEE~

"Ah, I forgot about you." Lin Wu said upon seeing the Copper Hide Weasel shriek.

He thought about just eating him and finishing it all, but then decided against it. Why? He didn't know either.

"Can't dig with him on my back, he'll probably do something to fuck me up again." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

But soon an idea presented to him. He picked up the Copper Hide Weasel with his tail and brought it to the front of his face.

"You are pretty durable, right?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Durable?" The Beast questioned, feeling confused.

"I'll take that as yes." Lin Wu spoke before pulling his tail back.

~SKREEE~

The Copper Hide Weasel let out another shriek, this time due to shaking too hard. Lin Wu's tail glowed green as wind attribute spirit Qi wrapped around it. More spirit Qi poured into it as Lin Wu used Qi amplification to the maximum.

"NOW YOU FLY!" Lin Wu yelled as he threw the Copper Hide Weasel with all his strength.

~BOOM~

The power of the throw was enough to break the sound barrier and causing a sonic boom. The copper Hide Weasel was sent flying to the south at a speed even greater than that of the Aquadream Sea Lotus.

"That takes care of one part. Now to get away myself." Lin Wu said to himself, trying to look for an empty spot.

But that was not easy as the sea only kept on expanding. Looking at the Aquadream Sea Lotus one could see that the Dao embryo was still producing more and more water.

"What the heck, there should be some limit to this right?" Lin Wu wondered.

He looked at the spirit Qi but it was hard to tell how it was moving. There was simply such chaos in the environmental spirit Qi, it was hard to get a sense of things.

"System, look for all possible modes of escape!" Lin Wu ordered urgently.

~DING~

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TASK ADDED: Escape route analysis

ANALYZING: Checking new parameters

ANALYSIS COMPLETER: Two possible routes of escape found, updating on map.

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Lin Wu immediately opened the map and saw the routes that had been charted on it. The first route was the most ridiculous, as it told him to fly straight up. And not only that but it had a success rate of 5% as he would likely be killed by the water jets.

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Lin Wu knew that the first route was a lost cause and he was better off choosing the second one. The second one was what he was originally intending to do. Lin Wu was gonna dig into the ground and the second route was showing him the safest path.

"Take the second route, system!" Lin Wu ordered.

~DING~

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ROUTE SELECTED: Activating navigation HUD

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In the next second, the navigation HUD appeared in front of Lin Wu's field of vision, and now he just needed to follow it. Still, the success rate from this route was about fifty percent, but it was something Lin Wu was willing to take.

"It's ten times better than the first route, for heaven's sake…" Lin Wu muttered to him as he moved according to the route plotted by the system.

This was the first time Lin Wu was having to use all his capabilities to escape like this after reaching the Nascent Soul realm. He even used the wind attribute spirit Qi to further increase his speed and caused a small explosion behind himself to propel his body.

~shua~

The attacks of the Aquadream Sea Lotus continued and Lin Wu got hit several times but it was still manageable. The system was using the stored vital essence to continually heal Lin Wu so that he would be in his optimum condition.

This was no time to be frugal about resources, and Lin Wu was doing all he could to escape imminent death. But during this entire thing, he also realized that the Aquadream Sea Lotus had not spoken even once.

All it did was make screeching sounds that were just like cries of a beast. There was no actual sense to them and they were animalistic. He didn't even as the system to try translating it as he didn't know if it would be worth it.

"Goddamn! Where is the ground?" Lin Wu couldn't help but say.

By now the sea had expanded past Lin Wu's vision and it was still expanding. One could tell from this that the Aquadream Sea Lotus was immensely strong. Lin Wu reckoned that the entire Millennium forest may be eradicated by this single creature if it ever appeared there.

'Maybe even the Frozen Cloud sect would have a hard time against it. While the elders and the sect head may be able to hold back against the creature, I doubt the disciples would be able to do the same.' Lin Wu thought.

This also made Lin Wu think about the Dao Treading realm cultivators. Till now he had not seen the true expression of their might and the only one that he did see was the sect patriarch of the frozen cloud sect.

Lin Wu had experienced the power of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle that was at the Dao shell realm and could tell she was quite powerful as well. But the Aquadream Sea Lotus completely overshadowed it all.

"THERE IT IS!" Lin Wu exclaimed upon seeing a small patch of ground in the sea.

The patch was about four meters wide and looking as to how it was still there; it was evident that it was the peak of a mountain. This was the tallest mountain in the area and even this one had been drowned.

One would ask why Lin Wu did not go to the ground from the water. The reason for this was that while he could have directly sunk into the sea and gone to the bottom, this was the domain of the Aquadream Sea Lotus.

From the way it controlled the water jets in the air, Lin Wu was a hundred percent sure that it would be able to kill him in less than a minute if he touched water. Thus, the best way for him to escape was none other than this mountain peak.

"I only got one chance!" Lin Wu fired himself up as he triggered cellular manipulation and cellular crystallization.

His body shrank at rapid speed and he plunged into the mountain top. His body was the perfect size and shape, allowing it to sink into the solid mountain top like a bunker buster missile.

~boom~

The mountain top cracked from the impact, but Lin Wu instantly changed into the drill form to continue onwards.

~shua~

From the cracked mountain top, the water started to rush in, which was kind of expected as the water level was still rising.

~KREEEEEEEEEE!!!~

The Aquadream Sea Lotus let out a loud screech as it saw Lin Wu escape into the mountain.

~whoosh~

A large tide rose up as it sunk the mountain top into the sea. The water rushed into the hole, trying to catch up to Lin Wu.

"Ahahha! YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME!" Lin Wu shouted before drilling at his full speed.

He broke through rock like it was foam and directly entered the actual ground.

~hua~

The vines of the Aquadream Sea Lotus wrapped around the mountain and started to constrict.

~CRACK~

The mountain did not even last for five seconds before it broke apart and more water rushed into it. Thankfully by now, Lin Wu was already a hundred meters below the 'sea floor'. He didn't stop there and continued deeper till he reached a depth of five hundred meters, as that is what the system told him to do.

He finally changed his direction, and went in the way where the Platform was resting. That was the only thing Lin Wu was sure could save him for now. He already had the stone feather, thus he should be able to leave the place if he got to it.

But in a shock to Lin Wu, he realized the Aquadream Sea Lotus had not given up on him. He could feel several tendrils of spirit sense locking on to him.

"AH! GODDAMMIT! FUCK YOU!" Lin Wu said before using radiation manipulation to surround his body with radiation.

While this dissuaded the spirit sense tendrils from getting close to him, the Aquadream Sea Lotus could still follow him by sensing all the spirit Qi fluctuations he was creating.

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Lin Wu was in a hard place now, and it was getting tougher to escape the clutches of the Aquadream Sea Lotus. No matter how far he went, the Aquadream Sea Lotus was taking his 'personal sea' with him.

This had basically solved his restriction in movement. Though Lin Wu knew there must be some restrictions to the Aquadream Sea Lotus than he was able to know right now. He was also scanning through the detailed pages of information that the system had kept on standby.

Currently, the Aquadream Sea Lotus had already caught up with Lin Wu and was parallel to him. The only difference was that Lin Wu was deep in the ground while the Aquadream Sea Lotus was on the surface.

The two of them were moving at the same speed now, though.

"If we keep up this speed, there is no way I'll be able to get away even if I reach the platform. I'll need to find some other way." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

He gazed at the map in the corner of his eye and saw that he was very close to the platform now. Previously it had taken Lin Wu several hours to reach the pond, but now it had taken him less than thirty minutes to cover the same distance. The difference in speed could be seen from this.

While Lin Wu was worrying about what to do, a loud cry could be heard in the sky.

~PIIIIIIII~

~shua~

"Huh? What's happening?" Lin Wu wondered and updated the map.

"THE SILVER BEAK SKY SOAR EAGLE IS BACK! The Air Support Is Here!" Lin Wu shouted in joy.

Currently on the surface, one could see two seas violently colliding with each other. The difference was that one sea was made of water while the second was made out of fire. The water sea was being controlled by the Aquadream Sea Lotus while the fire was being controlled by the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle.

The collision of the two seas had halted the progression of the Aquadream Sea Lotus and had given Lin Wu the opportunity to put some distance between him and the Lotus. He was thankful that the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had luckily come back.

"Perfect! Just hold it back for me!" Lin Wu shouted, his voice traveling through the ground being carried by his wind attribute spirit Qi.

This was another use of wind attribute spirit Qi Lin Wu had managed to learn recently. He never had the opportunity to use it till now, but since there was no means of communication between him and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, this served to be the perfect medium.

~PIIIIII~

All Lin Wu could hear now was the cry of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle, but he could understand the intent behind it. Plus, seeing that the eagle beast was fighting the Aquadream Sea Lotus on the map was enough for Lin Wu.

"Let's get up now," Lin Wu stated upon seeing that he was right below the platform.

On the surface, the Aquadream Sea Lotus and the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle were clashing.

"How did this creature appear here?" Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle couldn't help but mutter to herself.

She could tell that the Aquadream Sea Lotus was stronger than her, seeing as it was at the Dao Treading realm and had already formed its Dao Embryo. The entire sea was formed due to the power of the Dao embryo and competing against that was not easy.

~SKREEE~

The Aquadream Sea Lotus let out a screech from its many maws and shot out more jets of water towards the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle. But she manged to dodge them mid air with relative ease.

Unlike Lin Wu, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had been able to fly since her birth and thus had the most experience with it. She could maneuver in the air effortlessly and for a creature like the Aquadream Sea Lotus whose domain was water, even if it was at the Dao Treading realm, it could not compare to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle in the sky.

The Aquadream Sea Lotus could only shoot out water jets and maintain the sea while also trying to hit the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle with its vines. But the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle simply too far for it to hit her with them.

~Rumble~

~Thud~

Lin Wu finally pierced through the ground and appeared on the surface. There he saw a shocking scene; the two seas of opposing elements collided, creating chaos.

"The bloodline of the Vermillion bird is truly powerful, its flames can even hold back a creature that is at the Dao treading realm." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

But when Lin Wu watched for a few seconds more, he realized it was not all good as he had initially thought. While it seemed like both the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle and the Aquadream Sea Lotus were equally matched, it was not so.

The spirit Qi stores of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle were still quite less as compared to the Aquadream Sea Lotus. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle would soon run out of her spirit Qi if they did not manage to resolve the situation.

~pew~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle weaved through the water jets being shot at her. But then something unexpected happened.

"WATCH OUT!" Lin Wu shouted as he quickly whipped out his tail, sending out amplified wind attribute spirit Qi.

~shua~

Large pillars of water appeared from below the Sea of fire on the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle side. These pillars had appeared from below the ground and had surrounded the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle like a prison.

~Boom~

The attack that Lin Wu had sent out, managed to break two of the pillars of water, but the other were too strong. His attack had faded away before it could reach them.

"Dammit!" Lin Wu cursed as he sent out more attacks, while also getting onto the platform.

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"You need to get here! We'll escape!" Lin Wu shouted.

"Escape? Did you find the next clue?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked while flapping her flaming wings.

~Sizzle~

The flames of the Vermillion bird interacted with the pillars of water managing to evaporate half of them, letting her escape.

"Yes, I got the Stone feather that is needed to activate the platform again!" Lin Wu replied hurriedly.

~piiiii~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out a cry in response an tried to get away from the Aquadream Sea Lotus.

But then…

~boom~

~Boom~

More water pillars burst from the ground, blocking her path. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle tried to fly over them to escape it, but was stopped from this by the Aquadream Sea Lotus. Whenever she tried to ascend further in the sky, jets of water would stop her.

The water jets were strong and could injure her as well. Plus, she didn't know how many she would be able to bear at once, while also fighting back.

"How did this creature get here?!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked, feeling frustrated.

"The stone feather was apparently taken by its offspring. When I went to get it, this thing appeared." Lin Wu said, twisting the facts.

Lin Wu did not want to piss off the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle by telling her that the only reason why the Aquadream Sea Lotus attacked him was that he was curious and went to explore.

Lin Wu had already gotten the Stone feather from the nest that the Copper Hide Weasel had made and if he returned right after that's perhaps nothing of this sort would have happened. But there was no medicine for regret and this was the best he could do to remedy the situation.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle furrowed her brow feathers upon hearing that all of this was caused due to the Aquadream Sea Lotus.

"YOU DARE STEAL MY BLOODLINE'S KEY?!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle yelled, fully convinced that it was the Aquadream Sea Lotus that was at fault.

~PIIIIIII~

Another loud cry was let out by the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle as her body started to glow in a bright red light. Even Lin Wu had a hard time seeing anything and his radiation perception was blinded too because of the sheer amount of thermal radiation in the air.

By the time he adjusted the sensitivity of radiation perception, the scene in front of him had changed. Out of the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's body, a red colored orb appeared. This orb was translucent and a unique sigil could be seen on it. Though half of the orb seemed to be thicker than the other half.

The sigil on the orb was that of the Vermillion bird and glowed periodically while letting out a powerful aura.

"The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's Dao Shell!" Lin Wu realized what it was.

Seeing the state of the Dao shell could tell that the Dao Shell was at the Shell genesis stage and was half complete. Once it was fully complete, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle would reach the Shell completion stage and if it wanted to, would be able to directly form a Dao Embryo.

Upon the appearance of the Dao Shell, the spirit Qi in the environment became even more chaotic than before. The Dao Shell started to rapidly absorb the spirit Qi as the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle's flames became intense.

~piiiii~

"You shall not live! Even I can't kill you now, I swear upon the honor of the vermilion bird that I will kill you in the future!" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle declared with fury in her eyes.

To her, the Aquadream Sea Lotus had touched the one thing she treasured, her very bloodline itself. Thus there was no way the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle could let this entire thing go and now considered the Aquadream Sea Lotus her enemy.

Watching all this, Lin Wu didn't know what to think.

'I think I may have changed the plot way more than it should have…' Lin Wu secretly thought.

~SWOOSH~

Still, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle using her Dao Shell had increased her power greatly and actually managed to push back the Aquadream Sea Lotus a little bit. The water pillars that were trapping her were also evaporated under the heat of the Dao Shell.

The sigil on the Dao Shell was hot like the sun, and anything that came near it would be reduced to ashes. This was something that was unique to the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle and not many other beasts could have a bloodline sigil like this.

Even the Aquadream Sea Lotus did not have a sigil like that on its Dao Shell. One could only imagine if the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle was able to restrain the Aquadream Sea Lotus temporarily, what would she be able to do once she was in the Dao Treading Realm as well.

Seeing that the Aquadream Lotus was being pushed back, Lin Wu got to completing his plan.

~SKREEE~

The Aquadream Sea Lotus let out a shriek that seemed to be filled with unwillingness. While the creature could not speak, from what Lin Wu had seen till now, it certainly did have a certain level of intelligence. Even if it was lower than that of the average Nascent Soul realm beast, or perhaps even a Core Condensation realm beast.

"Quick! Come to the platform." Lin Wu shouted as he inserted the stone feather with the three veins into the tray.

~Heng~

The formations of the platform suddenly became active and the platform let out a glow.

"Return now! The platform will leave any second." Lin Wu urged the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle.

~Piiiii~

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle let out one last screech as she let out a torrent of flames. The flames evaporated a large chunk of the sea, letting her finally escape.

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