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The Twin Lights Liger King was having a rapid breakthrough which even he had not expected.
Like with humans, beasts too needed to consolidate their cultivation base and then determine what kind of a Dao Shell they wanted. By default, the shape was that of a sphere, but both humans and beasts could have different shapes if they wanted to.
But this only happened after a long time as they needed years to decades, just to ponder on the right shape that they wanted. And only after they had done this could they actually channel spirit Qi into the illusory shape to solidify it.
The Twin Lights Liger King though, took no such pause and directly sped his way to the second stage of the Dao Shell realm, which was the Shell genesis stage.
'How can this be possible? Even though I have the confidence of reaching this stage myself, I'm pretty sure it would have taken me at least a decade. But now… my bloodline itself has chosen for me.' The Twin Lights Liger King thought to himself as he focused on absorbing as much spirit Qi as possible.
The Emeraldine Legion bloodline within him was steadily stimulating his original bloodline. This led to it taking control of his body in a way and deciding upon the shape of the Dao Shell automatically.
The Twin Lights Liger King was confused and didn't even know how he would be using this Dao Shell or how he would comprehend the Dao Embryo. With the lack of information, he was a bit anxious, but at the same time, since the bloodline itself was directing all this, he also felt a bit complacent.
It was a complex state of self that only the Twin Lights Liger King could understand right now.
But he also knew something critical: when there was a direct action from one's bloodline, it was in their best interest to not do anything that might interrupt or cause problems.
It could lead to many problems, the least of them being injured and the worst being killed.
Hence the Twin Lights Liger King kept doing what he was and absorbed the spirit Qi. If anything through, he felt that this was rather comfortable as he didn't need to spend any effort on the Dao Shell.
"If only all my breakthroughs were this smooth…" He muttered to himself, a sense of longing present in his voice.
~HONG~
About ten more minutes passed, after which the tornado of spirit Qi finally dissipated in a large ripple. But at the same time, the Dao Shell of the Twin Lights Liger King was now visible.
It looked like a twenty centimeter wide disk that was about an inch in thickness. But from this, less than five percent was solid, and the rest was ethereal, showing that the Twin Lights Liger King had just started on his journey through the Shell Genesis stage of the Dao Shell realm.
Still, it was no less shocking to him and he stared at this Dao Shell.
"Is this really true? Have I truly reached this level?" The Twin Lights Liger King couldn't help but wonder.
If it were not for the spirit Qi fluctuation of the Dao Shell in front of him and the call of his bloodline to withdraw the Dao Shell into his body, the Twin Lights Liger King would have certainly thought that he was either dreaming or was hallucinating.
He wouldn't put him being dead out of the options either as he was often quite close to it when he was still shackled by the tomb.
~HUU~
The Twin Lights Liger King took a deep breath and exerted his control over his Nascent soul and the Dao Shell. The Nascent soul first took its position over the Dao Shell, as if using it like a bed before it flew towards his head and disappeared into it.
"Finally… I've done it!" The Twin Lights Liger King said with excitement.
And in this excitement, the Twin Lights Liger King couldn't help but want to test out his strength. He thus very carefully picked one of the more desolate areas with little to no life and shot out an attack.
It was a simple claw swipe, but it was still enough to create long ravines on the ground.
'That's truly the power of the Dao Shell realm alright…' The Twin Lights Liger King thought to himself.
"CONGRATULATIONS!" Several beasts appeared near the Twin Lights Liger King.
Most of them being the Lamp Light Ligers with a handful of other beasts that were under the Twin Lights Liger King. Besides, since they had reached a certain level of status, they knew how to chance clout and the Twin Lights Liger King was the perfect target.
"All Hail The Twin Lights Liger King for his success!"
"The Twin Lights Liger King has succeeded in breaking through to the Dao Shell realm!"
More and more beasts appeared and started to shout out his praises. The beasts that appeared first other than the Lamp light Ligers were the core condensation realm beasts that were closer to him and lived in his territory.
But a few minutes later, more beasts arrived; this time they were at the Nascent soul realm.
"Congratulations on being the first among us." The Slim Arm Ape King spoke.
"Indeed. While I knew that if it were anyone, it would be you at the start. Now seeing you breakthrough makes me a little proud as well." The Split Thorn Horn Beetle King spoke.
Even if Lin Wu was technically the first one to have made the breakthrough to the Dao Shell realm a while back, the beasts knew better than to compare with him. To them, Lin Wu was just otherworldly at this point.
"AHAHAHA!" Loud Laughter could be heard coming from the distance as a bony and red figure approached.
"I finally have someone I have a chance at sparring with!" The Demon Spine Ape King exclaimed.
But just as the beasts were all greeting the Twin Lights Liger King, something else was happening in the Tomb.
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~RUMBLE~
A strange rumbling sound spread throughout the tomb, as all the formation arrays reacted.
Even Lin Wu who was deep in cultivation, was woken up and felt a little dazed.
"Huh? Wha…" Lin Wu muttered in confusion and looked around.
Walking up from a state like that was similar to being waken up in the middle of deep sleep and the side effects were similar. Though for Lin Wu, the system acted quickly and updated him about what was happening.
~DING~ DING~ DING~
Tens of windows popped up in front of him one by one, as notification went off like bells in his ears.
"Its barely been over a month and what the hell is happening?" Lin Wu said out loud.
He learned of the chaos of the forest which was soon quelled and the Dao Shell realm fluctuations that were felt.
"Do a total scan of the forest, NOW!" Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
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SCANNER: ACTIVATED
MASS SCAN: Selected
SCANNING: The Millennium forest- please wait a moment…
SCAN COMPLETED: Map updated
NOTIFICATION: New Dao Shell realm signature detected.
WARNING: Anomaly detected in the tomb!
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Lin Wu's mind worked quickly as he went through all the things and checked the map.
"So the Twin Lights Liger King finally broke through, huh… Will need to see him. But before that… what is this anomaly?" Lin Wu said as he saw the flashing marker on map.
Pulling up the tomb's map overlay, Lin Wu soon found the location where the anomaly was and it was very well known to him.
"Of course it's him." Lin Wu said while face-palming… well face-tailing to be accurate.
Lin Wu could feel that the formation arrays of the tomb were agitated and some of the defensive ones were activated as well. They weren't something that should normally activate since they were inside the tomb.
This was only possible if the threat was inside the tomb. If it was external, the tomb would haven been able to bear attacks as strong as that of a Dao Treading realm creature or perhaps even above in certain condition.
But for now, Lin Wu needed to deal with it.
~shua~
Runes appeared around Lin Wu as he quickly teleported into the hall where he had left Tim in.
~tremble~
In there, Lin Wu could feel pulses of energy shooting out from Tim. He still seemed to have his eyes closed, but Lin Wu knew he was not awake.
"Tim! Can you hear me?" Lin Wu called out.
But Tim gave him no response and simply stayed as he was. His body was tensed up and his fur was standing on its end, giving him a spiky appearance like that of a hedgehog.
"System, what are these energy pulses?" Lin Wu questioned.
~DING~
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ANSWER: According to the system's analysis, these pulses are different from the spirit Qi and vital energy, currently being unique to Tim the Myriad Obsidian Weasel. The system has no reference for them and can only estimate that they are increasing in response to the beast's increasing power.
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Hearing this, Lin Wu furrowed his brows as a few ideas appeared in his mind.
'Is it time for his breakthrough already?' Lin Wu wondered.
He looked towards Tim and furrowed his brows before extending his spirit sense.
~shua~
The spirit sense soared through the air and headed towards Tim, but just as it was about to get within five meters of him, a wave of energy hit it.
~poof~
Like a bubble being blown back, Lin Wu's spirit sense was deflected.
"What?!" Lin Wu exclaimed in shock.
Thinking that he might have made a mistake, Lin Wu tried to use his spirit sense again, this time even going so far as to increase the power by twice.
~poof~
But the result repeated, and Lin Wu's spirit sense was dissipated before that. This made Lin Wu's face drop as not only had he lost a part of his spirit sense that he'll need to refine again, he was now facing something that he might actually not be able to deal with easily.
"Before just his skin was impossible to penetrate and now I can't even get within a certain range. Whatever is happening to him, it is certainly unique." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
After saying this, Lin Wu watched Tim for a few seconds before looking for other solution.
"System, can you scan him?" Lin Wu questioned.
~DING~
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ANSWER: The energy pulses are functioning as a restrictive field and the system cannot analyze it thus.
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"Drat! Will need to figure out what this exactly is, and if it is a problem or not." Lin Wu said as he hurriedly thought of things.
Since he couldn't touch or get near with his spirit sense and the system was in the same state, Lin Wu thought of taking advantage of an alternative method. He looked at the many formation arrays that were flickering and an idea appeared in his mind.
"System, use the formation arrays as an auxiliary monitoring formation arrays and see if you can figure out what the problem is." Lin Wu ordered.
To him, it was evident that the entire formation array of the tomb was being forced by the energy of Tim to act, but what he didn't know was the other effects of it.
~shua~
Under the control of the system, the formations started to change their patterns and a few circles made of runes came out from below. These circles rose to the body of Tim and did what they were supposed to.
~CRACK~
But after just five seconds, a crack appeared on the circle.
"This won't work either…" Lin Wu said, feeling a bit disappointed.
Lin Wu tried to use a few more methods that were devised by the system, but all of them failed. It was as if, Tim was the bane of it all and nothing could affect him. It was something familiar to Lin Wu, as even he could do the same.
Though the requirements for it would be vastly different.
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If Lin Wu were still human, he would currently be having sweat drip down his forehead.
"Ugh, what is this even supposed to mean?" Lin Wu said, feeling frustrated.
~HONG~
Suddenly, Tim's body glowed in a yellow light. But this was not all, as the energy pulses coming from him increased as well.
~Rumble~
As a shock to him, the Formation arrays that could defend against his own attacks were now shaking under the force of the energy pulses.
~WARNING!~
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NOTIFICATION: High threat level detected!
SUGGESTION: Tim, The Myriad Obsidian Weasel should be ejected from the Taiji Celestial's tomb as soon as possible or there is a 73% chance of formation failure and a 41% chance of explosion.
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"Explosion? What does that mean? This place will explode?" Lin Wu questioned, feeling stunned.
~DING~
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ANSWER: This hall that the host is currently in will explode. And it will in turn, damage the other formation arrays of the tomb along with the spirit Qi channels.
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"Fuck that! I don't want this place to get damaged even more." Lin Wu said as he stared at Tim.
"Send him out! Activate teleportation formations, NOW!" Lin Wu ordered.
~SHUA~
Some runes appeared around Tim and assembled themselves into a formation, but before they could proceed any more, something happened.
~CRACK~
~SHATTER~
"What the heck?!" Lin Wu cursed as he saw the partially compete teleportation formation breaking due to the impact from the energy pulse.
"Do it again!" Lin Wu said, feeling anxious now.
~SHUA~
~CRACK~
The same as before, the teleportation formation cracked before it could be completed.
"Shit! This ain't gonna work. Need to think of something else." Lin Wu said as the system too got to analyzing.
An idea soon popped up in Lin Mu's mind.
'Will radiation work here?' Lin Wu wondered before deciding to try it out.
His innate skill of Radiation manipulation activated at full force as Lin Mu controlled some of it to approach Tim.
~flicker~
The invisible radiation was seemly impaled by the energy pulses and made to scatter. But it was not enough to make Lin Wu give up. He increased his force and more radiation approached Tim.
~FIZZ~
A strange fizzing sound could be heard a the two types of energy clashed. But unlike before, this time it didn't dissipate. The 'holes' in the 'radiation curtain' were rapidly being healed by even more radiation.
"Okay, this works. Now to expand this…" Lin Wu muttered, feeling a bit better.
He then made two layers of radiation around him and Tim. The first layer surrounded just Tim, while the second layer surrounded both him and Tim in a large sphere like shape. Once this was done though, Lin Wu coated his tail with extra radiation.
"System! Make an opening!" Lin Wu shouted.
~BOOM~
And with that order, a part of the roof directly burst open, revealing the outside area. Something like breaking a part of the tomb was obviously very difficult, and the system could only do it because it controlled it.
Another reason that Lin Wu was thankful was for choosing a hall that was more on the internal side of the mountain. This way, he could break a hole in the side and wouldn't need to make a large one that went all the way to the top of the tomb.
No matter what, it was incredibly inefficient and time wasting venture.
With the hole open, Lin Wu went for the next step. He coated his tail in a layer of radiation before pushing it towards Tim and wrapping it around him.
~clang~ Clang~ Clang~
~DENG~ DENG~ DENG~
Various sounds were heard as Lin Wu's body was struck by many things, including the energy pulses of Tim and the falling debris from the vibrations. Thankfully, these were not of his concern and Lin Wu simply ignored them all.
~squee~
Having grasped the beast in his tail, Lin Wu directly hurled it out of the tomb.
~thud~ Thud~
A low noise came from the outside and Lin Wu took a look there, seeing Tim's body rolling down the mountain.
No matter what, the hall was mid way through the height of the mountain and having someone fall from that height was not good at all.
~shua~
Lin Wu too, teleported out of the tomb and went after Tim. He knew that this was simply the first step and more difficult times were about to come.
His gaze went over to Tim and he saw that, just like before, he was largely uninjured. His tough body completely blocked all the damage. Or rather, he was the one who inflicted some damage.
The pulses coming from his body cracked the rocks of the mountain and created gullies in the ground. It also broke and fragmented the trees while killing a lot of unfortunate beasts that had managed to die under his hand.
~HONG~
Tim's body suddenly shot up like a cannonball and rose through the forest. His eyes were glowing with a yellow light, while his body had dimmed down.
"Now what?" Lin Wu said as he too flew up.
He looked at Tim and could faintly feel a different vibe from him, but he couldn't exactly tell what had changed. Tim's expression, that used to be mostly mellow, pissed or uncaring, changed to become that of seriousness.
~WHOOSH~
His body reached the skies and shone like a lantern, pulling everyone's attention.
It was night time thus it was very eye-catching.
"Look! What's that?!" The beasts called out.
The Twin Lights Liger King and the other beasts that had come to congratulate him all looked towards the new source of light in the sky, feeling perplexed.
"Isn't that… the weasel?" Someone said as the Twin Lights Liger King narrowed his brows.
At the same time, he had an anxious feeling in his heart.
'This isn't going to end well… is it?' The Twin Lights Liger King through.
~HUALA~
His words were like a trigger that opened the flood gates of spirit Qi.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?" All the former rulers said in unison, seeing the phenomenon.
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Tim floated in the sky as a vortex of spirit Qi surrounded him.
The entire sky seemed to be shaking from the spirit Qi storm and the earth didn't seem to be well off either. Such a phenomenon seemed down right wrong for a beast's breakthrough to the Dao Shell realm.
Lin Wu and the other beasts that were watching Tim in the sky were stunned and lost for words.
Even the system was frantically analyzing the situation, but was unable to come to any conclusion.
~TREMBLE~
~CRY~
The cries of the beasts that were on the ground could be heard as it started to quake and shift.
~CRACK~ CRACK ~CRACK~
The quakes were too strong for the ground to bear, and fissures directly opened up on the ground, the depths of which could not be seen.
~WHOOSH~
All of a sudden, the amount of spirit Qi in the air increased by tenfold and it was as if someone had just opened up a spirit stone mine.
~DING~
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NOTIFICATION: Spirit Qi spike detected!
WARNING: The Taiji Celestial's Spirit Qi circuits and channels have been cracked!
NOTIFICATION: Current functional spirit Qi circuits = 67%, Current functional spirit Qi channels = 48%
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Seeing these notifications, Lin Wu was infuriated.
"FUCK THIS SHIT!" Lin Wu cursed as he gazed upon the ground.
He had been trying to fix the Tomb so that he could use it for his benefit, but all his progress in these years seemed to have been reset at once. The damage that the system and Lin Wu's servants fixed over the years had been reverted.
"NO!!!!!" A very loud scream could be heard coming from one beast, pulling Lin Wu's attention.
'The Twin Lights Liger King?' Lin Wu saw and wondered why he was like this.
But then he saw where the former ruler was looking toward and his expression turned quite similar to him.
"THE SEALED BEING!" Lin Wu cried out.
"GUAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"
A terrifying roar came from one of the fissures that had just been opened. All beasts that could fly had ascended to the sky by now and saw what Lin Wu and the Twin Lights Liger King did.
Within one of the fissures that opened up on top of the Dark Bloom Caverns, an eerie green light was shining. But once they looked closer, they saw that the light wasn't just anything, but rather a pair of eyes.
The eyes were acid green in color and the edges of them were leaking a black fluid.
"Two hundred millenniums…. Two Hundred Millenniums of suffering… Seven worlds of travel and finally… Finally it is time… TIME FOR ME TO RISE! TIME FOR ME TO BE REBORN!" A horrid voice came from the two eyes.
Just the voice was enough to imbue terror into the eyes of every beast that was currently there with the exception of few. Other than Lin Wu, The Twin Lights Liger King, the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape and Tim, who was occupied with himself, all the beasts were frozen in fear.
~HONG~
A light shone from the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape's head as the crystal on his forehead created a barrier around him. The Twin Lights Liger King used his own spirit Qi and power to defend himself while Lin Wu didn't need to do anything and his body was simply unaffected by something like this.
'If the sealed being had been able to show its presence like this, the integrity of the sealing formations is probably not great.' Lin Wu thought as he gritted his teeth and wondered what he should do.
He had totally not expected Tim's breakthrough to cause such trouble.
"Dammit, if I knew this I would have kept him out of the forest." Lin Wu said to himself.
~SHUA~
Tendrils of acid green energy that were tinged with black edges rose from the two eyes and slithered out from the fissure. The great depth of the fissure was like a stone's throw for them and showed their impressive length.
The tendrils extended out from the fissure and grasped onto everything that contained even a bit of life. The trees, grass, shrubs and any animals that were within its grasp were immediately killed.
The tendrils expanded rapidly and drained vitality and spirit Qi from the beasts that were trying to run away. The sealed being was fulfilling its hunger that had been tempered over the many years it was sealed.
The beasts were mostly helpless, only the ones that could fly being safe for now.
Lin Wu knew just how deep the seal was located and how much damage must have been caused for a fissure to go that deep. Lin Wu looked at Tim for a moment, wondering just how could he cause devastation on this level just be breaking through.
"No… this isn't him…" Lin Wu muttered as he saw the aura of Tim.
It was vastly different from the childish nature of Tim that Lin Wu had long since become used to. It seemed to have a lordly demeanor in them and everything in its eyes seemed to be below its existence.
~WARNING~
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CRITICAL THREATS DETECTED: Two such threats have been detected!
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Seeing the warning, Lin Wu saw the map showing the two big markers.
One of them was the sealed being, as expected, but the other was none other than Tim.
"How the fuck?" Lin Wu wondered if he was watching some protagonist breakthrough and causing chaos.
But while Lin Wu was looking at Tim, the weasel was looking at something, too.
"HMM!?" A surprised voice came from the pair of eyes.
They twitched and rose up from the fissure. But when they were halfway through, they were stopped.
"CURSES! The seal is still holding on!" The pair of eyes said.
Seeing that it could not come out fully, it simply expanded its tendrils more, trying to obtain as much strength it could in order to break its restrains. But its wishes were suddenly shot down when an imposing pressure descended on it.
"WHAT?!"
The string of shocks was not coming to an end anytime; or so it seemed like to Lin Wu.
He could feel the aura of the sealed being flicker all of a sudden as if it had been shocked as well.
"They're looking at each other? No… It's Tim glaring at him." Lin Wu realized.
Tim and the Sealed being started at each other for a couple of moments before Tim made his move.
~HAAAAA~
A move was not the correct word for it, since Tim simply opened its mouth wide as if he was eating something.
~WHOOSH~
Then as if a vacuum tunnel had been created between Tim and the sealed being, all the green energy it was letting off as tendrils started being sucked.
"HOW ARE YOU—?" The Sealed being seemed to be confused, angry and scared at the same time.
But his feelings were not something Tim cared for and he simply devoured all the energy that was reaching him. His mouth was like the abyss and everything that entered it disappeared without a trace.
The system showed hundred of error signs as it failed to understand anything that Tim was doing even with the Data banks they had accumulated till now.
"I give up." Lin Wu said as he felt sidelined by it all.
For some reason he had a hunch that all that happened right now was being done by someone way more powerful than him and the orchestration was complex on most parts. Lin Wu had read enough to know that interfering in things like these was only pulling more trouble to himself.
"At least I don't have to deal with the sealed being or I would have no option but to run away." Lin Wu muttered to himself.
Both the system and Lin Wu knew the power of the sealed being was beyond their limits. Even the encryption on the being was complex that would take the system a long time to decrypt.
And yet, a seal as powerful as that was weakened by Tim's breakthrough.
"System, start the conservation protocol." Lin Wu spoke in a low tone.
~DING~
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COMMAND ACCEPTED: Activating Conservation protocol!
DEFENSIVE FORMATION ARRAYS: Activated!
SPIRIT QI GATHERING ARRAY: Deactivated!
ISOLATION ARRAYS: Activated!
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The moment this was done, a large circle of runes surrounded the entire millennium forest. If one looked form the sky, they would see that it was almost invisible and would not even be seen from the ground perspective.
The circle of runes was not that thick, being merely a meter thick. Compared to normal fomentation runes, it did seemed to be very dense, but when considering its massive size spanning several thousand kilometer of circumference it was still thin.
It was this thin circle of runes that created the biggest formation array that Lin Wu and the system had made. It was something that was already the part of the Taiji Celestial's tomb and could affect the entire forest.
But this formation array was originally broken and could not be repaired fully. Hence the system made some minor changes that lowered its effect but still made it function.
Once the circle of runes was activated, any loud noise or energy fluctuations would not go past it.
The Millennium forest had turned into a dome like cage that isolated the things inside. But this was not without its flaws. It could only stop fluctuation of energy that were already weakened and it could not stop actual living things from leaving it either.
But that was all Lin Wu needed for the time being.
He had never thought that something like this would come in handy this day. He had originally kept it for himself as a means to hide but now it had to be used prematurely. In fact it wasn't even fully ready and there were still many parts that the system had to finish up on.
~Sigh~
"Guess I'll go with the flow now." Lin Wu muttered to himself and looked at his servants and subordinates.
"EVERYONE! RETREAT TO THE EDGES OF THE FOREST!" Lin Wu ordered.
~WHOOSH~
~SHUA~
That one order was enough to break our the beasts that were frozen with fear. Lin Wu had used two of his skills in combination to do this; the Sound Command and Kin Command skills.
They were two skills that he had not used often, but they were very useful in substations like this, since they forced the beasts that were under Lin Wu's leadership to listen to him regardless of their status.
~DING~
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SKILL PROFICIENCY INCREASED: Sound Command (Lesser) (Proficiency: Basic) -Sound Command (Lesser) (Proficiency: Novice)
SKILL PROFICIENCY INCREASED: Kin Command (Lesser) (Proficiency: Basic)- Kin Command (Lesser) (Proficiency: Novice)
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The mass use of the two skills on so many beasts at once resulted them in being enhanced.
'That's a nice surprise…' Lin Wu thought as he focused his attention back on the situation at hand.
The servants and subordinates were steadily making their way to the edge of the forest while Lin Wu stayed where he was.
He was not particularly worried since he himself could escape this place at a moments notice. The teleportation range of the Taiji Celstial's tomb was enough to take him beyond the Deer Wood city.
Thus it was more important for him to wait and observe what was actually going to happen and hold for the others to leave.
'Can't lose them after all the effort I've spent in nurturing them. They all are precious investments. Until they pay back the principle several thousand times more, I won't let them be wasted.' Lin Wu thought with a vicious glint in his eyes.
He himself didn't realize the strangeness in his personality and kept on gazing at the two things clashing in front of him.
"CURSES! STOP THIS OR I WILL KILL YOU!!!" The sealed being shouted from the fissure.
But Tim didn't seem to care for it one bit and kept on sucking all the energy.
~HONG~
A strong burst of spirit Qi came from his body as the illusory figure of the Dao Shell finally appeared above him.
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Currently, there were just three beings at the center of the forest. These were none other than Lin Wu, Tim and the sealed being. All the others had either left or had been teleported away by the system.
But if they were here, they would be stunned to see the scene in the sky.
Above Tim, his Dao Shell's illusory figure had finally appeared. The shocking thing was that it was not spherical in shape by default. No, instead of that, it directly appeared in a specific shape that was unlike any.
It wasn't some simple shape either; it was a very detailed shape that seemed like it was made perfectly for some specific Dao Embryo.
Lin Wu who saw it, was shocked as well.
"Isn't that… A claw?" Lin Wu identified the shape.
It looked like a large 'V' with five sections in it. If one looked at the other fine sides on it, they would realized that it was shaped in the form of a five fingered claw.
"How does he already have a Dao Shell with a premade shape? Is it related to his current state?" Lin Wu couldn't help but wonder.
~SHUA~
But the situation didn't end there at all. Tim continue to suck the energy that was coming from the Sealed being and started channeling it to the Dao Shell. The Dao Shell quickly started to absorb the energy and began to convert to a corporeal form.
"Dang! He reached the Shell Genesis stage of the Dao Shell realm as well. And I thought I would be the only one at that stage for a while." Lin Wu said with astonishment.
It made him feel both a bit content as well as pressured. As long as he was the strongest being in the forest, he would feel comfortable. But once that was not true and there were others above him, he would not feel the same.
Lin Wu was still fine with the Twin Lights Liger King since he was under his control in the end. But Tim was not the same. Plus, the weasel was also a bit of a wild factor and could do anything out of expectations.
So far Lin Wu had been able to reel him in, but he didn't know if the same would be possible if the beast was at the same cultivation base as him. While Lin Wu had fought Yun Bai, who was at the very peak of the Shell Expansion stage, and could battle other like him with confidence, it was evident that Tim was not like that.
He would be in the same league as Yun Bai, or perhaps even above him in the end.
All of this was a mystery to Lin Wu, and he didn't know how things will go.
'At least his Dao Shell isn't that big.' Lin Wu thought as he looked at the Dao Shell of Tim that was about a meter tall.
For most beasts that just made their Dao Shell, this would be considered large, but Lin Wu's own was larger and even the Twin Lights Liger King's Dao Shell was a bit larger too.
Nothing firm could be said though since there were far too many variables in all of this that Lin Wu and the system were yet to understand.
"STOP THIS!!!!" The sealed being yelled as its power kept on being drained.
It tried to use its tentacles to free itself, but failed at every step. Every new energy tentacle that it created was immediately pulled towards Tim, failing to do anything. Lin Wu reckoned that if the being was still not anchored to the formation array, it would have probably been sucked into Tim's belly as well.
This was a horrifying though, as Lin Wu knew just how dangerous that might be. Tim might just explode from something like that.
"Or not… I can't even tell what he is at this point. Though a power source of the Tomb that has lasted this long should have a terrifying amount of spirit Qi within it." Lin Wu said and looked towards the sealed being.
He gave a few orders to the system, namely to scan and see if the system could find the flaws in the sealed being while it was weakened. The warnings and error messages popped up non-stop, but the system didn't stop its work.
Lin Wu hoped to find some more information or a clue that would help him.
'At the very least, I want something that will compensate for the losses we will suffer or have suffered now.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
~HONGLONG~
Tim increased the suction speed as he took an even deeper breath. The clouds were as if terrified and quickly ran away while the trees and ground continued to shake. Dust and debris flew everywhere as it got difficult for people to see things.
It wouldn't be unusual for any normal beast or cultivator to go blind here from some stray object striking their eyes. For Lin Wu at least, that was no concern, and he continued to watch with rapt attention.
He didn't want to miss even a second of this and was ready to act if his life was threatened.
'The sealed being might be weakened, but sealing it again will take some effort. System, get on making a secondary seal.' Lin Wu ordered, seeing that the scans were coming to no fruition.
They derived no information from the sealed being. It wasn't even the encryption that seemed to be stopping, but rather the sealed being itself. The system couldn't scan it and seemed to find it on a different level than anything it had come across till now.
Thus, Lin Wu could only wait and watch as Tim continue to drain the sealed being and progress through the Shell Genesis stage of the Dao Shell realm.
An entire hour passed by like this until finally it seemed like Tim could no longer do the same.. His Dao Shell was 25% complete, and the Sealed Being was greatly weakened as well, its eyes turning more Grey than green.
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"Now what?" Lin Wu questioned, seeing that the situation had come to a stand still.
The sealed being seemed to be tired and exhausted, yet the anger within its eyes was blearing.
"DAMN YOU BEAST! I SWEAR UPON MY NAME! I SWEAR UPON TELETH! I WILL DEVOUR THIS WORLD!" The Sealed Being cursed, his voice thundering through the skies.
If it were not for the isolating barrier that Lin Wu had gotten system to set up earlier, it would have been heard for thousands of kilometers beyond the Millennium forest. It won't be a surprise if the humans were greatly alerted by it.
And that was exactly what Lin Wu wanted to avoid.
'No human will interfere in things unless I want them to!' Lin Wu thought to himself as his eyes narrowed.
But the beasts that were still in the millennium forest had all heard the voice and had another reason to have nightmares for a while. The smarter beasts were especially worried as they knew the implications of something like this.
"System… DO IT!" Lin Wu ordered, not wanting to wait anymore.
~DING~
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SEAL: Initiating
TARGET SELECTED: Unknown Being
SEAL PROTOCOL: Activated
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Thousand upon thousands of runes appeared in the sky and flew around gracefully, forming mysterious patterns.
~shua~
The runes were like fine needles that weaved a net around the Sealed being, much to its annoyance.
"HUMPH! Do you really think such a weak thing can restrain me?" The Sealed being scoffed.
Its eyes strobed, and two globs of black fluid shot out from them. The fluid touched the formations that were being constructed and immediately dissolved them.
~WARNING!~
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SEAL PROTOCOL: Interrupted!
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"Fuck! It can still do this?" Lin Wu said in irritation.
~SIGH!~
But just as he said that, a mysterious sigh was heard in his head.
"What?!" Lin Wu was surprised as he could clearly tell that this was a foreign presence that was not there before.
~HUALA~
His eyes were quickly pulled towards Tim as a crushing pressure exuded from him. The pressure was unidirectional and went towards the sealed being. Lin Wu was still started by it and couldn't help but retreat a hundred meters, just in case.
"He… he's suppressing him?" Lin Wu was confused.
The pressure exuding from Tim right now was different from the new aura that he had currently. It seemed as if another presence had appeared within him, taking the total number to three, including Tim's original self.
Tim's eyes gazed upon the Sealed being with a deadly gaze, making it cower and unable to speak.
~RUMBLE~
The sealed being was pressured back into the ground and soon it was pushed back enough that the Tomb's own formation array had started working.
~DING~
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NOTIFICATION: Tomb sealing formation array online!
NOTIFICATION: Beginning repairs...
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Lin Wu then watched as the Sealed being, who had been 'partially freed', was put back into its 'prison'. The entires process only lasted a minute, but each second of it was stressful for him.
~TREMBLE~
But it didn't end there as the ground started to shake again, this time though it was to close to the fissure.
~RUMBLE~
~BOOM~
Once the fissure closed, dust settled over the area, but the devastation was not something that would be easily hidden now. The Millennium forest was forever changed and could only heal naturally as the trees regrew.
"Watch…" Lin Wu suddenly heard a voice coming from Tim and looked back at him.
'He spoke?' Lin Wu first thought he was hallucinating.
"Watch… Over… This… Child…" A voice spoke from Tim.
It didn't come from his mouth, but just seemed to be coming from the body itself.
"Who are you?" Lin Wu questioned, wanting to know more.
He didn't like to be in blind and knew that Tim was far more unique than he had originally thought.
"You… cannot… know…" The voice spoke once again.
"Why?" Lin Wu questioned.
"You… are… not… strong…" The Voice Replied.
"Then why should I care about him if I don't even know who's ordering me to do this? Why should is spend my effort?" Lin Wu asked, feeling pissed.
~Sigh~
A sigh was heard in response to this and Lin Wu felt his very soul shaking. Both of his Nascent souls' opened this eyes and the Nascent soul of the unknown bloodline even seemed to be angry for some reason as a scowl appeared on his face.
"What in the…" Lin Wu muttered as he saw a pair of eyes appearing in his mind.
They were illusory and a deep yellow in color, looking like the finest of garnets. There were two vertical pupils in them, but the size of them was what shocked Lin Wu. They were bigger than anything he had seen in this world till now.
Even the things from the Skull God's memories couldn't compare to their sides.
And Lin Wu knew that this was not an illusion. He felt it deep in his soul that this was a fact. He couldn't tell why, but every bit of his instincts were screaming that the being in front of him was not something he could compare to at all.
The two eyes were not just free floating either, they were attached to a head, but Lin Wu could not see the appearance.
'So that's what it means by 'I'm not strong'… just it's form is enough to prevent me from comprehending it…' Lin Wu understood this fact.
He also understood that he now had his first 'Big Shot' encounter.
'And I thought the Taiji Celestial's tomb and the sealed being were something…' Lin Wu thought to himself.
While Lin Wu couldn't estimate the Taiji Celestial's strength, the strength of the being that had shown its eyes was certainly on the same level… or so he thought.
The two eyes disappeared after a few seconds, leaving behind some lingering words in his mind.
"Search deep… to find… what you seek…"
With that, Lin Wu felt his vision return, and he looked back at Tim floating in the sky.. This time though, the aura was the same as the childlike Tim.
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Lin Wu still found it hard to believe all that had happened.
But looking at Tim who seemed to be confused, made him confirm that fact that it was indeed all true.
'What are you Tim?' Lin Wu couldn't help but question himself.
He was certain that there was a great secret behind Tim's origin, especially considering the voice that had told him to take care of him. Lin Wu used his spirit sense to check Tim's cultivation base and found that he was actually at the same level as him in a way.
~Sigh~
"Seems like I'll need to hurry up." Lin Wu muttered to himself as he approached Tim.
"Happened what?" Tim asked.
"You broke through." Lin Wu replied.
"Me breakthrough?" Tim said in a confused tone until he checked his own strength. "ME STRONG!!!!" Tim said out loud.
The Dao Shell above his head thrummed with power before turning illusory and disappearing into his body.
"Now, now. Don't get too excited. We have a lot of things to do with the mess that has been made." Lin Wu lightly scolded.
"Okay…" Tim responded, calming down.
'At least he still obeys. But I doubt he will do the same once he gets used to his new strength.' Lin Wu thought to himself.
With this done, Lin Wu sent messages to all of his servants and subordinates to return. There were a lot of things they needed to get in order and the system needed to fix the damages to the tomb as well.
Lin Wu knew that the coming few days were going to be long and tiring. But what he didn't know was the fact that the entire series of events in the Millennium forest had sent far reaching waves in the world.
Several hours ago…
There existed a large palace in the northern part of the Long Continent. Very few people knew of its location and even lesser knew who lived there. The area around the place was filled with trees and hills, with the place being hidden between the hills.
If one went beyond the hills, they would find it impossible to spot the palace as it would be perfectly hidden within the hills. But that was not all as a great formation array too protected it and kept it hidden.
At the top of the palace, one could see a large statue of a beast wrapping around the roof. The beast looked like a long serpent with four legs and a gaping maw filled with hundreds of teeth.
Each of its legs had three sharp claws and were grasping at the four corners of the roof. There were long whiskers on the face of the beast and two horns that stood at the top of its head.
The beast was staring at the sky, as if watching over any danger that may come.
Currently within this place, a pair of old man and woman were sitting. Their appearance could be compared to that of a hundred year old mortal and their hair was a bleached white.
Their faces were filled with wrinkled upon wrinkles and their eyes could almost not be seen due to the wrinkles hiding them.
If anyone saw these two outside, they would think that they were almost dead. They were sitting on two thrones that were encrusted with various jewels and had the same serpentine beast wrapping around its back and raising its head on the top.
The two of them were sitting unmoving, as if they were statues, too. If it were not for the faint breathing that could be seen from their moving chests, one would think that they had died already.
The peace of the old couple was broken by an invisible wave of energy that reached them.
~COUGH~
All of a sudden, the two of them let out loud coughs and spat out blood.
The blood sprayed a long distance, almost reaching ten meters in distance at once. At the same time, spirit Qi started spreading chaotically from the two of them.
"WHO?!" The old man questioned as he tried to get a grasp of his breath.
"Not who… What…" The old woman said as she too tried to calm her spirit Qi that was going crazy.
The two of them ate a few pills before finally managing to calm down.
"How can this be possible?" The old man questioned, confusion visible on his face.
"We cannot tell… we will have to find it… no… We NEED to find it." The old woman answered.
"I always thought the day would come… but never thought it would come during our generation…" The old man said with a hint of longing.
"Now is not the time for that… we need to tell the clan." The old woman replied.
"Hmm... You're right, my wife." The old man nodded his head and sent a small pulse of spirit Qi.
The spirit Qi moved like lightning through the air and disappeared into the distance.
~RUMBLE~
Within five minutes, strong spirit Qi fluctuations could be felt coming from the distance, the weakest being at the Dao Treading realm!
"ANCESTORS!" Several concerned voices called out loud.
~BOOM~BOOM~BOOM~
Thirty cultivators landed in front of the palace as they quickly made their way to the main hall where the old couple was sitting. It could be seen that the palace was empty and devoid of people other than the old couple.
Yet even then, there was not a mote of dust in the palace and everything was immaculately clean, as if servants cleaned it non stop.
~THUD~
The doors of the hall opened as the thirty cultivators came to kneel in front of the old couple.
"What are your orders, O' great ancestors!" The man kneeling at the very front asked.
If one felt the spirit Qi fluctuations coming from the man, they would be astounded to find that they were stronger than the Dao Treading realm!
Seeing an expert at the Immortal Ascension realm kneeling to someone was a scene that would be unbelievable for most.
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The old couple looked at their kneeling descendants and nodded in approval.
"We have something to tell you all… and the clan…" The old man spoke.
"We are ready for anything you say," The thirty cultivators responded promptly with respect.
"A new bloodline has appeared… one that can challenge our clan… and the other two guardian clans as well." The old man stated.
"Impossible!" The man kneeling at the front said in disbelief.
"I want to deny it as well… but it is the truth. The two of us both felt it… it is a bloodline that is no weaker than… rather than that, I'm afraid it might be many times stronger as well!" The old man explained.
Hearing this, the cultivators didn't know what to say, finding it all too shocking. For countless years, they had been proud of their clan and their holy bloodline. It was a matter of pride that made them stand at the top of the world.
But today, they heard that there was someone else that could threaten their position. They could only listen to their ancestors and follow what they had decided.
"What do we do then?" The man kneeling at the front questioned.
"The first thing is to learn more about this bloodline. We don't know who or what it belongs to. We don't even know if it is a human or a beast that has the bloodline." The Old woman answered this time.
"It shall be done. I'll send out our members and also ask the others that are already out to start gathering information." The man kneeling at the front spoke.
"Remember, be careful. We do not want to provoke whoever has the bloodline without a reason either. They can be strong… very strong, such that our normal clansmen might not be able to survive." The old man added.
"Of course ancestor." The man replied.
"As for finding it, begin with reports of any unique phenomenon that might have appeared over the continent. We are sure that something like this caused a great upheaval and there are bound to be others that have noticed it.
We only felt it because of our cultivation bases and links to the temple. Since you didn't feel it, that could mean that the distance should be far from our clan. But that might not be the same for the locations that were close to the source of the bloodline." The old woman explained.
"I shall do as commanded." The man kneeling accepted.
"You are the patriarch of the Long clan, Long Yi… make sure no disgrace comes to us. The Gui and Hu clan ancestors have also felt this, no doubt. They might send their people to infiltrate the continent as well." The old man spoke.
"Don't worry, ancestor. I shall take care of it. We have already gotten rid of the last batch of spies that came here last year." Long Yi stated.
"Mmm," the old man nodded before thinking of something.
"And what about that other thing… the one from a decade ago? What happened to that?" The old man asked next.
"We couldn't find much about it, ancestor. We investigated the great fire of the Dread Coil marsh and also that of the Jiao Dian city, both are definitely linked." Long Yi replied as another thought came to his mind. "And considering our current situation… I can't help but feel if it is linked with it too. At that time as well, we felt a faint bloodline resonance." He said with hesitance.
"I see… if they are linked, then it might save us some time as we will have an idea of what it is. Additionally we won't have to worry about an extra factor. Still… if they are not linked and are different things, we will need to deal with it accordingly.
The one that created the disaster is to be eliminated without fail." The old man responded.
"Of course, ancestor." Long Yi agreed.
"As for the—" The old woman was about to speak something when suddenly her face fell.
The old man was the same, shocking Long Yi and the rest of the cultivators that were watching them. Feeling the chaotic spirit Qi they couldn't help but speak.
"Ancestors… You—" But before Long Yi could say anything more, he felt a terrifying pressure descend.
"What… in the world…" Long Yi said in disbelief.
"What's happening, patriarch?" the Dao Treading realm cultivators asked, wondering why these three were acting strange like this.
~shua~
In response to this, the old man waved his sleeves, and from it shot out a scroll. The scroll expanded in the air and unfurled to become a large screen. On it, several hundred of runes appeared, all looking chaotic.
"This can't be…" The old man said in an astonished tone.
The old woman looked at the information being shown on the scroll and felt terrified.
"Not one… two… two more!" She said out loud.
~ROAR~
A thunderous roar could be heard within the heads of each person here as they felt their bloodline boil. Their vision turned black as an illusory figure appeared in front of them. It was the same serpent that was built on top of the palace.
It was the representation of their bloodline, the bloodline of the Long clan. It was the Three clawed Azure dragon!
But what they saw stunned them. The pride of their clan, the Three clawed Azure dragon, was currently afraid. It was shivering and fear could be seen in its eyes. The Long clan members couldn't tell why it was so at first, but then they saw something that shook their very souls.
A dark figure appeared in front of them, the details of which could not be seen. But what could be seen were a pair of yellow eyes with vertical pupils. The eyes were like gems, as if they were carved out of the finest of garnets.
The Three clawed Azure Dragon was currently lowering its head in front of this figure that towered over it many times. Compared to the pair of eyes, it was like an ant trying to compare with a mountain!
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Unaware of all that had happened in the world due to Tim and the sealed being's appearance, Lin Wu focused on the things that were more important to him currently.
Six months had passed since that day and things had calmed down for the most part. There were a lot of repairs and fixes that needed to be done to the tomb and the beasts were assisting him with that.
They did this mainly by gathering the materials needed to fix the spirit Qi circuits and formations. This work was something that the system needed Lin Wu to do it physically in many parts and thus he was busy too.
In these six months, the Millennium forest was all but on a lock down. The nearby humans had detected something had happened in the Millennium forest even though Lin Wu had set up the isolating formation and had tried to enter the forest.
Lin Wu of course knew fully blocking them would only bring in more trouble, thus he gave them a reason to be afraid and stay away on their own.
About two weeks after Tim had broken through, a group of humans entered the Millennium forest. This group included cultivators at the Nascent soul realm. They had come from the Capital of the Ling Kingdom along with some of its powerful clans.
They were sent to investigate what had happened since the Deer Wood city and the towns nearby had reported the strangeness of the forest. Lin Wu thought about this deeply and come to a conclusion that giving them a valid threat was better than a hidden threat.
Hence he asked the Twin Lights Liger King to reveal his power to the humans and repel them once they reached the fifth ring of the Millennium forest.
And just as Lin Wu had expected, the threat of a Dao Shell realm beast was enough to send the humans feeling without even needing to converse. The humans knew very well about the Twin Lights Liger King being the ruler of the millennium forest for many years.
The Twin Lights Liger King had even led a beast tide once upon a time when humans had attacked the forest incessantly. That had served as a good warning to them and they had avoided intruding too deep into the forest.
But once they had seen the fissures and strange spirit Qi fluctuations of the forest, they couldn't help but wander in deeper. And that was exactly where they met the Twin Lights Liger King.
A roar and the blinding skill of the Twin Lights Liger King alone was enough to send the humans packing.
After that, the classification of the Millennium forest had changed after a long time and the history of it was rewritten. The Ling Kingdom updated its official records and deemed it to be an area of an ever greater danger level.
Now one of its parts was literally a forbidden zone, while the other was the home of a Dao Shell realm beast. Keeping this in mind, the humans declared that from the fifth ring onwards, there was an imminent threat to life and no human should go there.
Of course, the warning was more than enough as no weak human, whether they were a mortal or a cultivator would try going against a nascent soul realm beast, not to mention a Dao Shell realm beast.
In fact, this ended up surprising the nearby sects as well and they too changed their categorization of the Millennium forest, increasing its danger level to higher rank. All the missions that were assigned to the forest also increased in difficultly.
All this reduced the overall human traffic that the millennium forest would see, and that was exactly what Lin Wu wanted. He didn't want them to see the fissures and find what was hidden beneath them.
Just the existence of the fissures was fine since the humans knew about the underground caves for thousands of years and a quake can cause them. But the secrets hidden in the depths were of the greatest importance.
Additionally, some of the formation array nodes of the Taiji Celestial's tomb were directly left vulnerable due to the fissures opening over them and even damaging a few. Thus, Lin Wu needed time to fix them and then cover the fissures.
A lot of beasts that were proficient in digging like the underground insect beasts and other beasts worked tirelessly under the guidance of the mole beast to dig dirt and rocks to fill the fissures.
Lin Wu himself worked on the parts that were more sensitive and took the assistance of his avatar that split the work in half. While he couldn't control the avatar directly, he could still let the system give it some simple commands that lightened his work load.
Tim who was technically the cause behind this all, was made to work too and was digging to do that. He had already gotten a few beatings from Lin Wu as well.
Lin Wu had realized that while Tim had reached the Shell Genesis Stage of the Dao Shell realm, his control over his strength was not there yet. The Twin Lights Liger King estimated that due to his relatively weaker intelligence, Tim would take a while before he fully learns his new powers.
This meant that even if Tim was technically stronger than the Twin Lights Liger King, Lin Wu had no problems in handling him. The system had also been working to analyze Tim during this time, along with its bloodline, and had come up with some strategies to fight him.
Lin Wu of course, used them liberally and made Tim eat dirt on many occasions. And on some of the occasions, he had to stop Tim from literally eating dirt as he liked it too much. Which Lin Wu then realized the Dirt was a high quality fertile dirt used for growing spirit herbs and beat Tim more.
But after six months of all this, things were finally getting in order… or at least he thought so.
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