Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

~Crunch~ Crunch~ Crunch~

The sound of glass being crushed was heard as the crystal armament was ground down in Lin Wu's mouth.

Since they were part of Lin Wu's body and were originally made from them, there were no issues in Lin Wu consuming them.

In fact, he could have directly absorbed them by touching too, but eating was a lot faster.

As for the repairs that were supposed to be done for the armaments?

Lin Wu just got the system to synthesize more weapons from his body's crystals.

There was no actual repair needed since he could just make more of them in the blink of an eye.

~CLINK~CLINK~CLINK~

New weapons started appearing from Lin Wu's body and were neatly stacked on the side automatically.

And by the time he was done making the new weapons, his 'snack' had also finished.

~DING~

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SPIRIT QI OBTAINED: 6,000,000

VITAL ESSENCE OBTAINED: 3,000,000

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HOST DATA: UPDATED

SPIRIT QI STORAGE: 426,000,000 units [liquid spirit qi]  [updated]

VITAL ESSENCE STORAGE: 503,000,000 Units [updated]

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In just a few minutes Lin Wu had obtained what was essential a few months worth of cultivation gains.

"Ahh~ Initiating this plan was the best thing I've done…" Lin Wu said feeling satisfied.

With such a stable gain and growth, there was little Lin Wu needed to do. As long as he spent his time hiding, he would accumulate a large amount. And this was exactly what he intended to do.

'Just a few more years… I'll keep on accumulating as much as I can. At least until my Dao Embryos reach their limits…' Lin Wu thought to himself and went back to work.

While Lin Wu continued his routine work, there was a group of individuals that had become interested in him.

Of the southern coast of the Long Continent, nearly a thousand kilometers in the ocean there existed a group of islands.

From the distance, these islands were covered in dense mist and other than a faint outline, nothing could be seen. Only when one reached close to it would they realize that the islands weren't just dead.

Hidden within the mists there rose a tall mountain. But the top of this mountain wasn't plain rock, but flaming red!

Dark smoke rose from it while a scorching heat could be felt when one was near it.

This was an active volcano!

Normally there should have been a lack of life around a volcanic island such as this, but it was the opposite here. There were plenty of trees and plants growing all around, forming a neat circle around the base of the volcano.

The long rivers of lava flowing from the mouth of the volcano gave it a rather beautiful look. But this beauty came with danger and no beast dared to approach it.

Despite the danger though, one could see a group of buildings built around the lava rivers. Not just that, but there was one building that was directly built in a pool of lava. For it to not be burned by this showed the strengths of the defensive arrays.

These buildings weren't empty or abandoned either. The heat here would have been enough to make a normal human pass out in seconds, and even a core condensation realm cultivator would find it hard to stay there for more than a few minutes.

And yet… there were actually people inhabiting them.

~step~step~step~

A set of footsteps were heard approaching the main building located in the lava pool.

~CREAK~

The person opened a pair of doors and entered, coming to a kneeling posture.

"Master." The person spoke and lowered his head.

Fifty meters away from him another person was located. This person was not wearing any robes on his upper body and had left it naked. His skin was a strange ash grey in color, while red and black tattoos spread over it.

The tattoo covered his back, chest and neck, ending at his jaw.

The man's face was similarly ash grey in color, but looked very old. It seemed to be a man in his 90s.

The deep wrinkles along with the ash grey skin, made it feel like he was a corpse covered in ash, rather than a living human.

~HUU~

But then the man's chest moved, letting off a heated breath filled with smoke.

~gulp~

The man kneeling on the doorstep swallowed his saliva, finding his throat getting drier by the second. A layer of sweat also appeared on his back and forehead. The entire room was filled with smoke from the man's breath, making it hard to see anything.

~whoosh~

But then a minute later, another breath sucked it back in.

Once all the smoke was gone though, the man with the ash grey skin opened his eyes. Only one eye could be seen on his face though, with the left eye socked being empty.

Even the right eye that seemed to be intact was a dull grey in color with cloudy spots on it.

"Master…" The man kneeling at the door step spoke with deep emotion.

"Haa… How… Long… Has… It… been?" The one eyed man questioned in a raspy voice.

"Seven hundred and eleven years." The kneeling man replied.

The one eyed man stared at the kneeling man, his cloudy eye having no proper focus.

"Bring me…" the old man ordered, not finishing his sentence.

"Y-yes!" but the kneeling man didn't need a full order to understand the intentions.

He quickly stood up and approached the one eyed man before talking out a large drum. The drum was burning hot, and red lava could be seen inside it. The man extended his hand over the drum and took out a knife.

~SLICK~

He then slicked open his hand, letting blood spill into the lava.

~HISS~

A sizzling sound was heard and a burning smell filled the air.

~THUD~

Then, at some point the old man grasped the drum, directly tilting it towards his face.

~GLUG~GLUG~GLUG~

He consumed the entire drum of lava before wiping his face.

"That's better… I was parched."