Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Getting over his excitement, Lin Wu kept on reading. There was still a lot he needed to learn about this Ji clan.

The thing that caught his attention first was their power. The Ji clan was the second most powerful clan in the entirety of the Eastern Long Continent, being just below the Long clan itself that was the clan of the guardian beast.

He also learned that the Ji clan had a few cultivation sects that it ruled over and its members would become those sects Supreme elders. Even if the sect had a Patriarch that was selected from their own people, having the Ji clansmen as the supreme elders meant that even if the sect wanted to do something, they had to go through the supreme elders first.

Thus in this manner, the Ji clan controlled about four of the top ten sects of the Continent. Of course, there were many smaller Sects that were subordinate to these four sects thus the overall number of cultivation sects indirectly under the Ji clan's control was quite large.

This knowledge was secret, and the only reason Lin Wu was able to learn about this was because Shirong had borrowed these books from the private records of his clan. Most of the Powers of this Continent would not even know that something like this even existed.

Lin Wu wanted to know more about the cultivators of the Ji clan, as he was likely to head there along with Shirong. He wanted to be prepared and know beforehand what he was getting into. But surprisingly, this book barely had any information about that.

There were some vague mentions in it though, which said that there were as many core condensation realm cultivators in the Ji clan as there were leaves in a forest and even the Nascent soul realm cultivators were rather common.

"This seems more like an exaggeration, there should be more proper information in something else." Lin Wu said.

Lin Wu was now curious about the cultivation realms of this world. Till now he had heard of four realms and he wanted to know more about the others that were above it. But sadly there was nothing in this book and even the system didn't know more above the nascent soul realm.

Having finished reading this book, Lin Wu took a look outside and checked Shirong's condition. The man was still sitting in the same position and would eat a few pills in time intervals of an hour. Lin Wu observed his face and its color seemed to have gotten better.

"He's not as pale as before, so I guess he's getting better. Though I don't know if it's good to let him recover yet…" Lin Wu muttered.

Suddenly an idea appeared in his mind and an evil glint shined in his eyes.

"Hehehe…"

Shirong had been able to recoverer about fifty percent of his internal injuries by now. He reckoned that he should be able to recover fully in about one more day. But his cultivation base still made him sigh with helplessness.

It had taken him the help of his clan's resources and the special cultivation rooms that they had to allow him to reach the pseudo nascent soul realm so fast. He was barely twenty seven years old and had high talent in his clan.

He knew the power struggle of his clan and had battled with the other potential heirs before reaching his current position. It had taken him over a decade to get to this point, and there was no way in hell that he would let go of this easily.

Shirong knew that if he were to return like this to his clan, there was no doubt his brothers would take over his position. There were over a hundred children that his father had from all his concubines. Shirong was lucky that his mother was rather high up in the rankings and was thus able to provide him with all the resources they had.

Another thing was that he was not the only one among his siblings that had a pseudo nascent soul realm cultivation. There were three more of his siblings that had the same cultivation base. Two of them were his elder brothers, and one of them was his eldest sister.

But thankfully he only had to contend with his two brothers as women were ineligible to become the inheritor of the clan according to the rules set by the founding ancestors of the clan. But this didn't mean that he could fully ignore this sister of his.

If she decided to support any one from the two elder brothers, there was a hundred percent chance that he would be forced to abdicate his position as the heir.

Now, this put him in a dilemma, should he go back to the clan so that he could recover quicker, or should he bide his time away from the clan and recover slower?

The first option would guarantee that he would recover in less than a month, but it also came with the risk of him losing his position.

The second option would mean that he would have to spend at least a year outside the clan. But this was also the safest option. He could ensure that no news of his regression of cultivation base reached his clan. It was simple as the clans of the Deer Wood city were already influenced by him and would listen to something like this without doubting it.

Shirong was just thinking of what to choose when he suddenly remembered about the spear.

"NO! I cannot let it be exposed. It would have been fine if it was a pseudo immortal tool, but now that I know it is a true immortal weapon, there is no way I can let the ancestor get it." Shirong uttered with bloodshot eyes.

Lin Wu who had just thought of doing something to Shirong was startled.

"What? Immortal weapon? I'm an immortal weapon now, how?" Lin Wu said, feeling shocked.