Chapter 455: The Viper’s Mate
Lin Wu watched the mole beast breakthrough successfully and waited for it to wake up.
“M-master?” The mole beast said upon waking up and seeing Lin Wu near him.
“Mmhmm… seems like you had a lucky breakthrough.” Lin Mu replied.
“Ah, yes. I wanted to find a better place, but it came much earlier than that. I could only dig further deep and hide here. If I created too many spirit Qi fluctuations, the Olive Viper King or his subordinates might have noticed me.” The mole beast stated.
“You did good. At least you have gotten stronger.” Lin Wu stated.
“But what are you doing here, master?” the mole beast questioned.
“I sensed that you were in the middle of a breakthrough, and also your location. Thus I came to help out.” Lin Wu answered.
The mole beast couldn’t help but feel touched upon hearing this.
“Thank you master, I never would have thought you cared so much for me.” The mole beast said sincerely.
“Yeah… right…” Lin Wu replied, knowing that the other reason he came here was that he was worried the olive viper king might detect the mole beast and end up finding out about his plan early on.
While Lin Wu was confident of fighting again the Olive Viper King now, he still had to ensure that the beast didn’t have any hidden tricks under his belt. After all, Lin Wu and the snake had the same bloodline, which meant both of them could hurt each other.
“So how’re things going with the Olive viper King?” Lin Wu questioned.
“Hmm… the last I saw him was about six months ago. He hasn’t really gone out and is still recovering from his injury, I think. Though he should have managed to heal by now.” The Mole beast answered.
“He hasn’t gone out huh…” Lin Wu muttered.
‘System do as a scan of the area.’ Lin Wu ordered in his mind.
~DING~
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SCANNER: Activated.
SCAN COMPLETED: Map updated
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Lin Wu switched to the map window and saw the thousands of markers on it. He could see several beasts there, a lot of which were at the Qi refining realm with a few at the Core condensation realm.
“No, wait… two Nascent soul realm signatures?” Lin Wu said upon seeing the two larger markers.
“How?” Lin Wu couldn’t help but wonder.
“What happened, master?” The mole beast questioned, seeing Lin Wu suddenly speak out loud.
“Was there any other beast that broke through to the Nascent Soul realm recently?” Lin Wu questioned.
“No,” The Mole beast shook his head. “If there were, the rulers would have detected it.” He added.
“Huh… looks like the olive viper king has some trump cards indeed.” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
“What are you going to do, master?” The mole beast questioned.
“I’m gonna take a quick look. You stay here.” Lin Wu said before he moved towards the lake where the Olive Viper King lived.
There was an island in the middle of the lake, which was the nest of the Olive Viper King. The fluctuations Lin Wu felt, were coming from this very place. The first belonged to the Olive Viper King itself which Lin Wu could identity rather easily since they were at the Adult Soul stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
But the second one seemed to be weaker, possibly at the Infant soul stage. This was why Lin Wu wondered if it was a new beast that had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm or something like that.
‘Perhaps it’s one of the subordinates of the Olive Viper King that broke through, but in order to not bring any attention, he sent him out of the forest for the breakthrough.’ Lin Wu wondered.
Now that he thought about it, this option seemed to be the most obvious one. Lin Wu knew that the forest restricted the presence of more than five Nascent soul realm beasts, as only five rulers were allowed to exist.
Lin Wu didn’t know exactly why but he had a hunch that it was something to do with the Taiji Celestial’s Tomb.
“If the Nascent soul realm beast is still able to hide even now, it must be because the Olive Viper King is doing something. If he gained the ability to use Radiation as well, he might actually be able to hide the spirit Qi fluctuations of the other beast from being detected by the others.” Lin Wu thought after a bit of an analysis.
He made his way to the lake and stopped a sufficient distance away from it. He then extended his spirit sense and targeted the area in which he had detected the new Nascent Soul realm beast to be.
The Olive Viper King was deeper underground and thus Lin Wu was not worried that he might be the one getting detected. The weaker fluctuations were coming from the top rather than the bottom.
“There we go…” Lin Wu said upon successfully breaching the rudimentary barrier of rocks and soil around the area.
While the thickness of soil and rock did dampen his spirit sense and would probably block other’s spirit sense entirely, for Lin Wu’s whose spirit sense was longer than normal, it was still easy.
“Oh? It’s not a snake?” Lin Wu said upon seeing the beast.
From his spirit sense, Lin Wu could perceive what looked like a lizard lying around a pile of thick leaves, twigs, and logs.
“A nest? No, wait… there’s more…” Lin Wu sensed.
His spirit sense could now feel some stronger sensations that even elicited some response from his bloodline.
“Eggs?” Lin Wu realized.
The lizard was curled up around six eggs that were snuggly protected by its long tail. The eggs were pale white but had a green glossy sheen on it. The lizard didn’t have any traces of the green crystal though, which showed Lin Wu that it wasn’t actually related to the Olive Viper King directly.
“The eggs have the bloodline of the olive viper king and thus mine… but the lizard doesn’t… that means… this lizard is the mate of the Olive Viper King?” Lin Wu muttered.
