Chapter 666: A Talented Child
Lin Wu could understand the reaction of the beast as it was something he had seem multiple times before either. At this point, he even felt like Tim was a something he was brining to a show-and-tell in the school.
It was fun for him to see the reactions.
‘Hmm… I guess it’s like showing others how a pet performs tricks?’ Lin Wu thought.
It was at this point, that the unmoving Tim finally spoke again, knowing that the others were speaking about him.
“Me, Tim! Me Strong!” He proudly stated.
This sentence irked a few of the beasts as a thought came to their mind.
“A child?” The Slim Arm Ape king, The Twin Lights Liger King and the Split Thorn Horn beetle king all said in unison.
All three of them were kings of the forest and had many subordinates under them. They themselves had seen many beasts being born and knew how they acted when they were small.
Even if they could not use their spirit sense on Tim, their instincts could very well tell them that Tim was very young.
“Ah yeah. You could say that. Tim here… is a little over fifty years old.” Lin Wu spoke.
“Five hundred years old?”
“Fifteen hundred years old?”
“Five thousand years old?”
The beasts said, as if they had heard wrong.
“No, 5-0, fifty years old.” Lin Wu reiterated.
Pin drop silence could be felt in the hall after that. For a minute, no sound was made until finally…
“IMPECCABLE! AMAZING!” The Slim Arm Ape King shouted.
“Such talent… isn’t this beyond those ‘genius humans’.” The beetle king said.
The Twin Lights Liger King didn’t know what to say either at first.
“If he is at such a cultivation base at such young age, then he might be the best one among us.” He finally said.
“Indeed.” Lin Wu nodded his head. “And he is the second beast that will at the Dao Shell realm.” He added.
“He’s at that point already?” The Twin Lights Liger King asked understanding what Lin Wu meant.
Even if someone was at the very peak of the Adult Soul Stage of the Nascent soul realm, it didn’t mean that they could freely breakthrough to the Dao Shell realm. There was a bottleneck that was very difficult for them to pass.
This was the same for both humans and beasts, and they had to put a lot of effort in crossing it.
Many beasts put centuries of effort just to loosen this bottleneck. Humans would search out treasured herbs so that they could achieve the same or try out new cultivation techniques in the hope that they were able to breakthrough one day.
No matter what the method was, everyone wanted to breakthrough to the Dao Shell realm and seeing that Tim was at that point without doing much seemed a bit pressuring to The Twin Lights Liger King.
“Talent does put one at different starting points.” The twin lights liger King muttered.
He had suffered from a big bottleneck his entire life and was prepared to never breakthrough in his life at all. The restrains of the Tomb were not something he could shake off and if it were not for Lin Wu taking over his position, he would still be the same.
It was something he was grateful to Lin Wu for but the other beasts could also be said to be in the same situation.
“Tim will stay here with me… I don’t trust him enough to let him wander. He can’t control himself and will probably eat things. Pretty much wreak havoc in general.” Lin Wu spoke.
“Fight Fun! Eat Good!” Tim spoke from the side, getting a glare from Lin Wu.
“Yeah that’s a child alright…” The Club tailed lizard that had not spoken the entire time muttered.
She too had been allowed here, as she had decided to join Lin Wu a while back. To her, Lin Wu seemed to have great power and being under him was far better than going back and struggling for resources.
Here she could get a lot of things with ease, as long as she did some duties. The Leader of the Emeraldine Monkeys had assigned her some duties that she could do and thus she was not freeloading anymore.
Lin Wu didn’t miss the club tailed Lizard either and wondered what was happening to the new born lizard.
‘Those stuck to me like glue back then.’ Lin Wu thought.
He sneaked a peek on a monitoring screen that the system showed to him and saw that the juvenile Club Tailed Lizards were playing in one of the halls. The way they played was rather unique too.
~thud~
~hiss~
~thud~
~hiss~
“Huh… that’s… unique alright…” Lin Wu said after seeing them knock each other around with their tails.
One of them would slam the other with their tail and see how far they sent them hurtling. Then the next one would do that for them. They kept on doing this until they reached the end of the hall.
Once that happened, they would start the entire process all over again.
But that was not all Lin Wu noticed.
“Their cultivation base is increasing quickly too.” Lin Wu muttered before getting the system to do a scan of them.
~DING~
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TARGET: Mutated Juvenile Club Tailed Lizard (5)
CULTIVATION Base: Peak Stage of the Qi refining realm
BLOODLINES: 1. Club tailed Lizard Bloodline
2. Olive Viper King Bloodline
3. Crystal Worm Bloodline
Innate skills: 1. Venom Fang (Undeveloped)
2. Heat resistance (Passive)
3. Crystalline Defense (Passive)
4. Crystalline Rampart (active)
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The five Juvenile Club tailed lizards had all reached the peak stage of the Qi refining realm, which was a good growth compared to a lot of other beasts. Though it was a bit expected since they had the support of strong bloodlines.
Lin Wu even wondered if he should let Tim stay with the five juvenile lizards.
‘They are children in the end… though Tim might just end up eating them for a snack. Perhaps in the future then.’
