Chapter 680: Six Months Later
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.
