Chapter 734: A Year Passes
Lin Wu waited for the system’s answer but received none.
“So you’re gonna be silent huh…” Lin Wu muttered.
He knew that the system didn’t answer things that it couldn’t at its current level. If this was him in the past, he would have pestered the system to tell him, but now he knew well to not waste his time and energy in that when he had far more important things to do.
For now, Lin Wu decided to continue cultivating. He also wanted to let his avatar breakthrough to the Completion stage of the Dao Shell realm too. While he wouldn’t be entering full seclusion, Lin Wu would still cultivate and get the information that the beasts and his subordinates would report to him.
Now was the time for him to wait and asses the situation rather than freely go around and act.
And just like this, time continued to pass.
A year went by in the blink of an eye as the beasts in the Millennium forest continued to grow. Lin Wu’s main body had stabilized its cultivation base, and he had recovered completely.
The same could be said for the Twin Lights Liger King. The former ruler had accepted the arm of the Supreme elder with great pleasure and had gained quite a bit from it too. While it wasn’t on the same level as Lin Wu, it was still enough to push him quite far in his cultivation.
The Twin Lights Liger King had now condensed about thirty percent of his Dao Shell at this point. The process having been augmented due to the arm of the supreme elder.
Lin Wu had watched the entire process, as he wanted to know just how much this could affect beasts other than him. Especially since Tim consuming the leg had made him fall in a deep slumber.
A sleep from which he had yet to awaken from.
If Lin Wu had not known that Tim was fully fine and the system’s assesment was the same, anyone else would have assumed that Tim was in a coma.
On the side of his human subordinates, Tian Xiaoge had finally broken through to the Nascent soul realm as well. While her tribulation was a bit longer there were no unusual phenomena during it and it all went well.
The same could be said for Pei Jun, whose breakthrough was even smoother. The two of them continued to stabilize their cultivation base for another month after that. Once that was done, Lin Wu summoned them and talked to them.
The two of them got to learn of the fall of the Frozen Cliff Division which they didn’t even know had come into existence. After all, they had been in seclusion since before the creation of the three divisions.
Then, learning that the Frozen Cliff division mounted a rebellion, even going so far as to killing the other disciples, the two were shocked to say the least. And when Lin Wu revealed to them that he had massacred the Frozen Cliff division, they didn’t know what to say.
But they couldn’t help but feel a deeper level of respect as well as fear of Lin Wu. They knew very well what it meant to eliminate half of the Frozen Cloud sect’s elders meant.
This was not just a matter of concern for the Frozen Cloud sect but rather the other top sects, too. After all, what Lin Wu had done was weaken a top sect by half with just him and two more beasts.
If the other top sects were to learn of this, they wouldn’t hold back from assuming the worst. To them, Lin Wu would be a threat that would have to be eliminated. He would be a vicious beast that was to be eliminated at any cost.
Which was also why, as much as Lin Wu desired to grow stronger by consuming other strong cultivators, he had to resist that temptation and hold back for the time being.
He knew very well that he had been lucky in the last fight. He was simply fighting a single Dao Treading realm expert who was caught off guard. If there were two more of them, Lin Wu didn’t have confidence that he would be able to survive that.
Not to mention that there was always a chance that the other sects would learn of his powers and abilities, allowing them to form strategies and tactics against him. This would further weaken him even more.
Then there was the fact that there still were Immortal Ascension realm experts in this world. While they were limited, their existence was still a great threat to Lin Wu. He had zero confidence in going against them.
Plus, they wouldn’t even need to act. They could simply wave a hand and send out an army of cultivators to mount an offense against Lin Wu.
If they targeted the Millennium forest, the other beasts wouldn’t have a chance to live for long. Not to mention, Lin Wu would lose the base he had made and the constant support he would get from there.
The millennium forest provided him with a steady source of resources as well as spirit Qi. And it was not at its full potential either. The spirit Qi in the forest continued to grow slowly.
The system assessed that the current growth rate of the spirit Qi was about a single percent every year.
This might seem small, but with the life span most cultivators had, it could be considered very fast. After all, the concentration of spirit Qi in the forest was already far greater than most places in this continent.
It was already enough to be considered on the same level as that of a sacred ground of a sect. And it would only grow more. It wouldn’t be long when the millennium forest would become the best place to cultivate on the continent.
From what Lin Wu and the system had assessed, the sealed being under the Dark Bloom caverns was the energy source of the entire tomb and also the source of the spirit Qi for the forest.
The spirit Qi sourced from the being was almost endless, and Lin Wu didn’t know how it could produce so much of it.
Even if the sealed being was an enigma for now, Lin Wu didn’t mind that and only looked to take advantage of it.
And just the increased spirit Qi wasn’t the only advantage. With the increased spirit Qi, the growth rate of spirit herbs, fruits and spirit beasts would accelerate too. Rarer and better spirit fruits might start growing too.
As the king of the millennium forest, this would provide Lin Wu with additional means of getting stronger.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable for Lin Wu to simply stay put in the Millennium forest for several decades and reap the gains slowly while also growing stronger. Though he doubted that would be possible, since the other powers won’t stay still.
The cultivation world was always moving around and the cultivators would search for fortune.
The millennium forest was a hunting ground for both beasts and resources, thus there were bound to be some that notice the increase. This would only bring more and more cultivators here, until it attracted the attention of the bigger powers of this world.
For when that time comes, Lin Wu would need to be strong enough to resist them.
And for that, the Frozen Cloud sect would be his first line of defense.
Wang Xiong had been giving Lin Wu steady updates and had been working with Yun Bai towards a better route. They were intending on getting the patriarch to ally themselves with Lin Wu.
But this couldn’t be done directly. Rather than that, they needed a catalyst. And this catalyst was still being prepared.
“Soon… soon, they will all be ready.” Lin Wu muttered as he gazed at several monitoring screens.
On those screens, tens of humans could be seen sitting. They were silently cultivating and spirit Qi revolved around them. At the front, a beast dressed in the robes of a monk could also be seen.
He lightly spoke and gave insights to the human cultivators.
All of these humans had one thing in common through, they were all at the Pseudo Nascent soul realm!
This was the trump card Lin Wu had prepared for an alliance between the Frozen Cloud sect and the Millennium forest. It was an alliance that would turn into subordination in the future though.
But it was something that the Patriarch of the Frozen Cloud sect couldn’t learn now.
‘Even if they don’t want to, they will still have to come under my protection. They will simply have no choice… the temptation will be far too great.’ Lin Wu thought to himself as a smile appeared on his face.
Lin Wu switched to a different monitor and observed the rest of the beasts in the forest. While no beast had a breakthrough this year, a lot of them had progressed to the Core condensation realm.
And despite the fact that the hunting of beasts had increased during this time, the numbers had not decreased at all. The birth rate of new beasts was simply far too much compared to the hunting rate.
The repair work of the formation array of the Taiji Celestial’s tomb had been completed in this time as well by the system. The system was finally on track to reconnecting the old areas that had been broken for thousands of years.
Little by little, the Millennium forest was progressing and turning into a power that the entire Long Continent would revere.
