Chapter 806: Sweet Sixteen
Ten years might not be that long for a cultivator when compared it to their lifespans, but for Shirong, who had concrete goals and a lot more that he needed to fulfill, that time was long.
He didn’t know how quickly he would be able to finish the trials, but he was sure that he would do it in less than ten years at the very least.
“How did the Chief disciples of the Frozen Cloud sect fare? He took the trials too didn’t he?” Shirong asked after pondering on it for a bit.
“I do not know.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape honestly answered.
“What?” Shirong was confused. “Didn’t he also gain the inheritance?”
“He did indeed… but he gained the Taiji Celestial’s inheritance. Not the Sky Bright Daoist’s inheritance.” Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape replied.
Shirong furrowed his brows and realized that things didn’t match up.
“If he managed to reach the Taiji Celestial’s inheritance, then should he have taken these trials too?” He asked after thinking.
“No… when he took the Taiji Celestial’s trails, this shrine was still sealed. As far as I know, the King presided over his trial personally back then. And Wang Xiong also had a token of entry for the trial. Thus he had the right to skip it.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape answered in detail.
Hearing this, Shirong was surprised. He had not expected that there was something like this hidden away.
‘No wonder he grew so fast and rose up to the position of the chief disciple while he fellow disciples took ten years. He had the ability to skip over it all…’ Shirong thought in his mind.
He didn’t feel jealous though. He knew there were fortunate encounters for each person in the world and it was their fate as to what they got. Besides, Shirong had an even better fortunate encounter than Wang Xiong and thus he had nothing to be jealous of.
‘The crystal spear led me to King Lin Wu who is a great senior and allows me to be close to him. With his guidance I can do even more than that, Wang Xiong.’ Shirong thought with a little pride.
The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape watched the man with interest and was a bit pleased with his reactions.
‘The man is certainly cut from a different cloth, just like master said…’ The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape thought to himself. ‘It will be fun to see how much he struggles…’ a grin appeared on his face unknown to Shirong who was focusing on himself.
“Do you want to start it again?” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape asked, seeing that Shirong had not spoken for a few minutes.
“YES!” Shirong replied.
“Alright, brace yourself.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk ape stated before activating the trials again.
~huu~
Shirong took a deep breath before his mind was transported into the fifth trial.
While Shirong was busy with the trials of the Sky Bright Daoist, Lin Wu continued his rest. The others that were in the forest also did their work, while most of the Envoys left.
Even the Envoy of the Long clan and Lian clan left, and only Shirong and Lian Xiaojian were left from the people that had come to the millennium forest now.
The forest had once again become peaceful, and time passed.
Two months later…
“HUGAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!~” Lin Wu’s mouth opened as he let out a loud yawn and stretched his body.
~Crack~ Crack~
He segments made cracking sounds in the process, and he felt a lot more relaxed. Lin Wu lightly shook his head and looked around.
“Mmm… how long has it been?” Lin Wu wondered.
~DING~
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HOST NAME: Lin Wu
AGE: 16 years, 0 months, 8 days
LIFESPAN: 4,000 years
HOST SPECIES: Crimson Eyed Emerald Worm
HOST CULTIVATION: Shell Completion Stage Of the Dao Shell realm
-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [1,021,968/???] units (liquid spirit qi)
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“Huh? It’s been over two months? That was a bit longer than I expected.” Lin Wu said as he saw that he was now 16 years old.
He had originally planned to rest for just a month, but his body said otherwise and just slept for a month extra. Though there was also the fact that he had not set an alarm and the system didn’t have any reason to wake him up either.
No emergency or disaster had happened in this time either, thus Lin Wu was basically sleeping peacefully. It as also quiet pleasant for him as he could see that it was not all without loss.
“I got a nice amount of spirit Qi at least.” Lin Wu said as he saw the over million units of increase.
“Though I missed another birthday… I’m sixteen again. That was a bad year.” Lin Wu couldn’t remember what happened during his teen years in his past life, but he had bad feelings about it even now.
“Hmm… what did I do exactly back then… why do I feel the urge to puke?” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
After a minute of thinking, Lin Wu pushed these thoughts aside and decided to check up on the stuff that had been going on for the past two months.
“Hmm… no message from Kai Li. Though she did say that it will take her a while to get he merchants and other people ready. The time she gave me was four months anyway. So no problem there.” Lin Wu checked the most important part first.
Profits always came first, and she was his key to that for now.
“No message from Long Qingao or Wang Xiong either. Which means stuff is stable on their end. That’s good. No extra work for me.” Lin Wu said, feeling pleased at things going well.
Finally, his mind came to the last person.
“Oh? He’s progressed fast…” Lin Wu saw the Shirong was in the Sky Bright Daoist’s Shrine and had already covered 80% of the trials.
