Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Feeling comfortable in the avatar's new form, Lin Wu reckoned it was time to head out. But before doing that, he set his main body to cultivate while also giving some standing orders to his subordinates.

The Emeraldine Monkeys had become the administrative staff in the forest now and were getting better and better at handling it all. And with their numbers increasing, they could rotate their tasks so that they had enough time to cultivate as well.

Lin Wu wanted to increase the number of Emeraldine Monkeys even more but there were still the quality restrains. Even now, among the Black Fur monkeys that applied for the mutation, 50% of them would either die or become crippled.

This number used to be significantly higher in the past, but with the overall increase in the spirit Qi concentration of the forest, the average cultivation base of the beasts increasing as well and their foundations were getting stable.

Pretty much the only way to safely let them mutate was to pick the ones that were the strongest and came out on top. Lin Wu had hoped that after a lot of mutation data had been accumulated, the system would have a better time at mutating the monkey beasts.

After all, the data would be about one specific species and would be a lot more accurate than mutating different beasts.

Lin Wu worked for a couple of hours and let the system finish some final checks before heading out.

"This is gonna be a long leave, probably." Lin Wu muttered to himself while a teleportation formation appeared around him.

~SHUA~

The runes glowed brightly, and the formation worked at its full potential, sending Lin Wu to the furthest point in the south that was within the range of the formation array.

~thud~

The avatar's large body landed and created an imprint in the soft ground. The place Lin Wu had appeared in was a small swamp located to the south of the millennium forest. It was on the way to the Frozen Cloud sect, but Lin Wu was not going to head there.

He had simply picked this location to teleport to since it was the furthest.

"Hmm… let's see…" Lin Wu opened the map and glanced at it.

The entire map of the Long Continent presented to him, with several locations of interest marked on it along with the general locations such as kingdoms and sects. This was all collected by Lin Wu over the years and now the map was as accurate as it could get.

There might be some small areas that were just unknown to all, but the major areas were now revealed to him.

The trade agreements with the Lian clan had come in handy for this. Since they were traders, they had the best possible maps and even maps that were relatively secret. Lin Wu obtained them all through Kai Li and it was all added to the system's data banks.

Glancing at the map, Lin Wu started to scroll downwards.

The Millennium forest was located in the south central area of the Long continent. Below it was the Luguo Kingdom and on its borders existed the Frozen Cloud sect.

From there, if Lin Wu went slightly to the south east, he would arrive at the Tian clan's branch. That was the southernmost location that Lin Wu had ever gone to. And looking on the map, he estimated that this was merely thirty percent through to the lower half of the Long Continent.

There was a lot more to explore there as compared to the top half, which was filled with the top sects and the top three clans.

All three top clans, the Long clan, the Ji clan and the Lian clan were located in the top half of the Long continent. Not just that, but out of the top ten sects, seven were located in the top half as well!

In the southern half, only the Frozen Cloud sect, the Chan Sect and the Black Plain Sect were located. This concentrated spread of powers had made Lin Wu very confused and he had once wondered why it was like so, but didn't find any concrete answer for it.

Even the system only came up with the conclusion that the locations of these powers coincided with the Spirit Stone mines and Spirit Qi Veins. But Lin Wu wasn't convinced with just that and had a hunch that there was more to it than just that.

After all these powers were all strong enough to be able to control a remote spirit stone mine, even if they themselves weren't based around it. And this was something that was already done too!

'The southern part of the Long continent certainly hides some secrets. Even the main branch of the Tian clan is located somewhere there. And if my assumptions are right, they might be the true strongest power of the Long continent considering they've been in existence since before the existence of the guardian clans.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

Lin Wu scrolled through the map for a bit before finale zooming in on a particular part.

"Here it is… Tieba city." Lin Wu muttered.

That's right, Lin Wu's target this time was Tieba city, which was considered an 'independent' city. It was not under the control or rule of any kingdom or sect and was large enough to be a small kingdom on its own.

It was located in the southern part of the Long Continent and Lin Wu reckoned it would be the best place to gather all the secret and illegal information.

"A city formed by rouge cultivators and bandits would be perfect for me… Hehe~" Lin Wu said as he got the system to chart the route.

Additionally, they would also serve as the perfect nourishment for the avatar and allow Lin Wu to test out its abilities.

Licking his lips while imagining the feast of the future, Lin Wu began his journey to the south. Tieba city was thousands of kilometers away, after all.