Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

Having gained a few loyal servants, Lin Wu's work in the Hu Continent would now become a lot easier.

He sent away Hu Peiliang and Hu Dagao to do their work and went in another direction. Lin Wu changed his form while underground and returned to being the Calamity Fiend. This was the reason why Hu Dagao had thought that Lin Wu Seemed to be smaller than usual.

It was simply because he was using his avatar.

His avatar could still revert to the crystalline form after all and this helped him flip the odds in certain situations. Plus, it was easy to throw off the attention of people if he did this.

Another reason was that just like Long Continent, he needed two camps on the Hu continent. One would be the 'righteous' camp, which would be the Hu clan and its other subordinate parties.

And the second would be none other than the Calamity Fiend and its Shadow Legion. He needed the conflict to be steady and long. That way he would gain the most and both his Dao Embryos would keep on growing.

'Now to add the first recruit of the Shadow legion for the Hu division…' Lin Wu made his way to the place where he had left the Wandering Head Bandit behind.

He obviously couldn't let the man know more than he should, and thus had left him behind some distance from the location of the minor plane. The man had no complaints and obediently waited for Lin Wu's return.

It had also given him the much needed time to organize his thoughts and analyze what he was going to be doing.

'Now that I've decided to follow him… there is no going back from this…' The Wandering Head Bandit thought to himself.

He was now riding on the back of a tiger and there was no getting off from it. He had to stick through it and follow to the end.

Just that in his case, it might be a bit worse since the tiger wasn't a tiger but rather a massive monstrosity that ate tigers as snacks.

~Rumble~

And just as he had finished coming to terms with his situation, he felt the ground rumble. In the next second, the ground split open and Lin Wu's large body appeared from it.

"Come on, time to get you acquainted with my other people." Lin Wu spoke right away.

"Other people?" The Wandering Head Bandit thought over it momentarily before nodding his head. "Alright."

Lin Wu extended a tentacle and wrapped it around the man before tunneling back into the ground. The Wandering Head Bandit couldn't even tell how fast they were going due to Lin Wu's grasp, but he also realized that he was being protected.

'At this speed, even I would get injured… this protection is strange…' The Wandering Head Bandit was surprised and amazed.

After an hour had passed, the man had another thought.

"Where are we going?" The Wandering head Bandit couldn't tell the direction underground after all.

They were at depths where his spirit sense couldn't even reach the surface, making it impossible for him to make sense of the route.

"Second Light City." Lin Wu answered.

"Second Light City!?" the Wandering Head Bandit had not expected this at all. "But that's the seat of Hu clan's branches!"

"Yes." Lin Wu replied without any concern.

"Won't that be troublesome?" The Wandering Head Bandit was confused.

"No. The best way to hide is to hide right under their noses." Lin Wu answered.

The Wandering Head Bandit couldn't help but agree. Though the scale at which Lin Wu was doing, it was something that would not be possible.

He himself was quite proficient in disguises and had done his fair share of infiltration, but that was still considerable since he was a human and could adequately assimilate into the humans.

But for Lin Wu?

He couldn't fathom how it would be possible.

'Even with his ability to make a human puppet… he is simply too large. Just the array around the city would detect him and within moments the entire force of the Hu clan would be at our heels.' The Wandering Head Bandit wondered.

Still, he knew his thoughts were just something that didn't need to be turned into questions. For they would be answered soon, regardless. All he had to do was to wait…

And when the Wandering Head Bandit really saw it, he couldn't help but be overwhelmed.

"Sacred Heavens… The array… it heeds his commands?" The Wandering Head Bandit couldn't help but utter.

Him and Lin Wu had just arrived at the Second Light city and were clearly underground. The man knew that this truly was the Second Light city since he knew the underground tunnels of the city. 𝘧𝚛𝗲𝘦𝚠𝙚𝙗𝙣o𝙫𝗲𝚕.𝐜o𝓂

There were sewers and aqueducts that had been part of the city for ages and even he had used them before.

But now he saw them being transformed. There were new areas that he didn't know exist, as well as the fact that there were runes everywhere.

The biggest surprise being none other than the fact that the array that was newly set up in the tunnels was perfectly integrated with the city's array. But the string of surprises was just starting.

The Wandering Head Bandit was brought to the central area where Lin Wu had made his 'base' for the time being. This area was even more exaggerated as the Wandering Head Bandit saw tens of formation screens floating around.

"This… That's the second branch of the Hu Clan! And that's the Royal palace of the first branch! And that… the mansion of merchant association head?" The Wandering Head Bandit saw the view of several sensitive locations.

A hundred thoughts flowed through his mind and made him realize something.

'He isn't just a monster with his strength… he is also a monster with his intelligence… such surveillance… this can bring down all the branches…' The Wandering Head Bandit finally started to grasp the immensity of the scheme.