Rise Of The Worm Sovereign

The clan heads looked on towards Clan Head Lu and Young master Shirong. They were waiting for a conclusion to this as they knew that things had already become complex.

"Young master Shirong, I believe that it would be better if you take the beast shell fragment back. I think it would be better if you search it with your resources." Clan Head Lu spoke after thinking for a bit.

"If you believe that's the best then I will not reject this clan head Lu. But do the other clan heads agree with this? I'll be fine if they are in a disagreement." Shirong spoke diplomatically.

"I am fine with it, Young master Shirong. And I believe the rest should be too." Clan Head Xiong replied.

"Yes, Young master it is all right." Clan Head Mu added as well.

The rest of the clan heads chimed in agreement, and none of them rejected this proposal. They had already seen what happened before and they did not want a thing of misfortune such as the beast shell fragment to be near them anymore.

"Since everyone is in agreement I shall accept it in my possession then," Shirong stated.

"Please take it, Young Master Shirong." Clan head Lu spoke and gestured with his hand.

The people moved to the side, revealing the beast shell fragment that was kept on an altar in the center of the three guardian statues. Unlike the statues in the old and broken temple, these were well maintained and not a single scratch could be seen on them.

There were also faint fluctuations of a certain kind of energy emanating from the statues, but they seemed to be different than those of the spirit qi.

"Hmm, this is interesting." Lin Wu muttered.

Shirong moved forward and secretly checked the statues with his spirit sense.

'Looks like everything went well, they are the same as before. No traces were left behind.' Shirong thought.

He then extended his hand and went to take a hold of the rock like beast shell fragment. But the moment his hand touched the fragment, he was knocked back flying.

"GAH!" Shirong yelped as he flew through the air helplessly.

The force released from the fragment was strong enough to break through his defenses. 

"YOUNG MASTER!" Clan head Lu shouted.

The others did the same and rushed to check up on him. 

~Cough~Cough~

Shirong coughed out some blood as he tried to move from the ground. He had been knocked about ten meters away and had slammed into the wall of the temple. The damage he bore was not due to slamming, rather it was due to the force that was released from the fragment.

Just slamming into the wall would have not even come close to harming Shirong as his body was quite tough for that, being in the pseudo nascent soul stage previously. The Clan heads gathered around Young master Shirong and clan Head Lu pulled out a pill to feed to Shirong.

Shirong could sense that it was a high grade healing pill and accepted it without much thought. 

~Haah~

Shirong let out a slightly pain filled breath and sat down cross legged to recover. While it did not look like he had sustained any physical injuries, that was not so. His core had been rocked hard and Shirong could sense the spirit qi within it getting restless.

If he did not stabilize it quick, it would have become quite dangerous for him. He had barely recovered from his internal injuries recently and did not want them to open up again.

"What was that?" One of the clan heads questioned.

Clan Head Lu had a serious expression on his face as he looked back at the altar. It looked the same as before, and not a smidgen of energy could be felt from it. 

"Seal the temple! No one gets close to the fragment till we know what happened." Clan head Lu ordered.

The clan heads quickly nodded and clan head Mu took out some things from his spatial storage treasure. He immediately started setting up restrictive formations around the altar while the others placed barriers around the temple.

The people who were outside were surprised on seeing all the influential clan heads suddenly flying out of the temple and setting up formations.

"Look! What are they doing?" One of the commoners questioned.

"All people are ordered to keep a distance from the temple until further notice." One of the guards that had been stationed outside the Temple shouted.

It was evident that they had been instructed to do so, and the people heeded those orders hurriedly. The people knew that nothing good would come out of lingering around here, and they should not challenge the authority of the clan heads.

After the people were all gone, more guards arrive and set up a perimeter around the temple's area.

"The area is secure, my lord." One of the guards reported to the clan head that was overseeing security.

"Good, ensure no one comes near." The clan head spoke before returning to the temple.

Shirong had been recovering for about an hour now, and no one dared to disturb him. Clan head Lu was standing near him as a Dharma protector and kept his spirit sense extended around. While he was sure that no one would dare to do anything here, he still had to keep up certain pretenses.

If the Ji clan ever learned that he did not act as a Dharma protector when their heir was injured, his life could be on the line.

Meanwhile, Lin Wu was wondering what exactly had happened. Unlike the others who had not felt the wave of energy as it had been concentrated on Shirong, Lin Wu had. His link with Shirong ensured that he received full feedback from it.

Besides, the system was always keeping a close eye on Shirong's body so as to gain more information about the cultivation techniques and had fully recorded everything.

"Man, that guy got folded…" Lin Wu muttered, recalling how Shirong flew through the air.