Overall, everything went much better than Lin Wu had expected. Wang Xiong himself was on cloud nine after all that happened as a lot of his problems had been solved with Lin Wu's intervention.

Not only had they had absolved Wang Xiong of all charges, but he had also actually been directly promoted to Chief disciple and would be directly under the tutelage of the sect patriarch. This was a time for great celebration for the sect, since they have not had a Chief disciple in nearly two hundred years now.

While the frozen cloud sect had a lot of core disciples, none of them were qualified to become a chief disciple. After all, the position of a chief disciple was not obligatory like that of the core disciples, inner court disciples and outer court disciples.

A chief disciple would only be chosen if the said disciple was said to have great talent and Wang Xiong was overqualified for that.

When his story was heard by the elders and the patriarch, they were stunned to say the least. After all, it was carefully modified by Lin Wu to make it very impactful. Even the companions of Wang Xiong got a part and they were rewarded for their efforts and also got compensation for being targeted all this time.

According to the story, Wang Xiong had been a hardworking disciple for many years. This part was legit and could easily be verified needing no change from Lin Wu. But the part about him gaining the inheritance of a peerless expert was astounding.

Thankfully, since Wang Xiong had gained the clues to the tomb from the sect's own library, Lin Wu didn't have a problem making changes there. He simply changed the part about the location of the tomb of the Taiji Celestial and shifted it to a different part of the forest.

Lin Wu had intentionally done this as he needed an actual place away from the tomb to interact with other powers. The sect was prevented by investigating this when Wang Xiong claimed only the inheritor could access that inheritance grounds and that when it 'opened next time' he would have the authority to take the next contenders.

This was all planned by Lin Wu to slowly gain more followers, but only after they were deemed to be worthy of it, of course. Though he would be needing to make a lot of changes to the Tomb before he could attempt all this.

~Ding~

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TASK COMPLETED: Barrier penetration test

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The system's notification came at this moment, and a smile appeared on Lin Wu's face.

"Time to head to the spirit Qi spring…" Lin Wu muttered to himself before making his way to the underground cave.

The cave was quickly illuminated by Lin Wu's body as he asked the system to start the plan.

~Ding~

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MODIFYING PARAMETERS: Please initiate intrusion

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"Alright, here we go…" Lin Wu said before extending his tail and pressing it on the barrier of the spirit Qi spring.

Qi amplification was in full effect as the faint layer of spirit Qi that had been modified by the Sapphire meridians.

~shua~

Soon a small hole was opened in the barrier, which was about the size of a pinhead. Lin Wu kept on pouring more and more spirit Qi which kept on expanding the hole. Soon it reached a size through which Lin Wu could easily pass through. He had already shrunk his body to the smallest size possible, which made it a bit more convenient.

Once Lin Wu passed through the hole successfully it closed behind him.

"Alright, first part is done. Time for the next step." Lin Wu said before bringing up a window.

"System, begin the changes to the formation array." Lin Wu ordered.

~Ding~

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REROUTING SPIRIT QI: Site elected- Main reservoir

INCREASING OUTPUT: Auxiliary spirit Qi spring output increase to 60%

REDUCING OUTPUT: Current spirit Qi spring output decreased to 0%

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Since there were multiple sources of spirit Qi in the sect and all of them were operating at 50% what Lin Mu did was to simply increase that by 10% and stopping the output from this spirit Qi spring completely.

This way it would seem like that everything was normal and the rest of the spirit Qi sources will be compensating for the missing source. Lin Wu knew that the sect probably did not direly check up on the spirit Qi springs as they did for the spirit stone mines for mining.

Thus he expected that they would not discover this for a very long time.

"Hehe, all this went well. Now for the main part." Lin Wu said before approaching the spring. The moment his body touched the liquid spirit Qi, he felt incredibly comfortable.

"Ahh~ this is comparable to the hot springs of my past life, even though it is not hot." Lin Wu said in pleasure.

He forcibly controlled himself and went to the center of the spring. He then swam to the bottom of it where the source crystal of the spirit Qi spring was located.

"There you are," Lin Wu said as he touched the source crystal before storing it in the inventory.

~Huala~

An instantaneous effect could be seen upon the disappearance of the source crystal. The ambient spirit Qi in the ground started to reduce while the liquid spirit Qi started to dissipate.

"Oh? May as well take it all rather than to waste it. Hehe." Lin Wu reckoned before swallowing the liquid spirit Qi in large gulps while also absorbing it through his body itself.

~shua~

The level of the spring started to fall at a visible pace as it got taken by Lin Wu. The Host data screen of Lin Wu was updating and the numbers started to increase. It took Lin Wu about five minutes to absorb what was probably a century's worth of accumulation of the sect.

"Ah~ Free stuff is always so good." Lin Wu stated when he heard the notification by the system.

~Ding~

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SPIRIT QI OBTAINED: 351,276 units (liquid spirit Qi)

HOST CULTIVATION: Infant stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

-Spirit Qi required to upgrade = [0000/1,500,000] units (liquid spirit qi)

SPIRIT QI STORAGE: 1,368,911 units [liquid spirit qi]

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