Chapter 7: Cultivating Spiritual Energy and Refining Corpse Poison

  He ignored the resentment and venom in He Yao's eyes, as long as Huo Hai didn't leave the Huo family's territory, He Yao wouldn't be able to do anything to him. If he dared to take matters into his own hands, it was unclear who would win or lose.

  Huo Hai continued to catch insects, and in the past few days of observation, he had made a summary of the types and habits of the surrounding insects. He even recorded them in a small notebook, occasionally using some Chinese characters.

  One reason is that Huo Hai doesn't want to forget his origins, constantly reminding himself that he's from Earth, which is also an obsession. Another reason is for secrecy. The art of refining demons was originally a very secretive thing on Earth, and it would hardly be spread outside. How could Huo Hai possibly let others learn it casually? Even if they stole his notes, it would be useless.

  After understanding the habits, Huo Hai also had a lot of experience in raising insect children and would not accidentally kill them. Next was the problem of medicinal materials. What kind of medicinal materials were there in this world, Huo Hai didn't know either.

  With the presence of a divine doctor, ordinary medicinal herbs are generally ignored. Huo Hai had no choice but to learn from Shen Nong's technique of tasting a hundred herbs. He carefully identified the properties of various medicinal herbs for use.

  Of course, Huo Hai wouldn't be foolish enough to eat it himself, so he raised a small animal that eats tea. As long as the animal was fine after eating it, Huo Hai would dare to try it. If the animal didn't want to eat something, then there was nothing that could be done about it. Huo Hai had his ways, and would stuff herbs into the little creature's belly. In these few days, he had already killed who knows how many small rabbits.

  As a result, the overwhelming public opinion attack increased again. What nonsense came out of Heping's mouth, such as "Hai has become an idiot, not eating food but eating grass, and brutally killing little rabbits", didn't stop coming from deep within Heping. It made Hai's anger burn more and more in his heart.

  Hu Hai didn't say anything, and no one knew that under his crazy behavior, he gained a lot. Gradually, Hu Hai also had a good understanding of ordinary medicine. Some of the medicinal properties were just right for refining Gu.

  Finally, Huo Hai chose three kinds of insects as the base insects for refining Gu. One was a centipede; if the refined Gu didn't have even a bit of poisonous insect, wouldn't that be a waste? This type of martial art had extremely strong toxicity and was precisely what Huo Hai used as the base insect. The other two were a kind of beetle and a small flying insect resembling a dragonfly.

  Refining Gu is also based on reason, mutually devouring insects will acquire some characteristics of other insects. If flying insects are added, then the refined Gu may have a high probability of flying in the future. For small insects, how important is the ability to fly?

  As for the beetle, Huo Hai chose a kind of beetle with a very hard shell. Huo Hai didn't expect this batch of refined beetles to have strong killing power, just to test it out, and incidentally, to take revenge on He Ya.

  The process of raising Gu is very tedious, but after having Ling Qi, it's different. For the first two days, Huo Hai stopped feeding the insects with feed and instead used his carefully prepared special medicine as food to feed them. After eating these medicines, the insects became more and more violent, and Huo Hai knew that this was because their blood was boiling.

  When the blood is boiling, the blood vessels will be fully activated. If this lasts for a long time and you can survive, the insects themselves may undergo mutations. And if such insects swallow other insects, the possibility of mutation will also increase.

  After feeding the medicine for two days, Huo Hai stopped feeding and directly starved these insects. Even the extremely hungry insects kept chirping, and sometimes they would even gnaw on the grass cage. Anyone who was here would definitely feel a chill run down their spine.

  Fortunately, during this period, because many insects were raised at home, people below did not dare to approach the courtyard of Huo Hai. So this courtyard became Huo Hai's private space, an absolutely quiet and safe place. After starving for a few days, these insects were almost dying from hunger. Under the support of medicine, these insects not only did not weaken but became even more frantic.

  "Alright, the timing is just right." Huo Hai smiled faintly and brought out a prepared jar. Then he used a needle to prick his own index finger, dripping a few drops of blood. This blood was the target that the insects were competing for.

  Similarly, it is also an important item for the future Gu insect to recognize its master. If it were to be replaced on Earth, after refining the Gu insect, one would have to feed it with their own blood every day for a very long time. The spiritual energy in the blood is the best nourishment for the growth of the Gu insect.

  But here it's different, Huo Hai smiled faintly: "Spirit energy nourishment, finally can try it out, this is something even grandma hasn't tried before, don't know what will happen." Huo Hai said, starting to inject spirit energy into the blood. He himself was cultivating spirit incantations, his blood originally contained a certain amount of spirit energy.

  After being infused with Hao Hai's spiritual energy, even a single drop of ordinary blood seems to be imbued with an intense aura. This slight loss is nothing to Hao Hai, and there are no signs of the pale complexion that other cultivators exhibit after refining their demonic cores.

  After dealing with his own blood, Huo Hai quickly waved his hands and put the insects that had been prepared into a jar. Then, he sealed the mouth of the jar. How these insects struggled was none of Huo Hai's business.

  Look at the time, it's almost there. Huo Hai sat down beside him to cultivate his spiritual mantra. Cultivating his spiritual mantra had already become a habit for him. The comfortable feeling he got from cultivating his spiritual mantra each time also made Huo Hai unable to stop.

  These days of cultivation, the spiritual energy's transformation of Hao Hai's body has become faster and faster, emitting a kind of spiritual energy that surpasses that of ordinary humans. He has gradually entered the spiritual body realm from the spiritual body entrance, reaching the early stages of the spiritual body realm, nearing its peak. If he continues to cultivate like this, it's unknown how much time will pass before he can reach the later stages of the spiritual body. The spiritual body realm may not have a huge difference in combat strength, but it is the best period for laying foundations.

  At this time, in the jar, all kinds of sounds have been made. The sound of insects killing each other, the sound of insects devouring each other. It's unknown what it looks like inside the jar, Huo Hai had the heart to lift the lid and take a look, but thought about it and endured it instead.

  Isn't it just insects devouring each other? What's there to look at? How could Hao Hai admit it, he didn't want to see such a disgusting thing.

  And so the whole day passed. The next morning, Huo Hai quietly opened the jar and found that the insects inside had disappeared, replaced by a very strange-looking insect.

  It's said to be a worm, but in fact it looks like a large cocoon with a mouth. It looks like a silkworm, but Hao Hai knows that this is absolutely not a silkworm. He didn't even put the silkworm inside, nor did he use any catalyst-like medicine, so how could such a thing appear? This phenomenon indicates that the Gu worm has been successfully refined, but it's still not complete.

  Hu Hai knew that at this time, what was needed was nourishment. At this moment, Hu Hai didn't need to use his own blood, he just dripped a drop on the insect's head to acknowledge its master, and then injected a knife of spiritual energy to feed the insect.

  This is an attempt by Huo Hai to test whether the spiritual energy mentioned by his grandmother is the same as the spiritual energy in this world.

  The spiritual energy entered the body, and the insects were quiet again. The quieted insects, along with the body, rose and fell together. In the cocoon, it seemed like something was being nurtured. When nurturing the Gu insect into shape, the Gu insect needs a lot of energy, as long as there is energy, it can be done.

  "Ha, it seems that it's really possible. From now on, I'll use spiritual energy to feed the worms. I'd like to see who can still withstand my worm army." Thinking of this exciting prospect, Huo Hai couldn't help but burst out laughing. On Earth, breeding Gu is subject to quantity restrictions. After all, one's own blood and essence are not enough to nourish so many Gu worms.

  Ke Ho Hai is different, he has a spiritual trick and can use spiritual energy. With the title of Spiritual Energy, what else can he do to Gu Zhong?

  Next, Huo Hai returned to his regular life, spending every day either cultivating spiritual techniques or feeding insects. As for whether He Yao could find himself, Huo Hai didn't care. His heart was now completely focused on his Gu worms.

  With the nourishment of spiritual energy, the development speed of Gu insects has accelerated a lot. Originally, it would have taken at least ten days or half a month, and it would not have been possible to refine them successfully. But now it's different, with spiritual energy nourishment, in just three days, the insect had signs of movement.

  On this day, Chu Yun Tian was feeding the worms as usual. Suddenly, he heard a faint sound and opened the lid to find that a crack had appeared on the cocoon at some point. "Judging from the position of this crack, it should be coming out soon. It seems to have wings too, so I didn't waste my time." Huo Hai muttered to himself.

  Its back split open a gap, the gap grew bigger and bigger, eventually covering one-third of the cocoon. At this moment, a pair of wings suddenly stretched out. Yes, it was a pair of wings, like dragonfly wings, with a faint golden light.

  The wings slowly unfolded, followed by the insect's body. As the insect's body crawled out segment by segment, Huo Hai finally knew what he had refined. He didn't use a method that was recorded and readily available.

  But it's the foundation of my own research on this world, and the common sense that has been refined from it. Under the wing is a centipede, and it's a golden centipede. The small wings and the body of the centipede are completely disproportionate, but these disproportionate wings, as they flutter, make the centipede float in mid-air. This isn't just because of the wings.

  "Hmm, something so small can actually use spiritual energy, the Gu insect is indeed a Gu insect, but I wonder how its combat strength is."

  Just after finishing speaking, a consciousness appeared in Huo Hai's mind, roughly meaning to show intimacy and that he was very powerful. Huo Hai was stunned, how did his intelligence increase after refining the Gu worm? Would it reach human level if this continued?

  Before Huo Hai could react, the golden centipede suddenly fell from the air and appeared in the center of the cauldron. Opening its mouth, it began to eat the large cocoon that had originally wrapped around itself, one bite at a time. During this process, the centipede's body slowly grew larger.