Chapter 626: Decision
If the rumors were true, then this person had remained in the world with the body of an insect gu, yet wielded power on par with the Spiritual Infant Realm!
When Qin Sang read this account recorded in the jade slip, he found it deeply disturbing. It could rival the madness of Wu Shang, who had willingly refined himself into a living corpse in order to form a core.
The difference was that Wu Shang had failed.
But the cultivator surnamed Fang, mentioned in the rumors, had succeeded. He had fused completely with his life-bound insect gu and transformed into an insect.
The rumor wasn’t very old. If this person truly existed, he might still be alive today.
Qin Sang was intrigued and decided that once he left Xijiang, he would make inquiries to see if such a ruthless cultivator really existed.
Life-bound insect gu brought many benefits. Not only could they aid in breaking through bottlenecks, but if they could undergo metamorphosis in tandem with their master’s cultivation, they could even surpass the power of a life-bound astra. During combat, they acted autonomously, essentially allowing the cultivator to fight with a second self.
Not to mention, many spiritual insects were born with strange talents and supernatural abilities.
Of course, all of this hinged on the key condition that the life-bound insect gu could metamorphose in time to keep pace with its master.
But the process of metamorphosis for spiritual insects was extremely difficult, even harder than a cultivator’s own breakthrough.
Refining a spiritual insect into a life-bound insect gu allowed one to nourish it with blood and essence, and to assist its metamorphosis through specialized insect-taming arts, but the difficulty remained high.
Just like how many human cultivators, after forming their core, had to rely on talisman astras as placeholders, and often spent decades or even centuries scouring for spiritual materials to refine their life-bound astra.