"You mean..."
The lightly spoken words entered her ears, but the Phantom Moon Moth's expression turned ugly to an indescribable degree.
She had been too careless!
How could she have made such a foolish mistake!
As the saying went, the clever were often ruined by their own cleverness.
The Jade Luo Bees were indeed greatly beneficial to her advancement to the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage, but as spirit insects raised by Lin Xuan, there was definitely a bond of mind and spirit between them and their master.
And this connection was no small matter. If she had not guessed wrong, this Lin Kid had most likely placed Restrictions on the Jade Luo Bees.
In fact, this was nothing unusual.
Among the hundred arts of cultivation, the Insect Taming Technique counted as one of the more widely used.
And spirit insects had rather low intelligence. In order to command them as easily as moving one's own arm and fingers, the usual method was to plant powerful Restrictions on their bodies.
The Phantom Moon Moth had originally known this perfectly well.
But even a wise man who thought a thousand times was bound to lose once; in her joy, she had actually forgotten it.
Did that sound absurd?
But people made mistakes.
Especially when she had already waited nearly a million years in order to advance.
Even though spirit insects possessed extremely long lifespans, such a long wait had worn her patience down until almost nothing remained. After racking her brains and exhausting her energy to finally get the Jade Luo Bees into her hands, it was understandable that she had become somewhat carried away.
And so she had made a very low-level mistake.
She had begun the fusion without erasing the Restrictions Lin Xuan had planted.
If it had only been