The Gu insect path had originated in the Southern Border.
In the Cultivation World, merely hearing of it made people pale with fright, and seeing it made their courage fail.
But that was only true for rogue cultivators with little knowledge or experience.
For someone like Luo Chen, whose realm was profound and whose knowledge extensive, it was only natural that he understood all things between heaven and earth had never been divided into righteous or evil, good or bad—only useful and useless.
At the very least, from what he knew, many Gu insects could provide considerable assistance to ordinary cultivators in their cultivation.
For example, there was a Tier 1 Gu insect called the Moonlight Gu.
Its rank was not high, but its effects were exceptionally wondrous: it could guide qi and open the meridians.
Those who possessed Spirit Roots but had been born with blocked meridians could refine this Gu, break through their shackles, and cultivate Qi Refinement normally.
Even those born with unobstructed meridians would not begrudge refining a Moonlight Gu to assist their Qi Refinement cultivation if circumstances allowed.
In Central Province, the Heaven Origin Dao Sect had once purchased Moonlight Gu in great quantities from the Southern Border. Only after the Southern Border became increasingly closed off did such trade gradually cease.
It could be said that the vast number of cultivators in Central Province owed no small part of that to the once widely circulating Moonlight Gu.
And the Moonlight Gu was merely one among countless strange Gu insects.
The Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu planted within Luo Chen and Sima Hui Niang was another, and its origins were even more extraordinary.
Legend said it was a simplified version of an ancient Tier 5 Gu insect—the Same Life, Same Death Gu!
It was an extreme Gu