Late at night.
Bian She Star, Tian Gong Camp.
The stars in the sky, seeming close enough to touch, glowed with a soft light like the moon.
Pure starlight passed through the one-way translucent dark cyan round door and shone into Chen Mu's room.
On a low couch not far behind the door, Chen Mu sat cross-legged.
A Black Clay Pot, as wide as a bowl and as tall as a palm, stood in the center of the square table before him.
Two black armor bugs the size of soybeans lay quietly at the bottom of the pot.
Chen Mu opened his right hand, revealing two grains of golden sand as tiny as needlepoints. With a turn of his wrist, the golden sand immediately sank into the bugs' bodies.
The bugs, which had been peacefully coexisting, shuddered all over before shrieking sharply and charging at each other. In the blink of an eye, they collided and began viciously tearing into one another.
Broken wings and severed limbs flew everywhere. Before long, one of the bugs had its head bitten off and died.
Yet the surviving bug did not stop. Only after it had completely torn its opponent apart and devoured more than half of it did it finally cease.
The limbs it had lost to the bites actually began regrowing rapidly.
"Strengthen, fight, devour, then make the victor stronger... Isn't that just gu refining?!" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow.
"No wonder Meng Qingchan was so skilled with Green Worm Gu." Realization dawned on him.
Nearly two months had passed since he first arrived on Bian She Star.
Chen Mu followed his routine every day, and the fourth level of the Jade Cicada Secret Manual was progressing rapidly.
The golden sand Qi Mechanism it produced had also grown increasingly abundant.
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