Li Qing's eyelids twitched violently. Disbelief showed in his eyes as he stared fixedly at Zhao Tianxiong, the Zhao Family's patriarch.
"Fellow Daoist Zhao, surely you are joking?"
"Though the Golden Silkworm ranks rather low in the Record of Heavenly Strange Insects, it is still an exceedingly rare strange insect. You actually know where one can be found?"
It was impossible for Li Qing not to have some unusual thoughts. The fact that a Golden Silkworm could spin a cocoon and transform into a Six-Winged Golden Moth was no secret; naturally, he knew of it.
If he could feed it enough varieties of spiritual metal and let it successfully begin spinning its cocoon, then when the Golden Silkworm emerged from the cocoon, it would be the moment it transformed into a Six-Winged Golden Moth!
How powerful was a Six-Winged Golden Moth?
Perhaps Li Qing had never seen one, but this strange insect ranked thirty-sixth on the list. In the world today, there were likely few strange insects still stronger than it.
Although it was extremely difficult to cultivate, and even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators would find it hard to accomplish, human effort could overcome all things.
If he truly had the chance to subdue a Golden Silkworm, Li Qing would naturally be delighted beyond measure.
He was an Artifact Refiner. In the future, he would certainly have no shortage of chances to come into contact with spiritual metals, so there was no need to deliberately squander his entire fortune collecting all kinds of spiritual metals.
He could even simply refine more artifacts for others in the future, then take a few scraps from the artifact-refining materials they provided to feed it.
After all, the Golden Silkworm's transformation depended on devouring sufficiently many varieties of spiritual metal; it was not particularly