Gao Gong felt that his guess had been correct.
Because he had always been puzzled by one point regarding his earlier judgment of the Lightshade Cicada's identity.
Based on what he knew, the insect race could not really be considered an ancient species. Although some insects were indeed very old, according to his investigations in his previous life (mainly because the Queen of Blades had infuriated him by cutting him up so thoroughly), the insect race—at least the insect race as defined by the Council of Civilizations—had first appeared no earlier than after the universe's primordial soup had formed a hundred times.
Moreover, there had been insects in ancient times, but they had not been the insect race. Thus, whenever ancient insects encountered the insect race, it was essentially a clash of needle against wheat awn. If they did not fight, that alone counted as a blessing.
Under such circumstances, the sudden appearance of a high-ranking figure with ancient blood under the Queen of Blades was somewhat strange.
This led to two possibilities.
Either the Queen of Blades possessed heaven-spanning influence and had forcibly subdued an insect with ancient blood through sheer domineering might.
Or this "Lightshade Cicada" had been taken in by the Queen from childhood, or had been reborn by Lady Barren Womb while still an egg, with his ancient genes refined anew.
But now, the other party's method of manipulating the "Spatiotemporal Amber" suddenly made Gao Gong think of another possibility.
Perhaps the Lightshade Cicada himself was merely an ordinary insect, but the Queen of Blades and Lady Barren Womb had accidentally obtained a piece of ancient amber. Then, through "grafting" or "gene transfer," they had directly stolen the "ancient bloodline."
Such an operation seemed inconceivable, but combined with the insect race's freakish evolutionary abilities—and perhaps the