As Bai Suxian and Uncle Zhong spoke, Zhang Tie listened the entire time.
From Uncle Zhong, Zhang Tie was hearing some fresh information about the Great Wilderness Sect in the Southern Frontier for the first time.
Zhang Tie had no idea what the Dragon Mountain Eighteen Caves of the Southern Frontier were, but he did know about the Gu insects Uncle Zhong mentioned, such as the Gold-Breaking Gu. In the Great Wilderness Scripture, skills such as raising Gu insects were merely minor paths within the "Augment Section" and "Control Section." The process was somewhat eerie and tedious, not to Zhang Tie's taste, so he had never paid them much mind. For someone like Zhang Tie, who possessed the Castle of Black Iron and could easily alter species, who had consumed a great many Origin Fruits and possessed an incomparably powerful soul origin, and who faced almost no restrictions in using external incarnations, the secret arts of the "Transformation Section" were the true essence of the Great Wilderness Scripture—the royal road. The contents of the "Augment Section" and "Control Section" were merely auxiliary techniques and green leaves.
What Zhang Tie had not expected was that the Southern Frontier Eighteen Caves had inherited only a tiny scrap of the Great Wilderness Sect's Gu arts from the "Augment Section" and "Control Section," yet they could dominate a region of the Southern Frontier and ultimately force even the Prince of Guangnan to lead troops against them. And after being afflicted by one of those tiny Gu insects, even a Black Iron Knight had no answer but to steadily weaken and waste away as he slowly awaited death...
Zhang Tie knew that he had ultimately underestimated the power of those "minor paths" in the Great Wilderness Scripture.
The Great Wilderness Sect had once become the