The four Gu insects took longer to feed than Song Wen had expected.
They seemed unable to contain the corpse's vast essence and vitality all at once. They did not finish eating the corpse in a single sitting, but neither did they leave it. Instead, they remained inside the corpse, slowly digesting.
Song Wen paid them no mind and flipped his hand, producing a jade bottle.
After undoing the restriction on the jade bottle, Song Wen poured out a thumb-sized insect egg.
The egg was entirely blood-red and faintly exuded an ominous aura.
Song Wen reversed his blood and qi, forcing out a drop of blood essence and dripping it onto the insect egg.
The blood essence contained vigorous vitality and immense spiritual energy, slowly seeping into the egg.
A faint layer of blood-red light began to glow across the egg's surface.
Song Wen took out a Gu cauldron and placed the insect egg inside. He then took out two mid-grade spirit stones and put them into the cauldron to provide spiritual energy for the egg.
Hatching a Gu insect was not something that could be accomplished in a day, and Song Wen was in no hurry.
He took out a meditation cushion, sat down on the spot, and swallowed a Blood Demon Pill.
The moment the Blood Demon Pill entered his stomach, a fierce toxicity abruptly erupted within him.
At the same time, the blood and qi in his body were rapidly consumed and transformed into pure spiritual energy.
Having taken Blood Demon Pills for a long time, Song Wen had long since grown accustomed to their toxicity. Even the waves of pain coming from his abdomen had become so familiar that he scarcely noticed them. He focused wholeheartedly on absorbing the spiritual energy and raising his cultivation.
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