Seeing that Ying Wu insisted, Song Wen offered no further persuasion.
Ying Wu took out a jade slip and handed it to Song Wen.
"Over the past few years, I've improved the cultivation method for Heaven-Destroying Divine Light and tested it myself. I'm certain humans can cultivate it."
Song Wen accepted the jade slip and put it into his storage ring without examining it.
Then Ying Wu flew onto the insect nest nearby.
The enormous insect nest immediately tore through the air toward the mirage in the sky.
Before the insect nest, that mirage seemed exceedingly small.
Yet the instant they collided, the insect nest, like a mountain hanging upside down, abruptly vanished without a trace.
Several months later.
Song Wen finally returned to the Divine Blood Sect.
He gathered the inner sect elders and gained a rough understanding of the sect's recent affairs:
According to reports from Candle Dragon Province, after years of war, the remaining forces of the Pagoda Temple had finally been exterminated.
All of Candle Dragon Province had nominally come under the Divine Blood Sect, but the sect did not control it directly. Instead, several second-rate forces had been selected to govern it on the sect's behalf, needing only to pay tribute at regular intervals.
Moreover, the campaign had yielded immense spoils. The expeditionary army was returning with vast quantities of heavenly treasures and would soon reach the Divine Blood Sect.
In addition, the insect race's rampage several years earlier had left western Cangwu Province with few cultivators, causing many mines, spiritual fields, and other holdings to fall into disuse.
To address this, Song Wen ordered Xuan Li to dispatch a contingent of sect disciples and recruit large numbers of rogue cultivators and minor forces to rebuild the cities and important holdings in the western