During its transformation, the Ghost Bone Insect had merely retracted its tentacles, leaving a large head that looked like a tiny glass marble. Now, however, as it absorbed spiritual energy, the little sphere began to change visibly.
The sphere's outer skin burst open bit by bit, slowly cracking and peeling away like a shell. It resembled a snake shedding its skin. Gradually, under the washing flow of spiritual energy, that thin membrane shattered completely, turning into specks of starlight that drifted away to parts unknown. What emerged from within was another small, transparent sphere.
"Strange. Why does it look so much bigger? No, it seems to still be growing." Huo Hai discovered that the sphere inside had begun to swell in a peculiar manner, eventually unfolding little by little. His connection with it also grew steadily clearer.
Once the sphere had fully unfolded, it could no longer be called a sphere. It was a little creature that looked like a cross between a jellyfish and an octopus, still exquisitely delicate in appearance. Its body, however, was considerably larger than before.
Its overall form had not changed much, and it remained transparent. Yet when light refracted through its body, it gave off an extraordinarily dazzling beauty, as though the little creature had been carved from the finest diamond. Had Huo Hai not seen it floating in the air and moving, he would probably have mistaken it for a work of art.
"Could this be because of me?" Huo Hai found it rather strange, because the normal evolution of Spirit Insects almost never made them increasingly beautiful. Even when Spirit Insects truly evolved and transformed, they developed in directions better suited to their own needs.
The Spirit Insects in his possession all shared a very unusual trait: as they repeatedly transformed and