Once the Insect Refinement was complete, Huo Hai could clearly sense that he had formed an exceptionally powerful bond with this insect. It was even closer than his bonds with the others. After all, the last of his shamanic power had been transformed entirely into a mental imprint.
At the same time, however, because this insect had no body, his blood had neither strengthened nor established control over its body and bloodline. This insect truly was unusual, as strange as a ghost.
Huo Hai shook his head. "Since you're so much like a ghost, I'll call you a Ghost Insect." He did not know whether anyone else had discovered Ghost Insects before. In any case, he had never encountered them himself. Since he was the first to bring one under his control, there was nothing strange about naming them. Huo Hai was rather pleased with himself over this.
Now that he had completely refined the insect, the next step was to investigate its abilities. Even before refining it, Huo Hai could probe an insect's abilities to some extent, but such investigations were extremely superficial.
Once an insect had been refined through the Insect Refining Formation, probing it again became much easier and simpler. Huo Hai continued chanting, slowly feeding spiritual power into the Ghost Insect. Then all sorts of information about it appeared in his mind.
The information arrived in a very strange manner, but Huo Hai knew that it consisted of the Ghost Insect's own memories, organized and summarized. There were also things that even the Ghost Insect itself did not know; those were the discoveries made through his probing incantation.
The Ghost Insect was an exceptionally unusual mutated insect. Not even the Ghost Insect itself knew exactly how it had come into being. All it knew was that