Thinking of how his summoning space was nearly complete, and what it would do for his insects, Huo Hai no longer felt any heartache over the vast quantity of spirit stones he had just spent. Spirit stones were meant to be spent where they would do some good.
As for the mountain of spirit beast corpses beside him, Huo Hai cared even less. At his command, the Star Gu began devouring them. This would also replenish the spiritual power they had expended capturing the Ghost Insects.
Ever since the Star Gu had undergone Demonicization, Huo Hai had gone a long time without letting them consume large quantities of corpses containing spiritual power. Although spirit beast blood held a fair amount of spiritual power, it was still only a tiny fraction of what their bodies contained. These spirit beasts had not had Confusion Insects crawl directly onto them to suck their blood, so their bodies still held plenty of spiritual power.
Huo Hai might keep some of the more valuable spirit beast crystals. Anything worthless went straight into the Star Gu's mouths.
After an unknown length of time, the thousandth Confusion Insect finally entered the formation. One thousand spirit insects-that was the critical threshold for refining spirit insects into attribute essence within the Spirit Beast Refining Formation. Without a thousand spirit insects, the essence could never take shape.
Yet after the thousandth Confusion Insect entered, the next one sent into the formation was not converted. Even the other insects could no longer feel the Spirit Beast Refining Formation harming them. What was going on?
Before Huo Hai could finish pondering this, the insect essence inside the formation began rapidly condensing. At its center, a sphere of mental-attribute insect essence swiftly took shape, then continued swelling. In the end, it formed in