First Spirit Insect

He casually stuffed the Blood-Replenishing Pills he had prepared into his mouth and swallowed several. In any case, these Blood-Replenishing Pills would not take effect immediately. So-called blood replenishment was merely a gradual process, slowly restoring the blood he had expended. Nothing more.

Huo Hai even suspected that these pills used spiritual energy to stimulate the bone marrow and make it produce blood. Earth's technology had developed along an entirely different path from this world's. Yet from another angle, it could explain many things he could not understand. Stones from other mountains could be used to polish jade; living amidst two civilizations, Huo Hai could see far more than others.

After swallowing several pills, Huo Hai stuffed a few more into his mouth as a precaution. After all, this was merely his own conjecture. Besides, he had never heard of Blood-Replenishing Pills causing any harm.

Time waited for no one. Feeling wave after wave of warmth within his body, along with the rising heat and vigor throughout him, Huo Hai knew that his blood was beginning to replenish. This Insect Refinement differed from Gu Refinement. It was meant to gain complete control over an insect.

The blood required was far more than a mere few drops. Completely controlling an insect required a special formation. Huo Hai pricked his finger with a needle, then forced his spiritual energy outward, causing blood to flow from the wound.

He did not stop the bleeding. Instead, blood continued to seep out drop by drop, remarkably steady. Expressionless, Huo Hai recalled the Insect Refining Formation in his mind. Then he began drawing it onto a stone slab with his finger. The blood smeared over the slab did not spread apart, but formed fine threads. The blood within them even seemed to be flowing.

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