As the Huo Family and the Outer Sect continued to develop, Huo Hai devoted himself fully to studying the foundational theories left behind by the Blood Spider. As for researching insects, Gu Masters naturally possessed a nearly perfected set of methods.
Combined with certain experimental techniques from scientific research in his previous life, Huo Hai had no need to go through as much trouble as the Blood Spider had when studying similar theories. At first, Huo Hai merely found some spiders and prepared medicines according to the Blood Spider's recorded methods, tempering the spiders through different foods and medicines, even using special methods of spiritual energy.
At the same time, he constantly used Gu Master Secret Methods to investigate the changes in those spiders, eventually making those theories completely his own. He raised many spiders at once, and the adjustments used on each spider differed subtly.
After busying himself for a month, Huo Hai finally gained a basic understanding of those theories. "So this is the Insect Beast Cultivation Method. How strange. Spirit Insects are so tiny, yet she still managed to find nodes similar to Spirit Acupoints. What an imagination."
Huo Hai gradually came to understand the Blood Spider's secret method. In essence, the Blood Spider sought out undeveloped Spirit Acupoints within Spirit Insects. Perhaps she vaguely sensed that Spirit Insects and Spirit Beasts were fundamentally similar. However, because Spirit Insects were too small, the Spirit Acupoints on their bodies had never been developed. Once they were opened up, mutation would gradually occur.
For Spirit Acupoints to develop, a sufficiently large body was necessary. Thus, the Spirit Insects would grow in the direction of gigantification, eventually becoming Insect Beasts. However, such forced cultivation inflicted a certain degree of harm upon the Spirit Insects.
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