"Ten-Thousand-Year Cicada..."
Fang Qianyuan signaled with his eyes for him to continue.
The instant Fang Qianyuan saw the creature, his heart stirred slightly. From this tiny gu worm, he actually sensed a profound, abstruse power of laws. Moreover, it was not merely one or two simple laws, but numerous laws intertwined and condensed into a whole, as complex as a dao fruit.
Even without Bei Yetang's explanation, he already understood that this was no ordinary creature.
Bei Yetang said, "This spirit creature was obtained by Grand Elder Tian Heng through years of painstaking searching, breeding, and refinement of a gu worm called the Primordial Golden Jade Cicada, using the Supreme Heaven Sect's secret texts in conjunction with cultivation methods confessed by several ancient cultivators."
"Its innate instinct is dormancy and metamorphosis. As long as the Spirit Tamer's own true spirit suffers no fatal injury, it can preserve their flesh and divine soul for an extended period."
"Because this resembles the habits of young cicadas, which sleep long beneath the dark earth before emerging one day and astounding the world with a single cry, it is called the Ten-Thousand-Year Cicada."
Fang Qianyuan's gaze sharpened slightly. "Dormancy and metamorphosis..."
He had indeed sensed an extraordinarily powerful vitality within this spirit creature. If its power were harnessed for a human Spirit Tamer through human-spirit unity, perhaps it really could accomplish what Wen Wei and the other surviving ancient cultivators had done.
Sleeping underground for ten thousand years, then awakening one day with one's peak strength restored-this was indeed a spirit creature deliberately bred to imitate the methods of those surviving ancient cultivators.
Though it fell short of true immortality and imperishability, it was enough to prove that Grand Elder Tian Heng had already traveled far ahead on the path of researching this art.