Crimson Flame Land.
"It's been three or four days already. Why haven't you done anything yet?" Wu Tianyu was terribly anxious.
Yuan Shuo had already forged two Spirit Artifacts over there, yet his Gu Insects still hadn't produced any young.
"Little brother, don't be so impatient. Even if the females successfully conceive, they still need time."
Wu Tianya had taken a different path. She was drawing out the earthfire to temper her body.
People from the Western Region were skilled with Gu and poisons, and could even use Gu Insects to control cultivators stronger than themselves, but their own physical strength was far too weak.
If those people broke past her Gu Insects and reached her, she would have no way to fend them off.
That was why Wu Tianya wanted to temper her body. After all, earthfire was actually one of the best flames for body tempering.
Wu Tianya didn't actually have a body-tempering cultivation manual, but she had read plenty of miscellaneous writings in her early years and had managed to work out a few methods.
She slowly drew out the earthfire, letting it surround her.
"Big sister, I can't help being impatient! I've put together hundreds of pairs, and there still aren't any results." Wu Tianyu sighed.
Most importantly, how could he lose to Yuan Shuo?
"Why don't you come temper your body with the earthfire too?" Wu Tianya suggested.
"No. These Gu Insects could change at any moment. I can't leave."
Wu Tianyu shook his head.
He still had plenty of wild ideas he hadn't tried yet.
So the boy lowered his head and went back to work.
Wu Tianya didn't insist. Her younger brother was better suited to studying Gu Insects, after all, and she would protect him in the future.
She was about to