The composure on Hua Wujiang's face vanished in an instant. His eyes widened, as though he had heard something inconceivable.
Lin Ke raised an eyebrow and asked with a smile, "What is it? You seem surprised, Supreme Elder?"
Hua Wujiang leaned his head straight toward Lin Ke and narrowed his eyes, suppressing the shock in them.
"If I heard you correctly just now, you said your Mystic Flame Horned Beetle Sovereign can already produce mystic flame consistently?"
Lin Ke nodded.
Hua Wujiang was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly asked Lin Ke, "Quick, tell me how you managed to raise it!"
"You should know that even old fellows like us don't understand the exact principles behind cultivating a Mystic Flame Horned Beetle Sovereign's mystic flame."
"That's why research into these ferocious insects has never made much progress. How long has it even been since I gave you those materials? Yet you've already succeeded?"
Lin Ke scratched his head. Rather than explain the process in detail, he simply said with a faint smile:
"I actually didn't interfere much. Once the water flowed, the channel formed; it matured naturally."
Lin Ke's account was not exactly wrong.
He really had not interfered much. After he fed them the fire essence, the Mystic Flame Horned Beetle Sovereigns had begun "cultivating gu" themselves.
Before long, they had produced a Mystic Flame Horned Beetle Sovereign capable of consistently producing mystic flame.
Seeing Lin Ke's manner, Hua Wujiang assumed he had some secret he could not conveniently disclose, so he did not press him.
Then he held out his hand to Lin Ke. "Did you bring those adult insects? Let me have a look."
"Other than the cultivators of the Illusionless Gu Sect, I've never seen anyone manage to raise these ferocious insects to maturity."
Lin Ke held out