Cultivation soared, Cursed Technique rewards: "Cursed Spirit Manipulation" and "Idle Transfiguration"

Lu Ren spent some time as an honored guest in the Ice Jade Scorpions' territory.

An honored guest, that is, though the difference between Soul Beast hospitality and human hospitality was probably as vast as heaven and earth.

The Ice Jade Scorpions showed tremendous respect for this human whom even their emperor treated courteously, specifically by delivering the freshest food punctually every day.

The problem was that the vast majority of this food consisted of insect-type Soul Beasts: Ice Silkworm larvae, centipedes, worms, and so on-

There was even a ten-thousand-year ice spider whose legs were still kicking.

They were arranged neatly on an ice table that the Ice Empress had specially made for Lu Ren. Several ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpions respectfully pushed it before him with their enormous pincers, then stepped back and waited expectantly for their honored guest to eat.

Lu Ren stared expressionlessly into the eyes of the still-twitching ice spider for three seconds, then silently turned his head away and covered his mouth with the back of his hand.

He was afraid of bugs. To be precise, he felt a rejection and revulsion toward every kind of bug that came from the depths of his soul.

Let alone putting them in his mouth.

Looking at these bugs, even though they were no longer as small as those on Earth in his previous life, the crucial point was-their bodies had grown larger! The days of being ruled and terrified by bugs in his previous life seemed to have returned.

Lu Ren was the sort of person who was extremely afraid of bugs. Whenever he saw one, he wanted to kill it immediately, only feeling at ease once it disappeared from his sight.

What he feared most was a bug being in his sight one second, then vanishing