With Cultivator Wu being so skilled in battle, Li Yan had to consider every possible contingency. Before seeking victory, he first planned for defeat—that was his nature.
"If I want the Gu insects here to advance, I naturally cannot start researching from scratch. That is not what I excel at, so I must use Cultivator Du's existing methods. Then I have to obtain the 'Rending Garment Pill'..."
Although Li Yan himself could not fuse the "Silver Brain-Coiling Corpse Gu," once such a Gu insect appeared, it would undoubtedly be of immense use.
Moreover, if there was hope of advancing it into a "Golden Brain-Coiling Corpse Gu," then once such a grotesque and terrifying Gu insect came into the world, even Li Yan would not be able to resist refining and using it himself.
In truth, let alone those two types of Gu insects, even any single "White Brain-Coiling Corpse Gu" appearing in the outside world would be a priceless treasure.
"Return Home" did not possess such a Gu insect. Even someone as broadly knowledgeable as Su Liuyun had never heard of its existence. That alone showed how precious this kind of Gu insect was...
Li Yan stood there for only a moment before reaching his final decision...
On the evening of the third day, inside a wooden cabin, Cultivator Wu wore an exhausted expression. Still seated cross-legged on his meditation cushion, he watched two blue jade bottles floating before him.
He raised an arm slightly and flicked it forward. The flames beneath the pill furnace immediately went out, and the temperature in the room swiftly dropped along with them.
The next moment, he rose to his full height. As he stood, the two hovering blue jade bottles instantly turned into twin streaks of blue light and slid like swimming fish