Li Yan found this deeply regrettable. If he could learn what Luo Beixi used Gu insects for, he would be able to devise a far better plan.
Still, these pieces of information already counted as considerable progress. Li Yan then returned to the inn and began pondering how to make use of this habit of Luo Beixi's.
Li Yan had a great many Gu insects on him. Zhao Min had given them to him in the past, and at first, he had only selectively refined a portion after picking through them.
Those were Gu insects useful to him and relatively special in kind. As for the rest, Li Yan had thrown them all into Tuban. He had opened up an area there, merely separating them by type and allowing them to breed and survive on their own.
Under Tuban's unique Five Elements Heavenly Dao, the spiritual energy was so dense it had reached a terrifying degree. Added to the complete absence of natural enemies, the number of Gu insects within Tuban later grew to an astonishing level.
Whenever Li Yan had some spare time in the past, he had considered putting all those Gu insects to good use. Yet he helplessly discovered that while he could squeeze out some extra time now and then, cultivating a new Dao Path was bound to be a long-term undertaking.
What he cultivated was already too varied for a cultivator. Whenever Li Yan wanted to improve his cultivation now, he had to continuously balance all kinds of Great Daos. Even then, he often attended to one thing only to lose sight of another.
If he cultivated Gu arts as well, he would truly be biting off more than he could chew. In the end, he could only abandon the idea, choosing a few he