A Record of A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 398: Foundation Formation and Magical Treasures

Inside the secluded mansion, the door to the secret chamber finally opened.

A figure flashed by—a disheveled person whose face was obscured by messy hair—slowly walked out of the chamber.

At that moment, a yellow light flickered, and the quhun immediately appeared beside him, expression utterly blank.

“Hehe, foundation formation. Finally, the golden core is complete!” Looking around at everything outside the secret chamber and at the quhun by his side, this man suddenly threw back his head and laughed heartily, his laughter faintly echoing with the roar of dragons and tigers.

The face revealed between the tangled hair was none other than Han Li, who had entered the secret chamber sixty years ago.

But now, his eyes gleamed with sharp brilliance, and every movement of his hands and feet radiated immense momentum, as if he had become a completely different person.

After finishing his laughter, Han Li looked at everything outside the secret chamber with a strange feeling.

Sixty years of ignoring the outside world gave him a strong sense of unfamiliarity—as if everything that had happened before had become very distant!

Han Li did not linger in place but instead followed the impressions in his memory and returned to his bedroom.

After a meal, Han Li emerged from his room, radiant and restored to the appearance and attire of decades ago, looking like a youth of about twenty.

However, his expression was extremely cool and calm as he leisurely headed toward the Insect Chamber.

The golddevourer worms inside the Insect Chamber were now completely different from decades ago!

Not only had their numbers reached a terrifying tens of thousands, but their original silver shells now bore golden spots, making them look far more fierce and menacing.

Seeing this scene, Han Li showed no surprise.

Years ago, he had already learned about this through his clone quhun. Now he was only witnessing the reality with his own eyes.

Come to think of it, Han Li never imagined that his spontaneous inspiration to use these golddevourer worms as test subjects for the Nishang Herb would serendipitously solve the breeding problem of the golddevourer worms.

After his seclusion, quhun continued to feed the worms with Nishang Herb leaves every month, and the temperament of these flying insects grew increasingly vicious.

After three or four years of feeding, the golddevourer worms finally underwent a mutation.

After finishing a meal of the Nishang Herb, they began to devour and fight each other.

In just a few days, hundreds of golddevourer worms were reduced to just over a dozen, but these survivors were far larger and more powerful than their former kind.

Moreover, shortly after these worms devoured their kin, they began laying eggs on their own. Each laid nearly a hundred eggs before slowly dying.

Han Li acquired over a thousand eggs.

These eggs hatched after just one year.

Then quhun fed them Nishang Herb again, prompting them to continuously devour each other and lay eggs.

After a few such cycles, the number of golddevourer worms began to multiply rapidly.

If it weren’t for the limited quantity of Nishang Herb available to accelerate their maturation, causing the intervals between devouring events to grow longer, their numbers would have been even more staggering!

Even more astonishingly, the offspring produced through this cannibalistic breeding became stronger and fiercer with each generation. Their shells began to show golden spots within the pure silver, and these golden spots gradually grew larger.

This made Han Li wonder if their true advancement would only occur once the shells were fully transformed into gold.

Standing outside the Insect Chamber, Han Li gazed at the golddevourer worms for a long time without a word.

He knew very well that this breeding method was not a conventional technique used by ancient beast-taming cultivators.

He firmly believed that the mysterious little bottle’s miraculous ripening effect was absolutely unparalleled in the mortal world.