Published: September 5, 2025
Chapter 640: Making the Fake Real
“Become my disciple? I don’t accept disciples. Besides, do you really think I would take a foundation establishment stage female cultivator as my disciple? Considering a bit of sentiment from that day, I won’t blame you for this reckless act of yours this time. Take care of yourself!” Han Li sized up the beautiful woman who suddenly appeared before him and coldly refused in one breath.
“Senior! I…” The woman with the surname Mu showed a hint of panic upon hearing Han Li’s words and hurriedly tried to say something else. But Han Li lightly flicked his sleeve, and a gust of fierce wind suddenly rose, blowing her staggering left and right. The words she was about to speak were immediately forced back down by the strong wind.
After she regained her balance and looked around for Han Li again, no one was in sight; Han Li had disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this, the woman’s face was full of disappointment. She stood there dazed for a long time, unwilling to leave just yet.
After all, this suddenly appeared "Senior Han" was now the only lifeline she could hold onto.
At this moment, Han Li had already appeared inside the secluded mansion on Little Stone Mountain and headed straight for the Insect Chamber without hesitation. There, nearly ten thousand golddevourer worms resembling almost pure red gold were stored. These were the gold-silver golddevourer worms that had successfully hatched and evolved over twenty years ago.
The silver on their shells had now diminished to only tiny specks the size of pinholes. If one did not carefully observe under the eyelids, it was impossible to detect even a flicker of silver light among the gold with the naked eye.
This indicated that these golddevourer worms were just one step away from complete maturation.
This brought Han Li both excitement and a little disappointment.
But even so, these almost pure red-golden worms’ power truly opened Han Li’s eyes wide. He once placed over a hundred tricolor golddevourer worms together with the newly evolved golden ones. Within moments, the larger golden worms devoured the tricolor ones completely.
In terms of both devouring ability and physical toughness, these new golddevourer worms far surpassed the tricolor insects. And as they neared maturity, they began to emit a terrifyingly fierce aura and developed a bloodthirsty appetite, making them completely different from before.
Han Li believed that if he hadn’t applied the primordial spirit control formation on them in advance, these insects would have mercilessly retaliated against him.
Yet, even so, Han Li quietly sensed signs of these new golddevourer worms losing control.
It seemed that if they evolved once more, ordinary formation techniques would no longer be able to control these ferocious creatures exposing their true nature.
Although thinking this, Han Li still followed his usual method—selecting the largest gold-silver worms separately, isolating and feeding them to hasten their maturation. He wanted to quickly evolve them into the fully matured spiritual insects that only appeared during the Wild Era.
However, judging from how each stage of golddevourer worm evolution took longer and longer, it would probably take over a hundred years to complete the final step. But having this buffer period was good; it gave him time to find better ways to control the spiritual insects.
While pondering this, Han Li carefully gathered the golddevourer worms in the Insect Chamber. Then he went to the medicinal garden to cautiously move the Spirit Eye Tree and the Nine-Twisted Spiritual Ginseng, both now about as tall as their original forms.
There was nothing much to say about the Nine-Twisted Spiritual Ginseng. Though it had lost a lot of vital energy recently due to pill refining, Han Li had used the green liquid to restore most of what was lost. It was now fine.
As for the Spirit Eye Tree, after many years of maturation acceleration, it was not far from the day it would start flowing with pure nectar.