Although many Ghost Ridge Palace disciples believe that their Sect Master possesses the Innate Insect Cultivation Holy Body. Yet, cultivating an inferior poisonous insect to a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect in just over a decade is truly astonishing. Follow current novᴇls on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽 Just by comparison, one can understand that the Sect Treasure of Ghost Ridge Palace, the annual ring worm, lived in the wild for hundreds of years and was contracted by the previous Sect Masters for centuries, accumulating a millennium life span to finally cultivate into a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect. From this, it can be seen just how exaggerated it is for Su Jie to cultivate a thousand-hand centipede to a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect in just a few short years. Su Jie sighed in his heart, looking at the thousand-hand centipede, like a father watching his children finally succeed, filled with a comforting smile. The thousand-hand centipede nudged Su Jie with its antennae, conveying inner joy through this manner to Su Jie. Su Jie was happy for it to advance to a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect, and the thousand-hand centipede was no less thrilled. After advancing to a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect, it can finally help Su Jie defeat more formidable enemies. The annual ring worm jumped off Su Jie’s body, hopped to the brow between the thousand-hand centipede’s eyes. Both being top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insects, they follow completely different evolution paths. The thousand-hand centipede grows larger with each evolution, while the annual ring worm’s size remains virtually unchanged. Therefore, when compared side by side, the annual ring worm seems as small as a speck of dust in front of the thousand-hand centipede, barely noticeable if not paid close attention to. The thousand-hand centipede happily wiggled its body, showing its growth to the annual ring worm. The annual ring worm responded constantly, with its sesame-sized eyes filled with joy, displaying a proud glow for the thousand-hand centipede. Usually lethargic, the annual ring worm appeared particularly lively today. Because in the past, it was the only top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect within the Da Li Dynasty territory, and now, it finally has a companion. The two top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insects communicated in insect language, fostering an incredibly friendly atmosphere. Yet, in fact, the annual ring worm was quietly competing with Han Ruyan. It accelerated ceaselessly, resembling the eye of a storm, its six pairs of cloud wings flapping, creating a super typhoon in its wake. Meanwhile, changes occurred within the thousand-hand centipede’s insect body. The power of the Tao River was invoked, the mountain-like silhouette of the thousand-hand centipede’s segmented insect body became blurry. Clusters of ghostly blue flame magma intertwined with scale armor, transforming the sturdy insect armor into flames, not ordinary flames, but rather Void Abyss Phosphorus Fire. This is a type of flame that appears in the Tao River, terrifyingly powerful, capable of burning both the soul and the Yang God. Purple Mansion Cultivators with Yang Gods projecting into the Tao River most fear this kind of Void Abyss Phosphorus Fire, as being scorched by it leads to severe consequences even if they survive. It’s not just the scale armor, from the winding back of the thousand-hand centipede, a dragon-shaped crown on its head formed into an ice crystal. The prism refracted and distorted the surrounding void, transforming space into a hexagonal honeycomb mirrored structure. Through this layer of the mirror surface, one could faintly see the ancient persistent phantom of the Tao River, seemingly trying to shatter the boundary between the Tao River and the physical world, the fearsome Tao’s majesty shaking the entire void. A pair of insect compound eyes transformed into a thunder vortex, layers of thunder intertwined, alternating a flickering amber vertical pupil, with every blink striking lightning spontaneously in the void. A mountain peak stared at by the thousand-hand centipede got instantly obliterated by thunder, leaving behind a deep abyss. Its flesh and blood manifested into a metallic and earthen hue, along with the three-thousand-meter body of the thousand-hand centipede, resembling a living flying mountain range. Thousands of pale corpse hands morphed into the most unrestrained breeze, though the breeze should be formless, it shone with a color of pure purple light, utterly sacred, like the heaven’s purple aura during the ascension of ancient sages, accelerating the speed of the thousand-hand centipede to the extreme. Void Abyss Phosphorus Fire, Nine Heavens Frost Ice, Jade Void Thunder, Heavenly Breath Soil, Rootless Iron, Tao Purple Qi Cloud... The thousand-hand centipede’s body was no longer confined to a typical flesh and blood form, transforming into a body constructed of various energies, substances, and void. These energies and substances are not the ordinary metal, wood, water, fire, or earth, only appearing in the Tao River where specific energies and dangers converge, now becoming part of the thousand-hand centipede’s body, even observing sends shivers down one’s spine, let alone facing the thousand-hand centipede incarnate as a natural disaster. "Xiao Qian, you are increasingly assuming the demeanor of a Tao Chaos Creature." Su Jie brightened his gaze, as early as the top-grade Eight Refinement Gu Insect stage, the thousand-hand centipede already exhibited a trend toward evolving into a Tao Chaos Creature. Now advancing to a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect, Su Jie already understood what spirit refining ability Xiao Qian acquired, called Chaos Assimilation. This spirit refining, although not as direct as the pale corpse hand, the purple light ray, the death decline curse cloud, the skyfire breath, or physical transformation it achieved. But it can gradually adapt the thousand-hand centipede to the powers of the Tao River. Ultimately allowing the thousand-hand centipede to evolve towards becoming a Tao Chaos Creature, until it becomes a true Tao Chaos Creature. The saying goes, "The Great Dao is formless, the Great Dao has no apparition!" The current state of the thousand-hand centipede’s body can no longer be simply viewed as flesh and substance; it’s like a manifestation of Tao’s power in the mortal world. Normal Tao Chaos Creatures, those residing within the Tao River as rulers, every grown Tao Chaos Creature is an extremely terrifying existence. Void Realm Cultivators can only start delving deep into the void, but many Tao Chaos Creatures are naturally imbued with void power, even the power of space-time. As Purple Mansion Realm Cultivators’ Dharma Forms are all modeled after Tao Chaos Creatures. Although a Yang God can barely operate within the Tao River, there remains a significant gap to the freedom enjoyed by Tao Chaos Creatures, and the power derived from the Tao River is far from sufficient. Therefore, Purple Mansion Cultivators, upon advancing, will project their Yang God the first chance they get, enter the Tao River to find the time-space shadow left behind by Tao Chaos creatures, using it as a template to remodel their Yang God into the shape of a Tao Chaos Creature, thereby maximizing the Yang God’s borrowed power from the Tao River. A chaos creature that resides in the Tao River cannot be compared to by mere Purple Mansion Realm entities; they are born rulers of the Tao River. The thousand-hand centipede now advances further toward evolving into a Tao River Chaos Creature, before only its body could transform into ordinary flame, water, and thunder, now it can convert into the devastating catastrophic energies unique to the Tao River like Void Abyss Phosphorus Fire, marking an enormous advancement. This also signifies that the thousand-hand centipede is on the right path. The thousand-hand centipede continued to accelerate, finally surpassing Han Ruyan, instantly as gleeful as a child, jubilantly dancing in the air, emitting a triumphant hiss. With tendencies toward voidification, chaos, and dao transformation, the thousand-hand centipede can already rival Han Ruyan, In terms of the most dominant attack power and defense, it is even stronger than Han Ruyan, except for the level of strangeness and volatility, it doesn’t surpass Han Ruyan, the ghost. Han Ruyan’s expression didn’t change much, she merely chuckled lightly: "You serve the husband as your master, then I am the mistress, Alas, you can’t speak, else you’d be asked to say it." The thousand-hand centipede’s compound eyes sparked with thunder, buzzed incessantly, indicating it only listens to Su Jie, not obeying a word from you, the female ghost. Seeing this familiar scene, Su Jie couldn’t help but shake his head, saying to Han Ruyan: "It’s the thousand-hand centipede’s advancement today, don’t provoke it." Han Ruyan rolled her eyes at Su Jie, gracefully turned and floated away, refusing to compete with the thousand-hand centipede. Su Jie patted the head of the thousand-hand centipede, saying: "Xiao Qian, begin the Qi Blood Energy backfeeding, will I succeed in advancing to the Purple Mansion Middle Stage this time, refining the Upper Elixir, it all depends on you." Xiao Qian nodded anthropomorphically, its colossal body decreasing explosively, finally reduced to the length of a chopstick, as if it were the size Su Jie initially encountered, then lay on Su Jie’s chest, commencing to backfeed its endless Qi Blood Energy from its advance to top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect into Su Jie’s body. As Su Jie’s Lifebound poisonous insect, every step of growth and breakthrough correlates to an increase in the host’s cultivation strength, which is customary for most Ghost Ridge Palace Disciples, but they do not possess a top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Insect, nor do they contemplate issues like the Purple Mansion Middle Stage. Su Jie simultaneously activated the "Hundred Poison Refining Gu Scripture", borrowing the Qi Blood Energy of the thousand-hand centipede, fervently impacting the Upper Elixir within his sea of consciousness. He was eager to advance, intending to step into the Purple Mansion Middle Stage Realm. Time waits for no one, the world’s trend is like oil boiling with fire, without achieving the Purple Mansion Middle Stage, how could he aspire to the highest seat of the Da Li Dynasty.