Chapter 11: Lower-Css Curse Insects, Upper-Css Curse Techniques
"Creak—"
Li Guanqi pushed open the door and ran out.
"Those whose eyeballs were plucked out can continue moving freely inside the house."
Standing on the grass outside the house, Li Guanqi issued the command.
His Tongyou talent could sense the traces of all insects within a thousand-meter radius, and he discovered that only within the wooden house were there curse insects whose eyeballs had been plucked out by Wei Mo.
In other words, the curse insects subjected to the Human-Insect Shared Vision technique, capable of acting as "cameras," only existed in the wooden house he lived in.
Now that the disguise was set up, he could move around freely.
"Brother, you gotta keep a good watch for me."
Li Guanqi turned his head, squinting slightly as he looked towards another wooden house several tens of meters away.
That was Wei Mo's seclusion house.
Tongyou talent, whispering with insects.
He maintained constant contact with a small insect in that room, instructing it to notify him immediately if it saw any sign of Wei Mo getting up.
"Gotta go."
Li Guanqi retracted his gaze and ran towards another wooden house.
The small insects nearby told him that the room contained many things that smelled like tree bark. Bark used for paper – perhaps that was Wei Mo's library.
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Seclusion House.
Wei Mo sat cross-legged with his eyes tightly shut. In his left hand, he pinched a small white insect, and dark green spiritual light continuously emerged, flowing into the small insect's body.
Beside him on the floor, the wooden bowl already contained more than a dozen wriggling small insects, spitting purple viscous liquid into the bowl.
After a long while.
Wei Mo slowly opened his eyes and tossed the small insect from his left hand into the wooden bowl.
Then he raised his left hand to cover his left eye.
Single-handedly forming a seal with his right hand!
Immediately, within Wei Mo's right eye, the bck pupil gradually turned emerald green.
At this moment, Wei Mo's perspective shifted to bck, white, and gray, rapidly shaking. In the blurry vision, he could barely make out a person lying on the bed.
"Mm."
Wei Mo nodded with satisfaction. His right eye gradually returned to normal, and he lowered the hand covering his left eye.
"After I possess that kid, I must find some insects that can both withstand the Human-Insect Shared Vision technique and possess color vision."
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"Shh!"
Li Guanqi stood inside a wooden house, facing more than a dozen fist-sized rge wasps staring at him. He pced a finger to his lips, making a silencing gesture.
"Don't make a sound! Act like you haven't seen me! Got it?!"
Li Guanqi issued the mental command.
The dozen or so terrifying rge wasps looked at each other, then finally looked back at Li Guanqi in unison, nodding together to show they understood.
"Mm."
Li Guanqi nodded with satisfaction. This Tongyou talent was really useful; facing these curse insects was like a grandfather looking at his grandchildren – his word was w.
He then looked around, carefully examining the wooden house.
It was airtight, without any windows or gaps, dark inside. He could vaguely make out the outlines of bookshelves.
No good.
Too dark.
Li Guanqi circuted the spiritual power within his body, directing it to his eyes.
Soon, a green glint fshed in his pupils, and simultaneously, his vision became incredibly clear, even clearer than in broad daylight.
[Curse Technique Proficiency (White)]
Night Vision Art!
Actually, this hardly counted as a curse technique anymore; it was just the most basic trick of utilizing spiritual power.
Li Guanqi walked to the first bookshelf, picked up the first book, and began flipping through it, madly absorbing the curse technique knowledge contained within these books.
One after another, curse techniques not included in his [Curse Technique Proficiency (White)] were memorized by him.
And perhaps because he already had the foundation from [Curse Technique Proficiency (White)], he found that he not only understood these curse techniques at a gnce but could even extrapote from them.
It was like having already memorized all the common Chinese characters and then starting to learn common Chinese vocabury – the difficulty was greatly reduced.
Learning with utter absorption, forgetting to eat or sleep.
Li Guanqi could guarantee that whether it was studying or basketball training, he had never been as focused as he was today.
Because unfolding before him was a bizarre and motley world filled with various supernatural powers: descriptions of countless strange curse insects, depictions of magical curse techniques, legendary tales of powerful sorcerers...
All of this presented itself like a slowly unrolling scroll painting.
Among the most noteworthy points was the retionship between sorcerers and curse insects.
One book titled "Origins of Sorcery" stated that in ancient times, the human world and the netherworld were interconnected. Netherworld curse spirit ravaged the human realm, and various curses spread across the nd.
Human ancestors observed the curse spirits and comprehended curse techniques.
In other words, the so-called curse techniques were actually learned by humans from curse spirits.
And in the human world, generally speaking, the creatures closest to curse spirits were insects.
Most insects, or rather, practically any insect, had a very high compatibility with curse techniques.
Therefore, many sorcerers would choose to capture insects, cultivating them into curse insects using curse techniques and blood... For example, Wei Mo was a typical "insect sorcerer".
But besides insects, many other types of monstrous beasts also had high compatibility with curse techniques and could be cultivated into curse beasts (咒兽, zhòu shòu).
However, strictly speaking.
Relying on curse insects and curse beasts was considered a lower strategy.
They were products created by sorcerers to compensate for their own ck of combat power.
The most powerful, top-tier, most dazzlingly talented sorcerers all directly observed curse spirits, comprehended their own unique curse techniques from the spirits, and then relied on these original techniques for combat.
"Curse spirits?"
Li Guanqi grew increasingly curious, constantly searching the bookshelves. "What exactly are curse spirits? Do they still exist in the world now?"
Unfortunately.
There was no information about curse spirits on any of the bookshelves in the library.
He had no choice but to return to the first bookshelf, pick up a book again, and read carefully.
"Rustle— Rustle—"
The sound of turning pages echoed continuously in the library.
The world of sorcerers was truly captivating.
In the blink of an eye, four hours quietly passed.
"!!!"
Li Guanqi abruptly looked up!
He quickly pced the book in his hand back in its original position and turned to rush out of the library.
It was the small insect in the seclusion house giving a warning!
Wei Mo had finished his seclusion!
"Those whose eyeballs were plucked out, all of you look up at the roof!"
On the grass.
Li Guanqi ran against the dim yellow evening glow, his steps incredibly fast, covering thirty meters in the blink of an eye. After issuing the command, he pushed open the door of his wooden house and spped his doppelg?nger puppet, shattering it.
The puppet dissipated into white smoke.
Li Guanqi himself returned to the bed.
"Alright, you can look freely now."
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"Ah—"
Wei Mo stood up from the floor, stretching zily.
Then he looked at the full bowl of purple insect soup at his feet, nodded with satisfaction. He didn't leave immediately but walked a few steps and y down directly on the luxurious rge bed in this wooden house.
Before long.
Snores began to sound.
Anyway, he would be changing bodies soon, and what he needed to do now was separate his cultivation, not continue cultivating to strengthen his spiritual power.
He could rest for a while.
