Chapter 402: Forming the Core and Magic Treasures

A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality, Volumes 3 and 4: Rise of the Overseas Winds

Within the immortal's cave, the door to the secret chamber finally opened.

A figure flashed, and a person with disheveled hair, whose face was unclear, slowly emerged from the secret chamber.

At this moment, a yellow light flickered. Qu Hun immediately appeared beside this person, his expression utterly blank.

"Hehe, Foundation Establishment, I've finally reached Golden Core perfection!" Looking at everything outside the secret chamber and at Qu Hun by his side, the person suddenly threw his head back and burst into laughter. His laughter subtly revealed the sound of a dragon's roar and a tiger's cry.

The face peeking out from the messy hair was none other than Han Li, who had entered the secret chamber sixty years ago.

However, at this moment, his eyes shimmered with sharp light, and his every movement exuded immense power, as if he had become a completely different person.

After his hearty laughter, Han Li looked at everything outside the secret chamber and felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

Sixty years of seclusion from worldly affairs gave him a feeling that while things remained, people had changed. It was as if everything that had happened before had become very distant!

Han Li did not linger in the same spot. Instead, following the memories ingrained in his mind, he returned to his own living quarters.

After the time it takes to eat a meal, Han Li emerged from his quarters radiant, having regained his appearance and attire from decades ago, still looking like a young man in his early twenties.

However, at this moment, his expression was extremely calm. He unhurriedly walked towards the insect room.

The Gold Devouring Beetles in the insect room were now vastly different from how they were decades ago!

Not only had their numbers reached a terrifying tens of thousands, but their originally silver exoskeletons had also developed golden spots, making them appear much more ferocious and menacing.

Seeing this, Han Li showed no surprise.

Many years ago, he had already learned of this through his clone, Qu Hun. Now, he was merely witnessing the true situation with his own eyes.

To be honest, Han Li himself never expected that his initial flash of insight, using these Gold Devouring Beetles for the Rainbow Grass experiment, would accidentally solve the problem of cultivating the Gold Devouring Beetles.

After he went into seclusion, Qu Hun continued to feed the Gold Devouring Beetles with the expanded leaves of the Rainbow Grass every month. After consuming this, the temperament of these flying insects grew increasingly irritable.

After three or four years of feeding, the Gold Devouring Beetles finally underwent a strange transformation.

After gnawing through the Rainbow Grass, they began to devour and fight each other.

Within a few days, only a dozen or so Gold Devouring Beetles remained from the original hundreds. However, these surviving insects were much larger and possessed a far stronger aura than their former counterparts.

Moreover, shortly after these insects devoured their own kind, they began to lay eggs on their own. Each beetle laid nearly a hundred eggs before slowly dying.

Han Li instantly obtained over a thousand insect eggs.

These insects hatched on their own after only one year.

Thus, Qu Hun continued to feed them Rainbow Grass, allowing them to constantly devour each other and lay eggs.

After several such cycles, the number of Gold Devouring Beetles began to increase dramatically.

If not for the limited number of Rainbow Grass that could be ripened, which caused the time for their mutual devouring to be increasingly delayed, their numbers would surely be far greater.