This was all thanks to Chu Sheng taking advantage of their little game of hide-and-seek.
He had exhausted his remaining sixty million Life Essence.
All to brute-force the cultivation of this Golden Silkworm Gu King!
Sixty million might sound like a terrifyingly large number.
But as one's cultivation level rises, the amount of essence required for each upgrade also multiplies.
If he had used it to upgrade those Low Tier Insect Beasts, raising a single one from the Seventh-Grade Early Stage to the Seventh Grade Middle Stage would require a full three hundred points of Life Essence.
Upgrading two hundred thousand of them would instantly burn through all sixty million.
A minor stage increase would be completely useless and have no decisive effect when facing a Half-Step Emperor Realm expert.
So after a quick calculation, Chu Sheng decided it was better to concentrate all his resources on a single point!
