After the death of this beetle, Qianye sensed countless little specks shrinking back into the rocky crevices. He gave it some thought before deciding to give up on catching them. These poisonous beetles were too dangerous—he wouldn’t know how to handle them while alive, and their value would shrink once dead.

Qianye turned toward the other two and said, “Beware of the insects inside the rock crevices, they’re extremely poisonous.”

Both Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan nodded. Something Qianye considered extremely poisonous had to be a rare venom.

Equipped with prior experience, Qianye became quite cautious whenever he passed by rocky crevices. As expected, he encountered numerous different insects, spiders, scorpions, and the like, all of them just as venomous as the first beetle. But now that he was guarded, the creatures had no chance to injure him.

Toward the end, Qianye would simply sweep the stone crevices with his sanguine flames. Even if the bugs weren’t killed by the blaze, they would go into hiding after sensing the dark golden blood energy.

This bare cliff was devoid of plants and beasts;...