Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, nine years had passed.
Over these nine years, the entire Human Cultivation World remained quite peaceful. There were no external threats or internal troubles. The effects brought by the Demonic Calamity were slowly being smoothed away, and the Origin Demonic Energy lingering in the world was gradually purified completely.
This Two Realms Passage within human territory also seemed to have fallen completely silent. Not a single living being from the Demon Realm had crossed over during these nine years.
Everyone knew that this hard-won peace existed because the current Dao Palace had an incomparably powerful Wuji Celestial Venerable standing guard. Foreign enemies simply did not dare invade lightly.
Over these years, Longevity Shrines dedicated to Li Qing had appeared throughout human lands. Their incense offerings flourished greatly, and prayers from all directions turned into faith wish power that gathered within the Wuji Grotto-Heaven.
Li Qing, who was in secluded meditation, sensed the faith wish power gathering around him and lightly frowned.
Receive the incense offerings of the mortal world, and calamities would not descend upon one's body.
This was the cultivation method of Earth Immortals in the upper realm. By accepting the incense offerings of countless households and drawing upon this faith wish power, one could attain the Earth Immortal Fruit Position.
Within his sea of consciousness, memory fragments related to the Demon Venerable revealed the mysteries behind it to him.
In the upper realm, some cultivators unable to attain the True Immortal Fruit Position would transform themselves into local earth and mountain gods, becoming the faith of the living beings in a region and attaining the Earth Immortal Fruit Position.
Among the Demon Venerable's inherited memories was a method for cultivating into an Earth Immortal. One chapter, the "Faith