Two years could not possibly have been spent entirely refining the Blazing Sun Primordial Pearls. Qin Fengming had used nearly half that time to consolidate the talismanic patterns and incantations of the Mysterious Phoenix Soaring Heaven Art's evasion technique.
Although Qin Fengming had spent four years comprehending this evasion technique on Yunmeng Mountain, he had not yet begun cultivating it.
He had merely integrated and mastered all the talismanic patterns and incantations contained within the technique. To cultivate it to success would take several years at the very least; Qin Fengming was certain he could never complete it in less.
At this time, he still had not begun cultivating it. Instead, he spent several months familiarizing himself with it once more.
During this seclusion, Qin Fengming's greatest harvest—aside from obtaining seven Blazing Sun Primordial Pearls—was that he had hatched nearly three hundred thousand Silver Sheath Worm eggs laid after the worms mated again.
Back when he had been at the Yin Household, tens of thousands of Silver Sheath Worms had slaughtered and devoured one another before mating.
Yet after mating, the more than one thousand female worms had not laid eggs immediately. It was only after Qin Fengming entered Yunmeng Mountain that they produced nearly three hundred thousand milky-white eggs.
After four or five years of maturing on their own, they had finally reached the proper time to hatch shortly before.
If other cultivators had tried to hatch nearly three hundred thousand Silver Sheath Worm eggs, the enormous quantity of spirit herbs alone would have made it an undertaking they might struggle to complete even over an entire lifetime.
Hatching Silver Sheath Worm eggs required an immense amount of energy. Apart from the tremendous energy contained in the juice of precious spirit herbs, no other form of energy could accomplish