The Insect Demon's rise to fame, trading aboard the treasure ship [Monthly votes requested]

"This demon actually ruined Master's reputation! Should we find a chance to teach him a lesson?"

After they returned from Ice God Palace to Blazing Snow City, Jin Feng's eyes widened when she learned what had happened, and she looked ready to find someone to vent her anger on.

Yet Lin Chang'an knew what the girl was thinking even with his eyes closed. Irritated, he flicked her on the forehead.

Jin Feng winced and covered her forehead with both hands, looking aggrieved. "Master, I'm on your side here."

"Hmph. Don't think I don't know what you're scheming."

Lin Chang'an shot her an exasperated look, then gathered his thoughts and said gravely:

"Don't stir up trouble. Besides, this might not necessarily be a bad thing."

Back in the Lower Realm, he had never tried to clear up those rumors. Apart from being unable to defend himself even with a hundred mouths, the more important reason was that they could conceal how he had reached Spirit Transformation in just a few hundred years.

The same reasoning applied now that he was in the Spirit Realm.

"This way, they're even less likely to suspect that I've encountered other opportunities. Never mind the Profound Heaven Spiritual Object—even suspicions about other things will lessen."

Lin Chang'an's gaze flickered. Previously, he had thought the Spirit Realm was so vast that no one would discover him while he hid in this remote region.

Now, however, it was clear that he had underestimated the great powers of the Spirit Realm.

Or rather, the implications of a Profound Heaven Spiritual Object were so far-reaching that countless factions had detected the Profound Heaven Immortal Vine's aura the instant it appeared in the Spirit Realm.

"Still, even so, it took nearly three hundred years for their investigations to reach the North