Incense Fire Tempers the Embryo Through Nine Refinements

After the Moral Immortal Sect and the Divine Firmament Dao Sect,

this was the third sacred sect to stand upon Central Province's vast lands and spread its Fortune Cloud to the three-thousand-li limit!

At this moment,

it was not only the countless cultivators of the world who looked on in astonishment.

Even Liu Dongqing himself was studying that vast, three-thousand-li Fortune Cloud inscribed with demon script.

Compared with the astonishment carried in the gazes turning toward him from every direction, Liu Dongqing had a different perspective. He was a top cultivator who had witnessed the Fortune Clouds of the Moral Immortal Sect and Divine Firmament Dao Sect more than once.

He was also a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord with profound attainments in the Fortune Dao.

He could clearly sense that,

compared with those two sects' Fortune Clouds, the three-thousand-li Fortune Cloud of the newly reestablished Demon Refining Mystic Sect was somewhat insubstantial.

A third of its vast display came from the fortune left in heaven and earth by the former Demon Refining Mystic Sect, once more prosperous still, even after its mountains had been razed and its temples destroyed.

Another third came from the twelve extraordinarily accessible and complete lineages Liu Dongqing had placed within the mottled jade seal, the vessel of inheritance; and from the mighty foundation of a Mountain Gate built by combining 108 supreme geomantic arrangements into one.

The final third came from the sect's sheer strength in this age, when Spirit Transformation Dao Lords stood at the pinnacle of cultivators: twelve such Dao Lords gathered in one sect to anchor its fortune!

Only when all these things came together did its blazing Fortune Cloud reach the full three thousand li.

But

beneath the brocade draped over flowers and the oil poured onto roaring flames, Liu Dongqing