At Li Ling's current cultivation level, breaking through to the next stage was his foremost priority.
Thus, the moment he sensed that glimmer of insight, he returned to secluded cultivation, leaving Black Valley's affairs to Chi Yingting and the others.
Chi Yingting and the others were now powerful enough to hold their own, so he felt entirely at ease entrusting them with the task.
Still, to guard against surprise attacks by enemy powerhouses, he left behind ample Incense Deity Avatars for them to summon.
This was a very practical application of his abilities. Ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivators truly did not possess as many avatars as he did, nor could they readily distribute their power for their disciples to use.
It required an entire framework of Dao Paths, Divine Abilities, and Dao arts to support it. Some Dao Fruits inherently emphasized concentrating all supernatural might within oneself and were unsuitable for distributing power.
Over the days that followed, all of Black Valley developed rapidly.
The Netherworld Sect remained unmoved, effectively abandoning the area altogether.
Their earlier arrangements had relied on the Horse Demon Race as their proxies, gathering rogue cultivators from various quarters to contest the region.
The prize that truly attracted them was the Fox Demon Race's Heavenly Fox Palace.
Beyond that, they had deployed the Netherworld Well to test this new weapon against the Incense Accumulation Sect.
But once both objectives were thwarted in succession, they had no reason to continue wasting time here.
Moreover, the advancement of an heir to the White Bone Sect's Dharma King lineage still counted as a gain in the eyes of some Netherworld Sect powerhouses.
They naturally accepted the reality of the Incense Accumulation Sect governing the region, without any dissatisfaction.
Several more decades quickly passed. Before anyone knew it, a new