To Qin Ming as he was now,
the arrival of Insect Demon Yin Lingzi had merely stirred up a few ripples. It posed no great threat.
Sensing that the winds and clouds of the Immortal Cultivation World were about to shift once more, Qin Ming's sense of urgency arose unbidden.
After all, even old monsters of the Refining Void Stage sects had perished in the mouths of insects.
And within that Ancient Insect Valley, there were actually vicious insects that even Body Integration Stage Great Experts could not handle.
Time flowed on, and the years sped by like a shuttle.
Thirty years slipped away in silence.
The days of cultivation passed quickly. To Qin Ming, with his long lifespan, they were no more than the blink of an eye.
On this day, within the stone pavilion atop the Main Peak of Little Turtle Peak,
Qin Ming was playing chess with Daoist Xuan Guan of the Heavenly Star City Alchemy Pavilion and Master Kongzhi.
A stick of Sixth Order spirit incense burned atop the nearby table.
Qin Ming had refined it from Dragon Saliva Agarwood Divine Wood, supplemented by dozens of special high-grade spirit materials. He had gathered those materials from the Heavenly Star City treasury; they could not be assembled anywhere else.
For Refining Void Stage cultivators, this incense could strengthen the divine soul and suppress inner demons.
Moreover, smelling it also gave one a slight chance of entering enlightenment. It could be called a rare Sixth Order wondrous incense.
Just a small piece of it could be exchanged for a considerable sum of immortal jade, and even then, one might not be able to buy it.
Only a few sticks had ever occasionally appeared at the region-level auctions within Heavenly Star City.
Even Daoist Xuan Guan and Master