Half a month later.
Qin Ming's Moon Gazing Island had returned to its former tranquility.
Yet within the Immortal Cultivation World of the Spirit Rest Archipelago and Azure Sea Immortal City, Qin Ming's inspiring tale of beginning as a Spirit Farmer and achieving Foundation Establishment with a false spirit root remained as popular as ever.
It was a major topic of conversation among cultivators after tea and meals.
After all, even across the Immortal Cultivation World of the Wei Kingdom, there were very few who had reached the second tier in two cultivation arts.
Mastering a single cultivation art was enough to occupy a cultivator for an entire lifetime, let alone two.
And one of them was alchemy, the most difficult of all.
Moreover, a rumor had quietly begun to spread.
People speculated that Qin Ming's attainments in alchemy were likely already sufficient for him to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.
After all.
Before achieving Foundation Establishment, he had spent some time gathering spiritual materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills in Azure Sea Immortal City.
Many cultivators in the Immortal City had witnessed this with their own eyes.
Once this speculation emerged, Qin Ming's reputation soared again, even eclipsing Grand Alchemist Sun for a time.
Yet Qin Ming was far too low-key in his dealings. He kept to himself, practically living in seclusion on Moon Gazing Island, and refused recruitment from any faction.
This only made him seem all the more mysterious.
However.
Even the hottest topics gradually faded with time.
Besides that.
The major factions' desire for Spirit Rest Rice had not diminished in the least.
But ever since they learned that they could purchase small quantities of Spirit Rest Rice through Mirror Snow Pavilion, few people came to disturb Qin Ming anymore.
There was another matter as well.
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