Time drifted on, slipping away without a sound.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Within the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm, the buzz surrounding the legendary cultivator Moon Gazing Adept had not diminished much simply because he had shut his doors to visitors.
On the contrary, discussions about him only grew livelier. Every Immortal City and marketplace across the four nations brimmed with tales of him.
From intelligence organizations of every faction to the teahouses and taverns lining the streets, all anyone talked about was Moon Gazing Adept.
Quite a few storytellers even held special daily sessions, recounting the legendary and inspiring life of Moon Gazing Adept.
Even the bookshops and street vendors were selling all manner of novels and storybooks about Moon Gazing Adept.
They sold like hotcakes, with demand far outstripping supply, and their prices had been driven up to astonishing amounts of Spirit Stones.
At this very moment, Qin Ming, the man at the center of it all, was painstakingly refining the Blood Floating Pagoda demonic treasure within the Lesser Spirit Realm.
That fourth-grade Demon Core belonging to the Great Dark Sky Demon Saint was exceptionally difficult to refine. Relying on the Secret Method from Demonic Engineering Unveiled, he spent more than a year slowly wearing it down before finally refining it completely.
Afterward, he took out the blood-colored inkstone and added inscribed demonic-pattern restrictions within it.
The sheer number and complexity of restrictions needed to forge a fourth-grade Spirit Treasure was staggering. The inscription process also had to be completed in one uninterrupted flow, placing an extreme drain on a cultivator's divine soul.
Fortunately, Qin Ming's divine soul far surpassed that of a Golden Core Stage cultivator, enough to sustain this treasure refinement.
Immediately afterward.
Qin Ming performed the treasure-refining incantation, perfectly