Chapter 366: Demon Flame Wine

Half a month later.

News spread like wildfire that the Mirror Jing Xue Ge in the Spirit Ruin Market was selling third-grade upper-tier Soul-Cleansing Incense.

Like a towering wave crashing from the heavens, it quickly swept across the Southern Region of Great Jin.

Many high-stage cultivators came specifically to purchase it, drawn by its reputation.

Jia Heyi vividly organized several auctions, thoroughly establishing the Mirror Jing Xue Ge's fame.

Nowadays, the Mirror Jing Xue Ge's reputation was soaring throughout Great Jin.

After all, they were the only ones capable of offering such a large quantity of high-grade spiritual incense; even the top-ranked shops within the Ten Thousand Dao Commerce Alliance did not possess so much.

Ordinarily, third-grade upper-tier Soul-Cleansing Incense was limited by materials, requiring third-grade spiritual wood for refinement, so even when it appeared, it was only occasionally a few sticks.

But Qin Ming had ten mu of a single type of third-grade spiritual plant, so he never worried about lacking materials.

Moreover, on his very first refinement attempt, he produced over a thousand sticks, which was simply extravagantly impressive.

Inside the cave dwelling within the Small Xiao Lingjing.

Qin Ming lit a stick of Soul-Cleansing Incense, then began his cultivation, wanting to personally experience the legendary effects of the Soul-Cleansing Spiritual Incense.

The moment it ignited.

Fragrant smoke curled upward, bathing him in steam; a heart-penetrating exotic scent drifted over, causing his spirit to surge with vigor.

His mind and heart felt as if bathed in a spring breeze, instantly filled with a tranquility calm as water.

Various stray thoughts and heart demons failed to arise.

At the same time, circulating the "Green Emperor Art" became as easy as a fish in water, and the efficiency of converting spiritual energy grew even higher.

Within his sea of consciousness, a miraculous scene immediately appeared: clouds filling a thousand mountains, moonlight embracing ten thousand waters.

Inside Qin Ming's body, his spirit and energy embraced each other, knotted without dispersing, swirling in a misty dance, coming and going suddenly, as if boundless as the Great Void; his whole body felt light and exquisite, as if about to soar, truly incomparably comfortable.

"Truly a fine treasure!"

"No wonder it is considered a luxury item in the Immortal Realm."

One stick of spiritual incense burned to ash.

Qin Ming opened his eyes, black as ink; with the aid of the Soul-Cleansing Incense, cultivation was indeed twice as effective with half the effort.

Especially for breaking through bottlenecks and secluding oneself to comprehend cultivation techniques, this item possessed tremendous efficacy.

Having personally experienced the Soul-Cleansing Spiritual Incense, he felt extremely satisfied.

Now that he still had a huge pile left, he could use it continuously for his daily cultivation.

Looking across the entire Immortal Realm, only Qin Ming could afford to use it so freely.

Several days later.

Jia Heyi, beaming with pride, came to report his work to Qin Ming.

"Shopkeeper Lu, this spiritual incense auction was a huge success!"

"In just a few short days, everything sold out! Hehehe!"

"Here are the spirit stones obtained from selling the incense, totaling one hundred and eighty upper-grade spirit stones."

"Additionally, a scattered cultivator senior at the Jin Dan stage offered a page from a book in exchange for two sticks of incense; feeling this item held considerable value, I took the liberty of exchanging it with him."

"Inside here are the spirit stones and the book page; please examine them."

Having spoken, Jia Heyi, wearing a smile, presented an exquisite spirit stone pouch and a yellowed sheet of paper.

Qin Ming nodded, accepted the items, and felt quite surprised; he hadn't expected this batch of incense to fetch so many spirit stones.

"I didn't expect this spiritual incense to be so sought-after; nearly one stick of incense was worth one upper-grade spirit stone."

"Truly like burning spirit stones."

He opened the spirit stone pouch and swept it with his divine sense; inside lay quietly more than one hundred and eighty upper-grade spirit stones brimming with spiritual energy, and a highly satisfied smile immediately appeared on his face.

Qin Ming stored the spirit stones, then shifted his gaze to the yellowed sheet of paper.

But as soon as he saw the content clearly, the expression on his face instantly became extraordinarily rich.

Because the content within was not unfamiliar to him.

"It's actually the sequel to the 'Wine Immortal Divine Formula'!"

However, the content on this divine formula was evidently far superior to what Qin Ming currently held.

The wine recipes recorded within were all secret formulas for brewing spiritual wine targeted at Jin Dan stage cultivation, or even the Nascent Soul stage.

Qin Ming's gaze immediately landed on a wine recipe named "Demon Flame Wine."

According to its description, upon first consumption, this wine possessed the miraculous effect of helping late-stage Jin Dan cultivators break through to the perfect Jin Dan realm, and could further refine Jin Dan magic power to a state of perfect fluidity without obstruction.

Brewing this "Demon Flame Wine" required the demon core of a flood dragon at the third-stage late phase or above as the main material.

This single stringent condition was enough to stump the vast majority of cultivators, causing them to shrink back in fear.

However—

Qin Ming happened to possess exactly one demon core from a Green-Faced Poisonous Flood Dragon!

Wasn't this a remarkable coincidence?!

Because he lacked a suitable formula, he had previously been considering whether to use this flood dragon demon core for refining pills or crafting magical treasures.

For a time, he remained undecided.

Now, having just completed his breakthrough to the late Jin Dan stage, he obtained this spiritual wine immortal formula; clearly, heaven's will was at work!

Not only that, but on this wine formula sheet, there were also several methods for brewing powerful spiritual wines, some even possessing various marvelous uses for the Nascent Soul stage.

Of course, the materials required to brew these high-grade spiritual wines were all extremely rare treasures.

Some even required the demon core of a fourth-stage shape-shifting great demon as the main material, which was beyond what Qin Ming could currently reach.

He hadn't expected that letting Jia Heyi sell the Soul-Cleansing Incense would yield such an unexpected harvest, making Qin Ming extremely delighted.

In high spirits, he directly took out a bottle of Yu Xuan Dan and bestowed it upon Jia Heyi.

"Old Jia, you did very well this time; you have accomplished a great merit!"

"This is your reward."

Jia Heyi's body trembled as he accepted the spirit pill, saying excitedly, "Thank you, Shopkeeper Lu, for the reward! This is what your subordinate ought to do!"

He truly had not expected "Shopkeeper Lu" to value this wine recipe so highly.

After all, when Jia Heyi acquired this wine recipe, he had also looked through it once.

Although the spirit wine brewed from it possessed miraculous effects, those were all targeted at the Jin Dan stage, or even the Nascent Soul stage.

Just the primary ingredient for brewing required the demon core of a late-stage Tier Three great beast.

Such a spiritual treasure, it was estimated that apart from Nascent Soul old monsters, ordinary Jin Dan cultivators lacked the ability to obtain it.

It was precisely for this reason that after that Jin Dan rogue cultivator obtained this wine recipe, he chose to exchange it for Soul-Cleansing Incense.

After all, keeping such a thing in hand was tantamount to holding a useless scrap of paper, as it simply could not be brewed.

Jia Heyi had previously been somewhat uncertain, but now seeing Shopkeeper Lu so delighted, he immediately felt reassured.

However, what surprised him was this:

If a Jin Dan cultivator obtained this wine recipe, it might be of some use, but Shopkeeper Lu was only at the late Foundation Establishment stage; he didn't know why the man was so happy. 'Never mind, our Shopkeeper Lu is immensely powerful; perhaps he obtained this recipe for some other purpose.'

Thinking this silently, Jia Heyi withdrew after offering a thousand thanks.

With the Yu Xuan Dan, his cultivation, which had been stagnant for a long time, could probably advance another step.

After Old Jia left, Qin Ming immediately began studying the Demonic Flame Wine.

The scarcest ingredient, the late-stage Tier Three flood dragon demon core, was already in hand.

Next,

Qin Ming went to the Five Elements Mountain Market to gather and purchase the other several auxiliary materials.

After returning to the Small Xiao Lingjing, he could not wait and immediately began brewing the Demonic Flame Wine.

Fortunately, since this was spirit wine from the "Divine Formula of the Wine Immortal," as long as the materials were complete, the difficulty of brewing was not as high as that of pill refining.

Otherwise, with only one late-stage Tier Three demon core in his possession, a failure would have resulted in a loss outweighing the gain.

In front of Qin Ming were arranged over a dozen wine jars; under the control of his divine sense, the spiritual materials required for the Demonic Flame Wine all floated in mid-air.

Subsequently, he summoned the Devouring Spirit Poison Flame to refine the spiritual materials and began brewing the wine according to the formula.

After this wine was successfully brewed, it still needed to be cellared for ten years before it could be consumed, waiting for time to ferment it so that it could exert its maximum efficacy.

However, regarding breaking through to the Jin Dan perfection, let alone ten years, even fifty years were something Qin Ming could afford to wait.

Qin Ming formed a hand seal with his fingers and pointed; the spring water from the Fourth Tier Earth Heart Spirit Spring flew out, following his guidance, and fell into the wine vat.

According to what was stated in the "Divine Formula of the Wine Immortal," brewing spirit wine naturally had a great relationship with the quality of the spirit spring; naturally, the higher the tier, the better.

The Earth Heart Spirit Spring that Qin Ming employed had even exceeded the requirements within the wine formula.

He had already begun to anticipate what kind of taste this legendary Demonic Flame Wine would actually possess.

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(End of Chapter)