Yuan Ming released the soul crows and returned to his room, where he closed the door and sat down to meditate. Through the eyes of the soul crows, he soared high above, surveying the entirety of the Precious Spirit Sect.

This was not a spur-of-the-moment action for Yuan Ming; it was a premeditated plan.

When Gu Qiuming invited him to his sect, Yuan Ming had already set his sights on their ancestral hall's incense offerings, which he was sorely in need of.

Unlike the talent-depleted Xuanhua Guan, the Precious Spirit Sect, while not a powerful large sect, had an orderly inheritance and was clan-based, suggesting that their incense offerings would be purer.