Being the Longevity Sect Leader, Chen Dengming had sharply sensed the brewing of new conflicts, namely the tensions between the Four Seas and the Four Regions.
However, they weren't yet significant.
Even as major sects competed for Incense Believers, he tried his best to avoid friction.
The Divine Spirit Association was primarily active among low-level cultivators and numerous mortals; Incense Believers were mostly these individuals, solving many of their issues with poverty, food, and safety.
To the current sects like Mingguang Sect, this was considered a "down-market," not of great value, and thus they hadn't yet clashed with him in this area.
But that might change in the future.
Fortunately, some fifty years later, the Broken Heavenly Immortal Realm would open.
And the banned forces of the Three Saints Palaces, along with other Outer Realm Evil Cultivators and Demon Cultivation forces, were merely expelled, not utterly annihilated, so the threat remained.
