Seeing such dazzling incense, Li Hao felt emotions he could hardly put into words.
When he first arrived in the Heavenly Realms, everything here had been unfamiliar. After living in the Mortal World for over a decade, he had long since come to regard it as his "home."
He had fought his way through the Heavenly Realms, defeated their supreme prodigies, cut down Sages, and awed the realms into submission. Yet his heart had always remained in the Mortal World, on the frontier of the Great Yu Dynasty, in that fortified city, in that little fenced courtyard.
There, cooking smoke curled into the air, old friends kept him company, and he fished in his spare time and painted in quiet moments. Life had been wonderfully carefree.
He had felt no sense of belonging in the Heavenly Realms, but that breach torn open in the True Venerable Tower, those five years of surging incense,
and now this rainbow bridge of incense made Li Hao truly feel that he had become part of the Heavenly Realms. This was his second "home."
The emotions contained in that incense spoke louder than any words.
Li Hao drew a deep breath and accepted the incense. Though the incense within him had already reached the pinnacle of the God Realm, more could still settle within him without end. He could hardly imagine what realm or qualitative transformation awaited beyond the Incense God Realm if he continued accumulating more and more incense.
The Source Ancestor had reached the Incense God Realm long ago, yet he had continued gathering incense for years. His purpose clearly could not have been as simple as blocking the path of other Sages.
"That place wasn't a Forbidden Zone, but an opportunity?!"
"So that's how it was."
"Heavens, why didn't I go there