Incense and Fire Prayer Power, a New Incantation

Inside the cavern, the once-raging hurricane of Karmic Burden had subsided, but a strange heaviness still hung thick in the air.

Chu Bai stood motionless. In his right palm, a gold-and-red sigil flickered like a ravenous black hole, silently drawing away every trace of Incense and Fire Prayer Power left in the cavern that had once belonged to the Three-Bath Lady.

The sensation was extraordinary.

Through his Golden Eye Illusion-Breaker, that power appeared as faint currents of gold tinged with gray.

They were the thoughts born when countless fishermen knelt in worship: prayers for wealth, safety, survival. Like living things, those thoughts tried to burrow into his skin and force their way into his sea of consciousness.

"Incense and Fire Prayer Power..."

"An ordinary cultivator would probably have stray thoughts flooding his mind by now. At best, his spiritual power would fall into chaos; at worst, he would go mad on the spot."

Chu Bai's mind remained clear. This Incense and Fire Prayer Power

held immense power to alter reality, but at its core, it was a motley collection of mortal thoughts.

The living cultivated the immortal path, seeking boundless freedom and a true spirit. If worldly concerns tainted their spiritual power, their Dao Foundation would be ruined.

But his new Fate Destiny, the Golden Edict and Jade Register Bearing Heaven, acted like a vessel.

It raised an invisible barrier around Chu Bai. The instant the Incense and Fire Prayer Power entered his sea of consciousness, its greed, anger, delusion, and hatred were forcibly washed away. Its karmic impurities were stripped out, leaving drops of divine power as pure as liquid gold to gather there.

"The living can't absorb incense and fire directly, but I can store it..."

"If I save enough, I might even become a Heroic Spirit or