Manifesting incense substance!
This was the foundation of Li Ling's innate gift.
He established his path through incense, turning all manner of Spirit Materials and mental intent into incense essence. He had created the Myriad Wonders Incense Transformation Art precisely to explore the principles within the essence of the Incense Path that interfered with bodily functions and influenced the mind and will.
The Incense Path could influence emotions and the will, changing people's hearts. There was no doubt about that.
Taking pleasure in a fragrance and relaxing the mind was, in essence, a subtle psychological process.
Letting a fragrance inspire reveries and visualizing a scent was an even clearer manifestation of mental creativity.
Many fragrances could bring particular things to mind, even producing empathic perception and a transference of the senses.
Defeat and dejection also had a scent. Its dominant note resembled the stuffiness of an enclosed room, mixed with hints of scorching and moldy dust, but its concentration was far weaker, almost impossible for ordinary people to detect.
Smelling it brought failure to mind, stripping away all fighting spirit and leaving one bewildered and at a loss.
Yet compared with scents that could be smelled directly, this odor was far more elusive and ethereal. It would only emerge when thousands upon thousands of people resonated together.
It was somewhat like the scene on the Great Lin River that day, when the authorities held a boat-racing celebration and the people's incense offerings blazed fiercely, the crowd themselves like firewood.
Sensing its mysteries, Li Ling immediately grasped the essence of the Incense Path within it and manifested another kind of incense essence. Then he saw what looked like countless rays of light gathering through the air like spiritual energy, absorbed by his unusual soul, which could well be called an "incense