"More of this stuff..."
Li Ling's expression grew grave. He tried touching it with his spiritual consciousness and felt waves of icy chill wash over him, like frost.
Yin qi of this level could not invade him, but the killing intent mixed into it was filthy beyond measure, sending a stench billowing to the heavens. Unable to stomach it, he inwardly frowned. How filthy!
When filth and foulness accumulated, they became a foul stench. This gave Li Ling a glimpse of another characteristic of incense essence, allowing him to grasp the properties of this odor.
But Li Ling already possessed the stench of impure stench. He paid these things no heed and instead probed deeper with his spiritual consciousness.
Inside the Magic Treasure lay a small world resembling his own Inner Landscape Grotto-Heaven. Within its murky confines, wronged souls drifted about, taking one ghostly shape after another, each wailing without end.
These were all the wronged souls of commoners killed by the Demonic Path. Long immersion in turbid killing intent had allowed them to survive, but this was no proper method of nourishing souls. It was ghost-rearing. Over time, they lost their minds, as though cast into hell!
Li Ling could not help sighing inwardly. According to legend, after death, people are drawn into the netherworld by karma, judged by the underworld courts, and sent into the six paths of reincarnation.
The kind and meritorious enter the virtuous paths, becoming Celestial Persons or being reborn as humans.
Those who constantly harbor anger and whose blessings dwindle enter the path of asuras.
Others are demoted and punished according to the karma they create, entering the three evil paths of beasts, hungry ghosts, and hell.
*Zombies and evil ghosts, however, remain outside reincarnation, lingering in the mortal world and entering the path