At Li Ling's residence, inside the Fragrant Incense Pavilion.
Seated before a large table, Min Lian carefully used her divine sense to lift a faint glow suffused with Spirit Resonance and transfer it into the prepared true water solution. Before long, she repeated the process, accumulating a small bottle of roughly filtered dream essence qi.
She stirred it with her divine sense, added mineral spirit materials resembling gem salt and various other spirit materials used to absorb impurities, then mixed everything thoroughly and filtered it several times.
Fine rays of light shone inside the glass bottle. Although the liquid was clear and transparent, a flame-like glow seemed to flicker within it, with great clusters of incense essence condensing inside.
Some impurities had yet to be completely washed away, but incense essence of this quality could already be used directly to make crude Hearing-Reach Herb Fragrance Incense Pills.
It was like coarse salt and refined salt: both were usable.
Somewhat surprised, Li Ling looked at the solution, then at Min Lian. She was plainly exhausted, yet she still followed the steps he had taught her with meticulous care, without cutting a single corner. A trace of admiration rose within him.
What a wonderfully useful pair of hands!
This did not mean Min Lian was necessarily cleverer than Mu Qingsi or Shang Yuxian, nor that she possessed some exceptional gift that let her perceive and move incense essence directly, as he or Daoist Hao could. Rather, she was steady, attentive, meticulous, and... willing to toil without complaint!
Without that attitude, it was impossible to serve well as a pair of helping hands. Too many ideas of one's own only made it easier to give up.
After all, merely lending a hand and doing support work was terribly dull.
Unaware of Li Ling's