The next day, in Stone Cave, Li Ling taught Die'er how to make Cherimoya Blossom Incense.
"For this incense, the flowers grown in the ocean kingdoms are best. Those from the Great Western Ocean Kingdom resemble the peonies of the Central Continent. When the weather turns bitterly cold, frost covers the ground, and every tree withers, other flowers lose their original fragrance. Only these sweetbrier blossoms remain glittering with crystalline splendor, their fragrance wafting toward you like sweet dew, losing none of its charm.
"You can use this to identify fine ingredients. Soak the flowers in water as a substitute for dew, then store them in a Glazed Glass Bottle and seal it tightly with wax and honey.
"As for how to use it, there are incense foods, incense drinks, and baths. Then use the Incense-Infiltration Method to steep yourself in its fragrance, becoming ever more fragrant over time..."
Cherimoya Blossom Incense was an incense Li Ling had discovered in the Bamboo Step Kingdom, refined using the Chi Family's secret formula and local specialties.
From this single incense, he had deduced a cultivation method suitable for the Qi Refining stage of the Incense Path: steeping the body in fragrance through Incense Fumigation.
"The key to this method lies in drawing fragrance into the body, changing your own nature and properties, and producing human incense. Once you have mastered it, you can refine it with our Incense Path's Incense Deity Visualization Method, then combine it with offerings of Spirit-Communing Incense to practice Incense-Feeding Soul Tempering."
Taking a lofty, overarching perspective, he also taught Die'er the Incense Path's subsequent cultivation methods.
"The next essential practice is the Myriad Wonders Incense Transformation Art. Use the fragrance of myriad wonders to refine the incense deity, continually raising the level of your dao body and