"Being enemies with people like these really is terrifying."
Li Ling sighed inwardly, feeling ever more keenly the immense terror contained within Human Incense.
The Incense Path connected with the emotions of all living beings. The feeling these two true Core Formation cultivators gave ordinary people was rather like savage beasts prowling their mountain forests, brimming with menace. Ordinary people who smelled them would tremble as though in fear of a tiger.
He silently committed this savage, bloody, intimidating scent to memory, intending to imitate it someday and incorporate it into the Face Tree Incense.
Perhaps before long, he would have an opportunity to improve this incense and further enhance its effects.
At the same time, he quietly circulated the nameless Human Incense he had obtained from the Filth Abyss.
This was his own innate incense. Its orchid-like quality drifted into the nostrils of those beside him, immediately drawing their attention.
Mu Qingsi had been somewhat tense, but the moment she smelled it, she relaxed.
This was her husband's familiar scent, after all. The Incense Path was inherently the upright expression of qi. Used properly, it could alter one's state of mind, ease stress, and even subtly transform one's will.
This did more than a thousand words ever could.
The Merchant Association guards on the front line received no such treatment. Although they stood inside the Grand Array, using its barrier to withstand the direct assault, they still felt enormous pressure.
Some Qi Refining cultivators with low cultivation even began to turn pale with anxiety.
The fearsome reputation of the Blood Shark Bandits and the power of these mighty figures were more than they could bear.
Many understood that they were destined to become cannon fodder and die in this battle, and despair welled up within them.
"We'd be better