"It actually vanished!"
"There was clearly one last bolt of heavenly lightning gathering just now, powerful enough to annihilate any Core Formation cultivator. Why did it suddenly disappear?"
"Impossible. That makes no sense."
"There was still one final strike. How could it simply stop counting?"
Ma Wanbao and everyone he had brought were stunned, disbelief written across their faces.
Li Ling, however, had anticipated this, and confirmed the wondrous effect of the Dust-Transcending Incense he had just refined.
It could erase his own karmic ties and obscure the Heavenly Dao's perception!
With no one undergoing tribulation here, what reason did the Heavenly Dao have to keep striking empty air?
"Ordinary people perceive through eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, through sound, sight, taste, and touch. The Heavenly Dao, however, perceives through causality!
"Daoist Hao discovered years ago that Dust-Transcending Incense could erase one's karmic ties and obscure heaven's workings.
"Fortunately, I persisted through forty-four bolts of heavenly lightning myself, using every means available to survive the earlier trials. Only then could I deploy this incense at the final moment and eliminate the greatest threat.
"Now the Dust-Transcending Incense is no longer pure. This is something that begins deteriorating as soon as it is used, and cannot be preserved for long at all!"
With his keen perception, Li Ling soon discovered that the utterly empty state surrounding him had disappeared.
His own delicate fragrance, like an Orchid of the Secluded Valley, emerged and spread through his incense accumulation divine domain and mind-transmitted incense resonance, like sunlight shining in every direction.
The sudden, stark contrast overwhelmed even Li Ling himself, giving him the sensation of choking on a powerful stench.
Yet a moment later, it was fragrant again.
*So it is true that true water is Incenselessness. Compared with Dust-Transcending Incense, the natural