Thanks to the special properties of Evil-Repelling Incense, the group finally managed to restrain those unusual yin spirits and blast them apart with Fire-Thunder spells.
In the end, only the rogue cultivator at the front, the first to fall victim, perished.
He had already undergone complete Soul Possession. Even Evil-Repelling Incense could not reverse it; this incense was more effective at resisting invasion and preventing it in advance.
A short while later, everyone withdrew to a safe spot they had already surveyed to rest and recover.
Those outside learned what had happened through messages, and their hearts trembled as well.
Still, the experience gained from this probing expedition was invaluable. Once they confirmed that Evil-Repelling Incense could deal with those invisible yin spirits, they burned large quantities of it on the spot, surrounding themselves with incense smoke to ward off evil.
No one dared be careless about this. After all, anyone with a slightly lower cultivation who was possessed by a yin spirit had only a slim chance of surviving.
"Light it all! With me here this time, there's enough incense for everyone!"
Afraid the rogue cultivators would habitually hold something in reserve and bring disaster upon themselves, Li Ling stressed this point.
Had an elder of the Artifact Sect been leading them, everyone might have received a secret treasure, while an elder from a Talisman Dao sect would have distributed large quantities of talismans.
As a practitioner of the Incense Path, he had naturally prepared plenty of Spirit Incense for the expedition's use.
Fortunately, it had truly proved useful-miraculously effective, even.
When everyone had nearly finished recovering, a cultivator tending the injured suddenly approached and said, "Elder Li, come take a look. Something seems wrong with Fellow Daoist Gong."
The Fellow Daoist Gong he mentioned was a rogue cultivator