"What is this stuff?"
Like almost everyone encountering the Incense Path for the first time, Lin Xi mistook it for a spell akin to a poison cultivation art. He immediately held his breath, cutting off any exchange of origin energy.
With his formidable physique and abundant origin energy, he could fight without breathing for a long time-more than enough to slowly familiarize himself with the poison baleful intent's power and attempt to neutralize it.
Ordinary poison cultivation arts really could not harm someone like him at all.
But what followed was the Spirit-Bewildering Incense's distinctive disorientation, which turned his emotions and desires upside down. Lin Xi's five senses, six faculties of consciousness, and even his own will began to blur.
This stuff was far more powerful than ordinary poison cultivation arts. It was simply unbelievable!
Lin Xi had never seen such a divine ability or spell. It reached directly into a higher realm on the spiritual level, working in a way unlike anything ordinary.
Li Ling's Daoist arts were rooted in the soul. Starting with the wondrous plants and trees of his introductory practice, which opened the faculty of smell, each advancement led straight toward consciousness, acting directly upon the spiritual plane of the mind!
And that was nowhere near the end.
Beyond that came empathic perception and sensory transference, mixing the five senses and inverting the six faculties of consciousness.
Once it reached the mind-root, only mastery of Seeing One's Nature and Understanding the Mind could withstand it. This was already a level far beyond the reach of ordinary mortals...
Now he had even touched the clear and stainless void, a realm in which he could commune with heaven and earth and stir cause and effect. He had all but reached the level of laws!
*I refuse to believe