"Master, you're here."
Fang Lin inclined his head slightly in greeting, remaining seated cross-legged with a look of deep contemplation.
Li Ling smiled faintly. "The human fragrance within you really can permeate these souls and convert them. Its subtlety is extraordinary, and it has given me many insights."
Unlike Fang Lin, who relied entirely on innate talent and instinct, Li Ling had not only his talents but also an Incense Essence system he had founded through two hundred years of effort and the knowledge and experience of two lifetimes.
He took practical application as his foundation and the investigation of things to attain knowledge as his method. In establishing his sect's lineage, he studied systematic principles, never stopping at surface phenomena but seeking their essence.
Through this, he realized that this method reached into the power of Transmutation and might very well develop an entirely new power of law—Transmutation!
If the original Myriad Wonders Incense Transformation Art, Ying Ting's Myriad Incenses Transforming into Rainbows Chapter, the Floating Incense Art, and the like were methods of transformation, then his Phantom Floating Fragrance was feathering. Now there was also Transmutation that penetrated the human heart. Through the principle that delight shared in the heart became fragrance, it could tame hearts and alter wills...
The term was often used by Buddhists, deriving from the use of scriptures and ideas to influence others, guide them toward Buddhism, deliver and enlighten them, and bring them the great freedom of desireless tranquility.
Thus, beyond the three categories of heavenly, earthly, and human incense, he gained another method for distinguishing lineages within the Incense Path.
Li Ling reviewed and summarized his past work, confirming that his Cherishing Life and Slaying Incense, Unconquerable Incense, Mind-Harmony Incense, and other varieties all belonged to this category of Transmutation incense. They