"That's true enough, but the pressing task is still to find out as soon as possible what this fragrance actually does."
Li Ling gradually gathered his wandering thoughts and began his research.
After paying the price of several little white rabbits' lives, he discovered that the Tai Sui Spores he had cultivated separately could not spread the infection again. They seemed to lack certain crucial conditions needed to catalyze their reaction.
During this time, Li Ling deliberately returned to the barren mountain and gathered some vegetation nurtured by Spirit Rain. He confirmed that the Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui had parasitized those plants as well, but their aromatic quality was extremely faint, and their Incense Essence had almost entirely dissipated.
This still came down to the concentration of Incense Essence. Below a certain concentration, the fungi constituting the Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui would continually dissolve, no longer displaying the properties of Spirit Incense.
Thus, too concentrated meant a foul stench, but too dilute would not work either.
Not everything could serve to dilute it. Cultivating the Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui required a certain degree of Spirit Resonance.
As for disgusting substances such as rotten flesh and corpse oil, they were merely vessels for Spirit Resonance, just like those plants or coffin wood.
Li Ling then carefully consulted the records and discovered that the Blood Inkstone Palace's methods for cultivating the Ji Earth Grand Tai Sui remained primitive.
They lacked his Fragrance-Sensing Talent and could only work from the most obvious associated substances, reaching the conclusion that vital energies such as Yin Baleful Qi were best suited to cultivating it.
That conclusion was not wrong, but the process was time-consuming and laborious, and it readily produced by-products such as Black Demon Corpses. A single careless mistake could cause a