"Hm? Their scents are changing?"
Li Ling possessed the Fragrance-Sensing Talent, which gave him perception on the level of an innate divine ability, and he keenly caught this change.
Within his perception, the scents of those spirit beasts were being suffused by the incense, gradually becoming hazy.
At the same time, the burning Heartlink Incense released great swaths of rainbow-like color, suffusing the surroundings until they resembled a dreamscape.
Emotions became rainbow light, reflecting different colors and revealing themselves within it.
This was somewhat like dream yin, or the spiritual world that one's spirit soul experienced after soul projection. Li Ling still remembered that, when he first projected his soul, he too had seen the surrounding world shrouded in darkness. Within his spiritual consciousness, everything had been gray and hazy, yet wherever he focused his attention had been illuminated with color.
Only much later, after combining numerous texts with his own knowledge, had he confirmed that this was precisely the mystery of mental will. All things in the world, the intelligence of living beings, and mental will manifested here as a mind-driven transformation in which nothing existed outside the mind.
In this dreamlike environment filled with rainbow colors, inner voices seemed to emerge, carrying tremors of the mind.
"I'm suddenly so hungry..."
That seemed to be the inner voice of something nearby.
Li Ling abruptly turned his gaze toward it, only to find that it had come from a Longevity Hall disciple beside him!
This did not seem to be an inner voice either, but merely some kind of emotional response.
Li Ling pondered briefly and soon understood what was happening.
Human intelligence was an immensely vast and magnificent aggregate of consciousness. A person's mental will, the fluctuations of their present state of mind, and so forth were comparatively simple