Time flew by. More than twenty years after the Fell Star incident, the Incense Accumulation Sect celebrated the four-hundredth anniversary of its founding.
Sect Master Nie Yingzhi was run off his feet preparing the grand ceremony, but up on the Floating Cloud Platform, Li Ling remained at leisure, summoning several disciples to impart the Dao and instruct them.
To him, such a ceremony was no different from any ordinary day. He did not attend, choosing instead to remain above and check on Tong Daquan's condition.
"I never imagined an evil art like Human-Refined Incense could be used this way..."
Chi Yingting had returned from the East Sea once again. Upon learning that Li Ling had successfully improved the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord's cultivation method and achieved results with it, he could not help marveling.
Before him, Tong Daquan sat cross-legged within a formation. Li Ling had lit fine incense around him, and wisps of Incense Essence containing Dao Connotation materialized, gathering into an emerald-green mist around his body.
This fine incense was a variety of Human-Refined Incense, created by Li Ling using the Fell Star's power as a catalyst to condense Dao Connotation.
"Over these years, I've put considerable effort into refining his original physical body, extracting its Dao Connotation and incorporating it into the incense...
"The essence of his soul matches the Spirit Resonance of that body, allowing him to absorb it smoothly. Combined with Past-Wisdom Incense, which awakens memories of past and present lives, it brings out the essence of his former life even more clearly...
"Now he has crossed the thresholds of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, leaping straight into Core Formation. From here on, his Dao Path will be a level plain, with no further obstacles!"
"I've long heard that you were contemplating the great mysteries between