Founded by Li Ling, expanded by Nie Yingzhi, and built through five hundred years of effort by successive generations of disciples, the Incense Accumulation Sect's incense markets had spread throughout the four seas, exerting a profound influence everywhere.
This had greatly increased the sect's wealth, broadened the range of ingredients available to the Incense Path, and cultivated large numbers of Incense Path cultivators and skilled incense makers and refiners.
A sect like this was no small force once mobilized.
When the sect distributed specific tasks, there were people to test thousands, even tens of thousands of formulas. With every avenue explored, someone was bound to get lucky and stumble upon a satisfactory result.
Soon, someone discovered that bathing in an incense infusion could effectively dispel the fishy odor and reverse the strange disease.
Using Teaweed Incense as its main ingredient, this formula could make the fish scales fall away and restore the skin to health. The strange yearning to head for the sea naturally vanished along with them.
But this was a treatment for severe cases, and its cost was far from low.
Hundreds of millions of people in the North Sea had been trapped in the uncanny fog and affected to varying degrees. Treating all of them this way could bankrupt the entire sect.
Yet the Incense Accumulation Sect had no shortage of ingenious methods to complement its painstaking brute-force work.
The Incense Path specialists cultivated by the sect lacked Core Formation or Nascent Soul cultivation, and their combat abilities varied widely, but they had studied incense formulas and techniques in great depth. Soon, someone isolated the effective ingredients and improved the formula.
Within just a few months, the Incense Accumulation Sect developed another means of prevention and containment.
They used the Will-Consent Incense formula Li Ling had left