This undertaking proved far more difficult than anticipated. Only when Nie Yingzhi and the elite disciples of the Incense Accumulation Sect carried out their orders did they discover that the obstacles looming before them far exceeded their imagination.
Whether manpower and resources, reserves and accumulated foundations, or anything else, all of it lay in territory wholly unfamiliar to them.
Fortunately, the Incense Accumulation Sect was not entirely without capital. Otherwise, the Heavenly Court would never have discussed this undertaking with them-it likely would not even have mentioned it.
At this point, they had incense formulas as their foundation: Heavenly Ascension Spirit Incense for delivering souls, Soul-Guiding Incense for soul summoning, Soul-Reaping Incense related to the law of death, and more. With numerous disciples and followers, the wealth of the Incense Market, and connections to the path of reincarnation, they had an established route to follow.
If a struggle between Dao paths were compared to a territorial dispute between worldly dynasties, then at least these two paths already shared a border, and they had abundant troops and generals ready to be mustered at any moment.
Moreover, the Heavenly Court's wholehearted support afforded them tremendous convenience.
This was not simply a matter of possessing a secret scripture called the Scripture of Deliverance.
That ancient manual of the Celestial Master Dao alone could not sustain such a grand undertaking. What truly gave Nie Yingzhi and the sect's disciples enormous assistance turned out to be the seemingly unremarkable rights they had previously obtained: independent apotheosis and autonomy over the North Sea.
"The Old Ancestor truly saw far ahead, securing such tremendous advantages for our sect!"
Only now did the members of the Incense Accumulation Sect understand just how useful this authority was.
"Without the ability to conduct apotheosis independently and establish a yin spirit