Dazed and bewildered, like a dream, like an illusion...
It felt as though someone had subjected them to nightmare suppression.
These great cultivators, who had achieved Seeing One's Nature and Understanding the Mind and cultivated Nascent Souls, actually could not withstand the soul-summoning power of this strange art.
That was because Li Ling's mental power far surpassed theirs, and even that of ordinary Spirit Transformation mighty cultivators.
At that moment, however, Li Ling also sensed resistance coming from the Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Corpse he controlled.
Although this creature possessed little intelligence, Hou Xun had refined it for many years, giving it deep reserves.
Those reserves formed its independent will, much like true-nature human incense. The conversion power Li Ling activated through Incense Path methods covered it like a coating of fragrance, but had failed to permeate it and could not last.
Thus, this was only temporary control.
To truly transmute it and seize it for use, as he had with the Ghost Tiger and Savage King, he would need to commit a certain amount of cultivation.
Li Ling made a rough estimate. A Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Corpse like this possessed over ten thousand years of cultivation; he would have to expend at least a thousand years of cultivation to suppress it completely.
That clearly exceeded his current capabilities.
Besides, Hou Xun will be back soon. The Feathering divine domain created by the Formless Incense cannot banish him for too long. Once he returns to the mortal world, he will be able to regain control of this Demon Corpse!
But I only mean to command this Demon Corpse temporarily anyway. Using it briefly to deal with these demonic Nascent Soul cultivators will be enough...
His thoughts flashed like lightning. In the blink of an eye, a demonic Nascent Soul cultivator who had doubled