In the inner city of Windless Ward, Li Ling ascended the altar to expound the teachings. This time, he had arranged a special session on spirit incense for the many ghosts and strange demons.
Most of the cultivators attending this session were yin souls and ghost wraiths. Methods emphasizing vitality and changes in yang nature, or even the various arts of white bone incense, were of little use to them. They needed incense imbued with spiritual wisdom or capable of neutralizing yin baleful qi.
Thus, he had specially pioneered a branch of ghost incense, combining his previous methods of Dream Entry and Soul Restoration to guide them toward deliverance and rebirth.
As profound incantations and abstruse scriptures flowed from his lips, Phantom Floating Fragrance suffused heaven and earth. Countless wondrous manifestations appeared, and every cultivator gained some insight.
They listened, utterly entranced, for within these teachings lay the hope of advancing their cultivation and even realizing a Dao Fruit.
Someone with cultivation as profound as Xie Shaojing's sensed the true intent all the more clearly, discerning the hope of advancing to Nascent Soul and attaining the power of laws.
She was knowledgeable and widely experienced, and had once enjoyed some of the benefits available at sect headquarters. She knew that Li Ling was using the incense ancestor origin to drive transformations and manifest the wisdom Dao Fruit.
Li Ling commanded four kinds of fragrance of wisdom: great perfect mirror wisdom, equality wisdom, wondrous observation wisdom, and accomplishment of works wisdom. He fused and refined them into an intent that awakened spiritual awareness and kindled wisdom from past lives.
This sense of dawning understanding was not illusory. It genuinely increased their experience.
All manner of experiences and knowledge became memories.
All manner of reasoning and analysis became thoughts.
One was yin