Incense Accumulation Sect

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Incense Accumulation Sect
Original Name	积香宗
Organization Type	Incense Path sect; later recognized as a major righteous immortal sect 636 961.
Founder	Li Ling 241 255.
Leadership	Li Ling initially serves as sect master and later as supreme elder and founding patriarch; Nie Yingzhi subsequently holds the sect master’s office 443 784 929.
Affiliation	Heavenly Court and the righteous Immortal Sects 606 636.
Headquarters	Originally Nine-Wan Island in the North Sea; later the Que Luo Immortal Abode, with Nine-Wan Island remaining an adjoining transit hub and former mountain-gate site 254 608 873.
Founding Date	June 10, Xu Xin Year 3029 254 255.
Role	Ancestral seat of the Incense Path, combining cultivation instruction, incense research, manufacturing, trade, and incense-offering traditions 556 959 961.
Status	Active; supplies disciples and incense resources during the Heavenly Court’s counteroffensive against the Underworld 962 963.
First Appearance	Named and proposed as Li Ling’s sect 241.

Power Progression

The sect’s growth is documented through its cultivation inheritance, personnel, defensive strength, and institutional standing rather than a single organizational realm.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Foundation Establishment inheritance validated	241	Min Lian reaches Foundation Establishment through Li Ling’s incense-cultivation method. At this point, he has not yet extrapolated routes to Core Formation or Nascent Soul.
Seven Foundation Establishment true disciples	357	Li Ling’s seven true disciples become established specialists. New incense products make the Qi Refining–Foundation Establishment system more self-consistent.
Core Formation founder	407	Li Ling is an established Core Formation cultivator and has organized additional divine abilities, supplementary cultivation methods, and incense arts.
Defenses capable of resisting several Nascent Soul attackers	606	Heavenly Court support fills the treasure vault with banners, protective robes, thunder weapons, and law-bearing treasures. Disciples and attendants can hold out without Li Ling personally defending the grounds.
Nascent Soul patriarch and expanding cultivation ranks	608	Li Ling’s Nascent Soul celebration showcases a sect with dozens of Foundation Establishment disciples and Core Formation affiliates, including Luo Jingwei and Gong Chi.
Multiple Nascent Soul-equivalent defenders	881	Attackers assess Gong Chi, Chi Yingting, and Tong Daquan as Nascent Soul-level threats when necessary. The Grand Array can also elevate the Three True Ones’ effective fighting strength to Core Formation.
Spirit Transformation patriarch	893	Li Ling is recognized as having risen from mortality to Spirit Transformation in approximately six hundred years.
Dharma Body patriarch	932	Li Ling reveals his attained Dharma Body during the sect’s thousand-year celebration, following more than a century of secluded cultivation.
Large-scale research base	942	Coordinated Incense Path research involves approximately one hundred Core Formation cultivators, thousands at Foundation Establishment, and tens of thousands at Qi Refining.
Hundred-Person Core Formation program	944	The Council supports one hundred promising or meritorious Foundation Establishment disciples. After three sixty-year cycles, sixteen—including Mo Qingheng and Fu Qing—reach Core Formation.
New Nascent Soul advancement	950	Ye Zhen advances to Nascent Soul, spurring the other members of the Three True Ones to pursue their own breakthroughs.
Dedicated guardian treasure established	959	The Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer takes shape after ten years of refinement, providing an enduring home and ritual anchor for guardian incense deities.
Standing alongside veteran immortal sects	961	The Heavenly Court permits the sect to nominate three candidates for appointments—the same quota granted to sixteen leading sects, exceeding the quotas of several older organizations.

Background / History

Origins and Founding

Li Ling’s ambition to establish a sect predates its formal creation. He deliberately publicizes his incense expertise through the Money Guild, and the success of Hearing-Reach Herb Fragrance helps build the reputation needed for an independent institution 208.

Min Lian’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough supplies the decisive proof that his methods can form a transmissible cultivation path. Li Ling commits to founding a sect, invites her to join, and chooses its name with Mu Qingsi. Incense Accumulation draws on a Buddhist scripture describing the Land of Many Fragrances and its Buddha, Incense Accumulation; Li Ling considers the name suited to a Dao concerned with every fragrance rather than one specialty 241.

The Money Guild supplies financing and helps secure a blessed land. Li Ling rejects complete dependence on the Money Dao: he accepts loans and outside assistance while retaining control of the sect, offering Moon-Sand Island as collateral 242. The headquarters ultimately becomes Nine-Wan Island, despite a competing claim from Shi Jizi and the Nine Spirits Sect 243 246 252.

At the inauguration, Li Ling formally announces the sect and demonstrates its arts through an island-wide incense-burning feast. True Person Zixu appears by soul projection and gives him a protective talisman, convincing the guests that the founder has Nascent Soul backing. This strengthens the new sect’s standing and encourages rulers and merchants to supply fragrant timber and other materials 255 256.

Early Consolidation

The aftermath of Shi Jizi’s calamity brings building materials, artifacts, books, pills, and Pill Dao knowledge into the sect’s orbit. A settlement also brings one hundred Nine Spirits Sect disciples, whose practical expertise is more valuable than recipes alone 277.

Little Olive Island becomes a training and resource-gathering site. The sect’s first inner-disciple expedition uses protective incense, emergency tokens, and supervision through a viewing mirror. Initially inexperienced disciples learn to cooperate against walking corpses, contrasting with the Nine Spirits Sect’s harsher approach to producing self-reliant fighters 279.

As the institution matures, native-born sect families emerge alongside the original immigrants. Li Ling then launches the “one sect, multiple branches” system, allowing specialists to develop separate schools without abandoning a common Incense Path lineage 357 358.

Mainland and Maritime Expansion

The Incense Transmission Dao establishes roots in Great Qian’s Yue Province. Disciples contribute to warfare, administration, agriculture, and workshops; Dragonfire Incense supports assaults, while broad education makes Incense Path practitioners useful as grassroots attendants and army cultivators 453 454.

Expansion also exposes weaknesses. During Li Ying’s disappearance, followers misuse the Incense Perception Cult’s name and teachings. Li Ling and Zhu Lisheng arrange lawful investigations and selective extradition from Great Qian, distinguishing genuine disciples from collateral followers and unrelated practitioners 541 546. The branch is subsequently targeted for rebuilding and retraining 555.

In the West Sea, markets, incense customs, garrison envoys, and vassal lineages consolidate the sect’s influence over the Misty Wave Kingdom. Public use of Omba Incense during the Ghost Festival helps repel low-level ghosts and corpses, restricting the Netherworld Sect’s activities 601.

Heavenly Court Era

Joining the Heavenly Court’s camp brings both protection and wider responsibilities. The sect receives major defensive resources, and Li Ling’s Nascent Soul celebration becomes a gathering for high-level negotiations as well as a recognition of his advancement 606 608.

The East Sea war becomes a long-term training ground for younger generations. The sect rotates veterans, deploys fresh disciples, and rewards wartime merit even when recipients have limited innate potential. Li Ling also urges Nie Yingzhi to delegate authority and prepare successors rather than cling to office 784 785 798.

Later growth emphasizes collective research and durable inheritance. Past-Wisdom Incense enters mass production, the Hundred-Person Core Formation program cultivates additional leaders, and the Treasure Censer gives accumulated offerings a lasting destination 943 944 959. During the Underworld counteroffensive, the sect supplies incense, manages logistics, and uses incense arrays to protect living cultivators from hostile yin environments 962 963.

Organization and Governance

• Centralized authority: Sect rights, benefits, Dao lineage, and governing authority are centrally held rather than dispersed among hereditary Spirit Peak holdings 304.
• Council of Elders: Branch leaders participate in deliberations and provide mutual checks and balances. Under Li Ling’s branch system, future sect masters are to be selected from branch leaders 357.
• Lineage requirement: High cultivation or great service alone does not qualify an outside affiliate to inherit the sect. Its leadership must preserve its identity as an institution for Incense Path practitioners 555.
• Separate property: Li Ling and Mu Qingsi distinguish communal sect assets from their private property 257.
• Administrative delegation: Capable stewards are trained to handle routine governance, allowing senior cultivators to concentrate on cultivation and Incense Path development 257 628.
• Recorded inheritance: Identification tokens record a disciple’s name, generation, lineage, master, grandmaster, and founding patriarch 545.
• Merit over family rank: The sect gives comparatively little weight to aristocratic background, emphasizing individual ability, sect authority, and cultivation strength 798.
• Safeguards against shortcuts: The disasters associated with Shi Jizi and Li Ying lead the sect to establish mechanisms against sacrificing disciples for rapid advancement; moral education is its first line of defense 931.

Major Branches

Branches maintain independent practices and retain the fruits of their work, but recognize the Incense Accumulation Sect as the lineage’s root. Branch true disciples must also register as sect members 357.

Branch	Documented Leader / Association	Focus
Incense Perception Cult	Established for Li Ying 357.	Identifying materials, exchanging knowledge, and spreading accessible incense methods among grassroots cultivators 357 556.
Divine Incense Gate	Established for Shu Changsheng 357.	Combat, divine abilities, defense of the sect, and later Money Dao-related incense specialization 357 894.
Incense Transmission Dao	Zhu Lisheng 357 541.	Academic research and transmission of the Dao; develops a mainland presence in Yue Province 357 454.
Heavenly Incense School	Established for Luo Dao 357.	Heavenly incense, cultivation, and pursuit of the Dao 357.
Incense-Burning Gate	Named among the six major branches 358 932.	The supplied context does not detail its separate specialty.
Hundred Flavors Gate	Associated with gourmet Dao seeds 785.	Incense cuisine and bodily application of cultivation insights 785.

• The thousand-year celebration lists Scent Reverence Faith among the six branches in place of the earlier Incense Perception Cult; the supplied passages do not explain the change 358 932.
• Initial branch formation costs the main sect more than half its personnel and assets. Branches receive funds, pills, treasures, and foundational texts, while the main sect retains secret arts and true-lineage teachings 358.
• Rules combine starting support with later achievement-based rewards to discourage destructive rivalry and encourage cooperation 358.

Education and Recruitment

Training Structure

Level / Route	Instruction and Opportunities
Foundational academy	Literacy, arithmetic, general knowledge, sound principles, character, and independent learning. All recruits receive education, including those without Spirit Roots 254 304.
Outer sect	Practical incense-making and employable skills. Graduates may become workshop apprentices, artisans, teachers, or managers 257 304.
Inner disciples	Deeper Incense Path techniques and supervised field experience 257 279.
True disciples	Access to Li Ling’s profound teachings, eligibility for future leadership, and opportunities to establish branches 257 357.
Visiting students	Specialized instruction alongside required general studies and the Concise Incense Canon. Less wealthy students may work in workshops or other sect jobs to obtain resources 894.

• Education is not merely selection: Li Ling treats it as a means of helping pupils grow, including those unlikely to reach Foundation Establishment or Core Formation 905.
• Ten-year foundation: Combat and sparring do not form part of the initial ten years of foundational education. Warfare-oriented divine abilities and spells begin after age sixteen 786.
• Assessment priorities: Potential for advancement, Foundation Establishment prospects, and proficiency in incense-making matter more than immediate sparring results 786.
• Service as training: Even inner disciples help enroll newcomers and perform routine work, preparing them for future responsibilities 304.
• Broad recruitment: Early schools admit children from ordinary families; later intakes include orphans and children from poor or complicated households 252 304.
• Open opportunity: The main Wisdom Incense assembly admits grassroots North Sea cultivators and judges disciples by talent rather than lineage; Foundation Establishment cultivators and above are excluded from that assembly 636.
• Collective cultivation: The sect funds pills, incense resources, and advancement programs instead of relying exclusively on rare prodigies 357 407 944.

Cultivation Arts and Research

Foundational Incense Path

The sect’s introductory cultivation foundations are known as “one medicine, two incenses, and three arts” 802.

Foundation	Function
Aperture-Opening Powder	Stimulates the nasal aperture and awakens the ability to sense incense 802.
Spirit-Communing Incense	One of the two principal cultivation incenses 802.
Cherimoya Blossom Incense	The second principal cultivation incense 802.
Myriad Wonders Incense Transformation Art	A core method for cultivating and applying incense properties 724 802.
Incense-Sensing Breath-Nurturing Art	An essential introductory cultivation art 802.
Incense Deity Visualization Method	A route toward Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, and higher realms 802.

• Cultivation centers on fumigation that permeates the body and insight gained by savoring incense, corresponding respectively to body-tempering/qi-refining practices and meditative absorption 802.
• Incense Deity practice is not universally accessible. Later revisions use prayer power and Divine Path principles to lower its threshold substantially, but cannot make it suitable for every cultivator 900.
• Practitioners who have not attained true mastery can still use finished incense products as external aids 802.

Incense Arrays and Combined Combat

• Incense-enhanced arrays: Burning incense can strengthen an existing formation; fully integrated incense arrays instead use visualized incense deities as formation restrictions 309.
• Combined applications: Proposed designs combine trapping formations, illusions, incense attacks, and formation soldiers, including Tai Sui Soldiers tested on Little Olive Island 309.
• Collective deity manifestation: A Dragonfire Incense array merges disciples’ Dharma power through large quantities of incense essence, creating an incense deity with at least late Core Formation strength. Each summoning consumes substantial spices 519.
• Remote intervention: Prepared incense allows Li Ling to form a temporary manifestation from a wisp of divine sense, supporting disciples through intangibility, empowerment, thought interference, and conversion arts 951.

Souls, Apotheosis, and Spiritual Instruction

• Deity-Invoking Incense: Combines incense varieties with prayer power to restore divine bodies. During the pirate battle, it reinforces celestial soldiers and is followed by the appearance of four Core Formation-level armored deities 391.
• Peerless Returning Soul Incense: Leaves a memory imprint that may let a deceased person’s soul answer a later summons. Its value for powerful cultivators remains disputed 784.
• Fragrance-based teaching: Secret Golden Treasury Incense Caskets transmit wisdom-bearing fragrances rather than written instructions. Of 105 selected disciples, 82 immediately comprehend their assigned methods and visualize an incense deity 784.
• Apotheosis support: Faith Spirit Incense, Offering God Incense, Deity-Invoking Incense, and Wish-Binding Incense help reconstitute divine souls and forge divine bodies, including for disciples of low cultivation 903.
• Past-Wisdom Incense: Mass production lets cultivators acquire knowledge and experience through sudden enlightenment. Impurities and the effort required to retain insights remain research priorities 943.

Research and Standardization

• Incense Path Compendium: The sect’s central scripture covers materials, formulas, methods, lore, and implements 556.
• Measurable incense classification: Li Ling proposes systematic identification and measurement of incense essences so disciples without innate Fragrance-Sensing Talent can investigate them 453.
• Ten Thousand Incense Compendium: Standardizes widely useful incense choices and supports broader cultivation, trade, and material production 900.
• Hundred branches of the Incense Path: Eighty-one fundamental incense types are combined with more than a dozen laws, supported by standard manuals and approximately one thousand model formulas 905.
• Collective development: Discoveries enter testing, trial use, and promotion before broad distribution. Disciples improve formulas, deployment methods, and production rather than leaving innovation solely to Li Ling 635 806 943.
• Cross-racial inheritance: Yan Ji’s discoveries lead Li Ling to develop the Incense Offerings Marvels Scripture and Innate Incense Body Method, extending incense-based cultivation among fragrant demon races and improving human applications 918.

Territory and Facilities

Site	Function
Nine-Wan Island	Original headquarters, home port, market center, and later transit point adjoining the cave heaven 254 783 873.
Que Luo Immortal Abode	Later mountain gate and sect center, containing the main peak and a prosperous Market Ward for outer disciples and workers 608 873.
Little Olive Island	Resource collection, field training, and research; dangerous areas require restrictions and supervision 277 279.
Horsehead Island and Tulin Harbor	Jointly operated commercial hub connecting West Sea and North Sea trade 601.
Jade Lang Mountain	Planned overseas market and raw-material base linking maritime routes across the Four Seas and Ten Continents 690.
Tiger Leaping Gorge Garden	Incense-material production site developed through construction, defensive arrays, spirit-vein support, and planting 929.

• Council Hall: The summit main hall receives guests and hosts discussions and formal gatherings; surrounding subsidiary halls house departments and institutions 254.
• Protected residences: Arrays beneath ordinary-looking buildings draw on the Spirit Peak Blessed Land, obstructing spiritual probing, yin spirits, and intrusion while providing refuge during disasters 254.
• Community infrastructure: Founding preparations relocate more than thirty thousand people into a growing town around the sect 254.
• Long-term plantations: Gardens cultivate useful herbs and Devil Finger Wood even when maturity may take a century 252.
• Incense environment: At Que Luo, Incense-Rhyme Flowing Wind forms clouds, lights, butterflies, and other nature spirits that nourish residents and resist yin incursions 608.

Economy and Public Customs

• Incense Markets: The sect develops its own distribution network, supporting makers, artisans, apprentices, and specialized appraisers 304 636.
• Early commercial scale: Annual spirit-material throughput exceeds one hundred million in talisman currency, while workshop production earns more than ten million in net profit 301.
• Shipping network: Rented treasure ships connect Nine-Wan Island with Northsky Island and other markets and kingdoms 301.
• Controlled sales: Three Treasures Floating Incense Pills are sold through designated auctions rather than private exceptions 432.
• Formula rights: The sect later restricts Dragon-Transforming Incense formulas and operating rights, charging late entrants substantial fees and higher taxes than early producers 899.
• Incense-Burning Gatherings: Smaller celebrations occur annually and grand celebrations every ten years. Most released incense essence enters the sect’s array for storage, while some benefits attendees 350.
• Public utility: Ceremonial incense sharpens perception, clears minds, drives off pests, purifies foul areas, and relieves some mortal illnesses 255.
• Environmental recovery: Orchid cultivation provides a distinctive ongoing method for treating polluted sites, though its advanced applications initially remain beyond ordinary disciples 682.
• Wartime logistics: Mundane incense is supplied as needed, spirit incense remains plentiful, and higher-grade reserves are allocated according to merit and contribution 963.

Equipment and Guardian Treasures

Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer

• Form: A Boshan-style incense burner that can shrink to palm size 959.
• Materials: Tribulation ash, Mount Shou copper, immaculate treasure crystals, and supplementary treasures selected from sect and allied reserves 959.
• Inner domain: The Incense Realm, designed to house guardian incense deities and shape their bodies 959.
• Refinement: Li Ling contributes his cultivation and spiritual power; skilled craftsmen assist. The treasure takes shape in Incense Accumulation Year 1311 959.
• Sustenance: The Mountain Gate Grand Array, incense offerings, prayer power, and spiritual intentions continually nourish it 959 960.
• Purpose: Anchors deity-invocation traditions and preserves the sect’s inheritance across generations 959.
• Long-term potential: It may eventually house Li Ling’s Incense Ancestor Avatar and develop further as a Dao Artifact, but this could require thousands or tens of thousands of years 960.

Other Defenses and Resources

• Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Primordial Unity Grand Formation — Nine-Wan Island’s principal conventional defensive array 391.
• Incense-Rhyme Flowing Wind Grand Formation — Embedded within the island’s main defenses; stores incense essence and supports large-scale incense applications 391.
• Heavenly Court arsenal — Innate Five Elements Banners, protective robes, Divine Fire Thunder Spear, Heaven-Shining Golden Wheel, Thunder of Sacred Judgment, and other wartime treasures 606.
• Greenfly Coins — Amplify Incense Path power, but Li Ling initially refuses to regard them as a secure guardian treasure because the Money Guild may retain means of control or reclamation 850 881.
• Mountain-gate Dao Register couplet — A Heavenly Court reward containing tremendous fortune; works with the Grand Array to nurture the Dragonfire Incense Deity 932.
• Guardian incense deities — Include spirits cultivated through offerings and converted former Chang Ghosts; their value depends on continued cultivation, control, and accumulated worship 768 959.
• Beast companions — Beast-Taming Incense supports plans to purchase five hundred Qi Refining and thirty Foundation Establishment spirit beasts for younger disciples 718.

Notable Members

• Li Ling — Founder, first sect master, later supreme elder and Incense Ancestor; directs the lineage’s major research and long-term strategy 241 443 959.
• Mu Qingsi — Founder’s Dao companion and active partner in supplies, administration, education, branch allocation, and institutional planning 252 254 257 358.
• Min Lian — Founding member and elder whose Foundation Establishment validates Li Ling’s method; later supervises disciple field training 241 279.
• Nie Yingzhi — One of the Twin Elites, later sect master; manages expansion, succession planning, research implementation, and wartime policy 359 784 798 944.
• Chi Yingting — The other Twin Elite and a major inheritance holder; specializes in Seven Emotions Incense and protects the sect during major confrontations 359 361 858 881.
• Shu Changsheng — Li Ling’s second true disciple, associated with poison, corpse-plague arts, the Divine Incense Gate, and East Sea operations 357 785.
• Zhu Lisheng — Third true disciple, researcher and compendium editor; leads the Incense Transmission Dao and serves as Great Qian’s Imperial Preceptor 357 541.
• Song Yang — Fourth true disciple; trusted administrator of internal sect affairs 357.
• Luo Ying — Fifth true disciple; develops incense cuisine and A Hundred Flavors of the Mortal World 357.
• Luo Dao — Sixth true disciple and exceptionally gifted heavenly-incense practitioner; later reincarnates as Xi Yuan, who is treated as a new person rather than restored to his former status 357 783.
• Yang Ziying — Seventh true disciple; specializes in auxiliary disciplines, including incense arrays, pills, and implements 357.
• Li Ying — Eldest true disciple and original Incense Perception Cult leader; eventually revealed as the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord and killed by Li Ling after corrupting himself through human-refined incense 357 861.
• Yao Lingxian — Li Ying’s disciple; later becomes a capable regional leader and is considered for direct-lineage inheritance 601 636.
• Gong Chi — Attendant elder with exceptional combat strength and distinguished service during sect crises 694.
• Ye Zhen, Han Zhen, and Luo Zhen — The Three True Ones of Incense Accumulation, prominent sixth-generation disciples cultivated as a mutually supportive group 783 950.
• Fang Xin — Sixth-generation Fairy of a Hundred Flowers; groomed as a public representative and entrusted with organizing allied forces in the Zhi Sea 723 783 784.
• Tong Daquan — Prominent sixth-generation disciple and major combat asset, possessing quasi-Nascent Soul fighting strength 873 918.
• Yan Ji — Develops the Fragrant Fox path and connects fragrant demon tribes with the sect’s protection and inheritance 915 918.
• Fu Qing — Researcher whose mass-production method for Past-Wisdom Incense earns personal support from Li Ling; later reaches Core Formation 943 944.

External Relationships

• Money Guild / Four Seas Commerce Guild — Early financier, construction partner, promoter, and distributor. Relations later mix cooperation with competition over formulas, markets, and talented recruits; individual factions cannot be treated as a single unified ally or enemy 242 252 486 823 894.
• Heavenly Court — Principal political and strategic patron; provides recognition, military equipment, research support, and guardian-treasure materials. The sect contributes incense, apotheosis expertise, and wartime assistance 606 608 943 959 960.
• Skycloud Sect / Mystic Xin Peak — Shares historical roots through Li Ling’s former position as Mystic Xin Kingdom’s prince consort. Chi Yun-Zi helps arrange the sect’s Heavenly Court admission 802 868.
• Yellow Cloud True Person — Early senior protector whose reputation draws powerful inauguration guests; advises Li Ling on the risks and responsibilities of independence 241 254.
• True Person Zixu — His inauguration appearance establishes the impression of powerful Nascent Soul backing 255 256.
• Great Qian Dynasty — Employs Incense Path practitioners in administration and war, while cooperating on legal investigations and extradition 453 454 546.
• Longevity Hall — Exchanges beast-taming knowledge, spirit beasts, and incense instruction; supplies a mainland foothold, materials, and markets 718 723.
• Spirit Treasure Sect — Friendly observer of the sect’s education system and an artifact-manufacturing partner 304 305.
• Nine Spirits Sect — Original territorial rival and later competitor in training and products; its calamity also supplies personnel, resources, and Pill Dao knowledge 246 277 279.
• Netherworld Sect — Major strategic enemy constrained by incense customs, regional defenses, and the sect’s deterrent strength 601 944.
• Fragrant demon tribes — Accepted as protected vassals and Incense Path practitioners. Li Ling prohibits exploiting intelligent demon species for materials, favoring cooperation and shared cultivation results 915.
• Longevity Blessed Land and Purple Mansion Palace — Transfer resources and treasures overseas for safekeeping, entrusting some assets to the sect to preserve an inheritance for the future 959.

Notable Quotes

“What I hope for is to divide the households without dividing the sect. The Incense Path must remain one, and the Incense Accumulation Sect must be honored as its root.”
— Li Ling, explaining the branch system 357

“Goodness amassed becomes virtue in the Immortal Venerable’s abode”
“Fragrance fills the four seas from the sect of true cultivation.”
— Heavenly Court-bestowed mountain-gate couplet 932