Chapter Summaries

As the Immortal-Demon War spread across the mainland, Nie Yingzhi prepared the Incense Accumulation Sect for conflict and won support for a plan to cultivate a hundred Core Formation disciples. After three selection cycles, sixteen disciples had advanced, but the sect received an urgent notice that the Longevity Blessed Land had fallen.

• Nie Yingzhi reported the Netherworld Sect's attack on the Longevity Blessed Land, and Li Ling ordered him to monitor the enemy and prepare for war.
• Nie Yingzhi and the sect leaders oversaw costly formation drills and used an Incense Transmission Assembly to build their disciples' experience.
• As war engulfed Yuanzhou, Changzhou, Zuzhou, and Liuzhou, Nie Yingzhi explained that ancient Netherworld Sect strongholds had helped make those continents battlefields.
• Nie Yingzhi proposed expanding the sect's talent program, and the Council of Elders approved a Hundred-Person Core Formation plan.
• Over three sixty-year cycles, Mo Qingheng, Fu Qing, and other disciples advanced to Core Formation, with sixteen of the selected hundred succeeding.
• The Heavenly Court sent the Incense Accumulation Sect an urgent notice that the Longevity Blessed Land had fallen.

After the Longevity Blessed Land fell to the Demonic Path, the Incense Accumulation Sect sheltered its displaced disciples and negotiated to settle them on Sangting Island. The two sects reached an agreement that benefited both sides, but the chapter ended with news that the Purple Mansion Palace was in peril.

• Li Ling told Nie Yingzhi that the Longevity Immortal Venerable had fallen and the Longevity Blessed Land had been occupied by the Demonic Path.
• Nie Yingzhi welcomed Elder Zhang and the displaced Longevity Blessed Land disciples to Nine-Wan Island and arranged shelter and supplies for them.
• Nie Yingzhi and Li Ling discussed absorbing low-ranking refugees while allowing the Longevity Blessed Land’s surviving leadership to preserve its lineage.
• Elder Zhang presented the Longevity Blessed Land’s terms, and Li Ling agreed to let them establish a base on Sangting Island after revising the rule about disciples returning to their original sect.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect and the Longevity Blessed Land completed their agreement, exchanging a home for the refugees for resources, treasures, and sect texts.
• A new notice from the Heavenly Court reported that the Purple Mansion Palace was in peril.

The Corpse Immortal Sect’s demonic army besieged the Purple Mansion Palace in Changzhou, wearing down its Mountain Gate Grand Array with immense waves of monsters. After Hou Xun used the Taotie Head to breach the array, Huan Yu held back from pursuing him and called for reinforcements as the battle continued.

• The Purple Mansion Palace’s cultivators defended their mountain for ten days and nights against the Corpse Immortal Sect’s vast army of zombies, ghosts, and other monsters.
• Corpse-calamity giants broke through the Mountain Gate Grand Array, allowing the demonic army to surge toward the mountain gate.
• Hou Xun attacked the array with the Taotie Head, devouring its gang qi and leaving a breach that the array could no longer repair.
• Huan Yu appeared and wounded Hou Xun, but he escaped into the demonic army while Wei Yang urged him to exploit the breach and force the battle.
• Huan Yu ordered her disciples to request aid from the Heavenly Court and notify their fellow cultivators elsewhere.

Nie Yingzhi decided that the Incense Accumulation Sect would aid the Purple Mansion Palace, while preserving its strongest fighters at home and relying on incense techniques to gain an edge. The sect’s disciples reached Changzhou and drove the Demonic Path vanguard from a breach in the Purple Mansion Palace’s defenses.

• Nie Yingzhi consulted the Council of Elders about the Purple Mansion Palace’s request for aid, then sought Li Ling’s judgment after the elders failed to agree.
• Nie Yingzhi argued for sending troops, and Li Ling approved, offering his Dharma Body Realm strength as leverage in negotiations with the Purple Mansion Palace.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect assembled the Three True Ones, elders, and disciples, and sent them with supplies and incense-making techniques to Changzhou.
• The Purple Mansion Palace accepted the deployment despite its lack of Nascent Soul cultivators, valuing Li Ling’s promise to intervene and expecting the disciples to serve away from the front lines.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect disciples instead defended a breach in the Mountain Gate Grand Array, using Ghost-Feeding Incense and Transcendence Incense to disrupt nearby ghosts.
• The disciples used Grand Tai Sui Incense to infect the zombies, withstand the enemy’s counterattack, and help annihilate tens of thousands of Demonic Path vanguard troops.

Ye Zhen gained insight into the Incense Accumulation Sect’s Dao and led raids that used incense to cripple the Netherworld Sect’s zombie forces. After the enemy discovered his team at a corpse-processing site and surrounded them with superior numbers, Ye Zhen stayed behind to cover his companions’ escape and was trapped with them.

• While patrolling the Purple Mansion Palace’s defenses, Ye Zhen reflected on the innocent people turned into zombies and ghosts, deepening his understanding of Virtue Incense Transformation and advancing toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ye Zhen gathered the Incense Accumulation Sect’s disciples and led them in planting Teaweed Incense and other incense across the war zone, weakening the Netherworld Sect’s corpse hordes.
• The Netherworld Sect’s experts discovered that Grand Tai Sui Incense made mushrooms grow on zombies and drain their yin baleful qi, and they failed to find a quick countermeasure.
• Ye Zhen led a team to attack a Netherworld Sect facility that stored corpses and refined zombies, using spirit incense and Grand Tai Sui Incense to disrupt it.
• Six Core Formation cultivators and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators ambushed Ye Zhen’s team, and Ye Zhen stayed behind to cover their retreat before the enemy surrounded them and attacked.

Ye Zhen broke through to the Nascent Soul realm while protecting the Incense Accumulation Sect disciples from a Netherworld Sect ambush, then helped them escape. He went to aid the rescuers and arrived at a battle where Netherworld Sect Nascent Soul cultivators moved to kill him before his foundation could stabilize.

• Ye Zhen used the Great Palm Fan and Human Incense Method to ambush and kill a Netherworld Sect Core Formation cultivator with the Soul-Seizing Evil Eye.
• Huang Yong's forces kept Ye Zhen and the Incense Accumulation Sect disciples trapped, while a Demonic Beast army and Nascent Soul fighters blocked reinforcements from reaching them.
• As Mai Qi attacked the disciples with blood skulls, Ye Zhen awakened his Fumigation incense deity and broke through to the Nascent Soul realm, grasping the Incense Path law of scenting power.
• Ye Zhen killed Mai Qi and wounded True Person Lu Xin, while his new power strengthened the disciples enough for them to break out and flee.
• Ye Zhen escorted the disciples partway, then found Luo Zhen and Han Zhen blocked by Demonic Path experts as a Purple Mansion Palace Nascent Soul cultivator fought two Netherworld Sect Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The two Netherworld Sect Nascent Soul cultivators recognized Ye Zhen's advancement and decided to kill him before his foundation stabilized.

Ye Zhen empowered Han Zhen and Luo Zhen as Demonic Path forces trapped the Orthodox cultivators and targeted the Three True Ones of Incense Accumulation. Han Zhen and Luo Zhen broke through to Nascent Soul, but Daoist Heavenly Calamity moved to kill them before a new arrival intervened.

• The Demonic Path Nascent Soul cultivators sealed the battlefield behind a void barrier and attacked Ye Zhen and the Orthodox cultivators.
• Ye Zhen used the Famous Incense Fumigation Art to empower his allies, allowing Han Zhen and Luo Zhen to fight back against the Demonic Path forces.
• Blood Corpse Old Ancestor Hou Xun and Huan Yu arrived, but Daoist Heavenly Calamity Wei Yang trapped the Orthodox cultivators in calamity fog and targeted the Three True Ones.
• Under the threat of certain death, Han Zhen and Luo Zhen broke through to Nascent Soul and awakened their laws.
• Daoist Heavenly Calamity plunged the barrier into darkness to destroy the Three True Ones, but a voice arrived with the words, "With me here, who dares bully my Incense Accumulation disciples?"

Li Ling descended through an incense-powered dharma form, but Daoist Heavenly Calamity blocked it and kept Huan Yu occupied while Hou Xun attacked the Incense Accumulation Sect. Li Ling secretly aided Han Zhen and took control of Hou Xun’s demon corpse, leaving the demonic cultivators under his influence.

• Li Ling warned the Three True Lords to withdraw as his disciples and the Purple Mansion Palace prepared an Incense-Burning Grand Gathering to summon him.
• Daoist Heavenly Calamity contaminated Li Ling’s forming dharma body and fought Huan Yu, while Hou Xun drove the Three True Lords back with his ten-thousand-year demon corpse.
• Hou Xun wounded Han Zhen by using the Yin Ghost Transporting Art, but Li Ling empowered Han Zhen to pass through the demon corpse and attack Hou Xun.
• Li Ling used Incense-Thought Lure and Spirit-Bewildering Incense against Hou Xun, then made the surrounding world indistinct with feathering power as Ye Zhen scattered the incense.
• Li Ling took possession of the ten-thousand-year demon corpse, and the demonic Nascent Soul cultivators tried to flee before his influence compelled several of them to return.

Li Ling temporarily controlled Hou Xun’s Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Corpse and helped the Three True Lords defeat the demonic Nascent Soul cultivators, forcing the demonic army to withdraw. The Purple Mansion Palace and Incense Accumulation Sect celebrated their victory and strengthened their cooperation, while Hou Xun and Daoist Heavenly Calamity planned to request reinforcements from the Netherworld Sect.

• Li Ling used the Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Corpse to kill two demonic Nascent Soul cultivators and left a third for the Three True Lords to fight.
• Han Zhen, Luo Zhen, and the third True Lord worked together to overcome the remaining demonic Nascent Soul cultivator after he tried to escape.
• Hou Xun returned to the battlefield, bound the Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Corpse with a secret talisman, and reclaimed it after Li Ling withdrew his control.
• Hou Xun and Daoist Heavenly Calamity withdrew with the demonic army after recognizing their defeat, while the Orthodox Path forces celebrated and pursued the retreating enemy.
• Huan Yu thanked Li Ling and promised rewards for the Three True Lords, whose battle achievements included all three Nascent Soul kills credited to the Incense Accumulation Sect.
• Hou Xun and Daoist Heavenly Calamity returned to their camp and decided to request aid from the Netherworld Sect.

Li Ling rewarded the Three True Ones of Incense Accumulation with secret teachings and strengthened his own Dao Fruit by studying their powers. As the war escalated, Huan Yu warned him that the Netherworld Sect was sending reinforcements, leaving the chapter with news that a newly advanced Demon Venerable was among them.

• Li Ling praised the Sixth-Generation True Disciples for their service and promised generous rewards funded by the Heavenly Court and Purple Mansion Palace.
• Li Ling gave Han Zhen, Luo Zhen, and Ye Zhen golden caskets containing Nascent Soul methods suited to their gifts.
• Li Ling studied Luo Zhen and Ye Zhen's spirit incense, grasped the laws behind their powers, and incorporated their insights into his Incense Ancestor Origin.
• Huan Yu told Li Ling that the Netherworld Sect might send another mighty expert and that the Heavenly Court would dispatch a hundred thousand soldiers led by Great Sage Mengjian of the Dipper Division.
• Li Ling learned that the Netherworld Sect's reinforcements were confirmed and that they included the newly advanced Demon Venerable Hundred-Eyed Boy of the White Bone Sect.

Li Ling and Huan Yu faced renewed attacks on Purple Ultimate Immortal Mountain after the Heavenly Court diverted reinforcements to other battlefields. The Hundred-Eyed Boy appeared with the White Bone Dao Palace, and Li Ling transformed into a jade-like skeleton to resist its power.

• Li Ling offered the Purple Mansion Palace the formulas for Heavenly Ascension Spirit Incense and Omba Incense to help counter ghostly demonic forces.
• Hou Xun and Wei Yang launched a major assault through the unrepaired breach in the mountain gate grand array after the Heavenly Court's forces were tied down elsewhere.
• Huan Yu went out to fight the attackers, and Li Ling followed her to the breach.
• The White Bone Dao Palace appeared in the Bone Realm, bringing forth hundreds of millions of bone men.
• Li Ling used Impurity Manifestation to transform into a crystalline skeleton, and the Hundred-Eyed Boy asked whether he had mastered the Bone-Transformation Method.

Li Ling entered the White Bone Dao Palace, where Hundred-Eyed Boy demanded his white bone incense and claimed control of the palace. Their negotiations collapsed into battle, and Li Ling used Orchid-Scented Breath and nine transformed breaths to trap the White Bone Giants, leaving strange transformations unfolding before Hundred-Eyed Boy.

• Li Ling explained that his White Bone form came from Myriad Incenses Illusory Form, while Hundred-Eyed Boy withdrew into the White Bone Dao Palace.
• Li Ling saw the Bone Realm within the palace and realized the Dao Palace was a realm-forming Dao Artifact built from the remains of fallen mighty ones.
• Hundred-Eyed Boy demanded Li Ling's white bone incense, but Li Ling urged him to join the Heavenly Court instead, and their negotiations ended.
• Hundred-Eyed Boy sent nine White Bone Giants against Li Ling, who was injured when his transformed body could not readily use the xiyi dharma body.
• Li Ling cast Orchid-Scented Breath, trapping the giants in rapidly growing rotten flesh, then formed nine breaths from different powers as strange transformations began before Hundred-Eyed Boy.

Li Ling escaped the White Bone Dao Palace after defeating the Hundred-Eyed Boy’s attempt to seize his dao fruit and stealing three Bone Saint Bodies. As the Dipper Division attacked the demonic forces’ rear, Li Ling saw a chance to trap Hou Xun and Wei Yang and tried to pressure the Hundred-Eyed Boy into helping him.

• Li Ling transformed his avatar into a reward body and used Grand Tai Sui Incense to infect the skeletal giants, but the White Bone Dao Palace’s moonlight suppressed his flesh-generating power.
• Li Ling turned into jade bones to evade the moonlight, ignited the dried Tai Sui residue, and set three skeletal giants ablaze before taking them into his divine domain and escaping.
• Li Ling emerged at Purple Ultimate Immortal Mountain, where Huan Yu confirmed that he had fought the Hundred-Eyed Boy, who arrived furious over losing three Bone Saint Bodies.
• Hou Xun asked the Hundred-Eyed Boy to keep Li Ling occupied while the demonic forces prepared to attack Purple Ultimate Immortal Mountain.
• A messenger reported that Great Sage Mengjian and the Dipper Division had overrun the demonic camp at Zhan Shou Mountain, killing two Nascent Soul cultivators and eleven Core Formation elders.
• Li Ling urged the Hundred-Eyed Boy to help him exploit the opening, hinting that he could reveal the Dharma King’s loss if he refused.

Li Ling exploited the retreat from the Mountain Gate Grand Array to isolate and capture Hou Xun, forcing the Demonic Path army to abandon its retreat and flee. The Heavenly Court and Netherworld Sect learned that Li Ling had captured another Spirit Transformation cultivator, while his allies secured a decisive victory.

• Li Ling secretly persuaded Hundred-Eyed Boy to ease off while he targeted Hou Xun, and Wei Yang ordered the Demonic Path forces to retreat.
• As Wei Yang and Hundred-Eyed Boy tried to hold off Li Ling and Huan Yu, Li Ling used the Wondrous Method of Xiyi to attack Hou Xun and trap him in his Incense Accumulation Divine Domain.
• Li Ling used the Nirvana Lotus Incense Scripture and other incense powers to overwhelm Hou Xun, suppress his primordial spirit, and take him down.
• Three White Bone Giants attacked Wei Yang, while Hundred-Eyed Boy reclaimed two of them but could not overcome the Will-Consent Incense controlling the last one.
• Li Ling returned with Hou Xun's dazed soul, and Wei Yang and Hundred-Eyed Boy withdrew, leaving the Demonic Path army to flee as the Righteous Cultivators pursued.
• Scouts reported Hou Xun's capture to the Heavenly Court and Netherworld Sect, which were shocked that Li Ling had taken down another Spirit Transformation cultivator.

After the Demonic Path withdrew from Changzhou, Li Ling and the Incense Accumulation Sect helped the Purple Mansion Palace clean the devastated region and eliminate abandoned enemies. The Heavenly Court rewarded Li Ling for delivering Hou Xun, including rare treasures and the exceptionally valuable tribulation ash.

• Purple Mansion Palace and Incense Accumulation Sect disciples cleared the battlefield and used incense to dispel corruption and restore the area.
• Li Ling learned that the Demonic Path had withdrawn, while the Orthodox Path began cleansing Changzhou and hunting down its remaining undead and cultivators.
• Han Zhen, Ye Zhen, and Luo Zhen led allied forces to destroy a nearby Demonic Path corpse-refining cavern and fumigate its polluted valley.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect spread its incense methods and basic cultivation manuals as Orthodox forces defeated Demonic Path remnants across Changzhou.
• True Lord Guangde arrived with Heavenly Court rewards for Li Ling, whose lists included rare spiritual materials and the Skycloud Sect's tribulation ash.

Li Ling used tribulation ash and the Incense Accumulation Sect’s other treasures to create the Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer, a guardian treasure designed to gather incense offerings and house incense deities. Ten years later, the censer took shape and began drawing in offerings at the Fragrant Incense Pavilion, while its power awaited the sect’s future accumulation of guardian deities.

• The Heavenly Court envoys delivered carefully selected tribulation ash to Li Ling, and Nie Yingzhi learned about its rarity and properties.
• Li Ling decided to refine a sect guardian treasure from the tribulation ash and other materials, and Nie Yingzhi presented the sect’s resources and designs for magic treasures.
• Li Ling chose a Boshan Censer design and envisioned the Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer as a container for an Incense Realm and its guardian incense deities.
• Li Ling ordered Nie Yingzhi to recruit skilled people and begin refining the censer, then used a pill to strengthen his cultivation and infused part of his dharma power into the treasure.
• After ten years of refinement, Li Ling completed the censer and placed it at the Fragrant Incense Pavilion to gather the sect’s incense offerings and condense incense deities.

Li Ling oversaw the Incense Accumulation Treasure Censer’s growth and explained why he needed to pursue a deathless Dao Fruit as ancient powers stirred again. After the Heavenly Court summoned the immortal sects, he learned that it planned to train four divisions for a counterattack against the Underworld, whose wars had secretly cultivated calamity and expanded ghost domains.

• Li Ling ordered the Incense Accumulation Sect to direct its rituals toward nourishing the newly forged treasure censer, and ten years later its incense offerings helped the censer grow into a miniature world.
• Li Ling told Mu Qingsi he intended to house his Incense Ancestor Avatar in the censer and seek a deathless Dao Fruit, warning that ancient Netherworld Sect Dao entrants could threaten the immortal sects.
• Nie Yingzhi reported that the Great Expansion Sect and Boundless Sect had won decisive battles in Zuzhou and Liuzhou, and Li Ling negotiated favorable terms when the Heavenly Court requested the Incense Accumulation Sect’s aid.
• Li Ling sent an avatar to the Heavenly Court’s assembly, where the three Heavenly Venerables announced plans to train the Water, Pox, Wealth, and Tai Sui Divisions for a counterattack against the Underworld.
• Li Ling read classified reports revealing that the Netherworld Sect’s mobilization had caused vast deaths and spawned ghost domains on Zuzhou, strengthening the Underworld.

Li Ling and the other powers prepared to appoint Orthodox Gods and organize a counteroffensive against the Underworld, while the Incense Accumulation Sect accelerated military training and mass-produced supplies. The chapter ended with the sect stockpiling incense and other materials ahead of the coming war.

• Miro Heavenly Venerable opened nominations for Orthodox God posts, and Li Ling submitted deceased Incense Accumulation Sect cultivators for consideration.
• Miro Heavenly Venerable announced trusted candidates for the appointments, while Li Ling noted that Li Haoran had been nominated by the Primordial Origin Sect.
• Li Ling informed Nie Yingzhi about preparations for an Underworld offensive, prompting the sect to increase combat drills and acquire supplies.
• Incense Path disciples toured a factory where large magical-artifact furnaces mass-produced ordinary incense, and an instructor explained how widespread production had reshaped the market.
• Steward Elders reported that the Heavenly Works Court had produced millions of jars of incense and other campaign supplies, and Nie Yingzhi ordered production to continue despite the growing stockpile.

As the Heavenly Court prepared its invasion of the Underworld, the Incense Accumulation Sect mobilized its forces and allies, including Long Leshui and Xie Shaojing. Long Leshui arrived in the Netherworld Pure Land and saw the Mirage Tower, now serving as the campaign’s forward base.

• Li Ling recognized that the war created an opportunity for the Incense Accumulation Sect and other unorthodox sects to profit and expand.
• Over nearly forty years, the Incense Accumulation Sect trained new generations for warfare as the Heavenly Court assembled five million troops to attack the Underworld.
• Nie Yingzhi sent Long Leshui and three thousand disciples from Nine-Wan Island to join the campaign through the West Sea.
• Xie Shaojing and other East Sea experts agreed to join the war and help establish an Incense Path ghost kingdom in the Netherworld Pure Land.
• After several months, Long Leshui and his companions crossed into the Netherworld Pure Land aboard a Heavenly Court treasure ship.
• Long Leshui and the others arrived at the Mirage Tower, which the Heavenly Court and Incense Accumulation Sect had turned into a forward base.

Long Leshui brought the Incense Accumulation Sect's forces to Sea Market Ward, where they prepared the base and its surroundings for a prolonged campaign in the Netherworld Pure Land. Meanwhile, the Netherworld Sect and allied Underworld powers agreed to lure the Heavenly Court's vanguard into an ambush at Bottomless Cave.

• Long Leshui arrived at Sea Market Ward, met Venerable Xiaoyao, and secured a well-equipped camp for the Incense Accumulation Sect.
• Long Leshui directed the unloading of supplies, and the sect began a continuing incense ritual to cleanse the ghost domain and build an Incense Cloud Canopy.
• Long Leshui left the ward to meet Zhao Ziren and seek intelligence about the Netherworld Sect and the Pure Land.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable Ming Tu, the Nether King Palace master, and Qi Xue gathered to discuss uniting against the Heavenly Court's advance.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable proposed ambushing the Heavenly Court's vanguard at Bottomless Cave with the Soul-Losing Wind, and Qi Xue agreed to cooperate.