"—How many sticks of Heavenly Incense are you planning to charge for that piece of Talisman Paper?"
The Black Cat, who had been grinning foolishly together with the Yellow Calico Cat, immediately stopped laughing when it heard the Rat Immortal's words. It craned its head down and asked the question. This was also what Zheng Qing wanted to clarify; it was just that he was young and thin-skinned, so having the cat ask would work much better.
As for the "Heavenly Incense" it mentioned.
It was the unit Wizards used to measure merit.
In the early days, Wizards calculated merit the same way they calculated magic power: vaguely, in terms like "some," "a little," "an appropriate amount," "a big lump," "a small lump," and so on. This method of measurement was barely sufficient when magical theory was still rather crude and the number of Wizards was small. After all, there were not many people sharing the proceeds, and a little more or a little less did not make that obvious a difference.
But as Wizards' construction of magical theory grew increasingly refined and the number of Wizards increased, continuing to use such a crude method of calculating merit could no longer satisfy the needs of the vast population of Wizards.
Thus, the measurement unit "Heavenly Incense" was born.
Of course, this was only the smallest unit for measuring merit. Above "Heavenly Incense" there was the "Golden Censer"; above the Golden Censer there was the "Ornamental Pillar"; and above the Ornamental Pillar there was the "Auspicious Cloud."
Generally speaking, when Wizards elevated a Mystic Realm of standard strength into Small Thousand Worlds, the amount of merit fed back by the world was calculated as thirty million sticks of Heavenly Incense, which was "one Golden Censer"; when they elevated Small Thousand Worlds