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Chapter 225 - Donning the Paper Robe [Conclusion]

At 10 p.m., Chen Miao and his two companions checked into the best hotel in Shiyang County, which was found by Xie Songde's secretary.

Although it was said to be the best, Xie Songde still seemed somewhat dissatisfied.

Perhaps because Chen Miao didn't say anything, he didn't say anything either, and they checked in together.

The four people each stayed in a room, and their room numbers were consecutive.

The first thing Chen Miao did after returning to her room was to lift the shirt off her left arm.

His arms were bare, but when he entered the Bureau, the area with the yin marks on his arms was burning hot. Not only was it burning hot, but all sorts of chaotic thoughts and emotions also surged up.

If he hadn't maintained the Ice Heart state and switched his Heavenly Spirit Yin Aperture throughout, he might have already shown signs of abnormality at the Administration Bureau.

Nevertheless, the back of his shirt was soaked.

"So, Old Ghost really didn't lie to me back then. If I didn't have the Ice Heart state and the Heavenly Spirit Yin Aperture, my abnormality might have been noticed by the people in the bureau."

"Luckily, Qi Ning was quite helpful. Otherwise, given Ye Shuhan's attitude, if he had left me hanging all night, who knows what might have happened to Yin Wen."

"However, this time we have also figured out the actual situation of the Yin pattern within the Bureau. It can withstand it for at least an hour."

Chen Miao lowered his sleeves, took out the book and glanced at it. Everything seemed normal, so he stopped thinking about it.

"In the next few days, I will select more scorpions and have Lao Yang send them back to Tianmen County for me."

With that thought in mind, Chen Miao then began practicing the Extreme Yin Body Refining Technique in his room.

After he finished, he took a shower and went to bed to rest.

……

Chen Miao was suddenly awakened by a series of banging sounds!

After getting up, he immediately drew the sword that was placed on the bedside table.

The banging sounds continued, but that wasn't a reason for Chen Miao to draw his sword.

He sensed a change in the concentration of Yin energy, which was at least three times stronger than before he went to sleep!
With his Yin-Yang Eyes activated, Chen Miao scanned the surroundings before fixing his gaze on a wall to one side.

The place with the densest yin energy is on that wall; if you listen carefully, the sound also comes from that wall.

Some movie clips flashed through Chen Miao's mind.

"So, there's something inside the wall?"

Chen Miao took out four incense sticks from his bag and lit them.

As he recited the incantation to pacify the soul, incense smoke rose, and Chen Miao manipulated the smoke to penetrate the wall.

But as he was drilling, Chen Miao suddenly paused.

He immediately took his things, opened the door, and quickly walked into the next room.

Seeing the eerie aura emanating from the crack in the door, Chen Miao didn't knock. Instead, he kicked the door lock, breaking it.

Two months ago, Chen Miao might not have been able to break it.

Pushing open the door, Chen Miao saw the figure in the living room surrounded by the smoke of incense.

Who else could it be but Yang Jiuhua?

The bright red mark on the other person's forehead revealed the source of the thumping sounds.

Just now, when Chen Miao was manipulating the incense smoke, he felt something was wrong. There was nothing inside the wall!
Therefore, he naturally knew that he had been wrong.

Now that I look, it's true.

Chen Miao did not rush to make a move, but instead looked at Yang Jiuhua kneeling on the ground.

The incense smoke from before had already seeped into the paper clothes on Yang Jiuhua's body, and as the smoke entered, the clothes on Yang Jiuhua's body were gradually burning away.

Even after the incense smoke disappeared, Yang Jiuhua was still wearing paper pants, paper shoes, and a paper hat!
The incense smoke from just now only burned one piece of clothing!
This scene answered some of Chen Miao's questions.

Immediately, Chen Miao took out incense sticks from his bag. At that moment, Xie Songde and his secretary also came in, along with the hotel staff on duty.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

Chen Miao turned his head and glanced at Xie Songde, saying, "Boss Xie, don't let anyone come and cause trouble."

Xie Songde had already been frightened by Yang Jiuhua kneeling in the living room, dressed in paper clothes and pants, but he immediately came to his senses after hearing what Chen Miao said.

He turned around and gave his equally shocked secretary a wink.

The secretary understood, glanced at the staff member again, and then pushed the hotel staff member out.

Incidentally, they also closed the door.

"Mr. Chen, what's wrong with Mr. Yang?"

"It's nothing serious. Yang Jiuhua has offended more than one thing, so as soon as he came back, those things came up to him again."

Chen Miao wasn't too worried.

Four ordinary incense sticks, without even using the Yinqiao acupoint, were enough to send a ghost to the afterlife; one can imagine the power of these ghosts.

It seems the management bureau only found one, assuming it was just one ghost.

Unexpectedly, Yang Jiuhua had offended more than one person!
Shaking his head, Chen Miao took out some incense sticks.

This time, he did not intend to continue reciting the incantation for suppressing evil spirits.

Ultimately, Yang Jiuhua had provoked all of these ghosts, and since none of them had taken his life, they were probably not beings with deep-seated resentment.

If that's the case, why should he bother with suppressing evil spirits?
However, these ghosts should not have been in the graveyard during the few days that Yang Jiuhua was away.

If you go to the cemetery, the management bureau will definitely take care of it.

Where did they go?
"Could it be that these ghosts have all found their targets these past few days?"

"But as soon as Yang Jiuhua appeared, they abandoned their respective goals."

"So, Yang Jiuhua made the right decision to come this time. If these ghosts were allowed to haunt other people and those people didn't know to contact the Management Bureau, problems would inevitably arise in the long run."

Thinking this, Chen Miao began to recite the "Incantation for Descending to the Soul" (for those suffering from prolonged illness or dying peacefully in their sleep).

Incense smoke appeared, swirling around Yang Jiuhua and slowly seeping into the paper hat on his head.

The hat burned out, incidentally making Yang Jiuhua's hair curly in the process.

Seeing that the soothing incantation was effective, Chen Miao took out eight more sticks, intending to use them to pray for the remaining pants and shoes as well.

But just as he was about to recite, his gaze was drawn to Yang Jiuhua's trousers.

After a careful inspection, Chen Miao immediately pulled out four more. Yang Jiuhua wasn't wearing one pair of pants, but two!

The only difference is that each of them is missing a leg, which complements each other perfectly, making them look like a pair of pants.

With twelve incense sticks in his hand, Chen Miao recited the incantation for calming the soul once more.

"A wisp of true essence descends to the heavens, the soul returns to the Purple Palace and sins are absolved. The three souls and seven spirits return to their rightful places, and one does not fall into the cycle of reincarnation but ascends to the bridge of immortality."

When the last incense smoke burned away the last piece of paper on Yang Jiuhua's body, Yang Jiuhua lost his support and collapsed to the ground.

Chen Miao packed his things, took out two ordinary yin-repelling talismans, and came to Yang Jiuhua's side.

First, after activating the talisman, the yin energy in the room was dispelled. Then, Xie Songde poured a glass of water, lit the talisman, and fed it to Yang Jiuhua.

As the talisman water was poured into Yang Jiuhua's body, Yang Jiuhua slowly opened his eyes.

Yang Jiuhua was somewhat bewildered as he looked at Chen Miao and Xie Songde.

"What am I doing... Ouch!"

Yang Jiuhua reached out and touched his forehead, where it was red and swollen.

"What happened to me?"

Chen Miao looked at Yang Jiuhua.

"Don't you have any memory at all?"

"I?"

Yang Jiuhua recalled.

"I only remember having a dream, in which... Holy crap, they're here again!"

"Chen Miao, they're here again!"

"It was that dream again. They were chattering around me, but this time I could hear them clearly."

"They said kneel down!"

Chen Miao pressed down on the excited Yang Jiuhua with one hand.

"The matter for tonight has been resolved."

"You'll sleep with me tomorrow night, and we'll see if there's anything left."

"If they're gone, go to the cemetery and burn some paper money for them."

Hearing Chen Miao's explanation, Yang Jiuhua finally understood why he had a large bump on his forehead and why Chen Miao was in the room.

But after hearing Chen Miao's words, Yang Jiuhua couldn't hold back anymore.

"besides?"

Chen Miao stood up and shook his head.

"I don't know, who knows how many people you offended that night. Luckily, none of them were fierce. They only made you kneel, not jump off a building."

"Let me see the peach charms on your body."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jiuhua immediately took out the peach charm.

Sure enough, it was already cracked.

Chen Miao took a look and then understood why Yang Jiuhua had multiple marks on the peach charm.

After throwing the peach charm back, Chen Miao took out his only four ghost cubes from his bag.

"Take these for now, and return them to me after this is over. The peach charms aren't very useful for your situation, so don't waste them."

Yang Jiuhua quickly took it.

"Chen Miao, how do I use this?"

"Just don't leave my body. You'll sleep with me tomorrow, and I'll know if anything happens."

After Chen Miao finished speaking, he prepared to leave, but Yang Jiuhua followed him directly.

"I'll sleep with you tonight."

Chen Miao did not refuse.

Xie Songde stood at the door of the room, watching Chen Miao's back, and couldn't help but take out his peach charm.

"I wonder if Mr. Chen is selling that thing."

Yang Jiuhua's experience made Xie Songde suddenly realize that the peach charms in his hand were not so safe after all.

But he knew that the little silver thing must be very important, otherwise Chen Miao wouldn't have told Yang Jiuhua to return it after everything was over.

Chen Miao no longer sells peach charms, let alone that other thing.

"Looks like I'll have to keep trying."

"Chen Miao seems very interested in the scorpion breeding base. Should we give that base to Chen Miao?"

"No, we can't be too radical. Let's leave it at that and take it slow."

Having made up his mind, Xie Songde headed towards his room.

Xie Songde felt a bit cold, perhaps because of Yang Jiuhua.

After thinking for a moment, he called his secretary and went back to his room.

……

After returning to his room, Chen Miao went straight to bed.

Without exchanging any words with Yang Jiuhua, he opened the book on his own.

After seeing the new chapter in the book, Chen Miao knew that Yang Jiuhua's matter should be considered over.

[Chapter Nine: Donning the Paper Robe (Completed), gained Yin Virtue (five coins), obtained Min Rui's memory fragment, obtained Gong Liangcai's memory fragment, obtained Yu Hui's memory fragment, obtained Wang Jianguo's memory fragment, obtained Li Dan's memory fragment!]

Looking at the series of fragmented memories, Chen Miao touched his nose.

"My sleep quality should be pretty good for the next few days."

……

(End of this chapter)