??aaaaa turned his head and only then realized it was Yu Xiaoxue. Not only had she not dared to burn incense, she had even grabbed hold of me.
"Brother Tian... the incense... there isn't enough incense left. What should we do?" Yu Xiaoxue looked at me woefully. She even pointed at the empty incense boxes strewn across the floor, as well as the few sticks remaining in the last bundle.
Yin ghosts were wandering spirits who, after dying, had not been taken away by the underworld's ghost officers for one reason or another. For them, absorbing yang energy and incense was no different from people eating food. It was only natural.
Normally, a wandering ghost only needed to absorb a little yang energy and incense from the mortal world. But the slightly more greedy ones, or those burdened by heavy resentment, not only absorbed yang energy and incense from the living world—they also absorbed it from people. Someone like me, born with heavy yin energy and weak yang energy, was especially attractive to yin ghosts.
Once I failed to feed the yin spirits outside, they would immediately cling to me.
That was why they had known I had arrived as soon as I entered Little Yi Village. It was just that the Ghost-Passing Talisman still had some effect. But once the incense burned out...
At the thought of this, I panicked.
"I'll go look around in Granny's bedroom and see if there's any extra incense or candles." I comforted her.
"I... I already went there. All the incense and candles outside were taken from inside. Who could have delivered incense these past two days?" Yu Xiaoxue told me in a trembling voice.
Incense was one of Granny's everyday supplies. Normally, there was a whole large box in her bedroom. But