"Is that so?"
Jiang Qiao stood in the eerily quiet city, deep in thought.
Just now.
He had learned some secrets about the eastern part of the city from the Prefectural City Lord of Yue City. The process had been very friendly, so there was nothing much to say. The difference between them was simply too great, and resisting had been meaningless.
Because the other party had been fairly cooperative.
He had not made things too difficult for him.
He had not even killed him.
At most, he had added a blind, mute, and crippled vagrant to the city.
"I really am merciful."
"As the saying goes, lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot."
"I believe he'll certainly mend his ways and become a new person in his new life."
"At least my decision to spare his life wasn't wasted."
Jiang Qiao was moved by his own compassion, and became even more energetic as he worked.
First, he found half of a Puppet Person in the basement of a ruin. Then he fished a tattered dress out of a narrow creek. Finally, he dug half of a dried corpse out from beneath the roots of a large tree.
He stitched the Puppet Person and the dried corpse together, then put the white dress on it.
Finally, he arranged it together with two other Vicious Ghosts in a triangle around that solitary Wood Door.
"According to that kind-hearted person."
"This door has nothing to do with them. It appeared after the battle at Human Head Mountain."
"At first, they wanted to destroy it."
"But they simply couldn't."
"So they came up with a method. They used Vicious Ghosts as mediums to replace some of the door's key components. Then they restricted the Vicious Ghosts and separated