Yu Xing's mission progress had advanced by a small step.
He thought for a moment, then said to Lotus Incense, "Sure. I got what I wanted from Qian San, so I'll open the door and let you in to kill him. That's fair, right?"
At first glance, Lotus Incense's story seemed to have nothing to do with the hidden mission [Soul Snatching], but it actually introduced a new concept.
—Some people deliberately sought out souls with all-yin birth charts and selectively cultivated vengeful spirits who were connected to them. If even Qian San knew about this method, Master of Ten Thousand couldn't possibly be unaware of it.
Fengtou Town was also a natural breeding ground for ghosts. Everyone turned into a ghost after dying, which must have greatly increased the success rate of creating them.
So before, they'd only known that Master of Ten Thousand was secretly collecting souls with all-yin birth charts. Now the purpose of the souls that had gone missing in town seemed clear.
Master of Ten Thousand... was creating ghosts.
A single vengeful spirit had a limit to its strength. It was hard for one to crush other vengeful spirits, but what if many were combined?
After all, Master of Ten Thousand practiced forbidden arts. Qian San needed to use a marital relationship as the foundation for controlling vengeful spirits, but Master of Ten Thousand might not need to.
And when it came to bonds between vengeful spirits, such as the blood ties between Lotus Incense, her younger sister, and her grandmother, Master of Ten Thousand had plenty of room to manipulate things, because he could create dramas.
In a drama, a person's soul took on a different identity and gradually forgot who they were, becoming one with the character they played.
Then, using this method,