Because dawn had broken, and the interior of the Nine Corpse Tower had been completely suppressed.
When I entered the Nine Corpse Tower again today, the aura of yin ghosts felt much weaker.
I made my way smoothly to the Specimen Room on the first basement level. The ultraviolet light made the place seem rather horrifying and eerie.
But I had long since grown accustomed to all of it.
After a month.
I found that the shattered specimen glass jars here had been set upright again, and there were new cadavers inside them.
But I noticed that the arrangement of these specimen jars was different from before.
I glanced around and found that the layout had become a Bagua formation.
And this Bagua was a Corpse-Array Hexagram.
Using the hexagram to suppress corpses, using corpses to suppress fiends...
It was very similar to the layout of King Ba's Mausoleum. This was also why Xiao Yu had used the Nine Corpses to suppress the ghost cave in the Nine Corpse Tower.
This technique was considered an "Yin Corpse Fiend-Suppressing" art of the Ancient Ba Kingdom.
I paid it no mind and headed straight for the entrance to the Misty Ghost Domain.
Because I had my Heavenly Eye open, I could see the entrance.
Black mist churned in waves, but because it was daylight, the entrance had become incredibly small.
Only by jumping through at a particularly tricky angle could I enter that black misty opening.
After choosing my direction, I leaped into the air.
With a whoosh, I jumped into the entrance of black mist.
This was some part of a gigantic ghost creature's body. I could not see its full form and had no idea what it was.
Because the Nine Corpse Tower was stable, there was not the slightest