With the doors, windows, and a large section of wall gone, the wind blew straight through. That was when the Sacrificial Flames showed their worth: every one of them kept burning. Not a single flame was blown out.
Xu Feng and his master stood in the wind, their clothes whipping around them.
Yet neither man staggered!
They simply let the wind send their robes flying.
And beneath the low rumble of thunder, his master seemed to grow more fired up.
Far from lowering his voice, he spoke louder and louder over the wind and thunder!
"Thus, Heaven in its mercy has granted you a path home through the City God, while the Earth God guards your journey through the dark. For such profound kindness, you must hasten to give thanks.
"Now that the gods have shown compassion, release your grievances and let go of your wrongs. Follow your guide in peace.
"Do not linger as a malevolent spirit and disturb Luoyin County Town.
"May you partake of this offering."
He drew out the final note.
When he finished and saw no response from his disciple, he raised his voice even further and began the funeral address again, starting from "Wei."
It was enough to drill the words into anyone's ears!
Xu Feng treated his master's recitation as an incantation.
As he watched the corpse settle from the verge of Corpse Transformation, Xu Feng used the "drilling" technique.
He worked upward against the flow, then downward with it.
It kept him extraordinarily busy.
Even as he guided the qi, the incense divination at his feet kept wavering under his hands, now showing a Minor Ominous Sign, now returning to normal! Stitching ominous energy into a corpse was exactly like ominous energy entering a reanimated corpse. With thunder crashing overhead, Corpse Stitching