"Stop!"
Ye Qianfan could not bear to watch any longer and immediately shouted.
Seeing Ye Qianfan intervene, Village Chief Qian's gaze turned cold. "Sir, what is the meaning of this? Daoist Chen is doing this for everyone's sake. Besides, this dog isn't yours, is it?"
"Daoist Chen!"
Ye Qianfan went straight past Village Chief Qian and questioned Daoist Chen. "Surely you know that every deceased person laid out in this Mortuary is missing their heart? Killing a dog and spilling its blood here—aren't you afraid the corpses will rise?"
Although Ye Qianfan pitied the dog, that was not his main reason for stopping them.
He was worried the corpses would rise!
Ye Qianfan had not studied corpse control or corpse cultivation much, but he had learned a great deal about corpses from Ye Fu's memories.
Especially the circumstances that could cause corpses to rise, precautions to take when cultivating corpses, and so on!
One of those precautions was...
Never let a corpse missing a vital body part smell blood or sense the organ it lacked.
For example, if a dead person was missing their heart and you insisted on waving a fresh heart in front of them, wasn't that just asking for trouble?
Besides...
These corpses had yet to be laid to rest in the earth, making them highly susceptible to transformation in the first place.
Then you went and provoked them. At that point, they could hardly avoid transforming.
"Shallow and ignorant!"
But Daoist Chen merely sneered, pulled a length of white fox tail from inside his robe, and tossed it onto the Eight Trigrams altar. "See this? This is the fox demon's tail I cut off last night. It's hiding right here in the Mortuary!"
"If we don't force it out with black dog blood, it will only