"Idiot, take a look with your Demon-Detecting Mirror." The speaker was none other than Qin Meng, who had been missing for ages.
When Qin Meng suddenly spoke, Chen Hao wanted to tease her, but he ultimately restrained himself and took out the Demon-Detecting Mirror as she instructed.
He aimed the Demon-Detecting Mirror at Elder Qin's body. At a glance, his pupils contracted, and he instinctively stumbled two steps backward.
In the antique, yellowish bronze mirror, countless ghosts appeared over Elder Qin's body. These souls looked like vicious specters, all scrambling to escape their prison and regain their freedom. That prison was Elder Qin's body.
The bizarre, sinister sight left Chen Hao completely dumbfounded.
With so many vicious ghosts gathered here, even without the Demon-Detecting Mirror, he should have detected at least some unusual fluctuations through the Heavenly Eye Art's Qi Seeking ability.
Even if his Heavenly Eye Art had somehow failed, surely the Golden Cudgel, with its special sensitivity to soul power, would not have stopped working too.
Yet Chen Hao had been sitting right beside Elder Qin's body, so close and for so long, without sensing anything unusual at all. This simply made no sense.
Could it be because of that Magic Array in the basement?
The question had barely surfaced in Chen Hao's mind when Qin Meng answered it. "It has nothing to do with the Magic Array. Someone seems to have placed a Gu Technique inside this man."
"Gu Technique?" It was Chen Hao's first time hearing of such a thing.
The knowledgeable Qin Meng explained, "Gu Techniques are widespread in Yunjiang Province. I've heard there's a Qi Refiner organization there called Nine Blades that specializes in them. Apparently, Gu Techniques are incredibly mysterious and unfathomable. In front of an expert, you could be afflicted just by