His seamless execution had been planned using the information in the chapter.
Fortunately, Chen Miao now had more tricks up his sleeve and could last longer and longer within the chapters.
If he had still been the Chen Miao of a month ago, Sun Yi alone might have brought the chapter to an end, leaving him no chance to learn anything about the other two ghosts.
Sun Yi's abilities were certainly powerful, but with the Soul-Sealing Memorial Tablets and Chen Miao's various methods, she was no match for him in the chapter.
The two unexpected factors that came afterward, however, had been more than Chen Miao could handle.
In the original course of events, the first ghost to appear had charged straight into the area covered by Xiang Shang and Li Zi's Soul-Sealing Memorial Tablets and possessed Xiang Shang.
By the time Chen Miao noticed, it was already too late, though he could certainly still have saved him if he had intervened then.
The problem was the third ghost, which had already possessed the waiter.
The possessed waiter interrupted Chen Miao's rescue, causing Xiang Shang to kill Li Zi and then himself.
Their deaths immediately caused two more faces to appear on Sun Yi's body. With six faces, Sun Yi broke straight through the confinement imposed by the two memorial tablets.
What happened next needed no explanation.
Come to think of it, Chen Miao still had questions about that.
After Xiang Shang and Li Zi died, their souls should logically have been confined in place by the Soul-Sealing Memorial Tablets, but that had not happened.
It was as though Sun Yi had absorbed their souls from a distance.
As for the waiter, when Chen Miao originally read the book, he had thought the ghost hiding in the umbrella had possessed