"So the reason that Flying Jiangshi hunted me down was because I knew the Incense-Burning Method?"
Remembering how incense had been planted in his body after those first few deaths, Chen Miao finally found the reason.
"I probably don't know whatever's buried underground. So it must have encountered people who knew the Incense-Burning Method before and suffered at their hands. That's why it hates anyone who knows the method so much?"
"It holds that much of a grudge, and I got caught in the crossfire?"
Chen Miao fell silent.
For the first time, he felt that knowing the Incense-Burning Method wasn't a good thing.
He finally understood why feuds in martial arts novels and films ended with entire families being wiped out.
If you didn't wipe out the other side, the survivors would wipe out yours.
Setting aside those reflections, Chen Miao began sorting through the information he had gained this time.
First, there was nothing wrong with the idea of using the Soul-Sealing Memorial Tablet to imprison Ghost Reverence. It was workable.
Second, after he broke the Coffin-Linked Corpse and the Corpse Dissolving Incantation, the zombies would cook more slowly, which would cause them all to be destroyed at the same time by the rising yang energy at dawn.
That plan was still viable, too!
The problem was that if the zombies were all destroyed at once, the Flying Jiangshi would emerge early and instantly kill all three of them. Instantly!
Judging from what the book described, the Flying Jiangshi hadn't been able to hover in midair. That meant its early emergence had prevented it from successfully advancing.
Interrupting the Flying Jiangshi's advancement was a good thing, but it was also enough to drive them to despair.
Because even an incomplete one was beyond what the three of them