Coming back to himself after reading the book, Chen Miao instinctively glanced at his right arm.
Thankfully, it was fine.
After letting out a sigh of relief, Chen Miao's eyes lit up.
"This discovery is important. Crucial!"
Chen Miao set the book on the table and carefully examined the information hidden within it.
"Zhong Cai discovered the second formation, while I used yin gathering at the village entrance to discover that stone's secret."
"As for why my consciousness was drawn into that vast underground network... maybe it had something to do with using yin gathering with my eyes closed?"
"With my eyes closed, my perception was heightened, and being in the yin-gathering state happened to make me one with that network, in a certain sense."
"That was how I sensed the network."
"Whatever the reason, this information is crucial!"
"The underground network formed by this second formation answers two of my three earlier questions!"
"Why was there no yin energy in the Three Pagoda Tree Yin-Gathering Formation? Because the second formation hid it away!"
"This second formation perfectly concealed the yin energy gathered by the Three Pagoda Tree Yin-Gathering Formation!"
"If I hadn't discovered it, we would never have found the roots inside the walls unless we suddenly went crazy and started tearing the walls down!"
"Of course, even finding the roots inside the walls wouldn't have told us anything more about the second formation!"
"With this discovery, we can even ignore all those other minor details."
Chen Miao was a little excited.
The version of him inside the book hadn't figured out what the "stuff" pumped out of those thirty houses was, but the Chen Miao outside the book knew!
It was corpse qi!
Zhong Cai had never understood why a coffin that nurtured a zombie would have a