At one in the afternoon, Chen Miao returned.
Seeing both men looking at him, Chen Miao smiled and nodded.
"It'll work."
For some reason, looking at Chen Miao's smile made both men feel that this might not be so difficult after all.
"Then what's next?"
Chen Miao checked the time and said, "Let's get started. We'll finish everything before dark."
With neither man objecting, Chen Miao began making arrangements.
"Before we start, we need to move the corpse I treated into an empty house."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid innocent people might get hurt later."
Neither Qi Ning nor Zhong Cai had any objections.
Just as they were about to leave, Qi Ning suddenly noticed something and asked, "Chen Miao, where's your Peach Wood Sword?"
Chen Miao smiled. "I have plans for it."
Confusion flickered in Zhong Cai's eyes, but he refrained from asking.
Soon, the three of them got to work.
First, they "smuggled" Chen Miao's Substitute Corpse out of the occupied house. Once they had placed it in the room Chen Miao had chosen, they began the next step of the plan.
Destroying the Corpse Dissolving Incantations on the bottoms of the coffins!
Every Corpse Dissolving Incantation on every coffin had to be destroyed, including the one beneath the coffin holding Chen Miao's Substitute Corpse!
Chen Miao had asked Zhong Cai earlier and learned that the corpses produced corpse qi at night.
Thus, even if they destroyed the Corpse Dissolving Incantations during the day, the corpse qi throughout the underground feng shui network would remain unchanged.
Chen Miao had already verified this in the book.
As for the corpses themselves, Chen Miao told Zhong Cai and Qi Ning not to move them.
If they disturbed these jiangshi, the other jiangshi would emerge immediately, disrupting Chen Miao's plan.
Chen Miao needed