"Scorpions?"
Chen Miao frowned as he studied how he had died.
Although the fight had begun abruptly, it had gone fairly smoothly.
But once those scorpions appeared, everything had taken a sharp turn for the worse.
"It makes sense that the windmill couldn't control them. The Soul-Sealing Memorial Tablet couldn't restrain them either, which means those scorpions weren't ghosts."
"The peach wood shavings worked, but they only drove them back. They couldn't actually destroy them."
"So these insects were the gu worms Qi Ning mentioned before?"
"How do I deal with gu worms?"
Chen Miao reviewed everything he had on him again. It seemed that none of it could work against gu worms!
He probably wouldn't have to fear gu worms while using the Corpse-Substitution Technique, but he didn't have a corpse, nor could he bring one along to meet Suo Kun.
"Do I need to redeem a piece of peach wood and turn the whole thing into shavings?"
After giving it some thought, Chen Miao decided that wasn't reliable enough.
The peach wood shavings merely repelled those gu worms. Besides, the Yang-Suppressing Talisman combined with Hide-and-Seek should have been enough to conceal him from them.
Yet those gu worms had still moved afterward. Chen Miao didn't believe Suo Kun hadn't been controlling them.
So peach wood shavings alone wouldn't be enough.
With no leads, Chen Miao set the matter aside for now and began analyzing the information contained in this chapter.
"Suo Kun knew I wasn't Wen Hao. There's no doubt about that."
"The key question now is when Suo Kun realized I wasn't Wen Hao."
"Did he know before I went there, after we met, or only once I went upstairs?"
"The description of the Flying Skull Curse says that until the caster retrieves the flying skulls, they