Chen Miao shifted his gaze from Zhong Cai's corpse to Xiao Bai, whose body was still trembling inside the stone coffin.
After snapping out of his trance, Chen Miao's mind was exceptionally clear.
As he recalled everything that had just happened, his thoughts raced.
There was still a way!
There had to be a way!
Chen Miao swept his gaze over his surroundings, finally settling on Elder Bamboo's mangled corpse.
A corpse?
Recalling what had just happened to Elder Bamboo, Chen Miao formed a bold hypothesis.
If the incense smoke had failed to deal with Elder Bamboo because his body was still alive, what about now?
He immediately picked up the book, ready to exchange for incense sticks.
Before turning to the exchange page, Chen Miao quickly scanned the final part of the chapter.
After seeing himself being "killed" by Xiao Bai without putting up any resistance, he stopped hesitating and exchanged all his remaining Yin Virtue for Jiangzhen Incense.
There was no longer enough time for Chen Miao to exchange for a few incense sticks and test whether they worked.
Besides, if he truly couldn't resolve the problem with Elder Bamboo, keeping that Yin Virtue would be pointless.
As the two hundred and forty-four incense sticks flickered in his hands, Chen Miao resolutely recited Demon Suppression from the Six Jiangzhen Secrets: Divine Gaze!
The Yin Energy in his Sublingual Yin Bridge was exhausted by the recitation. Incense smoke so dense that he couldn't have seen his hand before his face appeared above Chen Miao, forming a slowly rotating cloud.
Chen Miao lowered his gaze to Xiao Bai's body.
Immediately, a rotating column of smoke emerged from the center of the cloud like a waterspout, plunging straight toward Xiao Bai.
Within moments, the smoke filled the stone coffin, blocking Chen