Chen Miao had picked up the Tobacco Pipe on his way out of the grotto.
Back in the villa's basement, Chen Miao had already learned that the Tobacco Pipe was a polluted object, though at the time, it had been in the Old Farmer's hands.
After returning to the Funeral Home, Chen Miao had set aside time specifically to test how to use this polluted Tobacco Pipe.
Naturally, his test subject had been the Scorpion Corpse.
After a round of testing, Chen Miao had roughly determined several of the Tobacco Pipe's abilities.
First, without any Pipe Tobacco packed inside, the Tobacco Pipe itself could inflict some damage on ghosts and evil entities. Its effect was similar to that of a Century-Old Peach Wood Sword without the Seven Stars carved into it.
When a living creature was struck by the Tobacco Pipe, yin energy would seep into it.
Second, with the Pipe Tobacco lit, the smoke it released could be controlled and shaped into ropes, much like the incense smoke summoned by the Six Jiangzhen Secrets, though it lacked the power of that incense smoke.
The smoke from the Tobacco Pipe had no offensive power.
Its main purpose was to restrain enemies, though it also offered some defensive capabilities.
The strength of the ghosts it could restrain depended on the quality of the Pipe Tobacco and the amount of smoke released.
The two little tobacco pouches tied to the front of the Tobacco Pipe each contained a different kind of Pipe Tobacco.
One was tobacco Chen Miao had bought on the streets of Tianmen County; the other was tobacco he had redeemed from the book.
The smoke produced by the street-bought Pipe Tobacco snapped with a single tug from the Scorpion Corpse, offering no noticeable resistance.
The Pipe Tobacco redeemed from