After discovering the specifics of the fourth Gate Knocking, Chen Miao lost interest in reading further. There was almost no chance of finding a way out.
After quickly reading through what followed, Chen Miao withdrew from the chapter.
Of course, that also had to do with Chen Miao not knowing how to change the course of events in the chapter.
As he pulled his mind back from the chapter, Chen Miao suddenly froze.
"Just now-"
Chen Miao frowned. He felt as though something had flashed through his mind just now.
But when he tried to recall it, he could not grasp that fleeting spark of insight, even after activating the iceheart state.
"What was it?"
Unable to figure it out, Chen Miao entered the chapter again.
Once, twice.
When he returned the third time, Chen Miao's eyes suddenly lit up. That fleeting spark of insight had appeared again.
He opened his notebook and looked at the notes he had made on the previous three attempts, stunned.
"So that's how it works?"
There was a pattern Chen Miao had overlooked in the Mortal World chapters that had appeared during his four Gate Knockings so far!
Everything that appeared in those four scenarios was something Chen Miao knew about or had encountered!
In the mourning hall of the first Gate Knocking, Chen Miao had been a young Daoist attendant, but that was not the key.
The key was that this attendant was about to recite a funeral eulogy!
In other words, the attendant was a Master of Ceremonies!
In the dungeon of the second Gate Knocking, Chen Miao had been a Corpse Stitcher.
He had used the stitching methods from the Southern School Corpse-Sewing Secrets on that corpse!
As for the temple in the third Gate Knocking, Chen Miao still had the