June slipped by without a sound.
Twenty-nine days had passed since Chen Miao had begun aperture nourishment for his Ghost Meridian.
The good news was that after a month of soul tempering, his cultivation speed had increased again, reaching fifteen times the normal rate!
The bad news was that over those twenty-nine days, Chen Miao had knocked on the gate twenty-nine times and experienced twenty-nine deaths in the chapters.
Of those twenty-nine attempts at Entering the Mortal World through Gate Knocking, the longest he had survived was an episode in which a group of suspected Evil Cultivators refined him for an entire day and night using some unknown method.
The shortest was when he woke on an altar and, less than five minutes later, was sacrificed alongside the others to some unknown entity.
Twenty-nine deaths were certainly frustrating, but they had not been entirely fruitless.
As the number of Gate Knocking attempts increased, the identities he received after Entering the Mortal World gradually began to repeat.
Across those twenty-nine attempts, Chen Miao had received three identities related to a Master of Ceremonies, three related to paper effigy crafting, two related to puppets, two related to monks, three related to soul summoning, four related to Corpse Driving, and two related to corpse sewing. The others involved raising venomous creatures, receiving an incense-burning inheritance, altar sacrifices, soul refining, curse techniques, and so on.
Chen Miao had recorded and analyzed the details of all twenty-nine attempts at Entering the Mortal World through Gate Knocking for future reference.
He jokingly called it the "Mortal World Death Note."
That morning, Chen Miao woke earlier than usual. While waiting for yang energy to rise, he opened the "Mortal World Death Note" and began reviewing his experiences over the past twenty-nine days.
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