Chen Miao had no precise measure of Scorpion Corpse's strength.
But one thing was certain: Scorpion Corpse's defenses were incredibly strong.
Those defenses came from one of Scorpion Corpse's components... the soul corpse!
Back then, Xiao Bai's flames had burned Old Ghost to death, yet they had failed to destroy the soul corpse.
Of course, that might have been because Xiao Bai had targeted Old Ghost rather than the soul corpse. Even so, Old Ghost's earlier use of the soul corpse to block the investigators' attacks showed how confident he had been in its defenses.
According to Old Ghost, the soul corpse might have had something to do with the Mortal World.
Chen Miao was skeptical, but he did not dismiss the possibility outright.
After all, Fang Zheng, the owner of a mere paper effigy shop, possessed both a Soul-anchoring Pearl and an Aperture Pearl. It was entirely possible that Old Ghost had encountered a family whose legacy had been lost and obtained things left behind by their ancestors.
So Chen Miao was not worried about damaging Scorpion Corpse by using him to test the fully equipped General Effigy.
I remember the ordinary General Effigy only cut a little way into the folds on Scorpion Corpse last time. I wonder what it'll do now. With that thought, Chen Miao brought Scorpion Corpse and the General Effigy into the courtyard.
The General Effigy led his horse out himself. If he had mounted it, he would have been too tall to fit through the doorway.
Chen Miao did not have the General Effigy mount up. Instead, he first tested an attack without the horse.
Receiving the command, the General Effigy raised both arms, gripped the lower half of the Crescent Moon Blade's shaft, and swung it through a semicircle in the air,