In the grade-B courtyard, Chen Miao worked on the bamboo splints while considering the situation back in the real world.
According to Ji Mo, his cousin relapsed the very night he came home from the hospital. That means the thing really was in their town.
If the child I performed the Transcendence Rite on wasn't the source, then that thing should have appeared at night to attack Ji Mo's cousin again. But it never appeared, even by the time yang energy began to rise.
Because I was there?
Unlikely. If it could sense me in the Hide-and-Seek State, it wouldn't have stopped at doing so little to Ji Mo's cousin. Chen Miao knitted his brows.
The contents of the notebook had never been wrong.
Since no new chapter had appeared, this matter clearly wasn't over.
What exactly am I missing?
As Chen Miao frowned in thought, he suddenly heard Ge Feng speak beside him.
"What's wrong? You've been distracted all day."
Chen Miao came back to his senses and shook his head.
"Nothing. Just thinking."
"Having trouble making progress with Bone Binding?"
Ge Feng clearly felt like chatting and didn't stop just because Chen Miao shook his head.
Chen Miao shook his head again.
"If something's up, tell me. With what little you know, you could rack your brains all day and still get nowhere."
Hearing that, Chen Miao considered it and decided Ge Feng had a point.
He promptly altered a few details and told him what had happened.
"Feng, I was thinking about something I heard earlier."
"Two children went to play by the river. One drowned, and the other survived, but something unclean latched onto the survivor, giving him nightmares every day."
"So the child's family found a Spirit Medium to resolve it."
"The Spirit Medium had