"What is he doing?"
The three Grade-B Investigators watched Chen Miao inside the altar. Though they did not understand, they focused all their attention on him. After all, he was the first person to display anything unusual after entering the altar.
While they watched Chen Miao, the handful of incense sticks in his hand had already turned entirely into incense smoke under the effects of the Six Jiangzhen Secrets. Without hesitation, he directed the smoke into the Cherry Blossom Kimono inside the node.
As the nine little black figures on the Cherry Blossom Kimono vanished one after another, Chen Miao felt a little relieved.
Earlier, in the chapter's account, he had tried to direct incense smoke from outside the nodes to perform a Transcendence Rite on these Cherry Blossom Kimonos, but things had not gone as he hoped. The smoke could not enter the nodes!
That was why he had sent the Mirage Shadow Doppelganger inside.
The reason he could suddenly move inside a node was simple, too: the subconscious provided by the iceheart state! Once those negative emotions overwhelmed Chen Miao's main consciousness, his subconscious naturally emerged.
Without his subconscious, Chen Miao would have sat down cross-legged inside the node the moment his main consciousness succumbed, becoming part of the altar like the other Investigators. Gathering himself, he sensed the soul body's fluctuations disappear from the Cherry Blossom Kimono and raised his eyes toward another node.
He did not use [Negative Emotion Storage] to resolve the problem with his main consciousness. After all, forty-eight nodes remained.
He did not want to experience those scenes all over again when he entered the next node.
Immediately, his subconscious drove his body to walk out of the node.
Along the way, Chen Miao felt a trace of resistance from his body.
No,