It was around ten at night when Chen Miao returned to Qingjiang Town.
He arrived a little later than he had expected.
Naturally, the reason was the Roadblock Ghosts he had encountered along the way.
Last time, Chen Miao had traveled between the Deserted Village and Qingjiang Town, encountering six Roadblock Ghosts over the entire round trip.
This time, traveling from Twin Bridge Town to Qingjiang Town, he encountered six ghosts on the outward journey alone!
In fact, the distance from Qingjiang Town to the first Deserted Village differed little from the distance to Twin Bridge Town. He had also traveled at roughly the same time, around nine at night, yet he encountered twice as many Ghost Reverence. After pondering the difference, Chen Miao attributed it to the road between Qingjiang Town and Twin Bridge Town passing closer to the mountain range called Moon. It also gave him some idea of how many ghosts might lurk within those mountains.
Perhaps, if he had the chance someday, he could go in and have a look.
Of those six Roadblock Ghosts, five had merely been ordinary people, while the sixth resembled the Man-Faced Ape Chen Miao had encountered last time.
Only this time, it was a wolf rather than an ape!
A human face had likewise been stitched onto its head, as though someone had put a mask on the wolf.
Chen Miao did not yet know whether this Wolf-Faced Man, like that Man-Faced Ape, had been botched by a Corpse Stitcher.
He would only learn the details after examining its Memory Fragment.
The six Roadblock Ghosts had provided Chen Miao with one tael and five mace of yin virtue, with the Wolf-Faced Man contributing the most.
With that additional one tael and five mace, his yin virtue had surpassed one catty