Chen Miao made a circuit around the underground palace and discovered that calling it a "palace" was something of an exaggeration.
The entire underground palace was about the size of a village with fewer than a hundred households, with the houses packed tightly together and no farmland included. Along the way, Chen Miao also examined it with eyes-closed perception.
There were no traces of yin energy on the outermost ring of paper walls. However, Chen Miao sensed yin energy from the paper effigies and paper beasts inside the underground palace. Not just yin energy, either, but fluctuations of soul power.
Every one of these paper offerings housed a soul!
In theory, paper offerings inhabited by souls could move on their own. Yet these all remained motionless, standing or sitting like sculptures. Chen Miao did not know why, but he grew a little more wary.
After making a full circuit of the perimeter, Chen Miao entered the underground palace.
But even after wandering around inside for quite some time, he found nothing unusual.
Chen Miao could not figure it out. Neither could Xu Jin or Zhu Sheng.
Compared with Chen Miao, who understood paper offerings, Xu Jin and Zhu Sheng were truly fumbling in the dark.
When the second meal arrived, Chen Miao finished eating before he saw the two of them emerge from the underground palace.
The first thing Xu Jin said when they met was, "Did either of you find anything?"
Seeing Chen Miao and Zhu Sheng shake their heads, Xu Jin did not doubt them in the slightest.
He had searched practically every room in the underground palace himself and still found nothing.
If Kong Xunzhen had not forbidden them from damaging the paper offerings, he probably would have started tearing the place apart.
"How are we supposed