Li Quan looked at the two men who entered. After briefly looking Chen Miao over, his gaze finally settled on Qi Ning.
"You just reported finding something connected to the Curse Cult?"
Qi Ning nodded and immediately lifted the two Buddhist shrines onto Li Quan's desk.
"My friend brought these in. I checked the database and found a very high match with something that once appeared in a Curse Buddha incident." Li Quan picked up a shrine and examined it. After inspecting both, he suddenly gripped one with both hands and snapped it in two! Chen Miao froze, then looked at the broken shrine.
When he saw the cross sections of the cavities inside, Chen Miao suddenly went still.
He had seen this structure inside something else before.
A Calamity-Guarding Object!
He had specifically bought a Calamity-Guarding Object in the Mortal World to examine it, and its interior had this same ant-nest-like structure. When his eyes-closed perception failed to penetrate the shrine earlier, Chen Miao had never considered that possibility. After all, one belonged to the Mortal World and the other to reality. But did this mean the Curse Cult had made an imitation of a Calamity-Guarding Object?
No, that wasn't right!
This probably wasn't a Calamity-Guarding Object. Perhaps the Curse Cult had tried to imitate one, failed, and created something else instead!
Calamity-Guarding Objects in the Mortal World eliminated Ghost Reverence by forming an external manifestation and using it to deal with them. This shrine, however, sucked Ghost Reverence directly inside. Rather than eliminating Ghost Reverence, it was collecting it!
And what were the collected Ghost Reverence used for?
Chen Miao thought of the Hundred Ghosts Seat, Mirror Pillar, and the Yin Gate that had been opened a crack.
The Hundred Ghosts Seat could contact practitioners of yin cultivation