Chen Miao saw many things in Li Si's Memory Fragment.
Aside from his everyday life, two scenes had left the deepest impression on Li Si.
The first was joining the Demon-Suppressing Bureau and practicing its exclusive cultivation method, "Ghost Body."
The second was everything he experienced after finishing his rookie period and being assigned to Qingjiang Town as a low-ranking demon-suppressing guard.
Like Chen Miao, Li Si had initially regarded the Demon-Suppressing Bureau as an organization that helped ordinary people in Mortal World Great Xia deal with ghosts. But the longer he stayed in Qingjiang Town, the more pay he received from the bureau, and the further he progressed in cultivating Ghost Body, the more the other side of Qingjiang Town's Demon-Suppressing Bureau revealed itself to him. When Li Si learned that the ghost soul bodies he used to cultivate Ghost Body came from ordinary people killed by ghosts the bureau had released, he broke down. He ran to Xu Qingchuan and asked why they did this.
And so Xu Qingchuan told Li Si something.
One of the materials the Demon-Suppressing Bureau used to make Calamity-Guarding Objects came from ghosts.
If they did not do this, there would be fewer Calamity-Guarding Objects. Fewer objects meant fewer people protected, and fewer people protected meant a sharp increase in the number of ghosts born. Rather than let ghosts emerge uncontrollably, the bureau might as well control their numbers itself and maintain a relative balance.
Moreover, the Demon-Suppressing Bureau had already lowered the price of Calamity-Guarding Objects as far as possible and introduced a measure allowing people to exchange corpses for silver at Grave Mountain.
All of this was intended to let more people afford Calamity-Guarding Objects and gain the means to protect themselves.
The bureau had already gone this far. If some