After Chen Miao imprisoned the ghost from Xu Qingchuan's body in the Mirror Space, he left as well.
Naturally, his decisiveness had everything to do with the new chapter that had appeared in the notebook.
Earlier, after Chen Miao left the Paper Effigy Underground Palace and entered the Mirror Space, a new chapter had appeared in the notebook.
The chapter ended with Chen Miao being crushed to death by the token after it absorbed the spirit bodies of every Calamity-Guarding Object in town.
When he saw that ending, Chen Miao's first instinct was to go straight back where he had come from.
But soon, another idea occurred to him.
He would follow the chapter's plot, then simply run away at the final stage!
After all, the token needed time to gather the spirit bodies of the Calamity-Guarding Objects, and that would give him enough time to escape.
To make sure his idea would work, Chen Miao entered the chapter several times to test whether going there was feasible.
In the end, he decided to go!
From then on, Chen Miao acted like an actor following a script.
Whether he was using Tongue-Pulling Hell on the Corpse Retriever and crippling his Yin Bridge aperture,
or letting Xu Qingchuan out to release a ghost into the fog,
all of it was part of the chapter.
As for why Chen Miao did not simply kill Xu Qingchuan, he had already tried that within the chapter.
The five prisons worked on ordinary Demon-Suppressing Guards.
But when Chen Miao tried to implant the Five Prisons Mark in Xu Qingchuan's body, it was repelled.
In all likelihood, what blocked the Five Prisons Mark was none other than the token Xu Qingchuan carried.
In the original chapter, Chen Miao had entangled the ghost Xu Qingchuan released, then