"Pei Ran, I'm starting."
Wang Wei glanced at Pei Ran. When he nodded, she walked into the pentagonal "formation."
She lit the five candles in turn, then lit the incense sticks in her hand.
These incense sticks were different from the ones before. There were only five.
Once they were lit, Wang Wei placed them in the bowls in front of the five different little figures.
Then she took out the blood collected beforehand from the five members of Xiong Jie's family and dripped it onto the figures and the talismans beneath them.
Chen Miao watched clearly from the side.
The moment the blood landed, a ripple of soul power emanated from the five figures.
Unless he was mistaken, those five figures represented the members of Xiong Jie's family.
"That's Soul-Guiding Incense. The Cloth Dolls stand in for the client's family. Together with the Soul-Guiding Incense, they'll draw any ghosts that appear here, keeping them from bothering the client."
Ji Hong explained this to Chen Miao.
From their earlier conversation, Ji Hong had learned that this was Chen Miao's first time doing this sort of job, and that he rarely interacted with people in the other Yin Gate trades, so he took extra care to help him.
Chen Miao nodded, then asked, "If they can draw ghosts over, why does the client's family still have to stay upstairs?"
Ji Hong smiled faintly and lowered his voice.
"If the client leaves, their connection to the Cloth Dolls won't be strong enough."
Chen Miao nodded in understanding.
He had thought there was some deeper significance. It turned out Wang Wei simply lacked the skill to let the clients go too far away.
It made sense. Although all four of them had opened their apertures and entered yin, that was as far as