Looking at the thing crawling toward him overhead, Chen Miao resisted the urge to turn it into yin virtue.
When his yin energy stimulated the Nine Chrysanthemum Mark, the crawling creature paused briefly, as though verifying something.
Before long, it resumed crawling.
It still headed straight toward Chen Miao, but it no longer had that same sense of urgency.
Once it reached the spot above Chen Miao, the thing released its hands and feet, dropping from the tunnel ceiling to land in front of him.
Despite its seemingly heavy body, it made only a faint sound when it landed.
The thing soon stood up. It had a human body with a dog's head.
Its canine nose twitched as it approached the Nine Chrysanthemum Mark on Chen Miao's right arm.
Recalling the information he had obtained from Honda Taichi, Chen Miao spoke.
"I am Honda Taichi of Kifune Shrine. Take me inside."
The moment he spoke, the thing stopped bringing its head closer.
Turning its head, it glanced at Honda Taichi with its utterly unfocused eyes, then leaped up, clung to the tunnel ceiling again, and began crawling.
This time, it slowed down, seemingly accommodating Chen Miao.
Chen Miao followed the creature deeper into the tunnel.
This thing should be called a Corpse Hound, right?
Chen Miao recalled the monsters of the Island Nation and thought of that particular creature.
Among the Island Nation's monsters, Corpse Hounds were not high-tier creatures, but they were very useful.
The process of creating a Corpse Hound resembled how those beasts Chen Miao had encountered in the Mortal World had been modified by Corpse Stitchers.
However, the modified beasts in the Mortal World had been created through corpse-stitching methods, while these creatures in the Island Nation were obtained through sacrifice rituals.
The Island Nation's shikigami