Over the next few days, Chen Miao was practically inseparable from Kong Yue and Li Zhou.
Early each morning, someone sent by the Demon-Suppressing Bureau woke them as Yang energy began to rise. Kong Yue then took them to the training grounds to practice their respective Ghost Body Manifestations.
After several days of practice, Chen Miao became much more familiar with his Ghost Body Manifestation.
He also grew increasingly adept at combining it with the Spirit-Guiding Effigy-Control Art.
The Spirit-Guiding Effigy-Control Art was merely a means of manipulating bamboo splints to fight enemies. Its offensive power and binding strength depended heavily on the quality of the bamboo splints.
Ordinary bamboo splints were sufficient for dealing with ordinary ghosts, but they were useless against other Yin cultivators.
However, acquiring the Ghost Body Manifestation [Origin Binding] changed things.
Even ordinary bamboo splints, enhanced by Origin Binding, could produce effects previously possible only with hundred-year bamboo splints.
Of course, that did not mean Origin Binding increased the bamboo splints' power a hundredfold. Ordinary bamboo splints were simply too weak.
If Chen Miao took out a hundred-year bamboo splint and enhanced it with Origin Binding, its power would at most double.
Thus, Origin Binding effectively raised the lower limit of the Spirit-Guiding Effigy-Control Art.
In other words, whatever bamboo splints Chen Miao used, they could perform as well as hundred-year bamboo splints.
That was quite good.
Beyond that, Chen Miao discovered something about Ghost Body Manifestations that he had previously overlooked.
The various types of Ghost Body Manifestation they had chosen from were actually described only by their most prominent feature.
In reality, all Ghost Body Manifestations had one basic ability.
Once activated, a Ghost Body Manifestation could attach itself to a Demon-Suppressing Guard, providing a degree of protection.
Even without using its corresponding