On the morning of the eighth day, Chen Miao was once again woken during the surge of yang energy.
But he had already learned something from the Notebook.
The Demon-Suppressing Bureau's screening of their group had drawn to a close.
However, Chen Miao also knew from the Notebook that this was not the end.
A few days later, someone would wake them during the surge of yang energy again. In other words, throughout their future service in the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, someone would occasionally come to conduct a "spot check."
An ordinary Otherworldly Fiend would have a hard time dealing with these spot checks.
But Chen Miao had the Notebook!
Since every spot check would put Chen Miao in mortal danger, every single one was bound to appear in the Notebook.
As long as Chen Miao did not forget to read the Notebook, nothing would go wrong on that front.
After getting up and putting on his black Demon-Suppressing Guard uniform, Chen Miao took out ten ordinary bamboo splints.
He activated the Spirit-Guiding Effigy-Control Art, and the ten bamboo splints turned into ten slithering snakes, winding around his forearms.
At first glance, they looked like a pair of dark yellow bracers.
Then Chen Miao opened the box Kong Yue had given him and used the same method to secure the ten hundred-year blood bamboo splints around his calves.
Their blood-red color was rather conspicuous, though, so Chen Miao hid them inside his boots.
As for those blood bamboo splints, Chen Miao had already learned their details from the Notebook's exchange list.
Once Chen Miao brought up blood bamboo as a material in the Notebook, he learned what it could do.
Blood bamboo was a variety of bamboo cultivated through human intervention, watered year-round with a particular kind of blood.
Hundred-year blood