Mai Yaode passed away peacefully.
River City had a small Demonic Cultivator sect called the Five Ghost Sect.
This sect practiced the Five Ghost Transportation Technique, raising yin entities to move objects silently through the air.
The disciples usually made their living taking transportation orders. The process went roughly like this: a buyer contacted someone from the Five Ghost Sect through underground channels and specified an item they wanted, and the sect's Demonic Cultivators were responsible for "transporting" it over.
Since their work generally amounted to petty theft and caused no particularly serious repercussions, and their Sect Leader was extremely cautious and paid close attention to safety, the sect had survived steadily despite its small size.
Even after Gongsun Yan was arrested and Perfected One Nagiko used his testimony to launch a sweeping purge of River City's Demonic Cultivators, the Five Ghost Sect remained untouched.
It was hardly surprising that Yue Wen had the Five Ghost Sect's contact information. Gongsun Yan had volunteered it when Yue Wen became Branch Hall Master. Elder Gongsun had said that if he needed corpses to refine into puppets, he could contact this sect directly.
Flame Ghost Hall Disciples refined Corpse Puppets, but they were not grave robbers, after all. Searching everywhere themselves for the bodies of powerful cultivators was rather laborious. Often, professional matters had to be left to professionals.
The Five Ghost Sect found corpses and "transported" them over for Flame Ghost Hall Disciples to refine. Both sides got what they needed.
That day, Wu Laogui, the Five Ghost Sect's Sect Leader, received a phone call.
In a shopping mall's security office, two security guards, one old and one young, were dozing in front of the surveillance screens.
The old guard had thinning hair, barely a few yellow teeth left, and a