Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 122 An unexpected person
After arranging things at the funeral home, Chen Miao left Tianmen County with Xiang Shang.

The villa that Xiang's father bought for Xiang Shang was on a low mountain outside Shannan City.

It's called a low mountain, but it's actually more like a slightly higher hill.

The hillside has been completely enclosed by the developers with walls. Apart from the villa area on the hilltop, the rest of the area has also been developed, including sports facilities, artificial lakes, parks, and so on.

Ten years ago, this area would have been considered the premier villa district in Shannan City.

However, the development in the following ten years was too fast, and Shannan City happened to be the first city outside that huge mountain range, acting as a 'gatekeeper' between the inside and outside of the mountains.

Therefore, many wealthy and insightful developers have set their sights on Shannan City.

These developers not only made full use of the small hills surrounding Shannan City, but also developed a villa district worth a fortune in the city center.

With various promotional campaigns, the Aishan Villa District gradually lost its title as the number one.

However, because it has been established for a long time and the environment on the hill is well protected, some people who like this atmosphere still choose it as their first choice.

After meeting Gigi Lai, Mr. Xiang decided to choose this location for the villa.

Xiang Shang also liked this place quite a bit, and since there were two underground levels, the father and son quickly made a decision.

Chen Miao had only heard of this villa area before, but had never been there.

After coming in with Xiang Shang this time, I've seen quite a bit.

The hilltop villa area has as many as ninety-nine villas. Although there is some distance between each villa, they are not far apart.

Chen Miao and Xiang Shang arrived in front of the villa with the address 1314.

When Chen Miao wondered why the house number was so coincidentally 1314, Xiang Shang smiled and said:

"This is my choice. The entire villa area has an internal numbering system to help property management staff confirm the location, and there is also an external house number that can be customized, as long as it doesn't overlap with other people's."

"Because 1314 contains a 4, this number was left blank."

"I'm not picky, so I chose this one!"

At this point, Xiang Shang suddenly seemed to remember something and asked somewhat nervously, "Sanshui, do you think there's anything wrong with this house number?"

Chen Miao shook his head: "I don't know, I've never heard of it."

In the past, Chen Miao would have simply told Xiang Shang not to overthink it, but now that they've had more contact, Chen Miao can't be sure if there's any hidden meaning behind it.

Xiang Shang clearly thought that not knowing meant everything was fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

After entering the villa, Chen Miao followed Xiang Shang on a tour.

Because it was a second-hand house, the entire villa was already renovated. The previous owner was quite wealthy, so he left behind a lot of furniture when he left.

You can move in immediately with just your belongings!
However, Xiang Shang was not satisfied and said that he would work with Gigi Lai to design a renovation plan to completely rebuild the place.

The entire villa has three floors above ground for living areas.

Underground, there is an entertainment area.

Xiang Shang plans to renovate the basement into a billiards room, gym, home theater, and exhibition room, where he will display his motorcycles.

The space on the second basement level was not small, but Xiang Shang said he didn't plan to touch anything, leaving the entire second basement level to his and Chen Miao's cultivation career.

Hearing Xiang Shang say this, Chen Miao didn't correct him on the word 'cultivating immortality'.

After arriving at the second basement level, you can see that this place was previously used as a warehouse and wine cellar by the owner.

The place is quite large, and Chen Miao felt that it would be a bit extravagant to use the whole place as a quiet room for the two of them to cultivate immortality and draw talismans.

After all, he wouldn't come often; Xiang Shang was here most of the time.

So he discussed it with Xiang Shangyi, and they finally decided that the second basement level should remain the same.

They simply left out the two rooms in the corner as secret rooms.

In terms of decoration, Xiang Shang also plans to design a real secret room to hide the two rooms among other facilities on the second basement level.

Chen Miao's eyes lit up at the design, and he expressed his approval.

After a heated discussion, Chen Miao went into the two small houses.

The room is small, but that's only compared to other places.

In fact, each small room was about 30 to 40 square meters, larger than the master bedroom of many ordinary houses. After arriving at the room, Chen Miao looked around and then moved a table in the room to a position against the wall.

He then took out the spirit tablet from his bag and placed it on the table.

The original scriptures were no longer on the spirit tablet, because Chen Miao had covered it with a layer of wood-grain paper similar to cypress wood.

It's like putting a new book cover on your books when you were in school.

It's hard to tell that it has been repackaged without a close look.

On the new wood grain sticker, Chen Miao wrote four characters with gold powder ink!
Gods of the Mortal World

In this way, even if someone sees it, they won't feel it's abrupt; they'll just think it's the memorial tablet of some unknown deity.

After placing the spirit tablet, Chen Miao immediately activated the Yin Gathering Technique.

Xiang Shang could neither see nor sense the Yin energy, but he noticed that the temperature in the room decreased as Chen Miao stood still for longer.

While I was surprised, I saw Chen Miao take a few steps forward and stand in front of the table.

The temperature rose slightly immediately, but it was still a bit cold.

Chen Miao ignored Xiang Shang's doubts. He was adjusting the range of the Soul-Suppressing Altar so that the field just covered the tabletop.

In this way, drawing talismans doesn't require the person to enter the entire area of ​​the Soul-Suppressing Field and be enveloped by Yin energy.

Simply stand in front of the table and reach your hand into the Soul-Suppressing Field to draw the talisman.

In this way, apart from not being able to adjust the concentration of Yin energy within the Soul-Suppressing Field himself, Xiang Shang's other conditions were almost the same as Chen Miao's own use of Yin-Gathering to draw talismans.

It must be said that the combination of the Soul-Suppressing Scripture and the Yin-Gathering Effect is excellent!
However, the concentration of Yin energy was not high enough at this time. At night, Chen Miao planned to activate a Yin-gathering talisman to gather a wave of Yin energy before stuffing it into the Soul-Suppressing Field.

Then Chen Miao had to try it himself to see if the talisman was working properly.

This is also a good opportunity to demonstrate the process of drawing talismans to Xiang Shang, so that he can have a clear understanding.

Then, Chen Miao placed his backpack on the table and took out a peach wood sword blank from it.

Looking at the peach wood sword blank, which was charred from attacking the jumping zombie, Chen Miao handed it to Xiang Shang with some emotion.

"You can take this sword blank."

Xiang Shang's eyes lit up when he saw the sword blank.

He had seen Chen Miao use this sword to stab Sun Yi to death.

"Give it to me? Then what will you use?"

Chen Miao shook his head.

"You don't need to worry about it, I have more."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Shang took the sword blank with great delight.

"Sanshui, I'm planning to set up a few more shelves in this room, one for my sword and another for the talismans I've made. What do you think?"

Chen Miao remained noncommittal, then thought for a moment and said, "It's still early. You should prepare some more of the talisman-drawing materials you bought for me earlier. I'll demonstrate talisman-drawing for you here tonight."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Shang left Chen Miao a key and hurriedly went outside.

"I'll go get the things right away. If you want to eat, there's a private chef at the sports center in the villa area."

Watching Xiang Shang's hurried departure, Chen Miao shook his head and walked out alone.

After finishing his meal, Chen Miao strolled around the villa area.

Chen Miao never expected that he would run into an acquaintance while taking a walk!
"Mr. Xie?"

Xie Songde, who had just finished eating and was walking back with a furrowed brow, suddenly heard someone calling him.

He turned his head and saw Chen Miao's smiling face.

He paused for a moment, then remembered whose face it was.

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(End of this chapter)