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Chapter 208 Notes on Black Magic: Raising Ghost Scorpions (Bonus Chapter 34 for Monthly Tickets)

Without dwelling too much on the matter of Yin Sha, Chen Miao decided to leave first.

After tidying up the rest of the things, Chen Miao left the room.

Chen Miao did not pause at all when passing by Suo Kun's body.

Just as Chen Miao reached the stairwell, he suddenly heard some rustling sounds.

Chen Miao's expression changed as he remembered the Gu worm that had never appeared from beginning to end.

Ignoring his physical exhaustion, Chen Miao ran downstairs in hide-and-seek mode.

Fortunately, without the scorpions controlled by Sokun, they did not relentlessly pursue him.

When he got to the first floor, he could no longer even hear the sounds of the scorpions.

As Chen Miao left the building, he looked up at the upper floors.

In that case, probably no one would know that Sokun died here.

After leaving the area of ​​the unfinished building, Chen Miao walked all the way to the parking lot.

Once in the car, Chen Miao glanced at the contents of the book one last time, and after confirming it was safe, he drove away.

When we arrived at the hotel, it was already four in the morning.

Back in his room, Chen Miao didn't even wash up before lying down on the bed.

However, before going to sleep, he still turned on the windmill and placed it on the table.

After doing all that, Chen Miao fell asleep in less than half a minute.

Chen Miao slept until noon, only waking up when the hotel staff urged him to renew his bill.

After catching his breath and remembering where he was, Chen Miao got up, closed his eyes, and turned off the windmill.

After paying one day's rent at the front desk, Chen Miao returned to his room.

Looking at the scattered items on the ground and recalling everything that had happened last night, Chen Miao's gaze involuntarily fell on his left arm.

At that moment, the place was completely empty.

After a long pause, Chen Miao activated his Ice Heart state, releasing the negative emotions he had temporarily stored up from the previous night.

Overwhelmed by a barrage of negative emotions, Chen Miao clutched his head and threw himself back onto the bed, his eyes instantly becoming bloodshot.

At the same time, a tattoo of a headless Taoist priest slowly appeared on Chen Miao's left arm.

At the Taoist's feet, one could vaguely see an infant hiding between his legs, with only his two small hands and half of his face showing!

Because there is no follow-up, those negative emotions come quickly and go quickly.

After Chen Miao recovered, the yin mark on his arm faded away.

Catching his breath, Chen Miao got out of bed, mobilized the Yin energy in his eyes, and placed it on his arm.

The Yin pattern appeared quickly, but before Chen Miao could see it clearly, the Yin energy that had reached it disappeared.

Chen Miao paused for a moment, then remembered what Lao Gui had said.

After thinking for a moment, he began to gather yin energy and send it into his eye sockets.

There is very little yin energy at noon, but it's better than nothing.

Chen Miao continued to replenish Yin energy while sending Yin energy into his arm and observing the Yin lines on his arm.

However, his income could not cover his expenses, and soon only a small portion of the yin energy remained in his eye sockets.

Left with no other choice, Chen Miao stopped the delivery.

Looking at the fading Yin marks on his arm, Chen Miao didn't know how much more Yin energy he needed to channel in to feed the ghost infant that the old ghost had 'given' to him.

Without stopping absorbing yin energy, Chen Miao began to weigh his gains and losses from this experience while accumulating yin energy.

This time, if things had gone according to Chen Miao's plan, there wouldn't have been much loss. But after the unexpected happened, Chen Miao's losses increased many times over!
All the high-quality spirit-suppressing talismans were lost, and the high-quality blood-light talismans were also taken away.

Fortunately, he hadn't taken the three exquisite talismans—the Yin-Dispelling Talisman, the Corpse-Controlling Talisman, and the Yin-Gathering Talisman—out of the book; otherwise, he would have lost them all. The Seven-Star Peach Wood Sword's effectiveness had been greatly diminished due to the black handprint; perhaps only the effect of a thirty-year-old peach wood sword remained, barely enough to deal with ghosts and spirits.

If Old Ghost's Yin Sha leaves another palm print, it will probably become a useless piece of trash.

In the chapter's settlement, Chen Miao gained one tael and two mace of Yin virtue, which kept his total Yin virtue at three taels and six mace.

As for only gaining one or two taels of Yin Virtue after defeating Suokun, it seems a bit little.

But Sokun was killed by the old ghost, the ghost infant was destroyed by the old ghost, and even the flying skull was nailed to the wall by the old ghost.

From this perspective, one or two taels is quite reasonable.

Besides these, Chen Miao also suffered many other losses.

Concealing spray, bruise spray, wound spray, and imaging spray were all taken away.

The four ghost cubes were also taken away by the old ghost, leaving only a sealed yin bag behind!
All of these things added up to more than two hundred points.

A normal investigator would need to complete twenty tasks to barely accumulate this many points.

Oh right, there's a ghost baby locked up inside the Ghost Cube. Thinking of that ghost baby, Chen Miao opened the black umbrella.

Sure enough, the umbrella rib inside the black umbrella that belonged to the ghost baby returned to normal.

Either the ghost baby has been taken away from Lin'an City, or the ghost baby has been destroyed by the old ghost.

There were also two spirit tablets for warding off evil spirits, which were taken away by the old ghost.

Chen Miao still doesn't understand how the other party discovered the secret of the Soul-Suppressing Spirit Tablet.

In that case, Chen Miao would no longer dare to take out the Soul-Suppressing Tablet in front of the senior investigators of the Administration Bureau.

However, no matter how much he lost this time, as long as he was alive, Chen Miao didn't ask for too much.

Compared to life, what are those little things that we lose!
He could be said to be alive, but the thing on his arm weighed heavily on Chen Miao's mind.

Opening the book, Chen Miao looked at the two new items he had acquired.

"Sokun's Notes on Black Magic" is a collection of notes containing all sorts of black magic techniques, totaling thirty-eight in number!
However, after screening, Chen Miao could only use less than half of them.

Nightmare Descends: Causes the target to enter a state of nightmares every night.

"The Sleepless Curse": Makes the target unable to fall asleep.

"Mirror Appearance": Makes the target feel unfamiliar when they see a mirror.

"Floating Shadow": When the target looks at something, a dark shadow will be seen flashing in their peripheral vision.

"Echo Drop": To make the target hear a specific sound (such as crying, laughing, ringing, etc.) continuously, different media are needed.

"Mistaken Taste Curse": To make the target taste a special flavor (rotten, bloody, etc.) when eating, different mediums are needed.

"Insect Descent": Allows a Gu worm to parasitize the target's body. It is triggered when needed, and the effect varies depending on the type of Gu worm.

There are quite a few more like this.

These black magic spells involve sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and perception; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them illusions that cover all six senses.

Most importantly, these black magic spells do not involve direct death, so the mediums used to cast them are not so complicated.

After reading the entire article, Chen Miao noticed something.

Even the kind of black magic used to help others has side effects.

Most of these side effects are targeted at the target, with only a few affecting the caster.

Therefore, there are instances where a person is brought back to life using black magic, but living is more painful than dying.

"Is there really no such thing as a positive black magic spell? What was the mentality of the black magic master who first created it?"

Chen Miao shook his head and turned his gaze to something else.

The Guide to Raising Ghost Scorpions!
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(End of this chapter)