What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

I retrieved my magical artifacts, placed the bone needles close to my body, and sheathed the willow-leaf dagger.

The sealed room fell silent once more.

It seems that after incorporating that wisp of dragon soul's gift, both the quality of the baleful aura and the range and power of the aura control have undergone a qualitative leap.

Just as I was making plans, my phone suddenly rang.

He took out his phone and saw a message from Li Qing: Where did you go? It's almost lunchtime, should I save you some food?

Without thinking, I replied: "A safe house with a fortune of gold, testing some new things, will reply right away."

After turning off my phone, I looked around and walked out of the secret room.

After closing the gate and other things, I came out of the abandoned factory in the suburbs.

A light drizzle had begun to fall from the sky.

I got in the car and headed towards Tingyuxuan.

The renewed growth in my strength has given me an unprecedented sense of security.

But mental exhaustion also followed.

Back outside the private room on the third floor of Tingyuxuan, the game sound effects in Li Qing's room were still deafening.

I pushed open the door and went in. The kid was sprawled out on the sofa, holding a can of iced cola in his hand.

"Oh, Grandpa Chen's back after testing his divine skills?"

Li Qing glanced at me and casually teased me.

"How's that? Don't you feel like you could punch the Earth to pieces right now?"

"I can't destroy the Earth, but destroying your game console shouldn't be a problem."

I walked over to the single sofa and sat down, replying in a calm tone.

Li Qing pursed her lips and didn't respond to the comment.

"I plan to stay here for a while."

I looked at him and said in a leisurely tone.

"I've basically emptied out the rental place, and I'm too lazy to go through the hassle of moving it back."

Moreover, Lu Yan has already spoken with the funeral home and they've approved a month of paid leave for me.

After this period of intense fighting and scheming, I'm now truly happy to have a few days of peace and quiet.

Since Director Wang at the museum hasn't urged me to go back, it means I can still manage.

And I took this opportunity to experience a few days of pure homebody life with Li Qing.

Consider it a break for myself, who is feeling a bit mentally exhausted.

"Sure, there are plenty of rooms here anyway, and people will take care of everything from food and drink to using the toilet."

Li Qing nodded in strong agreement.

"As long as you don't suddenly go crazy in the middle of the night and demolish the house, it'll be fine."

And so, I settled down at Tingyuxuan.

The days that followed were uneventful and routine.

I sleep until I naturally wake up every day. When I'm hungry, I eat the takeout that Li Qing ordered. When I'm bored, I go next door to watch Li Qing play games, or I take a book and sit by the window to read.

Of course, I haven't missed a single day of basic spiritual practice.

Every night when all is quiet, I sit cross-legged next to the jade box containing the blue snake eggs.

Close your eyes and guide the evil energy in your dantian along the meridians.

On the third night after I checked into Tingyuxuan, while meditating, I noticed something unusual.

When I circulated the evil energy to the Great Heavenly Circuit and prepared to conclude the practice.

A faint, golden aura of malevolence seeped from my pores into the air.

This is a perfectly normal phenomenon.

But to my surprise, the snake egg in the jade box next to me suddenly emitted a soft, faint glow.

It's as if it can breathe.

As the faint light flickered, it absorbed all the wisps of malevolent energy that I had dispersed into the air into the eggshell.

I immediately opened my eyes and stopped practicing the technique.

Then I stretched out my right hand, placed it on the warm eggshell, closed my eyes, and carefully sensed it.

Inside the eggshell, the vitality that had already grown stronger from absorbing the life force of the withered wood appeared even more active.

The bit of malevolent energy I released, carrying the aura of the dragon soul, did not cause it any harm.

Instead, it was like some kind of highly nourishing nutrient, which it greedily absorbed and digested, transforming into the foundation that nourished its own demonic energy.

"Looks like you're not a picky eater either."

I withdrew my hand, looked at the snake egg, and muttered something.

Since the examination revealed nothing abnormal and it was actually beneficial for its hatching, I simply took it as a good thing and let it be.

After all, Master Liu entrusted it to me in order to find that glimmer of hope.

Besides my daily meditation practice, I have another important task to complete—accumulating "cool energy" between my eyebrows.

This mysterious, cool aura is something I earned by stitching up the ghost's wounds with black bone needles.

However, Li Qing rearranged the feng shui of Tingyuxuan, making its energy field harmonious and full of yang energy.

Ordinary wandering ghosts wouldn't dare approach within a hundred meters of this area.

In order to "attract business", I had no choice but to go to Li Qing to discuss it.

"Li Qing, let's make a deal."

I spoke up during dinner that day.

"From now on, every night after midnight, turn off the exorcism formation you set up around Tingyuxuan for two hours."

Li Qing was gnawing on a braised pig's trotter when he heard this. He stopped abruptly and stared at me with wide eyes.

Are you crazy?

He mumbled incoherently.

"I finally managed to make this place a fortress, and you expect me to open the door and let thieves in the middle of the night?"

"What, you think you've been having too much of a time these past few days and want to invite some ghosts in for a party?"

"Then don't worry about it, I have a use for it."

Since I got to know Li Qing, I don't beat around the bush when I talk to him anymore.

However, seeing his ghostly expression, I still explained, "Don't worry, I only want ordinary wandering souls without resentment."

If any powerful evil spirits or vengeful ghosts approach, I will sense it in advance and prevent them from disturbing the guests who come here.

Li Qing put down the pig's trotter, took out a tissue to wipe his hands, and looked at me with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.

"I'm really impressed by you."

Others are too busy avoiding ghosts to even think about it, but you go and set a trap to invite them to your door.

He sighed and waved his hand helplessly.

"Fine, fine, who told you to be the boss here now?"

Every night from midnight to 2 a.m., I'll open the door a crack. Be careful, don't overdo it.

From that day on, my life as a homebody included a new midnight activity.

Every day after midnight, the aura surrounding Tingyuxuan undergoes a subtle change.

I will sit in the lobby on the third floor on time and place the black bone needle on the coffee table.

The bone needles contain a strange fluctuation that has a natural attraction to wandering souls lost in the world.

Often, within half an hour, a faint shadow would drift into the room through the gap in the formation.

Most of them are pitiful people who died due to obsession or accident, leaving their spirits incomplete.

I'm already quite adept at dealing with these wandering spirits.

Each time the last needle is inserted, the wandering spirit becomes whole again.

They usually bow slightly to me, then turn into specks of light and dissipate into the air, entering the cycle of reincarnation.