[Bless Beck's cursed-normal little heart... He can't help but grin a little, just because of the horrible irony of someone talking about the horrors of ghost interrogation with the Yiling Patriarch, Necromancer Extraordinaire.]

Haha, it isn't so bad! Most dead people just want peace and won't give the living much trouble beyond that. It's something I'm pretty used to, but non-cultivators usually stay out of these things unless they're forcibly dragged in. You know, hauntings, fierce corpses digging up their crops, things like that.

[WAVING A HAND... Though hilariously that explanation does make sense, if for the worst reason--]

Oh! You mean like the moving paintings that are hanging on the walls?

[The... the horrible ones featuring all of the guests...]