Ignoring the wails in his ears, Jiang Shan fell into deep thought.
The performance of those Ghost Controllers from the Xiaoqiang Club yesterday already made him feel something was strange,
He only activated the Ghost Character once, so why were these people crying and wiping their noses in pain?
Jiang Shan suspected it was an issue with his Ghost Domain.
Then, when he enveloped Ye Feng with his Ghost Domain today, he noticed Ye Feng's expression was extremely painful, a pain that seemed unnatural.
Judging by his expression, it seemed his suffering stemmed more from his physical body.
After observing closely at that moment, Jiang Shan realized: Ye Feng's body and clothes showed varying degrees of decay, and some of his exposed skin had even rotted into the flesh.
No wonder the Ghost Controllers within his Ghost Domain were grimacing in pain.
But decay and corruption are the Ghost Domain Characteristics of the Knocking Ghost.
When did his Ghost Domain acquire that?
Jiang Shan was puzzled; the Dead Face Ghost's Ghost Domain clearly involved stealing Supernatural Power from Fierce Ghosts, he was certain of that.
Because he clearly saw: the tiny Dead Face Ghost, suspended like dust in the Grey Fog, bite off clumps of grey-green Supernatural Power from Ye Feng's Ghost Shroud.
After the Dead Face Ghost chewed and swallowed it, the Dead Face Ghost inside his body received a slight enhancement.
Stealing Supernatural Power, without a doubt.
But he didn't know that the Dead Face Ghost also possessed the ability to steal the Ghost Domain of a Fierce Ghost?
Jiang Shan was both surprised and delighted. He tried gathering the dust-like miniature Dead Face Ghosts within his Ghost Domain, and soon they converged above his head into clumps of yellow mist.
As the yellow mist condensed, Jiang Shan noticed the wailing sounds of those thugs began to weaken.
"It seems this effect is brought about by these dust-like Dead Face Ghosts," Jiang Shan thought.
Suddenly, he felt something unusual about the Ghost Character inside him; it seemed to be craving for Jiang Shan to activate its ability.
When others defecate, it joins the fun.
After pondering for a moment and deciding there wasn't much risk, Jiang Shan decided to activate the Ghost Character Prophecy ability.
This was the first time he had proactively activated the Ghost Character Prophecy ability.
Jiang Shan wanted to know if the Ghost Character's so-called prophecy was the same as the ability of Xiong Wenwen's prophecy ghost.
Was it foreseeing the future, or did it have another effect?
As the Ghost Character activated,
Suddenly, an indescribable terror permeated Jiang Shan's surroundings. At this moment, he felt waves of coldness around him. In the unseen void, pairs of eyes filled with malice and hatred stared intently at him, as if wanting to replace Jiang Shan.
Jiang Shan closed his eyes and used his Ghost Domain to search for these unseen eyes, but after scanning around, he found nothing.
He waited for a few breaths, but the feeling of being watched did not disappear.
At this moment, the Ghost Character appeared in his mind. It wrote in a twisted, crooked manner, abandoning its usual font:
"I am Jiang Shan. I discovered that the Dead Face Ghost can steal the Ghost Domain of a Fierce Ghost. Although it can only steal a portion, this is still terrifyingly significant."
Immediately after, the Ghost Character seemed to be interfered with, and its font became increasingly illegible, but Jiang Shan vaguely discerned the content it intended to convey:
"As long as I control the third Fierce Ghost—Ghost Blood—the ghosts inside me can form a triangular balance, and the Dead Face Ghost will regain the ability to steal Ghost Domains."
Jiang Shan could no longer see the content that followed, so he stopped the Ghost Character's prophecy.
When the Ghost Character quieted down, the surrounding malice and covetous gazes vanished.
Rather than a prophecy, Jiang Shan felt it was more like an inducement based on knowing the pros and cons.
The Ghost Character's prophecy, much like that Human Skin Paper, seemed to know everything, yet every word carried a trap.
Jiang Shan stood frozen, contemplating the Ghost Character's words, and the fog began to thicken again.
Jiang Shan controlled the timing, watching the thugs coldly. After a while, the wailing gradually ceased.
They had been painfully tortured into unconsciousness.
Jiang Shan walked up to the yellow-haired thug, bent down, and pulled out a dagger flashing with cold light. After examining it closely, he seemed to notice something odd and reached out to touch the blade's edge.
"It's not sharpened?"
Although the blade shimmered coldly, this action of not being sharpened made the judgment easy.
These thugs were purely trying to scare people, like playing executioner in front of a tiger.
Looking at the knife, Jiang Shan became thoughtful.
The Grey Fog began to adhere to each thug's arm in a patterned manner, continuing to rot their skin, flesh, and even internal organs.
In a short while,
The thugs who had been howling in pain on the ground disappeared; under the influence of the Supernatural Power with the rotting characteristic, they completely vanished from this world.
Witnessing the entire process of living people rotting away, there was no emotional fluctuation in Jiang Shan's eyes.
"Time to go home and sleep."
The next day,
Still maintaining a good daily routine, Jiang Shan finished breakfast at eleven and arrived early at the Club to slack off.
In preparation for the night's operation, he uncharacteristically stayed at the Club until ten in the evening before leaving.
That night, the night sky over Dachang City was heavily overcast, the darkness making one feel suppressed.
Arriving near the Shangtong Building, Jiang Shan lit a cigarette as soon as he got out of the car. Looking at the weather, he smiled and said:
"A dark and windy night for murder. Let's see what these foreigners are up to."
A bone-chilling coldness swept across Jiang Shan's face; he was already used to it.
Every time the Dead Face Ghost activated, it felt like putting a mask on his face, which didn't affect his vision and was even a cool, limited-edition summer model.
In a short time, gloomy Grey Fog enveloped the district around the Shangtong Building, its coverage reaching nearly one-tenth of Dachang City.
This was even without Jiang Shan fully deploying his Ghost Domain.
The Grey Fog was dense, like a natural weather phenomenon,
But unlike ordinary smog, all the murky dust in this haze gathered in the sky. Ordinary people within the fog felt almost no abnormality, except for slightly obstructed vision.
This was a measure Jiang Shan took specifically to avoid harming ordinary people; after all, he only needed to borrow the Ghost Domain's abilities, not create chaos.
After exhaling the last puff of smoke, his figure disappeared into the fog.
At this moment,
Inside an office in the Shangtong Building.
"We're done for, Mary! We are already inside a Ghost Domain! My God, how did this demon arrive without warning?!"
In a huge, opulent office, a blond man who had just pulled up his trousers patted the head of a woman with a classic European face sitting in front of him, looking worriedly at the yellowish Grey Fog outside the window.
The two seemed to have just finished doing something illicit.
The woman named Mary, her face flushed, walked to the wine cabinet, took down a bottle of red wine, and said unhurriedly:
"It's alright, Paul. I feel this ghost is very similar to the one in Dachang City last night. As long as we hide in your secret room and avoid its Killing Pattern, we will be fine once the ghost leaves."
"Pop..."
The wine was opened.
Paul walked over, took the wine glass handed to him by the woman, and the worry in his eyes largely disappeared.
As he spoke, he opened the door to the secret room and leaned against it, looking intoxicated:
"Hahaha, how did I not think of that? Oh~ this wonderful aroma of wine, it intoxicates me just like you, Mary. Shall we have another—"
"Another person? I can do it. The three of us can play Landlord. I'm ranked in the top ten for Landlord in Dachang City, my record is verifiable."
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Thank you for your support, brothers!