At the end of the street, the Starving Ghost stood motionless, its body stiff and cold. Its figure was extremely emaciated, but its belly was bulging high, like that of a pregnant woman.
Under the eerie Street Lamp light, the shadow of the Starving Ghost reflected on the ground was that of a tall Figure, a shadow that did not match the Starving Ghost's actual appearance at all!
"That shadow does not belong to the Starving Ghost itself, but to another Fierce Ghost... Zhao Kaiming's Wish Ghost!"
Seeing this scene, Su Mu Bai quickly reacted.
The Starving Ghost itself truly could not achieve a Restart, but if possessed by the Wish Ghost, it could easily accomplish this step.
"In the Original Work, when Yang Jian confronted the Starving Ghost, the Starving Ghost at that time was also possessed by the Wish Ghost. When the Coffin Nail was about to strike it, it restarted, directly reversing forty minutes of Time."
"This Restart probably isn't for forty minutes, right? After all, I've only been on this street for a few minutes at most. It's a pity there's no Time for comparison." Su Mu Bai thought.
Forty minutes ago, he probably hadn't even entered that Hospital outside, let alone come here through the passage on the third floor of the Hospital.
"However, calculating it this way might also be incorrect. An Area Restart happens within the range covered by one's own Ghost Domain."
"The Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain only covers this street, so no matter how long it restarts for, I will appear at the entrance of the street, because that is the initial Time point when I stepped into its Ghost Domain!"
After figuring this out, Su Mu Bai felt that his current position after the Starving Ghost's Restart was somewhat reasonable.
It was just one thing that exceeded his expectations.
Su Mu Bai hadn't expected the Wish Ghost to be watching the Starving Ghost so closely. As soon as he made a move, the Wish Ghost used the Starving Ghost's body to Restart.
He knew that the Wish Ghost had a natural suppression over the Starving Ghost, almost to the point where it could possess it whenever it wanted and leave whenever it wished.
In the Original Work, when Yang Jian first used the Coffin Nail against the Starving Ghost possessed by the Wish Ghost, the latter restarted, causing Yang Jian's first Action to fail.
When the second wave came, the Wish Ghost suddenly abandoned the Starving Ghost's body and left on its own.
Once it left, the Starving Ghost suffered the consequences, being directly nailed to death in the Seventh Middle School by Yang Jian using the Coffin Nail!
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Stomp, stomp, stomp!
This time, before Su Mu Bai could make any Action, the Starving Ghost standing in the gloom at the end of the street moved first.
The Starving Ghost, possessed by the Wish Ghost, walked towards Su Mu Bai with heavy, muffled steps.
At the same time, the dense ranks of Ghost Infants from various stages on the street turned their bodies, fixing their gazes on Su Mu Bai once more. Their eyes were pitch-black and extremely cold, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.
This scene was terrifying!
Numerous "Shadowy Figures" of varying sizes but terrifying appearances stared over. If it were an Ordinary Person, they would likely have wet themselves from fright on the spot.
"The possessed Starving Ghost possesses the nearly unsolvable ability of 'Restart.' How can this be fought?!" Su Mu Bai tightened his grip on the Coffin Nail, his expression extremely grim on the dark-green dead man's head.
The current situation put him in a dilemma.
He couldn't win by fighting, but he was unwilling to retreat.
"The current Starving Ghost is not as Terrifying as it was in the Original Work; this is the easiest time to succeed. After all, the one in the Original Work directly devoured over a dozen Ghost Controllers, giving Yang Jian psychological trauma."
Su Mu Bai frantically thought of countermeasures in his mind. He was only one step away from Success, and he even held the Coffin Nail capable of suppressing the Starving Ghost. He was unwilling to retreat just like that.
However, this one step was like an insurmountable chasm. The Restart ability was too unsolvable; Su Mu Bai had absolutely no way to deal with it!
Stomp, stomp, stomp!
The Starving Ghost paid no mind to Su Mu Bai's thoughts and continued to advance. The dense Ghost Infants in the street also stirred again, pouncing towards Su Mu Bai.
"Whoosh..."
As the Starving Ghost began its Action, a gust of wind swept through the grayish-green Ghost Domain, and patches of gloom drifted in the air, spreading towards Su Mu Bai.
Su Mu Bai's Ghost Domain was Suppressed!
The grayish-green Mist continued to drift in the air, eventually all falling onto the Black Mist Ghost Domain.
Like ripples caused by a pebble dropped into water, every collision between the grayish-green Mist and the Black Mist Ghost Domain caused the Ghost Domain to shake, and the Black Mist surged unpredictably.
"The Ghost Domain strength is too low; it's too passive when contending with other Ghost Domains. After this incident, I must find a way to increase the Ghost Domain strength!"
With a thought, Su Mu Bai shrank the five-meter range of his Black Mist Ghost Domain down to just one meter around him. He chose to concentrate the Ghost Domain's power again to resist the suppression from the Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain.
The effect was significant.
The Black Mist Ghost Domain, which had been violently agitated by the suppression, gradually stabilized after shrinking its range, successfully resisting the invasion of the gloom.
Although the Black Mist Ghost Domain was still at a disadvantage, being Suppressed by the Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain, it was no longer as vulnerable as it had been moments before.
The Starving Ghost's Ghost Domain power was too dispersed; its range was vast. If it had shrunk its Ghost Domain range like Su Mu Bai, Su Mu Bai would have been suppressed to the point where he couldn't even deploy his Ghost Domain!
The Eerie street did not seem large, but in reality, it felt infinitely vast. Mist filled the sky, and as far as the eye could see, there were Ghost Infants, densely packed!
Although there were many Ghost Infants, most were Stage One and Stage Two. There were very few at Stage Three, and not a single one at Stage Four.
The Starving Ghost's Ghost Infant Army looked terrifying, but as long as they weren't Stage Four or higher, Su Mu Bai didn't take them seriously!
His gaze remained fixed on the Starving Ghost, which had now walked to the center of the street, only a dozen meters away from Su Mu Bai's position.
"Hiss!"
The Street Lamps on both sides of the street eerily lit up, casting a Dim, glowing Light down.
"This... this is?!"
At the entrance of the street, a Stage Three Ghost Infant had just reached Su Mu Bai. He raised the Coffin Nail, but before he could swing it down, what he saw made his heart pound wildly.
The Dim, yellowish Light shone upon his Black Mist Ghost Domain, much like a scorching sun shining upon ice and snow.
The Black Mist Ghost Domain became extremely unstable, the Ink-black Mist surging, and under the illumination of the Light, it actually began to dissipate.
Su Mu Bai's Ghost Domain was completely Suppressed and invaded! The Light emanating from the Street Lamps was causing Erosion to his Ghost Domain.
Like the first snow of spring encountering the scorching sun of summer, the Black Mist Ghost Domain gradually faded and melted under the eerie Light of the Street Lamps!
"This Supernatural Power definitely does not come from the Starving Ghost!"
"It's... the Wish Ghost?!"
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