Chapter 96 – The balance has been broken


“Is it so easy to imprison a ghost like this?”

It was too easy, to the point where they all began to doubt and feel uncertain.

But it was precisely because of this that it further confirmed Yang Jian’s previous uneasiness.

Looking at the motionless body in the body bag, he became more convinced that his previous guess was correct.

However… he was misled.

A wrong signal, coupled with previous uncertainty, led to a wrong action.

“Did we succeed?” Zhang Han asked uncertainly.

Zhang Yiming furrowed his brows and said, “I’m not sure. Based on Ye Jun’s previous probing, this old lady is definitely not a normal person. But if she is a fierce ghost, it would be too easy to imprison a ghost that can kill two ghost tamers.”

“Yang Jian, what do you think?”

“A ghost slave, she is a ghost slave,” Yang Jian said in a deep voice. “After a person dies and is controlled by a fierce ghost, they are no longer human, but they are not real ghosts either. We are wasting our time here.”

“Leave this place and go back to the previous spirit hall. That’s where we can solve the problem.”

“Are you kidding me? We went through all this trouble just to catch a substitute?” Zhang Han became annoyed.

Yang Jian didn’t say anything. He lifted the body bag and quickly left the room, leaving behind a sentence.

“If you don’t want to die, follow me. If everything goes well, we can continue with our previous plan.”

He left the room, his footsteps never stopping as he hurried towards the spirit hall.

“Let’s go together,” Zhang Yiming said, and he and Zhang Han quickly followed.

But after they left the room, they couldn’t find any trace of Ye Jun.

“Where are you, Ye Jun?” Zhang Han shouted.

“No need to shout, he must have been killed. There was no sound outside since we started our move inside,” Yang Jian said without looking back. “If he’s not dead, he would have come to meet us long ago.”

The two of them trembled at his words.

They hadn’t even separated by a far distance, just a few meters. How could he have been killed so quickly?

And this couldn’t even be considered being left alone, right?

As Yang Jian rushed towards the spirit hall, he suddenly noticed that the sunlight above him was rapidly dimming, and the brightness was disappearing. The village was gradually being shrouded in darkness.

In just a moment, it went from daytime to nighttime.

Yang Jian’s heart skipped a beat. The thing he was most worried about had happened.

The two ghosts in the village should have been in a state of restraint towards each other. Although he didn’t know the result of this restraint, it should have been a good thing.

But this operation seemed to have broken that balance.

No, the balance had already been broken since the first time they entered the village. It was just that this wrong action was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back, causing the ghost known as the Diseased Ghost to completely retreat.

An even more ferocious unknown ghost began to take over the entire Huanggang Village.

“We must go back to the spirit hall,” Yang Jian said without hesitation. He gritted his teeth and his body emitted a red light, covering a radius of ten meters around him.

His ghost domain had expanded… which meant he was closer to the resurrection of the fierce ghost.

But Yang Jian suddenly realized that even with the use of his ghost domain, he couldn’t counter the ghost domain of the village. The ground beneath his feet remained the same.

It was completely different from the situation with the knocking ghost before.

This village might not be a ghost domain at all, but a special existence.

Yang Jian recalled the previous information that showed Huanggang Village mysteriously disappeared for three days and then reappeared.

“Perhaps there is no way to escape from this place even with the use of the ghost domain…”

He now had two choices: try to escape with the ghost domain, although there was no guarantee of success, there was still a chance.

The second choice was to fight to survive. He had an emergency method, but its effectiveness was uncertain.

Two choices were before him!

Any wrong move would result in death.

He broke out in a cold sweat and became anxious. This situation was much more serious than the mall incident, it was not even on the same level.

“If we escape, we will die from the resurrection of the fierce ghost. If we can’t escape, we will also die. It seems like escaping is a way to survive, but it is actually a dead end. Damn it, let’s go all out.”

He gritted his teeth.

He carried the body and immediately disappeared from his original position, enveloped in a red light that covered a radius of ten meters.

His ghost domain had become larger… which also meant that he was one step closer to the resurrection of the fierce ghost.

But Yang Jian suddenly realized that even with the use of his ghost domain, he couldn’t counter the ghost domain of the village. The ground beneath his feet remained the same.

It was completely different from the situation with the knocking ghost before.

This village might not be a ghost domain at all, but a special existence.

Yang Jian recalled the previous information that showed Huanggang Village mysteriously disappeared for three days and then reappeared.

“Perhaps there is no way to escape from this place even with the use of the ghost domain…”

He now had two choices: try to escape with the ghost domain, although there was no guarantee of success, there was still a chance.

The second choice was to fight to survive. He had an emergency method, but its effectiveness was uncertain.

Two choices were before him!

Any wrong move would result in death.

He broke out in a cold sweat and became anxious. This situation was much more serious than the mall incident, it was not even on the same level.

“If we escape, we will die from the resurrection of the fierce ghost. If we can’t escape, we will also die. It seems like escaping is a way to survive, but it is actually a dead end. Damn it, let’s go all out.”

He gritted his teeth.

He carried the body and immediately disappeared from his original position, enveloped in a red light that covered a radius of ten meters.

“Where is Yang Jian? He disappeared out of thin air?” Zhang Han, who was running behind, was shocked.

Zhang Yiming hurriedly said, “This should be Yang Jian’s ability. Don’t be surprised. Hurry, let’s go to the spirit hall. Something is wrong with this village. I feel like something terrifying is about to happen. Yang Jian noticed it before us and left in a hurry, even using the power of the fierce ghost.”

He was extremely anxious, not just because of Yang Jian’s actions, but because the whole village suddenly turned from daytime to nighttime.

This sudden change gave a sense of impending death.

“Did all the villagers disappear?”

Taking advantage of the situation where Yang Jian used his ghost domain, he arrived at the village entrance again in just two seconds.

There were more than a dozen elderly people sitting here, drinking tea and chatting before. There were also four or five old ladies and old men in the spirit hall, burning paper and guarding the spirits. Everything was normal.

But with just one round trip.

The sky darkened, and the village was quickly shrouded in darkness.

The villagers from before also disappeared.

What disappeared along with them was the house that served as the spirit hall.

Yes.

Not only did the coffin disappear, but the entire spirit hall disappeared. In its place was a piece of abandoned wasteland with wild grass growing on it, as if the house never existed in the village.

Yang Jian, who was carrying the body, was stunned.

Zhang Han and Zhang Yiming, who arrived shortly after, also showed incredulous expressions.

“What’s going on? The villagers are gone, the house is gone, what about the spirit hall? Where is the spirit hall that was here before?” Zhang Han said, looking around.

The other houses were still there, only this one was gone.

“We didn’t come to the wrong place, this is it,” Yang Jian said, finding a few drops of foul-smelling corpse water on the ground that seemed to have just dripped.

This was Ye Jun’s ability.

He had been here before.

But… he might have died before reaching this place.

“Yang Jian, what do you know? Speak up, let’s figure out a solution,” Zhang Yiming urged.

“It’s too late now. The whole house is gone, and we can’t go back to the spirit hall. I was misled by the wrong information earlier, thinking that the old lady was a ghost. Even if she wasn’t, as long as we acted fast, nothing unexpected would happen. But I was too naive… some balance in this village has been broken, and the real fierce ghost is about to appear. Be mentally prepared.”

While Yang Jian was speaking, he took out a golden box and placed it on the ground.

Then he pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the golden box, preparing to shoot.

“What are you doing? That box is…” Zhang Yiming’s eyes widened when he saw the deformed but welded golden box.

“The box contains a fierce ghost, and now I’m going to release it. This is my emergency plan,” Yang Jian said.

“Are you crazy? You’re going to release a ghost?”

Even the more stable Zhang Yiming couldn’t help but roar, “People will die.”

“No choice, the initial purpose of that Diseased Ghost was to open this box and release the ghost inside. This ghost may be the key to the balance.” Yang Jian hadn’t finished speaking when he fired a shot.

The bullet hit the box.

But it didn’t penetrate.

The gold was thick and solid.

“Now, the actions of the ghost in the village no longer matter. When it maintained balance in the village, it could kill a ghost tamer on its own, and it was extremely easy. Once the balance is broken, based on the information I have, it becomes a dead end, unsolvable, pure terror that crushes everything. There is no way out.”

“If you don’t want to be wiped out, don’t stop me, because there is still a glimmer of hope.”

“Bang!”

Yang Jian fired another shot.

Sparks flew from the golden box, and a small opening had been torn open.

Through that opening, fresh blood oozed out.

It was the blood of Yan Li, the fierce ghost.

Once the ghost blood ran out, the headless ghost shadow inside would be released.

This was a ghost that wasn’t particularly terrifying, but its growth speed was terrifying.

“After this ghost is released, you’re on your own. Find a way to protect yourselves. As long as you don’t die temporarily, the situation should turn around.” Yang Jian said as he stared closely at the gradually emerging black shadow with his ghost eyes.

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