Chapter 293: He Yuelian’s Death
Controlling Ghost Painting was originally Yang Jian’s desperate gamble after being attacked by the Ghost Bride Curse, forced into it like a duck onto a perch.
At this time, his understanding of the supernatural had not yet reached the level of Zhang Xiangguang; he was completely relying on the method provided by the Human Skin Paper to take action step by step.
But a mutation suddenly occurred, and everything deviated onto a track that Yang Jian could not foresee.
“What the Human Skin Paper shows is that this woman, who looks extremely similar to the Fierce Ghost within the Ghost Painting, after she puts on the Ghost Wedding Dress and Ghost Veil, the supernatural she controls herself can balance the supernatural of the Ghost Painting in a short time.”
“And she will be in a weird state of controlling yet not controlling, and the Ghost Hand can serve as a medium between me and her. I can use the Ghost Candle to transfer my consciousness, and then use the Ghost Candle Holder to ensure my consciousness won’t be annihilated due to the supernatural.”
While observing all the abnormalities around him, Yang Jian calmly pondered:
“But now the Ghost Candle is behaving abnormally, and that woman’s state is also very weird. What exactly should I do next?”
Outside the building, Jiang Shan and Zhang Xiangguang were fighting to the death, and about twenty minutes had passed.
Yang Jian not only noticed the weirdness appearing from the Ghost Candle, but also heard some painful sounds from the woman who was like a bride in a red wedding dress; she seemed to be suffering some kind of tormenting pain.
At this moment,
The candle flame of the Ghost Candle flickered as if it could go out at any time,
And Yang Jian, who was already under the supernatural erosion of the Ghost Candle, could clearly feel that every time the candle flame of the Ghost Candle swayed, his consciousness would become more trance-like.
In this state, he simply couldn’t engage in prolonged thinking.
“This won’t do. The Human Skin Paper is on Jiang Shan, and I can’t leave here now. Once the candle flame goes out, my consciousness will definitely have a big problem.”
His intuition told Yang Jian that he must do something right now.
If he continued to wait like this, he, who had already deviated from the Human Skin Paper’s process, absolutely wouldn’t wait for the outcome expected on the Human Skin Paper.
Maybe by then,
Death might even be a kind of relief for him.
“I can’t hesitate anymore. I must follow the process on the Human Skin Paper. Its prophecy and plan won’t have problems. I don’t know the characteristics of the Ghost Painting or that Ghost Bride.”
Looking at the Fierce Ghost within the Ghost Painting, Yang Jian discovered that its blurry figure was actually starting to become gradually transparent at this moment, as if it was about to dissipate.
“If I follow my own guess, I might very well die inexplicably due to the weird changes between supernaturals. In this situation, my own ideas have no value to reference.”
“I don’t want to die! I haven’t lived enough yet.”
Yang Jian roared inwardly, his eyes filled with a madness of gambling against fate.
“I must hold hands again. Without a medium, I feel I can’t control the Ghost Painting.”
With that thought,
Without any hesitation, Yang Jian quickly ran to the position where the Fierce Ghost in the painting, which had become transparent and almost invisible, was located, and then rushed in fiercely.
Just upon contact,
A bone-deep chill, like steel needles, pierced into Yang Jian’s body from every corner.
Clearly, the Fierce Ghost in the painting hadn’t completely disappeared, but Yang Jian passed through it like air, without any resistance, easily taking the place of the woman who had walked out from the Ghost Painting.
After feeling that he could touch He Yuelian’s raised hand, Yang Jian unhesitatingly extended that Ghost Hand and held it.
Because the Embroidered Shoes were missing, the supernatural of just the Ghost Wedding Dress and Ghost Veil alone couldn’t balance the terrifying supernatural of the Ghost Painting.
The reason she could persist for such a long time was already because her appearance, like a supernatural creation, caused the Ghost Painting to misjudge.
Even so,
If it continued, within five minutes, He Yuelian would instantly die violently due to the supernatural conflict of these three Fierce Ghosts.
But the intervention of the third party, Yang Jian, caused this imbalance to produce an unpredictable deviation. No, this deviation wasn’t unpredictable.
Because the Human Skin Paper seemed to have already foreseen all of this.
In the second after holding hands with He Yuelian again.
The flame of the Ghost Candle expanded wildly, that deep and weird firelight seeming to burn out the Ghost Painting Supernatural, and at the same time seeming to burn out Yang Jian’s consciousness.
His consciousness was eroded and affected under the clash of the supernatural.
If Yang Jian couldn’t maintain his self and cognition under this supernatural erosion, then after the supernatural conflict ended, he would no longer be a living person, but a corpse.
Without the protection of the Ghost Dream.
Yang Jian’s consciousness was like an ant in the sand, fragile and insignificant.
Although the Ghost Candle was protecting his consciousness, it was also burning his consciousness.
And the most obvious feature between a Ghost Wielder and a ghost is that the Ghost Wielder is still considered a person, a living person with their own consciousness.
But ghosts don’t have that; they can only kill people according to patterns.
Even something like the Human Skin Paper, which possesses human-like wisdom, is not a person because it must act according to patterns.
And this is a ghost,
Dangerous and terrifying.
Although Yang Jian hadn’t taken any action at this moment, his consciousness suffered terrifying supernatural erosion the instant he held hands.
In his consciousness appeared a woman wearing a red wedding dress.
That woman looked exactly like He Yuelian. If evaluated by human standards, she was a flawless existence, beautiful beyond description.
But just one glance at this appearance, and Yang Jian knew this absolutely wasn’t something a normal person could have. This beauty was too perfect, making it feel unreal.
It wasn’t just that the woman from the Ghost Painting appeared in Yang Jian’s consciousness.
Or rather, the reason he could see this woman was entirely because of He Yuelian.
At this moment,
“What is this sound? Who are you? Are you that man! Who is she? Who am I? Have my memories gone wrong? These memories aren’t mine, no, no, these memories are my own.”
“Who can tell me what exactly happened! My head hurts so much, my hand has no sensation, I don’t want to die, someone save me, save me.”
Several supernaturals capable of instantly killing most ordinary people and Ghost Wielders were clashing inside He Yuelian’s body.
The chill all over her body and the intense pain in her brain made her wish she were dead.
She, who had never contacted the supernatural before, had been tormented by terrifying supernatural power for nearly half an hour.
At this moment, He Yuelian had already reached the verge of collapse.
The man holding her hand;
The terrifying Fierce Ghost identical to herself.
Now He Yuelian’s consciousness was suffering increasingly severe erosion; sometimes she even felt like she had already disappeared.
“This man’s purpose in holding my hand absolutely isn’t to save me. He was still able to act normally before, but from the moment he held my hand, his state became wrong.”
“This hand has a problem. Perhaps the key to my survival lies in this hand.”
Although He Yuelian’s consciousness was being wildly eroded by the supernatural, this erosion wasn’t that rapid. Right now, she could still think and make slight movements.
Feeling the power coming from Yang Jian’s palm, like a dying person tightly clutching something, her stiff fingers showed no sign of loosening.
After discovering this abnormality, she tried to pull out her right hand that was held by the Ghost Hand, but no matter what, there was no sign of breaking free.
She seemed to have no way to escape that cold palm.
At this moment, He Yuelian could only watch helplessly as her life drained away;
Could only watch helplessly as death step by step took her life.
And she herself was powerless.
At this time,
That incomparably perfect woman appeared in Yang Jian’s trance-like vision; she was walking step by step toward him, constantly approaching.
“Can’t move? What’s going on?!”
Yang Jian horror-struck discovered that he couldn’t move at all, could only stand in place like a puppet, watching this woman from the Ghost Painting approach bit by bit.
“Am I going to die? My money should be enough, right…”
An unprecedented despair and sense of powerlessness swept over Yang Jian’s brain like a cold wave.
But next, he couldn’t even feel despair anymore.
Because the chaotic consciousness made it so his brain couldn’t even think anymore.
His consciousness seemed to have deviated due to the supernatural influence; reality and consciousness overlapped, weirdly presenting themselves in Yang Jian’s mind.
In the instant the woman “entered” Yang Jian’s body.
A chilling breath invaded his entire body. Yang Jian’s consciousness in this moment felt like it was being pulled out; that feeling was terrifying.
As if he was disappearing bit by bit,
Then vanishing without a trace, leaving no existence in the world.
At a certain moment,
In an unnoticed place.
Yang Jian’s pale Ghost Hand had at some unknown time become shriveled. The curse, wrapped in supernatural, began frantically spreading between the two through this only medium.
As the Ghost Hand shriveled, Yang Jian’s expression began to become extremely weird—from previous seriousness, to panic and unease just a few seconds later, and in the blink of an eye, the aura he emitted seemed like a completely different person.
And beside him, He Yuelian, who was in painful struggle and sunk in chaotic consciousness.
Her pained expression also eased the moment Yang Jian’s expression changed, as if the pain from supernatural erosion had lessened considerably.
An extremely weird state appeared on these two people.
Perhaps because Yang Jian had let go earlier, or because He Yuelian had given up on herself, the Music Box Curse didn’t transfer to He Yuelian through the Ghost Hand as expected.
On the contrary,
The Ghost Bride Curse that had originally transferred to He Yuelian reappeared on Yang Jian once again, and this curse seemed even more terrifying.
The previously unchanged Ghost Hand now becoming shriveled was the best proof.
The Ghost Hand was originally the medium connecting the two. Due to the restriction of the Ghost Candle Holder and Ghost Candle on the Ghost Painting Supernatural, the supernatural on He Yuelian mixed with Ghost Painting power couldn’t erode Yang Jian.
But after Yang Jian took the place of the woman in the Ghost Painting, what he represented was no longer just the Ghost Wielder Yang Jian, but also the supernatural of the Ghost Painting.
Unknowingly, Yang Jian stole the supernatural of the Ghost Painting. Because of the Ghost Candle Holder and Ghost Candle, his body became the manifestation of the Ghost Painting Supernatural in the present world.
So at this moment,
It was no longer just He Yuelian controlling the Ghost Painting. The two connected through the Ghost Hand were now an inseparable whole.
The light and ethereal sound of the Music Box echoed in their minds,
Originally in the clash of the supernatural, He Yuelian as a medium without supernatural power could steal a trace of weak supernatural power during the process of controlling the Ghost Painting.
Once she could successfully steal it, she could use it as a starting point to continuously balance this supernatural conflict, thereby surviving in this clash of the supernatural.
And this not only required luck, but also will and methods.
She, who had already given up on herself and sought death, completely lost the chance to steal the supernatural after the addition of the fourth party, Yang Jian.
Now she was the medium connecting the Ghost Bride, the Ghost Painting, and Yang Jian these three; all the supernatural filled her body, engaging in the final struggle.
“Has my consciousness returned to normal? No, it hasn’t.”
After an unknown amount of time, Yang Jian, who had always been sunk in chaos, suddenly felt his consciousness seemed to be struggling against something else, together vying for control of this body.
Or rather, his current state was more similar to that of a “ghost,” just with other ghosts interfering with him.
“The Music Box Curse still exists. Did the plan to transfer the curse fail? Then what state am I in now? Living person, Ghost Slave, or dead person?”
Glancing with the corner of his eye at He Yuelian, who seemed already dead, Yang Jian’s heart didn’t stir any waves.
What he needed to confirm first now was his own situation.
“My thinking is very clear, I have past memories, and current memories, no different from when I was alive before, so am I still under the protection of the Music Box now?”
“Not only that, it seems my consciousness now has some extraordinary things added.”
In a sudden trance,
Yang Jian suddenly saw that the flawless woman in his consciousness had now come right in front of him.
The woman’s clear figure just stood there in front of him, motionless.
Although he felt he could move now, no longer like that puppet-like “dead person,” facing this situation, he didn’t know what to do.
He began trying to find something from the supernatural he controlled himself, not wanting to miss even the slightest thing.
“Ghost Eye still can’t open, Ghost Shadow is also suppressed by some unknown supernatural. This should all be related to that woman in my consciousness, is it the Ghost Painting Supernatural?”
“Why has my body become so shriveled? Did the Ghost Bride Supernatural attack me again? Can’t even the Ghost Hand withstand the current Ghost Bride Supernatural? It seems the Music Box Curse not disappearing indirectly saved my life.”
Yang Jian’s current state was very special.
His body had completely died due to the Ghost Bride’s attack, and even the Ghost Hand had been suppressed to a certain extent.
Now his consciousness was awake, under the protection of the Music Box, could think normally, had all memories, was certain of his identity, and he could act normally.
But now he was the sole carrier of the Ghost Painting and Ghost Bride Supernatural.
