Chapter 54: Restart Failed?!
Because of that ghost’s actions, the blood inside Jiang Shan’s body that did not belong to him began to wildly spurt out through the two blood holes in his stomach.
After his body returned to normal, a pool of chilling, viscous Black Blood began to overflow from the Blood Ghost’s arm, starting to replace the original blood in Jiang Shan’s body like Ghost Blood.
“Drip~ Drip~”
Black Blood had already filled Jiang Shan’s entire body, and it began to spread toward his head, but because the Ghost Rope was strangling his neck, the Black Blood was always stuck at his throat and could not advance further.
The Blood Ghost standing in front of Jiang Shan’s corpse seemed to notice something unusual.
The Blood Ghost’s humanoid body, originally soaked in fresh blood and unrecognizable, began to gradually melt, turning into a pool of foul-smelling, viscous Black Blood, which surged into Jiang Shan’s body along its arm that had not yet disappeared.
At the instant the Blood Ghost turned into Black Blood and vanished, Jiang Shan discovered through the Ghost Domain that the Black Blood in his body began to go “mad.”
“Thud!”
The Straw Rope strangling Jiang Shan suddenly went dormant, and immediately after, his corpse fell with it.
Black Blood was about to surge into Jiang Shan’s brain.
Even though Jiang Shan only had a mass of consciousness remaining, the terrifying chilling sensation of the Black Blood scattering made his thinking somewhat stagnate.
“That ghost can actually affect consciousness?”
Jiang Shan, realizing his abnormal state, felt a sinking in his heart, but things had come to this point, and he had no way out.
Black Blood began to wildly surge into his brain.
A chilling stinging pain that stung his consciousness began to spread along with it.
Just as the Black Blood was about to affect the Withered Finger, Jiang Shan, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately urged the Dead Face Ghost.
A youth-like Ghost Face with a face full of cold indifference instantly stuck to Jiang Shan’s face, and the mouth of that Ghost Face was still holding a pitch-black face.
As the youth Ghost Face continuously chewed, Jiang Shan felt his consciousness beginning to return, that vague pulling sensation as if it wanted to pull his “mass of consciousness” back into his body.
Consciousness being pulled
Jiang Shan’s perception began to become dull.
But no matter how dull his perception was, he could clearly discover that the pitch-black Ghost Face had not disappeared, and the Ghost Domain showed no changes, still presenting that weird pitch blackness.
This meant—Restart failed!
His body did not show the flesh and blood exploding as in the first restart; this time, not only did Jiang Shan’s body show no changes, but the inside of his body began to become even darker, emanating the chilling aura of a ghost.
“!”
“If the restart failed, then what is the situation with my current consciousness? Who is trying to seize my consciousness?”
Jiang Shan, suddenly noticing the anomaly, reached the peak of fear in his heart, and he was already prepared to transfer his head at any moment.
After all, the true body of the Dead Face Ghost existed on his face, so doing this would also make it easier for the subsequent Ghost Wielder to detain the Dead Face Ghost.
Moreover, even if Jiang Shan wanted to transfer the corpse, he probably could not do it anymore; the Black Blood that the Blood Ghost turned into had completely fused with his body.
To transfer his own body,
That was equivalent to transferring a ghost.
Even if the Dead Face Ghost’s Ghost Domain had reached the strength of the Ghost Eye’s fifth layer Ghost Domain, Jiang Shan had no confidence in making such a terrifying Fierce Ghost disappear.
“The Ghost Characters are suppressed.”
Jiang Shan tried to activate the prophecy of the Ghost Characters, but discovered that the original Ghost Characters in his mind had already begun to be eroded by that viscous “Black Blood.”
The Blood Ghost was fighting him for the Ghost Characters!
When he had just controlled the Ghost Characters, the composition paper covered with Ghost Characters had stuck to Jiang Shan’s brain, but now part of the Ghost Characters on it had been soaked by the Black Blood until they disappeared.
An eight-hundred-character composition,
Representing eight hundred Ghost Characters in different fonts.
Back then, Jiang Shan had left fifty Ghost Characters on Chen Yue’s body, and now the number of Ghost Characters he had left was less than six hundred.
At the current erosion speed of the “Black Blood,” in less than five minutes, the Ghost Characters would completely detach from Jiang Shan’s control and become a Puzzle Piece of the Blood Ghost.
And without the Balance of the Ghost Characters,
At that time, the Dead Face Ghost would completely usher in Resurrection!
A mad idea began to brew in Jiang Shan’s heart.
“Aren’t you wanting the Ghost Characters? I’ll let you have as many as you want!”
Watching his body become more and more like a ghost through the Ghost Domain, Jiang Shan was going to make one final gamble.
Since the aftermath had already been arranged, he now had no scruples.
Jiang Shan’s head, which had not yet been completely assimilated by the Black Blood, was suddenly filled with scarlet Ghost Characters, which densely appeared in every part of the head.
Originally, the Ghost Characters had been huddled in a corner, stubbornly resisting the Supernatural Erosion of the Blood Ghost.
But this action undoubtedly accelerated the Blood Ghost’s erosion; this suicidal behavior caused Jiang Shan to lose control over more than half of the Ghost Characters in an instant.
“Since the Dead Face Ghost I control cannot restart, then let it resurrect itself and restart itself—let ghost fight ghost!”
Jiang Shan calmly felt the loss of the Ghost Characters; what he wanted to do was not just as simple as letting the Dead Face Ghost resurrect.
After all, would the Dead Face Ghost listen to him and obediently restart?
The answer was of course not.
So Jiang Shan had found someone in advance, someone who also possessed Ghost Characters—
Chen Yue!
Five minutes ago,
Yan Li’s home.
“This Black Haze looks so weird, Xiao Yue. It can’t be a ghost too, right?”
Yan Li’s wife, who had been preparing to move, saw the Black Haze covering over a hundred li and felt a deep surge of fear in her heart.
So she immediately returned home and gathered the family together, including Chen Yue and her mother.
That day, Yan Li’s wife had been entirely focused on her own child, so she had not seen the scene of Jiang Shan and Wang Yue fighting, and thus did not know that the master of this Black Haze was Jiang Shan.
But Chen Yue had seen the entire battle that day; she frowned tightly as she looked at the Black Haze outside the window and said:
“This is the ghost controlled by Jiang Shan. He seems to be dying.”
“!?”
Hearing Chen Yue’s words, Yan Li’s wife was suddenly startled and hurriedly asked:
“How could that be? Jiang Shan was fine yesterday. How could he be done for today? Xiao Yue, don’t scare your sister-in-law.”
Chen Yue did not answer; she rolled up the sleeve of her right arm, revealing an arm like a tattoo, looked at the uneasy Ghost Characters, and murmured:
“The Ghost Characters are in fear. Can ghosts feel afraid too?”
Just as everyone in the room fell silent, suddenly a strand of black light enveloped Chen Yue, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared from the room.
“Urp~!”
Chen Yue, brought by the Ghost Domain, was first stunned, then a strong Corpse Odor mixed with the smell of fish rotten for ten days surged into her nostrils, instantly fumigating her into a daze.
Before Chen Yue could recover, she roughly scanned ahead and discovered Jiang Shan lying on the ground!
Jiang Shan was lying nearly naked in a pool of fresh blood; his chest and abdomen had been pierced by something unknown, and two bloody large holes were still continuously oozing Black Blood.
This blood was very black, just like Jiang Shan’s pitch-black body, giving off a weird feeling.
Without a doubt, he was dead!
“No, Jiang Shan is not dead yet!”
