Chapter 129: He Actually Hammered The Ghost Like This?!
Since the decision had already been made, Jiang Shan felt no reluctance in his heart.
A weird cloth doll was tossed down from his hand.
After this cloth doll landed on the ground, it flipped over and jumped up, running off on its short little legs. It seemed to sense something; it was originally heading toward the direction outside the Ghost Hotel, but suddenly turned in place, quickly running toward the Ghost Shopkeeper.
At the same time,
Blood-red Ghost Characters densely crawled all over the Ghost Shopkeeper’s body. With a flash of silver light, Jiang Shan’s figure instantly appeared in the shadows behind the counter.
This shadow was a Ghost Domain, but its intensity was not high, so he could easily counter-invade it.
The moment he entered that patch of shadow,
A strong stench madly surged into his nostrils, the smell like that emitted from countless rotting dead pigs piled together for dozens of days.
“Hm? It’s actually him?”
Ignoring that stench, Jiang Shan narrowed his eyes as he looked at the Ghost Shopkeeper standing motionless behind the counter.
The ghost that once wore a white robe, short and sleazy, in the form of an old man, had disappeared.
In its place was,
This ghost had completely changed from head to toe, fully transforming into the appearance of that handsome man he remembered seeing.
Handsome, deathly still, oppressive.
“According to the scene in my memory, it should be this man who tampered with the Ghost Rain, leading to the current situation. It seems all the secrets here are connected to him. What is he trying to do?”
Jiang Shan frowned and glanced at the Ghost Shopkeeper’s hollow, numb eyes, then immediately put on the special gloves he had prepared long in advance.
“What is he trying to do?!”
In Qin Xi’s incredulous gaze,
Blood-red Ghost Characters instantly crawled all over the Ghost Shopkeeper’s body, and then Jiang Shan unhesitatingly gathered his strength and punched it in the face.
The immense force of this punch even caused the air to produce a sonic boom.
The sharp explosive sound and deafening impact echoed in Qin Xi’s ears. He looked toward the shadows behind the counter in terror, only to see the shadow beginning to turn viscous, like black paint starting to devour that area!
In the second before the darkness completely engulfed the counter,
Qin Xi vaguely saw Jiang Shan madly pummeling a handsome man in a white robe on the ground.
That thunder-like sound came from there again and again, each one making his heart race with fear.
“Qin Xi, go to my handbag and take out all the red candles. After lighting one, hold it in your hand and find a broken cloth doll. Get close to it, then keep following it. If it goes out, light the second one.”
Just as Qin Xi was pondering what he should do, Jiang Shan’s words made him act immediately without hesitation.
No sooner said than done,
As the eerie candlelight lit up, Qin Xi’s heart slightly stirred. This was the first time in the month since arriving here that such a sense of calm reassurance surged in his heart.
“This candle is amazing. It seems to block the Ghost’s Supernatural, but that’s not important. Where is the broken cloth doll?”
Although Qin Xi was very interested in the Ghost Candle at this moment,
He didn’t dare forget Jiang Shan’s words and continued searching the hall for the Substitute Doll.
“Here it is!”
In a certain corner under the darkness in front of the counter, Qin Xi found the “broken cloth doll” Jiang Shan mentioned, and he immediately ran over quickly.
“What the hell is this thing?!”
As he got close, Qin Xi’s scalp tingled and he exclaimed inwardly in shock.
An old, sewn cloth weird cloth doll was trembling all over as it lay on the ground. It seemed to have suffered some unknown attack, its patched body occasionally caving in.
Watching the Substitute Doll struggle and twist nonstop, though Qin Xi was astonished in his heart, he didn’t hesitate at all and instantly pounced over, placing the Ghost Candle in front of the Substitute Doll.
The steadily burning candle flame instantly became violent.
“What’s going on?” Qin Xi’s heart jolted.
At the Ghost Candle’s current burning rate, it wouldn’t last three minutes before it was completely burned out.
Tense-faced Qin Xi noticed the Ghost Candle’s abnormality and immediately took out another Ghost Candle from his hand, preparing to light it at any moment.
His gaze shifted,
And Qin Xi found that the weird doll on the ground seemed to be struggling a bit less.
“It seems this candle is working.” He thought to himself.
At this moment,
In the darkness behind the counter,
“Bang~ Bang~ Bang~!”
Jiang Shan’s fists fell on the Ghost Shopkeeper like a violent storm. With his current strength, a single punch was enough to kill an ordinary person.
The Ghost Shopkeeper, currently in a suppressed state, had its entire body caved in, its head even beaten into its chest.
For ghosts with physical form, to a certain extent, they also follow certain physical patterns.
Thinking of how Ye Zhen in the original work had beaten an invisible ghost into a sword, Jiang Shan had the same idea upon seeing the Ghost Shopkeeper.
While “shaping” it, he began thinking in his mind:
“For this man, I now have two inferences. The first is that he was trapped by the Ghost Rain and, unable to escape for a long time, led to Fierce Ghost Revival, leaving some memory fragments on this ghost. But the probability of this is low. From the paper boat he rode in the memory, it can be determined that lake was undoubtedly the Ghost Lake.”
“And assuming that Short Old Man-like Ghost was detained by the Ghost Lake, then this man actively sought out this ghost, leading to my second inference: he wanted to control this ghost. Perhaps something went wrong in the control process, or maybe the process of him controlling this ghost was like this.”
If a normal Ghost Wielder encountered a ghost, what action would he take?
Most people would choose to escape or detain the ghost.
Unless escape was truly impossible, no one would foolishly choose to fight to the death, as no one would want to stalemate with a ghost.
After all, ghosts are immortal. No one would be willing to risk their life against an immortal ghost.
But there is one special case.
Anomaly!
Whether Yang Jian controlling the complete Ghost Shadow or Li Leping controlling the Forgetting Ghost, becoming an anomaly requires going through an extremely dangerous process.
That is keeping one’s consciousness on the ghost and occupying the dominant position!
From the fingerless Short Old Man in front of the Ghost Stall and the various signs of this handsome man before him, Jiang Shan couldn’t help but associate:
“This Ghost Wielder suspected to be from the Republic of China era is attempting to control the Ghost Rain, and his goal is definitely not as simple as just control!”
Because of the Substitute Doll and Ghost Candle, although Jiang Shan also suffered a certain degree of attack, this feeling was within a tolerable range.
Gritting his teeth, his fists continued to strike the Ghost Shopkeeper with terrifying force.
“Bang~ Bang~ Bang~!”
Time passed second by second,
When the first Ghost Candle was about to burn out, Qin Xi looked at the nearly shattered Substitute Doll on the ground and immediately lit the second Ghost Candle.
At a certain moment,
The Substitute Doll that had been struggling nonstop completely shattered. With a wave of chilling cold dispersing, only fragments littered the ground.
“Bang~ Bang~ Bang~!”
The pounding sounds behind the counter continued without stop, and amid these sounds faintly came cold snorts.
Just as Qin Xi looked toward the counter with a face full of tension, he suddenly noticed:
The viscous darkness behind the counter had disappeared!
Jiang Shan was drenched in cold sweat, his face pale. In his hand, he held a black object as thick as a wrist and as long as a forearm.
“He actually beat the ghost into this state?!”
Begging for brothers’ monthly tickets, I really want them so bad, it’s killing me.
Kneeling and begging for brothers’ monthly tickets!!!
