Chapter 276: Ghost Painting Puzzle Piece
Jiang Shan’s voice echoed under the church’s dome. Among the crowd of believers, the man wearing the black hood stiffened slightly, but he did not stand up immediately.
“Do I have to invite you myself?”
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking, a piece of silver light enveloped the man like holy light.
In an instant, the believers who noticed this scene knelt on the ground devoutly as if they had gone mad, muttering to themselves. The crowd, driven to madness by the supernatural, immersed themselves in their fanatical faith.
When people are in extreme fear and despair,
The ethereal faith becomes their only solace.
It must be said,
If that Ghost Wielder is the mastermind behind all this, he is worthy of being called a master in using fear and brainwashing.
Jiang Shan gripped the Ghost Candle Holder tightly and walked step by step toward the suspicious man. Each step seemed to tread on the crowd’s heartbeats, producing a crisp echo.
At this moment,
A eerie wind suddenly blew inside the church, like ghostly wails and wolf howls, making the already tense atmosphere even more oppressive.
The hooded man finally seemed to have made up his mind and slowly stood up. His face was hidden in the shadows, making his expression unclear.
But he, already enveloped by the Ghost Domain, was destined to lose the chance to speak.
Before the man could react, Jiang Shan’s figure instantly appeared in front of him.
“Wait a”
“Bang~!”
Without giving the man a chance to speak, Jiang Shan swung the Black Long Whip fiercely onto his body.
With his current physical fitness alone, this whip might not kill a cow outright, but it was not far off.
Only a Ghost Wielder forcibly sustained by the supernatural could take this blow and still be alive.
But even for a Ghost Wielder, after taking this whip, their own supernatural power would be imbalanced to a certain extent.
“I’m not interested in your actions, nor in you as a person.”
Looking at the man wearing the Ghost Face Mask without ears and with closed eyes, Jiang Shan’s expression showed no change whatsoever.
That Ghost Face Mask should be the Fierce Ghost this person controlled, and Jiang Shan deduced that this Ghost Wielder controlled more than just this one Fierce Ghost.
Because a Ghost Wielder who controlled only one Fierce Ghost would be in agony at this moment due to the ghost’s resurrection inside them after taking his whip.
And not showing the man’s constant dry heaving.
Unfortunately,
In the face of absolute supernatural disparity, Jiang Shan could effortlessly erase him without suspense using just the Ghost Domain alone, but he chose to continue speaking:
“Tell me the origins of these Two Ghosts, and I’ll let you die more easily. You know I have the ability.”
With that said.
Jiang Shan swung the Black Long Whip in his hand forcefully toward a certain direction.
The Long Whip shot out like black lightning, reaching the Jesus statue in the blink of an eye.
“Bang~!”
The violent impact instantly shattered the order among the already terrified believers, and the fall of the statue completely broke the crowd’s last psychological defense.
Even knowing that a “Demon” was wandering outside the church, they still frantically ran toward the church exterior.
“Demon, he is not the Son of God, he is a Demon who walked out of Hell!”
“Isn’t that Father Johnson? That Demon is going to kill the Priest, run!”
Waves of terrified voices echoed within the empty church.
Even though they recognized that the person Jiang Shan attacked was the Priest who had sheltered them for two months, no one chose to intervene at this moment.
Compared to the Priest’s death,
Compared to the collapse of faith.
These believers cared more about their own lives.
“I detained those Two Ghosts from the fifth floor of a Building two months ago. At that time, I was targeted by the Woman in that Oil Painting and had no choice but to run to the fifth floor.”
“But after I entered the fifth floor, that Ghost did not continue attacking me. It seemed that these Two Ghosts isolated some Medium… Urp~ So I took those Two Ghosts and placed them here.”
Seeing the crowd fleeing in all directions with no one speaking up for him, the man did not seem angry. On the contrary, his voice was unusually calm at this moment.
It was unclear whether it was because he was disheartened by the believers or because he felt despair knowing the gap between him and Jiang Shan.
The man wearing the Ghost Face Mask showed no intention of standing up to resist. He just half-knelt on the ground, clutching his stomach and continuously vomiting fresh blood.
Even with the supernatural maintaining his body immortal, the physical attack still acted directly on the man’s body.
Even if the man’s body had possibly been hollowed out by the ghost, the physical attack laced with supernatural power was enough to turn a Ghost Wielder into an ordinary person in the instant of the assault.
And that was why the man kept vomiting blood—he was just a physically weak ordinary person when he was hit.
Jiang Shan, holding the already comatose Yang Jian in one hand, looked at the man still vomiting nonstop on the ground and said calmly:
“Why did you detain him too?”
“Him?”
The man with the Ghost Face raised his head slightly, glanced at Yang Jian in Jiang Shan’s hand, and then spoke:
“So you came for this madman. This madman wanted to use the Ghost Candle Holder and Ghost Candle Two Ghosts to control Ghost Painting. He couldn’t beat me, that’s all.”
“Yang Jian wanted to use these Two Ghosts to control Ghost Painting? It seems they are undoubtedly Puzzle Pieces of Ghost Painting, but how did he know?”
Thinking of this, Jiang Shan’s eyes narrowed as he began to scrutinize the man wearing the Ghost Face Mask in front of him.
He knew Yang Jian’s purpose for these Two Ghosts because of the intelligence from Ghost Characters precognition, but from the man’s words, it was clear he had guessed Yang Jian’s purpose?
This level of intuition regarding the supernatural made Jiang Shan feel that the Ghost Wielder before him was even more extraordinary than he had previously thought.
“If you want to help that kid control Ghost Painting, I advise you to drop the idea. Controlling a ghost in the Ghost Painting World? Truly a madman’s idea.”
After spitting out a mouthful of blood, the man slumped on the ground and continued calmly:
“You also want to rely on that kid to escape from here, right? I know where the Source of the Ghost Painting is hidden, but I alone can’t fight that Ghost. As long as”
“Enough, stop trying to stall for time. With the bit of supernatural on you, you think you can kill me? You’re overestimating yourself. Supernatural confrontations are essentially battles between Fierce Ghosts. The supernatural I control is beyond your imagination.”
After giving the man on the ground a deep glance and seeing him suddenly clutch his head and collapse, Jiang Shan slowly continued:
“I’ll give you two choices now: die, or cooperate with my actions.”
