Chapter 46: Wang Yue’s Death
Jiang Shan standing in front of the room door was carefully sizing up Wang Yue.
Not very old, only under thirty, although his attire made him look like a disheveled thug, smoking a cigar and wrapped in a scarf, he gave off a feeling of comparative maturity and steadiness.
That temperament of his was not something that could be cultivated under the influence of money, but rather honed through many brushes with life and death.
Evidently, Wang Yue was also an old hand who had handled many supernatural events.
Neither of them spoke, just staring straight at each other, and the atmosphere fell into a weird deathly stillness.
“You’re Little Brother Jiang Shan, right? I’m Wang Yue. I’ve heard of your exploits for a long time. Hahahaha, the first in Dachang City to beat Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng into submission. I really admire you.”
Wang Yue was the first to speak, breaking the deathly still atmosphere. He forced a smile on his face and said:
“How come Brother Jiang Shan has time to come to Yan Li’s home? Could it be that the club has business with Yan Li? Ai~ I remember Yan Li and the club are just in a cooperative relationship. He’s not a member either. How could it trouble Little Brother to come find him personally?”
Even though Wang Yue had already guessed in his heart that Jiang Shan was the Ghost Wielder protecting Yan Li’s family, he still planned to exchange words with Jiang Shan as much as possible.
After all, for Ghost Wielders, turning enemies into friends was all too normal.
Wang Yue planned to avoid fighting Jiang Shan if at all possible.
If Jiang Shan was dead set on protecting Yan Li’s wife and kids, then he just wouldn’t kill them. Anyway, with Yan Li dead, the mission Zhao Kaiming gave him would be mostly completed.
To kill Yan Li’s whole family, let Zhao Kaiming do it himself!
Let him clash with Jiang Shan!
“I’m not here for Yan Li. He’s about to be killed by you all. Who would I even find him with? Although I can’t manage if he’s dying, I promised him that as long as I’m alive, his family will be safe. So Wang Yue, are you here specifically to slap my face?” Jiang Shan said calmly.
As soon as Jiang Shan finished speaking, Wang Yue’s expression changed drastically in an instant. He hurriedly said:
“How could that be, Brother? I didn’t know you were protecting his family. We’re all club members, all friends. I’ll leave right now.”
“Md Zhao Kaiming, this dog son screwed me over!” Wang Yue cursed inwardly, but his face was still full of forced smiles.
He and Ye Feng had fought before too. Leaving aside who suppressed whom, just that Ghost Robe on Ye Feng meant he couldn’t break his defense.
When Wang Yue learned that Ye Feng had actually spent life-buying money to survive from Jiang Shan’s hands, his dread of Jiang Shan had grown stronger from that moment on.
His own Fierce Ghost was already on the verge of resurrection. Because of that Zhao Kaiming, make him fight Jiang Shan? No way would Wang Yue accept that.
So he was now lowering his posture, just wanting to leave quickly.
“You’ve come all this way, and you’re just leaving like this? How can that put me at ease? I don’t have the habit of guarding against thieves for a thousand days.”
Before Jiang Shan finished speaking, Wang Yue’s gaze turned cold from not far away. He suddenly flung off the scarf around his neck.
An old straw rope appeared around his neck, tied in a dead knot, strangling his entire neck tightly, forming a leaky shape.
“Ka~!”
A crisp sound of neck bones cracking came.
The moment he knew the talks had broken down, Wang Yue unhesitatingly activated the Ghost Rope. He did want to leave, sure, but that didn’t mean he was fish meat on the chopping block.
A long time ago, he had already prepared the Ghost Rope to attack and kill Jiang Shan.
So what if he controlled two ghosts? As long as the Ghost Rope strangled long enough, Wang Yue dared to kill anyone!
And at that moment,
Jiang Shan felt a chill on his neck.
“Ghost Rope, huh? Perfect, I’ll use you to test if this ‘finger nail’ of mine works well.”
The instant Jiang Shan felt the chill, a beam of inky cloud-like black light instantly shone on Wang Yue’s face.
“Ghost Domain! How is it so narrow!?”
The moment the black light hit his face, Wang Yue, whose veins were bulging from the Ghost Rope strangling him, instantly sensed that this black light was Jiang Shan’s Ghost Domain.
But he had never seen a Ghost Domain of this shape before, so a strong sense of unease surged in his heart at this moment.
“Pfft~!”
Before Wang Yue could further urge the Ghost Rope, a withered, scarlet finger instantly pierced through his skull.
The finger carried the Ghost Characters’ sure-kill pattern as well as the Ghost Finger’s Ghost Domain suppression, erupting wildly in Wang Yue’s brain!
“Thud!”
Almost instantly, Wang Yue’s body fell straight down stiffly.
His face still held that ferocious expression. Even before the Ghost Rope could hoist his body up, he was effortlessly killed in one strike by the Ghost Finger!
Wang Yue was dead!
Dead very thoroughly.
A finger-thick blood hole pierced through his skull, with white-red liquid continuously flowing out from the hole.
At the same time, the straw rope around Wang Yue’s neck vanished the instant he died.
Jiang Shan watched this scene, his expression showing no change. He had already anticipated the terrifying lethality of Ghost Finger combined with Ghost Characters against a Ghost Wielder.
Just match it with Ghost Domain and Ghost Finger, and in just a few short seconds, it was enough to kill a Ghost Wielder, without the opponent even able to resist.
This combination might not match the coffin nail in suppression effect against Fierce Ghosts, but for killing Ghost Wielders, it was more than sufficient.
Although Wang Yue was dead, Jiang Shan still did not relax his vigilance. There was still a thread of chill continuously coming from his neck.
The vanished Ghost Rope would replace Wang Yue and launch a new attack on him.
Jiang Shan was very clear on this, so he was already prepared to activate Ghost Domain at any time.
Suddenly, an old straw rope suddenly appeared around Jiang Shan’s neck. Apart from the chill on his neck, its attack had almost no other warning signs!
The moment the straw rope appeared around his neck, Jiang Shan’s expression changed slightly. He immediately grabbed the Ghost Rope with his hands covered in Ghost Characters, then yanked hard.
A huge force came from the other end of the straw rope.
“Couldn’t pull it off?”
Jiang Shan furrowed his brows. Although the Ghost Rope was suppressed by the Ghost Characters and couldn’t further strangle him to death, having that little broken straw rope wrapped around his neck made him feel very uncomfortable.
“Looks like I still need to use Ghost Domain.”
With that thought, a black haze began to spread from Jiang Shan’s body, but the black haze didn’t spread outward. Instead, it appeared around the Ghost Rope, gradually enveloping it.
Through the Ghost Domain, Jiang Shan saw that at the end of the Ghost Rope, in a devouring darkness, the vague outline of a gallows could be seen.
“The Ghost Rope’s puzzle piece?”
Looking at the gallows in the void darkness, Jiang Shan murmured in his heart.
As long as it was a ghost, it definitely had a puzzle piece.
The original work never mentioned the Ghost Rope’s puzzle piece, but under three layers of Ghost Domain strength, Jiang Shan saw what seemed to be the Ghost Rope’s puzzle piece Fierce Ghost.
“No more trying to hang me. I’m not a simp.”
Under the double suppression of the Dead Face Ghost and Ghost Characters, the Ghost Rope in the form of a straw rope was effortlessly yanked off by Jiang Shan.
Looking at the eerie and unsettling straw rope in his hand, Jiang Shan seemed to discover something for a moment:
“The future has already changed. Yang Jian, Old Qin, how exactly do you two view me, who doesn’t belong to this world?”
