Chapter 57: The Mutated Body
As the pitch-black ghost face disappeared, the black haze that had engulfed Dachang City completely dissipated, leaving only a pale yellow gray fog in a suburb of Dachang City.
At this moment,
Jiang Shan discovered that his body was actually bleeding uncontrollably, and the viscous black blood on his skin was almost identical to the ghost blood on the ground.
Looking at the scarlet surroundings, the hellish scene did not instill much fear in him, after all, detaining ghost blood this time had made him experience what it was like to walk at the ghost gate, truly dying and then dying again.
What Jiang Shan was curious about was the current state of the ghost blood.
Previously, for some unknown reason, the ghost blood had rained down blood during its resurrection.
Now, the small blood puddles on the ground, each blood puddle was a fragmented piece of ghost blood.
As for the ghost blood on the surrounding trees and stones, it could be almost ignored because it was too fragmented from being dismembered, even showing no signs of resurrection.
As the black blood continued to be expelled, Jiang Shan vaguely saw that the color of his body began to return to normal, from the initial pitch black to pale, and gradually he could even feel a trace of the vitality of a living person.
Not only that, but his body, which was originally tattered from the curse, also began to gradually recover, and the two gruesome blood holes on his chest and even disappeared.
All these abnormal manifestations proved one thing – the restart was effective!
Just as Jiang Shan was observing the changes in his body, a powerful pulling sensation suddenly struck, instantly making his spirit a little dazed.
When he came to, Jiang Shan found that his consciousness had returned to his body.
Without the strange feeling of his consciousness being “pinned” by withered fingers, the smooth feeling of his consciousness expanding relieved Jiang Shan.
Although his eyes had not fully recovered yet, and he could not see anything, he could accurately feel the changes in his body.
With waves of chilling cold surging from the depths of his bones, his previously numb body began to gradually regain vitality, a feeling that was almost identical to the first time he restarted.
New life!
Yet, despite feeling all this, Jiang Shan’s heart was still heavy with gloom, because through the ghost domain, he saw that his entire body was covered in a thin layer of black blood. That layer of black blood seemed to be struggling, wanting to escape Jiang Shan’s body, but it seemed to be blocked by something.
Jiang Shan looked closely,
mixed within the black blood were some scarlet, viscous fresh blood, and he recognized at a glance that this fresh blood was the ghost blood that had fallen on him in the form of a blood rain!
Under Jiang Shan’s gaze, he saw what appeared to be a frenzied humanoid ghost shadow within the writhing black blood, trying to break free from the blood’s confines,
it was roaring wildly,
it wanted to emerge from the blood again!
“That ghost again?!”
Jiang Shan’s face darkened, once this blood ghost reappeared, its terrifying killing pattern would once again strike Jiang Shan.
“Absolutely cannot let it escape!”
Jiang Shan did not want to experience that unsolvable, terrifying curse a second time.
At this moment, Jiang Shan’s body had completely recovered to its intact state from forty minutes prior. He had regained the ability to act, and looking at the part suppressed by the ghost blood, he thought:
“The ghost blood is suppressing the black blood formed by the blood ghost, just as the blood ghost was suppressed by it back then. So, the ghost blood is the key.”
“It’s just right to try if the ghost blood can suppress the resurrection of the dead face ghost.”
Without the suppression of the ghost characters, Jiang Shan’s face was increasingly resembling that of the youth, a cold and pale dead person’s ghost face. The moment Jiang Shan’s face completely disappeared would be the moment the dead face ghost revived.
Jiang Shan suddenly got up and ran towards the largest blood puddle on the ground, then rolled and lay down completely into the blood puddle filled with ghost blood.
Because his entire body was covered in black blood, the moment it came into contact with the ghost blood, the suppression of the ghost blood all acted on the blood ghost.
Apart from feeling waves of chilling cold from his body’s surface, Jiang Shan felt almost no discomfort.
Seeing that the writhing black blood on his body’s surface had slowed down a bit, he immediately continued to repeat this operation. When he lay in the last relatively large blood puddle, an unexpected change occurred.
The moment he lay down, Jiang Shan lost control of his body, lying motionless in the blood puddle like a living dead person.
“Has the ghost blood and the blood ghost formed a balance again?”
Jiang Shan was not panicked, because panic would be useless at this moment. After a night of alternating between life and death, he could now calmly handle any situation.
Through the ghost domain, he observed that
the black blood, originally suppressed and silent by the ghost blood, began to struggle frantically at this moment, like countless black maggots crawling on his body.
But this did not make him too worried; what made Jiang Shan most solemn was:
in that mixture of red and black blood, ghost characters were interspersed like scriptures.
The ghost characters had become puzzle pieces for the blood ghost, and extremely fitting ones at that. Even though seventy percent of the ghost blood had been used by Jiang Shan to suppress the blood ghost, the effect was unsatisfactory.
It seemed the reason why the ghost blood could not suppress the blood ghost this time was found; the change occurred with the ghost characters.
Now, the ghost blood and the blood ghost, these two ghosts, should be at a critical moment of balance, but due to the ghost characters, the balance had become imbalanced.
To say imbalanced, however, was not entirely accurate.
Although the ghost characters enhanced the supernatural abilities of the blood ghost, the blood ghost still could not break free under the suppression of the ghost blood. Even though the current appearance of the black blood was unsettling, it had not caused any substantial impact.
The blood ghost and the ghost blood were still maintaining a delicate balance.
Jiang Shan frowned, wondering if he should involve the dead face ghost. If the ghost blood could not suppress those two ghosts, it would lead to the reappearance of the blood ghost.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Shan ultimately abandoned the idea: Since these three ghosts could still be in balance, there shouldn’t be a significant imbalance in the short term.
After all, there is no such thing as making do between supernatural confrontations. Ghosts confronting ghosts either have the strong one suppress the other, or both reach a balance or a dead machine collision.
If he rashly intervened and disrupted this balance, it might make things worse.
Thinking this, Jiang Shan completely gave up resisting and quietly waited for the unexpected change to occur.
Five minutes,
Jiang Shan silently counted the time. At the fifth minute, the supernatural confrontation between the ghost blood and the blood ghost reached its end.
The dark red, weird, viscous blood stopped wriggling and stuck to Jiang Shan’s body like deathly stillness.
A few seconds later, that “mixed ghost blood” once again entered Jiang Shan’s body through his pores, and the “ghost blood” began to replace the original blood in his body.
Pain followed once more.
“Seriously, other people’s ghosts are instant kills, why are all the ghosts I encounter tormenting me.”
As streams of scarlet fresh blood seeped from his skin, Jiang Shan endured the severe pain, preventing himself from falling into a coma. His entire body was drenched in blood, making him look like a blood person.
As the pain gradually faded, Jiang Shan felt as if some changes had occurred in his body.
Although he could still control his body normally now, a fierce ghost’s chilling cold lingered in his body.
These three ghosts seemed to have changed Jiang Shan’s body, but he didn’t know where the changes were.
Temporarily putting aside the mutation in his body, Jiang Shan slowly sat up from the depression in the ground, his brows furrowed as he looked at his blood-stained body.
He could feel that the three fierce ghosts within him could resurrect at any moment. Their fragile balance was like paper as thin as light gauze; it would break immediately with even the slightest external force.
Not only that, Jiang Shan touched his face. The cold, strange feeling made him sigh.
If nothing unexpected happened, the dead person ghost face would also resurrect soon.
