Chapter 87: Fierce Ghost Obtained, The Out-of-control Terrifying Black Mist
“What?”
The woman walking toward Lin Qian immediately paused, a bad premonition appearing in her heart.
“I said, why did you have to choose me out of everyone.”
Lin Qian looked up at everyone, his gaze indifferent.
“Do you think I’m weak?”
Supernatural power suddenly erupted.
Crack crack~!
The ground abruptly froze over.
Immediately after, white ice spread, instantly freezing all the surrounding villagers.
Crystal-clear ice sculptures appeared before their eyes.
Lifelike, just like real people.
No, these were frozen from real people.
The Village Chief’s expression changed drastically, his eyes full of disbelief.
The woman’s expression stiffened, her eyes full of terror.
“In… inside the village… you, you can’t kill people!”
The Village Chief swallowed, stammering as he spoke.
“They’re not dead yet.”
“But I have a question, and I hope you’ll answer it properly.”
Lin Qian looked at the old man, “You’d better think carefully before answering. After all, I haven’t entered that Ancestral Hall, which means I can kill you all and still leave.”
“I hope you won’t make a mistake.”
The Village Chief’s gaze immediately became panicked.
“Alright, you, you ask.”
Lin Qian nodded, then glanced at the five people. The five looked at Lin Qian with shock and suspicion, their eyes full of wariness.
“You just said that people who don’t enter the Ancestral Hall voluntarily will trigger great terror, and something will come out from inside the Ancestral Hall, right?”
The Village Chief nodded hurriedly, “Yes, that’s right. As long as they’re not entering voluntarily, they’ll die, and the existence inside will come out to kill those who force people into the Ancestral Hall.”
“A ghost?” Lin Qian asked.
“It’s our ancestor!” the Village Chief scolded immediately.
“Hm?” Lin Qian’s gaze sharpened, and the Village Chief trembled instantly, “I don’t know what a ghost is. We only know it’s our ancestor.”
The other explained.
“Looks like it’s definitely a ghost.”
“You can’t kill inside the village. If you do, your ancestor will come out too, right?” Lin Qian asked.
“Yes.” The Village Chief nodded hurriedly, staring at Lin Qian, hoping the other might show some fear.
But unfortunately, he didn’t see any fear on Lin Qian’s face.
He was somewhat disappointed.
For the entire village, the greatest threat had never been outsiders, but outsiders who hadn’t entered the Ancestral Hall.
Because they could really kill them.
The other wasn’t ‘in’ this village, so they weren’t bound by the rules.
“I understand.” Lin Qian nodded, “How can people who enter the Ancestral Hall leave this village?”
Hearing this, the Village Chief’s expression changed slightly as he looked at the five people.
The five were now all staring at the Village Chief.
“Answer me.” Lin Qian tapped the ice sculpture of a nearby villager, and a crack immediately appeared on it.
The cracking sounds made the Village Chief’s hair stand on end.
“They can’t leave!”
“Anyone who enters the Ancestral Hall becomes a Fierce Ghost and is forever confined here, neither dead nor alive, unable to die.”
The five people’s expressions changed instantly, staring deathly at the Village Chief as if they wanted to tear him apart.
Hearing this, Lin Qian was shocked inside.
“You lied to us!”
The leading middle-aged man glared furiously at the Village Chief.
Facing those who had entered the Ancestral Hall, the Village Chief’s expression was extremely calm, “So what?”
“Oh? If what you say is true, people who enter the Ancestral Hall can’t leave and are neither dead nor alive, then why are you negotiating with them?”
“Why not just have them kill the villagers, or even throw them into the Ancestral Hall?”
“You can’t be killed anyway, right?”
Lin Qian quickly spotted the flaw in the Village Chief’s words.
Hearing this, the Village Chief sighed, “You wouldn’t understand. People who enter the Ancestral Hall are neither dead nor alive, but they extremely fear death. At the moment of death, the pain is amplified countless times—something we couldn’t endure.”
“You don’t understand the pain of death. If you’ve died before, you’d know that despair.”
“None of us want to die.”
Lin Qian stared at the Village Chief.
“Is that so? If people who enter the Ancestral Hall are neither dead nor alive, why are you afraid of me killing?”
The Village Chief’s gaze flickered immediately, and he hesitated.
Crack crack crack~!
The sound in his ears made the Village Chief’s hair stand on end, “Because people who haven’t entered the Ancestral Hall aren’t controlled by the Ancestral Hall and can kill us—truly kill us!”
“Got it… so that’s why you’re tricking people into the Ancestral Hall?”
“Yes, because we’re afraid of death.” After revealing this secret, the Village Chief’s energy instantly dropped.
The whole person seemed to age a lot.
Lin Qian withdrew his hand from tapping the villager’s ice sculpture and rubbed his chin.
“Killing brings out the ghost from the Ancestral Hall.”
“Throwing people in also brings out the ghost from the Ancestral Hall.”
“Is the ghost that comes out the one I want?”
Suddenly, a ripping sound.
The five Ghost Controllers abruptly tore open the necks of the hostages in their hands.
The Village Chief looked over in alarm, his face drained of color, “No, how dare you!”
“Let’s see if you’re really neither dead nor alive.”
The leading middle-aged man tossed aside the corpse still bleeding from his hand.
The Village Chief didn’t hesitate at all and turned to flee.
He didn’t even care about the villagers.
Despite his age, he ran nimbly and swiftly.
Lin Qian looked at the five, and the five looked at Lin Qian, none speaking.
Suddenly.
The sky changed instantly, the sun disappearing.
It turned into a blood-red world.
Immediately after, the Ancestral Hall’s door opened without warning.
The five quickly moved away from the Ancestral Hall.
Six gazes stared deathly at the Ancestral Hall.
Inside the Ancestral Hall, it was pitch black, the candlelight having extinguished at some point.
Thud thud thud~!
Footsteps suddenly appeared.
At the moment the footsteps sounded, the only woman among them instantly widened her eyes.
Immediately after, she collapsed to the ground without warning, lifeless.
The remaining four’s faces changed drastically, “What the hell!”
Thud thud thud, the footsteps continued.
“No!”
Suddenly, a man grabbed his neck in terror, the light in his eyes extinguishing instantly.
He collapsed weakly to the ground, the Fierce Ghost inside him silenced completely.
Lin Qian’s gaze flickered, “Kills both men and women?”
The Killer Ghost inside him stirred, reaching a peak.
Without a doubt, this was the Killer Ghost’s puzzle piece.
This terror level…
Probably S-grade.
It killed two people without even leaving the Ancestral Hall.
Thud thud thud.
The footsteps continued.
Suddenly, the surrounding ice sculptures cracked. An Aunt’s expression was extremely terrified, her face twisted in utmost pain.
Thud, the Aunt collapsed to the ground, dead instantly.
“Killed another woman.”
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted slightly, “Alternating between men and women?”
“What’s the pattern?”
The Killer Ghost’s puzzle piece should logically have a similar killing pattern.
But now, this ghost clearly had an extra killing pattern—or rather, the killing pattern was completely different.
“Next should be a man.”
Lin Qian looked at the Ancestral Hall.
Sure enough, the next moment, a man died.
The remaining three Ghost Controllers were lucky; this attack didn’t target them.
Lin Qian was certain the other’s killing was random.
Thud thud thud.
The darkness of the Ancestral Hall seemed extremely deep; the ghost had killed four people and still hadn’t emerged.
“What do we do?”
The leading man swallowed, now regretting killing those five hostages.
He heard his companion ask, “What do we do?”
“Run!”
Instantly, the three reached a consensus and turned to flee.
In the blink of an eye, they had fled dozens of meters, soon disappearing into the forest.
Lin Qian didn’t move; he was in his Ghost Domain, so the other couldn’t attack him.
The other’s Ghost Domain couldn’t suppress his.
Crack crack crack.
The ice sculptures cracked again, and another woman died.
Next was a man.
Then another woman.
The sound of cracking ice sculptures filled the ears without stop, pauses lasting at most three seconds.
This meant the other’s killing paused only for three seconds.
An extremely brief time.
After eight more deaths, a figure finally appeared in the darkness.
The figure slowly emerged from the darkness.
Lin Qian’s gaze shifted; it was a man wearing a white Death Robe—no, not quite a man.
The other’s appearance was very androgynous, no Adam’s apple.
But no excess flesh on the chest either.
Neither male nor female.
This person was strange, looking like a man at first glance, but a woman upon closer inspection.
Average features; details only visible on close look, but staring longer made it increasingly eerie.
The other’s face seemed pieced together, both male and female.
The figure exited the Ancestral Hall, and the ice sculptures behind abruptly shattered inch by inch.
People kept dying.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to envelop the Fierce Ghost with his Ghost Domain.
But something strange happened: his Ghost Domain parted upon approaching the Fierce Ghost.
Like water parting around a stone.
“Is the Killer Ghost’s Ghost Domain too weak?”
Lin Qian’s gaze flickered.
After the Fierce Ghost killed a man, he instantly appeared before it.
The shadow behind him emitted terrifying cold.
The Fierce Ghost’s body instantly froze, ice cubes enveloping it.
An S-grade Fierce Ghost’s attack wasn’t easy to withstand, even for another S-grade Fierce Ghost.
But suddenly, Lin Qian’s pupils shrank, and he quickly entered his Ghost Domain.
Crack~!
The ice cubes shattered into powder and vanished in the air.
Lin Qian’s pupils contracted sharply, “This is… evasion?”
“No… evasion isn’t like this.”
Another villager died, a woman.
Next was a man.
Lin Qian didn’t hesitate and attacked again.
This time it was even more absurd; his supernatural power didn’t even touch the other.
“It could be attacked just now, but now it can’t be attacked at all?”
Lin Qian was puzzled.
Just moments ago, his supernatural power could touch the other, but now it couldn’t affect it at all.
This was an evasion ability; he knew it well.
But why not evade earlier?
“What’s the difference?”
Lin Qian quickly recalled the earlier scene.
Just now, after the other killed a woman, his supernatural attack couldn’t affect it.
So…
Lin Qian thought of a possibility.
His gaze shifted; he didn’t act, waiting for the other to kill a man.
The next moment, a villager died—a man.
Lin Qian didn’t hesitate, appearing before the other and grabbing its neck. Terrifying supernatural power instantly suppressed it.
Ice crystals spread, cold air raged, and thick ice crystals formed on the Fierce Ghost again.
The supernatural attack hit the ghost!
“Got it!”
“Plunder!”
Strange mist instantly enveloped the Fierce Ghost’s body.
The next moment, a terrifying scene: the Fierce Ghost’s body began to melt.
In moments, half its body melted into viscous liquid, quickly entering Lin Qian’s body.
The Killer Ghost’s terror level rapidly increased.
The puzzle piece completed, the killing pattern began to change.
At the same time, the Ghost Domain in the sky gradually contracted.
Lin Qian narrowed his eyes slightly; the Fierce Ghost was still melting as he continued plundering it.
Time passed second by second.
At one point, the sky’s Ghost Domain completely vanished.
And at that moment, the Killer Ghost’s pattern was fully completed.
“Damn, it took over a hundred plunders to fully plunder this ghost.”
“Am I this unlucky?”
Lin Qian’s expression fluctuated.
He sensed the Killer Ghost inside him.
“Fuck, I thought it was S-grade, but it’s not.”
This ghost’s terror level approached S-grade infinitely, but wasn’t S-grade.
But after piecing the puzzle, Lin Qian found the Killer Ghost’s terror level now matched the Ice Ghost’s, even slightly higher.
The killing pattern had also changed.
It could kill both men and women.
But it had to alternate.
After killing a man, the next trigger of the Fierce Ghost’s killing pattern was a woman.
The ability was similar to the Killer Ghost’s, just with women added.
The complete killing pattern was like this.
It starts by killing women only; after women are killed, it kills men only.
Alternating.
After killing a male, the ghost targets women.
During this, all female attacks are evaded.
And vice versa.
“Alternating… feels like…”
How to put it—after completion, Lin Qian felt the flaws were more obvious.
Still, he could make adjustments.
Lin Qian casually killed a female villager.
Instantly, the Killer Ghost’s pattern changed.
Now, he could evade any male attacks.
Lin Qian exhaled, retracting his supernatural power.
He looked at the Ancestral Hall, and suddenly, his pupils shrank.
Without hesitation, he opened his Ghost Domain and instantly left the place.
The moment he left, darkness surged from the Ancestral Hall, spreading outward.
When the darkness surged, Lin Qian knew he couldn’t resist it.
Terrifying, extremely terrifying feeling.
It made his hair stand on end.
Inside the Ancestral Hall, there was a ghost even more terrifying than that one!
The Ghost Domain streaked across the sky, quickly fleeing the village.
Darkness enveloped everything, spreading to the Village Entrance.
The three who fled couldn’t escape the village despite their efforts; they watched in terror as the darkness swallowed them.
Agonized screams rang out.
Lin Qian listened to the sounds behind him, feeling extremely lucky.
The Ghost Domain vanished, and Lin Qian escaped the Big Mountain.
Black mist rose from the Big Mountain, soon enveloping it.
And the black mist continued spreading outward.
Out of control—a ghost had gone out of control.
Lin Qian couldn’t care less; he drove his Ghost Domain along the roads, streaking away like a rainbow.
In an instant, he was hundreds or thousands of miles away.
