Mysterious Revival-Chapter 693 - 660: Retreat and Secrets

Yang Jian braved tremendous danger to engage with the Door Knocking Ghost. According to the plan previously conceived in his mind, the combined repression from the Ghost Hand, Ghost Shadow, and the decomposing Dead Man's Head held by the Ghost Child should have been sufficient to halt the activities of a fierce ghost of this caliber. He even felt that the Ghost Hand combined with the rotting head alone should have been enough.

The reality of the situation made Yang Jian realize that things were far from simple.

This emaciated old man, covered with the mottling of decaying flesh, appeared to be more than just what he seemed on the surface. Killing by knocking on doors was perhaps just one of its manifested patterns of murder. There were many more terrifying things hidden within the old man that many people subconsciously ignored.

"Damn it."

However, at the critical moment of his confrontation with the Door Knocking Ghost, Yang Jian's pupils constricted, and even his hair seemed to stand on end due to the terror.

That's because he saw the highly decomposed Dead Man's Head that the Ghost Child was holding begin to float up slowly, and at the same time, the suppression from the head disappeared.

The decomposing Dead Man's Head needed to fix its gaze on a target to be effective. Now that it was floating up, the fierce ghost in front of him had already left its line of sight, so the pressure from the rotting head veered off course. The resultant impact was extremely fatal, as just now it took the combination of three ghosts to barely suppress the ghost's movements.

But now... with one main force for suppressing the fierce ghost gone, this meant that the ghost's movements could at least be restored by half.

"It's starting to struggle?"

Yang Jian felt the gaunt, cold body he was holding regain movement. The arm was shaking, the strength eerily abnormal, seeming ready to break free from the Ghost Hand's suppression. But this struggle was still barely within a controllable range, enough to only steady half of the ghost's body.

"Not good..."

The old man in front of him continued to turn around, seemingly having set his sights on Yang Jian who had been making small moves behind his back. A strange aura enveloped him and began trying to invade his body.

The protection of the Ghost Porcelain continued.

But now, Yang Jian saw that on the wrist being held by the old man, patches of mortuary spots were beginning to appear despite wearing Gold gloves, without any real contact with the fierce ghost. Gold could insulate the influence of supernatural powers, but still, the weird aura eroding from the surroundings was rapidly deteriorating Yang Jian's body.

The mortuary spots spread along the arm, with the speed not decreasing in the slightest. Instead, it became more and more intense. If this continued, Yang Jian's body would quickly rot and completely turn into a corpse.

Even though Yang Jian was now controlling three ghosts, the only true ghostly parts were a maimed palm and a few ghostly eyes. The Ghost Shadow wasn't even considered part of the body, more like a shadow attached to him, so most of his body was still that of a living person.

And the body of a living person was extremely vulnerable, easily eroded by a fierce ghost.

"The Ghost Porcelain is helping me resist this eerie erosion, otherwise, I'd be completely rotted by now... but this can't go on, If I can't suppress the Door Knocking Ghost, I can't imprison it. Moreover, the decomposing Dead Man's Head has already floated away, and the ghost from the Head Balloon Event might have already got this puzzle piece."

"Once it's completed, there's no predicting what might happen."

"I must make a choice at this time."

Urgent sweat broke out on Yang Jian; the situation had reached the brink of losing control, and he had to make a choice—whether to make a decisive retreat now or to continue the fierce struggle.

If he really continued the hard fight, it's not like he lacked the means.

He still had the ghostly eyes unused, and that rusty, eerie Firewood Knife could also directly dismember the Door Knocking Ghost.

It's just that the cost might be a bit high. Yang Jian's real goal was only to take something from the Door Knocking Ghost, not to really fight to the death with it. After all, this was Kobe City, not his own jurisdiction of Dachang City.

"If I force a fight under these circumstances, I'm going to suffer a lot, and it's quite possible that I might really die here. And now that I have what I came for..." The thought of retreat flashed through Yang Jian's mind.

Retreat!

The Door Knocking Ghost was too terrifying, and the first round of probing attacks had completely failed. To deal with this ghost, he would have to formulate a new plan and approach later on.

Once he made his decision, Yang Jian acted very swiftly.

His Ghost Shadow started to retreat quickly, but as it did, one of its arms brought back something from the pocket of the old, vintage long coat worn by the Door Knocking Ghost. With the situation critical, Yang Jian did not look closely; he swiftly released the Ghost Hand.

The pressure from both the Ghost Hand and the Ghost Shadow disappeared.

At this moment, the Door Knocking Ghost fully recovered its mobility, no longer affected by any force.

The withered old man covered in livor mortis completely turned around now, still clutching Yang Jian's wrist, as if he intended to do something else.

"Crack!"

Simultaneously, in a corner inside a street shop, a strange porcelain that had been placed there was now full of cracks, and at last, as if the force it was bearing reached its limit, it burst into pieces with a loud pop.

A piece of Ghost Porcelain was thoroughly exhausted.

And without the opaque protection of the Ghost Porcelain, the terror of the malevolent ghost was faced directly.

At this moment, Yang Jian felt a horrifying threat, and this chilling sensation made him realize his current predicament. Without any hesitation, he layered his Ghost Eye and used the Ghost Domain.

In an instant, four layers of the Ghost Domain unfolded.

Red light enveloped himself, and at the same time spread over the nearby area, covering Nagase at the nearby crossroads, as well as Mishima, and their accompanying interpreter Keiko—while the Ghost Child was free to come and go within his Ghost Domain.

The range of the Door Knocking Ghost's domain expanded, but in reality, it was not formidable at all, far inferior to that of the original Ghost Envoy's domain.

Or rather, within the realm of the Ghost Domain, Yang Jian had surpassed many of the true malevolent ghosts, since as the first ghost he tamed, the Ghost Eye's revival and utilization levels were very high.

Immediately,

The red Ghost Domain replaced the dim world, and at the same time the terrifying old man in the long robe also disappeared along with it; the nearby streets and buildings underwent drastic changes, from being in the city to now being on a suburban road in Kobe City.

The swarming Ghost Slaves disappeared, and the Dead Man's Head floating in the sky vanished as well.

This sudden change made everything previously experienced feel like a nightmare.

The domains of ghosts invaded each other, and Yang Jian led the others out of the Door Knocking Ghost's domain, temporarily withdrawing from that terrifying Kobe City.

"We've made it out."

Yang Jian could not help but breathe a sigh of relief; at a critical moment, his Ghost Domain could still save lives. Otherwise, he would have had to use the substitution doll or even the bizarre Firewood Knife.

The others who were with him were also brought out.

The Ghost Child was unaffected, standing not far away.

However, the highly decomposed Dead Man's Head had disappeared. Just now Yang Jian's Ghost Domain had covered it, but it did not bring back the gradually ascending Dead Man's Head. The power of the four-layer Ghost Domain seemed to be disrupted, so in the end, he lost a very valuable ghost.

"As I suspected... there is a certain connection between that head and the balloon heads; the moment it was taken out of the Ghost Child's backpack, it was targeted, seemingly attracted by something. If not for this problem at a critical moment, I wouldn't have had to make such a difficult decision."

"The only thing to be grateful for is that my previous guess was correct; the Door Knocking Ghost really did have something in its pocket."

Yang Jian's gaze shifted to the ground.

The headless shadow seemed to have partially risen, and a square wooden box, larger than a palm, appeared in the hand formed by its shadow.

Yang Jian felt no strange aura from the wooden box, nor any peculiar characteristics. He only knew that it was painted with gold lacquer, isolating the influence of Supernatural Power and also evading the scrutiny of the Ghost Eye.

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"Well hidden indeed, I was nearly killed by a malevolent ghost for this thing."

Yang Jian did not rush to investigate but instead took the box and placed it inside a larger gold box he found in his luggage bag.

It was still uncertain what was inside, so it was better to be cautious for now.