Chapter 84: The Bizarre White Evil, the Coffin Nail That Was Resisted

"Hey! Chen Qiaoyang, you aren't, are you?"

Yang Jian picked up his golden Long Spear and, upon discovering the withdrawn Chen Qiaoyang, couldn't help but speak.

Regarding Chen Qiaoyang's behavior, he was somewhat taken aback, staring at Chen Qiaoyang in astonishment.

He hadn't expected that Chen Qiaoyang, who had been confident ever since leaving the Wang Family Ancient Residence, would become so easily withdrawn.

"There aren't many ghosts of this level!"

As an ordinary person, Wang Chaling comforted Chen Qiaoyang; being a commoner, his emotions were more in tune, and he could more easily guess Chen Qiaoyang's current mindset.

"Hong Bai Shuang Sha, throughout the nation, no, even the whole world."

"Among all known Supernatural Incidents, they are a unique existence; there are not many Supernatural Incidents that can compare with Hong Bai Shuang Sha, and they are basically all certain Spiritual Realms."

"If one looks among wandering Supernatural Incidents for something comparable to Hong Bai Shuang Sha, it should only be that special bus."

Hearing Wang Chaling's words, Chen Qiaoyang finally came to his senses.

Indeed, it's not that I'm out of step with the times, just unlucky; having just escaped the Wang Family Ancient Residence, I ran into a top-tier group of Ghost Tamers of this era.

Facing a Supernatural Incident that even a coalition of top Ghost Tamers of this era finds tricky, it's normal that I alone cannot handle it.

After all, my strength is no worse than Li Jun and Yang Jian's.

Regaining confidence, Chen Qiaoyang started to act again.

It's not that he's fragile; the events that occurred in less than half an hour dealt too heavy a blow to him.

"The Ghost Painting consists of two parts, the Ghost Painting Frame and the ghosts within the Ghost Painting, which can restart each other; Hong Bai Shuang Sha can also restart each other, and the Ghostly Servant can restart infinitely."

"I don't know what the Ghostly Servant has become after being controlled by Hong Bai Shuang Sha."

"But according to known information, if we want to deal with these ghosts, we must simultaneously eliminate these four troubles."

To prevent similar occurrences later, Yang Jian briefly relayed the information about this ghost.

"Simultaneously imprison four ghosts!" Chen Qiaoyang's mouth twitched.

But he quickly recovered, realizing this wasn't entirely without a chance.

Having four ghosts with me, I can deal with that Fierce Coffin.

Although I can't imprison it, I can restrain it.

Li Jun's current situation is poor, but thanks to a restraining relationship, he can move freely within the Ghost Painting, making it possible to imprison the Ghost Painting Frame.

After that, only Hong Bai Shuang Sha itself remains.

With the first-generation Wang Family couple present, and using those terrifying Coffin Nails, imprisoning these two ghosts poses no problem.

Chen Qiaoyang glanced at Yang Jian; clearly, Yang Jian thought the same.

For a moment, realizing he might solve an unsolvable Supernatural Incident, Chen Qiaoyang felt his heart surge.

In his era, people revered heroic righteousness, which is why Chen Qiaoyang initially didn't want to oppose Li Jun.

Because, in his view, everyone in those units were heroes, even a mere ordinary soldier.

Now, if I can solve an unsolvable Supernatural Incident, wouldn't I also be a hero? The four of them instantly agreed and began to act.

In this situation, Chen Qiaoyang couldn't mind his feud with the Wang Family; he directly told Wang Chaling to have the first-generation Wang Family deal with the Ghost Bride.

Yang Jian took the second-generation Wang Family couple to confront that Mourning Fierce Ghost.

"What? My grandparents go to deal with Hong Bai Shuang Sha?" Wang Chaling frowned upon hearing Chen Qiaoyang's plan.

"I don't want to tell you, but in this situation, if we can't resolve Hong Bai Shuang Sha, I'll also fall here," Chen Qiaoyang said with a dark face.

"Rest assured, your grandparents are far more terrifying than you know; they can easily handle the Ghost Bride."

As a Shepherd of Ghosts, he truly looks down on this third-generation Wang Family.

With the two terrifying Fierce Ghosts of the first-generation Wang Family by Chen Qiaoyang's side, he dares say that Hong Bai Shuang Sha is no problem at all.

Aside from the places where those elders reside, there is no Spiritual Realm in this world he dares not go to.

"That works," Wang Chaling reluctantly agreed after hearing Chen Qiaoyang.

After all, at this moment, the other side has no need to deceive me; if my grandparents truly get into trouble, the trouble will only grow.

"Li Jun, go find the Ghost Painting Frame, and seize the opportunity."

"Remember, you must imprison the Ghost Painting Frame when the Ghost Bride restarts; otherwise everything will be in vain, and we cannot use the same plan a second time against this ghost."

Yang Jian lifted his golden Long Spear and whispered the plan to Li Jun.

Li Jun's expression turned solemn as he nodded; accompanied by Ghost Fire igniting on his body, he left a ball of Ghost Fire at the spot to seal off the Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain, then vanished.

Li Jun vanished, and the three others each began to act.

The first-generation Wang Family couple confronted the Ghost Bride, Yang Jian took the second-generation Wang Family to confront Zhang Hao, and Chen Qiaoyang, with four ghosts, went after the Ghostly Servant.

Originally, Chen Qiaoyang was very wary of the Ghostly Servant, but he soon discovered that this Coffin had a flaw: it was restrained inside the Coffin before it could mature.

Even so, I still can't imprison it, but at least I can restrain it.

"Are you now systematically targeting me?"

Noticing Yang Jian and the others' actions, Zhang Hao, who had just returned to the Ghost Coffin, glanced over here.

At this moment, Yang Jian had already raised his golden Long Spear, its blade‑tipped end held high.

Obviously, Yang Jian intended to reuse a trick, using a hatchet to dismember Zhang Hao first, rendering him temporarily immobile.

However, Zhang Hao already had a countermeasure.

The instant Yang Jian raised the hatchet, Zhang Hao stood up from the Ghost Coffin.

He is no longer the same as before; even without the Ghostly Servant or Ghost Bride's aid, Zhang Hao now possesses sufficient combat power.

Almost the moment the black shadow beneath Yang Jian covered Zhang Hao's footprints, Zhang Hao turned his body, presenting a direction opposite to the Ghost Coffin.

Through the Medium, a silhouette appeared before Yang Jian.

Strangely, this silhouette was completely different from the scene when Yang Jian last raised the hatchet.

This time, the eerie silhouette faced away from him, leaving only a colorless, bleak white back.

"Never mind, just cut it down first."

Yang Jian didn't think about why that silhouette was facing away from him; he immediately planned to cut it down.

But at that moment, Yang Jian's complexion changed sharply.

His body was invaded; Yang Jian set down his fire‑axe, and only then realized that, at some unknown time, his body had almost lost all color.

If he hadn't already become an Abnormal, turning into a Ghost Shadow, he would probably have died.

Yet even so, the headless Ghost Shadow on his body was also being affected; the jet‑black shadow, for some reason, at this moment, part of it had turned gray‑black.

This scene made Yang Jian recall a terribly frightening memory.

It was a memory in an old district of Dachuan City.

At that time he had not yet completed the headless Ghost Shadow, and then an old woman invaded him from memory.

Back then he also used the fire‑axe as a Medium to invade that old woman.

With his Medium invasion, a gaunt, corpse‑smelling, eerily ten‑days‑dead old woman suddenly appeared before him.

Her whole body's corpse spots had turned into a rotting Blackboard, her eye sockets deeply sunken yet not closed, revealing a pair of dead‑gray, numb eyes.

He noticed that the dead old woman within the Medium suddenly halted her steps, her Ghost's Stiffness neck turned, and she abruptly stared at him.

At that time, he tried to cut off that Medium.

But even after severing the fire‑axe Medium, that old woman still emerged.

After being attacked then, his body, like now, was continuously losing color.

Only, back then Yang Jian was replaced by the old woman from his past memories.

Now, Yang Jian does not know what kind of ability this comes from.

Without any hesitation, Yang Jian immediately ran back to the Ghost Fire that Li Jun had left to protect Wang Caling and used Restart.

When he was invaded by that old woman, he avoided the attack by Restarting himself.

Now, being invaded by that Funeral Clothes Ghost, Restarting himself should also avert it.

With Restart, quickly everything on Yang Jian seemed to flow backward in time.

The gray‑black shadow slowly returned to black, and the pallid, colorless skin on his body gradually regained its blood hue.

Even the clothes and hair that had turned black‑white from the invasion recovered. "Finally, it can still be solved."

Yang Jian warily glanced at the Funeral Clothes Ghost on the Ghost Coffin; the plan had just begun, yet an accident occurred on his side.

After that ghost had been attacked once with his fire‑axe, it already knew how to counter the fire‑axe Medium.

In the current situation, it is obvious that the idea of throwing a Coffin Nail to nail the Funeral Clothes Ghost has also become ineffective.

That ghost possesses intelligence; it will not stand stupidly like a normal Fierce Ghost and let you strike.

If one really throws the golden Long Spear out without any control, Yang Jian is certain that the golden Long Spear would turn back into the opponent's weapon.

"Yang Jian, an accident?"

Chen Qiaoyang walked over; he had previously also noticed the colors fading from Yang Jian's body.

"Hmm, that ghost, by some method, can counter‑attack me when I try to strike it." Yang Jian said coldly.

"Is it that kind of color‑fading ability? I've previously been attacked by that kind of paranormal assault."

"When you just raised your weapon, you also noticed the movement of that Mourning Ghost; it turned around."

"Recalling my first encounter, I also saw its back; I hypothesize that this invasion's Killing Rule is triggered by seeing its back or facing away from it."

"But now we are back‑facing it without being affected, which shows that this ghost's Killing Rule is related to Gaze—it is seeing its back."

Chen Qiaoyang truly is a veteran Ghost Tamer, a Ghost Tamer who reached this level during the Republic Era.

Zhang Hao had launched only two attacks, yet he easily deduced this ability's Killing Rule.

"If that's the case"

Yang Jian's complexion darkened; there was now another thing suppressing his Ghost Domain.

It's one thing that the Ghost Eye dares not look at Ghost paintings, but now it also dares not look at this Funeral Clothes Ghost.

After all, the Ghost Eye's Ghost Domain is generated by its Gaze; as long as one is within the Ghost Eye's Ghost Domain, it is as if Yang Jian sees the opponent from every angle without blind spots.

"I have a way to counter this invasion: I can smear your entire body with my blood, which will block it, but I wonder if you have the courage to try."

Chen Qiaoyang said in a deep voice; his plan required mutual trust, so he provoked him with those words.

"No need."

Hearing that he would be covered head to toe in blood, the paranoid Yang Jian decisively refused.

The first Ghost Tamer he formally encountered was the driver of Ghost Blood, Yan Li, and he still remembers how terrifying Ghost Blood's revival was.

Not to mention, Yang Jian had previously gone to an island nation, where in a machine that could foresee death, he foresaw a scene of himself lying in Ghost Blood.

The current Yang Jian is extremely wary of Ghost Blood and could not possibly accept the proposal.

"Is that so? Then never mind."

Chen Qiaoyang nodded in disappointment; in fact, he did not expect Yang Jian to agree, after all he had just fought those few squad leaders.

At this moment, both sides being able to cooperate against the Red and White Double Evil already shows a broader strategic view; expecting Yang Jian to lower his guard and let him smear blood is clearly impossible.

He was merely trying it out, should Yang Jian agree to the proposal.

After dealing with the Red and White Double Evil, perhaps he could gain another powerful enforcer.

"Now the plan is broken; what means do you have to restrain that ghost?" Yang Jian asked.

Chen Qiaoyang shook his head: "My title is Shepherd of Ghosts; all my combat power resides in the ghosts, and I only have these few ghosts beside me, so I have no means."

"Perhaps we should try my plan; when I was previously attacked, I blocked it with Ghost Blood." Chen Qiaoyang suggested.

Yang Jian seemed to sense Chen Qiaoyang's thought and gave him a cold glance.

Seeing this, Chen Qiaoyang sneered. "Actually, I still have another plan."

"You go deal with the Ghost Bride, and let the Wang Family generation handle this thing."

"No need to think about it; I can't possibly go."

Yang Jian heard the plan and outright refused.

He has no intention at all of confronting that Ghost Bride thing.

He mastered the Ghost Eye to restrain it, and he had long witnessed the terror of the Ghost Bride; not to mention Yang Jian also bears the curse of the Ghost Cabinet.

"Then there's no other way; we have to use that nail," Chen Qiaoyang said, pondering.

"Later I'll try to affect that Ghost, but only for a brief time; I hope you can seize the moment."

"Otherwise, that nail will become that Ghost's weapon."

"Alright, then." Yang Jian decided, even though the final plan seemed the hardest to accomplish.

While the two were revising the plan, Zhang Hao was not idle on his side.

The Ghost Coffin collided with the four Ghosts of Chen Qiaoyang.

Each of the four Ghosts carrying the Coffin had a Suppression Quota for a Ghost, but it was clear that those Ghosts accompanying Chen Qiaoyang were not composed of a single Ghost each.

The entire Ghost Coffin, together with the four Fierce Ghosts bearing the Coffin, could only manage to suppress the two Ghosts in Chen Qiaoyang's hands.

At that moment, a Fierce Ghost scarred all over its body and an elderly Fierce Ghost dressed in Republic Era attire faced Zhang Hao.

The terrifying crying kept overlapping, causing the two Ghosts' ash‑gray, expressionless faces to show a sorrowful look.

In the deep darkness, more and more White Curtains kept falling, binding the two Ghosts; however, these White Curtains were merely byproducts and, aside from slowing them, had little effect.

Paper Money kept falling from the sky onto the two Ghosts, drawing out their vitality, making the portions of the two Ghosts that are not Fierce Ghosts at this moment...

Although this kind of Paper Money cannot extract the true Fierce Ghost's life force, even a human body is considered a Puzzle piece for a Fierce Ghost.

It is only a temporary Puzzle, a provisional substitute before obtaining a genuine Fierce Ghost Puzzle.

But after the bodies became maimed, the Terror Level of the two Ghosts dropped considerably.

Soon, Kneeling Death combined with the crying successfully suppressed the two Fierce Ghosts whose Terror Level had decreased.

But at that moment, Zhang Hao suddenly felt his consciousness become hazy.

A strong instinct arose, causing him to subconsciously halt the crying and the supernatural Kneeling Death.

Although it lasted only a brief instant, it broke the overlapping crying.

At the same time, a golden Long Spear burst forth.

"Hm?"

Zhang Hao looked up; his face showed no worry about the incoming golden spear.

"Stab!"

When the golden Long Spear was less than half a meter from Zhang Hao, strips of White Curtain fell in midair, blocking its forward thrust.

Naturally, the White Curtains' strength could not resist a Coffin Nail; facing the burst-out Coffin Nail, those White Curtains were easily pierced and torn.

Soon, the spear tip of the golden Long Spear pierced all the White Curtains before it and reached Zhang Hao.

"Clang!"

However, the moment the golden Long Spear touched the Ghost Mourning Clothes, a heavy thud of an object hitting the Ground rang out.

It was the sound of gold striking the Ground.

"Bad!" Yang Jian's complexion changed drastically.

He had underestimated the weirdness of the Red and White Double Evil.

Because it wasn't a Coffin Nail shot from the Ghost Domain, but a forcefully thrown Coffin Nail; even though Yang Jian's body, under Fierce Ghost influence, possessed strength beyond that of ordinary mortals.

The speed and force of this strike could not match those when a Coffin Nail is launched from the Ghost Domain, which is faster than a gunshot.

With limited strength, the continuously blocking White Curtains acted like a half‑meter‑thick barrier before the target.

Combined with the Funeral Clothes on the Ghost Mourning Clothes, the Coffin Nail ultimately lacked the power to pierce and instead lodged into the body of the Ghost Mourning Clothes.

In fact, Zhang Hao wasn't sure whether the Coffin Nail could be blocked by the Funeral Clothes on his own body.

In a situation where the Ghost Domain could no longer be shifted, he couldn't place all his hope on the Ghost Mourning Clothes, since the Coffin Nail's record made Ghosts fear it.

But he knew Yang Jian couldn't use the Ghost Domain here, so the Coffin Nail Yang Jian threw actually relied on brute force to thrust forward, not the Ghost Domain passing through.

Therefore, as a Ghost, Zhang Hao chose a method not belonging to a Fierce Ghost to block the Coffin Nail's attack.

He did so by physically nullifying all the forward thrusting force of the Coffin Nail.

(End of Chapter)