The black boat drifted on the cold, silent lake.
The four people from Taiping Ancient Town on the boat were severely injured by the sudden appearance of an Evil Hound. The woman was directly pulled into a dream, the leading one-eyed old man had half of his consciousness asleep, Boss Liu lost seven dollars but managed to stay safe, and the Faceless Person somehow temporarily avoided the attack.
No matter the process, the result was terrifying.
Yang Jian watched this scene unfold, understanding what it all meant.
The Evil Hound forcibly entered the dream—who could withstand that?
But these four people were indeed extraordinary. Although severely injured, most of them survived and weren't instantly annihilated.
Such results were already quite good.
The woman on the black boat was now asleep, but she was having a nightmare.
In the nightmare, she found herself in Taiping Ancient Town.
The Taiping Ancient Town in the dream was very desolate, empty and lifeless, with only her standing bewildered on the old street.
It wasn't until the low growl of an Evil Hound sounded that she snapped out of her confusion.
“This isn't Ghost Lake, this is in my dream, so that Evil Hound didn't just disappear suddenly, but forcibly dragged me into the dream?” The woman wasn't clueless, quickly realizing her current situation.
She shivered inexplicably.
She felt a trace of coldness.
Looking down, she discovered all her familiar clothing had disappeared, leaving only a tattered undergarment riddled with holes, letting the cold wind seep through and making her shiver.
How many years has it been?
How many years since she last felt the cold?
“Not good, it seems I can't bring my supernatural power into the dream.” The woman realized something, her expression drastically changing.
But a large, fierce Evil Hound baring its teeth had already found her and was quickly rushing toward her.
“Damn it.”
The woman cursed and turned to flee.
Without supernatural power in the dream, she was just an ordinary person, and an ordinary person couldn't deal with something like an Evil Hound.
She tried her best to run, relying on her familiarity with Taiping Town, constantly taking shortcuts through alleys in an attempt to shake off the hound.
However, no matter how she ran, the hound kept closing in, and the distance between them grew smaller.
“I can't shake it off. If this continues, it will catch up to me soon. I have to find somewhere to hide.”
Cold sweat broke out on her, her heart pounding, her entire being shrouded in immense fear.
In the end, she attempted to enter the old ancestral hall in the dream to find a place to hide, thinking perhaps there might be a turning point there, but her strength failed, and she collapsed at the entrance of the hall.
“Woof~!”
The next moment, the Evil Hound pounced, its pale fangs sinking deeply into her shoulder, biting fiercely.
“Ah!”
The woman screamed, her shoulder a mess of flesh and blood as a large chunk was brutally torn away.
She tried to fight back, kicking and punching to shake off the hound, but to no avail; the hound continued its frenzied biting.
Pain, fear, long-forgotten emotions surged in her heart.
At that moment, she was no longer a ghost handler, just an ordinary woman who could bleed, feel pain, experience fear, and even die.
“Don't bite me, don't bite me, get away… help, ah!”
Her screams echoed in the silent, empty Taiping Town.
The hound tore more and more flesh from her body, worsening her injuries, the blood flow ceaseless, with even her struggles and resistance growing weaker.
The Evil Hound, its mouth full of blood, ferocious and brutal like an Evil Ghost, continued mauling her, showing no intent to stop.
“Creak!”
Yet at this moment.
The door of the ancestral hall in the dream opened, revealing a slightly hunched, one-eyed old man at the entrance.
“Save, save me.”
The woman stretched out her partially mutilated hand, eyes filled with a glimmer of hope, pleading for help.
However, the one-eyed old man, after a brief pause, quickly limped away, ignoring her plea.
“Ah!” The woman screamed in despair.
Not long after.
The screaming stopped.
The woman was dead, her body a bloody, mutilated mess, with flesh and bone debris everywhere, even rows of teeth marks on her skull.
The black Evil Hound, covered in blood, its eyes red, teeth bare, tongue hanging out, radiated intense ferocity, evoking terror at a glance.
After biting someone to death, the Evil Hound didn't end the nightmare there.
The old man was still alive.
The Evil Hound moved again, following the scent, running to pursue.
Taiping Ancient Town wasn't small.
The world in the dream was large, yet no matter how vast it could not escape the hound's pursuit.
To end this nightmare, there are only two possibilities: either kill the hound in the dream or be killed by the hound. However, even if you manage to kill the hound in the dream, it only ends that night's nightmare. By the next evening, the nightmare resumes, with a new hound beginning the second night's hunt.
Endless, until you die.
This is a nightmare that never ceases.
“She's dead.”
At this moment, on the black boat on Ghost Lake, Boss Liu saw that the woman lying in the cabin somehow now had many wounds from the Evil Hound's bites and had lost all signs of life, even wearing multiple layers couldn't protect against such a bizarre attack.
“In her dream, she was bitten to death by that Evil Hound,” the one-eyed old man spoke in a low voice.
He still had an injury on his neck, bleeding, and half of his consciousness was dragged into the dream where he witnessed the horrific death of the woman.
“This…” Boss Liu shivered involuntarily upon hearing this.
I see.
This is an Evil Hound invading people's dreams.
“Couldn't even withstand a nightmare for a day, you are just so-so.” Yang Jian saw this and sneered coldly, his body had recovered at this moment.
The curse of the Firewood Knife disappeared.
At this moment, he walked over the lake again, holding the cracked long spear in his hand: “Today, I'll wipe you all out here, making Taiping Ancient Town just history, thoroughly buried.”
The one-eyed old man fell silent for a moment, then spoke: “The appearance of that Evil Hound was beyond my expectations, but wanting to wipe us all out is a bit overconfident, we can easily retreat, and besides, the Ghost Lake has already invaded reality, do you want to exhaust yourself chasing us, or handle the Ghost Lake?”
Yang Jian suddenly stopped in his tracks, his eyes narrowed.
He used his ghost eyes to peer around.
At this moment, he saw Zhongzhou City in the distance, saw the starry sky, and saw the high-rise buildings on the outskirts.
During the confrontation, the Ghost Lake had somehow detached from the supernatural domain and truly reached reality.
“Yang Jian, how does it look over there? The Ghost Lake has invaded reality. If you don't find a way to solve it, it's going to lose control.” Feng Quan's shout came from afar, he was standing on a nearby high-rise, looking over, and he immediately shouted when he saw Yang Jian.
The lake water was no longer calm.
The lake surface was collapsing.
The supernatural lake water was flowing in all directions, beginning to blend with the rivers, spreading further away.
The water systems across the country were interconnected.
If this continues, all rivers will be eroded, leading to unimaginable consequences, and this is not the scariest part.
As the lake water poured in all directions, the surface level quickly dropped, and the terrifying ghosts submerged in the lake showed signs of revival as the water level fell.
The corpses floating in the first layer of the Ghost Lake had now surfaced and were washed onto the nearby wasteland.
“The balance of the Ghost Lake was originally broken because you stole part of the supernatural power. We came here to kill you and return that part of the supernatural power to maintain the Ghost Lake's original state. Now that you are still alive, the terrifying ghosts submerged in the lake can no longer be suppressed after losing part of the supernatural power.”
“The entire Ghost Lake overflowing into the real world, with those ghosts reviving inside, is a terrifying disaster.”
The one-eyed old man said solemnly: “Otherwise, why do you think us old folks who have never met you would want to kill you on sight? Your appearance is the biggest mistake.”
“Sigh.” Boss Liu beside him sighed.
The worst-case scenario happened.
The Ghost Lake lost control.
The elders from the Republic of China period couldn't solve this problem, and now that it has erupted, the younger generation can't solve it either.
“So that's how it is.” Cao Yang, who was about to act from a distance, was stunned.
He finally understood why these elders from Taiping Ancient Town would join forces to get rid of them indiscriminately.
Yang Jian's expression changed, staring at the one-eyed old man, no longer impulsively taking action.
Because the present situation was indeed more important than eliminating these people.
“The Ghost Lake's loss of control is already happening; it is already affecting the outside. It's not something I can change by stealing part of the supernatural power. My arrival only accelerated this process, and you are foolish enough to think killing me would solve the Ghost Lake problem. No wonder you lost to me, too foolish and short-sighted.” Yang Jian said coldly.
“I won't kill you now, even though your life won't be long.”
He knew he could wipe them out, but it would take time, and now the Ghost Lake was already out of control, it was a race against time, so he chose to stop.
This was for the greater good.
Personal grudges had to be temporarily set aside. If the out-of-control Ghost Lake wasn't handled properly, even if he eliminated these people, what good would it be? The city falls, and a large number of reviving ghosts from the lake surface would be truly devastating.
Yang Jian was not someone who couldn't discern the gravity of things.
“Cao Yang, keep an eye on these people, Ah Hong, as soon as your makeup is done, start acting and cooperate with me to use the Ghost Domain to block Zhongzhou City, change the terrain, and keep the Ghost Lake here.” Yang Jian shouted suddenly.
Then all his scarlet ghost eyes opened, a total of nine.
Nine ghost eyes didn't have the risk of revival if they weren't used in overlap; this was Yang Jian's limit.
Then the Ghost Domain expanded.
Yang Jian left the lake surface and soared into the sky directly. His Ghost Domain covered an incredible speed, covering ten kilometers, twenty kilometers, thirty kilometers… until it reached a hundred kilometers and stopped at its limit.
“I've waited for this moment for a long time.”
Ah Hong had completely transformed; she was no longer herself but wore the face of a man.
This man was Wei Jing.
Ah Hong had put on makeup to look like Wei Jing. This supernatural makeup allowed her to possess the same supernatural power as Wei Jing for a short time.
The time was short but tremendously terrifying.
Because without taking off the makeup, she was Wei Jing.
Indistinguishably so.
“Within a hundred miles, everything is under my control.” Yang Jian took a deep breath.
He rarely used such a scale for the Ghost Domain because it would disrupt the terrain at once.
However, under his view, the Ghost Lake had already polluted the water systems within at least dozens of kilometers.
Rivers, lakes, and groundwater all had traces of lake water.
These traces were invisible to ordinary people, but Yang Jian's ghost eyes could see them clearly.
Yet in the next moment.
The ground was shaking… The terrain within a hundred miles was undergoing tremendous changes.
Rivers were flowing backward, lakes were backflowing, and the originally high-north-low-south terrain had flipped, with the surrounding terrain within a hundred miles becoming high ground, and the only low place was beneath Yang Jian's feet.
Flat land was rising into mountains, and the city's ground was tilting.
Yang Jian stood in the high sky, surveying all around. Within the Ghost Domain, he raised mountains and moved cities, divided land into rivers, and reversed the terrain, attempting to gather the spreading lake water back together again.
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