Upon awakening, Yang Jian did not hesitate to immediately take action. He dismembered the vicious ghost in front of him, as the Ghost Flame engulfed the entire second floor of the wooden house. No matter what, he needed to stabilize the current situation first.

“Liu Qi, how are you? Can you still speak?”

After ensuring that there was no immediate danger around, Yang Jian inquired about the situation.

At this moment, Liu Qi was lying on the ground. Despite his body being gnawed beyond recognition, the tenacious vitality of the ghost handler sustained his survival.

“I’m fine, much better than the last time, though my body was almost completely eaten.”

Liu Qi breathed a slight sigh of relief and said, “Fortunately, you woke up. I saw that fierce ghost trying to take away all the supernatural from your body just now. I was really afraid it would succeed. If you had woken up a bit later, we really could have been wiped out here.”

“Sorry, I thought my abilities could help a bit, but I ended up being a burden. Now, I’m still restricted by the supernatural, unable to move.”

“Don’t worry, leave it to me to handle.”

Yang Jian quickly approached, directly pulling out a few strands of hair from Liu Qi’s head, then took out an old red pair of scissors from his body.

When dealing with such invisible supernatural forces, the Ghost Scissors are the most useful.

Although each use might contaminate with a new curse, at this moment, there’s no time to overthink it.

Winding Liu Qi’s hair around the Ghost Scissors, the hair served as a medium, revealing a series of distinct and special threads on Liu Qi’s body. These threads, densely interwoven like a spiderweb, bound Liu Qi within them, while the other end of the lines lay on the floor.

No, that’s not right. The threads seemed to penetrate the floor, heading to the first floor, connecting to some fierce ghost in the main hall downstairs.

“No wonder a ghost handler like you would also be bound here and unable to move. This isn’t ordinary supernatural; the supernatural on you seems to be connected with this wooden house. This restriction is terrifying. Even a Captain Level ghost handler might not be able to easily break free.” Yang Jian’s eyes flickered.

It was the first time he had seen such dense threads, and one could imagine how powerful the curse was.

“I will help you reduce the supernatural suppression on the floor, and you try to struggle free.”

Yang Jian immediately used the Ghost Scissors, snipping at the densest area of the threads.

The Ghost Scissors naturally restrain such supernatural connections. Without much effort, a series of densely packed threads were severed, and then the threads vanished.

“Just a bit more.”

Liu Qi instantly felt his bindings weaken. Previously, no matter how he struggled, he couldn’t move. Now he could barely lift his head and shift his body, but still couldn’t stand up.

“I understand, I’ll continue.”

In Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye vision, his surroundings had already turned dark.

Various supernatural phenomena surrounded him. The curse from the Ghost Scissors was inching closer. While he was lucky not to be contaminated with a curse the first time he used the scissors, he estimated the second time wouldn’t be so fortunate.

Yet, even so, Yang Jian used the Ghost Scissors once again.

Under the second cut, the densely packed threads snapped again, and then vanished.

Although many threads still clung to Liu Qi’s body, the supernatural suppression on him had significantly reduced. Being a top-tier ghost handler himself, Liu Qi activated his supernatural ability to resist the binding, struggling to slowly stand from the ground.

To say he stood was more like barely propping himself up on two broken, missing legs.

The wound rubbed against the ground, and the severe pain made Liu Qi sweat profusely, yet he remained expressionless, without uttering a sound, only slightly twitching at the corners of his mouth.

“It worked.” Liu Qi endured the searing pain, supporting his battered body, and spoke with his incomplete jaw.

Yang Jian saw that the curse threads entwining Liu Qi were continually fracturing and dissipating.

This indicated that the vicious ghost’s binding on him had completely disappeared, and he had withstood the supernatural assault.

“Not bad. Looks like I won’t need to use the Ghost Scissors for a third time. My Deceiving Ghost necklace was taken by Wang Shanshan, so I can’t help restore your body right now. We need to find her and rescue her immediately.”

Yang Jian said as he quickly put away the Ghost Scissors.

However, he had already noticed a new curse had contaminated him after using the Ghost Scissors a second time.

Yang Jian sincerely wished to encounter the old man Zhang Dong from the Haunted House, hoping he could help erase all the curses from the Ghost Scissors, otherwise, using it every time was troublesome.

“Before Wang Shanshan left, she shoved that piece of human skin paper into the mouth of the Ghost Child, and it was swallowed by the Ghost Child. I think that’s a hidden risk; you better take a look.”

Liu Qi expressed some of his conjectures. He had been observing Wang Shanshan’s every move, analyzing her actions, and immediately pointed out potential risks to prevent issues from escalating.

“She fed the human skin paper to the Ghost Child, which was okay given the situation then. She couldn’t keep it on her while her life was in danger, nor could she leave it with me. Her approach wasn’t wrong, just the timing was. Wang Shanshan shouldn’t have fed the human skin paper to the Ghost Child when it was restrained.”

“The Ghost Child is now restrained by the supernatural just like you, its own abilities have been suppressed, the ability of the Hungry Ghost cannot be used, and it cannot digest that human skin paper.”

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Then he suddenly stretched out his palm, and with the help of the Ghost Domain, his hand directly plunged into the Ghost Child’s stomach.

When he withdrew his hand, it held a wet, dark brown piece of human skin paper.

The human skin paper was intact, showing no signs of being absorbed or digested, and the Hungry Ghost’s ability had failed at this moment.

“It really is a hidden danger, looks like my intuition was right, Wang Shanshan must have been deceived,” Liu Qi said.

To become a top ghost handler, sometimes this kind of intuition is important, because the supernatural doesn’t just exist in front of you, it also exists in many unseen places.

“It’s normal for her to be deceived by the human skin paper, this thing is too uncanny, I’ve almost been killed by it several times, otherwise I wouldn’t have stopped using it for so long, dealing with the supernatural is just like this, you want to gain a little advantage from it, you have to be prepared to lose your life,” Yang Jian said.

“But sometimes when in a desperate situation, you have no choice but to take a chance at survival.”

As he spoke, he put away the human skin paper, now was not the time to study it.

Because now, Yang Jian could sense a terrifying danger approaching.

The Ghost Flame that engulfed the second floor had changed at this moment, the flame was not as conspicuous as before, now it seemed as if the firewood was depleted, the flame was constantly weakening, and seemed about to extinguish completely.

“The infiltration of the supernatural even caused the Ghost Flame to retreat? The terror level of the ghosts here is not low, staying here longer would only become more dangerous.”

Through the flames, Yang Jian saw the emaciated figure outside the window approaching again, even stepping one leg through the open window, and the dismembered female corpse had reassembled again, its recovery speed almost matched the Ghost Shadow.

Without hesitation, he repeated his previous action, using the Ghost Scissors to help the Ghost Child escape.

However, it only took one cut for the Ghost Child to break free, it seemed the Ghost Child’s supernatural abilities were stronger than Liu Qi’s, maybe due to the characteristics of the Hungry Ghost.

After breaking free, the Ghost Child’s broken body did not heal, the wounds remained there.

“Looks like I need to prepare to feed the Ghost Child a third ghost,” Yang Jian thought to himself.

The Ghost Child currently only had two supernatural elements, one was corpse water, the other was Ghost Call, the Ghost Shroud was previously removed and currently placed in the Ghost Lake, still not retrieved by Yang Jian.

But even with the Ghost Shroud added, the only truly powerful supernatural ability the Ghost Child possessed was Ghost Call.

The corpse water was too weak, just a piece of a fragmented supernatural puzzle, not enough to make a difference.

And at this point, Yang Jian felt that even if the Ghost Child consumed another ghost, he could control it.

But now was not the time to consider this.

Once he confirmed there were no hidden dangers, he quickly led the Ghost Child and Liu Qi downstairs.

“I think the stairs are out of control now, wouldn’t it be better to jump out the window, even though there’s a powerful ghost at the window, Yang Jian, you have the Coffin Nail to handle it easily, after leaving the haunted house, we can go back to find Wang Shanshan, this would avoid some danger,”

Liu Qi said at this moment, being carried by the Ghost Child.

“If Wang Shanshan is trapped on the stairs, then jumping out the window would be taking a detour, and in a supernatural house, windows cannot be trusted,”

Yang Jian explained, but his actions did not stop, quickly descending the stairs.

As he stepped onto the stairs, it felt as though he disappeared on the second floor, as if entering another Ghost Domain.

All around was endless darkness, nothing but the stretch of stairs.

The Ghost Flame ignited, dispelling the darkness, and spread downwards along the stairs, paving a road formed by the converging flames.

Yang Jian was not afraid of being ignited, he stepped on the flames downwards, avoiding getting lost in the stairs.

The Ghost Child was also unaffected, possessing ghost eye abilities, allowing it to move freely in the Ghost Domain, the only one affected was Liu Qi, although the Ghost Flame did not touch him, he could still feel the burning pain of the flames.

But Liu Qi could endure this pain, and for a short time, the Ghost Flame wouldn’t ignite him.

With the path paved by the Ghost Flame, Yang Jian’s movements became quicker.

However, he dared not be careless.

Because the staircase had changed in such a way, it indicated that there was definitely a powerful ghost on the stairs.

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