Because Yang Jian and Ye Zhen don’t have the strength to confront the captain head-on, they can only find ways to lure the captain into the right position to execute the plan.

But considering that this ghost, codenamed Captain, possesses human consciousness, if Yang Jian reveals his intentions too obviously, the ghost might notice, making success difficult. Therefore, Yang Jian plans to lead the captain into this building, and the open space at the entrance of the building is the path they must pass.

Of course, a real ghost could enter this building from anywhere.

But the captain, a ghost with human consciousness, might follow certain human patterns when moving, and most likely enter from the building’s main entrance.

And this is the opportunity Yang Jian is waiting for.

“That ghost thing isn’t taking the bait at all, Yang Jian, your plan seems to have failed.” Ye Zhen noticed too, seeing the captain standing immobile outside the building, without any intention of entering.

However, other ghosts emerging from Ghost Lake are continuously pouring into the building.

Clearly, this captain doesn’t intend to act personally but instead plans to exhaust Yang Jian and Ye Zhen with other ghosts.

“The fact that it’s standing outside not moving indicates the plan is already half-successful. If the captain had truly detected our means to deal with it, it would have already left by now, not lingering here.” Yang Jian whispered, as Ghost Flame spread wildly within the building, not worried that his conversation might be overheard by the ghost amid various supernatural disruptions.

“It’s only probing us with other ghosts now, but this probing can’t go on indefinitely. As long as we hold out for a while, making the captain think we don’t have any special methods, it will naturally fall into the trap. So, now we’re not afraid of it not taking action but rather worried it’ll disappear along with the Ghost Ship.”

“Alright, now we need to focus on confronting the ghost. Make sure not to die during this time.” Yang Jian said seriously.

“Are you looking down on me, Ye?” Ye Zhen raised an eyebrow, quite annoyed.

Yang Jian replied, “I don’t mean to underestimate you, just reminding that under these circumstances, anyone could fall prey to the ghost, it’s merely a kind reminder.”

“That’s more like it.”

Ye Zhen nodded: “But my limits go far beyond this. I’ve much room for improvement, just intentionally holding back my strength. After all, being invincible is quite lonely; I give you time to surpass me just so there’s company on the path to invincibility.”

His words were full of confidence, not sounding like he was stubbornly resisting reality.

Yang Jian glanced at the eerie doll lying behind him: “I believe you can go further down this path as a ghost tamer, but that thing is hard to trust; you’d better refrain from using its powers too much.”

“No worries, suppressing a small ghost is never an issue for me. If it dares to bite the master, I’ll surely beat it to eternal submission.” Ye Zhen said.

“I hope so.”

Yang Jian said no more because their conversation was interrupted by an attacking ghost.

In a dark corner, with a flicker of a shadow, a ghastly white Dead Man’s Head emerged from the darkness, creakingly twisting its stiff neck, eerily staring at the two.

At this moment.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen’s necks uncontrollably twisted too, emitting creaking sounds.

The sound was crisp but accompanied by the cracking of bones.

“Get lost!” Ye Zhen took the lead, breaking free from the supernatural influence, rushing over and landed a punch on the head emerging from darkness.

A dull thud echoed, the ghastly white head seemed heavily hit, retracting as if intending to hide back in the darkness.

Yet Ye Zhen wouldn’t let this ghost escape, following with several punches.

Soon.

The ghastly head twisted and caved in, emitting strange noises, quickly retreating into darkness, subsequently the dark corner vanished.

“Took so many punches to retreat? Truly a hard nut to crack.” Ye Zhen couldn’t help but curse.

But this also proved that the attacking ghost wasn’t easy to deal with, requiring considerable effort to directly repel it. If other ghosts attacked during this time, he’d struggle to cope, hence had to endure the ghost’s assault, causing increased injuries.

Thus, in comparison, Ye Zhen realized how terrifying Yang Jian truly was now.

He witnessed Yang Jian casually slap the attacking ghost, it slapped away with a crack, never reappearing.

Can’t watch more, can’t watch more.

The more he looked, the more envious he grew.

Ye Zhen forcefully turned away from Yang Jian confronting the ghost, directing his fury at attacking ghosts. With Yang Jian sharing most of the pressure, he could now act more recklessly.

Supernatural confrontations continued unfolding inside this empty building.

As time passed, inside the building, Yang Jian and Ye Zhen weren’t killed by the ghost, instead showing a tendency to continuously resist.

This situation made the captain standing outside on Ghost Lake begin to grow restless, no longer standing still but wandering around the building like an anxious human contemplating whether to enter and directly kill Yang Jian and Ye Zhen.

Even if the two join forces, they’re still no match for the captain in a direct confrontation.

This was known to all, ghosts included.

Yet the captain’s human consciousness perceived Yang Jian’s changes, feeling uneasy, but this human consciousness couldn’t suppress the ghost’s nature, the lingering ultimately aimed to kill Yang Jian and Ye Zhen.

Thus, the ghost’s nature became increasingly apparent with time.

No matter how the captain wandered outside, Yang Jian already noticed something; with each wander, the captain edged closer to the building, simultaneously nearing the trap.

This change perhaps even the captain hadn’t noticed.

Because it was a ghostly instinct, unrelated to anything else.

“The plan is about to succeed.”

At this moment, Yang Jian no longer focused solely on ghost confrontation, several of his ghost eyes locked onto the open space at the building’s entrance.

He didn’t watch the captain because paranormal observation could alert it, he merely stared at the trap’s position.

“What is Yang Jian doing? After entering the building with Ye Zhen, he’s been confronting the ghosts without attacking the captain, even though the source is right there; why spend time battling these ghosts? It’s pointless.” Tong Qian grew anxious, unable to hold back questions.

However, Old Lin and Leuk San’s paper figures remained silent until Tong Qian asked, upon which Leuk San’s paper figure spoke: “Indeed, this consumption appears meaningless, but anyone could see that, do you think Yang Jian doesn’t?”

“He’s plotting something, and the ghost seems aware too, otherwise it wouldn’t have stayed out of the building to attack Yang Jian and Ye Zhen for so long.” He Yuelian calmly said.

“Both sides are strategizing, the captain waiting for other ghosts to exhaust the two, while Yang Jian awaits the ghost confrontation opportunity… yet we haven’t understood Yang Jian’s tactics to deal with the captain, but not knowing might be good; if we discern it, so might the captain.”

Leuk San’s paper figure nodded: “Exactly, now it’s about whose patience runs out first; I sense this battle will soon have an outcome.”

Tong Qian suddenly felt a sense of realization, followed by some shame, as it seemed that there was still a significant awareness gap between herself and these captains.

This was not a gap in supernatural power, but rather a gap in experience and awareness.

Very soon.

As the captain continued to wander outside the mansion, a critical point was finally reached.

At this moment, the captain wandered into the trap’s position, but it was completely unaware, as there was seemingly nothing wrong with this vacant lot in reality.

“It’s not the right time yet.”

Yang Jian was a bit excited, but he didn’t immediately take action because the captain was in a relatively peripheral position. If he acted now, the captain might fall outside the ancient house. It was safer to let it take five more steps forward.

And this moment of restraint seemed to completely dispel the captain’s vigilance.

The captain continued to wander, and at this moment, it even slightly moved away from the mansion, stepping away from the trap’s position.

Clearly, the earlier approach was intentional, cautiously luring Yang Jian to act.

However, Yang Jian remained patient, and the captain would never expect that the danger was not inside the mansion, but rather outside.

After a few moments.

The opportunity finally arrived.

At this point, the captain couldn’t suppress the ghostly nature any longer. Its pair of dead eyes slightly moved, and then, with heavy, stiff steps, it walked toward the mansion. It knew the other ghosts couldn’t outlast Yang Jian and Ye Zhen; only by acting personally could it kill these two.

Kill Yang Jian, kill Ye Zhen…

The ghostly instincts were driving it madly, even the consciousness of a living person couldn’t suppress it.

At this moment, the captain unknowingly had walked into the trap, right into its center.

“Now.”

At that moment, Yang Jian’s ghost eyes lying dormant in the mansion all opened, and then numerous surrounding malevolent spirits directly shattered a pane of glass and rushed out.

“Haha, today is the day to lift my spirits, I’m here too,” Ye Zhen laughed wildly and rushed out of the building.

The two seemed to leap down from the high-rise.

However, just as they shattered the glass in an instant, the entire surrounding world suddenly came to a standstill, and then, like the shattered glass, countless cracks appeared instantly, and finally, those cracks rapidly spread, and the world before them shattered like a mirror.

But behind the shattered world, a new world appeared.

It was a supernatural realm corresponding to reality—dim and boundless, filled with a cold, eerie presence everywhere.

They were falling above a section of Old Lin, but in the middle of this forest, there was a wooden traditional Chinese ancient house, and they were continuously falling toward this ancient house below them.

But more perilous than this was the position of the captain.

Because Yang Jian shattered the boundary between reality and the supernatural, the captain, without doing anything, was already standing at the center of the ancient house’s courtyard.

The entire ancient house was dark, with only a faint glimmer at the courtyard where the captain stood.

This place was like a cage, and those who entered, both people and ghosts, could not leave.

And this cage was not prepared for the living, but for an elder.

Now, the captain was calculated by Yang Jian, unexpectedly entering this terrifying ancient house.

The captain’s dead eyes slightly moved, looking toward the main hall of the ancient house.

In the center of that hall, a black, aged Taishi Chair was faintly placed, and on that chair seemed to sit a thin and terrifying figure… it was an elder who had been dead for a long time.

The moment the captain saw that elder, its stiff body instinctively stepped back a few steps.

Ghosts do not feel fear, but this action of the captain seemed to tell others that it was now afraid.

Zi~!

A strange sound suddenly occurred, which was the sound of the old Taishi Chair scraping against the ground.

The black Taishi Chair placed in the center of the ancient house actually moved.

A terrifying scene emerged as the elder’s corpse, which had remained uncorrupted on the chair, began to slowly stand up at this moment, and it was this movement that caused the chair to move.

Because this ancient house did not allow any supernatural occurrences to exist.

The captain was not a living person but a malevolent spirit, and thus its appearance triggered some dreadful taboo.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and the terrifying silhouette of the elder in the hall was slowly walking toward the captain.

“The plan succeeded, now just waiting for the show to unfold, let me see if the peak ghost master of the last supernatural era, Zhang Dong, after death, with the ghost revival, can retain this captain?”

At this moment, as Yang Jian and Ye Zhen fell, they did not fall into the ancient house but onto the roof of the ancient house.

They needed to ensure that the captain would not escape from the ancient house, therefore they had to stay here, ensuring at a critical time to interfere with the captain’s actions.

“What a terrifying place,” Ye Zhen frowned silently at this moment, marveling in his heart.

Because even he felt a chill watching that ancient house, knowing that entering meant no chance of coming out alive. Now, even on the roof, every bit of the supernatural was sending frantic warnings.

This was forbidden ground, a place the living must never set foot on.

Beside him, Yang Jian was also particularly solemn.

Because he knew, many top ghost masters from the Republic of China Period would dismember their supernatural remains after death to reduce the cost of ghost revival. However, after Zhang Dong died in this ancient house, he did not dismember the supernatural. Since delivering a message last time, Zhang Dong’s ghost revival had been wandering here.

But now Yang Jian understood, after death, Zhang Dong was using his own corpse to manage this section of Old Lin.

Otherwise, after so long, who knows how many ghosts in Old Lin outside the ancient house would have revived countless times. Yet now, the forest outside the ancient house remained calm.

This was undoubtedly related to this elder.

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