Fang Shenyan had ultimately turned into a ghost.
The Tenth Supervision Event indeed had no such thing as a Sin Object cost, but it never mentioned anything about "number of uses."
Whether the rule of "turning into a ghost after four uses" still applied to Sin Object usage outside missions had already become unclear.
Yet everyone still adhered to that principle. Unless absolutely necessary, no one was willing to use a Sin Object.
However, including this time, Fang Shenyan had used the White-faced Ghost Mask for the second time in a row.
Strictly speaking, this incident had not necessarily reached the point where he had no choice but to turn into a ghost, yet he had still done so.
No one knew why Fang Shenyan had done it. Perhaps it had been an impulsive decision, or perhaps there had been another reason.
But the deed was done, and there was no time to dwell on it, because the ghost behind this incident had already been entangled by the Five Threads.
At the same time, the truth behind the incident had become clear.
Just as Fang Shenyan had seen, like the Masked Person in Dark Green Costume, this incident was most likely a performance.
This performance had begun the moment they arrived at Tianming Bridge. All of them had entered the play.
Xiao Qian Duyue had been controlled long before they arrived. Every word she said and every action she took afterward had actually been carried out under the Masked Person's instructions.
Guidance, Lure, and concealment—using everyone's trust in the Eye of Calamity to slowly draw them into the play until they could no longer escape.
These matters were almost exactly as Mei Sheng, Ji Li, and Fang Shenyan had guessed.
The only difference was that the three of them had