Strength Increase: Calamity Ghost, Second Tier

"Come with me..."

Xin Yang gnawed on the apple the Skinning Wraith had peeled for him and looked at her seriously.

Earlier, "Little Brother" had looked it up online. Ghosts could form contracts with humans.

However, contracted ghosts were more like hired thugs. Humans could not use a contracted ghost's abilities the way they could use their companion ghost's abilities.

"My lord, it isn't that I don't want to follow you."

"It's that artificial ghosts cannot leave the trial space."

"We are like things that have already been programmed!"

"Once we leave the trial space, we disappear!"

Xin Yang looked at the Skinning Wraith with regret.

"All right, then. After I kill you, it will be time for me to leave too."

When the Skinning Wraith heard that Xin Yang was going to kill her,

she did not get angry. Instead, she danced with delight.

The Skinning Wraith quickly reined in her runaway emotions.

Her terrifying little face, stripped of skin, wore a fawning expression as she answered, "Thank you, my lord!"

"Then please kill me quickly, my lord."

The Skinning Wraith could not wait to reset,

because every second she spent beside this man was agony.

When this abyss-like man said he was going to kill the Skinning Wraith...

she actually felt a trace of something called gratitude!

Not much...

only as much as a strand of hair.

"Big Brother" had noticed the Skinning Wraith's impatience as well!

"Since you want to reset so badly..."

"I'm going to use a Ghost Skill on you."

"In a moment, you only need to say yes!"

Xin Yang's tone was full of temptation.

"Can you buy candy for me to eat?"

She replied with an easy expression.

"Yes..."

"Yes!"

"Of course."

Then she handed him another apple she had just peeled, offering it to the man who terrified her.

Xin Yang accepted the apple and took a bite.

The Skinning Wraith's head instantly separated from her body.

The notification for killing the Skinning Wraith appeared as well.

[You have killed the Skinning Wraith]

[Companion Ghost: Dreamsource Ghost has increased in strength]

[Current Level: Calamity Ghost, Second Tier]

After the Skinning Wraith was killed,

the glowing door to the trial space reappeared!

Little Brother finally spoke.

"Bro, how are you this awesome?!"

"Just hearing her voice made me feel like that female ghost was terrifying..."

Xin Yang sighed helplessly.

"Silly little brother, I told you already—you can't learn my method."

"With your big brother here, nothing can hurt you!"

"I'm tired!"

"I'll rest for a while..."

Little Brother regained control of the body.

He carefully swept his gaze over the surroundings.

Looking at the Skinning Wraith's eerie corpse,

he shook his head.

Then he walked toward the glowing door.

Xin Yang had barely left the trial hall

when piercing alarm sirens blared in the distance.

They echoed through the silent night sky.

Xin Yang saw all the ghost ability users in the trial hall running in the same direction.

Though he did not know what had happened, a foreboding feeling rose in his heart!

He casually grabbed someone.

Politely, he asked, "Brother, what happened?"

"Why are all the ghost ability users in the trial hall running that way?"

The man Xin Yang had grabbed met his eyes.

In a frantic rush, he said,

"A Calamity-tier random ghost space has descended upon Bright City Park."

"The area of Bright City Park instantly expanded several times over!"

"The notice said that at least several hundred evil wild ghosts at the Calamity Ghost tier had appeared. There was even a Calamity-tier Corpse King."

"So now, every ghost ability user in Bright City is heading for Bright City Park."

Before he had even finished speaking,

the man Xin Yang had grabbed immediately pulled something like a badge from his pocket and pinned it to his chest. He shook off Xin Yang's hand and kept running toward Bright City Park.

Xin Yang stood at the entrance of the Bright City Trial Hall, hesitating for a long time. After a fierce struggle within himself, he let out a helpless sigh. In the end, he still charged toward Bright City Park.

If this had been Xin Yang back on Earth, he would have run as far away as possible from something like this. But he had come to the Eerie Continent, obtained his golden finger, and was no longer an ordinary person.

If he kept hiding behind those "adorable" people who charged ahead without hesitation,

his conscience would not be able to bear it!

Big Brother's voice sounded in his mind.

"Actually, there's no need to go!"

"Bro, I want to go..."

"All right... I'll go with you!"

The young man's shadow looked especially resolute beneath the moonlight.

What he did not know was that from this moment on, he would no longer have any connection to that ordinary person he had been on Earth.

Perhaps this choice today

became the turning point of his life!

Xin Yang drew closer and closer to Bright City Park.

As he ran, he observed his surroundings.

Several densely forested mountains had appeared in the center of Bright City Park.

Amid the encircling mountains stood a main peak. Like the lord of the mountains, it rose from the earth, steep and perilous.

On the day he had first arrived in Bright City, Xin Yang had even come here for a stroll.

The park's original appearance was now completely unrecognizable!

The entire mountain range covered roughly five square kilometers.

Its highest point was probably more than a thousand meters tall.

Upon reaching Bright City Park,

Xin Yang heard roars coming from nearby.

Xin Yang ran toward the source of the roars.

When he arrived, Xin Yang saw a blue-faced, fang-toothed zombie fighting a ghost ability user.

The ghost ability user circled around the zombie while swinging his blade, adding wound after wound to its body, all while directing his companion ghost to attack it.

That ghost ability user's companion ghost was something neither tiger nor beast.

The ghost ability user noticed Xin Yang and immediately shouted,

"What are you standing around for? Help!"

Only then did Xin Yang see the ghost ability user's face clearly.

"The owner of Ming City's Number One Noodles?"

The rice noodle shop owner anxiously called for help again.

"Use a Ghost Skill and help! This zombie is only a first-tier Calamity Ghost, a hundred-year White Zombie. Stop dawdling."

Xin Yang suddenly did not know what to do.

Just as the zombie was about to pounce on the rice noodle shop owner,

Xin Yang activated Dream Origin.

At that moment, only Dream Origin's Ghost Skill could help the rice noodle shop owner.

Activation successful.

The zombie's movements stopped.

Xin Yang rushed forward and kicked the zombie away.

Only then did Xin Yang smell the stench of rot wafting from the zombie's body!

It stank...

A disgustingly unbearable stench!

It was like having a pile of rotten eggs that had decayed for dozens of days beside him, the thick, putrid air choking him.

With a muffled BOOM, flesh flew everywhere and dust billowed into the air!

It turned out that while the zombie had been briefly confused by Xin Yang's Dream Origin Ghost Skill,

the rice noodle shop owner had seized the chance to chop off the zombie's head with a single slash.

The zombie collapsed at once.

The rice noodle shop owner dropped onto the ground, gulping down breaths of air!

Xin Yang was full of curiosity about the rice noodle shop owner's exquisite swordsmanship and physical skills that far surpassed ordinary people. The other man looked like a student who had only awakened recently as well.

If he had awakened long ago, how could a first-tier Calamity Ghost, a hundred-year White Zombie, have left him in such a sorry state?

Although the man might still have been able to deal with the zombie even if Xin Yang had not helped, it certainly would not have been so easy.

Xin Yang asked curiously,

"You're a student too, right? Your swordsmanship is pretty impressive..."

"Now isn't the time to discuss that," the rice noodle shop owner said flatly. He then stood up and added, "If you can't do anything, get out of the park now."

With that, the rice noodle shop owner sprinted deep into the woods...