Gao Ming had come to save Fan Li and change his fate, but now it looked as though Fan Li had risked his life to save him instead.
Convinced he was utterly cornered, Fan Li's entire face transformed into a terrifying ghostly visage. Under extreme circumstances, he had once been forced to eat a ghost. That ghost had thought it could control Fan Li however it pleased, but it had never expected him to have not a single evil thought in his heart. Instead, he had suppressed it, becoming an Anomalous who stood entirely on the side of the living.
Gao Ming narrowed his eyes. He knew Fan Li's future. Compared with Xia Yang, Fan Li had been dealt a terrible starting hand, and the ghost he had been forced to eat was nothing special. Yet through sheer willpower and an unyielding spirit, he had clawed his way up, step by step, until he stood second only to Xia Yang.
The death essence flowing from the clay idol corroded the bodies of the Costumed Female Ghost and Fan Li. Had that been all, Gao Ming still had ways to help Fan Li recover. But who could have known that Fan Li would become so crazed with bloodlust? His hideous ghostly face tore recklessly into the costume. He was willing to throw away his own life to kill the Costumed Female Ghost and buy his teammates time to escape.
The death essence within the Faceless Clay Idol's true body came from the shadow world. It was despair born from the death of an entire world. Fearless in his ignorance, Fan Li had swallowed it without even knowing what it was.
What left the Costumed Female Ghost helpless was that, after swallowing the death essence, Fan Li used his teeth, now coated