A paranormal attack without side effects

Rich Benevolence Mall, fourth floor.

Beneath the dim, flickering emergency lights, Meng Yiran ran toward the elderly woman ahead, her eyes red-rimmed. The woman wore a kindly smile.

"Grandma! I knew you weren't dead!"

Meng Yiran's voice trembled with tearful relief at having survived.

Yet Chao Tianxiang did not come forward to greet her as she usually did.

Instead, she stood silently with her arms open. Amid the blue-black haze, her rigid smile carried a bone-chilling stillness of death.

Douluo Continent, Spirit City, Papal Hall.

Seated high upon her throne, Bibi Dong smiled.

"Just as I expected."

She watched the scene on the Sky Screen. The paranormal entity had not attacked Meng Yiran immediately.

This convinced Bibi Dong that her conjecture was correct.

"Its killing rule is to attack from behind! As long as you don't turn around or expose an opening, it's nothing but an immobile puppet!"

Without hesitation, Bibi Dong activated the Sky Screen's one-way hint permission.

A moment later, on the first floor of Rich Benevolence Mall, Bibi Dong's clear voice suddenly rang out in Hu Liena's mind.

"This is Bibi Dong. I'm sending you a message through the Sky Screen's permission. The paranormal entity is on the fourth floor, disguised as Chao Tianxiang. Don't be fooled!"

"This paranormal entity kills by attacking people from behind. If you encounter it, never expose your back!"

"Forget about the Sheepskin Paper for now, and don't try using Soul Skills on Yang Jian. Your only priority now is to find a way to join the Paranormal Forum and stay close to Ning Rongrong."

Hu Liena shuddered, and hope of survival instantly flared in her beautiful eyes.

"A hint from Teacher! Its rule is to attack from behind!"

At the same time, a system announcement appeared on the Sky Screen's public display, showing the hint Bibi Dong had given.

Meanwhile, watching his granddaughter about to throw herself into the paranormal entity's arms, Dragon Duke Meng Shu was frantic, his eyes nearly splitting with rage as his Soul Power surged out of control.

"Yiran! Stop! That's not your grandmother!"

He fretted like an ant on a hot pan. Suddenly, he thought of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Tianheng was inside too. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan surely had a chance to send a hint as well!

"Yu Yuanzhen! If you use your hint to save my granddaughter, I, Meng Shu, will repay you generously, even if it takes every resource my clan possesses!"

Meng Shu flew swiftly toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

On Shrek Academy's training grounds.

Watching the Sky Screen, Yu Xiaogang turned to Tang San and Tang Hao beside him and offered his analysis.

"Look closely! The reason that paranormal entity hasn't attacked Meng Yiran is that it gained human intelligence after putting on Chao Tianxiang's head!"

"It's pretending! It wants to win Meng Yiran's trust, then use its disguise as Chao Tianxiang to kill the others with ease!"

This shocking declaration left the surrounding Shrek teachers and students stunned.

Tang San frowned, purple light flickering in his eyes.

As he closely examined Chao Tianxiang's lifelike smile in the image, he actually began to feel that his teacher's words made some sense.

With Tang San and the others agreeing with him, Yu Xiaogang's confidence soared.

Without hesitation, he activated the Sky Screen's hint permission!

"Yu Tianheng, this is Yu Xiaogang!"

Yu Xiaogang's voice reached the fifth floor of Rich Benevolence Mall, carrying an arrogance that brooked no argument.

"My analysis shows that the rules are false! The paranormal entity will actively attack people. It's disguised as Chao Tianxiang to deceive you!"

"Remember this: run as soon as you encounter the paranormal entity. As long as you run fast enough, it can't hurt you!"

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's territory.

By repeatedly watching replays on the Sky Screen, Clan Leader Yu Yuanzhen and the elders around him had already deduced the Headless Paranormal Shadow's lethal rule of attacking from behind.

"Quick! Use the clan's permission and tell Tian Heng never to expose his back!" Yu Yuanzhen ordered urgently.

But the elder responsible for operating it was drenched in sweat, his face deathly pale.

"Clan Leader... the permission is already in use!"

"What?!" Yu Yuanzhen's eyes widened.

Then the Sky Screen mercilessly broadcast the hint Yu Xiaogang had sent.

Yu Yuanzhen nearly spat blood in fury.

"Yu Xiaogang! I *** your ******!"

The entire leadership of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan erupted in curses, wishing they could charge straight into Shrek Academy and tear Yu Xiaogang apart.

Outside the Star Dou Great Forest, Dragon Duke Meng Shu saw that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's hint had already been used.

His legs gave way, and he collapsed onto the ground in utter dejection, his eyes filled with despair.

Rich Benevolence Mall, fifth floor.

There was not a trace of light here. The darkness was as thick as ink.

Yu Tianheng edged cautiously along the icy wall, trying to discover the paranormal entity's rules in the darkness.

Yu Xiaogang's hint suddenly sounded in his mind, making him pause.

"Yu Xiaogang? That useless uncle of mine who was expelled from the clan?" Yu Tianheng's brows knitted tightly.

He remembered his elders telling him that the so-called theory of the Ten Core Competencies was bullshit. Any powerful cultivator knew its principles; it could only fool ordinary people.

But now, trapped in this suffocating Otherworld, he had no other source of information.

"If I run fast enough, I won't get hurt?"

Yu Tianheng gritted his teeth. Though doubtful, he had no alternative, so he firmly committed this escape strategy to memory.

The view returned to the mall's fourth floor.

Meng Yiran was less than two meters away from Chao Tianxiang.

Just as she was about to fling herself into that deadly embrace!

Dazzling scarlet light surged from the stairwell without warning, instantly tearing through the darkness on the fourth floor!

The scarlet Ghost Eye on Yang Jian's forehead spun wildly, its gaze piercing the disguise of flesh and skin.

Through the Ghost Eye, he saw no kindly grandmother, but a terrifying Fierce Supernatural reeking of decay, with a dead person's head stitched onto its neck!

"Found you."

Yang Jian's gaze was icy. His red Ghost Domain expanded instantly, sweeping toward Chao Tianxiang like a vast net.

But the moment the red light touched the layer of pitch-black haze surrounding Chao Tianxiang's body.

Yang Jian's three-layer Ghost Domain was once again directly dismantled by an extraordinarily strange force!

Dismembering a Ghost Domain?!

This had to be the source of the incident!

Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Jian flashed through the red light and appeared right beside Meng Yiran.

A pale, icy hand seized Meng Yiran firmly by the back of her collar. "That's a paranormal entity."

Yang Jian's voice held not a trace of warmth, as though he were stating a fact that had nothing to do with him.

Meng Yiran was utterly bewildered. She looked at Yang Jian, who had appeared out of nowhere, then at her grandmother just inches away, and instinctively began struggling violently.

"Let go of me! That's my grandma! You..."

She never finished.

Yang Jian gave her no chance to waste words. His arm jerked with sudden force.

Without mercy, he hurled Meng Yiran backward like a sandbag!

Meng Yiran slammed into a wall more than ten meters away. She let out a muffled groan, the pain so intense that she could not get up.

Meanwhile, the kindly smile vanished instantly from Chao Tianxiang's face, though her arms had been spread in welcome a moment before.

Those hollow, lifeless eyes fixed on Yang Jian before her.

She sensed the immensely powerful paranormal power contained within the young man's body.

It was an existence capable of threatening her!

Yang Jian did not retreat. His scarlet Ghost Eye remained fixed on his opponent.

At the same time, he thrust out his deathly pale Ghost Hand, reaching straight for Chao Tianxiang's neck!

He intended to subdue her in a single strike!

Yet what happened next left Yang Jian completely stunned.

Faced with the Ghost Hand's suppression, the paranormal entity did not follow rigid rules and take the attack head-on like an ordinary Fierce Supernatural.

Instead, Chao Tianxiang's stiff body took a step backward in utter defiance of reason!

That single step took her precisely beyond the reach of Yang Jian's Ghost Hand!

Yang Jian's outstretched hand froze in midair, and unprecedented shock flashed in his eyes.

"She dodged?!"

"Is this what a Ghost Controller is? She actually has a living person's combat awareness. She's just as hard to deal with as a ghost wielder!"

Yang Jian's heart sank.

Then Chao Tianxiang slightly raised her two withered, black hands.

The ink-black Ghost Domain around them began churning without restraint.

An invisible paranormal attack, carrying the terrifying power of Dismemberment, swept toward Yang Jian!

There was no probing, no holding back.

This was a paranormal attack unleashed without the slightest concern for Evil Ghost Revival—a paranormal attack without side effects!