Five days earlier, at a hospital in Dachang City, an authoritative expert examined Yang Jian's body.
"Your condition is highly unusual. Your bodily functions are gradually deteriorating, and some areas have even begun showing symptoms of necrosis. An ordinary person in your condition should already be lying in the emergency room, yet you can still move about in an extremely healthy state. This can no longer be described as some miracle of the human body. It can only be attributed to the uniqueness of people like you."
"However, this condition will not continue indefinitely. If this deterioration continues, your body will eventually collapse completely."
Yang Jian was not surprised by the diagnosis. He merely said calmly, "How long can my condition probably last?"
"It's hard to say. Three months at the least, half a year at the most, perhaps even a year." The expert could not give him an exact timeframe.
"I understand."
Yang Jian's previous suspicions had been confirmed. His body was being eroded.
Because his resurrection after death had not been complete, coupled with the ghost within him, an ordinary flesh-and-blood body could not sustain his state of existence for long.
However, every Ghost Tamer's body had its problems to some extent. Feng Quan, for example, was almost completely necrotic, his body filled entirely with Grave Soil. Yet he was still alive, existing in this world in an eerie manner.
But Yang Jian knew that the ghost inside him was different from Feng Quan's.
Once his own condition could no longer satisfy the Headless Ghost Shadow, its instinct to replace bodies would grow stronger and stronger, until it affected his thoughts and perhaps even caused another ghost revival.
"With the resources I have, I simply can't support replacing my body with that of a ghost. This problem can't