The instant he came into contact with the fierce ghost, Yang Jian's body dissolved into the icy lake water.
The speed of the dissolution left him no time to respond. No—more accurately, there was no way for him to respond at all.
Yet only Yang Jian's body had dissolved.
The black ghostly shadow remained in the lake water. A pair of eyes on the shadow emitted a faint red glow, staring at the female corpse that had suddenly appeared behind him.
The female corpse's black hair drifted about. Her body was pale and cold, yet carried a faint flush of blood-red. An eerie smile remained on her face from beginning to end, and her appearance had not changed at all. She still looked like that female captain.
At that moment, Yang Jian could not tell whether the ghost in Ghost Lake was Captain Yinzi herself, or whether she had, like Cao Yang, fallen into Ghost Lake and ultimately become a vessel for the fierce ghost within it.
But none of that mattered anymore.
The Ghost Eye suddenly emitted a scarlet radiance.
The seven-layer Ghost Domain opened without hesitation.
He restarted himself.
Yang Jian reversed time, changing the outcome of being turned into a puddle of lake water by the fierce ghost in Ghost Lake and returning time to twenty seconds earlier.
As the red light faded.
Yang Jian, who had already dissolved and vanished, reappeared before them. He was completely unharmed, without so much as a single wound on his body.
"This ghost is terrifyingly vicious. It can crush me in an instant. I absolutely can't hold anything back against something like this." The instant Yang Jian finished restarting, he directly opened a six-layer Ghost Domain.
Six Ghost Eyes opened at once. The Ghost Domains stacked over one another, forming