"We three were cursed earlier, but the effects weren't that severe then. Now it's gotten worse. It feels like our bodies are being eroded. I realized how serious it was, so I chose to retreat for now. Otherwise, if we really started fighting and all three of us ran into problems at once, we'd be finished."
Yang Jian was still holding the Ghost Scissors.
He had seen the curse.
A cold female corpse had almost overlapped with Liu San. It was beginning to affect Liu San's consciousness and control his actions.
When Liu San had lost focus just now, it had not been him moving at all. It had been the female corpse acting. His body was like a puppet on strings, possessed by a fierce ghost and pulled along as it walked.
Yet Yang Jian was in the same situation.
He was simply in better shape than Liu San. Only his body had gone out of control; the ghost shadow had not.
The ghost shadow could still forcibly reclaim control of his body, but that only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.
Li Jun was probably in the best condition. The curse affected him the least because he himself was human skin, filled with ghost fire and sustained by Ghost Makeup to preserve the consciousness of a living person. There was not a single part of him that belonged to a living person. Therefore, Li Jun had not lost control even now. There were only slight signs of invasion.
"We collapsed before we even fought. This is truly unacceptable." Li Jun's face darkened, clearly displeased.
They had already come this far and endured so much danger, yet when they faced the fierce ghost suspected to be the source, they had fled outright.
They had not fled when they