Yang Jian used the supernatural copper coin as bait to lure Captain in. Then, with the water ghosts in the Ghost Lake providing cover, he reclaimed the coffin nail and intended to reenact the Starvation Ghost Incident, nailing the vicious ghost codenamed Captain to death.
Yet unexpectedly, Captain had been thinking the same thing. While following the rules governing a vicious ghost's actions, it had also used itself as bait to draw Yang Jian close before suddenly striking, giving him no chance at all.
At that moment, Yang Jian's neck was gripped by an icy, stiff hand.
The hand did not seem to exert much force, as though he could break free at any moment. Yet to Yang Jian, it was a fatal restraint he could not escape, because his supernatural power had been instantly suppressed, as if it had fallen dormant and could no longer be used.
Even several of his Ghost Eyes had shut on their own, leaving only one barely holding on.
Under these circumstances, Yang Jian could not possibly use a restart.
It was not only the Ghost Eye's supernatural power that had been sealed. Even the Ghost Lake was now affected. Since Yang Jian was the source of the Ghost Lake, the moment he was caught, it immediately lost control. The countless water ghosts lying dormant within the lake seemed to lose whatever power sustained them. In an instant, they stopped moving and continuously sank into the water, vanishing from sight in the blink of an eye.
Then even the lake water covering the entire area began to recede. If this continued, it would not be long before the Ghost Lake flooding Dazhou City dried up completely.
Once the Ghost Lake's supernatural power vanished entirely, all the vicious ghosts Yang Jian had buried within it