A shrill scream echoed through the ancient house shrouded in darkness, chilling everyone to the bone.
At that moment.
Yang Jian used the hatchet in the rear hall, directly triggering the medium and dismembering some unknown terror. He acted decisively, without the slightest hesitation.
He believed that the faster a vicious ghost invaded, the more dangerous it had to be. If he did not drive it back now, it would be too late once the ghost entered the rear hall and began killing people.
As the scream echoed, something unexpected happened.
The darkness invading the rear hall began to recede.
A dim road appeared in the main hall, directly connecting to the courtyard, as though it had split the darkness of the entire ancient house in two. At the same time, the divided darkness began retreating toward the corridors on both sides.
"So that's how it is. This darkness is a Ghost Domain belonging to a vicious ghost. After being dismembered by my hatchet, the ghost's level of terror dropped sharply, and it can no longer maintain its Ghost Domain in its most complete state." Seeing this, Yang Jian immediately understood.
What he had struck with the hatchet earlier was the source of the darkness.
That swing had been worth it.
The ancient house possessed the power to suppress supernatural phenomena. The fact that a vicious ghost could still invade under such circumstances showed just how terrifying it was.
If Yang Jian had not used the Ghost Shadow to cover the rear hall earlier, this ghost might already have infiltrated it without a sound.
But using the hatchet meant bearing the corresponding curse.
While Yang Jian dismembered the vicious ghost, the curse would dismember him as well. Not only would his body be harmed, even the Ghost Shadow would be