Mysterious Revival

Yang Jian returned to Big J City once again.

His actions were hurried, and after confirming the situation with the Ghost Cabinet in Dachang City, he returned without delay, not staying a moment longer.

Because from now on, his next moves would be crucial to his chances of survival.

"Finding the Source Ghost in the ghost painting might complete the transaction with the Ghost Cabinet, but within the next two days I should also receive news from Wang Xiaoming, and I will then decide whom to trust based on the situation," Yang Jian thought to himself.

He discarded some unrealistic plans, and in the end, only these two feasible options remained.

Yang Jian arrived in the city center.

He was on a quest to find the next ghost painting, convinced that in the days he clashed with his social circle, the situation with the ghost painting had worsened significantly.

It was just that no one had paid attention to the change before.

But as the conflict with his social circle came to an end, the crisis of the ghost painting would surely regain attention.

Standing on the street and looking around, during his prior coverage of the city with the Ghost Domain, he had identified several locations that couldn't be explored, not safe houses but places that might have been steeped in supernatural phenomena.

Only the supernatural could block the coverage of his Ghost Domain.

However, the likelihood of a city like this having supernatural events was incredibly low, and if there were any, they were likely associated with the ghost painting incidents. Hence, he now needed to inspect these unknown locations.

Without hesitation, Yang Jian activated his Ghost Domain to change his position.

The next moment.

He appeared in a clean, tidy alleyway.

Pedestrians passed through the alley in succession, everything looked normal, and there was no sign of the area being cordoned off.

"It's in the courtyard house just ahead," Yang Jian stood in an inconspicuous corner, looking towards a small, courtyard house with tightly closed doors in the middle of the alley.

There seemed to be signs of supernatural invasion there.

However, the people around didn't seem to be aware of any problems with the courtyard house; otherwise, there wouldn't be passersby nearby.

Yang Jian strode over; he wasn't foolish enough to appear directly at a location where supernatural events might occur. Instead, he chose to emerge nearby and then cautiously make his way there.

Soon, he stood in front of the large gate of the courtyard house.

He tried pushing it.

He found that the gate was locked, and moreover, it was bolted from the inside.

"Young man, that family is not at home; their door has been shut for several days now," at this moment, an elderly man walking his bird in a cage happened to pass by and kindly offered a reminder.

Yang Jian subconsciously turned his head to look.

"Are they relatives, or friends? Standing there won't do any good, you should ask for a phone number," the old man added.

Without responding, Yang Jian's Ghost Shadow had already seeped through the crack of the door unnoticed by others.

"Creak!"

Soon after, the lock inside was destroyed by the Ghost Shadow, and the large door slowly opened.

Yang Jian pushed open the gate and said, "Elder, if there's nothing pressing, you should walk around somewhere else. This place is not suitable."

After speaking, he walked straight into the courtyard house.

"Strange, the door wasn't locked properly, it opened with a single push?"

The old man found it odd, carried his birdcage, and followed, standing at the doorway looking in.

He saw the young man who had just entered standing in the yard, looking around as if it was his first time there, unfamiliar with the items in the courtyard.

"Young man, it's not very good for you to barge in like this when the owners are not home," the old man was worried that Yang Jian might be a wrongdoer and felt compelled to keep an eye on things.

Yang Jian stood in the courtyard, not to observe the layout, but to peer at the abnormalities. If the ghost painting were here, it would likely be in one of the rooms, so he needed to test with his Ghost Eye.

The Ghost Eye dared not open in the face of the ghost painting.

It was a kind of restraint between supernatural entities.

"No reaction?" Yang Jian furrowed his brow, "This is strange, I clearly detected an anomaly here last night, could I have remembered it wrong? Or has the ghost painting already left?"

The ghost painting was movable, not fixed in one place; about this, he was very clear.

Instantly, he covered the entire courtyard house with his Ghost Domain, ready to thoroughly investigate the situation.

As the Ghost Domain covered the area, everything came into his field of vision, ordinary buildings and walls did not block the Ghost Eye.

"A corpse."

Yang Jian's gaze darkened as he spotted a body in one of the rooms of the courtyard house.

Because it was winter and the weather was cold, the corpse had not decayed and no stench of death wafted out. It merely lay stiff on the bed, as if it had fallen asleep one night a few days ago and never woken up.

"A ghost once appeared here and killed the owner of this courtyard," Yang Jian said, "but the ghost has since vanished. It seems as if it departed after the murder... This isn't a Ghost Drawing, because a Ghost Drawing would constrain my Ghost Eye, so this must be a paranormal event that has never occurred before."

Yang Jian furrowed his brows slightly.

He did not want to deal with the matters here. Finding the source of the Ghost Drawing was his top priority.

Other spiritual incidents were irrelevant to him for the time being.

"Old man, report this to the authorities," Yang Jian turned and said to the elder who had approached earlier.

"Young man, what did you just say?" asked the elder holding a birdcage, seemingly not having heard clearly.

Yang Jian pointed to the side and explained, "There's someone dead in that room, been dead for at least three days now. If it weren't so cold, the body would have rotted by now."

"You can't be joking about something like this, young man," the elder responded, looking shocked.

Without further discussion, Yang Jian turned and was ready to leave the courtyard to check other places.

But quickly,

he hesitated, then stopped in his tracks.

Because Yang Jian's Ghost Eye had been monitoring the corpse lying in the room, he noticed that the body was incomplete — a hand was missing, seemingly torn away by something.

"Why take only one hand..." Yang Jian suddenly thought of something.

An incident involving the supernatural came to mind.

The Ghost Strangler event he had encountered on the plane when he first arrived.

The source of that spiritual event was a Ghost Hand, but that hand had already been tamed by him and become his palm.

However, the incident had not ended; its origin was a bottle, a spirit bottle made of gold, suspected to contain a ghost.

That ghost and the Ghost Hand were one and the same.

Moreover, to survive the Ghost Coffin incident at the training facility, Yang Jian had personally released the ghost from the spirit bottle, aiming to increase his side's ghost count as a countermeasure against the repression of the Ghost Envoy.

"After the Ghost Envoy incident ended, I couldn't find that ghost in my three-tiered Ghost Domain. Could it be that the ghost slipped away at some point and entered the city? The death of Zhang Hui last time was very bizarre; it seems to have been a mysterious spiritual attack, and he died in a hotel."

"Even a ghost controller couldn't withstand the ghost's assault and passed away overnight, without sending out any call for help."

Yang Jian's contemplation deepened, as he began to sense the severity of the situation.

A ghost was killing people within the city.

But because it was responsible for so few deaths, almost insignificant, it hadn't raised much alarm.

If one were to assess this type of spiritual event, the danger level would only be considered C-grade.

But given that a ghost controller has died, Yang Jian believed it was at least a B-grade incident.

"I've resigned already; let someone else in charge deal with this headache," Yang Jian shook his head slightly, deciding to search for the next suspicious location.

He abandoned this place.

He strode out the door and, as soon as he turned a corner, he disappeared from the spot without attracting anyone's attention.

"Wait a moment, young man..."

The elder carrying a birdcage followed, but when he stepped outside, he no longer saw Yang Jian. He hesitated for a moment, then decided to help close the door first, and then call to report.

After the elder made a phone call,

soon,

the courtyard was sealed off.

A body was carried out in a body bag.

"There's no sign the door was opened before, so who discovered the body first?"

Chen Yi rushed over, worried that the incident might involve a Ghost Drawing.

"The one who called was an old man, but the person who entered here first was Yang Jian. There's surveillance footage of him nearby," said a staff member.

Chen Yi's gaze sharpened, "Yang Jian? Is he also investigating a spiritual event?"

"Alright, I'm informed. Seal off the area, and don't let anyone in or out for the time being."

But as two groups of people arrived, no one knew that an unseen sinister presence had dissolved in the room of the recent corpse. It seemed to have been scattered or perhaps followed one of the people who had entered the room as they left.

This subtle change went undetected by all.

Even Yang Jian, who had been here just before, had no inkling of it.