This was the fierce ghost Zhou Kun controlled: the palm of a ghost, codename Ghost Slap.
It could unleash a supernatural attack at close range or from a distance through the motion of slapping. It could kill people, and it could also suppress fierce ghosts.
Its strength was not low, but every time he used it, it would aggravate the revival of the ghost within Zhou Kun.
At first, only the muscles of his left hand, which had fused with the ghost palm, had withered. Then it was his forearm. By now, more than half of his left arm had already atrophied.
If he continued using it, the withering would gradually spread to his entire left arm, his shoulder, his left chest, until even the area around his heart withered and stopped beating.
When that time came, it would be the moment Zhou Kun died and the fierce ghost revived.
Cooperating with Zhou Kun’s attack, Wang Liang once again released Sadako’s supernatural power, seeking to further suppress Li Lengmei.
He did not rashly step forward and try to nail Li Lengmei dead with the coffin nail, because the ghost’s abilities might not have all been revealed yet.
If he charged up recklessly, he was very likely to fail, and might even lose the coffin nail. At that point, they would truly be finished.
Sometimes in a confrontation, there might only be one chance to nail a fierce ghost dead. Success or failure—he needed the right moment.
Wang Liang released the curse, but this time, the medium he chose to release the curse through was not a photograph, but Li Lengmei’s eyeballs!
Li Lengmei looked at Wang Liang, and Wang Liang’s figure was reflected on the surface of her eyeballs.
Sadako’s curse was released over. On the surface of Li Lengmei’s eyes, which were filled with madness, the figure of a female ghost in white appeared, walking outward step by step, wanting to invade reality.
But something bizarre happened. After the white-clothed female ghost reflected in the eyeball approached the surface, her figure swayed and lingered there. She did not invade out as she had in the past. It was as if some even stranger supernatural force had blocked the “exit.”
The figure of the white-clothed female ghost inside the eyeball even gradually began to blur, as though she were being erased.
“Impossible!” Wang Liang’s face showed shock. This was the first time Sadako’s supernatural power had failed.
Fortunately, at that moment, Lü Huizhen’s supernatural power from the rear also spread over. The upward curve at the corners of Wang Liang’s and Zhou Kun’s mouths suddenly returned to normal.
Aside from some torn wounds at the corners of his mouth, Wang Liang no longer had the urge to laugh. The same was true for Zhou Kun.
The target of the slit-mouth killing supernatural attack had been shifted. The supernatural illusion created by Lü Huizhen caused the fierce ghost to misjudge.
The killing pattern was transferred and unleashed upon two illusions that only fierce ghosts could see, but in reality, there was nothing there but air.
‘Good chance. It’s now.’
Having no time to ponder why Sadako’s curse released through Li Lengmei’s eyeballs had failed, Wang Liang strode over in person, gripped the coffin nail in a reverse hold, and thrust it forward with force.
Li Lengmei did not resist, because in its vision, Wang Liang was still standing where he had been, enduring its attack.
However, at the final instant before the coffin nail was about to pierce in, its eyeballs trembled slightly.
Pfft.
The rust-covered nail tip stabbed into Li Lengmei’s forehead, splattering a string of foul-smelling black blood.
Li Lengmei’s hideously split mouth smoothed back down, her madness-filled eyes closed, and the cold aura emanating from her body vanished as well.
“How is it? Did it work?” Zhou Kun asked from behind, panting.
He did not know what the coffin nail did, but seeing Wang Liang use it this way, he figured it must be a rare and special supernatural item.
“It should be no prob—wait?!”
Wang Liang watched Li Lengmei’s corpse, pinned by the coffin nail, slump down, and had thought the suppression had succeeded.
But when he reached out to lift Li Lengmei’s corpse, he discovered that this body could no longer give him any special sense at all.
Even if it had been nailed dead by the coffin nail, it should not be like this. Right now, this seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary, rotting corpse.
“Wang Liang, watch out!”
Just as Wang Liang was feeling puzzled by this, Zhou Kun’s urgent, panicked voice suddenly rang out behind him. At the same time, an intense chill appeared at his back.
Wang Liang quickly turned his head to look, but he did not see Zhou Kun, because his field of vision was completely blocked by the tall, icy figure of a female ghost.
The distance between man and ghost was less than a single step. Wang Liang could even smell the thick stench of corpses coming from the fierce ghost.
The female ghost was tall, over two meters in height. She wore a long, tattered trench coat stained with blood, her dry, messy black hair hanging loose. She stood rigidly, lowering her head to look down at Wang Liang.
Her gray-black pupils had shrunk to almost the size of ink dots, sharp to the extreme; the rest was a vast expanse of turbid white.
Being stared at by such eyes was like being pricked by needles. They were filled with irrational madness.
The instant Wang Liang met her gaze, the corners of the female ghost’s mouth wriggled, then rapidly tore open toward both sides, all the way to her ears, forming a huge, bloody slit that exposed the sharp teeth and blood-red gums inside her mouth.
Seeing such a hideous ghostly smile almost pressed against his face immediately made one’s scalp go numb and every hair stand on end, fear rising involuntarily in the heart.
This was the true Slit-Mouthed Woman!
Previously, she had merely possessed Li Lengmei’s body to move around temporarily.
Whoosh.
The corners of Wang Liang’s mouth curled upward once again and split open rapidly. This time, the speed was even faster than before.
It seemed that after leaving the possessed state, the Slit-Mouthed Woman had become even more dangerous.
And before Wang Liang could react, the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s pair of large hands, broader and thicker than those of an adult man, had already lifted and clamped around his neck.
Cold. Bone-piercing.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman’s hands carried a strange force, squeezing Wang Liang’s neck until it creaked, as if she meant to snap it directly.
A strange, icy supernatural aura invaded Wang Liang’s body through the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s hands, making Wang Liang feel as if the area around his neck had instantly lost all sensation.
It even affected his blood flow, turning his face livid and his limbs stiff; even raising his hand became strenuous.
Wang Liang immediately controlled the ghost blood to seep out from the surface of his neck, trying to use it to resist the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s strangling hands.
But the icy supernatural force that had invaded his body carried an intense suppressive quality. The moment the black ghost blood seeped partially out from the skin of Wang Liang’s neck, it came to an abrupt halt.
At that moment, Wang Liang could not even sense the existence of the ghost blood. The ghost blood’s supernatural power within his body had only just emerged before it sank into silence, suppressed by the eerie force of the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s hands to the point that he could not even perceive it.
Not only that, the Sadako supernatural power filling his neck was also being suppressed and forced back, no longer able to continue occupying the area of his neck.
This forcibly created a gap in his pseudo-ghost body. When Sadako’s supernatural power spread to his neck, it was as though it had encountered an icy wall and could not advance another inch.
What made Wang Liang feel even more horrified was that Sadako’s supernatural power within his body was not only unable to continue spreading upward—it was actually gradually retreating downward, being rapidly suppressed just like the ghost blood.
The dozen or so derivative Sadakos crawling over nearby were affected at the same time. The black blood flowing over their bodies vanished first.
And they themselves had only taken a few steps before their movements grew increasingly stiff and slow, their supernatural bodies gradually turning into ash and dissipating.
If this continued, perhaps even Sadako’s supernatural power would be suppressed into complete silence. At that time, he would not even be able to use his alternative restart, and would be no different from an ordinary person.
And when an ordinary person was gripped in the hands of a fierce ghost, there was naturally only one outcome: death.
‘This is what the hell you call easy to contain right after descending?!’ Wang Liang felt both shocked and furious.
According to the system, when a film ghost first descended, much of its own puzzle would be scattered, leaving it in a “weakened” state and easy to contain.
The Sadako supernatural power Wang Liang had directly controlled at the beginning had also been in a scattered state, but later, he had supplemented it with ghost blood.
That allowed him, when facing weaker fierce ghosts, to casually reach out, grab them, and suppress them. Even stronger ones could be resisted for a while, and at worst, he could retreat safely.
Yet now, facing this Slit-Mouthed Woman who had just descended, in only two exchanges, he was nearly being directly suppressed to the point that all the ghosts within him would fall into dead silence.
It was not that Sadako was weaker than the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Rather, the Slit-Mouthed Woman had already displayed four abilities just from what she had shown so far. The completeness of her current puzzle was absolutely above Sadako’s.
A ghost domain that let her escape into the air, possession to move, slit-mouth killing, and this obviously abnormal, terrifying supernatural suppressive force after using both hands to grab a person or ghost by the throat.
The reason the Sadako curse released through Li Lengmei’s eyeballs had failed just now was perhaps also related to this eerie suppressive force.
This suppressive ability was definitely not an ordinary overwhelming difference in supernatural quantity.
Instead, it was a special killing supernatural power that attacked and suppressed by strangling people. It even had a slight resemblance to the suppression of the Ghost Messenger.