Mysterious Awakening-Chapter 484: New Path

Looking at that huge valley that had suddenly appeared, along with the changed landscape nearby, one found it hard to accept what they were seeing, because it was truly paradigm-shattering.

One had to know this was not an illusion created by the Ghost Domain, but real.

"Damn, can ghosts really manipulate things like this?" After a moment of silence, someone couldn’t help but curse aloud.

The scene was truly hard to accept.

Amazement?

No, it was more disbelief.

Harnessers could actually achieve this; it was unprecedented.

"Tsk tsk, the power of the Ghost Domain is really unsolvable; it can actually affect reality and alter the landscape. The abilities of Yang Jian with his Ghost Eye are not just empty talk. If only I could exchange my Ghost Eye for yours," said Cao Yang, a Harnesser who looked at Yang Jian with some envy.

He knew the Ghost Domain could influence reality but had not imagined it having such an impact.

However, Jang Shangbai’s face darkened as he said, "Don’t just say whatever you think. The Ghost Domain simply can’t do that. It creates a Supernatural Space which is illusory, fake. Once the Ghost Domain disappears, reality will return to normal, so there won’t be any intersection between the Ghost Domain and reality. Although some more powerful Ghost Domains can invade reality and influence some real things, the idea of altering the terrain at will is completely impossible."

"Remember the Hungry Ghost incident in Dachang City? The Ghost Domain covered the entire city, but when it was all over, didn’t the city return to normal? The Hungry Ghost’s Ghost Domain didn’t cause any destruction to Dachang City either."

"Jang Shangbai, your point seems to make sense, but it doesn’t withstand the actual slap in the face," said Cao Yang. "This probably just shows the gap between people, eh? If you could also counter-invade a Ghost Envoy’s Ghost Domain, maybe you could do it too."

Jang Shangbai glared at him and said, "You might as well just say I’m not as good as Yang Jian, why beat around the bush?"

"Brother Tui is still Brother Tui, getting stronger and stronger."

Yet Feng Quan was in utter astonishment: "Sealing a Ghost Envoy with a valley—nobody else has this kind of method. Although it’s relatively easy for that thing to get out, I estimate there aren’t many in the world who can do what you did."

Being able to influence reality meant one could do many things, far more than just altering the landscape to create a valley.

"With this ability, if you went into real estate development later on, think about how much money you could make demolishing and building houses."

There were also people with odd ideas, thinking of using this ability to get into real estate.

Yang Jian, however, spoke calmly, "Using the Ghost Domain to influence reality isn’t that difficult. The Ghost Domain overlaps with reality, creating a Supernatural Space, and then when the Ghost Domain is retracted, people and reality overlap, naturally influencing it. For example, using the Ghost Domain to pass through walls or to fly follows this principle."

"What, can you fly too?" Cao Yang’s eyes widened.

"Using the Ghost Domain to change my position, isn’t that just flying? What, is there a problem?" Yang Jian asked, perplexed.

Jang Shangbai’s eyes flickered: "But that can only affect a certain area, isn’t it a bit unrealistic to fly?"

"What, you want to learn? I can teach you," Yang Jian offered, seeming quite sincere.

"No, that won’t be necessary," Jang Shangbai said somberly.

He didn’t need to learn; he just needed to try and he would naturally uncover this way of using the Ghost Domain. However, he rarely used his ghostly abilities. Yang Jian had used the Ghost Domain so proficiently, not caring how many times his abilities were unleashed, and amazingly he still hadn’t died from a ghostly resurgence. Ṝ₳ꞐỖ𝐁Ɛş

Sometimes, it’s not that Harnessers didn’t dig deep enough into their abilities; it was that their lives were too short, and they dared not explore too much.

After all, there were not many like Yang Jian whose own ghost had died; being able to use abilities without any inhibitions naturally allowed for various experiments.

"Jang Shangbai is not wrong; a normal Ghost Domain cannot affect reality. A Supernatural Space exists because of a ghost’s existence; once the ghost disappears, the space also disappears," said Wang Xiaoming, his eyes sparkling. "It’s just a deeper level of ghostly ability, I’ve done research in this area before." Enjoy exclusive chapters from

"Using the Ghost Domain to fly is just a very common extension of its use, Li Jun can do it too, but to influence reality to that degree, at most you can pull a real area into the Ghost Domain and then alternate between reality and illusion, indirectly affecting reality. For example, take a building, if you use the Ghost Domain to pull one of its floors into the domain and change the location, when the Ghost Domain disappears, the building will lose that floor and collapse."

"But the real object doesn’t disappear; that floor is still there, it’s just that its location has changed. However, that’s enough; the impact on reality is already significant."

Wang Xiaoming looked at Yang Jian, "So what you did was shape the Ghost Domain like a valley and then pull in nearby soil to fill it, thereby directly sculpting the landscape of an area. It’s a very flexible application but not difficult to comprehend."

Yang Jian laughed and said, "Professor Wang, you’ve really researched thoroughly, but what if I said I could make an entire building disappear into thin air?"

"Impossible, when you retract the Ghost Domain, the disappearing floor will reappear," Wang Xiaoming stated, feeling challenged in his authority, his face turning cold: "Being able to pull a real place into a Ghost Domain and change it to that extent is already quite impressive."

"What if I really do it?" Yang Jian couldn’t help but smile when he saw how serious he was, "How about we make a bet?"

Wang Xiaoming said, "If you can really influence reality, we can bet on anything."

Yang Jian’s eyes flickered, "I haven’t thought of what to bet on yet; who knows what kind of good stuff you’re hiding. How about this, we bet on a condition, a condition within your ability to fulfill. Maybe I’ll need your help with something in the future."

"What if you lose?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

He didn’t like gambling, but Yang Jian’s words revealed a very important piece of information.

If it could be proven that the supernatural can affect reality, then that would be a major discovery; that was what he cared about.

"If I lose, I’ll work for you for free one time," Yang Jian said, "provided it’s not beyond my abilities."

"That’s fair," Wang Xiaoming said, "and I even have the advantage."

His loss would only mean giving a favor, but if Yang Jian lost, Wang Xiaoming could make him handle at least an A-level paranormal event, which was risking his life; so he had the advantage, and even in losing there was a benefit.

"It doesn’t matter, I can afford to be generous. Anyway, I will win in the end, so let’s decide on that," Yang Jian declared.

"This, we’re betting just like that?" Zong Shan was startled.

Yang Jian said, "Zong Shan, do you want to place a bet? I don’t mind."

"Ten million that you can’t do it, just don’t pull any tricks," Jang Shangbai said with a dark face.

"You’re that rich to throw around ten million just like that? Although I’m not interested in money now, I don’t mind if someone wants to give it to me for free," Yang Jian laughed and said.

Jang Shangbai replied, "Money is just a number to me, it doesn’t matter. Just take it as playing a game. I agree with Professor Wang’s point of view, it’s impossible to do this sort of thing."

"Generous, there aren’t many people these days who regard money as dirt."

Yang Jian asked, "Does anyone else want to play?"

"Brother Tui, you know the situation. Although I really want to support you, my, uh, funds are a bit tight recently... and this month’s salary hasn’t been paid yet," Feng Quan said, somewhat embarrassed, with a smile.

"Yang Jian, stop wasting time," Wang Xiaoming said.

"Alright, but I’m afraid of causing some accident if we mess around here. Let’s go somewhere else and talk about it," Yang Jian gestured to the Ghost Coffin beside him.

"Then let’s move," they agreed.

The group quickly packed up and wrapped the Ghost Coffin in gold foil, sealing it and preparing some emergency measures. Then, several people carried the coffin quickly away from there.

They first decided to head to the previous training grounds, then take a vehicle from there.

"Yang Jian, it’s been over half an hour, when will you prove it? Don’t end up saying you tricked us in the end, otherwise this won’t be over," Jang Shangbai said gravely.

The crowd walked along the road, carrying the Ghost Coffin on the asphalt road toward the training base.

Yang Jian was in no hurry, and as they walked, he said, "Patience. I still have things on my hands that aren’t settled yet, and this gambling matter should be set aside. Matters have their priorities, we can’t just do anything rashly. Besides, weren’t we earlier close to the Ghost Domain of the Ghost Envoy? I’m worried that if I mess around, I might accidentally provoke that thing. You don’t want to go through another Ghost Envoy incident, do you?"

"To be honest, I don’t either,"

"It’s about time now," Wang Xiaoming, unusually anxious, watched Yang Jian with interest, wondering what he was thinking.

The others also glanced at Yang Jian from time to time, all harboring a question in their hearts.

Can Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain truly transform reality completely?

Previously, Professor Wang’s theory was only about influence, but if Yang Jian actually made something in reality disappear, then it wouldn’t be just influence, but a change.

Such a change was terrifying.

"Since you’re all so eager to lose, then there’s no helping it. I’ll prove it to you now," Yang Jian stopped in his tracks.

This place was quite far from the previous laboratory, and the training base was just ahead. Going any further and being seen by ordinary people wouldn’t be good.

Immediately, he pointed to a tree by the road and said, "See that tree there?"

"Yes, that tree is thick and straight, broad and tall," Cao Yang observed.

Yang Jian quipped, "Why did you start singing?"

"Do you want this tree to disappear?" Tong Qian wrapped a headscarf around herself, covering two ghost faces, and asked softly.

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"Hmm, let’s use this tree as proof," he replied.

Yang Jian glanced at the others; "I’ll only demonstrate once, since it involves using the power of ghosts, which I normally wouldn’t do. You all know the reason, so if you have doubts, I won’t show it a second time."

"Once is enough," Wang Xiaoming said.

"This time, I won’t hide my Ghost Domain, so you can get a clearer view," Yang Jian’s gaze shifted slightly as a red glow gradually emitted from his body.

The red glow was his Ghost Domain, enveloping only him.

However, this demonstration wasn’t merely about a bet; it was more about displaying capability and strength.

Having strength meant occasionally showing off. Carrying the reputation of the Ghost Eye, being low-profile was impossible. If low-profile was out of reach, then he might as well be high-profile.

Changing reality was something Yang Jian couldn’t do before. As Wang Xiaoming had said, affecting it was already quite impressive, but this time he was confident he could achieve more, as he had discovered this ability inadvertently when invading Ghost Envoy’s Ghost Domain, which required activating the fifth layer of the Ghost Domain.

With the fifth layer of Ghost Domain activated, he could change reality.

Yang Jian gazed at the tree by the road as the red glow on his body grew more intense.

He was activating his Ghost Domain.

There was no need to stretch out hands and feet to overlap anymore; he could be more flexible, stacking the Ghost Eyes within the Ghost Domain.

In other words, there was only one Ghost Eye open on Yang Jian’s forehead right now, but if anyone could invade to the third layer of his Ghost Domain, they would discover three Ghost Eyes stacked within, resembling three overlapping shadows.

Placing the Ghost Eye in a deeper layer of the Ghost Domain made things easier, similar to his Ghost Hand.

Of course, this required being in good condition with the Ghost Eye under control, otherwise it wouldn’t be so effortless.

The others all stopped and watched the increasingly intense red radiance emanating from Yang Jian.

Those with experience knew that this was the light of the Ghost Domain.

Li Jun’s Ghost Domain was cyan-green, the Ghost Envoy’s Ghost Domain was deep black, and the Hungry Ghost from Dachang City had a cyan-black Ghost Domain... Each ghost’s Ghost Domain was slightly different.

Yang Jian’s red Ghost Domain was well-known to many, and it was one of his trademarks.

Yet before the others could observe more, they saw Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain seemingly reach some limit, as the red light suddenly converged upon the Ghost Eye on his forehead.

A beam of red light, condensed to the extreme, flashed past.

This speed was too fast, or perhaps the duration too short, and soon all the eerie scenes vanished.

Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain had disappeared.

And the tree in front of them disappeared along with it, leaving behind a long trail in the earth extending far into the distance.

Both the tree and the soil had vanished.

Laymen enjoy the show, experts examine the technique.

Although some did not possess a Ghost Domain, it did not imped with their judgment and understanding.

Therefore, they all were stunned.

"Truly, truly gone?"

Cao Yang couldn’t help but exclaim, "Damn, what is this? A laser cannon? One sweep with the Ghost Domain and everything along the road vanishes, if you did this to a person, who could withstand it?"

To do it to a person?

A chill ran through everyone’s hearts as they looked at Yang Jian with a strong sense of unease.

Indeed.

If he could make a tree vanish before their eyes, he could make a person disappear; a demon controller probably wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

And what was most frightening was that Yang Jian need not even show his face.

Several kilometers away, if something came straight at you like that, you’d disappear without even knowing what happened.

"Back in Dachang City, we used this method to launch the Coffin Nail and nailed the Hungry Ghost to death, right? And before that, the same light had invaded the Ghost Domain of the Ghost Envoy and brought us out," he said.

Wang Xiaoming glanced at him: "You really learn fast."

"Changing the subject? Trying to squirm your way out of this?" Yang Jian said.

"No, I lost," Wang Xiaoming said after examining the traces at the scene. "I never thought the supernatural could really affect reality, but where did the disappearing things go?"

"You’re asking me? How should I know?"

Yang Jian continued, "I’m not a scientist, why should I study that much? Either way, whatever disappears is definitely not going to a good place."

With five layers of the Ghost Domain superimposed, he himself didn’t know why things were disappearing.

"Can you reverse this phenomenon?" Wang Xiaoming suddenly asked such a question.

"Hm?" Yang Jian’s gaze shifted slightly. "Reverse?"

"Suppose a tree disappeared; if you reverse that outcome, doesn’t that mean you could create a tree out of thin air? If you can do that, and you change the outcome before the tree is destroyed, twisting reality, it’s like having a sort of power that a vengeful ghost has..." Wang Xiaoming proposed an outlandish hypothesis.

Restart?

Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Li Jun, and others who had experienced the previous Ghost Envoy incident were all shocked.

If Yang Jian reversed this strange phenomenon, he would possess an extremely frightening ability, akin to that of a true S-class vengeful ghost— the ability to restart.

Yang Jian was stunned for a moment too.

He had never even considered this.

But he caught on quickly, having experienced the time restart with the Hungry Ghost and the restart caused by the Ghost Envoy, he certainly understood what Wang Xiaoming’s theory implied.

And this was not impossible, it was very likely.

If ghosts could do it, ghost manipulators, not considering the revival of fierce ghosts, might also be able to do it.

"Professor Wang, we have a lot of things to deal with, now is not the time to discuss this," Yang Jian said.

Jang Shangbai immediately interjected to stop the conversation: "Yang Jian, since Professor Wang has lost, then I will transfer ten million to you later, I won’t default on such a small amount of money."

He didn’t want the topic to continue, because at that moment, he was experiencing an inexplicable panic at the thought of Yang Jian).

If Yang Jian truly achieved a restart like a vengeful ghost, he clearly understood what that implied.

Whenever he mastered this incomprehensible and bizarre ability, from then on, he would be the only one calling the shots in Asia.

By then, the team captain plan would be obsolete.

Because he would be the captain of everyone.

"Are you kidding? There’s no way I can do that, I don’t even understand it, it’s like asking me to create a car out of thin air, am I Jesus? Nobody has that kind of power," Yang Jian shook his head, finding the idea quite absurd.

Although the theory was tempting, he was clear about his own limitations.

Having said this, he didn’t pay them any more attention and strode forward.

The others watched Yang Jian’s retreating figure with different thoughts in their minds.

Even though it was only a theory of Professor Wang’s, at the very least, it let the others know that Yang Jian had come further in controlling ghosts than they had.

Professor Wang, not minding Yang Jian’s departure, looked at the vanished tree next to him, and the long trench in the ground that extended far beyond the tree.

That was the mark left by Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye.

This mark was like a road, a road with no end in sight, but once you set foot on it, the path ahead would be smooth.

Yet, the only thing standing in front of this road was just half a tree stump.

"He will do it, and he should do it..." Wang Xiaoming retracted his gaze, murmuring thoughtfully.