I can rewind time to prevent death

At this moment, Yan Junze had already sensed a strong magnetic field of strangeness spreading and churning within the house. He knew Xiang Er and Ku Zai were inside; although he was unaware of the specifics, he was certain the current situation was extremely dangerous.

After finding the door to the tenant house immovable, he immediately took a step back, released the Black Spirit Umbrella from the node of the Spacetime Atlas by gripping the handle with both hands, and pointed the tip towards the house's door while pressing the switch.

With a swoosh, the tip of the umbrella shot out, followed by a black chain that thrust into the door of the tenant house with a thunk, firmly embedding itself in the door panel and hooking onto it.

Yan Junze took a deep breath, pressed the button to retract the chain again, and then fiercely spread his arms. Because the chain was hooked onto the door panel, the entire umbrella crashed towards the door.

With a loud bang, the framework of the Black Spirit Umbrella, made of a super-strength alloy, was exceptionally hard. With this violent thrust, the flimsy door panel shattered into wood dust and chunks, falling to the ground.

Yan Junze stepped forward, picked up the Black Spirit Umbrella, and looked inside the house.

He saw Xiang Er, who was no longer recognizable as human. Her skin was pierced all over by her own hair, penetrating her clothes, transforming her into a hairy figure trembling uncontrollably while engaged in some kind of confrontation with an object suspected to be "Ku Zai".

The air inside was extremely murky, like a lump of paste, violently surging outward from the center where Xiang Er was. No wonder the door to the tenant house wouldn't budge.

Holding the Black Spirit Umbrella in front of him, Yan Junze stepped into the room. The wave of air surged towards him to push him back, but the umbrella, with its ventilated middle section, diverted the airflow, lessening the pushing force.

Yan Junze quickly made his way to the middle of the room. At that moment, Xiang Er noticed his arrival. Her lips trembling, she uttered a phrase unclearly, "I can't... hold on much longer, you... get out of here!"

It was then that Yan Junze noticed Xiang Er's arm draped over Ku Zai's shoulder, locked in a standoff with a mass of black energy, neither yielding to the other.

"Can you shake off this mass of black energy?" Yan Junze asked.

As he spoke, he felt his own voice become muffled within the thick air of the room.

But Xiang Er could still hear and answered, "I can, but it's very dangerous."

Yan Junze nodded, "Shake it off and leave it to me, hurry!"

Xiang Er hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the umbrella he was holding and refrained from further comment.

Mustering all her strength and capitalizing on the momentum of the black energy, Xiang Er abruptly retracted her force and created a fierce magnetic field in front of her to block the black energy that sought to follow through on its attack.

Bang!

A sound like a muffled thunderclap filled the air, and Xiang Er's body was flung backward, flying out of the doorway that was now only a frame, and crashing onto the corridor outside the house.

Yan Junze could not afford to take care of her. He opened the Black Spirit Umbrella and took a step forward, enveloping both himself and Ku Zai underneath.

The timing from when Xiang Er withdrew her strength and was thrown backward to when he stepped forward was perfectly coordinated, not a second wasted.

The Black Spirit Umbrella had now enveloped Ku Zai.

Inside the umbrella, a wild scream, a seductive female silhouette, and a flash of energy from the Black Spirit Pearl appeared. At that moment, it seemed as though the space within the umbrella had become another world, with tumultuous waves and no light from sun or moon.

The black energy inside Ku Zai trembled wildly, suddenly lowered by several inches, then was yanked up by an enormous suction force, causing Ku Zai's whole body to tense up as if wound tight by a spring.

At that moment, the black energy began struggling, resisting, roaring...

The next second, another large mass of black energy was ripped from within Ku Zai's body, right before Yan Junze's eyes under the Black Spirit Umbrella, where it was kneaded by the three forces inside the umbrella into a black sphere.

With a boom, it burst!

The Black Spirit Umbrella shook violently, a buzzing sounded in Yan Junze's ears. His whole body wobbled, engulfed by the blast before being released.

The black energy dissipated, leaving no trace. The Black Spirit Umbrella remained undamaged, but the umbrella holder's face was now pitch black and disheveled.

Looking bemused, Yan Junze lowered his head and saw that Ku Zai lay slumped on the ground, unlike himself; perhaps Ku Zai's fall had spared him from the brunt of the force's impact.

He felt a soreness on his face but was not injured.

Looking around, he confirmed that the black energy had been completely stripped from Ku Zai's body and had dissipated after the violent collision with the three forces inside the umbrella.

Next time, though, he should be smarter. For a clash of forces of this level, he should not stand there foolishly watching with the umbrella open; he should stay as far away as possible!

Still shaken, he forgot to close the umbrella, his gaze fixated on Ku Zai lying on the ground. He thought to himself, what level of strangeness did you provoke, young man?

Ku Zai's body was still faintly moving, seemingly unharmed.

Yan Junze's heart jolted, his eyes pausing on Ku Zai's phone that had fallen under the bed.

The phone was off, but it wasn't a normal shutdown. Instead, it was the deceptive black screen that appears after a video finishes playing, even though the screen was still lit.

Seeing the turned-on phone, Yan Junze surmised what had happened.

Yet the thought that followed still terrified him.

This Possession Spirit transmitted through video was ridiculously strong!