Chapter 1: Starting Out as a Ghost Slave

Beside the desolate Highway, a chilling aura spread unchecked, encircled by Hong Bai Shuang Sha eerie light.

The air carried a lingering faint corpse stench.

Beyond the Hong Bai Shuang Sha eerie light, a white figure knelt on the ground, while a Hong Bai Shuang Sha figure held the hand of a man with a stiff face.

On close inspection, the Hong Bai Shuang Sha figure's withered hands, wrapped in dark brown corpse skin and exposed from the sleeves, were clasped with the man's.

Within the Hong Bai Shuang Sha glow, faint silhouettes could be seen, extremely eerie, leaving no thought of anything good.

Under overwhelming terror, the man's remaining consciousness let out a terrified wail.

Zhang Hao's consciousness was already clouded, his thoughts stalled, not knowing what to think, only watching everything unfold with his eyes wide open.

He was powerless to stop the Dried Corpse Bride's actions; he was just an ordinary person.

After the man named Yang Jian could not protect him, Zhang Hao, targeted by the Dried Corpse Bride, could only await death.

From afar, Yang Jian watched Zhang Hao outside the Ghost Domain, wanting to lend a hand, yet his Ghost Domain could not envelop the Dried Corpse Bride.

Once enveloped, the eerie bride seemed able to infiltrate his Ghost Domain via the Hong Bai Shuang Sha light.

Moreover, not far away, the Crying Tomb Ghost summoned by the Dried Corpse Bride through some Ghost Power kept wailing, preventing Yang Jian from moving easily.

Ordinary people are fragile before Ghost Power, and Zhang Hao is no exception.

After being hand‑held by the Dried Corpse Bride, his consciousness vanished quickly.

The Dried Corpse Bride possesses a Certain Death terrifying Ghost Power when she holds hands; unless she needs him as a Medium, his consciousness wouldn't even last a second.

"? What's happening to me?"

As Zhang Hao's consciousness died, he completely lost the ability to think and fell into being the Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Slave.

At this moment, a new consciousness seemed to descend onto Zhang Hao.

From the initial confusion, that new consciousness quickly cleared from Zhang Hao's lingering memories everything that had occurred.

"So I transmigrated to become that ordinary person who died after being hand‑held by the Dried Corpse Bride in the mysterious revival?"

Like the original host, the new consciousness is also called Zhang Hao.

Only their experiences differ completely; the new Zhang Hao seems to come from another world, and he clearly knows what the mysterious revival records.

"But now I am the Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Slave, right?"

Zhang Hao filtered everything, gazing at the eerie and terrifying Hong Bai Shuang Sha figure beside him, feeling puzzled inside.

Clearly the being beside him is extremely terrifying, yet he seems unable to perceive its horror.

Facing this Fierce Ghost that even Yang Jian, whose headless Ghost Shadow had dead‑machine, dares not confront directly, Zhang Hao surprisingly felt no danger.

On the contrary, for some unknown reason, Zhang Hao inexplicably felt a sense of safety.

This reminded Zhang Hao of a peculiar person in the mysterious revival—Wang Shanshan.

The woman who became Yang Jian's Ghost Slave yet retained her living consciousness, still able to think for herself.

"So now I am also a being similar to Wang Shanshan, right?"

Perhaps because the original Zhang Hao has already died, this body is already the Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Slave.

So after Zhang Hao transmigrated, he was not attacked by the Dried Corpse Bride, but inherited the identity that the body brought.

Maybe due to the Ghost Slave status, even his consciousness was not erased or forcibly controlled by the bride.

Or perhaps other reasons; in any case Zhang Hao feels his current state is extremely unusual.

He is a Ghost Slave, yet still possesses his own consciousness, can weigh pros and cons, not merely a tool of the Fierce Ghost, and retains the ability to think freely.

Though he says he is not a Ghost Slave, his heart inexplicably feels a kinship toward the bride beside him, as if malice cannot arise. Zhang Hao cannot comprehend, and can only, based on the information he knows, make a certain judgment about his own state.

After roughly confirming his own condition, Zhang Hao then observed the surroundings.

First himself and the Dried Corpse Bride, then the Crying Tomb Ghost not far away.

After that, that Hong Bai Shuang Sha light should be Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.

According to the original memory and the plot Zhang Hao has read, the Ghost Domain should contain three Ghost Tamers: Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and Xu Feng.

Besides that, Zhang Hao remembers there should also be an unknown ghost here, perhaps a nightmare, but it could also be an unknown ghost.

"Um, the memory is a bit hazy—because I just merged into this body and haven't adapted yet? Or is it affected by Ghost Power?"

Zhang Hao was puzzled, but now was not the time to nitpick these things.

He looked up toward Yang Jian's direction; for some reason, the Hong Bai Shuang Sha Ghost Domain did not obscure Zhang Hao's gaze at all.

His eyes seemed able to pierce the Ghost Domain, seeing several people inside.

Clearly everything within the Hong Bai Shuang Sha light was somewhat blurred.

"Again because of the Ghost Slave reason?"

Zhang Hao thought this might be why he is now the Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Slave.

Although he lacks true Fierce Ghost abilities, he also inherited some of the Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Power.

Just as a headless Ghost Shadow's Ghost Slave would learn the Fierce Ghost's tactic of ambushing a living person from behind and decapitating the enemy.

When Zhang Hao is near the Dried Corpse Bride, he can inherit her vision.

This is similar to Yang Jian's Ghost Infant being able to move freely within Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.

However, perhaps because the bride lacks a Ghost Domain, Zhang Hao cannot borrow the Ghost Power of a Ghost Domain like the Ghost Infant.

Zhang Hao tried to act, but from his left hand, a force that he could not resist kept emanating.

Because the bride was activating Ghost Summoning Ghost Power, Zhang Hao's body was wholly under her control, lacking any freedom to move.

Not only that, under this circumstance

A normal person would think about how to break free from the Dried Corpse Bride's handhold.

However, Zhang Hao's mind did not entertain that thought at all, clearly understanding he was being controlled by the Dried Corpse Bride.

But Zhang Hao did not think of escaping; he simply felt a powerful Ghost Power continuously emerging from the Dried Corpse Bride's body, gathering in his right hand.

This is Ghost Summoning Ghost Power; the Dried Corpse Bride is using Zhang Hao as a Medium to summon ghosts.

And the target of the Ghost Summoning turned out to be the Crying Tomb Ghost not far away that was attacking Yang Jian and the others.

Unfortunately, Zhang Hao cannot see his own expression.

From a distance, one can see that his face now bears a sorrowful, tearful look, yet he forces out a faint smile; this expression is as strange as can be.

After becoming a Ghost Slave, Zhang Hao seems to have lost something; although his consciousness still exists, he cannot perceive his own emotional changes.

Clearly, his face, under the influence of the Crying Tomb Ghost, retains a tearful look, yet Zhang Hao cannot empathize.

Zhang Hao cannot perceive it, but from afar Yang Jian clearly sees it all.

Zhang Hao, who is being hand‑held by the Dried Corpse Bride, is now looking at himself with a highly uncanny expression.

Because the Immortal Mysterious Revival has always been vague regarding Combat Power, a thousand people can each discern a thousand copies of the Immortal Mysterious Revival, so the author posted a Combat Power system note, which lists some Fierce Ghost traits that also affect Combat Power; those interested can take a look.

(End of chapter)