Chapter 126: Incomprehensible Terror, the Impending Death of Yang Jian

"Why is this Ghost constantly staring at me?"

Human Zhang Hao also seemed to notice this stare.

It isn't that he's especially perceptive; he just found that when he changed his position, the head of that Fierce Ghost dressed in Funeral Clothes also kept turning toward him.

"Brother, has this Ghost set its eyes on me?"

Human Zhang Hao looked at Yang Jian in terror and asked in a low voice.

"It hasn't set its eyes on you."

Yang Jian's first half gave Zhang Hao a sigh of relief, but the next moment his heart leapt: "It seems to have set its eyes on everyone."

"Do you have any way to deal with it?" Human Zhang Hao asked anxiously.

"No, we can probably only wait for death, praying that nothing untoward happens after we return to the Reality World station," Yang Jian said coldly.

"Fine then." Zhang Hao said, lowering his head and falling silent.

Meanwhile, Zhang Hao listened to the passengers' conversation inside the carriage and couldn't help to associate many things in his mind.

It is still before the bus stalls, and Dried Corpse Bride has not yet performed Ghost's Killing.

Is this bizarre room that can evolve an entire world copying everything from Reality, or copying some future or past?

If Zhang Hao doesn't interfere, after this Spiritual Bus incident ends, will Red and White Double Evil appear? Or will Dried Corpse Bride wander alone in the Spiritual Realm? And will that Ghost Crying Face eventually become a Puzzle of Tong Qian? "We could at least observe that."

"If this world reproduces Red and White Double Evil, the Terror Level of this world would have to increase considerably."

Because that would mean even Zhang Hao's memory of having seen the Immortal's mysterious revival would be duplicated.

And if Zhang Hao truly gets duplicated, isn't that very bizarre?

Because in this world only Fierce Ghosts cannot be replaced; living people can be supplanted by outsiders.

But if Red and White Double Evil doesn't appear, wouldn't that be even more bizarre?

One must know that the ones who entered this world are Zhang Hao and Ghost Bride.

They are the intruders, yet Red and White Double Evil hasn't shown up in this world, so which world serves as the template for this duplicated world? Time passes slowly.

The bus stopped when it reached an intersection.

However, there was no one at the intersection, at least to the naked eye; no person stood there.

Yet the bus, after staying at that intersection for five minutes, closed its doors and set off again.

The number of passengers inside changed from five to six.

An invisible Ghost boarded.

Of course, this invisibility applies only to the others.

In Zhang Hao's eyes, he could see a rotting Fierce Ghost with Ghost's Stiffness stepping onto the bus.

After receiving this Ghost, the bus moved again.

After an unknown amount of time, it seemed as if someone stepped on the brakes, and the bus's speed began to slow in a bizarre way.

At the same time, the lights inside the bus began to go out, and darkness seeped in from both sides of the carriage.

Zhang Hao grabbed the Ghost Bride, and his figure suddenly vanished on the spot; the next moment, he brought the Ghost Bride outside the bus.

Moreover, after reaching outside the bus, Zhang Hao immediately employed Ghost Domain to completely isolate himself and the Ghost Bride, making them undetectable to anyone.

At this moment, Yang Jian also seemed to notice the anomaly and hurriedly led the few ordinary people in the carriage out.

"Hmm? Those two Ghosts disappeared?"

Stepping out of the Spiritual Bus, Yang Jian was surprised to find his Ghost Eye functional.

This wasn't because the Ghost Eye was no longer under suppression after leaving the bus, but because it could not sense the presence of those two terrifying Fierce Ghosts.

"Forget it, never mind these, let's first figure out how to deal with the danger outside."

Yang Jian looked into the distance, where Dried Corpse Bride was standing.

And the Crying Tomb Ghost at this moment was walking toward the distant forest.

Perhaps those one red and one white Ghosts also left when they got off.

Yang Jian had just stepped outside a short while when the distant Dried Corpse Bride began to move.

She seized control of human Zhang Hao, forcing him to hold hands with Dried Corpse Bride, and began Ghost Summoning toward the Crying Tomb Ghost and that invisible Fierce Ghost.

Faintly, Zhang Hao even felt an inexplicable influence reaching his own body.

Fortunately, because the Terror Level gap between the two sides was huge, this Ghost Summoning supernatural could not affect Zhang Hao and the Ghost Bride.

After noticing this anomaly, the Ghost Bride even tried to strike back, but Zhang Hao stopped her.

He wants to see what will actually happen in this world.

Although he just boarded the Spiritual Bus and was seen by Yang Jian and others, causing some effect.

But Zhang Hao ultimately did not act against them; there would be no substantive impact, merely making their morale a bit worse.

Soon, Yang Jian, just as before, used the lying corpse Xu Feng to interrupt Dried Corpse Bride's Ghost Summoning.

Under Xu Feng's lying corpse Supernatural Suppression, Dried Corpse Bride lay on the ground for several minutes before successfully regaining movement.

Twenty minutes after the bus stalled, it again let out a rumble, ready to set off.

However, this time Zhang Hao no longer thought of boarding the Spiritual Bus.

He merely watched from afar as Dried Corpse Bride, and the corpse of Zhang Hao she was holding, stood there.

"Will Red and White Double Evil appear?"

Zhang Hao's heart was full of curiosity.

Time kept flowing, and soon Yang Jian took the Face-Covering Cloth from the Crying Tomb Ghost, and the bus started.

Yet Red and White Double Evil showed no sign of appearing; Dried Corpse Bride still only held Zhang Hao's corpse there.

Perhaps having lost its target, Dried Corpse Bride released Zhang Hao's corpse and walked toward the distant forest.

And Zhang Hao's corpse rigidly followed behind Dried Corpse Bride.

Zhang Hao calmly uses Ghost Domain to follow the route the Dried Corpse Bride takes when leaving.

Now it is still impossible to truly see anything; to know whether that memory appears, we must see if we can enter that Widow Village.

If that corpse now has a living person's memory, the Dried Corpse Bride will certainly bring it into the Widow Village, letting the Male Ghost of Ghost Seeking Kin protect the Ghost Slave's corpse from rotting.

If the corpse lacks memory, then for the Dried Corpse Bride it has no protective value, so there is no need to deliberately go to the Widow Village for it.

Time keeps flowing, and Zhang Hao and the Ghost Bride follow the Dried Corpse Bride's steps forward.

However, after an unknown amount of time, the route the Dried Corpse Bride walks still never shows any sign of the Widow Village.

"It seems this world is not based on the world I am in as a blueprint."

Zhang Hao pondered, but if it is not based on the world he occupies as a blueprint, what is the situation now?

"It couldn't be that this derivative world is actually based on the world where Yang Jian becomes Yang Jian, right?"

"But if so, what does it use as a Medium to capture that world?"

Zhang Hao stared at the Ghost Bride, occasionally looking up at the dark sky.

He originally entered Baishui Town only thinking of going to challenge the Seven Elders and test his own strength.

But as he saw more and more other situations, doubt began to arise in his heart.

"By the way, does this world have gold?"

"If gold truly exists, can gold shield my supernatural influence?"

Supernatural cannot affect gold; this is a truth of the Mysterious Reviving World, and also a rule the Mysterious Reviving World cannot be broken.

This world is merely a derivative world; if it only possesses gold, it can still be explained as a special supernatural product.

But if that gold can, like in the Reality World, block the supernatural influence caused by Zhang Hao, then this world would be quite extraordinary.

Then is it truly a derivative world? After all, supernatural cannot affect gold.

Similarly, Ghost Power could not possibly produce gold.

Even in the world of Ghost Painting, Ghost Painting can replicate the Reality World one‑to‑one, yet it can never replicate gold.

Those things forged from gold, or those isolated by gold, are a complete blank in the world of Ghost Painting.

"Mysterious Reviving seems to have past, present, and future timelines, each representing a different world."

"If gold truly exists, does this world represent the past world?" "But that is hard to explain, since the people of this world have only sixty percent of the original world's supernatural."

At this moment, Zhang Hao felt his perception of time had become skewed.

"Perhaps I need a paper like Human Skin, a Precognition Ghost, or a Prophetic Ghost—such a Fierce Ghost could help me discern the nature of this world."

Zhang Hao dispersed the Ghost Domain hidden on his body, releasing a terrifying supernatural aura that caused the Dried Corpse Bride ahead to halt.

The Dried Corpse Bride turned her head to look at Zhang Hao and the Ghost Bride.

In fact, Zhang Hao could feel an inexplicable closeness when facing the Dried Corpse Bride, as if he were facing the Ghost Bride herself.

However, compared with the Dried Corpse Bride, the Ghost Bride made Zhang Hao feel even closer.

"Come here!"

Zhang Hao grabbed the Ghost Bride's hand and waved at the Dried Corpse Bride.

The Ghost Summoning's supernatural activated at this moment, causing the Ghost Bride to quickly walk over.

"Madam, can you harness the supernatural on her body?"

Zhang Hao looked at the Ghost Bride; her and the Dried Corpse Bride's supernatural are of the same origin, perhaps they can be used as a Puzzle to harness.

Unfortunately, Zhang Hao's words received no response.

The Ghost Bride still only held Zhang Hao, tilted her head toward him, and did nothing else.

"Alright, it seems it cannot be harnessed."

In essence, the Dried Corpse Bride's supernatural consists of the Wedding Dress and Red Cap on her body.

The Ghost Bride already has a Wedding Dress and Red Cap, so this supernatural cannot be completed.

After all, she is not like Yang Jian, who possesses the Ghost Shadow ability to splice bodies and directly fuse two different Ghost Eyes.

Moreover, the Wedding Dress is not a body‑type Ghost but a garment‑type Fierce Ghost.

"Then give me a Ghost Painting; I'm curious—if I give the real Ghost of the Dried Corpse Bride before me as a Puzzle."

"Can she thus metamorphose into a true Fierce Ghost, and not dissipate when I bring her to the Reality World?"

Zhang Hao has always harbored a doubt about these replicated ghosts.

A starving Ghost's Ghost Infant can become an invincible Fierce Ghost by devouring a true Fierce Ghost.

Then this Spirit World, or the ghosts of the oil painting world.

Could they also, by harnessing, complete a true Fierce Ghost, thus metamorphosing into a true Fierce Ghost that can leave the world it could not originally escape?

If she becomes a true Fierce Ghost and leaves the Spirit World, the Dried Corpse Bride's supernatural in this world would vanish.

After entering the Reality World, does she belong under the control of the Dried Corpse Bride's entity or the Ghost Bride's? The Ghost Bride quickly produced a derivative Ghost Painting and handed it to Zhang Hao.

However, when he obtained the derivative Ghost Painting, and even when the Dried Corpse Bride sensed its aura and stepped forward, Zhang Hao again halted the action of giving the Ghost Painting to the Dried Corpse Bride.

Because he does not want the Dried Corpse Bride of this world to connect with the Ghost Painting, as that would prevent him from verifying his hypothesis.

Once the Dried Corpse Bride harnesses this derivative Ghost Painting, the controller must be the Ghost Bride, not the Dried Corpse Bride.

Once she leaves this world, the Ghost Bride remains a Ghost Bride, and the supernatural belonging to this world will not affect the Reality World at all.

To take the Dried Corpse Bride out of this world, she must be given a Fierce Ghost she can control.

"By the way, that paper Wedding Dress from before."

"If it really doesn't work, we can also use an oil painting to first give the Dried Corpse Bride a full Puzzle, and see if she can enter the Reality World via the oil painting world."

Zhang Hao looked at the Dried Corpse Bride, using Ghost Summoning's supernatural to control her movements; the Ghost Domain quickly returned to the spot where the bus had stalled earlier.

"Madam, take me to find that Widow Village."

Zhang Hao no longer remembers the route to the Widow Village, because back then he could not see through the darkness and could only rely on the Ghost Bride to guide him.

Following the Ghost Bride's steps, he walked for about a day.

Zhang Hao finally returned to that Widow Village.

It seemed to be night time, and Zhang Hao, seeing this, directly used the Ghost Domain to forcefully break the Village's Balance.

With the Black and White Ghost Domain's invasion, the widows inside the houses and the bandits roaming outside the Village were all killed by Zhang Hao.

"Go eat those Female Ghost corpses!"

Zhang Hao controlled the Dried Corpse Bride to begin devouring the widows' corpses that represented the Female Ghost portion.

And Zhang Hao himself swallowed all the Fierce Ghosts that represented the Male Ghost portion.

However this time, eating them was not as troublesome as last time, though his body was affected.

Commanding all these corpses that belong to the Ghost Seeking Kin Male Ghost portion, besides a slightly increased closeness to the Dried Corpse Bride, Zhang Hao did not undergo much change.

However, the Dried Corpse Bride changed more dramatically; her previously withered palm now regenerated flesh and blood.

"Hmm, just as I imagined, now I can Restart from beside the Dried Corpse Bride, and making the Dried Corpse Bride obey me no longer requires the Summon Ghost Technique."

Zhang Hao stopped using Ghost Summoning, yet he did not lose control over the Dried Corpse Bride because of it.

It seemed that because Zhang Hao belonged to the stronger side of the Spiritual Realm, after the Dried Corpse Bride ate those Female Ghosts, she suddenly felt as if she were Zhang Hao's Ghost Slave.

Whatever Zhang Hao ordered her to do, she would do immediately, even more obedient than the Ghost Bride.

The first connection was successfully established, and Zhang Hao thought of the embroidered shoes commanded by Qian Yi and the Ghost Cabinet in Dachang City.

"But before that, I have to go find the Human Skin Paper first."

"Once I obtain the Human Skin Paper, I can also know whether the Ghost Blood that lets the current Ghost Bride command this world will cause any trouble, and even be able to isolate the threats from those elders."

Yang Jian entered this world, and was once left by Qin Lao, who wanted Yang Jian to save the world's future.

Being a living person, Yang Jian would be attacked by Qin Lao because he refused to stay in this world.

Zhang Hao doesn't think a ghost like himself can have much time to act.

He forcibly used the Ghost Domain to break through this Spiritual Realm with the Ghost Bride and the Dried Corpse Bride.

At this moment, Dachang City.

Yang Jian, who had just left that Spiritual Realm, successfully returned to Dachang City.

But at this time he held a portrait in his hand, yet he could not feel any joy.

Earlier he had made a deal with the Ghost Cabinet, which asked him to locate the person in the Photo.

But when Yang Jian saw clearly the person in the Photo, he was startled.

Isn't this the Ghost Bride among the one red and one white pair of ghosts? Both skin tone, aura, and attire are identical.

He vanished after stepping off the Spiritual Bus, heaven knows where she is now? And if he really found that Ghost Bride, Yang Jian doesn't think he would still have a life to return and complete the deal with the Ghost Cabinet.

"Perhaps I can try using the Human Skin Paper to locate that ghost's whereabouts."

Yang Jian would never dare to look for the Ghost Bride.

At that time, after being glanced at by just one of the ghosts, he felt as if death was imminent, and the Ghost Eye entered a near-Dead Machine state.

The pressure that ghost gave Yang Jian was countless times more terrifying than when facing a starving ghost.

To search while confronting two ghosts, isn't that courting death? Yang Jian took out the Human Skin Paper, just opened it, and familiar words reappeared before his eyes.

"My name is Yang Jian, and when you see this sentence I am already dead; I was targeted by a ghost, and at today's 5:32:07 PM I was killed by that ghost."

At first, seeing the first half of the sentence, Yang Jian seemed completely indifferent.

But when he read the latter sentence, he was stunned.

"What kind of joke is that? The starving ghost has been dealt with, and you say I will die?"

Yang Jian widened his eyes and shouted in terror.

Although the Human Skin Paper can set traps and leave various lethal clues, it never tells a lie.

Perhaps the Human Skin Paper also feared the ghost that killed Yang Jian; when Yang Jian shouted in terror, new writing immediately appeared.

"My name is Yang Jian, I died at the hands of an incomprehensible ghost."

"That incomprehensible terrifying Fierce Ghost, in front of that ghost, even a Fierce Ghost would feel fear."

"That ghost only glanced at me, and the world lost its color at that moment."

"The entire Dachang City, just because it was glanced at by him, turned completely black and white, utterly losing color, with not a single living person left."

(End of Chapter)