Chapter 136: The Upper and Lower Layers of Time and Space, the Reality World's Yang Jian?

The Seven Elders were completely wiped out by the group.

However, after the group wiped out the Seven Elders, Zhang Hao did not attack the living people of this world, but began to study various things.

Don't be fooled by how easily he seemed to grow in this world.

In reality, the ghosts in this world are merely Six-Tenths of the Ghostly Power from the original world.

If it were a normal world, Zhang Dong's Erase that time might not have left him any Restart Medium.

"Madam, the problem on this side needs to be solved first."

First, the biggest problem: the Ghost Bride's Ghost's Growth.

In the fights with the Seven Elders, the Ghost Bride was clearly falling behind.

Even with Ghost Blood restored, she could face Qin Lao, but that was only because Qin Lao's attack methods are relatively simple.

If it were one of the more aggressive Seven Elders, the Ghost Bride could not match the opponent's strength.

"Lacking the ability of infinite growth isn't the issue; it's mainly the Hong Bai Shuang Sha Room."

Zhang Hao sat atop the Shangtong Building.

In the previous battle, the Ghost Bride could Restart from under Zhang Dong because Zhang Hao used the paranormal of a starving ghost to make the Ghost Bride bear a Ghost Infant.

With a Ghost Infant inside, the Ghost Bride's connection with Zhang Hao deepened considerably, and the Terror Level also rose, allowing her to Restart when facing Erase.

After later mastering the Hong Bai Shuang Sha Room, the Ghost Bride's Terror Level increased greatly, but the Hong Bai Shuang Sha Room in the Reality World is still with Zhang Dong.

Taking advantage of the Human Skin Paper on his body now, Zhang Hao began to deduce each possibility for the Ghost Bride.

Although that is no longer this world, the Human Skin Paper's empowerment still makes it easier for Zhang Hao to obtain some information.

Meanwhile, having completely resolved the crisis, Zhang Hao finally has time to study the situation of this world.

"Let's first go to Baishui Town."

Although the black-and-white Ghost Domain has already covered the globe, Zhang Hao still has two places untouched.

One is the third room in an old house in the Guan Jiang Xiao Qu of Dachang City, and the other is Baishui Town of this world.

Baishui Town, compared to what Zhang Hao saw in the Reality World, has not much difference.

However, when Zhang Hao again walked the Spirit Road of the Dead and arrived at that wooden house, he was not pulled into a new past world.

"It seems my paranormal is too strong; the ghost in Baishui Town cannot affect me now."

With the Human Skin Paper's empowerment, Zhang Hao easily grasped the key of the matter.

Nevertheless, even so, it still demonstrates the town's peculiarity.

In the world of Baishui Town, another Baishui Town actually exists.

Moreover, it appears that this Baishui Town also contains another even more past world.

"If that's the case, does it also mean the Reality World could be like this?"

Zhang Hao stood in place, pondering.

Unfortunately, this Human Skin Paper belongs to this world; it cannot let Zhang Hao know information beyond the world.

Entering Baishui Town, which has only Six-Tenths of the Ghostly Power from the original world, from the Reality World, does the other unknown world entered from Baishui Town also have only Six-Tenths of this world's ghostly power?

Six-Tenths of Six-Tenths—doesn't that mean the next world has only 36% of the paranormal intensity of the Reality World? Or, like the Ghost Bride's derivative entity? Whether it's a clone derived from the original, or a clone of a clone, each is Six-Tenths of the original's ghostly power?

If it's the latter, then it's simple: the Reality World should be that true world.

Both worlds have Six-Tenths of the Ghostly Power of the Reality World where Zhang Hao resides, so the Reality World is naturally the true world.

But if it's the former, it's troublesome: each world has only Six-Tenths of the previous world's ghostly power.

And gold exists truly in every world.

Does that also imply that above the Reality World, there might exist a world with even stronger paranormal intensity?

"Perhaps we should first study the situation of this Baishui Town."

"Although we cannot study whether the Reality has an upper layer, researching the opposite way might still let us glimpse a bit."

Zhang Hao walked toward the Ghost Bride, who at this moment was sporting a big belly; the Ghost Infant in her womb provided the Ghost Bride with some of Zhang Hao's paranormal.

Zhang Hao reached the Ghost Bride's side; the Ghost Domain covered her, and soon an illusory infant was caught by Zhang Hao in his hand.

The infant's skin was pathologically pale, as if afflicted with albinism; even its two eyes were a bleak white, appearing as if they lacked pupils.

But upon close inspection, one would find that the pupils are merely overly pale, giving the impression of having none.

Perhaps it's because Zhang Hao's own paranormal is too abundant, overly terrifying.

Moreover, the mother bearing the Ghost Infant is the Ghost Bride who now masters the Hong Bai Shuang Sha Room, not a living person as with the starving ghost.

This causes the Ghost Infant, upon birth, to emit an extremely terrifying Supernatural Aura.

"Placed in this world, even if this Ghost Infant doesn't eat ghosts, once it reaches the third stage it should achieve the Terror Level of an S-level Paranormal Event, right?"

Zhang Hao carefully sensed it; this Ghost Infant's condition is very special.

It seems like a derived ghost, yet also resembles a Ghost Slave; although it lacks any special abilities, it is sufficiently terrifying.

"Go, go see the situation of this world for me!"

Zhang Hao grabbed the Ghost Infant, wrapped its body with a White Curtain, placed it on the second floor of the wooden house, and then closed the door.

Zhang Hao's own Terror Level is too high; this room cannot contain his paranormal, allowing him to enter that unknown world.

But the Ghost Infant's strength is not high.

Although at the third stage its Terror Level could reach an S-level Paranormal Event, now it is only at the first stage.

The next moment.

A bleak white light emitted from a corner of the wooden house, casting the Ghost Infant's shadow onto the window by the wall; from outside it looked as if a baby were climbing along the window.

At the same time, Zhang Hao also sensed a strange perspective appearing in his mind.

This perspective came from the Ghost Infant he had just sent out.

The sent Ghost Infant seems to have been limited by some paranormal, cutting the connection between Zhang Hao and the Ghost Infant.

Zhang Hao can sense the ghost infant here, even share its perspective, but he cannot control the ghost infant's actions, and the ghost infant cannot perceive Zhang Hao.

And the reason is that this time only the ghost infant was sent, without the Ghost Bride.

When the ghost infant entered another world, it did not go into the room that Dried Corpse Bride emerged from.

The place where the ghost infant appeared is the moment Zhang Hao first arrived in the Reality World, also his earliest memory node in the Reality World.

That was a time when another Zhang Hao was killed by Dried Corpse Bride, and it replaced that Zhang Hao at that point.

Under normal circumstances, with the Ghost Power cut off, the ghost infant should have lost its ability to act.

But because it replaced another Zhang Hao and had contacted Dried Corpse Bride at that past moment.

The ghost infant's consciousness somehow remained intact, not dissipating despite the loss of its Ghost Power source.

As a baby born from the Ghost Bride, even though it crossed worlds and met not the Ghost Bride but the still incomplete Dried Corpse Bride.

Nevertheless, the ghost infant successfully siphoned a portion of Ghost Power from that Dried Corpse Bride as sustenance.

Perhaps it is because the ghost infant and the Ghost Bride are in a mother‑child relationship.

Even though it did not originate from Dried Corpse Bride, when the ghost infant siphons part of the Ghost Power from her, it is still limited by her.

"The Terror Level of that world should be only sixty percent of this world's."

"It seems the Reality World is also a very complicated case."

Seeing the ghost infant's experience, Zhang Hao's heart inexplicably sank.

The third world has only sixty percent of the Ghost Power of the second world, and the second world has only sixty percent of the Ghost Power of the first world.

So the first world, the so‑called Reality World, might also have only sixty percent of some world's Ghost Power? Unbidden, Zhang Hao recalled a name in his mind.

"Yang Jian!"

Although the details are still unknown, the name Yang Jian belongs to the top‑tier world in the mysterious revival.

It may even be that the ultimate source of all these derived worlds is the world where Yang Jian resides, the truly real world.

"Looks like I need to study how to bring the ghost from Baishui Town into the Reality World," Zhang Hao thought of the Dried Corpse Bride he had placed in the Ghost Bride's Ghost Domain.

If other worlds exist above the Reality World, his immediate task is to find a way to detach himself from the Reality World while preserving his power.

The way to leave this world is simple: kill everyone who remembers you.

If the Reality World also has an upper layer, then killing everyone in the Reality World would allow him to leave that realm.

At the same time, Zhang Hao thought of when he first came to this world.

Back then, his arrival beside Dried Corpse Bride was strikingly similar to the ghost infant's journey to another world. Yet Zhang Hao does not dwell on it; even though he now appears almost like a living person, deep inside he does not agonize over such matters.

Who he is, why he appeared—such curiosity does not arise in Zhang Hao's mind.

"For this ghost infant to grow enough to leave that world, it will still need a long time."

"In the meantime, I'll first study the Yin Yang Lu and Dried Corpse Bride."

At the same time, Zhang Hao also discovered that, although this world seems like the past, it does not seem to be the true past.

If it is the true past, then the current Zhang Hao could invade the future.

He devoured Meng Xiaodong, devoured Zhang Dong, devoured Qin Lao, devoured Yang Jian's Ghost Eye, and he himself possesses countless Ghost Power.

Yet even so, he cannot directly invade the Reality World at a future point.

Perhaps this is a time that resembles the past but is not wholly in the past; calling it another spacetime might be more appropriate.

Because the timeline in Baishui Town and the past‑future of the Reality World are independent timelines.

Zhang Hao left Baishui Town with the Ghost Bride and returned to Dachang City.

In Guan Jiang Xiao Qu, in front of a Republic‑era old mansion, Zhang Hao stopped here.

The old mansion looked rather dilapidated, as if it had been sealed off.

Zhang Hao led the Ghost Bride to the second floor of the old mansion, where a locked big door stands.

With a slight force he crushed the chains, and Zhang Hao opened the big door.

The second floor of the residence has three rooms; two appear to have been opened before, while the third room remains tightly locked.

Zhang Hao placed his hand on the door; as the Ghost Power eroded it, the door's disguise quickly vanished, revealing its true form.

It turned out to be a door forged of gold.

Then he raised his hand and delivered a heavy punch to the golden door.

The powerful strike dented the door, and the whole house seemed to tremble.

The massive golden door was punched with a bowl‑sized hole, gradually exposing what lay inside.

After Zhang Hao hammered the door several times, the heavy door crashed down.

Inside, the room was pitch black, then the darkness spread outward like dense fog, cold and penetrating, as if to erode everything around.

However, the darkness retreated instantly when it approached Zhang Hao, and all terrifying Ghost Power phenomena ceased abruptly.

Zhang Hao's presence is like an insurmountable mountain; any Ghost Power before him seems like a natural enemy.

At the same time, as the golden door opened, a series of images appeared in Zhang Hao's mind.

The gold isolated everything inside, even Zhang Hao could not learn the interior through Human Skin paper.

But with the golden door opened, that isolation vanished, and the Human Skin paper could naturally perceive the interior.

However, this perception requires some time to receive.

Now the darkness is gradually dissipating, and the interior is faintly revealed.

In that room, there seemed to be nothing except a special path, which widened from the outside inward and stretched all the way into the deep darkness.

Zhang Hao had no intention of waiting outside; now he could ignore many dangers.

Not to mention all the Fierce Ghosts in this world, some are sealed within the gold.

But the Fierce Ghosts that belong to the Reality World, ninety‑nine percent have already been devoured by Zhang Hao.

If, under these circumstances, he still encounters danger right after stepping onto the Yin Yang Lu, Zhang Hao has nothing more to say.

Stepping onto that particular Road inside the room, the Road was not formed by the supernatural, but rather seemed to have been built by living people.

The moment he entered the room, the Road was still very narrow, only about four meters wide, but as he kept moving forward, the Road grew wider.

Eventually the Road was no longer a Road at all, but resembled a vast arena; what had once seemed like a path carved by living people now became strange, like some kind of Spirit Phenomenon.

Moreover, the surrounding environment underwent a massive change; at first Zhang Hao was still inside the house.

But as he walked forward, the darkness gradually dissipated, and at that moment Zhang Hao found himself inside a special Ghost Domain.

Then he looked to his left and right, and a Road also existed on both sides of him.

This Road had no clear boundary; only that the left side of the Road was dim and deadly silent, with eerie figures wandering.

The right side of the Road was bright, and faintly the cityscape of the real world could be seen.

This was a Road situated at the junction between reality and the supernatural.

And as time passed, this Road gradually narrowed, though the speed was very slow; however, some sections were rather unusual.

A certain segment of the Yin Yang Lu had vanished for unknown reasons, meaning the two worlds had converged.

Zhang Hao kept looking toward the depths of the Road; in the unknown depths seemed to be some threat, and through the Human Skin Paper he could vaguely sense a hint of unease.

It was probably a Fierce Ghost deep within the supernatural, or perhaps an incomprehensible Spiritual Realm.

However, that unknown presence was so inexplicably powerful that the Human Skin Paper could not obtain any information, only a Danger Perception.

After ingesting the Human Skin Paper, the one who still could not obtain any news was Zhang Dong.

"That being said, deep within the Road, even at its end, there should be some Fierce Ghosts that are more terrifying and powerful than Zhang Dong."

Zhang Hao stared at the end of the Road, intending to go deeper, but when he stepped onto one of the Roads, he found he could not proceed further.

The Road was cut off, and the surroundings had already fallen into an incomprehensible darkness, a darkness that even Zhang Hao could not discern what lay deeper.

Even Zhang Hao's Ghost Domain probing into the darkness could only perceive a vague haze.

It was as if that incomprehensible darkness had completely turned into void.

Or perhaps this was a Road that could not be derived.

Just as ghost makeup cannot paint Zhang Dong's face.

The place where that unknown terrifying presence resides is even more impossible to derive.

"This world is, after all, only Baishui Town's world; it cannot truly connect to the real Yin Yang Lu, let alone enter the true Spiritual Realm."

Zhang Hao understood in his heart that this must be the limit of Baishui Town.

This Road can to some extent sense the aura of that Spiritual Realm, but cannot truly be entered.

Perhaps only by truly stepping onto the genuine Yin Yang Lu can one enter that Spiritual Realm.

On the eerie black Road, Zhang Hao emerged one by one.

The Black-and-White Ghost Domain began its Ghost's Invasion of this Road that borders reality.

They set their sights on the Fierce Ghosts wandering on this Road.

The black Road, accompanied by the Black-and-White Ghost Domain's invasion, began to turn gray‑black.

Zhang Hao, with the power of a ghost, turned the invasion onto the Road, beginning to devour the Fierce Ghosts within.

Although Baishui Town cannot connect to the true Yin Yang Lu and the Spiritual Realm.

Nevertheless, on this world's Yin Yang Lu many Fierce Ghosts still appear, though their numbers and Terror Level are far below those of the true Yin Yang Lu.

Zhang Hao had his duplicate devour all the Fierce Ghosts in the Yin Yang Lu, and only then did he exit this Yin Yang Lu.

Honestly, Zhang Hao was a bit disappointed; he had thought that beyond the Yin Yang Lu there would be a Yin Yang Lu comparable to Six‑Tenths of the Ghostly Power in reality.

Unexpectedly, in the end there were only a few big cats and kittens, just two or three.

"Hope the Yin Yang Lu of the world I originally came from isn't this weak."

Zhang Hao murmured a line, fetched a piece of gold and used it to reseal the great gate.

(End of Chapter)