Chapter 160: A Special Wedding

Zhang Hao looked at the bronze basin; this thing is a special Supernatural Artifact.

Through his Precognition, Zhang Hao no longer has to, as before, conduct further research.

The moment he obtained the bronze basin, his mind had already simulated several possible futures of studying the basin.

This also, after mastering Xiong Wenwen's ghost, is a major boost for Zhang Hao.

Through his Precognition, when Zhang Hao acquires some Supernatural Artifacts, or even Fierce Ghosts, he can quickly work out simple uses for these things.

The supernatural property of this bronze basin is also simple: place any object on the basin, and the object will ignite on its own.

The dust left behind can contaminate those Fierce Ghosts that do not exist in reality.

Moreover, this dust can suppress the influence of the Ghost Domain, which is no small effect.

If the paper ash that falls in the Ghost of the Bride's Ghost Domain can combine with the ash in this bronze basin, the Ghost Domain's strength might be elevated a notch.

The improvement mentioned here is not an increase in the Ghost Domain's range or strength.

Rather, it concerns the Ghost Domain's supernatural characteristics.

For example, Zhang Hao's Ghost Domain has already been upgraded several times, each time incorporating many special supernatural elements.

Oh right, there are also those Yellow Papers.

Zhang Hao looked upward; in the midair, many Yellow Papers were slowly drifting down, yet he could not see where the Yellow Papers originated.

Zhang Hao raised his head to scan the surroundings; throughout the county town, signs of Yellow Papers falling were everywhere, clearly indicating that in this city, this Yellow Paper is an extremely important supernatural phenomenon.

Even the key reason this county town could be created is related to this Yellow Paper.

Just like the previous Mountain Village, this bizarre county town is a Spiritual Realm forged through a Supernatural Artifact.

Zhang Hao speculated that perhaps even the ghost painting, at some past period, might also have been a Supernatural Artifact serving as the core of a Spiritual Realm.

Thus, after the ghost painting revives, it immediately reaches the level of an S-level Paranormal Event upon its emergence.

The Yellow Paper here can affect the entire county town; if its source revives, its danger and strangeness are unlikely to be less than that of the ghost painting.

Zhang Hao stared at the county town's crossroads, paused in place for a moment, and soon chose one direction to depart.

【2】 Zhang Hao stopped in place, not truly frozen in a daze, but in Precognition.

Zhang Hao stopped in place, but it wasn't truly a daze—he was in Precognition.

He walked forward along the Road as if he were extremely familiar with this county town, with a thought of being indifferent to everything around.

No, saying he is completely indifferent would be an overstatement.

At the very least, where Zhang Hao walks, an odd baby is occasionally left behind.

These babies linger in place for a moment, then begin moving toward the surrounding houses.

They help Zhang Hao search for food, and in the process they also devour some Fierce Ghosts with low Terror Level.

Pressing onward, Zhang Hao soon arrived at the first destination.

It is a two-story Chinese tiled house; on the first floor, it is pitch black, and the closed doors prevent one from seeing the interior details.

But through the house's paper windows, one can still glimpse some vague human silhouettes inside.

This county town imprisons a terrifying Fierce Ghost.

These Fierce Ghosts were essentially Ghost Tamers in life, but now, with Yellow Paper affixed to their faces, they are temporarily in a living‑dead state, and no one can say whether they are still human.

What is certain is that once these individuals revive and leave the city into reality, they will become the most bizarre Supernatural Incident.

After all, even Ghost Tamers are not all qualified to become living dead.

Those selected to become living dead confined in this city are at worst Ghost Tamers who have mastered more than two ghosts.

These Fierce Ghosts are controlled by people, and the living consciousness within them is sealed by Yellow Paper.

Once the Yellow Paper is removed, these awakened Ghost Tamers are not much different from Ghost Controlling Humans.

The only difference is that they may be even more bizarre than Ghost Controlling Humans.

At least in Zhang Hao's Ghost Controlling Human state, he can still consider himself a Fierce Ghost, and when facing Supernatural Artifacts, he is affected by them.

And these Ghost Tamers residing in the county town, once revived, still think of themselves as human.

But their consciousness and worldview have long been influenced by Fierce Ghosts, and their behavior is indistinguishable from that of Fierce Ghosts.

If Zhang Hao is a Wish Ghost, then a captain-type Fierce Ghost, while possessing a ghost identity, also retains human intelligence.

Then the Ghost Tamers in this county town are like Zhao Lei, who is controlled by a newspaper ghost.

They still experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, consider themselves human, but their own consciousness is already driven by the Fierce Ghost within their bodies.

This situation has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that, like Zhang Hao, they do not have to face Fierce Ghost revival and need not act according to Fierce Ghost instincts.

But the drawback is obvious: these Ghost Tamers lack the immortality of Fierce Ghosts; they simply do not experience Fierce Ghost revival because they are being driven by their own Fierce Ghosts.

Zhang Hao glanced at the silhouettes on the first floor, did not linger there, and instead headed toward the second floor.

The hallway on the second floor of the brick‑tiled house is very narrow.

Here there is only a tiny wooden door, aged and with flaking green paint; it has no lock, and seems to open with a mere touch.

"Dong dong dong!"

After Zhang Hao halted, he could hear some eerie sounds coming from the room.

It seemed his arrival had attracted the attention of something.

Through the crack, the interior was pitch black, revealing nothing.

As the sounds continued, something seemed to be moving toward this side.

Listening to the sounds, the White Curtain at Zhang Hao's waist began to drift involuntarily, slipping through the door crack into the room.

The White Curtain entered the room like it had eyes, shooting rapidly toward a certain direction.

Soon, the White Curtain seemed to grasp something and began contracting toward Zhang Hao's position.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the White Curtain fully retracting, soon a Hong Bai Shuang Sha paper garment appeared in Zhang Hao's hand.

This is a Hong Bai Shuang Sha Groom's Robe, only palm‑sized, and it is a paper garment.

Zhang Hao looked at the garment, and after pondering for a moment, a piece of flesh fell and turned into a baby.

The baby had just appeared, lifted the garment and swallowed it into its own belly.

Soon, a Hong Bai Shuang Sha paper garment appeared on the ghost infant's body.

However, Zhang Hao was clearly not satisfied; after a brief contemplation, the infant before him underwent a new transformation.

The infant's body began to change violently, its originally bluish‑black, somewhat chubby skin turning dry.

In less than a moment, the ghost infant's skin turned wax‑yellow, like a Paper Person.

And the ghost infant's originally plump form became thin, like a Paper Puppet scaled down to a miniature adult.

"Not bad, this fits the Paper Bride perfectly."

"The Paper Bride is crafted from Baishui Town's Dry Corpse Bride, while the Paper Groom is crafted from my ghost infant."

While speaking, Zhang Hao gathered up the Paper Groom.

The final piece of the Bride Puzzle series has been gathered, and now we just await the ghost bride.

However, before that, Zhang Hao still needs to find another item in this Strange County Town.

Zhang Hao looked up, and the Black and White Ghost Domain began to radiate outward from him.

The paper Groom's Robe is now in his possession; even if this Strange County Town is out of control, it now has no connection to him.

In this situation, Zhang Hao naturally chose the simplest method to locate the source of Yellow Paper.

The Black and White Ghost Domain continuously invades this county, and within it, infant‑shaped Fierce Ghosts occasionally appear.

These infants repeatedly appear in various locations within the Ghost Domain, forging each Fierce Ghost into a Meat Ball and bringing them back to Zhang Hao.

The Ghost Domain's invasion, without doubt, sparked the county's instinctive resistance.

Within the Black and White Ghost Domain, gray‑black paper ash suddenly emerged.

These paper ashes, swirling with a gale, abruptly appeared within Zhang Hao's Ghost Domain.

This paper ash seemed to carry an extremely special supernatural quality; the Yellow Paper and paper ash swirling in the sky at this moment actually formed something resembling a Ghost Domain, and began to clash with Zhang Hao's Ghost Domain.

However, this confrontation could not last long.

Yellow Paper can serve as the core of this Strange County Town, not because Yellow Paper itself is especially terrifying, but because of its special effects and rules. Perhaps the source of Yellow Paper lies in reality, capable of reaching an S-level Paranormal Event.

But these Yellow Paper before Zhang Hao were clearly still not enough to behold.

The Ghost Domain's clash lasted only a brief moment, and soon those Ghost Domains composed of paper ash and Yellow Paper were shattered by the Black and White Ghost Domain.

Under the Black and White Ghost Domain's invasion, Yellow Paper quickly lost its color, turning into gray sheets.

And those already gray‑black paper ash needed no further explanation; they began to turn into dust and scatter as if forgotten.

The Yellow Paper's counterattack, without doubt, provided Zhang Hao with a lead on the source of Yellow Paper.

Zhang Hao vanished on the spot, and as the Black and White Ghost Domain fully invaded this Strange County Town, he instantly arrived in a room of a three‑story Small Western House at the town center.

Inside the room, there was a guillotine, and atop it lay stacks of Yellow Paper.

Zhang Hao lifted the guillotine, pulled it downward, and on the other side a new stack of Yellow Paper appeared.

Zhang Hao roughly counted; the newly appeared Yellow Paper numbered forty‑nine sheets.

That is, each time the guillotine is used, it can produce forty‑nine sheets of Yellow Paper capable of turning the living into the living dead.

However, the side effects of using this guillotine are evident.

After Zhang Hao pressed the guillotine down, his body seemed to be sliced many times by it.

Each time this guillotine produces a sheet of Yellow Paper, it dismembers the user once.

Zhang Hao carefully examined, and roughly five incisions appeared on his body.

The reason it was approximate is that some of the incisions on Zhang Hao healed instantly at the moment they were made.

Another portion of the guillotine's side effects caused no impact on Zhang Hao whatsoever.

Ultimately, the guillotine that should have dismembered Zhang Hao with forty‑nine wounds only produced seven.

And as Zhang Hao inspected the wounds, the previously cut wounds were completely healed at that moment.

Zhang Hao's own Terror Level was too high, even though he had never deliberately cultivated protective supernatural.

But merely by his Terror Level, it was sufficient to repair the damage from dismemberment.

Not to mention, unconsciously, Zhang Hao also ingested many Fierce Ghosts that have protective abilities for the body.

Even without deliberately developing these Fierce Ghosts' abilities, their innate protection makes Zhang Hao's protective supernatural sufficiently exceptional.

"Got the item, let's eat."

Zhang Hao stood on the third‑floor walkway, gazing at the Black and White county, his eyes bearing an eerie sheen.

With the Ghost Domain's invasion, the environment of this Strange County Town was completely shattered.

The Black and White Ghost Domain invaded all the Yellow Paper on the faces of the living dead throughout the city.

Without the Yellow Paper's restriction, these Fierce Ghosts in the Strange County Town also resumed their actions.

Although it was still unknown what had happened, these people, the moment they left the county, already began to wander the city.

Some of those silhouettes even proactively attacked the ghost infants feeding in the county, suppressing and subduing them.

The ghost infant's potential was too great; these Ghost Tamers who awakened from the Strange County Town instantly recognized the ghost infant's growth potential.

However at that moment, as the first ghost infant was tamed by one of the awakened individuals.

Within the Black and White Ghost Domain, pale figures clad in white Funeral Clothes appeared.

The Mindless Suppression supernatural began to accumulate, and these Ghost Tamers who had just emerged from the living dead state, having not regained freedom for long, fell again into a state of lost freedom.

"This is the last feast."

Zhang Hao looked up; after devouring these ghosts, the ghost bride side was also nearly fully mastering Ghost Blood and had awakened.

On the other side.

After leaving Da Dong City, Yang Jian did not return to Dachang City; he only called to tell his family and friends not to go back to Guan Jiang Xiao Qu and the Shangtong Building for the time being.

After arranging these matters, Yang Jian went straight to Da Han City.

"You have failed!"

Seeing Yang Jian rush into the Ghost Post Office, Zhang Xianguang, the fifth‑generation manager of the Ghost Post Office, had already guessed the cause and effect.

"Indeed we failed; even Hong Jie and Li Jun have gone offline, and that ghost also snatched my Coffin Nail."

Yang Jian's complexion was extremely grim at that moment; this was the most troublesome and desperate thing he had ever encountered.

Even the starving ghost back then only threatened a single Dachang City.

But now the Red and White Double Evil threatens the safety of the entire clan.

"Hong Jie."

Upon hearing that, Zhang Xianguang's face, rarely showing nostalgia, hinted at a recollection of some long‑dead people.

It felt familiar, yet he seemed not to recall ever knowing such a person.

"I'm not very clear on the name Hong Jie; I obtained it through a Supernatural Artifact, and it was also the name of a top‑tier Ghost Tamer who died in Da Dong City."

"The Red and White Double Evil can completely erase the memory of those they kill from people's minds; that's a huge problem," Yang Jian explained.

"However, the most troublesome part is still over at Taiping Ancient Town; not only is my combat power affected, but even He Yiner of Taiping Ancient Town is almost incapacitated," Yang Jian continued with bad news.

He Yiner's primary combat method is Soul Summoning, but in that battle at Da Dong City, it almost drained all of Taiping Ancient Town's resources.

At least regarding such Republic Era old antiques, Taiping Ancient Town now cannot summon even one.

Moreover, even as a Captain Level Medium, He Yiner lost a great deal in the breakout.

Zhang Hao's main clone is battling the Wraiths of the Seven Elders, but that does not mean that He Yiner and the other Captains can watch the drama quietly.

The endless funeral clothes ghosts, as well as the Fierce Ghosts summoned from the Ghost Domain drawings, are what these Captains are facing.

In the Black and White Ghost Domain, once a Wraith summoned by He Yiner dies there, any Medium associated with him will disappear completely.

"I understand," Zhang Xianguang said in a deep voice.

"He has already entered that level; to deal with that ghost, one must be someone who has reached that level."

"The Supernatural Artifact in your hand that can provide you with information—would you mind letting me use it?"

"I need to borrow this thing now to carry out some plans," Zhang Xianguang looked at Yang Jian; he was referring to the Human Skin Paper.

"Moreover, because I cannot leave the Ghost Post Office, I will have to rely on you to help me with some matters from now on."

Upon hearing Zhang Xianguang's words, Yang Jian hesitated for a moment, then finally took a golden tube box from his chest.

He opened the tube box, and a sheet of paper fashioned like Human Skin was taken out by Yang Jian.

"My name is Yang Jian; when you see this sentence, I am already dead, killed by the Red and White Double Evil."

The Human Skin Paper, once opened, uttered the familiar opening line, but this time the clause "dead at the hands of the Red and White Double Evil" inexplicably made one feel it could become reality.

"A very strange thing; you obtained some special information through it? How do you use it?"

Zhang Xianguang took the Human Skin Paper from Yang Jian's hand and asked.

But before Zhang Xianguang could finish speaking, the moment the Human Skin Paper changed hands, the writing on it vanished.

Then, new words quickly appeared on the Human Skin Paper.

"My name is Zhang Xianguang; when you see this sentence, I am already dead, killed by the Red and White Double Evil."

"Yang Jian's operation plan matches my estimate; it failed. To imprison a Fierce Ghost that has reached that level, only a Ghost Tamer of the same level has the ability to detain it."

"Whether it's Hong Jie or other Wraiths, they once had that level of strength, but as Wraiths confronting a Fierce Ghost of the same rank, it is essentially impossible."

"Fortunately, I have now successfully stepped into that level; next, I will have Yang Jian bring the Medicine Elder of Zhongjiang City, planning to join forces to deal with the Red and White Double Evil."

"Unfortunately, our plan was executed too slowly."

"Before we could successfully lure the Red and White Double Evil into the Ghost Post Office, the White Evil and the Red Evil completed a special wedding."

"No one can deal with it now, not even the person I respect most in my heart, who lacks the ability to confront it."

The Precognition of the Human Skin Paper seemed to encounter some obstruction; the information it gave was not as clear as the messages Yang Jian had previously obtained from the Human Skin Paper.

Nevertheless, looking at the content, both felt a chill in their hearts.

After completing a special wedding, no one can deal with the Red and White Double Evil; they understand exactly what that sentence means.

If this special wedding cannot be prevented, the Red and White Double Evil will be utterly unsolvable.

Possessing wisdom, immortality, and invincibility, the Red and White Double Evil could rightly be called an "Immortal" at that point.

(End of Chapter)