Chapter 170: The Door Deep Within Yin Yang Lu

Without the captain and the Seven Elders, the Red and White Double Evil's roaming within the country naturally has no one daring to stop it.

Moreover, because the wedding procession's forward speed is too fast, the Headquarters cannot even manage to block the news.

At this moment, the entire country already knows that a bizarre wedding procession is roaming within the nation.

Once one encounters this wedding procession, the final outcome is most likely only death.

For a while, everyone, terrified, hides at home and dares not go out freely.

However, not everyone stays at home; some Ghost Tamers have discovered that after the Red and White Double Evil departs, it leaves behind some Supernatural Artifacts that can affect Fierce Ghosts.

It is a special red paper; holding that red paper can suppress one's own Fierce Ghost revival for a certain period.

Even when attacked by other Fierce Ghosts, handing these red papers to the Fierce Ghost will cause it to abandon the attack.

Once this news spread, the Red and White Double Evil shifted from a previously feared unsolvable Supernatural Incident to a coveted target.

Although the Red and White Double Evil still appears very dangerous, as the saying goes, wealth and honor are sought amid risk.

If one can obtain a dozen or so red papers, that represents a chance to suppress Fierce Ghost revival for a dozen days.

Moreover, Fierce Ghost revival is not calculated by days.

Normally, even when nearing Fierce Ghost revival, as long as you can Suppress Fierce Ghost without using Ghost Power, you can live several more days.

That means obtaining a dozen red papers can extend lifespan far beyond a dozen days, reaching one to two months.

A dozen red papers also represent a dozen opportunities to wield the Fierce Ghost's Supernatural Aura.

In such a situation, these Ghost Tamers going crazy is quite normal.

After all, a single attempt might later yield the capital of ten attempts; in that case, who wouldn't want it? Zhang Hao does not understand the Ghost Tamers' thoughts.

Even if he were clear, he wouldn't care that these red papers left by him and the Ghost Bride fall into the hands of those Ghost Tamers.

After all, these red papers are invitation cards.

Suppressing Fierce Ghost is merely because the source of the red paper, the Ghost Bride herself, has such a high Terror Level that the emitted Supernatural Aura instinctively suppresses those weak Fierce Ghosts.

Time drifts slowly.

It has been a week since Zhang Hao left the old mansion for the first time.

There are too many Spiritual Realms, and too many Fierce Ghosts scattered everywhere.

Even though these Spiritual Realms pose no real threat to Zhang Hao, he still spent a full week traversing all of them to deliver the letter.

However, before returning to the old mansion, Zhang Hao still lacks one final destination to visit.

Dachang City, Guan Jiang Xiao Qu.

Ten days have passed since Yang Jian's disappearance; by now his family and friends seem to have received the news and are moving out, leaving only a few unwilling to leave still residing in Guan Jiang Xiao Qu.

At this moment, in Guan Jiang Xiao Qu, a boy who looks nearly twenty, holding a broom, is cleaning the complex.

"Tui Ge, I heard they say you're already dead; my dad told me to leave this complex to avoid being affected by your enemies later."

"But I don't believe you'd die so easily."

"Before, you disappeared many times, but when you reappeared after a long while, I think you still weren't truly dead this time either."

"I believe the real you is still somewhere waiting, waiting for a chance to return to this world."

The person cleaning Guan Jiang Xiao Qu is named Zhang Wei, a bad friend of Yang Jian, also his closest friend, essentially a rich second-generation.

Zhang Wei sweeps the Road inside the complex while muttering to himself.

Suddenly, Zhang Wei stops, seeming to have noticed something odd.

He lifts his head, looking toward the distant direction.

"Is it an illusion?" Zhang Wei looks toward the Zhong Ta Lou at the edge of the complex; just now he seemed to see something moving that way.

But when he watches closely, he finds nothing at all.

That place was previously given by Yang Jian for Wang Shanshan to live in, but after Yang Jian's disappearance, Wang Shanshan also died.

That Zhong Ta Lou itself is linked to Fierce Ghosts; aside from Wang Shanshan, naturally no one dares to reside there.

"Forget it, never mind, once I finish cleaning I'll go back."

Zhang Wei shakes his head, abandoning the idea of exploring.

He knows that the Zhong Ta Lou previously experienced many Supernatural Incidents, such as last time when it lost its color and the entire tower was covered in red blood.

This isn't some unbelievable mysticism; in this complex there truly are many items related to Supernatural Incidents.

On the other side.

Zhang Hao also noticed Zhang Wei, but he didn't pay attention to him; unexpectedly, that guy happened to luckily avoid all the Fierce Ghosts' Killing Rule around him.

"Forget it, quickly finish the Yin Yang Lu matter, then start the final wedding."

Zhang Hao arrives at the Zhong Ta Lou and opens the first floor's main door.

Perhaps because the Ghost Cabinet was stolen by Zhang Hao last time, Yang Jian later had this building renovated.

But for Zhang Hao, this clearly offers no obstruction.

Just a casual push, and the renovated main door swings open.

The Ghost Cabinet and Ghost Mirror have already been taken, and there's nothing noteworthy in the room; Zhang Hao quickly passes through the two inner rooms to reach the third room.

The third room, compared to what Zhang Hao saw in Baishui Town, has no real difference.

All are golden doors, but each door still bears an old rusted lock.

Zhang Hao applies slight force, and the lock in front of the door is crushed by him.

"Bang!"

Again a series of booming sounds, Zhang Hao forcefully smashes the door open.

The heavy door thunders down to the ground.

The room is pitch black, then the darkness spreads outward like dense fog, cold and permeating, as if to erode everything around.

Zhang Hao's expression is blank; he simply steps forward.

Darkness immediately receded, and all terrifying Spirit Phenomenon abruptly ceased.

At this moment, Zhang Hao was a presence that even Fierce Ghosts would fear; before him, even Fierce Ghosts would instinctively ignore their Killing Rule.

Even if Zhang Hao did many things that conformed to the Fierce Ghosts' Killing Rule, they would not dare to attack him. Pondering, a thick stack of red paper appeared in his hand; after placing the red paper at the doorway, he then walked toward the interior of the room.

He intended to go in and see whether this world's Yin Yang Lu would differ from Baishui Town's Yin Yang Lu.

Entering the third room, at the initial position, there was not much difference from Baishui Town.

What came into view was only a special road, which widened from the outside to the inside, eventually extending into the deep darkness.

This road was not spirit‑formed; rather, it seemed built by living people. When first entering the room, the road was still very narrow, only about four meters wide, but as he continued forward, the road widened.

At the end, the road was no longer a road, but resembled a vast arena.

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

But as he moved forward, the darkness gradually dissipated, and at that moment he found himself in a special location. Behind him was a room engulfed in darkness; ahead lay an endless dim world, like a massive Ghost Domain.

Then he looked left and right, and on both sides there were also roads.

These roads had no clear boundary; only that on the left side of the road it was dim and dead, with eerie figures wandering, while on the right side it was bright, faintly showing city scenery from Reality.

Spirit and Reality, light and dark.

"Like Baishui Town, have you also arrived at the junction of Reality and the Spiritual Realm?"

The road ahead gradually narrowed, but the curvature of the narrowing was slight, making it hard for ordinary people to notice.

Some places ahead were more unusual; a segment of the Yin Yang Lu had vanished, and the two worlds converged, meaning Fierce Ghosts could follow the convergence point into Reality.

The road looked toward the broken Yin Yang Lu behind.

Unlike Baishui Town's Yin Yang Lu, here the Yin Yang Lu also has broken sections, but behind them there is still a road.

In the deep darkness, a broken segment of road still led toward some direction ahead, though its end was unseen.

Even if Zhang Hao used Ghost Eye to observe, he could only see that those roads were in one segment after another, as if broken into many pieces.

"Try using Precognition."

With the wedding imminent, Zhang Hao did not intend to cause further trouble at this time, to avoid accidents.

Closing his eyes, Zhang Hao felt a chilling aura around him, and his perspective began to shift.

A perspective ten minutes ahead appeared; Zhang Hao used Ghost Domain, launching a Ghost's Invasion into this broken road.

This road led to a Spiritual Realm located in a western city's Reality, where there was a gap; occasionally some Fierce Ghosts could pass through this gap into Reality.

However, Zhang Hao had no intention to investigate further; he had already visited that Spiritual Realm when delivering a message before, and saw no danger worth his concern.

This shows that Fierce Ghosts able to pass through these gaps are not inherently high in Terror Level.

Moreover, Zhang Hao tried, and with his own Terror Level, this gap was insufficient to accommodate his departure.

If he truly tried to leave through this gap, he might not have truly performed a Ghost's Invasion into Reality, and the gap would collapse.

Zhang Hao crossed this broken road and arrived at the next segment's junction.

Here also lay a broken gap; through perception, Zhang Hao could determine that this too should be linked to some city in Reality.

"It seems that each broken place represents an entrance that can invade the Reality World."

"Moreover, each Spiritual Realm is actually built upon these broken junctions."

Zhang Hao's conjecture was not unfounded.

If the Spiritual Realm itself were not connected to the Yin Yang Lu, like Zhang Dong and his group, after concluding the Republic Era's Supernatural Incident, they would have no need to create so many Spiritual Realms to imprison Fierce Ghosts.

After all, given their Ghost Domain strength and personal power, even imprisoning all Fierce Ghosts in a tiny Golden Box was not impossible.

In such a case, even consuming half of the world's gold to imprison Fierce Ghosts, then imprisoning them deep within the Earth's core, or even on an alien world.

Even if later those Fierce Ghosts could breach the golden barrier, it would still buy humanity hundreds, even thousands of years of safety.

But Zhang Dong and his group did not imprison Fierce Ghosts in gold; instead they chose various locations corresponding to Reality, establishing individual Spiritual Realms to imprison the Fierce Ghosts.

This approach explains the situation well.

Zhang Hao did not think that this group of people who could become top Ghost Tamers, in the Republic Era, would have such narrow thinking as to not conceive these possibilities.

After all, in the Republic Era, airplanes and cannons had already begun to appear.

Imprisoning Fierce Ghosts in the Earth's core, etc., was a solution that could be easily thought of.

Zhang Hao crossed these broken roads; after an unknown amount of time, he successfully traversed them and entered the deep darkness.

Within the deep darkness, Zhang Hao, in a daze, seemed to see a door.

It was a door standing at the road's end, its gate made of white bone, exuding a chilling terrifying aura, somewhat illusory, yet when you reach out to touch it, you can truly feel it.

Even when Zhang Hao saw this flashing white bone door, he instinctively felt dread.

It should be noted that the current Zhang Hao, having defeated Zhang Dong, had consumed one‑third of Zhang Dong's Spirit.

In this situation, even if the world's Yang Jian grew into Yang Jian, he might still not be Zhang Hao's opponent.

Yet under these circumstances, facing this white bone door, even Zhang Hao felt dread.

When Zhang Hao's hand touched the door, his body seemed stimulated, and the Supernatural Aura rushed outward recklessly.

A certain special Spirit was eroding Zhang Hao's body, and he was instinctively resisting.

Fortunately, this erosion was not severe and was quickly repelled by Zhang Hao.

"In the original work, Luo Wensong once told Yang Jian that he continuously supplemented the Spirit related to the gate in order to knock on a special great gate; if he could knock that gate, he might resolve the hazards brought by the Supernatural Incident."

"At that time, Yang Jian found the Golden Gate in the third room of Guan Jiang Xiao Qu, and regarded that gate as the one Luo Wensong wanted to knock."

"But in fact, that Golden Gate was actually made of gold, and was not the gate Luo Wensong wanted to knock."

Spirit cannot affect gold; this is one of the undeniable truths of the mysterious revived world.

Even if Zhang Hao could destroy the Golden Gate, aside from physical means, using Spirit on gold would have no effect at all.

"So Luo Wensong actually wants to knock on this gate deep within the Yin Yang Lu?"

Zhang Hao raised his hand and struck forcefully on this illusory white bone gate, yet the white bone gate showed no change.

Even though Zhang Hao has consumed many Ghosts, the supernatural incidents involving his reaching out and doors are few.

"Forget it, let's wait until the wedding is finished before trying again."

Zhang Hao ended his Precognition, opened his eyes, and his perspective returned to the first spot where Yin Yang Lu and reality intersect.

(End of chapter)