Chapter 51: Transforming into a Fierce Ghost

After ten minutes of searching, Zhang Hao finally found what he wanted in the Laboratory.

Perhaps because Wang Xiaoming valued the Ghost Coffin too much, the room where the Ghost Coffin was placed turned out to be an enlarged Laboratory deeper within the Laboratory.

However, at that time the Laboratory was completely open, sparing Zhang Hao the trouble of having to break in with physical force.

Entering the Laboratory, one can see a small room inside that holds a coffin.

Red paint coats the slightly aged coffin, looking dazzling under the dim light, yet no corpse is placed inside the heavy coffin.

But the impression is extremely gloomy and uneasy, as if this object harbors some bizarre power.

Zhang Hao examined the coffin lid and saw a fine crack on it.

This seems to indicate that the Ghostly Servant has successfully gestated, like a fledgling breaking out of its egg.

After observing for a while, Zhang Hao entered the Ghost Coffin, lay down, and closed the coffin lid.

"Bang~!"

A faint sound as the lid sealed tightly onto the coffin.

All the light vanished.

Lying inside the coffin, Zhang Hao seemed swallowed by darkness; even with his eyes open, he could see nothing.

Strangely, after sealing the coffin, he felt his body slowly sinking as if the coffin behind him were continuously collapsing inward.

No, that's not right; the body isn't sinking, it's disappearing.

His body melted piece by piece, and during this he felt no pain nor death.

It seemed this disappearance wasn't true vanishing but a kind of rebirth; although Zhang Hao had lost his emotions, he could inexplicably feel a comforting sensation spreading through his body.

Soon.

His body completely vanished inside the coffin.

Yet the vanished him still retained consciousness; he could sense that he remained inside the coffin.

Only his body was gone, a contradictory feeling.

But it felt so real.

As if Zhang Hao had detached from his flesh, gradually becoming merely consciousness.

"This feeling... is like entering a Ghost Spirit Tablet, no, it's stronger than that."

Zhang Hao could feel that this alternative state resembled something: a Ghost.

And Zhang Hao also recalled that when the Ghost Coffin was in Huanggang Village, it could temporarily transform a person lying inside into a Ghost.

However, later, as the Ghostly Servant fully gestated, the spiritual anomaly inside the Ghost Coffin vanished.

In the end, the remaining spiritual anomaly in the Ghost Coffin could only cause the Fierce Ghost within the Ghost Tamer's body lying in the coffin to fall into silence; the Fierce Ghost would not revive.

"No, that's not right; perhaps it's not that—the Ghost Coffin is so comfortable for the Ghost that it refuses to revive."

Although Zhang Hao no longer has a body, he continues to ponder, studying everything inside the Ghost Coffin.

"Moreover, Ghostly Servant, it seems you still haven't truly gestated yet."

Zhang Hao recalled that after Yang Jian altered the Killing Rule, the Ghostly Servant, due to a mistaken belief that it hadn't gestated, returned to the Ghost Coffin to gestate again.

It now appears that the Ghostly Servant's second return to the Ghost Coffin exhausted the spiritual anomaly inside the Ghost Coffin.

After all, the Ghost Coffin had already birthed the Ghost in Huanggang Village, and later, through Wei Jing, birthed the Ghostly Servant.

Due to the Ghostly Servant's mistaken belief, the Ghost Coffin gestated the Ghostly Servant once more. After three gestations, only a remnant of the spiritual anomaly remained inside the Ghost Coffin, which is understandable.

(The first Ghost was fashioned by Wang Xiaoming into a weakened coffin nail—a coffin nail with three Suppression Quota—but its suppression effect is poor.) However, the current Ghost Coffin and the original story differ in the timing of Yang Jian's resolution of the Eight-Tone Box Curse.

At that time, the Ghost Coffin underwent three gestations, whereas the current Ghost Coffin has only experienced two.

In other words, can Zhang Hao absorb all the spiritual anomaly from the Ghost Coffin? "Perhaps this could compensate for the deficiencies in my body."

Zhang Hao harbors no aversion to receiving the spiritual anomaly from the Ghost Coffin.

He is not a Ghost Tamer, nor does he consider himself an Abnormal human.

In Zhang Hao's perception, he belongs to the Ghost side, only he is not yet a Fierce Ghost.

Now the Ghost Coffin can gestate a living person into a Fierce Ghost; Wei Jing was birthed this way, and Zhang Hao instantly realized this is his chance.

Even if the remaining spiritual anomaly in the Ghost Coffin cannot gestate him into a true Fierce Ghost, as long as the Ghost Coffin can fill the deficiencies in Zhang Hao's body, that will satisfy him.

After all, the current Zhang Hao's body, aside from the flesh derived from Ghost Seeking Kin, remains in a corpse-like state elsewhere.

Only ordinary Ghost Tamers are unaware of Zhang Hao's condition; if they encounter a Ghost Tamer of Qin Lao's rank.

He would only need to strip the flesh from Zhang Hao's body, remove his Ghost Mourning Clothes, and could completely kill Zhang Hao.

The emergence of the Ghostly Servant undoubtedly solves this problem.

Although he possesses a Restart Ability with the Bride, it still has a distance limitation.

From now on, Zhang Hao need not worry about dying from bodily death when the Restart cannot be used.

Of course, all this is merely Zhang Hao's own thought.

It remains unknown how far the remaining spiritual anomaly in the Ghost Coffin can gestate him.

Outside the Ghost Coffin, the Ghost Bride watches it, motionless, just standing there.

The Ghost Coffin does not block perception between the Bride and Zhang Hao; the Bride can still sense Zhang Hao inside the Ghost Coffin.

Otherwise, the Bride would already have walked out of the Laboratory and begun killing.

However, due to the spiritual anomaly of Ghost Seeking Kin, even if the Ghost Bride encounters a target that triggers her Killing Rule now, she will not stray from Zhang Hao.

Of course, the main reason is Zhang Hao cannot act; if he could, the Ghost Bride might forcibly take him along to kill the target that triggers her Killing Rule.

Time passes slowly.

Meanwhile, inside the Ghost Tamer Training Base.

Yang Jian is leading a group of temporary teammates and a Ghostly Servant in an alternative competition.

The Ghostly Servant can kill a Ghost Tamer to seize a Fierce Ghost, increasing its Suppression Quantity of Certain Death when alone, while Yang Jian and his group must rendezvous with the opponent before the Ghost Tamer is killed.

Competing in a time race with the Fierce Ghosts that possess the Ghost Domain, it was obvious they were on the weaker side.

Yang Jian and his companions could not keep up with the speed of the Ghostly Servant's Growth.

Fortunately, Human Skin paper also seems very afraid of Ghostly Servants, so it cooperated in providing Yang Jian with a survival plan.

By using a white Ghost Candle, one can lure Ghostly Servants.

Thus, as long as Yang Jian and his temporary teammates are not alone in number, they can attract Ghostly Servants without being attacked by them.

Luring Ghostly Servants prevents other Ghost Tamers from being killed by Ghostly Servants and having their ghosts taken, thereby limiting the Ghostly Servant's Growth.

(End of chapter)