Chapter 99: A Nation Covered in Crying, The Old Man of the Empire Era

After this ghost walked out, Zhang Hao actually felt as if the fierce ghost inside his own body was attacking him in turn.

Although it wasn't very strong, comparing the terror levels of the two sides proved just how strong this ghost's suppression effect was on the clothing-type fierce ghost.

The White Curtain at his waist suddenly swept upward, rolling up this fierce ghost that looked like a tattered rag doll.

The powerful suppression belonging to the Shroud made it so that this ghost, after being swept up by the White Curtain, was completely unable to break free.

After the Shroud and the Ghost White Curtain complemented each other, it was no longer the easily torn cloth it had been before.

When the ghost that had come out of the wardrobe took off pieces of clothing one by one, trying to resist this attack, the White Curtain continuously wound around the fierce ghost's body.

The clothes on its body began to fade; the already very old garments at this moment turned dark and dull.

Before long, Zhang Hao successfully faded this ghost.

"Let me see just what kind of thing you really are."

Zhang Hao reached out his hand and grabbed this fierce ghost that was tightly wrapped in the White Curtain.

Piece after piece of old clothing was torn apart by Zhang Hao, and soon, a fierce ghost hidden beneath the clothes was pulled out by him.

This ghost actually only had bones, no flesh or blood; its entire body's flesh and blood had been replaced by clothes, no wonder it looked like an oversized rag doll.

Zhang Hao examined this ghost and quickly found a way to control it.

He directly snapped off the ghost's bones one by one and inserted them into his own body.

After going through the Ghost Coffin, Zhang Hao's body had already been transformed into a fierce ghost body.

However, because the residual power of the Ghost Coffin wasn't much, the transformation left Zhang Hao's terror level not very high.

Yet, even so, both Zhang Hao's flesh and his body were already in a fierce ghost state.

As each bone was inserted into Zhang Hao's body, his body absorbed and fused the bone into his own bones.

Soon, Zhang Hao had inserted all of this ghost's bones except for the skull and spine into his own body.

Picking up the spine, Zhang Hao lowered his head and forcibly inserted this ghost, skull and all, down through his own neck.

Flesh was cut open, and soon this bone was absorbed and controlled by the bones inside Zhang Hao's body.

This process wasn't fast, because Zhang Hao didn't have the ability to dismember and reassemble.

His method of controlling this ghost was actually the most fundamental: using two ghosts to fight each other, with the victor controlling everything of the vanquished.

Only, Zhang Hao's terror level was quite a bit higher than this ghost's, so while controlling the bones he removed from it, he could still move freely and continue dismantling.

A long time passed—perhaps several days.

During this time, the Ghost Bride had left this room several times; maybe someone had triggered her killing rule.

Finally, Zhang Hao, who had been motionless in the room, moved again.

This time, a terrifying aura emanated from Zhang Hao.

This ghost's terror level wasn't high, but its contribution to Zhang Hao's improvement was absolutely top-notch; one could even say Zhang Hao had been missing exactly this kind of puzzle piece to complete himself.

Previously, when Zhang Hao controlled the Ghost Mourning Clothes, Ghost Curtain, Ghost White Curtain, and such, he had been using the Ghost Bride to fight against them and achieve balance.

Even the Black and White Ghost Domain on Zhang Hao was controlled by using the Ghost Painting's ability to continuously color his body.

It could be said that although Zhang Hao was already considered a ghost before, the way he controlled these ghosts on his body was actually the method of ghosts controlling ghosts, not completing a puzzle.

This method of control was actually similar to the state of two ghosts balancing each other inside a Ghost Tamer's body, just without worrying about fierce ghost revival or loss of balance.

In this situation, the Ghost Bride and the ghosts Zhang Hao controlled were all somewhat weakened; in other words, they couldn't be linked together.

Inside Zhang Hao's body, the supernatural truly controlled by him and completely belonging to him were only Ghost Seeking Kin and that flesh that had been transformed into a fierce ghost.

And now, after Zhang Hao completed this ghost into his body, he no longer needed to use the Ghost Bride to balance the series of fierce ghosts like the Ghost Mourning Clothes.

This ghost naturally had the ability to suppress this type of clothing-type fierce ghost, plus Zhang Hao now controlled the Ghost Mourning Clothes.

In this situation, the Ghost Mourning Clothes had transformed into Zhang Hao's puzzle piece, completed by him, rather than being controlled by him.

Although this was only a difference of two words, the distinction between them was worlds apart.

One was balanced control, the other was puzzle piece complementation.

Now, the Ghost Mourning Clothes completely belonged to Zhang Hao, including the Ghost Mourning Clothes series of puzzle pieces.

The Ghost Crying Face, Ghost White Curtain, and Black and White Ghost Domain—these ghosts were further completed by the Ghost Mourning Clothes into parts of Zhang Hao.

"This feeling... is very strange."

Zhang Hao closed his eyes, and the entire room seemed to lose its color in that instant.

No, not just this room—the entire island nation seemed to lose its color in that instant.

The Ghost Bride established an initial connection with Zhang Hao through the Ghost Slave, Ghost Seeking Kin strengthened this connection, Zhang Hao completed the Ghost Mourning Clothes, and the Bride completed the Ghost Wedding Dress.

It could be said that from now on, the Red and White Double Evil truly counted as one ghost, not two ghosts.

"Mm, the connection with the Ghost Coffin has also improved a lot; it's no longer that feeling of barely being able to control it when using it."

Zhang Hao suddenly knelt down, and a coffin appeared directly beneath his feet, but it didn't increase his ghost power by much.

It wasn't that the Ghost Coffin was no longer useful, but that Zhang Hao was now essentially always on top of the Ghost Coffin.

Zhang Hao was linked to the Ghost Mourning Clothes, the Ghost Mourning Clothes linked to the Portrait, and the Portrait linked to the Ghost Coffin, forming a perfect supernatural chain.

Even if Zhang Hao wasn't near the Ghost Coffin, he could still draw on the Ghost Coffin's ghost power at any time.

The moment the coffin appeared, this room began to be invaded; strips of White Curtain hung down from the corners of the room.

At the doorway, a Black and White Portrait appeared out of thin air, and a group of people wearing Funeral Clothes knelt before it, facing the coffin, continuously kowtowing and mourning.

"Wuu wuu wuu!"

The crying echoed, seeming not just to reverberate in this room but to spread to every corner of the Ghost Domain.

Within the black-and-white city, a strange yin wind blew, passing through the skylights of houses, making a wuu wuu wuu sound.

The crying wandered through the room, then, through the Ghost Coffin, transferred and spread throughout the entire Ghost Domain.

At this moment, the Ghost Coffin no longer seemed only able to overlay Zhang Hao's supernatural over that Ghostly Servant's Ghost Domain, but could overlay the entire Black and White Ghost Domain.

Inside the room, the crying stacked several times; the crying that sounded within the Ghost Domain was equivalent to however many times it had stacked.

"What's happening?"

In Kobe City, in a special room, San Dao Zheng and a group were holding a meeting when his expression suddenly changed.

It wasn't just him; the others also began to show terrified expressions.

"It's Crying, what's going on? Didn't we already notify everyone that they can't Cry?" Ghost Tamer Sakai rose up in terror.

"Quick, open the surveillance and check the outside situation," San Dao frowned and hurriedly ordered someone to inspect outside the room.

"How is it? Was this place attacked?"

After a while, San Dao asked the staff.

"Cannot confirm. We haven't detected any Red and White Double Evil, but we can see many of the people on external guard seem to have knelt."

To block Supernatural Incident, San Dao had the surveillance checked without turning on the sound.

However, inside the Safety Room they all heard Crying, so they could imagine what happened outside.

"It must have been an attack. I recall the White Evil of the Red and White Double Evil has a Killing Rule that triggers an attack upon hearing Crying," Ghost Tamer Zhang Ze stood up.

Hearing that, President San Dao was about to say something when Zhang Ze interrupted.

"I know what you want to say, but hearing Crying inside the Golden House is the best proof. Though we can block Ghost Power, we cannot block sound transmission."

"It seems the spread outside is severe now, so the sound penetrated the gold, letting us all hear it."

Hearing Zhang Ze say that, San Dao dejectedly lowered his head.

"President San Dao, please have the staff check the situation in other parts of the country."

"I suspect this Crying may not be targeting us, but is spreading indiscriminately throughout the entire Ghost Domain of the Red and White Double Evil."

Ghost Tamer Teng Yuan stood up and proposed to San Dao.

"We must now confirm how many people have been affected; is this Crying aimed at a specific city or at the entire Ghost Domain range?"

The Island Nation's area is small and is entirely covered by the Ghost Domain; if the Crying spreads across the whole Ghost Domain, the consequences are obvious.

"Alright, check it," San Dao rose dejectedly and ordered contacts with regional heads.

Fortunately, the arrival of the Red and White Double Evil did not cut off the signal, allowing them to stay in contact.

Soon, in several other Safety Rooms located in other cities, after brief investigations, those people reported that they also heard Crying.

Upon hearing this, all Ghost Tamers, including San Dao, went pale and collapsed helplessly to the ground.

It was a manifestation of extreme inner despair, not that they actually fainted.

"Cough cough cough!"

At that moment, a knocking sound rang.

"Open the door," a low, hoarse voice came from inside the Safety Room.

"This is Senior Ya Mu."

San Dao heard the voice; the despair that had been on his face vanished, replaced by a glimmer of hope.

"Senior Ya Mu?" Fujiwara was startled.

He had never heard any news about a Ya Mu Senior.

But the current San Dao clearly had no mood to attend to Fujiwara; he walked to the doorway and shouted outward.

"Ya Mu Senior, with this Crying now, will opening the door cause trouble?"

"We are inside the room, and we all heard the sound of this Crying."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen for now; I have blocked the effect of that Crying," the person outside said.

"Is that so? Then I'm relieved," San Dao exhaled, hurriedly opening the door.

Soon, an old man and a young man appeared before everyone.

Although described as an old and a young, they were actually an elderly man and a middle‑aged man.

"Ya Mu Senior," San Dao respectfully addressed the middle‑aged man.

Then he introduced to everyone in the room: "Don't be fooled by Ya Mu Senior's youthful look; he is a survivor from the Empire era."

"By the way, who is this?" San Dao looked at the elderly man standing before Ya Mu.

"This is Senior Kamiya," Ya Mu calmly introduced.

"Senior Kamiya is an elder who survived the early Empire era, and also my teacher."

Hearing that Ya Mu's teacher, San Dao's expression instantly became excited as he looked at the elder.

"Rest assured, I already know the current situation," Kamiya lifted his murky eyes.

For some reason, when everyone in the room saw Kamiya's eyes open, they felt as if a terrifying Fierce Ghost were staring at them.

Those murky eyes carried an inexplicable eerie feeling, like that of a dying old man.

"I already know the situation of those two Ghosts; the moment the incident occurred in Kami City, I protected everyone there."

Kamiya's voice was hoarse and deep, as if spoken from a dead mouth, his words laden with a dead, heavy aura.

Everyone inwardly thought that this Kamiya elder probably didn't have much life left.

"I have already prepared defenses in Shin‑Kyoto City; although some losses were inevitable, I also protected some people."

Ya Mu spoke appropriately, drawing everyone's attention back.

The fact was, it was much as they had guessed.

Even without taking action, this Kamiya elder's lifespan was at most less than half a year.

Even now, the elder frequently exhibits semi‑out‑of‑control states.

Had it not been so, the Island Nation would have been acted upon the moment it was covered.

This time the Kamiya elder emerged because the Crying affected him, and only then did he regain consciousness.

"Senior Kamiya intends, before departing, to make one final contribution to the Empire, leading a team to handle this Supernatural Incident."

"I wonder if any of you are willing to go with me to handle it."

Ya Mu looked toward the group of Ghost Tamers behind San Dao.

"I can do this," Fujiwara gritted his teeth and stepped forward.

He is currently the strongest Ghost Tamer of the new generation in the Island Nation.

"You just drop it, send someone else, I still have some matters to assign to you."

Ya Mu looked at Fujiwara, shook his head, and a hint of satisfaction flashed deep in his eyes.

Fujiwara is the strongest Ghost Tamer of the new generation and cannot simply go participate in this Supernatural Incident.

If he is damaged in this Supernatural Incident, the Island Nation will face a shortage situation thereafter.

"I'll go." Changze and Sakai spoke at the same time.

"Please be sure to include me as well," Kinda also spoke at this moment.

Although nobody wants to face a Supernatural Incident of this level, danger also means opportunity.

They know clearly that handling the Supernatural Incident together with this old man, if successful, will bring huge merit.

Then they will obtain more resources, and becoming a new 'Jade' themselves is not impossible.

One must know this is a Supernatural Incident beyond S‑level; the benefits after success are obvious.

It is said that the Red and White Double Evil in Hua Country was originally dealt with by an old man who remained from the Republic Era.

During the Republic Era of Hua Country, and the Empire period of the Island Nation, the times were similar; an old man who has lived until now certainly is not weak.

"Fine, then let's set out."

Elder Kamiya heard this, said calmly, opened the Golden Gate and walked outward.

"In such a hurry? No preparation beforehand?"

San Dao was startled by the immediate departure.

"I don't have much time left." Elder Kamiya turned his head, his murky eyes emitting a faint glow, like a terrifying Fierce Ghost.

Seeing this, San Dao dared not speak further.

"Ya Mu, go open that thing."

Kamiya said calmly to the middle‑aged man.

"Yes." Ya Mu left the Safety Room, was gone for about three minutes, and the group soon heard engine sounds.

Under Elder Kamiya's lead, the group arrived at the road outside, quickly spotting a troop transport vehicle of last‑century style parked there.

"Get in."

The Elder opened the passenger seat, sat down, then gestured for the others to board.

Inside the Golden House, besides Ya Mu and Kamiya, five Ghost Tamers joined this incident.

After the five boarded the troop transport and took their positions, the vehicle started promptly.

"This vehicle is so peculiar, it seems able to block the outside Crying."

Changze looked outside in surprise; after boarding, they could not hear the Crying.

"It was forged by a Fierce Ghost, a vehicle that the Empire era sacrificed many talents to successfully suppress."

"But saying more is useless; some things you will understand later."

Ya Mu drove the vehicle, speaking calmly to those behind.

"Now, all you need to know is that this vehicle can travel freely within the Ghost Domain without being attacked."

"At your current level, you are not qualified to pilot this vehicle."

"Fujiwara can't either?" Changze asked.

"Insufficient." Ya Mu's calm, affirmative tone startled the five.

Fujiwara, who had already mastered three ghosts, still lacks the qualification to control this vehicle.

In a black‑and‑white city, at this moment, apart from the Crying, there was no other sound in the city.

Yet at that moment, an old, long‑outdated troop transport slowly drove into the city.

Quickly, as the vehicle moved forward, it arrived at an Old Mansion district.

"Is this place the one I and that Ghost Eye Yang Jian visited before?" Changze was startled.

"Oh? You've been here? Any news?" The others' eyes lit up at the words.

"The changes are huge; the last time I came, it was inside the Knocking Ghost's Ghost Domain."

"At that time, Yang Jian brought a small ghost into a house in the complex, stayed for a long time before leaving; it is said there was a bizarre wardrobe inside."

"Now this place has undergone some incomprehensible change, seeming to have become a spirit hall from Hua Country."

Changze looked toward the deep part of the complex; the original wooden houses had vanished sometime, replaced by brick houses.

Inside these houses, some strange things could still be seen, a lone Fierce Ghost.

Simultaneously, at the center of the complex, a spirit hall appeared out of nowhere.

A group of eerie figures constantly mourning at the spirit hall made Changze feel panic just by watching, let alone confronting them.

Uncle at home is holding a birthday celebration, another update later.

(End of chapter)