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Chapter 84: Adventure in the Ghost World (Thirteen)

The resurrection of the evil spirit within the ghost master is because the ghost master cannot suppress the evil spirit's consciousness and cannot control this power. And the power of the dead evil spirit can be driven without cost because the evil spirit's consciousness is completely dormant, completely transformed into a "tool".

Su Yun also roughly understood the layout of the ghost forest. The derived ghost trees in the surrounding ghost forest were used to suppress evil spirits. The source ghost tree was an enhanced version of the derived ghost tree, suppressing the evil spirit in the corpse of the ghost rider, and the evil spirit in this corpse restricted the gray-white ghost eye.

This kind of checks and balances between ghosts is the most commonly used tactic by the older generation of ghost controllers.

Su Yun walked around to the side and looked at the corpse that was pressed on the ghost tree.

"This is... a coffin nail!" Su Yun was a little surprised to see something on this figure. After all, this thing seemed to fit the description of a coffin nail.

Su Yun immediately asked Yang Jian about the appearance of the coffin nails. Yang Jian directly sent a photo, and the coffin nails in the photo were almost the same style.

Only three coffin nails appeared in the original novel, one under Hongfa Temple, in front of the wooden house where the Lord of Ghost Eyes and the Lord of the Cemetery Luo Qian were nailed, and one abroad.

And now he saw another coffin nail here, which corresponded exactly to the empty positions on the four corners of the coffin that gave birth to the ghost messenger.

The scene Su Yun was seeing now was also a figure being nailed to the Source Ghost Tree by coffin nails. No wonder the Source Ghost Tree seemed to have frozen, it turned out to be nailed by coffin nails.

In other words, this ghost rider used some unknown means, and the demise of the source ghost tree did not affect the power of those derived ghost trees. Otherwise, if the group of evil ghosts in the ghost forest were to revive, it would definitely be another catastrophe that would shock the whole country.

The person nailed to the source ghost tree wasn't a grotesque ghost, but a human being, apparently a Taoist priest. He was wearing a tattered reddish-brown Taoist robe, the edges of which were tattered, as if constantly being eroded by some force.

At least that's what Su Yun saw. Looking up, Su Yun saw a bloodstain on the neck of the old Taoist priest, hidden beneath his gray beard, as if his head had been chopped off and then put back in its original place.

Looking up again, I saw that the old Taoist priest had no face. It should be said that his entire face was a mass of darkness, directly facing the gray-white ghost eyes on the pile of corpses.

Su Yun understood. Because the neck was cut off, this was a dark evil spirit that was not suppressed by the coffin nails. Instead, it was fighting against the gray-white ghost eyes, and a certain balance was reached between the two.

This ghost made his consciousness blurry for a moment, which was something Su Yun had not expected. It showed that it was very powerful. Then he observed other details and soon noticed an extremely skinny hand under the Taoist robe.

The arm dropped down, and a finger pointed downwards. Following the direction of the finger, Su Yun saw a handwritten booklet at the feet of the Taoist priest.

A thin handwritten booklet fell into my hands. The cover of the booklet was made of a hard material, but it was old and yellow. It seemed that this material was specially chosen for easy preservation.

Su Yun picked up the booklet and opened it. It was written with traditional Chinese characters using a brush. Obviously, at that time, simplified Chinese characters were not yet popularized by the old Taoist priest, or rather, they were beginning to become popular, but he was still more accustomed to using traditional Chinese characters.

The font above is not the problem, but the ink that left the words does not look like normal ink, but rather a bit like printing ink, black ink.

If it was a painter from the Republic of China, it wouldn't be surprising to use ink, but for an old Taoist priest to write with ink is a bit strange. There is reason to suspect that this is a ghost dye used to draw ghost paintings.

Just like Yang Jian in the later period was very familiar with the top ghost controllers in the circle and they had contact with each other, there was naturally such a circle among the top ghost controllers in the Republic of China period, and they all knew each other.

These mysterious places are interconnected. For example, the ghost money in the bank is connected to Ghost Lake, Taiping Ancient Town, and the shops on Yinyang Road. The ghost post office also houses the world of ghost paintings, and the same is true for the bank.

Yang Jian recorded the supernatural events he experienced. Why did he ask ordinary people to write them down by hand? It was because he was worried about the supernatural interference in his body.

There is another best way to prevent supernatural interference when recording information, which is to use supernatural powers to record.

The booklet was written in ghost ink to prevent interference from other supernatural powers. The supernatural powers contained in it were not numerous, but in most cases, supernatural interference was caused by the supernatural power released by evil spirits. It was not strong, but it might not be noticed.

Having this amount of supernatural power is enough to resist interference. Even if it cannot be resisted and is eroded by the supernatural, the handwriting on it will be disordered, preventing the possibility of being misled.

Su Yun glanced at the booklet. It was thin and contained little information, just a brief account of his own experiences and some of the details of this mysterious place. [I, Qingshan, have spent my life controlling ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, living alongside spirits and creatures, and have a slight reputation... I see no hope in my life. Even a god-like being like Master Zhang would struggle to quell this purgatory on earth... Master Zhang looked to the future. I, Qingshan, will leave something useful for future generations...]

I encountered a fierce ghost, very strange and extraordinary. If any future generations enter this place and can control this ghost, there is hope... If the fierce ghosts are eliminated in the future, please burn two pieces of paper money for me and let me know. If I know this in my afterlife, I will have no regrets in this life!

"Mr. Zhang... should be Zhang Dong." Su Yun's hand stroked the hard cover of the booklet, and his thoughts kept wandering to the contents of the booklet.

According to what Taoist Qingshan said, this mass grave was built by him to imprison evil spirits. It can be seen that his strength is also top-notch among the ghost controllers in the Republic of China.

The only one who could be called a god by him was the ghost rider named Zhang. Apart from Zhang Dong, there was no other one.

Su Yun was not surprised at all that these ghost riders of the Republic of China all knew Zhang Dong and had some connections with Taoist Qingshan.

Zhang Dong was the equivalent of the "Yang Jian" of that era. Naturally, everyone in that circle knew him. Even if they hadn't seen him, they had definitely heard of him.

Taoist Qingshan's description in the booklet was quite modest, but that was understandable, considering he was a Taoist priest. However, his modesty didn't necessarily mean he was weak. It could be said that anyone who could become the creator of a spiritual place was no weakling.

This mass grave was unusually stable. These derivative ghost trees suppressed the evil spirits, while the source ghost tree was nailed to the coffin nails and fell into silence. It itself was also nailed to the coffin nails, and the evil spirits in its body would not revive.

Taoist Qingshan's booklet doesn't mention the other evil spirits he controls. He only mentions his core evil spirit, the ghost that replaced his face and possessed the ability to silence consciousness. Let's call it the Silent Ghost.

The coffin nails didn't silence the Lonely Ghost, but it remained active, staring at the gray-white ghost eyes ahead. Meanwhile, the gray-white ghost eyes resisted, preventing the Lonely Ghost from escaping this spiritual confrontation and keeping it trapped in Taoist Qingshan's body.

It is normal that the lonely ghost did not fall into silence. The ghost eyes of the tall ghost shadow nailed to the bone tree by the coffin nails can also move freely.

The conflict between the two created a balance, making the supernatural presence in this mass grave very stable. Furthermore, Taoist Qingshan also sealed the entrance and placed a resurrected guiding ghost at the entrance.

The guiding ghost can only point in one direction, so Taoist Qingshan asked the guiding ghost to point in the direction of the mass grave, so that under normal circumstances, people can only enter this mysterious place but not exit.

Even if these evil spirits suppressed by the Ghost Forest were to revive, if they wanted to leave the mass grave, they would first have to confront the guiding ghosts with a very high level of terror and a death curse.

The Ghost Forest suppressed it from within, the Guiding Ghost blocked it from outside, and the evil spirits sealed here were all silenced by Taoist Qingshan's Silence Ghost. Otherwise, given the terrifying nature of some of these evil spirits, the Derived Ghost Tree might not be able to suppress them.

The designs of these mysterious places that block out evil spirits are very ingenious, with one link after another.

But no matter how ingenious it is, there is a limit to the number of evil spirits that can be imprisoned. The design of the Ghost Lake is also very ingenious, but the limit of the number of evil spirits that can be imprisoned has been reached. It would be fine if it didn't get out of control, but once it got out of control, the entire Zhongzhou City would become a dead city.

According to Taoist Qingshan, the entrance to this mysterious place should be in another place, where it is blocked by a scarecrow-like guiding ghost.

But he and Song Shuhang entered here through the ghost painting in the money house. If Taoist Qingshan was involved in the arrangement of the money house, it should also be written in the booklet.

It can be seen that Taoist Qingshan is more willing to help those who come after him. This is his own operation, but this key information is not recorded, which does not seem to be of the same style.

Either the human heart is unpredictable, or the ghost painting in the bank is a backdoor set up by the ghost master behind the scenes. If Su Yun were to judge, he felt that the latter was more likely.

Just like Yang Jian had changed the layout of the Caesars Hotel after the incident, the ghost paintings at the bank that led to various mysterious places were arranged in a similar way.

As for the purpose of this arrangement, Su Yun was too lazy to think about it. He turned around and told Yang Jian to decide how to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)