Ghost Compendium-Chapter 373 - 351: Ghost Compendium World

Or rather... passed away.

Because only the dead can no longer emit any aura.

Bang—

The gate of the Human Ancestor Temple was kicked open with a forceful kick, and the old wooden door, already shaky from recent battles, flew out, crashing to the ground and shattering into pieces.

The figure of [Yin Qiming] rushed in urgently, immediately locking his gaze on the cup filled with clear water on the altar.

He took a quick step forward, picked up the cup to observe, and became even more puzzled.

"The surface is still warm, this guy was holding the cup the moment he disappeared, how is he just gone in a blink? Is there anyone in this world who can silently take down this monster? Impossible... What exactly did he do in this temple?"

However, just as [Yin Qiming] was racking his brains over this, a modest and unadorned ancient book lay at his feet.

This might be the closest chance he would ever have to the truth in his life.

Unfortunately, the [Ghost Compendium] cannot be observed normally by the outside world.

[Yin Qiming] would never be able to see the ancient book containing the origin and truth of everything. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

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Whoosh—whoosh whoosh!

At this moment, Wu Liang, whose safety was much worried about by his friends and family outside, was experiencing an unforgettable free-fall.

He was now plummeting towards the ground from ten thousand meters high, with the deafening winds howling by his ears, making it impossible to hear any sound.

As someone who might crash to the ground at any second, Wu Liang’s expression was unusually calm, even reaching out attempting to touch the rapidly passing dark clouds around him while falling.

Boom!

Finally, after a moment of falling, he slammed heavily onto the ground, kicking up a lot of dust, and everything around turned its gaze upon him in astonishment.

In the crater-like depression on the ground, Wu Liang patted the dust off his shoulder and walked out.

With his body at the City-Destroying Peak level, he naturally wasn’t going to be injured just from falling from the height.

After walking out and waiting for the dust to settle, his gaze became sharp.

"Heh, what does this mean? They said they wanted to show me the essence of the world, but ended up making me level up by defeating monsters?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a great deal of mist erupted from Wu Liang, instantly covering a range of several kilometers.

Under his fog ability, all Fierce Ghosts below the City-Destroying Level were immobilized.

Indeed, just now, the things that turned their gaze upon him with astonishment the instant he landed were all Fierce Ghosts!

A casual glance revealed at least several hundred Fierce Ghosts gathered densely together.

But what was quite strange was that there was no trace of any City-Destroying Level Fierce Ghost among them, mostly Red Robes and ordinary Fierce Ghosts, with a large amount of residual thoughts present as well.

"No, what’s this place anyway? Why are there so many residual thoughts and ordinary Fierce Ghosts?"

Wu Liang immediately sensed something was off.

Residual thoughts are such weak filth that they can’t even take on the full concept of a ghost—during the second Supernatural Calamity, even the Fierce Ghosts were only left at the Red Robe Level, and in the previous society, they were rarely seen.

Because it’s so weak that even ordinary people with slightly stronger yang energy can suppress it.

During the current disaster period, such flimsy existences shouldn’t be appearing!

Where exactly was this place?

With this thought, Wu Liang instinctively let the Nightmare perform a spiritual probe around.

Yet, a full ten minutes later, the Nightmare returned only to say, horrified, "Boss! This is bad! I can’t find any trace of human existence!"

This statement sent a tremor through Wu Liang’s heart.

You must know that as a spiritual body of immense power, the Nightmare, if it were only focused on traveling, could span the distance across several provinces in ten minutes.

Under such circumstances, the Millennium Fiend couldn’t perceive any human presence.

Wu Liang could only accept one possibility—

"Heh, I thought the [Ghost Compendium] wouldn’t be so boring as to randomly teleport us into a group of Fierce Ghosts."

"If nothing unexpected happens, this isn’t the real world."

"And if I may speculate more boldly, this might not even be our original world."

Only under such a situation could there be a total lack of human presence; perhaps this world inherently has no humans.

Regarding Wu Liang’s speculations, the Nightmare glanced at the surrounding group of Fierce Ghosts and residual thoughts, then nodded as if it were agreeing.

For it noticed something very peculiar about these Fierce Ghosts.

Besides being trapped by the mist and unable to move, more importantly, they had no intention of attacking Wu Liang at all!

Being Fierce Ghosts, they had no intention of attacking a human?

This was different from the City-Destroying Fierce Ghosts previously attracted by the Immortal Pill of Undying, temporarily ignoring their intent to attack humans.

The Nightmare could feel that these Fierce Ghosts and residual thoughts gathered, not because they wanted to consume Wu Liang, but simply out of curiosity about the loud noise his landing generated.

Wu Liang, too, noticed this point, raised his hand, and lightly waved to disperse the surrounding fog.

He tentatively approached a Red Robe Level Fierce Ghost, and under its confused expression, extended his arm.

For a whole ten seconds, the human and ghost stared at each other before Wu Liang, finding it amusing, said, "Interesting, it doesn’t try to bite me or break my arm? What’s going on? Have these Fierce Ghosts been tamed or mutated?"

Just as he was joking around casually, the Red-clothed Fierce Ghost staring at him suddenly moved!

With trembling hands—if one could call them that—it slowly raised its claws, lightly touched Wu Liang’s palm.

In the moment of contact, as if electrocuted, it recoiled abruptly, and then in a fright, knelt on the ground, kowtowing continuously to Wu Liang, the sound of which, resonating from the knocks, conveyed its force and sincerity.

"Ah wooo wooo ah ah ah wooo!"

The Red-clothed Fierce Ghost was kowtowing while emitting a series of incomprehensible gibberish from its mouth.

The next second, the surrounding ordinary Fierce Ghosts started to kneel and mimic the Red-clothed Fierce Ghost’s actions, kowtowing.

Even those beyond the label of ghost, the residual thoughts, lowered themselves, gathering at Wu Liang’s feet, shivering.

This series of bizarre actions left Wu Liang even more at a loss.

"What’s going on? Not only do the Fierce Ghosts not eat humans, why are they even kowtowing to me?"

Honestly, in the real world, especially before the return of the supernatural.

Wu Liang had seen people kowtowing in temples for various reasons, like work, love, reproduction, to those nonexistent God Buddha, had seen worshiping of historical figures like Lord Guan, Confucius, gradually revered as saints, and also aware of those guys relying on nurturing little ghosts or those seeking to fulfill evil purposes such as curses by believing in ghosts.

Without exception, these are behaviors of people choosing corresponding faiths for some idea of their own in their hearts and then performing worship.

But now a ghost worshiping human, what on earth is that supposed to be?

"The God... This is the divine bestowed upon the world to eliminate suffering... His presence is mysterious and great..."

Suddenly, the Nightmare started whispering as if muttering something.

Then looked up at Wu Liang, saying, "Boss, this Red-clothed Fierce Ghost seems to be muttering something like this, and I seem to understand it."

This, instead, further piqued Wu Liang’s curiosity about what exactly this group of Fierce Ghosts represented.

It wasn’t surprising that the Nightmare could understand their language, for it’s also a Fierce Ghost.

But if there exists some sort of language or communication method only comprehensible to Fierce Ghosts, does this mean, in some sense, a unique civilization belonging to Fierce Ghosts has formed?

This speculation made Wu Liang even more anxious.

A civilization belonging to Fierce Ghosts... Isn’t this somewhat too absurd?

He couldn’t help but take a deep breath, looking up at the sky dim as the doomsday, softly saying, "What exactly do you want me to witness? Now that we’re inside the book, surely you can manifest some embodiment to meet me, right?"

The next second, a string of text appeared in the air—

[Come find me at Mount Tai Peak]