Mysterious Resurgence: Starting with the Strange Bus

Chapter 49 A Painting (Seeking First Subscription)

In a hazy, illusory world.

Li Hui floated in mid-air like a ghost, his feet not touching anything, defying reality and science. He stood there in mid-air above the alley, his whole being hidden in the depths of a dark world, surrounded by ashes that then drifted away in all directions.

The ashes of paper kept falling, intertwining with the ashes in the Ghost Painting Ghost Realm, creating a rain of ashes all around.

this moment.

The ghost realm belonging to Li Hui and the ghost realm belonging to Gui Hua gradually merged together. The two hazy, illusory worlds no longer collided and affected each other as they had at the beginning. Instead, they seemed to be gradually merging into one.

The merging of the two ghostly realms caused a tremendous change in the surrounding environment.

Especially in the ghostly world depicted in the painting, various scenes constantly appear, including the phantoms of modern cities, the scenes of old mountain villages from the last century, and all sorts of other supernatural images...

Those are scenes from derivative paintings in the Ghostly Realm.

At that moment, everything surfaced and came into Li Hui's view.

compare to.

Li Hui's ghost realm was much more 'desolate'. In the entire gray, illusory world, only he himself existed, along with the constantly falling ashes of paper.

The mobile phone tattoo only replicates the supernatural power of the ghost painting itself; the supernatural power of the evil spirits in other derivative oil paintings is not replicated.

“Every derived oil painting contains a vengeful ghost. Making ghosts into paintings is a characteristic of ghost paintings, and similarly, this is also my characteristic…”

Think of this.

Li Hui's gaze fell on a wooden building deep in the alley below.

It's that haunted wooden house.

The shape of the wooden house was different from what he had initially seen; it seemed that its appearance had changed at some point.

The first wooden house Li Hui saw was a building that looked normal, but was somewhat dilapidated and had a very dark environment.

Although the wooden house still looks like a wooden building, its outline has changed. From a distance, it looks like a giant skull.

The two tightly closed windows on the second floor of the wooden house resembled two eyes, while the wooden door on the first floor was like a giant mouth. At this moment, the door was open, and the environment inside was extremely dark and pitch black, like the entrance to the abyss of hell, which appeared very sinister and terrifying.

Not only that.

Between the two windows on the second floor and the wooden door on the first floor, there is a red vertical mark, which looks like a nose on a person's face.

next moment.

With a thought, Li Hui stretched out his palm and waved it toward the location of the wooden house, as if he were drawing in the air.

As he moved, the environment around the cabin actually changed. Ashes flew everywhere, and the skull-shaped cabin began to become illusory. Then, as if squeezed by a huge force, it began to shrink rapidly.

In the end, the eerie wooden house disappeared into the depths of the alley, replaced by a strange oil painting floating in place.

The oil painting's frame is carved with old, worn patterns and painted with mottled red paint. The background of the painting is the skull-shaped wooden house, its interior dimly lit, with a tall figure vaguely visible standing in the darkness inside the doorway.

Then the ashes turned upside down, carrying the slightly old oil painting, and drifted into the ghostly world behind Li Hui.

This scene was very strange.

In an instant, Li Hui transformed a haunted wooden house into an oil painting, and then sent it deep into his ghostly realm.

The entire process lasted only a few seconds.

However, his behavior seemed to trigger some kind of pattern in the ghost painting.

The paper ash that had been falling from the sky suddenly erupted into chaos. The two hazy, illusory worlds stopped merging and merging, and the dense ash spread towards where Li Hui was.

A supernatural invasion occurred; the ghost realm belonging to the ghost painting directly invaded Li Hui's ghost realm and continued to penetrate deeper.

Not only that.

The woman in red in the alley also stirred. Her body gradually floated up, facing Li Hui, and then she moved towards Li Hui's location at an incredible speed.

Supernatural phenomena kept appearing around the woman's body in the painting, which were scenes derived from the oil paintings. At this moment, the supernatural phenomena of many oil paintings converged on the ghost painting, and the supernatural phenomena were invading the ghost world that belonged to Li Hui.

In addition, the woman's exposed fair hands were also unusually cold, as if some kind of supernatural power was spreading from them.

"Is Ghost Painting targeting me?"

Li Hui reacted quickly, realizing something was wrong the moment the paper ash imbued with supernatural power invaded his ghost realm.

Especially now.

As the woman in the painting, dressed in blood-red robes, rapidly approached him, Li Hui became even more certain that she had her eye on him.

The woman in the painting appears to be simply drifting towards him, but in reality, she is constantly invading Li Hui's ghost realm. Since Li Hui is currently deep within his own ghost realm, the ghost painting can only approach him by invading into the depths of his ghost realm.

Li Hui's ghost domain strength was clearly inferior to Gui Hua's, so it was normal for him to be invaded by Gui Hua's supernatural power at this moment.

"It's about time we left..."

See this.

Li Hui was beginning to consider withdrawing.

This time, being passively involved in the ghost painting incident has been incredibly rewarding. The ghost painting ability with a level seven supernatural intensity has greatly increased Li Hui's overall strength, making him even stronger than Ye Zhen.

However, compared to the real, complete version of the ghost painting, the 70% supernatural intensity he replicated is far inferior.

The difference between them is not just the 30% difference in supernatural intensity, but also the numerous vengeful ghosts in the derivative oil paintings within the Ghost Painting Ghost Realm. The superposition of countless supernatural phenomena, when combined, makes the difference in their ghost realms frighteningly large.

Even though Li Hui still possesses 30% of the bus's supernatural powers, and wouldn't back down even if he were to face the ghost painting, there's no need for him to confront it head-on.

The unique nature of the ghost painting meant that she was not so easy to imprison. Even Qin Lao in the original work tried every means to confine her to the Ping An Building, but could not completely imprison her.

No matter how arrogant he was, Li Hui didn't believe that he was now better than Old Qin or that he could do things that Old Qin hadn't been able to do.

Ghost Painting's abilities are not as terrible as portrayed in the original story.

Even Zhang Xianguang, that old schemer, only took action against Ghost Painting after decades of planning. Moreover, he wasn't confident in controlling it himself, so he created He Yuelian as a kind of 'transfer' figure, intending to control Ghost Painting by controlling He Yuelian.

Since you've decided to leave...

Li Hui immediately took action.

As the ashes scattered, a hazy, ghostly aura extended, instantly enveloping Ye Zhen's body and carrying him away rapidly into the distance.

At this moment, Li Hui's ghost domain was like a sharp sword, tearing apart the ghost painting's ghost domain world, trying to forcefully break out of this illusory world.

However, he was fast.

The invasion of ghost paintings is even faster!
Ashes of paper fell from the sky.

The distance between them did not increase as a result; on the contrary, as time went by, the woman in red got closer and closer to Li Hui.

The ghost painting's ghost domain was far stronger than Li Hui's, so her invasion speed was also far faster than Li Hui's escape speed.

(End of this chapter)