I become a god in another world

Chapter 718 Escape
Chapter 718

Paper Man Zhang wanted to open his mouth to curse, but this was not the time for him to swear.

He was most adept at shifting blame, and now that Zhao Fusheng had implicated him, he was extremely angry.

Paper Man Zhang knew Zang Junji's prowess well.

The moment he appeared, his figure paused, and then countless different paper figures emerged from his main body, rushing off in all directions with lightning speed.

As the ghostly figure rushed out, it immediately transformed into a lantern and flew into the air.

But although he moved quickly, Zang Junji moved even faster.

Hundreds of blood threads flew out from the palm of an unknown being, turning into ropes that bound the countless lanterns in the sky.

Once the lantern was bound, it immediately transformed into human form.

These 'people' all spoke in unison: "Zang Junji!"

As they shouted, these 'people' broke a taboo and were immediately punished by the law. A burst of firelight surged from the lantern, and in an instant, flames shot out from the 'people's' eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, setting them ablaze.

In the blink of an eye, these 'people' were burned to ashes, but strangely, the flames did not go out. Instead, at the moment the 'paper figures' burned out, the ghost rope was ignited along the remaining ashes of the paper figures.

The crimson ghost line immediately ignited into green flames, which rapidly rebounded onto Zang Junji, setting his entire body ablaze.

Flames shot into the sky, and Zang Junji was engulfed in flames.

The will-o'-the-wisp, of unknown origin, ignited upon contact with anything, instantly setting the blood vessels binding Zang Junji ablaze.

The Ghost Mother Tai Sui, which was bound by Zang Junji in mid-air, began to sway gently.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Fusheng's pupils contracted.

The paper figure Zhang is ruthless in achieving his goals. He wants to escape, disregarding the consequences of these vengeful ghosts fleeing.

But while Zhang could disregard the paper doll, Zhao Fusheng could not bear to see this vengeful ghost escape and wreak havoc on the world.

She summoned the Investiture of the Gods and invited the Day-Roaming God.

As soon as Zhu Guangling appeared, a torrential downpour began.

The ghostly rain fell, extinguishing all the fires lit by the paper effigy.

However, doing so would invite a ghost to possess you.

Several red ghostly lines came into her view. She felt a chill on her neck, wrists, and feet. Upon closer inspection, she saw that there was a thick, two-finger-long bloodline tied to each of her limbs.

Then a sudden force pulled her up into the air.

In the critical moment, Zhao Fusheng held the Investiture of the Gods in his hand, and the Ghost Stele appeared on his shoulder.

As soon as the shadow of the monument appeared, she immediately steadied herself.

But the appearance of the ghost tablet attracted Zang Junji. The ghost spread its five fingers, and blood shadows flickered in its palm. Several blood lines were pulled apart in its palm like a spider web.

A strange force came from all directions, suddenly pulling Zhao Fusheng and binding her in mid-air.

……

The paper figure Zhang, who had escaped, turned around and saw this scene, a cold smile appearing on his face.

Once Zhao Fusheng is bound by the ghost thread, he will surely die.

Zang Junji's 'red rope' was no ordinary thing; it was not something that could be easily broken free from.

That is its own law for suppressing ghosts.

Zhao Fusheng moved his wrist, and the ghost thread was tightly bound.

Zang Junji had previously used this rope to shake the roots of the old woman's ghost tree. Under such overwhelming force, it would not be easy to break free by brute force.

As she thought of this, her vision blurred—Zang Junji's figure had vanished without her noticing, replaced by a chilling aura that had somehow crept up to her back.

Zhao Fusheng turned his gaze and noticed that he was covered in a layer of bloody light.

The blood-red light was woven with a fine net, forming an outer cocoon that trapped her inside.

She moved her wrist, and then six laws suddenly appeared around Zhao Fusheng's body.

The law of the Six Paths of Reincarnation has manifested in the world.

Each cycle of reincarnation was suppressed by her physical body. At this moment, Zhao Fusheng released his suppressive power, and the six cycles of reincarnation pulled at her body, instantly splitting her body apart along with the blood net.

The moment his body split open, the blood net fell and sank, transforming into Zang Junji's ghostly corpse and closing in.

Zhao Fusheng's consciousness was momentarily scattered, and then the ghost tablet on her back began to take effect.

The Investiture of the Gods acted like a stabilizing force, bringing her fragmented body back together and piecing it back together.

Zhao Fusheng and Zang Junji changed positions.

Before she could even regain her footing, Zang Junji was about to strike again.

Just then, Zhao Fusheng used the power of Erlang Shen—Erlang Shen was suppressed by Zang Junji's rank and could not play a role at this time, but it had a ghost eye that was powered by Zang Junji, and this ghost eye had endless uses.

A blood-red ghost eye opened on Zhao Fusheng's forehead. She looked around, and the blood-red light swept across the ghost realm.

Beneath the blood mist, hundreds of thousands of ghostly minions were trapped; in this ghostly realm, countless lanterns of different sizes floated.

The paper figure Zhang seems to have disappeared.

This person used some unknown method of concealment to evade the blockade of Erlang Shen's Ghost Eyes.

Zhao Fusheng gave a cold laugh.

She is no match for Zang Junji for the time being, but she does not need to completely suppress Zang Junji with strength. She only needs to find the paper figure Zhang, and she will be able to escape.

As if sensing her intentions, the various sizes of ghost lanterns emitted eerie laughter, laced with mockery.

Before the laughter subsided, Zhao Fusheng summoned the Horse-Face, the ghost messenger from the Investiture of the Gods!

The underworld messenger and Paper Man Zhang are old rivals.

Other laws governing evil spirits are ineffective against Paper Man Zhang, but there is a connection between the underworld officials and Paper Man Zhang.

The moment the ghost appeared, it turned its head left and right.

Holding a scimitar, it took a step and then disappeared from the spot, reappearing beside a lantern.

The ghost messenger stretched out his hand, the lantern flickered twice, and the figure of the paper figure Zhang appeared in mid-air.

Zang Junji, who was originally preparing to seize the Investiture of the Gods, sensed the appearance of the paper figure Zhang and the ghostly figure turned into blood mist and disappeared.

A red mist had somehow appeared around Paper Man Zhang, seeping into the lantern and seemingly devouring his consciousness.

……

"hateful!"

Paper Man Zhang roared, "If we continue fighting, we'll only end up hurting each other."

Inside the lantern, a blood-red light chased after a dark shadow, while two streams of energy pursued each other like swimming dragons.

The voice of Paper Doll Zhang came:

"Why don't we join forces and escape from here first?"

"You're a menace; we absolutely cannot let you go."

Zhao Fusheng shook his head:
"Even if I, Zhao Fusheng, were not here, there might still be Wang Fusheng or Liu Fusheng."

Even without these people, the existence of Chen Duozi, Liu Yizhen, and others means that the flame of hope for the Demon Suppression Division has not been extinguished.

"But there can be no more paper dolls in this world."

The calamity caused by Zhang the Paper Doll surpasses many other worldly disasters.

He single-handedly caused numerous ghostly disasters, indirectly and directly leading to the deaths of many people, and causing many vengeful ghosts to resurrect, committing countless evil deeds.

“A person like you should be cast into the Six Paths of Reincarnation and imprisoned in the Hell of the Six Paths of Evil Ghosts.”

The paper figure Zhang Da felt a headache coming on.

He hadn't expected to run into such a tough nut to crack.

Zhao Fusheng was unmoved by either soft or hard tactics and was determined not to let him go.

He then realized that under such circumstances, it was absolutely impossible to leave safely without paying a price.

"Hmph." He snorted coldly.
"You really think I have no way to escape?" As soon as he finished speaking, he swayed and his body rapidly expanded, transforming into a terrifying giant over three zhang tall in the blink of an eye.

Zang Junji's ghost net enveloped the giant.

The blood web is embedded within, dividing the giant's corpse.

Thin red threads burrowed into the body parts, and will-o'-the-wisps ignited within them.

Before long, the two reassembled, their shapes fluctuating in size.

The black and red auras clashed, and the head of the paper figure Zhang would occasionally appear within the ghostly aura, before transforming into the likeness of Zang Junji.

After a brief struggle, the black mist suddenly transformed into a ghost lantern and rose into the sky, while the red mist followed closely behind.

The two swirled within the ghost realm, like dragons traversing the heavens and earth, their battle never ceasing. "Ancestor—"

Suddenly, from within the black mist, the paper figure Zhang Chang sighed:

"After a person dies, their consciousness is indeed completely lost, and they don't even remember their descendants."

He then said:

"I wonder if people still dream after they die—" she said softly.

"Ancestor, I had a dream, but I don't know whether it was you who entered my dream, or me who entered yours—"

As soon as he finished speaking, the paper figure Zhang's body appeared in mid-air, and blood light seeped into his body little by little.

Under the crimson light, the black robe on Paper Man Zhang's body was corroded, revealing his mangled and broken body to Zhao Fusheng and Yu Lingzhu.

Suddenly, a faint flame appeared inside his body.

This firelight was different from the firelight Zhao Fusheng had experienced before; it was so intense that it was almost unbearable to look at.

Flames appeared from the soles of the paper figure's feet, like a candle burning backwards, slowly rising towards the top of his head. In a short while, the flames shot towards the top of his head.

The fire, as large as a washbasin, illuminated the paper figure's face, clearly reflecting his pain.

His face turned deathly pale, and his entire body melted away like a candle. Blood seeped into his body, merging with his melting form. Paper Man Zhang's life memories, joys and sorrows, resentments and curses transformed into a grand dream of life.

The paper figure Zhang invited Zang Junji into his dream.

His life was full of ups and downs. He was poor when he was young, but he married and had children when he was young, and his life was full of hope.

Unfortunately, his good fortune didn't last long. His life was ruined by a ghostly calamity, and his personality changed drastically, never to return to what it once was.

The paper figure Zhang exuded a malevolent aura no less intense than that of a vengeful ghost.

Over the years, in order to quell the ghostly calamity, he has resorted to any means necessary, using his own strength to piece together the remains of the vengeful ghost, and has also come to understand his own laws.

A life lived to the fullest.

Zang Junji, please come into my dream!

In the ghost dream, the two members of the Zang clan, separated by several generations of blood ties, devoured and influenced each other in a bizarre way.

Zhang the Paper Doll wants to destroy the human world, while Zang Junji wants to suppress the evil spirits.

Suddenly, the east wind prevailed over the west wind—when the paper figure Zhang's consciousness gained the upper hand, the vengeful ghost suppressed by Zang Junji broke free.

The ghostly threads binding it broke off, and countless vengeful spirits and wronged souls were scattered into the ghost realm.

When Zang Junji's method gained the upper hand, Paper Man Zhang couldn't help but recall the vow he had made when his family suffered a great upheaval in his early years: to eradicate all the ghosts in the world.

So he reached out and caught the wandering ghosts and spirits in the ghost realm, trapping them beside him.

……

This process repeated itself until the dream finally ended, and the two realized that their paths were different and they could not work together.

Paper Man Zhang hates not only ghosts, but also people.

Zang Junji had no consciousness; it only wanted to suppress the ghosts, and killing people was merely a consequence of the laws governing it.

The two forces became entangled, and then went their separate ways.

A ghostly corpse was split apart by the different laws between the two. In the law that the paper doll Zhang asked Zang Junji to enter the dream, half of his consciousness was devoured by Zang Junji, and Zang Junji's law also affected him.

This battle was silent yet extremely dangerous, with ghostly figures occasionally appearing and disappearing.

It held a curved knife and slashed at the two ghosts from time to time, occasionally cutting off a piece of black mist and swallowing it into its belly.

The consciousness of the paper doll Zhang was being devoured by some terrible force.

He paid the price of half his consciousness to finally escape.

But the entanglement was only brief, and the paper figure Zhang and Zang Junji became entangled in karma.

A blood-red thread connects a human and a ghost.

Zang Junji is positioned in the center, while the rest of the red threads on his body are tied to Zhao Fusheng.

The paper figure Zhang was determined to escape at any cost.

At this moment, under the heavy rain, countless footprints appeared on the ground. Zhu Guangling appeared, and the footprints trapped countless lanterns within them.

But these lanterns quickly ignited and turned into black mist, with each lantern containing a cluster of will-o'-the-wisps.

The will-o'-the-wisp flickered twice, then merged with the red thread, reforming into the shape of a paper figure.

However, the paper figure Zhang was no longer as arrogant as before.

His gaze changed, as if the dark, prejudiced, and selfish aspects of his humanity were diminishing.

He glanced at Zhao Fusheng, then turned and rushed into the sky without looking back.

The large red thread bound him, but failed to keep him.

He leaped into the air, his body transforming into an enormous cage of ghostly fire. The flames within this ghostly lantern ignited the ghostly realm and the ghostly mist, forcibly burning a huge hole in the ghostly realm, allowing the paper figure Zhang to escape.

As soon as he left, the figure of the ghost messenger appeared at the rift in the ghost realm.

Horse-faced figure reached out and smeared the head of the paper figure Zhang Canying.

The ghost's hand dispersed the dark shadow.

As the paper figure departed, it tore apart the ghost body that Zang Junji had barely pieced together, and also took away a small portion of the ghostly accomplices that were attached to it.

After he left, the remaining half of Zang Junji's vengeful spirit revived.

Chaos reigned within the Ghost Realm, with black energy swirling like an out-of-control hurricane.

The real test is about to begin!

Paper Man Zhang is good at getting into trouble, but he's also good at escaping.

The difficult part is dealing with the people who stay behind to clean up the mess.

Under the hurricane, the Ghost Mother Tai Sui above Zang Junji's head began to bounce 'bang bang'.

The blood-red light contracted and expanded, and its eerie aftereffects began to affect the surroundings.

The ghostly horde was also trembling, their health bars unstable, then a faint voice called out:
"Zhao Fusheng".

This shout broke the silence of the ghost realm.

Zhao Fusheng sent Kuai Manzhou away, and then used the Night Wanderer to send the rest of the people away.

After the paper figure Zhang left, there were no other survivors in the ghost realm except for Zhao Fusheng.

Hearing someone shout at this moment is not a good omen.

Yu Lingzhu, who remained behind, was immediately startled:
“Fusheng, this is a ghost calling back the soul.”

Old Mrs. Chang had escaped her predicament at some point.

Perhaps it was during the brief moment that the paper figure Zhang was entangled with Zang Junji that the laws of the evil spirits broke down, allowing Old Lady Chang to escape.

The ghost who was the first to call back the soul was struck by the backlash of the Six Paths Law and instantly vanished into nothingness.

It was crushed by the laws of heaven and earth, and its ghostly body was destroyed.

But then countless vengeful ghosts revived and began calling for souls at the same time.

A ghost tree reappeared in mid-air at some unknown time.

By this time, the ghost trees had been pieced together and were already quite powerful.

Beneath the Ghost Tree lies a boundless sea of ​​blood, upon which floats an island—a mountain of corpses formed from countless piles of bones.

The mountain of corpses was piled high with ruined buildings.

The Chang family's East Garden and South Garden are located there, but after being corrupted by the Ghost Realm, they are no longer as prosperous as they once were.

The ghost tree took root from the corpses, and its massive roots destroyed the buildings in the east and south courtyards of the Chang family mansion, standing tall in mid-air.

Its spreading branches and leaves covered the sky and almost completely enveloped the ghost realm.

The Ghost Tree Law trapped Zhao Fusheng and Yu Lingzhu.

Zhao Fusheng released Hell and slowly swallowed the Ghost Realm.

As soon as hell opened, the shadows of the resurrected ghost tree slithered into it like snakes.

They were everywhere, as if climbing within Zhao Fusheng's soul, drilling into her veins, and binding her to her.

Zhao Fusheng did not struggle, letting these ghosts entangle her and occupy every part of her hell.

The Investiture of the Gods warns: The thirteen layers of ghost realms cannot fully contain reincarnation.

The host is warned that the law of reincarnation carries the risk of breaking through hell.

The host will eventually be able to elevate the rank of Hell, trapping reincarnation, establishing order, and solidifying the laws.

(End of this chapter)