I have a ghost diary

Now that the story has ended, will I disappear from this world forever?

Suga Sakae thought about it more and more and felt that this was possible.

Suddenly she remembered something else: Tanakano had become the old man who adopted her, and Kujo Kazuki had become the middle coroner. Their situation was also very dangerous.

However, Soga Hayate looked around but couldn't find any trace of them, and her phone was also unreachable.

Therefore, after hesitating for a moment, she decided to continue walking while trying to contact Chu Jiang.

......

On Chu Jiang's side, by touching the headless Ksitigarbha, he once again saw all sorts of strange beings.

But this time he remained very calm and simply threw 666 immediately.

However, his luck wasn't so good this time. Chu Jiang threw three or four times in a row, but failed each time. Instead, he encountered all sorts of attacks.

These attacks are not only aimed at the body, but also at the will.

Therefore, Chu Jiang had to temporarily stop this attempt, which had only a 5% success rate; he also had to constantly evade the "pursuit" of the child ghosts and try to seal the Yamata no Orochi, making it very difficult to multitask.

......

After entering the state of seeing the dead for the second time, Chu Jiang was soon pounced on by the children again and forcibly pulled out of this eerie state.

Chu Jiang withdrew his hand from the headless Ksitigarbha again, wiping away cold sweat with a grim expression.

The reason for this failure is that the Ghost Dragon Jade Seal could not withstand the pressure!

He took out the sealed object and looked at it. He saw that human faces appeared on the jade seal, including not only Chu Jiang's own, but also the empty, despairing expressions of many children.

This thing has accumulated too much negative emotion in a short period of time, and now it can't even summon the Ghost Dragon, so it can be said to be temporarily unusable.

This gave Chu Jiang a deeper understanding of the terror of Ghost Abyss.

Not only can it trigger your negative emotions, but it can also force external negative emotions onto you. Who can resist that?!

As expected, none of the S-class vengeful spirits are easy to deal with. You should know that Chu Jiang hasn't even touched the Yamata no Orochi's true form yet; he has only seen it arrogantly devouring the spirits of children.

What exactly happened to these children?

Did they genuinely want him to save them, or were they simply servants of Yamata no Orochi? Otherwise, why would they be so desperately trying to stop him?

Chu Jiang fell into deep thought. He had to find a way to combat his negative emotions, otherwise, even if he could eliminate the interference from these child ghosts, he would still likely lose when facing the true form of Orochi.

"Ring ring~"

Suddenly, Chu Jiang's phone rang; it was a satellite phone provided by the Seireitei.

Chu Jiang glanced at the caller ID and saw it was Suwo Zaoxue calling. He answered immediately.

"Hello, it's me. How are things going on your end?"

Soga Sayuki said in a serious tone, "I was under a hallucination before, no, I was pulled into a hallucination that looked like the real world, and I have finally managed to escape."

"After escaping, I tried to look down for my two companions, but I didn't find them. Instead, I discovered a strange headless Jizo statue."

Chapter 398 Closed Loop

Upon hearing this, Chu Jiang immediately looked around, but he didn't see Suwo Zao Xue. So he asked, "Have you seen me?"

Soga Sayuki was a little confused. "No, we shouldn't be on the same side, right? We weren't coming from the same direction."

“There might be two Jizo statues,” Chu Jiang first recounted his experience, then said, “I can’t be sure right now whether the Jizo statue on your side and the one on my side both contain an Yamata no Orochi.”

"If that's the case, the actual situation is more complicated than I imagined."

“I’ll find out once I try,” Soga Hayayuki replied as she approached the ancient Jizo statue.

"Wait," Chu Jiang suddenly thought of something and immediately stopped Suwo Zaoxue.

"It's not your place to try, it's better for me to try. Since I've already touched Ksitigarbha, if there are any hidden dangers, such as curses, touching it again shouldn't have any cumulative effect."

Soga Sayaka was a little surprised, "Then you have to come all the way here, isn't that troublesome?"

"It's not a matter of trouble or not right now. I'm thinking of a way to break this deadlock. We're just standing here anyway, so just wait for me." Besides, Chu Jiang was extremely fast and didn't care about the time.

He merged himself with the Ghost Realm, transforming into a black-gold beam of light, attempting to circle halfway around the Ghost Abyss from the right side to reach the place where Soga Hayate was.

However, just a few dozen seconds later, Chu Jiang saw another headless Ksitigarbha statue, but strangely, there was no one else around it...

Chu Jiang was momentarily surprised and uncertain. Had he flown too far and suddenly returned to his original position?

He landed and looked around, which confirmed his suspicions even more, because there were still his footprints on the ground.

So Chu Jiang flew again, this time deliberately flying slower, but in the end, he returned to the side of the headless Ksitigarbha.

Chu Jiang's face darkened. He tried to fly upwards, hoping to escape the Ghost Abyss.

But a few dozen seconds later, he saw the headless Ksitigarbha again, and then he saw his own footprints...

A ghost wall? A ghost realm? No, no, no, Chu Jiang felt it was something more unusual. After trying it many times, he sensed something was wrong, but he didn't know where the problem lay.

Chu Jiang immediately called Suwo Zaoxue again, "I've run into some trouble. I can't go too far from Dizang right now. Don't touch Dizang for now. Try to come over to my side."

Zao Xue agreed, and this time the two stayed on the phone without hanging up.

But not long after, Soga Sayaka said in a solemn tone, "It's the same for me. It seems like I'm trapped near Jizo. No matter which direction I go, I always end up back next to Jizo."

"Then there's nothing we can do. Try touching the statue and see what happens."

As Chu Jiang spoke, he repeatedly tried to break through the encirclement, and he had vaguely grasped some clues.

......

Suga Zao Xue cautiously touched the stone statue, but she did not see the spirits and the giant snake that Chu Jiang had mentioned.

This puzzled her even more. Just as she was about to report to Chu Jiang, suddenly! A scene flashed before her eyes:

Beside the headless Jizo statue lay a bluish-black corpse, a Japanese longsword embedded in its head, from which drops of water, like rain or dew, oozed...

Zao Xue felt a sharp pain in her head. When she looked again, there was nothing there, as if everything that had just happened was just a hallucination.

But why does the face of that corpse look a bit like Chu Jiang?

......

After listening to Sugao Zao Xue's report, Chu Jiang became even more certain of his conjecture. He stopped his pointless attempts and returned to Jizang's side.

"What you are seeing may not be an illusion, but a possibility for the future."

"Of course, for you, it's a possibility, or even a fact, that's already in the past."

"What do you mean?" Suga Sayayuki didn't understand.

"I'll do one last experiment. Observe the left shoulder of the headless Ksitigarbha." Chu Jiang said, reaching out his hand to Ksitigarbha's left shoulder.

Soga Sayaka, on the other hand, was staring intently at this spot.

Then she was surprised to find a tiny scratch on the left shoulder of the statue, as if it had been made by someone with a fingernail.

"Did you see that?" Chu Jiang withdrew his hand.

"I see, you carved a mark on the stone statue?"

“Yes, the Ksitigarbha statues next to us are the same, so after I made a mark on the statue, you can also see the corresponding changes.”

"Then why can't we see each other?" Suga Zao Xue was still trying to find Chu Jiang's figure.

“No need to look anymore,” Chu Jiang said, something that Suga Saya found unbelievable: “We are not in the same time period, or rather, not in the same time stream.”

"Based on the phenomenon that 'I create the mark first, and you see it later,' I am in the past, and you are in the future."

"Moreover, the reason we cannot leave Ksitigarbha's side is because the time flow we are in is a closed loop, like a Möbius strip."

At this point, Chu Jiang also had a headache. "It's the power of time again. If I hadn't also controlled a part of this power, I'm afraid I would have died of old age here without even knowing what happened."

It was precisely because the black sun within his body possessed the ability to restart time that Chu Jiang was able to discover the "pieced-together" point so quickly in each cycle, which was the source of what he felt was wrong.

Zao Xue hesitated for a moment, "Then how can we still talk? These two phones aren't some special sealed artifacts."

“Check your phone, it might have no signal; we might not be communicating via radio waves, but rather through this stone statue next to us.”

Soga Sayaka glanced at it; she remembered there were some at the beginning, but now there wasn't a single square left...

"So what should I do next? The ghost inside me doesn't involve time. If no one rescues me, am I just destined to die of old age in this cycle?"

"Then you can only pray that I don't die here." Chu Jiang glanced at the stone statue.

"What you just saw was not a coincidence. I could indeed have been killed by the Yamata no Orochi, and there was indeed a divine sword in its tail."

"Of course, it's not necessarily the Kusanagi Sword. Based on your description, I strongly suspect that the rain that has been falling since we entered the Abyss was caused by this sword, so let's call it 'Heavenly Cry' for now."

"By the way, the corpse you saw, was it only the head that was human-shaped, and the rest of its body below the neck was a bluish-black zombie?"

“Yes.” Suwo Zaoxue confirmed Chu Jiang’s guess.

"Then that's it, I haven't reached my limit yet..." Chu Jiang muttered to himself.

Chapter 399: The Ambition of the Kujo Family

Chu Jiang pondered for a moment and then said, "Okay, I'll try to resolve my situation first. If I seal away the Yamata no Orochi and break the closed loop here, and you're still trapped, I'll come and rescue you."

"Of course, if I die here, you'll have to figure out what to do yourself."

“Oh, right,” Chu Jiang remembered something, “what roles did the other two play in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter?”

“The old man who plays the bamboo plover and the middle magistrate,” Soga Sayaka, “is in great danger because the character played by Kujo Kazuki is probably already dead in the story.”

Chu Jiang was somewhat surprised, "Isn't this guy your top expert? The only local Ghost Master who might be able to join the ranks of [Ghost Gods], he shouldn't have died so easily, right?"

Zao Xue shook her head. "I don't know, but I also don't think he'll die that easily."

......

Meanwhile, in the backyard of the Kujo family's ancestral shrine, a cruel ritual is taking place.

"No!"