I have a ghost diary

This was unbelievable even to Chu Jiang himself. Chu Zhan's control over Yin and Yang, life and death, had reached a level that was close to the Dao and close to God.

The devouring power of the slender ghost only managed to consume one of Chu Jiang's hands before being neutralized by Chu Jiang's power of life and death.

At the same time, the white tiger took this opportunity to quietly return to Chu Jiang's body and run back into the depths of his consciousness.

It appeared unharmed, still full of energy. Of course, without Chu Jiang's intervention, it would have remained inside the ghostly figure for an unknown amount of time before a result was achieved.

As for Slender Man, he had completely lost all ability to resist, or rather, his supernatural power had been worn away in this cycle of life and death.

Of course, this doesn't mean that ghosts will only be able to appear as a pattern spinning around on the ground from now on.

As long as Chu Jiang withdraws his power, with the foundation of an S-class vengeful ghost, it will slowly recover on its own, eventually returning to its original form and standing up to continue wreaking havoc on the world.

Chu Jiang naturally wouldn't give it that chance; he took out a soul bottle that the research institute had specially prepared for him.

This is a celadon spirit bottle, which looks like an antique. The bottle is oval, and the top is decorated with an exquisite and complex three-story palace-style tower. In front of the tower is a stone tablet supported by a tortoise-shaped base.

The inscription on the stone tablet reads: "In the third year of Yong'an, wealth and auspiciousness prevailed, suitable for high-ranking officials, many descendants, long life, and for countless years there was no calamity."

Chu Jiang opened the bottle cap, picked up the Tai Chi symbol from the ground with his bare hands, stuffed it into the soul bottle, carefully closed the cap, and sealed the bottle opening with four peace talismans in a crisscross pattern.

In this way, once it returns, it will be suppressed at the very bottom of Research Institute No. 21, ensuring that it will not be able to escape for at least several hundred years.

Of course, now that Mr. Xu is gone, if Chu Jiang doesn't want to stay at the research institute every day, he will have to find someone to take his place on the fourteenth underground floor.

Soon, Chu Jiang had someone in mind: Old Master Lin Daosheng from the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall...

Chapter 454 Global Shock

Having successfully sealed the Slender Ghost, the Ghost Realm vanished, and Chu Jiang withdrew from his Chu Zombie state.

At this moment, a mix of emotions welled up in his heart, and memories of the past came flooding back, especially his experience of escaping from the campus, which made him feel somewhat wistful and complicated.

Teacher Yu Fengmei, my deskmate Li Yan, vice class monitor Zhou Cheng, Han Feixiong, Zhang Zihan... and the other victims of Luoxi No. 7 Middle School, I have finally avenged you!

As survivors of that incident, Zhang Haoran, Chen Jie, and Gao Yifei must be very happy. Chu Jiang called them immediately to share the good news.

While Chu Jiang was on the phone, the outside world had not yet fully recovered from the chaos brought about by the Slender Man.

However, thanks to the joint monitoring and intelligence sharing by official agencies from various countries, they quickly located Chu Jiang.

Or rather, the hundreds of thousands of deaths that had occurred earlier converged in the same direction, allowing monitoring personnel to trace the route; the death that was the final destination was also the one closest to the Chu River.

Then a large ghost realm suddenly appeared out of thin air, and it took them some time to successfully locate the final battle site.

However, by the time they discovered it, satellite footage showed that the Ghost Realm had disappeared, and now only Chu Jiang was standing in the same spot.

He was making a phone call with his right hand; while in his left hand he held a celadon porcelain piece in the style of Kyushu.

This left the top officials of various organizations somewhat bewildered. This was...resolved? The terrifying S-class vengeful spirit was sealed away?!

To understand how terrifying Slender Man is, most people around the world have witnessed it this time. If those hundreds of thousands of dead were to simultaneously attack innocent humans, the resulting casualties would be unimaginable.

Not to mention that this ghost can teleport anywhere in the world, and an ordinary ghost master would probably chase it to death and still not be able to catch it.

However, such a terrifying existence was utterly vulnerable in front of Chu Jiang.

Moreover, many people suspect that the white sun that previously toured the globe was transformed from Chu Jiang.

Because the form of that sun resembled a "black sun," and the black sun is now under Chu Jiang's control, it is also the first S-class vengeful ghost he has sealed in his valiant ghost master career.

So it's normal for people to make such guesses.

In short, official agencies from various countries immediately sought confirmation from Research Institute No. 21 regarding whether Chu Jiang had succeeded and whether further assistance was still needed.

Although the research institute was anxious, they patiently waited for Chu Jiang to finish his call before sending him their inquiry, and naturally received an affirmative answer.

As a result, the global paranormal community learned a new piece of information: the S-class vengeful ghost, Slender Man, has now been officially sealed by Chu Jiang, and the crisis has been resolved!

This has sparked another wave of heated discussions. How long has it been? Is Chu Jiang really human? He's practically a nemesis of ghosts. Any ghost that encounters him will only be sealed away.

Some even suspect that Chu Jiang might be a ghost in disguise. His goal is to create a good impression on humans in order to ultimately destroy the world and enslave all of humanity.

Of course, anyone who said that was immediately bombarded with criticism from netizens around the world.

Yes, this time the people of all countries have united like never before, and they all believe that Chu Jiang is invincible! Anyone who dares to speak ill of him will be subjected to a barrage of criticism.

The reason is simple: if a neighbor is better than you in every way, you might be jealous of him.

But what if your neighbor is not just an outstanding person, but a super genius rarely seen in human history; someone who has even solved problems that many top scientists have been unable to solve?

Then you won't feel any jealousy at all, only admiration, because the gap between the two is too great.

Not to mention, Chu Jiang's existence has given many people hope—the hope that humanity can completely defeat the vengeful ghosts and end the resurgence of supernatural phenomena...

If someone were to criticize Chu Jiang, it would naturally make many netizens uncomfortable, and they would take the initiative to defend him.

......

By the way, because Mr. Xu died, some people, both in Kyushu and abroad, had some strange ideas.

Actually, they weren't stupid. They knew that very few ghost masters could rival Chu Jiang, so they were all planning to find a scapegoat to test him out, as long as they weren't the ones who ended up dying.

But now... Chu Jiang's outrageous behavior has silenced many people.

After all, this time, they all witnessed the spectacular sight of "Daytime Sky Patrol" in the boundless darkness, and could deeply feel the powerful sense of oppression brought by Chu Jiang.

This made them worry that if they continued testing the waters and Chu Jiang found out, they might be killed without a trace.

......

After finishing his call with expert Chen, Chu Jiang calmly flew back.

He had expressed all his emotions during his previous phone call with his old classmate, and now he felt clear-headed and free of any worries.

Now that the mysteries of his origins and the Slender Man have been solved, the most important thing now is to open the passage between the two worlds.

For this, we should thank the "example" set by the ghost, which proved with its actions that the real world exists, or as we might call it, the "world of the living."

That was Chu Jiang's last hope, something he had always cherished.

After we get back, let's hand over the Two Realms Bell to some experts and have Zhang Haoran study it with them. Hopefully, we can find a way to open the door as soon as possible.

Back at the research institute, Chu Jiang was greeted with a thunderous welcome as soon as he entered the lobby on the first floor.

Looking at the faces of men and women, some familiar and some unfamiliar, crowding around him; seeing their excited expressions, Chu Jiang simply nodded gently and walked towards the elevator as they made way for him.

It's hard to imagine that not long ago, they were still demoralized and in a hurry because of Mr. Xu's death; indeed, people's emotions are easily changed, sometimes requiring only a spark to ignite them...

Upon meeting Expert Chen and his team, Zhang Haoran first gave Chu Jiang a hug. The young man was very excited, his excitement beyond words.

After exchanging a few words, Chu Jiang began to recount the details of the battle.

Finally, he took the Two Realms Bell out of the Ghost Diary. "Now it's your turn to work. Study it carefully. Don't rush. Even though the situation is complicated right now, we can afford to wait."

After finishing his sentence, Chu Jiang added, "By the way, I want a hundred ghosts as a reward for sealing the S-rank vengeful ghost this time. Is that too much to ask?"

Ning Miaowei winked at him and said in a suggestive tone, "Of course it's not excessive. You can make even more excessive requests."

This made Chu Jiang chuckle.

Chapter 455 The Temptation of a Ghost Diary

Experts Chen and Liu coughed in unison, signaling to Mr. Ning to be mindful of the occasion. Zhang Haoran, however, was rather naive and didn't understand what they were coughing about.

In short, Chu Jiang told everyone to work hard, and also asked Ning Miaowei to take him to retrieve the one hundred sealed ghosts, and to suppress the sealed Slender Ghost Shadow to the lowest level...

It was already evening when we got back to Luohe City.

Chu Jiang sat leisurely in his office and took out his ghost diary.

He meant what he said; he'd just give the last hundred ghosts a ghost diary, figuring it would just mean sealing them in a different place.

Of course, this was not without risk. The strongest ancestor of the Chen family in Yanjing tore out two pages to make the diary incomplete because he felt that the diary had become very uncontrollable after sealing three hundred ghosts into it.

Now that Chu Jiang has resealed three hundred of them, he will face corresponding hidden dangers.

However, one point is very important: the ghost that Chu Jiang is sealing now is qualitatively different from the ghost that the Chen family ancestor sealed back then.

When the Chen family ancestors sealed the ghost, they probably didn't specifically choose it; they just used this diary as a portable sealing container.

The most obvious example is that the Ghost Diary even sealed away two S-class vengeful ghosts: Mu Gui (a false god) and Yi Yu.

The three hundred that Chu Jiang has sealed away are carefully selected. In terms of their level of harm, they are at most B-level. Even in terms of actual combat strength, none of them are particularly terrifying. Their combat strength generally hovers between the ordinary B and C-level ghosts.

As for A-grade and S-grade, there weren't even a single one.

As a result, the power that Ghost Diary can draw upon is correspondingly reduced.

Another point is that the two pages of the diary that were torn out contained the seals of the ghost and the murmurs.

This means that, before the pages were torn off, the Ghost Diary was the absolute superiority of both the sealing and prophecy domains; once those two pages were torn off, the Ghost Diary's level was immediately reduced.

So sealing three hundred ghosts inside isn't as dangerous as you might imagine; the Ghost Diary still can't escape Chu Jiang's grasp.

As for releasing [Boundless] after the seal reaches 306, let's forget about that.

Chu Jiang thinks it's a pretty good reference book now, and he can occasionally borrow some unconventional abilities to use, so let it work well for him.

Thinking of this, Chu Jiang looked at the Ghost Diary, "Along the way, even if you sincerely wanted to eat me, you did help me a lot, especially with your various unreliable predictions."

"So this time I'm keeping my promise. If you dare to cause trouble after the seal is complete, don't blame me for being impolite."

After saying that, Chu Jiang opened his diary and sealed the prepared ghosts inside.

The Ghost Diary exudes an aura of coldness, despair, and death, and begins to greedily feed.

After eating the first ghost, the diary turned a page and a new prophecy appeared:

[February 17th, stormy weather]

Today is my victory day; predictably, I will soon be returning to a normal life.

[Throughout this journey, Ghost Diary has stood by me through thick and thin, helping me in so many ways. Therefore, I've decided to bring Wudu back into the light!]

[Wudu knows I don't want to be the ruler of any new world; it doesn't need my help to end the supernatural resurgence, so it changed its mind.]

[It made an excessive promise: if I released it, it would do anything for me, including laundry, cooking, and childcare... But I digress. In short, it hopes I will seriously consider this.]

Finally, the excess described in the diary and the excess of true liberation are different.