"Yi Zhi, help me look after Tomie. Take her across the ocean to the main continent of the Ghoul Stomach World. I need to recuperate for a while and digest the Ghost Mound within my body to perfect my True Ghost physique. There may be considerable disturbances during the process, and the Sunken Ghost Realm will also be saturated with dense ghostly aura. That will not be beneficial to Tomie's recovery."
Tomie had been separated from Zhang Chen's body solely through blood and remained unconscious. However, her condition had basically stabilized. With some recuperation, she would recover soon.
Wang Yizhi carried Tomie's battered body on her back. Looking at the woman who had been willing to abandon everything for her husband, Wang Yizhi felt no emotional rejection toward her. Instead, she gave Tomie meticulous care.
"Zhang Chen, you must stand atop the Peak of the World."
After Wang Yizhi left with Tomie, Zhang Chen first controlled the Ghoul Stomach World to seal the fissure he had cut open before him, reconnecting the two separated continental plates.
Since the primary battlefield had been within the nightmare, the Sunken Ghost Realm had not suffered much damage.
"The souls released from Ghost Mound's body actually became Essence of Heaven and Earth Spirit Form within my world."
Zhang Chen sensed the individual ghost souls released from Ghost Mound's body. When they reached the skies of his world, Ghost Mound's death broke the shackles binding those spirits, granting them freedom. Yet they had originally been things of the dead, and the chains connecting them to Ghost Mound had been crucial to their existence.
Once the chains were undone, the individual souls scattered into spirit-form matter without a central consciousness, becoming part of the Ghoul Stomach World.
Zhang Chen currently sat cross-legged atop the ruins of