Well, damn!
So that was what a "Zhan" was?!
If you were swallowed by the Abyss.
You would die.
And if you suffered supernatural erosion from the Abyss, you would become a vicious ghost after death. But this vicious ghost was different from the ghosts people supposedly became after death in folk legends, because it was merely a physical manifestation of the supernatural.
It wore the shell you had possessed in life, but in reality, it had nothing to do with you anymore.
This was a passage from life to death.
And if this "ghost" died again.
For example, if an Awakened killed it.
Then it would undergo an inconceivable transformation—"from death to death!"
It would be summoned by the Void Abyss.
And become a Zhan!
If the "Void Abyss" was a world, then "Zhan" were its "residents"!
As for why the vicious ghosts of the supernatural world.
Did not become Zhan after being killed.
That was easy enough to explain too.
Because they were not vicious ghosts created through direct erosion by the Void Abyss.
Put simply.
The concentration was too low.
"Wait!"
A question suddenly occurred to Jiang Qiao.
"You just said."
"Whether someone is swallowed against their will or enters voluntarily... they become a vicious ghost after death."
"And if they die again, they become a Zhan."
"Then that means..."
"Figured it out?" The Bridge Spirit still wore that half-smiling expression. "You're right. Those deities from our homeland have already become Zhan too."
"Holy shit!"
With the Bridge Spirit's confirmation, Jiang Qiao was truly shocked.
The deities from their homeland...
Had become Zhan!
Didn't that mean the "Black Tide" was, to some extent, a form of slaughtering their own?
"The Kitchen God..."
"Discovered the secret of the Zhan back then."
"He tried to reverse the transformation."
"But