Chapter 105: Supernatural Cycle
After returning to the laboratory,

Wang Xiaoming didn't have to wait too long before Professor Bai replied, "Judging from the clothing, this person should be from the Tang or Song dynasty. I can't tell more specifically. There is not enough information based on just one painting."

During the Tang and Song dynasties?
Wang Xiaoming had a question in his mind. The dates of the several invalid supernatural items he had just appraised, such as the compass chariot and jade pendant, were all from the Tang and Song dynasties. However, the dynasties of other ordinary cultural relics were relatively broad, including the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Why are the existence times of these invalid supernatural objects so uniform?

With doubt, Wang Xiaoming replied: "It's OK, I just need to know an approximate time.

I have another question for Professor Bai about the ancient ghost riders."

"You said."

"I recently collected some things about ancient ghost riders. After identification, I found out that these things are all from the Tang and Song dynasties. There are no other dynasties. Do you know why?"

Professor Bai on the other end of the phone did not answer the question immediately, but thought for a while and replied:

"I am currently collecting incidents of supernatural outbreaks throughout the dynasties and preparing to make a summary of them. I have actually discovered the problem you just mentioned.

This involves one of my guesses, which is that supernatural resurrections are cyclical, just like the ebb and flow of the sea, the same is true for supernatural resurrections.

When the tide is high, strange and evil spirits will continue to appear in the real world, causing various supernatural events, and at the same time, a large number of lucky people will become ghost riders.

When the tide recedes, the supernatural ghosts will temporarily dissipate, or fall into a state of dormancy. After a long time, the ghost controllers will die, and the world will return to peace again.

According to my research and investigation, apart from the Republic of China, the most recent period of supernatural revival was during the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty.

During this period, a large-scale supernatural revival happened, giving rise to a large number of ghost riders and supernatural events. Society became turbulent, and the Tang Dynasty also went to extinction because of this incident, which also indirectly led to the emergence of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Until the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the revival of the supernatural entered a period of decline and began to gradually fade away, and the supernatural and evil spirits withdrew from the stage of history.

This is probably why the things you collected about ghost riders date back to the Tang and Song dynasties."

Paranormal cycles? Paranormal tides?
So much fun!

After reading the message sent by Professor Bai, Wang Xiaoming felt suddenly enlightened. He remembered that he had walked around the Ming Tombs some time ago and found no traces of ghosts. At that time, he was very puzzled that there were no ghosts buried in the emperors' tombs.

Now it is thought that the Ming Dynasty was in the ebb period of the revival of the supernatural, and supernatural ghosts were rare, so there are no corresponding traces in the Ming Tombs.

Moreover, there is another reasonable point in Professor Bai’s theory, that is, if the supernatural resurrection is happening continuously, can human beings really survive until now without being destroyed?
Wang Xiaoming had read the original novel in his previous life. In the later period of the supernatural revival, supernatural events broke out in almost every city, and some cities had become deserted.

The country was in chaos, the situation was turbulent, and the headquarters was powerless to save the situation.

At that time, evil spirits were walking the earth, reaping lives, and it was already the end of the world.

If it weren't for the protagonist Yang Jian's unleashing of his potential, controlling the blood lake and sealing off the spiritual land, humanity would have already perished.

Even so, Yang Jian can only seal off the spiritual place for sixty years.

In modern society, even if a benevolent country gathers all its strength, it cannot cope with the late stage of the revival of the supernatural. The countries and dynasties in ancient society would not be much better if they encountered the same situation. Even if a strong man like Yang Jian appeared and could seal off the supernatural land for sixty years, what is the probability that another savior will appear when the supernatural land emerges? What is the probability that another savior will appear...

Take the clearly recorded history of the Ren Kingdom as an example. There are thousands of years of history. If we divide it into a cycle of sixty years, we can get more than one hundred cycles.

Every cycle requires a savior, so the probability of a hundred saviors appearing consecutively is basically zero.

But now human beings have not perished, which just proves that supernatural revival cannot exist forever.

So after hearing Professor Bai’s theory about the supernatural cycle, Wang Xiaoming felt suddenly enlightened.

"Since the supernatural revival has a cycle, how long does this cycle last? How long do you think it will take for this supernatural revival to end?" Wang Xiaoming continued to send messages.

This time, Professor Bai responded quickly: "It's hard to say how long it will last. After all, this is just my speculation and it has not been confirmed. I can only talk about my own thoughts."

"You said."

"According to the calculation from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it should be around two hundred years, but from the information I can find, our spiritual revival has lasted for more than two hundred years and it has not ended yet."

"You mean to say that the spiritual resurrection tide will last longer than the last time?"

"I think so."

Wang Xiaoming walked out of the laboratory, still thinking about his conversation with Professor Bai.

He learned the concept of the supernatural cycle from Professor Bai and agreed with it in his heart. Based on the supernatural cycle, the two also talked about how long it would take for the supernatural revival that began in the Republic of China to end.

It’s a pity that because they know too little about ancient supernatural resurrection, they don’t have enough data to make a judgment.

Professor Bai only recently proposed the theory of the paranormal resurrection cycle. Paranormal resurrection has only been traced back to the Tang and Song dynasties. Going back further will require more information and more time.

History becomes more difficult the further back in time one goes. The Tang and Song dynasties were about a thousand years ago, and before that were the Three Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

But this did not bother Wang Xiaoming. He already had a rough guess about the spiritual revival before the Tang and Song dynasties.
He still remembered that in the original novel there had appeared a ghost in golden jade clothing from the Han Dynasty, and it seemed that there had been a supernatural revival during the Han Dynasty.

Based on the history he had read recently, he had inferred a lot of information related to supernatural spirits and evil spirits from history, and the feedback from the magic potion was correct. He arranged the time when these information appeared and discovered a pattern.

Most of the information is distributed in four time points, namely the Qin Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the late Qing Dynasty.

As for whether there was any supernatural revival before the Qin Dynasty, Wang Xiaoming could not be sure, because when he was reading history books, he did not read much about the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so he knew relatively little and had not received any feedback from the magic potion.

Then he began to deduce the impact of the supernatural resurrection in his mind.

In the history of the Qin Dynasty, he saw Xu Fu going out to sea to look for gold and helping Qin Shihuang cast the Twelve Golden Men.

It should have been a period of rising tide of supernatural revival. When fighting against evil spirits, people discovered that gold could imprison supernatural spirits and evil spirits. So after Qin Shihuang founded the country, he began to collect gold from all over the world and ordered Xu Fu to go out to sea to look for gold.

(End of this chapter)