The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 110 The Initial Practice of Witchcraft and the Real-World Evil Art of Corpse Refining
The book records several extremely cruel witchcraft techniques, and some of the large-scale curses are far more bloody than the "planting ghosts" method.

These witchcraft spells don't require much study; as long as you have the materials and set up the ritual, you can use them.

The biggest problem now is how to access the will of the evil god Damasul, whom Tirapa worships.

Unlike the bat-faced demon and spider demon that Li Zhen had encountered, Damasulu would not easily impose his will on an ordinary person.

Compared to the former two, it seems to have little interest in expanding its influence.

To enter the Tirapa school of witchcraft and come into contact with the will of that evil god, one must, under certain preconditions, perform a specific ritual and offer a large number of flesh and blood sacrifices.

This preparation includes preparing the medicine, which requires certain medicinal herbs and specific materials, such as crocodile teeth, python teeth, and tiger teeth, etc.

You definitely can't buy a tiger tooth.

Tilapa said that leopard teeth or lynx teeth would also work.

One of the text messages Li Zhen sent to Fatty Huang was that Fatty Huang asked someone to go to the zoo and ask if the zookeepers there had kept any old lynx teeth.

If not, you'll have to look for private breeders who keep lynxes as pets.

That's not the difficult part; the difficult part is finding the herbs needed to prepare the medicine.

Many of these are tropical wild plants found only in Southeast Asia, and they are not easy to find locally.

To Li Zhen's delight, Fatty Huang replied that there was a botanist in the next city who liked to collect tropical plants, and he had already contacted him and was discussing buying some tropical plants that Li Zhen needed.

If that person doesn't have them, or doesn't have enough, then you can only try to buy them from other people who might have those plants through that person's connections.

If you're willing to spend the money, you can always find those things.

Besides the difficulty in finding the herbs, the preparation process described in the book is even more abstract, with descriptions like "a handful," "a handful," and "three pieces" everywhere, without a single quantitative term.

When Li Zhen asked Tilapa about this, Tilapa replied that a handful is a handful, and you get a handful just by grabbing it.

Li Zhen then asked if anyone had died in the very first step of practicing this witchcraft.

Tilapa replied, "Of course."

Many of the herbs used in the prepared medicine are highly poisonous. Those who fail are either poisoned to death, in addition to being harmed by witchcraft and evil spirits.

Even though Li Zhen's body had already turned into a zombie, he didn't dare to concoct and consume drugs indiscriminately, since he hadn't completely become a corpse yet.

Those drugs are so toxic; the damage they do to his body might be even greater than cancer.

While there may be mystical elements involved in dispensing medicine, it is certainly also related to the dosage.

Li Zhen didn't want to poison himself, so he could only try different drug ratios and test the drugs on other animals.

At this stage, without thoroughly researching the matter, he truly dared not prescribe medicine for himself.

A dozen minutes later, Li Zhen had flipped through the key points in the book.

After closing the book, Li Zhen suddenly looked up at the window.

A figure stood silently outside the wall, with his back to him.

Under the moonlight, the person's figure seemed to be draped in a layer of silver gauze.

If it were someone else, they might be frightened.

But now it is Li Zhen who sees this thing.

With just one glance, Li Zhen determined that it was a ghost, not a living person.

Were they attracted by the aura of the curse emanating from me?

Li Zhen looked at the blisters and still unhealed wounds on his right arm.

The small wounds on his chest and abdomen had healed.

In the battle of wits with Changshan, Li Zhen actually gained a significant advantage.

The other party's fate is unknown, but he was at least severely injured, while he himself has basically recovered after a day of rest.

Li Zhen looked up again at the ghostly figure.

In the blink of an eye, the ghost vanished without a sound and reappeared under a tree further away.

The ghost fetus let out a strange cry and eagerly leaped out of the window. After landing heavily on the ground, it waved its tentacles and chased after the departing figure.

Li Zhen got up and walked downstairs.

Summoned by him, the Ghost Face Moth Mother flew out of the basement and landed on Li Zhen's shoulder.

As he stepped into the moonlight, a cool breeze blew by, making Li Zhen feel a ticklish sensation as his body hairs were stirred.

Upon reaching the outside of the wall, they saw the violent demons whipping the trees in a chaotic frenzy, leaving scarlet slime on the leaves everywhere.

This guy is only good as a thug...

After wearing those contact lenses, Li Zhen's eyes became extremely sensitive to yin energy.

Even if the ghost only appeared once, Li Zhen could still see the path the ghost took.

In a place unseen by the ghost fetus, a trajectory formed by yin energy clearly appeared in Li Zhen's eyes.

He grabbed one of the ghost fetus's tentacles, lifted it up, and, along with the ghost-faced moth mother, followed the ghostly figure onto a path.

Li Zhen's body became increasingly stiff, so his walking posture was a bit strange.

Fortunately, the place was remote, and no one saw what happened.

As Li Zhen walked along the gloomy path, he saw the ghostly figure with its back to him, crouching under a dense pine tree, sobbing softly.

After he stepped forward, the ghost reappeared even further ahead.

Is this an attempt to lead me somewhere?
Li Zhen followed behind, seemingly lost in thought.

The irritable ghost fetus broke free from Li Zhen's grasp and chased after the ghost.

Li Zhen ignored it.

He followed the ghostly figure and the ghost fetus at a leisurely pace.

After passing through a grove of trees, he saw a low hill ahead, covered with tombstones of all sizes.

Li Zhen knew there was a cemetery here before he moved into the villa, but this was the first time he had come to the front of the mountain.

In the dead of night, the desolate cemetery exuded a strong sense of yin energy, which made Li Zhen feel very comfortable.

Although this female ghost is not strong, she is relatively intact and not a fragmented soul.

Even in a cemetery, it's rare for such a female ghost to appear.

Detective Li catches the ghost fetus that has lost its target and searches for the ghost's trace on the cemetery.

The yin energy here was too chaotic, and he couldn't find the ghost for the time being.

A few breaths later, he saw the ghostly figure on a tombstone, still with its back to him.

Li Zhen suppressed the restless ghost fetus and quietly watched the ghostly figure.

The ghostly figure let out a pitiful sob.

Not only Li Zhen, but even Gui Tai felt a sense of sympathy.

Li Zhen remained unmoved.

The ghostly figure flashed and appeared under a dense tree.

A rope slowly dangled from the tree and hung around the ghost's neck.

The ghostly figure's sobs were even more pitiful, as if it had countless grievances to tell.

Detective Li let go of his ulterior motives.

Its body swayed, and the naturally violent ghost fetus instantly broke free from that inexplicable emotion. A long tentacle stretched directly from its body to the back of the ghostly figure.

The ghostly figure's sobs turned into screams, and it fell to the ground in a sorry state, disappearing without a trace.

The ghost child chased them to the foot of the tree.

After a splash, it disappeared along with the female ghost.

When Li Zhen walked to the tree, he saw that the ground beneath it was not flat, but rather had a downward-facing depression.

After the ghost fetus trampled down the camouflage above the pit, it sank into the pit, which was half a person high, and fell onto the coffin inside.

The evil energy gathered in this pit is very strong. If someone else fell in, they would probably lose their mind immediately. But it was the ghost fetus that fell in.

Unaffected, the demon fetus easily gnawed a large hole in the coffin lid with its terrifying fangs, then lifted it to one side with its tentacles, revealing a female corpse inside.

Li Zhen stopped the ghost fetus from taking a bite and summoned it back to his side.

He frowned and carefully examined the female corpse.

The female corpse inside the coffin was not buried lying down, but face down.

There was nothing inside the coffin; the female corpse lay flat on a soft pillow.

Her face was sunken into the pillow, and her profile was completely obscured; something was also stuffed into her ears.

You can see that the hair on the back of her head is stuck together in clumps with dried blood, and there seems to be something nailed to it.

The woman's hands were pulled behind her back and nailed to the coffin in a bizarre position with her palms facing the coffin wall.

The woman's legs and abdomen were also nailed with black nails the size of fingers, and the entire coffin was filled with a strange smell of dried blood.

The walls of the coffin were covered with red cinnabar inscriptions.

Several yellow talismans were pasted on the outside of the coffin.

Several pieces of wood with inscriptions were placed under the coffin, preventing it from touching the ground.

Although he didn't know what kind of method this was, Li Zhen could tell that it was definitely an unorthodox practice.

Are there heretical figures so close to him?
Detective Li looked the female corpse up and down.

The malevolent and yin energies on the burial mound were converging on the female corpse inside the coffin, presumably in an attempt to refine the corpse.

This was the first time Li Zhen had witnessed someone refining a corpse in the real world. The arrangement inside and outside the coffin appeared to be a kind of formation.

Li Zhen had never seen this kind of formation before, but with his keen eyesight, he could roughly tell that it had two functions.

One purpose is to gather negative energy.

Secondly, it was to drive the soul of the female corpse, which was bound within her body, to leave the body and seek food for herself.

Next to the woman's coffin were the rotting corpses of some dogs and cats.

It seems that animal carcasses were no longer enough for this female corpse, so the other party came after her head...

Li Zhen looked at the blood blister on his right side.

If it weren't for the curse that attracted ghosts, this corpse would have lured someone here tonight to become its prey.

This person was probably not chosen randomly, but rather someone in the same industry as him was specifically selected.

Even if an ordinary person saw a female ghost, they certainly wouldn't dare to chase after her. Only those who know a bit about magic would be curious about why the female ghost appeared, and after seeing that the female ghost wasn't strong, they would chase after her to see what was going on.

If you are eventually led here by the female ghost, you will definitely fall into the trap and become food for the female corpse.

Li Zhen looked at the arrangement inside the coffin again, but there were still some details he didn't understand.

"What are you trying to do?!" A furious voice rang out behind Li Zhen.

Li Zhen turned around and saw a young man in work clothes standing not far from him.

The man's small flashlight lit up, making Li Zhen feel a little blinded.

Li Zhen squinted at the man's face.

The man looked to be under thirty years old. His forehead was completely covered by clumps of hair, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was very dirty, and he looked extremely haggard.

The moment Li Zhen saw the man, he smelled a strange odor emanating from him.

He looked the man up and down thoughtfully.

Upon seeing Li Zhen's face and the strange-looking ghost fetus beside him, the man was clearly startled.

He took two steps back, trembling as he shouted, "Stay away from my wife!"

Li Zhen looked at the corpse inside the coffin: "Is this your wife?"

The man nodded repeatedly: "She's my wife!"

Detective Li said, "Your wife is dead."

The man said, "I will save him!"

"You know how to save your wife? Did someone teach you?"

"I don't know, I don't know," the man said irritably. "Why do you care so much? Get out of my way, don't get in my way!"

His bloodshot eyes were fixed on Li Zhen, and his body swayed involuntarily, like a wild beast preparing to attack.

Li Zhen held down the ghost fetus and said to the man, "You're already dead, how can you save your wife?"

The young man paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter: "I'm dead? You madman, have you ever seen a dead person run, jump, or talk?"

"Take a look at your clothes." Li Zhen looked at the man's right arm, which was covered in blood.

Several flies buzzed around in front of the man.

"You yourself are like a dead man, yet you say I am a dead man, really..." The man lowered his head and instantly pulled up his sleeve.

A foul stench emanated from the man's rotting arm, and with a buzzing sound, numerous flies swarmed up from the arm.

The man stared blankly at his rotting, maggot-infested arm, trembling all over.

"I...I'm dead...How is this possible?!"

“Your corpse is already infested with maggots, how could it still be a living person?” Li Zhen waved his hand, shooing away the flies.

The man staggered, nearly falling to the ground: "I...I...I have to save my wife..."

"Who taught you this method?"

"I don't know, I...I don't know! That's it, as long as I do this...my wife will come back to life!"

When did your wife die?

"Yesterday... no, the day before yesterday, no, no... it's... I can't remember."

"Who nailed your wife into the coffin?"

"It was me! I made it myself!"

"You can't save her; you can only turn her corpse into a monster and imprison her soul inside it to suffer."

The man, who had been retreating in disarray, suddenly froze in place, letting out a gurgling sound from his throat like a wild beast: "What...do you mean?"

Li Zhen looked at the man with pity: "You can't save her, she's already dead."

"Can't be saved? Impossible... impossible... Ah Lin moved! I saw it with my own eyes... how could she not be saved?"

The man shook his head and muttered to himself for a while, then suddenly looked up at Li Zhen.

"It's you! It's all your fault! You're the one who ruined it! The method you taught me didn't work! It didn't work at all! My wife didn't come back to life... You lied to me!"

He suddenly lunged at Li Zhen, but was grabbed by the tentacles of the ghost fetus and tripped heavily to the ground.

Li Zhen said to Gui Tai, "Let him go."

After waiting for a long time without getting anything to eat, the vengeful child reluctantly released the man's legs.

The man, covered in flies, crawled toward the woman inside the coffin.

After wrapping the fallen flashlight in toilet paper, Li Zhen picked it up.

Just as the man climbed to the edge of the pit, Li Zhen used his phone flashlight to illuminate the female corpse inside the coffin.

"I'm dead... I'm really dead..."

"Who asked you to do this?"

"It's him...who is he? I can't remember, my head hurts so much..."

The man covered his head and rolled down into the crater, climbed onto the coffin, and put his hand under the corpse's face.

"Ah Lin, Ah Lin, I'm here..."

This man was neither a zombie nor a ghost; he was sustained entirely by some kind of evil magic and a last breath in his heart. Now that breath has dissipated, he has naturally died.

A sucking sound came from under the woman's head.

But there wasn't a single drop of blood left on the man; otherwise, the female corpse wouldn't have started looking for food.

The female corpse became restless, her head twitching as if trying to turn it towards Li Zhen, but she failed.

Li Zhen had never seen this kind of corpse-refining method before, nor had he encountered such a vicious method in his acquired memories.

After hearing the man say a few words, Li Zhen understood some details of the corpse refining technique.

Using a special method, the female corpse's ears were sealed, and her face was turned downwards, so that she could never see or hear who was tormenting her soul from behind.

When she transforms into a zombie and sees that person again, who is actually her lover, she must be filled with resentment.

For ordinary zombies, without any other special conditions, their strength depends on the power of their resentment and accumulated malevolent energy.

This cemetery has accumulated so much malevolent energy, and coupled with the resentment accumulated by the female corpse herself, it will definitely be very ferocious after being transformed into a zombie.

This is a good idea for corpse refining, but Li Zhen doesn't like it.

Want even fiercer zombies?
Li Zhen slid down into the pit along the wooden plank on one side.

Standing beside the coffin, he bit his finger and dripped his blood onto the back of the female corpse's head. Then he took some blood from the ghost fetus and dripped it onto the back of the female corpse's head as well.

The blood seemed to have been absorbed by the female corpse as if it had been dripped into a sponge.

The female corpse began to tremble.

For zombies, how can the blood of an ordinary person compare to the blood of Li Zhen and the ghost fetus?
After dripping the blood, Li Zhen used his broken finger to draw a talisman on the back of the female corpse.

This is a corpse-nurturing talisman I saw in a memory; it can help a corpse better gather malevolent energy.

The fiercer the zombie, the better.

An overly ferocious zombie will turn on its owner the moment they try to control it. Once the zombie's ferocity cannot be suppressed, the person who created the zombie can only wait to die.

The zombies that Li Zhen had tampered with were definitely far more ferocious than the person who designed this corpse-refining formation had imagined.

Li Zhen removed the plug from the woman's right ear and then drew several different talismans in the gaps between the talismans inside the coffin.

He couldn't understand the original talisman, but adding some talismans would definitely disrupt the original talisman's structure.

After doing everything, Li Zhen didn't look around much. He climbed directly into the pit and headed back to where they came from with the ghost fetus and the ghost-faced moth mother.

……

About an hour later, two figures carrying flashlights appeared at the foot of the cemetery.

One of them was a middle-aged man in his forties with a cigarette in his mouth, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and sandals, looking like he was just taking a walk in the mountains.

The other was a young man in his twenties, wearing a baseball cap and a long tracksuit, covering himself up completely.

"Fifth Uncle, he's been up the mountain for so long, why hasn't he made a sound? Could something have happened to him?"

"What could possibly go wrong? Who would come to a place like this at this hour? He's probably been sucked to death. When I went to check last night, the soul that was trapped inside the zombie was already able to leave its body, which means there wasn't much blood left on him."

"Once the zombie is successfully created and has consumed its first human blood, we should move out. If it attracts more attention, it will be troublesome."

“We only target our peers. As long as it doesn’t affect ordinary people, it won’t attract attention. Even if a peer isn’t dead and sees a zombie, they won’t be able to find us.”

"The ones that suck blood are zombies, and the methods for creating zombies are not from our Wang family, so it really has nothing to do with us."

"The female corpse's resentment is stronger than I expected. Once this zombie is fully refined, our Dongming royal family will have the strength worthy of our reputation..."

(End of this chapter)