The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 111 Zombies Fight Zombies, Signs of the Vampire Zombie's Advancement
The two hurried up the mountain together.

When they arrived at the big tree, the two saw that the crater had sunk, and the man's body was lying face down on the coffin, which was open.

Upon closer inspection, the coffin lid was chipped at one corner, and there were several sharp teeth marks on it, as if it had been violently pried open by something.

The two immediately realized something was wrong.

The young man wearing a baseball cap looked at the middle-aged man: "Fifth Uncle, what's going on?"

The middle-aged man scanned the surroundings with his flashlight, frowning as he said, "Judging from the marks on the coffin lid, it looks like it was bitten open by some kind of wild animal, but would there be such a large animal here?"

The man wearing a baseball cap said, "Even if such an animal exists, why are there no bite marks on the corpse? Logically speaking, if a wild animal opened this coffin lid, it must be because it wanted to eat."

"What's even stranger is that the traps we set were useless. What kind of wild beast could be so unafraid of the evil aura that it could just go in and open the coffin?"

The middle-aged man guessed, "This is a cemetery. There might be some strange beasts that feed on corpses and are not afraid of evil energy. As for why the coffin was opened but the zombie was not harmed, it may be that the zombie scared it away, or it may be that it happened to come up the mountain and was startled away."

The man wearing a baseball cap picked up a bit of dry soil from the ground, sniffed it, and said gravely, "A very strong sense of resentment. Something is very wrong..."

The middle-aged man used a flashlight to examine the corpse repeatedly.

The man's body pressed down on half of the coffin wall, also obscuring the woman's head and half of her body.

From their perspective, the female corpse appeared completely normal.

wrong.

It's not that there are no abnormalities.

If there's anything unusual about the body, it's that the female corpse exuded an extremely strong malevolent aura.

The situation was very strange. Both of them were cautious and wanted to leave immediately, but they were reluctant to leave behind such a powerful zombie.

They've put in so much effort to get this far, how can they be willing to give up just because things aren't going well?
A zombie that possesses such a powerful aura of malevolence from birth is absolutely a rare find.

If they miss this zombie, even if they encounter such a good opportunity again, they may not be able to create a zombie of this quality.

After a moment's hesitation, the middle-aged man said in a deep voice, "Let's exhume the body together and leave immediately."

He put the flashlight in his mouth and took out a yellow talisman and a blue talisman from his pocket.

After sticking the yellow talisman directly onto his body, he jumped into the pit with the blue talisman on his back.

"Heaven and earth are dark and yellow, yin and yang command... With cinnabar as the seal, Taiyi suppresses the soul, I obey the Three Pure Ones, and the corpse demon submits!"

The middle-aged man quickly finished chanting the incantation, and with a flick of his wrist, the talisman fell into the coffin and instantly turned to ashes.

The female corpse twitched, one hand suddenly broke free from the coffin wall, her head slowly turned, revealing a pale, dead face, and then her other hand also broke free from the coffin wall.

The middle-aged man kicked the man's corpse off the coffin and suddenly noticed that there were some things on the side of the coffin where the man had been lying.

Not only on the walls of the coffin, but there also seemed to be something extra on the female corpse.

When he jumped down, he noticed some reddish stains on the back of the woman's clothes and subconsciously assumed it was blood left by a man, but now it seems that's not the case.

The middle-aged man had a bad feeling.

He turned to run, but as soon as he turned his head, he met the blood-red eyes of the female corpse as she raised her head.

"run!"

It was too late by then.

Before the middle-aged man could utter the word, the young man in the baseball cap had already jumped down with a red rope in his hand.

Hearing the middle-aged man's shout, he instinctively tried to climb out of the pit.

A massive aura of malevolence surged into the sky, making the young man wearing a baseball cap tremble with fear.

Just as he paused, a shrill scream came from behind him, and the smell of blood wafted directly to his nose on the wind.

"Uncle Five!"

The young man turned around and saw that the female corpse had already gotten up and was burying her head in the middle-aged man's neck, sucking his blood. His eyes widened in horror.

This zombie is terrifying.

They had prepared for so long and used so many methods, but in the end, their Wang family's corpse-controlling talisman couldn't control the zombie at all. The person who used the talisman was instantly devoured by the zombie.

No matter how good the conditions here are, or how sophisticated their methods are, it's impossible for them to create such terrifying zombies.

Even the most terrifying zombie in the Wang family might not be as terrifying as this one.

According to conventional classification, this zombie is probably close to being a green zombie.

Why are there such terrifying zombies here?

Even if the Wang family turned their ancestral land into a corpse-filled wasteland, it would still be difficult to cultivate such powerful zombies.

There was no time to think about that now; the female corpse that had turned into a zombie had already caught up with them!
It shoved aside the middle-aged man who had become a corpse and reached out to grab the man wearing a baseball cap.

If he ran upwards now, leaving his back to the zombies, he would definitely die even faster.

Fight!

The young man pulled with both hands, straightening the red string.

"Yang blood serves as the medium, and corpse marrow transforms into a rope! The Three Fiends entangle the soul, and the Seven Fiends lock the form..."

In an instant, the red rope was tied into a slipknot in his skillful hands.

The female corpse lunged forward, opening her mouth to spew out a large mouthful of foul-smelling corpse odor.

The young man dodged the attack and, with a quick pull, tied the red rope around the woman's arms.

"One twist and the heavens shatter; two sever and the earth's soul grieves; three sever and the bones of the resentful are burned... Those who dare defy the blood curse will be corroded by malevolent energy and imprisoned forever..."

The red rope shimmered with an eerie red light, but it only bound the female corpse for a short while before breaking off.

The man's face turned pale, and he was momentarily stunned when the female corpse grabbed his arms.

The sharp nails easily pierced the young man's arm.

Bright red blood gushed out.

The intense pain caused the young man's vision to go black.

As if clamped by iron pincers, no matter how much he struggled, he could not escape the woman's arms.

The female corpse opened her mouth, revealing a mouthful of fangs, and lunged to bite at the young man's neck.

At the critical moment, the young man suddenly noticed that there was still a nail stuck in the woman's waist.

He kicked the nail hard.

The female corpse let out a painful roar and released her grip on the man's arms.

The man who had fallen to the ground scrambled up the crater using both his hands and feet.

His leg was grabbed again at that moment.

As soon as his body was lifted up, he felt a pain in his shoulder, as if he had been bitten, and then he felt himself being thrown away.

His head was spinning terribly, and the pain in his arm didn't seem so intense anymore. The panicked young man crawled forward recklessly, wanting nothing more than to get away from the terrifying zombie and save his own life.

After climbing quite a distance, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Why didn't the female corpse catch up?

Although it's despairing, it has to be admitted that the female corpse is moving much faster than he is now.

Whatever the reason, the dizzy young man didn't stop and kept crawling desperately until he saw another pair of legs in front of him.

someone!

The young man looked up, desperately grasping at the straw before him: "Save...me!"

The man said, "You've been poisoned by corpse poison and are about to die."

The young man cried out in panic, "No...no, the corpse poison hasn't reached my heart yet, I can still be saved! Save me! Please...the zombies are coming! I know how to deal with zombies! Save me, I'll tell you..."

He turned his head and suddenly froze.

For some reason, the horrifying female corpse stopped behind him, as if it were wary of something and dared not approach, only daring to let out a threatening growl from its throat.

Is that why the female corpse couldn't catch up with him?
The young man turned his head and looked behind the person in front of him, and found that there was another person following behind him.

Under the cover of night, all that could be seen was that the person slowly approaching was completely wrapped in a long robe.

However, as someone who had dealt with zombies for a long time, the young man could not possibly fail to recognize the menacing aura emanating from this "person".

This is not a person, but a... zombie!
The appearance of a horrifying female corpse was already shocking enough for him, but now there's another terrifying zombie.

Is it possible that even terrifying zombies are now rampant?

The young man, whose mind was gradually becoming numb, was unable to understand this problem.

He stared blankly at the unfolding events before him.

The zombie, shrouded in a long robe, kept moving forward.

The female corpse behind her slowly retreated, as if she was terrified of the zombie.

Even the young man's numb heart was slightly shocked.

Does the world have an environment conducive to creating such terrifying zombies?
The intense dizziness made his vision increasingly blurry.

He felt he was about to die and wanted to call for help but couldn't utter a single word.

The one who arrived here was naturally Detective Li, who was accompanied by a vampire.

Since he had tampered with the female corpse, making it so ferocious, he would naturally come to clean up the mess.

If those terrifying zombies were allowed to leave the cemetery, countless people would die tragically overnight.

Of course, this also allows the vampire to absorb the malevolent energy from this zombie, making it stronger and saving a significant amount of time spent accumulating yin energy. This is one of the reasons why Detective Li made the female corpse stronger.

He already had the bone club in his hand. If the vampire couldn't quickly deal with the female corpse, then Li Zhen would send the mahjong ghost out to help.

Judging from their demeanor, the vampires don't seem to need this kind of help.

The natural zombie body, combined with the large amount of malevolent energy and remnant soul infused by Li Zhen, and having undergone the test of heavenly lightning, made the vampire zombie, which had consumed the blood of many cultivators, far stronger than the female corpse before them.

The female corpse retreated to the edge of the pit, and when she had nowhere left to retreat, she finally decided to fight the vampire to the death.

With a roar, the female corpse, carrying a huge stench of blood, lunged at the vampire.

The vampire simply raised his hand and grabbed one of the female corpse's arms.

Regardless of the female corpse's struggles, its other hand slowly extended, piercing into the female corpse's body, and then tore it apart, ripping off one of the female corpse's arms.

The arm flew off, but no blood flowed.

As soon as they clashed, the vampire completely overwhelmed the female corpse; the two were on completely different levels.

The vampire grabbed the female corpse and brought it to its front, then bit down on her neck.

With a deep inhale, its throat began to bulge, as if something substantial had been sucked into its mouth.

The woman's struggles grew more and more intense, then gradually subsided.

The malevolent aura emanating from her was rapidly diminishing, and she was beginning to revert to her corpse-like state.

When the female corpse was too weak to struggle, her face became blank, and she couldn't even scream when she opened her mouth, Li Zhen gave the order for the vampire to release the female corpse.

If it continues to absorb, it will inevitably devour the woman's soul, preventing her from ever being reborn.

The vampire zombie that had thrown down the female corpse let out a loud roar.

The malevolent energy and resentment accumulated on the burial mound seemed to be drawn by something, constantly swirling around.

Like a vortex centered around a vampire, some of the malevolent energy was directly absorbed into the vampire's body.

This surprised Li Zhen a little.

Li Zhen knew that vampires could absorb the malevolent energy and resentment of other zombies.

This explanation was found in the book on corpse refining that he obtained.

However, he was unaware that vampires could directly absorb the malevolent energy from graveyards.

Perhaps it's because of the special environment here?

Or perhaps it's a special talent of vampires?

Detective Li had no idea.

I might only find out the reason when I encounter a similar situation again in the future.

Li Zhen didn't think too much about the question; his attention was focused on the changes in the vampire.

The vampire, having absorbed a large amount of malevolent energy and resentment, grew a thin layer of white fur at a visible speed.

Is this going to turn into a "frozen corpse"?

should not.

It is said that "Mao Jiang" has a body of steel and iron, moves nimbly, and is not afraid of sunlight.

Current vampires don't meet that standard yet.

But the vampire zombies have taken a step further into the hairy zombies, becoming even more ferocious.

Li Zhen glanced at the oppressive sky and actually breathed a sigh of relief.

If vampires really turned into hairy zombies, who knows what kind of trouble that would bring...

The vampire's violent aura gradually subsided, and its eyes gleamed with a terrifying bloodlust.

It tried to grab the still writhing female corpse on the ground.

Li Zhen shook the Sanqing Bell that he had specially brought with him.

The vampire straightened up and roared at Li Zhen.

The overwhelming menacing aura made Li Zhen feel suffocated for a moment.

Feeling the immense pressure from the vampire, the mahjong ghost inside the white bone club appeared beside Li Zhen, warily watching the vampire.

This guy is even more rebellious than a red-eyed bat; once he becomes stronger, he tries to turn against his master...

Li Zhen shook the Sanqing Bell again.

The vampire shuddered, and its violent aura calmed down.

The matter is half resolved...

Li Zhen looked at the person at his feet and found that the person's face was black and he had stopped breathing. He had obviously died from the poison attacking his heart.

If this corpse isn't dealt with, it might eventually turn into a zombie.

Li Zhen first had the Mahjong Ghost drag the body of the middle-aged man in shorts and a t-shirt out of the pit. He then used the talisman he carried to break the evil aura on the two men and used a secret technique to suppress their bodies.

After eliminating the possibility of the two becoming zombies, Li Zhen instructed the Mahjong Ghost to find a spot in a grove of trees a little further away and bury it.

The Mahjong Ghost has a strong influence on reality; it can even stop bullets, so digging a hole is no problem for it.

Detective Li had absolutely no interest in the identities of these two people.

It's nothing more than a family or sect risking their lives to refine corpses here for some purpose, only to be accidentally discovered by Li Zhen.

The two individuals were unremarkable in ability, and Li Zhen wouldn't waste time risking the pain of a throbbing headache to examine their memories.

These two bodies are easy to deal with.

The difficult problems are the female corpse that has turned into a zombie and the male corpse that has died.

The female corpse had long since died, but her soul remained imprisoned within her body, and her search for food was driven by the magic array.

Li Zhen walked up to the convulsing female corpse, examined her body, and saw two black iron needles stuck in it.

He pulled the iron needle out.

The woman's convulsions then stopped.

A semi-illusory soul, identical in appearance to the female corpse, floated out of her body, bowed to Li Zhen, and then looked at the male corpse in the crater.

Once the magic circle was gone, the nails that had been binding her were gone as well, and she seemed to regain some of her senses.

Li Zhen understood what he meant and asked, "Do you have any family members you want to notify? If not, I will find a place to bury you all together."

The woman nodded, then left without lingering, disappearing into the cemetery on the wind.

Li Zhen remained silent for a long time, observing quietly.

Is the place where ghosts go really the underworld?
If it is the underworld, what does it look like?
Shaking his head, Li Zhen had the mahjong ghost drag the male corpse out of the pit.

The body and the woman's body cannot be left unburied.

The female corpse had very obvious zombie features and had been torn into several pieces by vampires, so it was definitely not fit to be seen by anyone.

The male corpse was similar.

Detective Li directly instructed the Mahjong Ghost to find a good spot, dig a large pit, and bury both corpses together in it.

After doing all this, Li Zhen led the vampire zombie back the way they came.

Dongming actually has such arrogant evil people who dare to use this method to refine corpses...

If we were to thoroughly investigate the entire Dongming region, I wonder how many such figures we could uncover?
Li Zhen's current situation is special; the cursed aura on his body can attract ghosts, making it the perfect time to act as bait to lure them out.

Who knows how many ghosts you might see if you go out for a walk...

Back home, Li Zhen settled the vampire zombies, put away the white bone club, and calmed the restless ghost fetus. Then he saw the little ghost that had been waiting for him for a short while.

Previously, Li Zhen hadn't had time to check on Xiao Gui's situation. When he heard Xiao Gui say that Changshan had replied that they would go directly to the ancestral graves to find the book for him the day after tomorrow, Li Zhen was very surprised.

Was Wu Zhiling too important, or was he himself too terrifying, or both, that made Changshan make the decision to dig up his own ancestral grave?

Regardless, this is indeed a good thing for Detective Li.

Without Changshan's help in the search, Li Zhen wouldn't have even gotten a clue on his own.

Li Zhen isn't in a hurry for the second volume of "Spiritual Talisman Scroll" right now; he can let the people of Changshan find it at their own pace.

The "Long-haired Curse" is still searching for Wu Zhiling. As long as Li Zhen himself doesn't get into trouble, this curse will never stop.

Upon arriving at the altar, Li Zhen saw that Wu Zhiling's photo had not changed, so he ignored him.

Putting Wu Zhiling's matter aside for the time being, Li Zhen focused his main energy on studying witchcraft and cultivation.

Besides witchcraft, before formally practicing witchcraft, he also needs to use special methods to slightly replenish some of his yang energy to avoid affecting the practice of witchcraft.

This was something that Tirapa had reminded Li Zhen about, and Li Zhen had also added it to his schedule.

For the rest of the evening, besides looking for a suitable way to suppress the ghost fetus, Li Zhen spent all his time studying that little book.

The next day, when it was fully light, Fatty Huang's phone call woke Li Zhen up, telling him that he would need to pay extra if he wanted to buy those items.

For Li Zhen, this was certainly something to be happy about, and he immediately transferred the money to Fatty Huang.

As evening approached, Fatty Huang drove a pickup truck to Li Zhen's house.

Behind the pickup truck were various tropical plants packaged in glass cases...

(End of this chapter)