The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 112 The Red-Eyed Bats Complete Their Metamorphosis and the Descent of the "Demon Embryo"

"Papaya only has seeds, Bauhinia only has bark, this one... is the Strychnos nux-vomica tree you wanted, and this one is a Datura stramonium called something like Mente."

“These plants are small, but they look exactly like what you described. I had a professional look at them, and they all said there was no problem.”

Outside the basement, Fatty Huang introduced Li Zhen to each of the plants he had brought.

After giving a brief introduction, he warned with some concern, "Many of these things are highly poisonous. For example, this nux vomica tree is said to be poisonous from top to bottom, and this datura can cause hallucinations if you sniff it too much."

"I don't know what you're planning to do, but you'd better be careful. I don't want to come back to see you one day and find your body already rotting."

Li Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, I don't want to die yet."

It has to be said that Fatty Huang, this homebody, is actually very capable. He always manages to do things to people's satisfaction, finding everything he wanted in such a short time, saving him a lot of time.

Many of these items are hard to find.

For example, the kind of datura he was looking for is said to only grow in Southeast Asia.

At that time, Tilapa told him to go to Southeast Asia.

Fatty Huang pointed to several boxes stuffed in the back of the car: "I found you crocodile teeth, python teeth are fine too, I dare not touch tiger teeth, if I get locked up for a few years I'm done for. I bought you lynx teeth."

"They're all labeled and placed inside. You can check for any problems yourself later. This is my first time dealing with these things, so I wouldn't even realize I've been scammed."

Li Zhen and Fatty Huang unloaded the contents of the pickup truck at the basement entrance.

It was a cloudy day, and Li Zhen, who went out for a walk, didn't feel too uncomfortable.

After removing those things, Fatty Huang looked Li Zhen's neck over from side to side and said worriedly, "You're in much better shape today than a few days ago, but what's wrong with your body? It looks a bit scary. Should we go to the hospital to get it checked out?"

Li Zhen casually said, "It's probably an allergic reaction. It was a bit itchy, so these blisters appeared. It's much better now."

“It doesn’t look much better.” Fatty Huang scratched his head. “I understand you less and less. Before, when you were busy with business for a period of time, we would only have a meal together every few days, but I still knew what you were doing. Now… you’re becoming more and more mysterious.”

As he spoke, he laughed again: "No matter what, it's always a good thing that you're busy. I'm just afraid that you'll do nothing all day and just daydream."

Li Zhen smiled and smiled back.

Fatty Huang opened the car door, then suddenly remembered something and said to Li Zhen, "I overheard my dad saying on the way here that Huang Jiarong's heart pain has decreased a lot. He hasn't been in pain much all day today. Apparently, it was Master Li who cured him."

Li Zhen nodded and said, "It seems that Master Li is a truly capable master."

“Yes, yes.” Fatty Huang nodded repeatedly. “When Master Li came last time, he had almost cured that kid’s illness, but the kid didn’t listen to the master’s advice not to do certain things, and he insisted on doing them.”

"As a result, the illness relapsed, so we had to call Master Li again. Master Li said the problem was very serious, and he scolded my uncle's whole family, telling them to keep an eye on that kid."

"This time he didn't have the guts or the chance to mess around, and the illness was cured immediately. Isn't that amazing?"

Li Zhen nodded: "Indeed amazing."

He naturally knew that the man's improvement in "heart pain" had nothing to do with Li Xiangwen.

Lemons buried underground will definitely rot.

Once the lemon has rotted to a certain extent, the curse will naturally be lifted.

Fatty Huang leaned closer to Li Zhen and whispered, "Did Master Li hurt you while treating that kid? I heard that if a curse is broken, there will be a backlash?"

Li Zhen shook his head: "It didn't affect me."

"That's good, that's good." Fatty Huang patted his chest. "If I had known this kind of thing was so dangerous, I shouldn't have let you curse that kid."

“I asked my dad for Master Li’s number on the way here. I thought to myself, if Master Li finds you, I’ll have to have a good talk with him about what happened.”

Detective Li smiled but remained silent.

Huang Pangzi's phone suddenly rang.

He took out his phone and glanced at it, then suddenly sighed and said helplessly to Li Zhen, "My parents introduced me to a girl and they're pressuring me to go. I have to go see her."

After hurriedly climbing into the car, he hesitated and said to Li Zhen, "Some strange news has come from your area. I heard it yesterday when I went out to eat with them. I don't know if it's true."

Detective Li gestured for Fatty Huang to continue.

Fatty Huang said, "Some people say that you took a lot of money from your family company and are now pretending to be locked up here waiting to die, but in fact you have invested a lot of money in a research institute to research a cancer treatment project."

Li Zhen chuckled and said, "Everyone thought I was going to die, so they started eyeing my inheritance?"

Li Zhen didn't know how the rumor got out, but he understood why it was spread as soon as he heard it.

"Isn't that how it is now?" Fatty Huang sighed. "Some people treat the money their parents earned as their inheritance even before their parents are dead, and start planning how to spend it early on."

"Alright, I won't say any more. Just keep it to yourself. I'm just reminding you so that they won't come knocking on your door and tell you all sorts of nonsense, which will ruin your mood."

After Fatty Huang drove away, Detective Li had Little Ghost and Mahjong Ghost work together to move everything on the ground into the basement.

Back by the coffin, Li Zhen sat down among several small bowls.

The small bowl contained a mixture of fresh chicken blood and clotted human blood, and next to the bowl were the ashes from the burning talisman paper.

This is the best magic array configuration that Li Zhen obtained after several attempts. It allows him to obtain a small amount of yang energy without causing him too much pain.

He had been sitting in this talisman array since last night, so his complexion looked a little better.

That's why Fatty Huang said he was feeling better earlier.

When practicing witchcraft, the better one's physical condition, the better.

If the evil aura emanating from him cannot be concealed, once the will of the evil god Damasulu descends, it will definitely sense the aura of other demons, which could cause problems from the very beginning.

Li Zhen looked at the contents written in the small book and checked everything in front of him one by one.

Everything should be correct.

According to the book, Li Zhen first plucked two leaves from the datura plant that was only up to his thigh.

This plant has very strong hallucinogenic properties and is said to be a common ingredient in witchcraft.

After taking care of everything, Li Zhen took one of each of the teeth that Fatty Huang had found and ground them into powder on a whetstone.

Following the recipe in the book, Li Zhen carefully threw all the ingredients into a glass jar, crushed some leaves with a wooden pestle, and then added some water and chicken blood.

He held the jar in his hand and shook it, and the contents inside turned into a strange mixture of green and crimson.

I held it to my nose and smelled it. I could smell the blood and the bitterness of the plants, but there wasn't a particularly pungent odor.

Is it safe to drink?
Li Zhen caught a chicken and, according to its weight, fed it three drops of a mixed liquid.

After watching the chicken struggle to swallow the liquid, he released it.

The chicken shook its head, expelling the liquid remaining in its mouth, and took a few steps forward. Its steps became unsteady, as if it were drunk.

Suddenly, it seemed to see some kind of illusion, let out a cry, and rushed towards the wall, crashing straight into it.

Although it looks a bit tragic, the chicken is actually not dead.

Is this it?

Do I have a talent for dispensing medicine?
Li Zhen looked at the glass bottle in his hand with surprise.

He found a second chicken and fed it three drops of the solution. The chicken jumped around twice after landing and then died.

This surprised Li Zhen a little.

Is it due to different body constitutions?
It wasn't until it was almost dark that he finished preparing three or four bottles of medicine.

The chickens outside either died or went mad, leaving only one alive.

Li Zhen thought that chicken blood might be needed again in the future, so he kept the last chicken.

From the three bottles of medicine, Li Zhen chose the one with the lowest mortality rate for chickens.

He drew the curtains and set up an altar in the room with the broken window, enshrining the same evil god he had taken from Tirapa.

This evil god statue has only one head, and most of its hideous face is black, except for the red lips and protruding tongue.

After setting up the altar, Li Zhen used his blood to draw ancient and primitive runes around it.

These runes are easier to understand than Javanese script and other scripts. They contain many variations of pictorial representations, and with just a few strokes, they depict scenes of sacrifices having their hands, arms, and heads severed.

These runes are much more ancient and bloody than the black magic runes that Li Zhen drew before.

No bloody sacrifices are needed; the cruelty and horror of this evil god can be seen simply from these runes.

The more runes were drawn, the stronger the bloody smell became in the room.

After bowing three times before the statue, Li Zhen offered the bottle of medicine to the statue on the altar.

Spiritual practice should begin on nights when yin energy is heavier.

Back in the basement, Li Zhen arrived at the altar where the bat-faced demon was enshrined.

After a considerable amount of time, the red-eyed bat finally finished eating the eagle owl's corpse and is now squinting as it lies on the head of the evil god statue.

The red-eyed bat had grown even larger, its wings still drooping naturally at its sides, and it was about the same size as Li Zhen's upper body.

In addition, the red-eyed bats have undergone some changes.

If you look closely, you can see a thin, white, semi-transparent membrane covering the eyes of the red-eyed bat.

Once this thing disappears, the red-eyed bat's transformation should be completely complete...

Li Zhen sat down cross-legged in front of the altar.

As darkness fell completely, Li Zhen was suddenly awakened by a squeaking sound.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the red-eyed bat's crimson eyes staring at him.

A strange black spot appeared in the red-eyed bat's eye.

The black dot kept moving inside the red-eyed bat's eyeball, just like a living thing.

An indescribable sense of oppression emanated from the red-eyed bat and spread outwards.

All the ghosts in the basement fell silent. Even the most active ghost fetus was hiding somewhere, not daring to make a sound.

Li Zhen reached out his hand to the red-eyed bat.

The black dot in its eye shifted slightly, but the red-eyed bat remained still.

A moment later, it suddenly flapped its wings and pounced on Li Zhen's arm.

That feeling of oppression vanished instantly.

Li Zhen felt the red-eyed bats' closeness again.

He closed his eyes and felt it for a while, then opened them again with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

After completing its second metamorphosis, the Red-Eyed Bat developed a new ability—it can use the ghosts it devours to die in its place.

The red-eyed bat has already controlled the little red-clothed imp as a puppet. If they face certain death, the red-eyed bat can make the little red-clothed imp die in their place.

This is a very useful skill.

After experiencing numerous mission worlds, Li Zhen understood that the rewards he could obtain were all things he had already acquired.

In other words, he never actually killed the red-eyed bat.

However, Li Zhen was never clear about what price the red-eyed bats would have to pay to reappear under those circumstances.

Or perhaps the Red-Eyed Bat was able to reappear entirely because of the runes that brought him in and out of the mission world.

Detective Li couldn't be sure about that.

However, he knew that given the state of the red-eyed bat at that time, it was impossible for it to be resurrected immediately after being killed.

Now, red-eyed bats can avoid death at a minimal cost when faced with a crisis.

With this ability, unless they encounter some irresistible force, the red-eyed bat will not truly die until all the ghosts it has devoured have died.

The red-eyed bat rubbed against Li Zhen's arm and then looked up at him.

Li Zhen sensed the red-eyed bat's excited will and made it fly out of the basement.

It's good to let the red-eyed bats go out and patrol the surrounding area to prevent any more incidents of evil beings creating corpses not far from him.

Once the red-eyed bats left, the ghosts in the basement became active again. The sound of a little ghost riding an inflatable pony could be heard.

Then came the eerie cries of the ghost fetus.

We can begin...

After instructing the little devil to keep watch around the house, Li Zhen arrived at the newly set up altar.

After sitting down in front of the altar and calming himself down, Li Zhen nervously picked up the potion he had prepared.

According to Tilapa, everyone's aptitude is different; some people can complete the pre-sacrifice training in a few days, while others may need several weeks to complete the first step of preparation.

Li Zhen believed he had a good aptitude for evil arts; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to cultivate the art of black magic so smoothly.

He estimated that this step shouldn't take much time...

Li Zhen opened the bottle and took a sip of the medicine.

The indescribable bitterness hit his taste buds, almost making Li Zhen vomit up what he had drunk.

Suppressing his physical nausea, he swallowed the medicine directly.

A faint burning sensation immediately spread from my abdomen.

Even though the pain sensation was reduced many times over, Li Zhen still felt a chilling pain.

Describing it as pain is not entirely accurate.

Just as someone who feels no pain cannot bear the cruelty of someone cutting their flesh bit by bit with a knife.

That's how Li Zhen feels right now.

It seemed as if the medicine, squeezed into his abdomen, was causing a reaction, slowly corroding his internal organs.

Failed?
A sense of panic arose in Li Zhen's heart.

But he immediately suppressed the panic.

Even if he fails, even if he abandons his physical body, he will not die immediately.

Li Zhen has prepared himself mentally for the worst possible outcome.

But to his surprise, the discomfort in his abdomen gradually disappeared.

A feeling of dizziness and lightheadedness washed over Li Zhen, and he felt his sense of body fading away.

The medicine worked...

He barely managed to pick up the jar from the altar and slowly poured the medicine inside over his head.

An obscure and eerie incantation came from his mouth.

Li Zhen didn't know when the glass jar had fallen to the ground.

When the crisp sound of the glass jar shattering reached Li Zhen's ears, he belatedly realized that the jar had fallen.

The sound was like a signal, completely altering Li Zhen's five senses.

Everything he saw turned into distorted lines, and the sounds he heard became sharp sound waves.

He couldn't even be sure if he was chanting a spell; he could only be sure that his mouth was moving.

But he himself had no idea what sound he made.

An indescribable frenzy took over Li Zhen's consciousness.

The talismans on the ground seemed to come alive, transforming into bloody and cruel sacrificial scenes.

Li Zhen's consciousness was gradually overwhelmed by the bloodshed and the frenzy of killing, and a question flashed through his mind—

Tirapa said it takes many rituals and meditations to reach this state, so how come he reached it on his first try?
Is he really that popular with evil spirits?
Detective Li had no answer.

A conscious mind gradually succumbed to darkness.

……

The strange squeaking sounds gradually awakened Li Zhen's consciousness.

He suddenly sat up from the ground.

It's like having gone through a deep sleep; the five senses have regained their perception, but the consciousness hasn't yet awakened to the point where it can process information.

Li Zhen observed his surroundings clearly with a state of pure contemplation.

The curtains were being blown about by the wind.

A red-eyed bat hung from the top of the curtains, its eyes fixed on Li Zhen.

The altar had collapsed to the ground, and various offerings were scattered all over the ground.

Most of the runes drawn on the ground with blood had turned into a sticky mess of blood.

There is no one else here.

The situation in that room was definitely caused by Li Zhen himself.

After a long while, Li Zhen reached out and rubbed his eyes.

His consciousness began to process the information he was seeing.

He took out his phone and took a look.

It was already evening of the second day, more than a day had passed since Li Zhen drank the potion.

Li Zhen raised his arm and looked at the flashing runes on it.

The information transmitted from the runes told him that in five or six hours, he would be taken into the mission world.

Thankfully, I woke up in time, otherwise I would definitely have been brought into the mission world while still unconscious, just like last time...

If the mission had come a little later, Li Zhen could have calmly performed several more rituals to prepare for the subsequent flesh and blood sacrifice.

Now that the mission has been assigned, he has no choice but to speed up the process of the ceremony.

If you miss this opportunity, you'll definitely have to wait a long time to learn witchcraft.

Li Zhen turned his head and looked at the skin on his left arm.

Red marks appeared on his skin, as if something had been pressed against it.

These red marks were discontinuous, none of them continuous, but they could be barely made out as the talismans that Li Zhen had drawn in the room earlier.

According to Tipala, both the image of the talisman being activated that we just saw and the red marks that have appeared now require at least three days of "cultivation" to appear.

But these things appeared after Li Zhen only drank the potion and "cultivated" once...

It seems I'm really suited to going down the wrong path...

With a sigh, Li Zhen quickly got up and walked out of the room.

The red-eyed bat flew onto Li Zhen's shoulder.

Its current size is too large to perch on Li Zhen's shoulder, so it ends up hanging on one side of Li Zhen's shoulder.

Upon arriving in the basement, Li Zhen quickly prepared a bottle of medicine.

Back in his room, he drew the talismans again.

According to Tilapa, one would fall into a coma for a period of time after drinking that potion during the first practice.

Once the body adapts, it will be less dangerous and the patient will not lose consciousness for too long.

To prevent any accidents, Li Zhen brought all the items he needed to take with him, including the vampire and the ghost fetus, into the room.

Surrounded by numerous ghosts, Li Zhen drank the second bottle of medicine.

The same burning sensation appeared in his abdomen, but it was not as intense as before.

The runes on the ground were even more active than before...

More than five hours later, Li Zhen, feeling a little dizzy, suddenly appeared on a gloomy path and began to dry heave.

He looked up and around, and everything he saw automatically distorted into the twisted runes he had drawn.

The intense feeling of being top-heavy made it impossible for him to stand, so he had to hold onto the vampire next to him.

My head was buzzing, my stomach was churning, and everything I heard sounded like a sharp noise…

Every part of his body sent a sense of discomfort to Li Zhen's consciousness.

After a while, Li Zhen felt a little better.

If one takes the medicine and cultivates according to the time and dosage written in the book, there certainly won't be such a strong reaction.

It was only after Li Zhen discovered that the effects of those medicines on him had greatly diminished that he took the medicine that was supposed to last for the next few days... weeks at a time, which led to his current state.

Although the price he paid was high, Li Zhen also gained a lot.

The red marks on his skin had formed relatively complete talismans, adding to his eerie appearance.

Now it should be possible to try accepting the will of the demon through sacrifice...

Despite his poor health, Li Zhen felt extremely clear-headed, even more so than usual.

This activeness always drives him to do something.

Li Zhen slowly straightened up.

The vampire stood motionless.

"You were so scary just now..."

The little devil who peeked out from behind the vampire was so frightened by Li Zhen's gaze that he hid behind the vampire again.

Even the ghost fetus hanging on the vampire's chest was so frightened that it shrank back into the vampire's clothes, seemingly quite frightened by Li Zhen earlier.

"What did I do?" Li Zhen's voice was a little hoarse.

The little devil poked his head out: "You even hit yourself, and you still want to catch us? You even bit that ghost fetus... That's really scary!"

No wonder my chest hurts a little...

Li Zhen rubbed his chest.

He had no recollection of biting the ghost fetus, but there was definitely a strange taste in his mouth.

That kind of medicine is only suitable to be taken when you are alone...

Biting ghosts, catching ghosts, or even hitting yourself are not serious matters; they are just shameful.

Li Zhen smacked his lips and frowned as he looked around.

It is nighttime now.

The chirping of insects could be heard constantly from all directions.

A row of colorful lanterns hangs on each side of the path.

The environment was very unfamiliar, and Li Zhen was unsure whether he had come to Hong Kong Island.

He was about to look down at his arm when he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps ahead.

An old man with gray hair, a white beard, and wearing a white training uniform ran towards them in a panic.

Nighttime, colorful lanterns, a panicked old man, and this eerie atmosphere...

The more Li Zhen looked at him, the more familiar he seemed.

His highly active consciousness instantly retrieved the memories he needed, allowing him to match them with the movie that corresponded to this scene.

Is this the world of "The Devil's Embryo"?

(End of this chapter)