The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 124 The Origin of the Bat Theory and Preparations Before Going to Southeast Asia
The fear on the sorcerer's face gradually disappeared, and his expression became blank.

The red-eyed bat, crouching on the sofa, stared motionlessly into the sorcerer's eyes.

An indescribable, sinister aura emanated from its body, sending chills down Huang Jinshen's spine as he looked at the red-eyed bat.

Having participated in the entire process of killing mascots, Wong Kam-sing is no stranger to bats.

Although this bat bore no resemblance to the original one, Wong Kam-sing was reminded of the bat in Magusu the moment he saw it.

Huang Jinshen glanced at the sorcerer, then at Li Zhen, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Li Zhen looked at the sorcerer and asked, "Are you from Southeast Asia?"

The sorcerer replied blankly, "Yes."

Why did you approach Wong Kam-sing and me?

"We need to find the original bat."

"The Origin Bat? Which one of the Magus is it?"

"Yes."

What is the original bat?

"do not know."

"Who asked you to come?"

"Master Nalong".

What is his relationship with Magusu?

“Master Nalong is Magusu’s teacher.”

"Did you use the methods to get Huang Jinshen involved in the problem?"

"Yes."

Why do that?

“I didn’t find any clues about the original bat on Wong Kam-sing, so I suspect it’s related to you.”

"How do you know that the original bats are in Hong Kong Island?"

“I don’t know. Master Nalong sent me to Hong Kong Island to find the whereabouts of the Origin Bat.”

"Did you make the talisman on Wong Kam-sing?"

"It was made by Master Nalong."

"How long have you been practicing black magic?"

"Five years."

What faction is it?

"Bat Party".

Where is your evil possession?

"Inside the skull."

Detective Li was a little surprised.

Is there something inside that skull?
He glanced at the skull that had been blown to bits, leaving only the topknot, and asked, "Who is Master Naron?"

"A very powerful sorcerer."

"What else do you know about him?"

“Master Nalong is terrifying. His sect has many sorcerers, and they are all very frightening… They… They…”

Seeing that he was rambling a bit, Li Zhen skipped the question and continued, "You're not on his side?"

"No."

Why are you working for him?

"He promised to teach me about black magic."

"What kind of black magic did you cast on Wong Kam-sing?"

"The Head-Splitting Curse".

"Any more?"

"No."

"After arriving in Hong Kong, have you used black magic on other people?"

“I put a worm curse on Wong Kam-sing’s wife.”

Upon hearing that the other party had cast a curse on him, Wong Kam-sing merely frowned.

But upon hearing that this man had also cast a curse on his own wife, his face instantly turned extremely gloomy.

It was even more gloomy than before, when I didn't know if I had a chance to survive.

Detective Li then asked, "Why did you cast a spell on Wong Kam-sing's wife?"

The sorcerer replied, "He's unwilling to put in the effort to find the person, so I'm going to use his wife to threaten him."

"Do you have any other questions?" Li Zhen asked Huang Jinshen.

Wong Kam-sing shook his head: "The matter is very clear, I have nothing to ask."

As a police officer, after hearing what the sorcerer said, he understood what was going on with his situation.

It's nothing more than this sorcerer deliberately putting a curse on him so that he would go to find Li Zhen.

Li Zhen nodded.

The sorcerer suddenly slammed his head against the wall, killing himself instantly.

With the death of the sorcerer, Wong Kam-sing immediately felt a sense of relief in his mind.

It felt like something had been stuck in his head, making him feel very oppressed. Now, that feeling has been swept away, and he feels an unprecedented sense of comfort.

He looked at Li Zhen again and sighed, "I searched everywhere in Hong Kong but couldn't find any trace of you. I thought..."

Li Zhen laughed and said, "You thought I was dead?"

“No, at first I thought you were lying to me, that you might not even be from Hong Kong Island. Then I suspected you might not be here anymore,” Wong Kam-sing said. “You weren’t doing well in Southeast Asia, and your departure was very sudden… After I couldn’t find you, I thought I might never have the chance to see you again.”

"I never expected to see you under these circumstances..."

Looking at the terrifying bat that sent shivers down his spine, Wong Kam-sing said again, "You've practiced black magic? Using those pamphlets I had someone translate for you?"

He sensed a similar malevolent aura from Li Zhen as he had when he first met Ma Gusu.

Li Zhen nodded and said, "I didn't expect to have some talent for black magic. I learned it after just a few glances."

That's obviously nonsense.

Wong Kam-sing sighed: "Actually, I was a little hesitant at the time about whether to translate those pamphlets for you. I was worried that you would practice evil arts, and I was also worried that you wouldn't be able to learn them and would spread them out."

“I’m more worried about the latter, because your health is so poor. I thought you didn’t have the energy or time to learn any black magic. I never expected... I never expected that you would still go down this path.”

With Wong Kam-sing's shrewdness, once he recalled the details of what happened in Southeast Asia and combined them with what he saw now, he would naturally understand what was going on with some of the things that had puzzled him back then.

The reason Li Zhen asked him to find someone to translate that book was probably so that he could practice black magic.

Thinking further ahead, Li Zhen's appearance there, and his participation in killing Ma Gusu, might all be for the sake of the black magic.

Recalling Li Zhen's proficiency in Southeast Asian languages ​​and his understanding of black magic when dealing with Ma Gusu, he now believes that this may have been Li Zhen's preparation for learning black magic.

As for whether Li Zhen had a friend who died at the hands of a sorcerer, it's hard to say.

After saying those words, Wong Kam-sing finally smiled: "But it's precisely because of this that you saved me again..."

A terrified scream suddenly came from downstairs.

Huang Jinshen was startled and quickly ran out of the house.

Even without looking, Li Zhen knew what was happening downstairs.

Once the sorcerer dies, the sorcery he cast will automatically disappear.

Wong Kam-sing was under a curse that caused his head to split open. After the curse was lifted, he would at most feel a little relieved.

Wong Kam-sing's wife was cursed with disgusting worms, and she had to vomit the worms to get rid of the curse.

When the sorcerer dies, the curse has been lifted.

His wife must have just finished vomiting up what she ate that day, and now that she's vomited up worms, she's screamed in fright.

"Judging from this, you'll feel nauseous for a long time..."

Hearing the sounds downstairs, Li Zhen went to the broken skull, squatted down and examined it for a moment. Sure enough, he found a small bat inside that was barely breathing.

When the bat was mentioned, Li Zhen tossed it to the red-eyed bat.

The red-eyed bat showed no interest in the little bat. When Li Zhen threw the bat over, it didn't eat it immediately. Instead, it watched the dead bat fall onto the sofa before reluctantly swallowing it.

This guy has become picky about food ever since he completed his second metamorphosis; he won't even eat this kind of bat anymore.

This gave Li Zhen a bit of a headache.

What should you feed the red-eyed bats to keep them transforming?
Are there so many good things for red-eyed bats to eat?

That vampire and the ghost fetus were much easier to raise...

Looking at the red-eyed bat, Li Zhen recalled the term "original bat" that the man had mentioned earlier.

Are red-eyed bats the same as common bats?

The reason this person approached Wong Kam-sing and intended to find him through Wong Kam-sing was to find this bat.

No matter how terrifying the red-eyed bat is, before it transforms, it is just a bat that can be turned into a corpse by ordinary people.

Why did the sorcerer named Nalong obtain this bat so much?
Following the original trajectory, Li Zhen remembered that in "The Demon," after Master Wenma Mamo personally killed the bat with a magic weapon in front of the Buddha statue, a sorcerer attempted to resurrect the bat using magic.

Li Zhen guessed that the sorcerer was very likely the Nalong Master mentioned by this sorcerer.

Enraged after being stopped by Master Wenma Damo, the sorcerer used a golden needle poison to assassinate Master Wenma Damo, which led to the subsequent events.

In the end, the bat died, but the person didn't seem to be greatly affected.

Why is that person so obsessed with this bat, even sending someone to Hong Kong Island to look for it?
This puzzled Li Zhen greatly.

Perhaps only after meeting the sorcerer will he understand what is really going on.

There must be more secrets hidden in this bat...

There are definitely still areas to explore in the black magic of the Magusu school...

Pulling back the altar, Li Zhen saw a skull underneath.

The skull had some birth date and time written on it, which should belong to Wong Kam-sing. This thing is the tool used to cast the Head-Splitting Curse.

There are several jars next to the skull.

Li Zhen opened the jars one by one and saw that they were filled with white stuff, some of which were severely rotten and emitted a nauseating smell.

It's perfect for feeding the female gecko moth...

Li Zhen returned to the vampire zombie and took out the Ghost Face Moth Mother from the box.

After receiving Li Zhen's order, the female ghost face moth flapped her wings, flew to the jar, and plunged her long proboscis into it.

The foul-smelling liquid was continuously drawn into its stomach from the jar, and the wings of the female ghost face moth, which had not eaten for a long time, began to flutter slightly.

This is a sign that it's quite excited.

After checking again and finding nothing useful, Li Zhen, in the spirit of not wasting anything, had the vampires drain the blood of the dead sorcerer.

Seeing that the female ghost-faced moth had eaten her fill, he put her back into the box.

Discovering that the ghost fetus had no interest in the corpse, Li Zhen took the vampire downstairs.

Fanny, Wong Kam-sing's wife, was still vomiting.

Wong Kam-sing squatted down beside her and patted her back.

Seeing Li Zhen come downstairs, he asked anxiously, "My wife vomited a lot of bugs, is she alright?"

Upon hearing the insects, Fanny let out another loud retching sound.

Li Zhen said, "Your wife has been suffering from worm infestation. She will be fine once she vomits out all the worms in her stomach. However, it will deplete her vital energy, so she needs to eat some good food to replenish her blood and energy."

Wong Kam-sing breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'm relieved."

He helped Fanny up.

Fanny looked terrible, but managed a forced smile and thanked Li Zhen.

It seems that Wong Kam-sing had already told her what happened upstairs.

“Let’s find a place to talk,” Wong Kam-sing said, gesturing for Detective Lee to get in the car.

The back seat of the car was a bit cramped, so Li Zhen had to squeeze the vampire into the trunk.

Seeing Li Zhen get into the back seat, the astute Huang Jinshen said, "That... isn't a living person?"

Li Zhen bluntly stated, "A walking corpse."

Fanny was startled and reached out to grab Wong Kam-sing's hand, which was on the steering wheel.

Wong Kam-sing patted Fanny's hand to reassure her not to worry.

The three of them soon arrived at Wong Kam-sing's home.

After confirming that his wife was alright, Wong Kam-sing first told her to rest, and then went to pour her two glasses of wine.

Back in the living room, he handed a glass of wine to Li Zhen, who was sitting on the sofa, and then sat down opposite him.

"So much has happened today, I need a drink to calm my nerves. Help yourself."

Li Zhen tried taking a sip of the wine.

He used to be a teetotaler.

Now that his body has "corpse-like" appearance, his senses have been greatly affected, and drinking alcohol feels almost the same as drinking water.

After downing half a glass of wine in one gulp, Wong Kam-sing put down his glass and sighed, "It's a good thing you came, otherwise I would have fallen into someone else's trap without even realizing it."

Li Zhen asked in surprise, "With your keen senses, how could you not have noticed the problem with that person?"

Wong Kam-sing simply said, "The person who introduced me to that person is a friend I trust very much. After I noticed some problems, I investigated that monk and found that he did exist, so I lowered my guard."

"However, he has been unable to find a solution to my problem, and I am planning to seek advice from other monks."

Although Wong Kam-sing only mentioned his "friends" casually, Detective Lee still noticed that there was something wrong with Wong Kam-sing's tone.

Seeing that Wong Kam-sing was unwilling to say more, Detective Lee stopped asking and instead said, "Even if I hadn't come, you could have found a master to deal with him."

“I would have been in big trouble if you hadn’t come,” Wong Kam-sing sighed. “If I had revealed my thoughts, he would definitely have made a move against me.”

"Now it seems that he kept me around only so that I could help him find people."

Li Zhen said, "It's still because of me that you've been dragged into this."

Wong Kam-sing leaned back on the sofa: "We killed him together... no, strictly speaking, you helped me kill him, because the person Magusu was after was me, not you."

"Now that we've brought trouble upon ourselves, how can you say that you've dragged me down with you? Even without you, they might have come after me anyway."

Li Zhen knew things wouldn't happen that way, but it's hard to say.

Huang Jinshen took another sip of wine, and asked hesitantly, "Is that sorcerer's so-called primordial bat the one you killed?"

"maybe."

"Then this one of yours..."

"It's that bat." Li Zhen didn't hide anything.

He pointed to his chest: "At that time, I used Master Wenma Mamo's ritual implement to stick that bat into my chest, and later the bat came back to life from this bloodstain."

Hearing Li Zhen say that, Huang Jinshen found it a bit unbelievable.

But then I thought about it again, and realized that black magic is an incredible thing.

He wanted to speak, but suddenly remembered the black magic that Li Zhen had come into contact with a year ago.

And the sorcerer who seemed so mysterious to him was actually so afraid of Li Zhen, so how terrifying must Li Zhen be?
He didn't know how the strength of sorcerers was classified, but he could sense that Li Zhen at this moment was much more terrifying than Ma Gusu was back then.

If Magusu had been as terrifying a bat as Li Zhen, the two of them would have been killed in a single encounter.

The person sitting in front of him, Li Zhen, also seemed shrouded in an aura of mystery in his eyes.

He felt that Detective Li must have experienced a lot this year.

Seeing that Wong Kam-sing had suddenly fallen silent, Lee Chan said, "Didn't you contact Master Wan Ma Da Mo? I reminded you at the hospital that you should contact the master if you encountered any accidents."

Wong Kam-sing said, “Making international calls is troublesome and expensive. When I came back, I only contacted the master once a month. Nothing happened after that, and I didn’t want to delay the master’s practice time, so I stopped calling.”

“When my body started acting strangely… I suddenly had a headache, occasionally experienced hallucinations, and would even eat raw meat late at night, I immediately contacted the master.”

"But the monks there told me that something had happened to the master and he couldn't talk to me."

“I asked them what happened, but they wouldn’t say. I had no choice but to figure it out myself, and then this happened.”

The symptoms Huang Jinshen described were likely caused by the effects of black magic.

These symptoms will disappear on their own once the curse is broken.

As for Master Wenda Mamo...

“Perhaps something has happened to the master as well,” Li Zhen said.

He doubted that his initial warning had been effective at all, and that the master must have fallen under someone else's spell.

There's no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. If that sorcerer is determined to assassinate Master Wenma Mamo, even if the master is very careful, he can't prevent it.

However, since the bat did not die at Master Wenmadalmo's hands, why did that person still try to assassinate Master Wenmadalmo?

Huang Jinshen frowned and said, "You mean, the sorcerers who are with Ma Gusu also went to see Master Wenma Damo? Even a master with such profound magical powers can get into trouble?"

Li Zhen said, "Master is in the open, while others are in the shadows. It's impossible to guard against them if they want to cause trouble for Master."

Wong Kam-sing pondered, "We need to go to Southeast Asia again. I won't be able to sleep peacefully until this matter is completely resolved."

Once that sorcerer dies, the sorcerer in Southeast Asia will definitely find out.

If we don't take the initiative to go to Southeast Asia, those dangerous people will definitely come knocking on our door again.

Li Zhen shook his head: "I'll just go to Southeast Asia. You can stay in Hong Kong and focus on your work."

At this stage, Master Wenda Mamo should have already attained the golden body.

Not only to complete the mission, Li Zhen also wanted to see what level of cultivation Master Wenmadamo, who had achieved the Golden Body, had reached.

Last time he was just an ordinary person, but now that he's here, he certainly can't miss the opportunity to communicate with Master Wenma Damo.

He also wanted to see those sorcerers in Southeast Asia who were even more powerful than Magusu.

Li Zhen had a hunch that if he wanted to make a breakthrough in his black magic, he would need to obtain the complete black magic inheritance of the Magusu school.

In a sense, he was also the authentic successor of the Magusu school of black magic.

Wong Kam-sing laughed and said, "I invited Master Wan Ma Da Mo to break the curse. Now that the master is in trouble, how can I not go?"

"Besides, it's inconvenient for you to go alone without me."

Seeing his resolute attitude, Li Zhen did not refuse.

Without Wong Kam-sing, it would indeed be a bit inconvenient for him to go to Southeast Asia alone.

Since we're going to Southeast Asia, there's one person we can't forget.

Li Zhen suddenly asked, "Is there a Hong Kong-Thailand boxing match recently?"

Wong Kam-sing didn't know why Detective Lee asked that question.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "There are many boxing matches, but the most famous one is the one from the day before yesterday."

“A fighter from Southeast Asia named Babo fought a boxer surnamed Chen from Hong Kong. Babo was known as the Southeast Asian boxing king, but he was very dirty. After losing the match, he ambushed Chen and beat him so badly that he ended up in the hospital.”

"This incident has caused quite a stir and led to a significant conflict. It is said that the boxer surnamed Chen was seriously injured and is still in the hospital."

“I know this boxer surnamed Chen has a brother named Chen Xiong,” Li Zhen said. “We need to get to Southeast Asia as soon as possible. If you have time in the meantime, please help me find out where this person is.”

Wong Kam-sing glanced at the vampire standing by the wall: "If you want to take this thing with you, things will be a bit complicated. We might need to contact a smuggler to take us to Southeast Asia."

"No need. As long as I choose a flight that's less crowded at night, I have a way to get on the plane directly."

“That will make things much easier. I will buy the plane tickets to Southeast Asia as soon as possible. The earliest flight will probably be the day after tomorrow. I will check the information about the person you are looking for tomorrow.”

"I need some more materials. If possible, please prepare some for me tomorrow as well."

"No problem, just give me a list of what you want, and I can buy it for you as long as it's legal."

Li Zhen thanked him.

“You look even worse than you did a year ago.” Huang Jinshen finished his drink and looked Li Zhen’s face over a few times. “Back then, the doctor said you wouldn’t make it past six months. It’s really a relief to see you still alive.”

“I contacted some renowned doctors a year ago. Why don’t you take this opportunity to get a check-up?”

Li Zhen smiled wryly and said, "I know my own body best; no one else can cure me."

Let alone famous doctors, even highly skilled cultivators probably wouldn't be able to do anything about his body.

Huang Jinshen said in a low voice, "You were already seriously ill, and now you've come into contact with such sinister black magic... Never mind, you know what's good for you."

(End of this chapter)