The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 137 The Blue-Faced Demon's Path to Corpse Dissolution and Greed

The closer the car got to Changshan, the clearer Li Zhen's perception of the activated talisman became.

Moreover, his connection with the doll gradually returned.

After daybreak, Li Zhen arrived at the foot of the majestic and continuous Changshan Mountains.

After sensing for a moment, he did not go directly up Changshan Mountain, but instead drove the car onto a small road on the right.

After walking a kilometer or two, Li Zhen saw rows of empty buildings that looked like a resort.

The parking lot was open, and there was a local car parked there, but I didn't see anyone else.

Li Zhen got out of the car and opened the black umbrella in his hand.

There is no sun now, but the light is too glaring. Using a black umbrella to shield himself from the light makes Li Zhen feel much more comfortable.

The vampire walked beside Li Zhen and was also shielded under the black umbrella.

The little ghost and the mahjong ghost are both hiding inside the vampire zombie.

Even the magical artifacts that Li Zhen had prepared that might be needed were packed up and hung on the vampire.

Although he had rested for quite some time, he still hadn't sorted out the memories he had acquired, and his current state of mind was not very comfortable.

Tapping his temples, Li Zhen glanced at the verdant Changshan Mountain, then looked in the direction of the resort.

He could sense that Li Xiangwen was in that direction, but he couldn't pinpoint Li Xiangwen's exact location.

It seemed as if some strange force was blocking his senses.

It wasn't someone from Changshan who made the move?
interesting……

After looking around and finding the entrance, Li Zhen walked over.

An old gatekeeper appeared beside the passageway, yawning.

From his angle, he couldn't see Li Zhen's face, which was obscured by the black umbrella; he could only see the area below Li Zhen's neck.

"The resort is not open now, so you can't go in. If you want to play, you can come when it opens."

The red-eyed bat fell off the vampire and landed on the hem of the vampire's cloak, its crimson eyes looking into the eyes of the gatekeeper.

Before the old gatekeeper could react, his eyes became blurry.

"Were any people from Changshan here yesterday?"

"Have."

"Who?"

"Master Xuan Gui has gone inside."

"What to do?"

"Wait someone."

"When?"

"Yesterday evening."

"Did something strange happen at the resort last night?"

"I don't know, I was sleeping very soundly."

"Are you the only one guarding this place?"

"No."

"Who else?"

"And Xiao He too."

"Where did he go?"

"I don't know. I didn't see him when I woke up, and I've been looking for him everywhere."

Lost in thought, Li Zhen brushed past the old man and entered the resort.

A minute or two after Li Zhen left, the gatekeeper suddenly shuddered and his eyes regained their clarity.

"How long have I been standing here? What am I supposed to do? Oh, right, two people just came by..."

The gatekeeper looked around, scratched his head, and headed back to his room.

"It seems they've left."

"Strange, why hasn't Xiao He come back yet? He didn't even say anything if something happened. Young people these days are so careless."

……

Upon entering the resort, Li Zhen immediately sensed a faint aura of gloom and resentment.

To his surprise, the yin energy in this place was not as strong as he had imagined. Even after entering the resort, Li Zhen could not determine the source of the yin energy.

The yin energy in this place seems to be scattered and uncontrolled.

However, Detective Li is certain that this is not the case.

He now has a clearer perception of the talisman on Li Xiangwen's body and the puppet.

Looking around, Li Zhen walked towards a corridor leading forward.

The yin energy here is relatively strong.

Li Zhen could sense whether the talisman was still there, thus determining whether Li Xiangwen was safe.

The talisman has not been destroyed yet, which means that Li Xiangwen is still safe for the time being, so Li Zhen is not in a hurry.

After reaching the end of the corridor, Li Zhenming clearly sensed that Li Xiangwen was ahead, but he still couldn't pinpoint Li Xiangwen's exact location.

With a thought, he gestured for the vampire to step forward and walk to the end of the corridor.

A dense aura of malevolent energy erupted from the vampire, blurring everything around it.

Stimulated by the Yin energy, a blurry space appeared in front of the vampire.

Li Zhen was the first to cross the gap between the vampire and that space, entering that world filled with an eerie atmosphere.

Following closely behind Li Zhen, the vampires also entered this world.

Li Zhen glanced around.

A thin layer of fog covered the area, greatly affecting visibility and creating an eerie atmosphere, as if it were a completely different world from the outside.

It's not an illusion...

A world that seems real yet is actually not...

The sight before him greatly piqued Li Zhen's interest.

Following his instincts, he continued walking forward.

"Snap... snap..."

A strange friction sound came from ahead.

Li Zhen stopped in his tracks.

A figure appeared in the fog ahead, slowly walking towards Li Zhen.

When they were about seven or eight meters away, Li Zhen could finally see the other person's face, which was swollen from being soaked in water.

Drowned ghost?
Li Zhen continued walking forward.

The Mahjong Ghost suddenly appeared in front of the swollen evil spirit and pierced its chest with its bone claws.

The evil spirit let out a miserable scream and was completely split in two by the mahjong ghost, falling backward.

But not long after Li Zhen left, he saw two more ghostly figures.

This time, the Mahjong Ghost easily dealt with the two ghosts again.

The red-eyed bats and the ghost fetuses had no interest in these ghostly creatures, so they were not very enthusiastic.

Li Zhen had no choice but to let the Mahjong Ghost make a move.

The situation here is very strange. If it weren't for his special circumstances, it would be difficult for anyone else to get here.

The ghosts here seemed endless. After killing four or five groups, Li Zhen finally arrived at the location he sensed Li Xiangwen was.

To Li Zhen's surprise, what appeared in front of him was a pond filled with silt.

This pond is a place where yin energy gathers, and it is the source of all this strangeness.

After glancing back at the mahjong ghost that had just killed the last one, Li Zhen looked back at the pond, his gaze lingering on the footprints left in the mud along the pond's edge.

The footprints were very fresh, and the water inside was still murky.

After confirming that his perception was correct, Li Zhen quickly set up a simple altar on a flat ground, placing the fleshy demon statue in the center of the altar.

After hastily completing these tasks, Li Zhen set up a soul-attracting array on the ground and then drew some talismans on his body to attract souls.

After making the preparations, he sat cross-legged in front of the altar and prepared the spells he would need to perform the magic.

Li Zhen mixed the slime from several small jars together and then added the scorpion venom he had prepared.

Suddenly, Li Zhen's expression froze.

He put down what he was holding and closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a large hall with flickering candlelight. In front of "himself" was a low console table, and he was sitting behind the console table in a kneeling position.

Several plates containing rotten flesh, maggots, and some kind of internal organs were placed on the table.

This looks like a banquet in progress, and "oneself" is an invited guest.

However, Li Zhen felt that the items on the table were more suitable for worshipping evil gods.

He often used these things to worship the evil spirits in his home.

He looked up.

Opposite him was a row of desks, behind which knelt all the Taoist priests, including the Xuan Gui Taoist priest he had seen through the little ghost's perspective.

At this moment, all the Taoist priests had dirty mouths, as if they had eaten a lot of dirty things.

Turn your head to look at the two sides of "yourself".

Li Zhen saw several Taoist priests sitting to his right, while to his left was a pale-faced female ghost dressed in ancient costume.

Behind the female ghost were several men dressed in ordinary clothes.

Detective Li looked the female ghost up and down.

The woman's expression turned somewhat frightened.

Li Zhen withdrew his gaze and looked at a shadow wriggling in the candlelight in the hall.

The shadow moved toward a seat at the head of the hall, slowly transforming into an ancient person dressed in a tattered robe.

The person looked like a mummified corpse, with only skin covering the bones remaining. Strangely, the skin was not brown, but bluish-green with a faint whitish tinge, as if it had been soaked in water for some time.

On that eerie face, its eyes were deeply sunken, leaving only two terrifying eye sockets, and above those sockets was a mess of long, tangled hair that looked like weeds.

What Li Zhen found even more bizarre was that this thing not only possessed the yin energy and malevolent aura of a ghost, but also seemed to retain the breath of a living person.

This was the first time Li Zhen had ever seen such a bizarre ghost.

After sitting down at the front desk in the lobby, the ghostly figure turned its two deep-set eyes to "Detective Li" and exclaimed, "I never thought that after hundreds of years, in today's environment, I would still be able to meet someone like you. It's truly a miracle."

Li Zhen didn't want to say anything more to him.

Looking at the book on the table, he said bluntly, "Is that the second volume of 'Spiritual Talisman Techniques'? That should be mine."

Since Li Xiangwen came to Changshan for that book, and the current situation doesn't seem to be caused by anyone from Changshan, Li Zhen immediately realized that the current situation must have been caused by an unexpected event.

Li Zhen was unaware of what had happened.

But since he went to such great lengths to come here in person, he must get his hands on that book.

The Taoist Xuan Gui on the opposite side didn't know what had happened to make "Li Xiangwen" so powerful. He couldn't move, couldn't see "Li Xiangwen's" expression, and didn't know if "Li Xiangwen" could see his expression either. But he kept blinking, reminding "Li Xiangwen" to seize the opportunity and run away.

However, even though he blinked tears, he didn't hear "Li Xiangwen" run away.

The blue-faced ghost said in a hoarse voice, "This book was just dug out of the tomb of the former leader of the Changshan Sect. Why do you say it's yours?"

Li Zhen said, "The Changshan Sect gave me this book, so it is naturally mine."

The man with a shrug chuckled and said, "The Changshan Sect has fallen so low that they're even willing to give away this book? I wonder what Wu Qiyuan's expression would be if he knew this from beyond the grave?"

Hearing the ghost's words, Xuan Gui Daoist and the others felt ashamed.

The blue-faced ghost then began to talk about things that seemed completely unrelated to the present situation: "More than three hundred years ago, I buried myself on a geomantically auspicious site on Yandang Mountain in the middle reaches of the Wu River. I spent a lot of manpower and resources to transform that site into a place suitable for my corpse to dissolve."

"Corpse dissection?" Li Zhen grasped the key word.

“That’s right, it was indeed corpse dissolution,” the blue-faced ghost said quietly. “It is said that Duan Jizheng, a hermit of the Han Dynasty, once studied Taoism under the diviner Sima Jizhu. When he was crossing a river, he drowned and escaped by dissolving in water.”

"I happened to come across the method of water dissolution, so before I died I set up a feng shui arrangement to cooperate with my corpse dissolution, hoping to be resurrected again after a hundred or a thousand years."

"I did wake up, but I was dug out by Wu Qiyuan, the former leader of Changshan Sect. This caused my corpse dissolution to fail, which made me look like this now."

"Not only that, he also sealed me away for decades without saying a word, trying to obliterate me with a magic array. Fortunately, I found a flaw in his magic array and managed to hold on until now before finally finding a chance to escape. Don't you think I should take revenge?"

"Since Wu Qiyuan is no longer here, is it alright if I eat some of his disciples' blood and energy to restore myself?"

"I see you also need life force and blood essence, how about we divide up those damned Taoists from the Changshan Sect? I'll eat mine, and you can eat yours."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Gui Dao Ren felt a chill run down their spines.

"Li Xiangwen" is an out-and-out evil figure, and this ghost's words might just be a reflection of his personality.

If, under pressure, he reaches a verbal agreement with this ghost, then who among the Taoists on and off Changshan Mountain will survive?

They received a cold reply.

"You're spouting nonsense; who would believe your lies?"

The blue-faced ghost wasn't angry; instead, he burst into laughter: "What a load of nonsense! What a load of nonsense! Since becoming a ghost, I haven't said many truthful things, but my invitation to you was sincere. It's a pity you didn't seize the opportunity."

“I thought we would be on the same path... Besides, I can tell you a truth.”

The blue-faced ghost looked at the second volume of the scroll: "This book is made of a very special material. It was made specifically for sealing ghosts. It contains my aura. Handing this book over to you is like putting my life and death in your hands."

"I can just look at the content, or you can tell me the content first."

"This is also very inappropriate, because it contains the method to seal me. If you know it, you might discover something."

"What's your idea?"

“There is a solution. If we unite as one, then my viewing will be the same as yours, and it will completely make up for my losses. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Li Zhen looked at the blue-faced ghost and saw greed and ferocity on its face.

Even though there were no eyes on that face, greed was written all over it.

The blue-faced ghost also looked at Detective Li.

It chuckled eerily, "I've seen your talisman; it's sinister and terrifying. But if that's all the power you have, you'll definitely become my other half today."

Li Zhen shook his head: "You are too greedy. I don't believe a single word you said before."

"Nonsense? Who would believe that?" The blue-faced ghost stood up.

The Taoist priest to Li Zhen's right suddenly lunged at Li Zhen as if he were in a frenzy.

The Taoist priests opposite him also overturned their tables and rushed towards Li Zhen.

In an instant, the gloomy lobby was filled with chaotic sounds of people throwing tables to the ground.

Li Xiangwen's body fell backward.

Those Taoist priests who rushed forward all flew back.

A terrifying aura of malevolence and the stench of blood permeated every corner of the hall.

A gust of wind blew the low table in the hall where the second volume of the Buddhist scriptures was placed, but the book on the table was nowhere to be found.

The blue-faced demon above watched Li Zhen's primordial spirit with great interest: "To possess such strong baleful aura and bloodlust, no matter how many people you've killed, you are truly on the same path as us, and you are a great tonic to me..."

After pressing the button, a transparent humanoid figure suddenly appeared in front of the Blue-Faced Demon, placing one hand on the Blue-Faced Demon's face and slamming him against the wall behind him.

As long as Li Zhen appears in his primordial spirit form, even ghosts will find it difficult to escape his grasp.

His primordial spirit is getting stronger every day, and now it is the first time he has used it in primordial spirit form.

Even if it was just a test, and he wasn't using his full strength, this blue-faced demon still needed to be taken seriously.

Without a sound, the blue-faced ghost's figure disappeared and immediately reappeared behind Li Zhen.

After testing the waters with one strike, Li Zhen returned to his body without any hesitation.

"Go tell the Weaver Girl that I've invited her to join me in enjoying the blood offerings." The blue-faced ghost turned to look at the female ghost who was quite frightened.

The nervous female ghost forced a smile and disappeared from the spot.

We must report this to the Goddess Wu immediately!

……

Opening his eyes, Li Zhen poured out some of the viscous liquid he had prepared for himself, and gave the rest to the little devil, instructing him to drip the liquid along the edge of the pond in a certain pattern and general design, following his instructions.

Not confident of killing the blue-faced demon in one blow, and to prevent the blue-faced demon from escaping after suffering a loss, Li Zhen only used half his strength in the previous probing attack.

In this situation, if the other party wants to leave, he may not be able to stop them.

However, if the other party hesitates even for a moment, allowing him to completely set up the altar, then the other party will have no way to escape.

Upon catching a glimpse of the female ghost's back, Li Zhen hesitated for a moment but then ignored it.

One female ghost can't amount to much.

Seeing the mist rising from the surface of the pond at an eerie speed, Li Zhen knew that his choice was correct.

The evil spirit came, still wanting to devour him.

The little devil is very fast; he can circle the pond in no time.

Seeing that the little devil was about to return to the starting point, Li Zhen picked up the remaining cup of slime and poured it directly into the pond.

The pond, which was bubbling with water vapor, was like a pot of water about to boil, with bubbles rising from where Li Zhen had poured the slime.

The bubbles grew larger and larger, spreading outwards from where Li Zhen had poured the viscous liquid.

As Li Zhen chanted his incantation, bubbles of all sizes rose from the entire pond.

The blue-faced demon appeared in the pond, its deep-set eyes fixed on Detective Li…

(End of this chapter)