The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 138 You want to save it?

The swirling fog became even thicker.

The air was filled with even more moisture, as if you could inhale a lot of water with just one breath.

Indistinct figures appeared in the mist.

Li Zhen was unaware of how many evil spirits were surrounding him.

The vampire standing behind Li Zhen received Li Zhen's order and silently walked toward the ghostly figure to one side, while the irritable ghost fetus walked in another direction.

Mahjong Ghost silently stayed behind Li Zhen.

The little devil appeared and disappeared in the mist.

The red-eyed bat hung upside down from the roof beam of the corridor behind Li Zhen, its crimson eyes fixed on the blue-faced ghost that exuded a terrifying aura.

The blue-faced demon slowly walked from the pond to the shore, his tone somewhat apprehensive: "I didn't expect that you could still concoct these evil creatures in this kind of environment."

"I've just escaped, and you've already given me these good things. I'll keep you here and make you my accomplice for eternity!"

After a brief exchange with Li Zhen's primordial spirit, it believed that it should be able to devour Li Zhen in its current state.

The blood offerings of the Changshan Sect are just that—blood offerings. How could someone with such an evil aura be so attractive to him?

The moment it saw the talisman, it decided to do everything in its power to lure the talisman's true owner here.

It didn't expect Li Zhen to arrive so quickly, which was exactly what it wanted.

First, swallow this person, then take these evil things back to your burial place. Perhaps you can use the yin energy of these evil things to restore the feng shui of the place where it is hidden, so that he can complete his "water dissolution" ritual.

The blue-faced demon's expression turned ferocious.

A tangible, metallic scent of blood and malevolence emanated from it.

Compared to lying in a coffin for hundreds of years, Wu Qiyuan's imprisonment of it for so many years was the real torment for him.

Although the time spent inside the coffin was long, it was unconscious during that time and therefore did not feel torment.

And it has been conscious all these years.

How could it remain completely unaffected as it watches itself being gradually worn away?

It appears rational, but it has long been on the verge of madness.

"You're just an old ghost. Do you really think you've achieved the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal realm?"

If the other party were a "Corpse-Dissolving Immortal," Li Zhen would definitely turn around and run away.

Unfortunately, the other party was not.

Li Zhen picked up the remaining viscous liquid on the altar, which emitted a pungent and strange smell, and added some bone powder to it.

This bone powder was brought back from the world of "The Devil".

Finding bone meal in the original world isn't difficult, but finding bone meal made from suitable materials is not.

Li Zhen covered the jar containing the viscous liquid with one hand and chanted a few incantations.

Smoke gradually rose from inside the jar.

He opened his palm and looked inside.

Maggots have already emerged from the viscous liquid inside the jar.

Insects also fell from the demon statues on the altar.

Seeing that the blue-faced ghost had reached the shore, Li Zhen flicked his right hand and poured the even thicker liquid and maggots from the jar into the pond.

This is not a specific form of witchcraft; it is simply a method of using evil energy to break the opponent's yin energy.

After investigation, Li Zhen learned that the core of this special area was this pond where yin energy gathered.

So as long as we break the yin energy here, we can break this special place and severely injure this blue-faced ghost.

The other party was confident and fearless because they believed that he could not break through the yin energy here.

If the other person wasn't out of their mind, they definitely wouldn't do something so suicidal.

After the viscous liquid was poured into the water, several small white bubbles rose from the side.

Immediately, more bubbles rose from the water and quickly spread from where Li Zhen had poured the viscous liquid to a wider area of ​​the pond.

In a short time, white bubbles rose from the entire pond, turning the quiet pond into a pot of boiling water.

The blue-faced ghost sensed something was wrong.

It looked around, and the yin energy in its eye sockets throbbed violently.

More yin energy surged from his body, flowing continuously into the pond beneath him.

But it still couldn't stop the blisters from spreading around its body.

Upon contact with the blisters and the blue smoke rising from them, the blue-faced demon's legs began to ulcerate.

It starts from the feet and spreads upwards to the neck.

"You...who are you?!"

Fear finally appeared on the face of the blue-faced demon.

Having been imprisoned for so many years, its ferocity is far less than it used to be. But in its eyes, without Wu Qiyuan, who here can do anything to him?
In its mind, the entire Changshan Mountain was the place where it cultivated its blood food.

Who knew that instead of getting the blood offering, they would encounter such a strange character.

Even at the height of his power, Wu Qiyuan wasn't that terrifying; otherwise, he would have killed it long ago instead of simply imprisoning it in that book.

This is definitely a trap...

That talisman was just something to lure it into the trap...

The screaming blue-faced demon could no longer maintain its human form and turned back into a large, writhing shadow.

A hideous face emerged from the shadows, roared at Li Zhen, and then ran towards the other side of the pond.

The slime that the imp had spilled on the ground emitted wisps of blue smoke, forcing the shadowy figure back.

As Li Zhen chanted the incantation, the demonic image on the altar began to writhe as if it were alive, drawing in the wandering yin energy to its side.

He dipped his finger in the black mud from the edge of the pond and quickly drew a simple human figure on the altar, then drew a twisted rune on it.

The absorbed Yin energy immediately surged into the runes.

Li Zhen picked up a coffin nail and hammered it hard into the simple human figure drawn in the mud.

"...flesh and blood mingled, bones shattered into ash...devouring yin and yang, eternal darkness..."

The shadow that the green-faced ghost had transformed into let out a mournful howl, and most of the yin energy on its body was dispersed as it fell into the pond.

More bubbles rose from the pond.

Dead fish floated to the surface from beneath the water.

These fish had clearly just died; some of them were still moving their mouths, but their bodies were covered in maggots.

A chilling aura wafted among the dead fish, unable to find a way out.

Li Zhen pressed his hand on the coffin nails and chanted the incantation even faster.

This is a soul-binding technique learned from Tirapa's sorcery book; it works on both humans and ghosts.

This kind of sorcery doesn't necessarily use coffin nails; it can use other suitable nails as well.

However, Li Zhen's family only had a large number of coffin nails prepared, so he used the coffin nails to perform the spell.

If other specially treated nails were used, the effect might be even better.

Coffin nails are enough to deal with this evil spirit.

Screams echoed from the pond.

The surrounding mist gradually dissipated, and the ghosts that had not yet been killed fell to the ground.

As expected, this evil spirit that has lived for hundreds of years is about to die.

Li Zhen's hand slowly pressed down.

Suddenly, a wisp of steam carrying the stench of dead fish and shrimp drifted on a breeze to Li Zhen's front.

He took a sniff and knew it was no ordinary breeze.

Look up.

The gentle breeze even dispersed the wisps of smoke rising from the pond.

A toad hopped out from the gap, croaking as it fled outside.

The red-eyed bat suddenly pounced and grabbed the toad.

The toad struggled frantically, but could not escape the red-eyed bat's claws.

The red-eyed bats looked menacingly at the fog that was gathering again in the distance.

A pale-faced female ghost dressed in ancient costume emerged from the mist, carrying a white lantern.

She glanced warily at the red-eyed bat, then held up the lantern with the character "婺" written on it. Upon seeing the lantern, the red-eyed bat felt a slight pang of fear and almost released the evil spirit.

The lantern suddenly exploded, and the female ghost, reduced to ashes, was left with only a piece of clothing on the spot.

As his primordial spirit returned to his physical body, Li Zhen opened his eyes and looked at the drifting mist.

"interesting……"

Li Zhen rose from the altar and went to the red-eyed bat.

Having restrained the red-eyed bat's desire to devour the evil spirit, Li Zhen drew the palm leaf whip from his hand.

Although he was still not feeling quite at ease, he couldn't shake the idea of ​​examining the demon's memories.

What exactly is this so-called "hydrolysis" method?

Even if the demon's "water dissolution" was unsuccessful, it should still have had some effect; otherwise, how could it have maintained its original sanity hundreds of years later?

Even if an ordinary ghost is lucky enough to be exposed to the cold wind and not be blown away, it cannot maintain its rationality for long. In the end, it will definitely turn into a monstrous ghost without any rationality.

This ghost, which comes from hundreds of years ago, is clearly different from ordinary ghosts.

Detective Li could also sense the special nature of this ghost.

Stepping on the toad and raising the palm leaf whip, Li Zhen looked at the cloud of water vapor hovering in the distance: "You want to save it?"
A female ghost's voice rang out: "The Goddess Wu said that you should not kill it, otherwise you will bring great disaster upon yourself, and it will be too late to regret it then. We are only thinking of you."

"What kind of disaster could it cause?"

"You'd better listen to what the Goddess Wunu has to say, since you've already killed one of her maids..."

Li Zhen exerted force with his feet and stomped the toad to death on the spot.

After the evil spirit weakly floated out, he continued to lash it with the palm leaf whip in his hand.

Only after the palm leaf whip devoured the evil spirit that was about to be reduced to ashes did Li Zhen retract the palm leaf whip.

The ghost within the cloud of mist seemed quite surprised, only reacting after the blue-faced ghost was reduced to ashes.

"You will definitely regret it!"

After uttering its last words, the plume of steam carrying a fishy, ​​foul odor drifted away.

Li Zhen watched the mist drift away thoughtfully.

Who is this so-called Goddess Wu?

Is it related to the Wu River mentioned earlier?

How could such a ghost exist near Changshan?
Did Changshan tacitly approve it himself, or was Changshan powerless to do anything about it and had no choice but to tacitly approve it?

After the mist disappeared from sight, Li Zhen instructed the returning Mahjong Ghost and Little Ghost to quickly pack up their belongings. He then led the vampire zombie, the ghost fetus, and the red-eyed bat forward, following the path formed by the special yin energy he saw in the air.

Since his actions were being disrupted, how could he possibly let the other party leave so easily?

We're not interfering with the other party right now; we're just letting them lead the way.

As for that book, Li Zhen knew it must be right here by the pond.

After Li Xiangwen comes out, it won't be too late to let him try to find that book...

If Li Xiangwen can't find it, Li Zhen himself will know where the book is after obtaining part of the blue-faced ghost's memories.

……

As soon as the blue-faced ghost died, the mist over the pond dissipated even faster, and the ghosts that died on the ground turned into skeletons.

Amidst the splashing water, disheveled figures emerged from the pond.

Li Xiangwen, who was not controlled by the Green-Faced Demon, was the first to emerge from the water.

After he dragged his various magical artifacts ashore like a drowned rat, the last few people emerged from the water.

After wiping the mud off his face, Li Xiangwen suddenly noticed something in the mud in front of his feet that looked like a book.

This painting looks very similar to the crooked and distorted characters that Li Xiangwen usually sees.

Is this a reminder for me to go find a book?

Li Xiangwen knew what had just happened, and when he looked at the painting, he understood the meaning of the mysterious being who left it.

He looked up and around.

Seeing a shadow walking further and further away in the lingering fog, Li Xiangwen's heart skipped a beat, and he wanted to chase after the shadow.

After climbing ashore, the old Taoist priest Xuan Gui vomited and grabbed Li Xiangwen, saying, "Layman, don't leave yet, come... come and save people first."

Helpless, Li Xiangwen glanced at the receding figure and returned to the pond. Together with Li Xiangwen, they pulled the exhausted men out of the pond's mud.

These people had all eaten the food prepared by that blue-faced ghost, and now that they had climbed ashore, they were all vomiting uncontrollably.

Li Xiangwen and Xuan Gui Daoist bustled about among those people, fearing that someone might lose consciousness and choke to death on their own vomit.

Those Taoist priests not only ate those things, but they also had injuries and were very weak. They even had difficulty answering a few questions.

Although those ordinary people were not seriously injured, they were in a much worse state. They didn't even know what had just happened; all they knew was that they had been pulled out of the water and felt nauseous.

Having finally finished his work, Li Xiangwen, exhausted, shook the water droplets off his clothes and asked Xuan Gui Daoist, "How did we end up in the pond? Or rather, why did that evil spirit drag us all into the pond?"

After everyone regained their mobility, they walked out of the gloomy hall together, but before they had gone far, they suddenly found themselves in the water.

The panting Taoist Xuan Gui replied, "This place used to be... it used to be an ancient tomb. When the resort was built, someone fished out some fragments of burial objects from the pond."

“This is the most yin-heavy place in the entire resort. That evil spirit must have used the burial pit inside... to drag us all in by some means.”

Li Xiangwen frowned: "Finding that book won't be easy."

Xuan Gui Daoist said, "If the book is still under our pond, it will not be easy to find. We will have to drain the water from the pond and go down to take a look."

He looked around and asked in a low voice, "That...that terrifying demon is dead?"

Li Xiangwen nodded and said, "If there are no unexpected circumstances, he should be dead."

After summoning that mysterious being, he lost control of his body and could only listen to the conversation between that being and the evil spirit as a third party.

After that person clashed with the evil spirit, he knew nothing more.

After the demon disappeared, all he heard was a chilling scream.

Then, he and the others walked out of the hall and fell into the pond.

However, now that they are all safe, that terrifying blue-faced demon must be gone.

Even Li Xiangwen, who knew how terrifying the blue-faced demon was, never expected that the person who had been there for only a short time would so easily defeat it...

Catching a glimpse of Xuan Gui Dao Ren's gaze, Li Xiang Wen explained, "I didn't do it. I've been with you the whole time."

"I understand, I understand." Daoist Xuan Gui nodded repeatedly, thinking to himself, "You invited the beings that annihilated the terrifying ghosts, so ultimately, wasn't it you who did it?"

As a Taoist priest, he naturally knew that the ritual performed by Li Xiangwen was to invoke evil beings, which could be ghosts or other things.

The old Taoist Xuan Gui belatedly realized that Li Xiangwen might have already summoned the being he wanted when he was talking to the evil spirit in a rather arrogant tone.

At that time, Daoist Xuan Gui did have a strange reaction and smelled a bit of blood, but his body was already numb and he didn't pay much attention to that feeling.

Looking back now, it must have been a reaction caused by the arrival of some evil being.

The fact that Li Xiangwen was able to kill that evil spirit that had lived for so many years shows what kind of being he summoned.

Since Li Xiangwen was able to summon such an evil and powerful being without suffering a backlash, one can imagine how powerful he is.

Let alone ordinary people, even the Taoists on Changshan Mountain would be cautious when facing such a being. Who could be as relaxed as Li Xiangwen?

Not only was it very easy to invite them, but it was also effortless to send them away...

Li Xiangwen, unaware of what Xuan Gui Daoist was thinking, looked at the pond and said to Xuan Gui Daoist, "If you're done with your work, please arrange for someone to come here and pump water. I need to find that book today."

These words reminded Daoist Xuan Gui.

He quickly said, "Please take care of them here for a while, I'll go back to Changshan to see what happened. If there's nothing wrong, I'll go and do it for you right away."

Without asking how the Taoist priests had been captured and brought here, he ran straight out of the resort.

Li Xiangwen, feeling a headache coming on, looked at the people lying on the ground, and then at the bones scattered all over the ground.

Ordinary people definitely need his reassurance.

He has experience with this, so he should be able to do it well.

But do those Taoist priests need to be sent to the hospital?
……

Li Zhen, holding a black umbrella, arrived at the Wushui River.

Most of the water in Wunu is very turbulent, but the river in front of Li Zhen makes a small bend in front of a rocky mountain, and the water becomes much calmer on this side after being blocked by the mountain.

The wisp of water vapor disappeared from that spot.

With Li Zhen's keen eyes, he could immediately see that something was wrong with this body of water.

Is that so-called Goddess of the Weaver Girl right down here?
Seeing many caves among the rocks all around, Li Zhen found a dark cave to temporarily store his physical body.

After setting up a simple soul-guiding array and making sure the vampires and other creatures kept a close watch on their bodies, Li Zhen's primordial spirit detached from his body and dived into the river below the cave.

(End of this chapter)