The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 141 Is the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal beneath Yandang Mountain?
After informing Li Xiangwen of the situation, Li Zhen, from the perspective of the little ghost, went to the pond to look for the second volume of the magic scroll.

However, after the Green-Faced Ghost died, the area below collapsed at some unknown time, causing chaos below, and even the lingering Yin energy became disordered.

Li Zhen couldn't find the book, so he had to wait for Li Xiangwen to hire someone to drain the water and dig up the ancient tomb under the guise of repairs.

The female ghost returned and found Li Zhen, handing him the map and explaining, "Although I marked the route on it, it seems that when I went there it was... seventeen years ago. I don't know if things have changed."

"If you notice any changes in the layout inside, then it's definitely not because I'm lying to you on purpose."

Li Zhen caught the group and glanced at it, immediately recognizing it as something very familiar.

It wasn't that the topographic map looked familiar to him, but rather that the part of the memory he had absorbed looked familiar.

After comparing certain details, Detective Li realized that the female ghost was probably not lying to him.

After putting the map away, he asked, "Was the entire layout below arranged for your Goddess Wunu to ascend to heaven?"

The female ghost replied, "Yes, I heard the Empress say that it's called an Ascension Stream, and it was created by a powerful figure."

"A figure from four hundred years ago?"

"I don't know about that. You can ask Her Majesty when she wakes up."

The female ghost, who was very wary of Li Zhen, disappeared into the mist.

Looking at the female ghost's back, Li Zhen felt a sense of emotion.

So many people want to become immortals...

After the little ghost returned to his side, Li Zhen packed his things, put away the forearm bone wrapped with a thin red rope, and walked towards the parking lot with the vampire zombie and the red-eyed bat.

Li Zhen wasn't too worried about his identity being exposed to Wu Nu.

In fact, this is within the Wu Nu's sphere of influence. Regardless of whether Li Zhen appears in his true form or in his primordial spirit form, he will be sensed by the Wu Nu as long as he gets close to this place.

Now that the Wunu has one arm in his hands and has promised never to go ashore, as long as Li Zhen can keep it under control, there shouldn't be a big problem.

Moreover, Wu Nu was unaware of his relationship with Li Xiangwen.

On the other hand, Li Xiangwen couldn't hide anything from a being like the Wu Nu, even if he wanted to pretend, there was no way to do so.

At this level, he must take personal action to intimidate the other party.

As soon as Li Zhen got back into the car, he saw several ambulances rushing in with their sirens blaring.

Li Xiangwen handled things very well. Those who needed to be comforted have been comforted, and the remains that needed to be buried have been buried. Li Zhen doesn't need to worry about it.

Li Zhen started the car and drove it out of the resort.

He had to go to Yandang Mountain to verify the truth of what the female ghost had said and to find out what the corpse dissection there was all about.

Detective Li has a great interest in autopsies.

If this path can be followed, regardless of its reference value to him, it at least proves that immortals truly exist in this world.

Even if the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal is the lowest rank among immortals, he is still an immortal through and through...

Yandang Mountain is more than 100 kilometers away from Wushui, and it can be reached by car in a short time.

As noon approached, the sun appeared in the sky, making Li Zhen feel extremely uncomfortable.

So Li Zhen found a shady underground parking garage, parked his car there, and rested for an afternoon.

It wasn't until the sky turned gloomy that Li Zhen drove the car out of the garage.

As evening fell, Li Zhen finally arrived at Yandang Mountain.

Yandang Mountain is not a famous mountain or river; it is just an ordinary mountain range next to the Wushui River, but it is famous because it is the highest mountain in the Wunu River Basin.

From the perspective of the former Li Zhen, this mountain range was unremarkable.

However, from a feng shui master's perspective, this mountain is clearly not simple.

Yandang Mountain is a branch of Kuocang Mountain.

The main peak of Kuocang Mountain is known as "Xiaohuading" and is the location of a dragon's lair.

From a feng shui perspective, the winding and undulating Yandang Mountain, which extends from Kuocang Mountain, is a small dragon vein.

The Yandang Mountain extends from the side to the Wushui River. At the junction with the Wushui River, the mountain surrounds and the water converges. The Wushui River eventually flows into the sea. Isn't this the hidden "Dragon Returns to the Sea" formation?

Li Zhen's feng shui skills are not very profound; based on his existing knowledge, he can only make such simple judgments.

I need to put more effort into studying feng shui and geomancy in the future...

Detective Li parked the car in a parking lot and got out with the vampire zombie and the red-eyed bat.

Yandang Mountain is more than ten kilometers away from the nearest county or city, and there are hardly any people here except on holidays.

Instead of following the mountain path built on Yandang Mountain, Li Zhen followed the map and his fleeting memories to the point where Yandang Mountain entered the water.

He walked further and further into remote areas.

Just a moment ago, we could see a few tourists coming down the mountain, but after walking for more than ten minutes, only Li Zhen was left.

"Heaven has opened its eyes, the underworld has opened its gates... At the crossroads, souls listen for my voice... Zheng Hai, Zheng Hai, return quickly..."

As Li Zhen walked along a small path, he suddenly heard someone chanting incantations in a specific rhythm.

Is it summoning a soul?
After walking for a short while, Li Zhen arrived at a crossroads.

An elderly woman in her sixties or seventies, with gray hair and a short, thin figure, was squatting on the ground performing a spell.

In the center of the crossroads, there was a bowl of white rice with three lit incense sticks inserted into it.

Several folded pieces of yellow paper were placed next to the bowl, with a few copper coins pressed down on them.

A rooster with its feet bound and blood dripping from its comb was thrown aside.

The old woman was squatting in front of the bowl of fragrant white rice, chanting incantations as she burned paper money.

Behind the old woman stood two middle-aged men and women with dark skin and worried faces.

Although he had never seen such a ritual or heard such an incantation, Li Zhen was able to tell at a glance that it was indeed a soul-summoning ritual.

The old woman was burning paper money facing Yandang Mountain, and the soul she was calling for must have been lost there.

Without disturbing the elderly lady who was carrying out the ceremony, Li Zhen bypassed the intersection, stepped across a patch of wild grass, and headed towards Yandang Mountain.

The middle-aged woman standing behind the old lady saw Li Zhen heading towards Yandang Mountain and quickly called out, "Young man, it's getting dark soon. You can't go to Yandang Mountain; it's very evil there!"

Li Zhen stopped, turned around to look at the woman, and nodded to her.

The vampires stopped in their tracks.

As darkness fell, Li Zhen's pale, gaunt face resembled a ghost with only its head hanging from its collar, sending chills down one's spine.

The middle-aged women were quite frightened by Li Zhen.

But when she saw Li Zhen continue walking forward, the middle-aged woman was about to shout again, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the old lady who jumped up from the ground covered her mouth.

The middle-aged woman then noticed that the old woman looked even more panicked than she herself, whose face was covered.

"Don't shout! Don't shout! If you want to die, don't shout!"

The old lady hurriedly gave a few instructions before letting go of the middle-aged woman's mouth.

She looked at Li Zhen and the vampire's retreating figures, clasped her hands together, lowered her head, and whispered, "It wasn't intentional... Please forgive me, please forgive me..."

Her nervous behavior made the middle-aged men and women behind her even more frightened.

The middle-aged man swallowed hard and asked cautiously, "What's going on? That person..."

The old lady interrupted nervously, saying, "It's unspeakable, unspeakable! I didn't check the almanac before I went out today, how could I have run into such a thing? Sigh, hurry up and finish the soul-calling for you, let's go home as soon as possible."

She glanced up in the direction Li Zhen had gone and muttered, "Yandang Mountain is really eerie..."

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Li Zhen walked to the end of the path and saw that in front of him was the place where the clear stream flowing from the mountains flowed into the Wu River.

Looking ahead, he saw a distinctive, protruding rock, resembling a nostril.

The entrance that the female ghost pointed out to Detective Li is right here.

The burial place of that blue-faced demon was not underground, but in an underground cave where Yandang Mountain meets Wushui River.

Li Zhen didn't see any memories related to the entrance, so he wasn't sure if this was the entrance.

He first sent the little devil and the mahjong devil to scout out the route.

After the little devil and the mahjong devil returned and reported the situation, Li Zhen found a relatively secluded place to sit down.

After making arrangements around himself, he ordered the vampires and red-eyed bats to guard his physical body, and then entered the underwater passage in his primordial spirit form.

The passage was angled upwards, and Li Zhen only stayed submerged in the water for a very short time before emerging from the surface.

The passageways inside are very wide, and traces of human carving can be seen everywhere.

Based on the topographical map and the small amount of memory he had acquired, Li Zhen knew that although the passage looked safe, it was a maze of interconnected paths, making it difficult to find the right way.

When the Blue-Faced Demon was arranging his burial site, he carved many passages that were originally unconnected into the same way, and according to the pattern of a certain formation, he turned this place into a maze that was difficult to enter and difficult to exit.

Sensing the gathering of Yin energy for a moment, Li Zhen's primordial spirit passed through the wall and headed directly towards the hiding place of the Green-Faced Demon. This is the advantage of using one's primordial spirit to explore the area.

After passing through several walls, Li Zhen saw several skeletons on the ground.

The skeleton had long hair, suggesting it belonged to an ancient person.

Further ahead, Li Zhen saw yellow talismans pasted on the wall.

Judging from the style of the talisman, it should be a talisman left by the people of Changshan.

It was probably left behind by Wu Qiyuan, the previous leader of Changshan.

Li Zhen could sense that the talismans on the wall had disrupted the evil energy formed by the terrain here; otherwise, even if he entered with his primordial spirit, it wouldn't have been so smooth.

As they continued forward, nearing the heart of Tibet, Li Zhen suddenly stopped.

An indescribable, invisible force pressed down on his heart, making him want to retreat.

Even though his momentum was broken, he could still exert such strong pressure on him...

No wonder no one except Wu Qiyuan has ever come here before...

After getting used to the oppressive atmosphere, Li Zhen continued forward, passing through several walls, and entered a spacious underground cave.

The underground of the cave is a surface formed by yellow soil and stones.

Between the ground are small puddles, and the water in the puddles is very clear, without the slightest impurity.

A black coffin, which had been dug out, was placed in the very center of the cave.

The coffin lid was open.

The body inside the coffin was chained to the side of the coffin with rusty iron chains. There was no yellow paper pasted on it, but a red talisman could be vaguely seen drawn on the stone next to the body.

Is this the blue-faced demon?

Li Zhen arrived in front of the corpse.

Looking around, Li Zhen saw skeletal hands emerging from the ground not far from the corpse.

The ground seemed to have hardened into stone, freezing those hands inside.

This must have been done by people from Changshan.

Even after so many years, Li Zhen could still feel the resentment in these palms.

It must have been that before burying himself, the Blue-Faced Demon used bloody methods to bury these people next to the coffin, using their vengeful spirits as his guards.

There should have been talismans pasted here, but it's too humid here, and the talismans have been corroded by the moisture.

Turn around.

Li Zhen looked at the corpse.

The body did not decompose or decay; it lay there as if a living person were present, and even the eyes of the corpse were not sunken in.

However, the corpse's cheeks were different from those of a normal person, displaying a strange, multicolored hue.

It doesn't look like a color applied with paint; it looks like a color that grows naturally from within the skin.

The corpse had a piece of jade in its mouth, and a bit of the jade could be seen from the outside. Its hands, which were bound in iron chains, were forming the Water Official's Seal of Relief from Calamity.

Li Zhen rubbed his temples.

Stimulated by the familiar scene before him, the memories he had acquired became very active, flashing through his mind constantly, making his consciousness somewhat uncomfortable.

Suppressing his discomfort, Li Zhen looked at the black burial shroud on the corpse.

This is a burial garment woven from special silk.

A picture appeared in my mind.

Li Zhen's gaze then moved upwards, looking at the seven orifices of the corpse. He saw that none of the seven orifices had dried up, as if liquid was constantly flowing out.

This is naturally a trace of liquid flowing through the path, rather than a continuous flow of liquid.

The blue-faced ghost was buried with so-called "Gui Water Condensed Pearls," made from water collected at midnight on the winter solstice from the source of the Yellow River, which was poured into its seven orifices, thus creating this phenomenon.

Li Zhen looked at the large pit that had been dug out and saw the five-colored stones laid out below. Among the five-colored stones, bronze fish symbols were arranged in the Big Dipper formation.

Centering on the coffin, Li Zhen looked around.

The numerous puddles on the ground together form a natural Bagua (Eight Trigrams) formation. Many of these puddles are bottomless, and the water seems to flow into the Wushui River outside, creating small whirlpools at the bottom.

Water droplets constantly dripped from the cave ceiling, replenishing the puddles with fresh water and keeping the whirlpools swirling endlessly, as if the stars in the sky were rotating.

On the east side of the coffin, there is a bronze pillar as tall as a person, with a ferocious dragon coiled around it. To the west hangs a long sword that has never rusted. On the south side of the stone wall is a huge vermilion bird-shaped furnace of unknown material. To the north hangs a black jade seal of the Black Tortoise.

A mysterious aura unique to the art of feng shui and geomancy wafted over, and even Li Zhen felt his own insignificance in the face of this mystery.

What a grand gesture...

The thought came to Li Zhen's mind.

Compared to the tombs of royalty and nobility, the scale here seems incredibly shabby, but this semi-natural feng shui treasure is a place that is hard to come by.

In Li Zhen's memories, the Taoist priest had examined many feng shui sites for people, but he had never seen a burial site so suitable for "water dissolution," nor had he ever heard of such a place.

No wonder that blue-faced demon was so confident in his "hydrolysis"...

Logically speaking, given that blue-faced ghost's status, unless he had extraordinary good fortune in his lifetime, he would never have had the opportunity to be buried in such a place.

But if that blue-faced ghost had such great fortune in his lifetime, his final official position would not have been limited to a local official.

After obtaining some information about the Blue-Faced Demon, and having only seen the burial site, Li Zhen sensed an impending conspiracy.

Since Wu Qiyuan has been here, did he also notice that something was wrong here?

If Wu Qiyuan were truly proficient in Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology), he would certainly be far superior to this half-baked Feng Shui practitioner.

Perhaps influenced by Li Zhen's arrival, the last bit of Yin energy on the Green-Faced Ghost's body gradually dissipated, eventually decaying into a skeleton.

The jade and the iron chain in the corpse's mouth fell to the ground.

Besides the jade, a mirror also slid out of the corpse's abdomen.

If the Blue-Faced Demon hadn't died, this corpse wouldn't have decomposed so quickly.

Ultimately, it was Li Zhen who caused the corpse to decompose.

Li Zhen looked around and clearly sensed that the flow of Yin energy here had changed.

What the female ghost said must be true...

The death of the Blue-Faced Demon will indeed have an impact on this place.

After sensing for a moment, Li Zhen jumped into the pit dug out of the coffin and dug out the five-colored stone underneath.

A series of rusty iron chains appeared before Li Zhen's eyes.

As soon as he grabbed the chain, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his whole body went numb.

Only then did Li Zhen realize that the iron chain was made of a special material that could damage the soul and primordial spirit.

After a while, Li Zhen managed to avoid the chains and continue digging downwards.

After digging down half a meter, groundwater slowly seeped out from underground.

Li Zhen continued digging downwards and finally unearthed something different.

He lifted the rubble and saw a finger bone that was so white it was almost transparent.

Was the Blue-Faced Demon really just doing all the work for someone else?
Li Zhen paused for a moment, sensing that there seemed to be no danger, and then continued digging downwards.

He quickly dug out the entire arm below.

Not only the finger bones, but the entire arm of the corpse had turned into a transparent, crystal-like appearance.

Li Zhen still didn't sense any danger.

This made him realize that something was wrong with the corpses below.

However, this strange phenomenon...

Could this person have truly achieved the status of a corpse-dissolving immortal through burial techniques?
Even with Li Zhen's usual composure, he was a little nervous at this moment.

If I were to use this method myself, could I also achieve the Immortal of Corpse Dissolution?
The thought flashed uncontrollably through Li Zhen's mind, only to be forcibly banished by him.

What works for others may not work for him...

After assessing the situation and confirming that he could return to his body as quickly as possible, Li Zhen dug out the entire shoulder of the corpse.

The deeper he went, the stronger the chill he felt.

Even in his primordial spirit state, Li Zhen felt an overwhelming chill.

When Detective Li cleaned the area below the shoulders of the corpse, he found that the bones on the corpse had turned a normal white color.

As he examined the skeleton, the corpse's hand slowly rotated and suddenly grabbed Li Zhen's "arm"...

(End of this chapter)