The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 151 Return and Organizing the Gains (Book title changed!!! Please do not delete!)

The yin energy emanating from it grew increasingly intense.

The entire room seemed to have been pulled into the underworld.

"To kill a ghost messenger is an unforgivable crime!"

Amidst a sinister voice filled with malice, the clanging of chains rang out, and chains radiating immense yin energy flew out from within, lunging at Li Zhen on the bed like venomous snakes.

However, before the chains could fly to the bed, Li Zhen on the bed had already disappeared from the spot.

The vampires and other creatures that had returned to his side also vanished without a trace.

The bed was torn and cotton wadding was flying everywhere, but Li Zhen was nowhere to be found.

Silence descended upon the fog.

A pair of enormous eyes appeared in the mist, looking into the room with a hint of doubt.

After the eyes slowly disappeared, the chains retracted back into the mist.

Then, the fog gradually dissipated, and the room returned to normal.

After daybreak, Kong Zhaoming brought Xiao Yulong to Li Zhen's room.

"Ah Xiao, we survived this time entirely thanks to Master Li. We must show Master Li our sincerity."

“I know. Let’s see how Master Li’s health is first. I’ve contacted a friend who has a ginseng that’s several hundred years old. If Master Li needs it, I’ll ask him for it.”

“This is a good item. I noticed that Master Li’s face is very pale, which means he must be lacking in blood and energy. Master Li will definitely want this item.”

Kong Zhaoming knocked on Li Zhen's door, but there was no sound of the door opening.

The two exchanged a glance and both saw the surprise and doubt in each other's eyes.

Kong Zhaoming called out a few times but received no response, so he rushed to the front desk and used his ID to have the receptionist open the door for him.

Upon entering the room, Kong Zhaoming and Xiao Yulong immediately noticed the bed, now broken into pieces, and the clear marks left on the floor from being smashed.

Having just left Xiao Yulong's wrecked house, the two were very familiar with the marks.

Undoubtedly, these marks were formed after the iron chain struck the ground.

Ignoring the shouting receptionist, Kong Zhaoming and Xiao Yulong locked eyes, both sensing the fear in each other's hearts.

"The ghost messengers...the ghost messengers have come looking for Master Li? Master Li has been taken away by the ghost messengers? How come they came so quickly? Will they...come to find us?"

"No way! Master Li is so powerful, even that ghost messenger..."

"We've ruined Master Li's life. Our fates have been altered, and Master Li is gone. Isn't this just trading Master Li's life for ours?"

"Not necessarily... Go find Master Chen!"

……

The image distorted, and lines of golden text appeared before Li Zhen's eyes.

[You quickly uncovered the truth behind the strange events surrounding Kong Zhaoming, altering his fate and saving him from certain death. You completely resolved the cause of the strange events and killed the evil spirit Liang Xia and the ghost messengers.]

[Congratulations! You have obtained a bag of Ghost Messenger Mince from the world of "Out of the Cage". This mince is made from the broken body of a Ghost Messenger after death. Although most of its Yin energy and vitality have dissipated, it is very suitable for feeding ghosts.]

Looking at the explanation, Li Zhen was somewhat surprised.

He had assumed that the ghost messenger's scraps of flesh would be classified as miscellaneous items, but he hadn't expected such a detailed explanation. It seemed that this thing was more important than he had imagined.

Aside from the mangled flesh of the ghost messengers, Li Zhen gained nothing else from the world of "Out of the Cage".

After he finished reading the instructions, the void before him gradually turned into complete darkness.

Looking at the familiar ceiling in the basement, Li Zhen knew he had returned to his coffin.

The cool sensation emanating from the ebony quickly soothed the persistent stinging pain in Li Zhen's mind.

He casually tossed the pieces of flesh of the ghost messenger that were pressing down on him out of the coffin, and then closed his eyes inside the coffin.

Recalling the scene of those ghost messengers appearing just now, Li Zhen felt a little regretful.

Knowing that the ghost messengers would come looking for him again, Li Zhen thought it would be a good opportunity to make contact with the underworld and perhaps hear some useful information from them.

I didn't expect the ghost messengers to arrive so quickly, and in such large numbers...

With no other option, he hurriedly returned to the main world.

Originally, Li Zhen had planned to find an opportunity to talk to Du Sangu and that Master Chen, but now it seems that the opportunity is gone.

As Li Zhen took the palm leaf whip from his sleeve, the image of the eyes he had seen in his half-awake state flashed through his mind, and he felt a chill run down his spine.

He had forgotten most of his memories of the ghost messengers, only remembering some scattered images.

No matter how hard he tried to recall, he couldn't remember the details of some of the scenes he had seen, and he would eventually remember those eyes.

Li Zhen knew that this must be the influence of the owner of those eyes on his consciousness.

Palm leaf whips aren't a cure-all either...

Even seeing certain terrifying beings in one's memories can have an impact...

This served as a wake-up call for Detective Li.

For those beings that are too strange, one should not easily examine their memories.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhen awoke again in the coffin.

After sitting up from inside the coffin, he was surprised to find the basement completely silent, which made him somewhat uneasy.

Upon turning around, Li Zhen discovered that the most mischievous ghost fetus was sleeping peacefully under his coffin, and he knew what had happened.

In the battle with the ghost messengers, the ghost fetus also suffered serious injuries.

After consuming a large amount of the ghost messenger's flesh, the ghost fetus's body is rapidly recovering, but it will still take some time to fully repair itself.

Even now, the tentacles on the demon fetus have not fully recovered.

Climbing out of the coffin, Li Zhen walked to the side of the vampire lying on the ground.

The vampire was also badly injured; most of its yin energy had been scattered, and its aura was much weaker than before. It would take some time for it to regroup its yin energy.

If Li Zhen doesn't find a way to help it, it might not recover for at least half a month.

Li Zhen lifted the vampire's hat, muttered incantations, and extended his right hand. He placed his index and middle fingers together on the vampire's forehead, then pulled it back, causing the vampire to stand up.

After luring the vampire back to the coffin, Li Zhen also lured the banshee to the side of the coffin.

The banshee's fingernails on all ten fingers were shattered, and even the tips of several fingers were blown off, leaving them still bloody.

Banshees do not have the ability to regenerate automatically.

It will take Li Zhen to refine it again before it can grow nails again.

The process was short, and Detective Li wasn't in a hurry.

He was still missing some materials. He needed to wait until he could purchase the materials before he could refine the banshee and complete the final refinement of her body, planting his own flesh and blood within her.

Returning to the coffin, Li Zhen picked up the palm leaf whip and walked out of the room.

Upon arriving at the room where the bat-faced demon was enshrined, Li Zhen saw the little ghost and the mahjong ghost gathered around the jade talisman, absorbing the yin energy flowing from it.

Neither of them was seriously injured, and after absorbing the yin energy for a period of time, their auras were much stronger than before.

The jade talisman was placed in this room by Li Zhen before he went to any world, and the crystal-like finger was also placed by Li Zhen in front of the six-armed bat-faced demon statue.

Sensing Li Zhen's arrival, the Mahjong Ghost silently disappeared beside the jade talisman and returned to its white bone club.

Having obtained the Yin energy suitable for its absorption, it now seems to have forgotten what it told Li Zhen about needing a sacrifice.

Li Zhen has never provided it with any new blood, and it has never complained.

The little devil, who was holding the rotten cat, turned to Li Zhen and changed the subject, saying, "Can you put it down? I want to play with it."

It refers to the tattered doll that Li Zhen sealed in front of the bat-faced demon statue.

The little ghost seemed to have gotten used to his sudden appearances in certain places and didn't ask Detective Li any more questions.

Li Zhen casually removed the seal from the rag doll and tossed it to the little devil.

The little devil quickly caught the tattered doll and followed behind Li Zhen with it.

As Li Zhen picked up the jade talisman, he immediately felt a cool sensation spreading from his fingers throughout his body, gradually easing the pain in his mind.

This situation is different from that of the ebony, which numbed his senses to the point that he felt the pain had disappeared.

Li Zhen felt that the tension and tearing sensation in his primordial spirit caused by being squeezed to the limit was slowly disappearing.

The energy flowing into his body from the jade talisman was very beneficial to his weary spirit.

This surprised Li Zhen a bit.

He only knew that this thing could be used to nourish corpses, but he didn't expect it to be beneficial to the primordial spirit as well.

If he puts this jade talisman into the coffin after returning here, his primordial spirit should have been fully restored.

But it's not too late.

Li Zhen stuffed the jade talisman into his pocket and carried it with him.

With the help of the jade talisman, the speed at which his primordial spirit recovers will definitely exceed his own expectations.

This made Li Zhen feel relieved.

He didn't know when the next mission would come, but based on his experience, it certainly wouldn't be too late.

Li Zhen wouldn't be at ease if he were sent to the next mission world before his injuries had healed. These worlds don't seem too troublesome now, but once he truly encounters the strange events, he'll occasionally see pleasant surprises.

This time, the ghost messenger and the underworld were a big surprise.

If he hadn't been able to return to the main world, he would probably have been reduced to ashes by now in the world of "Out of the Cage".

In the "Method of Sublimating Evil Spirits from the Five Elements," Li Zhen sensed that his third step might be completed soon, and the third tribulation mentioned in the lower volume of the manual was not far off.

He must be in peak condition to face any unforeseen circumstances.

Once his own primordial spirit recovers, this jade talisman and the bronze mirror used to nurture the corpse can be used together with other necessary materials to restore the yin energy on the vampire zombie.

With these two things, the recovery process of vampires will be greatly shortened.

Fortunately, we obtained these two items; otherwise, things wouldn't have been so easy...

Li Zhen picked up the bronze mirror but did not sense any similar aura on it.

The jade talisman is even more special than this bronze mirror...

After putting down the bronze mirror, Li Zhen reached out and touched the unusual finger next to it, but did not feel anything special.

This finger looked as if it had been handcrafted from low-quality glass; aside from its ability to frighten ghosts, it had nothing special about it.

When Li Zhen brought the object home, he experimented with the severed finger in several ways, but found nothing unusual about it.

He even tried to use a black magic on the severed finger, but found that the black magic couldn't destroy it, as if the finger was made of real glass.

Li Zhen put down his fingers, rubbed his temples, and recalled the memory of the blue-faced ghost for a moment.

He has sorted out the memories of that blue-faced ghost in the past few days.

Based on the fragments of memory, the other party was indeed a local official from several hundred years ago.

However, there were many gaps in the other person's memory, and Li Zhen could not see the key information about that burial site.

Things that Li Zhen was interested in, such as who found the burial site for him, who made the arrangements for him, or who taught him the methods of making the arrangements, and why he, as a scholar, would have the idea of ​​corpse dissolution before his death, were not found in his memory.

Li Zhen initially thought it was just bad luck that he hadn't noticed the problem.

However, after the incident with the ghost messenger, the idea that was originally just a suspicion in his mind took over.

Perhaps someone deliberately concealed some key information?

This is very likely.

Both the Blue-Faced Demon and the Weaving Maiden harbor great secrets...

After putting down the severed finger, Li Zhen glanced at the photograph he had nailed to the altar.

To his surprise, he had assumed that his black magic had found the person.

But when he saw the photo, he realized that it was still somewhat blurry and almost unchanged from a few days ago.

I wonder what kind of magic Changshan used...

Li Zhen is not interested in this person now, but he is somewhat interested in the magic that Changshan is using.

Without continuing to enhance his black magic, Li Zhen went to a table next to him where offerings and incense burners were placed. He put the palm leaf whip back on the table that was used to display the palm leaf whip, and lit three incense sticks in the incense burner in front of the table.

Picking up the bronze mirror, Li Zhen returned to the coffin where the vampire was and placed the mirror on the vampire's abdomen.

The aura of the vampires became restless.

As if stimulated by something, its body began to convulse.

A thin wisp of yin energy emanated from the bronze mirror, gradually enveloping the vampire's entire body.

Li Zhen, who was carefully observing the changes in the bronze mirror, keenly noticed that the yin energy emanating from the bronze mirror was somewhat different from the yin energy emanating from the jade talisman.

The yin energy emanating from the bronze mirror was even more restless, seemingly mixed with a lot of malevolent energy.

Only vampires can absorb this yin energy. If little ghosts and mahjong ghosts absorb this yin energy, they will definitely be affected and become more violent.

After feeding it some fresh blood and then placing the jade talisman on the vampire, it will definitely help the vampire recover faster.

Moreover, you won't have to worry about vampires being unable to recover from injuries anymore.

With a satisfied expression, Li Zhen returned to his coffin and tidied up the pieces of the ghost messenger's flesh that had fallen to the ground.

After the ghost messengers died, these pieces of flesh could no longer become ghosts, but they did not lose their vitality. They continued to writhe on the ground, just like a living worm, which looked rather eerie.

Li Zhen casually grabbed a handful of minced meat and went to the several jars placed against the wall.

Each of these jars has a blood-red rune painted on its front.

This is a seal that Li Zhen set up to prevent these things from escaping the jar when he is not around.

Li Zhen opened the jar containing the spider and centipede, and threw a piece of the ghost messenger's minced flesh into each jar.

No matter what Nalong used to feed these evil creatures, he could never feed them as well as Li Zhen could.

I wonder if these things will undergo some changes after eating the scraps of flesh from the ghost messengers?
Upon seeing the spider and centipede pounce on the pieces of meat and devour them frantically, Li Zhen plucked a few strands of his hair and cut off some of his fingernails, burned them to ashes, and sprinkled them onto the pieces of meat in the jar.

Imprinting your mark on these two evil beings is not difficult, but it takes a lot of time and requires gradually changing their will through feeding.

Li Zhen used to regard both of these as disposable items, so he wasn't very enthusiastic about them.

However, after feeding the ghost messenger the scraps of flesh, he developed some expectations for both of them, and thus changed his attitude towards them.

If these two can be mutated, then they will have greater value for cultivation.

The kid following behind Li Zhen eagerly reminded him, "Didn't you say you were going to buy tools so I could do carpentry? I've already prepared them!"

This guy seemed uneasy about absorbing the yin energy from the jade talisman without Li Zhen's permission.

Li Zhen casually replied, "I'll contact someone to buy it right away."

He went to the jar containing the mother moth, opened it, and checked on her condition.

Before heading to the mission world, Li Zhen did not take the Ghost Face Moth Mother with him.

Before long, the bat carcass that Li Zhen had thrown into the Ghost Face Moth Mother turned into a limp state and slumped against the bottom of the jar.

The female ghost moth's proboscis pierced into the bat's corpse, as if sucking out its juices.

Sensing Li Zhen's presence, the Ghost Face Moth Mother stirred, turning her compound eyes toward him. Her wings vibrated excitedly, causing the ghost faces on them to shift and change, as if she were grinning maliciously.

Li Zhen threw the two pieces of the ghost messenger's flesh into the container.

After closing the jar, Li Zhen returned to the coffin.

He summoned the red-eyed bats that were hanging on the demon statue.

After feeding the two bats and the red-eyed bat, Li Zhen fed it a few pieces of the ghost messenger's minced meat.

Watching the red-eyed bat reluctantly swallow the scraps of meat he fed it, Li Zhen patted the red-eyed bat's head.

The red-eyed bat played a significant role in the successful killing of the ghost messenger.

Li Zhen placed the red-eyed bats on the edge of the coffin, then picked up several bat corpses and a pile of ghost messengers' scraps of flesh and placed them next to the ghost fetus.

The tentacles of the demonic fetus coiled around his body, swaying unconsciously around it.

Sensing what Li Zhen had put down, it opened its tentacles, dragged something up, and stuffed it into its mouth.

Li Zhen noticed that its eyes were not open.

This eating behavior is now entirely an unconscious, instinctive act.

The ghost fetus has a strong regenerative ability; it can recover quickly as long as it can eat.

Detective Li was not worried about the issue of the ghost child.

After looking around and finding that everything that needed to be done had been done, Li Zhen picked up his phone and saw that it was still daytime. He then sent a text message to Fatty Huang, asking him to order some necessary items for him.

We need to buy woodworking tools, some wood, and materials for the final step of the siren's ritual...

The former was to find something for the little devil to do, while the latter was to complete the female demon's ritual as soon as possible so that Li Zhen could gain a special way to save his life.

After dealing with these matters, Li Zhen picked up the demon statue on the ground, walked out of the basement, and went to the room where he had taken the witchcraft potion.

The runes throughout the room had dried out, turning a pale purple color, which made it appear even more eerie.

Even though some light shone through the gaps in the curtains and into the room, it did not lessen the room's eerie and unsettling atmosphere.

Li Zhen placed the demon statue on the altar specifically used to enshrine it, and looked at the snake scales "frozen" in wax placed on the altar.

After he returned last time, he left the snake scales here.

Next to the snake scales is the forearm bone wrapped with a thin red rope.

Neither of them has changed.

We need to be more careful about safety in the future...

Li Zhen turned his head and glanced at the curtains that were being blown by the wind.

Previously, Li Zhen didn't keep anything important in the house, so even if the mission world lasted a long time, he wouldn't worry.

But things are different now than before.

Like a snake scale, it is something that must never fall into the hands of others.

Therefore, after leaving, it will naturally be necessary to set up more defensive measures.

Li Zhen sat down cross-legged on the spot, composed himself, and looked at the demonic statue on the altar...

(End of this chapter)