The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 197 The Chen Family Members Who Were Not All Dead and the Setting Up of the Altar

Although the method Li Zhen used to seal himself was not a profound one, he was still somewhat surprised that the guy had affected the seal so quickly.

A slight pain came from the spot where the coffin nails had been driven into him.

To conceal the coffin nails on his body, Li Zhen changed into a long-sleeved shirt and pulled the sleeves down to cover the nails.

At this moment, blood seeped from the places where the coffin nails had been driven into his arms and knees, staining his clothes crimson.

Unmoved, Li Zhen started the car.

His arms twitched involuntarily, and the voice of the "Demon of Fate" echoed intermittently in Li Zhen's mind: "You...can't...seal...me..."

The moment the sound rang out, some memories that did not belong to him resurfaced in Li Zhen's mind.

But Li Zhen didn't feel any discomfort. On the contrary, he felt that his thinking was incredibly clear. This feeling was hard to describe, as if his mind was being rapidly expanded.

The "Demon of Fate" has already begun to influence his consciousness...

If the problem of the "demon of fate" cannot be resolved as soon as possible, Li Zhen knows that as the other party's influence on him intensifies, it will begin to affect his personality.

This is different from absorbing other people's memories with a palm leaf whip.

The act of obtaining memories through the palm leaf whip was Li Zhen's own initiative; he would only observe the person's memories and was less influenced by others.

But at this moment, those extra memories naturally filled his mind.

As these memories accumulate, he will eventually be unable to distinguish whether these things are actually his own memories.

That "fate demon" is really strange...

Li Zhen glanced thoughtfully at the blood flowing from his arm.

“Your hand…” Li Ruonan, sitting in the passenger seat, noticed the blood flowing from Li Zhen’s body.

Li Zhen ignored him.

Li Ruonan looked somewhat uneasy and didn't say anything more, only pointing out directions when necessary.

After the car turned from the bustling city onto a deserted, narrow road, Li Ruonan's expression became even more anxious.

It's clear that what happened back then had a significant impact on her.

Half a day later, the car turned onto a more secluded side road.

The road is flanked by dense mountains, and vehicles are rarely seen on it.

Looking at the mountains on both sides, Li Ruonan suddenly said, "When we first came to this road, our car suddenly broke down. We got out to check and found that a small Buddha statue was stuck in the wheel... Now it seems that it must have been a warning to us."

“If we hadn’t insisted on going to Chenjia Village and had instead turned back from here, none of this might have happened.”

Li Zhen said irritably, "You reap what you sow. The gods and immortals have warned you more than once."

"You encountered the White Crane Boy once with your daughter. The boy had already noticed your daughter, but you ran away in a panic with her? Is the White Crane Boy more terrifying than an evil spirit?"

Li Ruonan naturally remembered this incident.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "I just want to protect Duoduo."

“You can’t protect anyone. If you kill Master Qing and his wife again, even the gods will despise you. You will only have one path left: death. Your daughter will not be able to live either,” Li Zhen said cruelly.

Li Ruonan wiped away her tears: "Can you get rid of that evil spirit?"

"If you can't get rid of the evil spirit, I won't have any problems, but you will definitely die here."

Around three or four in the morning, Li Zhen and his companion finally arrived at Chenjia Village.

There was no moon tonight, and the surroundings were shrouded in darkness; Chenjia Village was hidden among the mountains.

The entire village was eerily quiet, without a single light or even the chirping of insects.

Detective Li got out of the car, took the bag containing various tools from the trunk, and then had the vampire and the banshee in the back seat get out as well.

Li Ruonan pushed open the car door and looked nervously at the old wooden houses in front of the headlights.

"What happened in Chenjia Village after you left?" Li Zhen turned on his flashlight and looked around the car.

The wooden houses on both sides were very crowded, and there were cobwebs everywhere under the eaves, with no trace of life.

Li Ruonan shuddered and shook her head violently: "I don't know, I don't know... After leaving here, I tried my best to avoid thinking about what happened here. I don't know what happened after that."

“Even if not all of the Chen family members are dead, there certainly aren’t many left.” Li Zhen walked into Chen Family Village.

The Great Black Buddha Mother is still in Chenjia Village, but none of the Chen family members have stayed here. Obviously, the fate of the Chen family members will not be good.

Vampires and banshees followed closely behind Li Zhen.

Li Ruonan caught up with Li Zhen.

The vampires and banshees made her feel very uncomfortable, so she dared not get too close to Li Zhen.

Noticing that Li Zhen suddenly stopped, and noticing that the vampire and banshee were moving stiffly, Li Ruonan, who was not like an ordinary person, also stopped and looked up at the direction that Li Zhen's flashlight was pointing.

In front of a moldy, dilapidated wooden house, a little girl with her face covered in talismans and her hair disheveled stood barefoot, gazing at Li Zhen and Li Ruonan with a melancholy expression.

"It's you!" Li Ruonan's heart skipped a beat.

Li Zhen scrutinized the strange little girl: "This is... the little girl you saw in Chenjia Village who was sacrificed to the evil spirit?"

Upon seeing the little girl, Li Zhen felt that she looked somewhat familiar.

“It’s her!” Li Ruonan walked up to Li Zhen. “It’s her! We saw her here six years ago!”

Three men wielding knives and clubs emerged from the wall next to the little girl, staring expressionlessly at Li Zhen and Li Ruonan.

The three people were all very pale, with lifeless eyes, looking more like ghosts than living people.

Upon seeing the three men, Li Ruonan, her face filled with even greater fear, murmured, "It's them! It's them! I've seen them before! That night... I saw them; they're all from Chenjia Village!"

"Are all the people in Chenjia Village really not dead?" Li Zhen asked, somewhat surprised.

His gaze shifted, and he looked again at the little girl whose body was covered in runes.

He remembered that the little girl was eventually sent to Chen Letong's side.

Li Zhen originally thought that it was done by the Great Black Buddha Mother herself, but now it seems that it was the Great Black Buddha Mother who instigated the Chen family members who participated to do it.

Judging from the appearance of these members of the Chen family, you can tell that they are not living a good life.

Six years ago, even if not all of the Chen family members died, the remaining members were still tormented by the Great Black Buddha Mother.

Judging from the situation in Chenjia Village, it is clear that no one lives here normally.

These people must have returned to Chenjia Village not long ago.

Li Ruonan tentatively approached the group: "Do you remember me? Six years ago, I came to the village with Adong and Ayuan."

“I…I’ve brought a very powerful mage with me. The evil spirits here were sealed away by this mage’s sect! This mage can exorcise the evil spirits in the village! You…”

The person opposite raised their hand.

A sharp knife flew towards Li Ruonan.

Startled, Li Ruonan took a step back and fell to the ground.

The knife hovered over her forehead, its tip already piercing the skin. A little more forward and it would kill her.

Blood flowed from Li Ruonan's forehead, and the burning pain made her gasp for breath.

She scrambled backward a step, her heart pounding as she looked at the knife before her, only to find it hovering in mid-air.

With a clatter, the knife fell in front of her, trembling a few times. She had experienced this once in such a short time.
Li Zhen walked up to Li Ruonan and stood between the people and Li Ruonan.

"Get out of here!" one of the men said menacingly. "This is none of your business, mind your own business!"

Li Zhen knew that these people must have come on the orders of the Great Black Buddha Mother.

Perhaps they sensed his arrival as a variable, which is why these people were here to warn him.

He didn't speak.

The Mahjong Ghost appeared silently behind the three of them.

Enveloped by a peculiar chill, the three froze on the spot before collapsing limply to the ground.

The young girlfriend stood there, stunned.

Realizing something was amiss, she slowly turned around and met the gaze of the Mahjong Ghost.

The mahjong ghost stretched out its hand and grabbed the little girl's neck.

The little girl did not react at all.

The mahjong devil tightened his grip, his sharp nails piercing the little girl's skin.

Bright red blood flowed down the little girl's neck.

"No!" Li Ruonan scrambled to her feet. "She's just a child! This has nothing to do with her!"

Li Zhen remained indifferent.

The blood flowed more and more, running down the little girl's skin and onto her clothes, staining her tattered white pajamas red.

The black runes on the little girl's body began to move across her skin.

As if struck by a heavy blow, the Mahjong Ghost was sent flying backward, breaking through a wooden wall and crashing into the dilapidated wooden house.

The little girl collapsed softly to the ground.

Suddenly, a strange cry rang out from Chenjia Village, like the wailing of a baby, sharp and piercing, sending chills down one's spine.

The village immediately became eerie.

"It's here! An evil spirit! It's an evil spirit! It's still here!" Li Ruonan looked in a certain direction of the village, her eyes filled with fear.

Li Zhen also looked in the direction from which the sound came.

A powerful malice emanated from that direction, causing Li Zhen's heart to race and his muscles to tense instinctively.

The Great Black Mother is indeed here...

The coffin nail on Li Zhen's right arm was pulled upwards by more than half, and a large amount of blood flowed from Li Zhen's arm.

The arm slipped out of Li Zhen's control and was raised into the air.

The voice of the "Destiny Demon" echoed in Li Zhen's mind: "So powerful... malevolent intent, what kind of evil thing is this? How can such a thing exist in this world? Where is this place?"

Li Zhen's heart skipped a beat: "It's just an evil object. The world is so big, why doesn't such a thing exist?"

The "Demon of Fate" let out a faint sneer: "This kind of evil thought... this is not an ordinary ghost, nor an ordinary evil thing. This kind of being... in its prime, one look at you and you would die."

"How could such a remnant exist in this era? It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be... It's really strange..."

The voices faded away, and Li Zhen couldn't make out what they were saying, but he sensed that the "Demon of Fate" had a lot of information in his words.

"It's just that you're ignorant. You've been sealed away for so many years, and a lot has happened outside that you have no idea about," Li Zhen provoked.

The "Demon of Fate" remained silent.

Li Zhen reached out and pressed the coffin nail on his arm back in.

Blood streamed down his arm and dripped onto the ground.

After the eerie sound disappeared, Li Zhen's "talking to himself" made the already nervous Li Ruonan feel even more uneasy.

She carefully moved away from Li Zhen and ran to the little girl's side.

After checking on the little girl and finding that she was only unconscious, she struggled to drag her to the car.

Li Zhen said to Li Ruonan, "Lead the way, let's find the evil spirit."

After closing the car door, Li Ruonan led Li Zhen deep into Chenjia Village.

After passing through several houses, the two soon arrived at a house that looked like ruins.

A yellow warning tape was strung up next to the house.

Behind the cordon was a stone wall, and beneath the wall was an arched passageway.

The passageway is low; to get in, you have to crouch down and crawl on the ground, inching your way in little by little.

The passage was extremely quiet, seemingly devoid of anything, not even the malevolent thoughts of evil spirits could be sensed. However, Li Zhen and Li Ruonan could feel an indescribable pressure from the darkness within the passage.

The evil entity inside seemed to have shrunk its malice, silently watching the two people who had arrived at Chenjia Village.

Li Zhen shone his flashlight into the passageway and saw a large number of shattered mirrors at the entrance.

Looking at the passage, Li Ruonan said nervously, "This is it! The evil spirit is inside!"

Li Zhen took out the watch Xie Qiming had given him and glanced at the time.

It's almost 4 a.m., and Master Qing and I had agreed on 5:30 a.m.

There was still an hour and a half until the agreed time, which Li Zhen had deliberately timed by controlling the car's speed.

This time is perfect for making final preparations.

After removing the warning tape, Li Zhen walked towards the entrance of the passage.

He glanced inside a few times, put the bag he was carrying on the ground, and took some bottles and jars and a white cloth from the back of the vampire and the banshee.

After finding a few flat stones and wooden planks, Li Zhen set up a simple table, then laid a white cloth on it, thus creating a simple altar.

The Great Black Buddha Mother is no ordinary being, and to prevent any unforeseen circumstances, Detective Li will naturally exert all his strength.

Whether it's witchcraft or black magic, both require setting up an altar and making preparations before they can unleash their most terrifying power.

A red-eyed bat flew out from behind the banshee and landed on a rock behind the altar. It stared intently at the passage and let out a strange "squeak" sound.

The injured Mahjong Ghost's figure appeared faintly behind Li Zhen, also looking towards the passage.

Li Zhen took out the fleshy demon statue and placed it on the altar.

He opened the bag and placed the prepared offerings, including pieces of meat, flowers, and entrails, on the altar.

Li Zhen took out a handful of talismans and instructed Li Ruonan to stick them around the perimeter of the passage.

He then prepared the ink himself and drew talismans on the altar, the ground in front of the altar, and around the entrance to the passage.

Having done all this, he carried the bag to the altar, sat down in front of it, and looked at the fleshy demon statue while chanting incantations in a low voice.

After an unknown amount of time, a sudden gust of cold wind rose up, stirring the talismans pasted along the passageway.

The wind made Li Ruonan's hair stand on end, and she almost ran away from there.

Just then, Li Zhen looked up at the entrance of the passage.

Time is up……

(End of this chapter)