The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 198 Sealing the Evil Thoughts of the Great Black Buddha Mother

Inside the temple.

Chen Letong, feeling drowsy, lay on a recliner.

Her face was very pale, her lips were covered with dead skin and had no color in them, and her eyes were closed; she was still in a deep sleep.

In addition to her poor condition, her arms were covered in wounds that looked like the flesh was rotting, and a foul odor was emanating from them.

Xie Qiming touched Chen Letong's burning forehead and applied the prepared wet towel to it.

When he carried Chen Letong to the car, he felt that Chen Letong's body was a little hot. Now Chen Letong's body temperature is even higher. She is struggling and talking nonsense while she is unconscious. She clearly has a fever.

Master Aqing sat cross-legged on the statue, closing his eyes to meditate.

Sister-in-law Aqing came out with an ice pack: "Put it on her forehead to lower her body temperature."

Xie Qiming took the ice pack and placed it on Chen Letong's forehead, saying, "Duoduo's condition is very wrong. Her body temperature is too high; she must have a high fever. Can't she even take medicine? Even if she can't take medicine, can you at least give her a few sips of ice water? Duoduo is sweating a lot..."

At this point, he was suddenly startled.

Before leaving, Li Zhen solemnly told him many times not to feed Chen Letong anything.

Unexpectedly, even seeing Chen Letong in this state, he still felt the urge to feed her.

If even he's like this, you can imagine how Li Ruonan would feel if she were here.

Xie Qiming now agreed with Li Zhen's words even more.

Thankfully, Li Ruonan isn't here...

Sister-in-law Aqing said solemnly, "She can't eat anything, including medicine and water. If you feed her, you will not only harm us, but also her."

Xie Qiming nodded and said, "I understand."

Looking at Chen Letong, who was constantly writhing, Sister Qing comforted her, "This is a necessary stage to break the curse. As long as she holds on until the evil spirit is eliminated, she'll be fine. Don't worry, she won't be harmed."

Xie Qiming sighed, "Duoduo is so young, and she has to endure such torment..."

Sister-in-law Aqing said, "Uncle Zhou will help her."

Xie Qiming sighed again and used an ice pack to wipe Chen Letong's sweaty neck.

Finally, the appointed time arrived. He put down his phone and said to Master Qing, "Master Qing, it's time!"

Master Aqing opened his eyes, stood up from the prayer mat, and picked up the several sheets of paper money he had prepared.

After chanting incantations for a while, he bowed three times before the statue of the deity, lit the paper money, and walked to Chen Letong's side.

As if reprimanding someone, Master Aqing solemnly recited a few words, then wrapped the burning paper money around Chen Letong's body several times.

Chen Le's eyelids twitched, his body twisted and turned, and he made groaning noises, looking even more uncomfortable.

Xie Qiming was even more worried, but he didn't say anything.

After throwing the paper money on the ground, Master Aqing circled around Chen Letong a few times, chanting incantations while covering Chen Letong's face with green leaves one by one.

As he covered Chen Letong's eyes, a loud "bang" rang out, and the light bulb hanging above his head shattered without warning.

The temple was plunged into darkness.

Master Aqing's incantation paused for only a moment before continuing.

The flashlight shone, allowing Xie Qiming, whose heart was pounding, to see the light again.

Sister-in-law Aqing, holding a flashlight, walked up to Xie Qiming and handed him a stick.

Master Aqing caught the stick and gently patted Chen Letong's face.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed past Xie Qiming out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head to look, but the dark figure had vanished without a trace. A chair in that direction had inexplicably fallen to the ground, as if it had been tripped over by something.

This bizarre scene made Xie Qiming, whose emotions had calmed down a little, tense up again.

His throat bobbed, and he turned to look at Sister-in-law Aqing, but what he saw was not Sister-in-law Aqing, but a rotting face infested with maggots.

"What did you see?" The face turned to him, and the two eyeballs on the face popped out of their sockets.

"Ah..." Xie Qiming was quite frightened by this unexpected scene. He staggered back a few steps, and when he wiped his eyes, he found that the terrifying face had turned into Sister Qing's face.

Sister-in-law Aqing asked worriedly, "What terrifying thing did you see?"

Xie Qiming rubbed his eyes again, his lips trembling as he said, "It must be my hallucination."

Sister-in-law Aqing reminded us, "Keep your mind focused and don't give evil spirits any opportunity."

Xie Qiming looked down and found that his arms, like Chen Letong's, had large areas of ulceration.

Unlike Chen Letong, he noticed that the festering wounds on his body had not spread, nor were they as extensive as those on Chen Letong's arm.

In addition, he noticed that his body temperature was constantly dropping, making him feel like a cold corpse.

Especially with the chilling sensation emanating from his back, his body temperature continued to drop.

Faintly, Xie Qiming seemed to hear screams and the grinding of his joints coming from his own body.

Xie Qiming slowly turned around, but saw nothing. He knew that this must be the magic that Li Zhen had cast on him to help him.

Master Aqing's chanting grew louder and louder. Finally, he slammed the stick in his hand against a table in front of him, as if trying to drive something away.

With a loud "boom," the black-faced deity statue enshrined in the center turned its body on its own, facing Xie Qiming and the others.

Xie Qiming's body stiffened, and the sounds of his joints grinding, screams, and the tingling sensation in his back all vanished at the same time.

The temple returned to peace.

Standing, Master Aqing collapsed softly to the ground.

Sister-in-law Aqing quickly went to help Master Aqing up.

"Master Qing, are you alright?"

Xie Qiming, whose body was still stiff, ran to Master Qing's side and asked anxiously.

Gasping for breath, Master Qing said weakly, "After provoking the evil spirit, this is all I can do. I can't help much after that. It depends on that person."

Xie Qiming said, "You should rest well, and there will definitely be a good result!"

Finding that Master Qing was alright, he stood up and went to check on Chen Letong's condition.

Seeing that Chen Letong had stopped wriggling and seemed to be more comfortable, he felt relieved. He then raised his head and, using the last light of his flashlight, looked at the deity who had turned his head away.

……

The wind grew stronger, blowing the white cloth on Li Zhen's altar and knocking many of the talismans pasted on both sides of the passageway to the ground.

A sharp sound, like the cry of a baby, came from the passageway again.

Terrifying evil thoughts emanated from the passage, sending chills down one's spine.

The once peaceful passageway instantly transformed into a terrifying place, though not as horrifying as it had been before.

No one could escape the notice of the Great Black Buddha Mother when they came to Chenjia Village.

For Li Zhen, the Great Black Buddha Mother, hidden in the darkness deep within the passage and yet to be unleashed, was far more terrifying than the Great Black Buddha Mother in her explosive state.

After the outbreak, the Great Black Buddha Mother's attention was diverted by Master Aqing, which gave him a great opportunity.

This was the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Li Zhen opened his eyes and looked into the darkness of the passage.

The red-eyed bat also looked towards the passage, its crimson eyes slowly turning.

Fear gripped Li Ruonan, who pushed him behind Li Zhen.

Looking down, Li Zhen saw his arms covered in goosebumps.

His consciousness suddenly became somewhat hazy, causing his vision to blur.

This is a sign that you have been cursed by the Great Black Mother.

This level of curse only unintentionally affected him due to the evil intentions of the Great Black Buddha Mother, and did not have a significant impact on him personally. However, this level of evil intention was already a fatal danger to Li Ruonan.

After seeing Li Ruonan, Li Zhen slightly adjusted his sealing plan and turned to look at the dazed Li Ruonan.

He rose from the ground, grabbed a lock of Li Ruonan's hair without warning, picked up a small knife prepared on the altar, and cut it off with one stroke.

"What are you going to do?" Confused, Li Ruonan grabbed her hair with one hand and backed away in fear.

In this situation, the knife in Li Zhen's hand was naturally terrifying in her eyes.

If Li Zhen wanted to kill her, no one here could save her.

After removing a lock of hair, Li Zhen ignored him.

Li Zhen picked up a bunch of weeds from the altar with one hand, and with a few deft twists of his five fingers, he shaped the weeds into a simple human figure.

Then, he wrapped his hair with a yellow talisman and stuffed the talisman and hair into the straw doll.

"I need your middle finger blood." Li Zhen tossed the knife to Li Ruonan behind him without turning his head.

After picking up the knife, Li Ruonan hesitated for a moment before cutting her middle finger.

Because she was in a daze and her hands and feet were weak and powerless, she made a very deep cut.

A large amount of blood immediately flowed from her fingers.

Stimulated by the pain, Li Ruonan, who was in a daze, regained consciousness.

"Am I... cursed by an evil spirit?" she asked, trembling.

“The curse on you has never been removed, and the malice of the evil spirit inside has always haunted you. If it hadn’t taken a liking to your daughter, it wouldn’t have kept you alive until now.” Li Zhen walked to Li Ruonan’s side and used Li Ruonan’s blood on the straw effigy. “Now that it doesn’t need you anymore and wants to kill you, its malice has erupted.”

Holding the straw figure, Li Zhen returned to the altar and opened a white porcelain jar on the altar that was originally meant to hold seasonings.

The jar didn't contain any seasonings, but rather a rotten, dark green viscous liquid. The inside of the jar was also decorated with some eerie incantations drawn in dark red ink.

After throwing the straw figure into the jar, Li Zhen hurriedly chanted the incantation.

The straw man, which had been lying in the slime, suddenly stood up, and small bubbles gradually rose from the slime.

Upon seeing this scene, Li Ruonan felt a peculiar sense of claustrophobia, as if she herself had been thrown into the jar, not the straw doll.

A strong feeling of palpitations washed over her, and she instinctively cried out, "What have you done?!"

Li Zhen calmly said, "It's a special kind of substitution technique. You need to draw all the evil spirit's malice towards you. If you can hold on, you can live..."

With her ears ringing, Li Ruonan didn't hear what Li Zhen said next.

A strong sense of discomfort came from her body, and she looked at her arm.

She then discovered that large areas of her arms were covered in festering sores.

What's frightening is that the injuries were spreading to the surrounding skin at a visible speed, and soon covered half of the skin on her arm.

Li Ruonan could clearly smell the putrid odor emanating from her own body.

This made Li Ruonan even more frightened.

She felt an itch in her nose, and the more she rubbed it, the stronger the itch became.

Large drops of blood dripped from her nose onto the ground.

In a panic, Li Ruonan covered her nose with her intact left hand, but no matter what she did, she couldn't stop the gushing blood from flowing out.

Li Zhen turned to look at the straw figure inside the jar.

Large brown patches appeared on the arms of the straw man, which was originally straw yellow, and quickly spread to the body.

As Li Ruonan's nose started bleeding, wisps of blue smoke rose from the straw man's brain.

The substitution technique used by Li Zhen is not witchcraft; it is simply a heretical method he obtained after absorbing the Taoist's memories in the world of "The Seven Heroes of the Ghost Chaser".

This isn't some profound method, but it's perfectly applicable here.

After experiencing many mission worlds, Li Zhen realized that he had unknowingly learned many kinds of magic...

Li Ruonan's expression became even more dazed.

Suddenly, he walked to a rock on the side, tilted his head back, and was about to crash into it.

The female demon who appeared behind Li Ruonan wrapped her arm around Li Ruonan's neck, preventing her from crashing into the rock.

Li Ruonan instinctively struggled, her face looking even more pained.

But no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free from the banshee's arms.

Li Zhen said expressionlessly, "If you want to save your daughter, then hold on."

A moment of struggle appeared on Li Ruonan's face.

Li Zhen turned to look back at the straw figure in the jar.

Suddenly, with a loud "bang," the jar shattered into countless pieces.

The pungent, sticky liquid splashed everywhere.

Li Zhen's face and body were covered in that liquid.

He ignored the slime, simply reaching out to catch the straw man that was about to fall, then opened a jar next to him and put the straw man back in.

The slime inside this jar was darker in color and had a more pungent smell.

More than half of the scarecrow's skin turned brown, and more blue smoke was coming out of its head.

Li Ruonan's body contorted in agony, becoming even more painful.

Li Zhen remained unmoved.

After the jar shattered, he placed the straw man into the third jar, and then had the female demon pull over Li Ruonan, who was on the verge of death and near unconsciousness.

After slashing Li Ruonan's forehead and dripping her blood into a jar, Li Zhen made the female demon release Li Ruonan.

Li Ruonan had completely lost consciousness and collapsed limply to the ground, her fate unknown.

She was not dead, but some of her life force and energy had been transferred to the straw doll, putting her in a state of suspended animation. This state allowed her to avoid the malice of the Great Black Buddha Mother.

The straw doll created by Detective Li will take the place of Li Ruonan and bear as much of the malice as possible from the Great Black Buddha Mother.

Li Ruonan alone could not possibly bear so much malice and become the focal point of the Black Buddha Mother's evil thoughts.

With a loud bang, the third jar shattered again. The straw figure, covered in foul-smelling slime, collapsed onto the altar.

Li Zhen stretched out his right hand and wiped it on the straw figure.

The straw figure stood up again.

The cries of an even louder baby came from the passageway.

The remaining parts of the straw man were stained brown, and a lot of blue smoke was billowing from the top of the straw man's head, making it look like it was about to be set on fire.

The straw man's head kept turning, as if it were a living person enduring unbearable pain.

The slime on the scarecrow began to wriggle on its own.

The fleshy demon statue that Li Zhen placed on the altar also emitted an eerie aura, causing the slime to writhe even more violently.

The malice of the Great Black Mother and the evil thoughts of Sumadharma collided once again.

Unlike last time, this time the collision happens on a straw man, so there's no need to worry about the person in the middle not being able to handle it.

After chanting an incantation, Li Zhen placed the straw figure on a blue talisman.

Li Zhen picked up a few talismans and stuck them on the straw man. He looked at his hands and found that the fingertips that had touched the straw man were ulcerated.

What terrifying evil thoughts...

The malevolent intent released by the Great Black Buddha Mother, sensing the provocation, was even stronger than before...

After temporarily sealing away the evil thoughts of the Great Black Buddha Mother, Li Zhen led the vampire and the banshee toward the passage.

(End of this chapter)