The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 206: Obtaining the Complete Corpse-Raising Technique and Choosing a Burial Site from the Wang Family
This female ghost had been affected by Li Zhen's magic and was a tool he used to exterminate the Wang family's bloodline. Naturally, he had a way to subdue this female ghost.

The female ghost can indeed turn against Li Zhen, and as long as he can suppress the backlash, the female ghost will have no chance of escaping.

The female ghost, held in Li Zhen's hand, struggled desperately.

Li Zhen looked at the female ghost's eyes, which were only white: "I gave you a chance to take revenge, and this is how you repay me?"

The female ghost let out a scream, and several writhing ghost faces appeared on her body.

This female ghost must have been under some kind of spell to have turned into this form.

Detective Li wasn't particularly interested in the female ghost's experiences.

With his consent, the red-eyed bat flew from behind him and swallowed the female ghost whole. Then the ghostly face on its back began to writhe again.

This female ghost killed so many members of the Wang family, and her resentment is very strong. She will definitely be able to give the red-eyed bat another life.

Since losing its life in a battle with that ghost messenger, the red-eyed bat had not encountered a ghost that met its requirements until now.

After swallowing the ghost, the red-eyed bat circled above Li Zhen's head several times, letting out a strange, excited cry.

Li Zhen continued forward.

At the end of that bluestone path was the largest wooden building.

Judging from the plaque hanging on the house, this building should be the ancestral home of the Wang family.

The ancestral home is quite large. In addition to the main building in the center, several buildings extend to both sides, making the ancestral home look even larger.

Behind the doors and windows of this ancestral home, there were also distorted human faces, spying on Li Zhen.

But after Li Zhen looked over, those faces vanished without a trace, as if they had been excessively frightened.

Li Zhen touched his face thoughtfully, and after recalling for a moment, he summoned the Mahjong Ghost and sent it into the ancestral home to scout ahead.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Mahjong Ghost floated directly into the ancestral home.

After sensing that the Mahjong Ghost was not in any danger, Li Zhen also entered the ancestral home.

This ancestral home was not much different from the one he remembered. The main hall was a place for worshipping ancestors, with many ancestral tablets of the Wang family displayed.

After glancing at the memorial tablets, Li Zhen turned left and entered a connecting corridor.

There were several mutilated corpses on the corridor, likely members of the Wang family who had been killed by the female ghost.

After walking through the connecting corridor, Li Zhen arrived at a place dedicated to storing books, following his memory.

The Mahjong Ghost has already arrived here.

Apart from a few rows of bookshelves, the room was empty and had a peculiar dusty smell, the kind that only old books would give off.

Although Li Zhen's eyesight was far superior to that of ordinary people in the dark, allowing him to move around without restriction, his eyesight was far from supporting him to read at night.

After sending the Mahjong Ghost to find the tools to start a fire, Detective Li waited there.

Soon, a lit candle drifted into the room along with the mahjong ghost.

Only then did Li Zhen see clearly what books were in the room.

The bookshelves on three walls of the room were filled with books. Two of them contained classic books that could be bought outside, mostly classical history books. Only one bookshelf contained books about gods and ghosts that Li Zhen had never seen before.

There are probably dozens of books involving gods and ghosts, mostly classical novels related to ghosts and monsters, as well as some notes left by humans that Li Zhen doesn't know.

Li Zhen squatted down and found a book titled "Detailed Explanation of Corpse Raising" in the bottom row of books themed around zombies.

In his memory, this should have been the core of the Wang family's corpse-refining technique.

Li Zhen glanced at the book casually and saw the method for making the "corpse-binding rope" that could subdue zombies.

The symbol of the Wang family who raise corpses is a red "corpse-binding rope" that everyone carries. Li Zhen's memory also mentions the method of making this rope, which is not much different from what is described in this book.

He casually flipped through a few more pages, and all he saw were detailed descriptions of raising corpses.

Li Zhen flipped through the book to the last part, and after searching for a while, he finally saw the keyword "Mao Jiang".

Before this section, the book states that the things described above are all oral traditions passed down from our ancestors and are not necessarily true. No one who reads this book should believe everything they read.

The Wang family hasn't raised a "hairy zombie" for many years, so what's recorded here is obviously unreliable.

After glancing at it a few times and finding that it contained a lot of detailed information, Li Zhen closed the book.

The book is definitely holding back some of the information, just like the books about black magic that Li Zhen obtained in the world of "Gu". Many things passed down orally will not be written in the book.

Even if someone who knows nothing obtains this book and follows its instructions exactly, they still won't be able to raise a zombie.

However, Li Zhen had already obtained the memories of a core member of the Wang family, and combined with this book, he had already seen through the outline of the Wang family's corpse-raising technique.

After putting down the book, Li Zhen casually flipped through several other books on corpse raising and felt that he had benefited greatly from the subject.

These books are all valuable, containing not only information about corpse raising but also many secrets within this industry, which greatly interests Detective Li.

When he leaves, Li Zhen will take all these things with him.

Li Zhen put the books back in their original places, got up, and walked out of the room with the candle in his hand.

Following the original route back to the ancestral home, Li Zhen entered the building on the right in front of the memorial tablets of the Wang family ancestors.

The house here has no windows and is very gloomy inside. Apart from a few open coffins, there is nothing else.

After inspecting the coffins, Li Zhen discovered that the corpse energy inside them had not yet dissipated, indicating that zombies had once lain inside, and not just any ordinary zombies.

Li Zhen immediately thought of the zombies he had encountered at the foot of that cemetery.

These coffins are very likely the ones that contained the zombies, and the number matches up.

Seeing a small door at the back of the house, Li Zhen tried pulling it.

To Li Zhen's surprise, the door was unlocked and opened with a simple pull.

Behind them was a flat area covered with pine trees.

In Li Zhen's view, there was an unearthed grave under every pine tree.

The lingering stench of death permeated the pine trees, making the place extremely eerie.

The numerous zombies in front must be those that have emerged.

Li Zhen stepped onto the flat ground.

Reaching a slightly elevated spot in the center, he stepped onto an overturned grave mound and looked around.

Standing here, Li Zhen could see the entire village except for a small area in front of the ancestral home.

From this perspective, the layout of the village gave Li Zhen a different feeling.

After finding the grotto he was looking for, Li Zhen sent Mahjong Ghost ahead to scout the way, heading straight for the grotto.

The grotto is not far from the ancestral home, located among a row of tall pine trees behind the ancestral home.

A stream flows past the grotto, into a small pond dug by hand next to the ancestral home, and eventually into the river in front of the village. Because of the stream, the area around the grotto is very damp, with moisture clinging to the vegetation.

Upon arriving at the grotto, Li Zhen discovered that it was actually connected to a section of the ancestral home in front of him by a road.

Several corpses, gnawed beyond recognition, also lay on this road.

With just one glance, Li Zhen determined that these corpses were not killed by the female ghost, but were bitten to death by zombies.

He most likely died at the hands of his own family, bitten to death by that zombie that was actually a member of the Wang family...

After checking the surroundings, Li Zhen first sent the Mahjong Ghost into the cave to scout the way, and then he also entered the cave himself.

The cave was very spacious, enough for several people to walk in at the same time. The ground was paved with stone slabs, and it was dark and damp, with even the stone slabs on the ground being wet.

It wasn't deep here; Li Zhen arrived at the innermost part of the cave in less than a minute.

The space here is much larger, and it is in no way inferior to the main hall of the ancestral home used to display the ancestral tablets of the Wang family.

What caught Li Zhen's eye the most was a stone coffin placed in the center.

This stone coffin was larger than an ordinary coffin, almost twice the size of a regular coffin, and was simply placed on the damp floor.

Li Zhen had seen this stone coffin in his memories, but seeing it in his memories was a completely different experience from seeing it in reality.

Only by seeing this stone coffin in real life can one experience the oppressive feeling it embodies.

Approaching the stone coffin, Li Zhen saw some miscellaneous ritual implements placed on a stone to the left of the coffin, including a corpse-driving bell, a peach wood sword, incense, candles, and paper money.

Beside the stone, written in bright red ink, was a sentence: "The Wang family has encountered a great calamity and has no choice but to resort to the method of mutual destruction prepared by our ancestors. If any member of the Wang family is still alive, never forget to take revenge! The enemy must be exterminated! Remember this!"

Li Zhen sneered.

The Wang family no longer has that opportunity.

According to his memory, there was a very senior old man from the Wang family guarding the stone coffin here.

These writings must have been left by that old guy.

That old guy rarely showed up at the Wang family's place. In Li Zhen's memories, there were no images of that old guy; he only knew that such a person existed.

If he wasn't mistaken, the zombie outside that had just survived the tribulation should be the old guy in disguise.

The strange occurrences in this village must have been the work of that old man.

Ignoring the writing, Li Zhen looked back at the coffin.

Among the memories he regained were some images of this coffin.

Within the Wang family, apart from a very few people, no one knew the origin of the coffin, nor did anyone know who was buried inside.

This is probably an exaggeration, as it is highly likely that only one person knows the origin of the coffin.

The consensus among the younger generation of the Wang family is that the coffin may contain the ancestor of the Wang family, or it may contain the most terrifying zombie raised by the ancestor.

Some speculate that the coffin contains an ancient corpse that may have been transformed into a "hairy zombie" and left its mark on history.

Of course, these are all guesses.

Li Zhen circled the stone coffin and found that it was a single, seamless piece of metal.

He tried to push it, but seeing that the coffin didn't budge, he stopped trying.

Under Li Zhen's orders, the Mahjong Ghost appeared beside the coffin.

Logically speaking, as a ghost capable of penetrating walls, the Mahjong Ghost should have been able to easily pass through the surface of the coffin and reach its inner layer.

However, when the mahjong ghost crashed into the surface of the coffin, it was as if it had hit a solid rock. Instead of entering the coffin, it was bounced back several meters away.

Sensing the fear emanating from the Mahjong Ghost, Li Zhen frowned slightly.

This stone coffin is indeed extraordinary...

Li Zhen didn't want to cause trouble, so he put the stone coffin aside and walked around the cave again.

Apart from those ritual implements and a grand master's chair that was clearly used for resting, there was nothing else here.

The astute detective Li noticed something amiss under the chair.

He moved the chair aside, then moved the blanket underneath it, and tapped the uneven stone slab beneath.

Smelling the faint stench of decay, Li Zhen inserted his left hand between the stone slabs and lifted one slab, revealing a head that had decomposed to the point of being nothing but bones.

The head was facing upwards, directly towards Li Zhen, while the rest of the body was buried underground.

A red rope can be seen tied around the neck of the skeleton.

Undoubtedly, this was the work of the Wang family.

After glancing at the talismans drawn under the stone slab, Li Zhen dug a little next to the skeleton and found more skeletons.

There are definitely more than just a few people buried down there.

After Li Zhen lifted the floorboards, the corpse energy and malevolent aura hidden underground gradually spread out, making the cave feel eerie and sinister.

Li Zhen stood up and looked thoughtfully at the stone coffin.

Is the corpse energy here used to nourish the thing inside this stone coffin?

wrong……

This posture makes it seem more like the old man sitting in the grand chair is being nourished by the aura of death.

The reason that old guy was able to transform into such a terrifying zombie must be related to the layout of this place.

To become such a ferocious zombie, besides relying on luck to obtain a zombie with great potential like Li Zhen, and then having it absorb the corpse energy of other zombies to make it more and more terrifying, the only other way is to create a terrifying zombie in the most suitable environment.

The corpse energy here should have been much stronger, but now there's only a little bit left. It must have been absorbed by something.

The Wang family had some skill; they actually managed to create such a terrifying zombie in a special environment using only human labor...

The thought popped into Li Zhen's mind again.

The corpse energy and malevolent energy here are not strong enough to be the place where Li Zhen was buried.

After being reborn, the yang energy within his body became slightly stronger.

The second time, he must find a place with even stronger yin and evil energy, as only such a place can quickly corrode his body.

After leaving the grotto, Li Zhen returned to the high point on the grave mound.

He glanced around a few times, then bent down and drew a few lines on the grave mound to indicate the terrain of the village, the direction of the dragon vein, and the nodes where the yin energy was located.

After pondering for a moment, Li Zhen tapped a spot at the back of the village...

(End of this chapter)