The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 208 The Arrival of "The Curse" (Part 1)
The vampire slowly approached Li Zhen's body, surrounded by immense corpse energy and bloodlust, making even Li Zhen feel a sense of oppression.

The vampire zombies are getting stronger and stronger...

Li Zhen reached out and tapped the vampire's forehead, calming the restless vampire down.

Withdrawing his hand, Li Zhen looked at his fingers and found several tiny wounds on his fingertips, from which blood was flowing continuously.

Li Zhen looked at the vampire again and saw that the white hair between the vampire's eyebrows was tinged with crimson.

After eating a lot of zombies, the vampire not only became more imposing, but the white hair on its face also changed, becoming longer and harder, like steel needles stuck in its face.

In addition, the white hair on the vampire's face seemed to come alive, piercing Li Zhen's finger on its own and absorbing his blood.

The vampires are starting to turn into monsters...

Li Zhen shook the blood flowing from his hands onto the vampire's face.

The white fur on the vampire's face writhed like worms, sucking up all the blood.

According to the Wang family's records, a zombie needs to absorb enough powerful corpse energy, preferably by devouring a more powerful zombie to gather its own corpse energy. Only with a special environment and a special ritual can a zombie possibly cross that insurmountable barrier and become a flying zombie.

Without human intervention, a zombie's attempt to become a flying zombie on its own is virtually impossible unless it has incredible luck.

From the Wang family's memories, Li Zhen knew that the Wang family had not seen a hairy zombie born in the past few decades, let alone a flying zombie.

Given the right world, vampires might just become flying zombies...

Li Zhenling ordered the vampire and the banshee to enter the makeshift tent, and then summoned the mahjong ghost, instructing it, "If anyone appears, lead me to a secluded place to hide."

The Mahjong Ghost nodded slightly, indicating that it understood.

Compared to the little devil, the mahjong devil looks a bit dull, but its intelligence is actually no less than that of the little devil.

Li Zhen's instructions were naturally given in preparation for situations that might suddenly appear in any world.

As for someone directly attacking him...

Li Zhen believes this possibility does not need to be considered.

If someone can kill the zombies on the outskirts, fight their way through the village, and then kill the vampires, banshees, and red-eyed bats, and finally dig him out, then it will be meaningless for the Mahjong Ghost to do anything.

However, Li Zhen did not believe that such a thing would happen.

He casually picked a few leaves from the tree, threw them on the ground, and observed the way the leaves fell and the relative positions of their front and back sides. Although he didn't understand why, he came to the conclusion that it was very auspicious.

This is the influence of a "destiny demon" affecting me...

Detective Li made this judgment.

He rubbed his temples and glanced at the leaves on the ground. He noticed that there were eight leaves in total, three with the front facing up and five with the back facing up.

Some unfamiliar images flashed through his mind, followed by the thought of Jili.

Li Zhen believed his intuition.

After making preparations for the ceremony, he sat down in front of the pit he had dug and poured all the various kinds of slime he had prepared onto himself.

A burning, stinging sensation spread from every part of my skin.

In his quest for quick success, he employed a very radical method.

Looking at his skin, Li Zhen realized that it had been completely corroded, with no healthy skin left where the mucus had seeped in.

He reached out his hand, trembling as he lit the incense and candles, then slowly stood up and began to perform the ritual steps in a strange posture.

With each circle around the pit, he buried something that the Mahjong Ghost had brought him at the edge of the pit.

After he buried the mirror, the soul-capturing bell, the peach wood sword, and other items, he saw a wisp of green smoke rising from the pit.

This signifies that the preliminary ritual preparations are complete.

Having had a successful first experience, this time there's no need to go through such a complicated ceremony as before.

Feeling slightly dizzy, Li Zhen ignored his horribly disfigured skin and turned around to remove the mask from the face of the demon standing behind him.

The Damasul slowly dissipated.

Li Zhen took the mask to the place where he had buried the Great Black Buddha Mother, dug a pit, and buried the mask there as well.

Without the masked suppression, the Great Black Buddha Mother is prone to problems.

After dealing with this most troublesome problem, Li Zhen returned to the pit he had dug and lay down inside.

The Mahjong Ghost, following Li Zhen's orders, gradually covered Li Zhen's body with soil splattered with his blood, until he was completely covered before stopping.

After a while, it gradually compacted the soil.

Thus, a new burial site appeared under this locust tree.

Another bolt of lightning flashed through the dense dark clouds, illuminating the entire village for a fleeting moment.

The Mahjong Ghost hid behind the Banshee.

The obedient red-eyed bats hung upside down on the locust tree, watching the changes in the village warily.

The blood-staining zombie and the banshee stood motionless, like statues.

Occasionally, ghostly wails and howls could be heard in the village, but Li Zhen's area was eerily quiet.

As if drawn by some force, both the Yin energy and the corpse energy converged on Li Zhen's side, to the point that the Yin energy was so concentrated that it could corrode the bones.

The Soul-Capturing Bell rang on its own.

An eerie aura emanated from Li Zhen's tomb.

"Only when flesh and blood turn to mud can the divine light be revealed! The Yin decree commands, rot and new flesh to grow..." A muffled voice seemed to rise from the ground, carrying a special rhythm that traveled far in the darkness.

The instant this sound rang out, all other sounds in the village vanished simultaneously.

Another bolt of lightning appeared in the dark clouds, and the place where the lightning disappeared was very close to where Li Zhen was buried.

The land where the Great Black Buddha Mother was buried slowly rose upwards, and an eerie aura emanated from it, relentlessly influencing the surrounding environment.

……

"The Yin energy has not only not disappeared, but has become even stronger."

As dawn broke, the two men stood by the river, gazing at the village. One was an old man with a white beard, and the other was a young man wearing a T-shirt.

The young man looked around the village for a while, then looked up at the gloomy sky and said to the old man beside him, "Third Grandfather, I wonder how things are in the village..."

The old man said, "After the Wang family modified the earth's energy in this village, it all turned into Yin energy, which is bound to be inexhaustible. Unless a special change occurs, it is impossible for it to disappear in a short time."

He glanced at the young man and said, "Don't rush. No one knows what's going on inside, but with such a heavy aura of yin energy, it must be fraught with danger."

The young man frowned and said, "It's not that I'm in a hurry, but many people already know about the Wang family. We just happen to be closer to the Wang family and have the best relationship with them, which is why we arrived here first. If those people realize what's going on, things will get complicated."

The old man looked away: "Do you remember how Wang Tong died?"

The young man's face darkened. Wang Tong was a young man from the Wang family who was on good terms with him. When the Wang family was in trouble, Wang Tong happened to be nearby and came to him for help.

He tried many methods, but none of them could save Wang Tong. In the end, he could only watch helplessly as Wang Tong died in front of him.

The old man continued, "We need to be careful not only about the changes in the Wang family, but also about the people who will destroy the Wang family."

“That car definitely didn’t appear on the road for no reason. Even I felt a sense of danger… There must have been some terrible measures on board.”

The young man knew what the old man was talking about.

In the middle of the night, they sent people to check the area around the village and accidentally discovered a large truck parked on the side of the road.

They were certain the truck was empty, but no one dared to go inside to check. Anyone who wanted to get close to the truck felt a chill run down their spine, as if something extremely terrible would happen if they took just one more step closer.

Thinking of the truck, the young man calmed down: "But we can't just do nothing. What will we do if someone asks?"

The old man looked hesitant.

The young man said, "Shall we send someone in to check the situation?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately added, "Don't go too deep inside. Be prepared, and there shouldn't be any major problems."

The old man nodded: "Go ahead, tell them not to go too deep, just to see what's inside. If anything happens, I'll come to their aid. Be ready to call for help at any time."

The young man was taken aback: "Need to call for help?"

“It’s always good to be prepared,” the old man said solemnly. “I’ve lived for decades, but I haven’t seen much of the situation we’re in right now.”

The young man nodded, walked back, woke up the people resting in the grass, said a few words, handed over all the magical artifacts he carried to them, and urged them to cross the river.

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, the group dared not be careless and cautiously crossed the river, entering the area shrouded in Yin energy.

The young man and the old man watched solemnly as the figures of the group gradually disappeared into the malevolent aura.

After waiting for five or six minutes, the agreed time arrived, but those people did not return.

The young man, pacing back and forth, grew increasingly anxious: "Why aren't they back yet?"

The old man said, "Perhaps something unexpected happened?"

The young man patted his face: "There wasn't a sound at all, what could possibly go wrong?"

More than ten minutes passed, and the young man's expression grew uneasy as he still hadn't seen those people come out.

He stomped his foot on the spot, looked up, and suddenly saw a figure appear on the outer edge of the Yin energy. His face immediately lit up with joy.

But that joy lasted only a moment before turning into tension.

Judging from the person's posture, he was clearly not as natural as when he went in; it was more like he was being chased and was running out in a panic.

The young man took a few steps forward, but was stopped by the old man's outstretched hand.

"Third Grandfather..."

"No rush, let's see how things go first..."

The young man did not push the old man's hand away.

As they looked into their eyes, the man's body inside became clearer and clearer.

They could clearly see the panicked face of the person inside.

The man saw them too and cried out for help, "Help me! Quick...help me!"

Both the young man and the old man looked behind the man, but strangely, there was nothing there.

The moment the man stepped out of the Yin energy, a bloody aura burst forth, and a terrifying black shadow pounced on him, biting at his neck.

In the emergency, the man instinctively used his shoulder to push back, and his shoulder was bitten.

"help me!"

"Why is this zombie so far out?" The old man's expression became even more serious as soon as he saw the zombie appear.

Discovering that the zombie was extremely averse to anything outside the area enveloped by the Yin energy, the old man didn't waste any more words and immediately walked forward.

"Chongming, I'm going to rescue the next survivor. Don't do anything rash. If anything happens to me, call for help."

The zombies were dragging the screaming man toward the village.

The old man rushed forward and engaged the zombie in a fierce battle.

Finding the zombie weaker than he had expected, the old man felt relieved. Although he was still no match for the zombie, he was confident he could hold it off for a while.

Seeing the two people and the corpse getting further and further away from him, the young man shuddered and hurriedly shouted, "Third Grandfather, don't go deeper into the Yin energy!"

The old man did not answer, and together with the zombie, gradually disappeared into the malevolent aura.

The young man glanced around, his heart gripped by an indescribable panic.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhen slowly regained consciousness.

During this stage, without any external stimulation, although he woke up, he remained in a semi-conscious state.

After some time, Li Zhen suddenly sensed that the runes on his arm were sending him a message that the mission was about to begin.

Under the stimulation, Li Zhen gradually regained consciousness.

A few hours later, a rotting hand emerged from the ground under the locust tree. Li Zhen then dug through the soil and crawled out.

Sensing that he was about to enter the mission world, Li Zhen did not look at his body.

He arrived at the place where the Great Black Buddha Mother was buried, ignoring the strange changes that had occurred there, and dug out the Great Black Buddha Mother along with the statue. Then he summoned vampires and other creatures on the spot.

The slumbering vampire opened its eyes and came to Li Zhen's side with the banshee.

The red-eyed bats hanging from the tree also came to Li Zhen's side.

After tidying up his things and putting everything he needed behind the vampire and the banshee, Li Zhen disappeared from the spot not long after.

……

The distorted image returned to normal, and Li Zhen squinted as he looked around.

This time was different from before; he found himself in a fairly nicely decorated room.

Judging from the decorations of this house, it should be a modern urban setting, but whether it is Hong Kong Island or Taiwan Island, Li Zhen has no idea.

A woman's muffled groan of pain came from outside.

Li Zhen knew that this must be the person who summoned him this time.

He stepped out of the room and saw the woman lying in the living room, clutching her head...

(End of this chapter)