The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 218 The Devouring Between the Great Black Buddha Mother and the Unknown Demon
The door opens.

A pungent odor wafted towards us.

Li Zhen waved his hand in front of his nose, then walked into the dark room in front of him.

The vampire zombies following behind Li Zhen, each holding a person in their hands, entered the room.

This is Lin Chao's temporary residence. In addition to simple furniture and some daily necessities, there is also an altar. The strange smell in the room is coming from the altar.

Li Zhen arrived at the altar, glanced at the various offerings placed on it, and finally fixed his gaze on a pure white porcelain vessel enshrined on the altar.

This porcelain piece is only the size of a fist, and its shape resembles a ferocious monster covered in fangs.

Li Zhen didn't recognize this kind of monster, nor did he know whether it was something Lin Chao had created based on his imagination or something he had seen somewhere. But after just one glance, Li Zhen sensed the evil nature of the porcelain.

A flash of blood-red light suddenly appeared in the porcelain's eyes, and then it began to tremble, causing the altar to tremble as well.

The demon within Li Zhen was also stimulated to produce a slight reaction.

However, this reaction was only momentary. Before the evil energy on Li Zhen could be stimulated to surge out, everything returned to normal.

This demon seems to have some issues too...

Li Zhen carefully examined the porcelain and discovered that the patterns on its surface, which appeared to have formed during the firing process, resembled a special rune.

Clearly, this porcelain is not the true form of the demon; the demon's true form must be sealed inside this porcelain.

Li Zhen reached out and grabbed the porcelain.

The porcelain started to vibrate again.

Under Li Zhen's command, the red-eyed bat dragged the two people to the altar.

Li Zhen said to Lin Chao, "Pick up this demon."

Lin Chao's cheeks twitched uncontrollably: "Let me go, I..."

“Pick it up.”

Lin Chao slowly reached out and grabbed the porcelain piece, taking it in his hand.

"Did you use some method to seal this demon inside?" Li Zhen observed the changes in the porcelain.

Lin Chao said, "This...this demon is too ferocious. If it's not sealed...it will hurt people. I can tell you...I can tell you all the ways to seal it."

As he spoke, he carefully placed the porcelain back on the altar: "Without me, you would have a hard time dealing with it."

Although he didn't know why Li Zhen was interested in this demon, he knew it was his only way to survive.

"Really?" Li Zhen reached out and grabbed the porcelain, ignoring the vibrations.

The porcelain began to vibrate violently, and wisps of terrifying energy emanated from it, making the room even more gloomy.

Amidst the faint cracking sounds, cracks appeared on the surface of the porcelain, but inside the cracks was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

With a burst of strength, Li Zhen managed to squeeze the porcelain back into place, preventing it from shattering.

The porcelain vessel miraculously returned to its calm state.

Li Zhen loosened one finger and looked at his fingertip, discovering a large black spot on it, as if it had been corroded by something.

Lin Chao stared blankly at the scene: "How is this possible?! Impossible! Impossible! Something's not right..."

His black magic was learned from Southeast Asia. The person who taught him the techniques was extremely cautious when summoning the demon, fearing that he might be harmed by it.

Later, when the man formally taught him the art of black magic, he also told him that this demon was extremely evil and would turn on him if he did anything wrong. He warned him to be very careful and not to be careless, otherwise he would definitely end up with nothing but bones.

After coming into contact with some black magic, he always maintained a cautious attitude when dealing with this evil spirit.

Despite his caution, he was still influenced by the evil spirit, which is why he never dared to practice any more evil sorcery, for fear of being devoured by the evil spirit again.

The reason he taught the black magic to the pockmarked man was not only because they both had a common target to kill, but also because he was conducting experiments to see how the backlash from the evil would come.

The demon he was so wary of was easily captured by Li Zhen, which shows how impactful this scene was for him.

"I'll teach you all the black magic I've learned. I know a lot about this, and I'll be useful to you!" Lin Chao said quickly.

"I don't trust what you teach me. I only feel at ease with things I've seen with my own eyes." Li Zhen put down the porcelain.

The vampire received Li Zhen's order, and with a snap of its right hand, its sharp nails pierced into Lin Chao's throat, gripping Lin Chao's spine.

Lin Chao's eyes widened, and after struggling a few times, he fell silent.

A large amount of blood flowed from his neck, and the stench of blood instantly filled the entire room.

The vampire pulled Lin Chao into its black robe, opened its mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and bit into the wound on Lin Chao's neck, beginning to suck blood.

It's so powerful now that if Li Zhen didn't control the Bloodthirsty Zombie, it could devour a person's soul while sucking blood.

But Li Zhen naturally wouldn't let it do that at this moment.

Lin Chao, who had become a dead man, started twitching in his legs again, and let out a piercing wail.

Seeing this, Li Zhen forcibly controlled the vampire's blood-sucking efficiency to prevent it from actually eating Lin Chao's soul as well.

The pockmarked man, whose other hand was being held by the vampire, saw Lin Chao killed so easily and was filled with despair, so he stopped struggling.

Li Zhen took out a palm leaf whip from behind the vampire.

Twenty minutes later, the terrible wailing in the room disappeared.

Rubbing his temples, Li Zhen carefully wrapped a garment covered in runes and placed it on the back of the vampire, then led the vampire out of the house.

He has only read Lin Chao's memories related to black magic, and has ignored the other memories, so he has not felt too much pressure.

I've obtained what I was interested in, and after taking care of the follow-up matters, it's time to head back...

The vampire, clutching Lin Chao's corpse in one hand and the still-living pockmarked man in the other, walked out through a gloomy, dark corridor.

Judging from the living environment here, it's clear that this is a rather chaotic residential area.

Perhaps because most residents were already used to the chaos here, even though Li Zhen made quite a commotion in the room, no one came out to check on him.

After Li Zhen passed through the corridor, someone carefully opened the door and observed him through the crack.

Upon seeing the two corpses being dragged by the vampire, the cracks in the doors immediately and quietly closed.

Once Li Zhen left, the place returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.

Bored, the red-eyed bat, having wandered off somewhere, silently flew back to the vampire's head.

Once downstairs, Li Zhen summoned the group of ghosts from the cemetery.

Before long, wisps of mist appeared in front of Li Zhen. Li Zhen stepped into the mist.

"Is the mage done with his business?" Old Ghost appeared next to Li Zhen, keeping a distance from the vampire, clearly wary of the vampire's bloody aura.

Li Zhen nodded: "It's time to go do my work. Take me to retrieve what I left behind, then return to the cemetery. Can you send a ghost to deliver a message for me?"

Old Ghost bowed and said, "Except for a few places, we will definitely be able to spread the news of the mage."

Li Zhen said, "Send a sensible kid to find the people I saved before, and notify any one of them to come to the cemetery to find me. They are responsible for handling the follow-up on your side."

Upon hearing this, the old ghost dared not be perfunctory. He quickly summoned a somewhat rational ghost, whispered a few instructions in its ear, and then urged it to do its job.

The fog grew thicker, obscuring the figures of Li Zhen and the vampire.

Li Zhen clearly noticed that he was leaving faster than he had come, so people on the roadside noticed his movements and looked at him with surprise as he passed by.

The old ghost explained, "It's not that we didn't try our best, it's just that there seems to be another... another terrifying being on the mage's side, which slowed us down."

As it spoke, it glanced discreetly at the vampire.

As the leader of many ghosts, Old Ghost could naturally sense where the problem lay, so he was even more cautious when facing Detective Li.

These ghosts are numerous, and they can easily carry not only a few people, but even a hundred or so without feeling any strain.

One year, a wealthy man who came to sweep the tombs angered a group of ghosts. Under the coordination of an old ghost, they moved the wealthy man's house and the people inside for dozens of kilometers to a barren mountain behind the cemetery, which shows how terrifying the ghosts were.

Since you're feeling strained now, it naturally means that the new thing that appeared is extremely terrifying...

Upon returning to the place where he had put down the demoness and the Great Black Buddha Mother, Li Zhen saw the two wisps of mist that had been guarding the demoness and the Great Black Buddha Mother at a distance return to the mist surrounding him.

After Li Zhen retrieved the Great Black Buddha Mother and brought back the female demon, he clearly noticed that his speed had slowed down again.

The mist surrounding Li Zhen also changed, becoming thicker, making it even harder for the ghostly figures within it to move.

Fearing Li Zhen's displeasure, the old ghost said with a bitter face, "We have done our best, please forgive us, Master."

Detective Li naturally had no objections.

The banshee who was brought back was backed by the Mahjong Ghost, and the pressure she exerted on the group of ghosts was considerable.

By the time Li Zhen returned to the cemetery, the rain had stopped.

Upon entering the cemetery and choosing a suitable location, Li Zhen, who was preparing to use magic to absorb the resentment of the cemetery, had just put down the Great Black Buddha Mother when he noticed something unusual about her.

The Great Black Buddha Mother, who had been silent for a long time, seemed to have been provoked and was spreading evil thoughts again.

Following the evil thoughts of the Great Black Buddha Mother, Li Zhen looked behind the vampire.

These two demons really don't get along...

Li Zhen took the sealed porcelain from behind the vampire, examined it, then removed the outer garment of the porcelain and placed it under the seal that sealed the Great Black Buddha Mother.

The blindfolded Black Buddha Mother seemed to have no reaction, but both Li Zhen and the ghosts who were terrified and scattered could feel that an indescribable malice was constantly being released from the Black Buddha Mother.

This malice was still within Li Zhen's tolerable range; he only felt somewhat dazed. But for those ghosts, it was not such a simple matter.

After retreating far enough, the old ghost shouted anxiously, "Master, please stop this evil spirit! If we wait for its evil spirit to spread throughout the entire cemetery, I'm afraid that out of ten ghosts here, maybe two or three will survive."

Without looking up, Li Zhen said, "Don't worry, it's still under control."

In his eyes, the surface of the porcelain cracked again, forming more fissures on the surface.

Within the darkness of the crack, countless eyes seemed to be peering out, utterly malevolent.

The statue of the Great Black Buddha Mother seemed to melt, sinking inward and slowly enveloping most of the porcelain, creating a stalemate.

During this stalemate, both sides returned to calm.

Li Zhen was somewhat surprised as he watched things unfold.

The two demons were highly hostile to each other, and their conflict arose spontaneously even before he could guide them.

Perhaps it's related to the special state of the Great Black Buddha Mother and the demon sealed within this porcelain...

Li Zhen didn't know what would happen after these two evil forces clashed. If they devoured each other, it would save him a lot of time and energy.

However, the dangers posed by this spontaneous consumption are also difficult to predict.

Li Zhen is currently unsure of the exact state of the demon sealed within the porcelain, which could lead to significant unpredictability.

However, Li Zhen did not foresee any great danger.

After covering him up again, Li Zhen kept some attention on the Black Buddha Mother to prevent any accidents, while focusing most of his energy on the vampire.

The vampire is Li Zhen's ready-made helper. Using it as the core, setting up a magic circle to absorb resentment is not a difficult task.

The only thing to consider is not to consume all the ghosts along with the resentment during the process of absorbing it.

Many of the ghosts in the horde are only weak remnants of their souls, and if you're not careful, they can easily be swallowed up by vampires.

Li Zhenling the vampire zombie stood on a suitable rock and began preparing the ink needed to draw the runes.

……

The car stopped in front of the cemetery.

Zhang Lemin and He Chen each held a flashlight and nervously got out of the car.

The two had just taken Master Qinghai and his mother Lin Jiabi to the hospital for a check-up, and before they could even catch their breath, a ghost suddenly appeared and told them to come to the cemetery immediately.

He Chen was in the bathroom when the ghost appeared behind him without warning. Even though the ghost wasn't particularly ferocious, it still scared him half to death, and his legs and hands are still trembling to this day.

Zhang Lemin, who was smoking outside, was also quite frightened.

Having just experienced such a bizarre event, and still in shock, they were now in this kind of place. Although they had been through a lot, they were still somewhat afraid, but neither of them said anything.

They exchanged a glance and then walked towards the cemetery.

"Tell me, what are you doing bringing us to a place like this in the middle of the night? You don't mean you want to bury us here, do you?"

"I don't know. What we need to confirm first is that it was indeed him who contacted us."

"It should be right."

“I left a message over there, and Master Qinghai knows about it. If we can’t get back, someone will come looking for us.”

"Surely not? Heh, they'd just be there to collect corpses..."

(End of this chapter)