The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 220 The Toad Demon and the Humans Who Left the Forbidden Land
Li Zhen carefully tore apart the nearby fragments as well, and saw even more fine bumps.

Beneath the bumps was brown, glossy, moist skin covered with tiny dots that evoked a sense of revulsion.

Even though Li Zhen wasn't someone with trypophobia, seeing those tiny dots naturally gave him goosebumps.

But Li Zhen did not stop.

He simply tore off a large piece from the back of the porcelain, revealing many fine details.

Beneath the fine dots, the skin undulates in subtle ways, as if breathing, making the object inside the porcelain appear more like a living thing than an inanimate one.

Like the statue of the Great Black Mother, this thing is indeed somewhat special...

Before Li Zhen's eyes, the dots that rose and fell with the light slowly began to twist.

Li Zhen squinted and looked intently at those dots, suddenly realizing that they were not ordinary dots at all, but tiny heads!

Some heads with blue faces and fangs, looking extremely ferocious, form a single point, while others consist of several constantly twisting heads that together form a single point.

Those heads were like they were stuck in a quagmire, unable to move forward or backward, only able to open their mouths in place and let out silent screams.

In the small area that Li Zhen revealed, there were more than a hundred such points.

This thing definitely has even more spots all over its body.

Upon seeing these densely packed bumps, Li Zhen already had a guess as to what they were.

He reached out and tore off a piece of porcelain from the hand area, revealing a forefoot with a piece of jade inside.

The hand is short and thick, covered with bumps, and there are some tiny thorns between the bumps. Near the shoulder of the hand, there is a row of sharp, long thorns, making it look like the arm of some kind of demon from legend.

Based on some of the features that were preserved on it, Li Zhen confirmed his idea.

The original form of this thing should be a... toad.

While observing the bumps, Li Zhen suddenly noticed that a large number of the bumps on the lower side of his arm were "dead".

Compared to those active heads, the bumps there were filled with death, drooping on the grayish-brown skin, looking as if they had been dead for a long time.

This thing wasn't completely intact after all...

Malice manifested as visible evil thoughts emanating from the strange demon within the porcelain, clearly distinct from the evil thoughts of the Great Black Buddha Mother, causing Li Zhen's heart to tighten.

This thing probably can't be visualized directly either.

Having formed this judgment in his mind, Li Zhen did not continue to peel off the surface fragments. Instead, he pasted the fragments he had torn off back on, and found some strips of cloth to wrap around this side of the porcelain to prevent the fragments from falling off.

I wonder what will become of these two things in the end...

Li Zhen decided to wait and see, and only consider his own visualization after the two evil spirits had devoured each other to a conclusion.

He moved the Great Black Buddha Mother and the porcelain to a flat place, placed the clothes used as a seal, and sealed them inside.

Fearing something might happen, he reset several seals outside, and finally took out the fleshy demon statue as the core of the suppression, in order to intimidate the two great demons.

Back at his burial pit, Li Zhen chose a suitable spot and sat down cross-legged.

The soil around the burial pit had turned rust-colored, giving it a very sinister appearance. A large amount of evil energy emanated from the pit, as if a terrifying ghost was being bred inside.

This is the consequence of Li Zhen's hasty departure without fully absorbing the yin energy here.

Ignoring the changes inside the pit, Li Zhen sensed the yin energy within the pit gathering towards him on its own.

This burial pit was originally set up by him, and now that he has returned, some of the yin energy still flows into his body.

As this yin energy flowed in, Li Zhen gradually felt his body begin to heat up, a sign that his yang energy was being stimulated.

The heat radiated outwards from his chest.

Perhaps due to the dissipation of yang energy, some ghosts gradually appeared around, spying on Li Zhen.

However, they were wary of Li Zhen, so they only dared to spy from afar and did not dare to get too close.

As his body relaxed more and more, Li Zhen clearly noticed that his mind was becoming broader and broader.

The image of ever-expanding space kept flashing through Li Zhen's mind, and a variety of thoughts alternated, plunging his brain into an unprecedented state of activity.

All sorts of knowledge related to fate seemed to be something Li Zhen already possessed, subtly influencing his thinking.

When ordinary people concentrate, they can usually only focus on one thought. But Li Zhen felt that his thoughts were split into many, each focusing on a different object.

Is this what the "Destiny Demon" meant by expanding one's thinking?
In those thoughts and the scenes that appeared in those thoughts, Li Zhen also saw some scenes that the "Destiny Demon" had seen in its previous life, and even some thoughts that appeared in the "Destiny Demon's" memories.

The memories of the "Destiny Demon" were far too complex, involving too many things, and many of them appeared illogically, causing what was originally orderly to become disordered and incomprehensible.

Regardless of their importance, Li Zhen had no choice but to discard these things.

Coupled with the loss of memory, those things are even more difficult to understand.

This is why Li Zhenming, despite having begun to digest the memories of the "Destiny Demon" long ago, has not been able to fully digest them.

As far as Lin Chao was concerned, Li Zhen could discard most of his memories and only take those related to black magic.

However, for the "Demon of Fate," Li Zhen was worried that he had abandoned something important, so he had been making careful choices.

Now, he had to temporarily abandon some things and only extract the parts of the "Destiny Demon's" memories that were useful to him at the moment.

This doesn't mean he completely threw those things away.

If he encounters something similar in the future, he will naturally recall those memories that he had put aside.

Only now has Li Zhen managed to grasp something related to the state of the "Destiny Demon".

The seal set up by Changshan is actually very perfect. It is a means to suppress the "Destiny Demon" for eternity. Even if the "Destiny Demon" actively transforms itself into a ghost, it will not be able to escape from the Zhenshan Xuan Seal.

However, as time went by, the Mountain-Suppressing Seal underwent some changes, allowing the "Destiny Demon" to infiltrate its influence beyond the Mountain-Suppressing Seal.

Based on this, he swayed some people to prepare for his escape.

After years of trying, he discovered that the seal set up by Wu Qiyuan was far more complex than he thought. It not only sealed his body and soul, but also linked the seal to his fate, leaving him with no way to escape.

However, the "Destiny Demon" possessed unfathomable skill in the art of destiny and devised a way to escape: to change its own destiny and fate, and completely transform its mode of existence in order to break free.

After years of preparation, he used a special method to split his soul and combine himself with the feng shui energy, transforming himself into a special spiritual body in a feng shui treasure land that gathers wind and water. When the Zhenshan Xuan Seal changed, he finally borrowed the power of the magic array and became a kind of array spirit.

In doing so, he naturally changed his way of being, but this was only the first step in his escape, and also the most difficult one.

To completely break free, one must break free from the control of the Mountain-Suppressing Seal and become a free person again.

The "Demon of Fate" devised a plan and began to implement it until Li Zhen arrived. His spiritual form was very unusual, neither human nor soul; had he not met Li Zhen, he might have already achieved his goal.

The more Li Zhen learned about the "demon of fate," the more terrifying he felt.

If Li Zhen hadn't been special, transcending fate and outside the calculations of the "Destiny Demon," the "Destiny Demon's" plan would very likely have succeeded.

But even that person couldn't escape the fate that Wu Qiyuan had arranged for him.

This demonstrates Wu Qiyuan's prowess.

After meeting Changshan, Li Zhen didn't really take Changshan seriously, but now it seems that Changshan is definitely not as simple as he seems.

As time went by, Li Zhen found that his thinking became clearer and more active.

The numerological knowledge belonging to the "Destiny Demon" seemed to have always been his, and he could use it without any hindrance. Whenever a question arose, the answer would naturally be generated in his mind.

This feeling gave Li Zhen an unprecedented sense of comfort, as if he had no secrets in the world in this state.

Before his eyes, space was constantly shrinking and expanding, and things in the distance were constantly getting closer.

The malevolent energy continuously decomposed and merged, eventually transforming into distorted human faces.

This must be the source of the malevolent energy...

Detective Li wanted to see things more clearly.

A sudden, sharp pain in his head interrupted Li Zhen's thoughts.

The pain was so intense that Li Zhen, caught off guard, let out a muffled groan.

Warm liquid flowed continuously down Li Zhen's nasal cavity.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhen wiped away the blood from his nose when he felt better.

Li Zhen raised his head, his brows furrowed, and patted his forehead.

He focused his attention, trying to re-enter that state, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find that feeling again.

Li Zhen fell into deep thought.

The pain was inexplicable and must be related to the expanded thinking mentioned by the "Destiny Demon," but Li Zhen couldn't find anything related to it in the "Destiny Demon's" vast mind for the time being.

He rubbed his temples, trying his best to clear his jumbled memories.

Regarding matters related to expanding one's thinking, Li Zhen only gained fragments and did not acquire much of value.

However, this thing that the "Destiny Demon" never forgot until its death must exist in the Destiny Demon's memory.

Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and put those questions aside.

He would be very happy if he could get those things, but it wouldn't matter if he didn't, as it wouldn't have a significant impact on his path to immortality.

However, the "Destiny Demon's" items were indeed very powerful, and in a short period of time, Li Zhen gained a lot.

With his eyes closed, Li Zhen focused his attention on the changes in himself.

The sky went dark and then bright again, and even when it was light, it was still gloomy overhead, and you couldn't see the changes in the sky. It was as if the whole village had become an alien little world isolated from the outside world.

As time passed, the malevolent energy here showed no signs of dissipating; on the contrary, it grew increasingly intense.

With the spread of the evil aura brought back by Li Zhen and the spontaneous influence of the corpse aura of the vampires, the atmosphere in the village became increasingly gloomy and eerie, and the howls of a hundred ghosts could be heard even during the day.

Besides Li Zhen and the evil spirits around him, the most active and terrifying thing in the village is that zombie.

It has completely lost its human mind and, by absorbing the Yin energy, has become even more terrifying than before, daring to approach Li Zhen's location on many occasions.

Perhaps traumatized by the vampire, even after losing its ability to think, the zombie still dared not get too close to the vampire and only dared to stand there and watch.

One night, a large number of ghost faces attacked the area where Li Zhen was located, and many of them were eaten by the red-eyed bats and mahjong ghosts.

Li Zhen sensed the corpse aura of the zombie behind those ghostly faces, which changed his view of zombies.

Although the zombie had lost its mind, it still had a strong instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, and knew to drive those little ghosts to scout the way.

Detective Li ordered the vampire, the red-eyed bat, and the mahjong ghost to team up and take care of the zombie.

He originally planned to let the vampire eat the zombie directly, but after seeing the changes in the zombie, he decided to keep it for the time being.

Eating that zombie now won't help the vampire zombie much, but once that zombie becomes stronger, it might play a crucial role during the key period when the vampire zombie transforms into a hairy zombie.

This zombie is very special; it only moves within the yin energy that surrounds the village and will not leave the area of ​​yin energy.

This place is very remote, and the Yin energy expands very slowly, making it difficult for it to spread to the area of ​​the Feng Shui town set up by the Wang family that surrounds the village. Therefore, the changes here will not affect the lives of the surrounding villagers for a long time.

Thinking about it that way, this place is a very suitable place to raise corpses.

By simply making arrangements here to prevent certain unexpected events from occurring without his knowledge, he can prevent some accidents from happening.

On the third day after returning from the mission world, Li Zhen stood up, made some simple arrangements in the village, and then led the vampires and others out of the village.

By this time, the sores on his face had shrunk to the size of his little finger.

The special Yin energy here has had little effect on him, and the remaining injuries will take some time to heal on their own.

Time to go home...

Preparing some medication after returning home can also help his sores heal a little faster.

It was night when Li Zhen left the village.

The usually bustling village fell into an eerie silence.

Outside the village, Li Zhen saw many corpses that had been eaten beyond recognition. Some were just broken skeletons, while a few slightly better-preserved corpses were already highly decomposed.

No fresh bodies were seen here.

The changes here certainly didn't escape the notice of certain people within the circle; those corpses were probably left behind by those who came to scout ahead.

Since they're in the same industry, they must know about the dangers here, and dying here is nobody else's business.

Li Zhen did not encounter any trouble until he left the area of ​​Yin Sha Qi.

Standing by the river, facing the damp river breeze, Li Zhen took a few deep breaths of fresh air, then suddenly looked upstream...

(End of this chapter)