The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 250 The Oil-Based Flying Head Curse from the Corpse and the Return of the Master of Justice

After discussing it for a while, the group decided to go directly to Master Jiang and explain the situation.

Detective Li did not object.

After leaving Zhou Le'an and the other two in the house, he went out with Feng, Yu, and Lei.

The reason why Li Zhen needed to persuade these three people to stand on his side was not only because of the master strategist behind them, but also because he needed someone to help him open the Five Elements Compass.

According to the booklet Lin You left him, the threshold for opening the Five Elements Compass is not high; any cultivator can open it. However, how long it can be maintained depends on the level of the cultivator's magical power.

In "The Age of Zombies", the best candidate to activate the Five Elements Compass is naturally Master Ji, followed by his disciples.

This is only in terms of magical power.

From a purely objective standpoint, Li Zhen would prefer to have Feng Lei Yu Dian (the four members of the Wind, Thunder, Rain, and Lightning) take the look.

Once facing the flying zombie, wind, thunder, rain, and lightning have little power to resist, making them perfect for supporting the opening of the compass.

Of course, Li Zhen remembered that there should also be a corpse driver here who called himself the King of Western Hunan Zombies.

But he didn't trust that person and couldn't possibly entrust such an important thing to him.

The doors and windows of the entire Jiang family home still bear festive bright red decorations, likely remnants of the wedding held a few days prior.

As Feng, Lei, and Yu led Li Zhen through the secluded side room, they suddenly encountered a woman in a red wedding dress with a melancholy expression walking out of the room.

Lei's face lit up with joy, and he leaned closer to the woman and said a few words.

The woman glanced at Li Zhen, then nodded and turned to walk away.

Lei stared at the woman's retreating figure for a long time without looking away.

The wind patted him on the head: "They're all gone, don't look anymore."

Lei chuckled and said, "Shanshan is just so kind."

He looked at Li Zhen and said, "I asked Shan Shan to help take care of the three children who came with you. They probably haven't eaten anything, right? Don't worry, Shan Shan will arrange it. There's plenty of other food here."

Li Zhen smiled and thanked him.

Lei waved his hand: "It's nothing. There's no one else in the Jiang family besides us. There's no one to talk to here. Shanshan has been in a bad mood. Let her spend some time with the children. It's much better than her staying cooped up in her room. This is also my selfish reason."

Feng added, "The Shanshan he mentioned is the woman who married Master Jiang's only son a few days ago. Who knew that Master Jiang's only son would be bitten to death by a snake that very night, leaving behind such a woman. Master Jiang values ​​carrying on the family line very much, and he must also value those ancestors. We have to be careful what we say later. If we can't convince Master Jiang, we will have to take some tough measures."

The three led Li Zhen to a bedroom, asked him to wait a moment, and then Lei knocked on the door himself.

Not long after, Mr. Jiang, with his long, white beard, pushed open the door and came out of the house: "Didn't I say not to bother me unless it's important? What are you doing here so early?"

His narrow eyes swept over Feng, Lei, and Yu, finally settling on Li Zhen.

Lei immediately shamelessly recounted the whole story about the zombies.

Seeing that Master Jiang's expression did not change at all, and worried that Master Jiang was unaware of the terror of that zombie, he added, "That flying zombie can fly and burrow underground, and suck people's life essence from a distance. The more life essence it absorbs, the stronger and smarter it becomes. In a while, no one will be able to control it."

"I understand." Master Jiang nodded.

Lei breathed a sigh of relief and was about to continue persuading Master Jiang to resolve the matter of the preserved corpse as soon as possible, but Master Jiang's words made his expression change slightly.

"You've gone through all that trouble just to get the little bit of wealth I've hidden inside? Didn't I say that as long as you do a good job, I'll take you as my godson, marry Shanshan to you, and pass on all my wealth to you? Why are you in such a hurry?" Master Jiang's eyes narrowed.

Lei quickly protested, "That's not what I meant, I didn't..."

Master Jiang interrupted, "You've brought in another outsider. Do you think this person can take me down? Then let's see!"

He turned around abruptly, went back into the house, grabbed a sword, and quickly returned to the door. The whole process took less than a breath, and was extremely swift.

This old man Jiang's age is completely disproportionate to his skill level.

They exchanged a glance, and Lei finally defended himself, saying, "We're only here for that zombie; we don't care about anything else."

Master Jiang sneered, "You don't care about Shanshan anymore? You don't care about the treasures I hid? When you saw those gold and silver treasures back then, the look in your eyes wasn't one of indifference."

"Stop talking nonsense and just come on. If you take me down, you can take whatever you want from the Jiang family. If you can't take me down, then leave your lives behind!"

Li Zhen walked up to the three hesitant individuals: Feng, Lei, and Yu.

In his memory, this Master Jiang was indeed exceptionally skilled, and should be considered a martial arts master. It would be very difficult for an ordinary person to defeat him.

But that's for ordinary people. To someone like Li Zhen, who is surrounded by evil spirits, it's naturally not worth mentioning.

Master Jiang's gaze locked onto Li Zhen: "I've already seen their abilities, they're nothing special. Let's see how you are!"

He flipped his longsword, took a step forward, and thrust it at Li Zhenji.

But the sword had only pierced halfway when he suddenly heard a "hee hee" laugh in his ear.

It felt like someone breathed on his ear, making it feel cold. Then the coldness spread rapidly from his ear throughout his body, causing a tingling sensation.

Master Jiang's expression changed drastically. His long sword spun around like a nimble snake, then stabbed behind him, pinning something to the door.

But when he turned around, he saw nothing.

Immediately, an even stronger chill came from behind him, as if something wanted to press against his back.

Master Jiang suddenly took a step forward, using the momentum to leap to the roof beam. After somersaulting, he scrambled down another ten feet, trying to distance himself from the chill.

However, no matter what he did, he couldn't make himself...
With no other option, he gritted his teeth, shouted "Demon, take this!" and turned to stab.

This time the needle didn't miss.

The longsword pierced the demonic fetus's abdomen, lifting it into the air.

Master Jiang was stunned for a moment, having never seen such a ghost-like creature before.

The sword did no harm to the demonic fetus. It chuckled and slashed forward along the sword, its mouth suddenly opening to an exaggerated degree, and it bit into Master Jiang's head.

Lei suddenly shouted, "Spare him! Don't kill him!"

Li Zhen stopped the demonic fetus he wanted to chew: "Control him, don't kill him."

The demonic fetus reluctantly spat out the struggling Master Jiang's head from its mouth.

With a face full of terror, Master Jiang fell backward to the ground: "Evil magic... evil things... you... you are all heretics?"

The demonic fetus stopped beside Master Jiang, staring at him with ill intent.

After a moment of change in expression, Master Jiang said firmly, "Since I've fallen into your hands, you can do whatever you want with me."

No one paid any attention to Master Jiang.

Feng looked at the demonic fetus with some apprehension and whispered to Li Zhen, "This guy's evil nature is really strong. You should be careful not to be attacked by it."

After saying that, he immediately asked, "Since the zombie is hiding inside the wax corpses, how should we clean those wax corpses? Although the zombie can't come out and move around, if we go in and disturb it..."

Li Zhen looked at the house in front of him: "My zombie's corpse energy has been destroyed and it hasn't recovered much. I will find a way to make my zombie absorb the corpse energy from many other zombies. After I've finished, I'll burn this place down to force the zombie out."

Upon hearing Li Zhen's words, Feng, Lei, and Yu exchanged glances and remained silent for a moment.

Knowing what they wanted to do, Master Jiang finally panicked: "My Jiang family has built up its fortune over so many years, and you're going to destroy it all?! Kill me first!"

Feng hesitated before saying, "Inside, it really is the Jiang family's property... The Jiang family has accumulated a lot of things over the years, and if we burn it all down..."

Li Zhen looked into Feng's eyes without saying a word.

The wind gradually lowered its head.

Li Zhen then said, "Regardless of whether or not we can find Master Ji, I will set up an altar tonight to deal with that zombie."

"Whether you want to help Master Jiang move things or do whatever you want on your own, you are free to do it."

"But you need to know what we're doing. If something goes wrong and that zombie escapes, who knows how many people will die tonight."

Feng wiped away a cold sweat and nodded to Li Zhen, saying, "We understand. We... we guarantee that there won't be any problems on our side."

Li Zhen glanced at Master Jiang: "He can't leave the Jiang family, but he can do whatever he wants with the rest."

He paused, then warned, "You are all highly accomplished disciples of Maoshan, and you understand the greater good better than I do. I believe none of you would want Master Ji to see this."
After saying that, he turned and walked out.

The Jiang family mansion was very large, comprising several courtyards, and some of the dried corpses were hidden among those courtyards, while others were likely hidden underground. The flying zombie, however, was certainly hiding in some dark place.

Detective Li needs to choose the best location among these courtyards to help the vampire absorb the corpse energy.

This location not only needs to be chosen in the place with the densest corpse aura, but also in a place where the zombie cannot interfere.

Fortunately, that flying zombie wasn't so powerful as to be immune to sunlight and without any flaws, otherwise Li Zhen really wouldn't know how to deal with such a terrifying zombie.

Of course, to restore a vampire to its peak condition, corpse energy alone is not enough; it's best to have enough blood.

Li Zhen doesn't need to go looking for it. If his premonition is correct, someone should bring him enough blood food today.

As soon as he stepped out of the courtyard, Li Zhen summoned the Mahjong Ghost and ordered it to find some corpse oil from the dried corpses.

When they saw many corpses on the road, Li Zhen had the Mahjong Ghost secretly collect a lot of corpse oil from behind.

There are many undead corpses here now. If we can collect some corpse oil from each one, even if it's not fresh and the effect isn't great, such a large quantity will definitely be enough to push Li Zhen's Flying Head Curse to a level he expected.

In this way, when the flying head curse is finally performed, there will be no need to make him pay any price.

The numerous undead corpses of the Jiang family provided him with a shortcut to cultivate the Flying Head Curse.

If we let him slowly collect corpse oil, who knows how long it would take.

One of the biggest reasons why Detective Li wanted to deal with those preserved corpses first was actually this.

The weather is gloomy today, so the mahjong enthusiast won't be affected if he stays indoors.

Detective Li simply instructed the Mahjong Ghost not to go to places where the Flying Zombie might be.

Those flying zombies are so terrifying; if they were to encounter the Mahjong Ghost, the Mahjong Ghost might not be able to escape.

……

After Li Zhen left, the atmosphere in the courtyard became somewhat awkward.

“Master Jiang…” Lei reached out to help Master Jiang up.

Master Jiang slapped Lei's hand away, picked up the sword from the ground, and slumped to his feet, saying dejectedly, "Don't pretend to be kind. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking?"

Lei said somewhat awkwardly, "That zombie really is in the Jiang family's house. It's very dangerous here."

Old Master Jiang snorted coldly: "I won't leave, nor will I do anything to disrupt your arrangements. I've lost. You can do whatever you want with the Jiang family's property."

The three of them looked at each other for a while, then suddenly looked up at the swirling dark clouds in the sky, feeling somewhat horrified.

They ran to the door and looked back in the direction they had come from.

"It's not a flying zombie, this aura... it's the zombie he brought."

"This zombie is terrifying too; its mere movement caused changes in the celestial phenomena. We've traveled all over the country for so many years, and we've only seen something as terrifying twice."

"Those preserved corpses have been preserved for so long, their corpse energy is very strong. If that zombie absorbs them all, it will definitely become even stronger."

"Dealing with flying zombies is the priority."

“Let’s wait for Master to arrive. I’m even more convinced that Master is not dead. Fukang County is so small, we’ll get the news by telephone very quickly. You two go and keep an eye on Master Jiang, I’ll go check on the situation over there.”

After saying that, Feng rushed towards the house where he and the others were.

Before they even reached the door, they suddenly saw Li Zhen leading the zombie to the left.

Feng chased after them: "That's the kitchen over there."

Without turning his head, Li Zhen said, "The corpse energy here is very strong. I need to find a suitable place here to help my zombie absorb the corpse energy."

"Absorbing the corpse's aura is no problem, but please be careful not to disturb the zombie."

"It will alert us to some extent. It's daytime now, so it doesn't dare to come out."

"Sigh, if we can't get rid of this zombie, it will be terrible once it becomes strong enough to not be afraid of sunlight. Although this zombie is a flying zombie, it is not at its strongest yet."

"Have you ever seen a stronger flying zombie?"

"I've never seen one before; those are legendary zombies. But I've heard my master mention them. Your zombie is a bit dangerous, so please be careful. Over the years, we've seen quite a few zombie farmers who have been turned on by zombies."

"Thank you for reminding."

Arriving at the kitchen, Li Zhen looked around and finally chose a room on the left, which was used to store miscellaneous items, as the place to set up his formation.

Taking out the prepared "ink," Li Zhen began drawing a rune array directly on the ground.

In addition, he would also prepare some talismans that could attract corpse energy in order to absorb as much corpse energy as possible.

Last night, Li Zhen placed the jade talisman in the vampire's arms, allowing the vampire to absorb the yin energy within the talisman to restore itself.

However, without the help of a large amount of corpse energy, even though the jade talisman made the vampire's recovery speed fast enough, Li Zhen still felt it was not enough.

Feng stood at the doorway, silently watching Li Zhen draw a talisman that was clearly not from the righteous path.

As Li Zhen's talismans became more and more perfect, the corpse energy surging from all over the Jiang family gradually increased.

The peculiar putrid smell mixed with the stench of corpses made Feng pinch his nose.

On the surface, the Jiang family's house appears to be a place where living people reside, but in reality, it is a large morgue.

One can imagine how terrifying it would be if all those skeletal remains inside turned into zombies.

Suddenly, a peculiar roar faintly came from the distance, making Feng's heart tighten.

He slowly turned his head, looking solemnly into the depths of the Jiang family compound, and murmured softly, "It really is here..."

Li Zhen also heard the voice, but his subordinate only paused slightly before continuing to draw the talismans.

Once the talisman was formed, the corpse energy of the entire Jiang family gradually gathered in this room, eventually transforming into two solid black streams that entered the nasal cavity of the vampire standing in the center of the talisman.

The dark clouds in the sky grew thicker and thicker.

……

Outside Fukang County, an old man wearing a straw hat sat under a tree, eating heartily.

The old man's hair, which hung down his back, was already white, but he was in good spirits and moved nimbly, showing no signs of old age.

He put the food in his mouth and took a sip of water from the kettle.

Suddenly, he picked up the kettle and looked in the direction of the Jiang family's house.

"Strange, how can there be such a strong aura of death gathering in broad daylight? Is it that zombie? Why would it hide so far away if it doesn't come to Fukang County to look for food?"

The old man stood up from the ground, lifted his straw hat, revealing a resolute face.

At this moment, there was some doubt on that face.

He had followed the zombie's movements all the way to Fukang County, but then lost track of it.

However, he saw many corpses killed by that zombie in the county town, which proved that the zombie was active every night and that his tracking direction was correct.

Especially last night.

After the fire broke out in the county town, he sensed something was wrong, so he went to the scene and saw the zombie again, but lost it in the end.

When he returned to the scene of the fire, he keenly noticed some traces left behind after someone had fought with the zombie.

He didn't know the outcome, but the fact that the zombie was still alive made him think that the person might have met with misfortune.

The scene he was seeing now puzzled him: was the corpse aura he was seeing related to that zombie, or was it produced by another zombie?

Logically speaking, even if zombies were to emerge, they shouldn't be strong enough to cause such a commotion during the day.

He raised his right hand and pinched it with his five fingers.

Before they could reach a conclusion, they suddenly heard someone calling out in the distance, "Master Ji..."

The old man momentarily doubted that he had misheard.

(End of this chapter)