The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 253 The Unsolicited Food and the Rematch with the Flying Zombies
Based on his own memory, Li Zhen knew that the Jiang family's steward was a spy planted in the Jiang family by outsiders.

That person came to the Jiang family only to collude with outsiders to seize the Jiang family's wealth.

All the wives the Jiang family had married before were killed by the steward in collusion with outsiders.

The last one, Shanshan, was arranged to marry into the Jiang family by the person behind the housekeeper. Originally, they wanted to take her back on the wedding day, but the thugs sent by that person happened to encounter the flying zombie and were eaten by the flying zombie halfway.

To make amends and prevent Shanshan from being mistreated after marrying into the Jiang family, the man immediately had the steward kill Master Jiang's only son.

Now, as long as they kill Master Jiang, everything in the Jiang family will naturally fall into their hands.

The housekeeper would definitely be wary when he saw a stranger like Li Zhen come to the Jiang family.

When they saw Feng Lei Yu Dian and his group making a big show of going to find Master Ji, they probably thought they were looking for help, or at least came to check what had happened to the Jiang family.

The people behind the Jiang family steward are notorious bandits who have committed countless atrocities in the area, making them perfect for serving as food.

Li Zhen calmed the red-eyed bat down.

There wasn't a single resentful ghost to be seen in the vicinity, which made the red-eyed bats that went out to forage somewhat irritable.

Not long after, the demon fetus returned to Li Zhen's side.

"Someone's coming, they're over there," it reported to Li Zhen.

"How many people came?"

"I don't know, it seems like... five? Seven? Anyway, quite a lot."

Li Zhen didn't say anything more and sat quietly waiting.

About ten minutes later, the sound of horses' hooves that Li Zhen heard grew louder and louder.

The vampire standing beside him trembled violently and exhaled a breath of corpse energy.

The two twin female ghosts reappeared on the vampire's face.

Li Zhen knew that this was because of the stimulation from the blood, which caused the vampire who was about to recover to its peak to go out of control.

He stood up and looked in the direction from which the sound of horses' hooves came, ignoring the vampires.

Several horses appeared in Li Zhen's field of vision and quickly galloped towards him. The leader was a sinister-looking young man with a small mustache, followed by five or six people.

The butler that Li Zhen had met before followed the young man on his left.

A small carriage followed behind these horses.

The driver showed no regard for the lives of the people inside, driving the two-horse carriage at almost the same speed as the horses in front.

Upon seeing Li Zhen blocking their path, those men showed no intention of stopping their horses; instead, they spurred their horses directly at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen looked at the group, his expression unchanged.

He didn't care about these people's lives, and they didn't care about his life either; it was quite fair.

The vampire took a few steps forward and suddenly let out a roar from under the clothes covering its head.

The horses that had already run close suddenly braked, letting out a terrified neigh, throwing the two men off their horses.

The men on horseback quickly tightened the reins to steady their frenzied horses.

The steward, wearing the original fur coat, struggled to steer the horse to Tang Long's side and whispered a few words in Tang Long's ear.

Tang Long looked at Li Zhen, his face even more gloomy: "You leaked the information?"

Knowing who Li Zhen was, he naturally couldn't believe that Li Zhen's appearance here was a coincidence.

The butler saw the murderous intent in Tang Long's eyes and quickly defended himself, saying, "I came to find you as soon as I saw him. How could you have leaked the information? I think this person might have known something in advance, or he might be trying to stop anyone who wants to go to the Jiang family so that no one will disturb them."

The more he talked, the more convinced he became: "Look, if I hadn't brought you the message and urged you to come quickly, we wouldn't even have a share of the soup."

Tang Long's expression softened slightly, and he waved his hand behind him.

His men drew their daggers, jumped off their horses, and charged toward the vampire.

Li Zhen stopped suppressing the trembling vampire.

The vampire lunged forward, ignoring the blows from several knives, and grabbed a man's shoulder with its sharp nails, pulling him under its hood.

A scream rang out, and a large amount of bright red blood flowed from the feet of the person who was struggling.

Seeing this, the rest of the group dared not move forward.

The vampire dropped the corpse in its hand and lunged at the others in a frenzy.

Seeing his men, whom he had sent out to probe, being killed one after another, Tang Long's face was filled with murderous intent, which was also tinged with fear.

He originally did not believe in zombies and ghosts, until the person next to him introduced him to a corpse-driving king from western Hunan.

The Xiangxi Corpse-Driving King was quite famous, but after he made a move to test him, he was quickly outmatched.

But after the Xiangxi Corpse-Driving King chanted a spell and summoned an invulnerable zombie, he was completely subdued.

Upon seeing this faceless monster that could suck blood, Tang Long's first thought was of a zombie.

Ignoring his men who had been bitten to death by vampires, he rode back to the carriage and said, "The current situation is a bit strange, and we need the mage's help."

“This is different from what we agreed on; we need to pay extra.” A deep male voice came from inside the carriage.

"According to Master Li." A fleeting look of resentment crossed Tang Long's face.

A middle-aged man wearing a bright yellow Bagua Taoist robe, with a long beard and an unshaven head, stepped out of the carriage. He looked at the vampire zombie that had killed all of Tang Long's men and asked with some surprise, "How can there be such a powerful zombie?"

Tang Long frowned and said, "This really is a zombie?"

“Indeed, this is a zombie, and it’s terrifyingly fierce.” The middle-aged man jumped off the carriage and took out a peach wood sword from it. “You originally told me that all I had to do was cast a spell to turn a group of cadavers into zombies, but you didn’t say that I had to deal with a zombie. This is a zombie with an owner, which makes it even more troublesome.”

"It's no exaggeration to say that I only wanted that little bit of money; you guys are the ones who made the profit."

He made a mudra with his left hand, muttered incantations, and at the same time reached out and grabbed some glutinous rice from the carriage, scattering it forward.

With a loud bang, the carriage was overturned and sent flying.

A zombie, also shrouded in a black robe, stood upright on the carriage.

A breath of corpse energy was exhaled from the man's mouth, and the zombie, under his control, slowly hopped forward.

The zombie opposite him was terrifying; it must be very difficult to deal with. But as long as he could keep that zombie occupied, Tang Long would take care of the others himself.

Even without discussing tactics, this middle-aged man knew that Tang Long was thinking the same way.

Just then, the man's heart skipped a beat.

He instinctively dodged to the side.

Something carrying a strong, fishy smell brushed past his cheek.

At first, the man only felt a cool sensation on his left cheek, but this coolness quickly turned into unbearable pain.

"what……"

The man let out a scream and instinctively reached out to grab his face, only to find his hand covered in a sticky liquid.

The red-eyed bat turned in mid-air and pounced on the man's head.

The man staggered and struggled desperately, but soon collapsed into the bushes beside him and stopped struggling.

Tang Long and the steward, realizing something was wrong, were terrified and immediately turned their horses around and fled.

The demonic fetus appeared in the direction the two had fled, and in one step it was several meters away.

The two horses, whose legs were trembling with fear, were not as fast as it.

The red-eyed bats were clearly starving and, without being picky, pounced on the zombie, devouring its rotting flesh. The vampire zombies were also sucking its blood.

Its favorite substance is naturally the blood of the middle-aged man in a Taoist robe who was killed by the red-eyed bat.

Among these people, only that person possessed magical powers, and that person's blood was equivalent to the blood of countless ordinary people.

Step by step, the vampire walked up to the corpse, grabbed it, stuffed it under the clothes covering its head, and began to suck the blood voraciously.

Li Zhen looked at the zombie that had been pounced on by the red-eyed bat.

To be precise, what we were looking at was the large black robe on the zombie's body.

The clothes were perfect for a vampire to wear, even though they were torn in some places by the red-eyed bats, they were still better than the clothes covering a vampire.

Within minutes, the demonic fetus dragged the butler's corpse and Tang Long's corpse back here.

For ordinary people, the demonic fetus is a terrifying existence that they cannot fight against.

Detective Li signaled to the demon fetus to throw the two dazed individuals to the vampire zombie.

The vampire quickly drained the two of their life force.

After finishing the part it wanted to eat, the red-eyed bat flew excitedly towards Li Zhen.

Li Zhen disliked its foul odor and didn't let it get close to him.

After the Blood-Staining Zombie had drained all the blood from the group, Li Zhen had the Demon Embryo strip the black robe off the zombie and then turned and walked back the way they had come.

The vampire straightened up, but instead of following Li Zhen's steps, it stood still in place.

Sensing the vampire's resistance, Li Zhen stopped in his tracks and turned to look at the vampire.

The vampire roared at Li Zhen.

A terrifying aura of death and resentment erupted from its body.

The two twin female ghosts had half of their bodies protruding from the vampire's body, and at the same time, they let out a ferocious shriek at Li Zhen.

Layers of dark clouds began to gather above the grove, making the entire grove appear gloomy.

Li Zhen remained silent, but the dangerous aura emanating from him grew stronger and stronger.

The demonic fetus quietly appeared beside Li Zhen, vigorously kneading the rotten cat in its hands, and looking at the vampire with an expression of anticipation.

Perhaps because it had followed Li Zhen for a long time, it always had great confidence in him.

The vampire stopped roaring, but the corpse energy and resentment emanating from its body did not dissipate.

After being replenished with carrion and blood, this creature became even more ferocious than before. The white fur on its face wriggled like living worms, making it look extremely terrifying.

After a few breaths, its ferocity slowly dissipated, and it took its first step toward Li Zhen.

Li Zhen turned and walked towards the Jiang family's house.

He had terrified both the vampire and the two female ghosts; otherwise, the backlash wouldn't have been so simple.

……

Not long after Li Zhen left, the strategist wearing a straw hat appeared in the grove.

After examining the several corpses that had been gnawed beyond recognition and whose bodies had been drained of blood, he frowned slightly: "You dare to keep such ferocious zombies? Aren't you worried about problems arising?"

"The more life essence that thing absorbs, the more terrifying the backlash will be. What will we do if it turns a zombie into an unparalleled monster in the future?"

……

After glancing back once, Li Zhen continued walking towards the Jiang family's house.

When Master Ji sensed the eruption of corpse energy, he came to the forest, but he did not interfere in Li Zhen's affairs.

Li Zhen then pretended that Master Ji had never come.

Although Master Ji is a righteous person, his style of doing things is quite similar to Li Zhen's personality.

Upon returning to the Jiang family home, he saw Feng Lei Yu Dian and the others studying the Five Elements Compass outside the living room.

Zhou Le'an and his group, along with Shan Shan, were also here.

After greeting Feng Lei Yu Dian and the others, Li Zhen returned to the courtyard where he had been before.

At this moment, the Mahjong Ghost appeared beside Li Zhen, handed him the jar he was holding, and then disappeared from the spot.

The jar was heavy, clearly full.

Finally, enough corpse oil has been collected for cultivating the Flying Head Curse...

After settling the vampires and the others, Li Zhen sat down cross-legged under the eaves.

He placed the jar on his lap and, upon opening it, smelled a peculiar, pungent odor.

Just by smelling the scent, Li Zhen felt an itch on the spot on his neck where the long needle had been inserted.

This effect exceeded Li Zhen's expectations.

Combining various types of corpse oil together is indeed more effective...

Li Zhen removed the cloth strip and yellow paper from his neck, and while chanting a spell, he smeared the contents of the jar onto the marks on his neck.

Time flew by, and after Zhou Le'an brought Li Zhen food twice, the sky gradually darkened.

The closer it got to night, the more restless the flying zombie became.

A terrifying roar would occasionally erupt from beneath the Jiang family's basement, stimulating the vampire zombies to increase their ferocity.

Feng came to Li Zhen and said to him, "My master has already set up the altar and sent me to ask when to burn those preserved corpses, since it's getting late. If we don't burn them soon, it might be too late."

Li Zhen opened his eyes: "Are those dried corpses easy to ignite?"

Feng nodded and said, "We tried it, and it's very easy to ignite. The wax on the corpse is the perfect accelerant."

"Go burn it, I'll be right there." Li Zhen stood up.

Feng responded and ran out of the house.

Li Zhen glanced at the sky, then, carrying the vampire zombie and everything he had brought into the mission world, walked out.

Master Ji's altar was set up outside the Jiang family's main hall. Everything around had been cleaned up, so even if the entire Jiang family's house were to burn down, it wouldn't affect this place.

When Li Zhen arrived at the altar set up by Master Ji, he could already see thick smoke rising from the Jiang family's residence.

Seeing the raging fire engulfing the Jiang family's residence, the people standing on the high ground had different thoughts, but Old Master Jiang's face was ashen, and he looked utterly dejected.

Li Zhen nodded to Master Ji and then made simple arrangements on an open space not far from Master Ji, setting up a simple altar.

"coming!"

Master Ji's solemn voice made Li Zhen raise his head.

In his line of sight, an extremely terrifying aura of death emanated from the Jiang family, almost overwhelming the raging fire that was rising from the Jiang family!

In front of the Jiang family's main hall, which was ablaze with flames, the ground suddenly bulged up.

A flying zombie, its body shrouded in black corpse energy, slowly emerged from the ground.

With a turn of its body, the flying zombie turned its ferocious face toward Master Ji and the others, its eyes flashing with an extreme thirst for blood.

"Proceed according to plan, don't act rashly!" Master Ji, standing behind the altar, picked up his magic sword.

The flying zombie exhaled a breath of corpse energy, rose off the ground, and pounced towards Master Ji in mid-air!
(End of this chapter)