The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 261 The Vampire and the Demonic Fetus Scared Away at First Glance

The zombie instinctively tried to pull its leg upwards, but found it couldn't.

It raged and exhaled a breath of corpse air, then lowered its head and looked at its leg with its blood-red eyes. It saw an arm with rotting skin gripping its leg tightly. Behind the arm was a mound of earth, which was Li Zhen's burial site.

The demon fetus also realized something was wrong. It moved to the edge of the zombie's shoulder and looked at the arm below. Its wrinkled face showed a clear change.

"No way? He's not really dead? This is terrible..."

If it could sweat, it would definitely be sweating profusely on its forehead by now.

The zombie roared, threw Zhou Le'an aside, and took a few steps forward, roughly dragging the rotting arm, along with the shoulder and upper body, out of the ground.

Before the zombie's bloodshot eyes appeared a rotting, maggot-infested face and a mutilated head.

Even so, the zombie and the demon fetus still recognized that it was Li Zhen's face.

The zombie's blood-red eyes showed obvious fluctuations, and its corpse aura became restless.

Just then, the eyes on the rotting face opened, revealing a pair of dark eyes.

Li Zhen pulled his other hand out of the grave, holding a purple talisman.

As if provoked by something, the vampire turned and fled in the direction that Yu was chasing after, and bumped right into Yu.

Yu turned and ran.

The terrified demon pointed at Yu: "Grab it! It has magic power and lots of essence! If we eat it, we won't be afraid of it anymore!"

The zombie's eyes flickered, and it chased closely behind Yu.

The person running ahead was utterly speechless.

He wanted to turn around and run away, but the zombies blocked his way. He could only run forward or turn to the sides, so the further he ran, the further away he got from Li Zhen's burial site.

Worried about the rain, the electric lights hurriedly chased after them.

The two people and the zombie quickly disappeared into the fog.

Zhou Le'an scrambled to his feet in terror, glanced in the direction the zombie had disappeared, and then cautiously approached Li Zhen. He saw that although Li Zhen's eyes were open, they were lifeless, and he hadn't moved since being pulled out by the zombie.

"You...you're not dead?" he asked in a low voice.

Li Zhen made no move.

Zhou Le'an had just seen Li Zhen blink, and now he wondered if he had seen it wrong.

The body is in such a state, how could it possibly be alive?
Moreover, the fact that the eyes remained unchanged despite the corpse's transformation was indeed an eerie thing.

Or perhaps what came back to life wasn't actually a person, but a ghost or a zombie?
Thinking of this, Zhou Le'an suddenly felt that the surroundings had become even more sinister, and he was so frightened that he almost ran away.

But he didn't run away in the end.

Now that the body has been dug out, what he should do is to bury it back to prevent it from being destroyed by wild dogs.

He pinched his nose, picked up a knife, and dug around next to Li Zhen a couple of times.

Suddenly he felt something was wrong, as if something was always watching him.

He looked up and around, then looked down and suddenly realized that Li Zhen's head had turned towards him, and he was looking directly into Li Zhen's dark eyes.

Zhou Le'an was so frightened that he cried out and fell backward to the ground.

Li Zhen's jaw twitched stiffly a few times, and he uttered a muffled sound: "No...don't...be afraid..."

Zhou Le'an, using his knife as a crutch, got up from the ground: "You...are you a human, or...a ghost?"

After a long while, Li Zhen finally turned his gaze to Zhou Le'an: "I'm not dead."

Zhou Le'an was skeptical: "Your body is rotting! Everyone saw you die... I buried your body myself, how could you not be dead?!"

Li Zhen's eyes gradually regained their sparkle, as if he had awakened from a long slumber. It would take him a long time to recover his memories and reason.

He reached up and scratched his head, only to find his hand covered in slime.

He shook his hands and looked around at his surroundings.

Combining what he had just seen, he seemed to finally understand his current predicament.

Looking at Zhou Le'an again, Li Zhen tried to force a smile: "Thank you. If it weren't for you, I might not... I might not have woken up."

Hearing this, and seeing the terrifying smile on Li Zhen's face, Zhou Le'an began to accept an unbelievable idea—

The person I buried with my own hands seems... to have really not died?

He endured the pungent stench and ran to Li Zhen's side. After examining Li Zhen's body for a while, he exclaimed in shock, "You're really alive? Is it related to what I did? Then... then can my older brother come back to life too! I did the same thing to my older brother!"

"Can my older brother live? Can you help me save my older brother? If you can save my older brother, I...I...I don't know how to repay you. Anyway, I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Li Zhen supported himself on the ground with both hands and shifted his body slightly, using Zhou Le'an's help to get into a more comfortable side-lying position.

He explained regretfully to Zhou Le'an, "My situation is very special. After my battle with that zombie, I didn't actually die, or rather, I wasn't completely dead."

"I used special methods to forcibly lock my soul inside my body, and then used this special method to bring myself back to life."

"I don't understand." Zhou Le'an scratched his head, his eyes dimming. "It seems like my older brother isn't coming back to life?"

"I'm sorry," Li Zhen said bluntly, "your elder brother's soul is no longer in his body. Trying to bring him back to life is as difficult as climbing to heaven."

His survival was largely due to luck.

He had originally prepared himself to be reborn in the belly of a banshee after his death and live another life.

Unexpectedly, at the last moment, the "Five Elements Evil Spirit Sublimation Method," which had been pushed to its limit, produced an unexpected change.

With his four internal organs erupting simultaneously, his body seemed to transform into a special talisman.

The talisman was highly lethal to the zombie and seemed to have a sealing effect, ultimately sealing his dissipating soul within his body.

That zombie king was truly terrifying.

If the original flying zombie hadn't become a true flying zombie, then the combined abilities of that zombie king would be no weaker than even the most terrifying flying zombie.

But the Corpse King also had a weakness: he still retained a certain degree of humanity.

If the Corpse King were to completely degenerate into a zombie and erase all humanity, it would certainly be even more terrifying.

Although Li Zhen gained a slight advantage in the end by using underhanded tactics, his own fate was also tragic.

If it weren't for his extraordinary methods, he would definitely be dead by now.

Zhou Le'an's expression grew even more somber.

Seeing this, Li Zhen asked, "Has your older brother had a hard life?"

Upon hearing this question, Zhou Le'an immediately burst into tears. Wiping away his tears, he sobbed, "My older brother has never had a good life. My parents died early, and my older brother raised us... Once, when there was no food at home, my younger sister was so hungry that she couldn't bear it. It was my older brother who went from house to house begging and found something for us to eat."

"Whenever we couldn't find food, my older brother would take us outside to dig for wild vegetables... and even fight with wild dogs for food."

"I thought that when we grew up, my older brother would be able to live a good life..."

Li Zhen sighed: "When a person dies, they go to the underworld to be reincarnated. This place is a blessed land, which will have a certain influence on your elder brother's reincarnation. He has done a great deed by raising you and your two younger siblings in this life."

"He will surely be born into a good family. Perhaps in a few months, he will be born into a wealthy family and will never go hungry again."

This was the first time Zhou Le'an had heard someone comfort him like that, and he asked with a hint of disbelief, "Really? My older brother can really be reincarnated as a rich person and won't have to go hungry anymore?"

Li Zhen nodded: "You can cultivate Taoist magic and learn some spells. When you become more powerful than me, you should be able to find your elder brother's reincarnation."

Zhou Le'an sniffed: "Then can you teach me magic?"

“Many of my spells are somewhat evil and not suitable for you to learn, but I have acquired some spells from my predecessors that I can pass on to you,” Li Zhen said. “That Master Ji is a master from Maoshan. You should know Maoshan. You can become his disciple and learn magic in the future.”

Zhou Le'an hesitated and said, "Can't I become your disciple? I want to learn magic from you."

Li Zhen shook his head: "I can teach you some things, but I can't take you as my apprentice because I'll be leaving soon. Can you help me dig out my body? How many days has it been since I was buried?"

After his soul was forcibly locked inside his body, it could only affect Zhou Le'an, who would dream of him. So he had no choice but to ask Zhou Le'an to help him complete the ritual.

In retrospect, Zhou Le'an did a very good job.

However, this resurrection is the third time Li Zhen has been resurrected after burying himself. In the Nine Deaths Resurrection Method, it is a step that needs to be crossed, and there may be obstacles.

The fact that his resurrection was not smooth can be seen from the fact that he was dug out midway through his cultivation.

He had been extremely cautious in order to minimize obstacles to his resurrection, only allowing Zhou Le'an to perform the ritual for him. However, a problem still arose in the end.

The tribulations of the "Five Elements Evil Spirit Sublimation Method" and the "Nine Deaths and Resurrection Method" arrived one after another, leaving Li Zhen feeling exhausted from dealing with them.

He knew that, even now, his tribulation was not yet completely over.

However, both of these methods seem to require extreme sublimation during tribulations in order to reach realms one has never been to before and to gain insights one has never had before.

After waking up, Li Zhen realized that his understanding of the Dharma had reached an extremely high level.

Zhou Le'an, knife in hand, began digging around Li Zhen with great effort.

"Today is the fourth day."

Has anything major happened in the last few days?

"Big news? People from the casino are causing trouble for Sister Shanshan, demanding she pay back her money. They even tracked her down here, trying to dig up your grave, doesn't that count?"

"How dare those people be so bold?"

"Yeah, not only did they get the money, they even came here, trying to rob the Jiang family. Oh, by the way, that zombie was so scary. Why was it so afraid of you? It seemed like it ran away as soon as you glanced at it."

"See this talisman in my hand? This zombie is something I created, and I can use this talisman to influence it."

"You made that?! But why doesn't it obey you?"

"After I was seriously injured, I was unable to control it, which caused it to backfire. Even if it backfired, it wouldn't have become so ferocious in the first place."

"What's the reason for that?"

"The most terrifying zombie wasn't completely killed; its soul and the aura of death entered its body, making it incredibly frightening."

"Huh?! That most terrifying zombie didn't die?"

"Even if he didn't die, he was severely injured, but he's not as terrible as before."

"What a pity, it would have been better if it hadn't gotten inside this zombie."

"Even if we don't let it get inside the zombie's body, it won't die. It might even run outside and possess someone else. In that case, it might hide itself, secretly suck other people's blood, and return to its strongest state to cause us trouble."

"So, letting it into the zombie's body is indeed a good thing. However, if it hadn't crawled into the zombie's body, what if... what if it had run into my body... that would have been terrifying."

"It prefers the body of that zombie and generally won't choose such a weak body."

"That's true, and that ghost you raised has become really fierce too. It even sent a zombie to bite me just now."

“It’s a bit strange, maybe because I’ve tasted what it’s like to be out of control, so I want to keep living like this.”

"It doesn't want you to come back to life either?"

"It's very clever; I don't know what it's thinking. The wound on my neck is a bit unusual; could you help me lift my head to prevent it from falling off?"

"Is that so?"

"Yes, and also, be careful with my back, don't break it, and your legs too, they're trapped, so be careful."

"So many bugs..."

"It's a little itchy, I'll find a place to wash it later."

……

Mr. Huang, who was tiptoeing toward Zhou Le'an, stopped halfway, cold sweat pouring down his forehead, his heart nearly jumping out of his throat.

He ran the fastest when he was escaping, thinking he could quickly get out of this area. But the fog was very strange; no matter how he ran, he just kept going around in circles and couldn't get out of the fog at all.

He turned left and right, and ran back to Li Zhen's grave.

In the hazy mist, he could vaguely see a figure digging something in the graveyard, talking in a low voice to someone.

He recognized the voice of the figure instantly; it was the voice of the child they had first found.

The scene before him reminded him of wealth and treasure.

Could it be that the child and another person dug up something valuable here after they all ran away?
The moment the idea popped into his head, he couldn't resist it.

Passing by a treasure trove without entering is not in his nature.

So he crept forward, intending to launch a sneak attack and seize the treasure for himself.

As he got closer to Zhou Le'an, he could hear the voice coming from the other side.

Words like "lift your head," "break your back," "watch your legs," and "insects" entered his ears one after another, making him realize that something was wrong.

This doesn't look like digging for treasure; it looks more like digging up someone.

Standing there, unable to move forward or backward, Boss Huang rubbed his eyes and tried his best to look forward. He could only see Zhou Le'an's back, the clods of earth piled on the ground, and... a figure lying on the ground being dug out.

He silently took a step back, when suddenly he heard someone say, "Didn't you come for the treasure? Why don't you come and see what treasure is here?"

(End of this chapter)