The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 269 Reunion with Master Ji

Li Zhen patted the dust off his body and suddenly noticed something on his chest.

Looking down at that spot, he noticed some red marks that had appeared on his clothes at some point.

The mark was square and upright, probably stamped with some kind of seal. The writing on it was very blurry, and Li Zhen couldn't make out what the words were, but he could feel a strange power contained within it that exerted a certain pressure on his consciousness.

The mark seemed to be something sinister and unsightly.

After noticing the mark on his chest, Li Zhen realized that his heart seemed to have undergone some changes as well.

He pulled down his clothes and looked at his chest, where he saw a purple patch over his heart.

The surface of the patch was ulcerated and emitted an exceptionally strong stench of decay.

The moment Li Zhen saw the patch, he felt a strange stirring in his heart.

After he put down his clothes, the strange movement vanished without a trace.

Li Zhen looked thoughtfully at his chest, then looked at the unconscious Zhou You.

Without much thought, he knew that Zhou You must have done it.

It's highly likely that when Zhou You transmitted the corpse poison into his body, he discovered the abnormality in his heart and used some methods to temporarily suppress the abnormality in his heart.

Since waking up, Li Zhen has felt that there is something wrong with his heart.

After his head was separated from his body for an extended period of time, his "heart" may have sensed an opportunity, which is why it reacted abnormally.

After the flesh and blood of the Great Black Buddha Mother invaded his heart, Li Zhen had thought about how to deal with that mass of flesh and blood.

Now he has an idea.

Since Zhou You was able to suppress the abnormal movement of that mass of flesh and blood, he might be able to help him resolve the hidden danger in his heart.

After finishing these chores, I must have a proper talk with Zhou You...

Although Zhou You was somewhat sentimental and sometimes made mistakes, he was truly kind-hearted.

Detective Li actually quite enjoys spending time with this kind of person.

Because this kind of person, like him, has their own bottom line, it's just that Li Zhen's bottom line is a little lower.

These people's actions are predictable, and in some ways they are reassuring.

For example, Li Zhen was able to guess how Zhou You would treat Zhao Jun.

For example, Li Zhen knew that once Zhou You learned about his problems, he would definitely do his best to help him, rather than trying to shirk responsibility or play tricks to get some benefit from him first.

Li Zhen raised his arm and looked at it, which had begun to turn purple due to the corpse poison.

The changes in his body have only just begun. Once he has completely completed his third regeneration, his body will completely decay, and a new body will be regenerated from it.

This is why Detective Li is not afraid of corpse poison at all.

Moreover, his current body is not much different from his dead body, so it wouldn't be easy for the corpse poison to affect him.

However, this regeneration will not affect his heart. If the corpse poison enters his heart and merges with the remaining flesh and blood of the demon god, some unexpected changes may occur.

A thought suddenly occurred to Li Zhen.

Could it be that the mutation of his "heart" is partly due to the corpse gas and corpse poison in the outside world?
There may be such an impact...

Now is not the time to overthink.

Li Zhen checked his physical condition, wiped the reddish mucus off his neck, and sighed, "What a mess."

He touched his tattered pocket and took out the jade talisman he always carried with him.

This thing had a sinister aura, and Li Zhen was worried that it might be targeted by some ghost, so after retrieving it from the vampire last time, he carried it with him at all times.

When Zhou Le'an buried his "corpse," he did not search his body, and the object was buried with him.

If he weren't in the midst of a resurrection ritual, which made his aura extremely eerie and deterred even ghosts from approaching, this jade talisman would surely have attracted many strange things.

Zhao Jun only destroyed the body of the demon fetus that the little devil had forcibly taken over.

Li Zhen had already used a secret technique to forcibly merge that body with the little ghost. After the demonic fetus's body turned into pus, the little ghost did not disappear with it, but it was still seriously injured.

After entering the jade talisman and using the only suitable thing on Li Zhen's body as a refuge, the little ghost completely lost consciousness.

Without his help, the kid might have been completely wiped out in just a few days.

When Li Zhen examined the jade talisman closely, he could barely make out a human-shaped phantom within it.

We must get the little devil back into his heart as soon as possible...

The little devil is extremely weak right now, but he shouldn't die anytime soon...

After observing the kid's condition, Detective Li came to this conclusion.

He put away the jade talisman and headed towards Zhouyou.

Zhou You's youngest disciple had already run to his side, crying and patting his face: "Master, wake up! Master, are you alright?"

“He won’t die,” Li Zhen said, having walked up behind the child.

His voice startled the child.

The child turned around and looked at Li Zhen fearfully: "Is my master really alright? I beg you! Please help my master! I offended you before, I... I apologize."

Li Zhen didn't say anything.

He grabbed Zhou You by the arms and dragged him to the side of the young man who was also lying on the ground in pain.

He is currently in a special condition and cannot help Zhou You and his disciples suppress the corpse poison. He can only wait until he sees Master Ji and ask Master Ji to come up with a solution.

Zhou You's youngest disciple, bewildered, followed Li Zhen to his side: "What should we do now?"

"Wait."

"What are you waiting for?"

"I need someone to come and help. I can't move your master and senior brother in my current state. I need someone to come and help me."

"Thanks……"

"No need, your master is a good person."

The child cleaned the bloodstains from Zhou You's face, saying, "Good people always suffer."

Li Zhen glanced at him: "Those who attain enlightenment will receive more help."

When he arrived, he told Zhou Le'an and the other two to wait where they were until the commotion subsided before coming over to check on the situation.

Rain and Lightning are skilled, but they haven't learned much magic. If they come over, they'll just be two walking blood-sucking bags facing this zombie. Despite Zhao Jun's threats to kill Zhou You and his apprentice, he doesn't actually want to kill them so quickly.

What he longed for most was to rise to power and trample Zhou You and his disciples underfoot, proving that he was stronger than Zhou You and that the previous Celestial Master had made a mistake.

If Zhou You were simply killed, how much would it feel for him when he truly reached the pinnacle?
But Zhao Jun didn't treat the others the same way.

The place where Zhou Le'an and his two companions were hiding was not far from here.

Soon, Li Zhen heard a rustling sound.

He looked in that direction and saw the wild grass swaying.

Then they saw Yu and Diantan peeking out from the weeds, looking in their direction.

Seeing that the situation was going more smoothly than they had expected, they breathed a sigh of relief, bypassed the lingering corpse aura, and ran towards Li Zhen.

Anxious Zhou Le'an followed behind the two.

Li Zhen said to Yu and Dian, "Master Zhou and his disciples have been infected with corpse poison. This is no ordinary corpse poison; it cannot be cured by ordinary methods. You should take him back and let Master Ji think of a solution."

Seeing Zhou You and his apprentice with their dark complexions and external injuries, Yu and Dian understood what was going on.

Rain clapped his hands clean: "Without further ado, let me and Dian go first, and that zombie..."

He looked with trepidation at the zombie that had been separated into a head and a body and sealed away.

Li Zhen said, "I will find a way to deal with it."

I won't elaborate on the rain and electricity.

The two men each carried Zhou You and his apprentice on their backs and ran towards Fukang County without looking back.

"Hey, wait for me!" Zhou You's junior disciple picked up the sword and package that had fallen to the ground, and hurriedly caught up with the two of them.

"Here, hold this for me." Li Zhen took out the Qilin Stone he had hidden on his person and casually tossed it to Zhou Le'an.

Since this thing has fallen into his hands, as long as he doesn't give it to Zhou You on his own initiative, Zhou You probably won't ask him for it, so it naturally becomes his.

Zhou Le'an didn't know what the Qilin Stone was, but he felt that it was cool and very comfortable to hold in his hand.

Holding the Qilin Stone tightly, he chased after Li Zhen: "There was a lot of commotion over here just now. Uncle Yu and Uncle Dian were very worried that something had happened to you."

“Master Zhou has relieved a lot of pressure for me. If I were alone, it would be quite troublesome.” Li Zhen lifted the zombie’s head with one hand and its body with the other, dragging them toward Fukang County.

This zombie is no ordinary creature. Before addressing the hidden dangers posed by the zombie, Li Zhen dared not allow its head and body to merge together, otherwise the sealing technique he had just used would definitely not be able to seal it.

Suddenly, Zhou Le'an saw the zombie's eyes move, and he was terrified: "It...it...it moved! This thing has been hacked to pieces, and it's still not dead?!"

Li Zhen said, "This guy is very difficult to kill. Even if you burn him to ashes, you probably still won't be able to kill him completely."

"This guy is terrifying." Zhou Le'an swallowed hard and put some distance between himself and Li Zhen to keep his distance from the zombie. "The zombies I've heard of are not like this."

Li Zhen explained, "This is no longer a pure zombie; perhaps calling it a corpse demon would be more appropriate."

Zhou Le'an didn't quite understand what Li Zhen meant.

However, he knew that the "corpse demon" that Li Zhen mentioned was definitely something more terrifying than a zombie.

Suddenly remembering something, he slapped his forehead and asked Li Zhen, "Where's that little devil from earlier? The one that was perched on this zombie... the one on the shoulder of the corpse demon?"

Li Zhen casually said, "He was injured and I've already arrested him."

Back near the fog created by the zombie, Li Zhen found a knife and made a stretcher to drag the corpse. He then found two sets of slightly cleaner clothes and put them on himself and the zombie respectively. Finally, he made a simple cloak out of thatch and covered himself with it before heading towards Fukang County with the zombie.

When they were almost at Fukang County, Zhou Le'an explained the situation of the red-eyed bats and the female demon to Li Zhen.

“I found something to feed them. That woman… that evil creature, she feeds on blood. If we don’t touch the thing behind her, she just stands there and doesn’t react to anything.”

"However, she will come with me. That's when she came back to Fukang County with me."

"That bat was in a terrible state. When it was found with you, it was completely flattened. We fed it some things, and it recovered a little. Now it can crawl."

"This guy is a bit scary; he bares his teeth at everyone he sees."

"Old Ji said this thing is a very evil object and told me not to get too close to it, otherwise I would have bad luck, but I haven't felt any bad luck."

"Oh, and also, Uncle Ji picked up the broken plate and has been trying to fix it these past few days."

"He said it was a relic you left behind, and that he would bury it in your grave as a funerary object."

Amid Zhou Le'an's incessant chatter, Li Zhen had already dragged the zombie to the courtyard where Master Ji and his disciples were staying.

To his surprise, Ji Tianshi, pale-faced and coughing incessantly, was standing outside the door waiting for him.

Wind and thunder accompanied him.

Upon seeing Li Zhen, Master Ji took the initiative to walk towards him.

"Good, good...cough cough...I never thought I'd see you alive again." Master Ji walked up to Li Zhen and patted him on the shoulder. "It's good that you're alive. You're so young, you should live longer than us old folks."

As he spoke, a rare smile appeared on his serious face: "When I heard Yu and Dian say that you were alive, I thought they were joking, so I scolded them and almost beat them up."

Li Zhen laughed and said, "The situation was indeed very dangerous at the time, but I was lucky and didn't die."

Master Ji patted Li Zhen on the shoulder again: "It's us old guys who should die. Young people like you shouldn't die in that kind of situation. From now on, it should be the world of you young people. Come in and talk."

He dragged Li Zhen's arm and walked into the courtyard.

Li Zhen could sense Ji Tianshi's weakness from his arm.

This indicates a comprehensive weakness in vital energy and spirit, a sign that the root of the problem has been damaged.

Li Zhen knew that this must be the impact of that battle on Master Ji.

He sighed inwardly.

According to the original trajectory, Master Ji would have perished together with the flying zombie, but after he arrived here, he completely changed the original course of events and also changed Master Ji's fate.

Master Ji is probably no longer able to fulfill his ambition of eliminating demons and protecting the righteous path, and can only return to Maoshan to retire.

Regardless, Master Ji is still alive.

As his personal disciples, Feng Lei Yu Dian and the others have not abandoned their own cultivation. They should return to Maoshan with Master Ji and inherit his mantle.

“The corpse poison that Zhou You and his disciples are suffering from is extremely dangerous. I’ve sent Yu and Dian to buy some materials to suppress the poison for them. We’ll wait until they wake up on their own before trying to cure it,” Master Ji told Li Zhen.

At this moment, Feng dragged the stretcher carrying the zombie that Li Zhen had been dragging earlier, bringing the zombie into the courtyard.

Master Ji sensed the zombie's terrifying nature. He solemnly opened the clothes covering the zombie and saw its body first.

He pressed down on the zombie a few times, then completely removed the clothes covering it and looked at the zombie's head, his expression becoming even more solemn.

(End of this chapter)