The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 297 Entering the Underworld and the Reactive Ghost Fetus
As soon as Huang Yongfa opened the door, he felt a familiar gust of cold wind brush against his face.

The eerie wind did not make him feel uncomfortable; on the contrary, it made him feel very at ease.

It was nearly evening, and with most of the doors and windows sealed off, the house was very dark.

The floors and ceilings here are always damp.

Apart from Huang Yongfa, who has lived here for decades, it would be difficult for anyone else to adapt to this environment.

Upon entering the house, Huang Yongfa sat down on the sofa.

The rocking chair placed not far away began to sway gently.

Huang Yongfa looked at the rocking chair, and a woman, soaking wet, appeared before him.

The woman was dressed in white, her figure was somewhat ethereal, and her face was pale; it was clear at a glance that she was a ghost.

Upon seeing the female ghost, Huang Yongfa smiled.

The female ghost smiled at Huang Yongfa: "What did you go about? Why do you have a smell on you that scares me?"

Huang Yongfa placed his hands on his lower abdomen and said to the female ghost, "Some people have realized that you used the rest of your life to extend my life, but I'm pretending I don't know about it."

"Only you and I know about this. Why would anyone else know?" The female ghost floated to Huang Yongfa's side.

Huang Yongfa said, "That person is downstairs. He is a very powerful figure, an expert in physiognomy. It is said that he could tell from my appearance."

Why are you pretending not to know?

“This is too dangerous. The idea of ​​using one’s next life’s lifespan to extend someone’s life has only happened to you and me. I’m worried that person might have ulterior motives and capture you to extend your lifespan.”

"Even if that person catches me, it won't do any good without my consent."

"You don't understand, he's really too powerful... so powerful that I can't see through him. Right here, can you feel that eerie aura coming from below?"

The female ghost floated to the window, pulled back the curtains, and cautiously looked down. She said solemnly, "This feeling... makes me very uncomfortable."

Huang Yongfa patted his face: "I'm sure he's alive because I can feel a strong yang energy from him, but he carries some terrifying yin entities. I can see some shattered scenes on them, which are very frightening."

He said seriously, "I have never seen such a terrifying person. Even the most powerful ghosts in the underworld are not this terrifying."

The female ghost floated behind Huang Yongfa, patted his shoulder, and said softly, "Since he's so scary, why do you associate with him, Ah Fa? Has he become your nemesis? That's really troublesome."

Huang Yongfa turned to look at the female ghost: "He didn't haunt me. Instead, he told me that he might have a way to resolve the issue of you lending me your lifespan in your next life."

The female ghost paused: "Didn't you say you didn't want to tell that person about me?"

Huang Yongfa shook his head: "I tested him, and I feel that he knows everything, and your matter is more important."

"You'll be reincarnated in a week at most. If the problems in your body aren't resolved, then your next life..."

The female ghost said helplessly, "I've told you many times, this is something I did voluntarily, you don't need to think about my next life..."

Huang Yongfa interrupted, "I can't help but consider these things. If I can't resolve this before you are reincarnated, then I will have no choice but to die immediately and return all my lifespan to you to reduce the impact on your next life!"

The female ghost stared into Huang Yongfa's eyes.

After a moment, she chuckled softly, "So you've always had this idea. If nothing had happened, were you not going to tell me what you were thinking?"

Huang Yongfa's expression became even more serious: "Don't laugh, I'm telling you something very serious."

Looking out the window, he continued, "That man wanted me to take him to the underworld. I don't know what he wanted to do, but... I'm a little uneasy."

"If he can come back from the underworld and come up with a way to help us, that would definitely be a good thing, but we also have to consider the possibility that he might not help us after he comes back."

"Therefore, during the time I take him to the underworld, I hope you will find a place to hide yourself, a place where no one can find you."

"I will come to find you when I get back safely."

The female ghost looked at Huang Yongfa's face but didn't say anything.

“I’ll bring him up right away so he can see you,” Huang Yongfa continued. “He wants me to do some work, but he probably won’t do anything outrageous. But I’m still a little worried…”

"Why have you become so indecisive?" The female ghost interrupted Huang Yongfa this time. "You've already brought the person downstairs, you should be quite confident, right? Otherwise, why would you do something so stupid?"

"If things go wrong, we can just die together. There's no need to think about so many things. Isn't that what you really wanted to say?"

"Then I'll tell you, I understand, and I think you did the right thing."

"You're rambling on and on because you're worried and confused."

Huang Yongfa stared intently at the female ghost.

The female ghost floated in front of Huang Yongfa, gave him a hug with her wet body, and whispered, "Go do it. No matter what happens, I won't blame you."

Huang Yongfa nodded, got up and walked towards the door.

The female ghost placed her hands on Huang Yongfa's shoulders and followed him to the door, watching him open the door and go downstairs.

Not long after, Huang Yongfa took Li Zhen upstairs.

This time, Detective Li brought both the banshee and the corpse demon upstairs.

Entering the underworld, Li Zhen didn't know what he would encounter, and he wouldn't feel at ease without bringing the Corpse Demon and the Banshee with him.

Following Huang Yongfa into the house, Li Zhen saw the female ghost floating on the ceiling.

With his cultivation level, even without the ability to see ghosts, it would be impossible for him not to see these ghosts.

If Detective Li remembers correctly, this female ghost should be Jiang Xue, who saved Huang Yongfa when he was a child and later accompanied him for decades.

The other person's appearance was exactly the same as he remembered.

"Hi, hello." Jiang Xue, a little scared, greeted Li Zhen first.

Detective Li responded with a smile.

After looking Jiang Xue over a few times, he said, "The yin energy on her body doesn't seem weak, but her fate has already been greatly affected. If you let her reincarnate like that, she will most likely die young in her next life."

"He won't have a good life for the next few lifetimes; being displaced will be the least of his worries."

These words were naturally spoken to Huang Yongfa.

When Li Zhen entered the room, he was extremely nervous, constantly observing Li Zhen's expression. Seeing that Li Zhen showed no surprise whatsoever, he knew he was right; Li Zhen did indeed know a lot of things, or had guessed a lot of things based on his situation.

This is naturally a terrifying thing.

However, what Li Zhen said caught Huang Yongfa's attention and stopped him from overthinking.

“Master, can you think of a way to help her?” Huang Yongfa said in a deep voice. “When I was a child, I almost… fell down the stairs. I guess my lifespan ended around that time, so if you calculate it that way, I borrowed at least several decades of her lifespan.”

Li Zhen fell into deep thought.

Huang Yongfa became even more nervous: "If that doesn't work, could you return the lifespan I borrowed to her?"

Jiang Xue was anxious and wanted to speak, but Huang Yongfa stopped her with a look.

Li Zhen said, "Giving it back to her is actually useless. Doing so will only prevent you from continuing to affect her next life, but you have already lived for so many years, and the impact on her has already been done."

Huang Yongfa said, "I have dealt with many evil spirits, so I should have gained a lot of merit or good karma. Originally, it was to help her reincarnate smoothly, but now... I don't know if it will be useful for her next life?"

Li Zhen frankly said, "If you ask me if there's a way to make yourself live a few more years, I'll tell you that I can definitely think of a way. But if you're asking about the next life, I can only honestly tell you that I can't be sure."

“I can try to accumulate some good karma for her, but whether it will be effective, I don’t know. It involves reincarnation, which is a matter for the underworld to decide.”

Huang Yongfa was somewhat disappointed, but then he heard Li Zhen say, "But I know someone who definitely has a way."

"Who is it?" Huang Yongfa asked hurriedly.

"Underworld officials." Li Zhen pointed to the ground. "I'm going to the underworld. If I can see any underworld officials, I'll ask them for you."

Jiang Xue, who floated down from the ceiling, interjected, "Ghost messengers are not easy to deal with. Some of them have a terrible attitude. If you encounter one of them, not only will they not tell you what you want to know, but they might also beat you up and throw you out of the underworld."

“I have inquired about this issue before, but no underworld messenger answered my question; they all gave me vague answers.”

Li Zhen smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I have dealt with the underworld before, and I have a lot of experience dealing with these rude underworld officials."

He looked at Huang Yongfa and said, "You just need to send me to the underworld. You don't need to worry about anything else. That way, no matter what happens in the underworld, you won't bear much responsibility since you know nothing about it."

"Even if someone comes to you, just say you were coerced by me."

These words made Huang Yongfa's heart skip a beat, and he had a bad feeling.

Jiang Xue dared not get too close to the female demon and the corpse demon, and stood far away by the rocking chair, saying, "What... do you want to do in the underworld? Judging from your words, your purpose doesn't seem pure."

Li Zhen replied simply, "It's just to see the underworld officials."

His gaze remained fixed on Huang Yongfa.

Taking a deep breath, Huang Yongfa said, "Alright, I'll take you down. I hope you won't forget your words."

“I have no reason to lie to you.” A smile returned to Li Zhen’s face. “If I really wanted to do something, I wouldn’t need to go through all that trouble to lie to you.”

Huang Yongfa ran to the TV cabinet, opened it, took out a transparent plastic bag, and said to Li Zhen, "What preparations are you making?"

Li Zhen extended his hand.

A red-eyed bat flew out from the banshee's cloak and landed on his arm, its crimson eyes fixed on Jiang Xue, assuming an attack stance.

Jiang Xue was quite frightened by the red-eyed bat. She cried out and floated to the farthest curtain.

Huang Yongfa frowned as he looked at the red-eyed bat.

Li Zhen explained, "This bat is very special; it should be able to enter the underworld. I will take it with me this time."

Huang Yongfa nodded.

He lay down on the recliner, shook the plastic bag, and finally said to Li Zhen, "I just need to use this plastic to suffocate myself to enter the underworld. You... don't need to do anything?"

Li Zhen originally wanted to say that it was unnecessary to do so.

In his mind, as long as Huang Yongfa's soul entered the underworld, with the strength of his primordial spirit, he would definitely be able to follow Huang Yongfa's soul to the underworld.

But then Li Zhen thought again, he wasn't sure if there were any differences in this world. If something went wrong and he failed to enter the underworld, it might add some more trouble.

After pondering for a moment, Li Zhen prepared some cinnabar ink, dipped his hand in the ink, and drew some talismans on Huang Yongfa's body. Then he drew some similar talismans on his own body as well.

After wiping his fingers clean, Li Zhen said to Huang Yongfa, "Now it's ready."

Huang Yongfa glanced at the talismans on his body and then put the transparent plastic bag over his head.

"Ah Fa!" Jiang Xue suddenly called out.

Huang Yongfa paused, then nodded to Jiang Xue.

Jiang Xue smiled at Huang Yongfa and said, "Don't push yourself. Your own safety is the most important thing."

Huang Yongfa smiled at Jiang Xue, put the plastic bag over his head, and tied the opening of the bag around his neck tightly with both hands.

He quickly began to suffocate, opening his mouth inside the plastic bag and struggling to breathe, drawing the bag tightly against his face.

Suddenly, he seemed to suffocate and faint, his head slumping back against the rocking chair.

Li Zhen, who had been keeping a close eye on Huang Yongfa's condition, suddenly looked down at the ground.

After giving orders to the female demon and the demonic fetus in his mind, instructing them to guard his body, Li Zhen's primordial spirit leaped out of his divine body, wrapped around the red-eyed bat, and fled underground.

Just then, something unexpected happened to Li Zhen.

The dormant ghost fetus suddenly extended a tentacle from behind the corpse demon, grabbed Li Zhen's primordial spirit, and like the red-eyed bat, was wrapped by Li Zhen's primordial spirit and escaped underground together with it.

To Li Zhen's surprise, the ghost fetus, like the red-eyed bat that could communicate with the spirit world, was able to accompany him to the underworld.

With his vision gone, Li Zhen's primordial spirit entered a state of chaos, where he could only feel a pulling force dragging him downwards.

This made Li Zhen somewhat relieved.

Fortunately, he was very well prepared; otherwise, it would have been very difficult to reach the underworld by simply following him.

Perhaps it was only a moment, or perhaps a very long time had passed, but Li Zhen clearly felt that he had crossed a special barrier and entered a gloomy world.

When his vision returned, Li Zhen saw a world completely different from the one he had just witnessed...

(End of this chapter)