The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 80 Corpse Raising and Corpse Refining (Two-in-One)

The red-eyed bat took a while to fly over unsteadily.

It was already daybreak. There was no time to create evil spirits from the corpse to retrieve the memory, nor was there time to wait for the red-eyed bats to slowly suck the blood.

Li Zhen picked up the backpack of the one-eyed wizard and the spider demon statue, and asked the little ghost to use the bag that had been used to hold the female corpse to put the red-eyed bat and the corpse together, and dragged them away from the Miao family.

Some people have already appeared here, and I believe more people will appear soon.

They definitely couldn't go back to the charity cemetery. After Li Zhen asked Xiao Gui to go to the charity cemetery to retrieve the small bamboo basket, he found an abandoned house on the outskirts of the town and went into the house with the corpse.

This house is old and shabby and can barely keep out the wind and rain.

After looking up and down, Li Zhen used the force to climb onto the beam between the house and the roof.

There is a row of wooden boards here, blocking the light from below and preventing light from shining through the roof. It is dark and damp, exactly the place Li Zhen likes.

Although some of the firewood had a musty smell due to corrosion, Li Zhen did not mind it.

The corpse was stuffed by the little ghost into the half-collapsed wall of the house.

All traces inside and outside the house were cleaned up by the little ghost.

Even if someone came here, they would not be able to find Li Zhen here without careful inspection.

After sunrise, the little ghost couldn't appear again, and Li Zhen's soul couldn't leave his body. The red-eyed bat, the only one with combat power, was confused and dazed, so if they weren't careful, they might really capsize...

In this environment, Li Zhen couldn't fall asleep completely. The irritability in his heart kept him in a half-asleep and half-awake state.

During the day, two groups of people came here to check the situation, but they just took a perfunctory look and left. No one noticed that Li Zhen was hiding here.

As the sky gradually darkened, Li Zhen opened his eyes.

He is now almost like a kid, his daily routine is completely reversed from that of a normal person.

Li Zhen, who had not had a good rest, was unable to completely suppress the anger in his heart.

He looked at the runes on his right arm.

What made Li Zhen a little strange was that although the mission had been completed, the rune had not urged him to return.

The return time of each world seems to be a little different...

So what are the standards?
Li Zhen thought for a moment but didn't get an answer.

When it was completely dark, he asked the little ghost to drag out the body of the one-eyed wizard.

The red-eyed bat was still lying on the neck of the corpse, snoring and sucking blood.

In order to find out what exactly is wrong with him, he must first obtain the memory of the one-eyed wizard.

Almost all the props needed can be found in the One-Eyed Wizard's backpack. If there are any missing, Li Zhen will ask the little ghost to take some money and find some for him.

The money was searched from the one-eyed wizard.

The kid went out for a walk and got the things smoothly. When he came back, he told Li Zhen that there were people patrolling everywhere outside.

To avoid disturbing the ceremony, Li Zhen asked the little ghost to drag the corpse into the dense forest not far behind the house.

The situation outside is indeed serious tonight, and there are people guarding the small road.

But it's night time now, and these ordinary people can't keep an eye on Li Zhen at all.

After finding a suitable place, Li Zhen asked the little ghost to put down the corpse and things and officially began the ceremony.

When he performed this ritual on Naimi before, he had to be careful and on guard to avoid being attacked by the evil spirits that were created.

But at this time, his spirit was many times stronger than before, so he naturally didn't worry about the evil spirits retaliating against him.

Not long after, strange and obscure incantations were heard from the dense forest.

A few hours later, Li Zhen rubbed his brows to relieve the bloating and pain in his consciousness.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve acquired too many memories, but after reading the memories of this one-eyed wizard, the swelling and pain I felt in my consciousness was even stronger.

One must be careful when using a palm leaf whip for this kind of thing...

But this time we did gain a lot.

Even if I look up more information, it is not as good as obtaining knowledge directly from the memory of the one-eyed wizard who has practiced for so many years.

The so-called yang energy is the "qi" that a person is born with. Without yang energy, there is no life.

It is also known among the people that after a person dies, his yang energy will dissipate. If his soul remains in the human world, it will become a ghost.

Ghosts are eerie and terrifying creatures that lack yang energy.

Starting from the gloomy ghosts, to the yin gods, and pure yin creatures such as ghost immortals, it is an extremely yin path.

But this is not the right path.

Those who practice cultivation are those who "do not understand the great way, but want to achieve success quickly", just like Li Zhen.

Even if one becomes a ghost immortal, "although he will not reincarnate, it will be difficult for him to return to Penglai, and he will have nowhere to go", and in the end he can only reincarnate again.

And Li Zhen is not even a Yin God now.

Having come to this point, he still didn’t know what to do next, but his body continued to “transform into a corpse”.

As the one-eyed wizard said, this would inevitably lead to the loss of his yang energy.

Once the Yang energy in his body completely dissipates, then with his current spiritual strength, he will most likely become an evil ghost.

Over time, the spiritual intelligence is obscured and the person becomes a complete ghost.

Let’s not talk about the subsequent path forward. The most important thing now is to find a way to retain, or at least slow down the rate at which Yang Qi dissipates.

However, the loss of Yang Qi is affected by the "descending of corpses".

This is the crux of the problem that Li Zhen encountered.

The best way now is to bypass the "corpse descent" and retain the yang energy using special methods.

The one-eyed wizard had no good solution to this situation.

Perhaps after completely digesting the one-eyed wizard's memory, we can obtain more useful information.

In addition to the information about his own body, Li Zhen also saw some interesting content.

This one-eyed wizard was indeed a "wild Maoshan wizard". He was taught by an old wizard who claimed to be from Maoshan. He learned some skills of drawing talismans and catching ghosts. After traveling around for many years, he came to Ma Xiangping two years ago.

Those ghost-catching skills are of some use to Li Zhen, as he will inevitably encounter evil ghosts in the future.

However, the memory of drawing talismans is useless to Li Zhen.

Others need to store up some yang energy before drawing talismans, and most of them also need to communicate with the ancestors.

In Li Zhen's current condition, he definitely can't draw.

In addition to these, this one-eyed wizard has been wandering around for so many years, and in order to survive, he has also learned some Feng Shui, divination, and corpse-raising and refining techniques.

Li Zhen is not very interested in Feng Shui for the time being, but he is very interested in the evil and unorthodox techniques of raising and refining corpses.

After acquiring more memories, Li Zhen opened his eyes and looked to the south.

The memories he could see were only fragments. If he wanted to obtain the complete method of raising and refining corpses, he had to go to the residence of the one-eyed wizard and get the books that the one-eyed wizard had compiled.

After adjusting his state, Li Zhen's soul separated from his body.

After instructing the little ghost to take good care of his body, Li Zhen headed straight south.

According to the one-eyed wizard's memory, it is about ten miles from here to the one-eyed wizard's residence.

The state of the primordial spirit should be able to support Li Zhen to leave the body for more than ten miles.

Moreover, when in the state of Yuan Shen, Li Zhen can see at night and does not need to worry about the rugged road. It is much faster than traveling in physical body. It doesn't take long for Li Zhen to run back and forth.

Li Zhen, who was in the state of soul, walked faster and faster, as if he had melted into the wind, and each light step was a distance of ten feet.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhen still did not stop after seeing the small Taoist temple where the one-eyed wizard lived.

He didn't stop until fear arose in his heart.

This is the limit... Li Zhen saw a landmark stream.

Judging from the one-eyed wizard's memory, this place should be about twenty miles away from his physical body.

Li Zhen could clearly judge that if he went any further, he would most likely lose the perception of his physical body.

It's time to go back...

Without stopping, he turned and ran towards the small Taoist temple.

Soon, Li Zhen saw the Taoist temple built at the foot of the hill again.

This Taoist temple may seem ordinary on the surface, but the decoration inside is quite luxurious, which is all the contribution of Old Master Miao.

Rushing into the one-eyed wizard's bedroom, Li Zhen packed up all of the one-eyed wizard's books, talismans, and various magical instruments and took them away.

The one-eyed monk was old, and he settled in Ma Xiangping with the idea of ​​taking in a disciple to inherit his mantle.

Now all these things are cheap for Li Zhen.

Following his body's perception, Li Zhen returned to his original place.

Throwing down a pile of books, Li Zhen's soul stood at the position where his body was sitting cross-legged, and slowly merged with his body.

Opening his eyes, Li Zhen looked at the books he had brought back.

The little devil ran out from the bushes nearby: "I chased away a wolf!"

"Well done."

Li Zhen praised casually, then reached out and pulled out a thin, nameless book from the pile of books. When he opened the cover, he saw the two big words "raising corpses".

The candlelight was very dim, and Li Zhen felt dizzy after reading only a few pages.

He closed the book and rested his eyes for a moment.

Combining the memories of the one-eyed wizard, he learned the methods of raising and refining corpses very quickly.

The main reason why Li Zhen was interested in this evil magic was that there was a corpse right in front of him for him to practice.

This of course does not refer to the corpse of the one-eyed wizard.

The corpse of the one-eyed wizard is a good material, but this person has just died. According to the art of "corpse refining", it will take at least seven days to refine the corpse.

Li Zhen couldn't possibly wait that long.

There is a ready-made zombie in the lake behind the Miao family waiting for him to "refine".

After taking revenge, the vampire zombie, like the female corpse, must have lost its resentment, leaving only an empty shell.

So many bodies sank in the Miao Lake, and resentment had accumulated for many years.

Moreover, someone had just died in the Miao family, and the evil spirit was very strong.

If all the resentment, evil spirits, and residual souls were directed into the body of the zombie, the zombie would definitely become more ferocious than before.

Originally, he just wanted to reunite with his wife. If he directly used the corpse refining method to forcibly control the zombies, it would be somewhat inhumane, not to mention whether it would succeed.

Now we are just borrowing a body, so there is no question of whether it is benevolent or not.

According to the method of raising corpses that Li Zhen saw, this method works.

After studying the corpse-raising technique for a while, Li Zhen did not wait any longer. He took the various magical tools he got from the one-eyed wizard and walked directly towards the Miao family.

To avoid any more trouble, he had to transform the corpse into the zombie he needed as soon as possible.

Li Zhen's body was too fragile. Not to mention hot weapons, even cold weapons could threaten his life.

If there was a zombie, it could at least help him resist direct physical damage and greatly enhance his sense of security.

Li Zhen did not go to the lake from Miao's house as he did before, but went directly to the other side.

Across the lake, Li Zhen could see people patrolling with torches everywhere on the Miao side. It must be that the garrison in the town had taken over the Miao family.

The body should not have been retrieved...

After taking a look at the lake, Li Zhen directly asked the little ghost to go into the lake to retrieve the body.

After the resentment dissipated, the female corpse and the vampire zombie sank into the lake, roughly at the location where the painting boat was parked at the time.

But the little ghost went into the lake for a long time but couldn't find the body.

Li Zhen had no choice but to go and fish it out himself.

As soon as his soul left his body, he sensed the location of the corpse.

The corpse had absorbed his blood and had a special aura.

This made Li Zhen feel relieved.

He thought he would have to work for a long time.

Not long after entering the water, Li Zhen dragged the two bodies ashore.

It’s not because he wants to directly create two zombies.

The female corpse and the vampire zombie were hugging each other tightly. Li Zhen couldn't separate them for a while, so he had to bring them ashore together.

The female corpse's face looked paler after being soaked for a day, but otherwise it looked almost the same as when Li Zhen saw it before.

The male corpse had changed a lot.

His body had already begun to rot due to the stimulation of the corpse transformation, and became even more swollen after being soaked in water.

The originally yellowish-brown body has begun to turn white, and some parts of the skin and flesh are missing. I don’t know if it was eaten by fish or what.

The bandages wrapped around his body were still intact, but the bandage under his face had fallen off, revealing a mouth full of terrifying fangs.

After his soul returned to his body, Li Zhen looked at the two corpses and said, "Brother, I need to borrow your body. I will find a good place to bury your wife's body."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two bodies suddenly separated and rolled half a circle to the sides.

Dealing with corpses is much more comfortable than dealing with people...

Li Zhen sighed, found a secluded place, and took out the magical tools needed for corpse refining one by one.

Naturally, Li Zhen didn't need to work hard to prepare these things, as they were all taken from the one-eyed wizard.

According to the one-eyed wizard's memory and the description in the book, refining corpses is a troublesome job that requires several "procedures".

The first step is to choose a corpse.

Not every corpse can be used to make a zombie.

The body of a recently deceased person must be selected and must be intact, without any severe decay or mutilation.

The bodies of young and strong people or those who died an untimely death are more suitable because their "resentment" or "anger" is stronger.

Secondly, you need to choose a suitable environment to refine the corpse.

Generally, they choose places with heavy yin energy such as mass graves, ancient tombs in desolate mountains or abandoned roads.

And corpse refining is usually carried out at midnight when the yin energy is at its strongest.

After meeting the two requirements, you still need to prepare various magical instruments and embalm the corpse before you can start refining the corpse.

The refining process is also very troublesome. The corpse needs to be placed in a formation with strong yin energy for a period of time, usually seven days, or forty-nine days, depending on the situation.

During this period, various means must be used to make the corpse absorb negative energy and turn it into a real zombie.

After the refining is successful, the corpse will show the characteristics of a zombie, such as longer nails and darker skin.

But Li Zhen didn't need to go through so much trouble.

He now has a perfect zombie body.

The yin energy here is quite strong.

So all Li Zhen had to do was to draw an "evil-attracting formation" as described in the book, and draw the evil spirit gathered in the lake and the resentment formed by so many deaths into the body of this zombie, and then it would naturally become a horrible zombie.

(End of this chapter)