The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 82: A Showdown between Black Magic and Taoism (Part 1)
In the small town, in a spacious courtyard second only to the Miao family's, the doors of many houses were opened one after another.

When I opened the door, there was no one outside.

After the door opened, only a breeze blew in.

A servant in a certain room seemed to have noticed something. He came out to check but didn't see anyone. So he closed all the doors with a puzzled look on his face.

She didn't notice that a newspaper was blown out of a bedroom window by the wind.

……

After returning to his body, Li Zhen did not move for a long time.

"Thunder magic... really interesting..."

After a long pause, Li Zhen raised his head.

At this time, his face was no longer just white, but had taken on an ugly blue color, and the blue vertical marks on his forehead that had originally disappeared reappeared.

Whether it is zombies or his own soul, what they fear most is the extremely strong positive thunder.

As the Taoist was well prepared, he used his Yin Shen state to test the other party's background, but suffered a small loss after just one encounter.

Until now, the "booming" sound in his consciousness has not stopped.

After returning to his body, Li Zhen's hands and feet remained numb, as if they had been struck by lightning.

Fortunately, there was the chaotic will of the two evil demons in his soul, which blocked some of the damage for him. In addition, he retreated quickly in the soul state, so the man's thunder method only caused him some minor injuries.

Now, while his soul was shaken, the two evil demons became restless even after suffering some damage from the thunder magic.

Physical injuries are easy to heal, but if the soul is severely damaged, or if it is corroded more deeply by evil energy, then it will be troublesome...

If what you know is thunder magic and others are afraid of its evil nature, then that would naturally be an interesting thing.

But if on the other hand you are the one who is struck by evil, that would be a very dangerous thing.

Even though Li Zhen can use the "Half-Ghost Descent" technique and his spirit can leave his body, it does not mean that he can act recklessly.

A Taoist who came from nowhere taught him a lesson.

This Taoist's magic power was much higher than that of the one-eyed wizard whom he killed casually. His thunder magic was especially terrifying, which made Li Zhen feel pressured.

From now on, it's best to let the tough-skinned red-eyed bats do this kind of probing...

Despite the risk of getting injured, Li Zhen did not gain nothing. At least he had already gotten a glimpse of the other party's background.

But the other party knew nothing about him.

At their level, the easiest way to decide life and death is to crush the opponent with great magic power.

If this cannot be done, it depends on the methods of both parties and how much they understand each other's methods.

If you are fully aware of other people's methods, you can naturally use corresponding methods to restrain their methods.

If you don’t understand, you will be very passive and may capsize at any time.

With some of the one-eyed wizard's memories, Li Zhen had a rough guess about this Taoist's methods.

However, this Taoist only thought that he was some kind of demon, and his methods against him were limited to controlling little ghosts and raising corpses.

In this way, he naturally stood in the dark.

Since practicing the art of black magic, this was the first time Li Zhen encountered a so-called righteous person of equal strength...

"Then let's have a fight..."

After taking a breath, Li Zhen looked at the zombie still twitching on the ground.

Although most of the evil spirit was struck off by lightning, the zombie's aura was still extremely ferocious, much stronger than when it first transformed.

A few more drops of blood were dripped onto the zombie's brow. When the zombie twitched violently, Li Zhen, with his eyes closed, truly felt a brutal, bloodthirsty, and irrational will coming into contact with his consciousness through an inexplicable connection.

This is a mixed will formed by the residual souls drawn into the zombie's body along with the evil spirit, which can make the zombie more ferocious.

As long as you are not afraid of the backlash of this ignorant will, there will be no problem in controlling zombies.

After a moment, Li Zhen opened his eyes, picked up the Sanqing Bell on the ground, and shook it gently.

"The Supreme Lord has commanded, the corpse moves with the bell, hurry as the law commands!"

As soon as Li Zhen uttered the curse, the zombie on the ground moved its arms, and then slowly climbed up from the ground.

The zombie showed its ferocious appearance, let out a hoarse roar at Li Zhen, and spewed out a large mouthful of black air, as if it was going to bite Li Zhen with its mouth full of sharp fangs in the next moment.

Li Zhen slowly stood up and shook the Sanqing Bell in his hand.

The zombie trembled all over and stood still.

Li Zhen walked up to the small bamboo basket containing the little ghost, opened the lid, and dripped a few drops of his own blood into it.

The shriveled heart quickly became full after absorbing Li Zhen's blood.

"I...I was struck by lightning!"

As soon as the translucent little ghost came back to life, it shrank back into the small bamboo basket in fear.

Li Zhen ignored him.

He picked up the rolled-up newspaper on the ground and took out a bunch of short hair from the newspaper.

This was exactly what he had just taken from the square-faced officer under the altar.

Pulling out a few short strands of hair, Li Zhen placed them in front of the zombie's nostrils.

"Go kill the owner of this hair!"

Li Zhen shook the Sanqing Bell.

The zombie's nostrils twitched, sucking the short hairs into its nostrils, and then its body continued to vibrate. The uncontrollable violence made it continuously emit a beast-like growl from its throat.

Li Zhen looked at the bamboo basket where the little ghost was and said, "Take him to the other side of the lake."

The little ghost cautiously poked his head out: "I'm afraid of being struck by lightning."

"I won't strike you this time. You're not worth being struck by lightning." "Really?"

"Take it over, and you'll complete a mission."

Li Zhen found a piece of dry wood, tied the zombie and the wood together with vines, and then pushed the zombie and the wood directly into the lake.

Although the dead wood had great buoyancy, it could not bear the weight of the zombie, and became half-floating and half-sunken along with the zombie.

Li Zhen handed a few strands of hair to the little ghost and said: "Put a strand of hair in front of its nose and it will go crazy and kill people. You can also use hair to guide its direction."

The other party knew that he could control the little ghost, so he would definitely be on guard and would not give the little ghost a chance to kill, so Li Zhen did not say too much to the little ghost.

As long as it sends the zombies over.

The kid knows when to say more and when to say nothing.

It jumped out of the small bamboo basket and went directly into the water, pushing the floating dead tree and zombie to swim quickly to the other side.

Circles of ripples spread out from the dead tree to the water surface. They were not noticeable in the dark night and were not even as big as the splashes made by the big fish in the river when hunting.

Li Zhen looked across.

There are more torches over there, which means more people have been sent there to guard against it.

But in the dark night, they did not dare to search the lakeside in such a complex environment.

Li Zhen picked up the newspaper on the ground and carefully tore off the slightly blurry black and white photo on the front page news.

If you look closely, you can see that it is a photo of the square-faced officer.

From the one-eyed wizard's memory, Li Zhen knew that the man's name was Wu Youan, a greedy and murderous military thug.

Few people took photos in this era, but there were still opportunities to take photos, so Li Zhen went to Wu Youan's house according to his memory and prepared to look for photos.

As a result, I didn't find the photo, but I saw this newspaper.

The newspaper reported that a reporter interviewed Wu Youan when he returned from a victorious battle.

At that time, Wu Youan was sitting high on his horse, looking very happy.

He probably thought that time was worth commemorating, so he kept a copy of the newspaper.

The other party's hair and photos fell into his hands, and Li Zhen's most proficient black magic came in handy.

He found a handful of dry grass and tied it into the shape of a doll with the thin red rope in the one-eyed wizard's bag. Then he pasted small photos torn from the newspaper on the doll's face and tied the short hair into the doll's neck.

After placing the spider demon statue upright, Li Zhen sat cross-legged in front of the demon statue with the puppet in his hand.

He found a few thin iron hooks of unknown use from the one-eyed wizard's magic weapon and straightened them to make thorns.

Visualizing the spider demon in his mind, Li Zhen tried to stab the head of the puppet in his hand.

The thorn seemed to encounter some obstacle and was bounced away as soon as it approached the doll's head.

Li Zhen was not surprised.

The other party was indeed on guard against evil magic.

But this precaution may be useful for ordinary sorcerers, but it is a different story for a sorcerer like him.

Li Zhen placed the doll in front of the evil demon statue and mumbled a spell.

The evil aura on the demon statue became more and more intense, and the eight twisted spider arms seemed to dance along with it.

……

"Hurry up! It's the inches I say. If you build the altar so that one side is higher than the other... you're accomplices of the evildoers, and I'll kill you!"

Wu Youan crossed his arms and directed the soldiers he had called to work.

If this altar can handle it, then it will definitely be built quickly.

But now not only the size must be correct, but even the wood and other things must be correct, so the repair will definitely be slow.

The Taoist kept looking towards the lake, counting on his fingers. He turned and urged, "Captain Wu, tell them to hurry up. I have a bad feeling."

Wu Youan threatened the soldiers again, then said to the Taoist priest, "Master, that demon can't do anything to you. Will he look for opportunities to harm ordinary people like us? If he comes looking for us..."

The Taoist said confidently, "As long as you carry the talismans I gave you, no evil magic can harm you."

"Then I feel relieved." Wu Youan subconsciously touched the pocket of his shirt.

What is contained in it is the talisman given by the Taoist priest.

The moment it touched his bag, Wu Youan suddenly felt that the talisman seemed a little hot.

When he stopped his hand, the heat disappeared again, as if what he had just felt was just an illusion.

Suddenly, a series of screams came from the other side of the lake, making Wu Youan alert.

"Master, something seems to have happened over there!" He subconsciously pulled out the pistol from his waist.

The Taoist also looked towards the lake.

Not long after, another series of gunshots came from that side.

The gunshots didn't last long before they became sporadic and finally stopped completely.

After waiting for a long time and hearing no movement, Wu Youan looked around and pointed at a soldier at random.

"You! Yes, you! Go over there and see what's going on!"

The soldier ran reluctantly towards the lake.

After the soldier disappeared, Wu Youan and others waited for a long time, but did not see the man come back.

Wu Youan and the Taoist priests began to feel uneasy.

The five fingers of the Taoist's left hand almost created an illusion.

Just when Wu Youan was about to speak, he suddenly saw seven or eight soldiers running over from the other side of the lake.

(End of this chapter)