The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 90: The plan to absorb Yang Qi

Li Zhen was thin and cast a small shadow on the ground, but the pressure he exerted on "Wang Baoling" was no less than that of the vampire zombies inside.

Wang Baoling's expression changed again and again as she hurriedly shouted, "You really won't kill me?"

Li Zhen did not answer.

Wang Baoling stepped back and said quickly, "I promise! I'll get inside the puppet in your hand right away."

Li Zhen stopped and said, "If you had made this decision earlier, it would have saved us both a lot of trouble."

Wang Baoling's eyes flickered for a while, but she finally accepted her fate.

Since he became a ghost, he has seen wizards hired to deal with him, but he has never seen such an evil and terrifying wizard.

Not to mention the monster inside, the pressure exerted on him by the "mage" in front of him was enormous.

The puppet in this person's hand was covered with strange runes, and it was obvious that it was not a good thing.

If given a choice, "Wang Baoling" would never want to go in.

After thinking about many plans, Wang Baoling finally gave them all up and had to accept the reality.

"Remember your words!"

Wang Baoling looked at the puppet in Li Zhen's hand, a gleam in her eyes, then she closed her eyes and fell backwards.

The puppet in Li Zhen's hand sank, as if something had drilled into it.

But the strange thing is that even Li Zhen couldn't sense how the ghost entered the puppet.

The puppet was sealed using the black magic of the Magusu school to deal with ghosts, but Li Zhen still felt that it was a bit unsafe, so he inserted a few needles dipped in his own blood into the puppet's head.

A scream immediately rang out from the puppet: "You're not keeping your word! You just said you wouldn't kill me! I won't let you go!"

Li Zhen said calmly, "I wasn't planning on killing you just now, but I'm definitely considering whether to kill you now."

The voice from the puppet suddenly changed: "Don't kill me! I was just joking..."

Li Zhen hid the doll and walked over to He Anping. After checking on Wang Baoling, who was in He Anping's arms, he said to him, "It's nothing serious. Put her on the bed and let her have a good sleep. She should wake up tomorrow."

"Thank you, Master!" He Anping breathed a sigh of relief. "When Baoling wakes up, we will definitely thank you."

Although I was scared to death by the methods used by this wizard, judging from the results, things went very smoothly.

Both Wang Baoling and he himself were fine.

The ghost was also captured by the wizard.

If this wizard hadn't appeared... the consequences would be unimaginable.

He Anping picked up Wang Baoling and took a look into the bedroom. When he saw the vampire zombie inside, he couldn't help but shiver again.

After sending Wang Baoling to another room to rest, He Anping said to Li Zhen who had walked into the bedroom, "Master, is this just... a zombie? I've seen it in horror novels, but I didn't expect to see it in real life today."

"It's said that zombies are extremely evil and feed on human blood. For a wizard to raise a zombie like that, wouldn't it be a bit... a bit...

"Both swords and guns can kill people, but do you think they are evil?" Li Zhen put the hat back on the zombie's head. "Isn't it the same principle when I use zombies to exorcise ghosts?"

This makes a lot of sense.

He Anping was speechless for a moment, but then he heard Li Zhen say, "I need some fresh human blood. Do you have any connections there to help me get some?"

He Anping was stunned after hearing this.

Feeding human blood does seem evil...

After rolling his throat up and down, He Anping hesitated and said, "Although I have friends in the medical system, it's difficult to get human blood directly. How about using mine? I wonder if it's okay?"

"Sure, you don't need too much. Just take out some like you're donating blood." Li Zhen led the vampire zombie out of the bedroom.

This guy just swallowed some of the negative energy from the ghost, and his violence was slightly relieved.

However, it still needs to be fed human blood as soon as possible, otherwise this guy will not completely calm down.

He Anping stayed away from the vampire zombies and cleared out a storage room for Li Zhen to place the vampire zombies.

The house that Wang Baoling rented was very large. In addition to the normal bedroom, there were two empty rooms, one of which was this storage room.

After closing the door, Li Zhen sat down at a table, placed the puppet in his hand on the table, and gently moved the fine needles on the puppet's face, and heard a scream from inside the puppet.

"Don't pretend. This kind of torture shouldn't make you scream that much."

"You're going too far! What on earth do you want to do?!"

"Let me ask you a few questions."

"Why don't you just ask directly? Why do you have to resort to such tactics? Is this your way of communicating?"

"I'm worried you won't answer honestly."

"Ask, ask, ask, I'm honest!"

"who are you?"

"I don't know...ah, I really don't know, stop stabbing! Stop stabbing!"

"You won't know who you are?"

"I really don't know! I'm not Shi Zhongjie. Before I took over Shi Zhongjie's body, I was just a wandering ghost without much consciousness. Later, I happened to meet Shi Zhongjie who was burned to death. I combined with Shi Zhongjie's resentment and became who I am now. It's not wrong to say that I am Shi Zhongjie."

"Why are you targeting Wang Baoling?"

"I need to absorb human yang energy to stay alive."

"Only absorb Yang energy?"

"Like your monster, it also needs... human blood?"

"How did you absorb the Yang energy from Wang Baoling? I didn't see any tooth marks on her body."

"I didn't want to kill her outright, so I didn't suck her dry. I just took advantage of her and drained her yang energy bit by bit. I wanted to turn her into my own ghost..."

"I want to know, is this ability of yours innate, or is it something you achieved through some method?"

The evil ghost in the puppet was silent for a moment before saying, "I sensed the moment you appeared. You don't have much Yang energy left in your body. In fact, you're just like me, a ghost parasitizing a corpse..."

Li Zhen, with an expressionless face, moved the fine needle a few times. After hearing the evil ghost's feigned screams, he pulled out a palm leaf whip from his sleeve and hit the human-shaped puppet fiercely.

The palm leaf whip was not hard, but it left two white whip marks on the puppet.

The evil ghost's screams suddenly became different: "Ahhh... It hurts! It hurts so much! Stop hitting me! Please! Stop hitting me!"

Li Zhen stopped whipping.

Looking at the whip, he hesitated.

Beating an evil spirit half to death with a palm leaf whip can extract its memory.

If the other party's ability to absorb yang energy comes from some means, then this method will be useful.

But if the other party's method is an instinct, or an ability that he doesn't know how it came about, then it will be useless even if Li Zhen obtains that memory.

Keeping this evil ghost as experimental material, perhaps we can experiment out something interesting.

"I don't want to hear anything that's not relevant to my problem."

"I understand, I understand. I won't say any more nonsense. I'll answer whatever you ask."

"How did you get the ability to absorb Yang energy?"

"I don't know either. It's just an instinct...an instinct. By sucking blood or taking advantage of others, I can gain yang energy. This is the only way to sustain my life."

"If you absorb their yang energy, they will die. This is equivalent to exchanging their lives for yours?" Disappointed Li Zhen raised the whip.

"Look, if you...if you want to absorb Yang energy and increase your lifespan, I have a way."

"Oh? What method?" Li Zhen put down the whip again.

The evil ghost, completely unaware that he was almost reduced to ashes, said, "Take me back to my glasses shop first."

……

Twenty minutes later, I took another taxi and arrived at Shi Zhongjie's burned-down eyewear store.

It was late at night, the streets were deserted, and the optical shop was filled with a gloomy atmosphere.

More than three years after the fire, the optical shop has remained in its original state and no one has ever come to clean up the store.

Following the guidance of the evil spirit inside the puppet, Li Zhen walked into the eerie glasses shop and dug out a palm-sized box from under a collapsed wall.

When I opened the box, I found several boxes of contact lenses inside.

The evil spirit inside the puppet then said, "Open the box of the contact lens on the far left and bring it close to me."

Li Zhen opened the box as instructed and took the contact lenses to the puppet.

The evil spirit inside the puppet seemed to have done something, causing the contact lens to have a more sinister aura.

"Okay, you can put it on now," the evil ghost said. "As long as you wear this contact lens, you can absorb Yang energy."

"I'm not nearsighted, so can I wear these glasses?" Li Zhen picked up the contact lenses and took a look. "Of course you can, they won't affect your eyesight," the evil ghost urged. "Put them on quickly! As soon as you put them on, you can absorb Yang Qi!"

"You seem anxious?" Li Zhen looked at the puppet.

The evil ghost muttered, "I'm afraid you'll kill me."

"I am a man of my word." Li Zhen tore off the last layer of packaging on the contact lenses, took out the contact lenses, and put them into his eyes.

There was a cool feeling in the eyes.

It was a little uncomfortable at first, but Li Zhen blinked and the discomfort disappeared.

Li Zhen looked around.

Just like what the evil ghost said, wearing contact lenses does not affect his vision.

But the optical shop seen through these contact lenses seems to have something more.

Is that yin energy?

Bow down.

Li Zhen looked at the puppet in his hand.

Through the puppet's body, he vaguely saw the ghost inside.

This contact lens can actually allow him to see ghosts with his naked eyes!
Li Zhen has a strong ability to sense Yin energy, but he can only vaguely sense invisible ghosts, and it is impossible for him to see them directly with his naked eyes like he does now.

But these contact lenses helped him do this.

Just talking about this one function, this trip is not in vain.

The evil spirit inside the puppet suddenly burst into a ferocious laugh: "Hahahaha, you're so greedy! As greedy as Wang Baoling!"

"From now on, this body of yours is mine! Everything about you is mine! Don't you know that I like your half-dead body the most? This kind of body is the easiest to possess..."

The demon's voice suddenly stopped.

Li Zhen only felt his body getting cold, as if something had entered his body.

His spirit was so powerful that he wasn't worried about this kind of possession at all.

But this time, before he could react, he heard a miserable scream.

"What is this? You...how could there be...what is this inside your soul? Save me! Save me! I was wrong! I was wrong! I still have value! I know how to absorb Yang Qi!"

Li Zhen felt the state of his soul and knew what had happened.

The invasion of this evil spirit's breath caused a reaction from the spider demon and the bat-faced demon.

A small character like this evil ghost is definitely not worthy of sitting at the same table with the two evil demons. He will be in trouble once he breaks in.

The kind-hearted Li Zhen suppressed the two evil demons, creating a chance for the evil ghost to escape.

The evil ghost fled back into the puppet: "I..."

Li Zhen pulled out a palm leaf whip and hit the puppet hard.

Regardless of the opponent's screams, after a dozen or so whips, the opponent was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to scream.

The palm leaf whip pierced directly into the puppet and devoured the evil spirit inside.

A chaotic stream of memories flooded into his mind. Li Zhen ignored those memories and instead first sensed the changes in his eyes.

Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief as the cool feeling he felt from wearing contact lenses did not disappear.

Otherwise it would be all in vain...

However, an idea suddenly occurred to him: was the real body of this evil ghost the one that was swallowed by the palm leaf whip, or the contact lens?
If the palm leaf whip only devours a piece of consciousness and does not involve the actual contact lens that is the source of resentment, then it will indeed have no effect on the contact lens.

So, the resentment of Shi Zhongjie who was burned to death should have remained on a certain contact lens, and later combined with the consciousness of the evil ghost, giving birth to the strange evil ghost that Li Zhen saw.

And now that the evil ghost's consciousness, which had been gradually strengthened with the help of the living people's yang energy, had been devoured by the palm leaf whip, only the contact lens that carried Shi Zhongjie's resentment was left?
Li Zhen looked at the other contact lenses and found nothing special.

This special contact lens carrying resentment should only be produced through the influence of evil spirits.

So, apart from your own contact lenses and Wang Baoling's contact lenses, are there any other contact lenses?
Li Zhen walked out of the burned-out eyewear store and took a taxi directly back to Wang Baoling's house.

There are many ways to break the evil spirit, the simplest of which is to use glutinous rice, which can restrain the evil spirit.

Li Zhen asked He Anping to find some glutinous rice and used the rice washing water to wipe Wang Baoling's eyes several times.

The evil ghost's consciousness has been eliminated. If this level of negative energy remains attached to a living person's body, it will slowly dissipate unless something unexpected happens.

Now, after washing with this glutinous rice water, the negative energy from Wang Baoling's eyes immediately dissipated.

At the same time, Li Zhen felt the coolness in his eyes become stronger.

Are they all concentrated in this contact lens in my eye?

The runes on his arm have conveyed to Li Zhen that he can return at any time.

It seems that there is no major change this time...

Li Zhen returned to the room and checked the evil ghost's confused memory.

The next morning, Wang Baoling woke up and came to express her gratitude to Li Zhen.

Not long after, He Anping came to the utility room where Li Zhen was with his own blood.

Li Zhen fed the blood to the vampire zombie bit by bit.

The breath of the vampire zombie that drank human blood gradually became relaxed and no longer as violent as yesterday.

Putting the blood bag on the table, Li Zhen reached out and dipped a little blood in front of his eyes to observe.

The reason why the evil ghost was able to absorb yang energy was completely instinctive, not due to any magic or anything like that.

But this also gave Li Zhen an important inspiration——

If you want to obtain yang energy, of course the easiest way is to find someone.

But why can't he obtain yang energy from living people on his own?

Is it because he hasn't completely transformed into a ghost?

Then why can't the little ghost obtain yang energy from the body of a living person?

Li Zhen fell into deep thought.

If he were to rely on himself alone, these questions would never be answered.

But combined with the many memories he obtained, even if he couldn't find the answers to these questions, he could see the possible reasons.

The fact that the little ghost does not need to obtain yang energy may be related to the fact that the little ghost is refined using black magic.

As for the problem that he himself cannot absorb Yang Qi, perhaps he can stimulate the Yang Qi in living people or certain living things and let the Yang Qi enter his body on its own?

Excessive Yang energy is definitely harmful to evil spirits, so Li Zhen had never thought about this before.

But this "eye ghost" made Li Zhen understand that ghosts have the instinct to absorb yang energy.

If the Yang energy is stimulated to a certain degree, perhaps it can trigger his own instincts?

Go back and try...

Li Zhen suddenly thought of the Taoist He Yan from the previous world.

With that old man's knowledge, there may not be a way to completely solve his problem, but there must be a way to maintain Li Zhen's existence.

This method is most likely some evil technique, but the old Taoist just doesn't want to tell Li Zhen.

The problems of this world have been solved, and Li Zhen, who couldn't wait to go back to conduct experiments, chose to return directly.

Everything around me became empty.

Lines of golden words appeared in front of Li Zhen.

[You have thoroughly investigated the truth behind Wang Baoling's haunting and successfully eliminated the evil spirit.]

[Congratulations! You've obtained a pair of contact lenses from the world of "Ghost Eyes." These lenses are imbued with the resentment left behind by Shi Zhongjie after he was burned to death, and are also influenced by the yin energy of an unnamed evil spirit. Wearing them will corrupt an ordinary person's mind, turning them into the evil spirit's minions and a tool for possession. If they can avoid being corrupted, they can use these lenses to see ghosts from the underworld.]

Just like I want to wait for me...

After reading this explanation, Li Zhen came to this conclusion.

The next moment he was back in the coffin.

……

When He Anping and Wang Baoling came to find Li Zhen with the money, they found that Li Zhen had disappeared without a trace.

After searching the entire neighborhood, they still couldn't find Li Zhen. The two men finally had to admit that the somewhat frightening wizard might really be gone.

After returning home, He Anping sighed, "That wizard raised such a terrifying zombie and asked me for human blood. I still doubted this wizard..."

"In the end, he left without even taking our money. He's really a nice person."

(End of this chapter)