Chapter 105 The Truth is Chilling
Suddenly, he heard a faint sound coming from the courtyard. He immediately became alert, picked up a dagger engraved with runes from the side, stood up, and carefully walked to the door. He looked out through the crack in the door. It was dusk, and the sky was already very dark. The courtyard was quiet and there was nothing there.
As I opened the door and stepped out of the courtyard, before I even turned around, I heard a voice say, "Master Ding, are you looking for me?"
Ding Zhen was startled and turned around to see a young man standing by the wall, dressed in casual clothes, with a cloth bag hanging incongruously on his chest, looking at him with a half-smile.
"Who are you"?
"I am the eldest disciple of the Purple Gold Immortal!"
"Master Zijin"?
"Ah! It's him!"
Ding Zhen spoke repeatedly.
He paused for a moment and then asked, "Since we are both members of the Taoist sect, what brings you here?"
"We captured a Japanese devil named Nogang..."
Chen Cheng still had a smile on his face, even though he was bluffing.
"Impossible, how could Nogashika Ichiro betray me?"
"You already said his name is Nogaoka Ichiro!"
Ding Zhen immediately shut up, realizing he had let something slip and there was no way to deny it now!
"As a member of the Chinese Taoist sect, you and a treacherous Japanese man harmed Chinese girls and refined their spirits. Aren't you afraid that your ancestor will strike you with five thunderbolts?"
Chen Cheng's expression changed, and he said in a cold voice.
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
Ding Zhen's eyes turned cold. Before he could finish speaking, a piercing nail shot towards Chen Cheng. Although this thing had not yet been refined into a magic weapon, it was extremely sharp. If it hit a vital spot, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die!
Chen Cheng was already prepared. He dodged the piercing nail with a swift movement, and it struck the wall, embedding itself halfway into the hard surface. It was clear how ruthless Ding Zhen was; he was aiming to kill him.
Seeing that he was holding a dagger, Chen Cheng did not dare to be careless. He took out his peach wood sword, nimbly lunged forward, and stabbed at him.
Ding Zhen hurriedly jumped aside to dodge, then conjured a lightning-summoning talisman, ignited it with Taoist qi, and shot it towards Chen Cheng. Although he was an evil cultivator, he used genuine Taoist lightning strike techniques. A golden light accompanied by a muffled thunderclap struck Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng silently recited an incantation, and the Tai Chi Shield was created at his command, blocking Ding Zhen's lightning strike.
"You'll get a taste of my lightning strike!"
Chen Cheng turned around on the spot.
"Five Thunder Palms"!
The golden palm landed solidly on Ding Zhen, instantly sending him flying. He coughed up blood before even hitting the ground!
If Chen Cheng didn't need to pry open his mouth, he really wanted to beat this traitor to death with one slap!
Ding Zhen was quite stubborn. He stood up unsteadily, took out a yellow talisman, held it above his head, muttered incantations, and stomped his right foot on the ground, clearly invoking a deity.
"Hmph, a disgrace to the Daoist sect like you, what immortal would dare possess you? Heaven and Earth, the Mysterious Ancestor, the Root of All Qi, cultivate for countless eons, prove my divine powers, Supreme Lord Laozi, hasten as the law commands!"
Chen Cheng quickly chanted the incantation, making a hand gesture with his index finger resting on his middle finger and his thumb imprinted on his ring finger. A golden light pierced through his middle finger and shot into Ding Zhen's dantian.
With a scream of pain, Ding Zhen collapsed to the ground again. The Taoist energy he had accumulated in his dantian was completely destroyed by Chen Cheng, leaving him an ordinary person!
Chen Cheng walked to his side, bent down and dragged him into the room like a dead dog. After putting him down, he ignored Ding Zhen's painful groans and carefully examined the room. The half-carved heart-piercing nail caught Chen Cheng's attention. These were magical artifacts that could restrain and control ghosts, like Gu worms. After the victim's corpse was driven into the heart-piercing nail, as long as there was a thought, the ghost would suffer unbearable pain and be at his mercy. It was a very vicious magical artifact!
On the table behind the wall were three jars, each sealed with a talisman. Chen Cheng could tell at a glance with his ghost eyes that each one contained a vengeful spirit!
After scanning the room, Chen Cheng sat down in a chair and said, "Master Ding, tell me, why did you help the Japanese refine Yin spirits?"
Ding Zhen didn't say anything, he just lay on the ground groaning.
"If you don't speak, I'll use this heart-piercing nail to harvest you, and your soul will surely speak!"
Ding Zhen's body trembled violently. He knew all too well the evil of the Heart-Piercing Nail. If it were used on him, he would not find peace even after death!
"If I tell you, will you let me go?"
"I'll let you go as long as you explain what you did with Nogaoka Ichiro!"
"Okay, I'll tell you."
Before this, Chen Cheng had already turned on the recording function on his phone and recorded him.
As he confessed, a heinous conspiracy came to light!
Ding Zhen met Nogang Ichiro through Bai Xiusheng, the vice president of the Tongnan City Taoist Association. Bai Xiusheng intentionally or unintentionally took him out to eat, drink, and have fun, gradually dragging him into the mire. Ding Zhen's nature was to enjoy good food, drink, and women. After being bombarded with sweet words, his weak will turned him into someone who loved money and material things like an ordinary person, forgetting the faith of Taoists. He gradually became a heretic who used Taoist arts to help bad people do bad things.
Nogashi Ichiro was not a college student in China, but a special agent who infiltrated China with an evil mission!
Several years ago, a highly skilled sorcerer from Japan, Saito Binpu, secretly infiltrated China. Over three years, he used Japanese sorcery to gather the souls of Japanese people who died in battle or died for their country in defeat, and enshrined them in a large Taoist temple in Qianfeng Mountain, Xinjiang Province. This temple was also built with Japanese funding and was not open to the public, so few people knew about it. The Japanese's goal was to cultivate these Japanese ghosts into fierce ghosts, vengeful ghosts, or even ghost cultivators and ghost kings to disrupt the national fortune of China. However, simply enshrining them was far from enough to cultivate them, so they launched a new plan: to capture some Chinese souls or ghosts to devour and increase their ghostly power!
The Japanese knew that Taoism in China was not to be trifled with, so they slowly carried out their plan through espionage and infiltration. Nogaoka Ichiro was one of them. He was not a college student who came to China to study, but rather someone who was looking for prey to be the hunter!
Ding Zhen was one of them. To this day, he alone has helped Nogang Ichiro refine seven Yin spirits. His method was cruel: Nogang Ichiro would find and lure prey for him to process. Wei Caixia, who died in Shen Guangzhou and Tang Ying's house, was one of them. However, before the Yin spirits were completed, the landlord forced them to move out. To avoid trouble, Nogang Ichiro and Ding Zhen discussed it and set up a simple "Spirit-Trapping Array" there. After the Yin spirits were completed, they would secretly go back to collect them. Unexpectedly, they ran into Chen Cheng by chance!
This major event had risen to the national level, and Chen Cheng dared not make a decision on his own. So he sent the video to Tian Wenzhong and then called to explain the whole story.
Without a doubt, Tian Wenzhong was greatly surprised after hearing Chen Cheng's account and hurriedly said, "I will ask that person right now. Keep an eye on Ding Zhen and make sure he doesn't make any rash moves. I will send someone to pick you up!"
Upon hearing this, Chairman Mao was first shocked, then furious! Next, the state machinery began to operate. Ten minutes later, Chen Cheng's phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was an unknown number. After answering, the other party said, "Comrade Chen Cheng, we are from the Tongnan Branch of the State Security Department. We are about to arrive at your location based on your phone's location."