[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-heavenly-official-bestows-evil":3,"chapter-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-67":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Heavenly Official Bestows Evil",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2316686,4530,"Chapter 67: Borrowing a Corpse to Revive a Soul","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-67",67,"\u003Cp>The corpses provided by Ms. Jinfish were all more or less the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian picked one with slightly more prominent features, and that was his choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dressed the corpse in clothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed his demon-sight mirror, skinning razor, and the remaining black dog blood onto the corpse’s body, then carried it and followed Ms. Jinfish to the cosmetic surgery room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surgery room was not professional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken windows and doors, glass caked with grime, dim yellow lighting, and filthy floor covered in countless black human-shaped stains—all of it made the heart uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were two operating tables, both rusted, and a set of wooden chairs and a table cluttered with miscellaneous items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resistance was useless!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian shook his head in disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their hands, feet, faces, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose—all bodily features kept emerging from the black liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stumbling forward a few steps, Wu Xian touched the seam on the corpse’s skull, and then his body, like toilet paper flushed down a drain, spiraled inward and was sucked into the corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following her reminder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Ms. Jinfish step before the altar, pick up a brush made of curled hair, and scribble in the air while muttering rhyming incantations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ms. Jinfish had mixed this potion earlier, Wu Xian had wisely avoided looking, so he had no idea what was inside—and thus felt no great psychological resistance, pinching his nose and downing it in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish had finished her preparations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally thought curses differed from evil spirits and could be dealt with by clever means, but now it seemed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish took a jar of ashes and carefully sprinkled them around the perimeter of the operating table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed Wu Xian’s earlier judgment had been correct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian looked at his hands, moved them casually, and found the possession effect was quite excellent—no nauseating side effects, exactly like when he first awoke as Xu Ming, and his memories remained untouched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian opened his eyes and sat up on the cold operating table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard’s rifle, black dog blood, demon-sight mirror, and skinning razor were all there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish smiled slightly: “You don’t need to worry about that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the true face of the curse residing within Wu Xian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least until the curse’s threat was cleared, he was temporarily safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could barely identify a few things: tallow candles, blood-incense sticks, a skull incense burner, white spirit money, and so on…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian had temporarily escaped them by possessing this body, but they would not let him go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Um… before the cosmetic surgery officially begins, may I ask—is it painful?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian narrowed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian noticed thick, oily black liquid suddenly gushing from his original body; the blob plopped onto the floor and wriggled toward him, within which faint shadows of a family of four could be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Possession?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian fired two shots—this time not rubber bullets—but the bullets vanished upon hitting the black water, leaving no sign of effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By command, enter this body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dead corpse, come alive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ms. Jinfish chanted, Wu Xian’s spirit rose, detached from his original flesh, and floated lazily toward the corpse lying on the other operating table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary physical attacks are ineffective!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, under Ms. Jinfish’s murderous gaze, Wu Xian knocked over the locust wood table—but the liquid simply passed through it, offering no delay whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dead possession is simpler.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Living possession is far more advanced; the simplest method is to forcibly merge with the soul of an infant before its mind develops, thereby acquiring a flawless living body without any risks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian would not survive long enough in this body to see it rot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While explaining to Wu Xian,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian placed the corpse on one operating table and sat himself on the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian was shocked: “This must be dead possession, right? How long until I start getting maggots?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But dead possession, in the end, only takes a corpse—and corpses eventually rot, stink, and turn into piles of bones crawling with maggots…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s possession!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After drinking the entire potion, Wu Xian grew drowsy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half-asleep,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian found his movements uncoordinated; what he heard and saw was far less clear than when he was alive, and even walking was difficult, as if he were missing limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nervously asked Ms. Jinfish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was somewhat averse to medical treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish patted Wu Xian on the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she handed him a bowl of murky potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All this talk of reincarnation, soul transmigration, breaking the fetal veil—it’s all just live possession of a body.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian asked warily: “What are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish took a drag from her cigarette: “Have you heard of wind evil entering the brain? The Fengfu point at the back of the head is where evil qi most easily invades. To possess this body, you must enter through here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish pushed aside the clutter on the table and began preparing for what came next, chatting with Wu Xian as she worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he moved about,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lonely soul at the end of the road,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d never even liked needles since childhood, let alone surgery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve probably heard tales of yin spirits seizing living bodies, but the stories never mention that possession has two types: dead possession and live possession.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She brushed off Wu Xian’s question and continued explaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This must be the side effect of the soul leaving the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you heard of borrowing a corpse to revive a soul? It’s when a yin spirit attaches itself to a still-intact body. More advanced ghosts can even erase the original soul and take full possession of the living flesh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Drink it. Once you drink it, your yin spirit can leave your body more easily.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abandon the body, release the yin soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you were changing skin or blood, the pain would exceed your imagination—but if you’re only changing bodies, the pain is manageable. After all, this isn’t really surgery anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian asked curiously: “If it’s not surgery, then what is it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ms. Jinfish smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, stop zoning out—you still have a problem to solve.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She flipped over the other corpse and sliced a one-inch wound into the back of its skull with a small knife.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about the flying-blade spell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian curled his finger; the strange aura at his fingertip told him the flying-blade spell had transferred to his new body’s finger—his combat abilities were now complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She found more malevolent objects and arranged them one by one on the blood-soaked locust wood table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t want to endure the time needed to raise a body, there are more advanced methods: first possess the body and use it to commit unspeakable crimes, driving the original owner to mental collapse and erasing their self-awareness—then merge with their soul and perfectly seize the living flesh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This feeling…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just kill them outright!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ming Dynasty, Wu Cheng’en, Journey to the West, Chapter 75: “Monkey, now that you’ve entered my treasure vase, forget the path to the West! If you hope to worship Buddhas and seek sutras, only by turning your back, reversing your cart, and reincarnating through possession can you hope to succeed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1209,"2026-06-20T14:31:06.102Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e7999ed6ed75afcc20e97ea6a535df4cbb7b21031e9ff716aa517cd3c769088a","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-68","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-66",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fheavenly-official-bestows-evil-cover.jpg"]