Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 165: The Treasure of the Beast

The statue with a pig head and a snake tail seemed to have no hostility towards Shanglu, and climbed directly onto the altar and sat down.

Shang Lu was stunned, wondering what was going on. Was it that the original god worshipped in the temple had returned?
When the evil beast occupied the magpie's nest, stole the incense and changed the appearance of the statue, why didn't you show up and punish it?

Now that everything is over, the spirit has appeared...

An idea suddenly popped up in Shang Lu's mind: Could it be that this god with a pig head and a snake tail had also been deceived by the blackmailing beast before?
If this is true, then is it that this god is too weak, or is the lying beast too good?
Shang Lu was very curious and thought about returning to the county town to find an opportunity to ask the witch or shaman.

At the same time, he was somewhat dissatisfied with this god with a pig head and a snake tail, and complained in his heart: "I fought hard here and finally killed the blackmailing beast. But you just come to pick up the ready-made thing without even saying thank you or giving me a thank you gift..."

Shang Lu was thinking when a strange noisy sound suddenly rang in his ears.

This sound came from the statue, and was very similar to the strange sounds that the God's Eye and the Mountain Opener had once made.

They are all incomprehensible and carry a disturbing and confusing force.

"Is it the god with a pig head and a snake tail who is talking to me through the statue?"

Shang Lu guessed and tried to speak: "I don't understand... Can you speak human language?"

The strange noise stopped immediately, but no human voice was heard.

However, a green light flew out from the snake tail of the statue, fell into Shang Lu's hand, and turned into a piece of snake scale.

"Is this for me?"

Shang Lu asked again, thinking to himself, could it be that this god with a pig head and a snake tail has the ability to read minds and can hear the complaints in my heart, so he gave me such a thank-you gift?
But this time, the statue with a pig head and a snake tail made no sound at all.

Shang Lu took a closer look and found that the statue had turned back into a straw clay sculpture and no longer had any spirituality.

The miraculous deity has gone away.

"I take back what I said before. This god is still very polite... But what is the use of this snake scale? How do I use it?"

Shanglu took the snake scale and looked at it over and over again.

The snake scales were only the size of copper coins, and there was no aura of divine power on them.

Shang Lu tried to pour blood and energy into it, but it was immediately swallowed up, and there was no reaction.

"This thing doesn't look like it's edible."

Shanglu hesitated for a moment, but finally gave up the idea of ​​eating the snake scales.

If this piece of snake scale has no nutrition and cannot be offered to the stomach, then his stomach will suffer.

Shang Lu kept the snake scale close to his body, intending to take it back to ask Feng Boyuan for advice on how to use it.

Then he picked up the oxtail knife that had been gnawed off by the fake beast "Zhongkou Suojin", walked out of the hall, dug a deep pit in the yard, and buried all the ashes of the fake beast in it.

After finishing these things, Shang Lu was about to leave the Witch Temple and inspect the situation in the town.

Sanniang suddenly waved to him in the hall: "Follow me."

"Why, Sanniang, have you discovered anything?"

Shang Lu remembered that Sanniang had been looking around in the temple before, so he hurriedly followed her.

Sanniang brought Shang Lu straight to the back of the altar, pointed at a stone brick on the ground, and asked him to infuse blood into it.

Shang Lu did not hesitate and did as he was told.

After the stone brick was infused with enough blood and energy, it made a dull "click" sound.

Shang Lu instantly understood that there was a mechanism hidden under the hall.

Sanniang pointed out a few other bricks and asked him to infuse them with blood and energy.

There were muffled "click" sounds, which soon became a series of sounds, and strange spells appeared on the stone bricks.

Then, the bricks moved away on their own, revealing the land underneath.

The ground was solid, not a tunnel or a hole as Shanglu thought.

The spell on the stone bricks was transmitted to the land at this time.

The soil flew out on its own and a cellar was quickly formed underground.

Faintly, you can see piles of gold, silver and copper coins, as well as some wooden boxes and books inside.

This kind of treasure hiding method is the first time Shang Lu has seen it. It is much more sophisticated than the Black Wind Gang.

Anyone who has been a thief knows that the sound made by a cavity underground is different from the sound made by a solid underground.

Many experienced thieves use the different sounds to find the treasure vault. The trick of the black beast is equivalent to burying the treasure. Even the most experienced thieves cannot find the place where it hides the treasure.

And judging from the stone bricks and the runes on the ground, it is obvious that there is a special mechanism.

If you don't know the method, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you will only dig up mud and not the treasure hidden inside.

This is the mystery of the magic.

Shang Lu put the tinder into the cellar and probed to make sure the air was fine before jumping down.

"As expected of a con artist, how many people have he deceived..."

The gold, silver and copper coins in the cellar are more than what Shang Lu looted from the Black Wind Gang... bah, more than what he seized!
It's normal to think about it. The fraudster traveled far and wide, cheating people everywhere. I don't know how many people he cheated and their families were ruined. How could the wealth he accumulated be small?
No matter which world or dynasty, charlatans are very good at making money.

What's more, the evil beast is not just an ordinary charlatan, it really has some supernatural powers.

Shang Lu did not count the gold, silver and copper coins he had. He first took a few books from the cellar and looked through them.

Some of these books are travel notes that introduce the customs and cultures of different places.

Some are books recording poems, such as "Bei Feng", "Xiao Ya" and so on.

Some books also record in detail the various decrees issued by various countries.

"This beast has a wide range of interests."

Shang Lu was surprised at first, but then he felt that it was reasonable.

Although the fake beast follows the path of a sophist, no matter how sophistry he uses, he still needs to master the corresponding knowledge in order to find loopholes and attack them.

Otherwise it is not sophistry, but unreasonableness.

Even if one can bewitch people with sorcery, one cannot trick them to the point where even fathers and sons would kill each other.

In addition to these miscellaneous books, Shang Lu also discovered several secret manuals on martial arts.

There are not only the famous scholar's "Sophistry", but also the "Archery", "Mathematics" and "Drive" of the Six Arts of Confucianism, as well as two books from other schools.

It was not convenient to take a closer look in the cellar, so Shang Lu put the martial arts secret books into his arms and planned to study them when he got home.

After thinking about it, he stuffed the other books into his bag.

I plan to learn about the world outside Luoshui County through these books.

While packing up the books, Shang Lu also found a few novels. He was overjoyed. Finally, he didn't have to worry about having no books to read when he went to the toilet.

After putting away all the books, Shang Lu picked up a wooden box, opened it and took a look.

Inside was a top-quality blood ginseng, which was completely red, as if blood was flowing inside it, and exuded a strong medicinal fragrance.

Shang Lu opened several other wooden boxes to check.

Without exception, they were all filled with top-grade medicinal materials, and there were also a few boxes of unknown elixirs.

Shang Lu collected the wooden boxes without saying anything.

The bag was full of luggage, so after thinking it over, he jumped out of the cellar, walked out of the witch temple, called Du Feng over, and asked him to put down his work temporarily and go find a few carts and large baskets.

Although Du Feng was puzzled, he did as he was told. He quickly found a large basket and a few carts in the town and took them to the witch temple.

Shang Lu put the wooden box into a basket, and then asked Du Feng to bring a few strong men into the witch temple, put the gold, silver and copper coins in the cellar into the basket, and move it out and put it on the cart.

"This basket of money, divide it among you."

Shang Lu was not stingy. After moving everything out of the cellar, he distributed the money in the largest basket to the county soldiers.

Upon hearing the news, the county soldiers were immediately shocked.

There were only about twenty of them, so they all got a lot from such a huge basket of money.

Even though many of them had served as frontier troops and were used to post-war rewards, such generous rewards were rare.

Under Feng Nan's arrangement, the county soldiers were divided into several teams and went to the witch temple one after another to collect their rewards.

"Thank you, sir!"

"The county lieutenant is generous!"

"Thank you, County Lieutenant, for the reward!"

The county soldiers who received the rewards cheered and thanked Shang Lu one after another, and their affection and loyalty to Shang Lu soared.

(End of this chapter)