Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 18: Chongmai, breaking through the realm!
After returning from the yamen, Shang Lu continued to focus on his cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days had passed.

The day of performance examination is just around the corner.

In the past few days, Shang Lu has spent almost all his time and energy on cultivation.

Even the number of times he accompanied Sanniang to climb to the top of the tree to look at the moon and count the stars had decreased a lot.

When he went out occasionally, it was only to go to the grass market to buy the three sacrifices and eight precious medicines, and to listen to reports from Du Feng and others. He never wasted a single moment of time.

Du Feng and his colleagues started the investigation on the day Shang Lu assigned them the task.

But more than 20 days passed and they found very little useful information.

How many strange snakes are hiding in the thick fog of Yunhua Mountain? Are there any other evil spirits besides the strange snakes? What are their strengths? What are the conditions of the villages on the mountain? Are there any living people...

They didn't find any of the information that Shang Lu was eager to know.

Only Du Feng gained a little.

During his visits and investigations, he discovered that several villages and towns around Yunhua Mountain had seen a number of disappearances over the past month.

Whenever someone goes missing, there is fog and other phenomena.

The reason why no one came to the yamen to report the case was that in this kind of matter, if you asked the yamen for help, you would definitely be asked for various benefits and hard work fees, and in the end you wouldn't be able to find anyone.

Moreover, those families did not think that it was an evil spirit that harmed people. They just thought that people were lost after falling into the fog and met with an accident.

They asked relatives and friends to help search, but so far, not a single missing person has been found.

In addition to this, Du Feng also heard another piece of news:
The heavy fog on Yunhua Mountain started several months ago. Initially, the fog only covered Maliuping on the top of the mountain.

After several months, the fog not only did not dissipate, but it became thicker and wider, covering many villages on the mountain, and even showed a tendency to spread down the mountain.

In Shang Lu's opinion, this information is enough to prove that evil spirits have indeed appeared on Yunhua Mountain!
He immediately took Du Feng to find the two captains Niu and Ma and reported to them.

However, after listening to them, the two captains just asked them to continue investigating and did not report the situation to the county magistrate and the witch court.

Shang Lu could only ask Du Feng and others to continue investigating and try to find more useful information.

He practiced even harder, preparing to go to Yunhua Mountain in person to investigate and collect evidence after the performance evaluation.

Fortunately, during this period, Sun Ying and the Black Wind Gang had restrained themselves a lot and stopped harassing him, allowing him to devote himself to cultivation.

All this was achieved because of his act of begging for sympathy in the government office.

After that day, Captain Ma specifically gave a warning to Sun Ying and the Black Wind Gang, asking them to stop forcing and making things difficult for them.

It’s not that Captain Ma had a change of heart, but he didn’t want to push Shang Lu too much and create any more trouble before the performance exam.

Although Captain Ma has connections in the county government, if there is a big commotion before the performance exam, such as a fight between Shang Lu and the Black Wind Gang, or Shang Lu committing suicide in despair, he will also be the one to suffer the consequences.

Sun Ying was naturally unwilling, but he had no choice but to obey.

But he didn't want to let Shanglu go.

He planned to deal with Shang Lu after his performance evaluation was over and he replaced Shang Lu as the regular constable.

Although he and Shang Lu had no grudge against each other in the past, it was Shang Lu who almost ruined his promotion to a regular detective.
Destroying someone's financial resources is like killing their parents, and blocking someone's future is even more abominable!
Regardless of whether Shang Lu did it intentionally or unintentionally, Sun Ying held the blame on him.

Especially during this period, as the hot weather became more severe, his hatred and murderous intent towards Shang Lu became stronger and stronger.

Therefore, although he did not cause trouble for Shang Lu again, Sun Ying still kept an eye on Shang Lu's every move, overtly or covertly.

During this process, Sun Ying discovered that whenever the grass market opened, Shang Lu would go to buy sacrificial animals and herbs.

Of course, Sun Ying didn't know that Shang Lu was using the three sacrifices and eight treasures to sacrifice to the spleen god and repair the five internal organs.

They would not have known that Shanglu's five internal organs, which were severely damaged, had been completely restored after repeated sacrifices, and were even better than before!
What he didn't know was that after his five internal organs recovered, the effect of Shang Lu's cultivation had been greatly improved.

It can be said that there has been rapid progress, and it is different every day!

In Sun Ying's opinion, Shang Lu's repeated purchases of the three sacrifices were simply a mad rush. Sacrifices were a big deal, not only did they have to be made on an auspicious day, but they also required fasting and bathing for several days before they could be performed.

How can there be something like Shanglu that comes every now and then?

Such sacrifices are not sincere at all. How can ghosts and gods respond? They are not domesticated.

While mocking Shang Lu, Sun Ying also cursed him more than once:

"Just pray to the gods and ghosts. It would be best if you could attract the attention of the evil gods and ghosts so that they can take away a waste like you who is worse than a dog as a sacrifice!"

Unfortunately, although his curse was vicious, it never came true.

But Sun Ying could never have imagined that Shang Lu, the good-for-nothing who in his eyes couldn't even beat a dog, had already recovered to the level of a minor success in bone-breaking.

Even a few days ago, Shang Lu had achieved a breakthrough to the perfection of bone-cutting in one fell swoop.

Such amazing progress was possible not only because of the powerful spleen god in the internal organs, but also thanks to the bloody meat paste provided by Sanniang.

No one knew where that bloody flesh and blood came from, but it was incredibly effective in improving one's cultivation.

Even after Shang Lu's five internal organs recovered and his cultivation level improved, the bloody meat paste that Sanniang took out had actually improved in quality, ensuring the rapid progress of Shang Lu's cultivation!

It’s good to have a wife who loves you.

Not only did his cultivation improve by leaps and bounds, Shang Lu also spent these days practicing the tendon-breaking and bone-cutting knife to mastery.

If he fought the monster snake again, he would never make the same mistake as before.

With Shang Lu's current level of cultivation, there is no problem for him to pass the performance test.

But he did not relax, and continued to work hard with all his strength, practicing hard every day.

Because he knew that after passing the performance evaluation, he would most likely face retaliation from Sun Ying and others.

That is the real test!

Without sufficient strength, you will be in great danger.

Not to mention, he also wanted to go to Yunhua Mountain to eliminate monsters and collect more blood food such as snake gall to offer as sacrifice to the spleen god.

He wanted to improve his cultivation and vision so that he could see Sanniang more clearly and realize his goal of sleeping with Sanniang in his arms sooner...

On this day, after eating the bloody meat paste specially prepared by Sanniang, Shanglu practiced the Five Beasts Health-preserving Exercise in the yard as before.

Over and over again, tirelessly.

During this process, Shang Lu suddenly felt a warm current surging from his lower dantian.

It's his energy and blood!

The boiling hot blood rushed upwards like a torrent, making a series of crackling sounds along the way and breaking through one obstacle after another.

This scene is somewhat similar to the previous scene where qi and blood impacted the spine.

However, this time, the qi and blood impacted the acupuncture points of the Ren meridian in front of Shang Lu's body.

The momentum of Qi and blood is so strong that it opens up all the acupuncture points along the way and connects them into a straight line.

After opening the Chengjiang point on the lower jaw, it did not stop, but continued to move upwards and opened the Baihui point on the top of the head in one go, and then continued to open the acupoints along the Du channel behind the body.

After a brief moment of surprise, Shang Lu suppressed the excitement and surprise in his heart, and tried his best to cooperate with this qi and blood to impact the acupoints, striving to connect the Ren and Du meridians into one.

Once the Ren and Du meridians are opened, Qi and blood can circulate in the body.

At that time, Qi and blood will circulate continuously in the Ren and Du meridians, which will not only greatly increase your strength, but also be continuous and long-lasting.

This also means that one’s cultivation has entered the Tongmai realm!
Once you enter the Tongmai realm, even if you are just at the entry level, you will have the strength to compete with Captain Ma and the Black Wind Gang!

By then, even if these people don't come to trouble Shang Lu, Shang Lu will find them and settle all the previous accounts!

(End of this chapter)