Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 258: Digging the Ground Is Hard to Escape

The blood and energy released by Shang Lu rolled into the cell and immediately lifted Zhao Qi up.

But in reality, what was lifted up was just a piece of skin.

Zhao Qi's head, along with his body, were pulled out of the skin.

Just like a cicada shedding its shell.

The flesh that emerged from the skin was no longer soft and rotten, but had recondensed and turned back into human form.

But the skin had not yet grown out, and the red flesh was exposed outside, making Zhao Qi look like a bloody man, hideous and terrifying.

Several bones protruded from Zhao Qi's skinless body, which he used as a shovel and a pickaxe.

Before being discovered by Shang Lu, Zhao Qi was quietly digging the ground under the cover of a skin, using a pickaxe made from bones.

After Lu Yang arrived at the prison, he drew talismans and cast spells to block the escape technique to prevent Zhao Qi from using sorcery to escape through underground burrows.

However, no one expected that Zhao Qi would actually use this method of digging a tunnel to escape.

You know, the ground of the prison in the thieves' office has been compacted and is very hard.

Even if someone has some skills, if they want to dig it out, it would take a lot of effort and make a lot of noise.

But no one expected that Zhao Qi, who was tortured half to death, still had the strength to dig up the solid ground!

This obviously couldn't be Zhao Qi's own strength.

Most likely, he used some sorcery to make a promise and obtained this power from the sacrificed demons.

Zhao Qi was also shocked that Shang Lu had discovered his trick.

He never expected that he had been so secretive and careful that he had deceived the wizard Lu Yang but failed to deceive Shang Lu.

This kid is actually more alert than the wizard?
How did he find out?
Just as Zhao Qi was astonished, he heard Shang Lu's cold snort.

"I was wondering why I smelled a fishy smell. It turns out that you are not going to be a human wax, but a mouse digging holes!"

When Zhao Qi heard this, he realized that Shang Lu had actually smelled his digging action through his nose.

He couldn't help but complain in his heart: Does this guy have a dog's nose? Is it so sharp?

Seeing that he had been exposed, Zhao Qi simply let out a strange cry, and large pieces of bones emerged from his body with muffled "puff" sounds, and he started digging holes in the ground.

Zhao Qi worked at full speed and dug out a tunnel in an instant, digging out a lot of soil and crawling into the tunnel.

Shang Lu shouted loudly, and was about to mobilize his blood and energy to pull Zhao Qi out of the tunnel.

Lu Yang said gloomily: "Don't worry, leave it to me, he can't get away!"

He quickly made hand gestures and slapped the ground.

"Om-"

A ball of witchcraft energy surged out from Lu Yang's palm, turned into a spell, and disappeared into the ground.

The next moment, Zhao Qi crawled out of the hole in the ground with mud flying all over the place.

He was still laughing: "Hahaha, I escaped! No matter what thieves or witch officials, don't think of locking me up..."

Zhao Qi had just said half of his words when flying dirt began to fall down.

He immediately took in the surrounding situation.

Seeing Shang Lu and Lu Yang standing in front of him, surrounded by a group of thieves holding shields and guns, Zhao Qi felt as if someone had grabbed his neck, and his laughter stopped abruptly.

"What's going on? Didn't I dig a tunnel and escape? Why am I still in the cell?"

Zhao Qi was shocked and angry, and couldn't believe that what he saw was real.

Seeing the thieves surrounding the cell, holding their guns and trying to stab him, Zhao Qi let out an angry roar and once again urged the bones that popped out of his body to turn into a human drill and drill into the ground again.

This time, Shang Lu was no longer nervous or anxious.

He waved his hand and asked the thieves around the cell to put away their guns and remain alert.

Although Zhao Qi became strange again, he paid a heavy price.

Shang Lu clearly felt the weakening of his energy. If he stabbed him a few more times, Shang Lu was worried that Zhao Qi would die before the execution tomorrow.

Although it's all death, it can be very troublesome if the procedure is wrong.

And Shanglu was indeed right.

After a while, Zhao Qi came out from another location.

Seeing that he was still in the cell, Zhao Qi's expression was very devastated.

"Why is this happening? Why?"

Zhao Qi looked around.

Looking at the intersections on the ground, he shouted frantically, "I don't believe I can't get out!"

Refusing to give up, he drilled holes once more.

Seeing this, Shang Lu gave Lu Yang a thumbs up and praised him, "Brother Lu, you have a good method."

Lu Yang waved his hand and said, "This is just a maze, not a good trick. But Brother Shang, I didn't even notice Zhao Qi was secretly digging a tunnel, but you actually found it. This is real alertness and astuteness."

He was sincerely praising Shang Lu and was also sincerely grateful to Shang Lu.

If Shang Lu hadn't noticed Zhao Qi's unusual behavior, this guy might have really escaped.

Although Lu Yang cast a curse on Zhao Qi as soon as he arrived at the cell, he could still catch Zhao Qi back even if he succeeded in escaping from prison.

But he was a witch official after all. If he really let someone like Zhao Qi slip away from under his nose, he would lose face greatly.

Even if he caught the person, he would definitely be ridiculed by his fellow disciples in the Witch Academy.

Zhao Qi tried several times, but each time he was sent back to the cell, and finally gave up in despair.

He had no choice but to give up, as he had already exhausted all his strength.

It was not until this moment that Lu Yang made another hand gesture and patted the sword case on his back.

There was a rustling sound, and three swords flew out of the sword box and pierced into Zhao Qi's ribs and dantian, lifting him up and hanging him in the air.

Witch energy was flowing in the three flying swords.

Not only did it seal Zhao Qi's meridians and acupoints, but if any other force entered Zhao Qi's body, Lu Yang would know it immediately.

But Zhao Qi seemed to have no sacrifice to offer to the demons in exchange for power.

Or maybe the demon he sacrificed to had already revealed its whereabouts, and was unable to take care of itself under the siege of Zhongli Dawu and others.

After that, there were no more unusual changes in Zhao Qi.

The next day came in a blink of an eye.

Shang Lu, who had stayed in the prison for a night, was replaced by Chen Li.

Lu Yang is a bit pitiful, no one wants to replace him.

They had no choice but to stay in the prison and guard Zhao Qi, waiting for the executioner to come and identify him, and then take him to Caishikou for execution.

Shang Lu came out of the prison and went straight home, but he did not rest. Instead, he offered jade in exchange for spiritual energy as usual and absorbed it.

It was not until noon, when the sun was high in the sky, that Shang Lu took out an oil-paper umbrella.

After he opened his mouth, he called out to Qin's mother and son, "Come on, I'll take you to watch Zhao Qi being executed."

"Thank you very much, Lord."

Qin's mother and son appeared in the shadow under the old locust tree. They first bowed to Shang Lu and kowtowed three times. Then they turned into two black clouds and flew into the oil-paper umbrella.

"I'm leaving now. I'll be back soon."

Shang Lu put away his oil-paper umbrella, said hello to Sanniang and Uncle Huai, then turned around and walked out the door.

Heiyun followed closely behind him and wanted to join in the fun.

(End of this chapter)