Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 280 Reinforcements Arrive
Time soon came to evening.

As the sky gradually darkened, bonfires were lit in the village.

At this time, all the villagers in Xipinggou had been interrogated and confessed everything they knew.

Shentu and his men searched Xipinggou carefully inside and out.

Apart from a few homemade god tablets and statues made by the villagers, nothing else of value was found.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shang Lu asked the militiamen from Yunhe Town to make a fire and cook.

It was at this time that, under the setting sun, there was a flash of fire and a cloud of black smoke in the sky, rising towards Xipinggou from afar.

The people in the village saw this scene from afar and immediately became agitated.

"It's the immortal! It must be the immortal!"

"You are finished! The Immortal has arrived and you will all die!"

The village chief and his companions who had turned into monsters immediately started shouting excitedly.

The villagers of Xipinggou also became excited.

Although they did not shout like the village chief, they kept muttering words like "Bingying Daxian, please bless me" and "Bingying Daxian, please save me".

The bandits and militiamen who came from Yunhe Town all had changed expressions.

Not only were they trembling with fear, some of them even wondered in their hearts whether they should quickly "turn to the light" to avoid being affected.

On the contrary, Geng Feng is still a man.

He clenched the iron rod in his hand and shouted:
"Why are you panicking? With the officials from the Thief Office here, even if there are evil spirits coming, they will be killed without a trace!"

Shang Lu was in the village and could see everyone's reactions.

But there was no panic on his face.

Because he already knew that the flames and black smoke came from his own people.

Just a moment ago, the Wu Academy's jade tablet received the latest news from Lu Yang, saying that they would be there soon.

Sure enough, when the firelight fell directly into the village dam, Shang Lu saw Lu Yang riding on a flying sword.

As soon as this guy appeared, he attracted the attention of everyone in the village.

Lu Yang jumped off the flying sword, made a sword gesture and swung it.

Two flying swords with flames whooshed back into the sword case on his back.

The black smoke also fell to the ground at this time and turned into a thin man wearing a black wizard robe.

On the witch robe, there is an image of a xiezhi head embroidered on it, representing that the other party is from the Discipline Department.

But this person was not the Great Wizard Zhongli, but a wizard official from the Discipline Department whom Shang Lu had never seen before.

When they saw that there were two people coming instead of the immortal they had imagined, everyone in Xipinggou was stunned.

"Brother Shang, we are here."

Lu Yang greeted Shang Lu with a smile and introduced him.

"This is Lu Dao from the Discipline Department, Uncle Lu. Uncle Lu, this is the Shang Lu I told you about."

Lu Dao had a stern face and looked serious.

However, after seeing Shang Lu, he forced a smile on his gloomy face.

But this smile made him look even more terrifying.

"Shang Lu, I heard Jiang Cai mention you before, saying that you were born to be in the Discipline Department. Now it seems that he is right. As soon as you came to Chengfeng County, you found out the case of blood sacrifice to mountain ghosts, and now you have found out that mountain ghosts pretended to be immortals and deceived the world."

At this point, Lu Dao turned his head, glanced at the people in the village, frowned slightly and asked: "What are these people shouting about?"

Shang Lu explained: "When they saw Uncle Lu and Brother Lu coming, they thought it was a mountain ghost appearing to save them."

"A bunch of fools, they are being deceived and don't even know it."

Lu Dao frowned, snorted coldly, made a gesture with his fingers, and shouted, "Shut up!"

Everyone in the village seemed to have their mute button pressed in an instant. Although everyone opened their mouths, wanting to exclaim or scream, no sound came out.

Geng Feng was shocked when he saw this scene.

He subconsciously wanted to cheer, but found that he couldn't make a sound and his face turned green with fright.

He wanted to ask Lu Dao to remove the curse for him, but he didn't dare. He could only bow to Shang Lu repeatedly and ask him for help.

Shang Lu found this scene funny, but he also helped Geng Feng and the others who were wrongly imprisoned, and pleaded with Lu Dao: "Uncle Lu, those are our people."

Lu Dao nodded and waved, and Geng Feng and his companions immediately regained their voices, but they did not dare to make loud noises, for fear of angering the black-faced wizard and making them mute again.

Lu Yang asked, "Brother Shang, have you found any new information here?"

Shang Lu repeated to Lu Yang and Lu Dao the information he had previously interrogated from the villagers in Xipinggou, and took out the cloth bag containing minced meat and blood.

"Uncle Lu, Brother Lu, what's in this bag is the so-called spiritual body."

Lu Dao took the cloth bag, but did not open it in a hurry. Instead, he pinched his fingers and chanted a spell, releasing a ball of witchcraft energy that wrapped the cloth bag.

When I opened the bag, a foul odor came out.

The strong stench instantly filled the entire Xipinggou, making many people feel nauseous.

The stench was not relieved until Lu Dao made a hand gesture and called for wind to blow away the foul smell.

"what happened?"

Shang Lu and Lu Yang both leaned forward and looked into the cloth bag.

In the bag, there was only a pool of foul-smelling pus, with no meat or blood at all.

"That mountain ghost tampered with the so-called spirit body, causing it to self-destruct into highly toxic pus, making it impossible for us to use the spirit body as a medium to track its whereabouts."

Lu Dao snorted coldly, and the witchcraft energy surrounding the bag immediately turned into a raging flame, burning the pus inside the bag along with the bag itself.

"Luckily you used a witch bag to contain the fragments of the spirit body. If you had used something else, or had touched it directly with your hands, you would have been poisoned by now."

Seeing that he understood so well, Shang Lu asked, "Uncle Lu, have you ever encountered a spirit body before?"

Lu Dao nodded: "I have encountered it while chasing the mountain ghost, and some people even suffered losses, so I know it so well."

When the witch bag and pus were burned to ashes, Lu Dao said, "When you go back, write a report and apply for a new witch bag from the Witch Academy. I will testify for you that the witch bag was damaged during the execution of the mission."

"Yes, thank you, Uncle Lu."

Shang Lu responded, and at the same time said worriedly: "Since the mountain ghost destroyed the fragments of his spiritual body, does it mean that he already knows what happened in Xipinggou?"

"It's not that powerful yet."

Lu Dao assured Shang Lu.

“This mountain ghost released more than one spirit body. At most, we know that one of the spirit bodies was destroyed, but we don’t know which one was destroyed or where it was destroyed.

We have been searching for it in Feiwu County these days. Although we haven't caught it, we have destroyed many of its arrangements.

It probably thought that something happened to the spirit in Feiwu County."

Shang Lu felt relieved when he heard this.

What he was afraid of was alerting the enemy and making it impossible to carry out subsequent actions.

There was no urgent action before because reinforcements had not arrived.

Now that Lu Dao and Lu Yang are here, Shang Lu feels that they should hurry up and go up the mountain.

In order to avoid delays and accidents.

“Uncle Lu, Brother Lu, according to the people in Xipinggou, they all went to the mountain temple to pray at night.

Because at 4:04 am the hour of Hai, the bell in the temple will ring by itself.

The mountain ghost pretending to be an immortal will come at that moment, listen to the believers' wishes and fulfill them.

It’s getting dark now, should we go into the mountains?
Lest we miss the opportunity, the mountain ghost might notice it and lose the clue.”

(End of this chapter)