Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 358 Such a strong man could never be Shang Lu!
The tube-shaped banner carrying Sanniang slowly descended from mid-air.

Shang Lu walked over quickly, praising his wife non-stop: "Our Third Lady is really amazing. Even Tu Bo didn't realize that this guy's soul had hidden away, but you caught him right in the act."

Sanniang jumped down from the banner lightly, landed gracefully, and shook her head to correct him: "The soul of this person was left behind by Tubo on purpose."

"what?"

Shang Lu was stunned when he heard this.

Were the souls of the soldiers and witches left behind intentionally by Tubo?

Why did he do this? Did he see that Sanniang had a tube-shaped banner that could collect souls and refine ghosts, so he left a soul as a commission for collecting souls and catching ghosts?
You know what, this is really possible.

After all, among this group of black-robed men, even those whose cultivation had not reached the innate realm had learned a lot of unorthodox methods. Even if they died, there were still many ways to keep their souls in the human world.

"It seems that Tu Bo is quite knowledgeable. He didn't really treat me like an ox or a horse, just asking me to work without giving me any benefits..."

Shang Lu muttered to himself.

Suddenly, another possibility occurred to him, so he hurriedly asked, "Sanniang, can the ghost you put in the banner be asked about its memories before birth?"

Sanniang knew what he wanted to do instantly and replied, "As long as this person's soul retains memories from his previous life, we can find out after refining it."

After a pause, she added, "But this person went mad before he died, and I don't know how much memory he left behind. Can you get the information you want?"

Shang Lu said: "Refine it first. We should give it a try. Maybe we can get some useful information."

Sanniang nodded, said "hmm" softly, and raised her hand to tap the tube flag.

Shang Lu saw that on the pure white tube-shaped banner, patterns of flaming lotus flowers immediately flashed.

At the same time, bursts of screams and wails were heard coming from the tube banners.

Wow, it’s really fire refining?
Shang Lu was amazed and didn't know what kind of fire was inside the tube flag.
Sanniang waved her hand and put away the tube-shaped banner.

Shang Lu walked around the place and made sure there were no survivors or clues before leaving.

He did not deal with the body parts scattered on the ground, but left them there on purpose so that the black-robed man's accomplices would arrive and see them.

In this forest, there is a powerful aura left by two gods. Ordinary wild beasts and demons dare not approach at all and will take detours from a long distance. There is no need to worry that these corpses filled with chaotic aura will be eaten by wild beasts and demons and give birth to new monsters.

Shang Lu preserved the scene in order to frighten the black-robed man's accomplices and lead them to misjudge. At the same time, it was also to avoid handling the scene, which would leave some auras and clues that should not be left.

Shang Lu, who left this place, did not go directly to find Zhu Quan and others.

Instead, he first went to the place where the altar had been set up to communicate with the gods.

There, there was a magic circle protecting the altar that needed to be dismantled, in order to prevent the black-robed man's accomplices from catching up and noticing anything.

However, when Shang Luzhe returned to the place where he had set up the altar before, he found it empty and there was nothing there.

When I asked Sanniang, it turned out that it was indeed she who helped clean up.

Before, Shang Lu ran away holding the altar, not paying attention to the protective formations around the altar, but Sanniang was careful and dismantled the formation at the first opportunity, swallowing all the magical instruments used in the formation into her stomach.

Shang Lu was full of emotion. Having Sanniang help him find out the shortcomings and fill them in, it really saved him a lot of trouble.

After taking a look around and confirming that Sanniang had done a great job of cleaning up the mess without leaving any clues, Shang Lu praised Sanniang a few more words before heading back to their camping place.

According to Shang Lu's judgment, the group of people in black robes should not have discovered Zhu Quan and others.

Or in other words, it was discovered, but not moved on.

Because around the camping site, he not only set up traps, but also placed warning spirits and magical tools. He also hid a lot of paper people and sent wooden kites to patrol the night sky.

These things, from beginning to end, did not give any warning.

With the strength of this group of men in black robes, it would certainly be no problem to destroy these things.

But it is impossible to trigger it without any movement.

Shang Lu judged that the man in black robe had probably just arrived in the vicinity when he was attracted by the movement of the altar.

But I didn't expect that I would end up in the underworld.

On the way back to the camping site, Shang Lu was also thinking about what to do next.

His original plan was to wake everyone up and run away overnight, leaving here quickly.

But after seeing the broken pieces of the magic talisman, he changed his mind.

Since the magic talisman for sending messages has been destroyed, the black-robed man's accomplices will not come here so quickly.

The fact that the man in black robe was able to track them here means he has already set his sights on them.

If you walk in a hurry, you will appear guilty.

It’s better to pretend nothing happened, let everyone sleep well and leave tomorrow morning.

Anyway, with his strength as a freshman in the wizard academy, it is impossible for him to kill two Zhoutian realm wizards and more than a dozen people at the peak of marrow cleansing into pieces in an instant.

Shang Lu quickly made up his mind and everything went according to the original plan without any adjustments.

When he returned to the camping site, he found that everyone was fine as he had judged.

The night watchman had been replaced by Du Feng. Seeing him coming back, he hurried to greet him: "Sir, have you finished your spiritual communication?"

"Communication with gods? What communication with gods?" Shang Lu pretended to be surprised, and at the same time used his eloquence and sophistry, "I went to inspect the surroundings and check for traps."

"Ah?" Zhu Quan was stunned. He clearly remembered that Shang Lu had said before that he was going to set up an altar to communicate with the gods. Why did he change his statement after coming back?

Soon, under the influence of Shang Lu's eloquence and sophistry, Du Feng and several other thieves on night duty began to doubt their memories.

I really think they heard it wrong and remembered it incorrectly.

"Remember, I'm going to inspect the surrounding situation!"

Shang Lu repeated it once more, which further impressed everyone.

Du Feng and the others nodded subconsciously and said they remembered it.

But Shang Lu did not stop there. Instead, he continued to use his eloquence and sophistry to confuse the time in the memories of several people.

This made several people think that he was gone for very short time, rather than two hours.

After doing these things, Shang Lu changed the subject and asked tentatively: "Did you hear any noise here just now? Did you find anything?"

"No." Du Feng and others shook their heads.

Shang Lu nodded and said nothing more. He just thought in his heart: "It seems that the area covered by divine power not only makes it impossible for people to escape, but also makes the communication talisman ineffective and blocks the sound so that it cannot be transmitted."

This was a good thing, it saved him a lot of trouble.

Shang Lu sat cross-legged, activating the Lingyuan Xianxi Jue and Neidan Fa, practicing instead of resting.

There is no spiritual energy in the wilderness, but more than ten miles away, there is the breath left by Tu Bo and the pig-bodied, eight-legged, snake-tailed god.

There are even remnant powers of gods such as the founder of the mountains and the messenger of the river.

These are much more powerful than ordinary spiritual energy.

Of course, among these auras and powers, there are strong negative energies such as chaos, madness, etc.

If it were someone else, rashly accepting these auras would be like drinking poison to quench thirst and seeking death. But Shanglu was different.

He has five internal organs and rich experience in intercepting and refining divine power.

As long as you grasp the right degree, there is no need to worry about accidents.

The spleen god among the five internal organs had just been nourished and strengthened after eating the python meat, and he could now refine the divine aura more smoothly and easily.

It’s just hard on the liver, which needs to work at a high intensity to purify and excrete toxins.

In a blink of an eye it was dawn.

Shang Lu finished his practice and gathered around the fire with everyone. While roasting the python meat, he repeated his previous speech.

This time, not only his sophistry and eloquence were influential, but also Du Feng and others helped to testify. Everyone quickly accepted this tampered memory and believed that he had just gone to patrol the surroundings.

After eating the Basque snake meat and digesting it quickly, Shang Lu asked everyone to put out the fire and set off for Black Wind Ferry.

After they left, it was not until evening that a group of people also wearing black robes arrived here.

One of the men in black robes was holding a dog with a witchcraft spell painted on its forehead.

When the dog arrived here, it started barking wildly.

The black-robed man who was holding the dog seemed to be able to understand dog language. After exchanging a few words with the dog, he bowed to a man with extraordinary momentum in the team and reported: "The presence of Lao Feng and his men disappeared near here."

The black-robed leader who led the team immediately ordered: "Everyone spread out, search carefully, and be vigilant."

All the men in black robes received the order in unison and immediately split up to search.

After a while, someone found the forest where the fierce battle took place last night and cried out:
"Found it! Lao Feng and the others are here!"

The black-robed leader rushed over immediately. He saw neither the person nor the body at first glance, and couldn't help but frowned: "Where is the person? Where is he?"

The person who shouted raised his hand hastily, pointed around, and said in a trembling voice: "It's right here, everywhere!"

The black-robed leader then saw pools of blood and rotten flesh in the grass on the ground.

Then, he saw the destroyed weapons and magical tools.

"hiss……"

Not only did the black-robed leader gasp, but the expressions of the other black-robed men who rushed over after hearing the news also changed drastically.

The man in black robe who was leading the dog let his dog sniff the blood and rotten meat, and then reported: "It is indeed Lao Feng and his group... They all died here."

A man in a black robe made hand gestures and released magic symbols, using witchcraft to carefully examine the surrounding areas for signs of battle.

Then, his face was filled with shock. "Although there were traces of fighting at the scene, Lao Feng and his men were collectively blasted into pieces in an instant... There was a powerful force that directly harvested them, leaving them powerless to resist!"

There was a man in black robe making hand gestures and chanting incantations, waving the soul-calling flag in his hand.

After a while, he shook his head and said, "We can't contact Lao Feng and the others' souls. They were probably beaten to death!"

There was also a man in a black robe, holding a compass-shaped magical device in his hand, collecting the aura around him, trying to use it to find out the identity of the target.

As a result, the pointer on the magic weapon spun wildly, shocking the man in black robes. He hurriedly said, "Be careful, there is a strong aura remaining in this place, not good..."

Before he could finish his words, the compass-shaped magical weapon in his hand shattered.

The remaining aura of Tu Bo and the pig-bodied, eight-legged, snake-tailed god was triggered, and it pressed down on the group of black-robed men like the collapse of heaven and earth.

The black-robed leader was horrified and hurriedly used all his magic power to resist.

After a moment, the terrifying aura dissipated.

Although the black-robed leader did not die, he was crushed to the point of bleeding from all his orifices.

Turning his head to look at his companions, except for a few wizards whose faces were covered in blood, the rest of the people had their meridians crushed in an instant, becoming disabled!
Some people even had their heart meridians crushed and died on the spot.

"What a terrifying strength! Just the remaining aura alone has such deadly power, it's simply terrifying..."

The black-robed leader made some hand gestures and cast a spell on his surviving subordinates to help them heal their injuries.

But for most people whose meridians are crushed, this is only a temporary solution and not a cure for the disease.

The black-robed leader didn't care about them. He just wondered in shock: "Who is this person? Who is against us?"

A wizard wiped the blood off his face with fear after surviving a disaster, and panted and said, "Could it be the Shanglu from Baiyi County who did it?"

The black-robed leader rejected the idea outright: "Impossible! How could he, a newcomer to the Witch Academy, have such a skill? With such a terrifying aura, his cultivation level must be at least above the Inner Palace Realm! It can't be him!"

The other wizards nodded in unison.

They had inquired about Shang Lu's information in the past two days, and did not think that Shang Lu could have such terrible means.

"Who could he be with the inner palace realm? There are only a few wealthy families in the county that have inner palace masters... Or is he a barbarian in the south? Or is he from the Chu Kingdom in the east?"

Several wizards looked at each other in bewilderment, feeling that the identity of the target was becoming more and more mysterious.

The black-robed leader was pondering another question:
"Does this person know that we raised the python? Does he know what we are doing? If he knows, why hasn't he revealed it? What does he want to do..."

Confused, they carefully collected their companions' body parts and buried them on the spot.

After a while, they found traces of Shang Lu and his men's camping left behind about ten miles away.

Someone went over to check carefully and reported: "Judging from the situation of the fire, Shang Lu and his companions should have left this morning."

Some people also released the spirit insect sniffing treasure to let it detect the aura fluctuations around it.

After a moment, he came to a conclusion and reported to the black-robed leader: "Xiu Bao is not nearby. I found any traces of the Qiankun-like magical weapon in my sleeve."

The black-robed leader nodded slightly, becoming more and more certain that what happened last night had nothing to do with Shang Lu.

If it was Shang Lu who did it, he would have fled overnight? And he was sleeping here? How brave he was? Or did he really think that he had a cultivation level above the Inner Palace Realm and was not afraid of the pursuers catching up?
If he really had that level of accomplishment, why would he apply to the Witch Academy? He could just seek an official position, even a county magistrate!

"He didn't even notice the fight that broke out nearby last night. That Shang Lu is just like that. Humph, the students of the Witch Academy can't even beat such a person. It's time to discipline them."

The black-robed leader snorted coldly.

Although he had dispelled his suspicion of Shang Lu, after careful consideration, he still sent people to continue keeping an eye on Shang Lu, just in case.

Someone thought it was too much trouble and suggested, "How about just killing him directly?"

The black-robed leader rejected the proposal without hesitation.

"Don't you think we don't have enough trouble now? Shang Lu had a conflict with the idiots in the Witch Academy as soon as he arrived in Guling County. Now both Witch Academy and Witch Academy know that he is in Guling County and they are keeping an eye on him. Once he makes a mistake, it will inevitably lead to a joint investigation by the two Witch Academy. By then, we may not be able to hide what we have done!"

After a pause, he continued, "A small Shanglu is not important! The most urgent task is to find out who this person with a cultivation level above the Inner Palace Realm is! How many of our secrets does he know! And what exactly does he want to do!"

Everyone responded in unison.

The black-robed leader issued another series of orders.

Then he took out the jade cicada and reported the situation to the people above with trepidation and nervousness.

At the same time, Shang Lu also arrived at Heifeng Ferry with Zhu Quan and others.

(End of this chapter)