Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 361: In the middle of the night, a strange creature comes to the door

The storybook that Shang Lu asked Liuquan to write did not include the part about the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. It ended after the battle against the Heavenly Palace.

Even so, the content is quite substantial.

In order to display the great sage's magical powers as much as possible, Shanglu changed some of the scenes about catching monsters and conquering demons on the journey to the front.

As a former storyteller, Liu Quan has a very high level of writing skills. He perfectly brings the later content to the front without any abruptness, and the whole story flows very smoothly.

If storytellers tell a section of this book every day, they can keep telling the story for a month!

Because the script was so well written, a storyteller even told this novel and exciting story in a teahouse that evening.

The result did not disappoint Shang Lu. The story was very popular and won a standing ovation.

When the storyteller stopped at a fascinating part, many people shouted for him to continue the story.

Although this storyteller has been in this business for many years and has told countless stories, he has never been so popular.

He immediately realized that his chance had come and he might become a star.

At first, the storyteller wanted to whet the audience's appetite and did not respond to the drinkers' calls to continue. Instead, he bowed and said that that was all for today. If they wanted to know what happened next, they should come back early tomorrow.

As a result, just after I got off the stage and had a sip of tea, I heard someone say that in a certain teahouse, there was also a storyteller telling the story of the Stone Monkey King.

Moreover, they have already talked about returning from their apprenticeship and defeating the demon king.

Immediately, many tea drinkers wanted to go to that teahouse to listen to stories.

The storyteller suddenly became very anxious. He cursed his colleagues in his heart for being too arrogant, and hurried to the stage to continue his lecture, just wanting to keep this group of listeners.

It would be best if we could also attract listeners from other places.

So that night, in the brothels and market of Heifengdu, people were everywhere telling stories about the stone monkey learning martial arts, the Great Sage conquering demons, going to the underworld, causing trouble in the Dragon Palace, and rebelling against the Heaven.

If anyone didn't tell these stories, the tea drinkers would immediately start to flatter the person, without giving him any face at all.

In order to win the hearts of their fellow storytellers, the storytellers used all their skills and abilities, telling and acting out this already wonderful story even more fascinatingly.

That night, the Great Stone Monkey King who was not afraid of power became known to many people.

At the same time, people also talk about the various skills and magical powers of the Stone Monkey King.

In particular, Liuquan also composed a jingle in the storybook. When the storytellers performed it, it was like a magic sound that penetrated people's minds. Many people were humming it on their way back to the inn after leaving the teahouse: "The king sent me to patrol the mountains. Be careful of Sun Wukong... He can change into a fly, a mosquito, a bird, and feces..."

Although people don't understand why the Monkey King wanted to transform himself into feces, Sun Wukong's transformation technique has become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

This is exactly the result Shanglu wanted.

At this time, Shang Lu had already returned to the inn.

Although he did not see how the storytellers of Heifengdu were engaged in internal circulation, there was an extra character card of the Monkey King in the novelist's storybook in his hand.

This character card only contains a description of the name and identity, with no records of abilities or supernatural powers, but Shang Lu is still very happy.

"Black Wind Ferry is indeed prosperous. It's been less than one night and the Monkey King character card has appeared."

Shang Lu believes that as storytellers continue to tell the story of Monkey King, the image of Monkey King will be known and remembered by more people, and there will even be more ways to interpret it, and the content on this character card will naturally increase.

Especially in terms of skills and supernatural powers.

Moreover, the place called Heifengdu has many caravans traveling back and forth from the south and the north, as well as many outsiders who come to the ghost market.

After leaving Heifengdu, these caravans and outsiders will also take the story of Monkey King to other places, allowing the story to spread to a wider area.

Maybe one day in the future, there will be a temple dedicated to Sun Wukong.

If that time really comes, I will be considered to have successfully "created a god" and reached the highest level of a novelist!
And in the storybook, who knows what amazing appearance Sun Wukong’s character card will become?

“It’s really exciting.”

Shang Lu smiled and closed the storybook, nodded to Liu Quan who was standing beside him, and praised: "The storybook is well written, you have worked hard, Old Liu."

Liuquan said hurriedly: "The stories given by the master are all good."

Shang Lu smiled and waved his hand: "You don't have to flatter me. Without your brilliant writing, this story would have been ruined and would not have had the effect it has now."

After a pause, he continued, "After leaving Black Wind Ferry, I will go to Niu Shou Mountain and send your ashes back to your hometown. By then, if you still want to follow me, I will go to the Witch Academy to ask for a set of ghost cultivation methods for you."

When Liu Quan heard this, he knelt down to Shang Lu and said, "My master has been kind to me, and I have sworn to be his ghost servant. Naturally, I must follow him."

In this guest room, not only Shang Lu and Liu Quan are here, but also Zhu Quan, Du Feng and others.

Knowing that the broker would not give up and would take action at night, Shang Lu did not ask for a single room or a double or quadruple room when staying in the hotel. Instead, he asked for a dormitory room that could sleep more than a dozen people.

In this way, even if something really happens at night, it will be convenient to deal with it since everyone is in the same room.

At this moment, the conversation between Shang Lu and Liu Quan was naturally seen by Zhu Quan, Du Feng and others.

Zhu Quan and several other thieves had met Liu Quan before, and together with Shang Lu, they helped Liu Quan to take revenge, so they were not surprised.

Du Feng and Tu Bin were frightened when they saw Liu Quan suddenly appear, and they almost drew their swords and used their urine to enchant the ghost.

Fortunately, Shang Lu stopped them in time and introduced them to Liu Quan, who was his ghost and a famous storyteller when he was alive.

Seeing Liu Quan kneeling down, Du Feng smiled and said, "Old Liu, you made the right choice. The adults will never let their own people suffer... Hey, we are colleagues from now on. If you have time, tell us more stories."

He was planning to listen to the storytelling for free.

Liu Quan didn't think too much about it and just said okay.

Shang Lu helped Liu Quan up and gave him some encouragement.

Feeling valued, Liu Quan was full of energy as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood. He immediately returned to Tongzifan and seized the time to continue writing and creating.

Du Feng and Tu Pi continued to study their newly acquired skills under the oil lamp.

If you don't understand something, ask Zhu Quan first. If Zhu Quan doesn't understand it either, ask Shang Lu.

Shang Lu couldn't help but sighed, thinking back to a year ago, he was the one who asked others for advice. He didn't expect that now, it was his turn to instruct others in their cultivation.

Time flies during this process.

In the blink of an eye, it was three quarters past midnight.

Because they guessed that the strange broker would do something tonight and they planned to catch him in the act, but they were also afraid of arousing the broker's suspicion, so everyone did not practice and lay down on the bunk bed early to pretend to sleep.

The same is true for Phytolacca americana.

However, even when he pretended to be asleep, he was still practicing inner alchemy, using his body as a cauldron to refine and nourish his essence and qi, so that the two cyclones in his body could rotate faster and more powerfully.

Suddenly, Shang Lu discovered something and sneaked into the dormitory room.

The thing came silently, and if Shang Lu hadn't been prepared, it would have been difficult to detect it.

But at this moment, Shanglu, whose hearing and sense of smell were highly concentrated, smelled the scent emanating from it.

It's the smell of tangled hair that hasn't been washed for a long time.

It is very faint, and especially difficult to be detected under the cover of various smells in the dormitory.

Shang Lu opened his eyes slightly and looked in the direction of the smell.

That was the tightly closed window of the dormitory room.

Several black things, like snakes, were crawling in through the window.

Although it was pitch black in the dormitory, Shang Lu's eyesight was so poor that he could see clearly and recognized at a glance that the thing that came into the dormitory was human hair.

These hairs seemed to have life. After entering the house, they immediately reached for the luggage placed next to the bunk bed.

Shang Lu was in no hurry to take action. He waited until more of these strange hairs came in before he shouted, "Window, take it down!"

Zhu Quan and others who were lying on the bunk bed pretending to be asleep did not notice the appearance of the strange hair, but after hearing Shang Lu's order, they jumped up without hesitation and rushed to the window.

At the same time, the dormitory room, which was originally pitch black, suddenly lit up.

But he asked the thief to activate the Night Chaser Talisman that he had prepared long ago.

With the help of Fu Guang, everyone also saw the strange hair that got into the dormitory. Seeing that the roots of the hair were still outside the window, Tu Xiong rushed out of the house without saying a word.

Du Feng was close to the window and jumped to the front of the strange hair.

These strange hairs were obviously frightened and tried to retreat to the window in a hurry.

How could Du Feng let them do what they wanted? He didn't even use a knife, he just grabbed them with his hands.

"Be careful."

Upon seeing this, Zhu Quan hurriedly shouted loudly.

Almost at the same time, the hair that Du Feng grabbed suddenly turned from soft to sharp, trying to cut Du Feng's hand.

But Du Feng's hand was fine.

A sharp sound of metallic friction came from his hand.

This guy actually put on a pair of iron gloves while pretending to be asleep.

"I was injured in the hand by a rat demon before, so how could I not take protective measures? Hehe, our masters once wore iron crotches, so if I make an iron glove, it can be regarded as a good inheritance!"

Du Feng laughed triumphantly, and at the same time, he exerted force with both hands, not only to prevent the strange hair from escaping, but also to drag it into the house.

Shang Lu was very upset: Who the hell told you that I have a good heritage? Do you want to yell even louder? Are you afraid that others don't know that I have worn iron crotch pants?
Zhu Quan and several other thieves hurriedly pretended not to have heard anything.

What Du Feng held in his hand was just a strand of hair.

Seeing this, the other strands of hair immediately spread out, and also became hard from soft, like steel needles and iron swords, sweeping towards Du Feng.

Fortunately, several thieves came at this moment.

They brandished swords and raised shields to help Du Feng resist the attack of the strange hair.

On the other side, Tu Bin rushed out of the door with a "bang".

In the corridor outside the room, I saw a hairpin.

The hairpin is dark red all over, the color of blood, and the blood is even still flowing, as if it was freshly applied.

Those strange hairs grew out from this hairpin.

Seeing Tu Pi chasing out, the hairpin immediately cut off her hair to escape.

“It’s a residual spirit.”

Zhu Quan also chased out at this moment.

Being experienced, he knew what was going on just by looking at the hairpin.

Without any hesitation, he threw something that looked like a bird cage in his hand at the hairpin.

This cage shaped like a blood drop is called the Spirit Cage.

The Criminal Investigation Office often received requests from the counties and towns below to help investigate strange cases and arrest wanted criminals.

Therefore, we often encounter demons, ghosts and evil cultivators.

Demons and ghosts are okay, but many evil cultivators have strange and bizarre residual spirits or evil weapons in their hands.

With the strength of the thieves, it is very difficult to deal with residual spirits and evil weapons.

So the Witch Academy made a batch of spirit cages for them. The cages were covered with witchcraft spells and could be activated with just blood and energy. They were specifically used to trap residual spirits, evil weapons, and could also be used to capture demons and evil cultivators.

At this moment, Shang Lu raised his eyebrows.

He waved his hand suddenly, and several iron needles flew out from his sleeves and instantly hit the ground beside the door.

A pool of black blood emerged from the ground.

At the same time, a "squeaking" scream came from under the iron nails.

Then, an animal with a body like a turtle but only three legs emerged from the shadows on the ground.

That is, the moment Shanglu hurt it with the iron needle, a stream of sand spurted out of its open mouth.

These grains of sand were originally heading towards Tu Bin and Zhu Quan's shadow, but because of Shang Lu's flying needles, they were injured and in pain, causing their heads to tilt when spraying sand, causing the sand to hit the wall.

There are shadows on the wall, but they are not human shadows, but shadows of the bunk beds not far away.

"boom--"

Obviously, the flying sand only hit the shadow, but the bunk bed next to it seemed to have been attacked and collapsed in an instant.

"Innuendo? Is this a toad?"

Shang Lu had read a lot of information about monsters in the Thieves' Office and the Witch Academy, and he immediately identified the identity of this three-legged turtle.

This kind of strange beast can be found in many barbarian tribes in the south.

Heifengdu is separated from the barbarian land by the Qiang River, so it is not surprising that someone brought the toad here.

However, most snakes live in rivers, but the broker actually brought it ashore and hid it in the shadows. Did he use some special means?
The toad knew it was exposed, and the shell on its back cracked open and turned into a pair of hard wings, and it was about to fly away.

At the same time, it opened its mouth and was about to spray poisonous sand towards Shanglu's shadow.

It is feasible that it has already been exposed and is currently in force, and these methods cannot be used at all.

Shang Lu waved his hand, and the rolling essence of energy was like a typhoon, roaring towards the toad and instantly entangled it.

Not only were the three legs of the toad tied up, but its hard wings were also tied tightly and its mouth sealed.

This snake instantly turned into a specialty of the neighboring Shu Kingdom called "Silk-wrapped Rabbit".

It can neither move nor spray out sand.

At this time, Zhu Quan had already enveloped the hairpin with his spirit.

Tu Pi strode forward and swung his knife to cut off the strange hair growing out of the hairpin.

The hairpin was trapped in the spirit cage, but it was unwilling to accept this and was still growing new hair madly in an attempt to tear the spirit cage open and escape.

But the witch spell on the spirit cage kept flashing, suppressing it, making it unable to escape for a while.

The chopped hair can still move.

Unfortunately, without the hairpin, the power of these hairs is greatly reduced.

Soon, under Shang Lu's instructions, the thieves burned it clean with fire, emitting a pungent burnt smell.

This commotion naturally woke up the other guests in the inn.

But no one came out to watch the fun, but stayed cautiously in their respective rooms, fearing that they would be affected.

These people obviously know very well that when they go out, they should never join in the fun.

This saved Shang Lu a lot of time explaining.

When the bloody hairpin contained in Zhu Quanjiang's spirit cage was brought into the dormitory, a ball of black gas rose from the bloody hairpin and turned into a hideous ghost face.

It stared at Shang Lu with a resentful look and spoke in human language: "This time it was my fault for not seeing through your capabilities. I admit defeat. As long as you release the Shadow Serpent and the Hair Ghost, this matter will be over and I will not pursue it any further..."

Shanglu was amused.

This guy is so arrogant, I don’t know who gave him the courage.

If someone who didn't know the truth heard what he said, wouldn't they think they were the ones who won the fight?

"What if I don't let go?"

After laughing, Shang Lu asked in a cold voice.

At this moment, he tracked down the location based on the paper man that he had hidden on the donor's body in advance.

The wooden kite perched on the roof of the inn received the command and immediately took off and flew towards the target...

(Damn, I got into a big mess today. I was riding my electric scooter and my phone rang halfway. I reached for it and crashed into a tree… I was so dizzy and my head was buzzing. After I got up, the phrase “a pig crashed into a tree” kept echoing in my mind. Damn.)
(End of this chapter)