Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 389 A Thief Comes Late at Night
Shang Lu waved to Xiang Yang, turned around, and called Zhu Quan, Du Feng and other subordinates:
"Let's go to Niu Shou Mountain and send Liu Quan's body back home."

Everyone responded in unison, spurred their horses and followed Shang Lu, heading towards Niu Shou Mountain along the official road.

Xiang Yang watched Shang Lu and his group disappear completely on the horizon, and then he let out a long sigh: "Huh... finally got rid of this plague god!"

Since Shang Lu came to Guling County, the local government and witch academy have investigated his situation. They know that he has the attribute of "plague god" and wherever he goes, there will be crimes.

When people in Guling County first saw this information, they were laughing, but now they can’t laugh anymore.

The strange and tragic incident that happened in the witch temple could not have been done by Shang Lu. But no one could guarantee whether this incident was related to Shang Lu's attribute of being a "plague god".

After all, this special attribute, although rare, does exist.

It is said to be related to the Dark Ages, because some of our ancestors did something outrageous in the Dark Ages and were cursed, and the curse has been passed down through their bloodline.

Xiang Yang obviously regarded Shang Lu as this kind of person, so he wanted to send him away as soon as possible, so as to prevent the situation in Heifeng Ferry from getting worse under the influence of his "plague god".

Xiang Yang turned around and walked through the city gate when he suddenly thought of something. He hurriedly ordered the guards at the city gate: "If the group of people just now come back again, they can't be allowed into the city no matter what! Anyone who dares to let them in will be severely punished!"

Although the entire city of Heifengdu is under martial law now and no one is allowed to enter or leave, we still have to be on guard.

Even after instructing the guards at the city gates, Xiang Yang was still not at ease. He pinched his fingers and chanted a spell, releasing a few swift ghosts to deliver the order to other city gates.

Shang Lu didn't know that Xiang Yang had done all these things after he left.

If I knew, I would definitely not be able to hold back and laugh out loud.

After running along the official road for dozens of miles, Shang Lu released wooden kites and let them fly in the sky to act as eyes to detect the surroundings.

Seeing that no one was following, and confirming the situation with Sanniang, Shang Lu just told everyone: "You guys keep going, I'm going to do something and will be back soon."

Zhu Quan and Du Feng bowed in response.

Only Tupi asked naively: "What are you going to do, sir? Let me go with you."

Before Shang Lu could answer, Du Feng slapped Tu Xiong's horse's butt hard and said, "You didn't try when it was your turn to show off. What's the point of showing off? The master must have his reasons for not taking us with him. Let's go, don't delay the master's work!"

Zhu Quanze bowed to Shang Lu and said, "Sir, we will go slowly along the official road. When you finish your work, just come and find us along the official road."

"Okay." Shang Lu agreed with a smile. Without any movement, the paper horse that was in tune with his mind immediately carried him down the official road.

After walking a distance and seeing that there was no one around, Shang Lu put away the paper horse and took out the gourd filled with black dog blood from his bag. He opened the stopper and took out the face without facial features soaked in it.

As soon as the man's face came out of the gourd, he immediately swallowed the blood. When Shang Lu took it in his hand, it grew fine thorns and stabbed his hand.

Shang Lu withdrew his protective energy, relaxed his muscles and skin, and allowed the thin flesh thorns on the monster face to prick him.

He waited until the strange face sucked a mouthful of his blood before picking it up and putting it on his face.

Countless flesh thorns grew out of this strange face without facial features, pierced into Shang Lu's face, and quickly merged into one with him.

After wearing this strange human face, even if someone saw Shang Lu, they would not be able to recognize who he was, let alone remember what he looked like.

Afterwards, Shang Lu followed Mu Yuan's instructions, performed the Nine Transformations of Divine Speed, and ran as fast as the wind until he arrived outside a mass grave.

There are many graves in this mass grave, which is where the bodies of several nearby villages are buried.

Different from other mass graves, this one is surrounded by a simple wall made of stones and wood, with spells drawn by wizards on it.

Although the arrangement is simple, it can prevent the corpses in the mass grave from turning into corpses and escaping. It can also prevent wild animals outside from sneaking in to dig up the corpses and eat their flesh.

Shang Lu ran over to take a closer look and nodded, saying, "Guling County has done a good job in this regard. We should learn from them."

Then he leaped into the simple wall.

The spell on the simple wall did not respond at all.

Because Shanglu is neither a dead body nor a wild beast, but a living person, so it will not be triggered.

Although it was daytime, the cemetery was still eerie and cold, and no one else was around.

Shang Lu quickly found a suitable location, performed the Qi Blade Technique, refined Qi into blades, and dug a pit amidst the muffled sounds of "puff puff puff".

Then he asked Sanniang to take out the paper figure that was stored in the soul flag.

Shang Lu was still muttering, "I don't know who you are, nor where your hometown is. I can only bury you here, and hope you rest in peace..."

After thinking about it, it is unlikely that this person can rest in peace, because his soul was eaten clean by corpses in the Fairy Market.

Shang Lu placed the paper man into the newly dug grave.

As soon as the paper man entered the pit, perhaps because it was contaminated by the mud or for some other reason, it suddenly turned back into the appearance of the corpse that had been gnawed to pieces.

Fortunately, Shang Lu did not be lazy and dug the pit according to the normal corpse, otherwise he would have to start all over again.

Shang Lu waved his hand, and the soil that had been dug out and thrown aside immediately flew back into the pit under the control of his vital energy. He quickly buried the body and built a small grave mound.

After doing all this, Shang Lu lit a pair of candles and four incense sticks in front of the tomb before leaving.

In this way, he had accomplished what he had promised to do in supervising the market. And Shang Lu could take the three corpse health-preserving pills with a clear conscience and use them with confidence.

When leaving the cemetery, Shang Lu met a family who came to visit the graves. When they passed each other, they nodded in greeting.

With the strange face around, the family couldn't remember Shang Lu's appearance at all. They forgot about it immediately and didn't take the matter to heart.

Shang Lu came out of the mass grave and used his Nine Transformations to run for several miles. When he was about to get on the official road, he put away the strange human face, cast a spell to create a paper man again, and rode it to catch up with Zhu Quan and others who were traveling slowly.

These people were very tactful. They did not ask Shang Lu whether he had accomplished the task or not. They just pretended that nothing had happened and continued on their journey with him.

Even Tu Bin didn't ask, obviously he had been taught by Du Feng.

It was night in a blink of an eye.

Shang Lu and his companions did not see any towns along the way, and they did not want to go to the villages to disturb the people, so they simply found an open area beside the official road, lit a few fires, and prepared to camp out for the night.

For them, sleeping in the open air is a common thing.

Ordinary people don’t dare to spend the night in the wild for fear of encountering wild beasts or ghosts, but they are fearless.

It’s a pity that this is Guling County, not Baiyi County, otherwise they could capture and kill the monsters and receive rewards in the Bandits’ Office.

The fire was lit quickly and everyone sat around it, roasting the python meat.

Zhu Quan then divided the people into two teams and took turns on night duty.

The person on duty at night held his weapon and looked around vigilantly.

Shang Lu also released the wooden kite, and monitored the surroundings together with the rampant ghost released by Sanniang.

Those who needed to rest were not in a hurry to sleep. Instead, they practiced beside the fire to absorb the spiritual power contained in the python meat they had just eaten.

Shang Lu sat cross-legged, first took out the handkerchief that sealed the shadow snake, and sprinkled the sand mixed with chicken blood on it. After the shadow snake had eaten it all, he put away the handkerchief, took out the soul-sacrificing platform, cut a piece of snake meat and fed it.

Shang Lu was very curious about how the soul-sacrificing platform would eat. As soon as he put the meat on it, a mouth opened up on the soul-sacrificing platform, bit the Basque snake meat, and swallowed it in one gulp without even chewing it.

Not only that, Shang Lu also clearly sensed a fluctuation of thoughts from the soul-sacrificing altar.

This soul-sacrificing altar was communicating with Shang Lu through thought waves, and said to him, "Eat more."

"It really is a living magical weapon." Shang Lu marveled inwardly.

Since there was plenty of bass snake meat, he immediately cut a few more slices and fed them to the soul altar.

Although the soul altar is only the size of a palm, its stomach is like a bottomless pit. After eating these slices, it is still "crying" that it is not enough.

Shang Lu became interested when he saw this. He wanted to see how much blood food was needed to feed the soul altar. He also wanted to see if the weapon spirit would be overjoyed after the soul altar was full.

So he kept cutting the snake meat and feeding it to the soul altar.

Although this scene was seen by Qiu Dao, who was on duty nearby, he did not think much of it and just thought it was a treasure that Shang Lu bought from the ghost market.

It is said that all kinds of strange things are sold in the ghost market, so there doesn’t seem to be anything strange about buying a bronze vessel that can eat meat.

Shang Lu fed a large piece of Basque snake meat to the Soul Altar, and finally he "heard" a satisfied hum from the Soul Altar.

It seems to be saying "I'm full".

Shang Lu estimated that this creature had eaten more than 100 kilograms of bassian snake meat!

This appetite really makes people wonder, is it an altar or a rice bucket? The key is where to put the food after eating it?
Fortunately, Shang Lu had made inquiries at the Fairy Market before, and learned that when feeding the soul altar, it only needs to be hung with some blood food, and there is no need to feed it every time.

However, the soul-altar, which had eaten its fill, was indeed in a very happy mood, which even affected the vital energy in Shang Lu's body and made him excited.

Shang Lu immediately decided to use the altar of the spirit of the weapon, Dayue, to communicate and offer sacrifices to Tu Bo and the pig-bodied, eight-legged, snake-tailed god tonight.

I don't ask for anything from them, just to win their affection.

Especially Tu Bo.

In the Fairy Market, it was all thanks to him who appeared in person to save me, and I have to thank him very much.

Next time when we encounter danger, we will continue to invite Him out to confront the danger.

Shang Lu looked up at the moonlight and estimated the time in his mind. It was still early before midnight.

Since the soul-sacrificing altar made the vital energy in his body very excited, he was not in a hurry to put away the altar. He immediately took a portion of Xuanqi Powder and suppressed the poison that made him manic with the help of his mind and the Purification Talisman. He then held the soul-sacrificing altar in his hand and urged the cyclone in his middle dantian to be refined.

Time passes quickly during the process of cultivation.

Even though Shang Lu and his group were sleeping in the wild, the wild animals would smell the strong scent emanating from here from afar and run away with their tails between their legs.

Not to mention coming to attack, they didn't even have the courage to howl a few times from a distance.

Wild animals' intuition about danger is much stronger than humans'.

Similarly, even if there were demons and ghosts nearby, after sensing the powerful blood energy emanating from the crowd, they would know that this was a group of people who were not easy to deal with, and would not be foolish enough to come over.

After all, demons and ghosts only want to eat people, but they don’t want to be killed and “eaten” by people.

However, this tranquility did not last.

Just when Shang Lu finished his cyclone training and was about to leave his camping site to find a suitable place to set up an altar to communicate with the gods, Sanniang suddenly appeared and told him something.

"Someone is approaching here."

Shang Lu knew that if it was an ordinary person who came, Sanniang would not show up specially to notify him.

So anyone who gets close to you is weird and dangerous!
Shang Lu asked in a low voice: "Where is it?" At the same time, he imitated a night owl and whistled to alert the thief on duty.

Zhu Quan was leading the team on night duty at the moment. When he heard the whistle, he immediately went to Shang Lu and asked in a low voice, "Sir, what's wrong?"

"Someone is coming towards us!" Shang Lu replied in a low voice.

"what?"

Zhu Quan immediately looked around, but it was pitch black at night, and he could barely see clearly because of the light from the fire. But in the distance, it was pitch black and he could not see anything.

He could only ask: "Where is the person?"

Shang Lu had already learned the location of the newcomers from Sanniang, and had locked onto them using the wooden kite.

He immediately raised his hand, pointed around, and snorted, "There are people in these places, forming a circle around us, and they are tightening. There are quite a few people, more than a hundred."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Quan immediately went to quietly wake up the sleeping person.

It was also at this time that Shang Lu discovered through the wooden kite that the group of people in the northwest had taken out a leather bag.

The outside of the leather bag was wrapped with circles of blood-soaked talisman paper.

The group of people quickly tore up the talisman paper and opened the leather bag, then saw a ball of black gas flying out from it.

No, it’s not black air, it’s a group of tiny poisonous insects!

Among the group of people who released the poisonous insects, there was a burly guy. He pulled out a small knife from his waist, cut his elbow directly, and sprinkled the blood to feed the group of tiny poisonous insects. Then he pointed at the fire where Shang Lu and others were gathered.

"not good!"

Shang Lu didn't know what these tiny poisonous insects were used for, but they were definitely harmful to them. He quickly tried to control the wooden kite, fly down and spit out flames to burn these tiny poisonous insects to death.

But this group of tiny poisonous insects were extremely cunning and quickly dispersed during the flight.

They are extremely small, and once they disperse, they are difficult to be spotted under the cover of night.

Not only that, they are also extremely fast.

In an instant, it flew to Shang Lu and others, releasing a strange fragrance.

After smelling the fragrance, both the thieves on duty and those who had just been awakened yawned.

Then they fell down with a "thump", and instantly fell into a deep sleep, snoring loudly.

Even Shang Lu was tormented by a strong sleepiness and his eyelids kept twitching.

The group of uninvited guests around were originally approaching quietly and slowly.

After seeing this scene, they no longer had any concerns and swarmed over.

(End of this chapter)