Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 395: The Gate to Immortality? Entering the Alchemy Furnace!
With the help of the magic talisman, Shang Lu and a dozen people from the thief Cao's office ran as fast as ghosts.

Fortunately, it was a deserted night, otherwise if someone saw us, they would be thought to be evil soldiers passing through.

Shang Lu and his companions did not take the official road, but instead traveled along a remote path.

After running for about half an hour, they arrived at a hill.

Along the way, Shang Lu used the wooden kite, paper figurines and Sanniang's soldiers to monitor the surroundings, but did not find anyone following him.

So Shang Lu led everyone to find a secluded place on the hill to rest, so that the thieves could practice qigong and regulate their breathing to restore their depleted blood and energy.

Although he did not find the "tail", Shanglu did not take it lightly.

This time he not only released wooden kites and paper figures to patrol around, he also put on the Nuo mask of a god with a pig body, eight legs and a snake tail, and borrowed the magical powers of the mountain god to turn all the plants and animals on the hill into his spies.

Once someone steps onto this hill, the plants and animals will warn him.

The thieves in the Bandits' Office did not sit down to rest immediately after receiving Shang Lu's order to "rest where they are".

They divided themselves into several teams and set up several layers of mechanisms and traps around.

Shang Lu just took a look and didn't get involved. The thieves had much more experience in this area than he did. He just gave them a few instructions and went to find Zhu Quan.

Along the way, although Zhu Quan and the other three were following Shang Lu, they did not stop torturing and beating the three-headed monster baby.

The three-headed monster baby, which originally had no skin, was now completely rotten, with rancid blood mixed with pus flowing onto the ground. In the rotten flesh, there were many maggots crawling around.

This appearance was more miserable and terrifying than being cut into pieces, but even in this situation, the three-headed monster baby could not die.

Because Zhu Quan and others were very experienced, they fed it pills and put talismans on it early in the morning.

The pills and the talisman can keep the three-headed monster baby alive, so that it will not die even if it is tortured harshly.

However, although these pills and talismans were effective in keeping people alive, they also had a big side effect - they would multiply the pain! And they would be so lucid that even fainting from the pain would become a luxury, and they could only endure the torture.

"Old Zhu, you guys are really ruthless."

There wasn't a hint of dissatisfaction in Shang Lu's tone when he said this, it was all praise, he was just short of giving a thumbs up.

After a pause, he continued, "This strange Wu is really stubborn. He was tortured like this, but he still didn't say a word, didn't scream, let alone confess."

Hearing this, the three-headed monster baby raised its head and looked at him, the eyes of the three heads were full of shock and grievance.

Before Zhu Quan could speak, a thief beside him reminded him, "Sir, have you forgotten? You are still covering their mouths, so they can't make a sound even if they want to scream."

Shang Lu slapped his forehead and said, "I really forgot about it. I was wondering why its mouth was so hard."

Zhu Quan grinned but said nothing.

He didn't believe that Shang Lu had forgotten about this. It was obvious that he was deliberately provoking the three-headed monster baby.

Shang Lu first took out the "inaudible" bronze bell and activated it, then he waved his hand to remove the spiritual energy that was covering the mouth of the three-headed monster baby, and immediately heard the screams and wails from the three-headed monster baby.

Fortunately, the "inaudible" bronze bell blocked the sound from spreading outside, otherwise the howling of the three-headed monster baby would be enough to be heard for miles in the dark and silent night.

"Stop yelling. If you keep yelling, I'll cover your mouths and continue to torture you!"

Shang Lu took a mouthful of essence and shouted loudly, his voice as loud as thunder.

The three-headed monster baby was frightened and all three mouths closed, not daring to scream anymore.

But the severe pain in their bodies made them unbearable and they could only moan softly, "Ouch, ouch."

"Are you willing to admit it?" Shang Lu asked.

"I confess, I confess. I'll confess whatever you ask."

"What do you want to ask? After I confess, can you spare my life?"

"You want me to recruit? No way!"

The three heads of the three-headed monster baby actually have three different personalities and give three different answers.

Although one of the heads was willing to confess, Shang Lu did not ask questions immediately. Instead, he turned to Zhu Quan and said, "Old Zhu, your methods are not good enough. It is still stubborn."

Zhu Quanhei sneered with a gloomy face, and immediately led the two thieves to continue the torture. Soon, the three-headed monster baby was tortured to the point of crying for its parents.

"I am willing to recruit, I am willing to recruit, please stop now!"

"I am willing to confess. I dare not negotiate any more conditions. Please let me go!"

Only the head in the middle, although also crying and shouting, "Confess your shit! We won't confess! Just use whatever means you have..."

Before it could finish its words, the heads on both sides turned towards it, biting it madly and shouting and cursing.

"Shut up! You idiot!"

"If you want to be a hero, don't drag us into suffering with you!"

The heads on the left and right sides are not at all soft-hearted when it comes to biting their own people.

After a few bites, it had eaten away the flesh on both sides of the cheeks in the middle of its head, leaving it unable to speak clearly.

After swallowing the meat, the heads on both sides hurriedly said to Shanglu:

"Don't pay attention to him, I'm willing to recruit. If you have any questions, just ask me. I will definitely recruit!"

"I confess, I confess! If you are angry, just cut off the idiot in the middle and stop torturing us."

Shang Lu remained calm on the surface, but was actually marveling at the thought in his heart.

It is a rare sight to see three heads on one body quarreling with each other.

He waved his hand, signaling Zhu Quan and the other two to stop torturing them. After looking the three-headed monster babies up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, he asked, "What on earth are you?"

"We are not things..."

“Bah, you are nothing! We are Yuanying. We are the Yuanying of the person you killed before. We are him, his new body!”

The two heads rushed to answer, and there was a quarrel in the process.

"How can you be called a Nascent Soul when you look like this?" Shang Lu sneered in disbelief.

Shang Lu was observing the three-headed monster baby along the way.

Rather than saying it is a Nascent Soul, it is better to say that it is a material for a pill.

There is pure spiritual energy in its body, but it cannot use it. It is like those treasures from heaven and earth, which are clearly being used to help others.

Back in Luoshui County, Shang Lu had seized an evil recipe for using people to make elixirs from the Black Wind Gang's treasure house.

The situation of the three-headed monster baby is very suitable for that evil recipe and is suitable for using to refine human pills.

Recalling what the three-headed monster baby had shouted before, "ascending to the gate of immortality" and "entering the immortal mountain"...

Shang Lu couldn't help but suspect that the immortal master behind them was deliberately cultivating them to become "elixir materials".

The so-called "ascending to the immortal gate" and "entering the immortal mountain" are probably not "entering the alchemy furnace" and "becoming an elixir of life", right?

Shang Lu asked a few more questions and found that the two heads could not explain clearly about the Nascent Soul, but they firmly believed that they had become Nascent Souls now.

Because that’s what the immortal master taught them.

Before them, there were people who had cultivated similar Nascent Souls, and then were praised by the Immortal Master and taken away.

Shang Lu didn't think they were lying by their expressions, so he could only say that they were deeply deceived by the so-called immortal master.

"Who are you? Who is the immortal master behind you? Why do you want to attack us?" Shang Lu continued to interrogate.

"We are a group of Qiangjiang people." The two heads answered in unison.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Quan leaned close to Shang Lu's ear and whispered, "Sir, I saw a wanted poster for Qiangjiang at the street corner of Heifengdu. They are the fierce bandits that are rampant in this area and have robbed and killed many people."

Shang Lu nodded and understood a little.

The so-called Qiangjiang swarm, just like the bandits encountered in Heifengdu before, were all raised by a certain family or sect to do dirty work.

The two heads of the three-headed monster baby had no idea what Shang Lu was thinking and were still answering his questions:

"We don't know the identity of the Immortal Master either. He gave us elixirs and taught us how to practice. We followed his orders and served him."

"Every time the Immortal Master appears, he uses magic to conceal his appearance and changes his voice... We even suspect that there is more than one Immortal Master."

"The Immortal Master said that you bought a good treasure in the ghost market, so he asked us to follow you, kill you, and take the treasure back."

"This kind of thing was something the Immortal Master often asked us to do. We didn't ask any more questions, nor did we dare to ask any more."

Shang Lu raised his eyebrows and asked a key question: "How does this immortal master know that I have been to the ghost market?"

"The Immortal Master has connections in the government office at Black Wind Ferry. He knows exactly who bought the ferry pass." The two heads said in unison.

Shang Lu sneered and didn't believe this answer at all.

The ferry pass he used to go to the Ghost Market was not bought from the government office at Heifeng Ferry, but was given to him by Xifeng.

It seems that this group of thieves was most likely sent by Xi Feng.

Although Shang Lu dispelled Xi Feng's suspicion, he did not dispel his murderous intention.

That night, Xi Feng gave Shang Lu the ferry pass and then contacted the group of thieves and asked them to ambush outside the Black Wind Ferry, waiting for Shang Lu to leave the city.

If the Witch Academy of Baiyi County pursues the matter, they can put the blame on the bandits. Not only can they mock the witch officials trained in Baiyi County for being unable to defeat the bandits, but they can also gain credit by "suppressing the bandits."

It’s a pity that Xi Feng had made all the plans, but he died first in a sudden incident.

Shang Lu asked the immortal master about the time when he gave the order. Sure enough, on the night when Xi Feng gave him the pass, the immortal master also promised them that as long as they killed Shang Lu, he would give them new "immortal pills" and "immortal magic".

Shang Lu recalled that when he had fought with this group of thieves before, he had sensed a chaotic and evil aura similar to that in the Fairy Market from their aura and magic moves.

He immediately guessed that this group of thieves were most likely Huangting Sect's experimental subjects.

The Huangting Sect obtained elixirs and techniques from the Fairy Market and gave them to these people first, using them to test the medicines and techniques.

It's ridiculous that this group of thieves thought they had met an immortal master and had a chance to become an immortal. They tried desperately to gain merit and be rewarded, but what they got in the end was a chance to be a test subject.

Even the result of hard practice is to be put into the alchemy furnace and refined into human elixir, becoming a supplement for the practice of the "immortal master" as they call it.

This speculation is not impossible. After all, it is exactly the same as the Huangting Sect's behavior of using people to raise pythons for experiments.

In fact, the group of people in Qiangjiang also suspected that there were problems with the elixirs and cultivation methods given by the Immortal Master.

But they are either children of ordinary families or from defeated small sects. They have neither the hope of being admitted to the Witch Academy nor any other way to practice. Suddenly someone is willing to teach them "immortal skills" and give them "immortal pills". Even though they know there is something strange and fishy, ​​they still flock to it and want to take a gamble.

Bet that you are the one in a million.

He gambled that he could refine the Nascent Soul, and from then on "ascend the gate of immortality" and "enter the immortal mountain", thus defying the will of heaven and changing his fate and becoming a member of the immortal masters.

Therefore, even though they saw many of their companions becoming monsters or going crazy and dying suddenly due to taking "immortal pills" or practicing "immortal magic", they still continued.

Of course, I can’t return it.

Ever since they took the first "magic pill", they became addicted and unable to quit, so they could only work hard for the "magic master".

(There will be another chapter updated in the afternoon)
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