Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 401 Hundred Ghosts Night Parade
Time passed quickly and it was evening.

The village was silent late at night, with almost no other sounds except the occasional night owls and barking dogs.

The villagers, lacking nighttime entertainment, also went to bed early.

But at this moment, Shang Lu was ready to start making trouble!
"Sanniang, let all your demons out."

Shang Lu greeted him quietly, and then he saw Sanniang appear beside him. She waved her hand and sent out a tube-shaped flag, letting it float in the courtyard of the village temple.

Gusts of cold wind blew up from the tube-shaped banners, accompanied by a group of rampant ghosts that flew out silently.

Shang Lu was not idle either. He took out the talisman paper and chanted an incantation, then quickly tore the paper and performed a magic trick to create a group of paper figures.

He came here to support Liuquan's wife and daughter. What he did during the day was not enough, he also had to leave an unforgettable memory for the people here.

Especially those people who had evil thoughts should be made to tremble and feel fear from the bottom of their hearts when they think about what happened today.

The originally empty courtyard of the village temple was soon filled with demons and paper figures.

Shang Lu gave a few simple instructions and then waved his hand to order them to patrol the village.

As a witch official, it is reasonable to send out ghosts and paper people to patrol villages and towns and protect the people.

As for whether this scene of a hundred ghosts parading at night would scare people, that was none of his business.

If you haven't done anything wrong, why would you be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door?

Of course, Shang Lu also gave instructions to these rampant ghosts and paper figures, asking them to try not to disturb innocent villagers and to focus on those who had evil intentions.

Those people thought they were hiding their thoughts very well.

Little did they know that in the eyes of these old criminals in the thief Cao's office, their thoughts were as clear as if written on their faces.

Shang Lu and his men knew exactly who had evil thoughts or bad intentions, and would never "kill" the wrong person.

The rampant ghosts and paper figures bowed and accepted the order, then rode on the dark wind and left the village temple, and began to "patrol" in the village.

Shang Lu turned around and went into the village temple, and burned a stick of incense to the statue enshrined there.

This statue, like the Lord God worshipped in Shuanggui Village, is a local deity, a bit like the land god or the city god.

The villagers offer incense to him and pray for good weather. Sometimes when they are sick and have no money to see a doctor, they will come to the village temple to burn incense and worship, asking the gods for protection and a speedy recovery.

As for whether it is useful or not, that is another matter.

Anyway, Uncle Liuquan prayed to the village god to show up and deal with Shanglu, but it never happened tonight.

After lighting the incense, Shang Lu turned around and looked at the banners floating in the yard. Suddenly, he remembered something and asked Sanniang in a low voice, "Have you refined the soul-searching skills of the two rampant ghosts I bought from the ghost market?"

After Shang Lu left the ghost market and returned to the human world, he handed the two rampant ghosts he bought to Sanniang, wanting to see if he could find some clues by searching their souls.

He has always been very suspicious of the group of people who sold the Five Evil Stones and the rampant ghosts, and felt that there was most likely a big case hidden behind these things!
Unfortunately, Sanniang's answer disappointed him.

"I refined it and searched its soul, but found nothing. The memories of the two demons were wiped clean, not a single bit of information was left. The person who refined the demons is a veteran with a lot of experience."

Fortunately, Sanniang was not completely clueless. She told Shang Lu, "The two ghosts are very strange. They should have been around 20 years old when they died, but their souls give me the feeling that they only lived for two or three years."

"Why is this happening?" Shang Lu asked, "Is it because his memory was erased? Or is it because there is something strange about the way that group of people used to refine the rampant ghosts?"

"I don't know about this. I have only attended a few ghost and witch classes and have not learned anything related to this."

When Shang Lu heard this, he immediately understood that Sanniang was urging him to return to the Witch Academy to continue his classes.

He immediately agreed with a smile: "I understand. We will go home after Liuquan is buried tomorrow."

After a pause, he stroked his chin again and thought about the two rampant ghosts.

The memories of the two rampant ghosts were wiped so cleanly that even Sanniang couldn't find any content. Could it be that she really needs to ask Tu Bo for help?
After thinking for a moment, Shang Lu decided to wait.

Even if you really want to ask Tu Bo for help, it is not appropriate to set up an altar here to communicate with the gods.

There is a lot of turmoil in Guling County right now. It is not a good idea to rashly practice the method of communicating with gods. It may attract some attention.

Not to mention the last time he communicated with the gods, Shang Lu almost caused disaster because of his words.

Even if you want to practice the method of communicating with the gods again, it is best to wait for a while, until the strange eyes in the night sky move away.

"Let's talk about it after we return to Baiyi County and the Witch Academy. Maybe we can find someone in the Witch Academy who can use secret methods to find out the origins of these two rampant ghosts."

Shang Lu made up his mind and decided not to think about it for the time being.

He took out a piece of the Basque snake meat and ate it. He then practiced the Dragon and Tiger Power externally and cultivated the "Secrets of the Alchemy Classics" internally. He began to practice day after day without interruption.

There are indeed many benefits of Basque snake meat. Not only is it rich in spiritual energy, it can also strengthen muscles, bones and marrow. When consumed together with elixirs such as Sanshi Yangshen Dan and Xuanqi San, it will not weaken the medicinal properties, but will enhance them.

Senior Chu Yun said in the recipe that eating the meat of the basobasal snake can gain supernatural powers. Shang Lu has eaten a lot of basobasal snake meat in the past few days, but there is no sign of supernatural powers.

Shang Lu asked Sanniang about this, and she said that the recipe only wrote that there was a "chance" of obtaining the Bashe magical power, but did not say what the chance was.

Shanglu wanted the magical powers of the Bashe, and had no other choice but to continue eating.

This answer made Shang Lu sigh, thinking that the explosion rate of the Bashen magic was almost as low as that of some card-drawing and krypton-cheating mobile games.

And he really had no other choice but to continue eating.

Fortunately, there was enough Basque meat, and it tasted okay, at least much better than chewing wax. At the same time, eating it would also help with cultivation, so even if I didn't gain magical powers in the end, it wouldn't be a loss... I'd be surprised.

Shang Lu originally wanted to comfort himself with a few words, but it was of no use. Instead, he became even more depressed. He could only put his hope on the remaining basa snake meat, hoping that they would give him some help so that he wouldn't end up spending all his money and still get nothing.

When Shang Lu had his midnight snack and was practicing in the courtyard of the village temple, the people in the village, especially those who had evil thoughts and evil intentions, all couldn't sleep.

Liuquan's uncle was one of them.

During the day, he prayed to the village god to show up and deal with Shang Lu and his group of corrupt officials, but his family reminded him that the village god and the witch officials were colleagues.

It is said that officials protect each other, and the relationship between the village god and the witch official may be the same.

Uncle Liuquan, who realized this, was in a state of constant fear. Even when it was late at night and everyone in the family was fast asleep, he was still tossing and turning in bed, worried.

I finally started to feel drowsy and sleepy, but in the dim light, I suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Uncle Liuquan's sleepiness instantly disappeared, which made him very unhappy. Before his mind regained clarity, he started cursing: "Who is it? Knocking on the door in the middle of the night! What can't be said tomorrow? Why are you in such a hurry? Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

After saying this, Uncle Liuquan finally came to his senses and suddenly remembered something: "Yeah, who would knock on the door so late? Could it be... really a ghost?" When he thought of the "ghost", Uncle Liuquan remembered the horrific scene he saw during the day, and he couldn't help but tremble all over and his teeth chattering.

His family was awakened by his shout and were a little scared. They asked in a low voice what had happened.

Uncle Liuquan didn’t know what was going on, he just heard a whirring sound in the wind outside the door, like someone crying.

However, the "person" outside the house stopped knocking on the door after hearing his shouting and cursing.

Uncle Liuquan huddled in bed and waited for a long time. Seeing no response from outside, he plucked up the courage to get out of bed at the urging of his family, walked quietly to the door, and looked out through the crack.

This glance was not a big deal, but he actually saw a pale, pupilless eye sticking to the door, looking into the room through the crack.

He happened to look into the pale, pupilless eyes.

Then he saw a strange smile suddenly spread out from the pale, pupilless eye.

Then, a cold voice sounded in his ears, giving him goosebumps all over his body: "We want to be reincarnated, do you have a way?"

"Oh my god, there's a ghost!"

Uncle Liuquan felt his mind go blank and his mouth started screaming uncontrollably.

Although he had seen a ghost once during the day, he was still frightened at this moment. He stepped back hastily, tripped, and fell to the ground.

The family members in the house were also frightened by his shout. Before they could ask him what he saw, they saw the door, which should have been closed, creaked in the cold wind and then slowly opened.

The bolt on the door didn't work at all.

A few rampant ghosts with black air all over their bodies and a few paper figures with pale bodies but two strange red spots on their faces floated into the house on the gloomy wind.

The howling cold wind blew on Uncle Liuquan and his family, making them feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave. They felt extremely cold from body to soul.

But at this moment, they didn't care about the cold. They were all frightened by the ghosts and paper people that floated into the house and were trembling and screaming.

The whole family huddled in a corner, terrified, but still blaming Liuquan's uncle.

"It's all over, it's all over. The village god must have complained to the witch officer and sent the ghost paper figurine to take our lives!"

"It's all your fault. You did something good but complained to the village gods. Now our whole family is going to die. We are going to become their scapegoats."

"Wow, wow, I'm still young. I don't want to die yet, and I don't want to be a scapegoat."

However, to the family's surprise, the ghosts and paper figures that floated into the house did not harm their lives.

He just moved his cold and terrifying face closer to them and said in a cold tone:

"Don't be afraid, we are not here to kill anyone."

"We are patrolling the city under the order of the witch officer!"

"It's dry, be careful with fire. You guys can sleep, but don't start a fire."

"Ah?" Uncle Liuquan's family was all confused after hearing what the demon and the paper man said.

No, you created this scene just to remind us that the weather is dry and we should be careful with fire?

The atmosphere has reached such a terrifying point, are you really not going to eat someone or possess them?

Just as Uncle Liuquan and his family were still in shock, the demons and paper figures that floated into the house suddenly came close to them, staring at them with their pale or blood-red eyes, and asked sinisterly:
"It is said that if you do not do bad things in your life, you will not be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night... You are so scared, have you done too many bad things?"

Uncle Liuquan's heart almost stopped beating out of fright. He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound came out. He was just so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

His family quickly distanced themselves from him, and then said in unison:

"No, no, we have never done anything wrong!"

"We promise that we will never do anything wrong again, please let us go!"

The rampant ghost and the paper man stared at Uncle Liuquan for a moment, left a word "take care of yourself", and flew away on the gloomy wind.

They were very polite and helped Uncle Liuquan and his family close the door and bolt it when they left.

Even though the demon and the paper man were gone, Uncle Liuquan and his family were still huddled in the corner, shivering, not daring to move or sleep.

If there is any noise outside the house, they will be frightened and huddle together like frightened birds.

After finally making it to dawn, Uncle Liuquan and his family were all extremely sleepy.

Hearing the crowing of the roosters and seeing the sun, they let out a long breath.

Although the experience of that night did not cost them their lives, it was a great mental torture for them, enough to make them remember it forever.

From now on, whenever I have any bad thoughts, I will think of what happened tonight.

He no longer dared to have any bad thoughts towards Liuquan's wife and daughter.

Looking at the sunlight shining into the house, the extremely sleepy family thought they could finally have a good night's sleep, but they were awakened by a knock on the door.

The good news is that the one knocking on the door this time is no longer a ghost paper figure.

The bad news is that the officers from the thief Cao's office have come to the door.

Fortunately, they were not going to be punished, but to be informed that Liuquan's body was going to be buried, and they were allowed to attend the funeral as relatives.

Although Uncle Liuquan and his family were extremely sleepy, they did not dare to say even a word of "no" when faced with the invitation from the officials from the Cao's office.

In their hearts, the police are far more terrifying than the ghost paper figures!
The ghost paper figurine will at most take your life, but the police not only want your life, they also want money!
If you fall into the hands of the officials, you would be lucky if your family is destroyed and your loved ones die.

Uncle Liuquan and his family hurried out of the house and found that there were many people in the village who were yawning like them and had dark circles under their eyes.

They were all people who had previously planned to bully orphans and widows and steal their property.

Those who had no bad intentions looked much better. Even if people pointed fingers at them, no one knew what they were whispering about.

Uncle Liuquan and his gang were not stupid either. They quickly realized that what happened last night was a warning from the witch officer to them.

I was just trying to scare them last night, but if they don’t know what’s good for them, then next time, I’m afraid they’ll be beheaded by the evil spirits!
The group of people shuddered in unison, no longer daring to have any bad thoughts.

(End of this chapter)