Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 410 Supernatural power?
Shang Lu quickly calmed down and thought carefully, and felt that Tu Bo should not be angry.

Otherwise, even if He accepts the incense and sacrifices, He will still punish you.

"He must have something urgent, so he came and went in a hurry." Shang Lu guessed.

I just don’t know what urgent matter Tu Bo is busy with.

Is he busy trying to recover the Fairy Market that was invaded by evil spirits?
Or are you busy dealing with those strange and mysterious eyes in the night sky?

Unfortunately, Tu Bo's spiritual consciousness had already left, and even though Shang Lu was curious, he could not get an answer.

"He also said that he would ask Tu Bo to help investigate the origins of the demon. We can only talk about it later."

Shang Lu felt a little guilty tonight, and since he had to take a cold bath, he did not ask the pig-bodied, eight-legged, snake-tailed god to help him practice.

After offering incense and sacrifices, Shang Lu ended the ceremony of worshipping the gods. After sending off the pig-bodied, eight-legged, snake-tailed god, he put away the altar and jumped into the bathtub.

The biting cold instantly enveloped Shanglu.

But this time, Shang Lu was surprised to find that although the cold was very strong, it did not have much effect on his internal organs, meridians, blood and flesh.

Not only did it not make him feel overwhelmed, but it also swept away the fatigue from the journey and training.

Instead, his state of mind was more affected by the cold bath.

Before taking the cold bath, Shang Lu's mind was filled with many distracting thoughts.

As a result, all these distracting thoughts disappeared the moment he jumped into the bathtub and the chill came over him.

Because of this, Shang Lu's state of mind vaguely touched the magical state of "the heart is as clear as ice, and the sky falls without fear; the thousand changes remain calm, and the mind is happy and peaceful."

The difference of today's cold bath made Shang Lu involuntarily think of the instructions given to him by Teacher Xiang Yu.

At that time in the Witch Academy, after telling Shang Lu some of his experiences in cultivation, Teacher Xiang Yu very seriously reminded him that while training his body and cultivating his essence and qi, he must not forget to cultivate his mind.

Only when your state of mind is elevated can you resist the pollution of the gods' crazy talk and not go crazy or become strange in the process of contact with the gods.

Similarly, after your state of mind improves, you will be able to understand yourself better, and control and use your strength more easily.

Shang Lu took teacher Xiang Yu's advice to heart.

He originally wanted to use meditation combined with breathing techniques to eliminate distracting thoughts and cultivate his mind.

Unexpectedly, Sanniang also listened to Teacher Xiangyu's advice and came up with such a cold bath that is conducive to spiritual cultivation.

She is truly a good wife!
Shang Lu looked at Sanniang and said lovingly, "Sanniang, thank you..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Sanniang stretched out her hand and placed it on the top of his head.

Before he could react, he pressed his head into the icy liquid.

Shang Lu knew that Sanniang was telling him with her actions: Stop talking nonsense and take a bath to cultivate your mind.

"It's rough, but I like it."

Shang Lu thought in his heart.

With his current level of cultivation, he would not suffocate or lack oxygen even if he soaked in the water for an hour or so.

Just soaking in the cold liquid like this will make you unable to practice the breathing method anymore.

Otherwise, before your spiritual cultivation is over, you have to drink the bath water first.

Shang Lu changed his mind and simply started practicing the secret principles of the alchemy book.

This method of cultivating the inner elixir can also help eliminate distracting thoughts and sharpen one's state of mind.

In the following days, Shang Lu's life returned to normal.

Every morning, he went to the thieves' office to handle official business. Then he rushed to the witch academy to attend classes. After returning, he offered sacrifices to the gods, practiced qi, and tempered his mind...

Oh, by the way, you have to feed the shadow toad on time every day.

Although the days are peaceful, they are fulfilling and even a little busy.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed.

Shang Lu's cultivation had gradually stabilized after more than ten days of intensive practice. Even in the upper Dantian between his eyebrows, a new cyclone had already taken shape.

If things continue to develop at this pace, it won’t be long before the cyclone in Shanglu’s Dantian will take shape successfully!
This level of progress in cultivation was enough to make many senior brothers and sisters in the Witch Academy drop their jaws in astonishment.

During these ten days, Shang Lu also attended many classes in the Witch Academy.

In the Nuo witch class, Shang Lu learned about Nuo dance, Nuo music and other knowledge.

I also learned various techniques of using Nuo masks to communicate with gods.

Compared with these techniques, Shang Lu's previous use of Nuo masks was too simple and crude.

As for the military wizard, Shang Lu also followed the course. He not only worshipped Chi You, the Lord of War, but also asked for a tablet of Chi You to take home for worship.

When Teacher Xiang Yu heard about this, he sent a special letter to remind him that he could offer sacrifices to Chi You, but must not rashly use any spiritual methods to communicate with Chi You, and certainly not rashly make Nuo masks.

Shang Lu naturally agreed.

He was not stupid. He had just worshipped Chi You and became a god. How could Chi You recognize who he was?

With Chi You's violent temper, wouldn't he strangle him to death if he was disturbed by a stranger?
Even if one wants to communicate with Chi You, one must first offer incense and sacrifice for a period of time and become familiar to Chi You.

At that time, Chi You would be grateful to the person who had helped him. Even if Chi You had a bad temper, he would have to be more than a little nice to him for the sake of the incense and sacrifices.

After successfully communicating with the gods, it will be decided whether to make Nuo masks and when to make them based on Chiyou's attitude.

Shang Lu now realized that getting along with gods is like dating a girlfriend. One has to build up their favorability step by step to unlock the options of holding hands, kissing, and clapping for love... One must not rush things.

In addition, Shang Lu also learned the art of military mastery and the method of refining the five elements in the military witchcraft class.

The Bingzhu Jue is a set of body-refining techniques. Although it is named after "Bingzhu", it was not passed down by Chiyou, but was refined by the Witch Academy after eliminating the dross and retaining the essence of many body-refining methods it had collected.

When practice reaches its peak, the physical body is comparable to a magic weapon, and one can withstand all kinds of magic with the physical body alone.

The Five Qi Refining Method is the Qi refining method of the military strategists.

The energy that is refined is not only the essence, but also includes murderous intent, anger, morale, courage and so on.

According to what the soldier wizard taught, different qi have different properties. After being tempered, the effects they exert are also different.

For example, anger is fire. After tempering, it can turn anger into fire and burn everything!
The murderous aura belongs to gold, and after being sharpened it becomes extremely sharp, comparable to sword energy and knife blade wind.

Morale is earth, which is thick and heavy. It can not only mobilize one's own morale to hurt the enemy, but also mobilize the morale of companions, gather into towering mountains, and suppress all things!

But at the same time, once morale collapses, it will cause a landslide and subsidence, drowning the own side...

In addition, there are other different types of qi that can be refined by soldiers and wizards through the Five Qi Refining Method to become a special method of attack.

After learning the Five Qi Refining Method, Shang Lu's first reaction was that the Qi Blade Technique he learned in the Fairy Market was a waste!
Fortunately, I soon discovered that it was not a loss.

The Five Qi Refining Method is more inclined to the refining of various kinds of Qi, which belongs to the training method, while the Qi Blade Technique focuses more on fighting or usage.

The stronger Shang Lu practices the Five Qi Refining Method, the more powerful the Qi Blade Technique will become.

During the past ten days, Shang Lu listened carefully to the classes in the four branches of military and witchcraft.

But it is not yet clear in which branch he is more talented.

This is also normal.

Nowadays, the military and witch classes, except for the main art of weapons and the five-qi refining method, mostly teach basic theoretical knowledge.

It is only until the moment when one formally learns combat skills or witchcraft that one can see in which direction one is more talented.

Similarly, in the past ten days or so, Shang Lu also took Sanniang to take courses on divination, ghost taming, etc.

He even took the time to attend a few spiritual plant cultivation classes, wrote down the content, and relayed it to Uncle Huai after returning.

Because Shang Lu attended every divination class during these days, the divination teacher remembered him well.

It’s not because Shang Lu showed such great talent in divination class.

It was this guy who always sat in the last row of the class. He would be distracted after listening to a few sentences and almost fell asleep. The divination teacher had hinted to Shang Lu more than once that learning divination requires talent. If you don't have talent, don't force yourself to learn it, or you won't get any results.

Shang Lu agreed with everything, and his attitude was sincere and serious.

However, when the next divination class comes, he will show up on time.

Apart from anything else, his enthusiasm in class is higher than that of many gifted students.

Moreover, he was just daydreaming in class and did not affect other students. He did not even fall asleep or snore.

The divination teacher couldn't bear to kick him out, so he could only let him continue to listen.

The divination teacher thought that as the divination knowledge became deeper and more complicated, Shang Lu would sooner or later realize that he was not cut out for it and would stop wasting time.

He didn't know that the person who came to the divination class was not Shang Lu, but Sanniang.

Shang Lu Chunchun just played the role of a tool to occupy a seat.

That day, Shang Lu finished his lessons at the Witch Academy and rode his warhorse back to Chengfeng County. After entering the city, he led his warhorse back to the thief Cao's office as usual.

If he took the warhorse home, he would have to feed it himself. Besides, Shang Lu's family now had a group of flower and grass monsters. What if the warhorse got greedy and ate the flower and grass monsters? Wouldn't that be a big loss?
It’s better to send him back to the thief’s office.

The stables here have professional grooms who are responsible for feeding the horses, and Shanglu only needs to take one horse away every day, which saves him a lot of trouble.

"Sir, you are back."

Du Feng and Tu Pi lived in the yamen of the Bandits' Office. They calculated that Shang Lu should come back at this time, so they went to the gate of the yamen to greet him early in the morning.

"Did anything happen in the government office, the county, or the prefecture today?" Shang Lu threw the reins to Tu Xiong and asked casually.

"Nothing serious. Oh, by the way, today the king sent a grain collector to ask our county to prepare a batch of grain and to send it to Xingshan in the near future. The bookkeeper at the county government cursed for the whole day because of this matter, saying that the county's harvest was not good this year, and the king urged them every day. The grain was delivered to Xingshan, but there was no fighting. I really don't know why the two countries stationed troops."

Du Feng told Shang Lu what happened in the county today, picking out the important things.

Shang Lu frowned slightly.

A large amount of food and fodder has been transported to the Xingshan area since the confrontation with the State of Chu. Logically, there should be no shortage of food. Now they are urging for food to be sent there. Could it be that the State of Ba can no longer hold back and is about to take action?

He turned his head and looked at Tu Xiong.

Tu Pi had been in the frontier army for a long time and had more experience than Du Feng and Shang Lu. Seeing Shang Lu's expression, he understood what he meant and whispered, "Stockpiling military supplies in advance must be for some purpose!"

Shang Lu thought to himself that this was indeed the case, and at the same time reminded Du Feng.

"Just listen to what others are saying about this, and don't express your opinions."

Du Feng patted his chest and replied, "Don't worry, sir. I'm very tight-lipped."

Shang Lu knew Du Feng's character. As long as he gave him a heads up, he would definitely be cautious. So he stopped talking about the matter and asked about the situation in the government office instead. Du Feng answered his questions one by one.

After that, Shang Lu remembered something and asked again, "Hasn't Chen the thief Cao come back yet?"

"No."

There were two thieves' officials in the yamen of the thieves' office.

One is Shanglu and the other is Chenli.

After Shang Lu led Zhu Quan and others to capture a group of bandits, Chen Li could no longer sit still. He also took people to inspect the local area, wanting to solve a few cases personally to avoid being completely outdone by Shang Lu.

As a result, they were away for a long time. Shang Lu and his companions had been back in Chengfeng County for more than ten days, but Chen Li and his companions had not returned yet.

After a little consideration, Shang Lu told Du Feng:
"Go find the thief Cao official on duty and ask him to arrange for people to leave the city overnight and go to various counties and towns to inquire about the whereabouts and situation of Chen the thief Cao and his men. Don't let anything go wrong."

"Sir, I think Chen Zecao is unlikely to get into trouble. They haven't returned yet, it seems more like they haven't solved the big case, and they are unwilling and embarrassed to come back. If you ask me, Chen Zecao can compare with anyone else, why would he think of comparing with you, sir? How can he compare with your talent?"

"What kind of talent do I have? Is it the talent of a disaster star that makes trouble happen wherever I go?"

Shang Lu glared at Du Feng angrily and scolded him, "It's fine if you say these words in front of me and Lao Tu, but if you talk nonsense in front of others, I will skin you alive!"

"Don't worry, sir. I will never say these words in front of others."

"It better be this way."

Shang Lu snorted and asked with a straight face: "Did you remember my instructions?"

"Remember, I will go find the thief officer on duty and convey your order."

Shang Lu sent Du Feng away, waved his hand and asked Tu Bin to lead the horse to the stable, then turned around and went home.

After getting home and taking a short rest, I started eating the bassoon meat.

After eating, Shanglu was too lazy to check if he had any harvest and just went straight to practicing.

He first practiced a set of mysterious skills of transplanting flowers and trees, and then practiced the five qi refining method and the secret principles of the alchemy classics.

After he had refined and absorbed the intercepted divine power and the spiritual energy contained in the three beads of the sun, moon and stars and the flesh of the basa snake, Sanniang took out the Tongyou hand drum and started beating it.

The "dong dong dong" drum sounds are very rhythmic, as if war drums are roaring.

One after another, ghosts floated out from the tube banners to the sound of passionate drum beats, and quickly formed a formation to surround Shang Lu.

The flower and grass monsters in the yard seemed to be accustomed to this scene and they all hid under the big locust tree in the yard at the first opportunity.

They just poked out eyes made of flower buds and leaf patterns to watch the fun.

Shang Lu was not surprised by Sanniang and Chang Gui's actions, and greeted them with a smile: "Come on!"

Ever since Sanniang learned the method of setting up formations to exorcise ghosts in the ghost-controlling class, every day after Shang Lu finished his training, she would urge the rampant ghosts to set up formations and fight with Shang Lu for a few moves.

Shanglu was also happy about this.

Simulating actual combat not only allows him to stay in good shape at all times, but also allows Chang Gui's battle formations to improve rapidly.

"I learned a new skill in the ghost-controlling class today, so you have to be careful," Sanniang reminded.

Shang Lu laughed: "Okay, let me see what skills you have learned and how well you have learned them."

Sanniang beat the Tongyou hand drum and used the drum sound as a command flag.

The rampant ghosts that had been released from the formation released negative energy in coordination with the sound of drums.

In an instant, sand and rocks flew all around Shanglu, and the rolling negative energy gathered together amid the rapid drumbeats, and underwent a qualitative change.

"Ok?"

At this moment, Shang Lu also realized that something was wrong.

Each of these rampant ghosts was not very strong, but when they formed this formation and gathered the Yin energy together under the sound of Sanniang's drum, the pressure they created made Shang Lu feel dangerous.

"Boom-"

The sound of the drums beaten by Sanniang's men suddenly became louder.

The evil energy of the rampant ghosts condensed into an evil dragon, which brought up a hurricane and roared towards Shanglu.

"Well done!"

Shang Lu shouted.

The attack of the rampant ghosts after they formed a formation actually burst out with a power comparable to that of the Zhoutian realm. Shang Lu was surprised, but also became interested in having a good fight with these rampant ghosts.

But just as he was trying to use his strength to resist, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind.

Or rather, he suddenly had an epiphany.

It's like I've discovered a new skill.

Then he opened his mouth and inhaled the incoming evil energy.

The yin energy storm, like that of an evil dragon, was so simply and violently sucked into Shanglu's stomach in one gulp.

Not to mention the flower and grass monsters hiding in Uncle Huai's body, and the rampant ghost emitting evil spirit, even Sanniang couldn't help but widen her eyes at this moment.

(End of this chapter)