Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 415: Corpse Poison
This change happened very quickly.

The people around only saw a flash of black light, and before they could react to what happened, the black light had already "hit" the Smilax glabra.

It's just that the shot was a little off.

The black light was clearly heading for Shang Lu's forehead, but for some reason, it ended up going into Shang Lu's mouth.

At this moment, everyone finally reacted and were horrified. The shouts of "Sir" and "Merchant thief Cao" were heard one after another.

Du Feng rushed to Shang Lu immediately to check on his injuries.

Chen, the county magistrate of Longyou County, also rushed forward with a look of horror on his face, wishing he could take the blow instead of Shang Lu.

Chen Li was murdered in Longyou County, which made him terrified and anxious.

If Shang Lu was also attacked and killed in Longyou County, and it happened in front of him, and the attacker came with him, then he would not only be stripped of his official hat, but also be thrown into prison.

Therefore, while Chen Li was rushing towards Shang Lu, he also shouted to his county soldiers: "Quickly capture Sun Sanmazi!"

If Sun Sanmaizi ran away, he would have no way of explaining himself.

Before the county soldiers could take any action, someone had already rushed towards Sun Sanmaizi.

It was Tu Xiong. He rushed towards Sun Sanmazi like a whirlwind, shouting angrily: "How dare you! How dare you murder me!"

"I didn't, and I don't know what happened..."

Sun Sanmaizi was frightened by this unexpected situation.

Not only did he not run away, he didn't even resist.

His legs became weak from fear, and he fell to his knees, crying:
"It has nothing to do with me! It really has nothing to do with me! Even if I were given a thousand or ten thousand guts, I would not dare to murder the merchant thief Cao! I don't know what happened. The box contains the candy that I snatched from the children of Xiahuai Village..."

Tu Pi didn't listen to his explanation. He swung his long sword out of its sheath with a clang and hit him on the head with a violent gust of air.

It's over! Sun Sanmazi was so frightened that he closed his eyes, thinking he was going to die.

But Tu Xiong's knife did not fall on his head.

Even the violent gust of wind that seemed to be blowing his flesh apart disappeared in an instant.

Am I dead? Why don't I feel any pain? As soon as Sun Sanmazi had this thought in his mind, he heard Shang Lu's voice: "It's none of his business, put the knife away."

Then I heard Du Feng, Chen Xianwei and others shouting excitedly:

"Sir, are you okay?"

"Shang Zei Cao, I'm so glad you're okay!"

The merchant thief Cao is not dead?! Sun Sanmazi quickly opened his eyes.

He saw that Tu Xiong's knife was already hanging above his head, but was stopped by an invisible force.

This invisible force comes from Shanglu.

Not only was the Smilax glabra fine, it was also alive and kicking, as if nothing had happened to it.

When Tu Pi heard Shang Lu's words, he turned around and saw that he was really fine, then he sheathed his sword.

But he did not step back. Instead, he stood in front of Sun Sanmaizi and stared at him fiercely.

Sun Sanmaizi didn't dare to express the slightest dissatisfaction. He was just curious about what the black light was that had just flown out of the box.
He was close and could clearly feel that there was a cold, violent and chaotic force hidden in the black light.

At the same time, he also saw very clearly that the black light had clearly penetrated into the mouth of Shang Zecao, so why was Shang Zecao not hurt at all?
He was even smacking his lips, as if he had just eaten something delicious, with an expression of being unsatisfied.

At this moment, Sun Sanmaizi was not the only one who felt surprised and doubtful, but everyone wanted to ask but did not dare to.

Du Feng has a close relationship with Shang Lu and does not have such concerns.

After making sure Shang Lu was fine, he asked curiously, "Sir, what was that black light just now?"

"It's a corpse worm."

Shang Lu said in a deep voice: "The peddler wrapped the corpse worms in the stove sugar. The corpse worms carry the poison. Once eaten by people, the corpse worms will drill out of the stove sugar and infect people with the poison. Now we can be sure that the children's epidemic in the nearby village was caused by the peddler."

When County Lieutenant Chen heard this, his heart was once again in suspense: "I think the corpse worm just now seemed to have flown into the stomach of the thief, Cao. I wonder if you were poisoned by the Gu?"

"No, my digestive ability is quite strong. They are just a few corpse worms. They can't poison me to death." Shang Lu said, patting his belly.

I'm not exaggerating.

Just now, those few corpse worms wanted to pounce on his forehead and drill into his head, but they were all swallowed up by him using his magical power of swallowing an elephant.

These corpse worms were not like magic power. After being swallowed by Shanglu, they were not sent to the sea of ​​qi, but were directly placed on the altar of the five internal organs.

Without even a chance to resist, he was transformed by the spleen statue and detoxified by the liver statue.

It was only after the internal organs had digested it that Shanglu realized through the words condensed from the fragrance that these black bugs the size of fingernails were corpse worms carrying poison.

Although Shang Lu followed the path of military shaman and Nuo shaman, he attended many classes of other schools in the shaman academy these days, hoping to broaden his horizons.

In the corpse-raising class, Shang Lu learned about corpse worms.

Not to mention that Sanniang was still by his side at this moment, helping him complete this knowledge.

Shang Lu immediately ordered Du Feng: "Take a few brothers to Xiahuai Village. If there are children in the village who are sick, mix chicken blood with glutinous rice and stuff it into their mouths to slow down the spread of the poison."

"Yes!" Du Feng obeyed the order loudly, called a few thieves, and rode towards Xiahuai Village on horseback.

Shang Lu then asked County Magistrate Chen: "How many Yi Towers are there in Longyou County? Where are they located?"

"This..." County Magistrate Chen was stunned by the question and was speechless for a moment.

Seeing Shang Lu frown, he quickly explained: "The matter of Yi Pagoda is under the charge of the county magistrate and the witch doctor. It is not my responsibility... But I know where the Yi Pagoda nearby is."

Shang Lu had been a county lieutenant before, and he knew that the Yi Pagodas were not under the jurisdiction of the county lieutenant. He immediately ordered: "Send someone back to the county government office immediately to find the county magistrate and the witch doctor, and ask them about the number and detailed locations of the Yi Pagodas in Longyou County. If you have a map, bring it here."

County Magistrate Chen quickly accepted the order.

When County Lieutenant Chen sent county soldiers back to the city to inquire about the situation of Yi Pagoda, Shang Lu also took out the Wuyuan Jade Card and sent a message to Lu Dao, detailing what he had discovered in Xiahuai Village.

Finally, he attached his judgment:

"I think that the death of Chen Zecao and others, as well as the poisonous plague caused by children in several villages in Longyou County who ate corpse worms, are most likely related to the group of people who refined the rampant ghosts and made the soul flags. I suggest that the cases be investigated together. I also ask Uncle Lu to send reinforcements and notify other villages and counties in the county to pay attention to investigating such situations."

However, there were a few points that confused Shang Lu.

If the peddler was really the one who refined the demons and made the soul flags, then why did he only harm children and not adults?

Is it true that only the soul of a child can be used to create a ghost whose memory cannot be found?

Or is there some other secret hidden in this matter?
Shang Lu sent all these doubts to Lu Dao, wanting to hear Uncle Master Lu's opinion.

However, before he could receive Lu Dao's reply, he heard the coroner who was checking the body exclaim:

"Sir, the body of Chen the Thief Cao is moving!"

Shang Lu looked in the direction of the sound and saw Chen Li's body, which was shaking strangely, as if it was about to get up.

And not only Chen Li's body, but also the bodies of other thieves nearby, and even the bodies of several wild dogs that died of poisoning from eating the corpses, showed unusual movements.

The screaming coroner had already jumped up at this time. The thieves and the county soldiers all drew their swords and were on guard, looking nervous.

If the corpses on the ground were not those of Chen Li and others, they would have chopped them down with the knives and axes in their hands - in their eyes, if the people were dead and suddenly moved, they must be turning into zombies!

So we have to chop the body into pieces! Once the body is chopped up, we can see how it can change.

Shang Lu only took a glance and roughly understood the situation.

Not only was he not frightened, he squatted back beside the bodies of Chen Li and others, put his hands on the bodies, and sent a wisp of essence into the inside of the bodies to check the situation.

After a while, Shang Lu stood up, took off his deerskin gloves, threw them to a thief next to him, and asked him to help disinfect them.

"Don't be nervous. Chen and Cao's bodies are indeed turning into zombies, but it will take some time before they officially turn into zombies. Send a few people to get some firewood. It would be best if we can find some pine, cypress, and fir to burn Chen and Cao's bodies."

The thief immediately bowed and accepted the order, and went to look for firewood, pine, cypress and fir trees around.

Upon seeing this, County Lieutenant Chen quickly sent out his county soldiers to help.

It didn't take these people much time to find a lot of pine, cypress and fir trees, and they piled them into more than ten piles according to Shang Lu's requirements.

Shang Lu waved his hand and wrapped the bodies of Chen Li and others with his essence and energy, and placed them on the firewood pile one by one. He also threw the bodies of the wild dogs into a pile of firewood.

Then he took out several porcelain bottles from the bag on his horse's back, sprinkled some of the powder inside on all the corpses, and then ordered his men to set them on fire.

With the help of the medicinal powder, the flames instantly became stronger.

The raging flames were like a huge mouth of the abyss, swallowing up the bodies of Chen Li and others.

Shang Lu asked Yue Ming and the coroner to stay here and watch the fire burn the bodies. After the bodies were burned to ashes, they had to be canned one by one and taken back to be delivered to the families of Chen Li and others.

For this reason, Shang Lu also specifically instructed: "Don't confuse them, and don't mix them up!"

Upon seeing this, County Lieutenant Chen quickly asked the county soldiers who had just helped collect firewood to stay here and help.

After Shang Lu finished doing these things, he called Chen County Wei and asked him to lead the way to the nearby Yi Tower to check the situation.

Just as they were about to leave, they saw a thief who came back at full speed to report the situation in Xiahuai Village to Shang Lu.

"Sir, we followed Brother Feng to Xiahuai Village and found that all the children under the age of five in the village were poisoned and sick.

The children's skin was covered with ulcers, which oozed large amounts of horrible pus and blood, emitting a strong, pungent stench.

We followed your instructions and asked the people of Xiahuai Village to quickly kill chickens and take out glutinous rice to delay the children's corpse poison.

But it was too late when we arrived. Several families in the village had already thrown their sick children into Yita.

After hearing about this, Brother Feng immediately asked me to come back and report to the adults."

Tu Pi was both shocked and angry: "The peddler arrived at Xia Huai Village only the day before yesterday, and the children have only been ill in the past two days. How could some villagers be so impatient as to abandon the children?"

Shang Lu speculated: "The children were infected with corpse poison. When their skin ulcerated, the corpse poison would flow out along with pus and blood. If someone else was infected, their skin would also ulcerate. The people in Xiahuai Village must have been frightened by this situation. They thought the children were infected with a serious poison and were afraid that they would be affected, so they hurriedly threw the children away."

Qiu Dao, who rushed back to report the news, nodded repeatedly.

"It is just as you said! When we arrived at Xiahuai Village, many villagers were throwing stones and cursing at the families with sick children from afar, threatening them to throw the sick children into the Yita quickly to prevent them from harming everyone."

"A bunch of idiots." Tu Bin cursed with gritted teeth.

Shang Lu didn't say much. He jumped on his warhorse and urged County Captain Chen to lead the way.

At the same time, he ordered Qiudao, who had returned to report the news, to go to Xiahuai Village again and bring a few villagers who had abandoned their sick children to Yita, as he had something to ask.

Knowing that the matter was urgent and concerned human lives, County Lieutenant Chen did not dare to delay and spurred his horse towards the nearest Yi Tower.

In a blink of an eye, he ran more than twenty miles.

From a distance, Shang Lu and others saw a mound.

The mound is not high, only about thirty meters. There is a tower on the top, about five or six meters high, which looks very wide.

Even though they were still far away, everyone felt a little uncomfortable.

The negative energy emanating from the tower is really too strong.

When they ran up the mound and came close to the tower, they saw that the tower had no door and was completely blocked.

On one side of the tower, a slope was built with earth, leading all the way to the top of the tower.

At the end of the slope, about one meter above the slope, there was a hole.

The hole is not big, just big enough to throw a person in.

The original intention of building the Yi Tower was to provide a coffin for families whose children died but who could not afford a coffin due to poverty.

So that they can place the bodies of their dead children in the tower to avoid a hasty burial where they would be dug out and eaten by wild dogs.

The temple priests in each town would inspect the righteous pagodas in the town and burn the bones every once in a while to prevent the corpse qi from polluting the earth veins and attracting evil spirits.

The shamans in the county would also hold rituals regularly to pray for the souls of the dead in the Yi Pagoda.

At the same time, inside the Tower of Righteousness, corresponding witchcraft spells and formations were cast to prevent the corpse qi from leaking out and evil spirits from causing chaos.

But now, the word Yita is being used in a distorted way.

It is not just the remains of children who died in infancy that are sent to Ita.

Some sick children are also thrown into Yita because their families do not want to treat them or have no money to do so.

Many times, these sick children were thrown into the tower and were still alive, and their cries could be heard coming from the tower.

So in some places, people call Yita "Wow Kitchen".

The elders in the family threatened the children and threw them into the cupboard if they did not obey.

The so-called "wawu" is the sound of a child crying.

Although the government at all levels in Pakistan has issued clear orders to prohibit infanticide and drowning, and severe punishment will be imposed if found, this kind of thing still happens despite repeated bans...

Shang Lu and his companions rode their horses and soon arrived in front of Yi Tower.

Normally, since there was a child poisoned by corpses abandoned inside the Yi Tower, there should have been crying sounds, but Shang Lu and the others didn't hear any sound.

Could it be that the poisoned child is already dead?
Shang Lu rode his war horse straight up the slope and reached the top of Yi Tower.

He cast the Stone Armor Spell with his hand, poked his head out of the cave and took a look into the tower.

It was pitch black inside.

But Shang Lu still relied on his extraordinary eyesight to see what was happening inside the dark tower.

What surprised him was that in this tower there were only piles of burnt bones.

And you can tell at a glance that it is definitely not recent.

As for the bodies of those who had just died and the sick children who were still alive, no trace of them was seen in this tower.

Where are the sick children infected with corpse poison in Xiahuai Village?
Was it thrown somewhere else?
Or was it taken away by someone?
But didn't the thieves want the soul? Why did they take away the body as well?
Aren't they afraid of being exposed by carrying the corpses around?
Or do the corpses have some important uses to them?
(End of this chapter)