Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 537: Ghost Hunting

"Old Zhu, Old Zhuang, tell the brothers to stop training and get ready to set off."

Hearing the messenger's call, Shang Lu immediately realized that they were most likely to be assigned a task. He immediately called Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan to his side and gave them a few instructions. Then he was about to call Heiyun, but found that the guy had already been waiting at the camp gate, paddling his horse's hooves with an impatient look.

They were not allowed to leave the camp for the past two days, but Heiyun, who was very active, felt very depressed.

In addition, Xingshan is a military town where alcohol is strictly prohibited. For Heiyun, staying in such a place is like living a year in a day. Now that there is a chance to leave, Heiyun is naturally enthusiastic.

Shang Lu naturally understood Heiyun's thoughts, shook his head and laughed, "You beast, are you so impatient?" Then he jumped onto the horse's back. He didn't even need to shake the reins or whip, Heiyun rushed out of the barracks like a flash of lightning.

On the way to Yan Man's office, Shang Lu saw many generals riding their horses to the sound of rapid drums. Among them were generals of the border army and many county soldiers like him.

Arriving at the general's office, Shang Lu dismounted. Immediately, Yan Man's personal soldiers came up to him and led Heiyun to the stable.

Although Heiyun had a bad temper, he would be good at different times and places. At least in the General's Office, he behaved very well. It was because he knew that if he dared to make a scene here, he would be made into meat sauce to reward the three armies, and even Shanglu could not save him.

"Sima Shang, please follow me."

After checking Shang Lu's badge, another personal soldier took him into a government office where someone else had already arrived.

The personal soldier who brought Shang Lu here introduced him, "Sima Shang, please wait here for a while. The general is busy with military duties and cannot summon you in person. A military officer will come to assign tasks for you later."

Shang Lu crossed his hands and agreed, but he was thinking in his heart: "Is General Yan really too busy with military duties? Or is he seriously injured and has not recovered yet, so he is afraid of showing up and ruining the morale of the army?"

The personal guards turned around and left the government office. Shang Lu suppressed his speculation and greeted the people who had arrived here earlier.

After a few words, Shang Lu realized that the people in this government office were all generals from various counties, just like him.

Some of them, like Shang Lu, led a team to escort military supplies and food, and then were left in Xingshan. Some were specially selected from various counties and sent to reinforce the war in Xingshan.

After that, several more generals were led here.

Before the drumbeats stopped, the generals of the troops sent by various counties to Xingshan gathered in this government office. In addition to Shang Lu, there were two other generals sent by Baiyi County.

They were specially sent to reinforce the war in Xingshan. They arrived in Xingshan long before Shang Lu was transferred to serve as the acting Sima, so they were not familiar with Shang Lu. They would never have thought that the recent rebellion in Baiyi County that caused a lot of controversy was caused by this young man who spoke nicely and seemed easy to get along with.

When the drumbeats for gathering the generals stopped, a military officer from the general's mansion strode into the government office.

"Everyone is here?"

The soldier first turned his head and asked the military judge who was in charge of roll call.

The military judge responded expressionlessly: "Everyone is here."

The soldier nodded, his face solemn, and said in a deep voice: "The general has an order!"

The county soldiers in the government office immediately shut their mouths and stood at attention when they heard the sound.

The soldier raised his hand and a witch pattern flew out from his palm, landed on the wall of the government office, and turned into a map.

Everyone immediately recognized that this was the situation map of the Xingshan area.

The yellow part of the map is the area currently controlled by the State of Ba, while the black part is the territory occupied by the State of Chu.

The division of colors has some meaning of Bashan and Chushui.

In the area controlled by Pakistan, in addition to the front-line battlefield, it is divided into more than a dozen areas of varying sizes.

There is a name written on each piece, and the name of Shanglu is among them.

Upon closer inspection, the area with Shang Lu's name written on it was exactly the grain road he had passed through before, which was located relatively further back.

Taking another look at other areas, Shang Lu discovered a pattern. The areas close to the battlefield were all allocated to reinforcements sent by various counties.

These troops may not be as good as the border troops, but they are also the elite among the county troops. The generals leading them and the witch officers accompanying the army all have rich military experience.

The area at the rear, far away from the battlefield, was allocated to the baggage train that was left behind after escorting military supplies, food and fodder.

I just don't know what the Xingshan Camp wants to do by making such divisions and arrangements?
In an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on the soldier, waiting for him to give instructions.

The soldier didn't waste any words. After showing the map, he immediately said, "I'm sure you all know that the Chu army has been acting out of character in the past few days and has launched a full-scale attack on our defense line!"

All the generals nodded in unison, obviously having heard of this. Even when the drum for gathering the generals sounded, many people were still wondering if the war was getting tense and they were going to be sent up as reserve troops?
But now, looking at the situation on the map, it doesn’t seem like it.

The soldier continued, "In fact, the Chu army not only launched a frontal attack, but also used tricks and schemes in secret, summoning ghosts and creating corpses on a large scale in Xingshan!

Originally, the bodies and souls of those who died in battle were comforted and prayed for by shamans accompanying the army.

However, the Chu witch used secret rituals to destroy the appeasement and salvation, causing the dead to constantly transform into zombies and evil spirits. Even the animals that died in Xingshan were also affected, and there were large-scale corpse and ghost transformations!
Although the combat power of these rotten corpses and evil spirits is not strong, they carry corpse poison and negative energy, polluting water sources everywhere, destroying the feng shui and land veins, and even turning more living beings into corpses and ghosts through biting and pollution!
If left unchecked, it will turn into corpse miasma and damage the feng shui of the land, which will be disastrous!
We suspect that the Chu army has other intentions behind this! So we can't be careless and must eradicate all the corpses and evil spirits.

You are good at suppressing bandits in your local area. So I'll leave the patrol and ghost hunting to you!
Please look at the map. The area with your name on it is the patrol area you are responsible for. Be sure to remember it and don't make any mistakes!"

The county soldiers and generals responded in unison.

Compared to letting them go to the battlefield and directly confront the Chu army and the Chu witches, patrolling and hunting ghosts behind the battlefield is really taking care of them.

"The situation is urgent. After you remember the areas you are responsible for, you can set out and start the ghost hunting patrol! Before you set out, don't forget to go to the armory to get the remaining spirit witchcraft weapons for finding corpses and ghosts, as well as for preventing miasma and avoiding poison, and the corresponding military equipment and supplies."

Everyone obeyed the order and after remembering the area they were responsible for, they returned to the barracks and rushed to the armory with their soldiers to collect their weapons and equipment.

Shang Lu also wanted to leave, but he was stopped by a military officer before he left the government office.

Several other generals were also called over.

"Your troops are not fully staffed, so you should be given reinforcements. But now the Chu army has launched fierce attacks one after another, and the camp is unable to spare troops to reinforce you. Fortunately, a group of witch officers came from the rear a few days ago. We left a few of them to supplement you and serve as witch officers. Now they have arrived at your respective garrisons. I hope you will work together to quell the corpse ghost rebellion as soon as possible."

Shang Lu and several generals were very happy about joining the army.

It is good to have a witch officer accompanying the army, which is much better than recruiting additional soldiers.

Several people hurriedly thanked the military officer, who did not dare to take credit for it. He waved his hand and said, "This is what Priest Li meant. Priest Li said that as long as you do your job well and don't let the corpse miasma break out and ruin our country's dragon veins and feng shui, that will be the best reward for him."

Shang Lu and his men said in unison: "Please ask the army to tell Priest Li that we will do our best and will not let him down."

"I will definitely pass on the message." The soldier nodded and replied, "I'm here, I wish you all a successful start!"

After bidding farewell to joining the army, Shang Lu went straight to the stable.

The black clouds are showing off their power here.

In the military town, all the powerful beast mounts had gone to the frontline battlefield. The mounts in the stables were not as powerful as Black Cloud, so it was Black Cloud's turn to be arrogant. "Let's go!"

Shang Lu did not enter the stable, but greeted from a distance.

In the stable, Heiyun, who was surrounded by several mares, jumped out upon hearing the sound, leaving behind only a group of mares with sad eyes and neighing.

Shang Lu jumped on his horse and ordered, "Go back to the camp."

Hearing the mare neighing behind him, he couldn't help but raise his hand and pat Heiyun's head, scolding with a smile: "You beast, you are so bold, you dare to harm the mare in the general's office!"

Upon hearing this, Heiyun immediately started to cry out in a hurried voice with a hint of resentment in his tone.

Shang Lu didn't understand what it was yelling, but San Niang did. She floated beside Shang Lu and translated, "Hei Yun said it didn't harm the mares. It totally despises these vulgar women."

"As expected of a spirit horse, you are quite picky." Shang Lu laughed, then his face turned serious and he taught him a lesson: "You have just started practicing, your essence is very important, you must not lose it easily."

The black cloud made a few more hissing sounds.

Shang Lu still didn't understand what it was calling, but from the tone it sounded, it seemed a little dissatisfied.

This time, not only did Sanniang not give a translation, she also slapped Heiyun with a red face, almost sending Heiyun flying while he was running at high speed.

Heiyun screamed, and Shanglu jumped off his horse immediately. Seeing that Heiyun was fine, he got on again and asked Sanniang curiously, "What did the beast say to make you so angry?"

Sanniang didn't answer, but just glared at Shang Lu unhappily.

Shang Lu was not stupid either. He understood what was going on in an instant. He raised his hand and started to use a series of moves on Hei Yun's head, rubbing and hitting it, while cursing: "You are so bold that you dare to make up stories about me? Can you compete with me? I was practicing martial arts with Sanniang!"

Heiyun suffered from the disadvantage of having no hands and could not protect his head from being hit. Although he kept shaking his head, he could not avoid Shang Lu's slap.

However, despite being beaten, Heiyun still seemed unconvinced and kept making a buzzing sound in his mouth.

Sanniang translated quietly, "It said it also wants to practice this skill."

Shang Lu angrily scolded: "You want to practice this? The Qi in your Dantian hasn't even condensed into shape, what's the point of practicing it! Wait until you break through to the Zhoutian realm and find a suitable Taoist partner! You haven't even learned how to walk, and you want to run? Why don't you want to fly... Damn it!"

Just as he finished halfway through his scolding, clusters of black scales appeared from under Heiyun's horsehair. Then he leaped up, and actually stepped on the wind, "flying" to a height of dozens of meters. Although he fell down again soon, it could still be considered as "flying".

"I'm giving you an example, and you're really showing off in front of me, right?" Shang Lu cursed with a dark face.

Before he could continue to deal with the black cloud, a military judge rushed out and shouted at Shang Lu with a cold face: "In the military town, you are not allowed to fly without orders!"

Shang Lu quickly admitted his mistake. Although the other party's official position and cultivation were not as good as his, he had the power to patrol and enforce the law. He would not be foolish enough to show off his power to the military judge.

Fortunately, the military judge did not make things difficult for Shang Lu. Considering that he was a first-time offender and a commander of the county troops, he just spoke sternly about the various rules and regulations that needed to be paid attention to in the military town and let him go.

Heiyun also knew that he had caused the trouble, so he finally calmed down, not daring to talk back or jump around anymore. He quickly returned to the barracks carrying Shang Lu.

As soon as Shang Lu returned to the camp, before he dismounted his horse, he saw a familiar figure.

After being stunned for a moment, he could not help but be overjoyed and called out to the man, "Brother Lu! The witch officer that Chief Priest Li sent to our army is you?"

In the camp, Lu Yang was carrying a huge sword box and talking to Zhu Quan, Huai Shu, and Du Feng. Hearing Shang Lu's greeting, he turned around and said with a smile: "Yes, it's me!"

"Haha, that's great, what a coincidence."

Shang Lu was genuinely happy. He and Lu Yang had fought side by side and shared life and death together many times, and they had already developed a tacit understanding with each other.

Moreover, although Lu Yang has not broken through to the Tongtian realm, he is close to reaching the perfection of Zhoutian, making him the best candidate for the military wizard officer.

"This is not a coincidence, but I took the initiative to ask for it."

Lu Yang smiled and said, "I arrived at Xingshan Military Town the day before yesterday, but I didn't come to look for you because the town was under martial law. I wanted to send you a message, but the Jade Plate of the Witch Academy became a decoration in this place and couldn't be used at all. Until today, when I heard that they were going to add witch officers to the county troops, I took the initiative to apply to team up with you, Junior Brother Shang."

After explaining the situation, Lu Yang said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Junior Brother Shang, you are famous for your great luck. Whether I can achieve enlightenment this time, step into the Zhoutian Perfection, and catch the inspiration for a breakthrough, it all depends on you."

Shang Lu smiled bitterly and waved his hands: "Brother Lu, you are joking too much. I don't have such ability."

Lu Yang didn't think so. He said seriously, "Brother Shang, don't underestimate your chance. Maybe we can both have a chance to break through to the Tongtian realm this time! Oh, by the way, has your cultivation reached perfection?"

Shang Lu shook his head, smiled and said two words: "Just a small achievement."

In the past few days, after refining the water-based divine power from Dongjun, Shangui and the sheep skull staff, Shanglu's cultivation level was successfully improved to the minor success level of Tongtian, allowing the cyclone in the middle dantian to leave the dantian and travel through the body.

Lu Yang was stunned: "Minor success? That shouldn't be the case. Before going to Pingdu Mountain, you had already reached the great success. Why is it that your level is decreasing instead of increasing? Is it because the pollution has not been completely purified?"

At this point, he suddenly reacted, his eyes widened, and his voice instantly soared several degrees.

"Brother Shang, the minor success you mentioned, could it be the minor success of Tongtian?"

"That's right!" Shang Lu smiled and nodded in acknowledgement.

Li Hong was already dead, and the Li family was wiped out by Wei Wu. There was no need to hide his cultivation any more.

Moreover, they are on the front line. Although it is not a front-line battlefield, they will still encounter the Chu army and Chu witches.

Once they fight, his cultivation level will certainly be revealed. It is better to make it clear now to avoid Lu Yang's suspicion and affect cooperation.

"I……"

Lu Yang opened his eyes wide, his face full of disbelief, and his mood was extremely complicated.

I was happy for Shanglu, but also somewhat jealous.

It's probably a kind of mentality of "I'm afraid that my brothers are having a hard life, but I'm also afraid that my brothers are driving a Land Rover."

But soon, Lu Yang adjusted his mentality.

He grabbed Shang Lu's hand and said affectionately, "Junior Brother Shang... No, from today on, you are my senior brother! Junior Brother Shang, Father Shang, whether I can break through my cultivation level depends entirely on you!"

"I go!"

Shang Lu was stunned, he never expected that Lu Yang, a swordsman with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who was upright and incorruptible, could be so shameless.

You have learned bad things! Shang Lu was heartbroken.

Who the hell did you learn this from?

(End of this chapter)