Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 538 Wei Wu asks for help!

Chaowu Mountain is one of the seventy-two mountains in the Xingshan Mountain Range, and was patrolled by Shanglu and his men.

The mountain has extremely rich moisture, so the vegetation is lush and the mountain is shrouded in fog all year round.

It was nearly noon. Outside Chaowu Mountain, the sun was scorching and the heat was overwhelming. However, inside Chaowu Mountain, the lush and towering trees blocked most of the sunlight, and the lingering witchcraft air reflected the remaining sunlight, making the mountain dark and damp even though it was nearly noon.

Because there is no sunlight all year round and the moisture is strong, the rocks are covered with moss and the air is filled with a smell of dampness and decay.

If people enter this mountain without being prepared and smell this smell too much, they will become dizzy, or even get sick and die.

The surrounding mountain folks called this situation a curse from a mountain demon.

But in fact, he was infected with miasma due to inhaling excessive amount of damp and toxic gas.

Due to various reasons, Mount Chaowu has become sparsely populated, and on weekdays only mushroom pickers and ginseng pickers are willing to come in and take the risk.

After the battle of Bachu broke out and Xingshan area became the front line, no one came to Chaowu Mountain anymore.

But today, the silence in Chaowu Mountain was interrupted by a group of rotting zombies.

Among this group of rotting corpses, there are not only humans, but also many animals.

Most of the corpses were incomplete and badly rotten. Countless maggots were crawling in the rotten flesh, and flies were covering them like dark clouds.

This group of corpses sucked the vitality of the surrounding environment as they walked.

Even the vitality of trees and plants was plundered by them. After they passed by, they rotted and emitted an even stronger smell of damp and moldy.

And behind the corpse, there was a strange blue fire.

It's a cold will-o'-the-wisp.

Inside the will-o'-the-wisp is a person...or rather, a bunch of strange evil spirits.

This bunch of evil spirits seemed to be made up of countless dead souls stitched together.

At first glance, it looked like a moving mountain of flesh, but a closer look revealed that it was covered with heads, hands, feet, and other limbs. Some were human, some were birds and beasts, and even many poisonous insects had their souls stitched together, constantly moving, looking extremely weird and strange.

This group of strange corpses shuttled through the dim mountain forests, constantly releasing corpse poison and ghost energy, plundering life while polluting the surroundings.

Under such circumstances, not only did vegetation rot and die on a large scale, but many insects, birds and animals that did not have time to escape also died suddenly.

The bodies of the dead insects, birds and animals rotted immediately, and their pupils quickly turned grayish white. Then, with a strange "pop" sound, they crawled up from the ground and staggered to join the army of rotting corpses.

As soon as their souls flew out of the corpses and turned into wandering ghosts, countless ferocious mouths opened up on the body of the strange evil ghost that looked like a mountain of flesh, and sucked them in. After being devoured, they became part of the body of the evil ghost that looked like a mountain of flesh.

In addition to the newly dead insects, birds and animals, the corpses of birds and animals that had been buried under the rotten leaves and soil and had rotted away to the point that only bones were left also broke out of the ground and staggered to join the army of rotting corpses.

However, their souls had long since dissipated and could no longer be devoured by that strange meat mountain evil spirit.

However, that weird meat mountain evil ghost also had its own methods. The soul fire on its body kept flying around, and every time it came back, it would bring some residual souls and fragments to it for it to devour and fuse.

Soon, this strange group of zombies came to a mountain stream.

The commands engraved in their rotten brains and souls were activated, and they were about to step into the mountain stream, releasing corpse poison and ghost energy to pollute the water source.

But after they took a few steps towards the stream, they suddenly stopped.

Several rotting corpses that looked like wolves and dogs raised their heads and used their broken noses to identify smells. I wonder if they still have the keen sense of smell they had in life after becoming like this.

But soon, this group of corpses and that strange meat mountain evil ghost all turned their heads and looked to their left rear.

"People...living people..."

"It smells like a living person..."

"Eat...I want to eat...it's delicious..."

Several human-shaped corpses, although their mouths had holes and they could barely speak, expressed what was in the hearts of all the corpses and the evil spirits in the meat mountain at that moment.

"found it!"

At the same time, several voices were heard from the direction where the corpse ghost was staring.

"This corpse-finding compass is really useful."

"You must be joking. This was developed and refined by the witch officers of the Military Equipment Bureau. It's a high-end product. How could it not be effective?"

"Stop talking nonsense, quickly form a formation, and don't let these zombies escape!"

As they were talking, a group of soldiers wearing double-leg armor and with several kinds of strange magic talismans stuck on their bodies appeared in the sight of the group of zombies.

The people leading the team were Tu Bin, Du Feng and other personal soldiers who were transferred from the thieves to other positions.

Tu Bin held a copper compass in his hand, on top of which was a "compass" that looked like a hand bone, with its fingertips pointing directly at the rotten corpse by the stream.

Du Feng held the soul flag in his hand, and the flags on it moved without wind, like a pair of fingers, floating towards the evil ghost in the flesh mountain.

Beside Tu Pi and Du Feng were their personal soldiers holding swords and shields.

Further behind, the two military commanders Zhuang Fan and Zhu Quan were urging their generals and squad leaders to form a battle formation quickly so as to surround and kill the group of zombies.

"Why bother?"

Lu Yang took off the sword case on his back, raised his hand and slapped it, and the case opened with a "crash", revealing seven swords of different shapes and auras.

"These low-class corpse ghosts are nothing more than wandering dead spirits. I can kill them all with just one sword!"

As he spoke, Lu Yang pinched his fingers to make a gesture, and was about to drive one of the swords out to kill the corpses and get rid of the ghosts, but Shang Lu stopped him.

"Brother Lu, why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken? Let the soldiers have a good training in actual combat."

Seeing that Shang Lu wanted to use the corpse ghosts for training, Lu Yang had no objection. He immediately dispersed his sword energy and nodded in response, "Okay, let them practice with these corpse ghosts. With us here, nothing will go wrong!"

Shang Lu smiled and said yes, then immediately ordered an attack.

Although he did not attack directly, he drew out the witch knife and flicked the back of the knife with his fingers. The crisp "clang clang clang" sound was like the beating of a war drum, inspiring the fighting spirit of the county soldiers and making the circulation of blood and energy in their bodies smoother and more powerful.

"The center army moves forward, the two wings close in, and the archers release their arrows!"

The person in charge of combat command is Zhuang Fan.

Although there were only about a hundred people, he divided them into three groups. He planned to use a pincer attack to surround this group of zombies and wipe them out.

Just as Lu Yang said, this group of zombies are a group of inferior walking dead souls, driven purely by desire and have lost their ability to think.

In their minds, apart from polluting water sources and releasing corpse poison and ghost energy, the only thoughts they have are plundering life and killing living things... Of course, the premise is that they still have a heart.

At this moment, even though the corpse ghosts saw that the people coming were all wearing swords and armor, carrying bows and spears, they did not flee, but instead took the initiative to attack.

Even though they look shaky and seem like they will fall at any moment, their speed is not slow at all.

Fortunately, when the county soldiers were in Baiyi County, they assisted the witch officials and carried out the task of exorcising corpses and ghosts.

I followed Shang Lu all the way to Xingshan, and the two battles I participated in were not against ordinary people. In the Xingshan military town, I also got the soldiers in Sanniang's tube banner to practice with me.

It’s hard to say how much my abilities have improved, but my courage has definitely grown a lot.

Seeing the zombies coming at them with their fangs bared, the county soldiers did not panic at all. They quickly formed up to meet the enemy according to their training in the past few days.

"Swish, swish, swish..." First, a barrage of arrows shot towards the corpse like heavy rain.

These arrows were different from the ones Shang Lu and his men had used in the county government or the thieves' office before. There were witch patterns engraved on the arrow shafts. As soon as they left the string, the witch patterns began to flash, greatly increasing the speed and power of the arrows.

Even if there are many branches blocking the way, they can be shot through directly and hit the target.

With the sound of "puff puff puff" entering the flesh, the arrow pierced into the rotten corpse.

The witchcraft pattern on the arrow shaft worked again, and the evil ghost that looked like a pile of flesh, although it had no physical body, was still unable to avoid the arrows and was nailed to the ground.

The moment the rain of arrows hit the target, flames burst out from the arrows, burning the rotten corpses and making them scream. The heads of the evil ghosts in the meat mountain also made sharp, piercing, and disturbing noises.

Unfortunately, the screams of the rotting corpses and the screams of the evil spirits were unable to affect the minds of the county soldiers.

Even the poisonous mist they spewed out and the ghostly aura they released were blocked by the talismans stuck on the county soldiers' bodies. At the moment the corpse ghosts screamed and spewed poison, these talismans released golden light and protected the county soldiers.

Seeing that the corpse ghost's moves were ineffective against them, the county soldiers' confidence and fighting spirit became higher.

Soon the county soldiers were divided into three groups and collided with the corpses and surrounded them.

The county soldiers at the front held huge shields and formed a shield wall. Not only did they block the corpses, but even the evil spirits could not penetrate the shields - there were also spell patterns drawn by wizards on the huge shields.

Behind the shield soldiers, the county soldiers holding spears and halberds could only stab and pierce wildly.

With the support of the military formation, the situation was almost one-sided. Shang Lu didn't even need to release his military skills or witchcraft skills. As long as he gave the support, the county soldiers would suppress the corpse ghosts.

Of course, Shang Lu was not idle either.

While he was mobilizing his vital energy to protect the nearby mountain stream to prevent corpse poison and ghost energy from flowing in, he took out the witch weapon he received from the armory - the poison-detecting bronze snake, and placed it into the stream.

After the bronze snake swam around in the mountain stream, it flew back to Shang Lu's hand, opened its mouth, and spurted out a stream of clear water.

"We arrived in time and this mountain stream is not polluted." Shang Lu said.

If the water sprayed by the bronze snake is black and has a bad smell, it means it is poisonous.

The darker the color and the stronger the smell, the more toxic it is.

Now the poisonous bronze snake spews out clear water, which shows that this mountain stream has not been polluted.

Lu Yang nodded, took out a map, unfolded it, found the mountain stream on it, and quickly drew a circle around it.

There are witch patterns on the back of this map, which can use witchcraft spells to transmit changes in the markings on the map and so on back to the Xingshan camp in real time.

The military officers and military officers under the general's command can understand the situation in various places in a timely manner and make corresponding arrangements without leaving their homes.

Of course, drawing a circle around this mountain stream at this moment only means that it is not currently contaminated by corpse poison and ghost energy.

Therefore, after finding out the water quality, Shang Lu took out a talisman, chanted a spell towards the stream, and then threw the talisman into the stream.

This talisman is also magical. It dissolves in water and disappears without a trace in an instant.

However, the power of the witch talisman shrouded this mountain stream.

Once the stream water is contaminated with corpse poison and ghost energy, the circle that Lu Yang just drew on the map will immediately turn into a cross.

After Shang Lu and his men finished their work, the battle on the county side also came to an end.

All the corpses had their heads smashed in.

After losing their heads, their limbs could still move, but their speed and strength were greatly reduced. Moreover, they could not distinguish between friend and foe and began to tear each other apart. This was like the nerve reflexes that remained in the bodies of snakes after they died.

For the county soldiers, it posed almost no threat.

The evil ghost that looked like a mountain of flesh also successfully "lost weight" under the siege of the county soldiers.

The spears and halberds of the county soldiers all had witchcraft patterns on them, which could not only hurt rotten corpses, but also be extremely lethal to evil spirits. Every strike could cut off a piece of the soul.

Sanniang looked down upon these broken souls and did not even offer up the tube-shaped banners.

Upon seeing this, Shang Lu activated the Tu Bo Seal on the back of his hand, allowing the Nine-Bend Yellow Spring Road to cover the forest, continuously absorbing the soul fragments cut off by the county soldiers.

Originally, when the Tu Bo Seal was released, the evil ghost from the meat mountain would be directly sucked away, but it was stopped by Shang Lu.

If they were really sucked away by it all at once, how could we train the county soldiers and make them adapt to the rhythm of the border as quickly as possible?

Although the Tu Bo Seal was held down by Shang Lu, the Meat Mountain Evil Ghost did not hold out for long.

It just looked ugly and weird, and its strength was far inferior to the Shen Shixi ghost it had encountered before. It was quickly dismembered into scattered souls by the spears and halberds of the county soldiers, and then sucked away by the Tu Bo Seal.

Although the battle was over, the county soldiers did not stop to rest. Under the command of Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan, they continued to collect corpse fragments and pile them together.

They also cut down pine and cypress trees in the forest, sprinkled realgar and lime powder on them, and set fire to the rotten corpses to prevent future troubles.

It was during the process of collecting the fragments of the rotten corpse that a county soldier thought the battle was completely over. He relaxed his vigilance and boasted about his performance to his comrades beside him. He did not notice that a mouth suddenly opened on the broken flesh and corpse under his feet. It not only sprayed poisonous pus and blood at him, but also flew up and tried to pounce on his face and bite him.

By the time the county soldier realized the danger, it was too late to dodge.

Just when the county soldier thought he was going to die, a sword light suddenly flew over and directly smashed the piece of corpse with strange growths into pieces.

At the same time, the poisonous pus and blood flying towards the county soldiers were also wrapped up by an invisible force, suspended in the air, unable to move.

"On the battlefield, you must never let your guard down. This time, I and Witch Officer Lu saved your life. Next time, you may not be so lucky!"

Shang Lu walked over, waved his hand, and sprinkled realgar powder and lime powder on the mass of highly toxic pus and blood, causing it to react immediately and produce a large number of bubbles.

The rescued county soldier hurriedly thanked Shang Lu and Lu Yang for saving his life, and promised: "Thank you Sima and Lu Wuguan for saving me. I will always be vigilant in the future and never be careless again."

He was really frightened, and even now he was still in fear and looked grim.

Shang Lu nodded, then looked at the other county soldiers and said with his clever tongue: "It's not just him. If you want to survive, you must always stay alert and not be careless!"

The soldiers from all the counties were startled and responded in unison. After that, their vigilance and attention were greatly improved.

After burning the rotten corpse and putting out the flames, Shang Lu asked Du Feng and Tu Bin to continue holding the corpse-finding compass and the ghost-fixing flag to search for other corpses and ghosts in the area they were responsible for.

In a blink of an eye, Shang Lu and his team had been patrolling the area they were responsible for for two days and found several groups of zombies and some lone wandering dead spirits.

The strength of these zombies varied, but they were all no match for the county soldiers who were fully armed and lined up in battle formation.

However, it is an excellent training ground.

After several battles, not only were the county soldiers tempered, but they also became more skilled in the use of military formations.

Shang Lu also practiced his various military skills to motivate his soldiers in actual combat.

It must be said that only in actual combat can we figure out these military and wizard skills and know when and in what situation they are most suitable to be used.

On this day, Shang Lu and his team were following the routine and continuing to search for corpses and hunt ghosts.

Suddenly, the Impermanence Order in Shang Lu's arms began to beat wildly, releasing a wave of hot air.

Shang Lu's expression changed instantly.

Because he knew that this situation meant that a Wei Wu nearby was in danger and was asking for help!

(End of this chapter)