Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 539: Man-made dangerous places to seek immortality?

"What's wrong? Are there any powerful ghouls around?"

Lu Yang noticed the change in Shang Lu's expression and asked anxiously. At the same time, he slapped the sword case with his backhand and was about to summon the flying sword to meet the enemy.

"It has nothing to do with corpse ghosts." Shang Lu shook his head and reached into his pocket, holding the Impermanence Order.

As the incantation was activated, he immediately learned that the distress signal came from the west, about a hundred miles away from here.

"Why is it in the west?"

Shang Lu was more and more surprised.

The main battlefield between the two countries of Ba and Chu was to the southeast of this place.

A hundred miles to the west is farther away from the battlefield than where they are now. It should be relatively safe. Why would Wei Wu be in danger there?

"What's in the west?"

Confused, Lu Yang asked again.

To him, Shang Lu's words were completely incoherent and difficult to understand.

"There is a witch officer in danger in the west. We have to rush over to rescue him." Shang Lu said quickly.

"what?"

Lu Yang's doubts grew even stronger, and he asked curiously, "Junior Brother Shang, how did you know that a witch officer was in danger in the west?"

Without waiting for Shang Lu to reply, he summoned a sword and flew up to the sky. He looked down to the west from a high place, but saw nothing.

By the time he lowered his flying sword, Shang Lu had already called Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan to him and was instructing them, "You two take your brothers to continue hunting corpses and ghosts. Wu Guan Lu and I will be back soon."

Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan did not ask any more questions and just crossed their hands in response.

Shang Lu took out another soul flag and gave it to Zhu Quan, asking him to collect the remaining souls and scattered spirits of the hunted animals into the soul flag.

Although Zhu Quan has not yet entered the Qi Refining Realm, what he is required to do is not the work of collecting, refining, and controlling ghosts. It is only to collect the residual souls and scattered spirits. With Zhu Quan's cultivation level, it is not difficult to do it.

In addition to the soul flag, Shang Lu also took out several witch talismans and paper figures and gave them to Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan, asking them to use them when they encountered powerful corpse ghosts.

After jumping off the flying sword, Lu Yang continued his previous question: "Junior Brother Shang, I didn't see anything in the sky just now. How did you know that there was a witch officer asking for help?"

"I have my own way to find out, just come with me."

Shang Lu's words were rather vague. After all, there were still about a hundred county soldiers here. If he revealed his identity as a witch, there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be some big mouths who would spread the news.

The Lingtai Ling Zhao Yanfeng whom he met before had hinted to him to hide his identity so that he could secretly investigate the intelligence.

If it were someone else, they might have dug deep to get to the bottom of the matter, but Lu Yang didn't.

He had carried out many missions with Shang Lu, and he knew that in addition to Shang Lu's great opportunities, he also had some special talents and abilities.

Besides, even if Shang Lu made a mistake, it didn’t matter. It would just be a wasted trip.

Lu Yang just asked: "Just the two of us going? Without soldiers?"

"It's too slow to take them with us at a distance of a hundred miles." Shang Lu shook his head.

Although he got a feather cloak and Lu Yang could fly with a sword, he still couldn't take a hundred people with him.

"That's right. Saving lives is like putting out a fire. We cannot be negligent." Lu Yang nodded.

He made a hand gesture with his right hand and tapped the sword case a few times. There was a sharp sound, and a flying sword shining with dazzling fire flew out of the case. With a "puff", it stabbed into the mud in front of Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan.

"Take this sword with you. When you encounter a ghoul that you can't defeat, bite your tongue and spray the blood onto the sword. Then, shout 'Po Jun Chu Sui' and it will help you kill the ghoul."

Zhu Quan and Zhuang Fan hurriedly crossed their hands and responded, thanking Lu Yang.

Lu Yang waved his hand: "We are all brothers, why be polite." He then called Shang Lu: "Leave Heiyun here too, I will fly you over on my sword. No matter how fast it runs, it can't be as fast as me flying directly from the sky."

When Heiyun heard that Lu Yang asked Shang Lu to abandon him, he immediately became unhappy. If he hadn't known that he couldn't beat Lu Yang, he would have rushed up and kicked him.

Although he didn't move his feet, Heiyun didn't let Lu Yang go. He opened his mouth and spit out a lot of saliva. The sticky saliva sprayed all over Lu Yang's face, forcing Lu Yang to use his sword energy to protect his face.

It was Shang Lu who released his vital energy in time, blocking Heiyun's mouth and preventing it from spitting out saliva, thus saving Lu Yang.

"Take Uncle Huai with you. I have a feather cloak."

As he spoke, Shang Lu took out a feather cloak from the Impermanence Order.

As he made hand gestures and chanted spells, the feathers on the cloak all turned into black birds. They gathered together and turned into dark clouds, carrying Shanglu and the black clouds and flying straight to the west.

Seeing this, Lu Yang immediately flew up with his sword and Uncle Huai to catch up, and asked curiously: "Junior Brother Shang, when did you get this treasure?"

"A senior brother gave it to me when I passed by Baizhi County before." Shang Lu answered vaguely.

"Is there such a good thing?"

Lu Yang was surprised at first, but soon saw through the truth: "Did you have anything to do with the capture of the barbarian wizard in Baizhi County? Did you sell the credit to them?"

Shang Lu corrected him sternly, "How can you say it's a sale? It's obvious that they were sincere, so I gave it to them."

Lu Yang sighed and asked, "The sincerity they showed is probably more than just this feather cloak, right?"

"That's right." Shang Lu nodded and smiled.

Lu Yang suddenly felt deeply regretful for missing out on the jackpot, and said regretfully: "I should have applied to escort military supplies and fodder to Xingshan with you."

"What? You also want to kill Baizhi County?" Uncle Huai took over the conversation.

"How can I call you 'kill'? I just want to feel their sincerity." Lu Yang said righteously.

Uncle Huai laughed in silence and looked at Shang Lu: "Master, didn't you ask before, who did Lu Wuguan learn to be bad from? Now, I think it should be clear."

Shang Lu was speechless.

Flying at full speed, the distance of a hundred miles was quickly reached.

If this happened on land, even if one was riding a war horse and had attached talismans such as the one that could shrink the earth into an inch, it would still take much longer than this.

After all, running on land is affected by factors such as terrain. Especially here there are many mountains, and the time and energy spent on climbing mountains and wading through water will increase exponentially even if the distance seems very short.

When we arrived at the location where the distress signal was sent, we found a valley with a stream at the bottom.

Shang Lu took Lu Yang around in the sky for several circles but found nothing.

There were no people in sight, nor any signs of fighting. "Brother Shang, are you mistaken? Or have the people been rescued?" Lu Yang couldn't help asking.

Shang Lu shook his head. The Impermanence Order in his arms was still beating and getting hot, which meant that Wei Wu who had asked for help was still in danger and had not been saved.

The distress signal marked by Wuchangling is nearby, there is no way it can be wrong.

"Go down and have a look."

Shang Lu called out and controlled the black bird to descend from the clouds.

Lu Yang also lowered his flying sword, looked around after landing, and said, "Do you suspect that the person who asked for help used an illusion to hide his body? Would he do that? We don't see any enemies around here."

Shang Lu said nothing. He landed on the ground, put away his feather cloak, and rode his horse towards the stream at the bottom of the valley.

It was only because Sanniang appeared and floated towards the stream, and she turned back and waved at him, indicating that he should follow.

Seeing this, Lu Yang also followed on his sword.

When they reached the river, Lu Yang noticed Shang Lu looking at a stone in the river. Just as he was about to ask a question, he heard Shang Lu's serious tone, "Brother Lu, be alert all around!"

As he spoke, Shang Lu waved his hand and released several paper figures, and then sacrificed the tube-shaped flag, letting the rampant ghosts fly around to scout and keep watch.

Seeing this, Lu Yang reacted immediately. If the witch officer who asked for help really released an illusion to hide his body, it meant that he was being hunted, and the enemy who wanted to kill him was most likely not far away.

Although at this moment, Lu Yang still couldn't tell where there were people hiding here or where the witchcraft fluctuations were hidden, it didn't stop him from immediately acting according to Shang Lu's instructions.

"Six swords unsheathed!"

Lu Yang made some sword gestures and shouted softly.

Witch patterns burst out from the sword box, which then expanded with a "crash". The six flying swords inside flew out together, flying to six different directions with Lu Yang as the center.

In an instant, the sword energy crisscrossed and connected with each other, forming a Liuhe sword formation.

Any enemy who steps into the sword formation will face the combined attack and encirclement of the six swords.

While Lu Yang was setting up the sword formation, Shang Lu jumped off the black cloud's back, jumped into the turbulent stream, and picked up a stone.

This stone is about one meter long and half a meter wide. If it were an ordinary person, he would never be able to lift it, but Shang Lu is a cultivator, so it's not surprising that he could lift this stone.

What puzzled Lu Yang was why Shang Lu carried the stone out of the river? Could it be that the stone was transformed by the witch to ask for help?

Lu Yang narrowed his eyes and his gaze became sharp, but he still could not see any fluctuations of magical power on the stone.

Just as he was about to ask a question, he saw Shang Lu leaning down, whispering a few words to the stone, then taking something out of his arms and shaking it at the stone.

Because his vision was blocked by Shang Lu's figure, Lu Yang could not see clearly what Shang Lu took out, but he guessed that it was probably a token indicating his identity.

The next moment, Lu Yang saw distortions and changes occurring on the stone.

Lu Yang was shocked: "Is it really a transformed human?" Then he became more alert, looking around constantly, guarding against unknown enemies.

In just a few breaths, the stone turned into a living person curled up in a ball.

Although this man was still alive, he looked extremely miserable, with wounds all over his body, and each wound was rotten. After he turned back into human form, bursts of pungent stench immediately emanated from these wounds.

Lu Yang was experienced and he could tell at the first smell that this person was not only injured but also poisoned.

"It's corpse poison! He was severely poisoned, and it was all thanks to his magic power that protected his heart and internal organs. Otherwise, he would have died suddenly and his body would have become stiff." Lu Yang said in a deep voice.

Uncle Huai came over immediately and helped cast a spell to detoxify and heal the wounds.

Shang Lu also took out some medicine from the Wuchang Order and fed it into the man's mouth.

Lu Yang was also not idle. He used his sword energy to help the man cut out the rotten flesh from his wound.

Rotten meat contains corpse poison. If it is not treated, no matter how many panaceas you take, there will be no meat left, and the meat will continue to contaminate good meat, causing the person to eventually become corrupt all over and his internal organs to rot.

The process of playing with flesh was extremely painful. This person was already struggling to hold on, fearing that he would faint and die completely. His spirit was on the verge of collapse.

Lu Yang had only cut out a few pieces of rotten flesh when the man fainted from the pain.

Fortunately, Shang Lu released his vital energy in time to protect the man's heart and prevented him from dying from the pain.

Otherwise, it would be really unfair if you didn't die in the enemy's pursuit but died in the treatment of your own people!

Soon, all the rotten flesh was cut off by Lu Yang's sword energy. Uncle Huai applied herbs to the wound and peeled off the bark from the surrounding trees as gauze and wrapped it around the man.

After some operations, the man became similar to the tree demon. At this moment, he was awakened from his coma by Shang Lu's essence.

When the man opened his eyes, he saw a dark horse face, staring at him seriously. He was shocked: "Am I still dead? Are you the Horse-Faced God?"

"Senior Brother Wuyou, you are not dead yet." Shang Lu slapped away the black cloud and said to the man, and Lu Yang also came over.

Seeing Shang Lu and Lu Yang, the man was shocked again, and subconsciously wanted to fight desperately, but he was already very weak. As soon as he activated his magic power, he was restrained by Shang Lu and Lu Yang.

"Brother, we are one family, don't be impulsive." Shang Lu said hurriedly, using his eloquence and sophistry to calm the man's nervousness.

The man's excited emotions actually calmed down a lot. He remembered what happened before he fell into a coma. When he realized that Shang Lu was indeed one of his own, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that he had calmed down, Lu Yang asked curiously, "Brother, what enemy did you encounter? Why were you injured so badly and turned into a stone in the river to escape the disaster?"

The rescued Wei Wu's expression changed again, but he did not answer Lu Yang's question. Instead, he grabbed Shang Lu and said urgently: "Quick, report to the Great Blessing that the Chu State has created a secret realm in Xingshan!"

"Creating a secret realm?" Shang Lu and Lu Yang were both shocked.

Wei Wu said excitedly: "That's right! The Chu State launched this war to create a secret realm with a large number of killings, corpses, and souls... No, it should be said to be a man-made dangerous place! Because the secret realm is extremely strange, and those who enter it are in danger of death. Even if they can come out alive, their bodies will be transformed and they will die soon!"

Lu Yang frowned and asked, "Why did the Chu State create such a dangerous place? Did they want to use this dangerous place to pollute our spiritual energy and erode our land veins?"

Wei Wu took a breath and uttered a shocking news: "Our informant in the court of Chu secretly passed on the news that the King of Chu and the Great Blessing and Prime Minister of Chu wanted to find the secret of immortality from this dangerous place."

"What? The secret of immortality? Have they found it?" Lu Yang asked hurriedly.

Wei Wu shook his head: "There should be some clues, but they have not been found yet.

Because just a few days ago, that dangerous place was suddenly attacked by an unknown powerful force and collapsed.

The overflowing chaotic energy affected many Chu witches and Chu soldiers, killing them one after another. Even those who were still alive were all emotionally excited and became bloodthirsty and irritable.

The commander of the Chu army, the Red Moon Wizard Jing Chunshen, was furious. He issued an order for a full-scale attack that day, saying that he wanted to avenge his humiliation..."

(End of this chapter)