Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 233 The Transformation of Ghosts and Gods, The Seven Turbidities of Prison

The prison in Luoyang today was built in 1913 by order of the Beiyang government.

It is said that the Beiyang government at the time intended to make this prison one of the model prisons.

From above, the entire prison is roughly square, with a length and width of over two hundred meters.

The outermost wall is over five meters high and has barbed wire. In the past, when the facilities were more complete, the barbed wire was electrified.

The prison contains interrogation rooms, a water dungeon, an execution ground, a darkroom, as well as workshops for carpentry, weaving, sewing, and grinding.

However, in the early days after Liu Xueya arrived in the city, she used every possible pretext to extort money, suppress the people, arrest students, and disrupt protest marches.

As a result, the prison was overcrowded, and rooms of all kinds, regardless of their original purpose, were used as cells.

There are now only 77 prisoners left here, and they are being held in five or six cells.

Most of the other cells were empty, but the bars and walls still bore traces of blood and old stains.

Strong sunlight streamed in through a small window in the high wall.

The straw on the ground was half wet and half rotten, and the sun could not dry it. Insects, rats and poisonous snakes could be seen everywhere.

Liu Xueya and a group of prison guards led the way.

Chu Tianshu followed them down the prison corridor, and noticed that the guards' steps were becoming increasingly hesitant, and they were even trembling with nervousness.

Originally, being a prison guard was a lucrative job. When Liu Xueya first came to the city, many locals spent money to get in and secure a position.

They only need to give a slight hint to the prisoner's family, and they can extort a large sum of money without actually giving the prisoner any benefits.

However, ever since the plague god's half-body arrived here, even though he didn't intend to spread evil energy directly in Luoyang.

The prison guards who frequently worked in the prison were also inevitably affected, and one after another they fell ill and died. After a group of them fell ill, some tried to resign, but were scolded.

After that, the number of prison guards decreased day by day, and it was unknown whether they died outside or abandoned their posts and ran away.

These prison guards are newly recruited laborers sent by Liu Xueya.

Finally, even those who were always conscripting men got tired of it, Li Chaoqun mentioned indirectly.

Liu Xueya then prayed to the God of Plague for magical water, which allowed this group of prison guards to survive until now.

"General, you are protected by the gods, and no evil can harm you."

One of the jailers mustered his courage and said, "But, but, those people are becoming less and less human these days, and we seldom dare to go near them."

Chu Tianshu asked, "So how do you deliver the food?"

The jailer said, "Anyway, they're just cornbread and pickled vegetables. Just throw them into their cell from a distance."

"When it's time to deliver water, the children work together, use a long bamboo pole to carry the earthenware pot over, and pour it into the water trough. Naturally, the trough will overflow, and they'll all rush to drink it."

Chu Tianshu unconsciously frowned, gripped the hilt of his sword, and walked forward.

He used a chain about the thickness of a little finger, one end tied to his waist and the other end wrapped around the scabbard, suspending the longsword at his side.

With his skill, even when he was moving, the sword didn't sway much. Now, with his left hand on the hilt, it stood firm and imposing.

As people move forward, a stable and clean circle advances with them.

Wherever it passed, dust on the ground gave way, and evil spirits were driven back.

Chu Tianshu walked more than twenty meters and arrived at the cell where people were being held.

Most of the people in each cell were sitting there listlessly, dressed in rags.

There were men and women, but even the women who exposed their upper bodies only looked terrifying, their bodies covered in scabs, which did not look like signs of torture.

It's like having a boil that has burst, with blood flowing out and congealing on the nearby skin.

A few people, as if they were hungry, reached out and grabbed, and the venomous snakes around them seemed to freeze, not daring to resist, and were grabbed and bitten off.

The snake's body rapidly shrank, and the eater, having taken a sip, seemed full and became dazed, its gaze fixed on the outside of the cell door.

As Chu Tianshu walked this far, the hairs on the back of his hands stood up slightly.

This was his own aura, and he sensed the presence of another kind of aura.

At that time, the snake half that possessed Liu Xueya was unable to unleash its divine power.

This place certainly displays the power of a plague god, but it is also unpredictable and mysterious.

It is completely different from the usual oppressive feeling of towering mountains and precarious cliffs.

The oppressive aura of the plague god is more like a venomous, damp mist floating in the air, which unknowingly seeps into the body and entangles the bones and internal organs.

Chu Tianshu not only resisted with his own imposing aura and strength, but also subtly released the medicinal-attribute mental power within the Three-Seven Divine Sword, forming a colorless circle that was completely impervious to water.

Which one is it?

Chu Tianshu scanned the people in the prison and felt that each of them was shrouded in a deep evil aura.

He wanted to see through the evil aura, to find out which person the plague god's half-body was currently possessing.

In his eyes, evil was like a gray haze; the deeper he looked, the more the clouds and fog would part, revealing a rich, greasy rainbow, like sunlight reflected off oily water.

But this rainbow was draped over everyone.

"Oh?"

Chu Tianshu's eyes flickered.

Liu Xueya only knew that the Plague God still had half of its body in this cell, but she didn't know exactly how it worked.

Seeing the deep evil aura emanating from these people, Chu Tianshu assumed that the plague god was taking turns possessing these prisoners, cultivating evil poison.

But now it seems.

That half of the plague god... must have possessed seventy-seven people at the same time! This rainbow half not only has no physical body, no statue to rely on, but it doesn't even have a stable spiritual form.

It was truly a rainbow that gathered and dispersed at will, spreading all around.

Chu Tianshu pondered for a moment, then his right hand lit up with a four-leaf mark, and he waved his hand.

A four-leaf clover, about half the size of a palm, flew into a cell and landed on the forehead of a disheveled prisoner.

Looking at the prisoner's tattered clothes, one can vaguely discern that they were originally a set of student uniforms that had been washed many times.

This person is definitely not old, but now he looks like he is already fifty years old. His eyes are dull, and he doesn't react at all as the four-leaf clover is spinning rapidly on his forehead.

Chu Tianshu made a grasping motion with his five fingers, and the Four-Leaf Seal flew back into his hand.

The jade-like four-leaf clover, stained with only a few mottled colors, was crushed by him.

A faint, iridescent light shone through the gaps between the fingers, only to be extinguished after several seconds.

"No way, this is the first time I've ever seen something like this."

Chu Tianshu's internal energy and physical body can directly contact the spirit.

If it were an ordinary evil spirit with such a flexible form, it would be able to be pulled out by the rotation and suction of the four-leaf seal.

However, the rainbow half of this plague god's body seemed to be divided into countless parts, all of which were tiny, granular things.

No matter what force you use to pull, only the small portion of particles that are directly touched will be pulled out.

Chu Tianshu carefully observed the prisoner who had just been affected by him and found that the rainbow had been restored almost instantly. He recalled many records from the Ghost Gate Witch Doctor.

"The Seven Turbidities of the Prison, huh? It really is one of the oldest methods of poison preparation..."

Rainwater gathers from all directions, floating on beds and tables, which is water vapor; mud splatters for half a day, steaming and bubbling, which is earth vapor; sudden sunshine and intense heat, with wind channels blocked, is sun vapor.

The shade of eaves fuels the scorching heat, contributing to the fire's blazing heat; rotten grain in the granary, its stale and stale smell, contributes to the rice's stench; and the hustle and bustle of people, with their stench of sweat and grime, contributes to the filth of humanity.

Whether it's a decaying corpse or rotting rats, the foul odors emanating from it constitute foul air.

The turbid air of this prison breeds plagues and evils of very ordinary quality.

However, this thing has a huge advantage: once the evil poison seed is refined, the speed at which it replenishes evil energy is extremely fast.

Let's not talk about the cities during certain chaotic periods in ancient times.

The city of Luoyang today is no different from a large prison filled with filth.

It is precisely because of the interaction between internal and external factors, and the interconnectedness of the seven turbidities.

The prisoners of the past were only infected with a common plague.

Now, these seventy-seven prisoners are all seeds of evil, bearing the characteristics of magical curses.

Even if these prisoners were transported out of Luoyang, this connection would be difficult to sever.

In ancient times, the most common method used by the government to control plagues was to surround and kill the group of people who were most obviously sick.

However, this method is not very effective against evil seeds.

The evil poison is invisible; once it loses its host, it can instantly appear anywhere in Luoyang, re-host, and spread its toxicity wantonly.

"The way our ancestors broke this kind of magic was quite simple: they used the method of boiling a frog in warm water to counteract the toxicity with medicine, thus neutralizing the evil seed before the host was dead."

Chu Tianshu pondered, "But now, this evil poison has been mixed with half of the Plague God. I'm afraid its ferocity and strangeness are no longer comparable to the normal Seven Turbidities of the Prison."

Fortunately, the people from Chenjiagou were not captured and sent here.

Otherwise, if the evil poison continues to fester within them, and is released into the future, who knows how many people will die.

"General Liu, come here."

Chu Tianshu took a strand of hair from his temple and twisted it in the middle.

Dozens of broken hairs, with a surge of his strength, straightened as needles.

As Liu Xueya walked over, the severed hair pierced her heart.

"what!"

Liu Xueya hurriedly covered her chest, her face filled with fear.

The fine needle in the black hair had already been pulled out.

It was as if there was a touch of crimson on the tip of each needle.

Chu Tianshu controlled the number of broken needles with both hands, quickly dividing them into five batches and shooting them into various cells.

A thin needle was inserted into the throat of each prisoner, winding along the subcutaneous sutures until it reached the end of the throat.

The rainbow's half resembled countless tiny insects, and in terms of intelligence and agility, it was similar to insects.

Liu Xueya's body was modified by half of a snake, giving her an extraordinary physique.

Chu Tianshu took his lifeblood, concealed the scent of his hair, and injected it into these people's bodies.

These people can have their life force sealed off by the acupuncture, and their rainbow-like colors remain unstimulated.

However, relying solely on acupuncture to maintain life is not a long-term solution.

"Call people over and clean out all those workshops that were originally used for carpentry, sewing, and weaving."

"The fence was removed, the walls and ground were scraped, and limestone slabs were laid back on them."

Chu Tianshu glanced at Liu Xueya, suppressing his murderous intent for the time being, and said, "We need a lot of people, not outsiders. You will be the main force of the soldiers to handle these things."

"Hurry! I want to see those rooms completely transformed by tomorrow morning."

(End of this chapter)