Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 169 Preparation before departure
Hiding the remaining soul and the magic weapon with him, Shang Lu left the thieves' office and went to the county governor's office nearby.

He found the official who had come to the Cao office to deliver orders and asked about the address of Liang Jihu's hometown.

These days, Liang Jihu has been taking care of his sick elders in his hometown and has not returned to the county magistrate's office to work.

Shang Lu didn't know when he would come back, so he simply delivered the letter that the witch asked him to bring to Liang Jihu before going to Feiwu County.

Even if I have to take a detour, it doesn’t matter.

"Liang Jihu's hometown is in Xipinggou below Yunhe Town."

When the official saw that Shang Lu was going to find Liang Jihu, he not only gave him the address, but also took out a county map.

After some searching, he pointed to a small village backed by a mountain.

"Look, Xipinggou is right here. Once you leave the city, just follow the official road and you'll get there in just one day."

Shang Lu noted the location and route and bowed to express his gratitude.

"It's such a small matter, there's no need to thank me." The official waved his hands repeatedly and asked Shang Lu to say hello to Liang Jihu's sick elder after he met him.

"Of course." Shang Lu nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the official still had work to do, he took the initiative to say goodbye.

Just as he was leaving the office and about to return to the thief Cao's office, he was stopped by someone.

"Shang Ze Cao, how come you have time today to come to the county governor's mansion?"

Shang Lu looked in the direction of the voice and saw it was Lu Yang.

"Meet Senior Brother Lu."

Shang Lu stepped forward, bowed, and stated his intention.

"I was asked to bring a letter to Liang Jihu. I happened to have accepted a trial mission and had to go to Feiwu County, so I thought of delivering the letter as well."

"Going to Feiwu County?"

Lu Yang raised his eyebrows: "But assisting Zhongli the Great Witch to capture the mountain ghost?"

"Senior Brother Lu also knows about this?"

Shang Lu was a little surprised, but reacted immediately.

"You took this job too?"

Lu Yang smiled and nodded: "I am also a post inspector in the county governor's office. It is my duty to inspect the local area, put an end to obscene sacrifices, and hunt down demons and wild gods."

After hearing this, how could Shang Lu not understand anything?
What Lu Yang did was what Wang Chao suggested to him, to combine the tasks of the government office and the witch hospital together.

Do the work and get twice the money.

Shang Lu said happily: "That's great. With Senior Brother Lu going with me, I will definitely get the job of the trial."

Lu Yang laughed loudly. Although he knew that Shang Lu was flattering him, he really enjoyed the flattery after hearing Shang Lu's eloquent words.

After chatting for a few words, the two agreed to meet in Feiwu County.

Shang Lu had to take a detour to Xipinggou, and Lu Yang also had to arrange the tasks at hand before he could set off. Calculating the time, they would arrive in Feiwu County at the same time, so they could act together.

After the agreement was made, Lu Yang sighed, "You have only been in the Witch Academy for a short time, but you have already succeeded in refining your Qi and entered the Inner Mountain. Back then, I spent more than a year cultivating in the Outer Academy before I succeeded in refining my Qi."

“It was pure luck.”

Shang Lu said modestly: "I have made many contributions in Luoshui County before. The court and the Witch Academy rewarded me with a lot of elixirs and spiritual liquids. I was also valued by noble people and received a lot of help. This is why I succeeded in refining qi by chance."

But Lu Yang doesn't think so.

He shook his head and said, "You are able to achieve merit and be rewarded, that's a skill!"

But he did not continue the topic, and instead asked a question: "Before at the execution ground, I saw you brought two ghosts. Were they the people killed by Zhao Qi?"

"Yes."

Shang Lu told Lu Yang about the situation of Qin's mother and daughter.

After listening to this, Lu Yang nodded and said, "I guess it was them, no wonder they gave you the Yin Pearl."

Shang Lu heard this and asked hurriedly, "Did Senior Sister Gongshu tell Senior Brother Lu?"

"That's right." Lu Yang said with a smile, "She suspected that the Yin Pearl was made by you who had gone astray and killed someone and captured their soul, so she came to me to inquire about the situation. I said you are not that kind of person."

Shang Lu bowed and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Lu, for testifying for me." Lu Yang waved his hand and sighed, "You are so bold that you dare to provoke Senior Sister Gongshu. When her temper explodes, even the doctors and scholars in the Witch Academy can't avoid her.

If there is really something wrong with the Yin Pearl, she will really tear you apart. But she is really good at refining weapons. If you ask her for help, it is even more reliable than asking the refining doctor in the witch academy."

After chatting for a few words, Shang Lu said goodbye to Lu Yang and left the county magistrate's mansion.

As soon as he returned to the thieves' office, Shentu came to greet him holding a case file.

"Sir, I have just been investigating the cases related to Feiwu County in the past two years with the clerks in the government office.

It's just because our Thieves' Office is mainly responsible for thefts and robberies. Even if there are ghosts causing trouble in Feiwu County, we will report it to the witch temple and ask the witch officials to deal with it. There are very few cases of ghosts and monsters reported to us.

Only at the beginning of this year, several villages and towns in Feiwu County reported that they were plagued by banditry.

We sent people to investigate, and when they arrived, the bandit problem had gone away.

The local villagers said that it was the mountain god who appeared and got rid of the banditry for them.”

"The mountain god appeared?"

Shang Lu raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

At first, Zhao Qi also worshipped the mountain ghost as a god.

Could it be that the mountain god that the villagers were talking about was actually an impersonation of the mountain ghost?

But, can the evil mountain ghost also protect the peace of an area?
"How did those bandits die?"

Shang Lu wanted to find some clues from the bandits' deaths.

But Shentu said: "The people who went there did not see the bodies of the bandits."

"Why?"

"The person who led the team was Fang Yi, a thief official.

I just asked him about the situation. He said that when he arrived, he only saw the camp left by the bandits, but did not see a single body.

People from several nearby villages and towns said that it was the mountain god who used his magical powers to capture the bandits.

Oh, yes. At that time, they also saw that the people in those villages and towns were offering three kinds of animals as sacrifices to thank the mountain god for appearing.

Afterwards, Fang Yi and his colleagues reported the matter to the Wu Temple in Feiwu County.

The people in the witch temple looked up relevant information and said that the person described and worshipped by the group of villagers was indeed a recorded mountain god. "

Shang Lu thought that even if there was such a righteous god, it didn't mean that the villagers would worship him.

After all, that mountain ghost is not only good at bewitching people, but also good at impersonating a god.

Shang Lu thought about it and asked Shen Tu to call Fang Yi and ask him if he had seen anything strange in those villages and towns at that time.

"Something weird?"

Fang Yi recalled carefully and shook his head, "There's nothing weird..."

Speaking of this, I remembered something.

“Yes, they used live animals for sacrifice.

At that time, there was a live sheep as a sacrifice. It kept calling out to us and even knelt down in front of us, as if begging us to save it.

We thought it was quite spiritual and wanted to buy it, but the local villagers refused, saying it would ruin the ritual, so we had no choice but to give up.

A spiritual sheep that begs for mercy?

Shang Lu seemed to be thinking about something, but he didn't say much. Instead, he asked some more questions.

After careful recollection, Fang Yi answered them one by one.

Unfortunately, there aren't many clues.

Finally, Shang Lu asked Fang Yi to write down the specific locations of those villages and towns, as well as the addresses of the places where the sacrifices would be held, on paper.

He planned to report to the Great Witch Zhongli after arriving in Feiwu County, or to investigate with Lu Yang.

See if you can find some clues related to the mountain ghost in these places, and then trace the whereabouts of the mountain ghost, or even find out where it may be hiding.

(End of this chapter)