Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 580 A Lucky Strange Encounter with an Unknown Monster
The night fog in the capital of Chu was so thick that it could not be dispersed, and a flickering light of firelight darted through it.

It was like a ghost.

It's like a lone boat with a flickering light on a turbulent sea, always in danger of going out.

Under the firelight, Shang Lu's figure was tense.

He held a torch in his left hand and rested his right hand on the witch's knife at his waist, moving swiftly through the thick, eerie fog.

He did not choose earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of escape technique), nor did he use his feather cloak to fly.

Before setting off, Zishu Xunshou and Steward Sun specifically instructed them that no means of escape would be effective in the mysterious fog.

On the contrary, it is more likely to attract strange creatures and even summon the Black-Clad Guards.

The pokeweed only used its two legs to run, without even using any techniques like shrinking the ground.

Shang Lu, shrouded in the night mist, wore a jet-black witch's robe, embroidered with a flying bear with four wings on its back in dark silver thread.

This is the iconic attire of the Black-Clad Guards.

Behind Shang Lu were two people dressed the same, running alongside him.

However, it was not Lü Yang, Xu Zhen, or the others.

They stayed at the leather shop, planning to go directly to the pedestrian station to meet them the next day.

At this moment, following Shang Lu were two lifelike paper figures.

These two paper figures were created by the Rat Hunting.

Putting aside its power, at least in terms of appearance, it far surpasses the paper figures made by pokeweed.

Apart from his overly pale complexion and slightly cold and stiff expression, he was almost indistinguishable from a real person.

Three people per group is the standard configuration for the Black-Clad Guards to patrol in the night fog of Chu Capital.

Of course, Shang Lu and the two paper figures did not have the Black Robe Token, nor did they know the password—although Steward Sun and the others had some means in the Chu capital, they could not obtain the Black Robe Token.

This order is the same as the Impermanence Order of Shang Lu and his ilk; the order exists while the person is alive, and it is destroyed when the person dies.

As for the passwords of the Black-Clad Guards, they are changed every day before the operation. Even the Black-Clad Guards themselves do not know what the passwords are for the day before the night fog descends.

But this outfit is the best cover.

Even if they were to encounter the Black-Clad Guards, they could buy Shang Lu or Zi Shu time to respond the moment the guards confirmed their identities.

Shang Lu was unsure about the situation regarding the Rat's hunting expedition.

Xu Ping and Pan Sheng lived in two different markets. After sneaking out of the West Market, he and Zi Shu Xun Shou went their separate ways.

With the help of San Niang, Shang Lu had a smooth journey. Whenever they were about to encounter the Black-Clad Guards, San Niang would inform him in advance and lead him to hide where the Black-Clad Guards could not see him.

The dense night fog already greatly impairs visibility, so often you can avoid the Black-Clad Guards by hiding around a corner or taking a different route in advance.

The real challenge is to detect the Black-Clad Guards in advance.

These people moved very lightly, and with the influence of the night fog and their all-black attire... by the time they saw the firelight and realized there were people, it was too late; the Black-Clad Guards had already crept up to them.

But Shang Lu has three daughters, which is like having a cheat code that unlocks the entire map.

No matter how secretive the movements of the Black-Clad Guards were, they couldn't hide it from Third Sister.

On the contrary, the Eye Demon and the Fog Nightmare in the night fog kept haunting Shang Lu and could not be driven away.

Fortunately, these strange creatures were indeed afraid of fire, and they dared not approach any closer than five or six zhang away from the pokeweed.

But they clearly didn't want to let go of someone who dared to walk in the night fog, and they wouldn't let go.

So every time Shang Lu took a step, the monster in front of him would take a step back, while the monster behind him would take a step forward... Their movements were so synchronized that anyone who didn't know better would think Shang Lu was giving these monsters a military drill.

At first, the pokeweed was a little nervous, but after realizing that these strange creatures dared not approach, it stopped paying attention to them.

However, while avoiding the Black-Clad Guards, one must guard against these strange creatures attracting them, causing them to fight each other, while one reaps the benefits.

Fortunately, the black robes of the Black Guards on Shang Lu fooled these strange creatures, making them think that Shang Lu was in league with the Black Guards, so they didn't think much of it.

But Eyefiend and Mist Nightmare refused to give up, wanting to devour him, this living creature.

The eye-shaped creature kept changing shape in the night fog.

Sometimes they were a group of blood-stained strange eyes, and sometimes they turned into gaping maws... trying to scare Shang Lu and make him drop the torch from his hand.

Seeing that Shang Lu remained unmoved, these eye demons transformed into all sorts of hideous and ugly monsters... which made Shang Lu's journey less lonely.

If it weren't for the fear of making a sound and attracting the attention of the four-eared, five-eyed beast inside the watchtower, and the fear of getting Third Sister to twist his ears, Shang Lu would have wanted to make a request to Yan Sha: Stop turning into ferocious and ugly things to scare people, try some beauty traps, maybe I'll throw the torch away?

Compared to the Eye Fiend, which only scares, the Mist Nightmare has many more tricks up its sleeve—these shadowy creatures actually have the ability to manipulate objects, causing pebbles on the road to fly like arrows at the torch held by Shang Lu, trying to knock it away.

"Puff puff puff puff——"

With a soft thud, the pebbles were shattered by the essence of pokeweed before they even got close to the torch, turning into dust and falling to the ground.

The night fog effectively concealed the fluctuations of vital energy and also masked the slightest sounds, so the four-eared, five-eyed beast and the shaman on duty inside the watchtower were completely unaware.

The black-clad guards patrolling in the distance also remained unaware.

Seeing that the stones were useless, the Fog Nightmare stirred up the fog, trying to make it condense into water droplets to extinguish the torches.

Unfortunately, the Rat's Hunting had already warned the pokeweed about these tactics.

Not only was the torch wrapped with a layer of windproof and waterproof talisman, but the Qi vortex in the Dantian of the pokeweed was also spinning rapidly, releasing essence Qi to form a bell cover that covered the flames.

The water droplets that Mist Nightmare painstakingly created were directly dispelled by the Qi, unable to land on the torch, much less on the flames.

Although the Eye Demon and the Mist Nightmare could not harm Shang Lu, the number of strange creatures gathering around him increased as he traveled at high speed.

This is not a good thing.

Fortunately, Shanglu's current location is not far from Wanshunfang, where Feng Ping lives.

However, at that very moment, he suddenly heard a "wailing" sound coming from the night fog, and his keen intuition frantically alerted him.

Almost simultaneously, Third Sister's voice rang out: "Gen position!"

The moment his intuition warned him, Shang Lu drew his sword.

But fog surged in from all directions, each exuding a damp and sticky smell, and in an instant, Shang Lu could not tell which one was dangerous.

Just as he was about to activate his spiritual insight to take a closer look, he heard Third Sister's reminder.

Without the slightest hesitation, the witch's knife swung out with a "hum," bringing with it a blood-red blade aura. With lightning speed, it passed between the two paper figures behind him and slashed towards the Gen position to his right rear.

"puff--"

The sharp blade energy instantly struck the danger hidden in the eerie mist.

Almost at the same moment, Shang Lu smelled a strange odor, like a mixture of rotten fish and rust, which exploded in the thick fog behind him.

And I heard a sharp "squeak".

Shang Lu's heart skipped a beat.

This smell, this cry... it's neither the Eye Fiend nor the Mist Nightmare, nor the Black-Clad Guard.

Did I really have incredible luck and stumble upon some unknown monster?!
Shang Lu pondered this in his mind, but his feet didn't stop; he wanted to speed up and crash into Feng Ping's house.

According to the rules of Night Fog, as long as you enter a room and close the doors and windows, no matter how strange the monster is, it will no longer be able to harm you!

Just as Shang Lu was rushing forward with the torch, some oily black stains suddenly condensed in the swirling mist above the torch and dripped down.

These oily black stains appeared so suddenly that even Third Sister didn't notice them immediately, so by the time Shang Lu discovered them, it was too late. In fact, Shang Lu even experienced a brief moment of mental confusion when the oily black stains appeared.

Fortunately, the mental image in the Five Internal Organs Temple immediately sensed something was wrong, and its pupils shot out raging flames, instantly burning away the malevolent energy that was polluting the mind.

The spleen god statue reacted immediately, placing the burned malevolent energy on the offering table and beginning to digest it—as if to say, "Trying to disturb my mind? I'll eat you up."

With a soft "hiss," the torch was extinguished instantly when it was doused with an oily black stain.

The Eye Fiends and Mist Nightmares that had gathered around rushed towards Shang Lu like madmen the moment the torches went out, like a pack of wolves that had been starving for a long time and smelled blood.

At the same time, a foul wind rose from the night fog, and large patches of black mist seeped from the ground. Hands covered in corpse spots reached out from this black mist, grabbing at Shang Lu's feet, trying to hold him tightly and make him unable to move.

"Om-"

The vortex of Qi in Shang Lu's lower dantian immediately stirred up a storm of essence Qi, protecting his legs and blocking and shattering the attacking corpse hand.

At the same time, the already unsheathed witch sword was swung out again, slashing a circle in front of him.

The vortex of Qi in the middle dantian surged out with vital essence.

At the same time, the heart fire burns fiercely on the heart spirit statue inside the Five Internal Organs Temple.

The raging fire in his heart caused Shang Lu's eyes to turn bloodshot.

The raging inner fire traveled along the Hand Lesser Yin Heart Meridian, originating from the Heart Spirit Image, and surged out from the Shaochong acupoint, directly attaching itself to the witch's knife, instantly igniting its sharp blade energy.

"boom--"

The blazing sword energy transformed into an arc, centered on Shang Lu, and slashed outwards in all directions.

The sudden appearance of flames startled the Eye Demons and Mist Nightmares, who immediately changed their attack to a retreat and fled in all directions.

However, many of the Eye Demons and Mist Nightmares who couldn't dodge in time were still struck by the burning blade energy.

These strange creatures are not afraid of the slashing sword energy, but the raging flames are extremely harmful to them. Anything caught in the flames, even just a little bit, will quickly ignite and burn to black ash.

But that unknown monster was not afraid of fire.

On the ground, the corpse hands emerging from the black mist did not decrease despite the appearance of flames; on the contrary, they stretched out even more.

Even more ferocious demons crawled out, opening their hideous mouths to devour the pokeweed!

The eerie mist around Shang Lu surged wildly toward him, trying to extinguish the flames generated by the burning sword energy with its mist.

Meanwhile, from within the fog, increasingly loud shrieks echoed, attempting to confuse people's minds.

In a daze, Shang Lu felt as if he had fallen from the capital of Chu into hell.

Unfortunately, this hellish scene did not frighten Shang Lu.

"Hell? If it really is hell, then the evil spirits should be afraid of me!" Shang Lu sneered inwardly. He was a ghost messenger with the mark of the Earth God and the token of the City God!

"What corpse-handed demons? They're just illusions... The eerie mist, the shrieks... they're all meant to confuse people and induce illusions!"

In an instant, the surging, eerie mist had already reached Shang Lu's front.

In the mist, Shang Lu could even see hideous ghost faces baring their teeth at him, as if they wanted to tear him apart and devour him.

"Give it all to me——"

The pokeweed took a deep breath and then exhaled forcefully.

"retreat--!"

Inside the Five Internal Organs Temple, the liver god statue suddenly opened its eyes, and a fierce liver wind swept from its body, rushing out through the mouth of the pokeweed.

"boom--"

The liver wind surged, instantly bringing with it a large swath of violent wind that blew outwards.

The inner fire on the witch's sword, when blown by the liver wind, instantly flared up!

The raging fire, in turn, made the liver wind even more violent!

This truly is a case of the wind fanning the flames, and the fire increasing in power with the wind!
The liver wind, carrying the heart fire, not only dispersed the approaching eerie mist, but also once again burned the Eye Demon and Mist Nightmare that had gathered several feet away and refused to leave.

Just then, Shang Lu suddenly smelled a sticky, fishy odor. The smell was so faint that he wouldn't have noticed it if his senses weren't so sharp.

"Shh-"

Without the slightest hesitation, Shang Lu swung his witch blade again, unleashing a wave of fire as he slashed towards the direction from which the stench was coming.

"puff--"

The fire wave clearly struck something, but did not harm the target.

The fierce wind that swept away the flames instantly dispelled the thick, eerie fog, revealing a shadowy figure of humanity.

The dark figure was wet and slippery, its body covered in a layer of mucus, which gave off a faint fishy smell.

The eerie mist was blown away, and the hideous ghost faces disappeared, but the shrill screams did not stop.

These mind-altering, hallucinatory cries all came from this strange, dark shadow.

"It's a throat-stealing demon!"

Suddenly, San Niang revealed the name of the strange creature.

"It is not afraid of fire, but it is afraid of cold and damp things."

This strange creature was all wet and slippery, and it was hiding in the night fog. It was actually afraid of cold and damp things... That's ridiculous!
But it is precisely this outrageous flaw that makes it hard to imagine.

Shang Lu immediately raised his right hand and activated the divine power of the River God's messenger.

Although the divine power of the River God's messenger that he intercepted was weak, it could still be put to use after being continuously irrigated and nourished with his essence and qi—the surrounding water vapor immediately condensed in the palm of his right hand.

The kidney deity statue in the Five Organs Temple also responded accordingly—a stream of black kidney water, flowing through the Foot Shaoyang Kidney Meridian, gushed out from the Yongquan acupoint and gathered in Shang Lu's palm.

A black water droplet was formed in an instant.

The throat-stealing demon clearly sensed the danger; it swayed and was about to turn into liquid and merge into the eerie mist.

But the pokeweed moved even faster.

He suddenly swung his right hand.

"go--"

The black water droplets, like bullets fired from a gun, hurtled straight at the throat-stealing demon.

"puff!"

The water droplet struck the throat-stealing demon and immediately exploded, releasing an extremely cold and yin aura that instantly froze its entire body, leaving it covered in white frost.

The moment the throat-stealing demon was frozen, its strange cries immediately disappeared.

As expected, the corpse-handed demons beneath Shang Lu's feet vanished like bubbles.

Ignoring the disappearance of the illusion, Shang Lu strode forward. At this moment, the torch in his left hand was relit, and the flames on the witch knife in his right hand disappeared, replaced by the chilling sensation brought by the kidney water. With a thud, he cleaved the frozen throat-stealing demon in two!
Wow…

The slain throat-stealing demon turned into a pool of foul-smelling sewage, which flowed all over the ground.

"Third Sister, how do you know this monster is called the Throat-Stealing Demon?"

Pokeweed sheathed his sword, and at the same time noticed that something seemed to have been left behind in the sewage that the Throat Thief Demon had transformed into...

(End of this chapter)