Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 658 The New Chaotic Divinity

"Once you've got your invitation, hurry up and leave. Don't block the way here. Can't you see how many people are behind you, waiting to get into the city?"

The monk holding the mirror had a stern face and his tone was full of impatience.

"Yes, yes, I'll be right there."

Shang Lu, playing the role of a Qi Refining Realm cultivator, cautiously responded, but his eyes were constantly glancing to the side.

There were three cultivators holding mirrors at this city gate. The other two cultivators were also checking people who wanted to enter the city.

Similarly, they would issue a letter of invitation to each monk they found.

Whether the black fox sensed something and was helping Shang Lu, or whether it genuinely considered itself a cultivator, it actually started whining and barking at the cultivator holding the mirror and the fat cultivator at this moment.

It seems to be saying, "Give me a test too. And give me a lecture pass as well."

Unexpectedly, the dark-faced monk actually understood what it was shouting.

He chuckled and said, using a mix of coaxing and intimidation, "Want a letter to attend lectures? We'll talk about that after you can take human form! For now, you can only obediently follow your master to the Tai Mo Academy to attend lectures. But remember, during the lectures, you are forbidden from making noise or shouting, otherwise, if you're turned into fur, it will be too late for regrets!"

Black Fox turned its head and glanced at Shang Lu, as if to say, "This guy is not my master."

But the words caught in his throat.

The clever creature realized that if it was said that the pokeweed was not its master, then it would not be able to go to the Tai Mo Academy to listen to lectures, and it might not even be able to enter the city.

Even more terrifying is the possibility of being targeted by other cultivators. At that point, being trained as a spirit pet would be a good outcome; being used in alchemy or medicine is not out of the question.

The black fox grunted and obediently followed Shang Lu into the city, trying its best to appear as a spirit pet to deter others from coveting it.

After entering the city, Shang Lu deliberately slowed down his pace.

A dozen or so breaths later, a monk holding a lecture invitation walked quickly past him.

Shang Lu gave San Niang a wink, and at the same time quickly released a stream of essence and divine sense to contact the wooden box in the cultivator's hand.

Sure enough, the moment his essence and consciousness touched the wooden box, Shang Lu felt a sudden, unsettling sensation, as if he were being pricked by thorns. At the same time, his internal organs also issued another warning.

This time, however, Shang Lu didn't wait for Wuzhiqi's water droplet tattoo to reappear on the back of his left hand before quickly withdrawing his essence and consciousness.

The cultivator holding the lecture invitation was only at the Lesser Completion stage of the Heavenly Cycle and was completely unaware of everything that had happened in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, the group of cultivators inside the city gate were equally unaware.

The reason was that the moment San Niang made her move, she opened the umbrella in her hand, using it to shield Shang Lu, and also to block the surrounding cultivators, treasures, and magic arrays from perceiving the spiritual energy and witchcraft.

"It's not just my case; all the lecture invitations are strange."

Shang Lu quickly came to a conclusion.

This strange thing, capable of triggering warnings from the internal organs and causing a reaction in Wuzhiqi's water droplet tattoo, is definitely not simple!
What strange things are hidden in that small wooden box? What undercurrents are lurking in the lectures at Tai Mo Academy?
Suddenly, doubts arose in Shang Lu's mind.

If it weren't for the fact that they were on the street, surrounded by people, Shang Lu would have wanted to study it more carefully.

He was also puzzled.

He could sense the strangeness of the wooden box, but didn't other cultivators notice it?
Although many of the cultivators who came to Qinglin Prefecture were of low rank, there were also those above the Mingxin Realm.

Did these people not notice anything at all? Or did they notice it but dare not question it?
Furthermore, Shang Lu clearly saw that a wisp of water vapor had just emerged from the water droplet tattoo of Wuzhiqi on the back of his left hand and entered the wooden box.

What did that moisture go about? So far, Shang Lu has not seen any changes in the wooden box.

"There's no use thinking about it too much. Let's find a place to stay first, and then find an opportunity to investigate in detail."

Suppressing his doubts, Shang Lu quickened his pace and left the place.

Seeing him speed up, Black Fox had no choice but to run quickly to catch up.

Fifteen minutes later, Shang Lu found an inn in Qinglin Prefecture and asked for a private room.

These days, the inn has received many cultivators and has already gained experience, so it is not surprising at all that Shang Lu brought the black fox to stay at the inn.

The waiter led Shang Lu to his room, glancing at the black fox a few times along the way. He couldn't help but ask, "Sir, I've heard that foxes are the most spiritual and the easiest to cultivate into human form. And once they become human, they are often quite handsome. Is that true?"

Shang Lu didn't answer, but instead asked, "What, are you interested in fox spirits?"

"I wouldn't dare be interested."

The waiter quickly shook his head: "I've heard that fox spirits suck people's yang energy. I don't have enough yang energy to suck; I might get dried up."

As they were talking, the waiter led Shang Lu to his room.

Although the location is a bit out of the way, it suits Shanglu's needs perfectly.

"Sir, your room is here. Here is the key."

The waiter left the key, gave some instructions, and then prepared to leave.

As they approached the door, he remembered something and carefully reminded the guest, "If you have any unusual hobbies, please restrain yourself. We also have other guests in the inn; don't frighten them."

Shang Lu was taken aback by his words and asked curiously, "What do you mean by that?"

It is often said that behind special rules, there are often extraordinary things happening.

Shang Lu was very curious about what had happened in this inn that made the waiter dare to bite the bullet and ask the cultivator to restrain him.

Under the influence of eloquence and sophistry, the waiter was no longer afraid and lowered his voice to explain the situation:

"Sir, you are new here and therefore unaware of this, but just a few days ago, a cultivator skilled in controlling corpses and summoning ghosts stayed at our inn and performed corpse manipulation techniques... As a result, the next day, the corpse's family came with officials demanding an explanation. There's also a beast cultivator who was practicing dual cultivation with a spirit beast in broad daylight; it was truly an eyesore."

In the end, the waiter's gaze swept back and forth between Shang Lu and Black Fox.

The black fox, being clever, instantly understood his meaning, and glared angrily, howling and snarling.

After his initial shock, Shang Lu solemnly assured him, "Don't worry, those people are all evil cultivators. I am different from them and would never do such a scandalous thing!"

I have absolutely no interest in corpses or beasts; I just enjoy playing the ghosts and spirits.

"That's good. I won't disturb your rest any longer."

The waiter seemed to realize he had spoken out of turn and immediately prepared to take his leave.

But Shang Lu stopped him: "Wait a minute."

Shang Lu waved his hand, and a piece of silver flew into the waiter's hand immediately.

"Is there anywhere in this city where I can buy and sell materials and treasures related to cultivation?"

"Yes, yes."

Upon seeing the loose silver, the waiter's face immediately lit up with a bright smile.

"Our Qinglin Prefecture City has the Taimo Academy, and countless cultivators come and go. Naturally, there is a Spirit Market, located in the Wenxianfang in the east of the city. Although I have never been there, I have heard that it has all kinds of treasures. There is nothing you can't buy if you can think of it."

Shang Lu nodded, remembering the Wenxianfang in the east of the city, and then asked, "Are there any rules or customs for buying and selling things there?"

During this period, the waiter had served many cultivators and gained rich experience. Upon hearing Shang Lu's words, he immediately understood what he meant and replied, "We don't ask about the origin of what we sell, and we don't ask about the purpose of what we buy."

Shang Lu nodded slightly; those words were enough.

It's getting late today, so tomorrow morning we can go to the Immortal Shop to sell the damaged sorcery artifacts we seized from the Disciplined Black Witch, and see if we can buy a method to purify the transmission wave of the Impermanence Token. After dismissing the waiter, Shang Lu closed the door and first checked the room with Third Sister. After confirming there were no problems, Third Sister set up a sorcery array to prevent peeping. Shang Lu also took out the "Unlistenable" bronze bell, activated it, and placed it in the center of the array to strengthen the anti-peeping power.

Although Qinglin Prefecture is not the capital of Jiang Kingdom, it has the Taimo Academy, and the lecture invitations issued by the Taimo Academy are shrouded in mystery, which makes Shang Lu have to be careful.

Once everything was arranged, Shang Lu took out the lecture invitation and used his vital energy and spiritual sense to explore it.

There was indeed a spell in the lecture note.

However, the function of this spell is neither to monitor or eavesdrop on the holder, nor does it have any other harmful uses; it is only used to confirm identity.

Even if someone like Shang Lu were to examine the lecture invitation and discover this spell, they wouldn't find anything wrong with it—the cultivators at the city gate had already said that one needed a lecture invitation to enter the Tai Mo Academy.

It's perfectly normal for the lecture invitation to include a spell to confirm identity.

However, if it were merely a spell to confirm identity, it would be impossible for it to trigger an alarm in the five internal organs, let alone cause Wuzhiqi's water droplet mark to react.

The investigation into Pokeweed continued.

A moment later, he did notice something—he discovered that Wuzhiqi's water-based divine power was stuck to the core of the spell, as if it were suppressing something.

Shang Lu tried to touch the thing that was suppressed by Wuzhiqi's water energy divine power, and immediately sensed a familiar, crazy, chaotic, and powerful aura!

It is chaotic divinity!
This incantation actually contains chaotic divinity!
Moreover, this chaotic divinity was still in a "dormant" state. If it weren't for Wuzhiqi's water-based divine power enveloping it, even Shang Lu, who was very familiar with divinity and divine power, might not have been able to detect it.

It's not surprising that other cultivators didn't notice.

But where does this chaotic divinity come from? And why did the Tai Mo Academy hide it in the spell of the lecture notes?
Shang Lu frowned slightly, increasingly feeling that this grand lecture at Tai Mo Academy was suspicious and strange.

"What exactly does Taimo Academy want to do?"

Shang Lu did not believe that the Tai Mo Academy would be like the King of Chu, bringing cultivators here to refine pills in one pot.

If they dare to do this, not only will the Tai Mo Academy be attacked from all sides, but the entire Jiang Kingdom will also be attacked from all directions. The Tai Mo Academy and even the Jiang Kingdom will collapse because of this.

Even the mad King of Chu knew that such a thing had to be done secretly, and that various excuses had to be used to cover it up, so that the truth could not be known to others.

How could the people of Tai Mo Academy not know? And how could they be even crazier than the unpredictable King Chu? If they didn't want to refine cultivators into pills, what were they planning?
Do you want to corrupt the monks who come to listen to the lectures without them even realizing it?

But what benefit would this bring to the Tai Mo Academy?
Shang Lu had always suspected that there was something strange about the Tai Mo Academy's explanation of the secrets of the Great Cataclysm.

Now that he has discovered the chaotic divinity hidden inside the wooden box, he feels even more strongly that there is something fishy about this matter.

"The King of Chu has become a strange creature, there are oddities in the Jiang Kingdom, and the Ba Kingdom is also in turmoil..."

Shang Lu frowned.

Even though the number of secret realms is increasing, how come it has become a turbulent time?

After putting away the wooden box, Shang Lu considered it briefly and decided to go to Wenxianfang tomorrow.

After resolving the matter of the communication wave, I'll take a stroll around the Tai Mo Academy to see if I can discover anything.

As for the lectures at Tai Mo Academy that explain the secrets of the Great Cataclysm, he is still hesitant about whether to attend.

Before they knew it, it was midnight. Fearing that he would disturb the other cultivators in the inn, Shang Lu did not perform the divine communication method, but he still took out the soul-offering altar and offered incense to several spirit tablets.

Wuzhiqi finally received incense offerings through the divine tablet.

That night, Shang Lu was very careful and vigilant, but nothing happened from beginning to end.

The next morning, Shang Lu finished his cultivation and left the inn.

The black fox followed him closely.

After hearing what the waiter said yesterday, this guy was obviously scared, afraid that he would be kidnapped by evil cultivators and live a life worse than death.

After leaving the inn, Shang Lu did not rush to Wenxianfang in the east of the city.

As he walked, he observed his surroundings and, guided by San Niang, entered a deserted alleyway in a blind spot of surveillance. Using the ever-changing mask he was wearing, he transformed his appearance and physique once again.

Not only that, Shang Lu also borrowed the transformation powers of the Great Sage from the novelist's notes, turning the black fox into a yellow dog.

And he instructed it: "Don't make a sound without my permission. If you do make a sound, bark. You're a dog now, don't bark at me like a fox, understand?"

The black fox was unhappy about being turned into a dog and grumbled a few times.

But it was indeed clever; it knew why the pokeweed was doing this, and despite its dissatisfaction, it nodded in agreement.

After leaving the alley, Shang Lu headed towards Wenxianfang.

Upon arriving at the location, he first took a walk around and, through observation, confirmed that the goods sold here were indeed sold without inquiring about their origin or purpose.

Relieved, Shang Lu first found a shop in the north of the town and sold the witchcraft artifacts and remnants of spirits he had seized from the Discipline Black Witch.

These items, because they were all severely damaged, were priced very low.

But for Pokeweed, as long as it can be sold, it's not a loss. Moreover, the longer these things are on his person, the greater the danger.

After putting away the spiritual liquid and spiritual fat given to him by the shopkeeper, Shang Lu turned and left. He kept an eye on his back as he walked, making sure no one was following him, before heading to the west of the market. He entered another shop and asked the shopkeeper, "Do you have any treasures here to eliminate residual spiritual energy?"

After asking around at several stores, Shang Lu finally managed to buy a remnant spirit that could purify residual spiritual energy.

This remnant spirit looked like a taotie carving made of stone, stained with blood.

According to the shopkeeper, this remnant spirit is voracious and can devour any residual spiritual energy left after the use of any magical artifact.

However, since this Taotie artifact is a remnant spirit, it has the same side effects as other remnant spirits—it will silently release "greed," thereby polluting people's minds. Once they cannot resist it, they will fall into endless greed and become slaves to their desires.

However, this side effect is not necessarily bad for pokeweed.

Cultivating a clear mind is about refining one's state of mind.

The greed and corruption of the gluttonous artifact actually benefited his cultivation and breakthrough in this realm.

After some haggling, Shang Lu bought the Taotie handle at a good price and spent all the spiritual liquid and spiritual fat he had just obtained.

After receiving the Taotie pendant and learning how to use it, Shang Lu didn't rush to leave. Instead, he asked the shopkeeper for a room, saying he wanted to test the Taotie pendant's effects.

The shopkeeper seemed unfazed by this kind of thing and actually arranged a room for Shang Lu.

Shang Lu led the black fox, who had turned into a yellow dog, into the room. As usual, he and San Niang checked the room to make sure there were no problems before taking out the remnant spirit of "Unlistenable" and setting up a magic array to prevent peeping.

After doing all this, Shang Lu activated the Taotie handle, absorbing all the residual spiritual energy from the Impermanence Token. Before he could discover anything, he heard Third Sister whisper a reminder in his ear:

"It worked; the remaining spiritual energy was completely absorbed."

Shang Lu had no doubt about San Niang's abilities. He nodded and was about to put away the Impermanence Token and the Taotie item.

But then something suddenly came to mind.

Since the Taotie Handle can indeed devour the communication waves emitted by the Impermanence Token, then shouldn't he now send a message to Zishu Hunting and the others to inquire about the situation?
Once the communication ends, simply use the Taotie to swallow the communication wave, and you won't have to worry about being targeted and hunted down by the Discipline Black Witches again.

Shang Lu had been speculating and worried about the situation of Zi Shu Xun Shou and the others.

Now that he had the opportunity, he certainly wouldn't miss it. He immediately activated the communication function of the Impermanence Order and tried to establish contact with Zishu Xunshou and others.

(End of this chapter)