Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 678 The Perilous Land is About to Collapse!

On Yin Shu's side, he had just sent Doctor Feng with people to check the situation when, shortly after, there was a strange movement in the yamen that was tightly wrapped in rotten flesh and pus.

On the screen wall built of countless pieces of rotting flesh, withered bones, and vengeful spirits, ripples appeared in circles, and someone emerged from them.

"Dr. Shang, people have emerged from the Holy Land!"

A school official with bulging eyes, whose appearance was strange and terrifying, yet who could promptly detect any subtle changes, was the first to discover this anomaly and urgently warned the authorities.

His words were like a command, instantly causing the highly vigilant instructors around him to unleash their respective magical weapons and roar:

"The thief has come out!"

"They actually escaped? What are the people in the Holy Land doing?"

"A bunch of useless trash! But that's fine, their weakness only makes us look better!"

As they spoke, a dozen people passed through the blood-stained wall and appeared in the government office, which was riddled with sores.

It was the school official who was chasing down the pokeweed and the black fox.

They hurried along the way, but were entangled by the walking corpses, evil spirits, and various demonic insects controlled by Shang Lu, which greatly slowed down their speed, and some of them were even injured.

If it's outside the ominous place, let alone walking corpses or evil spirits, even the most powerful flying zombies and evil spirits are not a threat to them. If they encounter them, they will directly capture them and refine them into the Soul Banner.

However, the situation is different in places with ominous signs.

The rules there are completely different from those in the real world, and the eeriness and danger of the zombies, evil spirits, and monsters far exceed those of the real world.

What angered them even more was that when they caught up with the entrance to the holy land, they were ambushed – several witch talismans were suddenly stuck to their faces!
These talismans were hidden beneath the fleshy ground, concealed by the foul aura, so they were completely unaware of them until the talismans were shot out.

Although they reacted extremely quickly and destroyed the talismans immediately, what they did not expect was that these talismans actually contained divine power contamination!

They were instantly struck by the attack, their internal energy disrupted and their minds affected, almost driving them insane.

Although they managed to suppress the pollution with their cultivation and magical artifacts, it still had a significant impact on them, causing them excruciating pain in their internal organs, as if they had developed a sense of self and wanted to become independent!

More importantly, their breathing became unstable as a result.

The constantly changing aura, as perceived by Yin Shu and the others, confirmed that they were indeed imposters.

"You've put on quite a good act, but unfortunately, this strange aura has given you away!"

The academic officers who rushed out of the dangerous place were unaware that their identities had been questioned.

Although he saw Yin Shu and the others eyeing him menacingly, he didn't think much of it. Instead, he was pleasantly surprised by their high level of vigilance.

"Where are the thieves who escaped from this dangerous place? Have you captured them?"

The person leading the team, like Yin Shu, was also a senior physician named Lu Qian.

As soon as he left the dangerous place, he asked impatiently.

Standing next to him was another person, who was actually Xu Xueguan, an imposter of Shang Lu.

Upon hearing Lu Qian's words, and especially upon seeing Xu Xueguan, the people from Taimo Academy gathered there all sneered.

Even Yin Shu's face showed a hint of mockery and ridicule.

"The thief? Isn't he right here?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Xueguan was overjoyed and hurriedly turned his head to look around, searching for Shang Lu and the black fox, but he saw nothing.

"You've captured them? Where are they? We haven't seen them! Hand them over to us immediately!"

"Still pretending?"

Yin Shu snorted coldly, refusing to waste any more words with these people, and shouted an order: "Take them down!"

He took the initiative and brought out a jet-black mirror.

The front of the mirror was shrouded in malevolent energy. And on the back of the mirror, thirty-six still-beating hearts were embedded.

These thirty-six hearts were not taken from ordinary people, but were obtained by refining the hearts of powerful cultivators that Yin Shu had killed over the years while capturing their souls.

These hearts are not only filled with resentment and malice, but they can also communicate with heaven and earth.

The mirror crafted from these materials is called the Mirror of the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man. It can steal a person's five vital energies and life force, causing a sharp drop in cultivation level and severe damage to the physical body and soul!

"what--"

As Yin Shu's calligraphy power surged, the "thump-thump-thump" of his heartbeat was deafening, like a war drum.

On the dark bronze mirror, ghostly faces immediately appeared, emitting piercing howls.

A torrent of blood-red light shot out from the bronze mirror like a flood, engulfing the dumbfounded Xu Xueguan and his companions.

Yin Shu made his move, and the Tai Mo Academy members guarding the area naturally dared not hesitate, each unleashing their strongest killing moves.

In an instant, sword energy crisscrossed, poisonous sand swirled, and curses and spells rained down like a storm, enveloping Lu Qian, Xu Xueguan, and the others.

The immense spiritual energy surge tore and churned the space surrounding the Evil Sores Bureau, causing it to distort violently.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Lu Qian, Xu Xueguan, and others were shocked and hastily prepared for battle.

The suppressed chaos and pollution within them then surged again, leaving them besieged from both inside and out.

He could only unleash half of his full cultivation.

In just one exchange, they were all at a disadvantage, each one cursed and injured. Some were even killed by flying swords, possessed by poisonous sand, or drained of their life force by Yin Shu's Five Decays Mirror, turning them into dried corpses.

"Ah—what are you doing?!"

"Are you all insane?!"

"Yin Shu, stop! Stop!"

"Have you betrayed the Tai Mo Academy, betrayed the Great Nuo? You damned traitors!"

"Crazy? Traitor? Ha, you thieves, you're about to die and you're still being stubborn!" Yin Shu sneered, ignoring their words and urging everyone to quickly capture and kill the thief so that he could carry the thief's head to report to Da Nuo.

While they were fighting fiercely, Shang Lu had already taken advantage of the chaos and left the city with Black Fox.

This Sea Spirit Island is equipped with a strange magic array that restricts flying magical artifacts, preventing people from flying directly within the city. They must leave the city and use their artifacts at designated "ports".

Fortunately, there were no guards from the Taimo Academy in this port.

They never imagined that someone could slip away from the city. As for those who came from the outside world, if they didn't know the method, they would lose their way when approaching Sea Spirit Island and eventually fall into the sea, becoming food for sea monsters.

Upon arriving at the port, Shang Lu immediately released the Witch Gourd, grabbed the Black Fox, and jumped onto it. He then activated the Witch Gourd with all his might, and they instantly flew into the air.

From its elevated position, Shang Lu could take in all the sights of Hai Ling Island.

He not only witnessed the fierce battle at the Evil Sores Office, but also saw the Jingguan altar on Hailing Island, which had been mostly destroyed.

However, there are still a few Jingguan altars that have not been destroyed. It is their existence that has prevented the spirit-gathering array on Hailing Island from being completely broken, and the Divine Dream Evil Land still exists.

Shang Lu observed that some of the scholars who had been instigated by him to destroy the Jingguan altar realized something was wrong and stopped. Others were caught up by Doctor Feng and his men, either dissuaded or killed.

The progress of destroying the Jingguan altar was thus greatly affected.

"We still have to rely on ourselves!"

Shang Lu naturally wouldn't let the opportunity slip away. He took out a paintbrush from the Impermanence Token, dipped it in witch ink, and poured divine power and the wisp of blood mist that the Five Internal Organs Temple had previously refined into the tip of the brush.

As Shang Lu wielded his brush, he drew stick figures and tiny black dots.

So much time has passed, and Shang Lu's painting skills haven't improved at all, just like his paper-tearing skills.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if this move looks good or not, as long as it works and is effective.

The drawn black dots and stick figures rushed toward the ground at an extremely fast speed. After landing, they ignored the chaos in the city and headed straight for the few remaining Jingguan altars that had not yet been destroyed.

Their appearance immediately alerted everyone at the Tai Mo Academy. Those who could come here were all highly skilled, and the aura of the stick figure and the ink dot was instantly detected.

"Painting ghosts? Who released these painting ghosts?"

"They want to destroy the Jingguan altar!"

"Should we stop them or not?"

The people of Tai Mo Academy, especially those who had received the "Great Nuo" order to destroy the Jingguan altar, hesitated and were at a loss when they saw these stick figures and ink dots.

The "Great Nuo" command was to destroy the Jingguan altar. These painted ghosts were aligned with their goal and were supposedly there to help them.

But this situation was truly strange, leaving them unsure of what to do.

Doctor Feng and the others, along with the school officials they had stopped, didn't think much of it after discovering the stick figures and ink spots, and immediately shouted:

"Stop these painting ghosts!"

"We cannot let them destroy the Jingguan altar!"

Their offensive, like a raging storm, crashed down on the speeding stick figures and ink dots.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Amidst the explosions of magic, many stick figures and ink dots were destroyed.

However, Dr. Feng and the others did not show any joy; instead, they were greatly alarmed.

Because they discovered that after the stick figures and ink dots were destroyed, an aura filled with chaos and pollution burst forth from them.

"Divine power contamination!"

"The purification of the Heavenly Dao?!"

Doctor Feng and others had all entered the Divine Dream Perilous Land, but they did not receive the "divine gift" to evolve, so they were left on Sea Spirit Island for guard duty.

But they were very familiar with divine power and blood mist.

At this moment, seeing that divine power and blood mist had actually entered the real world, they were shocked and hurriedly chanted incantations, summoning magical artifacts to resist the contamination of the divine power and blood mist.

In that brief moment, the remaining stick figures and ink dots successfully pounced on the remaining Jingguan altars, unleashing their hidden power without hesitation.

"boom--"

"boom--"

The last few mounds of Jingguan altars were destroyed in an instant.

It was at this moment that Doctor Feng and the others realized that the divine power and blood mist emanating from the painted ghost were far less powerful than they had imagined.

But it was too late.

With all the Jingguan altars on Hailing Island destroyed, the Spirit Gathering Array collapsed, and the death energy, resentment, and malevolent energy locked in this place immediately dissipated.

The walking corpses fell to the ground one after another, their bodies quickly rotting away, turning into a pool of filthy blood and rotten flesh within moments.

In the sky, a strange spiral-shaped cloud appeared, seemingly formed from the entanglement of death energy, resentment, and malevolent energy, yet it absorbed all of them.

The destruction of the altar and the breaking of the magic array immediately took effect on the ominous land of the Divine Dream.

As the entrance to the ominous land of Shenmeng, the Evil Sore Prefecture was the first to experience a change.

The rotting flesh and pus surrounding the government office rapidly dissolved, gradually revealing its true form—corpses appeared inside and disintegrated at an alarming rate.

The blood and flesh barrier that served as the entrance to the ominous place was constantly twisting and deforming, as if it were about to collapse at any moment, indicating that the sleeping deity had begun to experience intense emotional fluctuations and might awaken at any time.

"You idiots, look at the stupid things you've done!"

The officers who had chased the perilous land out were all wounded at this moment. They had originally planned to return to the perilous land to report the situation to Da Nuo and request reinforcements, but seeing this scene, none of them dared to go back.

The gods may awaken at any time.

Once He awakens, the perilous land constructed from His dream will immediately collapse and disappear, and the people inside will also vanish.

Going back now would be tantamount to courting death.

Yin Shu and the others sensed the changes in the ominous place, and while they were shocked, they also became somewhat anxious.

"How could this be?"

"Didn't Scholar Xu say that the Great Nuo ritual has a way to appease the gods and prevent the holy site from collapsing?"

Xu Xueguan was incredibly lucky; despite being covered in injuries, he hadn't died. After hearing what Yin Shu and the others said, he was initially taken aback: "When the hell did I say those things?"

Then it dawned on me: "It's those two thieves! They were impersonating me? You fools, didn't you even bother to check their identities?"

Upon hearing Xu Xueguan's question, Yin Shu and the others felt an invisible layer of energy shatter within their consciousness.

It was this layer of energy that interfered with them, making them forget to verify Shang Lu and Black Fox's identities. Now that the interference had disappeared, they truly felt that there were many suspicious aspects to the "Xu Xueguan" and "Dr. Liao" who had appeared earlier.

They panicked and stopped their attack.

Even Yin Shu looked panicked: "What should we do now?"

Xu Xueguan didn't know what to do either; he panicked at that moment.

Even at this moment, Lu Qian remained calm and said in a deep voice, "We must build a new Jingguan altar as soon as possible. Even if its power is not as great as the previous one, as long as we can delay the collapse of the holy land and buy time, we can find a way to appease the deity and let Him continue to sleep!"

Yin Shu tried his best to control his mind and calm himself down. After a moment's thought, he realized that the method this person mentioned was indeed the best at present.

However, the entire Sea Spirit Island is a dead zone.

The people here have long been slaughtered; where would they find anyone to build a Jingguan altar?
Lu Qian also realized the problem, and his gaze suddenly turned cold: "If we don't have enough people, we'll make up for it with quality!"

Yin Shu understood what he meant, and after a slight pause, she made up her mind.

"Yes!"

He suddenly attacked the person next to him.

"The academy has nurtured you for many years; it's time for you to give back!"

Yin Shu's cultivation was already much stronger than those of the Tai Mo Academy people around him, and his sudden attack caught them off guard, resulting in the instant elimination of a large number of them.

At the same time, Lu Qian also made his move, killing several seriously injured people around him without hesitation—Xu Xueguan was among them.

They not only killed people, but also immediately used their corpses and souls to build a Jingguan altar.

It did work; the rate of collapse of the dangerous terrain was slowed down as a result.

But that's not enough!
Yin Shu's gaze immediately fell on the remaining shamans.

Just as he was about to make a move, Lu Qian stopped him.

"The situation is worse than we thought, but it's not entirely useless; at least the altar has bought us some more time."

As for these people, killing them all wouldn't help. It's better to spare their lives and let them hunt sea monsters for sacrifice! If they haven't killed enough monsters, then it's not too late to sacrifice them!

"Hunting monsters for sacrifice? Fine!" Yin Shu nodded in agreement.

Although sea monsters are not as good as cultivators, they can still serve as sacrificial offerings and blood food.

It was at this moment that they noticed the pokeweed and the black fox in the sky.

"It was them! They lied to us!"

Yin Shu's anger reached its peak at this moment, even transforming into a tangible aura that caused the people from the Tai Mo Academy around him to retreat repeatedly in fear.

He barked a fierce command: "Go and hunt down the sacrificial offerings! I'll go and kill these two damned thieves!"

"I'll go with you!" Lu Qian's eyes were also blazing with anger. "These two thieves will be the two most delicious sacrifices on the altar!"

(End of this chapter)