Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 679 Desire Blinds Logic
Although Yin Shu and Lu Qian were afraid that Shang Lu would escape, they could not fly away to chase him directly in the city. They could only use magic such as shrinking the earth to an inch to leave the city first and then use their respective methods after arriving at the "port".

With a flick of his sleeve, Yin Shu sent out two streams of black energy that enveloped him, transforming into two black wings that carried him into the air.

Lu Qian then spat out a stream of blood energy, leaped onto it, and joined Yin Shu in chasing after Shang Lu and the Black Fox.

Both of them had reached the Great Perfection of the Inner Palace realm, which was two realms higher than Shang Lu, who was only at the entry level of the Inner Palace realm. Moreover, Shang Lu had just broken through to the Inner Palace realm and had not yet had time to consolidate his cultivation. In addition, although the Witch Gourd was a flying magic weapon, it was not known for its speed.

In an instant, Yin Shu and Lu Qian caught up by a large margin, and the distance was rapidly decreasing.

Seeing that he had caught up with the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man, Yin Shu did not hesitate for a moment. He raised the strange mirror high with both hands and shouted sharply:
"You little thief, you've ruined the grand plan of my Tai Mo Academy and you think you can run away? Surrender obediently, and you'll suffer less!"

Of course, the pokeweed was unwilling to surrender.

Given the commotion he's caused, the people at Taimo Academy must hate him to death. If he were to surrender, he would surely suffer endless torture, and it would be better for him to just die.

He had no time to pay attention to Yin Shu, and was focused on activating the witch gourd.

Unfortunately, while this thing is fast enough under normal circumstances, it's far from sufficient when escaping for your life.

Even though Shang Lu both encouraged the true words of Confucianism and drew the magic symbols that could accelerate the speed of the witchcraft, the improvement was limited.

Seeing that Shang Lu didn't answer and just kept running for his life, Yin Shu snorted coldly and said no more.

On the surface of the Mirror of the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man, ghostly faces reappeared, spewing out streams of blood amidst mournful howls.

The blood energy shot out like an arrow, heading straight for Shang Lu and the Black Fox, its speed even surpassing that of lightning.

Shang Lu turned around and saw the swirling aura of blood approaching. He cursed under his breath.

He had just witnessed the power of the Mirror of Five Decays of Heaven and Man from the sky. The blood and evil spirits spewed by the mirror ghost were extremely poisonous. Ordinary people who came into contact with it would immediately turn into blood. If cultivators came into contact with it, they would also be corrupted and have their five elements of life force plundered. Not only would their cultivation level plummet, but they would also have their essence and blood drained, turning them into a dried-up corpse.

The Five Decays Blood Fiend arrived extremely quickly. None of the treasures in Shang Lu's possession could withstand it. He could only urge his essence and divine power to transform into lung metal sword energy, which he spat out, attempting to break the Five Decays Blood Fiend with the sharpness of lung metal combined with divine power.

"Whoosh-"

"boom--"

The lung-metal sword energy that roared out immediately collided with the Five Decays Blood Fiend, and indeed dispersed some of the fiendish energy.

"what?"

Holding the Mirror of the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man, Yin Shu was both surprised and overjoyed.

"You cunning thief, you really did find an opportunity in the Holy Land! The opportunities within the Holy Land belong to our Tai Mo Academy, you can't take them away!"

Yin Shu roared, surging all his vital energy, which caused a rumbling thunderous sound to emanate from around him.

The howling voice of the mirror ghost in the Mirror of Decay of Heaven and Man suddenly changed.

It was still high-pitched, sharp, and piercing, but the melody had changed.

The blood demon, scattered by the Lung Golden Sword Qi, immediately erupted with rolling blood light.

They dispersed but did not dissipate; instead, they transformed into a soft, yielding substance, tightly binding the Lung Metal Sword Qi. Severed yet regenerating, one after another, they consumed the power of the Lung Metal Sword Qi, also wearing down its sharpness and edge!

The remaining five decaying blood demons rushed towards Shang Lu at an even faster speed.

Like a blood-red flying python, it opened its ferocious maw, ready to devour the pokeweed whole!
All these changes happened so quickly that Shang Lu didn't have time to use any other tricks.

Seeing that the Five Decays Blood Fiend had flown close, and that its pollution and toxicity had already affected him, making his vital energy unstable and his blood surging, almost like a wild horse about to burst out of his body's orifices.

Even he felt this way, so Black Fox was even worse off, with blood already flowing from his body.

"What a powerful magic weapon!"

Shang Lu dared not be negligent, for this was still before it had even struck him. If he were truly struck by the Five Decays Blood Fiend, even if he did not die, he would be severely injured.

"The Five Decays Blood Fiend, is it? Give it to me—swallow it!"

Without hesitation, Shang Lu once again unleashed his "Serpent Swallows Elephant" divine power, opening his mouth to meet the incoming Five Decays Blood Fiend with a powerful inhale.

"call out--"

The Five Decays Blood Demon transformed into a streak of blood light, which Shang Lu swallowed whole.

Yin Shu, standing in the distance, was completely stunned.

"This thief actually swallowed the Five Decays Blood Fiend?"

He then grinned maliciously, "Good, good, good! You even dare to devour the Five Decaying Blood Fiends. You really don't know how to spell the word 'death'! You've saved me a lot of trouble!"

In his view, Shang Lu was certain to die after swallowing the Five Decays Blood Fiend.

But the next moment, he frowned and exclaimed in alarm, "Don't destroy his soul too!" He still wanted to preserve Shang Lu's soul to search for his memories and find the opportunity Shang Lu had obtained in the divine dream.

Lu Qian was also worried about this.

But they soon discovered that all their worries were unnecessary.

The thief riding on the gourd, after swallowing the Five Decays Blood Fiend, not only did not begin to decompose into blood from his body, but instead acted as if nothing had happened, driving the gourd down to the ocean below.

"He swallowed the Five Decaying Blood Demon, and he's unharmed?"

"The opportunity must have come from within the holy land!"

In their astonishment, Yin Shu and Lu Qian both came to this conclusion.

Otherwise, it's truly inexplicable how someone could swallow the Five Decays Blood Fiend and still be full of life and unharmed.

Little did they know that there was a temple for the five internal organs inside the pokeweed.

After the Five Decaying Blood Fiend was swallowed by Shang Lu, it was sent directly to the Five Internal Organs Temple. Before it could directly clash with the Five Internal Organs Temple, it collided with the blood mist that Shang Lu had previously swallowed.

The Five Decays Blood Fiend wanted to corrode the Blood Mist, and the Blood Mist also wanted to pollute it. The two fought like dogs, which gave Shang Lu an advantage. He activated the Five Internal Organs Temple and imprisoned and suppressed both forces, letting them fight each other.

Whether these two forces fight to the death or ultimately create a Gu, it's all good for Shang Lu!

Of course, at this moment, Shang Lu had no time to check on his stomach.

After swallowing the Five Decaying Blood Fiend, he immediately rushed into the ocean.

In terms of flight speed, he couldn't outrun Yin Shu and Lu Qian.

In terms of magical combat, his cultivation level was inferior to those two experts from the Tai Mo Academy, and his internal organs were already somewhat "overfed" after consuming the strange blood mist and the current wave of Five Decays Blood Fiend.

If you try to rely on this trick again, you'll probably end up bursting from overeating.

It's better to go into the water.

He learned the Heart Sutra, which not only greatly benefited his spirit, but also allowed him to master an extremely exquisite method of water manipulation. While his speed in the water might not be much faster than flying, he could use this water manipulation technique to outrun Yin Shu and Lu Qian.

Moreover, he still bears the divine seal left by Wuzhiqi on the back of his hand. If he could borrow Wuzhiqi's power, even if he had only just entered the Inner Court realm, he could still kill these two pursuers who had reached the Great Perfection of the Inner Court realm in the vast ocean!

Seeing Shang Lu heading straight for the sea, Yin Shu didn't know what Shang Lu was relying on, but considering that he had survived by consuming his Five Decays Blood Fiend, he might have some kind of opportunity related to the sea. He immediately shouted, "Stop him!"

His Five Decays Mirror, having had most of its Five Decays Blood Fiend absorbed by Shang Lu, was not destroyed on the spot, but its power was greatly reduced and it was temporarily unusable. It needed to be refined and nurtured again to be restored.

Even without Yin Shu's reminder, Lu Qian realized that he couldn't let the two thieves escape into the sea. From the surging blood energy beneath his feet, a triangular magic flag immediately appeared, with mysterious incantations drawn on it.

With a thought, Lu Qian activated the incantation on the magic flag, and invisible sword energies appeared out of thin air, whistling as they shot towards Shang Lu and the Black Fox.

“Swish, swish, swish—”

The sound of sword energy piercing the air was like a thunderclap, causing waves to rise from the originally calm sea below.

"Go left!"

Suddenly, Shang Lu heard Third Sister's warning.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately manipulated the gourd, tilting it to the left as it fell.

"Whoosh whoosh—"

Several invisible sword energies, accompanied by a piercing sound of air being torn apart, whistled past him and struck the sea below, creating huge waves and countless fish carcasses.

If Shang Lu hadn't dodged in time, then at this moment, what would be on the sea surface wouldn't be fish carcasses, but rather his and Black Fox's corpses.

"Left, front, back, right..."

Third Sister's voice rang in Shang Lu's ears one after another.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shang Lu did as instructed, maneuvering the gourd left and right, dodging all the invisible sword energies that shot towards him.

Although each time the attack missed by a hair's breadth, it did indeed dodge these invisible sword energies.

As for the sharp wind brought by the invisible sword energy, it was completely blocked by his protective essence.

"Um?!"

Seeing this from a distance, Lu Qian was also shocked.

Having learned his lesson once, Yin Shu loudly warned, "Don't underestimate this thief!"

"I don't need you to remind me!" Lu Qian snarled.

He immediately activated the Dharma Flag with all his might, and the invisible sword energy transformed into an impenetrable sword net that enveloped Shang Lu and Black Fox, cutting off all their escape routes.

At that very moment, Shang Lu took out an incense stick and lit it.

He didn't have time to take out the sacrificial altar, so he could only hold the incense stick towards the back of the hand with the seal of the Wuzhiqi deity, quickly recite the Nuo shaman's incantation, and shout: "I respectfully request the divine lord's assistance!"

"Wow--"

Below, on the sea surface, the waves that had been stirred up were suddenly pulled by a new force, soaring into the sky and instantly engulfing Shang Lu, transforming into a sky full of water arrows that met the sword net.

"boom--"

Amidst the deafening explosion, the net of sword energy vanished instantly, and the towering wave receded back into the sea.

However, the pokeweed, the black fox, and the gourd they were riding also disappeared without a trace.

"Where are they? Did you kill them?" Yin Shu asked urgently. He not only couldn't see Shang Lu and Black Fox, but he also couldn't sense their presence. Therefore, he suspected that Lu Qian had killed them.

Lu Qian's expression was grave as he gritted his teeth and shook his head: "They didn't die; they went into the sea."

"Oh?"

Yin Shu raised an eyebrow.

"He's just a beginner in the Inner Court, yet he managed to dodge both of our deadly attacks. He must have obtained some extraordinary opportunity in the Holy Land!"

As he spoke, he took out a blood-red talisman and tore it open.

A cloud of blood mist flew out from the talisman, instantly condensing into a bulging eyeball with bloodshot veins in its white pupil, gazing down at the sea below.

With the help of this strange eyeball, Yin Shu can clearly see all the things that happen beneath the sea.

Even the fish swimming in the deep sea can be seen clearly.

But there was no sign of the pokeweed or the black fox.

"They ran away? How could they be so fast? They disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye."

Yin Shu's expression was gloomy; he simply couldn't believe that the two thieves could have vanished without a trace in such a short span of time.

He deduced that Shang Lu and the Black Fox either used some special magic weapon or extraordinary supernatural powers obtained from the Holy Land to conceal their auras, thus escaping the detection of the Tracking Eye.

Lu Qian thought the same thing and immediately said, "I'll go down and find them. You stay on the sea and support me. If they manage to escape, you can take them down immediately!"

"it is good!"

Yin Shu readily agreed, clearly understanding that if they went into the sea together, the two thieves might emerge from the water and escape.

At this moment, both Yin Shu and Lu Qian suspected that Shang Lu had deliberately lured them into the sea to pursue him, so that he could use his escape methods later.

Yin Shu possessed the ability to track objects, making him more suitable to remain on the sea to search for the pokeweed and the black fox; therefore, he did not refuse.

Lu Qian chanted a spell, and the surging blood energy beneath his feet immediately swirled around him, plunging him into the vast blue ocean.

After entering the water, his blood vapor transformed into a bell-shaped shield, separating him from the seawater and protecting him within it.

Lu Qian was very cautious. Knowing that Shang Lu had obtained an opportunity in the Holy Land, he was even more careful. He did not let his guard down or become careless just because his cultivation was stronger than Shang Lu's.

Once underwater, Lu Qian looked around. Although some light shone through the sea surface, visibility was still limited, especially due to the obstruction of the waves, making it difficult for him to see what was happening in the distance.

Lu Qian snorted softly, formed a witch's seal with his hands, and activated the magic power within his body, making it instantly become strange and chaotic.

Lu Qian's eyes underwent a strange change during this process.

Countless blood vessels filled his pupils, causing him intense pain, but his eyesight was greatly enhanced, allowing him to see distant scenes clearly even underwater.

With his unpredictable eyes, Lu Qian quickly spotted Shang Lu and Black Fox—the two were swimming swiftly underwater like fish, and somehow managed to blend their aura into the seawater. No wonder Yin Shu, with his tracking eyes, couldn't lock onto them.

Lu Qian instinctively wanted to send a message, but at that moment, a greedy thought suddenly arose in his mind, causing him to change his mind instantly.

"This credit should naturally be enjoyed by one person alone; how can it be shared with others?"

Lu Qian grinned maliciously, urging his blood energy to propel himself through the waves underwater, and in an instant, he caught up with Shang Lu and Black Fox.

(End of this chapter)