Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 681 Terrifying Divine Power

"boom--"

A beam of blood-red light, swirling with countless rotten flesh and poisonous blood, gushed out from Sea Spirit Island, looking from afar like a volcanic eruption.

Deathly aura, malevolent aura, spiritual aura... all sorts of auras spewed out along with the rotting flesh and poisonous blood, creating utter chaos.

What shocked the Tai Mo Academy members the most was that among these auras, there was also an extremely chaotic and powerful divine aura!

The people from Tai Mo Academy were all experienced cultivators, so they knew exactly what had happened when they saw the scene before them.
They immediately forgot all about searching for and hunting the sea monsters, and all stared in astonishment towards Sea Spirit Island:
"Oh no! The holy site has collapsed!"

"Wasn't that sleeping deity temporarily appeased? How come it has awakened again?!"

The killing of their companions and the few sea monsters they hunted nearby that hadn't yet escaped, while not enough to construct a complete spirit-gathering array to put the gods back to sleep, could at least buy them ten days or half a month, giving them enough time to hunt down more blood-sucking souls to offer as sacrifices.

But now, their newly built Jingguan altar didn't even last a few hours, let alone ten days or half a month.

What went wrong?!
Why did this deity awaken so quickly?

"Bitter!"

The expressions on the faces of everyone at Tai Mo Academy were extremely grim, as if they had all lost their parents.

It's not that they were grieving for their colleagues, such as Da Nuo, who were trapped in the holy land and would collapse along with it.

They were lamenting that once the holy land collapsed, they would never again have the chance to glimpse the memories of the gods in their dreams, steal the secret techniques of cultivating divinity, or understand the truth of the purification of the heavenly path.

As for Da Nuo and his colleagues? They were dead, so be it; they were even more pleased with that.

After a brief moment of shock and frustration, the group from Tai Mo Academy, led by Yin Shu, did not immediately flee. Instead, a thought simultaneously arose in their minds:
"With the collapse of the holy land, countless divine breaths and treasures will inevitably be released, and there might even be some fragments of the gods' memories... This is the last chance, we can't miss it!"

This thought, filled with intense greed, even though they were all at the level of Mingxin Realm or above, instantly clouded their minds and controlled their thoughts, completely forgetting that this was no ordinary collapse of a dangerous place.

Instead, the gods awakened and reclaimed the dream.

Even the Great Nuo was trapped in the gods' dream, his fate unknown.

These people dare to rush into the dream realm of the gods? They're truly like moths to a flame, utterly unaware of their own mortality.

"Swish swish swish——"

In the sky, the people of Tai Mo Academy either launched magical treasures, released spirit birds, or rode on black smoke and blood mist, rushing towards Hai Ling Island from all directions, each one looking like a madman.

The pokeweed and black fox in the sea also felt a similar greed at the first moment, wanting to return to Sea Spirit Island to seize the last bit of opportunity in the Divine Dream Perilous Land.

However, just as this thought arose, the mental image in the Five Internal Organs Temple, which had been shrouded in mist again, suddenly shot out a pure yang true fire, which went straight into Shang Lu's sea of ​​consciousness.

At the same time, Shang Lu's "Heart Sutra of Supreme Goodness Like Water," which he had been urging, triggered the image of the Kidney God, releasing rolling black waves that also rushed into the sea of ​​consciousness.

First, the fire of the heart burns the sea of ​​consciousness, followed by a huge wave of kidney water washing it away.

After experiencing both fire and water, Shang Lu felt a sudden clarity in his mind, as if some filth had been washed away, and his greed to return to Hailing Island vanished.

He neutralized the deadly temptation, but the black fox wasn't so lucky. Although there was some trace of the mountain spirit within it, its cultivation level was low, and it was instantly affected, even having to abandon Shang Lu and swim back to Hailing Island alone.

Shang Lu grabbed the black fox by the scruff of its neck. The beast struggled and twisted in protest. Seeing this, Shang Lu simply took a purification talisman and slapped it on the black fox's head.

The black fox immediately fell silent, but Shang Lu was still worried and called out, "Third Sister, tie it up, don't let it go back to its death."

Third Sister responded with a "good," raised her hand and took the hair demon from her head. Countless black hairs immediately grew out and tightly wrapped around the black fox, leaving only its nostrils exposed. Even its eyes, ears and mouth were blocked.

At this moment, Shang Lu fully activated the water manipulation technique of the "Heart Sutra of Supreme Goodness is Like Water" and fled the place as quickly as possible.

His intuition was frantically warning him.

If we don't leave quickly and go far away, we won't be able to escape!
Unlike him, Yin Shu and the others from the Tai Mo Academy returned to Hai Ling Island from all directions at this moment.

They had just landed on the island and were heading towards the corrupt and chaotic government office when suddenly, a black light shone out from within the office.

But it seemed like a gaze.

Yin Shuchong was the first to be caught by this gaze. Even with his mastery of the Inner Palace, he instantly lost his mind and went insane after being swept by the black light. His body then melted away like a candle exposed to high temperatures.

In an instant, his physical body disintegrated, leaving only a skeleton.

Yin Shu lowered his head, glanced at his skeletal body, opened his mouth as if to speak, but all the bones in his body were out of his control and crumbled apart.

His soul, too, disintegrated and vanished along with his bones.

If Yin Shu met such an end, then the group from Tai Mo Academy who were lured by greed and returned to Hai Ling Island would naturally not escape the same fate.

In the blink of an eye, they were all reduced to withered bones, their souls scattered and their spirits dispersed.

Shang Lu, who was using water magic in the sea, had been observing the strange situation on Hailing Island with his spiritual eyes open. While relieved that he had suppressed his greed and hadn't been tricked back, he also used all his strength to expedite his escape to a more distant place. Unfortunately, at this moment, the Wuzhiqi Nuo mask formed by the water flow had already disintegrated, and he could no longer borrow the water god's divine power.

Fortunately, the water escape technique in the Heart Sutra is also quite fast.

However, at that very moment, Shang Lu suddenly shuddered, every hair on his body stood on end, and a strong sense of crisis instantly swept over him.

Those dark, piercing gazes ignored the distance and pierced directly onto him.

That gaze contained immense chaos and madness. The moment Shang Lu was targeted, he was corrupted, and his aura immediately became disordered.

He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of those people from Tai Mo Academy, whose bodies decayed and souls perished. He activated his internal organs with all his might, trying to fight against them.

Inside the Five Internal Organs Temple, the Yin-Yang Qi Bell rang out, and the five statues of gods simultaneously burst forth with five-colored light.

The five elements divine power that the gods such as Dongjun and Shan Gui had previously sent into his body had now completely merged into the five internal organs statues, protecting Shang Lu together.

His dark, piercing gaze clearly noticed Shang Lu's unusual behavior; the chaos and madness within him lessened slightly, replaced by a touch more rationality.

At that very moment, the Earth God Seal on the back of Shang Lu's hand suddenly appeared, projecting a spiral-shaped black smoke in mid-air, which also resembled an eye, staring back at the black light from afar.

It was unclear whether this black, gleaming gaze was acquainted with Tu Bo, but after Tu Bo's seal transformed into eyes resembling the winding Yellow Springs Road, the chaos and madness it contained diminished somewhat. Although it continued to stare at Shang Lu, it merely looked him up and down without further corrupting him, seemingly only wanting to remember him.

At the same time, that black, piercing gaze also spotted Third Sister.

With his keen insight, Shang Lu vaguely sensed that the moment that gaze fell upon Third Sister, it revealed a hint of surprise and...excitement.
Before Shang Lu could further investigate the emotions behind the black, gleaming gaze, the strange gaze swiftly returned to Hailing Island.

Along with it came the gushing flesh and pus. The tremors on the island ceased, and everything seemed to return to normal, leaving Shang Lu unsure whether the deity had awakened or fallen back into slumber.

Regardless, it's certain that we can't go back to Hailing Island. Who knows what kind of strange changes and dangers will arise there after this incident? Not to mention that other people from Taimo Academy might arrive at Hailing Island at any time.

Just as Shui Dun left, Shang Lu keenly discovered through the Heart Sutra that his sea of ​​consciousness was shrouded in a layer of obscure and sticky energy.

"Did that deity leave a mark on me?"

Shang Lu was horrified.

Although Tu Bo and Wu Zhi Qi also left marks on him, they were on his hands. But this deity left a divine breath directly in his sea of ​​consciousness.

What is this supposed to be? To bewitch him day and night? And then, given the chance, destroy his remains and seize his body?

The deity's intentions were unclear, its good or evil unknown. Suddenly, a divine breath was planted in Shang Lu's sea of ​​consciousness, so he would definitely think the worst.

"So vicious!"

Shang Lu cursed inwardly and hurriedly urged his inner fire to temper the divine energy in his sea of ​​consciousness.

However, this divine energy is different from ordinary distracting thoughts and delusions. Even with the burning of inner fire, it cannot be refined in a short time.

Although Shang Lu was horrified, he didn't panic. After all, this was divine energy; it would be strange if it were easy to refine. As long as it didn't cause any trouble, he had time and opportunities to refine it little by little. If all else failed, there was still the strange blood mist in the Five Internal Organs Temple; he could use the blood mist to disrupt the divine energy before refining it!

But Shang Lu did not give up refining it. When the Heart Fire failed, he activated the Heart Sutra of Supreme Goodness, drawing kidney water to cleanse the divine breath, and then used the Heart Fire to purify it again, hoping to use this method of sudden heat and cold to see if he could break this indestructible divine breath.

"boom--"

Suddenly, from the now quiet Sea Spirit Island, another chaotic force erupted like a volcanic eruption.

Immediately afterwards, a dark shadow swept in and appeared in the sky above Shang Lu, then fell like a torrential rain.

It was not some severed limbs, nor rotting flesh and pus, but dozens of various magical artifacts, as well as many more talismans, elixirs, and spiritual substances.

It was those people from Tai Mo Academy!

Shang Lu even saw a Nuo mask and a Nuo robe among them.

It was the treasure that Jiang Guo Da Nuo had been wearing all along.

"Did Da Nuo and the others from the Divine Dreamland also die?"

Shang Lu was startled: "It seems that this deity has truly awakened!"

Then he was overjoyed.

Although he didn't know why the deity would throw these treasures at him, he couldn't refuse such a benefit offered to him.

He immediately made a hand seal, activated his water manipulation technique, and stirred up waves to collect all the magical artifacts, talismans, elixirs, and other treasures into the Impermanence Token.

Once we're far from Hailing Island and things are relatively stable, we'll come back and inspect them one by one.

(Happy National Day everyone!)

(End of this chapter)