Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 692 The Decree of Impermanence Arrives!
Upon receiving the order, the Chu shamans immediately began to take the steps of Yu, forming a formation around the crevice in the earth using the Eight Trigrams of Qimen Dunjia. They then raised command flags covered with strange shamanic scripts and chanted obscure incantations in a strange language.

These command flags and incantations were taught to the Chu shamans by the chief priest accompanying the army before departure. The Chu shamans were unaware of their effects and simply followed the instructions.

As the incantation was chanted, the malevolent energy emanating from beneath the cracks in the ground became much more potent.

However, at the same time, the witch energy of these Chu witches was affected, began to become disordered, and showed signs of becoming uncontrollable.

The Chu shamans were horrified, and some even hesitated for a moment before pausing their chanting.

This situation was immediately noticed by the chief priest of the army who was standing next to the crevice in the ground. He turned his head sharply and looked at the people who had stopped chanting.

Although the chief priest's entire face was tightly wrapped in gauze bandages covered with strange incantations, even his eyes were hidden under the bandages, the Chu shamans who had stopped chanting still felt a cold, resentful gaze fixed on them.

They were instantly terrified; their protective spells were even activated, emitting a dark and eerie light.

The Chu shamans were terrified, their faces turning pale. A thought flashed through their minds: if they didn't continue chanting, they would be sacrificed to an unknown deity by the chief priest.

Sweating profusely, they quickly joined their companions in chanting the incantation again. No matter how strange and uncontrollable the witch energy within them was, they dared not hesitate or pause for even a moment.

The chief priest of the army gave a soft hum, turned around, and it was unclear whether he was satisfied or disappointed that these people were chanting the incantation again.

He glanced down into the crevice but did not use any earth-遁 (earth-遁术, a type of magic or technique).

The chief priest of the army knew very well that if the evil acupoint was indeed hidden beneath the crack in the ground and had indeed given birth to a "gate" leading to the "divine realm," then any escape technique would be disrupted.

If one continues to flee, the most likely outcome is that the escape technique will fail midway, leaving one trapped in the mud and rocks, unable to break free and imprisoned forever.

"The fact that malevolent energy can erupt from this crack in the ground indicates that it leads to a malevolent acupoint or a ley line. Judging by the size of this crack, it's not small..."

The chief priest quickly came to a conclusion, forming a hand seal and rapidly chanting a few incantations.

The surrounding Chu shamans immediately saw that the body of the chief priest accompanying the army softened into a snake-like form, swayed left and right a few times at the crevice in the ground, and then disappeared into it.

This scene was indeed somewhat bizarre, but the Chu shamans did not find it strange at all, simply assuming that the chief priest of the army had used a transformation spell to turn his body into snakes and insects so that it would be easier for him to burrow.

They did not see that beneath the black robes of the chief priest accompanying the army was a body that had melted like a candle.

At this moment, the chief priest accompanying the army turned into a pile of minced meat, only not falling apart because it was covered by skin.

However, this fleshy, paste-like body is quite suitable for drilling holes.

The chief priest accompanying the army was truly like a snake, able to wriggle into even the smallest gaps at lightning speed.

Before long, the chief priest accompanying the army burrowed deep underground.

Although it was pitch black, he breathed out a spell, burning with witchcraft energy, which illuminated the surroundings.

Based on this, the chief priest of the army saw the earth veins here—because of the long-term circulation of earth energy, the mud and rocks in the area where the earth veins were located had already manifested layers of scale-like patterns. At first glance, it looked like an earth dragon was lurking underground.

Under the influence of the evil energy, the scale-like patterns on the earth's veins were all stained with a layer of crimson.

This made the "earth dragon" look as if it had been bathed in blood.

"Strange, why haven't I seen the evil acupoint?"

The chief priest's gaze swept across the earth's veins through the gauze bandages.

He couldn't find the evil acupoint, but he did notice something was wrong—the evil energy here seemed to be imprisoned by some force.

However, the power that imprisons evil energy is not the evil acupoint.

The chief priest accompanying the army was highly skilled and had excellent eyesight. After noticing something amiss, he immediately discerned the problem.

"How could there be such a malevolent feng shui formation in this place?!"

Such an unfavorable feng shui arrangement could not possibly appear naturally around the earth's veins.

Even if this vein of earth has already been polluted by evil energy!

Therefore, the deadly formation here could only have been arranged by humans!

"Oh no, this is a trap!"

The chief priest of the army reacted very quickly, without the slightest hesitation, and immediately wanted to leave the place.

However, at that very moment, the malevolent energy within the Killing Formation, like a hungry wolf seeing its prey, burst forth with lightning speed, transforming into streaks of malevolent arrows that thunderously shot towards the chief priest accompanying the army.

Even the ley line, which resembled a blood-soaked venomous dragon, seemed to come alive and lunged at the chief priest accompanying the army.

"Rumble..."

The valley shook violently once again.

A series of violent, malevolent energies roared out from the crack in the ground, sweeping outwards.

The Chu shamans who were chanting incantations around the area immediately became the targets of these malevolent energies.

Fortunately, they reacted quickly, activating their talismans and magical artifacts to unleash spells and block the evil energy.

What happened underground?

"The earth is turning upside down, and malevolent energy is surging wildly... Could it be that the high priest has destroyed the earth's veins?"

"Is this why the high priest sent us to infiltrate Deng Kingdom to find the evil burial site? If we can slay the 'earth dragon,' why do we need to find the evil burial site?"

Although these Chu witches were well-informed, they were still taken aback and bewildered at this moment.

Although there were geomancers and geomancers in the team, they were also completely confused. They could neither understand the actions of the chief priest accompanying the army nor comprehend what was happening underground at this moment.

Just as the geomancers and feng shui masters were preparing to perform rituals and investigate the underground situation, a crimson figure emerged from the crack in the ground.

He was the chief officiant in the military ceremony.

However, he looked extremely disheveled. His black robe and gauze bandages were completely destroyed by the attack of the evil aura, and the chief priest accompanying the army was also injured.

If it were just an ordinary killing formation, even if the chief priest of the army were ambushed, he wouldn't be in such a sorry state. But that cunning old fox Shang Lu had hidden a wisp of eerie blood mist within the killing formation.

This thing is extremely polluting; when hidden in a killing formation, it even pollutes the killing energy itself.

The chief priest accompanying the army had not expected such a powerful and bizarre thing. Although he blocked the sneak attack of the evil arrow, he was injured by the strange blood mist. In particular, his body had already undergone strange changes because he had stopped consuming "divine flesh," and his cultivation had suffered a qi deviation. He was only barely able to hold on thanks to the human pill.

The eerie blood mist not only injured him, but also deepened his corruption and transformation.

At this moment, the chief priest accompanying the army not only had his witchcraft energy become chaotic and out of control, overflowing from his pores like indescribable shadows, but his physical body had also become largely rotten, unable to reconstitute into human form.

Reddish-brown pus and blood, along with rotting flesh, kept dripping from his body.

Even though the Chu shamans were well-informed and had seen all sorts of strange and bizarre scenes, they were still shocked by the chief priest's appearance, which resembled a rotting maggot.

They weren't unaware that something strange had happened to the chief priest accompanying the army, but they dared not think about it too deeply.

According to the military regulations of the Chu Kingdom, if the commander-in-chief makes a mistake, all of them who accompany him will be executed and buried alive with him.

Therefore, in their shock, the Chu shamans had no time to think carefully, and they didn't even care about being panicked or afraid. They rushed towards the chief priest accompanying the army, shouting and yelling, more excited than if their own parents had died.

"High Priest! What's wrong, High Priest!"

"Hiss... Why are you so badly injured? What happened underground?"

"The medicine is no longer effective! Someone come quickly to perform a healing spell on the high priest! Hurry!"

Several Chu shamans who were also skilled in witchcraft and medicine immediately surrounded the chief priest of the army, performing hand seals and incantations to heal his wounds.

But at that very moment, the wisps of witch energy released from the chief priest of the army, like venomous snakes spotting their prey, transformed into streaks of black lightning and burrowed into the mouths and noses of several Chu witches.

These Chu shamans immediately felt their shamanic energy, vitality, and so on being stolen away by these indescribable streams of shamanic energy.

Several Chu shamans even felt in horror that their flesh and organs were being melted and absorbed by these strange shamanic energies.

This series of events brought them intense pain, making them feel as if their bodies were being violently torn apart and crushed. The pain was so intense that they didn't even have the strength to scream, and could only beg for mercy from the accompanying high priest with horrified eyes.

However, the chief priest accompanying the army was meant to use their flesh and blood and cultivation to suppress his own strange changes, so how could he let them go?

In the blink of an eye, these Chu shamans, who had intended to use magic to heal the chief priest of the army, melted away like candles, using their lives to heal the chief priest.

Upon seeing this, the other Chu shamans around were first terrified, and then immediately turned to run away without hesitation—it seemed that they all knew what the chief priest of the army was about to do.

Unfortunately, they couldn't escape.

Countless streams of black sorcery energy surged forth from the body of the chief priest accompanying the army, like deadly tentacles, piercing into the bodies of the Chu sorcerers.

These Chu shamans had considered resisting, but a strange whisper came from the chief priest of the army—the gauze bandages on the chief priest's face broke off at this moment, revealing a hidden, eerie face: rotten flesh flew off his face, revealing mouths of varying sizes.

No wonder the chief priest accompanying the army always had to be wrapped in gauze and bandages; his face was covered with all sorts of mouths, not only uttering whispers that could confuse people's minds, but also spewing scarlet poisonous mist.

These Chu shamans were first confused by strange whispers, and then attacked by poisonous fog. They were completely unable to resist and could only let the chief priest of the army devour them as food.

Soon, all the Chu shamans here were devoured by the chief priest accompanying the army, leaving only their human skins. The expression on each skin was one of terror mixed with deep pain.

After consuming the offerings of his comrades, the deterioration was only temporarily slowed; the bizarre changes were not stopped at all, and he was still unable to transform back into human form from his current state of "meat paste".

"what--"

Not only on his face, but also on other parts of the chief priest's body, cracks appeared, transforming into grotesque mouths that simultaneously emitted painful roars and howls filled with resentment:
"Who is it? Who is opposing us?"

"Breaking the evil acupoint, destroying the 'divine gate,' and even setting a trap—they are truly cunning to the extreme, and utterly despicable!"

"If I ever find this man, I will devour him alive! Devour him!"

After the roar, the chief priest of the army struggled to suppress the surging power within him, and at the same time regained some of his rationality, he quickly began to think.

"The fact that they were able to discover this ominous spot and destroy the ambush must have been the work of cultivators from the Deng Kingdom!"

"They have some nerve, daring to ruin our important plans. They're completely making us their enemy!"

"I must return as soon as possible to inform the King of this intelligence and ask him to send more troops and generals to completely destroy the Kingdom of Deng and exterminate all its people as a sacrifice!"

The chief priest, with his entire body covered in mouths of all sizes, was now in a state of heightened excitement, shouting in unison:

“Exterminate them all, exterminate them all.”

"By sacrificing the people of a nation, the 'Kingdom of God' will surely return!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill everyone! Kill all living beings!"

Amidst the shouts and commotion, the chief priest of the army wriggled his rotting, fleshy body like a maggot, crawling out of the valley and rapidly heading towards the Chu army camp.

Several counties away from here, Shang Lu, who was traveling on his gourd, immediately sensed that someone had triggered a trap and was injured by the killing formation and the strange blood mist.

Although he didn't know who had triggered the trap or the extent of their injuries, he was confident that whoever it was, they would definitely not come out unscathed!

The pollution and damage caused by the eerie blood mist are no joke!
If that person, like the King of Chu, had eaten the "divine flesh" from the rotten and dangerous land, he would likely be directly affected by the eerie blood mist, which would trigger the various toxins and contaminants within the "divine flesh." The higher his cultivation level, the more he would suffer.

"Hehe, willing take the bait, and there really is one. Hopefully, this person is a high-ranking official of Chu, and ideally, he can meet the King of Chu so that the blood mist on his body can be passed on to the King, causing him to completely turn evil as soon as possible, and also letting the people of Chu see the true face of their monarch!"

Shang Lu sneered repeatedly.

He believed that once the King of Chu revealed his true, treacherous nature and exposed his weakness, there would surely be people in and out of the Chu court and the country who would rise up in rebellion.

After exchanging a few words with Third Sister, Shang Lu withdrew his thoughts and focused all his energy on piloting the witch gourd.

In the past few days, he discovered that most of the cultivators in Deng Kingdom had been transferred to the front lines, and those who remained in various counties and prefectures were not as powerful as him.

He only needed to use the Ice Crystal Blue Lotus to create an illusion so that no one would notice that he was flying on his magical artifact, which greatly increased his travel speed.

In the blink of an eye, another hour had passed.

Suddenly, Shang Lu felt something vibrating in his arms.

It is an impermanent command.

Someone sent him a message through the Impermanence Command.

(End of this chapter)