Weird Cultivation, I have a five-organ temple

Chapter 711 Consuming Metal Qi, A Strange Dream

Pokeweed did not hide its plans.

He whispered, "If we can drive the mother worm mad and cause her to lose control of the worms, or even go further and spread rumors, causing our king and the powerful clans to distrust each other and fall into infighting... it will be a great help to our operation!"

Bai Lingxu imagined the various situations described by Shang Lu in his mind and couldn't help but gasp.

If it really works, Wushan will probably be thrown into chaos.

Ba Wang's henchmen, as well as the people from the powerful families, will all be held back by all sorts of confusing and false information and warnings.

Whether they are gathering information or rescuing people, they can be more composed and more likely to succeed.

If they could use the mother insect to sow discord and even internal strife among the Ba King and the powerful clans, it would be an incredible stroke of luck for them!
"Junior Brother Shang, you truly live up to your reputation as someone who follows the path of military strategist and sorcerer. Your mind is... well... brilliant."

He wanted to say that their minds were too dirty and their methods too vicious, but in the end he was too embarrassed to say it out loud. He just pondered in his heart: whether it is military strategists or sorcerers, they all seem to like to incite infighting among the enemy? And they even call it "winning hearts and minds is the best policy"?
Shaking his head to clear his mind, Bai Lingxu began to seriously consider the feasibility of this matter.

After a moment, he sighed and said regretfully, "Junior Brother Shang, your idea is good, but this matter will not be easy to accomplish. Not to mention that we don't have anything that can drive the mother insect crazy and make it lose its mind. Even if we did, a small number of worm-like maggots would not be enough to affect the mother insect. And if we increase the number, the beast shaman who raises the mother insect will definitely notice it immediately."

Bai Lingxu paused, pondered for a moment, and then continued, "Unless there is something that can affect the mother worm through a small number of tarsus maggots..."

He shook his head: "Unfortunately, I don't know of anything that can do that."

Shang Lu smiled, thinking to himself, "Isn't this a coincidence?"
During this time, his internal organs were constantly refining the strange blood mist, and it actually turned into quite a few things.

Even after being refined, the eerie blood mist still possesses extremely strong polluting properties, but it will no longer pollute Shang Lu. In fact, it can even discern who can be polluted and who cannot be polluted according to Shang Lu's will—just like a tamed wild dog!

Although the pokeweed possesses very little of the strange blood mist, it is enough to corrupt the mother insect and drive it insane.

Pokeweed didn't reveal anything about the strange blood mist, only saying, "I'll figure something out." Then he asked, "If the mother worm goes mad, will it, in turn, affect the tarsus maggots?"

Seeing Shang Lu's confidence, Bai Lingxu really wanted to ask him what his plan was, but in the end, he held back.

After thinking for a moment, he replied, "Under normal circumstances, the maggots on the tarsus will die suddenly. Of course, they may cause some trouble inside the host, but they won't die; at most, they'll suffer pain or get seriously ill."

"That's good." Shang Lu nodded, relieved.

He didn't want the contamination of the mother worm, which drove her mad and insane, to cause the maggots to run rampant and bore hundreds or thousands of holes into the host's heart, liver, spleen, and lungs.

Wouldn't he then be covered in black smoke, instantly transforming into a powerful evil being?
"Thank you for clearing up my doubts, Senior Brother Bai."

Having clarified his doubts, Shang Lu said no more, saw Bai Lingxu to the door, and told him to go and rest.

Turning back into the house, Shang Lu gave the Five Organs Temple an order: the Five Organs God should simply suppress the maggot clinging to the bone and not rush to refine and absorb it.

We should keep this thing.

On the one hand, it needs to be alive to deceive the mother insect.

On the other hand, at crucial moments, the pokeweed also needs to use it to inject a strange blood mist into the mother insect to contaminate it.

We cannot take action for the time being.

They haven't found anything yet, and rashly stirring up chaos will not only be unhelpful but will also backfire.

"We really have to thank King Ba." Shang Lu sneered, as if talking to himself, or as if chatting with San Niang. "Without the parasites he sent, I really wouldn't have been able to think of any way to make Wushan go into chaos."

Chaos is the source of change, and it is through chaos that one can profit from adversity.

Without chaos, there are no opportunities.

After putting away the sour wine and purifying its aroma, Shang Lu put away the Ice Crystal Blue Lotus, sat cross-legged, and began cultivating the "Heart Sutra of Supreme Goodness Like Water".

After being completed, this Heart Sutra is greatly enhanced in power. It can not only refine the mind and strengthen the spirit, but also greatly benefit the innate kidney essence.

The kidneys are the foundation of one's innate constitution.

When kidney essence is sufficient, cultivating the internal organs can yield twice the results with half the effort.

Therefore, during this period, Shang Lu diligently practiced the Heart Sutra, which is like water that benefits all things.

After practicing the Heart Sutra, Shang Lu began to collect and refine metal energy.

Although the trip to Hailing Island was extremely dangerous, the rewards were also plentiful.

Although the academic officials of Tai Mo Academy had been bewitched and gone astray, their cultivation was not bad, and they all held positions such as academic officials and lecturers in Tai Mo Academy, and often needed to give lectures. Therefore, most of their belongings consisted of cultivation notes and teaching plans.

Although most of the academic officials followed a different path than Shang Lu, and many of them had not even reached the Inner Palace Realm in terms of cultivation.

However, Shang Lu still managed to find the method of gathering and refining the Five Elements Qi in the notes of those few Inner Palace Realm cultivators.

In ancient times, spiritual energy was abundant, and cultivators did not need any other assistance. They could directly absorb and refine the five elements of energy in the world to cultivate. However, in this world today, apart from places like secret realms, the five elements of energy in the world are very weak and scarce, and it is necessary to rely on other things to cultivate.

This item could be a elixir containing the five elements.

It can also be something that belongs to the Five Elements.

For example, at this moment, Shang Lu took out a handful of golden spirit sand from his storage artifact.

This is a mineral sand imbued with the aura of gold. Its entire body is a somber grayish-white color. When you hold it in your hand, you can feel a stinging sensation—not from the sharp edges of the sand, but from the effect of the aura of gold emanating from it.

Normally, if a cultivator wants to absorb the golden energy contained in the Golden Spirit Sand, they either need to use alchemy to extract the golden energy, or they need to hold it in their hands and absorb it using magic.

The former is more effective and efficient, but not everyone knows alchemy. The latter is the most convenient, but much slower.

The method by which Pokeweed extracts the golden energy from the Golden Spirit Sand is different from both of these.

He simply opened his mouth and swallowed the Golden Spirit Sand.

You should know that Golden Spirit Sand, as a spiritual ore containing golden energy, is not only hard but also extremely sharp. Even if an ordinary cultivator manages to protect their intestines from being cut or ruptured by it after swallowing it, they still cannot digest it.

The final result is like enoki mushrooms: "See you tomorrow."

And that's considered good. If you're unlucky, this thing might scratch your delicate anus when it's pulled out.

It is said that there was once a cultivator who suffered severe damage to his anus after swallowing Golden Spirit Sand. He even composed a song about it, which was called "Chrysanthemum withered, buttocks injured".

But Shang Lu wasn't afraid; he was hard-boiled... oops, I mean, he had a full stomach.

Not to mention Golden Spirit Sand, he has consumed and refined even stranger and more bizarre things.

However, this Golden Spirit Sand doesn't taste very good.

First of all, it is grit that fills the mouth and requires water to swallow. At the same time, it constantly releases sharp metallic energy, so pokeweed needs to protect the throat and esophagus with its essence in advance, otherwise it will hurt the internal organs before it even reaches them.

Once the Golden Spirit Sand is swallowed and enters the stomach, Pokeweed no longer needs to worry about it.

This thing was placed directly on the altar of the Five Organs Gods. First, the Liver God statue separated the clear from the turbid, removing the impurities from the Golden Spirit Sand and leaving only the pure Golden Qi. Then, the Spleen God statue transformed it, and finally, the Lung God statue absorbed it all.

The pokeweed even skipped the step of gathering food; it only needed to directly stimulate the energy and assist the lung deity in refining the golden energy.

As for the Golden Spirit Sand that has lost its metallic energy, it has become a puddle of sludge under the powerful transformation effect of the Spleen God image. It is sent to the intestines and will be excreted from the body along with other metabolic products of the day.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The pokeweed, which was extracting and refining the gold energy, did not feel tired at all; on the contrary, its spirits were getting better and better.

He didn't know what time it was, but Shang Lu suddenly heard a series of clanging sounds coming from outside.

Immediately afterwards, a strange, androgynous voice rang out, which was the night watchman's gong, but the content of his call was rather odd: "It's time to sleep."

Shang Lu was secretly amazed: "Shouldn't the warnings be something like 'dry weather, be careful with fire'? How come the night watchman in Wushan also has the job of 'dormitory manager' and even cares about when people go to sleep?"

Just as I was thinking this, I couldn't help but yawn, and a strong feeling of drowsiness suddenly welled up inside me.

"Something's wrong!"

Shang Lu suddenly became alert. He was in high spirits and in excellent condition when he was refining the metal energy, so how could he be sleepy?

And it was a sudden onset of drowsiness!

"There's something strange about the night watchman outside!"

The pokeweed immediately drew its conclusion.

However, what surprised him even more was the current situation.

Just as he realized something was wrong, Shang Lu suddenly discovered that the surrounding scenery had also become unreal, exuding a sense of chaos that was difficult to discern.

"Was this a dream? I was already asleep? Just for that brief moment?"

Shang Lu was horrified.

Now that he has clarified his mind and will, he has begun to temper his inner energy. To be instantly hypnotized—what kind of powerful technique is this?!
If someone takes the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, even if he is not seriously injured, he will definitely be put in a passive and unfavorable situation!
Startled, Shang Lu immediately tried to force himself to wake up.

However, at that very moment, he discovered that in a dimly lit corner of the dream, a strange, dark red eye was staring straight at him.

It's not just about peeping into his dreams, but also about peeping into his inner memories!

(End of this chapter)