Chapter 431: Who to sacrifice to?

“The intelligence is correct, it’s just that the demons are different.”

Shang Lu wrapped the whip around his waist, sheathed his knife, and used the Eight Steps to Chase the Cicada technique to come to Lu Yang’s side. He just happened to hear his complaints, so he said:
“The ghosts that He Zei sells in the ghost market have no memories, just like newborn babies.

It should have been collected into the soul flag or the ghost-sealing jar as soon as the rice grains matured in the field, so no one knows the situation in the valley or the rice thieves. This is the only way to ensure that the person who bought it cannot be traced back here through the rampant ghosts.

As for the rampant ghosts controlled by the He thieves, they have already been infected by their aura. No matter how high the price is, they dare not sell it recklessly, otherwise they will be locked by someone’s spell. “

While conducting the analysis, Shang Lu waved his hand and asked the paper figures to guard the surroundings to prevent other enemies from hiding in the evil miasma fog.

At the same time, he helped Lu Yang and the county soldiers to check their injuries.

Lu Yang’s condition was relatively good. Although he was exhausted due to excessive consumption of his magic power and sword energy due to the hard work, he would be able to recover after taking some spiritual marrow pills and regulating his breathing.

Although there were some external injuries on his body caused by being scratched and bitten by rampant ghosts and puppet corpses, they were not serious. The poison from the corpses and ghosts was also locked near the wounds by his sword energy and did not spread.

The wound looked festering and festering, which was a bit scary, but as long as the toxins were purified or forced out, it would not be a big deal and would not affect Lu Yang’s combat effectiveness.

However, the ten county soldiers who were entangled by the soft swords, although none of them were injured, were all confused and had ferocious expressions.

Obviously, he was deeply affected by the evil spirit of this place.

The most important thing is that Shang Lu saw small fleshy buds appearing on their bodies.

These buds are still madly absorbing the evil energy from the surrounding areas in order to grow.

Once the buds grow, the soldiers either transform into monsters or become the hosts of the buds, giving birth to some weird things.

“We need to send these county soldiers away from here quickly and find someone to help them neutralize the evil poison.” Shang Lu said with a frown.

He followed the path of a military shaman and a Nuo shaman, and was not good at helping people get rid of evil spirits and poisons. Nuo shamans might have corresponding Nuo methods and Nuo masks, but he had not yet learned them.

All Shang Lu could do at this moment was to take out the talisman paper and quickly tear out a carriage.

He planned to use paper horses and paper carts to send these ten county soldiers out of the valley and back to the camp.

Let those who stay in the camp find ways to provide treatment.

In addition to this, they performed Nuo dance and sang Nuo music, and with the power of Nuo magic, they suppressed the evil poison in the ten county soldiers and the crazy growth of strange flesh buds, and allowed the county soldiers’ confused minds to recover a little, in order to slow down the speed of their transformation.

While Shang Lu was singing and dancing, Bai Lingxu also rushed over on a flying sedan made up of a group of blood-beaked crows.

The evil miasma here was dissipating rapidly after Shang Lu broke through the center of the formation.

Although the evil miasma is gone, the fog is still there and still thick.

Fortunately, above Lu Yang’s head, there was a shining light eye transformed from the mark of clairvoyance and superb hearing, which allowed Bai Lingxu to feel his way over without going in the wrong direction.

“I was wondering who it was, it turned out to be you two.”

Bai Lingxu was stunned when he saw Shang Lu and Lu Yang, and then he exclaimed in amazement: “Junior Brother Shang, the lightning and thunder, and the raging fire just now, were all your tricks? Oh, by the way, I also felt a strong pressure that instantly suppressed many rampant ghost puppets. Was that also your trick?”

Shang Lu nodded: “I used the Nuo mask to borrow the divine power.”

“Amazing!”

Bai Lingxu gave a thumbs up and sighed sincerely: “Everyone says you have great luck, and now I believe it.”

You have to believe it. How long has it been since Shang Lu entered the Witch Academy and the Inner Mountain? He has already acquired such skills and abilities!
On the other hand, Bai Lingxu, who has been in the Witch Academy for many years, is just like this.

Perhaps in a while, he will be surpassed by Shang Lu.

“Should I also put more energy into my practice?”

Bai Lingxu couldn’t help but think about it, but quickly rejected the idea.

“No matter how much energy I put into my training, it will be useless if I can’t get the breakthrough materials! So, if I have that time, I might as well spend more time with the witch beasts and do more business. Once I make enough money and gather the breakthrough materials, it won’t be too late to work harder.”

Although he was thinking about it, Bai Lingxu jumped off the flying sedan chair made of blood-beaked crows to check on the situation of Lu Yang and the county soldiers.

Seeing Shang Lu tearing out paper horses and paper carriages, intending to send the county soldiers away, Bai Lingxu hurriedly shouted, “Wait a minute.”

After he put away the Blood-beaked Crow, he quickly took out a new painting from his sleeve.

When it was unfolded, it was painted with several magical beasts similar to tapirs.

Bai Lingxu pinched his fingers and chanted a spell to activate the scroll, inviting the witch beast inside out.

These tapir-like witch beasts, with white bodies and black heads, just landed on the ground and excitedly surrounded the county soldiers like cats smelling blood. They used their strange noses to sniff at the county soldiers.

Shang Lu and Lu Yang clearly saw that wisps of resentful and evil aura wafting out from the county soldiers and were sucked away by the strange noses of these tapir-like witch beasts.

Another witch beast came to Lu Yang’s side and put its warm nose to the wound.

He originally wanted to absorb the poison, but was stimulated by the sword energy left by Lu Yang near the wound.

Although I was not injured, I was shocked.

It really jumped several meters away, and then barked at Lu Yang in dissatisfaction, and sprayed a lot of foamy saliva on Lu Yang.

While hiding, Lu Yang shouted, “Brother Bai, please take care of your witch beast. It has drooled all over me… Ugh, it smells so fishy.”

“Who can you blame for this? My witch beast was kind enough to help you absorb the poison, but you tried to scare it with your sword energy. It spitting at you is the least it can do.”

Although Bai Lingxu said this, he still walked over, grabbed the witch beast, patted its head and comforted it for a while, then said to Lu Yang: “Collect all the sword energy from your wound.”

Lu Yang hurriedly did as he was told.

Bai Lingxu then let the witch beast move closer, and used its nose to suck away the poison from Lu Yang’s wounds, and spit out streams of sticky saliva and applied them to the wounds.

Although this scene made Lu Yang feel disgusted, the effect was unexpectedly good.

The rotten and festering wounds on his body quickly subsided and healed under the effect of the witch beast’s saliva.

After a while, this group of strange witch beasts had almost consumed the poison that had infected Lu Yang and the county soldiers, and only then did they return to the scroll with satisfaction.

Bai Lingxu put away the scroll and called to Shang Lu: “You can send the person out now.”

Although the poison in the county soldiers’ bodies had been dispelled, their minds were still in confusion, so they had to be sent away for treatment quickly.

Shang Lu responded with a “yes”, and ordered the paper man to move the county soldiers onto the paper carriage, and let the paper carriage carry them out of the valley. At the same time, he also arranged a team of paper men to escort them along the way to prevent any accidents in the evil miasma fog.

After sending the county soldiers away, Shang Lu mobilized the soldiers and witches to use their magic to help Lu Yang recuperate.

Bai Lingxu was looking around.

He had arrived in a hurry just now and did not take a close look at the surroundings.

Although this place was covered in fog and Bai Lingxu could only see the situation nearby, he still found something strange through the aura here and asked in surprise: “Is this place a ghost town?”

Shang Lu nodded: “Brother Bai, you are right, this is really a ghost area.”

Bai Lingxu was even more surprised: “But isn’t the ghost area near the rice field? How come it appears outside the valley? Is there a rice field hidden here that has not been discovered by the outposts? Or did you, Lu Yang, take the wrong route and rush to the center of the valley?”

“I didn’t run around. I was forced to come here.”

Lu Yang protested his innocence and told the two people what had happened.

“I led the county soldiers, searching and attacking along the marching map. Everything was going smoothly at first, but as we walked, I found that the county soldiers could not withstand the influence of the evil miasma and their minds began to become confused, so I thought about taking them back. Just as we were about to leave, a large number of rampant ghosts and puppet corpses suddenly rushed out from the side, and the county soldiers also went crazy. I had no choice but to tie up the county soldiers with my soft sword and fight while retreating. As a result, we were forced here by the rampant ghosts, puppet corpses, and rice thieves. We were surrounded and could only hold on and wait for help.”

Perhaps because he felt that it was a bit embarrassing to say this, Lu Yang changed the subject and said, “In fact, even if you didn’t come, I could still fight my way out. If it weren’t for those thieves setting up formations and casting spells, the rampant ghosts and puppet corpses alone would not be able to stop me!”

“Blow, keep blowing.”

Bai Lingxu bluntly exposed his boasting: “From the way you looked just now, do you think you can break through the siege? Do you really think we are blind and can’t see it?”

At this moment, apart from his flying sword, Lu Yang’s toughest part was his mouth. He snorted and said, “Don’t disbelieve me, I just didn’t find the hiding place of the He thieves, otherwise I would have killed them with my flying sword! I just learned a new sword formation, but I haven’t had time to use it yet…”

“Okay, stop bragging and save your energy to recover your magic power.”

Shang Lu didn’t want to listen to Lu Yang’s bragging, so he interrupted him and held out his hand: “Where’s the marching map I sent you? Bring it to me and have a look.”

Lu Yang was stunned when he heard this: “Why do you want to see the marching map?”

Shang Lu didn’t tell the reason, but just urged: “I told you to take it, just take it, don’t talk nonsense.”

Lu Yang muttered to himself, but still took out the military map from his arms and handed it to Shang Lu.

There are several cracks on this marching map, which were obviously scratched by the rampant ghosts and puppet corpses before. Fortunately, the impact is not great.

Shang Lu opened Lu Yang’s marching map, took a look at it, then took out his own marching map for comparison.

Not to mention Lu Yang, Bai Lingxu didn’t understand what he was doing either. He walked over curiously, looked over, and said in surprise: “Hey, your two marching routes actually have a meeting point.”

Bai Lingxu took out his marching map from his arms, compared it with Shang Lu and Lu Yang’s, and found that his marching route did not overlap with that of the other two at all.

Shang Lu pointed out the overlapping intersection on the marching map to Lu Yang.

“Brother Lu, can you recall whether we were attacked at this location and were driven all the way here?”

Lu Yang only took a glance and nodded immediately: “Yes, he was attacked here.”

“Are you sure?” Shang Lu asked.

“I’m sure! I was looking at the marching map when we were attacked, so I remember it very clearly. There’s no way I’m wrong.”

Lu Yang had some idea of ​​what Shang Lu meant, but he just found it hard to believe.

“The marching map was drawn up by the county government and the Witch Academy. Could it be that someone has been bribed by the He bandits and is working with them to kill us?

But this is not right. The two of us are just students of the Witch Academy. If the He thieves really bribed the spies and knew about this operation, why didn’t they run away but stay here?
Even if they are confident of repelling the three-county coalition, they should have made plans to deal with the masters like Jian Cheng and Zhongli Da Wu. Why would they waste their energy on two small characters like us? Just because we have captured their people, they want to retaliate? “

Shang Lu glanced at the Clairvoyance and Superb Ears marks on his body and said nothing. He just asked, “Do you remember what the bandits said when they saw Senior Brother Bai?”

Lu Yang was stunned and thought for a moment, but he only remembered the shouting and cursing of the thieves.

After all, at that time, all his thoughts were on how to save his life, so he had no mood to remember what the thief said.

So he asked directly: “What?”

“They said they wanted to kill Senior Brother Bai and offer him as a sacrifice to the gods.”

Shang Lu narrowed his eyes and said, “But according to the information we have, there are no temples or statues in this valley… Which god do you think they are going to sacrifice us to?”

After a pause, he squinted at the Clairvoyance and Wind-ear mark, as if he had made up his mind, and said, “And don’t you think that this kind of killing and sacrificing seems familiar?”

“Deja vu?”

Lu Yang was also stunned, then he thought of something and his face changed slightly: “You mean…”

He was interrupted by the impatient Bai Lingxu just halfway through his words.

Senior Brother Bai didn’t know what the two were speculating about. Seeing that Shang Lu was curious about which god the He thieves wanted to sacrifice to, he said, “Since the He thieves led Lu Yang here and said they wanted to kill him as a sacrifice, then this place should have clues even if there are no statues or altars.”

He looked around. Although the evil miasma had mostly dissipated, the fog was still there, blocking his vision and making it difficult to see the surrounding situation.

So Bai Lingxu raised his hand and took out another scroll from his sleeve.

He pinched his fingers and chanted a spell to summon the witch beast in the painting.

The witch beast summoned by Bai Lingxu this time was huge in size, yellow all over, with green stripes scattered across it.

It looks like a big yellow cow, but it has a circle of goatee around its mouth.

After this witch beast appeared, it immediately kicked the ground with all four legs and opened its mouth to make a “Mume-Mume” sound.

Strong winds blew out from the green stripes on its body, whistling in all directions.

The fog that enveloped the area gradually dissipated and faded under the strong wind blown by the witch beast, revealing the scene that was obscured by it.

Be it Shang Lu, Lu Yang, or even the knowledgeable Bai Lingxu, their expressions changed drastically after seeing the surrounding scenes clearly.

After a moment, the three people gnashed their teeth and squeezed out a murderous word from between their teeth:
“These thieves are so cruel and crazy that they are unworthy of being human! Killing them just now was too easy for them! They should be cut into pieces, with both their bodies and souls being tortured!”

(Fuck, tomorrow is New Year’s Eve? There’s no New Year’s Eve this year?)

(End of this chapter)