Chapter 438 Strange changes
Although Sanniang was wearing a red veil and her face could not be seen, Shang Lu still clearly felt that he was being given the cold shoulder.

Shang Lu chuckled and was about to tease his wife a few more times when he saw the red figure leaning down and giving him a quick peck on the face.

Hey, so sweet?

Shang Lu was stunned. In the past, every time he said “Mission accomplished, give me a kiss”, he was either given a cold stare or pushed away. If he tried to force it, Sanniang would just disappear, leaving him empty-handed.

I didn’t expect that today, they actually kissed, and it was Sanniang who took the initiative.

Although they were still separated by a veil and the kiss was on the face instead of the mouth, Shang Lu was still very happy. He immediately got up from the ground, hugged Sanniang and kissed her enough to celebrate his survival.

But as soon as he moved, he found that his whole body was extremely stiff, and his joints seemed to be rusted and frozen, and frost would fall off at the slightest movement.

At the same time, the cold air released by the Soul-Stirring Bell was able to exert its full power because of the disappearance of the madness.

The cold knives and icy needles wreaked havoc in the bodies of Shang Lu and his men like a violent storm, making them experience what it felt like to be cut into pieces.

“hiss–“

Shang Lu grimaced in pain and without even bothering to hug his wife, he rushed to the five-colored rope that he had thrown on the ground, picked it up, and tied it to the Soul-Shocking Bell.

As the bloody light from the Soul-Stirring Bell was suppressed by the five-colored rope, the strange chanting sound coming from the bell stopped. Without the chanting sound, the cold air that was raging in Shang Lu and the others’ bodies also disappeared.

The pain in their bodies, which felt like they were being cut by a thousand knives, finally stopped.

“Huh, I thought I was going to be skinned to death…”

Lu Yang closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.

Although he knew that the terrifying god in the sky should have left after the mad god’s nonsense disappeared, he was busy using his internal energy to fight against the cold air released by the Soul-Shocking Bell and had no time to open his eyes.

Only when the pain disappeared did he open his eyes and glance furtively toward the sky.

It was pitch black in the night, with nothing in sight.

This scene made Lu Yang completely relieved, but at the same time he felt a little regretful because he did not see what the terrifying god looked like.

“Here comes the sword.”

Lu Yang made sword gestures with his hands, trying to call back the nine flying swords that had been suppressed before and check for any damage.

As a result, whenever he moved, he felt very uncomfortable and his body became very stiff.

He looked down and exclaimed, “What’s wrong with my hand? Hey, why is there still frost on my body?”

A layer of white frost grew on Lu Yang’s body, which looked like white hair growing on a corpse. He was so scared that he quickly activated his sword energy to destroy the frost and hair.

As a result, he found that the qi in his body was not flowing smoothly and was in a chaotic state, which was difficult to control. Even if the white frost on his body was wiped out, a new layer would soon condense.

It still makes the body very stiff.

Seeing that the white frost was still increasing, Lu Yang couldn’t help but wonder, if he left it alone, would the frost gather into ice and freeze him into a popsicle?
Lu Yang hurriedly called out, “Junior Brother Shang, take a closer look at your remaining spirit, is it not sealed properly?”

There was also a layer of frost on Shang Lu’s body, but he was not as anxious as Lu Yang.

“This is the residual effect of the Horror Bell. Does anyone of you have any strong liquor? Or some fire-type medicine. Apply it externally or internally, and then circulate the Yang energy throughout the body, and the hidden danger will be eliminated and there will be no more trouble.”

“Strong liquor? Who would bring that stuff with them when going out to fight bandits?” Lu Yang muttered, and then asked, “What will be the consequences if we can’t dissipate the cold air in time?”

“They will be frozen into ice sculptures. If even their meridians and internal organs are damaged, it will affect their future practice.”

Lu Yang became more and more anxious, and hurriedly called to the other two: “Brother Bai, Sister Gongshu, who of you brought the wine?”

Before the two men could answer, he suddenly frowned, stared at Shang Lu, and asked in surprise: “Junior Brother Shang, why do you have a big tumor on your forehead? Also, why are you black and white?”

Shang Lu was speechless, thinking to himself, I am not in the photo displayed in the mourning hall, why did it become black and white?

However, Lu Yang’s words still frightened him. He quickly drew out the witch knife and used the blade to check his condition.

There really was an ugly tumor growing on his forehead, about the size of a walnut, and it was still beating like it was gestating something.

This tumor should be a strange change caused by the pollution of crazy and nonsense. Fortunately, the consciousness is not crazy, and no matter how strange the tumor is, there is a way to solve it.

Even though the tumor is there, it is not black and white.

Shang Lu looked up at Lu Yang and quickly discovered that something was wrong with Senior Brother Lu.

This guy’s eyes became only whites without black pupils, and the area around his eye sockets was filled with bulging blood vessels, so densely packed that it looked like a group of centipedes were surrounding and devouring his eyes.

At this time, Bai Lingxu also woke up from his confused state.

Hearing Lu Yang’s words, he shook his swollen and aching head and said, “Wine? No.”

Then he looked at Shang Lu again and said in surprise: “Junior Brother Shang is obviously good-looking, but he really has a tumor on his forehead… Oh my, Junior Brother Lu, how did your eyes become like this? Are you really blind?”

When Lu Yang saw Bai Lingxu getting up from the ground, he was also shocked and almost used his sword energy to attack him.

Fortunately, after hearing his words, she stopped in time, looked at him carefully, and exclaimed: “Brother Bai? How did you become like this?”

“What have I become?” Bai Lingxu was shocked.

“Pig-headed demon.” A voice came from the witch armor with black smoke billowing out from the side. It was the voice of Gongshu Ling.

“Senior Sister Gongshu is right. Now your ears are like palm-leaf fans, your mouth is bared with fangs, and you look like a pig-headed spirit.” Lu Yang added.

Although Bai Lingxu couldn’t see his own appearance, he touched according to Lu Yang’s description and indeed felt a pair of sharp fangs and wide ears.

What’s strange is that not only Shang Lu and the other two showed abnormalities, but Gongshu Ling’s witch armor also showed something wrong.

Blood and flesh continued to grow out of the joints of the witch armor.

The flesh and blood spread on the armor, as if to cover the entire witch armor and build a physical body for it.

It just stank of blood, the meat was rotten, and there were even maggots crawling around in it… It was not good, newly grown meat at all, as if it was stolen directly from a corpse that had been dead for many days and had become rotten and deteriorated.

Gongshu Ling obviously didn’t want her witch armor to turn into a rotten corpse, so she was urging it to continuously spew out hot black smoke, cut off the rotten flesh, and shake off the blood.

But these rotten flesh and blood seemed to be endless to cut off and endless to throw away, and kept forming in the cracks around the witch armor.

In addition, a layer of frost also condensed on the witch armor.

Perhaps it was not because his true body was harmed, Gongshu Ling acted very calmly, and said calmly: “We have been polluted by the chaotic divine power, and strange changes have occurred. Don’t panic…”

“A strange change?”

“Don’t panic?”

Before Gongshu Ling could finish his words, Lu Yang and Bai Lingxu cried out in surprise.

“We have all changed, how can we not panic?”

“Junior Brother Shang and Junior Brother Lu can still stay calm. They just have tumors on their heads and are blind. But I have become a pig-headed spirit… I don’t even have a Taoist partner. What should I do in the future?”

“Shut up, everyone.”

Gongshu Ling shouted coldly, scaring Lu Yang and Bai Lingxu so much that they shut up at the same time.

“We are only experiencing local changes, which means the pollution is not serious. We can find a way to purify it when we return to the Witch Academy. But if you panic, get anxious, and lose your mind, it will aggravate the pollution and the changes.”

Hearing this, Lu Yang and Bai Lingxu quickly calmed down and dared not panic anymore.

Shang Lu was relieved. At the same time, he was curious about how Gongshu Ling knew that there was a place in the Witch Academy that was specifically for purifying pollution. Could it be that she had been polluted before?

But didn’t she stay in the cave every day to do research and development? How could it be contaminated? And her witch armor was also full of strangeness, which was very different from ordinary witch weapons and magic weapons.

Although he was curious, Shang Lu did not ask any more questions. He and Gongshu Ling were not close enough to inquire about each other’s private secrets. He just teased Bai Lingxu:

“Brother Bai, have you ever thought that the fact that you don’t have a Taoist partner has nothing to do with whether you are a pig-headed demon? On the contrary, with your current appearance, you may be more likely to find a Taoist partner.”

“Can’t you?”

Bai Lingxu was very surprised: “There are still people who like pig-headed spirits? Such a special taste?”

“People may not like it, but don’t you still have a raccoon in your hand? The way you look now, you may be just a handsome pretty boy in the raccoon’s eyes. As for a Taoist partner, it doesn’t matter who you find. Why do you have to be so rigid about species?”

Shang Lu was just joking, but he didn’t expect that after Bai Lingxu heard it, he touched his chin and started thinking seriously.

“Ghost witches can form a bond with ghosts, so it’s not impossible for me to find a witch beast as a Taoist partner…”

“Eh?” Now it was Shang Lu’s turn to be stunned.

However, Lu Yang and Gongshu Ling did not seem to think there was anything wrong with Bai Lingxu’s idea.

Shang Lu was secretly amazed, only then did he realize that these senior brothers and sisters in the Witch Academy were more wild than each other.

Gongshu Ling tried several times, but seeing that he could not remove all the dirty blood and rotten flesh coming out of the cracks in the witch armor, he finally stopped wasting energy and patted the witch armor’s left waist instead.

With a muffled “click”, the armor on the left waist of the witch opened.

It took out a leather bag, unplugged it, and poured the liquid inside into the body through the witch armor’s mask, and then sprinkled some on the witch armor.

“Rumble…”

The spirit vortex reactor in Wu Jia’s body hissed, and while emitting billowing black smoke, it stirred up a stream of witch energy, causing the liquid spilled on Wu Jia to instantly explode.

The flames were blazing, but they didn’t last long, and they disappeared in a flash. They didn’t cause any damage to the witch armor, but the frost covering the witch armor was completely burned away after the flames went out, and it no longer grew.

Lu Yang’s pupil-less eyes lit up instantly, and he quickly called out, “Senior Sister Gongshu, give me some of what’s in your skin bag.”

Gongshu Lingzhen asked Wujia to throw the skin bag to Lu Yang.

After Lu Yang caught it, he poured a mouthful of it directly into his mouth. Then his face changed drastically and he spurted out all the liquid with a “puff”.

“Pah, pah, pah, this is not wine, what is this?”

“Did I mention it was wine?”

Gongshu Ling said in a cold voice: “This is the Red Sky Flowing Flame.”

Shang Lu and Lu Yang had actually heard of the name Chi Xiao Liu Yan.

This is a spiritual liquid that will burn when it comes into contact with fire. It is mostly used in making weapons or setting up formations. Sometimes soldiers and wizards will also use this spiritual liquid to start fire and burn the enemy.

Shang Lu had never eaten this thing, but judging from Senior Brother Lu’s reaction, he was afraid that it would be difficult to swallow. Moreover, the Red Sky Flowing Flame contained fire poison, which could also cause harm to people.

Smilax glabra is not afraid of poison.

With the Five Internal Organs protected, the poison of the Red Sky Flowing Flame should be able to be neutralized.

But he did not ask Gongshu Ling to give him some of the Red Sky Flowing Flame.

Because his situation is different from Lu Yang and Bai Lingxu.

The cold air brought by the Soul-Shocking Bell did not cause him any lasting harm. Instead, it was sucked into his internal organs and merged into the Yin-Yang Bell.

Even without the use of strong liquor or medicine, the frost on Shanglu’s body was also dissipating.

It’s just that the “black fish” representing Yin on the Yin-Yang Clock has absorbed cold air and gradually grown larger, thus encroaching on the territory of the “white fish” representing Yang.

Shang Lu, who saw this scene through inner vision, secretly thought: “Is this the strong yin and weak yang? It seems that I have to find a way to take some positive spiritual medicine to replenish the yang energy and restore the balance of the yin and yang qi clock…”

I just don’t know if there will be any impact if yin is strong and yang is weak?
While Shang Lu was thinking, Lu Dao pinched the witch’s fingers and used the method of shrinking the earth into an inch to come to their side.

Unlike the three people and Wizard Jia who all had strange changes, Lu Dao and the bald wizard officer who were still far away were in much better condition.

Especially Lu Dao.

His cultivation was already at the sixth level of the Ming Mind Realm. The focus of cultivation in this realm was to understand one’s mind and nature, to temper one’s mind, and to resist all kinds of temptations and pollution in the world.

Even though one’s state of mind has been refined, it does not necessarily mean that one can avoid all pollution and temptation – for example, the great wizard Zhongli, whose cultivation had reached the inner palace realm, was still deceived by the mountain ghost.

But at least he can resist the madness better than Shang Lu and the others.

As soon as Lu Dao arrived, he started to make hand gestures and chant incantations, flicking his index finger continuously.

One after another witch seals flew down onto Shang Lu and the others, suppressing the chaotic aura in their bodies and also controlling the abnormal changes in their bodies.

Although it has not fully recovered, at least it will not continue to deteriorate.

At the same time, Lu Dao took out a medicine bottle from his arms, poured out four pills from it, glanced at Wu Jia, and took one back.

As a result, Gongshu Ling quit.

Although she used the Red Sky Flowing Flame to free the Witch Armor from the influence of the frost, who would complain about having too little elixir?

Lu Dao had no choice but to pour out another one and give it to Wu Jia.

I thought Wu Jia would take the pill back, but he ended up swallowing it directly.

Judging from the noise coming from the Lingwo reactor, it was obviously being refined.

Wow, Wujia can also take pills!

Shang Lu was more and more surprised. The weapon refined by Senior Sister Gongshu was indeed unique.

After Shang Lu and the other two took the elixir, Lu Dao used the witchcraft energy to cover them, using the witchcraft energy instead of external medicine to help them dissolve the cold air left by the Soul-Shocking Bell.

After doing all this, Lu Daofang looked at Shang Lu and thanked him first: “This time, we were saved by you.” Then he shook his head and smiled bitterly: “But you are really crazy, you dare to pray to the gods before midnight, aren’t you afraid of sudden death?”

Shang Lu smiled and said, “Uncle Lu, don’t worry. I know my limits. This time I wanted to die together with the rice thief, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken such a risk. Fortunately, Tu Bo was kind to us. The rice thief died, but we are still alive.”

Lu Dao said seriously, “It’s good to know how powerful it is. Inviting gods is a dangerous thing, especially when they are not sober. Don’t take chances and take risks again in the future.”

Shang Lu knew that Uncle Lu was doing this for his own good, so he bowed in agreement. However, he was thinking in his heart that although it was not midnight when he summoned the gods today, Tu Bo, who was invited, was not as crazy as he had imagined.

Shang Lu had not had time to think about it carefully before, but now that he recalled it carefully, he felt that after Tu Bo’s arrival, he seemed to be suppressing the chaotic divinity.

Moreover, Tu Bo’s behavior did not seem to be completely insane, he still retained a trace of rationality.

Otherwise, how could they have any strange changes? They would have died suddenly along with the thieves who pretended to be gods!

Shang Lu didn’t think that Tu Bo was just looking at his “performance” and was pretending to be calm.

He suspected that Tu Bo was slowly regaining his sanity.

It’s not clear why, but this is definitely good news.

Shang Lu was thinking when he suddenly heard Lu Yang scream: “Oh, no–“

Several people looked at Lu Yang in surprise, not knowing what was wrong with him.

I didn’t sense anything unusual around here.

(End of this chapter)