Chapter 439: Doubts

“what have you found?”

Lu Dao waved his hand and released a stream of witchcraft to protect everyone. At the same time, he looked around vigilantly. The witchcraft flowed out of his body and stretched out like tentacles to the distance to spy on the situation. If there was any danger, he could protect Shang Lu and the other three and leave quickly.

Shang Lu, Bai Lingxu and Gongshu Ling’s Wu Jia also took up fighting stances at this moment.

The most frightening thing is that when you think the battle is over, another old man jumps out to attack you.

Lu Yang was shocked by everyone’s reaction. He knew that everyone had misunderstood him, so he quickly said, “No, I didn’t notice anything unusual. I was just worried that if the two Ghost Eight Immortals melted into a pool of rotten meat, would their remaining spiritual roots also melt along with them?”

Shang Lu now understood why Lu Yang’s eyes had become so strange, as if they were without pupils.

This guy definitely didn’t close his eyes completely when Tu Bo came.

Although I didn’t dare to look up at the Nine-Bend Yellow Spring Road in the sky, I saw the strange changes of “Lü Dongbin” and “Lan Caihe” under the oppression of divine power.

No wonder Lu Yang’s eyes were polluted, the black pupils disappeared, leaving only the whites of his eyes.

So it seems that Senior Brother Bai Lingxu turned into a pig-head because he borrowed the power of the raccoon to fight against the madness?

Why did the witch armor change so strangely? Why did it grow flesh? Was it because the witch armor had a spirit and wanted to become a human? Or was it hiding some other strange secret?
“And what about the tumor on my forehead?”

Through Lu Yang and Bai Lingxu, Shang Lu judged that the strange changes that occurred to the three of them and Wu Jia should be related to their respective situations and states when Tu Bo arrived.

Because of this, Shang Lu really couldn’t understand why a hideous and ugly tumor grew on his forehead.
Could it be that Tu Bo was using this trick to warn him not to be impulsive and not to act on impulse?

While Shang Lu was curiously guessing, Lu Dao glared at Lu Yang fiercely and shook his head, saying, “Don’t worry about the remaining spiritual roots of those two He thieves. When I came here, I used my magic to check. There were no remaining spiritual roots in their pile of rotten meat. They were either melted and rotten, or they were crushed by the divine power along with their sinister and weird Nascent Souls.”

Although he knew it was a misunderstanding, Lu Dao did not retract the witchcraft energy he had released. Instead, he released more witchcraft energy as a warning and defense.

Be careful that there are real thieves, following the sound.

Lu Yang said it was a pity that the cultivation base of “Lu Dongbin” and “Lan Caihe” was at the sixth level of Mingxin Realm. If he could get his hands on their remaining spiritual roots and break through to the seventh level of Tongtian Realm, it would definitely be more than enough!
Maybe you can even exchange it for a complete set of spiritual materials needed to break through the Tongtian realm, plus many spiritual treasures and elixirs… Of course, the premise is that you don’t get robbed or murdered.

The bald witch officer collected the bodies of his colleagues and drove them over to join Shang Lu and his men. The souls of the witch officers who died in the battle were taken away immediately, and the bald witch officer could not summon their souls back. Otherwise, even if they were dead, they could become ghost cultivators.

Also brought over by the bald wizard were Lu Yang’s nine swords.

The bald witch threw nine swords that were contaminated by evil spirits to Lu Yang and snorted, “You still want residual spiritual roots? It’s good enough that you can survive.”

Lu Yang took his sword, smiled wryly and said, “Who doesn’t want better?” Then he activated the sword energy to purify the pollution on the sword.

Shang Lu took a look at the corpse that was driven over by the bald witch officer and asked, “Uncle Lu, Supervisor Xu, didn’t you act together with the Chief Supervisor and the Great Witch Zhongli? How did you get surrounded and injured like this by these thieves with their rampant ghosts and puppet corpses? Where are the Chief Supervisor and the Great Witch Zhongli?”

“The evil miasma and fog in the valley were too thick to be blown away in a short time. In order to prevent the thieves guarding the rice fields from escaping, we decided to split up after reaching the rice fields.

Jian Cheng and Zhongli Da Wu have the highest cultivation level and are responsible for capturing and killing the bandit chieftain Shennong the Great. The rest of us are responsible for capturing and killing the bandits guarding the rice fields.

Everything went smoothly at first, and we captured and killed several groups of rice thieves in a row.

As a result, a group of rice thieves fled when they saw us. We chased them all the way here, and ended up being ambushed by the two ghost eight immortals, who led a group of rice thieves.

They used the resentment and evil spirits in the rice fields to set up an evil formation here, which not only suppressed our cultivation, but also greatly enhanced the power of the rampant ghosts and puppet corpses.

We were caught off guard and several of us were killed on the spot. If you hadn’t arrived in time, and if Shang Lu hadn’t taken the risk, I’m afraid we would have died here.”

Although Lu Dao described the incident in a relatively simple way, Shang Lu and the other three still felt the danger involved.

After Lu Dao finished speaking, he asked curiously, “How did you get together? Where are the county soldiers you led?”

“Uncle Lu, before you were ambushed, Brother Lu was also attacked by a group of thieves…”

Shang Lu quickly recounted what had happened to them.

“Lü Yang was also attacked, and the ambush point set by the He bandits overlapped with the route you were searching for and attacking?”

Lu Dao and Xu Shan had been in the Discipline Department for a long time, and they immediately grasped several key points in Shang Lu’s words and frowned immediately. “Yes.”

Shang Lu nodded and said, “And those He thieves also said they wanted to kill Senior Brother Lu and me as sacrifices.”

His words made Lu Dao and Xu Shan suddenly remember that “Lu Dongbin” and “Lan Caihe” had also said words about offering sacrifices to gods.

Which god are these thieves going to offer sacrifice to?
Why do we need Shang Lu and Lu Yang in addition to them?

Lu Dao narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and looked at Shang Lu.

“Just tell me what you think, don’t beat around the bush.”

“Then I’ll speak frankly.” Shang Lu said shockingly: “I suspect that there is something wrong with the great wizard Zhongli.”

“Why do you say that?” Lu Dao and Xu Shan were both shocked.

Bai Lingxu had heard about this matter a long time ago, so he didn’t have any extreme reaction at this moment.

But strangely, Gongshu Ling did not exclaim through Wu Jia.

I don’t know if she was calm enough to remain calm in the face of danger, or if she had the witch armor to protect her so that even if she was surprised, no one would notice.

“Disciple suspects that the mountain ghost is not dead!”

Shang Lu said in a deep voice: “Everyone here, except Senior Brother Bai and Senior Sister Gongshu, has participated in the previous mission of hunting down mountain ghosts. Including the witch officials who died in the battle. I want to ask Senior Uncle Lu and Supervisor Xu, are you sure you saw the mountain ghost die before?”

“This……”

Lu Dao and Xu Shan looked at each other.

“That mountain ghost was very cunning. It laid many traps and tricks in advance. Although I and Xu Jianjian cooperated with the Great Wizard Zhongli to severely injure the mountain ghost, we were also trapped by its traps and evil magic. As a result, when it escaped, no one except the Great Wizard Zhongli could catch up in time.”

“When we broke through the trap and chased after them, we saw the Great Wizard Zhongli holding the head of the mountain ghost. He said he had killed the mountain ghost, chopped off the head, and set fire to the body…”

“In other words, none of you saw the mountain ghost being killed with your own eyes?” Shang Lu asked.

“I certainly didn’t see it with my own eyes.” Lu Dao nodded.

Xu Shan asked, “Do you suspect that the mountain ghost is not dead, but has bewitched the great wizard Zhongli to kill us and avenge us?” He paused and took a breath, “It was the great wizard Zhongli who suggested that we split up. If it is a coincidence, it is too much of a coincidence.”

Lu Dao frowned and wanted to refute Shang Lu, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Shang Lu’s guess was not unreasonable.

He also analyzed it himself:
“The mountain ghost was extremely cunning. Perhaps the great wizard Zhongli was not bewitched by it at the time, but was just deceived by it into thinking it was dead.

The great wizard Zhongli was also seriously injured when he killed the mountain ghost, so he returned to the wizard academy and began to retreat to recuperate.

It would not be impossible for the mountain ghost to take advantage of the situation at that time, arouse the desire in his heart, and then bewitch him!

After Zhongli came out of retreat, his cultivation level did not drop due to the serious injury, but increased a lot. It was only because he did not have spiritual materials that he could not break through. We were curious at the time, but we did not think much about it. We just thought that Zhongli had used some magic medicine during his retreat. Now that I think about it, it is really a bit strange. I am afraid that the mountain ghost really took advantage of the opportunity and bewitched him by “fulfilling his wish”? “

At this time, Xu Shan also recalled some things. He said, “When the Great Wizard Zhongli first came out of seclusion, he told me that he had an opportunity to break through and asked me if I was willing to help.”

“There is such a thing?” Lu Dao asked in surprise: “How did you say that?”

Xu Shan smiled bitterly: “I didn’t think he would be weird at the time, so I naturally said yes.”

“Did the Great Wizard Zhongli say anything after hearing your answer?” Shang Lu asked.

“He said ‘as long as you are willing’, I didn’t doubt him at the time, and he also said that he could come to me anytime if he needed help, and I would definitely help him with all my strength…”

When Xu Shan said this, he thought of the sacrifice again and couldn’t help gritting his teeth.

“Now it seems that the ‘help’ he mentioned is probably to use us as sacrifices to the mountain ghost in exchange for the fulfillment of his wish?”

(I was called back to the hospital today to do a bunch of tests. They said my platelet count was too low and they wanted to see what was going on. There were so many people in the hospital after the Chinese New Year, so I was busy all day. I will try to resume normal updates as soon as possible, and then start making up for it.)
(End of this chapter)