Chapter 23: The Five Filth Gods

The room's corruption was already chilling enough.

More horrifying was the fact that five terrifyingly deformed lifeforms stood around them.

All five were short, draped in black robes; below the neck they looked no different from ordinary humans, but what rested atop their necks was not.

One had a head with no flesh or bone—only a flapping skin-sack.

One skull split in two, like a pair of lungs, continuously oozing black sludge.

One head had two holes, like a giant nose, its pitch-black nostrils facing forward, nostril hairs tangled with snot.

The Nose-Spirit clasped its hands in a seal, as if preparing a devastating technique, but Shi Ji slit its throat.

The Lung-Spirit spat a jet of black oil at Wu Xian; Wu Xian overturned a table to block it, then pierced it through with his copper coin spear, flinging it clear across the room.

He discarded the Boy's Urine Amulet, leapt up, and launched a fierce assault on the evil spirits—not out of desperate last gasps, but based on his assessment of his own abilities, choosing the path most likely to secure victory.

Hss!

Guided by an invisible force, the Copper Coin Sword suddenly elongated—six blades became twelve!

Could this still be called a Copper Coin Sword?

Now, this Copper Coin Sword was essentially a spear, over two meters long, radiating searing heat; only three or four blades could slay a single Wandering Spirit.

The last Skin-Spirit tried to flatten its body and slip out of the room, but Wu Xian and Shi Ji dragged it back and used its skin to wipe the filth from their weapons…

Besides the Copper Coin Sword and the True Fire Incantation, Wu Xian had two other talismans.

What followed was a massacre of evil spirits by humans.

"How much longer are you going to be fooled? Wake the hell up!"

The ones they needed to guard against weren't just Wu Xian alone.

Now that Wu Xian had terrified the evil spirits, the one with a pile of intestines piled atop its neck crept closer from behind—this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

These five things were the Five Filth Gods!

Human filth stinks of flesh,

Ghosts feast on bone and blood's fragrance.

So…

The five grotesques hummed in unison; Wu Xian listened closely and recognized their chant.

This is skin!

"He's awake! He's awake!"

From above, Wu Xian could see that the headless spirit wasn't truly without a head.

Where its collarbones should have been its neck, a massive mouth had grown—lined with neat human teeth, its thick, moss-covered tongue constantly licking inside.

The Copper Coin Sword glowed red; the three copper coins vanished, and the headless spirit collapsed lifelessly.

Wu Xian flicked his middle finger twice—he used the Double-Release Method twice!

They had been trapped in the room since nightfall, yet neither Wu Xian nor Shi Ji had realized they were being toyed with—had it not been for this tachi…

After the headless spirit died, the unbearable halitosis that had lingered vanished.

The Five Filth God's domain,

Skin, Mouth, Lung, Nose, Intestine.

Shi Ji had a tooth knocked out by the Boy's Urine Amulet and finally came to his senses, but the scene had been too dangerous—he'd remained crouched on the floor, waiting for a chance to strike back.

Realizing escape was no longer easy, they banded together to counterattack—but against Wu and Shi, they held no advantage.

But now two are gone; they're merely ordinary Wandering Spirits!

They feared not Wu Xian—but the invincible Copper Coin Sword in his hand!

The floor, ceiling, and walls all twisted simultaneously; everything warped, and from the distortions emerged sheets of yellow-white material, their color gradually uniform, clearly showing veins and faint body hairs.

Weapons or items obtained by Lotus Juanren through worshiping deities cannot be lent to others; what Wu Xian could use was merely the filth inherently carried by this blade.

Yet Wu Xian's motion froze mid-air.

The monsters spoke one after another, stepping forward in unison; invisible pressure surged again.

Weapons tainted with filth possess a certain ability to disrupt magic.

Too bad Wu Xian couldn't use this knife.

But this was merely the first effect of the Long Character.

One was the Long Character, which could be attached to an object to increase its length.

The filth on the Boy's Urine Amulet was so potent that even the evil spirits' powers dared not touch it—this gave Wu Xian the chance to regain his sanity.

Shi Ji's eyes glowed red; he crouched and lunged upward with a sudden thrust.

The last one had nothing atop its head—and yet looked even more unnatural than the others.

The other was the Double-Release Method, usable twice; each use doubles the number of times the next non-self talisman activates!

These two talismans were carefully chosen by Wu Xian and preserved unused—now, at last, they would unleash their power!

Wu Xian's eyes brimmed with murderous intent; if he killed the remaining four, he might finally feel clean again!

"Who's next?"

Facing this near-desperate situation.

One more had its head coiled like a snake—the snake was its intestine, dripping yellow intestinal oil…

Not just the four of them—even ten wouldn't be enough for this Copper Coin Sword to slaughter!

The four remaining Filth Gods didn't notice.

When the Five Filth Gods unite, they are at their strongest—capable of warping reality, blocking senses, and shattering human will through their powers.

His wrists and ankles were bound by crimson intestines; foul-smelling intestinal fluid soaked through his clothes.

Living skin!

The skin, mutated from five rooms, curled inward from different directions, looking from afar like a flower bud about to close.

All four evil spirits retreated in horror.

Then his index finger flicked, and he activated the 'Length Character' on the copper coin sword. After stacking two double-cast techniques, the number of activations of the Length Character was…

"Heh."

But it wasn't over yet.

The long blade pierced in three inches below the evil spirit's tailbone, pierced through its chest, and severed its large intestine and head!

Now the Five Filth God only had three filth remaining!

The three spirits were terrified.

The second time, the blade became twenty-four!

The third time, the blade became forty-eight!

The fourth time, the copper coin sword's blade was ninety-six!

The abruptly lengthened copper coin sword violently pierced through the unguarded body of the headless spirit, and the smile on the huge mouth that occupied its entire neck froze abruptly.

Wu Xian did not give up.

"Let him fall asleep, then let him enter the realm!"

And Wu Xian himself did not stop for no reason either.

Four!

The copper coin sword will lengthen four times!

Wu Xian whirled around violently and hurled the An Gang soaked in a boy's urine straight at Shi Ji's face.

Wu Xian struggled to stand. With the evil spirits' forceful pulling, the pain on his body intensified, but he did not fall back into the hallucination.

Wu Xian himself took the opportunity to pull out the copper coin sword, which now had only six blades left, leapt up, and thrust toward the headless monster-man at the very front.

Once this flower bud closed, Wu Xian would be finished!

All five evil spirits watched intently, waiting for Wu Xian to be wrapped by the skin. His life essence would flow through that skin and into each evil spirit's body.

But even facing such a crisis, the copper coin sword in Wu Xian's hand still pointed at the headless evil spirit's chest cavity.

The Five Filth God, who had run rampant in the blessed land and caused countless humans to die miserably, was thus destroyed at the hands of Wu and Shi.

Regarding the Five Filth God, I originally wanted to make it more vulgar—snot, sweat, shit, piss, farts—but later I thought it was really too disgusting, and I felt uncomfortable writing it, so I changed it to nose, mouth, lungs, skin, intestines.

(End of this chapter)