Five Filth Gods

The room's transformation was frightening enough.

Even more horrifying, five terrifying, malformed beings stood all around them.

All five were short and wore black robes. From the neck down, they looked no different from ordinary people. What set them apart was what they had on top of their necks.

One had no bones or flesh for a head, only a flapping skin bag.

One had a head split in two, like a pair of human lungs, constantly oozing black grease.

One had two holes in its head, like a giant nose. Its pitch-black nostrils faced forward, and nose hairs tangled with snot.

The Nose Head Wraith clasped its hands in a seal, looking as if it was about to use an ultimate move, but Shi Ji slit its throat.

The Lung Head Wraith spat a stream of black oil at Wu Xian. Wu Xian flipped a table up to block it, then skewered the wraith with the Copper Coin Spear and tossed it away.

He discarded the Boy's Urine An Gang and leaped up, boldly attacking the evil wraiths. It wasn't a desperate last stand. Based on his assessment of his own abilities, he had chosen the path most likely to bring victory.

Shing!

An invisible force guided the Copper Coin Sword, making it suddenly grow longer. Its six blades became twelve!

Could that thing even still be called a Copper Coin Sword?

The Copper Coin Sword was now practically a spear, over two meters long. It radiated scorching heat, and just three or four blades were enough to kill a Wandering Wraith.

The last Skin Head Wraith tried to flatten its body and squeeze out of the room, but Wu Xian and Shi Ji dragged it back and used its skin to wipe the filth left on their weapons...

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

What happened next was a slaughter of evil wraiths by humans.

"You bastard, how much longer are you going to let yourself be bewitched? Wake the hell up!"

Wu Xian wasn't the only one they needed to watch out for.

Now that Wu Xian had subdued the evil spirits, the wraith with a mass of large intestines piled on its neck turned its back and crept up to him. This was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!

These five things were the Five Filth Gods!

Human filth—foul flesh,

Ghosts feast on bones and blood.

So...

The five strange beings hummed in unison. Wu Xian listened closely before he could make out what they were singing.

It was skin!

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

From above and to the side, Wu Xian could see that the headless wraith wasn't really without a head.

Where its neck should have been, just above its collarbones, was a gaping mouth lined with neat human teeth. Inside, he could see a huge, tongue-coated tongue licking incessantly.

Red light flashed on the Copper Coin Sword, and three layers of copper coins vanished. The headless wraith's body collapsed limply.

Wu Xian flicked his middle finger twice in quick succession. He had used the Double Activation Technique twice!

They had been in the room ever since nightfall, but Wu Xian and Shi Ji had never realized they were being toyed with. If not for this Tachi...

After the headless wraith died, the unbearable stench of halitosis that had lingered all along disappeared.

The Five Filth Gods' shrine,

Skin, mouth, lungs, nose, intestines.

The Boy's Urine An Gang had knocked out one of Shi Ji's teeth, and he finally came to. But the situation had been too dangerous, so he had stayed crouched on the ground, waiting for a chance to strike back.

Realizing they couldn't easily escape, the wraiths banded together and tried to fight back. But against Wu Xian and Shi Ji, they no longer had any advantage.

With two of the five gone, they were nothing but ordinary Wandering Wraiths!

What they feared wasn't Wu Xian, but the heaven-defying Copper Coin Sword in his hand!

The floor, ceiling, and walls all transformed at once. Everything twisted, and patches of yellowish-white material pushed out from the warped surfaces. Their color gradually became uniform, and veins and faint body hair were clearly visible on them.

The weapons and items that worshippers received from the shrines couldn't be lent to anyone else. All Wu Xian could use was the filth already on this Precious Blade.

Yet Wu Xian's movements stopped in midair.

The monsters chimed in one after another and took a step forward together. The invisible pressure surged again.

Weapons bearing filth had a certain ability to break laws.

Unfortunately, Wu Xian couldn't use this blade.

But that was only the result of the Long Talisman's first activation.

One was the Long Talisman, which could attach to an object and increase its length.

The filth on the Boy's Urine An Gang was something even the wraiths' abilities refused to touch. That was what gave Wu Xian the chance to regain his senses.

Shi Ji's eyes glowed red as he crouched and thrust upward with all his strength.

The last one had nothing at all on its head, yet somehow looked even more bizarre than the others.

The other was the Double Activation Technique. It could be used twice, and each time it doubled the number of times the next non-inherent talisman could take effect!

Wu Xian had carefully selected these two talismans and had held on to them without using them. Now, at last, it was time for them to come into play!

Killing intent filled Wu Xian's eyes. If he killed the remaining four, he ought to feel a lot cleaner, right?

"Who's next?"

Faced with a situation that seemed utterly hopeless.

Another had a head curled up like a snake. That snake-like thing was an intestinal tract, with yellow intestinal fat hanging from it...

Forget the four of them—even ten wouldn't be enough to withstand the Copper Coin Sword!

The Four Filth Gods, slowly backing away, failed to notice.

The Five Filth Gods were strongest when united. They could transform reality, block the senses, and destroy people's will with their abilities.

His wrists and ankles were bound by scarlet intestines, and the stinking intestinal fluids had soaked through his clothes.

Living skin!

Five patches of skin, transformed from the room, curled toward them from different directions. From a distance, they looked like a flower bud about to close.

The four evil wraiths recoiled in horror.

Then his index finger flicked, and he activated the Long Talisman on the Copper Coin Sword. After stacking two Double Activation Techniques, the number of times the Long Talisman could take effect was...

"Heh."

But that wasn't all.

The long blade stabbed into the wraith three inches below its tailbone, pierced through its chest, and severed its intestine-head!

Now only three of the Five Filth Gods remained!

The three wraiths shuddered.

The second time, the blades became twenty-four!

The third time, the blades became forty-eight!

The fourth time, the Copper Coin Sword had ninety-six blades!

The suddenly lengthened Copper Coin Sword boldly pierced through the unprepared headless wraith. The smile on the huge mouth that filled its entire neck froze.

Wu Xian didn't give up.

"Lull him to sleep, then draw him into the illusion!"

Wu Xian himself hadn't stopped in midair for no reason, either.

Four!

The Copper Coin Sword would grow four times!

Wu Xian spun around and hurled the Boy's Urine An Gang at Shi Ji, smashing it into his face.

Wu Xian struggled to his feet. As the wraiths strained against him, the pain in his body grew worse, but he didn't fall into an illusion again.

Wu Xian took the opportunity to pull out the Copper Coin Sword, now down to just six blades, then leaped toward the headless figure at the front and thrust.

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

All five wraiths watched, waiting for the skin to envelop Wu Xian. His vital essence would flow through those patches of skin into each of their bodies.

Yet even in the face of such danger, the Copper Coin Sword in Wu Xian's hand still pointed at the headless wraith's chest.

The Five Filth Gods, who had rampaged through the blessed land and caused countless human deaths, were wiped out at the hands of Wu Xian and Shi Ji.

I'd originally wanted to make the Five Filth Gods even more disgusting, with tears, sweat, shit, piss, and farts. But after thinking it over, it seemed far too gross, and even writing it made me uncomfortable, so I changed it to nose, mouth, lungs, skin, and intestines.