If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 79 Immortal Means
Guan Chenghuang presented a huge gift, and the two ghosts accepted it without hesitation. The atmosphere in the living room immediately became extremely harmonious.

When the God of Land brought seasonal fresh fruits and a jar of sake, the three of them ate and drank, talked and laughed, and both the host and the guests were happy.

It was not until Chi Yanju finally stepped into Yingxiang Prefecture that the local land god and Guan Chenghuang sensed something at the same time.

Guan Cheng Huang accompanied the two Wu Chang to drink two more cups of sake, and then said: "After all, this place is too barren, with only fruits and sake. It is too unfair for the two superiors. Fortunately, the city has set up a feast again.

Guan Tianyang, you must serve the two masters well, understand?"

"I respect the master's orders!"

The tall general in chain mail first clasped his fists towards the City God, then smiled and invited the two immortals to leave.

Before leaving, the two ghosts bowed to Guan Chenghuang again to thank him for his grand hospitality.

It was not until the front door was closed again that Hu Chen, who was hiding in the inner room, took a deep breath, trotted out, and asked, "Grandfather, is Chi Yanju back? I have sensed that my body is nearby."

Guan Cheng Huang said calmly: "You'd better stay in the inner room to avoid unnecessary trouble. I will call you out when I need you."

Then he turned to the land god and said, "Han Sheng, I have to trouble you again. Take Yagli and bring Guan Huchen's body here."

"It is an honor for Han Sheng to serve the master. Please don't say 'trouble'."

The God of Land smiled and bowed to the City God, then turned and went out of the house.

A moment later, he and the green-faced, fang-toothed ghost messenger Yagli returned to the yard, carrying the corpse wrapped in a fire rat robe.

Guan Chenghuang lifted the Fire Rat robe and observed it carefully.

When Hu Chen was killed by Marquis Lieyang, he was wearing a full set of armor, from the helmet to the breastplate to the boots.

When the "Eight Immortals Shooting the Sun" at Feixiandu was over, only part of the armor was taken off by Guan Zhong and Xiao Yu to reduce the burden on Chiyanju.

The rest could not move, nor did they dare to move, for fear of causing secondary damage to Hu Chen's remains.

Now, yellow-green water has seeped out of the cracks in the twisted and deformed armor that clings to Hu Chen's body.

Stinks.

Hu Chen's exposed face was obviously swollen and slightly decayed.

"Fortunately, fortunately," Guan Chenghuang breathed a sigh of relief, his face no longer solemn and worried, and even smiled a little, "It should be the credit of Guan Zhong and Guan Yu, they protected the remains of Hu Chen very well."

The ghost servant with a green face and fangs came up to the corpse and took a look, frowning and saying, "Master, the young master is already dead, and the corpse is in a mess, what's wrong with it?"

Han Sheng, the god of the land beside him, said with a smile: “I am not afraid of a mess, but I am afraid of a mutilated body with important parts missing.

General Hu Chen's body was very intact, with almost nothing missing except for excessive blood loss.

But the essence and blood can be slowly restored."

Guan Cheng Huang nodded gently and said, "It seems that the fresh corpses I asked you to prepare before are of no use now. Han Sheng, you should send them all back and bury them again.

Although their souls had already entered reincarnation and the corpses of their previous life had almost severed their causal connection with them, they still had families.

Alas, if I could have less karma, I would be much more relaxed. "

The God of Land flattered him, "You are worrying too much, sir. Even if we really take a small part from those corpses, their families will not notice anything.

The dead are great and should be buried in peace.

Who would dig up the grave and dig up the coffin the next day after burying a deceased person?

What the master uses will sooner or later decay and merge into the soil, which will not harm people or the world.

On the contrary, using useless things to live a useful life is a great merit!"

"This is the law of the underworld, but cause and effect are unreasonable! Even if I can make sure that there is nothing wrong with the rules of the underworld and the laws of the Jade Emperor, some things, once done, will definitely leave traces, and that trace is cause and effect." Guan Chenghuang sighed.

After that, he pointed at Hu Chen's remains and said, "Brother Hansheng, please prepare a quiet room. You will also need clean cotton cloth, sharp blades, axes, hacksaws, chisels, iron chisels, hammers, needles and thread, rootless water, and good wine without ash."

The God of Land pondered and said, "As you can see, my temple is only this big. There are empty rooms, but they are a bit narrow, which is not conducive to your use of magical powers.

I have an idea. I would like to use white cloth to enclose an area in the front yard and light it with candles. It will be spacious and bright. What do you think, sir?"

Guan Chenghuang looked around and found that the yard was not very spacious, only about ten feet wide and two feet long.

It's about 20 square meters.

But compared with the lobby of six or seven square meters and the inner room and side hall of three or four square meters, this place immediately appears "spacious and bright".

"Let's do it this way! Yagli, you stay outside and don't let anyone in while the master is performing his magic." said Guan Chenghuang.

The God of Land is very efficient in his work.

He wandered around the area and "borrowed" all the things needed to worship the City God from a wealthy family.

As soon as a white cloth was hung to divide the yard into two, Yagli and Tudi Hansheng outside heard a series of tinkling sounds.

The City God's guard has begun.

Through a layer of white cloth, landowner Hansheng could still vaguely see the figure of the City God.

Sometimes he raised his hatchet and chopped hard, sometimes he steadied the chisel with one hand and hit it with the hammer with the other, sometimes he used the saw to pull quickly with a grunt, sometimes he exhaled and pulled out something that looked like an organ, and sometimes he rolled up his sleeves and broke off a long leg.
After tossing around like a blacksmith treats ironware and a carpenter treats a mechanical beast, Guan Chenghuang finally used his magical powers!
Then a golden light was seen falling, and the sound of "sizzling" like fat frying in a hot pan was heard.

It was accompanied by a pungent stench and thick yellow-black smoke.

But gradually, the stench of the corpse and the thick smoke faded and disappeared, and finally there was no trace of the stench of corpse in the yard.

"Hua La Hua La La~~~" After another round of splashing water to clean, I heard Guan Cheng Huang shouting, "Han Sheng, take down the curtain. I have finished. Thank you very much for this time, my dear brother."

"Don't dare, don't dare!"

The God of Land heard the relief and happiness in Guan Chenghuang's tone, guessing that he had accomplished his mission. He still put on a concerned look, hiding three parts of "nervousness" and four parts of "anxiety" in his tone, and asked, "Is General Guan fully recovered?"

In fact, he did not stop his hands at this moment and was still tidying up the curtains.

After opening the curtain, they saw Hu Chen lying on the wooden table. His clothes and armor had been cut and chiseled, and broken iron pieces and bloodstained rags were piled on the ground in a mess. He was now naked.

But this well-built man with a beautiful beard is not attractive at all now, even to those who like Longyang.

Not only is it not attractive, it also looks extremely scary.

If Xiaoyu were here, he would definitely exclaim: My godfather’s name is “Frankenstein Guan”!
Traces of mending can be seen everywhere on Hu Chen's face, arms, thighs, and torso.

The skin color is also different, some places are pale, some places are bruised and black, and the distribution of bruises is very uneven.

However, Guan Chenghuang's craftsmanship is quite good.

Although there were many stitches on Hu Chen's body, the stitches were fine and neat, without any loose threads sticking out.

If you look closely, there's even a sense of artistic beauty.

"It's still a long way from being fully recovered, but at least I'm alive."

Guan Chenghuang looked very proud. After looking him up and down, he shouted to the inner room: "Guan Huchen, your soul has returned~~~"

As he called out, Hu Chen's soul floated out involuntarily and fell directly onto the body on the wooden table.

"Uh ah." Hu Chen was really alive.

He felt extremely uncomfortable all over and his throat was so dry that it felt like smoking.

Although every part of his body was painful and itchy, he could only feel it but could not control his limbs and torso, as if there was a membrane between him and them.

"Grandpa, it hurts." He said with difficulty.

"It's okay to feel uncomfortable. Only living people feel uncomfortable. Dead people don't feel uncomfortable."

Guan Chenghuang walked into the main room with a smile and brought out a whole pot of tea that he had prepared to entertain the ghost of death.

He came to Hu Chen and poured the liquid into his mouth through the spout of the kettle.

"Gulp gulp." Hu Chen felt that he had never been so comfortable, as if he had become a dry land that had not seen rain for three years and today suddenly encountered a magical rain falling.

He felt so comfortable that his toes and fingers began to twitch slightly.

Then, "Ugh~~~"

The tea soothes your throat and makes you feel refreshed.

But once the tea entered my stomach, it immediately made my stomach rumble like the sea.

Hu Chen couldn't hold it in any longer, so he leaned on the table, tilted his head, and vomited all over the place.

They were all a mixture of dark red and black solid and liquid, and they were even smellier than the previous corpse odor.

After he vomited, he took two breaths, and then Guan Chenghuang put the spout of the kettle to his mouth and poured the water in, and then he continued to vomit.

This cycle repeated five times, and the tea in the teapot had dried up. Guan Chenghuang then smiled and said, "Now you are truly alive. The Black and White Impermanence have no reason to take your soul away anymore."

Although Hu Chen kept vomiting, he gradually regained his strength and regained control of his hands and feet.

"Grandfather, what kind of tea is this? It's like magic water. My body is still weak, but the unbearable torment has mostly disappeared."

Guan Chenghuang said: "It is not the immortal water, but the 'tea thought' separated from the incense and wishes of the people.

The idea of ​​tea comes from the common people, and is the feeling of nearby believers when they drink tea on a daily basis.

The brewed tea is of course the tea that ordinary people drink in their daily lives.

Now it is just clearer and purer, and ghosts and gods can also taste the same flavor.

Although you were alive just now and the death energy was eliminated by me, the filth in your body still remained.

When the dirt meets the tea, there is a natural reaction, which stimulates your stomach and intestines to move and make you spit it out actively.

Once the stomach and intestines are emptied and the impurities are removed from the body, the suffering will be mostly gone.”

The God of Land bowed to Hu Chen and said with a smile: "Congratulations to General Guan for his resurgence! The pillar of our great Shu Kingdom has been restored, and all living beings should celebrate this blessing!"

Even though it was difficult for Hu Chen to move, he still struggled to get off the table and knelt respectfully to the God of Land. "Hu Chen greets Lord She Ling. Thank you for saving my body. This great favor will be remembered by my Guan family forever!"

Guan Chenghuang watched from the side, twirled his long beard lightly, nodded slightly, and had a look of satisfaction on his face.

——When facing ghosts and gods, you should maintain etiquette and respect. Don't expect to please ghosts and gods and gain benefits, but don't let ghosts and gods bear grudges and sometimes ruin your plans or even your life.

He himself is a ghost, and he knows too well the dimensionality reduction and crushing of mortals by ghosts and gods.

Not to mention divine power and authority, the power of ghosts and gods to supervise and inspect the human world alone is enough to easily destroy the vast majority of mortals.

A true sage has no fear of ghosts or gods.

But humans always make mistakes.

Ghosts and gods use pens to record the sins and merits of mortals. The same thing can be written into multiple completely different stories. If there are too many sins or merits, the underworld will directly modify the mortal's "fate" (the ending in the human world).

"Guan Huchen, please go."

After Hu Chen finished worshipping the God of Land, Guan Cheng Huang waved his hand and said, "You should go back to Guan Mansion as soon as possible and settle down as soon as possible."

Hu Chen was stunned for a moment and said, "This is the immortal palace of the gods. I am just an ordinary person, so I should leave early.

But I haven't recovered yet, and it's hard for me to even ride a horse. How can I just go back to Guanfu? Guanfu is still thousands of miles away!"

Generally, when there are outsiders present, he will try not to call Guan Chenghuang "Master" and will call himself "villain" instead.

Although everyone knows what kind of person Guan Chenghuang is, one still needs to be polite when it comes to avoiding suspicion.

When he was first sent to the land temple, he was panicked and terrified, shouting "Grandpa, help me". The same reason applies to Guan Chenghuang who immediately sent away the land gods who were accompanying him.

(End of this chapter)