I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 122: Saving the Infant Mother, the Smoldering Method

Chen Mancang was full of vigor and energy, with a sense of clarity as if the moon was revealed after the clouds had parted.

No wonder the herdsman always controls the amount of water the sheep drink every time they drink. So that's what's going on!

Who could have imagined this? If he hadn't stumbled into the tank by chance today, he would have remained in the dark for the rest of his life.

Here, Chen Mancang was laughing foolishly, but he didn't notice that the chefs and servants in the kitchen had surrounded him with knives and sticks.

The prince's cannibalism was a private matter, and the servants in the palace were unaware of it. They only saw that the sheep in the kitchen was gone, but there was an extra person in the water tank.

Everyone subconsciously thought Chen Mancang was a sheep thief.

Seeing the sheepskin on the ground, the value of this thief's wealth rose to a new level.

Even the butcher couldn’t cut up the cow that fast!
Chen Mancang hadn't regained his human form for a long time, and he wasn't quite used to the sudden transformation back into a human. The way he walked was like an old lady with bound feet wearing hedgehog skin insoles. When he walked, he still had the youthfulness of a young girl losing her virginity.

The kitchen servants didn't care about that. Before Chen Mancang could react, a group of people rushed forward and pressed him to the ground.

The hot water on the stove next to him was boiling and smoke was rising. The chef stood by with a knife in his hand, staring at him fiercely.

Chen Mancang didn't know that everyone thought he was a thief, and thought that these people were going to chop him up as food.

"Don't eat me! I'm a human, and humans can't eat humans! That thing is ruining his karma!"

You say this guy is so shameless. He was the one who killed his own kind and ate sheep every day. Now he is the one who says that eating sheep is a bad thing. It turns out that he is the only one who says all the good and bad things.

The palace servants ignored the madman. Someone fished out some mutton from the water tank and said, "This is bizarre! Where did the mutton go? Could this guy have eaten it?"

There is a commotion in the kitchen. The sheep that the prince bought at a high price is lost. There must be an explanation, right?

After everyone had a plan, they simply tied up Chen Mancang and brought him to see the prince.

After hearing the whole story, the prince immediately understood what was going on.

Looking down at the fat Chen Mancang, the prince couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

He had the sheepskin presented, and then ordered everyone to leave.

When Chen Mancang was the only one left in the room, the prince smiled and spread out the sheepskin, then walked towards Chen Mancang.

Chen Mancang thought quickly and shouted, "Your Majesty, please spare my life. Only in this way can Your Majesty continue to have sheep to eat!"

The prince paused as he tried to put on the sheepskin, and said impatiently, "If I eat you, the shepherd will bring me a new sheep. Why should I spare your life to eat the sheep?"

Chen Mancang crawled up to him and said flatteringly, "The shepherd is over fifty years old and nearing the end of his life. How many more years can he continue herding sheep? If he dies one day, Your Highness will have no sheep to eat."

"Go on!" The prince frowned and thought to himself, it was indeed the case.

"The old shepherd uses a secret method to transform living people into livestock. Among them, the lambs transformed from innocent boys have the most tender and juicy meat, which is a hundred times better than my rough meat."

As he spoke, Chen Mancang squirmed his fat body and smiled flatteringly, "I've been with the old man for many years and am familiar with the secret art of raising livestock. If I take over the flock, I can guarantee you will have fresh lambs every month."

The prince asked with great interest, "Why should I trust you?"

Chen Mancang put on a smile and said, "If I break my promise, Your Highness will lose only one sheep, but if the old man's flock is scattered, Your Highness's kitchen will be without food."

"You are a good man." The prince threw away the sheepskin and said coldly: "I will spare your life. If the lamb does not arrive——"

"I shall peel off my skin and heart and offer them to the prince for his enjoyment!"

Chen Mancang left the palace alive, but he did not flee far away. Instead, he followed the path where the old shepherd used to graze his sheep and found the flock.

He was holding his own sheepskin in his hand, and when he saw the old shepherd, he knelt down on the ground without saying a word.

The old waiter was shocked and angry, and thought that Chen Mancang had escaped from the Prince's Mansion secretly and brought trouble to him.

The old man picked up the sheep whip and whipped Chen Mancang.

He beat and scolded at the same time, and when the old waiter got tired of scolding, Chen Mancang began to complain.

"I was wrong. You always hit me, and I took it without a word of complaint. But I have something to tell you."

Chen Mancang changed his story at this time. He kept saying that the prince knew how to skin animals, and he also said that when he turned into a human and was about to be skinned alive by the prince, he couldn't help crying.

The prince listened to his crying and, moved by his filial piety, released him.

The old man was puzzled and asked Chen Mancang what he was crying about.

Chen Mancang kowtowed and said, "My life was given to me by my master. If it weren't for my master, I would have starved to death long ago. I am crying because my master is old and I haven't repaid him yet. If I were gone, who would take care of you in your old age?"

The old man was skeptical. He had no children, and this was the first time someone spoke to him like that.

"You really think so?"

"Words can be lied to, but banknotes cannot be lied to. If Master doesn't mind, from now on Mancang will call you godfather."

Chen Mancang pulled out a few banknotes from his pocket and smiled foolishly, "When the prince let me go, he gave me a job as a procuring agent for the palace. This is the two hundred taels of silver I want to honor my godfather."

To say that Chen Mancang was eager to serve the shepherd was not because he truly wanted to show filial piety to him.

It was because Chen Mancang was jealous of the old man's ability to create animals. He had previously told the prince that he knew the secret method of creating sheep, but that was purely a lie.

The boss never taught him, so how could he have that skill?
Only by becoming a disciple, recognizing each other as relatives, and bringing the two closer together, will he have the opportunity to learn the other's skills.

Two years passed like this, and the old man with difficulty in walking finally passed on all his skills to Chen Mancang.

That night, Chen Mancang respectfully filled the old man's glass with wine. When the old man was drunk, he made an excuse to go out to relieve himself. When he came back, he had a sheepskin in his hand.

The waiter asked him, "What are you doing with this sheepskin?"

Chen Mancang smiled and replied, "Didn't we agree that I would take care of you until your death? I am fulfilling my promise and coming here to see you off!"

Once the sheepskin prepared with secret methods touches the human body, it begins to shrink rapidly.

The old man kept struggling and screaming under the sheepskin. He reached out to grab his pipe, but couldn't find it no matter how hard he tried.

Chen Mancang hugged the old man tightly, not giving him a chance to break free.

He didn't let go until he heard the bleating of an old sheep in his arms.

The light in the tent flickered. Chen Mancang took out his pipe, lit the bowl, and took two puffs in front of the sheep oil lamp.

"Godfather is really getting old. The tobacco he smokes isn't as strong as it used to be."

In the county town, Chen Mancang drove his flock of sheep to the market.

He whipped an old sheep that was trembling as it walked and sold it to people one by one.

But people thought the sheep was too old and too expensive, so no one was willing to take it back.

Chen Mancang was not in a hurry either. He was holding the old sheep and talking to himself.

"When you sold me, you were able to fetch so much silver. But now I'm selling you, but I can't even fetch one ounce of silver."

The old sheep's eyes had long lost their spirit. He silently followed Chen Mancang to the mutton shop and just watched the sheep being skinned in the shop.

"Shepherd, how many times have I told you that your sheep is too old? Who would be willing to pay a high price to buy this old sheep?"

"You know, even a rich master would marry a concubine in her twenties. Who would spend money to marry an old, outdated woman?"

"I'll sell it cheap!" "Cheap? Then will you sell it to me if I offer ten cents?"

Chen Mancang took the ten copper coins and left the mutton shop without looking back.

Behind him, the hoarse bleating of an old sheep sounded a few times before it completely quieted down.

In the days that followed, Chen Mancang completely took over the role of shepherd. The sheep he usually herded were either sold to people with special fetishes or to people in the underworld.

When there were not many sheep, he would go to suitable villages and towns, 'Daxuba', kidnap those who were unconscious, and use the secret method of creating animals to turn them into goats.

On this day, Chen Mancang, who was over fifty years old, came to Tianjin. It was in this place that he met his new customer - the baby-saving mother.

The old mother who saved the baby was originally the "honored deity" worshipped in the temple of childbirth.

This god is extremely effective. Any woman who comes here to make a wish and burn incense will be able to get pregnant.

No matter how you think about it, a deity with supernatural powers like this should not go to the shepherd to buy those lambs.

Chen Mancang couldn't figure out what was going on, but he didn't need to understand.

Since the priest in the Temple of Childbirth was willing to take care of his business, he would not ask too many questions and would not interfere.

Just like that, Chen Mancang came to Xijing Mountain and began to kidnap children from the village.

You want to ask him why he went to a remote place like Xijing Mountain instead of a bustling town?

This is related to the laws of the Yong Dynasty. In fact, not only the Yong Dynasty, but also several dynasties before it had the same law, that is, as long as the government catches the evildoers who engage in sexual intercourse or use evil methods to create animals, no matter the reason, they will be executed immediately!

No matter how powerful Chen Mancang is, he dare not commit a crime against the law.

But no matter how he thought about it, he could never have imagined that Xijing Mountain would become his grave.

As the saying goes, good and evil will be rewarded in the end. Now that the shepherd has met Xu Qing, it can be said that his life has come to an end.

The pages of the Sutra of Salvation stopped turning, and the shepherd boy's sinful life came to an end.

Xu Qing came to his senses and received two rewards.

A mysterious art, by practicing it one can understand the transformation of humans and animals, and comprehend the method of creating animals.

In addition to creating animals, there are also some witchcrafts in the nightmare technique that pretend to be gods and deceive people.

For example, if you use food as bait to lure someone into eating it, that person will become unconscious and will follow the caster involuntarily.

This kind of nightmare technique is rare in the north of the Yangtze River and is most common south of the rivers.

This technique also has a name, commonly known as "daxuba", and south of the Yangtze River and Huai River it is also called "chexu".

They are evil arts that go hand in hand with the secret art of animal creation, and they are all unconventional methods that are not worthy of being displayed on the public.

After Xu Qing learned it, he threw it aside. This thing was of little use to him. At most, he could use it to deal with his enemies.

But if he really had an enemy, he would most likely choose to bury the other party in the Watergate Bridge Villa instead of sitting around doing nothing and turning him into cattle or sheep.

After all, if he buried it in another courtyard, he could still refine it into a beast to work for him, but there would be no such benefit if he turned it into cattle or sheep.

In addition to the useless secret art of animal creation, there is also a reward of the earth grade, called the "Smoldering Method".

The smoldering method can be practiced by holding a breath of Yin Qi. As long as you breathe this Yin fire onto any combustible material, such as tobacco leaves, talisman paper, or kerosene, you can trigger the smoldering fire.

Smoldering fire can burn people's souls and internal organs. It is also a type of fire that is more friendly to evil spirits and is suitable for the cultivation of evil spirits.

After Xu Qing obtained the Smoldering Technique, his expression became somewhat strange.

Earlier, when he chose the zombie evolution path, the only way he could go was the black zombie. However, in just a few days, he not only obtained the mountain-driving secret technique suitable for Maohuo's practice, but now he has also obtained the smoldering method that is extremely suitable for Huoba's practice.

But the key point is that there has never been any record of a zombie practicing hair zombie, black zombie and fire zombie at the same time.

Xu Qing mobilized the smoldering fire in his body, which was currently only the size of the tip of his little finger, and tentatively began to stimulate it.

With a breath of Yin energy and the ignition of fire, Xu Qing blew towards the old sheep's corpse on the ground. The sheepskin on the other party began to melt and burn rapidly like the yellow paper burning in the temple.

In a short while, the old sheep, whose sheepskin was burned to ashes, regained its human form.

Xu Qing was delighted to see this. It turned out that the technique of creating animals could not only be broken by the water flooding method, but also be violently removed by the smoldering method.

This method is not suitable for use on living things.

After trying the smoldering method, Xu Qing had an idea and took the water filtering bowl to try to perform the water commanding method.

The smoldering fire in his body was not affected at all. Even though the water energy inside and outside his body was strong at this time, there was no mutual repulsion.

Xu Qing thought about it for a moment and suddenly understood.

Smoldering fire is not yang fire, and it relies on the yin energy in his body when it is cast, just like some practitioners can cast water magic while releasing thunder magic and fire magic.

In essence, it is not determined by external manifestations, but is affected by the original magic power used to cast the spell.

In other words, as long as he doesn't come into contact with techniques that go against his physical constitution, he can practice multiple techniques simultaneously.

However, those who practice multiple Dharmas together are destined to be a minority.

After all, human life span is limited, and the energy in a lifetime is more or less fixed. If you practice multiple methods at the same time, the final result will inevitably be broad but not deep. These external methods may even affect your own progress in cultivation, and thus affect your life span.

"So, if you live long enough, you can master all the Dharma?"

Xu Qing grinned and thought to himself, how could there be such a good thing?
Zombies have no lifespan. They may not have time to live, but their half-dead state can continue forever.

The shepherd boy was dead, and Xu Qing realized again the meaning of the three transformations of the corpse. The harvest of this trip was much richer than he had imagined.

Perhaps this is what people often say: good deeds will be rewarded.
Xu Qing was in a good mood. He stood up and put the shepherd's body into the box.

Not far away, Xuan Yu was sitting on a high rock, looking after his ownerless flock of sheep.

Next to Xuanyu, Huang Laoxu, who had come at some point, was asking questions non-stop.

The black crow that had been circling in the sky also landed nearby.

At first, it only saw a doomsday scene of smoke and fire in the stream and forest. When the smoke cleared, the shepherd was already waiting to be captured.

It was more eager to know the details here than Huang Laoxu.

This is the nature of crows to love gossip, and it is no exception.

After Xu Qing greeted Huang Laoxu and Hei Laoya, he turned his attention to Xuanyu.
"Xuan Yu Immortal, do you want to learn the technique to transform these sheep into humans?"

Xuan Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Could it be that the Xu Xian family knows how to transform into a human?"

Xu Qing smiled mysteriously and motioned Xuan Yu to come closer to his ear.

The cool and yin energy blew on the cat's ears, and Xuanyu couldn't help but shake the tips of his ears.

After listening to Xu Qing's solution, Xuan Yu opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief:

"So simple?"

"It's that simple!"

(End of this chapter)