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

Chapter 142 Save the cat, local snake
Holding three incense sticks in his hands, Xu Qing walked in a circle and stepped on the ground. After the incense attracted the evil spirits in the courtyard, he began to chant the "Yichang Bing Curse".

"Just when he was injured, the leader turned to good deeds.

The Heavenly Master has ordered that the evildoer be caught quickly.

Travel across the nine lands, kill ghosts and capture the wounded.

Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds bring disaster.

The wicked hate me and will kill me in revenge.

I will now make you act recklessly."

After the soldiers finished chanting the curse, black smoke suddenly rose from the burial ground in the yard. Nearly two hundred skeletons stretched out their bony claws from the soil, and skull heads also emerged from the ground like bamboo shoots after rain.

The mouths, noses, ears and eyes of these skeletons were all filled with evil spirits. Upon hearing the incantation, the corpses faced the altar, opened their mouths and spat out evil spirits, as if they were believers on pilgrimage.

The method of refining ghost soldiers was originally used by the Tianshi Mansion to employ ghost soldiers. This method does not always work to condense the ghost soldiers into shape. If it succeeds two or three times out of ten, it is considered pretty good.

The main reason for this is that all Heavenly Masters in the past were living people. After some Yin corpses break out of the ground, they do not take people from the Yang world as their leader. The Yin evil they spit out will be like a headless fly, unable to condense in one place. When there is too much Yin evil that overflows and the condensed evil energy is not enough to condense into shape, the refining of the general will fail.

But Xu Qing never worried about this.

The probability of failure when a living person condenses the rampant soldiers is high. That's because the method is wrong and the expertise is not suitable. If you were the King of Hell, there would be no need to condense them. Those rampant generals and ghost soldiers would automatically break out of the ground and come forward for you to command.

For matters of the underworld, seek people from the underworld; for matters of the living, follow the ways of the living. This is the true professional connection.

Just as the King of Ghosts commands the ghost soldiers and the Ten Kings of Hell are in charge of all matters in the underworld.

Although Xu Qing was not the King of Ghosts, he was the most yin-filled existence in the courtyard at this moment. When he waved his hand and inserted the flag on the altar and stood in the center of the altar, all the skeletons in the courtyard followed him as their leader, and those evil spirits also obeyed his orders and gathered in front of the altar.

In the yard, two corpses formed by evil spirits crawled out from the ground almost at the same time. First, bone claws more than two feet long and one foot two inches wide split the soil layer, and then a huge skull head and a body about ten feet tall crawled out.

The two generals had ferocious looks on their faces, with ghostly fire gushing out of their eye sockets as deep as the bottom of a well. Seeing this, Xu Qing nodded in satisfaction.

Adding the previously refined General in the Rampant Banner, he possessed three Silver Armored Zombies. In the secular world, this was equivalent to a top-tier martial arts force possessing three Condensed Energy Warriors.

Xu Qing waved towards the roof, and the black cat, which had been unable to contain itself any longer, immediately jumped down from the eaves and came to the altar.

The embroiderer who fell behind dared not go over no matter what.

Those rampant generals looked even more like ghosts than she did. She even thought they were the legendary "聻".

It's so scary!

"What are these big guys? Are they ghosts?"

As soon as Xuan Yu finished speaking, a female ghost on the roof behind him broke through the defense and said, "How can such an ugly thing be a ghost? It must be a ghost, it must be a ghost!"

"What is a 聻?" Xuan Yu asked curiously.

"A ghost is what a ghost turns into after death. When a person dies, he becomes a ghost, and when a ghost dies, he becomes a ghost. Ghosts fear ghosts, just like people fear ghosts. If Xuanyu gets bored in the future, he can dress up as a ghost and come to play with the embroiderer, so that she won't always complain about being lonely in an empty house."

On the roof, the embroiderer opened her eyes wide and looked at Xu Qing in disbelief. He was clearly a human being, so why could he easily say such vicious words?
Xuan Yu thought thoughtfully, "Are these two big guys demons?"

"No." Xu Qing patiently explained: "This is Chang Jiang, the product of the gathering of evil spirits from dead bodies. As for why it is called Chang."

"It's said that a dragon and a pig mated to create a creature called Ran. This creature is as big as a jar, with a head like a pig, cow hooves, and a rabbit tail larger than a dog. It's known for its ability to devour people, is greedy and ferocious, and makes a sound like a baby crying. Ran's appearance is similar to Ran's, both ugly and ferocious. I guess that's why it's called this."

Xuan Yu seemed to understand and asked, "Are they powerful?"

"Inferior to Xuanyu."

"How does that compare to a big tiger?"

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This map of Yan State is too short.

Xu Qing smiled slightly and said, "Even if there are ten big tigers, they are not as powerful as a Xuanyu."

"Really?"

"of course."

After taking Chang Jiang into Changqi's fold, Xu Qing had nothing to do, so he sat under the locust tree and watched the cat and the female ghost in the yard playing shuttlecock.

The feathers of the golden phoenix on the shuttlecock are extremely bright, and every time it flies into the night sky, it leaves a golden trail.

At five o'clock in the morning, Xu Qing and Xuan Yu left the villa. At the door of the villa, a female ghost in white clothes was sitting on the eaves. She did not withdraw her gaze until the young man and the cat walked across the Water Gate Bridge and their figures completely disappeared on the other side of the arch bridge.

Rumor has it that some souls that are unable to transcend after death due to unresolved grudges will be bound to a specific area and unable to leave.

This kind of soul usually has unfulfilled wishes or unresolved resentments during its lifetime, which makes its soul unable to rest in peace. It can only continue to stay in the human world and wander in a sad place.

The embroiderer could not sense the path to the underworld, nor could she leave Tianjin, but she did not feel lonely at this moment.

At least after her death, there was still a person and a cat willing to talk to her and keep her company.

"I will always remember the kindness of Mr., I will always think of the quiet Nanshan, I will miss the purple bamboos rustling, the moon like a hook, the stream light swaying the house like a boat
I miss you, my husband, whose straw sandals traverse the misty landscape, always accompanying me, amidst the vast waters and towering mountains. I pity you, who abandoned his family and wife to pursue the Daoist path, turning a beautiful young man into a gray-haired old man. I always believe that God will bless my husband with profound achievements, and will not let me down, relying on a green lamp to keep my quiet love for ten years."

In the deep courtyard, a woman's playful voice could be heard faintly.

On Flower and Bird Street, a young man was strolling along the street with a black cat and a walnut in his hand.

Some vendors selling birds and flowers nearby greeted the young man as soon as they saw him. It was not because they were familiar with him, but because they were so enthusiastic purely for the sake of the black cat.

Xu Qing asked indirectly and learned from the vendors that his cat would come here for a stroll every now and then. Now many people on Flower and Bird Street recognized this black cat.

When they reached a deserted alley, Xu Qing asked, "Does Xuanyu often come here to play?"

"I don't play often, I just come here for a stroll occasionally."

"Heh." Xu Qing chuckled. Cats have always had a special liking for birds, insects and butterflies. He said it was wandering, but in his opinion, Xuan Yu probably came here just to see these birds and insects and butterflies.

Walking through the alley, there was a vendor selling cats and dogs arguing with someone.

"This is a purebred lion cat. Look at its long, snow-white fur, its large build, and its heterochromatic eyes, one blue and one green! It's a tribute cat to the imperial palace. The nobles love to keep it. How can any other cat compare?"

As he was speaking, the cat vendor suddenly caught sight of Xuan Yu passing by and said, "Look at that cat. It's pitch black, like a boiled egg. It's not likely anyone would want it for even a hundred copper coins, let alone a hundred taels!"

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What does it mean that trouble comes from the mouth? Xu Qing glanced at the vendor with a gloomy look.

This was not the first time Xuanyu had heard someone speak ill of it. The last time, the person who said such words had to pay a hundred taels of silver as compensation!

Xuanyu's ears were pulled back and his tail was sweeping back and forth.

Just as it was about to move, a pair of large hands suddenly picked it up by the waist.

"I didn't buy this cat, I hired it. Price alone can't be used to measure its value. Besides, did you steal your cat?"

Xu Qing glanced at the lion cat in the cage and looked at the cat dealer with a rather unfriendly look.

"What nonsense are you talking about! This is a cat I raised myself. If you don't want to buy it, then don't talk nonsense. If you ruin my business, you will definitely have to pay me for it!"

Xu Qing ignored the trafficker's threats and looked at the lion cat, making a bird-like and cat-like sound. The lion cat opened its eyes wide, as if it understood what he said, and continued to make hoarse calls.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and said abruptly, "How dare you steal a noble family's cat!"

A noble family’s cat? The customer who was about to buy a cat immediately stopped and prepared to pay.

The language of birds and animals can only be used for basic communication. Xu Qing could tell that the lion cat was stolen, but he had no way of knowing whose cat it was.

This is related to the limitations of the language of birds and beasts, and also to the lack of spirituality of the lion cat.

However, these days, those who can afford to keep such an expensive cat are definitely not ordinary people.

The cat dealer vehemently denied it when he heard it, and passersby who were watching the fun came over to look at him.

Xu Qing gently stroked Xuan Yu's soft back and said, "It's no use telling me this. If you have anything to say, you might as well go and tell the officials at the yamen. Stealing from a noble family is a serious crime!"

The flower and bird market was very busy, with yamen runners patrolling from time to time. Seeing the young man clinging to him, the vendor got anxious and simply reached out to open the door of the cat cage.

When the cat scurried out of the cage, the vendor cursed, "Mind your own business! Go report it! I'm waiting for you to report it to the authorities. They always try to catch the person red-handed. I only have an empty cage here. If you can report it to the authorities, I'm quite capable!"

Xu Qing laughed when he heard that, turned around and whistled at the cat that ran across the street.

The latter hesitated for a moment, and when it saw the black cat in the young man's arms also meow twice, it returned to the cat dealer's cage and stretched out its claws to close the cage door.

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The cat vendor was stunned, and the onlookers around him looked at each other in bewilderment.

One of the naughty kids clapped his hands and said, "This lion cat is amazing! It turns out it can really understand human language!"

The cat dealer was anxious. He opened the cage door and shouted at the cat to scare it away, but the cat hid in the corner and refused to come out of the cage even though it was shaking like a ball.

The vendor wanted to leave, but was tripped by Xu Qing.

Seeing that the vendor still remembered, Xu Qing shook his wrist, took out the Taihui Pearl obtained in the Songzi Temple, and split a wisp of gray Taihui, which fell on the vendor.

The most unfortunate thing in the world is that a living being dies a violent death just after being born and before it even stays in this world.

This kind of bad luck is called Taihui.

The gray mist penetrated into the vendor's body, and the next moment the vendor's forehead darkened visibly.

According to the fortune teller, if the forehead is black, then something bad is about to happen.

Sure enough, when the cat dealer stood up and hurriedly prepared to pack up his stall and leave, his foot slipped and he fell to the bluestone ground with a thud.

"Ouch!" The dealer cried out in pain. Everything else was fine except his two big front teeth!

When the trafficker finally caught his breath and was about to get up, two kind-hearted people suddenly came out from the audience and lifted him up, one on each side.

There are still many good people in the world!

The cat vendor endured the pain and turned his head to look around. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked.

Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be two police officers!
Xu Qing kindly reminded them, "The cat stolen by this cat thief is no ordinary cat. Perhaps it's the beloved pet of some noble man. If you two return the cat, you will probably get some benefits."

When the two yamen runners heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up.

Watching the yamen runners carrying the cat cage and escorting the trafficker away, Xu Qing reached out and patted the black cat in his arms, saying, "Can I finally get some relief?"

Xuanyu broke free from Xu Qing's arms and jumped to the ground.

It turned its head and looked around, then walked forward without saying a word.

When they arrived at the alley where Mr. Feng was, Xuan Yu suddenly asked, "Do you humans all like white cats?"

Xu Qing shook his head upon hearing this and said, "People are complicated, and each has their own preferences. Some people like white, while others like black or raccoon dogs."

"So what color does Xu Xianjia like?"

Xuan Yu paced back and forth without looking back, asking casually as if he was being unintentional.

"Look at my hair color. That's the color I like."

Xuan Yu stopped, looked up at Xu Qing, and said seriously, "But people's hair will turn white one day, but cats' hair will never change color."

Xu Qing laughed heartily: "Other people's hair may turn white, but Xu Xian's hair will never turn white!"

"why?"

"Because Xu Xianjia likes black so much, he likes it so much that he doesn't want his hair to turn white."

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Looking at Xu Qing's smiling eyes, Xuan Yu suddenly turned his head away.

Seeing the cat embarrassed, Xu Qing found it even more amusing.

"Where is the Xuanyu Immortal Family?"

"what?"

Xu Qing smiled slightly and said, "Of course, I'm asking Xuanyu Xianjia what color he likes."

"Well"

Xuan Yu thought for a moment, and suddenly had an answer: "Blue, I prefer blue."

On the side, Xu Qing smiled again.

"Blue is a color very close to black."

In a house in Beimen Hutong, Mr. Feng was furious.

"When I'm doing business in the capital, who wouldn't give me some respect? What the heck are the Jinmen Gang? How dare they rob my goods?"

None of the servants dared to speak in front of Master Feng.

Only the housekeeper spoke up to persuade him, "Second Master, a powerful dragon can't defeat a local snake. Which of those masters in the dental industry isn't powerful? But this Jinmen Gang has occupied Linhe Port, and those masters haven't dared to say a word."

"Second Master needs to calm down. This matter cannot be handled while angry."

Mr. Feng calmed down a lot after hearing this, but he still felt a little embarrassed.

"I can think he's ignorant when the Jinmen Gang robs other goods, but this batch of goods is what I promised to give to a friend. How can I explain to my friend if he loses it?"

The housekeeper suggested: "Why not push it back and find another batch of goods to replace it?"

"Bullshit! Those are all funerary objects, how can you just dig them up?"

Mr. Feng waved his hand and said, "This matter cannot end like this. In the capital, everyone abides by the rules and respects them the most. How dare the Jinmen Gang disobey the rules?"

"First, send the bodies of those escort masters back safely. I must demand an explanation for this matter!"

(End of this chapter)