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

Chapter 218 A mere stone's throw away, yet the difference between immortals and mortals.

Liao Jinzhong squinted at Xu Qing, and just as the atmosphere between the two was tense, the old eunuch who had been silent suddenly burst out laughing.

"The little guy is not old, judging from his voice he should have just come of age not long ago, but he has quite a big mouth."

"You don't think that just because you know some martial arts techniques, you've reached the threshold of becoming a celestial being, do you?"

Liao Jinzhong pinched his pinky finger and laughed so hard he was shaking. When Xu Qing saw this, she finally realized who Zhang Jun had learned it from.

Following the example set by their superiors, these eunuchs must have learned this from some brothel; they're all effeminate and lack any masculinity.

Although Xu Qing used to wear makeup, he was never coy or effeminate, unlike Liao Jinzhong, who acted like an old woman with bound feet.

"Eunuch Liao, your body and hair are given to you by your parents. Does your mother know that you cut off two ounces of flesh?"

Xu Qing spoke in a low, somber tone. As he spoke, he reached behind him and pulled out a mourning stick from somewhere.

"How dare you!" Liao Jinzhong's face turned red and his neck thickened. The composure he had finally managed to calm down was shattered by Xu Qing's words.

“My family was sold into the palace when we were young. Although we have no father or mother, we still have the support of Heaven and Earth and are granted the yellow jacket by the Emperor. Even civil and military officials have to show us respect!”

"Do you know what the current Crown Prince, the future heir apparent, calls us in private? 'Uncle Father'!" With each sentence Liao Jinzhong spoke, his aura rose a notch. When the last sentence fell, even Xu Qing felt the aura emanating from a Grandmaster at his peak!

"So he was an orphan. No wonder he had no mother to care for him."

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With just a few words, the momentum that Governor Liao had built up vanished like a deflated balloon.

"We'll tear your mouth apart!" Eunuch Liao's eyes were murderous, and his delicate fingers trembled like leaves.

Xu Qing looked at the orchid finger gesture and felt inexplicably familiar with it. It was as if he had done the same gesture before.

An illusion, it must be an illusion!

On the mast, dozens of feet above the ship's deck, Governor Liao's hair flew wildly, and his embroidered gold robe billowed.

Xu Qing heard a loud bang, and the mast, which was dozens of feet tall, exploded from top to bottom.

When a tigress unleashes her fury, it's truly terrifying!
In the fire room and charcoal room, two little immortals huddled together in a birdcage, shivering. Below the cabin, Ji Ruinian held the unconscious Master Feng, not daring to move. In front of them, a dozen or so savage beasts crowded into the small cabin, surrounding the two of them.

On the deck, a Nanman Nuo master, adorned with various jingling and colorful ornaments, was kneeling on the ground, wailing in agony.

The demon-hunting captain and the crane-wielding Taoist ignored them, focusing their attention solely on Xu Qing and Supervisor Liao.

A clash between grandmasters is a once-in-a-century event; perhaps the opportunity to advance to grandmaster level lies with these two.
The demon-hunting captains were itching to make their move.

Li Heyi's gaze remained fixed on Xu Qing.

Although the Celestial Master's Mansion has the Celestial Master's lineage, it has always been reserved for the Seven Masters of Xuanji, descendants with Celestial Master bloodlines, or so-called reincarnated spirit children. Someone like him, who is eager to cultivate but can only do dirty and tiring work, is probably not qualified to touch the true Celestial Master's lineage.

If Xu Qing is indeed as he thinks, not a grandmaster, but a cultivator with other unorthodox lineages, then...
The two had different thoughts: one wanted to advance his career, while the other was unwilling to leave in order to seize his destiny.

But without exception, both of them were filled with greed, anger, and ignorance.

When the barbarian Nuo master crawled up to the two men and became so noisy that they were really annoyed, the demon-hunting captain said, "Master Li, your Celestial Masters sect is good at alchemy and medicine making. Why don't you get an antidote and cure him? That way you won't have to keep making such a fuss."

"Useless! This man is a Nuo master from Nancuo. When it comes to using and detoxifying poison, probably no one in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area is as good as him. You can only blame him for being ignorant and insisting on eating snake liver and phoenix marrow."

No sooner had Li He finished speaking than he caught a glimpse of the Demon-Slaying Captain drawing his Demon-Slaying Blade and thrusting it at the Southern Barbarian Nuo Master who was pleading for his help.

Even Li Heyi, who had always maintained a composed expression, couldn't help but frown.

The demon-slaying captain drew his demon-slaying sword, and scalding blood instantly stained the deck red.

With a clear objective, he reached out and took the foot-long curved knife from the waist of the Nanman Nuo master, then drew it out two inches, its chilling light seemingly capable of freezing frost.

"Good knife!"

Sheathing his scimitar, the Demon-Slaying Captain stood up and turned to look at Li Heyi, whose brows were furrowed.

“The Grand Eunuch is currently engaged in a life-or-death struggle and cannot afford to be distracted by this. Moreover, this man has been poisoned and has no chance of survival. Giving him a quick death is also to relieve him of his burden as soon as possible.” Li He took a step away, clearly dissatisfied with the Demon-Slaying Captain’s explanation.

The man's spurting blood was bright red, and apart from abdominal pain, there were no signs of poisoning. Yet, the demon-hunting captain killed him on the spot. Such ruthless methods were unmatched even by demons.

At this moment, on the ship.

Xu Qing frowned and leaped back towards the river.

The ship in front of him was too fragile. He was afraid that if he exerted any force, it would affect Master Feng and the others who were hiding inside.

Even if it doesn't cause any harm, revealing their location is still not a good thing.

Seeing Xu Qing back down, Liao Jinzhong, who had been feeling uncertain, suddenly felt reassured.

"You're just bluffing. You're nothing more than a master of external martial arts, and what we fear least is external martial arts!"

Liao Jinzhong floated through the air like a shadow, his robes fluttering, and in an instant, he unleashed dozens of sword and palm shadows at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing felt the objects looked familiar; weren't these the Bone-Melting Palm and Bone-Corroding Sword that Lou Xiaowu used back then?
However, when Lou Xiaowu uses his swordsmanship, he must use a sword to borrow the form of a weapon, while Liao Jinzhong can use his fingers as a sword. This ability to transform qi into a sword and wield it freely is something only a grandmaster can possess.

Liao Gonggong's movements were unique, and although Xu Qing dodged most of the attacks, he still needed to defend against some of them at close range.

The Bone-Melting Palm technique is cunning and specifically designed to counter martial artists who practice external martial arts. It can break a person's bones, flesh, tendons, and fascia through the skin and flesh. The Bone-Eroding Sword Technique is an evil art that specializes in stripping away flesh and blood. When combined with sword techniques, it can unleash a thousand sword energies in an instant, stripping a person of flesh and leaving only bones, leaving only a skeleton.

However, just as Liao Jinzhong's Bone-Melting Palm was about to land on Xu Qing, he discovered that Xu Qing had also freed up a palm to counter, and the palm technique he used to meet the attack looked very familiar.

When their palms met, Liao Jinzhong felt a jolt throughout his body.

Before he could react, Xu Qing used the same tactic against him, unleashing a barrage of palm strikes that forced Liao Jinzhong into a desperate retreat.

"The Bone-Melting Palm?" Liao Jinzhong's eyes widened in shock. "How do you know this palm technique?"

Xu Qing chuckled, raised the filial piety staff in one hand, and immediately used the mourning staff in his hand to unleash a thousand sword shadows.

"Bone-Corroding Sword Technique, what exactly did you do to Xiao Wu?!"

Liao Jinzhong was filled with dread and rage.

In the old eunuch's eyes, Xu Qing must have tortured Lou Xiaowu inhumanely, otherwise how could his adopted son have revealed this secret technique?
Xu Qing seemed to have seen through Liao Jinzhong's thoughts. He chuckled, sheathed his sword, and said, "You think I would want these lowly things? If it weren't for your good-for-nothing son insisting on giving them to me, would I even want them?"

Xu Qing killed him by destroying his spirit.

"Shut up!" Liao Jinzhong yelled again. This guy's mouth was too sharp; he shouldn't have given him any chance to speak.

He darted and leaped to Xu Qing's side, covering a distance of a hundred feet across the river, faster than an arrow released from a bow!

Xu Qing swallowed a mouthful of yin energy, his chest visibly bulging. Just as Liao Jinzhong's figure disappeared from the spot, a corpse roar shattered the ten-mile stretch of river waves.

Liao Gonggong never expected Xu Qing to have such a cunning trick up his sleeve, and his mind was buzzing.

Blood was already seeping from his ear.

The protective aura can shield against external forces, but it cannot block out sound.

Before Eunuch Liao could react, Xu Qing wielded his filial piety staff, a combination of various martial arts techniques, and struck him down on the head.

Ten-Step Slash Technique, Five Tigers Severing the Gate Spear, Void Soaring Dragon Staff, Wind and Thunder Nine Shadow Whip
Xu Qing himself had a good beating, but when the filial son's stick struck Liao Jinzhong, there was no response.

Xu Qing then realized that her father-in-law was an orphan, so how could he have perceived the greatness of maternal love?
"Who exactly are you? And why do you know so many martial arts techniques?"

Xu Qing shook his head, feeling both disappointed and relieved.

"Eunuch Liao, I already know what a Grandmaster looks like. What's next?"

Putting away his filial piety stick, Xu Qing's momentum surged, and the waters within a twenty-mile radius of the Baisha River began to churn and boil. No matter how the ships that came to provide support sailed, they could not get close to the area within twenty miles.

"From now on, there will be no martial arts, only Taoist arts. Are you ready, Father-in-law?"

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