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

Chapter 286 The struggle for the crown prince is always like this.

The King of Tianjin?

Lingfeng Daoist looked puzzled. First there was Duo'e Ghost King and Yin Shi Dharma King, and now another king has appeared. Where did all these kings come from in the Yin River of Tianjin?
Lingfeng Daoist kept his eyes fixed on Xu Qing, with puppet Daoists guarding and protecting him from the side.

However, just as Lingfeng Daoist was about to ask a question, the big-faced man in front of him suddenly opened his mouth and let out an angry shout!

In ancient times, a fierce general roared and broke the Dangyang Bridge; now, the King of Tianjin let out a corpse roar, and the entire Linjiang County trembled.

The sound waves created a three-zhang-high wave, and Lingfeng Daoist felt a sharp pain in his eardrums, causing his thoughts to momentarily stagnate.

Before the roar of the corpses had subsided, another storm arose.

Before Lingfeng Daoist could react, a powerful white rainbow axe shadow slashed down in his face!

The Heavenly Gang Axe, stacked to the eighteenth level, parted the White Sand River, causing the water on both sides to surge dozens of feet high. Lingfeng Daoist was terrified, and the five shadows behind him huddled together in fear.

"You idiot, you deaf person!"

Feeling the ominous star flashing wildly overhead, Lingfeng Daoist was terrified and instinctively cried out.

The next moment, a Taoist who looked exactly like Lingfeng suddenly stood in front of the Heavenly Gang Axe.

The same roar came, but the Taoist, known as the Deaf-Fool, was like a small firecracker thrown into water by a thunderbolt, utterly insignificant compared to the mighty Heavenly Gang Axe.

Xu Qing, who was not far away, could clearly see that golden light shone where the white rainbow had struck, and at the same time, a dense aura of corpses spread out from the mouth of the White Sand River.

As soon as the white rainbow descended, Xu Qing's figure followed closely behind, instantly arriving in front of Lingfeng Daoist.

Lime poison mixed with spore powder drifted through the air. Xu Qing gave his opponent no chance to breathe and swung his axe down again.

The Taoist figure before him let out a woman's scream. Xu Qing focused his gaze and saw that the Taoist Lingfeng, who had been standing in place, had turned into a black shadow that had been cleaved apart. The shadows screamed as they tried to converge towards the center, as if trying to merge back together.

However, the killing intent of the Heavenly Gang Axe continued to erode the wounds of those shadows, and even though they twisted and intertwined together, they could not merge.

Xu Qingtian opened his Yin Eyes and quickly discovered that there was a shadow fleeing into the distance in each of the four directions.

At the same time, the sound of the puppet Taoist falling into the river could be heard behind him.

Ignoring the puppet Taoist's corpse, Xu Qing gave a soft shout, and the four flags on his back flew out on their own, shooting off in all directions!

The black-clad figure caught up with one of the shadows first. Xu Qing's figure flashed, and while unleashing a thunderous roar using his Corpse Roar Technique, he mercilessly slashed down with his mountain-splitting axe.

The shadow that the black flag caught up with let out a boy's scream. Xu Qing didn't care whether the shadow was alive or dead, and turned around to flash to the side of the shadow that the western golden flag had caught up with.

This time it was a loud wail, sounding like a 300-month-old 'child' who had suffered a great injustice and was crying loudly!

Xu Qing's face, already covered in black and white paint, darkened even more. His luck was truly unbelievable; neither of the two shadows he caught up with was the true form of Daoist Lingfeng.

Ignoring the wailing shadow, Xu Qing's figure had already flashed to the location pursued by the Eastern Red Flag.

This shadow ran the fastest and the farthest, even slower than the speed at which the flag was launched.

Seeing that he couldn't catch up with his movement technique, Xu Qing directly drained the Mao Jiang's magic power and then used the Divine Travel Book to instantly teleport in front of the light and shadow.

As the axe shadow, which had hastily deduced to the tenth level, swung down, Xu Qing felt a heat on his face as a large amount of blood splattered onto it.

The black and white painted face instantly turned into black and red.

Xu Qing shook his aura, cleared away the bloodstains, and looked down at himself.

The once whole Lingfeng Daoist was now split in two, like two blood worms, falling onto the river surface.

The main body suffered fatal damage, and all the shadows that had escaped around him returned to the Taoist priest in fear. The five shadows that could not merge desperately huddled together in front of Xu Qing.

Strangely, after Lingfeng Daoist was split in two, his disfigured corpse began to sprout fleshy buds, which intertwined and merged together.

Xu Qing felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the shadows and fleshy growths that seemed to be alive. The disciples of the Celestial Masters Sect were all incredibly wicked.

He instinctively converted his fire zombie magic to summon a ball of yin fire, but at the last second before throwing it out, he hurriedly stopped.

This is the corpse of a true disciple of the Celestial Master's Mansion. It would be such a pity if it were burned to ashes!

Xu Qing's thoughts raced. After putting away the Yin Flame, he placed his hands on the frantically healing Lingfeng Daoist.

When the Ruyi Guihua Gong, which he obtained from Eunuch Liao, was pushed to its limit, the more frantically the life force and magical power transmitted by those shadows were, the faster the Guihua Gong in Xu Qing's hands would operate.

When the five different types of malevolent energies landed on Xu Qing, they instantly transformed into pure malevolent magical power.

The magical power of Mao Jiang Mountain Forest, which had been previously depleted, is also recovering at a visible speed.

On the water's surface, Lingfeng Daoist focused all his energy on his upper body to project his shadow. Once his head and neck had healed, he looked at Xu Qing in terror, his voice trembling, a mix of threat and pleading:
"You can't kill me! I am one of the Seven Disciples of Xuanji from the Celestial Master's Mansion, a direct disciple of Celestial Master Lu. If you kill me, the Celestial Master will never let you go!"

"Your Majesty! King of Tianjin! I was wrong! Please, Your Majesty, have mercy and spare my life! Whatever Your Majesty desires, I will grant it!"

"I want your corpse."

Xu Qing, who had been working non-stop, finally spoke.

A corpse? Lingfeng Daoist felt his life slipping away and said urgently, "Fellow Daoist, why must you exhaust the resources? My corpse is of no use to you. If Your Majesty desires it, I can capture a thousand... no! Ten thousand blood offerings and send them to the Yin River."

Xu Qing's brain bulged. He maintained his transformation technique with one hand and drew his sword from his waist with the other, splitting Ling Fengdao's head open once again.

He's not the Demon King of Calamity! This sorcerer's attempt to bewitch him is utterly foolish.

Seeing that they couldn't save Lingfeng Daoist, the shadows that were clinging to him became emboldened and opened their blood-red mouths to pounce on Xu Qing's shadow on the river!

However, the shadows seemed to be biting into an iron plate, unable to harm Xu Qing in the slightest.

The zombie's soul and body were inseparable, having long since merged into one. The shadow was also like Xu Qing's own body. When Lingfeng Daoist's shadow attacked his shadow, it was equivalent to biting a golden-armored corpse.

If it bites Xu Qing's left hand, it will bite the incorruptible bone.

In broad daylight, what appeared to be several shadows darting and biting each other produced a creaking, metallic sound, like iron rods grinding their teeth.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, and the next moment the reflection in the river moved with his body, wielding the Tiger Seal Dragon Elephant Fist. When the phantoms of the ferocious tiger and black dragon appeared, those shadows were knocked back into Lingfeng Daoist's body in no time.

From the moment the two walked out of the Yin River one after the other, it was only the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea or take a piss, and another of the Seven Disciples of Xuanji from the Celestial Master's Mansion was gone.

When Lingfeng Daoren's last breath was extinguished, Xu Qing immediately put his body into the Box Garden. At the same time, he dived into the water, sensed the water flow, and retrieved the puppet Daoren's body.

Once everything settled down, the surface of the Baisha River estuary returned to calm.

Fearing that the earlier roars of the corpses would alert others to investigate, Xu Qing hid deep in the riverbed and traveled along the river channel until he reached the mouth of the Tanggu River along a tributary of the Baisha River, at which point he surfaced.

By this time, the paint on Xu Qing's face had been washed away by the water, and he had changed into a white shirt and blue robe in the water. Walking on the street, no one could tell that this fair-faced youth had any connection with the painted-face man.

Meanwhile, at the Celestial Master's Mansion.

Master Lu was resting with his eyes closed. Behind him, nine shadows were cast on the wall, like ghosts dancing wildly.

But for some reason, Master Lu felt uneasy today, and his eyelids were twitching violently.

He wanted to divine good or bad fortune, but when he thought of the repeated injuries he had suffered from lightning tribulations, which had wasted several years of his cultivation, he dared not divine easily again.

In this world, the secrets of heaven are unclear and chaotic. Only by trying to shape one's destiny as early as possible and cultivating to the primordial spirit realm can one have the confidence to act recklessly.

By severing decay and shaping life, one can gain a lifespan of a thousand years. Further progress leads to the primordial spirit, which is considered the supreme realm of immortality in the mortal world.

If the Path to Heaven were to open, one might even be guided by a seven-colored radiance and instantly become an immortal.
Master Lu was lost in thought, his mind wandering. Behind him, nine shadows, some joyful, some sorrowful, some mad, some infatuated, seemed to be immersed in their own fantasies of becoming immortals.

However, just as Master Lu was trying to subdue the restless mind, a commotion suddenly arose outside the hall.

Master Lu frowned and summoned a young boy to inquire what was wrong.

A short while later, the boy ran back into the hall, panicked, and said, "Heavens! Celestial Master, the guardian boy of the Heavenly Longevity Hall says that one of the longevity lamps inside has gone out!"

"The life lamp?" Master Lu sensed something was wrong and hurriedly asked, "Don't stammer! Tell me, whose life lamp went out?"

"Yes, it is Senior Brother Lingfeng."

Lingfeng! Master Lu felt his vision go black. Of the seven disciples of Xuanji, only five remained. Lingfeng was the second among the seven disciples of Xuanji, the second senior brother of the Celestial Master's Mansion, and also a disciple he valued highly.

Lingfeng is tactful and resourceful, and he manages the affairs of the Celestial Master's Mansion in an orderly manner. Most importantly, Lingfeng is exceptionally talented, second only to his senior brother Meng Yongzhen.

The sudden loss of such a true disciple is bound to cause Master Lu great distress.

The old Taoist priest took out a brand-new treasure mirror, and was about to perform divination by making hand gestures, but suddenly stopped.

"If my memory serves me correctly, your senior brother Lingfeng went to Tianjin, is that right?"

The boy nodded: "Senior Brother Lingfeng is on the Emperor's orders to go to the Underworld River to assist the Eight Banners Marshal. The entrance to the Underworld River is in Tianjin."

Master Lu's eyebrows trembled. The precious mirror he used to glimpse the secrets of heaven felt like a hot potato. He picked it up and put it down several times, unable to make up his mind.

On that day, the sound of tables, chairs, and window frames shattering came from the Celestial Master Hall, and a very strange aura flashed by.
"These scoundrels have gone too far! They only know a few tricks to conceal the secrets of heaven, yet they dare to act like this!"

Although Master Lu was furious, he never considered going to Tianjin himself.

The capital city is protected by the national destiny dragon, and the Celestial Master's Mansion is guarded by the relics left by the Celestial Masters of all generations. If he goes to Tianjin, what should he do if he encounters an extraordinary immortal or demon?

As a result, the Celestial Master's Mansion adopted new regulations that very day.

"By the decree of the Celestial Master, effective immediately, no disciple of the sect may travel to Tianjin without the Celestial Master's order."

Jinmen, Linjiang County.

Xu Qing was living in a cramped coffin shop, piecing together and mending the corpse of Lingfeng Daoren.

When the shattered corpse resembled a human figure, the Sutra of Salvation began to turn its pages, and at the same time, Xu Qing also saw the revolving lantern of Lingfeng Daoist.

The story of Lingfeng Daoren takes place during the Qianyuan era, when there was a wealthy man named Gao outside the capital.

The wealthy man, surnamed Gao, had a wife and a concubine. His wife, surnamed Yuan, was dignified and had the demeanor of a noble lady. His concubine, surnamed Qin, was intelligent and kind-hearted, and had a very gentle nature.

This Yuan family gave birth to twin sons for Master Gao; the elder was named Gao Yuanxing, and the younger was named Gao Yuanlong.

Yuanlong has been an idiot since childhood and is also deaf. He is always in a daze and only recognizes Yuanxing. He never leaves his side and is like a tail.

Yuanxing, on the surface, pretended to be friendly and respectful to his brothers, but behind the scenes he was scheming and always found ways to bully people.

"Don't follow me! You idiot, you deaf person, a deaf idiot nobody wants!"

However, no matter how much Yuan Xing cursed, Yuan Long always followed him with a smile on his face and drooling.

Over time, Yuanxing got used to the pendant and even discovered many fun ideas for using Yuanlong.

After all, who would bother arguing with a fool!
After Qin entered the household, she gave birth to a son born out of wedlock, Gao Qin.

By this time, Yuanxing and Yuanlong had grown into young men. Yuanxing had impure thoughts and often hid in the shadows to watch his stepmother, Qin, breastfeed her younger brother.

Seeing that his second wife was plump and alluring, he could no longer suppress the wicked thoughts in his heart.

One day, Master Gao and his first wife, Madam Yuan, went out on business. Yuan Xing seized the opportunity, dismissed the maids and servants, and sneaked into Madam Qin's room under the cover of night, intending to force himself on her!

Qin was fierce, and in a moment of crisis, she bit Yuanxing's arm, drawing blood immediately.

When Master Gao returned, Madam Qin tearfully recounted the incident, but in the pitch black, how could she recognize the thief? She could only assume it was the work of someone from the household.

Master Gao was furious and immediately summoned everyone in the manor to line up and examine the wounds. Whoever had a wound on their arm or teeth marks was a scoundrel who had committed adultery in the family!

However, after all the servants and guests in the mansion had been examined, not a single one of them had an arm injury.

At this time, only Gao Yuanxing and Gao Yuanlong had not yet conducted the investigation.

When she saw everyone's gaze fall on the eldest and second young masters, Qin's face turned deathly pale.

Madam Yuan treated her very well. If it really had something to do with Madam Yuan's child, how would she face herself after things fell apart?

The reception hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Madam Qin stammered, "Master, perhaps we shouldn't investigate further. It might just be a thief from outside the manor."

Master Gao's face was ashen, and he forced out a single word through gritted teeth: "Inspect!"

Gao Yuanxing seemed to have nothing to hide, and instead of showing any leniency, he smiled and said to his father's imposing manner, "My brother and I have always respected our second mother and would never do such a thing that violates human ethics. However, since Father does not believe us, then Yuanlong and I will verify each other's claims!"

"Yuan Long would never do such a thing!"

As they were talking, Gao Yuanxing casually lifted Yuanlong's sleeve.

And right under that sleeve, there was a row of teeth marks!
Gao Yuanxing was first taken aback, then said in disbelief, "This is impossible! How could Yuanlong do this? Yes! I've heard that the struggle for the heirship has always been like this throughout history. Second Mother, could it be that you gave birth to Qindi and now want to monopolize the family business for him, deliberately framing me and Yuanlong!"

Good heavens! This counterattack left Qin Shi speechless and at a loss for words.

She was soft-hearted and pitied Yuanlong's foolishness, so she could only plead in a trembling voice: "The child's ignorance is not a sin. Perhaps this child did it unintentionally. I hope that you will not blame him, sir."

Master Gao was so angry that he trembled all over, but Yuanlong just smiled foolishly and scratched his head, while Yuanxing looked righteous. On the other hand, Qin was teary-eyed and annoying.

　I'm currently rushing to finish the manuscript; I'll try to finish the next chapter by tomorrow morning!
　　
　
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