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

Chapter 325 A Ten-Year Feud, The Real Parties Meet
The leader of the Cangyi Gang, who wreaked havoc in several states and coveted the entire world, is dead.

Xu Qing did not choose to immediately perform a ritual to send Ji Lingzhou's body to the afterlife. Instead, he controlled the paper figure to come to the coffin, which was half-open, and looked inside.

There was nothing extra in the coffin except the body of an old man with white hair and beard, who had an air of otherworldly wisdom.

Are there really remains of immortals?

Before Xu Qing could react, the old man with a youthful face and white hair suddenly sat up and said to the paper figure, "Young man, I see that your mind is clear and untainted by worldly dust. With your three souls so clear and your seven spirits so pure, you are truly born with innate pure energy. How could you be a mundane person in this world?"

"I have lived among the clouds and mist for over sixty years, and through the dissolution of my body, I have become an immortal. Only my remains remain here, solely to seek a successor to my mantle. Before I became an immortal, I had seen countless people, but someone with your spiritual talent and wisdom is truly rare in this world!"

"Now I thirst for talent and have the wondrous secrets of the Yellow Court to impart to you. Once you have learned them, you will shed your worldly attachments, and then longevity will be within your reach, and the celestial palace will be within your reach!"

After saying that, the old man stretched out his magic finger and pointed it directly at the paper figure's forehead.

Xu Qing noticed the small, blood-red snake coiled around the old man's finger and the thick, dark red blood beneath him.

Regardless of why the old man was lying in the blood, let's just say that it's one thing for you to impart immortal techniques, but what's the point of instructing a paper figure?
When the blood-red snake burrowed into the paper figure's forehead, Xu Qing only saw the paper figure's body swell and throb. When the snake burst out of the paper figure's belly empty-handed, the old man's eyes were clearly glazed over, and he seemed to freeze for a moment.

Xu Qing's expression was strange. Where did the paper figure's body get its three souls and seven spirits, let alone spiritual roots and wisdom bones? There were quite a few bamboo strips and paper bones, though.

Why does this immortal's remains look a bit dim-witted?
To verify his suspicions, Xu Qing took out another paper figure and went to the coffin.

He still sits up abruptly from his deathbed, and the kind-faced old man still points out the path to immortality.

"Young man, I see that your mind is clear and pure, untouched by worldly dust."

It turns out that people can actually laugh out loud when they're speechless.

Seeing the old man reciting repetitive lines like a puppet, Xu Qing finally understood the purpose of the remains.

So it's basically a phonograph, plus a contagious source that can turn people into something neither human nor ghost.

This time, when the old man raised his hand again to give pointers, Xu Qing manipulated the paper figure to slap the man's hand away.

The old man was taken aback.

The next moment, the kind-looking old man's face suddenly cracked and split open, transforming into a demon mother with tiger feet and python eyebrows, who opened her blood-red maw and swallowed the paper figure whole.

Legend has it that there are evil spirits in the underworld, named Rakshasa.

Male Rakshasa have black bodies, red hair, and green eyes, covered in scales and bone spikes, and have a ferocious and menacing appearance. Female Rakshasa, on the other hand, are beautiful like women, skilled at bewitching living people and devouring their flesh and blood.

But regardless of gender, the true form of a Rakshasa is that of a demon with tiger feet and python eyebrows.

When the Rakshasa demon failed to seduce the paper figure by disguising itself as the remains of an immortal, it transformed into its true form as a tiger and python, swallowing the paper figure whole and chewing it up.

However, after chewing for only a short while, the Rakshasa demon seemed to have contracted tuberculosis, coughing repeatedly.

Large clumps of snow-white paper scraps sprayed out from the ghost's mouth, leaving Xu Qing in awe.

This ghost must have been here so long that it can't even tell the difference between a paper figure and a living person.

Seeing that the paper figure was not alive, the Rakshasa demon became enraged and turned its attention to Xu Qing, who was watching the spectacle from not far away.

It seems that this second form of immortal remains is quite intelligent, as it can even hunt enemies on its own.

Xu Qing clicked his tongue, then took out the mad flag, and in the next moment dozens of mad soldiers almost filled the tomb chamber.

The giant, about ten feet tall and as large as a pavilion canopy, surrounded the Rakshasa demon.

Xu Qingyuan didn't expect these mad generals to be very effective; he was just being cautious and wanted to test what abilities this Rakshasa demon really had.

Unexpectedly, the Rakshasa demon in front of them was not afraid of evil things at all, and was able to devour the arms and body of the madman to replenish its own magic power.

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, withdrew the arrogant flag, and summoned Ji Lingzhou's sword. He then unleashed the Xuan Nu Sword Technique, his sword movements light and agile, as nimble as a swallow, leaping and bounding through the small tomb chamber.

Countless sword lights flashed by, and in just a moment, the Rakshasa demon in the tomb was shattered by the sword.

However, although the Rakshasa's body was shattered, it returned to the coffin in an instant. Blood surged in the coffin, and in the blink of an eye, the Rakshasa was restored to its original state.

Xu Qing was astonished.

The other party's characteristic of not being afraid of evil spirits and demons is somewhat similar to his own.

If it were any other Yin Sect cultivator, they might really have no way to deal with him, but he has more than just evil techniques.

Facing the Rakshasa demon attacking again, Xu Qing chuckled and took out the Jade Ruyi for Giving Children. With the blessing of thousands of incense sticks, the entire tomb chamber, including the passageway within the tomb, radiated a sacred glow!
The Rakshasa demon's figure, which was lunging at Xu Qing, suddenly stopped. Then, without looking back, it ran back to the stone coffin, lay down inside, and didn't forget to close the coffin lid.

After scaring someone, you want to run away?

Xu Qing doesn't tolerate it!

Arriving at the coffin, he pushed open the lid. Inside, the Rakshasa demon was huddled up, trembling, and breathing out at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing grinned, unsure who the scary ghost was at that moment.

The stone coffin contained blood with special properties, equivalent to the resurrection point of the Rakshasa demon's spring. Xu Qing came to the coffin, directly blocking the mouth, and grinned with a mouthful of white teeth, revealing a strange smile that said, "I've found you."

Who could stand this? Even a ghost couldn't!
The Rakshasa demon's defenses crumbled, but Xu Qing gave it no chance, thrusting the thick, large, and glowing jade ruyi directly into the demon's gaping maw.

The next moment, the Rakshasa demon's body melted like wax, and with a sizzling sound, it turned into a pool of black water. In the end, even the black water in the coffin turned into blue smoke and dissipated.

Seeing that there were no corpses to cross in the coffin, Xu Qing was somewhat disappointed, but looking at the stone coffin in front of him, where the yin energy was almost so dense that it was practically tangible, he felt happy again.

This coffin is large enough and cool enough. If one gets tired of living in a wooden coffin, jade coffin, or imperial coffin in the future, one can replace it with a stone coffin for daily sleeping.

Just as Xu Qing closed the coffin lid and was about to clean up the scene, a startled voice suddenly came from the entrance of the passageway.

"You, him, me."

The commotion that had just occurred in the tomb chamber not only alerted the Holy Master of the Heavenly Heart Sect in the passage of starving ghosts, but also the ghost soldiers guarding the Bone Temple.

When the Rakshasa's body disintegrated, the entire bone temple trembled, and the light emitted by the Jade Ruyi for Giving Children burst out of the passageway, with a faint holy glow emanating from the ghost cave dozens of feet deep.

The Eight Banners Marshal retreated three steps, and the ghost soldiers looked at the Bone Temple with fear on their faces.

These evil beings are inherently afraid of righteous energy, let alone the power of the Blood Lake, which is even more sacred than the golden light of merit. "Could there truly be a destiny to immortality beneath this bone temple?"

Unfortunately, while the allure of immortality is irresistible to mortals, some of it is like poison to ghosts and evil spirits. They would avoid it like the plague, let alone seek it out.

Otherwise, this Dry Bone Inn wouldn't have been feared by all sides and become a paradise for little devils.

Meanwhile, at the boundary marker between Yin and Yang.

A burly man in a red robe was holding a demon-slaying sword personally bestowed by Yama, the King of Hell, and gazing at his own ancestral temple.

When the sacred radiance that shouldn't exist in the Yin River overflowed from the Bone Temple, the red-robed giant's eyelids visibly twitched.

Besides the Eight Banners Marshal, there were only three living people in the Bone Temple. Han Renshan and Ji Lingzhou were just ordinary martial arts masters, but the pale-faced youth who had made a bet with him was somewhat unusual.

Although the burly man in red robes couldn't see through the other person's background, he could tell from the way the other person commanded the barbarians and paper figures that this person was definitely not practicing the righteous path.

But what about this pure and righteous, seemingly divine, magical power?

Could it be that he really misjudged him?
impossible!
Something must be wrong.

The burly man in the red robe pondered deeply, trying to figure out which part of the process had gone wrong.
Below the Bone Temple, Xu Qing was delighted to see Han Renshan, the Holy Master of the Heavenly Heart Sect. He had been planning to go looking for him, but the Holy Master had unexpectedly delivered himself to his doorstep!
The Han Renshan before him was different from Ji Lingzhou. Xu Qing had seen Han Renshan's appearance in a revolving lantern when he performed the rituals for the Heavenly Heart Sect protectors and the Twin Masters.

With a square face and dark skin, if he were dressed in coarse linen clothes and squatting by the field, he would look exactly like an old farmer, and no one would be able to tell that he had any connection with the Holy Master of the Heavenly Heart Sect.

But at this moment, Han Renshan's face was deathly pale, as if he had applied a layer of powder. When he spoke, there was also a five-colored mist flowing around him. Although he did not look as terrifying as Ji Lingzhou after her mutation, the indescribable eeriness was even more chilling than the former.

"Lord Han, it's been a long time."

Xu Qing smiled and cupped his hands in greeting.

Han Renshan's eyes fell on Ji Lingzhou's corpse out of the corner of his eye. Surprised, he asked in confusion, "You recognize me?"

As Xu Qing walked, he said, "Of course I know them. I not only know Saint Master Han, but also the Protectors Bai Luo and Qing Luo, as well as the two extraordinary envoys who came to the Yin River. I know them all very well!"

"Stop going any further!"

Han Renshan retreated into the passageway. He looked at the pale-faced youth who had stopped, and asked with a last glimmer of hope, "Is the disappearance of Sun Faping and the other man related to you?"

"Missing? You can't say that. They're lining up underground right now, waiting for the Holy Lord to join them in the next life to build a great cause. If the Holy Lord Han is a little faster, he might still be able to catch up."

Han Renshan's heart sank to the bottom. His face was gloomy, and he said, almost word by word, "Qingluo, Bailuo, and the others also died at your hands?"

"Hmph!" Xu Qing chatted like an old friend, saying nonchalantly, "That's all ancient history, yet Lord Han remembers it so clearly."

"Speaking of which, why is there so few people in our Heavenly Heart Sect? For the past few years, I've been waiting in Tianjin for the sect to send new people to take over, but instead of new people, we've had the Holy Lord come to Tianjin in person."

"Tianjin is so small, how could it possibly trouble the Holy Lord to come and take over personally? People who don't know the situation might think that our Heavenly Heart Sect has no one left!"

The saying goes, "To kill someone is to destroy their spirit." Before the two even had a chance to fight, invisible knives pierced Han Renshan's heart during their first meeting.

"Fine, fine, fine!" Han Renshan trembled all over, clearly his anger had been suppressed to the extreme.

"Could you tell me, sir, what grudge do you hold against my Heavenly Heart Sect that would lead you to persecute me to this extent?"

"Hatred? That's a huge amount!"

The memorial tablet that Xu Qing enshrined at the coroner's shop, and the teacher Liu Youdao who gave him a 'second life,' died at the hands of Bai Luo.

At the Changting Prince's Mansion, Qingluo, in collusion with Bailuo, stirred up trouble and attempted to assassinate Zhu Huai'an. At that time, Zhu Huai'an, along with Bailuo and the two Wu brothers, were known as the Four Great Talents of Tianjin. He was one of the only three who considered this funeral director as a friend.

Killing a friend, is that a huge grudge?

Not to mention the Golden Luo who ruined his path and plundered the materials he used to cultivate the Golden Armor Corpse.

The feud between Xu Qing and the Heavenly Heart Sect has truly existed since the moment he arrived in Dayong.

Now, the Tianxin Sect has suffered a great loss of strength, and the mastermind behind its founding, the highest authority of the Tianxin Sect, the Tianxin Holy Master, has also come to Tianjin.

This grudge that has lasted for ten years can finally be put to rest!
Han Renshan never imagined that his own Holy Church would become entangled with an unknown funeral director, and not just with one person.

"Fine! After I kill you, with my celestial power and immortal skills, I can still make a comeback!"

After Han Renshan finished speaking, countless spore-like fungal cysts immediately sprouted from his body.

Some of those fungal cysts looked like pustules, some like ghost faces, and others had frost congealed on them, emitting an aura that seemed to freeze the marrow and corrode the bones.

"From now on, the Heavenly Heart Sect will have no Holy Lord, only the Plague Lord descending! And you will be the first person to die under the Five Plagues Law!"

As soon as Han Renshan finished speaking, all five types of bacterial spores burst open, releasing five colors of gas—red, yellow, black, white, and blue—that instantly filled the entire underground tunnel.

Xu Qing was not intimidated by the name "Five Plagues" mentioned by Han Renshan. The so-called Five Plagues were nothing more than evil spirits that controlled five types of plagues and diseases, such as the Black Plague Ghost, the White Malaria Ghost, the Red Leprosy Ghost, the Yellow Plague Ghost, and the Green Plague Ghost.

These ghosts, primarily spreading disease, are undoubtedly deadly to humans, but to zombies...
Xu Qing opened his Heavenly Eye and Yin Pupil, but could not see through the poisonous creature before him. He remained calm and instead connected his feet to the earth's veins. The Undying Bone Heavenly Pillar pierced through the earth's veins, and the scene of the underground ghost cave instantly appeared in his mind.

When Xu Qing saw Han Renshan turn and flee towards the outside of the passageway, he shook his head.

If Han Renshan had wanted to escape before, Xu Qing might not have pursued him so relentlessly, but now...
He would never allow a pathogen capable of spreading the five plagues to escape to places outside the Yin River!
He may collect corpses, but he will not violate the rules by digging up trees and roots, or eating fish and bait.

Stepping into the five-colored poisonous mist, Xu Qing took a deep breath, and the next moment, the Divine Travel Heavenly Book unfolded.

When he reappeared, he was already at the crossroads of three roads directly below the Ghost Cave.

Han Renshan walked through the thick, poisonous fog, where he could not see his own hand in front of his face. At this moment, he had only one thought: to get out of the Yinhe River, escape Tianjin, and never come to this place again!
Even if he conquers the world and seizes the throne in the future, he will designate Tianjin as a forbidden area. Apart from sending troops to suppress it forcefully, he will never personally risk his life!
Tianjin is a place that clashes with his fate. Even someone as powerful as Ji Lingzhou could be defeated here. It's no disgrace for Han Renshan to abandon his armor and flee at this time!
However, before he could rush out of the Bone Temple, Han Renshan sensed at the crossroads a solid object, as hard as a stone tablet, blocking his way in the poisonous fog.

Without thinking, he reached out and slapped the other side.

Finding the dragon veins and severing its branches—this is Han Renshan's foundation and his signature skill!

Whether it's a stone tablet or a living person, as long as they touch his hand, he will take advantage of their weakest point!
It breaks into pieces when it encounters stone, severs tendons and veins when it encounters people, and can even destroy weapons.

However, when Han Renshan reached out to slap the other party down, the other party grabbed his wrist first. Instead of being surprised, he was delighted. As long as he touched the other party, the internal energy would find the other party's weakness and destroy it.

However, the next moment, Han Renshan, who was using the Dragon-Seeking and Meridian-Severing Technique, suddenly had his pupils dilate.

No! How could this person have no weaknesses?
(End of this chapter)