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

Chapter 332 Mr. Xu is always honest and straightforward with his guests.

Ghost soldiers always follow the orders of their commander. If the military doctor is also a soldier in the army, he should share the burden of the commander. How could he sit and watch the commander fight to the death on the front line?
With the Cangyi Army's momentum waning, the Gu family of Huainan reorganized the Four Symbols Road Army, completely blocking the Nancuo Vanguard Sacrificial Group and the Naval Association in the Jianghuai region, thus disrupting Nancuo's plan to use waterways to connect the Lingnan grain route.

It is foreseeable that before long, those Four Symbols Dao soldiers will point their swords at the lost territory and completely turn the tide of the battle.

At that time, not only will Nancuo be unable to fight anymore, but the Yin Shi Dharma King, whose fate is connected with it, will also suffer a great loss of vitality.

Both King Pangzan and Yinshipanan understood this principle. Now that the Eight Banners Marshals had damaged the foundation first, it could be said that the only chance for Nancuo Kingdom to erode the fortune of Dayong was right in front of them!

If he doesn't seize this opportunity, he will find it difficult to succeed in the future!

Therefore, the Dharma King of Pangzan would rather believe what Yin Shi Po Nan said than give up because of the appearance of Xu Qing and Jin Ji.

"I still have a chance! I will never be defeated!"

Faced with the Eight Banners Marshal's all-out spear thrust, the Dharma King Pangzan was not only unafraid, but his spirits were greatly lifted!
As the long spear, wrapped in a dragon of fortune, roared and charged forward, the Dharma King Pangzan roared, and his iron mace, also wrapped in a black dragon, charged forward to meet it!

The battle between the two commanders was a grand affair, with evil winds suddenly rising and a rain of filthy insects filling the sky.

The ghost soldiers near the center were instantly torn apart, a sight that pained Xu Qing.

Fortunately, there are other things that can offer some comfort.

Xu Qing arrived at the edge of the battle formation and picked up a dark gold Xuanhua Great Axe, forged from Shouyang Essence Stone, from a grave pit pierced by a heavy object.

Although this large axe is made in the same style as the Xuanhua axe, it is not the common 64-jin Xuanhua axe.

Xu Qing weighed it in his hand; even if this axe didn't weigh three thousand jin, it would still weigh fifteen hundred jin, far surpassing the Xuan Tie Mountain-Splitting Axe he obtained before breaking through the Golden Armor Corpse.

With the weapon in hand, Xu Qing was itching to make his move.

His axe was already covered in scars, and as his cultivation steadily improved, he found the old axe to be too light and easy to use.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to use the Demon-Slaying Sword to perform the Heavenly Gang Axe Technique.

Faced with a formidable enemy like the Yin-Erosion Dharma King, the Mountain-Splitting Axe could no longer satisfy Xu Qing, leaving him free to do as he pleased.

As the saying goes, gold flowers go well with silver flowers, and a fine gourd goes well with a silver melon.

A mountain-splitting axe is sufficient to deal with ordinary martial artists and common ghosts and monsters, but when facing higher-level ghosts, gods, and demons, it is necessary to switch to a more suitable weapon.

Now that he has the Shouyang Great Axe in hand, Xu Qing feels that when he uses the Tiangang Axe Technique again, he is fully confident that he can completely destroy the Yin Erosion Dharma King's dual phases!

Looking at the two commanders-in-chief locked in fierce battle in the distance, Xu Qing ultimately resisted the urge to try his axe.

He always played the role of a military doctor, and his job was always collecting and burying corpses. Even when he brought Jinluan into the battle, it was only to guard against the Gu insect secret technique that Yinshi Fawang was so proud of, and to feed Jinluan who followed him.

"It's witchcraft and sorcery again! Why doesn't Lord Xu intervene once more to assist the Marshal?"

A skeleton general reined in his horse and approached, attempting to urge Xu Qing to unleash that decisive axe strike that could alter the course of the battle.

Xu Qing looked into the distance and saw that Yin Shi Po Nan had gone completely mad. In addition to the overwhelming clouds and moon of insects above the Yin River, a tidal wave of insects surged towards Yin Shi Po Nan from its feet.

"I can't break the witchcraft and Gu poison. Those Gu worms are not evil spirits or demons, but rather a different kind of magic."

After saying that, Xu Qing pointed to the insect moon in the sky and suddenly laughed: "General, please look up. The method to break the witchcraft and poison is right there. Why do you need to come looking for me?"

The skeleton ghost general looked up and indeed saw that the insect moon had thinned considerably, and because the number of Gu insects had decreased sharply, it could no longer stably maintain the round moon insect array.

When the insect array cracked open, a ray of golden light spilled out.

Xu Qing opened his Heavenly Eye and Yin Pupil, and saw it clearly.

Within the insect moon, there was a spherical creature with broad shoulders and a thick waist, as if it had just swallowed a mountain, which forcefully used its body to pry open a gap in the 'moon'.

However, during the Insect Month, the Golden Phoenix's aura was noticeably weaker than usual, and its feeding speed had also slowed down.

Yin Shi Po was overjoyed at the sight, but just then, a ray of golden light suddenly burst forth from the eggshell-like insect moon.

Moreover, this golden light grew stronger and stronger, and not only Xu Qing, but even the skeleton ghost soldiers on the battle formation sensed the change above their heads.

The 'things' hidden within the Insect Moon are undergoing some kind of transformation.

The Skeleton Ghost General sensed that the Golden Phoenix's aura was steadily rising. His eyes lit up, and as he charged into the battle formation, he shouted, "Soldiers! The enemy's momentum is waning! Follow me and crush their camp!"

Yin Shi Po Nan, who was connected to the Gu worm's mind, also noticed the changes in the golden rooster.

That hairy beast could actually digest all the Gu worms it ate into pure magical power, which it used to improve its cultivation!
Even the toxins and impurities contained within the Gu worm's body are transformed into wisps of black smoke and expelled from the golden rooster's tail feathers, and the efficiency of expelling them is no less than the speed at which it eats!

Yin Shi Po Nan had no idea that this starving golden rooster had been starving for six whole years in order to eat her delicious meal!
Furthermore, ordinary domestic chickens are already known for their straightforwardness, let alone this kind of exotic breed that is spiritual and has extraordinary bloodline.

In the distance, Xu Qing, still worried that Jin Luan wasn't eating enough, reached into his sleeve and took out several pills, tossing them towards Chong Yue while shouting:
"Jinluan! Take the pill and press on with all your might!"

Xu Qing sensed that Jin Luan's cultivation had reached a bottleneck. As long as it could break through, it would surely undergo a complete transformation!

After breaking through to the next level, the Golden Phoenix's ability to suppress Gu worms will inevitably be enhanced once again!
After breaking through a cultivation realm, a person's magical power is depleted, and they still need to consume elixirs or circulate cultivation techniques to replenish it.

The same applies to demons.

Having spent a long time with Xu Qing, Jinluan trusted him completely. Upon seeing the pills and hearing his reminder, it didn't hesitate, raising its beak to peck at them, regardless of what kind of pills were being fed to it.

After swallowing the Qingyuan Pill to strengthen the body and replenish magical power, the Naqi Qingqiao Pill to dispel turbidity, and a variety of other pills such as Huangya Pill and Longhu Pill, the golden light on Jinluan's body suddenly intensified, and the scorching heat emanating from the thousands of holes could not be concealed by the entire riddled insect moon!
Yin Shi Po's face was extremely gloomy. She hadn't expected the golden rooster to have such a huge appetite, and she hadn't expected that the pale-faced youth would dare to let that feathered beast break through his cultivation level right in front of her.

The key was the Gu worms she had painstakingly cultivated!

While engaged in a fierce battle of magic with the Eight Banners Marshal, the Dharma King Pangzan shouted, "Never mind that beast. Once we kill the Yong dog and ruin the Great Yong's fortune, the rest of us will be fish to be slaughtered. We can do whatever we want with them."

Upon hearing the Dharma King's shout, Xu Qing chuckled, then took out the straw spirit paper figure and, together with it, weaved through the chaotic formation, collecting the corpses of the ghost soldiers whose life fires had been extinguished.

Some cowardly sorcerers and ghost generals tried to attack the paper figures, but before they could make a move, a group of grotesque warriors with pavilion-like figures crawled out from the ground around the paper figures, surrounded and beat them up, and then threw them at the paper figures of the corpses that were collecting the remains.

It is said that a general's skills will produce soldiers of the same caliber. Xu Qing's trained general may not be outstanding in other aspects, but when it comes to collecting corpses, he is more efficient than many corpse collectors who have been doing it for many years.

Moreover, in order to ensure the efficiency of collecting corpses, those tyrannical generals did not distinguish between factions. Even if the soldiers under the Eight Banners Marshal accidentally damaged the paper effigy or affected the collection of the corpses, the tyrannical generals would also be furious and beat them up.

Gradually, the ghost generals and shamans of Nancuo also became smarter, and they subconsciously avoided the paper figure funeral procession, letting them clean up the battlefield.

If a paper effigy carrying a stretcher arrives beside the two sides of soldiers who are fighting, the ghost soldiers of the Eight Banners Marshal and the ghost soldiers of the Yin Shi Dharma King will tacitly stop fighting. After watching the paper effigy collect the corpse and leave, the two sides will start fighting again.

On the battlefield, more and more skeleton ghost soldiers were being swallowed up by the swarm of insects. Xu Qing was heartbroken; they were all his capital!

Just as Xu Qing was about to lose control of the nameless fire in his chest and wanted to burn all the Gu worms in front of him, a cry that pierced the clouds and split rocks suddenly came from the 'eggshell' above his head, which was so thin that only a layer of Gu worms remained!

The next moment, the insect moon that Yin Shi Po was so proud of completely disappeared, leaving only an extremely majestic rooster flapping its wings and hovering in the air.

The demonic aura, a power only a five-hundred-year-old demon could possess, swept over the area. Jin Luan, whose magic power and internal organs were both depleted, instinctively turned her gaze to the swarm of insects on the ground.

With another excited cry, the golden phoenix spread its golden wings and plumage, swooping down like a hunting eagle!

Wherever the golden rooster passed, the swarm of insects seemed to come into contact with an unsealed funnel or an unknown river current, all of which were sucked into the golden rooster's crop by the powerful whirlwind.

In less than half an incense stick's time, the swarm of insects had dropped by more than three zhang. Xu Qing wondered where the chicken got such a big appetite.
He stared intently and discovered that the golden phoenix's crop was faintly emitting spatial fluctuations, as if it had awakened some kind of innate divine power during its breakthrough.

As the insect tide gradually calmed down, like a flood being released, Yin Shi Po felt both heartache and even greater apprehension.

This golden rooster has an insatiable appetite, seemingly capable of devouring the heavens and the earth; even the gluttonous pelican doesn't eat so voraciously.

When only one insect remained on the battlefield, trying to escape, Jinluan raised its beak and caught the insect between its upper and lower beaks. Then, as if seeking credit, it ran to Xu Qing.

Seeing this, Xu Qing chuckled and asked, "What kind of supernatural power did you use to be able to eat so many insects?"

The golden phoenix swallowed the insect, flapped its wings, and said that it was a supernatural power it had comprehended, which allowed it to regard its crop as a small universe, capable of holding millions of insects and tens of thousands of bushels of rice!
Xu Qing remained silent for a long time.

Could it be that he was so hungry that he forced himself to develop a unique way to make a living?

This is truly a foodie who has reached a certain level of sophistication!

Jinluan was often criticized by Abbot Jingxu for her large appetite at the Five Elders Temple. If the old female Taoist knew that Jinluan had awakened such a supernatural power, she would probably be even more disgusted with her.

The Five Elders Temple, which has always adhered to the philosophy of celibacy, doesn't have that much surplus food!
Xu Qing pondered that after leaving the Yin River, he must return this chicken, which specializes in eating, to the Abbot of Jingxu Temple.

His family and business are small, and he can't afford to raise a golden phoenix.

"Despicable and shameless people of the Great Yong!"

Just as Xu Qing was making plans and thinking about how to get rid of the idiot who was bothering him, Yin Shi Fa Wang suddenly lost his temper and cursed at him.

Xu Qing was immediately displeased. The chickens that ate your insects were someone else's chickens. What business was it of his, Xu's?

He wasn't familiar with this chicken.

Just as Yin Shi Po was suffering a severe blow and Pang Zan Fa Wang was furious and hurling insults at Xu Qing, the Eight Banners Marshal seized the fleeting opportunity!

Behind him, the dragon of fortune, which had been shrunk by a circle, suddenly shone brightly. The Eight Banners Marshal sacrificed ten years of the nation's fortune to make the old dragon raise its head and roar once more!

This time, it no longer lingered behind him, but transformed into a golden dragon that coiled around the marshal's arm and surged out along the spiked spear. The dragon's roar and the spear's shadow instantly merged into one, shooting towards the Yin Shi Dharma King with the force of thunder!
"break!"

With a shout from the Eight Banners Marshal, the long spear shone with golden light. Amidst the roaring dragon shadow, the Yin-Erosion Dharma King's eyes widened in fury as he hastily parried.

A crisp "crack" sound rang out from the battlefield where only a few lone generals and remnants of soldiers remained.

The iron mace with the bone instrument for resolving grievances hanging in the hand of the Dharma King Pangzan shattered instantly, and the bone instrument turned into dust and disappeared.

The spear continued its relentless advance, piercing through the chest of King Pangzan, while the aftershocks forcibly tore Yinshipanan's body apart from its core.

Without the aid of the life-giving fire of the Venerable Ponantan, the shining totem on the chest of the Venerable Ponantan instantly dimmed.

"Marshal of the Eight Banners, you have squandered ten years of the Yong Dynasty's fortune. How can the emperor tolerate you? Even if I die today, the Great Yong Dynasty will not survive! You, Marshal of the Eight Banners, are a sinner for all time."

The ghostly flames in the eyes of the Dharma King were extinguished, and Yin Shi Po Nan, who was standing to the side, let out a shrill scream, completely going mad.

Disregarding everything, she abandoned her mangled body, transforming into a streak of filthy blood-red light, and threw herself at the Eight Banners Marshal:

"If I die, you won't live either! We lived and died together in the past, and today we will share the same fate!"

Faced with the blood, the Eight Banners Marshal did not stop it. He knew that this was the same life-sharing curse that had killed him. He never expected that this madwoman, in the Yin River Ancient Road, with the body of a ghost, had comprehended the life-sharing curse that was completely different from that of the living.

"Ten years of good fortune is better than the barbarians of Nancuo destroying my Great Yong, which would be a true infamy for all time."

Just as the Eight Banners Marshals were preparing to detach themselves from the long dragon of destiny, another unexpected event occurred!

In the distance, as Yin Shi Po was about to sacrifice herself to Gu, manipulating the last remaining Gu worm on her body to rush towards the Eight Banners Marshal, a spherical golden light weighing no less than two hundred pounds suddenly jumped onto the Eight Banners Marshal's face without warning.

A burst of golden light erupted, and the chicken's beak, as sharp as an iron hook, instantly pecked the filthy blood light to pieces!

With a woman's scream, a blood-red Gu worm fell from the shattered blood light.

Jinluan stretched out its mouth, tilted its head back, and gulped down a full stomach.

After finishing the insects, the golden phoenix that landed on the Eight Banners Marshal wiped its mouth on the other's golden armor and helmet, once on the left and once on the right.

After wiping its mouth, the golden rooster jumped off the ground and ran towards Xu Qing without looking back.

The Eight Banners Marshal's eyes gleamed with a ghostly light. He looked at the young man who had pushed the golden rooster away, preventing it from getting close to him, and involuntarily tightened his grip on the long spear in his hand.

But when the other person looked up at him, he subconsciously let go of his hand.

More than ten years have passed since he first met Xu Qing, but he has never felt such fear before.

Even the King of Yin Shi hadn't given him this feeling.

Clinging to the last glimmer of hope, the Eight Banners Marshal slowly approached the young man who was cleaning up the battlefield.

The Eight Banners Marshal paused before saying "Lord Xu," but then continued, "Lord Xu."

Xu Qing smiled slightly, understanding that from the moment he revealed his strength, their paths had completely diverged.

"Why does the Marshal still address me as 'Sir'?"

As Xu Qing finished speaking, the last bit of hope of the Eight Banners Marshal vanished.

"Can you tell me, what is your purpose in approaching me?"

Xu Qing blinked and said, "I have always been honest with my guests. I have never hidden my purpose from the Marshal. Why do you ask me?"

The Eight Banners Marshal was puzzled.

Xu Qing smiled and said, "I am a funeral director. I once made a grand vow to help those homeless corpses find peace. My purpose is just like this moment: simply to let them rest in peace."

Following Xu Qing's gaze, the Eight Banners Marshal saw the paper figures of Chuling who were collecting the remains of ghost generals and soldiers, as well as the remains of his nemesis, the Yin Shi Dharma King.

"How could this be?" The Eight Banners Marshal was completely baffled.

Xu Qing continued, "Everyone has their own ambitions. You are doing this for your Great Yong, while I am doing this for the souls of the dead and for the safety of Tianjin."

"Just like the Tianxin Sect and the Cangyi Group rebels before, I killed them only because they threatened my peaceful life in Tianjin, not for the sake of the Marshal's Dayong."

The Eight Banners Marshal still refused to give up: "How powerful was our Great Yong Dynasty in the past? Now it is only because there are treacherous ministers in power. As long as there are capable ministers like you who are willing to support the country and save it from collapse, Great Yong will surely become strong again!"

Xu Qing suddenly asked, "The Yin River Ghost Law is about to invade the mortal world and devour the people of Tianjin. Marshal, for the sake of these people, will you fight the Ghost Law to the death?"

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The Eight Banners Marshal remained silent.

He carries the fate of the nation on his shoulders. If he falls to the Ghost Law, it will damage the fortune of the Great Yong Dynasty. For the sake of the people of this region, to do something that would lead to the downfall of the country would be truly unwise.

Xu Qing suppressed his smile and asked again, "Is there any need for a dynasty to exist that attempts to prolong its existence at the expense of its subjects?"

The Eight Banners Marshal gave Xu Qing a deep look, then mounted his horse and gazed into the distance, saying:

"A merciful general cannot command an army, nor can he accomplish anything based on emotion. As a general, how can I act on impulse? Does Lord Xu truly not wish to serve in the same court as me?"

"Our paths diverge, so how can we possibly work together in the future?"

The Eight Banners Marshal gripped his long spear tightly and asked no further questions.

Before leaving, the marshal, clad in golden armor and with his cloak billowing, turned his back to Xu Qing and uttered one last sentence:

"Brother Xu, take care of yourself. If we meet again, I hope we won't become enemies."

Xu Qing chuckled and said, "This meeting may be our last. When the Great Yong Dynasty is about to fall, I will come to collect the marshal's remains. At the very least, I cannot let the man who has shed blood for the country be left to rot in the wilderness, unable to return home."

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The Eight Banners Marshal paused for a moment, then spurred his precious steed, disappearing into the vast Yinhe Ancient Road amidst the dust.

(End of this chapter)