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

Chapter 344 Mysterious Feather Cloak, Nirvana Corpse

As Xu Qing stopped turning the page of the Sutra of Salvation, he read on and learned about the relationship between Venerable Fulu and the female demon, as well as the origin of the rise of the Yin Corpse Sect from a small sect to a powerful one.

Unexpectedly, the reason why Venerable Fulu so desired a youthful physique stemmed from a romantic affair from his early years.

Xu Qing looked at the rewards. The corpse was rated as a mid-grade Heaven-level corpse. The rewards were the Taiyin Nine Revolutions Refining Organs Method, the Blood Essence Method, the Burning Mountain and Boiling Sea Divine Power, and a Shouyang Eight Scenery Bottle.

There are two mountains in the world, one called Shouyang and the other called Weiyin.

Weiyin Mountain has eight scenic spots: Ghost Gate Pass, Naihe Bridge, Stripping Clothes Pavilion, Looking Homeward Terrace, Evil Dog Ridge, Broken Money Mountain, Blood Pool, and Meng Po Station.

Shouyang Mountain also has eight scenic spots: Hidden Mist Mountain, Xuandu Cave, Tuojing Pavilion, Daluo Forest, Cangming Sea, Shenxiu Peak, Yueyang Palace, and Yaoguang Heaven.

The former, the Eight Scenic Spots of Yinshan, are located in the Nine Netherworlds and are under the jurisdiction of the Nine Palaces, which are in charge of matters of the underworld; the latter, the Eight Scenic Spots of Shouyang, are located on Shouyang Mountain, a sacred mountain of the Xuanmen sect and the Taoist temple of the Supreme Eight Scenic Spots Palace, which is not visible to ordinary people.

The Venerable Fulu was a disciple of Nüba. In her early years, when Nüba was still a celestial maiden, she lost all her divine power in a battle with the Lord of War and was forced to wander among humans.

The Supreme Being, moved by the Heavenly Maiden's merit, could not bear to see her taken advantage of by demons, so he gifted her the Eight-Scenery Treasure Bottle to protect her true spirit.

After cultivating to become the body of Nüba, the once meritorious and inviolable celestial maiden who saved the three realms was forced to become a calamity star on earth, never to return to the upper realm for all eternity.

After the celestial maiden became the demon Nüba, the Eight Views Treasure Bottle lost its function and was buried with her north of the Chishui River.

The Venerable Fulu inherited the legacy of Nüba, and that unassuming pottery jar was formed from the precious energy gathered from the Eight Views Bottle.

However, the Eight Views Bottle is an object that generates Yin from Yang, while the nameless old woman is an old monster from Yin Mountain, and the Weak Water in her hand is just right to counter the Eight Views Bottle.

This caused the treasure bottle, formed by the convergence of the eight scenic treasures, to shatter and be lost in the vast mortal world.

It is said that Venerable Fulu was also unlucky. When he was in the opera troupe, his porcelain bottle for shelter was smashed. He finally obtained a treasure bottle given by Nüba and wanted to become an old woman's disciple, but his treasure bottle for shelter was destroyed by the Weak Water.

After retreating to the Yin River, who would have thought that she would be thrown down from the sky by the mischievous Ghost Law, just to shatter her body and explore what was inside?

They say once is enough, twice is too much, but not a third time. In the end, however, the Venerable Fu Lu encountered the ruthless Xu Qing who destroyed his lover.

Looking at the bottle in his hand, which was inlaid with eight auspicious symbols such as wheel, conch, umbrella, lid, flower, jar, fish, and intestines, as well as the eight scenic spots of Yangshan, Xu Qing fell into thought.

This ancient-smelling treasure bottle has only one function: to bring the dead back to life.

If the treasure bottle is left for a long time, it can gather water from the three lights of the sun, moon and stars. If this water is poured into a place where the spiritual veins are depleted, it can awaken the vitality of the earth veins and make the desolate land reappear with spiritual herbs and immortal flowers.

If a celestial root is about to die, the Eight Views Treasure Bottle can also revitalize the severed celestial root.

At this moment, Xu Qing happened to have a drop of Sunlight Divine Water in his hand. In other words, if he could use the Eight Scenery Treasure Bottle to condense Star and Moon Water, he could obtain the true Three Lights Divine Water as the foundation of his Water Demon.

However, Nüba once told Venerable Fulu that the Eight Views Treasure Bottle could only condense a drop of divine water every thousand years. If the three lights were to gather together, it would probably take at least three thousand years.

This is also one of the reasons why Venerable Fulu was eager to find another body to possess before the three luminaries (sun, moon, and stars) were all gathered together.

Three thousand years is ultimately too long.

Xu Qing's eyes flashed. He already possessed the Sunlight Divine Water, and the Star and Moon Light could only last for two thousand years at most. If he were willing to search for things with the power of the Star and Moon during this period and refine them in the bottle, the time could perhaps be shortened even further.

Even if he can't find it, it won't have much of an impact on him.

Xu Qing wasn't in a hurry to become fat overnight. As long as he could get through the Heavenly Fox hurdle, time wasn't an urgent matter for this zombie.

Besides the Heavenly Grade Mid-Rank Eight Scenery Bottle, there is also a Heavenly Grade Low-Rank Profound Technique called the Taiyin Nine Revolutions Refining Organs Method.

This method was also passed down by Nüba. Nüba was born as a celestial maiden, who was knowledgeable about the heavens and the earth and knew many cultivation methods in the upper realms. Venerable Fulu had no physical body, only his five internal organs were connected, which made him perfectly suited to cultivate this method.

Although the Taiyin Nine Revolutions has nine revolutions, it can be roughly divided into three realms. The first is the daily refinement of the six internal organs, which is to draw in the rising sun's energy at the hour of Mao (5-7 AM) every day to refine the six internal organs.

The second is to nourish the five internal organs during the month of Zi (11 PM - 1 AM), which requires drawing in the moonlight to warm and nourish the five internal organs and nourish oneself.

The third stage is the Great Completion of the Circulation of Heaven and Earth. At this time, the Taiyin Refining Organs Method has passed the stages of changing the lungs, heart, and kidneys. After nine cycles, it is completed. Then, the essence of the sun and moon enters the body, and the radiance of the Taiyin stars enters the body. The organs of the body generate rosy clouds, and the inner landscape is as solid as a unified whole. This is the Dao Embryo.

Xu Qing possesses incorruptible bones, and his skeletal structure has long since returned to its original perfection, but he has never possessed the method to temper his internal organs.

Currently, only Venerable Fu Lu of the Internal Organs happens to possess a Heaven-grade Internal Organ Refining Method.

Xu Qing was overjoyed. Even if he only obtained this one method today, the trip would not have been in vain!
It was truly a stroke of luck, a stroke of divine intervention!
Further on, the Blood Essence Technique ranks among the top-grade Earth-level arts. It is a sinister and forbidden technique that can control the life force of living people.

Previously, when Xu Qing performed the rituals to help Tian Baocheng and the young corpse driver pass on, the fire-patterned brand that appeared on the back of their necks was the Blood Essence Seal.

Anyone who is marked will become a puppet under the command of Venerable Fortune and Prosperity, a living corpse.

The Venerable Fulu can not only sense the location of those who bear the Blood Essence Seal at any time, but also has the power of life and death over them at any time!

Xu Qing's expression was strange. What was the difference between this and the Three Corpse Brain God Pill of the Sun Moon Cult?
Then, thinking back to her own mastery of plum blossom needlework, and the phoenix coronet and embroidered robe that had been gathering dust since she broke through the Undying Bone technique.

Xu Qing's face immediately darkened.

He is the head of the Cat Immortal Hall, not the leader of the Sun Moon Divine Sect. What is the meaning of the Salvation Scripture giving him this set of skills?
Xu Qing shook his head slightly. He didn't need to use the Blood Essence Technique for the time being. The employees of Cat Immortal Hall and Baosheng Temple were all trusted confidants personally selected by him. They were all virtuous and did not need to be controlled by evil magic.

Gathering his thoughts, Xu Qing looked at the last reward—Burning Mountains and Boiling Seas.

This method was the last supernatural power that Nüba passed on to Venerable Fulu before she went into seclusion.

It is also a unique innate ability of the drought demon.

The Venerable Fulu was a disciple of Nüba and practiced the Fire Zombie lineage, making him perfectly suited to cultivate this method.

"Where the drought demon roams, the land turns barren for thousands of miles. What kind of power would a fire-attribute divine power created by the drought demon possess when cultivated to its ultimate level?"

Xu Qing couldn't imagine it.

Such supernatural powers, when wielded by exceptionally gifted drought demons or fire zombies, are far more powerful than those wielded by ordinary people!
Xu Qing was eager to try it, but after seeing the group of corpses on the burial hill worshipping him, he suppressed the idea of ​​testing the power of the Burning Mountain and Boiling Sea Divine Power.

With two lives lost, Xu Qing had just finished counting the rewards from the Venerable Fu Lu for the deceased when his gaze fell upon Qiu Xiansheng, the sect leader of the Yin Corpse Sect.

With his martial arts prowess and cultivation reaching the fourth realm of the Decay-Severing Realm, Qiu Xiansheng's corpse was of exceptionally high quality.

Although Qiu Xiansheng's reward was not as high as that of Venerable Fulu, it was still far beyond what ordinary people received, even though he was also a Heaven-rank corpse.

The Art of Controlling Soldiers, a low-grade Heavenly rank technique.

"With the mind, one can command divine weapons; with the spirit, one can subdue all things. It is as if the master of weapons has descended, imbuing ordinary iron with spirit and manipulating all things into weapons."

Xu Qing pondered the weapon control technique before him. This technique was taught by Venerable Fu Lu and obtained from Nüba. It was also a weapon control method that Nüba had comprehended when she fought against the Lord of War.

This method has transcended the art of sword control, reaching the level of controlling all things as weapons.

Xu Qing's mind stirred, he made hand seals and chanted an incantation, transmitting his thoughts throughout the entire burial mound. The next moment, all soldiers returned to their origin!

All the weapons left behind by the Yin Corpse Sect disciples trembled and floated up, finally shooting towards the location of the 'Master of Weapons'. When they got close, they floated in the air again, awaiting orders.

If Xu Qing relaxed his guard, all the soldiers would fall to the ground.

Besides the Art of Controlling Soldiers, Xu Qing also obtained the supernatural power of summoning wind and rain from Qiu Xiansheng.

This supernatural ability is said to be related to Qiu Xiansheng's experience of seeking immortality in the mortal world. In his early years, Qiu Xiansheng was tested by Zhuang Tongsheng, failed the test, and was expelled from the mountain gate. This incident became his inner demon.

After embarking on his cultivation journey, Qiu Xiansheng did not learn any other magic or supernatural powers, but instead devoted all his energy to summoning clouds and rain.

A disciple of a female demon taught a student who, instead of becoming a calamity star that burns mountains and boils seas, wanted to learn from the Taoists of Jade Pool Mountain and practice the art of summoning wind and rain.

Saying it's not doing one's proper job is too mild; it's even more unconventional than this!
Because of this incident, Venerable Fulu became even more disgusted with Qiu Xiansheng.

However, Qiu Xiansheng repeatedly used the excuse that he was suited to practicing water magic to evade the issue, and continued to do as he pleased, studying the methods of summoning clouds and rain.

But is it really true that Qiu Xiansheng didn't practice fire magic just because he was good at water magic?

Actually, no one knows better than Qiu Xiansheng that he did this only to 'defile himself'.

The purpose was to make the Venerable Fu Lu, who loved fire magic, feel disgusted with him, thereby dispelling or delaying his idea of ​​taking over his body.

However, what Qiu Xiansheng didn't know was that the reason why Venerable Fulu didn't take over his physical body was not only because he was unorthodox, but more importantly because he had passed through the fourth stage of cultivation and achieved the restoration of lifespan.

The third stage of cultivation, the Punishment Soul, allows one to borrow three hundred years of lifespan from Heaven, while the fourth stage, the Decline Realm, requires returning five hundred years of lifespan to Heaven.
Qiu Xiansheng survived the fourth stage by taking a powerful medicine, but his body was already very old.

The Venerable Fulu prefers young and strong physiques, so how could she possibly be interested in Qiu Xiansheng, a withered old man?

Xu Qing focused his mind and thought that the so-called summoning of wind and rain was actually using his own magical power as a guide to mobilize the water and metal elements, to contemplate the heavens and earth, and with a small amount of skill, borrow the power of heaven and earth to gather water vapor in the air and summon wind, rain and thunder.

Simply put, it involves five steps:

This involves visualizing the spirit, performing the Golden Water Mantra, drawing qi to gather clouds, controlling rain with divine thought, and returning to the origin to conclude the practice.

Xu Qing possesses all five elements, with his physique belonging to the metal element. He also has water-elemental magic power in his black zombie transformation. The only thing he lacks is a way to deal with the power of thunder after the celestial phenomena change.

It should be understood that thunder originates from the interaction of Yin and Yang energies. Yin energy encompasses Yang energy, and Yang energy breaks through Yin energy, bursting forth as thunder.

These thunderbolts govern heavenly calamities and blessings, hold the balance of all things, and govern life and death.
As a zombie, Xu Qing is extremely yin in nature. If he were to use his supernatural powers of summoning wind and rain, the lightning he summons would inevitably follow the yin energy and strike him!
This is also why those creatures of the underworld are unwilling to learn this method.

After Xu Qing understood the principle of summoning clouds and rain, he felt relieved.

He might have some awe of the Heavenly Punishment Thunder, but what are ordinary Yin and Yang Thunder?
So be it, he figured it was just a way to loosen his muscles and get a free electrotherapy treatment; what's done is done, and there's no going back.

He refused to believe that the rain that had fallen could be taken back.

Xu Qing clapped his hands and laughed. With this skill of summoning wind and rain, he could use the name of the temples and shrines to ensure good weather and abundant harvests in Tianjin.

Furthermore, in the funeral industry, there are sayings such as "rain hitting the coffin will bring ten years of hardship" and "rain sprinkling the grave will bring forth a noble person."

With this little supernatural power, he could easily designate a rain-praying package, instructing guests to receive heavenly dew when a new grave is erected.

Rain and dew are equivalent to surplus blessings, implying that they will bless future generations and enable them to enjoy surplus blessings.

As long as the customer purchases the right package, whether it's "adding a coffin to the dew" or "high coffin with thick dew," it's no problem!

"In the past decade, the level of funeral services has improved again, which is truly gratifying!"

Overjoyed by his bountiful harvest, Xu Qing couldn't hide his delight. This was before he even counted the Yellow Court Undying Bone of the Venerable Fu Lu, and the corpses of the entire Yin Corpse Sect.

After counting the spoils and dealing with all the corpses, Xu Qing turned around and looked down at the entire cemetery.

In the revolving lantern of Venerable Fulu, he not only obtained information about Nüba and learned where she was in seclusion, but also learned what the perfection of the Undying Bone meant.

An uncorrupted corpse is one whose bones do not dissolve. Even if two, four, or even two hundred and three bones are refined, it will still only be an uncorrupted corpse.

But if all the bones besides the three main bones are refined, and there is one main bone as the central hub, then it is the legendary Nirvana Corpse that is refined into an immortal corpse, achieving the state of not turning into the heavens and possessing the true bone body!
At this time, Xu Qing had already refined all 206 bones in his body, and even the three main bones had all reached the state of non-transformation and return to the true nature.

Even the celestial maiden Nüba is no more than this.

Now that Xu Qing has looted the cemetery, he has used the Divine Travel Book to pinpoint the location of the Bone Temple in advance.

After making all the preparations and confirming that he could evacuate in time, he reached out and touched the top of the burial mountain. The Heavenly Pillar Spine instantly transformed into a bridge that pierced through the earth's veins, reaching three thousand feet underground!

After passing through layers of rocky mountains, Xu Qing saw a bronze coffin buried in a patch of red soil.

The coffin was as red and bright as a branding iron, and it was engraved with totems of a hundred beasts and celestial runes. Whenever the earth vein dragon breathed, the totems of a hundred beasts would turn into phantom flames and burn in all directions.

Xu Qing didn't know how many years Nüba had been lying here, and the red wilderness beneath her body was already a thousand miles in circumference.

At one moment, Xu Qing suddenly noticed that the bronze coffin trembled for a moment. He felt a warning and was about to activate the Divine Travel Book when he discovered that the bronze coffin had only trembled slightly. Then, a gentle warm light enveloped an unknown object and traveled up from three thousand feet underground.

Xu Qing's heart stirred slightly. He sensed the goodwill emanating from the bronze coffin, like a gentle woman seeing a kitten by the roadside, wanting to pet it but afraid it would run away.
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Xu Qing felt increasingly strange. This seemed to be some kind of special language among zombies, but why did he feel kindness and gentleness from a female demon who was considered a jinx?

On the burial mound, Xu Qing threw out the support flag and fled outside the burial mound. He watched from afar as the gentle ball of light flew out of the ground.

Once he realized that the ball of light was indeed not a threat, he carefully controlled his clone to take two steps back and circle around to get to the ball of light.

After a short while, Xu Qing looked at the neon feather dress in his hand and remained silent for a long time.

Judging from the appearance of the feather garment before her, it should be a celestial robe. Considering that this robe was kept intact inside the bronze coffin and slept with the drought demon, it should be able to solve the drought demon's predicament of having no clothes to wear after using her supernatural powers.

Could it be that Nüba gave him this set of clothes because she was afraid he would run around naked in the future?
But what's the point of a man wearing such a neon feather dress that only fairies would wear?

Xu Qing pinched his nose and returned to the cemetery. It took him about ten days to refine the immortal robe in his hand.

That rainbow-colored feathered robe was originally woven from mermaid silk, its colors gradually changing in seven hues. The inner lining was a gauze skirt, and the outer layer was a transparent, wide-sleeved robe woven from blue phoenix feathers, with the hem embroidered with a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix.
Xu Qing had thought that from now on she would have to choose between running naked and wearing fairy feather dress.

But after refining the immortal robe, he discovered that it wasn't just one style; it could be changed at will, transforming into many different designs.

As the seven-colored light flowed, Xu Qing's clothes changed from celestial robes to crimson robes, and finally to a blue phoenix feather cloak.

Xu Qing loved it so much that it truly deserved the title of "celestial garment"!

(End of this chapter)