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

Chapter 38: Untying a Dream

Life is like fog and dream, and love is like morning dew, disappearing quickly.

To learn the art of dream creation, one must first practice it with one's own body and personally experience a dream of life and death, only then can one comprehend the true meaning of it.

In the morgue, Xu Qing felt dizzy and the flickering candlelight in front of him seemed to be covered by a layer of fog, making it difficult to see clearly.

He stumbled onto an empty morgue bed, and could no longer suppress his sleepiness, so he fell asleep.

Recently, a new actor has come to the opera world, and his figure and singing voice are top-notch.

"My love is in my heart, and I am heartbroken. Only the moon knows my grievances."

"Guess you, you've discovered that I've been ill for a long time and have become consumptive. I'm really sad for you."

"Is this Sai Yuxian? Captain Zhao's family is really rich. Even after his death, his family still invited the best opera star to sing a funeral opera for him." Looking down at the stage, Xu Qing listened to Sai Yuxian's sad and graceful voice, and felt that it sounded familiar for some reason. He felt as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember where.

But none of this matters. After all, today is a good day for the funeral of one's enemy. No matter how important other things are, they are not as important as this one!

After listening to a performance on the rooftop, Xu Qing went backstage and discussed the matters of singing a ghost opera with Sai Yuxian, who looked like a delicate flower.

Two days later, Zhao Zhonghe was buried after listening to the underworld play. After there was no trace of the Zhao in Linhefang, Xu Qing's luck seemed to have improved a lot.

Look, Sai Yuxian, whom he met at the funeral, came to the coroner's shop every now and then to sing songs for him to entertain him ever since they had an encounter. She said that she was completely fascinated and lost in him the first time she saw him.

Xu Qing didn't take it seriously at first. As an immortal zombie, how could he marry a mortal woman who would become old and ugly in just twenty or thirty years?

Time flies and things change.

On this day, the Tianxin Sect, which had been eyeing the world for a long time, suddenly led its troops in rebellion. Sai Yuxian, who sang songs and dressed up all day long, suddenly turned into a princess of the previous dynasty and the saint of the sect!
It was also from that day that Sai Yuxian, who noticed that Xu Qing had a tendency to be a necrophile, began to openly transport various corpses to the coroner's shop.

At this time, the Tianxin Sect was leading the rebel army to fight against the imperial court. As the saint of the sect, was she still worried that she could not get a corpse for her lover?
You have to know that Sai Yuxian is a person of affection and righteousness!

I have to say, although the saint's way of confession is a bit extreme, it is indeed simple and effective!
After the Tianxin Sect invaded Luojing, broke into the imperial city, and beheaded Emperor Longping, Sai Yuxian, who ascended the throne as empress, asked the Ministry of Rites to invite Xu Qing to Beijing to marry according to the wedding standards of emperors of all dynasties.

Xu Qing was reserved and refused, so Sai Yuxian promised to give him the bodies of death row prisoners from the imperial prison, the heavenly prison, and other places. She even offered the corpse of Emperor Longping as a token of love, just to make him smile.

Xu Qing was just a corpse driver in a coroner's shop. He had never seen so many corpses in one day. How could he withstand such a test when he was so rich?

Under the heavy bait, Xu Qing completely forgot his name. He closed the coroner's shop at night and came to the imperial city. From then on, he wandered among the corpses of power, beauty and women day and night.

Sai Yuxian was broad-minded, but because of her own busy affairs, she was afraid that she would neglect Xu Qing, so she ordered that all the rebellious women of the previous dynasty who were sent to the Jiaofangsi be given white silk poisoned wine, so that Xu Qing could refine them into corpse concubines to serve her husband.

With such an understanding wife, why should I worry about not becoming a corpse immortal?
In the past, Xu Qing lived in a small shop, and his professional ethics of collecting ownerless corpses seemed to have become a joke. At that time, the number of corpses he collected in a year was probably not as many as the number of corpses delivered in a day today!

After that, Xu Qing, who was increasingly obsessed with pursuing spiritual progress, began to make drastic changes to the imperial city's feng shui and persuaded the empress to build a Moon-Watching Platform to draw in the moonlight and earth energy, so as to help him become an immortal as soon as possible.

During this period, the Prime Minister of the new dynasty, the former Tianxin Sect's white-robed protector Zhongyi Zhijian, criticized Xu Qing for more than a hundred crimes in the court, saying that he was sincere, while people like Xu Qing harbored the intention to bring chaos to the world, deceived the emperor, and made the people ignorant. He was indeed the chief evildoer of the country and his crimes should be unforgivable!
Sai Yuxian was furious upon hearing this and immediately scolded him: "You think you have a pure heart? If so, then cut open your chest and cut off a piece. Let me see if your heart is as red as blood!"

Upon hearing this, the Prime Minister said, "The Lord is worried and the ministers are humiliated. We are loyal to our country, so how can we allow the evildoers to punish the evildoers and show our power? If sacrificing one death can make the Emperor's heart clear, what harm will it do even if we die a hundred times?"

After saying this, he took out his heart and presented it in front of the palace in front of Sai Yuxian. Seeing this, all the ministers were filled with grief and indignation.

Then, ministers from all departments and regions, the three offices and six ministries jointly submitted a memorial of impeachment. Even the common people who did not know the reason believed that the chaos in the world was related to a certain concubine named Xu in the harem.

For a time, public outrage ran rampant, and the accusation of a wicked man wreaking havoc on the nation and harming the people was pinned on Xu Qing. A tree that stands out in the forest will inevitably be destroyed by the wind.

Xu Qing, who acted in a self-righteous manner without any concealment, became the target of public criticism.

The empress could not resist the public opinion and had no choice but to banish Xu Qing to the cold palace, but her daily food, clothing and other expenses did not decrease at all.

Xu Qing originally thought that the matter would end here, and that he would wait until one day he achieved enlightenment, and then no one would be able to restrain him.

But after all, it is not as good as God's calculation.

On this day, several rainbow lights suddenly descended outside the palace, accompanied by brilliant sounds.

One of them claimed to be a casual cultivator from Songyun Temple in Henglu Mountain, and his name was Ge Hongwen.

The other person claimed to be a Taoist monk from Yuchi Mountain in Lianhua County, named Zhuang Tongsheng.

Afterwards, several more people answered the call. Without exception, these people had all been summoned to come to the palace to kill the emperor's concubines who were bringing disaster to the country and the people.

Xu Qing's cultivation was not yet complete, and facing the siege of the crowd, he was ultimately unable to withstand the enemy, and his promising path was ruined within the Shenque Palace.

On his deathbed, he suddenly came to his senses. How could he have forgotten that there were many rare and true Taoist practitioners in this world? Wasn't Zhuang Tongsheng the immortal master he saw when he was trying to save Mr. Liu?

There is also Ge ​​Hongwen from Henglu Mountain. This man's name is also very familiar. Isn't he the adoptive father of Mr. Li Si and the mentor of the old doctor Yang Chunfu!

Xu Qing's head was spinning. He regretted forgetting his original intention and being too obsessed with collecting corpses, which had brought him disaster. At the same time, he felt that his life was like a dream, as if he had blacked out. Many things were wrong and missing, and he felt extremely psychedelic.

Sai Yuxian was originally an infatuated actress, so how did she become a princess of the previous dynasty, the saint of Tianxin Sect, and the current empress?

And that guy Zhao Zhonghe was clearly alive and well, so how come he suddenly became dead?
In the silent morgue, the person lying on the plank bed suddenly opened his eyes, followed by a crisp sound.

After slapping himself hard, Xu Qing finally woke up.

When he saw the surrounding environment and Sai Yuxian's body lying on the table, he fell silent again.

He didn't expect that this dream-making technique could actually create a world of desire in his dream.

Looking at the candle on the table again, it was still flickering, as if the life I just experienced in the dream was only a moment.

Xu Qingsi suddenly realized that dream creation was an illusion. The people, events, and scenes in the dream all had references in reality and were not created out of nothing.

It is mentioned in the ancient book "The Pillow Book" that in the past there was a Taoist named Lu Weng who used his magic to make the young man Lu Sheng have a big dream.

In his dream, Lu Sheng experienced a lifetime, and when he woke up, the yellow rice in front of him was not yet cooked.

Xu Qing didn't have the yellow rice as a reference, so he didn't know how much time had passed, but he had another way to verify it.

At this time, at the door of the morgue, Wang Lingyuan, who had just finished relieving himself, was coming back from outside.

When Xu Qing saw this, he understood clearly in his heart that the life of fickleness and change from morning to night was nothing but a dream.

(End of this chapter)