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

Chapter 45: Asking for Directions with Shoes
Xu Qing often passed by the Watergate Bridge. There were indeed a few fortune tellers and medicine sellers on it, but were those fortune tellers really that accurate?
If this is true, then he might have to walk around the Watergate Bridge in the future. After all, if the other party looks at him a few more times one day, calculates with his fingers, and finds out that someone is dead, it will always be a troublesome matter.

In the morgue, the pages of the Sutra of Salvation were still being turned. After the gambler received instructions from the fortune teller, he went straight to Cuiyun Tower.

The big teapot greeted him with a smile, and the gambler followed him to a quiet attic. After the two of them reported inside, they heard a shrill voice coming from inside.

"If you want to buy our treasure, it's not impossible, but the price is——"

"The price is negotiable. How about one hundred and twenty taels?"

After being enlightened by the fortune teller, the gambler was determined to get the treasure that would win him money, and he immediately said a number.

That was the money he had scraped together by selling everything he had and his wife. At the moment, apart from a few taels of silver that he had withheld to make up for his losses, he simply rounded up the rest and reported it out in full.

The gambler was afraid that the nobleman in the attic would look down on this little bit of silver, so he added: "Wait until I win a few games. Then, let alone 120 taels, I will be willing to give it to you, even 1,200 taels!"

"You misunderstood. Not only will our family not ask you for money, we will also give you money to spend."

As he was speaking, a waiter walked out of the attic with a tray in his hand, on which was placed the Pixiu jade pendant.

"This jade pendant is Yin Ling Jade. Inside it is a gambling beast that we have tamed. With the little beast's secret help, you will be able to win every time you gamble."

When Xu Qing heard the three words "Yin Lingyu", his heart moved.

Yinling Jade, commonly known as Yin Gui Jade, is one of the key materials for cultivating silver-armored wandering corpses in the Corpse-Nourishing Sutra.

He didn't expect that the thing he had been looking for everywhere would be found here!

Outside the attic, the waiter presented the gambler with a Pixiu jade pendant and 120 taels of silver. He then took out a handful of incense and carefully instructed him, "The gambling beast must eat one stick of incense every day. There are seven sticks here in total. You must offer it daily and never let the jade pendant leave your body, otherwise it will lose its power."

Upon hearing this, the gambler couldn't wait to ask, "When will this gambling beast help me win money?"

"Offer a stick of incense every day, and it will naturally help you gamble to your heart's content."

The gambler got the jade pendant and 120 taels of silver, and left Cuiyun Tower happily.

This guy is really careless. The people in the attic are strangers to him, but he doesn't care why others want to help him. Some of them even give him money.

Haven’t you heard that cheap things don’t come in good quality? And how can pie fall from the sky for no reason?
What's more, it's something that was given to you willingly, so who knows what evil is hidden in it!
Gamblers are obsessed with money and only care about winning. Apart from that, they don't care about anything else!
Holding the silver jade pendant, he trotted back to the guest room, then eagerly lit a stick of incense, clasped his hands together and held the jade pendant in his palms, like a devout believer, muttering auspicious words about good luck and prosperity.

When the incense was lit, Xu Qing once again smelled the familiar scent of incense that he had smelled when he went to Cuiyun Tower before.

When the fragrance spread completely, the gambler in the guest room suddenly fell to the ground, and then kept making indistinct mumbling sounds in his sleep.

At this time, the room was filled with smoke, and the incense seemed to have some special magic, and in a trance, it transformed the entire room into a bustling casino.

Then the gambler stood up as if sleepwalking, holding the jade pendant in both hands, and circled around the incense table.

In the eyes of gamblers, he shuttled around the casino as if he were really possessed by the God of Gamblers. He always won every bet and always had a steady hand.

Seeing this, Xu Qing was thoughtful.

The dream effect created by the rosemary in front of him was similar to his dream-making technique.

However, the dreams experienced by gamblers are not as realistic as those created by dream artists.

Xu Qing passed through the translucent illusion and returned his gaze to the guest room. He noticed that the Pixiu jade pendant had somehow floated three inches above the gambler's head. From the point where the jade pendant connected to his head, a steady stream of spiritual light was being drawn from the gambler's body. For the next seven days, a different color of spiritual light was drawn from the gambler's body every day. On the final day, the gambler, his spirit completely drained, could no longer enter the casino illusion.

He gathered all his strength, opened his eyes and looked at the floating Pixiu jade pendant, and saw a familiar ghost figure on the jade pendant asking for the last bit of his spiritual power.

The gambler opened his mouth in horror, for no other reason than that the ghost in front of him looked just like him, and he had never left the guest room!
On his deathbed, he suddenly realized that the so-called gambling beast ghost in the Pixiu jade pendant was none other than himself!

The silver money given to him was not given for free, but was actually a life-saving payment to buy his life!

After reading the gambler's life story, Xu Qing had a rough guess about the identity of the Yin Sect member in Cuiyun Tower.

In addition to being used as the evolution material for the Silver-Armored Zombie, the Yin Gui Jade also has a special function, which is raising ghosts.

They are corpse drivers who raise and refine corpses, but the Yinmen person hidden in Cuiyun Tower is obviously an expert in raising and refining ghosts.

"The Yin Gui Jade has already harmed two people, but the eunuch from Cuiyun Tower who was suspected to have gone out of the palace to purchase it has not shown up." Xu Qing frowned.

Could it be that the number of people swallowed is not enough?

Xu Qing thought for a moment and temporarily suppressed his thoughts. No one knew in whose hands the Yin Gui Jade was now, but as long as someone was killed, it would come here with the corpse sooner or later.

After all, not everyone is as greedy as Wei Fang, so as to allow the evil spirits to take advantage of the situation.

After the gambler's body was liberated, the evaluation given by the Sutra of Devotion to Humanity was consistent with Wei Fang's, both of which were of the lower grade of human.

It’s just that the rewards are very different. The reward for the gambler’s salvation clearly has the characteristics of a gambler, and it is a method of asking for directions by throwing a shoe.

As the name suggests, if you are lost or don't know where to go, you just need to take off your shoes and throw them randomly. The direction the tip of the shoe points will guide the caster in the direction to go.

Xu Qing tilted his head and looked at his shoes.

What a joke! How can this thing be accurate?
At the morgue, after Xu Qing had finished examining the two bodies, Wang Lingyuan asked with a smile, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Xu Qing paused for a moment and replied, "The causes of death for these two bodies are basically the same. If there is a murderer, it is very likely to be done by one person."

"Also, the case file records that the first person to find a body in the gambling inn was Wei Fang."

"The two may be somewhat related, but the specific details of the case will have to wait for further verification."

Wang Lingyuan nodded and said, "This case is very complicated and difficult to solve. It will most likely remain an unsolved case in the end. We will see how the government will judge it. If it is related to evil spirits, it may even have to be reported to the provincial capital."

Xu Qing's heart trembled when he heard this. "Report it to the provincial capital? Could it be that the provincial capital has the ability to solve such a strange case?"

"Of course. The city has set up a special office to hunt demons. Not long ago, the demon-hunting captain came to investigate the whereabouts of the demon from the Tianxin Sect, but he couldn't find any trace."

Xu Qing then asked many questions about the Monster Hunting Division. Wang Lingyuan knew very little about it. He only knew that above the Monster Hunting Captain was the Divine Machine Battalion, and these people were all talented and elusive people.

Seeing that it was getting late, Wang Lingyuan urged Xu Qing to go back quickly.

"Junior brother, the day after tomorrow is the day for the Tongsheng exam. You should do more homework. It's better not to come to my place these two days to avoid being distracted."

Xu Qing nodded repeatedly. When he left the government office, he saw that the two Wu brothers were nowhere to be found. He suddenly had an idea. While no one was paying attention, he took off one of his shoes and threw it on the ground.
(End of this chapter)