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

Chapter 74 Turn over
Even in the deep mansions and large courtyards, there is bound to be intrigue and scheming, let alone those who come out of the palace.

Those eunuchs and palace maids are so bold that they will resort to any dirty means to achieve their goals and please their masters!
In the backyard of the palace, Li Zhong, who was hiding something in his heart, was trying to induce the prince to take the Five Grains Elixir, in order to confirm whether the prince really had hysteria.

In the morgue, Xu Qing was staying with the corpse, and his life was peaceful.

He collected a lot of strange and bizarre things during his trip to the Pure Land. Things like the Eighteen-Move Leg Kung Fu, the Bone-Splitting Hand, the Sleeve Arrow, the Locust Stone, the Art of Sex, the Art of Childbirth, and the Art of Postpartum Care.
It seemed that many people were liberated, but in fact most of them were rewards of middle and low-level human qualities, and nothing rare was encountered.

Xu Qing didn't mind either, after all, no matter how small a mosquito leg is, it's still meat.

In addition to rescuing corpses, he also has another pleasure, which is to eat the melons of Tianxin Sect.

If you throw out any of the melons hidden on these traitors, it will be a shocking case!
Xu Qing saw officials in Hunan colluding with bandits, killing innocent people to claim credit, and slaughtering refugees and civilians. He also saw the rebel army rising up thousands of miles away.

They massacred refugees, pretended to be rebels, and received rewards from the imperial court. It was clearly a place where the Tianxin Sect was causing chaos, but it became a local benchmark.

Not only did the Tianxin Sect not lose a single person, but the performance of local officials was also greatly improved.

There are many places like Hunan that have been able to "settle down" refugees and maintain an orderly government.

Xu Qing used these escaped corpses as his eyes to overlook the entire Dayong Dynasty.

Finally, he understood one thing from the mountains and rivers filled with smoke.

The Great Yong Dynasty is about to end!

In addition to the chaos outside, the internal struggle for imperial power is also difficult to quell.

When Xu Qing was praying for the body of the Tianxin Sect rebel, he learned that a martial arts master in a black robe with an unknown identity was involved in the assassination case last night.

There are only a few martial arts masters in the entire Yong Dynasty. Prince Zhu Sheng of Changting is one, and the Holy Lord of Tianxin Sect is one. The rest are either elusive or serving as offerings in the imperial palace.

The Grandmaster last night was obviously not on the same side as the Tianxin Sect. When the other party helped Bai Luo escape, Prince Changting was still accompanying the prince at the banquet!
After much thought, Xu Qing came to the conclusion that there was only one possibility, which was a fight for the throne and power.

The current Emperor Longping is over eighty years old. As the saying goes, at seventy-three or eighty-four, the King of Hell won’t call you to go.

These two critical moments are the most difficult hurdles to overcome in a person's life.

Emperor Longping is now in this difficult situation. As the crown prince, heir to the throne, he only needs to wait until the bell rings in the palace to succeed him.

Now that the crown prince is gone, the throne cannot remain vacant; there must be a replacement from the royal family.
Xu Qing looked at the master in the revolving lantern, and the more he looked, the more he felt that he looked like someone from the palace.

I don’t know which prince’s or prince’s house invited him.

After eating the melon of rebellion, Xu Qing felt a little bloated in the head, as if he had eaten too many corpses at once and was too full.

Fortunately, it was time to rest outside, and a group of clerks and officials came to the moon gate and began to enjoy the food sent by the palace kitchen.

During the meal, someone spread rumors privately, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had hysteria and couldn't tell the difference between grains, so he ate that thing!

"What the hell is this? Explain yourself clearly first. Don't keep revealing the meat and bones. Who are you trying to trick?"

Halfway through, arsenic rice.

Seeing his colleague put down his bowl, the man did not dare to speak loudly. He lowered his voice and whispered secretly: "That's it."

"Hey! What a mess!"

Some people who were eating felt that the food in their hands no longer smelled good.

"Why would His Royal Highness eat that?"

"Who knows? I heard it was someone close to the Crown Prince. They suspected that the Crown Prince was pretending to be crazy and stupid, so they used this thing to test him on purpose."

"Can Your Majesty tolerate this?"

"That's unbearable! When the prince found out about this, he broke that man's legs. If he wasn't the prince's man, he wouldn't have spared his life!"

As they were talking, they saw a group of people coming to the gate. The man in the lead had a bruised face and nose, and was walking into the yard with a crutch in his hand.

Xu Qing remained silent, thinking that this matter had nothing to do with him. Even if Prince Zhu woke up in the future, he would not be blamed.

All he can blame is that there are too many scheming bitches in the world of fame and fortune, while he, a zombie, is the simplest.

The old eunuch Li Zhong was walking up the stairs with a cane. The guard with expressionless face beside him reached out to support him, but Li Zhong dodged the offer.

Zhang Jun, the godson, was quick to step forward and support Li Zhong.

"Godfather, walk slowly and be careful of the steps."

Li Zhong glanced at the group that had been discussing the matter, then turned to the official in charge and said, "I will be transporting His Highness's coffin back to the capital soon. I need you to sort out the details of the Crown Prince's assassination case as soon as possible so that I can present the case to His Majesty upon my return."

When Li Zhong left, he specifically asked Zhang Jun to stay and help supervise the case.

Xu Qing looked at Zhang Jun and found that he was not the same as before.

When they were in Linhe, Zhang Jun was still a simple-minded, clean-skinned young man. Now, when they met again, he had grown a beard and his words and actions were much more stable than before.

At this time, Zhang Jun also saw Xu Qing mixed in with the coroners. He was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

The friendship between the two seemed to end there.

At night, Xu Qing was alone in a room. Through the thin window paper, he could vaguely see the guards patrolling outside with lanterns and torches.

Being inside the house, he was unable to absorb the Yin energy of the moonlight, so he simply began to meditate and regulate his breathing according to the method of practicing the inner charm method, wanting to see if this charm method would work on him.

When it was past three o'clock in the morning, Xu Qing opened his eyes and a strange red light flashed across them.

The outside world became quiet. He used the Qi-gazing technique to look around. The five-colored mist around him was stable and there was no sign of any living beings.

Xu Qing's mind moved slightly, and the next moment the box garden in the map of mountains and rivers appeared in his hands.

Entering the box garden alone, Xu Qing found Bai Luo's body, and then turned the page of the Sutra of Salvation.

Bai Luo's original name was Xu Xiuwen, and his ancestral home was Hejing. He was the son of a wealthy family, but because of his belligerent nature, he was often punished and reprimanded by his father.

Seeing that Xu refused to change despite repeated warnings, his father asked a matchmaker to mediate, thinking that once a man got married, he would become more stable.

On the wedding night, Xu Xiuwen got drunk. When he entered the bridal chamber and saw the delicate bride, he was so overwhelmed with desire that he wanted to eat her alive.

It was also on that night that the cruel Xu Xiuwen accidentally strangled his wife to death in the bridal chamber.

When the maidservant who came with the dowry saw that the young lady's face was blue and purple and she was limp and dead, she cried and shouted and wanted to run away.

Seeing this, Xu Xiuwen could not let the matter be exposed, so he killed the maid as well.

The young boys who were eavesdropping on the live sex show at the door realized that something was wrong and wanted to tell their elders.

Who is Xu Xiuwen? He's been fond of swordplay and clubwork since he was a child. The masters in the martial arts school all praised his extraordinary physique and said he was a natural-born martial artist.

What will happen if such people develop murderous intentions?

When he heard the noise outside the house, he didn't say a word. With all his ruthlessness, he drew his sword and rushed out to kill.

If you encounter a panicked guest on the road, kill him.

Anyone who bumps into the bride's brother, her own brother-in-law, will be killed.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law cried and screamed, "Kill."

When the wedding banquet decorated with red silk and red lanterns turned into hell, Xu Xiuwen finally sobered up.

Seeing that the happy day had been turned into a fatal banquet by himself, Xu Xiuwen's heart was finally touched.

Apart from some guests who escaped, the only people still alive in the main hall were his elderly parents who were trembling all over as they watched him.

Father Xu covered his chest tightly, pointed at Xu Xiuwen with a trembling hand, but could not utter a word.

"I hate it. I hate how my Xu family could have given birth to a beast like you. I really should have strangled you to death back then."

Xu Xiuwen lowered his eyelids. After the two elders finished scolding him and he was tired of crying, he raised his head and smiled strangely.

The fire at Xu's house was very big that night and it burned until dawn without being extinguished.

Since then, Xu Xiuwen's portrait has appeared on the arrest warrants of various prefectures and provinces. However, by this time, Xu Xiuwen had already joined the Tianxin Sect and became the most admired rising star of the Holy Lord.

When Xu Qing saw Xu Xiuwen being named Bai Luo by the Holy Lord of Tianxin, he also knew why Bai Luo was hunted down by Zuo Zixiong and Cui Yuanlong for thousands of miles.

Just because of this capricious and naturally tyrannical killer, three entire families were massacred in the capital.

Moreover, these three families were all wiped out by Bai Luo when they were holding wedding banquets.

Moreover, his modus operandi was exactly the same as when he was in the Xu family.

Before this, Xu Qing had never seen anyone with such a cruel temperament.

The scene changed, and it showed Liu Youdao's falling head.

Behind Liu Youdao are a group of zombies.

Xu Qing saw himself in Bai Luo's revolving lantern.

Who would have thought that the zombies that dared not move at first would become an obstacle that Bai Luo could never overcome in his life.

Xu Qing continued to read, and it was roughly about Bai Luo and the Tianxin Sect planning to assassinate the prince.

There wasn't much useful information in it, but he did get a piece of news from it - the hiding place of Qing Luo, the five guardians of Tianxin Sect.

This is the house that Bai Luo bought for Qing Luo, located in an alley in Tianjin City.

After Xu Qing wrote down the address of the house, Bai Luo's life came to an end.

Afterwards, the Sutra of Deliverance gave out rewards: a top-grade Sinan Sword Technique with the character "人" on it, a human skin mask and a gourd of wine.

Among them, the Si Nan Sword Technique, when mastered, can penetrate the enemy's vital points. Even the most agile person will be useless in front of this sword technique.

The human skin mask can change the face of anyone, regardless of gender, age or status, in just a moment.

What's left is a gourd of heart-eroding wine, which can make people lose their emotions after drinking it, and turn them into human weapons that only know how to kill.

Fortunately, the effect of a cup of wine only lasts for one hour, similar to a magical drug that triggers potential.

Xu Qing opened the wine seal, took a sip, and immediately felt a sense of restlessness rising in his heart, and his bloodthirsty instinct was about to burst out.

This thing is too dangerous and should not be used unless necessary.

Two days later, Li Zhong and his party escorted the prince's coffin to Linhe Port, intending to return to Luojing by water and take an official ship.

It was also on this day, not long after Li Zhong left, that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince regained consciousness.

"It's over! My lifelong reputation is ruined in an instant!"

Zhu Huaian has been hiding in the house for a long time, and he won't open the door no matter who knocks.

At this time, apart from Zhu Huaian himself, no one else in the mansion knew that he had woken up.

"How about continuing to play dumb?"

Zhu Huaian's mind was in a mess, and his mind was filled with images of wanting his foster mother to hold him and feed him.

After that, he just chewed on the stones and ate them as if they were elixirs.

However, these were still within his acceptable range. The only thing he could not bear was that the dog slave Li Zhong dared to instigate him to eat
The key is that he actually ate it!
"vomit--"

Prince Zhu, who could no longer spit out anything, could not help but dry heave again.

Outside the door, his uncle was already preparing to break in.

"Huaian, if you don't say anything, I'm going to go in!"

Squeak, the door opens.

Zhu Huaian looked dazed, staring at Yin Chengshan, and said weakly and confusedly: "Uncle, what's wrong with me? Why can't I remember anything that happened in the past three days?"

"Huai'an, what did you call me?"

"You finally recognized me!"

Yin Chengshan was delighted to see that his nephew could speak clearly and answer questions, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to report the good news to the prince and his sister.

"Huai'an, have you thought of anything else?"

Zhu Huaian shook his head and reiterated: "I don't remember anything that happened in the past three days!"

"Don't lie to your uncle. If you really don't remember anything, how would you know that you were stupid for three days?"

Zhu Huaian's eyelids twitched, and he denied it flatly: "I said I don't remember, so I don't remember. Uncle, don't ask me again, my headache is coming back!"

Yin Chengshan was afraid that his nephew would have another hysterical attack, so he stopped asking questions.

On the way to pay respects, Zhu Huaian suddenly asked, "Uncle, how are my friends now?"

"Very well. Your mother has specially asked someone to take care of her. She is still at home. You can come and see her anytime when you feel better."

After saying that, Yin Chengshan couldn't help but ask again: "Huai'an, do you really not remember what happened before the onset of the disease?"

The little fat man paused, his eyes hesitant.

He vaguely remembered that day when he was drunk and half awake, he saw a murderous scholar stabbing several of his guards to death.

Finally
Zhu Huaian really had a headache this time.

That figure looked like Brother Xu, but not quite.

He and the Wu brothers all knew that Xu Qing was just a pale-faced scholar who usually wore makeup and smelled of rouge. How could he become a warrior who killed people without blinking an eye overnight?
Zhu Huaian spoke vaguely and did not express the confused memories in his mind.

After paying his respects to his parents, Zhu Huaian, with something on his mind, couldn't wait to find Xu Qing's house.

"The way of a gentleman is like traveling far, which must start from near; like climbing high, which must start from low."

In the courtyard, Xu Qing had already sensed Zhu Huaian's presence when he and a group of guards walked to the door.

So he suddenly had an idea and took out the only thing that looked like a book from the map of mountains and rivers.

It was a scroll of a hundred beautiful paintings, but it did not affect his persistence in reading.

Zhu Huaian stood at the door and waved his hand to stop the servants from coming forward.

He listened to the sound of reading coming from inside and fell into self-doubt again.

As the gate opened, Xu Qing's reading voice stopped abruptly.

"Your Highness? What are you doing?"

Zhu Huaian's scalp tingled. He wanted to ask something, but he was afraid that the other party would mention his unpleasant experiences.

Fortunately, Xu Qing only showed his joy and did not mention the embarrassing things he had done in the past few days.

After sending away the servants and guards and chatting for a while, Zhu Huaian finally couldn't hold back.

"Brother Xu, that day the Tianxin Cult rebels tried to assassinate me, but did you rescue me?"

"I am just a weak scholar, powerless, how can I save the prince?" Xu Qing shook his head in denial.

"The one who saved you was a master who seemed like an immortal. Unfortunately, the prince was drunk and unconscious at the time, and was frightened by the assassin, which led to his dementia and hysteria."

"Speaking of which, His Royal Highness has done quite a bit in the past three days."

"Wait! Let's not talk about the past. I don't know what happened that night or what happened in the past three days, and you don't have to tell me!"

Xu Qing chuckled, and the two of them skipped over the topic.

(End of this chapter)