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

Chapter 95 Golden Rooster, Jade Ring

The middle of the night is when the yin energy is the heaviest in the day.

There are many taboos during this period.

For example, you should not call the names of ghosts and gods, as doing so may bring about filth and bad luck.

Men should not have sex at this time, because men need to rely on Yang energy to have sex. If they increase or decrease Yang energy when Yin energy is at its heaviest, it may damage their original essence.

In addition, there is a warning that "If you do not ask for divination at midnight, you will bring disaster upon yourself", which means that you cannot ask for divination at midnight, otherwise you will suffer disaster and bad luck.

Another thing is that you cannot open the door to others.

Especially strangers.

Outside the coroner's shop, the knocking on the door became more and more urgent.

At the same time, a woman's voice was heard asking for help.

"Sir, please save me! There are wild beasts outside hurting people, and I have nowhere to hide. I beg you to be kind and rescue me!"

Xu Qing raised her eyebrows and thought, sister, are you using X-ray vision?

Otherwise, how would you know that the person in the shop is a handsome young man?
Moving to the door and window, Xu Qing calmly opened the window a crack and looked outside.

There was not a single person in sight on the pitch-black street.

Looking at the door of my own shop, I can’t say that it is deserted, but I can only say that there is not a single bird to be seen.

Where does the knocking sound come from on this empty street?
Xu Qing finally realized the seriousness of the problem. Some dirty creature had come here to play tricks on him!
Thinking of the two hangers-on who had performed the salvation during the day, Xu Qing's heart moved slightly.

He returned to the shop door. It was unusually quiet outside the shop, and there was no knocking sound.

Xu Qing's gloves were knuckle-toothed, and with his sword hidden, he manipulated the puppet to open a door panel.

Outside the door, there was a cold wind and a thin mist, and the entire funeral street seemed to be hidden in the underworld.

Xu Qing came to Yanou's side. At this time, only the coroner's shop on the street was still lit with dim lights.

He looked around and although he didn't see anyone, he found a pair of exquisitely crafted pink embroidered shoes outside the threshold.

The embroidered shoe was light enough to fit in one hand, and the tiny toe was facing the door of his shop.

Xu Qing's eyelids twitched, and he immediately remembered the female ghost that Liu Cai and Feng Liu encountered in the kaleidoscope.

The other person was also wearing a pair of pink and white embroidered shoes.

Even the patterns on them are exactly the same!
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, and just as he was about to bend down to pick up the embroidered shoes, the bright candlelight in the shop behind him suddenly went out.

"Hmm?" Xu Qing frowned.

This guest seems a bit impolite.

It's okay that you litter at someone else's doorstep, but why do you turn off other people's lights without permission?
"Clap."

Xu Qing stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, and the lighting method instantly covered the entire store. Even the paper-making shop next door, where no one was at home, lit up with candles.

However, the next moment, an inexplicable cold wind swept across the shop, and the lights that had just been lit went out again.

"Click, click, click."

In the next few moments, the light in the coroner's shop flickered, as if someone was dancing late at night.

At this time, neither Xu Qing nor the other party was willing to give in, and the situation was deadlocked.

If this continues until dawn, I'm afraid his hands will get calluses from snapping his fingers!
Fortunately, the other party finally made concessions.

The lights in the coroner's shop finally dimmed.

Picking up the embroidered shoes, Xu Qing silently closed the door and then fastened the bolt.

He had no intention of looking back from the beginning to the end. With the lessons learned from Liu Cai and Feng Liu, he could fully foresee what the situation would be like behind him.

Feeling the faint Yin energy coming from behind his neck, Xu Qing suddenly revealed a meaningful smile.

You like to scare people by getting close to their faces, right?

Well, today I will teach you a lesson and let you know what it means to be close to your face!
"Girl, I am kindhearted and have opened the door to help you."

"But it's only human nature if there's give and take."

"In that case, please do me a small favor. The back of my head is itchy, like there are lice crawling around. Could you please help me catch them?"

Not long after Xu Qing finished speaking, he felt a pair of cold hands clinging to the back of his head and scratching at it.

"Open your eyes wide and look carefully. Don't let the louse escape."

As he spoke, Xu Qing used his two-faced tactics, and a smiling, sinister face appeared from the back of his head!

When their eyes met, Xu Qing saw the face of the woman who asked him for help. It was the embroiderer who worked on the loom in the old tailor's house.

The embroiderer who was carefully catching lice also saw the sinister smile that suddenly appeared on Xu Qing's face.

“Ghost——!”

The embroiderer screamed, and a cold wind suddenly blew around her body, and she was about to float backwards.

But Xu Qing would never give her a chance to escape. He immediately grabbed the cold little hand in front of him, and with a pull, he pulled the paper-thin female ghost in front of him.

Xu Qing's expression turned back to normal and he sneered, "Who is the ghost? Explain yourself clearly!"

The embroiderer trembled. She opened her mouth and tried to blow air at Xu Qing, but she found that the negative energy she blew out was like a drop of water sprinkled into the sea, which could not even create a ripple.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and felt as if a spring breeze was blowing, and the whole zombie became much more energetic.

"Don't stop, keep blowing!"

The ghost girl was about to cry out loud. She knelt on the ground, letting Xu Qing hold her wrist. She said tearfully, "I am blind and don't know the high skills. I hope you will show mercy and let me live."

"Let you live?"

Xu Qing said coldly, "When you blew air on me just now, you didn't seem so easy to talk to."

The ghost said anxiously, "I was frightened by you, Senior. I thought I had encountered an evil spirit and was afraid. But I have absolutely no intention of harming you. I came here to avoid disaster. Otherwise, I wouldn't be helping you catch lice."

"Disaster? You've been living well in the old tailor's house, how could there be any disaster?"

Xu Qing frowned slightly. If he had not changed his mind and chosen to draw the talisman, the female ghost might have encountered him, the evil guest.

But he hadn't gone to the old tailor's house yet, so it couldn't be that someone else had gotten there first.
When the embroiderer heard Xu Qing's explanation of her background, she felt that she had met a master.

"I am the daughter of a tailor. I learned needlework at home from a young age and never had any grudges against anyone. Later, my father passed away, and my relatives took the opportunity to seize my home and sell me to another family as a wife."

"Although I lack masculinity, I refuse to be manipulated, so I swallowed arsenic and died at home."

Arsenic stone is arsenic trioxide. Listening to the embroiderer's crying, Xu Qing thought of Wang Liang from Wanshou Township.

In terms of age, Wang Liang is younger than the embroiderer. If he had not taught him martial arts, Wang Liang's current situation would surely not be much better than that of the embroiderer in front of him.

"After my death, my resentment remained and my mind was in chaos. Fortunately, there was a Taoist priest named Lu Kun who performed a ritual to dispel my resentment and guide me in practicing the ghost way."

"I had a grudge against myself and didn't want to leave, so I broke my promise and returned home secretly."

"Now that Taoist Kun has brought his own vicious animals to punish me. I have no choice but to come here and possess the body of the evil guest who invaded my house the other day to avoid disaster."

Listening to the ghost's sobbing, Xu Qing frowned and said, "People say ghosts tell lies all the time, and ghosts can't be trusted. How can I know whether what you said is true or not?"

"I can swear on the light!"

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Why do you always have to swear by the lights?

The lights in this land are quite busy. Xu Qing let go of the female ghost and was about to speak when he heard the crowing of a rooster outside the shop again. Unlike before, this time he also heard the dull sound of birds flapping their wings.

"My benefactor, that evil beast is here again! I will take shelter first. I hope you will be careful in dealing with it."

After saying that, the female ghost appeared and came to the coffin where the corpse was stored. Then Xu Qing saw her jump into the coffin decisively and then close the coffin lid.

The set of movements was done without any delay.

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Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the shop door.

At this time, the sound of roosters crowing rang out again.

But it was not at the door, but in the backyard of the coroner's shop.

For some reason, Xu Qing felt uneasy at this moment.

It was clearly just an ordinary rooster crowing, but he had the same instinctive fear reaction that ordinary people would have when faced with the roar of a tiger or leopard.

"Could the evil beast that the female ghost was talking about be the chicken that crows in the middle of the night and runs around everywhere?" Xu Qing drew out the silver snake sword, picked up the plum blossom needle in his sleeve, and walked towards the backyard.

The hens he had previously fostered at Wu Yaoxing's home were released back into the backyard after his retreat.

At this time, when the rooster crowed loudly, the hens in the backyard made strange sounds, just like the widows in the widow village meeting a handsome boy.

Arriving at the backyard, Xu Qing looked around and saw that all the hens in the chicken coop were squatting on the ground with their wings spread out, making courtship gestures as if they wanted to be favored.

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It’s really weird!
Xu Qing opened the door of the chicken coop and was about to go in to catch the rapist who had harmed his hens. But who would have thought that before he even set foot in the chicken coop, a sinister gust of wind came from behind him!
Xu Qing subconsciously used his two-faced strategy and held the silver snake sword in his hand against his back.

There were only two clang sounds, and a rooster half a man's height, covered with golden feathers, pounced on his sword.

There is a spur behind the rooster's claws, commonly known as the spur. The older the rooster, the longer the spur.

The rooster that pounced on Xu Qing from the side had a spur that was three inches long.

In the moonlight, the pair of rooster claws looked like golden hooks, and when they touched the sword, they produced a streak of sparks.

Xu Qing retreated to the yard, used the Si Nan sword technique and started fighting with the rooster.

The rooster is quite magical. Every time it flaps its wings, a gust of wind blows in your face.

Xu Qing wasn't sure where the sense of crisis in his heart came from, but his zombie instinct told him that he couldn't let the rooster in front of him touch his body.

Si Nan's sword technique took advantage of every opportunity, and after a few sword shadows flashed, there were many chicken feathers about a foot long in the yard.

The Golden Rooster cherishes its feathers, and when it sees its feathers damaged, it becomes completely crazy.

Looking at the rooster with its neck feathers spread out, as if it was dueling, Xu Qing looked down at the sword in his hand.

At this time, the silver snake sword, which was filled with poison, had two more gaps.

"There's something wrong with this rooster!"

How can a rooster peck at iron or stone as easily as pecking at rice crust?

Looking at the rooster's golden beak flashing with cold light, Xu Qing finally figured out where the uneasiness came from.

With this bite, even if it was a silver-armored corpse, he would be covered in bruises, right?

Seeing that the rooster was serious, Xu Qing was too lazy to continue dealing with it.

After taking two bites of his Silver Snake Sword, even if you are a stingy person, you will be turned into a dish in a short time.

Xu Qing turned over and jumped out of the yard and came to the street underground.

The rooster was chasing closely behind him.

Xu Qing used the gecko wall-climbing skills, light body movements, and snake steps to move left and right. His movements were as graceful as a boy in the village being chased by geese.

Xuanyu, who had just returned from a walk, sat on the wall, looking at the young man being chased around on the street by a golden rooster, his eyes full of surprise.

In the coffin shop, Hu Baosong heard the noise and walked out slowly. When he saw Xu Qing running towards him, he ran faster than Xu Qing despite his disabled legs.

"Why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and making trouble?" Hu Baosong took out a talisman and stuck it on the door of the coffin shop.

Xu Qing followed Hu Baosong into the coffin shop, not feeling embarrassed, and briefly recounted his encounter with the female ghost.

"I thought it was a mourning chicken used to call back souls, but I never thought it would be something like this!"

"But don't worry, Old Hu. The chicken has been poisoned and won't be able to flutter for long."

Hu Baosong listened to the sound of the golden rooster circling outside, searching for someone, and frowned. "This golden rooster is unusual. The person who raised it is probably no ordinary person. Don't make enemies with him because of this."

Xu Qing said angrily, "You need to leash your dog when you walk it, and her chicken ran into my shop in the middle of the night and went crazy pecking at people. Is she still right?"

While the two were whispering, the sound of chickens calling "cluck, cuckoo" suddenly came from the street outside.

Hu Baosong and Xu Qing looked at each other, and the two of them stopped talking tacitly.

Outside the shop, a female Taoist wearing a green Taoist robe with a double-breasted collar stood in front of the golden rooster.

At this time, the big rooster no longer had the majestic look it had before. The female Kun Dao frowned as she looked at the rooster with a black and purple comb.

She stood on the street and looked around. Apart from a black cat on the roof in the distance, there was no other movement.

After a moment's silence, the nun took out a milky white pill from her sleeve and fed it to the golden rooster. Then she walked to the door of the coffin shop, bowed, and said softly:

"I am so polite. That golden rooster is a sacred bird raised by my Five Elders Temple. If it has offended you, I will apologize first."

"I just hope that fellow Daoist will be lenient and give me a prescription for the antidote. I will be very grateful."

In the shop, separated only by a row of doors, Xu Qing pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Before, a female ghost embroiderer begged him for mercy, and now a nun came to his door asking for medicine.

Those who don’t know would think that he runs a charity hall instead of a funeral home!
Compared with Xu Qing's calmness, Hu Baosong, who had been as steady as an old dog before, was the first to get restless.

"Hey, hey! Lao Hu, what are you going to do?"

Hu Baosong ignored him and opened the shop door while ordering Xu Qing, "Xu boy, go and light the lamp!"

With a click, the light came on.

At this time, the two of them also saw the face of the nun outside the door clearly.

She was a beautiful woman in her thirties or forties, with a dignified demeanor, beautiful appearance, and endless charm between her eyebrows.

"Are you the Jurchen from the Wulao Temple?"

"Exactly."

"Then do you know Zichen?"

"My master's name is Zichen."

Hu Baosong couldn't hide his excitement when he heard this: "Is she okay now?"

"Master passed away fifteen years ago."

"The jade ring you're wearing?"