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

Chapter 382 Fairness, fairness, and more fairness!

A volume of scriptures for saving people can tell you about their past lives.

Through the three brothers' revolving lantern, Xu Qing witnessed many unknown secrets.

When General Tiangong was seriously ill but not yet dead in Guangzong, General Rengong devised a plan to persuade his elder brother to use the Nine Netherworld Secret Method to borrow the power of the Dharma Corpse to reshape his body.

"Brother, you have devoted yourself to the world, and now that the great cause is not yet accomplished, how can you give up so easily? Although the method of transforming corpses abandons the human body, the will will not change. As long as you are willing, you can still raise the Yellow Heaven again!"

At that time, the Heavenly General pressed, "Tell me the truth, what exactly is that corpse? Have you been bewitched by a sorcerer?"

General Ren Gong remained tight-lipped, but due to his elder brother's authority, he eventually told him about the Three Corpses' desire to rule the Underworld and reorganize the order of the Three Realms.

"My elder brother has devoted his entire life to the great cause of the world. If he dies, who can take his place? Both the great cause and the suffering people of the world need my elder brother's strength to save them."

"Absurd! The very foundation of our Taiping Dao is to purify the world and relieve the people from their suffering. If we were to borrow the power of evil spirits and transform ourselves into demons, wouldn't we be falling into the demonic path and joining the ranks of monsters? Such evil arts corrupt my Daoist heart and erode my will. Even if I were to survive, I would be nothing more than a walking corpse!"

General Ren Gong still wouldn't give up: "So what if we become corpse demons? As long as we care about the common people and are determined to conquer the world, we will still have a chance to rise again. But if you give up, brother, all our previous efforts will have been in vain!"

"Brother, have you forgotten the prophecy left by the Old Immortal of Nanhua? You are the one destined by Heaven. Even if you become a corpse demon, you may be reborn one day."

General Tiangong, seriously ill and bedridden, upon hearing his brother's words, insisted on sitting up, pointed to the heavens, and said:
"Under the Yellow Heaven, all living beings receive the virtue of Heaven. What is the life and death of one person worth mentioning?"

"If I die, others will carry on the will of Heaven! But if I sell this body and associate with demons to obtain a filthy shell, then all my life's desires will vanish like a bubble!"

"This is not a way to survive, but a method of self-destruction!"

When General Ren Gong saw that things were hopeless, he stopped trying to persuade him, but secretly he conspired with General Di Gong in Guangzong.

"How unjust is Heaven? We have followed our elder brother all this time, all for the sake of assisting him in achieving great things. If he were to die halfway through, how could we bear it?"

"I have a plan that can enable you to resume your great cause, and after we die, we can follow in your footsteps and rise again."

Following the instructions, the Earth God General set up an altar in Guangzong.

Not long after, the Heavenly General passed away, and the whole city was draped in white mourning clothes, with cries of grief echoing across the fields.

While the generals were grieving, the two generals, the Human Lord and the Earth Lord, burned the Yin thatch and smashed the old cauldron, forcibly altering Yin and Yang, summoning souls and spirits, and forcibly making their elder brother rise from the dead before sending him into the ancient Yin River Road to be nurtured by the accumulated Yin energy over the years, so as to become an immortal and indestructible corpse demon.

After the death of General Tiangong, the Taiping army lost all morale and their cause was lost.

Afterwards, the Human Lord and Earth Lord General followed suit, ordering their trusted followers of the Taiping Dao to set up an altar and escape into the Yinhe Ancient Road in the same manner. However, the three of them lost all their original consciousness and became walking corpse demons controlled by the Dharma Corpse.

At that time, the Corpse Demon had not yet fully ruled the Underworld and had no intention of interfering in human affairs. As a result, the three Heavenly Generals became Corpse Demons who could not be extricated and spent their days in the Underworld River acting as accomplices to the tyrants, waging endless wars.
As for the grand plan, it no longer exists.

This is why the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor, after being saved from suffering, would repent and express their gratitude before Xu Qing.
Xu Qing didn't have time to take stock of his spoils. He turned to look at the chaotic forest of tombstones and immediately switched to flying zombie mode, activated the Yin Kingdom Domain, and summoned the Mountain and River Cauldron.

With the aura of the emperor of the underworld, the 100,000 corpse soldiers and generals all bowed their heads in fear.

At the same time, Zhongzhou.

The red-tailed monkey, who was scratching its bottom, suddenly heard the sound of a heavy cauldron falling to the ground in the river.

It had just looked up and hadn't even come to its senses when another white streak of light rushed towards it from afar.

Before Bai Junzi had even come to a complete stop, he hurriedly shouted, "Fifty miles to the west, a great flood has begun! Immortal Hou, go and suppress it immediately!"

The red-tailed monkey felt a chill and immediately flashed to a distance of fifty miles. Looking down from afar, it saw that the waters for a thousand miles were boiling like water, and in the middle of the river, there was a fissure fifty miles long that pierced through the yin and yang!
When the turbid waves, hundreds of feet high, surged up, the Red-tailed Monkey was invigorated. The Dragon-Binding Staff in his hand grew larger in the wind. When it reached a length of hundreds of feet, the Red-tailed Monkey's expression suddenly changed.

It originally thought that the water level of a hundred feet was the limit of this turbid river, but it never expected that along with the turbid river came a ghost river of the underworld, which was formed by the convergence of spiritual power, yin energy, blood lake incense!
The Yin energy and demonic forces were being continuously purified by the incense in the Blood Lake, but what came after the purification was not a tide of spiritual energy, but a monstrous wave!

The red-tailed monkey's heart pounded, and it hurriedly raised the yellow flag to activate the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

The eight gates of Qimen Dunjia operate autonomously, and the surging river of Yin and Yang is forcibly separated into nine tributaries by the formation, which circulate like a ring within the eight gates.

However, the river's flow did not slow down with the array's guidance; instead, it intensified over time.

With a gritted teeth, the red-tailed monkey obeyed the sect leader's words and used its supernatural powers of moving mountains and filling seas to move mountains and open roads nearby, and push rivers to divert water.

However, given its level of cultivation, where would it find so much magical power to squander?

Bai Junzi, who was also diverting the river, reminded him, "Immortal Hou! Don't be stingy, quickly use the sect leader's elixir!"

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The red-tailed monkey bared its teeth. Xu Qing had given it so many elixirs and medicines, and it had been hoping to pocket them and bring them back to Monkey Mountain for its children and grandchildren to try. But now it realized that the sect leader really had no intention of giving it any special treatment.

This trip to Central China wasn't exactly a pleasant one.
With a determined heart, the red-tailed monkey stuffed the pills that even the great immortal sects were reluctant to use into its stomach. The next moment, the power of the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation suddenly increased by more than double, and the rift between the Yin River and the mortal world was expanded once again!

Bitter!

The monkey had no words to express its suffering. We're just saying, if you want to control the floods, go find the water monkey! It's just a monkey from the mountains, how could it possibly control floods?

The red-tailed monkey was so angry it wanted to curse. Xu Qing was not Yu the Great, nor was it Wuzhiqi, but Xu Qing really treated it as if it were Wuzhiqi!

Feeling its body nearing its limit, the red-tailed monkey realized that after this job, it wouldn't be able to get out of bed for ten days to half a month.

Both are in the same Zhuohe River basin, but a little earlier, they were more than a hundred miles apart.

A strange person wearing a Nuo mask, carrying a sword box on his back, and dressed in a flowery robe appeared in the sky above the Zhuo River.

The man looked into the distance and when he saw a skinny monkey with little cultivation bearing a burden that was not appropriate for his age, the man decisively stepped in to help.

He patted the sword box, and the twelve magic swords transformed into streaks of light, falling directly towards the surrounding mountains and rivers.

Cut mountains and seas, divide land into rivers.

However, before the masked man could unleash his full power, the monkey, under immense pressure, flung out a yellow flag, and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation instantly covered a thousand miles of water.

The strange man groaned, but he was used as excellent fertilizer to maintain the operation of the great formation activated by the power of heaven and earth.

"Is this the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation?"

The strange man felt a chill run down his spine. This great sect's formation had long been lost and only existed in legends and records. How could someone have used it?
Looking at the fissure in the dark river and the chaotic aura emanating from it, he felt even more terrified.

"Insane! Utterly insane! They actually dared to use the Turbid River as the base of the formation, drawing upon the power of the imbalanced Yin and Yang to activate this grand formation!"

The strange man realized that the other party wanted to use the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation to guide spiritual power back to cleanse the turbid world, but who would have so much incense to purify the impure spiritual power in the Yin River?
Beneath the Nuo mask, the strange man was filled with regret. He was now facing not only the crisis brought about by the out-of-control Turbid River, but also the predicament of the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation forcibly extracting his magical power to curb the speed of the Yin River.

He was merely a Nuo Immortal. Although his magical powers and supernatural abilities were comparable to those of some immortals and gods, he had absolutely no chance of breaking the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation, let alone escaping the formation's constraints.

I should have stayed home and not watched the spectacle.
The Nuo Immortal complained bitterly and had no choice but to perform his duties, just like the Red-tailed Monkey and the White Gentleman.

The ancient Yinhe River Road.

Xu Qing threw the corpses of the three Corpse Demon brothers into the Mountain and River Cauldron, which, weighing as much as a mountain, cooked the three bizarre corpses, each a hundred feet tall, into a miraculous medicine to nourish the world.

Xu Qing spared no expense, throwing away millions of incense offerings as if they were free.

Compared to the red-tailed monkey, his condition was much more severe. Xu Qing felt like a relentlessly running machine. If it weren't for his powerful magic and the ability to switch between three states, he would probably be exhausted by now.

After death and rebirth, Xu Qing used the incense from the Blood Lake as fuel to completely transform the corpses of the three generals—Heaven, Earth, and Man—into pure life force. He still remembered his promise to General Heaven to give them a grand burial.

At this moment, the waters of the Spirit River flowed back to nourish heaven and earth, perfectly aligning with the practice of water burial. Xu Qing recited the eulogy, saying:

"The soul returns to the distant past, leaving only the homeland; the blood is spilled in the torrents, but the body lives on forever."

The Heavenly General cared deeply for all living beings during his lifetime. If, after his death, his body could be used as medicine to cure the world's ailments, it would be a kind of fulfillment.

"May all obstacles and afflictions be eliminated, may true wisdom and understanding be attained. I will raise the coffins of the three generals to see them off!"

Xu Qing pulled up the Mountain and River Cauldron and tilted its mouth towards the Yin-Yang Crack, whereupon pure life force surged forth.

The river, brimming with new life, will flow into the mountains and rivers, nourish all things in the Central Plains, and also sustain the people of this continent.

"Where does the dead go? Their bodies rest in the mountains. May the three generals have a safe journey!"

This saying means that the body is buried in the mountains and rivers, and the spirit is united with heaven and earth.

As a funeral director, Xu Qingzhen spared no effort in ensuring the deceased received a dignified final rest. Only after watching the three deceased return to their homeland did Xu Qingzhen finally relax a little.

Feeling the drained magical power of the water and fire zombies within his body, he gritted his teeth, swallowed several bottles of Yin Yuan Pills, and continued to refine the remaining corpse soldiers and generals.

Xu Qing estimated the amount of energy he had lost, but he still retained enough magical power to cast the Divine Travel Book.

After the Taiping Daoist Temple was completely purged, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation located in the Zhuohe River was also disintegrated and returned to the heavens and earth.

Looking at the massive amount of incense lost in the Blood Lake Dharma Realm and the Cat Immortal Hall Dharma Realm, Xu Qing felt no heartache at all. Instead, he showed the smile of an old farmer waiting for a bountiful harvest.

These incense offerings are like seeds. As long as the Central Plains prospers because of the incense offerings of Baosheng Temple or Maoxian Hall, he will reap a continuous stream of merits over the next few decades!
In the chaotic Taiping Taoist temple, Xu Qing gathered the belongings of the three Heavenly General brothers together, including their clothes and three strips of yellow cloth.

The strips of cloth were placed in a bronze box in the tomb by the Heavenly General. Xu Qing thought there was some treasure locked inside, but he didn't expect it to be just three yellow cloths stained with blood.

Xu Qing casually flipped through the fabric; each strip of yellow cloth had a name embroidered on it.

"Heavenly Father, Earthly Father, Human Father."

"I see."

Xu Qing only realized upon seeing the strip of cloth that what General Tiangong had always wanted was simply fairness.
Stepping out of the tomb, Xu Qing looked up at the sky above the Yin River.

At this moment, the torn rift between Yin and Yang had closed, and among the desolate and gloomy tombs, only his Mountain and River State Cauldron was still emitting a faint light.

Xu Qing did not step forward. He stood at the entrance of the tomb passage, which had collapsed most of the way, and looked at his Mountain and River Cauldron in the distance.

Above the handle of the cauldron, there stood a strange man wearing a Nuo mask and a floral robe.

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They stared at each other, one frozen and the other speechless.

In the end, the Nuo Immortal couldn't control himself. His eyes blazed with anger, and he questioned in a voice that was almost clenched through his teeth:
"Have you ruined all the plans I laid out within the Yinhe border of Tianjin?"

Xu Qing feigned ignorance and said, "What scheme? Are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else? Otherwise, how could I not understand? Let me tell you, I have connections in Tianjin, and the Exorcist Master is my brother. Don't wrong an innocent person!"

At this moment, Xu Qing's magical power had decreased by 60-70%. He could use the remaining 30% to escape, but it would be risky to fight the Nuo Immortal in front of him.

Master Fu Luan, enraged, laughed coldly. He flung his sleeves, pointed at Xu Qing, and cursed:

"You possess three parts of the underworld emperor's fortune, which I painstakingly snatched from the jaws of death, solely to eradicate the laws of the underworld and reopen the pathways between heaven and earth."

"Now that you have ruined my grand plan and blocked my path, we are now mortal enemies with no possibility of reconciliation!"

"Boy, the Demon Exorcist Lord can't scare me! You're his brother, and I'm his friend. If I hadn't listened to him and come to Zhongzhou to help his brother escape his predicament, I really wouldn't have known that you ruined my grand plan!"

Master Fu Luan was furious. He had thought that he had found a like-minded person who shared his vision and wanted to remove the twelve gatekeepers who were blocking the passage between heaven and earth. However, he never expected that the person he was helping was not a fellow traveler at all, but his long-time nemesis!

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing, who was about to take action, paused in surprise.

The helpers that the Exorcist Lord found?

Xu Qing suddenly remembered that when he came to Zhongzhou, the Demon Exorcist True Lord had indeed told him that he should use their past relationship to find one or two old friends to help him deal with the Corpse Demon.

So this unexpected turn of events was brought to him by that black-faced True Lord?

Xu Qing's expression was not good, but at this moment he also noticed something was wrong with the Nuo Immortal in front of him.

Why does this Nuo Immortal look so unsteady on his feet?

eccentric.

"What else do you have to say?"

Master Fuluan did not dare to make the first move. He had almost been drained by the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation in the mortal world, and now he had less than one-tenth of his magic power. Apart from stalling for time and leaving a mark on the cauldron under his feet, he was not confident that he could defeat the young man in front of him.

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow and simply spread his hands, saying, "I defeated the Demon King Duo'e, and I also defeated the Yin Shi Dharma King and the Eight Banners Marshal. So what!"

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"Good, good, good! What a wretched child!"

A thousand-year plan has come to naught, and Master Fuluan feels he almost developed inner demons.

Xu Qing remained unperturbed and continued to stab him in the back, saying, "Me, a funeral director and a close friend of the Exorcist Master, slaying a demon, giving someone a proper burial, and collecting a corpse—is that ruining your grand plan? Well, your grand plan doesn't seem so great after all, so easily ruined."

"you!"

Master Fuluan paused, then launched into a moral critique of Xu Qing.

"What do you know? My plan is to eradicate the Ghost Law, for the greater good of the world, and for the continuation of the lineages of all sects and factions."

After saying this, Master Fuluan quoted extensively from classical texts, speaking in a great deal of classical Chinese.

Xu Qing knew that the other party was stalling for time, and he was stalling for time as well.

"For the sake of the world, and then what? You don't really think that raising a few demons, along with your little schemes, will eliminate the Ghost Law, do you?"

"To put it bluntly, all you want is to open the path to heaven, ascend to immortality, and attain enlightenment. Why pretend to be so noble? It's only human nature. No one would laugh at you if you just told the truth."

Enraged, Nuo Xian nearly attacked him.

However, at that moment, he suddenly heard Xu Qing say, "You're no match for me when it comes to killing Ghost Law. I cleaned the Yin River for the grand plan of eliminating Ghost Law. As for your plan..."

"Too rough and too poor quality, it's simply unacceptable!"

Nuo Xian laughed and said, "You think you can do it? What's your plan?"

"Me?" Xu Qing laughed. "I can make Brother Exorcist act as a pawn, willingly sacrificing his body to kill Ghost Law. Can you do that?"

Nuo Immortal: "."

After listening to Xu Qing's words, Master Fuluan looked again at the chaotic surroundings and asked:

"Did you eliminate the corpse demon here? Did you also set up the Nine Turns Yellow River Formation?"

Huh! What else?
Xu Qing was quite proud.

Master Fuluan fell completely silent.

His expression shifted several times, finally settling into a smile as he used a Tianjin accent to try and build rapport:
"Hey! This is truly a case of the flood washing away the Dragon King's temple! Fellow Daoist, if you wanted to fight the Ghost Law, you should have just said so earlier! Look at the mess I've made, how embarrassing is this?"

At this moment, the imposing Fuluan Master visibly calmed down, and even his eyes became clear.

It looked like a stray cat breathing on people on the roadside, suddenly being fed a small fish, or like a barking dog suddenly seeing a stranger leading a female dog.

All my little emotions have disappeared.

It's just that I feel a bit embarrassed.

But with a little fish and a little female dog, what need is there for face?
How much is face worth?

Alright! Nuo Xian immediately put on a friendly smile.

"I was a little out of line just now, please don't mind, I'm not usually like this."

Xu Qing waved his hand dismissively, saying, "No one is perfect. Since we both have a common enemy, that makes us friends. It's understandable for friends to make mistakes!"

"So, I forgive you!"

Oh, thank you so much!

Despite being tricked several times, Master Fuluan was still quite happy.

Xu Qing was secretly pleased; this Nuo Immortal was quite sensible, even knowing to thank them.
(End of this chapter)