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

Chapter 87 External application and internal use
An empty grave in a coffin?
What configuration is this?
Xu Qing had seen people filling coffins with soil, but this was the first time he heard of a grave being placed inside the coffin instead of the coffin being buried inside the grave.

After opening the red lacquer coffin, several people looked inside.

Hey! There's still room!

The scene before him looked as if a large cave had been dug out of the wall where the coffin lay, extending for several feet in radius.

Xu Qing controlled the puppet and carefully turned it inside.

The space in the coffin was like an iron pot turned upside down on the ground, with a semicircular dome on top and ordinary ground below. However, the ground was made of some kind of rammed earth and was extremely hard.

"This is a great item. Fellow Daoist Xu can store a lot of his belongings in it in the future, and it won't take up much space."

Xu Qing was not happy. He already had the Mountain and River Map and the Box Garden, so why would he need such a thing as a storage tool?

Besides, the coffin in front of him was about one person tall and as thick as two people could hug together. It was also quite heavy, making it inconvenient for him to carry it with him.

After temporarily closing the coffin lid, Xu Qing turned around and continued the fairy banquet with the Hou family's grandfather and grandson and a few other small animals.

After the banquet was over, Huang Laoxu chatted with Xuanyu in a friendly manner before leaving.

From what Xu Qing heard, he understood that the reason why the old yellow-skinned cat came with gifts was because he was afraid that the new cat fairy would harm his descendants, so he had no choice but to come in person.

"The yellow wolves of Xijing Mountain are my descendants. If you encounter them in the future, please be kind. I would like to thank you in advance."

When the moon reached its zenith, the coroner's shop returned to silence again.

If it weren't for the leftovers on the table, it would seem as if no one had ever been a guest.

Xu Qing had no intention of cleaning up the dishes at this moment. He opened the black coffin lid, looked at the extremely ugly hairy-faced female zombie, and thought about something in his mind.

Yang Qiying has been dead for several decades, and no one knows when he cultivated this corpse. If we make a conservative estimate, it is probably nearly a hundred years old.

Considering the age of the female zombie when she was alive, Xu Qing's eyes flickered. In his eyes, the ugly zombie in front of him seemed to have turned into a peerless beauty, and he liked every aspect of her.

A person who lived over a hundred years ago, and a corpse with silver armor, I think he would be very valuable, right?
Xu Qing seduced the female zombie and led her into the red lacquer coffin, which was larger and more suitable for him to perform, like calling a cat.

Outside the coffin, Xuan Yu was sitting obediently.

Xu Xianjia said that as long as it waited outside for a while, Xu Xianjia would make this female zombie into a disciple suitable for the immortal to possess and use.

Xuanyu turned his head from time to time to look at the dripping clock on the counter. He had never felt that the duration of an incense stick was so long.

Inside the red lacquer coffin, Xu Qing closed the door, rubbed his hands, and walked to the motionless female zombie.

In the space of several feet in radius, the female zombie stood there in a daze, allowing the young man in front of her to grab one of her hands and caress it.

It was not until the female zombie felt a force that made her tremble pouring in through the place where the two of them were in contact that she came to her senses.

That's the feeling you get when you encounter your natural enemy!
It’s a pity that the moment the female zombie woke up, she had completely lost control of her body.

A silver-armored corpse, with a strength of ten thousand pounds and a body invulnerable to swords and spears, was like paper in front of the Sutra of Salvation and broke with a single poke.

The terrifying power instantly overwhelmed the female zombie's consciousness. No matter how high her level of cultivation was, she could not change the fact that she was a corpse.

Xu Qing did not encounter any hindrance in the entire process from subduing the female zombie to saving her soul.

The female zombie knelt quietly on the ground with her head lowered.

Xu Qing sat cross-legged beside her, took her hand, and watched the ups and downs of her life like a doctor taking her pulse.

The female zombie's name is Lu Ping. She was an inner disciple of the Yinshi Sect when she was alive. She was best at refining and controlling corpses.

The Yinshi Sect is located on Wusong Mountain, more than 400 miles northwest of Tianjin. The mountain is shrouded in fog all year round. Even the most experienced treasure hunters would not easily enter the Wusong Mountain to look for mountain treasures.

Lu Ping is smart and has a high level of comprehension. At the age of thirteen, she was led into the mountains by the elders of the Yinshi Sect to practice. By the age of fourteen, she had read all the scriptures in the mountains and was familiar with various methods of refining and raising corpses.

In addition, she is also familiar with the various rules of the Yinshi Sect.

The disciples of the Yinshi Sect are divided into three levels: front disciples, inner disciples and registered disciples.

Among them, the registered disciples have the least human rights. In addition to practicing, they also have to take on a lot of dirty and tiring work.

According to the rules of the sect, these registered disciples who came to learn skills were equivalent to signing a contract to sell themselves from the moment they joined the Yinshi Sect. Any registered disciples who were over 60 years old and failed to be promoted would end up being picked up by the inner disciples and refined into zombies.

Lu Ping began to formally practice corpse-controlling at the age of fourteen, and cultivated his first armored corpse at the age of seventeen.

But the Iron-Armored Corpse is only the lowest level of zombie among the wandering zombies, and in the eyes of the inner disciples of the Yinshi Sect, it is even considered as inferior stuff.

Lu Ping was a strong-willed person and couldn't bear to see the zombies he raised being laughed at, so he turned his attention to his registered disciple who was over 60 years old.

The Yinshi Sect has a secret method to find the whereabouts of registered disciples. Lu Ping looked through the list back and forth, but found that all the registered disciples in the sect who were in their sixties had been sorted out by their senior brothers and sisters. The remaining disciples who were in their seventies and eighties and returned home to retire were all "corpses" who had lost limbs while performing missions outside and were abandoned by everyone.

Seeing that she couldn't find a suitable person to cultivate, Lu Ping suddenly had an idea and set her sights on a fifty-eight-year-old registered disciple.

At the age of fifty-eight, he was only two years away from the age of sixty.

Lu Ping had a plan in mind, so he packed his bags and went down the mountain to search for the whereabouts of this registered disciple.

Not long after, Lu Ping found the corpse refining embryo she had been longing for in a small village in Xiangyin County.

The embryo was none other than Liu Youdao's master Yang Qiying.

When the two met, Yang Qiying respectfully called Lu Ping, who was less than 20 years old, "senior sister."

Lu Ping showed no leniency or mercy towards this junior fellow who was so respectful to her.

She directly stated the purpose of her trip, which was to make Yang Qiying her offspring.

"Sister, why are you so anxious? I still have two years to reach the sixtieth level. Once those two years are up, I will naturally return and repay the sect for its kindness in teaching me."

Lu Ping couldn't wait two years and said bluntly, "Two years is too long. I have to seize the day! Junior Brother Yang, don't forget that it is a serious crime for a registered disciple to privately teach the sect's skills."

"As an inner sect disciple, I have the right to clean up the sect. Junior Brother Yang probably doesn't want anything to happen to his disciples, right?"

"Senior Sister, this rule doesn't work that way. Every disciple in the sect who is approaching sixty years old will first adopt a disciple. When they reach sixty years old, they will bring the disciple back to the sect and accept him/her into the mountain gate."

"Comparatively, Senior Sister, when I was still under your age, came to demand the corpse seed by force. This is truly a violation of the sect's rules."

Seeing that Yang Qiying, a registered disciple, dared to speak against him like that, Lu Ping became angry, so he took out the corpse-driving bell and controlled the armored wandering corpse that he had cultivated, wanting to vent his anger.

One was an inner disciple who had inherited the true teachings of the master, and the other was an ordinary registered disciple. If the two of them were to fight, the outcome seemed obvious. Just as Xu Qing was wondering how Yang Qiying would deal with the enemy, he saw the old man in the revolving lantern spread his legs and turned around to run into the village.

His agile movements showed that even a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old could be like this.

Lu Ping was stunned, and her face immediately darkened. She controlled the armored corpse to chase after him. When they reached a courtyard, she found Yang Qiying standing right in the middle of the courtyard, with no intention of escaping anymore.

"Junior Brother Yang, you are no match for me. If you obey my orders, I, as your senior sister, can show mercy and bring you back to the sect, allowing you to become a registered disciple."

Upon hearing this, Yang Qiying burst into laughter: "Typical disciple, this old man has wasted his entire life on these four words!"

"Wasn't Senior Sister abducted into the sect? Why are you now trying to kill everyone who suffers from the same illness?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Ping was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She angrily shouted, "What has my being abducted got to do with you? I've been an inner sect disciple since I entered the mountain gate, with food, drink, and other expenses taken care of. How can you, a lowly outer sect disciple, be compared to me?"

After saying that, the angry Lu Ping controlled the armored corpse and rushed into the yard.

The iron-armored corpse made a strange "ho ho" sound from its throat. When it came to the yard, it waved its arms and pounced on Yang Qiying.

"Youdao, set the net!"

At Yang Qiying's command, a large net was suddenly thrown out from the side, heading straight for the armored corpse.

Before the armored corpse fell to the ground, Yang Qiying bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of true yang blood onto the net. Where the zombie touched the hot blood, black smoke immediately began to rise.

While dealing with the armored corpse, Yang Qiying rang the corpse-driving bell. Suddenly, four or five zombies stood up from a thatched hut on the side and rushed towards where Lu Ping was.

Seeing this, Lu Ping snorted coldly, made a hand seal, and chanted the corpse-controlling spell, and the zombie that was rushing towards him changed its master in an instant.

"Junior brother, the true teachings are with me. Your level of cultivation is not enough!"

Yang Qiying's expression remained calm. He took advantage of Lu Ping's distraction and led the armored corpse covered in a rope net to the top of the wall.

At the foot of the wall, there were two narrow-mouthed, bulging-waisted wine jars placed there.

Seeing the armored corpse rushing towards him, Yang Qiying simply threw out all the corpse-controlling talismans on his body. When he cast the corpse-controlling spell, the talismans flashed with a red light, which stopped the armored corpse's movements for a moment.

In the side room, Liu Youdao vigorously shook the corpse-driving bell and chanted the corpse-stopping spell, trying to influence Lu Ping who was controlling a group of corpses.

It was at this time that Lu Ping suddenly heard the crisp sound of bowls and plates breaking in the yard.

She glanced over and saw Yang Qiying picking up a jar from the corner and rushing towards the armored corpse without hesitation.

The wine jar shattered, and the strange aroma of lamp oil spread everywhere.

Lu Ping frowned slightly. She had been drawn to Yang Qiying's body and couldn't bear to damage it, so she had been holding back. But now, she suddenly sensed something was amiss. The elderly junior brother before her had never shown the slightest fear of her.
Yang Qiying ignored Lu Ping's thoughts and, seeing the armored corpse covered in lamp oil, shouted, "Youdao, torch!"

In the room, Liu Youdao disappeared for a moment, and when he reappeared, he had a torch with a burning flame in his hand.

A fist-sized flame streaked across the courtyard and landed on the rope net dragging behind the armored corpse.

When the lamp oil came into contact with the open flame, a streak of flames shot out in a flash.

In just a moment, the armored corpse turned into a man of fire.

The howling of zombies, mixed with the strong smell of roasting corpses, filled the courtyard. Lu Ping tried to control the armored zombies to save herself, but found that the burning lamp oil blocked her connection with the armored zombies.

With his shirt open, revealing his muscular body, Yang Qiying held a long knife in his hand and looked at the completely panicked Lu Ping.

How could a young woman like her, who had just started out, compare with Yang Qiying, who traveled all over the country, in terms of fighting experience?

At this moment, the offensive and defensive positions changed. Yang Qiying raised his sword and killed the zombies blocking his way. He came to the trembling Lu Ping and said coldly, "Zombies are afraid of fire. This is the lamp oil I specially begged from Ci Zhao Temple. It is the best way to eliminate evil spirits."

"Originally, these things should only be used in two years, but now they are cheap for Senior Sister."

The corpse driver fears most is being approached by someone. Now that Lu Ping no longer has the armored corpse to rely on, he has become a fish to be slaughtered.

Yang Qiying had some martial arts skills, and after subduing Lu Ping in a few moves, he did not take her life directly.

Xu Qing saw Lu Ping being forced by Yang Qiying to reveal the inner disciples' cultivation methods, and also saw the process of Lu Ping being strangled to death by Yang Qiying.

Afterwards, Lu Ping was refined into a silver-armored corpse, but Yang Qiying rarely used Lu Ping, and she spent most of her time in the coffin.

Only when he encounters a difficult opponent will Yang Qiying let Lu Ping see the light of day again.

But this kind of situation is rare. In the revolving lantern, Lu Ping only took action twice after becoming a zombie.

Once, Yang Qiying encountered bandits who robbed his village. At night, he hid it from Liu Youdao and took Lu Ping to raid the bandits' lair.

Another time, Yang Qiying came across an ancient tomb with a very powerful mechanism. He drove Lu Ping, with the help of the silver-armored corpse's invulnerable body, to force his way in and dig up the ancient tomb.

After that, Lu Ping was sealed in the coffin and was never used again until Yang Qiying's death.

Xu Qing was speechless for a long time. In Liu Youdao's memory, Yang Qiying once accidentally fell off a cliff and became lame due to missing a leg.

He usually limped when carrying corpses, and his colleagues called him One-Foot. This continued until Yang Qiying's death.

Now that I think about it, the story about falling off the cliff might be false. The real situation is probably that Yang Qiying didn't want to become the embryo of a zombie in order to deal with the Yinshi Sect, so he cut off his tail to survive.

Coming back to his senses, Xu Qing looked at the reward.

The Sutra of Deliverance gives an evaluation of corpses: the lowest grade of earth.

The reward is a corpse-protecting technique and three corpse-nourishing pills.

Among them, the Yinshi Method is an external cultivation method that can nourish corpses in the shade on a daily basis by changing the surrounding environment.

Xu Qing thought of the nearly one hundred corpses buried under his house.

His haunted house was filled with a thick evil aura, but it was unable to improve the quality of the corpse.

With the Corpse Shading Technique, it is thought that the quality of the corpses in the house can be further improved. In the future, when he raises the rampant ghost soldiers, he will have a greater chance of condensing rampant generals instead of ordinary rampant soldiers.

The remaining corpse-nourishing pills can also improve the quality of zombies. If the corpse-protecting method is an external application, then the corpse-nourishing pills are internal medicines.

This was the first time Xu Qing obtained an item that could directly temper the zombie body.

(End of this chapter)