Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 144 You've already chased them away, why aren't you satisfied?
As the stars hung high in the sky, Lin Jiang and Gong Xuancai stepped into the courtyard.

Chen Dajiang came out to greet them, carrying a lantern. When he saw Lin Jiang covered in mud, he was shocked.

"Young Master! You didn't go to the mud pit to race dragon boats, did you?"

"Go to hell, you son of a bitch." Lin Jiang spat angrily, "Do you think I'm so bored that I'd run around rolling in a mud puddle?"

"So what have you been doing?"

"I was digging a pit under the mine, hoping to dig a tunnel to climb out, but I ended up in a brothel and a den of iniquity set up by someone else."

Chen Dajiang: "?"

The head of the security team rubbed his ears vigorously.

Did I mishear?

The young master of my house just now was probably speaking the language of Daxing.

Why is it that he recognizes each word individually, but when they are put together, he can't understand what's being said?

Lin Jiang ignored Chen Dajiang and plopped down on the stone bench.

After his ordeal in the mine, he felt not at all tired, but rather quite energetic.

Having eaten so much, the vital energy within his body was surging continuously.

I have a feeling that this...

With a little more effort, I can advance from the first level to the second level.

Gong Xuan, standing beside him, looked exhausted. Unlike Lin Jiang, he was still injured.

He sat alone on a stone chair and began to regulate his breathing and digest the small stones remaining in his stomach.

"Lin Jiang! Lin Jiang! What happened to you in the mine?"

Xiao Shanshen hurriedly ran over from the inner room, first jumping onto a chair, then using the chair as a springboard to jump onto the table, and asked Lin Jiang with his hands on his hips.

Lin Jiang stretched out his index finger and touched the head of the small ginseng:

"Thank goodness you didn't come along."

Although he was invulnerable to swords and spears, he was indeed no match for the other party's cunning magic. If Xiaoshan Shen had gone with him, Lin Jiang might have just let her chew on the rocks while he was moving the stones.

If she had been any older, this wouldn't have happened.

"What do you mean I wasn't with you?!" Little Ginseng was very dissatisfied.

"There's a huge monster in that cave. It can eat you whole with one bite," Lin Jiang said, baring his teeth to scare the little ginseng.

Little Ginseng was visibly frightened, her face turning pale. She grimaced and tried to bolster her courage, waving her arms wildly at Lin Jianghu:

"You're just trying to scare me! You're not a child! You can't scare me!"

Lin Jiang laughed heartily, feeling much more at ease.

Little Ginseng, on the other hand, sat on the table angrily, tilting his head to look at Lin Jiang with the back of his head.

I guess I won't be talking to Lin Jiang tonight.

After laughing, Lin Jiang sat back down in his seat.

He still had a question weighing on his mind.

What would happen if a creature like a small ginseng, which has no appetite, were affected by that?
Will one remain unharmed, like one has been poisoned by the Three Little Treasures Poppy Method, or will one's appetite be aroused?
He basically had the upper hand in dealing with that stone Buddha; the method of forcing people to swallow deadly things had no effect on him. Anyone else would probably have died long ago.

Even though he could control his opponent, when the Stone Buddha decided to escape, Lin Jiang still couldn't even catch a glimpse of him.

He couldn't even discern the opponent's escape techniques.

or……

Is that statue truly the embodiment of Star?

Lin Jiang vaguely sensed that the seemingly compassionate stone Buddha was actually full of wicked pleasures. It could have caused people to die suddenly from poisoning, but instead it forced people to swallow stones or kill each other.

Only when he fought Lin Jiang and realized that his skills were no match for Lin Jiang did he dare to show his true strength.

Lin Jiang could roughly guess the other party's purpose.

Intimidation.

Rather than taking lives, I would rather those associated with Feng Ao Mountain suffer torment and die.

However, Lin Jiang still felt a sense of unease lingering in his mind.

He couldn't tell.

He finally let out a long sigh.

Gong Xuan, who was standing nearby, had finally digested most of the stones in his stomach. Seeing Lin Jiang's melancholy appearance, he couldn't help but feel curious and asked:

Why is Young Master Lin frowning?

"What a pity that the stone Buddha couldn't be preserved," Lin Jiang sighed.

Gong Xuan: "?"

No, what else do you want?

The opponent's bizarre and unorthodox methods were driven away by you, an even more bizarre person. Do you really expect to leave behind a master with such minor skills?

To truly eliminate Dianxing, one must seal his body and transform his magic, sever his life-sustaining technique, and lock his escape route. If he encounters a martial arts practitioner, one must shatter his copper skin and iron bones!

The safest approach is for three like-minded individuals to form an alliance, with one blocking escape routes and two focusing on the main attack.

Only after several days of fierce fighting can we hope to kill the enemy.

In a real head-on battle, being able to drive the opponent away already means that the opponent has admitted defeat.

Why aren't you satisfied?

"Young master, you still lack some skill."

"is it?"

"Back then, when the Lord of Chengtian Manor fought the evil cultivator Han Jiu, he used a lewd book to paint a water-ink town, which suppressed the power of fists and feet. However, the Lord of Chengtian shattered the painting with a single palm strike, and the remaining force even leveled half a mountain!"

Gong Xuan's spittle flew like a storyteller striking a gavel, when Chen Dajiang suddenly interjected:

"Isn't this a story told by a street storyteller about a previous dynasty? It must have been three hundred years ago."

Gong Xuan blushed.
“Hearing about it is the same as seeing it! No, that’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is that cultivators not only need to rely on their bodies, but also on their skills. If the manor lord did not know the palm technique that could break the heavens, he would probably be trapped in that water town and never be able to get out in this lifetime.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Jiang gradually perked up.

"I need to work on my skills properly from now on."

"You just borrowed a manual, didn't you? I think that's good."

"Indeed, but I also want to study academic law."

"Would you like to draw a character?"

"..."

Lin Jiang actually fell into deep thought.

Gong Xuan quickly waved his hand: "Just kidding! There are special academies in the capital that teach magic. Although you can only learn some basics there, it's still better than what I'm doing."

"Alright." Lin Jiang finally suppressed these thoughts.

Let's not rush into academic law for now; let's finish practicing the finger techniques we have on hand first.

Chen Dajiang, standing to the side, seemed to suddenly remember something and slapped his forehead:
"The cook just came and made some dishes, and there's some left over here. Shall I heat it up for you two?"

Lin Jiang and Gong Xuan exchanged a glance. "Let's skip it tonight."

Even Lin Jiang lost his appetite tonight.

……

At dawn the next day, a knock on the door startled Lin Jiang awake.

When I put on my coat and pushed open the door, Chen Dajiang was already waiting in the courtyard.

Three servants in blue robes carried a sandalwood gift box outside the door; the one in the lead bowed and smiled obsequiously.
"May I ask if Young Master Zhu is staying here?"

Chen Dajiang hesitated and stepped to the side, only taking a half step back after Lin Jiang appeared.

Who are you all?

"We are from the Anping Chamber of Commerce." The servant very respectfully pushed several gift boxes in front of Lin Jiang: "You must be Young Master Zhu. We have brought you the medicine and clothes you bought from our Chamber of Commerce yesterday."

"I bought it?"

Lin Jiang was still in a daze when he took the carved wooden box, only then remembering what he had talked about with "Boss Guo" yesterday.

The robes recorded in the public accounts of the Dali Temple.

"Thank you all."

"This is what we should do. Won't you open the box and check the goods?"

Lin Jiang placed the box on the ground and opened it.

Inside, there are two separate shelves. On the left is a stack of clothes, and on the right is a small bottle.

Lin Jiang first took out the clothes and found that it was a blue robe, made of exceptionally good material, and beautifully embroidered. It was a top-quality garment.

Gong Xuan also picked up the bottle, opened it, glanced at it, and his expression became somewhat subtle.

Is it a good medicine?

“It’s hawthorn pills.” Gong Xuan rubbed his forehead. “There are indeed some medicinal herbs added, but it’s still hawthorn pills… This actually costs two taels of silver. That price is enough to buy three cartloads of hawthorn.”

Lin Jiang smiled.

He didn't know how much the clothes cost, but judging from the merchant's personality, they probably wouldn't be cheap.

Lin Jiang grabbed a small corner of the collar and tugged it gently. He tested it and found that the clothes were indeed very sturdy, without any signs of damage.

Even if the hem of the clothes gets stuck to the dirt on the ground, it doesn't get dirty at all, and there's not a speck of dust on it.

These are indeed fine clothes.

After the inspection, the servants packed up the box and left.

Lin Jiang went into the room to change his clothes.

Only when changing did I realize that the sleeves and collar were high and wide, clearly in the style of winter clothing.

However, he is no longer bothered by the cold or heat, so he doesn't care.

Little Ginseng circled around him twice, and couldn't help but imitate Lin Jiang by giving him a thumbs-up:
"It looks good."

Lin Jiang touched his nose, thoroughly enjoying himself.

The next day I had to go to Lianghua Mountain for my appointment, and there was really nothing to do today. Thinking of Jiang Jinyue removing the stone yesterday, I took Gongxuan to the market to buy fresh fruit.

The stones were removed from her yesterday, and she rested for a day. She should be feeling better now.

It was the time when plums were ripe, and after a long selection, I bought a jar of aged wine. When I arrived at the clinic, the doorman saw the gift box and bowed to let me through.

Pushing open the door, I saw Jiang Jinyue sitting sideways on her sickbed, holding a meat bun that covered half her face.

She wasn't wearing her usual long gown today, nor was the shirt embroidered with the character for "wine" underneath.

A thin, light blue dress covered her petite frame; it was clearly the kind of clothing that patients here would wear.

Her hair, which had always been tied back and styled into two topknots, was now loose and hung down to her waist.

One of her fingers was wrapped in several layers of gauze and ointment, clearly the finger she had bitten off that day.

At this moment, Jiang Jinyue's face was full of a happy smile, and even her cheeks were slightly flushed.

It's like a young girl in the throes of first love, but unfortunately, she's faced with a meat bun in front of her.

Just as her pearly white tooth was about to fall out, Jiang Jinyue turned her head and saw Lin Jiang and Gong Xuanshi walking in through the main entrance.

Her hand stopped abruptly.

I was a little hesitant, my heart filled with reluctance.

They still brought out the meat buns.

"I only have one meat bun, do you two want some?"

Lin Jiang chuckled: "Didn't you say yesterday that you couldn't swallow the food?"

"Isn't this a steamed bun?"

"Eat it yourself. If you like it, I'll buy you some more next time."

"it is good."

Jiang Jinyue started eating the steamed bun herself.

I don't know where she got such a big bun; now it tastes like a squirrel chewing pine nuts.

Lin Jiang smiled and took out the plum wine in his hand, placing it next to Jiang Jinyue. Jiang Jinyue's eyes softened slightly upon seeing it, but she still maintained her composure.

The small ginseng from Lin Jiang's sleeve emerged directly from it and jumped right in front of Jiang Jinyue:

"Master Jiang! Master Jiang! Are you alright?"

"It's alright." Jiang Jinyue's eyes were full of gentleness as she looked at the small ginseng.

The little guy is truly delightful.

Just as he was about to make a joke, a middle-aged scholar suddenly came running down the corridor:
"My benefactor! My benefactor!"

The man staggered forward and bowed deeply, his face ashen, drenched in cold sweat.

"Thank you so much for saving my life!"

Lin Jiang thought for a moment.

This person was one of the two he rescued yesterday.

like……

He was a senior official in the Ministry of Justice.

The official rushed forward and grabbed Lin Jiang's wrist, his face full of gratitude:

"Thank you both so much. If it weren't for you, I would have lost my life in that cave."

He was so excited when he said this that he almost couldn't stand up.

In the end, Lin Jiang helped her sit down on a chair to the side.

He let out a long sigh of relief, then looked at Lin Jiang.

"I heard from others last night that you are Young Master Zhu, right?"

Lin Jiang nodded, acknowledging his identity.

"Young Master Zhu, I heard you're interested in buying my house? Is that right?"

(End of this chapter)