I Only Want to Lie Flat But Am Forced to Cultivate Immortality

"Xu Immortal! Someone's hanging themselves at our doorstep!"

With just one sentence, Xu Qing was stunned for quite some time.

Hanging oneself at the entrance of a funeral shop, this is really a determination not to live anymore!

It was still before dawn, and Xu Qing opened the door, a chilly wind blew in, and he looked up to see someone hanging right under his eaves.

The person was kicking wildly, but the movements were getting slower. If he had waited a bit longer to come out, perhaps he could have gone through the whole funeral process and directly buried him!

"Since the Profound Jade Immortal Family saw this person trying to die, why not save him?"

"I already saved him once, but after he fell to the ground, he reconnected the rope and continued to hang himself." Xuan Yu was standing on the doorstep, blinking his eyes with a weird sparkle in them: "Besides, we run a funeral shop. With the dead, there's business. I think business delivered to our door, Xu Immortal would definitely like it..."

Xu Qing agreed, saying, "Xuan Yu Immortal is right, this person is secretly malicious, hanging himself at someone else's door. If the authorities see this in the morning, wouldn't it bring trouble to innocent people?"

"Moreover, it's hard to persuade a ghost to live who is determined to die. If he's set on dying, we should let him be."

"Xu Immortal makes a good point."

"But don't you say, this guy's surprisingly tough; he's still kicking."

"Not kicking anymore, Xu Immortal, see if he still has a breath. If not, we can take the chance while no one's around and bury him..."

"Seems like there's still a breath left, let's wait a bit longer."

The person hanging at the shop's entrance seemed to hear their words. Despite being nearly out of energy, he struggled even more aggressively, like having a dying burst of energy.

However, just at this crucial moment, the sound of a door opening suddenly came from the adjacent paper mache shop.

Noticing the noise next door, Wu Zhiyuan, carrying an oil lamp, stepped over the threshold and glanced towards the funeral shop.

He saw between two big red lanterns inscribed with 'Bring In' and 'Send Off', a long figure was hanging on the black plaque, swinging back and forth in the cold breeze!

Wu Zhiyuan's sleepy eyes immediately cleared up.

Ah!

Whose mourner ran to Brother Xu's door to wreak havoc, I can't ignore this!

However, just as Wu Zhiyuan was about to make a move, he noticed one door of the adjacent shop was already open at some unknown time, and someone was standing just inside the threshold with sleeves rolled up, watching indifferently in front of the hanging mourner.

"Brother Xu..."

Before Wu Zhiyuan could speak again, the unmoved figure suddenly took action, swiftly pulling down the person hanging at the door and speaking soothingly with concern.

"Hey! Big brother, are you okay? What's bothering you so much that you want to die? The Dayong Dynasty is still quite beautiful."

In a hurry, Wu Zhiyuan came forward and saw Xu Qing lay the person on the ground, with a look of genuine concern.

As Wu Zhiyuan approached, Xu Qing pinched the man's philtrum while saying, "Look at this guy, so pitiful. Who knows what sad dilemma he encountered, to rush to hang himself at my door early in the morning..."

Saying this, he unconsciously increased the force with which he pinched the philtrum.

The man, who was nearly out of breath, miraculously came back to life with the pain. Isn't it miraculous?

After a bout of severe coughing and gasping, the suspended mourner with a bleeding philtrum finally came back to his senses.

He opened his bloodshot eyes, glanced at Wu Zhiyuan nearby, and then looked at Shopkeeper Xu, who had a face full of concern.

"You're awake?" Xu Qing asked gently, with a smile.

"Stay away from me!"

As soon as Xu Qing spoke, the man was so frightened that he retreated repeatedly, diving straight into Wu Zhiyuan's embrace.

"Brother, don't be afraid. It was Shopkeeper Xu who saved you. He is your benefactor."

"Nonsense! I clearly heard a man and a woman talking in front of me earlier, eager for me to die quickly." The man looked at the smiling Xu Qing as if he were facing a deadly ghost!

"Big Brother, you can eat recklessly, but you can't talk recklessly. Besides me, there was no one else in the shop, so where did the woman's voice come from? Surely you hallucinated before passing out..."

Xu Qing's smile faded, his expression turning cold instantly.

Wu Zhiyuan chimed in hastily: "Brother Xu is always self-disciplined, besides him there's no one else in the shop, you must have heard wrong. If not for Brother Xu's rescue, you..."

Lü Jingtian sat upright, his expression mixed with confusion and distraction.

Could it really be that he was hallucinating as he neared death?

"May I ask for your name, Brother? Why would you be so troubled to take such a reckless action?"

Lü Jingtian shook his head with a bitter smile, his voice hoarse, "My surname is Lü, real name Gao Qin, originally a Litigation Master, people used to call me Lü Jingtian..."

Wu Zhiyuan felt the name was familiar, and upon catching the light of the oil lamp to take a closer look, realized the person who attempted suicide was the same Litigation Master trying to take his family's case a few days ago at the government office entrance.

Lü Jingtian rubbed his neck and sighed, "Being talented brings jealousy, I was framed in the Capital City, my reputation ruined overnight, so I had to return to my hometown in the Jin Sect to see if I could start over."

"I thought County Magistrate Chen had just arrived from the Capital and must be inexperienced, allowing me to make a living with pen and paper. But who knew the new county magistrate was sharp in handling cases, memorized the laws better than me, and everyone obeyed his judgments; who would still hire me, this litigation master, to present a case?"

Xu Qing heard this and said irritably, "Just because of this you hung yourself at my door? Why didn't you go to the county magistrate's door?"