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

Liao Jinzhong squinted at Xu Qing, and just as the atmosphere between the two became subtle, the old eunuch, who had been silent, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Young fellow, not that old, judging by the voice, you've just recently come of age, yet your tone is quite bold."

"Do you really think that knowing some martial arts tricks has brought you to the threshold of the Celestial People?"

Liao Jinzhong pinched his fingers like an orchid, laughing until he swayed, and when Xu Qing saw him like this, he finally understood from whom Zhang Jun had learned.

Following the superiors' example, this bunch of eunuchs seemed to have learned this routine from some pleasure house, behaving effeminately with not a bit of masculinity.

Although Xu Qing once wore makeup, his conduct was never hesitant or awkward, unlike Liao Jinzhong, who was like an old lady with bound feet.

"Elder Liao, as they say, 'the hair and skin, one inherits from one's parents,' does your mother know about your little operation?"

Xu Qing spoke in a distant tone, and as he spoke, he reached behind without stretching his hand too far, somehow pulling out a Filial Piety Stick.

"Insolence!" Liao Jinzhong's face turned red as his neck thickened, his composure, which had been hard to regain, was shattered by Xu Qing's words.

"I was sold to the palace as a child, though I have no parents, I still have the respect of heaven and earth, and with the yellow robe personally granted by the emperor, even civil and military officials must respect me to some extent!"

"Do you know what the new Crown Prince, the future Crown Prince, privately calls me? 'Second Father!'" With each word Liao Jinzhong spoke, his aura increased, and by the end, even Xu Qing could feel the presence of a peak master!

"So, you're an orphan, no wonder there's no mother's love."

"..."

With just a short sentence, Liao the Master's accumulated momentum was deflated like a punctured balloon, instantly vanishing without a trace.

"I'm going to tear your mouth apart!" Liao Jinzhong's eyes were murderous, and his orchid fingers trembled violently!

Xu Qing looked at those orchid fingers, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he had once made a similar gesture.

An illusion, it must be an illusion!

High above the deck, on a mast several tens of feet tall, Liao the Master's hair fluttered, and his embroidered robe with golden python patterns billowed.

Xu Qing only heard a loud explosion, and the mast, several tens of feet high, exploded from top to bottom.

The tigress's wrath, truly terrifying!

In the firewood room, the two little celestial beings in the birdcage hugged each other, trembling with fear. Below the ship's hold, Ji Ruinian held the unconscious Master Feng, not daring to move. In front of them, over ten Fierce Generals crowded the cramped hold, surrounding the two of them completely.

On the deck, a southern barbarian shaman with all sorts of jangling colorful trinkets on him knelt on the ground, howling miserably.

The Demon Hunting Captain and Daoist Heyi seemed not to notice, only focusing their attention on Xu Qing and Liao the Master.

A duel between masters, something incredibly rare, perhaps the opportunity for promotion to a master lay with those two... The Demon Hunting Captain was eager to move.

Li Heyi's gaze remained fixed on Xu Qing.

The Celestial Master's Mansion has the Celestial Master's legacy, but it has always been attainable only by the seven sons of Xuanji and those with the Celestial Master's bloodline or the so-called reincarnated spiritual children. For someone like Li Heyi, who wished to cultivate but was assigned to do dirty and tiring work, the true Celestial Master legacy was out of reach.

If Xu Qing was truly as Li Heyi suspected, not a master but someone with a different spiritual inheritance...

The two had different thoughts, one for achieving further his career, and the other for seizing the natural fortune, unwilling to leave.

But both, without exception, had hearts filled with greed, anger, and ignorance.

When the southern barbarian shaman crawled before them, disturbing their thoughts, the Demon Hunting Captain spoke: "Master Li, your Celestial Dao is skilled in alchemy and medicine, why not give him a detox formula to relieve his poison, sparing us the noise."

"Useless! This person is a Southside shaman, in terms of poisoning and detoxifying, there might be no one in the entire Tianjin area better than him. It's just that he isn't worldly enough and greedily ate snake liver and phoenix marrow. A poison laid by a master can likely only be removed by a master."

Just as Li Heyi finished speaking, he saw the Demon Hunting Captain draw his Demon Slaying Sword and stab it into the southern barbarian shaman pleading for help.

"You..." Even Li Heyi, who usually remained expressionless, couldn't help but frown.

The Demon Hunting Captain withdrew the Demon Slaying Sword, and the scorching blood quickly stained the deck red.

With clear intent, he reached and unfastened a foot-long curved blade from the southern barbarian shaman's waist, pulling out two inches, revealing a frightening cold gleam that seemed to freeze frost.

"What a fine blade!"

Storing the curved blade, the Demon Hunting Captain stood up and turned his gaze to the frowning Li Heyi.

"The Master is in a death duel, nothing should be allowed to distract him, and considering this person is already poisoned beyond saving, giving him a swift end is merely a way of granting early release."

Li Heyi shifted his footsteps a bit farther, apparently dissatisfied with the Demon Hunting Captain's explanation.

The blood sprayed by the victim was bright red, and apart from abdominal pain, showed no signs of poisoning. Yet the Demon Hunting Captain killed him on the spot, as vicious as an evil spirit.

At this moment, on the tower ship.

Xu Qing frowned and flew back toward the river.

The tower ship in front was too fragile, a slight exertion might affect Old Man Feng hiding inside.

Even if it didn't, exposing their location wouldn't be good.

Seeing Xu Qing retreating, the uncertain heart of Liao Jinzhong suddenly felt assured.

"You're bluffing. You're just a Horizontal Training Master, and what I fear the least is your horizontal skills!"

Liao Jinzhong soared into the air, his robes fluttering, instantly unleashing dozens of sword shadows and palm shadows towards Xu Qing.

Xu Qing felt familiar looking at it; wasn't this the Bone-Melting Palm and Bone-Corrosion Sword used by Lou Xiaowu back then!

However, when Lou Xiaowu used his sword technique, he had to wield a Treasure Sword, while Liao Jinzhong could use his fingers as a sword. The ability to turn Qi into a sword and wield it freely is also a talent exclusive to masters.

Due to Eunuch Liao's special skills, Xu Qing dodged most attacks but still needed to defend against some at close range.

The Bone-Melting Palm technique was cunning, specialized in thwarting Horizontal Training Martial Masters, capable of breaking bones and tendons through flesh. The Bone-Corrosion Sword technique targets the peeling of flesh, and with resolve, can unleash thousand sword Qi, stripping away flesh, leaving only a skeletal figure.

However, when Liao Jinzhong's Bone-Melting Palm was about to strike Xu Qing, he found that the opponent too had a palm ready, and this counter technique also looked familiar.

When the palms met, Liao Jinzhong was shaken.

Before he could react, Xu Qing returned the favor blow for blow, continuous palm shadows forcing Liao Jinzhong to retreat step by step.

"Bone-Melting Palm?" Liao Jinzhong's eyes showed disbelief: "How do you know this palm technique?"

Xu Qing chuckled, raised the Filial Piety Stick, and immediately borrowed the Mourning Staff in hand, shaking out a thousand sword shadows.

"Bone-Corrosion Sword Technique, what did you do to Xiaowu!"

Liao Jinzhong was both terrified and endlessly furious.

In Eunuch Liao's eyes, surely Xu Qing inflicted inhuman torture on Lou Xiaowu, otherwise how would his godson reveal such a secret skill?

Xu Qing seemed to see through Liao Jinzhong's thoughts, sneered, and withdrew his sword momentum, saying, "These trivial things, you think I care? If it weren't for your godson forcing them on me, would I even want them?"

Xu Qing killed with words and actions.

"Shut up!" Liao Jinzhong broke his voice again; this man's words were too venomous; he shouldn't have given him any chance to speak.

Liao Jinzhong shifted quickly to Xu Qing's front, spanning a hundred feet across the river like a master, truly faster than an arrow shot.

Xu Qing suppressed a mouthful of yin Qi, visibly swelling his chest, and just as Liao Jinzhong's figure disappeared from his original spot, a corpse wail shattered all waves for ten miles of river.

Eunuch Liao couldn't have anticipated Xu Qing to still have this trick, his brain buzzing intensely.

Blood was already oozing from his ears.

Protective Gang Qi could defend against external forces but couldn't block sound.

Before Eunuch Liao could regain his senses, Xu Qing's Filial Piety Stick, mixed with various martial arts, directly struck him on the head.

The Ten-Step Slash Technique, Five Tigers Breaking Gate Spear, Taixu Wandering Dragon Rod, Wind and Thunder Nine Shades Whip...

Xu Qing himself fought with vigor, but when the Filial Piety Stick struck Liao Jinzhong, there was no feedback at all.

Only then did Xu Qing realize, this eunuch was an orphan, how could he perceive the greatness of motherly love?

"Who exactly are you? Why do you know so many martial arts secrets from the Jianghu?"

Xu Qing shook his head, somewhat disappointed.

"Eunuch Liao, I've already seen what a master looks like, next..."

Putting away the Filial Piety Stick, Xu Qing's momentum soared, the waters within a twenty-mile radius on Baisha River rolled and boiled, and no matter what those supporting ships did, they couldn't get within that range.

"Next, there's no martial arts, only pure Daoist skills."