Chapter 301

In the Yinhe Ancient Path, one corpse after another was sent to Xu Qing by the paper figures along with their coffins.

At this time, Xu Qing was staying comfortably in the underground tomb, facing the corpses sent continuously before him, he remained as steady as a mountain.

The tomb chambers in the depths of the Ghost King's Mausoleum were different from the outer perimeter. If Xu Qing were to transcend every corpse the paper figures sent out, he might soon be discovered by the Duo'e Ghost King.

But if he first transferred the coffins and didn't touch the remains inside for the time being, the situation would be different.

In Xu Qing's eyes, stealing the burial coffins from an old neighbor's house was no different from having an affair.

First, there must be a gradual process; you definitely can't start moving your hands and feet right away.

Otherwise, not to mention whether the old neighbor would discover it, even those concubines and ministers who were being transcended for the first time and had no experience would make some noise.

For the sake of long-term planning, Xu Qing waited until the funeral team had emptied the tomb chambers outside the imperial mausoleum before he began to transcend the corpses before him.

The first coffin was decorated with colored lacquer, with a gourd head carved from whole wood at the front. Xu Qing identified at a glance that this was a concubine's coffin.

Opening the coffin lid, golden hairpins, jade rings, and necklaces bloomed with brilliant treasure light, but these could not enter Xu Qing's eyes.

He was not interested in these yellow and white things.

Ignoring the pearls and treasures, Xu Qing took a look into the blind box.

Lying in the coffin was a female corpse dressed in finery, with a face as pretty as it was in life.

The female corpse's apricot eyes were slightly closed, her long eyelashes were frosted, her cheeks were as white as the first snow, and her lips were like cinnabar.

The skin exposed on her face was as fresh as yesterday, as if she were still taking a nap in the deep palace and hadn't woken up.

Xu Qing only took one look before reaching out and pulling open the female corpse's collar.

Sure enough, as he expected, this concubine's corpse was exactly the same as Princess Yanning's corpse; both were powder-faced skeletons!

Women love beauty, and most of the princesses and concubines in the Ghost King's Mausoleum, and even female officials and palace maids, would waste a lot of effort finding various ways to maintain their fresh appearance, but if you stripped off their clothes, what was wrapped inside were all grim white bones.

But in Xu Qing's eyes, these white bones seemed even more beautiful than the jade-faced beauty of the concubine before him.

"What a beautiful skeleton frame; if it were taken back to the burial shop to be used as a burial clothes rack..."

As soon as the thought arose, Xu Qing shook his head with regret.

The white bones that were like beauties in his eyes were probably just a skeleton in others' eyes!

The Scripture of Transcending People flipped pages with a rustle. The life of the concubine in the coffin had nothing to talk about; compared to ordinary concubines, she just had the resume of running from a deep palace courtyard to a deep mausoleum.

To Xu Qing, this didn't count as a plus.

After the transcendence was completed, Xu Qing had a pair of "Youth-Preserving Earrings" in his hand.

Whether living or dead, as long as one wore these earrings, their face could return to the age of youth.

It was just that apart from the face, the body would still not have any changes.

And these earrings had to be worn as a pair; if only one was worn, then only half the face could return to youth.

Xu Qing casually threw the earrings into the Mountain and River Map to gather dust; he couldn't think of a place to use this thing for the time being.

After transcending the powder-faced imperial concubine, Xu Qing turned his gaze to another large coffin with three layers of outer coffins and a thickness of six inches.

According to the standards of the funeral industry, a commoner's coffin was four inches thick, all small coffins, without an outer coffin. And the three-layer, six-inch coffin before him could only be possessed by princes and high officials!

That is to say, the corpse in the coffin before him was at least a prince or a high official in his lifetime.

Xu Qing rubbed his hands like a fly, happy in his heart, and couldn't wait to open the heavy coffins.

The corpse qi accumulated for a thousand years rushed toward him.

Xu Qing looked down.

Good heavens! A full eleven layers of thick burial clothes were layered on one person like a nesting doll!

A bright red outer robe, a red and blue official vest, and various patterned bird and beast court robes in three inner and three outer layers; if you didn't know better, you'd think this official was afraid of the cold and had run into the coffin to hibernate!

Looking at the top of the head, there was a hat-topper inlaid with rubies and a small hat with a red coral top. Xu Qing pulled at the other party's collar, and only then did he see the face that was tightly covered.

A serious skeleton face, without any beauty-enhancing methods, which showed it was a relatively pragmatic corpse.

Xu Qing followed the usual practice and looked at the other party's lantern of life.

This person was a teacher of the emperor in his lifetime, a Grand Tutor of the Three Dukes, who had once managed etiquette and law, assisted two emperors, and the Duo'e Ghost King was the "young emperor" he had watched grow up from childhood.

The little emperor called him Master when he was very young, so much so that when the country was about to perish and the Duo'e Ghost King wanted to rebuild the underworld dynasty in the Yinhe, he also dug up the Grand Tutor who had died not long ago from the ground, buried him in the Yinhe mausoleum, and titled him "Ghost Master," the teacher of all ghosts.

"This emperor really respected his teacher and the Dao!"

After transcending the Grand Tutor of the Nanwan Kingdom from a thousand years ago, the Scripture of Transcending People gave an evaluation of Earth-grade superior, and the reward was a "White-Mouth Heavenly Constitution" cultivation method.

This method vaguely had the meaning of holding the Heavenly Constitution in the mouth and having words follow the law, but it was completely different.

The former was mostly mastered by powerful officials who held the power of life and death, and could decide the life and death of others. While the White-Mouth Heavenly Constitution was a "teaching method."

It meant that even in front of a dead person's grave or a yin ghost, one could rely on this method, hold the Heavenly Constitution in the mouth, and apply teaching to them.

Xu Qing pondered carefully for a while and found that this method was different from what he had imagined. This teaching method was not teaching in the true sense, but more like a certain spiritual influence on ghosts, serving to deter their souls.

Once the preaching stopped, ghosts with weaker strength might be in a state influenced by the Heavenly Constitution for a long time, but if it were a ghost with deep cultivation, it would probably react immediately.

Xu Qing thought that if the matter were exposed one day and his old neighbor discovered the good deeds he had done, perhaps he could use this method to persuade the other party well. After all, everyone was a neighbor, and fighting would hurt the harmony.

Even if he really had to take action, it would be good to use the "White-Mouth Heavenly Constitution" to distract the old neighbor.

In a short time, Xu Qing had arranged the Duo'e Ghost King clearly.

To deal with disobedient students, one still had to rely on the Master to take action!

Here, just as Xu Qing finished transcending the Ghost Master and was planning to deal with the next corpse, a heart-rending ghost howl suddenly came from the Ghost King's Mausoleum twenty miles away.

It sounded like it said the word "No"?

Xu Qing always paid attention to his old neighbor's movements. He listened for a long time, and after not finding any other movement, he felt relieved and continued to transcend other skeletons.

In the depths of the Ghost King's Mausoleum.

The emperor, wearing a dragon robe and a tassel crown, sat alone on the throne.

Before him, one by one, the backbone ministers and the beauties of the harem all showed smiles of relief one after another and disappeared.

The Duo'e Ghost King was an emperor in life and a ghost king in death; he was not stupid, and he discovered the problem at that time.

Why did only the ministers and concubines disappear, while the ghost generals in the hall were completely unaffected?

The ghost fire in the Duo'e Ghost King's eyes flickered.

Ghost generals need to possess the remains of the dead to guard the royal mausoleum; they are different from the ministers and ghost concubines condensed by souls.

The ministers and ghost concubines of the royal mausoleum only possess their original bodies when they leave the royal mausoleum.