Chapter 41

"Digging, digging, digging with a small hoe, planting what kind of corpse, blooming what kind of flower~ Digging, digging, digging in a big garden, planting cold corpses, blooming brilliant flowers."

Under the moon, Xu Qing hummed a cheerful little tune, holding a small hoe in his hand, digging a big pit.

In this world today, there are all kinds of ox-demons and snake-spirits. If you go out at night and your luck is a bit off, you might just disappear!

Just like this group of Heavenly Heart Sect demons who were distributing flyers and spreading reactionary remarks; they didn't do less killing and looting at night.

It's fine if they meet confused commoners; they give you a flyer, distribute some living money, and then say in a flattering way how compassionate their Heavenly Heart Saint Master is, not only not collecting harsh taxes but also giving you pocket money to spend.

Unlike that eighty-year-old man sitting on the dragon throne today, who could fall seven or eight times without anyone helping him down the steps, and even peeing is a struggle, while their Heavenly Heart Saint Master is not only young and strong, but his waist is also sturdy, and he can pee two or three zhang away—he looks like a master capable of governing the world!

Blah, blah, blah—a whole bunch of nonsense, the overall intention was still to bewitch the world and incite public sentiment.

But if they meet someone who is half-confused, and he gives you a flyer, and you give him a cold face and don't take it, saying "You are all heretical demons, liars, I don't believe you, I want positive energy, I want to report you!"

When they meet this kind, the Heavenly Heart Sect people usually kill without burying. After killing, they loot everything valuable on your body or in your home, and finally give small favors to the people who believe in them. As time goes on, they believe that one day, the people of Great Yong will become the shape of the Heavenly Heart Sect.

Xu Qing didn't care about these things. Whether you are the eighty-year-old man sitting on top or the young people in their twenties and thirties leading a rebel team running around below, as long as you dare to deliver yourself to his door, he dares to bury you!

The common people might indulge you, but he certainly won't!

After ramming the soil in the courtyard until it was solid, Xu Qing straightened his waist like an old farmer who had just finished weeding and fertilizing, his face full of smiles expecting a harvest.

Before burying the corpses, he conveniently transcended these blind young people. The rewards were so-so—all kinds of "Strength Pills," "Disease-Removing Talismans," and "Dog-Skin Plasters." For example, burning the Disease-Removing Talisman with fire and drinking the remaining ash in water to cure diseases was a common method used by the Heavenly Heart Sect to bewitch the public.

We don't know if their talisman water works, but the talismans and medicinal water produced by the Scripture of Saving People are truly effective.

Not to mention the distant ones, Xu Qing took one Strength Pill, and his whole zombie body felt energized. He felt that if he had this stuff when he was at the corpse-grinding mill, let alone pulling the mill, even if they put the plow used for oxen on him, he could plow a hundred or so acres in one breath without panting!

It's just that this strength comes fast and goes fast. In just an hour and a half, Xu Qing felt that most of the extra strength in his body had dissipated.

Fortunately, he still had some Strength Pills left, and maybe he could use them when he needed them one day.

As for the Disease-Removing Talismans and Dog-Skin Plasters, these two things were of no use to Xu Qing at all.

As a zombie, what kind of disease could he get?

Putting aside these useless things, Xu Qing was more interested in what this wiped-out squad knew.

It must be said that the "propaganda department" of the Heavenly Heart Sect knows a lot of inside information.

Previously, Xu Qing had been in a state of half-understanding about this sect. External opinions were not the same; some said it was a rebel organization founded by remnants of the former dynasty to restore the country.

Others said the Heavenly Heart Saint Master was acting on the decree of the Heavenly Emperor, descending to the world to save the common people and find a new Son of Heaven to sit in the country.

In any case, no matter what the initial pretext was, it could always be linked to the topic of rebellion in the end.

Now that Xu Qing had watched the "running horse lanterns" of several Heavenly Heart Sect disciples, he had a clearer understanding of them in his heart.

The Heavenly Heart Sect believes in successive Saint Masters, promoting them as Maitreya descending and the Immovable Wisdom King entering the world. The disciples are divided into four levels: "Sheng, Miao, Luo, Jue."

This branch in Linhe was originally managed by a "Miao"-generation incense master. Recently, because the Bai Luo Protector among the Five Luo Protectors descended, it was promoted to a "Luo"-generation incense mouth.

Before the Bai Luo Protector came, the sect members in Linhe Ward, in order to avoid government pursuit, often relied on burning incense to gather crowds, gathering at night and dispersing at dawn, just like rats in dark alleys, living in fear all day long.

Once Bai Luo came, they changed their previous mode of operation and began to act "recklessly."

First, they took control of the Jinmen Gang in a short time, and then they began to plot to swallow the underground control of Jinmen Prefecture and Linhe.

Are you saying they changed their nature and are preparing to be the big black boss of Jinmen?

Not at all. They are doing such a big business for only one purpose—to assassinate the "Fledgling Dragon."

This plan was only known to the small leader distributing flyers, and he had heard the Bai Luo Protector mention it inadvertently. As for who exactly the "Fledgling Dragon" refers to, it was not stated on the surface.

Xu Qing leaned on his hoe, standing under the moon and pondering, thinking that assassinating the Fledgling Dragon definitely had nothing to do with the Longping Emperor. That old dragon was eighty years old and struggled even to get on the bed; why would he be bored enough to come to the Jinmen area and let them assassinate him?

Thinking about it, only the current Crown Prince who came to Jinmen for inspection fits the "Fledgling Dragon" positioning.

However, it is said that this Crown Prince is also over sixty years old. To go and assassinate such an old Fledgling Dragon is a bit inhumane!

Even if you wait for him for a few years, he might not outlive his father. Furthermore, a person in the position of Crown Prince has waited bitterly until sixty, just waiting for the day he can inherit the throne and be Emperor for a day.

If you really kill him, I'm afraid he would have to cry and make a scene all the way to reincarnation.

What a pitiful person!

Xu Qing didn't think he could do this; this Heavenly Heart Sect is too wicked!

But these things had nothing to do with him.

He was just a hardworking old farmer. When he was free, he could collect corpses, bury corpses, dig soil, and fill pits. As for the chaos of the Heavenly Heart Sect, how incompetent the Great Yong Emperor was, or how lively the war at the border was, it had nothing to do with him, a small commoner.

After ramming the ground, Xu Qing shouldered his hoe and put one hand on his waist; his appearance was not much worse than an Emperor.

At least in this one-acre-three-fen plot of land, he had the most say.

Xu Qing roughly estimated that there were already twenty or so corpses buried in the courtyard, and he was only two or three short of making it a round number.

"Kun is earth, earth is yin. The feng shui in the southwest still needs to be adjusted. It's a pity I haven't collected any female corpses; lacking a 'Mother Earth' to sit in town, otherwise the formation of my courtyard would be complete!"

Xu Qing laid out the feng shui of the yang house according to the yin house path of the Civil and Martial Geomancy Method, using the formation to collect the evil energy into the hub so that it would not be revealed externally. Now that nearly thirty corpses had been buried in the courtyard, the internal energy field of the entire residence had undergone a earth-shaking change.

If it was a haunted house before, now it was a mass grave placed in a haunted house, and it was a formation-within-a-formation that constantly used the yin evil of the haunted house to catalyze corpse evil.

This was also the reason why Xu Qing didn't return to the mortuary shop to cultivate at night but instead came to the new house to spend the night.

A zombie is also a corpse. Now that there was such an excellent corpse-raising ground, he naturally wouldn't let it sit idle.

With the moon in the middle of the sky, the surrounding corpses gathered evil energy, while Xu Qing sat steadily in the middle, with faint fluorescence appearing on his body surface, as he was swallowing the essence of the moonlight.

(End of chapter)