I Only Want to Lie Flat But Am Forced to Cultivate Immortality-Chapter 143 - 94: Golden Chicken, Jade Ring

It was midnight, the time of the day when yin energy was at its peak.

This period held many taboos.

For example, one must not call out the names of ghosts or deities, as doing so might attract unclean and ominous things.

Men should also avoid engaging in conjugal activities at this hour because it would draw upon their yang energy, possibly harming their essential vitality in the yin-rich atmosphere.

There’s also a saying, "A child does not seek divination at night, lest they bring calamity upon themselves," meaning one should not seek divine guidance or cast lots during this time, as it may invite misfortune and bad luck.

Another rule is not to open the door to anyone.

Especially not to strangers.

Outside the Funeral Shop, the knocking grew more urgent.

At the same time, a woman’s voice calling for help pierced the night. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

"Sir, please save me! There are wild beasts outside attacking people. I have nowhere to hide. I beg you to show some kindness and rescue me!"

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow and thought to himself, "Lady, did you activate X-ray vision or what?"

Otherwise, how would you know there’s a handsome young man inside the shop?

He moved to the window and carefully opened a small slit to look outside.

The street was pitch black, utterly devoid of any human figure.

The shop’s entrance, instead of being crowded, didn’t even have a single feather to show for it.

Where did the knocking sound come from on this desolate street?

Xu Qing finally realized the severity of the problem—it was some dirty trickster coming to mess with him!

Recalling the duo he had helped exorcise during the day, Xu Qing felt something stir within him.

He returned to the shop’s front door, where silence had now blanketed the area, with no more knocking sounds.

Xu Qing donned the Finger Tiger gloves, hid the Treasure Sword, and controlled the Puppet to open one panel of the door.

An eerie wind and thin fog enveloped the exterior, and the whole funeral street seemed to have slipped into the boundary between the Netherworld and the Underworld.

Xu Qing moved beside the Puppet; at this moment, his shop was the only one still illuminated by a dim light.

Surveying his surroundings, he saw no human figure but discovered a pair of intricately crafted pink embroidered shoes outside the doorstep.

The shoes were petite, graspable by a single hand, and their pointed toes faced directly towards his shop’s door.

Xu Qing’s eyelid twitched, and he instantly remembered the embroidered shoes worn by the ghost girl encountered by Liu Cai and Feng Liu.

They were the same pink-and-white embroidered shoes.

Even the patterns on them were identical!

Narrowing his eyes, Xu Qing prepared to bend down and pick up the shoes when, suddenly, the shop’s candlelight behind him extinguished.

"Hmm?" Xu Qing frowned.

This guest is certainly rude.

It’s one thing to litter at somebody else’s doorstep, but how can you turn off someone else’s lights without permission?

"Snap."

Xu Qing snapped his fingers, and the Lighting Technique instantly illuminated the entire shop, even igniting the candles in the unoccupied Paper Mache Shop next door.

But in the next moment, an inexplicable yin wind swept through the shop, extinguishing the newly ignited lights once again.

"Snap, snap, snap..."

In the subsequent brief moments, the lights in the Funeral Shop flickered on and off, as if someone was throwing an eerie late-night dance party.

At this point, neither Xu Qing nor the unidentified entity was willing to back down, and they stood in a deadlock.

If this continued until dawn, Xu Qing feared his fingers might get calloused from all the snapping!

Fortunately, it was the other party who conceded in the end.

The lights in the Funeral Shop finally settled down.

Picking up the shoes, Xu Qing silently closed and securely bolted the door.

He never intended to turn around; with the precedent set by Liu Cai and Feng Liu’s encounter, he could well imagine what was behind him.

Feeling the faint hint of yin energy brushing against the nape of his neck, Xu Qing’s face broke into a meaningful smirk.

Enjoy scaring people face-to-face, do you?

Well, today I’ll give you a taste of your own medicine, let you know what "face-to-face" truly means!

"Miss, I am a kind person and have opened the door to lend you a hand..."

"But reciprocity makes for good relationships."

"Since that’s the case, may I trouble you with a small favor? My scalp is itching terribly, perhaps with lice. Could you help me check it out..."

As soon as his words dropped, Xu Qing felt a pair of cold little hands crawling up the back of his head, searching.

"Look closely and carefully. Don’t let that louse escape."

While speaking, Xu Qing activated the Two-Faced Three-Blade Technique, and a mischievous, eerie face sprouted from the back of his head!

Their eyes met, and Xu Qing saw the feigned damsel’s horrified face—it was the embroidery girl from the old tailor’s house.

The girl meticulously searching for lice was horrified to find herself gazing at Xu Qing’s sinister, smiling face.

"Ghost—!"

The embroidery girl screamed, the yin wind around her swirling wildly as she tried to float away.

But how could Xu Qing let her escape? He immediately grasped her cold little hand and yanked the weightless female ghost towards him.

With his facial expressions returning to normal, Xu Qing sneered and said, "Who is the real ghost here? Speak clearly!"

The embroidery girl trembled, trying to exhale her yin energy at Xu Qing, but found it dissipated like a drop in the ocean, not even stirring a wave.

Narrowing his eyes, Xu Qing felt as if a spring breeze had passed, revitalizing his entire zombie form.

"Don’t stop, keep blowing!"

On the verge of tears, the ghost girl knelt, her wrist still held by Xu Qing. Tearfully, she pleaded, "Please forgive me, exalted one! I had no eyes to recognize a master. Spare me, I beg you."

"Spare you?" Xu Qing’s voice turned cold. "When you tried to blow your ghostly breath on me, you didn’t seem so polite."

Frightened, the ghost girl responded, "I was scared, thinking I encountered an evil spirit... My intention was not to harm you. I came here only to escape a disaster. I wouldn’t have helped you catch the lice otherwise."