I Only Want to Lie Flat But Am Forced to Cultivate Immortality-Chapter 241 - 137: Transmission Hall, Paving the Way

During these times, when a person gets older, they will actively start saving for a coffin fund.

The coffin fund not only means money for retirement but also has its literal meaning.

Why are there stories of selling oneself to bury one’s father or mother? It’s because the funeral costs have never been a small amount since ancient times.

Because this matter really burns money!

In people’s perceptions, there are two things that cannot be delayed: one is urgent medical expenses, and the other is funeral expenses.

As the saying goes, apart from death, there is no major event; if utterly broke, one would beg.

Sudden illness is a life-threatening matter and cannot be delayed; a corpse decays soon after death, so that cannot be delayed either.

This is why people who face these two matters and are strapped for cash often act desperately.

Now Xu Qing not only handled Guan Binghua’s funeral properly but also helped Sun Erzhuang find a job so he could work to pay off the debt.

Such funeral services are hard to find not only in the Jin Sect but across the whole Yong Dynasty.

Sun Erzhuang is a sensible person. Although Xu Qing demanded a high price of one hundred and twenty silver taels, he did not think it was excessive; he even felt it was too little.

"Sir has a life-saving grace for me and now has also helped me find a job. It’s not too much to say it’s a re-creation grace. I understand that sir took these one hundred and twenty taels of silver to prevent me from feeling burdened in my heart..." The chubby man said, his eyes turning red.

"I didn’t have a father since I was a child. It was Mr. Xu who made me feel the support of an elder..."

Xu Qing listened with a wry smile; he just wanted to open a branch hall, expand Cat Immortal Hall’s business, and spread his eyes and ears across the Jin Sect, nothing more.

It should be known that few in this world repay kindness, many turn heartless. Sun Erzhuang and Guan Dazhuang in front of him happened to be of excellent character, loyal and righteous. Meeting the right people at the right time, of course, made him want to recruit them.

As for what Sun Erzhuang said, he had not really thought about it carefully.

Guan Dazhuang felt the same way hearing his brother’s words.

"I wrongly blamed the sir; it turns out he’s a great benevolent man."

"..."

Xu Qing laughed dryly twice, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

He just gave better employee benefits, how did he become a benevolent person?

During the few days he stayed at Guan Family Village, Xu Qing wasn’t idle. He set up a Transmission Hall, recording Guan Dazhuang’s name in the registry, along with the name of Galloping Immortal Disciple Sun Erzhuang.

In the yard, Xu Qing arranged an altar and taught Sun Erzhuang to chant the Assist Soldier Spell, establishing a connection with Guan Dazhuang.

After doing this, Guan Dazhuang separated a wisp of spirit and, following Xu Qing’s Inviting Yin Technique, used offerings and incense to attract nearby immortals to walk the Yin and enter dreams.

Walking the Yin and entering dreams is essentially a means of communication among immortals. Whenever a new hall is established, it requires this approach to inform nearby immortal halls.

Inside the small yard of the Guan family, eerie winds blew. It didn’t take long for some wild immortals, true immortals, and other filthy entities to be attracted.

Tigers have their majesty. With a roar from Guan Dazhuang, the shadowy ghosts wanting to freeload scattered immediately like mice seeing a cat.

After burning three sticks of incense, the immortals who arrived were about right. Xu Qing took a glance and found many were regulars.

The yellow weasel from Yellow Stripe Mountain recognized Xu Qing, knowing that even Yellow Grandpa showed him respect.

"Greetings Grandpa Xu!"

The little weasel was very sweet but clearly hadn’t learned about social etiquette.

Xu Qing patiently taught it human manners: "Remember, when you meet a young mage, call them sir. Old ones can be called grandpa or grandma."

Besides the weasel from Yellow Stripe Mountain, there were crows from Chaotic Stone Mountain, snakes from Moonlight Mountain... it almost seemed like a flower and bird market with all the chirping little animals.

Xu Qing informed each hall about the branch opening of Cat Immortal Hall and wrote invitation letters for the immortal ritual, asking the messengers to pass them on.

Guan Dazhuang watched in a daze as he never imagined that Cat Immortal Hall’s network would be this extensive.

There was even a Gray Immortal who came to bow to Xu Qing.

It was truly a sight to behold!

The Jin Sect is not small, nor is it large. After notifying the nearby halls, Xu Qing started reciting incantations individually, informing the Funeral Shop about the branch’s upcoming ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Reciting the Assist Soldier Spell, Xu Qing fumbled around his body for a while, couldn’t find any cat fur, but found plenty of golden rooster feathers.

Well, this will have to do!

Using chicken feathers as a medium for communicating with the immortals, Xu Qing continued chanting the Assist Soldier Spell.

"In the left hand, hold the Wenwang Drum, in the right, hold the General-Driving Whip—

Drive the mountain to move, drive the river to dry, drive the old immortal to unrest."

The Assist Soldier Spell can call both civil and martial entities. If calling his own hall’s Cat Immortal, Xu Qing would certainly use the civil method. But to call the fat chicken in the shop that only eats and does no work, there was only the martial method.

At the third watch, a massive golden chicken apparition suddenly emerged from the darkness in the eerie courtyard.

The rooster is one of the most yang-charged birds, especially the cockerel.

Cockerels, extremely yang and lacking yin, like to eat yin-heavy foods such as scorpions, centipedes, and earthworms. In the funeral industry, cockerels are the only birds that can freely travel between the Yin and Yang Realms.

This is why mages often use cockerels over three years old to guide the dead during rituals.

Xu Qing did not expect that the golden rooster’s Dharma Realm manifestation would be so imposing.

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