The old Sect Master did not depart peacefully.
He had too many unanswered questions. He had imagined how he might die, but never considered that someone would brazenly storm into the sect, like retrieving a pawned item, and easily take his head.
One can only say that life's unpredictable.
"Hey, you in the sedan, your old flame died right in front of you, aren't you sad or upset?"
"Even if you treat them as a pet cat or dog at home, you would still feel uneasy, wouldn't you? How can you be so heartless?"
Amidst the gravestones, a coquettish voice finally came from the sedan embroidered with colorful lotus patterns.
"The Yin Corpse Sect is vast, how could he, an old man half-buried in the ground, manage it all? It's good he's dead. I've long wanted to find a young and vigorous talent to handle this massive sect."
"You're being unfaithful and abandoning him. In the Dayong Dynasty, such behavior would get you drowned in a pig cage!"
The woman laughed through the sedan curtain, "Sir, your words are amusing, much more than that old man. If you don't mind, I'd be willing to soar with you like a pair of wings, sharing all ups and downs together."
Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, yet to respond, when the woman's unexpected words came again:
"I possess an immortal soul, and you have an undying body. If you and I become one, inseparable, we could be eternally undying.
Even if seas run dry and rocks crumble, the world changes again and again, I would remain with you forever, unwavering."
Xu Qing finally understood; she intended to possess his body, to take it over!
"So, would you agree, sir?"
Xu Qing sneered disdainfully, "Front not convex, back not curved, even as a vase I'd find the glaze unappealing. Do you think I'll agree just because you're good with words?"
"To put it plainly, everyone in Jin Sect has a quick tongue, why would I need something so shallow like you? Even my cat would find it disgusting!"
"..."
From the sedan came the rough breathing of the Blessed Girl, clearly touched on a taboo.
"You little beast! If you agree with me, I'll serve you well and let you leave happily. But if you don't agree..."
The crimson sedan's windows, made of delicate fabric, and the front curtain were suddenly tossed up by an Evil Qi, with an intense gloomy mist surging out from within.
"I could also humiliate you in countless ways, then take over your body!"
Xu Qing watched as the sedan lifted into the air, listening to her domineering words. Those unaware might think he's the delicate flower, while the woman in the sedan is the bandit king!
"Strange, these days rats come to cats to rob them of marriage."
Truth be told, Xu Qing was not interested in the woman before him. If only she had a complete body, he might have been intrigued, taking advantage of her life's fleeting moments.
But with just a head, a vase is still just a vase!
"I heard from the Yin Corpse Sect disciples that you keep an Undying Bone corpse?"
Xu Qing, after all, couldn't forget about his own corpse.
"Undying Bone corpse? If you agree to merge with me, you'd instantly achieve the Flying Corpse art, allowing you to traverse earth and sky, from worldly rivers of yin to wherever you wish."
Xu Qing frowned, his tone suddenly cold, "So, you don't keep a Corpse Puppet?"
The Blessed Girl chuckled, "Corpse Puppet? I am of the Flying Corpse body, undying and boneless, why would I need to raise a Corpse Refined puppet!"
Xu Qing's expression changed, then he shook his head.
"What a pity."
"What a pity, indeed?"
"Pity you only have a big head, worse than a eunuch lacking parts. At least they can attach paper limbs and it wouldn't hinder a burial service, but you..."
Xu Qing took out his Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword, curling his lip, "You're just flawed, I'd refuse even to use you as a night pot for the room with how much space you'd occupy."
"Sharp tongue! When I possess your body and cut away your two jins of flesh, let's see what you'll say then!"
You could say that strange things abound in Jin Sect, even the Ancient Yin River Dao in its territory caught the same malady.
Xu Qing looked at the Blessed Girl's body, stuck in a vase, thinking that she'd merely changed pickled jars for a new outfit.
But changing as one might, treating others as clothing is certainly wrong!
At this moment, the Blessed Girl's sedan floated mid-air, spinning like an unstrung kite.
Inside was not a bride, but a beauty's head set upon a vase!
That vase wasn't some pickled jar, but an antique Ming vase from five reigns ago.
Feeling the aura emanating from the Blessed Girl, Xu Qing finally understood why she referred to herself as being a Flying Corpse body.
The Blessed Girl had no body, just a head and internal organs crammed inside a vase, with that head having undergone Refining to become an Undying Bone, having crossed that threshold into the realm of the Flying Corpse, though just a halfling of one.
Xu Qing had his plans, never having actively broken through to evolve into the Flying Corpse realm.
Currently, even as a Zombie with a complete Undying Bone, Xu Qing still couldn't fly.
The Undying Bone, making his body heavy as over ten thousand pounds, his feet connecting him with the earth veins, the perpetual, weighty Earth Qi constantly affecting his form.
According to Xu Qing's own understanding, it was like being independently bound with a gravity system; others can use the Light Body Technique to tread lightly over water, but he?
Well, he might as well blow up a fishpond.
Now it was just that, the trouble was that Xu Qing couldn't fly.
The Blessed Girl was counting on this, directing her flower sedan to play a monkey show in the sky.