Chapter 5: Jintan Corpse Raising
"My little master, I'm starving!"

Gulu!
Suddenly, a pale boy's head popped out of the jar.

Xu Yang used his Yin-Yang eyes to see that the other party was actually a spirit. There was dark yin energy in the altar, which combined the spirit with the altar, forming the appearance of a little ghost in the altar.

He now found the memory about the little ghost from his original body's memory. There was indeed such a gatekeeper little ghost in the charity cemetery.

I thought Changming had sold this guy out, but I didn't expect there was still one.

"Are you hungry? What should I eat?"

"I just need to eat incense and offerings. Every fifteenth day, a chicken is slaughtered and a bowl of chicken blood is served." The little ghost in the altar said in a baby voice, looking around with round black eyes, "Hey, where is the master?"

"The master is dead."

"died?"

"Just like you." Xu Yang said as he walked to the backyard.

The ghost in the jar's eyes lit up and asked, "Which jar is he in?"

"The master is in the coffin."

The charity cemetery is a quadrangle with an open-air courtyard in the middle and side rooms on both sides, which were converted into a morgue. At the back is the main house, and behind the main house is the ancestral hall, separated by a small courtyard.

Further back is the ancestral hall.

In the ancestral hall, at dusk, the clouds were blood red, and red light shone into the gloomy hall. The statues of the Three Gods of Heaven, Earth and Water looked ferocious.

The sandalwood was lit, the smoke curled up, and the whole room was filled with a thick and rich aroma. The little ghost in the altar took deep breaths, green smoke flowed into his nose, and his pure black eyes showed a hint of green.

Xu Yang stood behind the little ghost in the altar, thinking uncertainly.

Do you want to get rid of this ghost?
After all, it was something left by Changming, but using the Yin-Yang Eyes, one could see that the little ghost in the altar was very weak. Its weakness was the rune in the center of the altar, and it could be killed with the candlelight technique.

"That's all."

After thinking for a long time, Xu Yang sighed secretly. This ghost was also a pitiful person. Like the original body, he was Changming's experimental subject. It would be fine to keep him as a gatekeeper.

Boom boom boom!
There seemed to be a faint sound coming from outside the door.

The little ghost in the jar, who was well fed and satisfied, moved his ears slightly and immediately rolled out of the door. With a thought, the door opened.

The old servant was not surprised to see the little ghost in the altar, as if he saw it often. He said, "Please tell the owner of the manor that the steward of the Ren family wants to see you!"

"I am the owner of the manor. What can I do for you, father-in-law?" Xu Yang came over at this time, trying hard to act like an inexperienced young man.

"I'm here to apologize on behalf of my master. My master had something to do today and couldn't pay his respects to Taoist Changming in time, so he specifically asked me to come and apologize!" The steward of the Ren family held three taels of silver wrapped in white cloth.

"Oh, you're so polite." Xu Yang took the white cloth and kept being polite.

When the steward of the Ren family saw that Xu Yang was so easy to deal with, he secretly concluded that this person was inexperienced and relatively easy to control. He could go back and tell the head of the family this news.

"The head of the family also said that my grandfather's funeral will also trouble you."

Xu Yang nodded and smiled: "Okay."

After seeing the deacon off, he turned and went to the morgue.

"Little devil, you stay here to guard the door."

"Okay, little master!"

In the morgue, more than a dozen pitch-black coffins were placed. The negative energy in the room formed a dark green mist, and white talismans to suppress corpses were pasted in front of the coffins.

Xu Yang, wearing a blue casual suit, was holding the account book and checking it carefully.

"Found it, it's you."

The third and more gorgeous mahogany coffin in the second row is the coffin of the old man of the Ren family.

"Born on a yin month, yin day and yin hour, it is a good material for refining a corpse." Xu Yang's eyes flashed, and he had an inspiration in his heart.

"On an auspicious day, he will be buried at sunset, like a dragonfly touching the water hole..."

The account book stated an auspicious date for the ritual, which would be about four days later.

The body cannot be moved for the time being, but perhaps it can be moved on the day of burial.

"Let's practice the secret method of driving corpses first." After returning to the main room, Xu Yang took out a yellowed secret book from his Qiankun bag.

Inscription: The secret method of Jintan corpse-driving.

The secret method of corpse-driving is divided into three steps: warming the corpse, nourishing the corpse, and driving the corpse.

There are formations for warming corpses, talismans for raising corpses, bells for driving corpses away, as well as supporting spells such as formations and talismans.

Xu Yang was not in a hurry to practice, but checked the steps of the secret method again and again.

There were no spells on the bookshelf behind him. Changming only passed down a book of martial arts, three books of spells, and a secret method of driving corpses.

The rest were all common sense in the cultivation world, such as a brief explanation of Feng Shui and fate, identification of herbs, etc. I had learned all of these in my previous life, so I saved myself the trouble of learning common sense.

The next day.

At night, the sky is clear and the stars are arrayed.

There are three acres of open space surrounded by a wall in the backyard of the ancestral hall. In the center of each acre, there is a pavilion with white tiles and red pillars. White talismans are pasted on the pavilion, and there are hollow patterns of gold and silver threads on the surface. They are winding and twisted, like runes or pictures of the underworld.

The gold and silver threads flickered in the moonlight, just like breathing.

At this time, Xu Yang in the pavilion put on a Bagua robe and made a strange posture, with his left hand covering his head with a fighting seal and his right hand on his waist with a sword.

There was a coffin placed upright in front of him, without a lid, and a pale and gray corpse stood upright.

Xu Yang continued to meditate with his eyes closed, motionless.

In the lower Dantian, the dense true Qi is like a nebula, motionless. With every breath, wisps of the essence of heaven and earth flow in, making the nebula stronger.

Xu Yang can sense the yin energy from all directions. Because he has the bardo Dharma body, he is particularly sensitive to the yin energy from all directions.

After a long time, a hint of green appeared on the pale skin.

Wow! !

Xu Yang opened his eyes, his pupils were green, representing that his Yin-Yang eyes had been stimulated to the extreme.

"Grandmother of all the Qi, the root of the Hunyuan Sect, casts divine light and manifests the spirit! The secret method of the Golden Altar comes with the Qi! Open!!"

Nothing happened... After his breathing was restored, Xu Yang continued to adjust his gestures and timing.

"open!!"

Finally, a strong wind arose.

The gold-thread copper coins on the surface of the pavilion lit up with a faint green light, and then dimmed. Strands of dark evil energy as thin as hair flowed into the nameless dead body.

The seven orifices of the corpse were sealed with cinnabar, and each of the seven places, including the center of the forehead, the center of the back, the center of the chest, the palms of both hands, and the soles of the feet, was pressed with a corpse-suppressing talisman.

The pavilion's formation is called the Jintan Warming Corpse Gold Thread Formation.

"This is the step of warming the corpse. The spiritual power of an acre of spiritual field is only enough to cultivate one zombie. No wonder Taoist Changming only has three." Xu Yang finally understood.

Warming the corpse originally had a formation, which didn't cost much. The next step was to raise the corpse, which required some medicinal materials and chicken blood. Driving the corpse also cost a bit, so the money on him should be enough.

"But we need to make more money. After all, the formation is made of real gold and needs constant maintenance."

While the corpse was absorbing the negative energy, Xu Yang was not idle either. He ran to the empty pavilion nearby and practiced the formation gestures, learned to draw corpse-driving talismans, and sense corpse-driving bells. These three are the core of the Jintan corpse-driving secret method, a complete set of supporting spells.

I do not know how long it has been.

Xu Yang wiped the sweat from his head and stopped only when the true energy in his body was almost exhausted.

Qigong Master: Xu Yang
Realm: Feeling Qi

Supernatural powers: Bardo Dharmakaya.

法术：阴阳眼。河车宫养生秘箓·感炁真炁篇（入门87/1000），烛火法（入门4/100），金坛赶尸秘法（入门2/100）。

"Huh, I finally got started. The bardo body is indeed suitable for practicing this kind of magic."

With the help of the bardo body, starting from these unorthodox methods, one can ascend step by step, and one day one will understand all dharmas.

(End of this chapter)