Four-Eyed Daoist: What Is a Partial Silver-Armored Corpse?

He found me! Was he going to kill me to silence me? That was the first thought in Qingqing's mind as she stumbled out of the corridor where the morgue was located. Her face was pale, and she instinctively wanted to find her master. Just as she was wondering how to tell her master, Master Yixiu, that Liu Xiu was torturing a jiangshi, she saw Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei not far away, smiling at her. In the cold moonlight, the smiles of Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei were full of the shyness and goodwill unique to big boys. But in Qingqing's eyes, it was different. She saw only four other big villains smiling at her with a gloomy smile like Liu Xiu's under the bleak moonlight. "Ah!" A scream escaped Qingqing's lips. Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei looked bewildered as they watched Qingqing turn and run as if she had seen a ghost upon seeing them. The four exchanged a puzzled glance. After thinking, they tacitly arrived at the same conclusion: their master was right after all—women were indeed like tigers. Hmm, Qingqing's voice was too loud! As loud as a tiger's! As for Qingqing's panicked flight from the morgue window just now, they had indeed seen it. But they figured she must have been frightened by Liu Xiu's process of refining the jiangshi using the Seven Yuan Corpse-Summoning Return-to-Mountain Secret Manual! Could it be that she was scared by Liu Xiu? Impossible! Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei thought so—not only they, but even Master Yixiu in his own wooden hut thought the same. In the living room, Master Yixiu, who was flipping through Buddhist scriptures, looked with a strange expression at Qingqing, who was trembling as she spoke to him. "Stop, Qingqing. As your master, I think you must have seen wrong just now. Friend Liu may look somewhat... inhuman, but as a disciple of Daoist Shi Jian, how could he possibly torture a jiangshi!" Master Yixiu spoke to Qingqing with a helpless smile. He had indeed heard Liu Xiu shout earlier, "Not eating dinner and cultivating corpse-driving arts." In his view, how could such an eager-to-learn person as Liu Xiu use sulfuric acid to scrub a jiangshi's hands? He thought Qingqing had misunderstood Liu Xiu's jiangshi-refining process. Or she had simply seen wrong! Still, Qingqing really was something—why sneak a peek at someone else's jiangshi refining? Master Yixiu thought, his brow slightly furrowed as he smiled and said: "However, Qingqing, you should know that secretly watching others perform their arts is wrong, especially this kind of jiangshi-refining method. These are all sect secrets..." Her master didn't believe her! Not only did her master not believe her, he even scolded her. Qingqing stared wide-eyed at Master Yixiu, who was scolding her for the first time. "Qingqing, it's not that your master is blaming you, but this matter of your sneaking a peek can be big or small. Even if you did it unintentionally..." Master Yixiu wore a helpless smile. He paused, then continued: "I know you told me this out of goodwill, worried that Friend Liu might go astray. But have you considered that maybe you saw wrong? And your sneaking a peek..." Qingqing wasn't unreasonable. She lowered her head and said: "I didn't sneak a peek on purpose, but... but I really saw him using sulfuric acid to torture that jiangshi. That jiangshi's face was full of pain from his torture. I'm not empathizing with the jiangshi; I just feel what he did was too cruel... And his methods are too terrifying..." "Um... could it be that it was too dark, and you saw wrong..." Master Yixiu said helplessly again. Same as before—Liu Xiu was a top disciple of Daoist Shi Jian; he didn't believe Liu Xiu would do such strange things. "Too dark? I saw wrong?" Hearing this, Qingqing began to doubt herself. She kept doubting until after dinner, but she still felt she hadn't seen wrong. "I definitely didn't see wrong. He must be torturing that jiangshi..." Qingqing thought to herself as she brought her bowl and chopsticks to the kitchen. She decided to go check the morgue again—not to expose Liu Xiu's behavior of even torturing a jiangshi to the public, but because she didn't want to see Liu Xiu go astray! Besides, she felt someone as handsome as Liu Xiu shouldn't have such behavior that she considered perverted. Qingqing quietly put down her bowl and chopsticks, glanced left and right, then secretly left the kitchen and headed for the morgue at Four-Eyed Daoist's wooden hut. "Sigh..." After Qingqing left the kitchen, Master Yixiu, who had been keeping an eye on her, quietly appeared, sighed helplessly, and followed her. Same as before—he didn't believe Liu Xiu was torturing a jiangshi, and still thought Qingqing had seen wrong. Also, he felt that even if Liu Xiu really was torturing a jiangshi, it wasn't a big deal, though the behavior was somewhat perverted. Still, Master Yixiu felt in his heart that no one is perfect. Liu Xiu was so handsome that he could understand him having a few small flaws. "If it's true, I could pass down that method of cultivating the mind and nurturing nature to him..." Master Yixiu thought. Of course, what he would teach wasn't a Buddhist method. As for teaching Liu Xiu Buddhist methods like calming the mind, he subconsciously didn't dare think about it. After all, Shi Jian was famous in the cultivation world. He feared that if he dared to teach it, Shi Jian would come discuss the Dao with him right after. After thinking it through, Master Yixiu followed Qingqing, but seemingly because he was old and slow, he was a bit slower. Meanwhile, Qingqing had already returned to the morgue window and quietly pushed it open again to look. She saw Liu Xiu binding a jiangshi with chains, crouching beside it, and forcibly pressing the jiangshi's head into a water bucket. Crackling black lightning surged from Liu Xiu's big hands like mud, covering the water bucket where the jiangshi's head was. He... he wasn't just brushing the jiangshi with dilute alum water! He... was also electrocuting the jiangshi while pressing it into the water bucket! Qingqing covered her little mouth, her face full of horror, watching the jiangshi struggling violently in the bucket. Her legs went weak, and she stumbled backward. "Slap~" A big hand slapped Qingqing's shoulder, scaring her into a scream. She staggered back and nearly fell. "Qingqing, it's me..." Why did you come over if you're so scared? Master Yixiu looked at the terrified Qingqing with a helpless expression, thinking she was just too timid. Or perhaps she was remembering being snatched away by child traffickers and the bad experiences she had encountered while begging before. "Master, you scared me to death..." Qingqing's body trembled with fear. Jiale and others who heard the commotion ran over and asked: "Qingqing, what's wrong?" "Is there a jiangshi disturbance?" "Is there a ghost disturbance?" Four-Eyed Daoist, Daoist Qianhe, and others who came at the sound spoke up and looked around. Qingqing was about to speak when she saw Liu Xiu push open the morgue door. "You peeked again! Do you know you almost made my corpse refinement fail just now!" Liu Xiu frowned at Qingqing. After speaking, he saw Qingqing, as if she had seen a ghost, her face fearful, shrinking her head and hiding behind Master Yixiu. "I peeked because you used dilute alum..." "Sneaking a peek at Ah Xiu performing his arts? Monk, is this how you teach your disciple!" Four-Eyed Daoist heard this, frowned at Master Yixiu, and directly interrupted what Qingqing was about to say. Sneaking a peek at others performing arts is always a major taboo, and besides, Qingqing's peeking almost made Liu Xiu fail in cultivating the Seven Yuan Corpse-Summoning Return-to-Mountain Secret Manual. "Qingqing just became my disciple. I haven't had time to teach her these rules of the cultivation world..." Master Yixiu explained with a wry smile. "It's not like that. I peeked because I didn't want him to go astray..." Qingqing continued speaking, but before she could finish, Liu Xiu interrupted her. "Forget it, I forgive her. Anyway, I have already successfully refined the jiangshi, and I even refined it into a Partial Silver-Armored Corpse!" ??? Partial? Silver-Armored Corpse? Except for Qingqing, who was new to her master and didn't understand, everyone present—even Master Yixiu—was confused. They meant nothing else—they just wondered how "Silver-Armored Corpse" could be connected with the word "partial," and also when Silver-Armored Corpses became so easy to refine. It's true that Silver-Armored Corpses can be artificially created, but to refine one, besides finding a top-notch extremely yin location, there are many other requirements and restrictions! The restrictions were so numerous as to be very complicated. At least they hadn't heard of several successful cases of refining Silver-Armored Corpses. Everyone basically wanted to catch armored corpses of that level by going into the wild to catch wild armored corpses. Though they basically couldn't catch any! Everyone thought about it, exchanged glances, and strangely understood each other's meaning: Liu Xiu's jiangshi refinement had failed. And Liu Xiu couldn't save face, so he could only use lies to cover it up. Thinking this, everyone unconsciously looked through the morgue door into the room. What met their eyes was a Black Jiangshi shrouded in a black robe. Enough, it was confirmed: Liu Xiu really had failed his corpse refinement! "Cough, cough. Since the martial nephew said to let it go, then let it go..." Four-Eyed Daoist said with a laugh. "Right, right, let it go!" "Qingqing, don't peek next time!" Everyone was talking at once. Master Yixiu felt even more guilty toward Liu Xiu, and he looked at Qingqing with an even more helpless gaze. "Qingqing, hurry up and thank Friend Liu for not pursuing the matter of you peeking at his Maoshan arts of refining a jiangshi..." ??? What, you want me to thank him? Qingqing stared wide-eyed at Master Yixiu and angrily pointed at Liu Xiu: "It's clearly him using dilute alum water and electricity to torture that jiangshi. Master, you actually want me to thank him? And I peeked again only because I was worried he was going astray..." ??? Electricity? Thunder arts? Dilute alum water? Going astray? Hearing this, everyone was stunned. They quickly came up with an explanation: Liu Xiu, after his jiangshi refinement failed because Qingqing disturbed it, was angry and embarrassed and took it out by torturing this jiangshi. Alas, poor jiangshi! Besides, they could confirm Liu Xiu really failed, and it was because Qingqing peeked that caused the failure. Thinking this, everyone looked at Qingqing with slightly furrowed brows—even Jiale was like that—but then their brows soon relaxed. After all, Qingqing's action was also out of fear that Liu Xiu would go astray and out of goodwill. As for the peeking, they looked at Liu Xiu's face, then at Qingqing as a young girl. They immediately understood everything! To be honest, they really didn't understand that being handsome was really that important. After all, inner beauty is true beauty! Everyone grumbled inwardly, especially Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei and Jiale—these big boys aged only ten or twenty. Master Yixiu forced a smile onto his old face, put his palms together, bowed his head, and said to Liu Xiu, whose brow was slightly furrowed: "Amituofo, Friend Liu. Qingqing is young and doesn't understand. This monk apologizes to Friend Liu on her behalf. Please, Friend Liu, be magnanimous and forgive her. After all, she acted out of goodwill..." Master Yixiu bowed with a sincere attitude, making Qingqing stare wide-eyed at her master in confusion. She looked at the gazes Four-Eyed Daoist and the others were giving her and became even more confused. What? Clearly he, this bad person, was torturing a jiangshi, so why did you all think the fault was mine! She didn't understand or realize. Clearly Liu Xiu was more in the wrong! How did it become as if everything was her fault! Besides, she acted out of goodwill!