I didn't expect the Samadhi True Fire Talisman given to me by Ku Quanzi to be so powerful. It quickly dealt with the transformed Xie Lao'er.

After waiting for a while and seeing that Xie Lao'er was indeed no longer moving, I mustered up the courage to walk over and crouch down to carefully examine him. At this moment, Xie Lao'er's face was as black as charcoal, with no trace of yellow hair left, emitting a strong stench of decay.

I walked under the big tree and rescued the older coffin carrier.

The older coffin carrier was very grateful to me and called his brothers over to re-embalm Xie Lao'er's remains and promised to help us transport it back to the village for free.

Xie Qiang came up to me and said, "Thank you... for saving me earlier..."

I waved my hand and said, "No need, we are all from the same village. If it were someone else, I would also save them!"

The Samadhi True Fire Talisman was a life-saving talisman given to me by Ku Quanzi, but I used it to save my "enemy". Thinking about it, it felt quite foolish, but I didn't think so.

As the saying goes, "Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda." Although I haven't reached such a high level, if I had to make the choice again, I would still do the same.

Xie Qiang patted my shoulder and said in a brotherly tone, "Yang Cheng, I apologize for what happened before. From now on, I consider you my brother. Whether in the village or in the city, if anyone bullies you, just let me know, Big Brother Qiang will definitely protect you!"

We carried the coffin and walked downhill, and just as we reached the foot of the mountain, we met the old man and the others.

The old man came up the mountain worried after I didn't return for a long time.

When he saw that I was fine, the old man felt relieved.

After experiencing the resurrection incident, Xie Qiang no longer dared to act on his own. He politely sought my advice on how to deal with Xie Lao'er's remains.

I told him to first bring Xie Lao'er's remains back to the yard and wait for Ku Quanzi to make the final decision.

After a while, my father came back. Seeing that my father was alone, I knew that he hadn't found Ku Quanzi.

"Where is Master Ku?" the old man asked.

My father sighed and said, "Couldn't find him. As the new year approaches, Master Ku's business is booming!"

The old man frowned and looked at the coffin in the yard, anxiously saying, "What should we do now?"

Everyone's gaze turned to me, hoping that I could come up with a solution for the remains.

Now that Ku Quanzi wasn't here, it was obvious that we couldn't rely on him anymore. In the eyes of the villagers, I was Ku Quanzi's apprentice, and now that the master was absent, only the apprentice could step forward.

Uncle Yu walked over and asked me, "Yang Cheng, do you have any ideas? We can't just leave Xie Lao'er's remains hanging like this!"

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I asked Uncle Yu to wait for me for a moment, then turned and entered the bedroom, opened the "Sanqing Book," and started searching to see if I could find a way to resolve Xie Lao'er's remains.

Although Xie Lao'er no longer posed a threat now, there was still residual malevolent energy inside his body. If we were to bury him like this, I was worried that it would plant the seeds of disaster, so it would be best to thoroughly resolve it and eliminate any future trouble.

Ah!

Found it!

I was delighted. I found a method: sealing the malevolent energy with peach wood!

I walked out of the door and asked Mr. Yu to find someone to get some peach wood.

Mr. Yu didn't ask much and immediately sent someone to search for it. Fortunately, there was a villager who had peach trees planted at home.

Mr. Yu allocated some funds, bought the peach tree, and then had someone pick a high-quality one and deliver it to my yard.

Since ancient times, peach wood has been the best "weapon" to restrain evil spirits. The older the peach wood, the better its effect. Like the peach wood sword Wang Baochang used to save his life, it was made from top-quality old peach wood, which was more than enough to deal with ordinary evil spirits.

After the peach tree was delivered, following my instructions, all the branches were cut off and only the trunk was left. Then the trunk was split into seven sections. A perfectly good peach tree turned into seven wooden stakes in an instant.

I called everyone and went to Xie's backyard, where the burial pit was dug before, to continue expanding it into a square pit.

After completing these tasks, it was almost dark.

The villagers lit torches, illuminating the backyard brightly, and continued working.

Tonight, we must solve Xie's second brother's problem and cannot delay any longer.

I asked two villagers to go down into the pit and arrange the seven peach wood stakes in the formation of the "Big Dipper." Each stake was half buried in the soil and half exposed.

The onlookers were very curious and didn't know what kind of formation I was setting up.

In fact, this formation is called the "Seven Stars Sealing Evil Formation," which I learned from the "Sanqing Book." The "seven stars" made of peach wood are naturally the best material for sealing evil.

Several villagers together placed the coffin into the pit, exactly on top of the "Big Dipper." The seven peach wood stakes acted as supports, suspending the coffin about half a meter above the ground.

Looking at the "masterpiece" in front of me, I sighed with relief. Finally, the great task was accomplished!

Next was to fill the pit with soil. With so many villagers watching, each person took a shovel and quickly filled the square pit.

Xie Qiang ran over and respectfully asked me, "Yang... Brother Yang... Is this enough?"

Previously, Xie Qiang was very harsh to me and yelled that he wanted to beat me to death. Now his attitude towards me has completely changed, even calling me "brother."

This small matter made me deeply understand a truth: if you have the ability, others will naturally respect you. If you don't have any ability, everyone can trample on you.

I nodded, "It's resolved! The Three Samadhi True Fire Talisman severely injured Huang San, and the peach wood sealing evil suppressed the evil qi in your father's body. You don't have to worry about your father undergoing corpse transformation again. Within forty-nine days, at most, the evil qi in your father's body will be completely dissipated by the peach wood. By then, if you want to relocate the grave, it won't be a problem!"

Xie Qiang held my hand, extremely excited, and kept thanking me.

Xie's second brother's wife came over and took out a red envelope to thank me.

I instinctively declined, "Auntie, there's no need. My relationship with Uncle Xie is already good, really no need!"

Xie Qiang forcefully put the red envelope into my pocket and said seriously, "If you don't accept this red envelope, it means you don't treat me as a brother!"

Xie's second brother's wife said, "Accept it. It's customary. You helped us, so there's definitely a need to celebrate, right?"

With such words from Xie's second brother's wife, I followed the custom and accepted the red envelope.

Xie Qiang was very happy, he put his arm around my shoulder and said that to express his gratitude, he would host a dinner at home tomorrow evening and I must attend, he must give me this face.

Xie Qiang previously had conflicts with me, but now he desperately wanted to please me and reconcile with me.

As the saying goes, having more friends is better than having more enemies. Since Xie Qiang showed goodwill towards me, I also gave him a way out, nodded, and agreed to his invitation.