Uncle Nine: One Corpse-Suppressing Talisman, and Every Jiangshi in Town Kneels

Before Uncle Jiu left, he gave Shen Xuan just one instruction. “Keep an eye on the funeral home tonight.” Shen Xuan agreed. Then all thirty-seven coffins came back to life at once. That was the very night he awakened [Heavenly Law Dojo]. Any Taoist art successfully performed once within his dojo would become a permanent rule. Draw a single zombie-sealing talisman. From then on, every corpse in the funeral home bows its head. Recite the Purification Incantation once. From then on, yin energy dissipates of its own accord upon entering his territory. Cast a Five Thunder spell. From then on, any demon that dares cross the boundary must first ask whether the thunder overhead agrees. Later on, one funeral home became half of Ren Family Town. Half of Ren Family Town became a hundred-mile domain. Boundary markers spread from western Hunan to Maoshan, and from the mortal world all the way into the courts of the Underworld. Until one day, Uncle Jiu stood before a boundary marker and watched a thousand-year-old zombie king step into Ren Family Town, only to be struck by lightning and forced to its knees. He stood there for a long time without saying a word. Qiusheng asked cautiously, “Master, what’s wrong?” Uncle Jiu glanced at Shen Xuan in the distance, collecting payment for a ritual. “I just can’t figure it out.” “When I told him to watch the funeral home, I only meant the funeral home...” “How did he end up managing both the worlds of the living and the dead?”