The Secret Way of Immortality

Following a faint guidance, Ren Qing, with his separated soul attached to Lu Xiaoyu, walked towards the depths of the cave. It should be nearby.

When he saw Lu Xiaoyu, his expression became somewhat complicated.

Lu Xiaoyu's entire body was pieced together from vines and plants. Her human features were minimal, and even her limbs were beginning to become immobile.

Ren Qing recalled that he had encountered the same situation, indicating that the problem lay with the body.

Only Lu Xiaoyu's eyeballs could move. Noticing Ren Qing walking towards her, her eyeballs darted around erratically.

Ren Qing touched the wooden body, and information flowed.

【Resurrection】

【Created by the eunuch Huang Ling, cultivation requires the voluntary use of blood relatives' souls as a guide, creating a gap between one's own soul and body, thereby replacing the brain to achieve success.】

He recalled encountering information about this technique in the Secret Pavilion.

Resurrection was very strange. After advancing to the half-corpse realm of 【Soul Swapper】, the soul could be transferred to another body.

Of course, the drawbacks were also obvious. After using the technique to change bodies, one would be more susceptible to alienation and erosion, and one's lifespan would be greatly reduced.

Therefore, Jailers who mastered Soul-Swapping Clothes usually also practiced techniques to control the souls of others, using soul-seizing methods to injure enemies.

No wonder the restricted area used the method of luring souls…

Wait.

Ren Qing's heart skipped a beat.

He suddenly remembered the technique displayed by Wan Qi, which seemed to be the control of souls.

After the restricted area merged with Wan Qi's strange object, it would definitely become more dangerous.

Ren Qing decided to leave as soon as possible. As various strange objects were devoured by the rice grain giant, the flaws revealed would become fewer and fewer.

Seeing that the other party seemed lost in thought, Lu Xiaoyu assumed that she was beyond saving and closed her eyes in despair.

Since cultivation techniques were difficult to end well, dying in the restricted area was not considered frustrating.

Ren Qing felt the movements made by the rice grain giant cooking outside, and directly punched through Lu Xiaoyu's already plant-like body.

"Don't resist."

The separated soul immediately brought Lu Xiaoyu's soul back to the main body. The rescue process only took a few breaths, appearing relatively decisive and efficient.

Just as Lu Xiaoyu was about to thank him, she felt a pain in her neck and fainted.

Ren Qing casually stuffed Lu Xiaoyu into the abdominal prison, and forcibly put her into a dream, placing her with those townspeople.

With Lu Xiaoyu's half-corpse realm cultivation, she might not be of much help in the restricted area, so it would be better for her to lie down obediently.

Ren Qing took out Huang Ziwan's body. The separated soul sensed it and found that his location was awkward.

Continuing to go deeper was not as good as going to the entrance. Climbing along the wall should be a shortcut.

Ren Qing turned and walked away, as he could use the Mirror-Face in the kitchen to conceal his figure anyway.

After about fifteen minutes, he felt something was wrong. The surrounding environment became increasingly unfamiliar, and the air was slightly turbid.

Although the cave was crisscrossed, Ren Qing had marked every fork in the road, so he should not get lost.

Perhaps the cave was constantly changing its terrain?

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes.

He tried walking a long distance again and found that as soon as he looked back, there would be subtle changes in the cave.

It was obviously misleading him to continue deeper.

From this, it could be seen that the restricted area itself was a living thing, and its instinct was to try to eliminate foreign cultivators. The rice grain giant was more like a projection of consciousness.

How could Ren Qing let the restricted area get its way?

Since the cave was destructible, there was no need to follow the rules.

The Dragon-Snake Spine drilled out of his palm, acting like a drill against the stone wall. The sharp bone blades fully unfolded, shining with a cold light.

Clang!!!

He didn't even need to hold the Dragon-Snake Spine; the Ghost Shadow could do it for him.

As gravel and dust rose, a two-meter-wide hole appeared in front of Ren Qing, and the temperature became hot due to the friction.

He carefully observed the soil and could see that the restricted area itself was actually a small world, but it lacked earthworms and other insects.

"Go."

The Dragon-Snake Spine turned into a blur.

The cave expanded in a certain direction, and the resulting soil was put into the abdominal prison.

Ren Qing's excavation was quite loud. Before long, there was a rustling sound in the distance, possibly made by rats crawling.

The Ghost Shadow spread out restlessly, and then a scream was heard.

Ren Qing was slightly bored.

He was just about to bring the husky out to the outside world so that he could cultivate while excavating.

Suddenly, Ren Qing's mind moved.

He grabbed the Dragon-Snake Spine and immediately felt a vibration spreading from his wrist.

A tingling sensation arose from the skin all over his body. The Human-Skin Book made slight progress, and even the digestion of the eyeballs accelerated.

Ren Qing's mouth twitched. The restricted area was indeed dangerous, but it seemed to be an opportunity for him everywhere.

Although it was not enough to promote the Human-Skin Book to the Ghost-Envoy realm, temporarily improving his survival ability might give him a few more chances to escape.

Seeing this, Ren Qing attached the Ghost Shadow to his arm, and the strength added to the Dragon-Snake Spine became even greater.碎石宛如雨点般飞溅开来.

He concentrated all his energy on digging, except for devouring eyeballs.

Ren Qing could feel that he was getting closer and closer to Huang Ziwan, and the frequency of encountering rats was also increasing.

Even the types of rats were different.

Those rats that were the size of elephants were already difficult to see. The rats that appeared now were half a meter tall and had basic human shapes.

Unlike rats, the flesh and blood of rat-people did not have plant-like characteristics, mushrooms did not grow on their backs, and their intelligence was slightly higher.

They shouted vague words in their mouths.

However, after the rat-people made tentative attacks and left a pile of corpses, there was no movement in the next period of time.

It seemed that the rat-people, transformed from strange objects, also knew how to avoid disasters.

Ren Qing accelerated his excavation again. His body trembled slightly due to the reaction, and his internal organs began to feel uncomfortable.

The destination was close at hand.

With the sound of gravel colliding, the Dragon-Snake Spine finally dug through the stone wall and came to a relatively empty cave.

Ren Qing surrounded himself with the Dragon-Snake Spine, stuffed some more eyeballs into his mouth to ensure that his physical strength could be continuously supplied.

He scanned the cave.

He saw that it was covered with a thick layer of rice husks, and he could smell an extremely pungent odor, like the sour smell produced by fermentation.

Ren Qing found a complete grain of rice. This should be the rat-people's granary.

But how could Huang Ziwan come to this ghostly place?

Squeak squeak squeak……

Dozens of rat-people rushed into the cave, their fur still covered with undried mucus.

Seeing this, Ren Qing was expressionless. He put away the Dragon-Snake Spine and ignored the rat-people, heading straight for Huang Ziwan's direction.

In his opinion, rat-people were not comparable to insect-people at all, and even half-corpse realms were barely qualified, which should be related to the strength of the strange objects.

Therefore, rat-people were considered the bottom of the food chain in the restricted area.

Ren Qing's footsteps did not stop. At the moment of passing by, the Ghost Shadow lurking on the ground pulled all the rat-people into his body for digestion.

The Ghost Shadow couldn't help but click his tongue.

He had no interest in eating plant-like rats, but the taste of rat-people was unexpectedly good.

Ren Qing came to the passage leading to various rat nests and found that the walls were stained with some mucus, and the sour smell became more and more intense.

Squeak squeak squeak……

Another batch of rat-people swarmed in, and the deformities of their bodies became more and more obvious.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and thought about Huang Ziwan's specific location, and then breathed a sigh of relief after confirming it.

A lifelike flame burned out of thin air, directly covering the entire passage. The rat-people did not struggle a few times before turning into ashes.

When the flames disappeared, there was no trace of burning around, leaving only dozens of charred corpses.

Then the black shadow possessed Ren Qing's legs.

Bang!!!

Ren Qing turned into an afterimage and disappeared in place. Even if he encountered rat-people, they were all smashed into pieces of flesh and limbs.

After he found the target, he immediately stopped.

He saw a lump of wriggling flesh crawling towards the distance in the passage. He could barely see the traces of rat-people from his hands, feet, and head.

Rat-people were constantly emerging from its lower body.

Ren Qing was a little surprised. No wonder the number of rat-people was so amazing. This was a mobile breeding machine.

"Don't kill… don't kill me…"

The meat ball obviously had intelligence. Looking at Huang Ziwan on Ren Qing's shoulder, he immediately reacted.

"Don't kill me… I'll give you…"

The fat on its body was shaking, seemingly forcibly squeezing something towards its throat.

Ren Qing's face was full of astonishment.

Vomiting.

Huang Ziwan was spat out. There were not many traces of plant-like features on his body.

The atmosphere became a little subtle.

Huang Ziwan's eyes were dull, and he sat up stiffly. After he noticed Ren Qing, his eyes looked extremely complicated.

"Old Huang, you…"

Feeling ashamed, Huang Ziwan did not let Ren Qing help and directly returned his soul to the main body.

As a Ghost-Envoy realm cultivator, he could barely protect his soul from leaving the body.

Ren Qing put the body into the abdominal prison and then went forward to check the situation.

Huang Ziwan lay flat on the ground and opened his mouth, hesitating to speak, "Brother Ren, thank you."

Ren Qing tried very hard to hold back his laughter and wanted to ask Huang Ziwan the reason, but looking at his appearance, he was still sensible and closed his mouth.

During this period, the meat ball moved a few meters again in a short time.

With its bloated body, even if several hours passed, Ren Qing would probably still be able to catch up.

Before Ren Qing could take action, Huang Ziwan couldn't wait to spit out a mouthful of poisonous smoke, directly covering the meat ball.

A sizzling sound came.

The meat ball turned into a pool of pus in a few breaths.

Ren Qing stared at the process of the corpse being gradually corroded and noticed that its stomach contained more than one plant-like Jailer body, which should be to provide nutrition for the offspring.

However, most of the souls of the bodies had already dissipated.

Then the pus boiled.

The strange object of the rat-people was indeed attached to the meat ball and was gradually beginning to recover.

Ren Qing thought for a moment, and then the alien mouth in his palm produced suction, imprisoning the unformed strange object in the abdominal prison.

He learned through the information flow that the technique from which the strange object originated was "Rat Plague Art", and he should have reached the half-corpse realm of "Rat Mother" before his death.

Huang Ziwan said in surprise: "Ren Qing, you…"

Ren Qing did not rush to explain and turned and ran into the rat nest.

In his opinion, rat-people were the most critical link in the food chain of the restricted area. If the strange object was stripped away, the ecology would definitely have problems.

Even if the ecology would be restored over time, it would be enough for him to fish in troubled waters.