The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing's first few coffins were still rough, showing a lack of experience, but his skills advanced rapidly with time, becoming increasingly proficient.

Old Coffin's expression was complex. Although coffin-making wasn't particularly difficult, to master it after only seeing it a few times was truly a remarkable talent.

It's just a pity his aptitude is too poor; he struggles even with the Qi Refining stage.

If he could live a few more years, he might really develop some ideas.

Old Coffin suddenly felt a bit of compassion.

It wasn't that he was planning to help Ren Qing with cultivation; he was simply powerless to do so.

He was mainly thinking that after he died, Three Wood Lane would indeed need a coffin maker.

However, if Old Coffin knew that Ren Qing was also single-mindedly improving his techniques while making coffins, he probably wouldn't have much to say.

Ren Qing continued making coffins, and then Old Coffin walked over to guide him.

However, Old Coffin stopped giving advice after half a day, but he would still pay attention occasionally.

Ren Qing discovered that Old Coffin seemed difficult to get along with, but in reality, as long as you went along with his temper, his thoughts were easy to guess.

For him, even without obtaining Old Coffin's Profound Heaven Art, the gains in Three Wood Lane were more than he had imagined.

Originally, Ren Qing only planned to estimate the situation of the Infant Fox based on the corpses' states of death, so as to prepare in advance.

But when he came into contact with the corpses, he realized that many people actually possessed techniques, although their cultivation levels varied.

They possessed entry-level techniques like the Clear Wind Qi Refining Method, with Foundation Establishment being the peak.

However, the pseudo-insectoid mutations produced by their bodies after absorbing true essence were a very valuable wealth of experience.

Ren Qing's speed in perfecting the Netherworld Art was therefore accelerated by at least a third. After repeated modifications, he had barely constructed a prototype.

The main difficulty he encountered now was that his own Heavenly Dao Insect's cultivation was too low, making it impossible to emit true essence like a terrestrial immortal Heavenly Dao Insect.

Ren Qing suppressed the impatience in his heart and continued to perfect the Heavenly Insect Art.

If the Heavenly Dao Art could succeed, and as long as the ghost shadow could bear the cost, it might save hundreds of years of lifespan for the advancement of the Netherworld Art, and the Jing Prefecture's Immortal Market could also get on the right track.

Old Coffin, in his spare time, felt a bit lost and aimless.

Ren Qing focused on making coffins and receiving people, and left Three Wood Lane on his own in the evening, even forgetting about Old Coffin in the shop.

Old Coffin wanted Ren Qing to take some food with him, but the latter completely ignored him.

But he couldn't feel any anger, and had a feeling of being old and useless.

Ren Qing has now found the direction to improve the Heavenly Insect Art. Coming to Three Wood Lane is just to collect information, nothing else.

He could feel the Heavenly Insect Art gradually piecing together. During this time, he forgot to eat and sleep, and didn't even feel the passage of time.

Life also became a two-point line.

He came to the shop at noon, silently busied himself until he left in the evening, and had no communication with Old Coffin at all.

The demand for coffins from the public began to decline, indicating that most of the corpses were left over from the previous few days, and few died due to strange anomalies.

However, the Infant Fox had not appeared for a long time, and even Ren Qing couldn't help but wonder whether the name of this anomaly was fabricated.

Old Coffin had been observing Ren Qing, but couldn't understand his behavior. He wanted to speak several times, but he forcibly held back.

After several consecutive days, Old Coffin finally broke the silence.

"Ren Qing, you..."

Ren Qing was considering the matters of the Heavenly Insect Art, and immediately blurted out after hearing this: "If true essence merges with the body, can it control the mutated limbs or internal organs?"

Old Coffin was slightly stunned. Could it be that Ren Qing hadn't even completed the foundation building of Qi Refining?

Ren Qing muttered to himself, "True essence circulates in the eight extraordinary meridians and is eventually absorbed by the body. There must be a connection between them."

Old Coffin sighed.

He indirectly realized that Ren Qing had no inheritance, and probably hadn't even come into contact with techniques, which was why he hadn't reached Qi Refining.

I wonder what Ren Qing's aptitude is like. If he had one-tenth of the comprehension, it would be enough.

"There is a technique called the Meridian Guiding Method, which can indeed communicate with true essence and rebuild the foundation."

"Old Coffin, can you tell me more about it?"

Old Coffin looked at Ren Qing's serious face, and wanted to refuse in his heart, but couldn't help but say, "Remember not to spread it..."

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you spread it. It will be fine after I die."

"The dantian is the center of the human body, with thirty-six hidden acupoints distributed around it..."

Ren Qing secretly memorized the Meridian Guiding Method, and his heart instantly became enlightened, saving at least several months. He is worthy of being a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Old Coffin explained the details of the Meridian Guiding Method, and was just about to continue to add some more.

As a result, he heard Ren Qing narrating the extremely complicated Meridian Guiding Method, and even inferred other things from it, causing qi and blood to rush into his head.

Old Coffin sat down, leaning against the wall, with a look of helplessness in his eyes. Anyway, his lifespan was approaching, so he didn't care if the world was flooded after his death.

"Ren Qing, listen carefully. I will teach you a technique called the Heavenly Profound Art..."

Old Coffin spoke in a proud tone, but seeing Ren Qing's expressionless face, he felt a sense of boredom, and his aura dissipated by more than half.

"Forget it, I'll write it for you."

Ren Qing took the opportunity to obtain the Profound Heaven Art, and the speed of perfecting the Netherworld Art increased a lot, and he could already see some clues.

The description of the high realm in the Profound Heaven Art is naturally more detailed.

It can be seen that although the Heavenly Insect Art of Jing Prefecture was modified from the Heavenly Dao Art, there is a world of difference in the realm above Nascent Soul.

According to Old Coffin, the Nascent Soul stage can completely transform into an immortal infant, and the Soul Division stage can even invite immortals to possess the body, with unpredictable strength.

This is also the reason why no one dared to provoke him in Morning Street even though his lifespan was approaching.

If one has an immortal body, the strength exerted in the Nascent Soul stage will far exceed imagination, and breaking through the realm will be easier.

Ren Qing guessed that the so-called immortal body was probably the residue of the Heavenly Dao Art's influence on the people of Jing Prefecture, and should be far inferior to his Yellow Spring Immortal Bone.

Not to mention that after the Netherworld Art advances to the Nascent Soul stage, the Yellow Spring Immortal Bone will also transform.

However, Old Coffin didn't mention the Ascension stage at all, indicating that the people of Jing Prefecture were restricted by the terrestrial immortal Heavenly Dao Insect, and it was difficult to reach this realm.

Ren Qing occasionally asked Old Coffin, and many difficulties were solved as a result.

Old Coffin was stumped several times, especially when it came to the content of the Nascent Soul stage.

He couldn't help but mutter in his heart, feeling that Ren Qing hadn't even advanced to the Qi Refining stage, and wanted to figure out the technique first, which was really outrageous.

In order to complete the Heavenly Insect Art as soon as possible, Ren Qing naturally didn't think too much.

When the technique was completely perfected, it was already more than ten days later.

[Netherworld Heavenly Insect Art]

[Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires taking the saliva of the Heavenly Dao Insect and swallowing it. Only when the blood produces mutations can it be cultivated.]

[The upper limit of the technique is closely related to the Heavenly Dao Insect, and cannot exceed the Heavenly Dao Insect's cultivation, and is deeply restricted.]

[It can absorb different kinds of true essence for cultivation, and completely digesting it can avoid drawbacks.]

The reason why pseudo-insectoid mutations are targeted at blood is mainly because Ren Qing considers the proportion of blood to the body, and it can be stripped at any time.

The saliva does not harm the Heavenly Dao Insect. After entering the Qi Refining stage through this, the cultivator can strengthen his cultivation by absorbing the true essence of Jing Prefecture.

After all, Ren Qing's Netherworld Art has not reached the terrestrial immortal level, so he can only take shortcuts.

Because Netherworld Essence is composed of true essence, the terrestrial immortal Heavenly Dao Insect can still absorb it at any time, but Ren Qing secretly left a back door.

So that Ren Qing's Heavenly Dao Insect can also absorb Netherworld Essence to strengthen itself.

With the information flow guaranteed, he was relieved, but when obtaining Netherworld Essence, he still had to be careful.

He is just trying out the Heavenly Insect Art, and it doesn't matter even if it fails.

Harvesting Netherworld Essence can also be done in the form of transactions, so as to trigger the life-extending effect of the Dream Butterfly Art. It is indeed feasible...

Then there is no need to drain the pond to get the fish. Let the Heavenly Dao Insect absorb part of it each time, and quantitative changes can also cause qualitative changes.

The most important thing is to lay the foundation for the Immortal Market.

When Ren Qing came back to his senses, he only felt refreshed. Yuan Si should have prepared the children, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.

He looked at Old Coffin. After all, the latter provided a lot of information about the technique, which helped him a lot, so he had to give the other party some explanation.

Netherworld Essence gushed out from the ghost shadow and flowed into the meridians along the Yongquan acupoint at the bottom of his feet.

The Netherworld Heavenly Insect Art created by Ren Qing is mainly for others to practice, but it is not a big problem for him to put on a shell.

Netherworld Essence steadily came to the dantian, and the aura he emitted barely touched the Qi Refining stage.

When Old Coffin first saw Ren Qing's aura leaking, he couldn't help but feel a throbbing in his heart.

He had heard of those cultivators with natural immortal bodies who built their foundations in a moment, and the true essence in their bodies was extremely pure.

The aura Ren Qing showed was like a roller coaster, just about to go to the top and then fall back to the bottom, making Old Coffin not know what to say.

In the next few days, Old Coffin was even more speechless.

To say that Ren Qing's cultivation progressed quickly, it was not very fast, but it was prominent in a stable manner, even though most of the time was spent making coffins.

Before Old Coffin knew it, Ren Qing had quietly reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

Then, as before, he had been staying in the Foundation Establishment stage and had not increased, as if his aptitude was limited to this.

Old Coffin guessed whether Ren Qing was not doing his job properly and planned to find an opportunity to wake him up.

But soon the calm was broken.

The first corpse that died from the Infant Fox appeared in Morning Street, and the death was extremely strange.

The flesh and blood on the corpse were lost, and the abdomen was like being pregnant for ten months. When Ren Qing dug open the stomach, all the lost flesh and blood were packed inside.

This person was forcibly stuffed to death.

Old Coffin solemnly placed the corpse in the coffin, and after the people left, he asked: "Ren Qing, have you ever eaten people?"

Ren Qing paused for half a breath before resolutely answering: "No."

"That's good. I suspect that the Infant Fox is related to cannibalism."

Old Coffin shook his head and said: "This time, the trouble is big. If the cultivators die because of this, I am afraid they will jump over the wall in desperation..."

The cultivators who participated in the massacre were stained with human flesh. If panic spreads, they will definitely try to escape from Morning Street.

"But it has nothing to do with us. If the blockade of Morning Street is broken, maybe you can take this opportunity to go to the outside world."

"Of course, the taboos of the Hooded Wing and the Usurping Worm must be paid attention to no matter where you are."

Old Coffin said to himself, he had even begun to consider the other party's retreat, and did not notice Ren Qing's gloomy face at all.

Ren Qing didn't know how cannibalism was defined. If the flesh and blood furnace is refining, does that count...

He denied it secretly again.

How to say it is also a world of its own in the abdomen, it should not be affected.

Moreover, Ren Qing felt that the taboo of the Infant Fox was not so simple, otherwise there should have been casualties.

The current situation is more like someone deliberately doing it, in order to make Morning Street chaotic.