The Secret Way of Immortality

The gloomy and eerie Wei'an Town was located in a dead corner of the mountain ridge, not only blocking most of the daily morning sun, but also making the land unsuitable for planting.

Despite the large fields of rice planted outside the town, a closer inspection would reveal that the resulting ears of grain were only the size of sesame seeds.

This was clearly caused by the lack of nutrients in the soil and insufficient sunlight.

However, the townspeople had never considered moving away, stubbornly holding on at the foot of the mountain ridge for some unknown reason.

More than a dozen farmers tended to the fields, and burly men could be seen around them, clearly valuing the grain more than their own lives.

The farmers all had unusual characteristics, such as deformed limbs or facial features in the wrong places.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, they all raised their guard and looked up warily.

They saw an old man and a young woman walking towards the outside of the town, and the farmers' expressions relaxed, with some even greeting them.

The old man was named "Wang Qi", his skin covered in pockmarks. He wore simple clothes, but was a well-known rat-catcher for miles around.

The so-called rat-catcher was actually a common trade that involved getting rid of rats, identifying the location of rat nests through various traces, and using methods such as poisoning, fire, and smoke to drive them away.

Wang Qi was followed by his granddaughter, Wang Ling.

Wang Ling was at most in her early twenties, with a plain appearance, and suffered from hysteria, so she was still unmarried.

"Ling'er, don't go any further. Don't you know that the mountain fire a few days ago almost burned through the entire mountain range?"

Wang Ling pulled a simple two-meter cart with her right hand, muttering to herself, "Grandpa, I found my little brother, I found my little brother, he's still alive..."

Wang Qi was speechless, not knowing how to refute his granddaughter, so he silently followed Wang Ling, sighing constantly.

Wei'an Town had suffered a famine ten years ago, which killed thousands of people, a scene as terrifying as hell on earth.

In the midst of famine, many things become unethical and unimaginable.

Wang Ling's younger brother, Wang Shanlu, died because of this. When close to starvation, whoever died first would have their body distributed to the remaining relatives.

Wang Ling ate Wang Shanlu's flesh and went mad ever since.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, we're almost there..."

Wang Qi's thoughts were interrupted by his granddaughter's call. He quickly walked towards the tree hole at the edge of the forest, wondering how to comfort Wang Ling.

"Little brother is here."

As a result, Wang Ling's slender body pulled a gaunt man out of the tree hole, and she smiled foolishly at Wang Qi.

Wang Qi's eyes were a little sore. During the famine, Wang Shanlu looked exactly like this, so thin that even wild dogs were too lazy to bother with him.

But he knew that the person in front of him was not Wang Shanlu.

The man was likely from a nearby village, and had fled to Wei'an Town because of the mountain fire, seemingly fainting from starvation.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, let's go home."

Wang Qi was torn, urged by Wang Ling's anxious prompting.

Wei'an Town's rule was that no outsiders were allowed in. With his years of accumulated reputation, he could barely make an exception, but...

He was afraid that the man would suffer from a stubborn ghost disease, or be a disciple of some immortal sect.

Wang Qi said softly, "Ling'er, your little brother will naturally go home when he wakes up."

"No, no, little brother's forehead is bleeding, he's going to die, he's going to die!!!"

Wang Ling was so anxious that her face twisted, gripping Wang Qi's arm painfully.

Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, and quickly went to check on the man's condition, then his expression became complicated, and he shook his head with a wry smile.

The man's forehead and eye sockets had bulging veins, and his temples were protruding, clearly caused by heat toxins entering the brain.

With such severe heat toxins entering the brain, he would most likely become a mentally disabled person.

Wang Qi muttered, "Raising one is raising, raising two is also raising. The money I earn from rat-catching should be enough."

He looked at Wang Ling, hoping that it would alleviate his granddaughter's hysteria. If he was still unable to support himself when he was old and frail, he would simply take both of them away.

"Let me do it, Shanlu needs some food to moisten his stomach."

Wang Qi mixed the dry food he carried with him with clean water and fed it to the man, while Wang Ling watched intently, not daring to interrupt.

Little did they know that the shadows inside the tree hole were wriggling like living things.

Fortunately, neither of them had any malice, otherwise they would have suffered the same fate as the wild animals that had broken in before, all swallowed into the ghost's belly.

After all the dry food had been fed to the man, Wang Qi saw that his breathing had eased, so he picked him up and placed him on the cart prepared by Wang Ling.

Strangely enough, Wang Qi felt that the man was so thin that his ribs were clearly visible, but his weight was heavier than ordinary people.

"Ling'er, let's go, let's go home."

Wang Ling nodded happily, and the two followed the path towards the town.

As soon as they arrived at Wei'an Town, the ghost instinctively tensed its body, clearly feeling scrutinizing eyes falling on Ren Qing.

"Old Wang, you should know the rules of the town, right?"

An old farmer walked up to Wang Qi and asked in a deep voice, while the other farmers surrounded them, and the strong men's feet were faintly showing signs of force.

"He's my little brother..."

"Don't talk, Ling'er."

"That's right, Brother Xu."

Wang Qi's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he quickly explained, "This person is from another village. I met him a few years ago. Now, because of the mountain fire, he has heat toxins in his brain and looks like he's not going to make it."

"What's wrong, Old Wang, you want to bring him back to be a companion for your granddaughter?"

A young farmer couldn't help but joke, but then noticed that everyone was staring at him, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

"Is it your turn to speak?"

Xu Changzhou looked down at the man, and found that it was indeed as Wang Qi said. Plus, after hearing what Wang Ling had been muttering, he guessed the cause and course of the matter.

He had watched Wang Ling grow up, and felt a little unbearable.

"You take him back to recover from his injuries first, and I'll go talk to the other elders."

Wang Qi's expression was overjoyed. After thanking him, he quickly took Wang Ling towards home, because the man's physical condition could not be delayed at all.

Xu Changzhou glanced at the farmer who had interrupted, turned around and walked towards the field.

The farmer was confused, and the person next to him reminded him gloatingly, "Which family doesn't have a rat disaster every few years? If something big happens, it will be difficult for you to ask Old Wang again."

His face turned pale, he opened his mouth, and finally closed it bitterly.

Because of this incident, the news that Wang Qi had brought back an outsider spread like wildfire, quickly spreading among the thirty to forty thousand people in Wei'an Town.

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However, it was suppressed by the elders of each clan selected in the town.

Ren Qing regained consciousness several days later, feeling sore all over, and the brain in his skull seemed to explode at any time.

He didn't bother to check his surroundings, but first called up the information flow.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: Seventeen days】

【Diseases: Gigantism, Osteopetrosis, Hypertrophy, Insomnia, Cancer】

"Seventeen days, are you kidding me."

Ren Qing wanted to speak, but couldn't make a sound at all. The visibility of his eyes was also extremely low, indicating the aftereffects of a cerebral hemorrhage.

His body was abnormally thin, at most a little over 1.6 meters tall, obviously caused by malnutrition.

Ren Qing looked around with the heavy pupils in the center of his eyebrows, and was surprised to find that he was not in a tree hole, but in a dark room.

Then he learned about the experiences of these days from the ghost, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Ren Qing had high hopes for this body, at least he had to obtain one of the longevity method and the six diseases method, otherwise it would be a waste of time.

Splitting the soul to conceive and cultivating the Zexian method, and re-establishing a foothold in the Changsheng Forbidden Zone.

It would take several months to go back and forth.

"Grandpa, Shanlu is awake."

Wang Ling's voice sounded outside the house, clearly sounding more awake.

Wang Qi and the two quickly walked in and opened the window to let the dim sunlight outside dispel the darkness in the room.

He saw that Ren Qing's eyes were dull and could only make humming sounds, and he also understood that the heat toxin entering the brain was likely to have no small hidden dangers.

"But it doesn't seem to have affected the body, why..."

Wang Qi was slightly puzzled, knowing that he had fed Ren Qing a lot of dry food, but he didn't gain any weight, but instead became thinner and thinner.

He suspected that Ren Qing's original stubborn illness was affecting him.

"Ling'er, when Shanlu can walk, you can take him to the clan to practice some basic skills, so as to strengthen his body."

Wang Ling nodded repeatedly, but then heard Wang Qi say, "Just remember not to let Shanlu be treated as blood food..."

Wang Ling tilted her head, unable to understand the meaning of Wang Qi's words at all.

"Forget it, I'll go talk to the clan elders myself then."

Wang Qi chatted for a while, but soon left the courtyard because he had something to do, leaving only Wang Ling patiently feeding Ren Qing dry food.

Ren Qing was a little embarrassed, but now his hands and feet were indeed weak.

After Wang Ling finished feeding Ren Qing the dry food, she also walked out of the house contentedly, and the ghost split a wisp and fell into her shadow.

At this time, Ren Qing let the ghost take out the food, and relying on dry food alone could not even fill his stomach, and he could not afford his various diseases at all.

The jerky was ground into small pieces by the ghost and stuffed into his mouth.

Ren Qing swallowed it whole, his abdomen gradually swelled, but the feeling of hunger remained, obviously the body's deficit was too serious.

The hypertrophy disease, gigantism disease, osteopetrosis disease, and cancer disease all require a lot of nutrition, and even cannot completely rely on the stomach for digestion.

Ren Qing closed his eyes to rest, and obtained the Youyuan contained in the jade pendant.

However, the Youyuan just formed in the eight extraordinary meridians was absorbed by the flesh and blood bones, and a tingling sensation was born all over the body, and the heat flow continued to surge.

This time, Ren Qing brought another jade pendant storing Youyuan to the Changsheng Forbidden Zone, which should be barely enough to advance to the Golden Core stage.

At the same time, he explored the situation of Wei'an Town through Wang Ling, trying to find traces of the longevity six diseases, and found many abnormalities.

Funerals are more frequent in the town, but there are no graves and mass graves. I wonder if it is related to the blood food in Wang Qi's mouth.

The prisoners of Wei'an Town should have come from Wei'an Town without accident.

And the three immortals of Fu Lu Shou should be popular, but there is no temple to enshrine them, so why didn't the Peach Blossom Immortal intervene?

Ren Qing felt that there must be a cultivation system related to the six diseases in the town, which may be different from the hysteria cultivation of the tree immortal.

Hysteria cultivation is actually a means to refine complete strange objects.

He remembered various things, and couldn't help but feel sleepy, and the ghost also took the opportunity to implant the worm root into the spine while the body recovered.