The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing arrived at Qingfeng Hall at the usual time, and a handyman eagerly opened the gate.

The sky was just beginning to brighten, the sun barely showing a sliver of light.

The training ground, usually empty, now held the figures of Xu Fu and Xu Sanliang, clearly waiting for a long time.

Compared to the confident Xu Sanliang, Xu Fu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He didn't expect Ren Qing's talent to attract the attention of other martial arts instructors, even Xu Shiwang himself came to recruit him.

Xu Sanliang led Ren Qing towards the depths of Qingfeng Hall, while sighing and saying, "Shanlu, with your talent, it's indeed a bit of a waste to stay in Qingfeng Hall."

"Black Stone Hall has at least seven or eight people who have just come into contact with body martial arts, while Qingfeng Hall only has you."

Passing through the training ground, dozens of side rooms came into view, but most of them were occupied by disciples from poor families like Xu Tu.

The remaining side rooms were for handymen.

Ren Qing had previously used Ghost Shadow to explore Qingfeng Hall, but found nothing of value. The library where books were stored also seemed unremarkable, filled with rough martial arts for tempering the body.

"The body martial arts inheritances of each martial arts hall are quite strange, so don't be scared."

Xu Sanliang stopped in front of a woodshed, where the walls of the house were already drafty and the eaves were full of holes, overgrown with vegetation.

Xu Fu took the initiative to open the wooden door, and closed it after Ren Qing and Xu Sanliang entered.

Ren Qing's gaze swept around, finally landing on a seemingly ordinary sapling in the corner, the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.

A stream of information surged.

【Diseased Tree】

【Formed by the Six Afflictions Method, it is the transformation of an out-of-control disease species buried deep underground.】

Xu Sanliang took out a bottle of light yellow liquid from his bosom and poured a few drops on the diseased tree, causing the sapling to grow wildly.

Soon the branches formed a scale, but the position of the leaves was replaced by dozens of human heads.

The appearance of the heads varied, seeming to still retain their appearance before death, only their skin was an unnatural pale white.

"Qingfeng Hall's body martial arts emphasizes agility, mainly focusing on the lungs, unlike Black Stone Hall, which focuses on the heart and is more vigorous."

Xu Sanliang glanced at Ren Qing as he said this. The latter's revealed disease species was obviously a bit mismatched, and he didn't know if there was a suitable body martial art.

"Each head represents a sacrificed senior."

"You can choose the body martial art to practice through the tongue, but the most important thing is to be compatible with yourself, so don't worry about that."

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes.

The diseased tree should be similar to the Longevity Immortal Statue, but there are also differences between the two. One is used to spread hysteria, and the other is used to record information.

Xu Fu's face showed reminiscence. He also obtained his body martial art through this method, but more than twenty years have passed, and he still hasn't crossed the threshold.

Ren Qing reached out to the head on the diseased tree.

Crack, crack, crack...

The upper and lower jaws of the heads kept opening and closing, and then most of them drilled into the tree trunk, finally leaving two heads behind.

The corners of Xu Sanliang's mouth rose. Fortunately, Qingfeng Hall did have a body martial art that was compatible with Ren Qing, otherwise he would have to give the latter to other martial arts halls.

"Don't bite off more than you can chew, just memorize one kind of body martial art from it."

Ren Qing pulled out the tongue in the head's mouth. The cyan-gray tongue was covered with words. This method of inheritance was truly unconventional.

【Iron Grinding Swordplay】

【Iron Grinding Swordplay is derived from the Six Afflictions Method, which can stimulate the growth of one's own disease species, reaching a barely controllable level.】

He pretended to check the content of the body martial art, but in reality, he was waiting for the information stream.

Xu Sanliang and Xu Fu exchanged glances. Wang Shanlu's intelligence was indeed intact. In this way, the chances of mastering the body martial art greatly increased.

【Iron Grinding Swordplay is suitable for bone-related disease species. It can turn the bones of the whole body into a metallic substance. After reaching completion, the bones are like heavy weapons.】

【Martial Artist Realm: The disease species absorbs the body's nutrients and gradually grows.】

【Half-Corpse Realm: The body martial art barely controls the disease species, causing the body to undergo alienation. If you are not careful, you will be reduced to a half-human, half-corpse.】

【Ghost Envoy Realm: The disease species begins to take root and sprout, resulting in severe alienation, the body is no longer limited to life and death, and lifespan is increased.】

【Netherworld Messenger Realm: The diseased tree grows a fruit transformed from a strange object, the body can control the diseased tree at will, but the body no longer has yin and yang, and lifespan is greatly increased.】

【Ascension Realm: The strange object bred by the diseased fruit takes shape, the body turns from yin to yang, and can vaguely feel the restrictions from heaven and earth.】

Ren Qing couldn't help but widen his pupils. The body martial arts were indeed closely related to the Imprisoned Corpse Method. Reaching the Ascension Realm was equivalent to the normal Yang God Realm.

However, if the Yang God Realm is replaced by the Ascension Realm, doesn't that mean that body martial arts cultivators can escape the restrictions of the Longevity Forbidden Zone and go to the outside world.

A guess arose in Ren Qing's heart.

He knew why the history recorded by the Imprisoned Corpse Hall had such a severe sense of fragmentation. The classics simply did not have any information from thousands of years ago.

Even the disappearance of the Heavenly Gu Realm was not mentioned at all...

The Imprisoned Corpse Hall is likely not a force passed down from generation to generation.

Hundreds of years ago, a body martial arts cultivator should have crawled out of the well. He passed through the desolate yellow sand desert and finally settled in Xiangxiang.

The founder of the Imprisoned Corpse Hall did not have any understanding of the outside world, but only pieced together roughly based on clues.

He then continuously collected the Imprisoned Corpse Method of the old world through various means, using it to establish a new order, and named it the Imprisoned Corpse Hall.

The more Ren Qing thought about it, the more he felt that it was indeed the case.

The Martial Artist, Half-Corpse, Ghost Envoy, Netherworld Messenger, and Yang God realms are actually not much related to the Imprisoned Corpse Method, and are obviously from body martial arts.

Even the people of Xiangxiang and Shuize may be descendants of humans in the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

After all, when one attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. It is normal to bring some relatives and friends to the "immortal world", but who knew that what awaited them was a living hell.

Ren Qing could even imagine it.

The ancestor originally thought that the immortal world had spring all year round, and everyone could become immortal, without having to worry about birth, old age, sickness, and death, but when he looked up, he saw the sky full of yellow sand, and each grain of Ze sand still contained a large number of remnant souls.

When day and night alternated, the corpse of a Heavenly Gu Realm cultivator appeared above his head again.

Wasn't the world crazy...

However, for the Yang God Realm, the environment of Shuize Desert was not life-threatening, but many of those who came with him were definitely buried in other countries.

With the location of the Longevity Forbidden Zone, it was unrealistic for them to go to Xiangxiang in one breath.

The ancestor should have stayed in Shuize for decades or hundreds of years.

He established the prototype of Huangsha City in the Shuize Gobi, and peeked at the tip of the iceberg of this world through the corpse of the Drunken Meat Taoist.

The ecology of the Drunken Meat Taoist producing maggots should have originated from the ancestor.

However, he eventually chose to leave Shuize and continue to move south with some people.

This also explains why Xiangxiang can develop steadily for hundreds of years, probably because it had already been destroyed once a long time ago.

Ren Qing rubbed the bridge of his nose with a headache, and couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Sanliang and the two only thought that Ren Qing was troubled by the obscure and difficult to understand body martial arts, so they simply walked out of the woodshed, leaving him alone to comprehend the method inside.

"Why do I feel that this world is even more dangerous? The Imprisoned Corpse Hall is not the remnants of a powerful force, but clearly fish that slipped through the net..."

Ren Qing originally thought that the Imprisoned Corpse Hall, after setting foot in Jingzhou, was already a toddler taking its first steps, but now it seems that it is far from reaching that...

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the top priority was to practice body martial arts.

After reaching the Netherworld Messenger Realm, he should be able to use the strange object, the diseased fruit, to master the Six Afflictions Method, and most of the purpose of coming to the Longevity Forbidden Zone will be achieved.

【Can consume twenty days of lifespan to waive the cost of mastering】

Ren Qing determined without hesitation. It felt like countless small insects were crawling in his bones, and the growth rate of the hard bone disease species suddenly accelerated.

He bent his index finger and flicked it hard, and a faint sword energy shot out from the gap in his fingernails, leaving an unobvious trace on the ground.

Body martial arts were indeed derived from the Imprisoned Corpse Method, and the Martial Artist Realm was obviously weaker.

【Whether to upgrade Iron Grinding Swordplay, will consume one hundred days of lifespan】

Ren Qing canceled the information stream. Although his lifespan was currently enough to upgrade Iron Grinding Swordplay, he would wait until he reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Moreover, the alienation of the body in the Ghost Envoy Realm was too obvious. It was really a bit exaggerated to master and upgrade it in just half an hour.

He then pulled out the tongue in the mouth of the other head.

【Night Wanderer Swordplay】

【Night Wanderer Swordplay is derived from the Six Afflictions Method, which can stimulate the growth of one's own disease species, reaching a barely controllable level.】

【Night Wanderer Swordplay is suitable for sleep-related disease species. It can absorb moonlight by opening your eyes and gazing at the moon. After reaching completion, the sword will be brewed in your eyes.】

The body martial arts of Qingfeng Hall are equivalent to sword cultivators. The remaining gigantism disease species, flesh-growing disease species, and cancer disease species probably have to be found in the body martial arts inheritance of other martial arts halls.

Especially the cancer disease species, Ren Qing always felt that there was a risk of losing control.

【Can consume twenty days of lifespan to waive the cost of mastering】

Ren Qing also mastered Night Wanderer Swordplay, only feeling a chill brewing in his eyes.

His blindness caused by cerebral hemorrhage when constructing his body was actually somewhat recovered under the influence of Night Wanderer Swordplay.

Ren Qing barely saw the heavy shadows in the room.

Then he felt a sting in his eyes, and tears couldn't help but flow down. He quickly closed his eyes and used the Dream Species Double Pupils on his forehead to see.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: One hundred and ninety-five days】

【Disease Species: Hard Bone Disease Species, Sleeplessness Disease Species, Gigantism, Flesh Growth, Cancer】

【Body Martial Arts: Iron Grinding Swordplay (Martial Artist), Night Wanderer Swordplay (Martial Artist)】

Ren Qing did not leave the woodshed, but simply sat cross-legged on the ground to rest.

The two people outside the door were a little anxious, fearing that Ren Qing would immediately try to practice body martial arts, thereby causing the disease species in his body to riot.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that Ren Qing came out of the woodshed.

Xu Sanliang looked at Ren Qing, and at the same time asked, "Shanlu, you should have memorized the content of the body martial arts..."

His pupils suddenly dilated, and he obviously found traces of sword light in Ren Qing's eyes, but it disappeared in a flash.

Xu Sanliang was not sure whether the other party had mastered body martial arts, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was not realistic, so he forcibly regained his composure.

"There are too many things happening in Wei'an Town these days, I estimate that I can't spare any time, so let Master Xu Fu teach you about the matters of body martial arts."

In the past ten years, only Xu Sanliang has mastered body martial arts in Qingfeng Hall, and the older body martial arts cultivators are no longer in Wei'an Town.

Xu Fu agreed repeatedly. It would not take much time to teach Ren Qing, and he could also take this opportunity to ask Xu Sanliang some doubts about cultivation.

Ren Qing nodded. It was good to try the difficulty of self-cultivation, of course, he would definitely focus most of his energy on the Netherworld Heavenly Insect Method.

As soon as something happens, it will be delayed. I will try my best to guarantee six thousand every day.