The Secret Way of Immortality

According to the words of Grand Dream True Person, Song Zongwu's consciousness was on the verge of cultivation deviation. It was impossible to awaken him with just the Soul Butterfly.

Ren Qing couldn't help but feel worried. Song Zongwu was likely encountering a heart demon tribulation while breaking through to the Yang God realm, which was about to cause his soul to sink.

Although he felt that Song Zongwu would eventually get rid of the heart demon tribulation, if he was immersed in it for a long time, his physical body would be found by the Rabbit Toad cultivators after they descended.

Grand Dream True Person did not go into detail, but only informed Ren Qing of the general content of the matter, leaving the latter to decide how to solve the trouble.

Ren Qing couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He understood what Grand Dream True Person meant, that it would be best to help Song Zongwu reach the Yang God realm, and if that wasn't possible, to try to preserve his life as much as possible.

If the Jailer Hall could have one more Yang God realm cultivator, it would definitely add a bit more certainty.

Grand Dream True Person had thought about going there himself, but unfortunately, with the degree of his body and soul's alienation, he would be as bright as a firefly in the dark night.

It might backfire and trigger a large-scale riot of strange anomalies.

Ren Qing's consciousness looked at the Ghost Market and found that the notice for Song Zongwu's mission had been posted a long time ago, but unfortunately, there were no gains.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to set off to check on Song Zongwu.

With his travel speed, the round trip would take at most a month or two, and he had the Anomalous-Free to conceal his aura, so even a Yang God realm cultivator would not be able to detect him.

With the current concentration of demonic energy in Jing Prefecture, there was at least a five-year vacuum period.

That was more than enough.

Ren Qing could also choose to summon the Jailers to go with him, but they would not be of much help to him.

When he was alone, the Disaster Elimination Art could be fully utilized, and the more Jailers there were, the more unnecessary trouble they would cause.

What's more, there were still many Foundation Establishment stage demon cultivators in the Perpetual Shackles.

Ren Qing immediately began to prepare.

At the same time, he put his extra energy on the two techniques of Cordyceps.

【Summer Grass Art】

【Created by Dao Lord Tai Sui, to cultivate this technique, one must swallow seventy-five types of colorless and formless bacteria, and only when the stubborn diseases are cured can it be refined.】

【Winter Worm Art】

【Created by Dao Lord Tai Sui, to cultivate this technique, one needs to reproduce seventy-five types of colorless and formless bacteria with oneself, then it can be cultivated.】

Among the two cultivation methods, the Winter Worm Art seemed to have fewer drawbacks, but in fact, it was the opposite.

The requirement for cultivating the Summer Grass Art was to swallow seventy-five types of pathogens, but the alienation route was mainly to cure diseases; the requirement for cultivating the Winter Worm Art was to reproduce bacteria, but the alienation route was very extreme.

The alienation routes of the Summer Grass Art were respectively.

【Disease-Free: No Disease, No Bacteria】

【Disease-Expeller: Dispels Disaster and Spreads Diseases】

【Medicine-Gatherer: Gathers Diseases as Fungus】

Among them, the Disease-Free was the route chosen by most cultivators in the Child-Giving Mother Temple, and there were as many as hundreds of them in the Jailer Hall.

The main reason was that the threshold for cultivating the Summer Grass Art was too high.

Even if the Child-Giving Mother Temple had ways to avoid some of the risks, the body would usually become neither human nor ghost after reaching the Half-Corpse realm.

Only the Disease-Free could reshape the foundation, otherwise there was no hope of advancing to the Ghost Envoy realm.

The Disease-Expeller and the Medicine-Gatherer were different, but they were both auxiliary alienation routes, which made the Child-Giving Mother Temple rarely show up.

Most of them were active in the Underworld of Abi Hell, and it was said that the boundless fungal trees there could suppress the alienation of the Summer Grass Art.

As for the Winter Worm Art, there was less information recorded about the alienation routes.

【Disease-Tester: Derives Diseases with the Body】

【Disease-Planter: Derives Diseases with Other Bodies】

【Disease-Smeller: Senses Diseases in All Directions】

Since the establishment of the Jailer Hall, few people in the Child-Giving Mother Temple had cultivated the Winter Worm Art, and now they had completely sealed off the technique.

The Winter Worm Art was simply too evil.

The Disease-Tester used himself as a container to refine all kinds of diseases.

The Disease-Planter could be described as insane, as any living being could become a container for diseases, thereby breeding a large number of unknown pathogens.

The Disease-Smeller was slightly better, as he could use the technique to sense the surrounding diseases, but the means of collecting pathogens were also extremely cruel.

It was almost equivalent to refining living people into corpses.

Ren Qing always felt that Dao Lord Tai Sui, who created the Cordyceps, should be related to the Outlying Dao Lord who created the Six Afflictions Art.

The difference was that the Six Afflictions Art used techniques to form diseases, while the Winter Worm Art cultivated diseases by itself.

Dao Lord Tai Sui's methods were obviously elusive, and the Cordyceps were like ice and fire.

Both Cordyceps were more suitable for the Dark Nightmare Lord, whether it was the Summer Grass Art evolving into a "beautiful dream" of healing diseases, or the Winter Worm Art refining pathogens to make up for the defects of the Six Afflictions Art.

Unfortunately, if he wanted to cultivate, he could only choose one to integrate into the Dreamscape Art.

Ren Qing had estimated that four secondary techniques were the limit.

Adding one more would require three more Strange Transformations.

The danger involved was conceivable, and even if he used the information stream to directly advance, the lifespan required for the Strange Transformation fusion would be very exaggerated.

He couldn't waste six or seven hundred years of lifespan on Strange Transformation fusion, right?

Moreover, too many Strange Transformations would inevitably affect the breakthrough to the Yang God realm, or even the Heavenly Anomaly realm, which would be a great loss.

"If I neutralize the Cordyceps..."

Ren Qing's heart suddenly moved, and he quickly closed his eyes and carefully compared the two techniques, and found that there were indeed many common points between them.

This showed that Cordyceps was two parts that were split from a certain technique.

Such methods were likely due to Daoist inheritance, and the difficulty of entering the original technique was probably extremely terrifying, and it was impossible to master it at all.

Therefore, Dao Lord Tai Sui simply split it into two techniques, Cordyceps, which had been passed down for a long time, estimated to be no less than thousands of years.

Of course, re-merging it into one technique did not mean that it was far superior to Cordyceps, it may have just integrated their respective characteristics.

Ren Qing decided to give it a try, after all, he had the existence of information flow.

Just like when he improved the Water Marsh Art, he could learn the details of the technique through the information flow, and the rest was to constantly fill in the content.

He put the books recording Cordyceps into the Perpetual Shackles.

There was plenty of time next, but he should finish the things at hand first, and Song Zongwu's side could not be delayed.

The branches of the Dragon Tree were put on the Immortal Market as magical instruments for storing Nether Essence, and the price was not expensive, so they were quickly snapped up by the disciples of the Taoist temple.

They had long envied the Jailers for exploring a wider area, but the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Art was limited by the Nether Essence and could only be used around the City of Non-Action.

Now that they had the Dragon Tree branches, it was completely enough to replenish the cultivation of the Golden Core stage, not to mention the Foundation Establishment stage and the Qi Refining stage.

However, there was only one Dragon Tree, which led to the limited production of Dragon Tree branches.

Fortunately, the Dragon Tree branches could be reused as magical instruments, and even if the cultivators had the ability, they could be refined into stronger magical instruments.

Ren Qing left some Ghost Shadows in the City of Non-Action to be used to contact the Jailer Hall at any time.

At the same time as he set off, he took out the Six Afflictions Art anomaly located in the split soul body, and then let the split soul go to the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone.

The Six Afflictions Art anomaly was very special, and it was actually composed of imperceptible bacteria, which could reside in all parts of his body.

Even if the split soul did not have anomalies attached to it, its strength was far superior to the original Marsh Immortal Art, and even made Ren Qing feel a little frightened.

When it first came to the outside world, it did not deliberately restrain the aura of the Six Afflictions Art, and the main body instantly developed a slight cold.

It should be known that Ren Qing was at the Great Perfection of the Yin Official realm, and the split soul was only at the Ghost Envoy realm, and had not even completed three Strange Transformations.

He quickly controlled the split soul to restrain its aura. What was just an ordinary cold to him might directly cause a high fever and death to the public.

However, the cold caused by the Six Afflictions Art was only formed by techniques, not like the Winter Worm Art, which cultivated stubborn diseases similar to Gu worms.

Ren Qing stored the anomaly in his lungs, and seeing that the latter did not dare to move under the pressure of the Dark Nightmare Lord, he ignored it.

The split soul left the scope of the City of Non-Action and disappeared into the sky of yellow sand.

Ren Qing's preparation for going to the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone this time was more planned.

Almost all of the supplies he carried were used to strengthen the mortal body, which could increase the resistance of the people in Weian Town and indirectly improve their physical martial arts qualifications.

The more people who mastered physical martial arts, the more lifespan the main body would gain.

However, what still puzzled Ren Qing was why the towering tree transformed from the split soul after its death could extend the lifespan of the main body far away in the outside world.

It should be known that the lifespan extension of the Dream Market was based on the Dream Butterfly Art, and the Six Afflictions Art did not have an explanation for lifespan extension, so there must be a cause and effect for everything.

The camp outside the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone remained the same, and the Jailers guarding it were bored.

Ren Qing's split soul threw itself into the well and soon went to the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone.

But then, instead of the dark space of building the body as imagined, it was directly inside a fruit filled with juice.

The split soul kept absorbing the juice, and the body was gradually constructed.

A large amount of physical martial arts information poured into the mind.

While Ren Qing was stunned, he immediately reacted. With this towering tree, he could choose both pathogens and physical martial arts together.

"How does it feel like I'm a child of destiny? Is this Eternal Life Forbidden Zone cooperating too well?"

He still focused on "giantization", "increased flesh", and "hard bones", and "easy hunger" and "sleepy" as auxiliary.

As Ren Qing expected, the easy hunger pathogen could strengthen digestion, while the sleepy pathogen made the split soul often in a state of semi-dream and semi-wakefulness, which was suitable for maintaining the state of cultivation.

The fruit at the top of the towering tree cracked an opening, and the newborn split soul drilled out of it.

Because of the faster flow of time in the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone, Weian Town had already taken shape, and tens of thousands of people were building houses around it.

Ren Qing touched the towering tree with his palm, and suddenly the information flow surged.

【Eternal Life Tree】

【Condensed from Rebirth Art, it has the ability to contain the memories of the dead, absorb leaked vitality, and breed split souls.】

Wouldn't that mean that the split soul could constantly be reborn with the help of the Eternal Life Tree, without the main body spending energy to breed it? This would save a lot of trouble.

But the premise was that Weian Town was self-sufficient, after all, the split soul had to stay in it all the time.

Detailed information about the Rebirth Art came into view.

【Rebirth Art】

【Created by Dao Lord Eternal Life, one must abstain from grains for a month, not sleep for two months, comprehend death for three months, and be reborn for four months, and it can be cultivated when the body decays.】

Ren Qing was a little surprised. He thought that the core anomaly was named "Eternal Life Art", but he didn't expect it to be called "Rebirth Art", but no matter what, it was indeed related to lifespan extension.

He was even more determined to obtain the Rebirth Art.

Ren Qing glanced at the busy people and did not rush to show up. He simply sat cross-legged on the tree trunk and practiced the Nether Essence Heavenly Worm Art.

The main body no longer paid much attention to the split soul, letting the latter develop.

Ren Qing was going to focus on Jing Prefecture next, and take the opportunity to go out and find out what the current situation was.

There is one more chapter, please wait.