The Secret Way of Immortality

With the orioles singing and the grass growing, Jingzhou was changing with each passing day. In just over half a year, it was unrecognizable from its original state.

The city gate was somewhat deserted, far from the bustling scene it once was.

It wasn't that the cultivators' enthusiasm for the outside world had waned, but mainly because more and more jailers were practicing the Gluttony Method, and all kinds of related materials were emerging, leading to the prevalence of storage magic items.

Being able to travel light and replenish their You Yuan with the Dragon Tree branches, the cultivators were spending much more time in Jingzhou, and it was also slightly safer.

Many cultivators had discussed demon beasts in the dream market, and there was a general consensus that some demon beasts were no less intelligent than ordinary people.

It wasn't due to an increase in cultivation. Even demon beasts in the same realm could have vastly different levels of intelligence.

Ren Qing walked out of the City of Non-Action alone, not attracting anyone's attention.

As soon as he stepped outside, a rich demonic aura rushed towards him.

Compared to the true essence emitted by the Heavenly Dao Worm to adapt to the human body, the only effect of the demonic aura was to erode the body and soul.

Once completely transformed into a primordial state, the threshold for leaving the city would likely be above the Ghost Envoy Realm.

Ren Qing spent a few breaths to feel at ease. The demonic aura was blocked three fingers away from his skin, not much different from inside the City of Non-Action.

He then walked into the dense forest.

Relying on the aura of the soul butterfly left by the Great Dream True Man, Ren Qing could faintly sense Song Zongwu's location, which was indeed quite deep.

He closed his eyes and used the Dream Butterfly Technique. His soul came into contact with a chaotic thought, which seemed to be mixed with countless memories.

But it was indeed Song Zongwu, and it seemed like he was surrounded by white bones and corpses.

Ren Qing had thought that Song Zongwu's advancement to the Yang God Realm was a certainty, but he didn't expect that there was a risk of failure, and he might end up dying.

However, Song Zongwu's condition was relatively stable. There were no signs of deterioration in the short term, but of course, there was also no sign of breaking through the bottleneck.

He couldn't help but be grateful that he had the information stream, otherwise he would inevitably encounter a situation of struggling to survive.

A vine hung down.

A giant tree exuded demonic aura, extending its branches to grab Ren Qing, who was about to pass by, but before it could get close, its body was split into two sections.

Ren Qing's speed gradually increased, deftly dodging the demonized vegetation. Each step seemed to be using the divine power of shrinking the ground.

It was no exaggeration to describe the current Jingzhou as a place where demons and monsters roamed rampant. Even fist-sized stones could become demons.

Ren Qing was not in a hurry to eliminate his presence. Before going deep into Jingzhou, he wanted to learn more about the demonic aura.

Once he understood the demonic aura, he could try to get a demon beast as a mount.

After traveling continuously for five or six days, Ren Qing arrived at a relatively remote valley and planned to rest for half a day before setting off again.

At this moment, he felt that he was being targeted by some kind of demon beast.

The other party's intelligence was not low. It was mainly observing and had no intention of coming forward.

………

In a dark cave, a short figure emerged, its appearance extremely ugly.

Its body was covered with rough, hard spikes, and its skin was covered with scorched black marks. Its face could barely be recognized as a porcupine.

Hmph, hmph, hmph...

The porcupine demon twitched its nose, and viscous saliva dripped from the corner of its mouth.

Although it had never eaten human flesh, it had smelled its delicious taste, so it still couldn't forget wanting to taste it.

The porcupine demon watched the man come to a cliff, and its heart became even more restless.

However, it knew that besides itself, there must be many other demon beasts that had noticed the man's existence, and they might launch an attack in advance.

Thinking of this, the porcupine demon forcibly stopped its movements.

What it was proud of was its intelligence far exceeding its peers, but at the same time, its intelligence also brought a timid nature, so it didn't dare to come forward at all.

The porcupine demon waited for several hours like this, and a sense of regret welled up in its heart.

"I should have eaten him. That tender heart and lungs, the chewy leg meat, and..."

It cautiously approached the man, and because of excitement, its body couldn't help but tremble, and its eyes turned blood red.

As the porcupine demon's emotions became agitated, dense pustules gradually grew on its back, emitting a faint fishy smell.

Just as it was getting closer to the man, heavy footsteps came from not far away.

The porcupine demon immediately stopped its movements, its expression became extremely frightened, and it immediately chose to lie on the ground, restraining the pustules on its back.

A giant elephant demon, fully five meters tall, pushed aside the trees, and its nose let out a deafening roar.

Boom...

The giant elephant demon's back was covered with hands and feet, which were helping it to constantly drive away the annoying demon flies. Its appearance was somewhat grotesque and strange.

It seemed to be declaring its sovereignty, ensuring that other demon beasts would not interfere with the hunt, and then it could enjoy the blood food to its heart's content.

The giant elephant demon opened its bloody mouth, which was filled with an unpleasant stench.

Ren Qing looked up at the giant elephant demon, whose cultivation had reached the Ghost Envoy Realm, and demonic aura poured into its body crazily.

The giant elephant demon was slightly strange. Why was the seemingly weak prey so calm, as if it was willing to die?

It tentatively sprayed a thick demonic aura from its nose.

But the demonic aura gradually dissipated after approaching Ren Qing's half meter.

The man didn't even move his feet. Instead, his eyes showed a hint of inquiry, and the giant elephant demon was like a piece of meat on a chopping board.

A sense of fear arose in the giant elephant demon's heart, and it couldn't help but take a few steps back.

But at the same time, it was stimulated by the demonic aura, and the idea of crushing the other party became more and more intense. The sharp tusks stabbed hard.

Ren Qing murmured, "The Dragon's Roar in the Box can transform everything. It should include all kinds of aura, right?"

He stretched out his right finger in the air.

The giant elephant demon seemed to be frozen in place, its narrow tusks barely an inch away from Ren Qing.

The porcupine demon watching from the sidelines was so frightened that its limbs were limp, and it didn't even have the strength to escape. It could only try not to make too much noise.

Then, an incredible scene appeared before it.

The giant elephant demon's body began to collapse from the inside out. The flesh and blood dissolved into pus and dripped down, and cracks covered the bones, which turned into ashes.

In the blink of an eye, the demon beast that the porcupine demon was so afraid of disappeared without a trace.

It could be seen that the demon beast was a body supported by demonic aura. Once the demonic aura disappeared, the body and soul would naturally dissipate.

Ren Qing had a twisted mass of demonic aura in his hand. Although the whole was dragon-shaped, it was covered with a faint layer of black and gray dust.

"What is this, a demon dragon or a dragon demon?"

"To be precise, it should be called a demonic aura dragon."

The demonic aura dragon was not a pseudo-dragon transformed from plants and trees. Its lifespan was relatively short. In just a few breaths, there were already signs of its lifespan being exhausted.

Seeing this, the porcupine demon's heart jumped wildly.

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This kind of method must be the legendary Demon King. It is said that their appearance is indeed like humans. No wonder they can easily solve ordinary demon beasts.

At the same time, the porcupine demon saw the demonic aura dragon disintegrating, and it instinctively wanted to devour it, and the desire became stronger and stronger.

It couldn't control itself and drilled out of the weeds, heading straight for the demonic aura dragon.

Ren Qing glanced at the porcupine demon, and the latter suddenly froze in place. The threat of death made it unable to move at all.

The porcupine demon watched the other party come in front of it, and the invisible pressure made it suffocate.

It even wondered if the man was really a Demon King, or if the Demon King's strength was so strong that he could easily control the lives of other demon beasts?

Taking advantage of the fact that the demonic aura dragon had not yet dissipated, Ren Qing directly tried to integrate it into the porcupine demon's body.

Immediately, the porcupine demon's cultivation rose at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its body swelled several circles in a row, almost reaching the late stage of the Half-Corpse Realm.

It soon discovered that it was a little early to be surprised.

A large amount of demonic aura turned into small dragons and entered the porcupine demon.

The porcupine demon's cultivation soared, and soon reached the Ghost Envoy Realm, but its fur was affected and became similar to the Heavenly Dao Worm skin.

This was not a Demon King, but clearly a Demon Immortal.

It felt that its intelligence had greatly increased, and its throat was tingling.

Cough, cough, cough.

After the porcupine demon coughed up a piece of bloody bone, the greed in its heart did not diminish at all. Instead, it drove it to speak.

"Demon... Demon Immortal... please grant me... more... demonic aura..."

Ren Qing smiled, and the porcupine demon very humanely made a kneeling posture, gently stroking its rough head.

At this time, the porcupine demon belatedly felt deeply afraid. After all, the Demon Immortal could turn a great demon into ashes with a wave of his hand.

If the Demon Immortal was annoyed, it would not be able to last even a few breaths before it died.

However, it also noticed a familiar demonic aura pouring into its body, and the bottleneck restricting its strength seemed to disappear one after another.

The porcupine demon underwent drastic changes. Its feet became more and more adapted to standing upright, and the unique upper, middle, and lower dantian of humans gradually formed.

The features on its face became clearer, just like the mutated and out-of-control jailer cultivator.

Ren Qing couldn't help but admire, "Even now, I think demon cultivation is very suitable for the jailer method. After all, they are all demons and monsters."

He still saw the essence.

Demon beasts with intelligence were all descendants of demon cultivators who had once attached themselves to strange anomalies, but under the erosion of demonic aura, they were completely transformed into beast forms.

Ordinary demon beasts, such as that giant elephant demon, no matter how high their cultivation was, they were just livestock.

The demon cultivators had already developed forces in those years. Now, the scale should be even larger. Song Zongwu wouldn't fall into their hands, would he?

The porcupine demon gasped for breath, its eyes turning red again.

The demonic aura was like a drug, making it a little addicted.

Without Ren Qing's supply, the little bit of demonic aura that the porcupine demon absorbed all the time was like pouring cups of water into a dry pool.

How could it fill the desire?

"Demon Immortal, quickly grant me demonic aura. This little demon is willing to be your slave!!"

Ren Qing asked, "Do you know a place where white bones are piled up like a mountain?"

"Ah?"

The porcupine demon suddenly woke up and said in a trembling voice, "That is the cave of the White Bone Great Sage. I... I don't know..."

"Alas, let this immortal transform you."

Ren Qing patted the porcupine demon's head, and the Dragon's Roar in the Box acted on its brain. Hands, feet, and facial features grew out of the brain, which was covered with scales, and then the brain dragon directly took over the entire body.

"What is a Demon Immortal?"

The porcupine demon's eyes became clear, and then it talked eloquently.

It had known about the existence of the Demon Immortal since it gained intelligence. It seemed that it would descend into the world one day and bestow the immortal fate of eternal life.

The so-called Demon Immortal should refer to the Rabbit Toad cultivator.

Ren Qing chuckled.

Since I don't know when the Rabbit Toad cultivator will descend, that's too easy to handle.

"Little Whirlwind, the Demon Immortal is patrolling the mountain."

He jumped onto the back of the porcupine demon, and the latter involuntarily went north, not knowing that its consciousness had been controlled by the brain dragon.

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