The Secret Way of Immortality

The vast land was all mountains, rocks, and forests, with the lonely howls of mountain tigers constantly echoing.

A man rode a black-eyed, long-tailed white wolf, traveling through the mountains where goose feather-like snow fell, occasionally taking out a gourd to sip fine wine.

An insect floated on evergreen grass, its keen senses only causing it to fly away when the white wolf was close, not even noticing the figure on its back.

Ren Qing patted the head of the husky and took a sip of wine to warm himself.

"This damn weather, it's almost as cold as the North and South Poles, isn't it?"

He traveled countless miles, and cultivated an unknown amount, simply giving up his You Yuan to protect himself, allowing the cold to erode his body.

If it were an ordinary person, they would turn into an ice sculpture in just a few breaths in this place.

The weather was unusually cold, but the fortunate side effect was that the human skin book's resistance to cold was gradually increasing.

Perhaps because of the Heavenly Gu Realm's demise in this world, the environment in many places appeared extremely extreme in terms of cold and heat.

Ren Qing chose to circle the outskirts of Water Marsh Prefecture for several months, being as careful as possible, even maintaining the Disaster Elimination Method while resting.

But he didn't encounter any danger; the wilderness was mostly just wild beasts.

Ren Qing even had the illusion that the world's oddities were concentrated around Xiangxiang, and that he was currently in an ordinary world.

In addition to guarding his surroundings, he mainly focused on the Eternal Shackles, and occasionally paid attention to the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

After thousands of cultivators joined the Eternal Shackles, the manpower for construction greatly increased.

At Ren Qing's suggestion, they had already begun to rebuild Non-Action City on Wine Lake Island, with various demon tribes assisting from the side.

Of course, there were also many troubles, especially since the cultivators of the Restriction Disciples Hall were a mixed bag, inevitably including both good and evil.

It was impossible to have all the Yin Difference Realm cultivators stop cultivating in seclusion to deal with miscellaneous matters.

Ren Qing simply used the Nightmare Transformation of the Six Afflictions Method to punish the evil-doers, taking the opportunity to nourish the dream seeds and soul butterflies.

But what bothered him the most was not managing the Eternal Shackles, but the lack of resources.

However, it wasn't cultivation resources.

After all, the materials obtained by the Restriction Disciples Hall from Jing Prefecture were stored in the Eternal Shackles, and the jailers could also produce additional materials, enough to maintain expenses for several hundred years.

Ren Qing never expected that he would be deeply troubled by food.

Discarding a large number of blood-soaked wild beasts to attract the attention of the giant toad rabbits had caused devastating damage to the ecology of the Eternal Shackles, and the number of wild beasts had been greatly reduced.

It should be known that these wild beasts had reproduced for several generations in the Eternal Shackles, and their physiques had long been very different in order to adapt to the environment.

If the Restriction Disciples Hall was allowed to hunt wild beasts, they would become extinct in a few years.

Ren Qing wanted to supplement them with wild beasts from the outside world, but they would all wither and die after being brought into his stomach world, unable to adapt to the environment.

He had to use the stored food to maintain the consumption of the Restriction Disciples Hall, and at the same time prepare to carry out farming and other labor, so as to become self-sufficient as soon as possible.

Compared to the Eternal Shackles, the situation in the Longevity Forbidden Zone was even worse.

Although the thousands of cultivators in the Eternal Shackles were all big eaters, they would at most consume ten times the food of ordinary people, but the population of Xiangxiang, Water Marsh, and Jing Prefecture totaled hundreds of thousands.

Chen Changsheng must not have realized this when he pulled Xiangxiang into the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

The daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of mortals was terrifying, and relying solely on the meager yield from the fields outside Weian Town was not enough, even if they ate dirt.

The only fortunate thing was that Abi Hell was also brought into the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

At that time, the Restriction Disciples Hall had stored a lot of food in Abi Hell in preparation for the evacuation, enough for the people of Xiangxiang to eat their fill for twenty or thirty years.

But that was only twenty or thirty years.

Judging from the situation in the Longevity Forbidden Zone, it was impossible to cultivate land outside the area protected by the giant tree; otherwise, the longevity species would attack and cause hysteria.

The most urgent task for Ren Qing was to find a way to solve the food shortage and connect Abi Hell with the dream market.

Only the flow of materials between the two sides could increase the efficiency of prolonging life.

Ren Qing came up with two ways: either to make the dream spell reach the Yang God realm, or to make the stomach world reach the Yang God realm.

If the dream spell advanced to the Yang God realm, relying solely on the soul butterfly projections left on the Restriction Disciples, he could have them come to the dream market with dream seeds.

As for the stomach world.

Because of the ghost market, the Eternal Shackles and Abi Hell were somewhat connected, and it would not be a big problem to connect the two after reaching the Yang God realm.

However, both the Gluttonous Method and the No-Eyed Method lacked a minor spell.

Ren Qing could only hope for the "Rebirth Spell" of the Longevity Forbidden Zone; if he could obtain it, it could be integrated into either the Gluttonous Method or the No-Eyed Method.

【Rebirth Spell】

【Created by the Longevity Taoist, it requires one month of fasting, two months of sleeplessness, three months of comprehending death, and four months of rebirth, and can only be cultivated when the physical body decays.】

Ren Qing currently had no clues about the Rebirth Spell, but there was no need to rush this matter; he had to first deal with the peaceful coexistence of Xiangxiang and Weian.

Now, the cultivators of the Restriction Disciples Hall could only go to Abi Hell to cultivate the Restriction Disciples Method; they could not sense the strange objects in the Longevity Forbidden Zone at all.

The strange objects were clearly afraid of the Longevity Forbidden Zone, fearing being swallowed by the forbidden zone.

Ren Qing tried to persuade the various martial arts halls to accept Xiangxiang, so that the Restriction Disciples could practice physical martial arts, otherwise their combat power would inevitably be affected.

If there was enough food, Ren Qing even planned to promote physical martial arts with lower requirements to the hundreds of thousands of mortals in Xiangxiang.

For example, "Hundred Steps Piercing Yang."

【Hundred Steps Piercing Yang is derived from the Six Afflictions Method, and can stimulate the growth of one's own disease seeds, reaching a barely controllable level.】

The disease seed of Hundred Steps Piercing Yang is "farsightedness," a similar problem that elderly mortals have, and can also be created acquiredly using the Restriction Disciples Method.

Or "Scorching Heart Method."

The disease seed of the Scorching Heart Method is "fatty liver," which is the fatty liver that is commonly spoken of in the previous life. After refining it, flammable oil can be exuded from the pores.

Ren Qing changed his position on the husky's back and rubbed his temples with a headache.

Who would have thought that he would be stuck at the food barrier, and moreover, cultivating physical martial arts required a large amount of meat.

He only hoped that he could purchase a large quantity of supplies after reaching the town.

According to Chen Changsheng's memory, passing through Jing Prefecture was an area called "Cishi," which was said to be not dangerous, but revealed a strange oddity.

At that time, Chen Changsheng met the Heavenly Daoist in Jing Prefecture, and the two traveled together to Cishi, but were hindered by the Heavenly Dao Worms and failed to explore it thoroughly.

Because Jing Prefecture was occupied by the Supreme Heavenly Demon, crossing Jing Prefecture to Cishi was too dangerous, so Ren Qing chose to take a longer route.

The Restriction Disciples Hall's literature had records of this; the sides of Water Marsh were bottomless abysses.

Chen Changsheng had been into the bottomless abyss, but his evaluation was "do not go deep."

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Ren Qing was only going three or four hundred miles into the bottomless abyss at most, and would not go to the hinterland. With the Disaster Elimination Method by his side, there should be no problem.

As for whether to choose an unknown path, he thought about it and decided against it.

Even though hundreds of years had passed since Chen Changsheng threw himself into the well, at least he could use it as a reference, and groping in the dark would inevitably encounter danger.

As Ren Qing got closer and closer to the bottomless abyss, the surroundings became increasingly dark and humid.

Ren Qing quickly perked up and threw the husky into the Eternal Shackles to prevent the latter from yelling.

When he came to the bottomless abyss, he couldn't help but gasp.

In front of Ren Qing was a winding path, sloping downwards at a forty-five degree angle, with hard, stubborn stone deserts on both sides.

It was obvious that the closer one got to the center of the bottomless abyss, the wider the road became, shrouded in darkness, where one could not see one's fingers.

Ren Qing used his double pupils to look into the darkness, but the visibility was not high, indicating that some kind of power was affecting the night vision ability of his double pupils.

He did not light a fire, and strode directly into the darkness.

The temperature in the bottomless abyss was extremely low, and dew would constantly drip from the rock walls.

Ren Qing prepared as he walked, using the Disaster Elimination Method to devour his presence, and using the illusion of the Immortal in the Mirror as an aid.

At the same time, a plain-looking ball of flesh appeared in his palm.

He was very interested in the Blood Moon's cultivation system, so he spent some effort studying the moon patterns, and the ball of flesh was a flesh and blood magic tool refined with this.

He called it "Fetal Flesh."

As long as an appropriate amount of You Yuan was poured into the Fetal Flesh, it could be activated, turning into a magic tool similar to a living being, but with a short lifespan.

The aura of the Fetal Flesh was very weak, its temperature would be consistent with the object it touched, it had no intelligence, let alone movement.

The only use of the Fetal Flesh was as a host for the spell "Storyteller." Ren Qing could hide his body and soul inside the Fetal Flesh.

Ren Qing's life-saving methods were even more foolproof than Chen Changsheng's back then; he didn't believe that he couldn't reach Cishi from the bottomless abyss.

As Ren Qing traveled for several hours, the width of the rock walls had reached hundreds of meters, and the height had also dropped to two hundred meters underground.

No wonder Chen Changsheng called it the bottomless abyss; it was like walking towards the Yellow Springs Underworld, and the invisible pressure made it difficult to breathe.

Fortunately, Ren Qing usually visualized the No-Eyed Method and was used to being in the dark, otherwise it would have been impossible to stay here for a long time.

He continued to travel, but in the distance there was a constant muffled sound of heavy objects colliding.

Bang, bang, bang, bang...

The muffled sound suddenly stopped, and a faint smell of blood immediately permeated the air.

Ren Qing hesitated for a moment, and the ghost shadows under his feet extended out, touching corpses in the location where the heavy objects had fallen.

He frowned, confirmed that the corpses were not abnormal, and quickly approached.

The double pupils could see about a hundred meters, but within the range that Ren Qing could see, there were densely packed corpses, the scene was simply appalling.

The corpses were obviously thrown into the bottomless abyss from above, most likely originating from Cishi, swept here by strong gusts of wind.

Ren Qing examined the corpses, trying to learn about the situation in Cishi.

He noticed that the cause of death of the corpses was that they had been灌injected with water mixed with metal before they died, which eventually accumulated in their stomachs, causing them to be撑literally burst to death.

This caused the corpses' muscles to atrophy, their flesh to appear slightly copper-yellow, their teeth had fallen out, and their tongues seemed to have been deliberately cut off.

The corpses were also not at peace after death.

Either their entire bodies were skinned, or holes were drilled from the soles of their feet and their heads, forcibly pulling the bones out of their bodies, creating a scene of flesh and blood with white bones.

Ren Qing touched them with his palm, but the information flow revealed was nothing more than ordinary corpses, even somewhat too ordinary.

"Could it be that Cishi is using the bottomless abyss as a mass grave? Then why bother painstakingly skinning and bone-extracting? Do they really think I can't see through it."

Moreover, with a large number of corpses accumulating, there should be scavenging birds and beasts appearing.

But Ren Qing only saw maggots everywhere.

He knew that Chen Changsheng must have encountered something in the bottomless abyss before he immediately turned around and returned to Xiangxiang, but unfortunately his memory was too fragmented.

In this way, Ren Qing walked for several days, day and night, encountering tens of thousands of corpses, and even he himself had become numb.

The next chapter will have to wait, work has been delayed, it will probably be a bit late