The Secret Way of Immortality

His main consciousness returned to his body, and Ren Qing opened his eyes to see the enclosed rock walls.

He had chosen not to cultivate in seclusion on the ghost ship, and had deliberately dug a cave to hide in, the benefit of which was that he did not have to maintain the Disaster Elimination Art.

Now it seemed wise, since Cishi was right above him.

Judging from the frequency with which corpses were discarded, it was likely that people would often come to the Bottomless Abyss, inevitably including some high-level cultivators.

Ren Qing let the ghost shadow out of the cave, attaching it to the surface of the rock wall, lest he be unable to react in time to sudden changes, and then began to examine the Rebirth Art.

He had high hopes for the Rebirth Art, and relied on it to complete the fifth primary and secondary spell of the Gluttonous Art or the Blind Eye Art to advance to the Yang God realm.

Ren Qing felt that the five primary and secondary spells were the most suitable for him.

Having too many spells would increase the difficulty of future advancement, but having too few would reduce the potential of his supernatural powers, and even affect the Yang God realm's ascension to immortality.

He closed his eyes and looked into his mind, scanning the Rebirth Art's aberrant tree.

The Rebirth Art's aberrant tree looked like the vegetation of the Netherworld's Yellow Springs, with tender leaves resembling hanging corpses, looking inexplicably eerie.

Ren Qing glanced at his own lifespan and sighed helplessly.

【Lifespan: Four Hundred and Seventy-Five Years】

At that time, in order to advance to the All-Yang Immortal, he had almost exhausted his lifespan, leaving only a hundred years or so.

But now, more than half a year had passed, and Ren Qing had accumulated less than five hundred years of lifespan through various life-extending channels.

If he were still in the Xiangxiang, Shuize, and Jingzhou areas of the Forbidden Prison Hall, Ren Qing's lifespan would have at least doubled.

The fact proved that the prosperity of the Forbidden Prison Hall was related to Ren Qing's life-extending efficiency.

Currently, most of the Forbidden Prison Hall's living forces were trapped in the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone, and a small part was trapped in the Eternal Prison, and without the Dreamland Market to connect them, how could the life-extending efficiency be high?

Ren Qing sighed a few more times.

There were too many troubles to deal with, so he could only hope that Cishi would not be too dangerous, and could give him enough time to sort things out.

"Let's advance the Rebirth Art to the Yin Messenger realm first."

He summoned the information stream.

【Reborn: Rebirth in a Hundred Days】

【Rebirther: Repeated Life and Death】

【Reincarnator: Three Lifetimes as Livestock】

Ren Qing stared at the content displayed in the information stream for a long time, his expression becoming lost, his eyes full of surprise and joy.

The literal meaning of "Reborn" should be some kind of ability to revive living beings, but there must be drawbacks.

"Rebirth in a Hundred Days, perhaps referring to rebirth in a hundred days?"

Ren Qing didn't understand, but since it was a Forbidden Prison Art, he had to abide by the principle of equivalent exchange, and no matter what means were used to revive someone, the caster would have to pay a certain price.

At the very least, it would consume lifespan, and the revived being might already be a strange object.

Ren Qing first excluded Reborn.

However, if he could confirm that Reborn could revive himself, then no matter how great the price, he would choose it without hesitation.

The literal meaning of "Rebirther" was a bit mysterious.

Rebirther might involve the life and death conversion of the body, being able to freely change between the state of the dead and the living, looking more and more like it was suitable for the Scripture of the Dead, rather than the Gluttonous Art or the Blind Eye Art.

This was where Ren Qing was struggling, if he chose Rebirther, he might have to find another spell to go with the Gluttonous Art and the Blind Eye Art.

His gaze turned to Reincarnator.

"Reincarnator" was the easiest to understand, it should be similar to the Buddhist art of life and death reincarnation.

After the Buddha Child mastered the Buddhist art, once the Buddha image appeared behind him, regardless of his cultivation level, he would be able to live for ten lifetimes.

Reincarnator was three lifetimes.

Ren Qing should consider choosing Reincarnator, this aberrant route was more suitable for preserving his life, but when he saw Three Lifetimes as Livestock, he couldn't help but hesitate.

According to Ren Qing's observation, the soul had no reincarnation at all, but according to Buddhist teachings, living beings would go to the Six Paths of Reincarnation according to their good and evil karma after death.

Among the Six Paths of Reincarnation were the Human Path and the Animal Path, once fallen into the Animal Path, one would be reincarnated as a mindless fool, suffering hardships and dying.

The Daoist sect also had similar records.

Ren Qing was a little conflicted, although Reincarnator seemed useless, it could give him two more lives after all, which other cultivators would desperately seek.

As for the problem of reincarnation as livestock, if the Rebirth Art could be upgraded to a higher realm, it might be able to reincarnate as a human, it would be a pity to give it up.

If Ren Qing hadn't mastered the Rebirth Art with the help of the information stream, he wouldn't have had the specific cultivation content of the spell at all.

He would definitely find a few like-minded people to cultivate the Rebirth Art, and figure out the advantages and disadvantages of each aberrant route.

"Wait…"

Ren Qing immediately slapped his head, and his main consciousness descended into the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone again.

This time, Ren Qing wasn't here for the Eternal Life Tree, but mainly wanted to see if there were any records about the Rebirth Art in the books left behind in Weian Town.

He first asked Xu Sanliang, who immediately told Ren Qing that similar books were actually with the clan elders.

Ren Qing hurried to the courtyard in the corner of the town, where an old man in his seventies or eighties lived.

The old man saw that the visitor was Ren Qing, so he didn't stop him, and gave him all the books in one go.

Having experienced the incident of the immortals destroying Weian Town, he had long lost his ambition, and one foot was already in the coffin.

Ren Qing was not polite, picked up the books and left.

He spent the whole night reading the books from beginning to end, but the content was all about the history of Weian Town's selection of offerings.

For example, in a certain year and month, how many people were sacrificed to seek immortal fate.

Ren Qing's expression became solemn as he read.

The people who obtained immortal fate could live to be over one hundred and fifty years old, but after death, their corpses would have strange growths, and wild animals and insects would crawl out.

It could be seen that the strange objects of the Rebirth Art in the Eternal Life Forbidden Zone might also be the aberrant route of Reincarnator, which was why the Eternal Life species were not stiff after death.

Ren Qing immediately gave up Reincarnator.

Song Zongwu had once inadvertently told him that the Buddhist art of reincarnation was that after the three souls and seven spirits dissipated, only a trace of spiritual light remained, and eventually fell into the womb of a pregnant woman to reincarnate as a fetus.

Reincarnator's reincarnation crawled out of the original body, which was a different meaning.

For Ren Qing, who was pursuing immortality, the depletion of lifespan meant death, and there was no such thing as dying of old age.

But if he was killed by a strong enemy, then Reincarnator's ability would be completely meaningless.

Ren Qing might as well pin his hopes on the Armored Art, which, when it reached the Yin Messenger realm or above, would allow his bones to revive into a "White Bone Immortal" as long as he died, allowing him to survive in the world.

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"It seems that I can only choose Rebirther, if not, I will use it as the secondary spell of the Scripture of the Dead."

【Do you want to choose the branch Rebirther, which will consume one year of lifespan】

He then secretly confirmed, the speed of his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and the vascular strange object was attached to the surface of his heart.

Ren Qing closed his eyes for a moment, and finally understood the ability of Rebirther.

Rebirther was not actually about the life and death conversion of the body, but about drawing out one's own vitality, allowing the body to be in a state of suspended animation.

Ren Qing then tried to cast it.

His skin became bloodless, then his muscles atrophied, his lips turned blue, like a corpse that had just died.

The vitality that was drawn out was stored in the Rebirther strange object.

Ren Qing could only maintain it for five days at most.

If he was in a pseudo-corpse state for a long time, corpse spots would grow, the flesh would gradually rot, and eventually suspended animation would turn into real death.

He looked at Rebirther's aberrant tree, the Ghost Messenger realm was called "Rebirth Pagoda".

【Rebirth Pagoda: Storing Life Tower Realm】

Ren Qing noticed the description of Rebirth Pagoda, and immediately prepared to attribute the Rebirth Art to the Gluttonous Art, after all, it was likely to involve space, which was very compatible with the Stomach World.

【Do you want to choose the branch Rebirth Pagoda, which will consume ten years of lifespan】

He first advanced the Rebirth Art to the Ghost Messenger realm.

His heart beat quickly, and a space in the shape of a pagoda actually formed in his left ventricle, and the leaked vitality was slowly absorbed by the space.

Ren Qing then decided to use the Rebirth Art as the secondary spell of the Gluttonous Art.

As for the Scripture of the Dead, he suddenly thought of a certain guess.

The role of the Scripture of the Dead might not be longevity, but that after one transformed into a zombie drought demon, it came with making the physique immortal.

According to folk legends, a mortal accidentally picked up a wordless heavenly book, and eventually cultivated into a Drought Immortal, gaining immortality.

There was also a saying that after mortals cultivated the Scripture of the Dead, what they cultivated was not a Drought Immortal, but a monster that caused drought for thousands of miles, a "Drought Demon".

If that was the case, the Scripture of the Dead could not be easily integrated into the secondary spell.

Even if it was to be integrated, he should not choose a spell involving the vitality of the body, so as not to break the balance of neither life nor death.

Ren Qing subconsciously thought of this through the Buddha corpse.

Injecting a large amount of vitality into the Buddha corpse would inevitably cause the flesh statue to break away from the corpse and survive alone, turning into another strange object.

Cutting off the Buddha corpse's vitality would turn it into a real corpse.

On the contrary, it was safer to integrate the Rebirth Art with the Stomach World to suppress the defects brought about by the Scripture of the Dead.

Ren Qing immediately looked at the aberrant tree.

The Eternal Prison aberrant tree sensed his thoughts and very actively wrapped around the Rebirth Pagoda aberrant tree.

The Stomach World suddenly vibrated slightly.

Ren Qing was about to turn his attention to the Eternal Prison when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be rustling strange noises coming from the Bottomless Abyss.

The ghost shadow also issued a warning at this time.

The movement in the Bottomless Abyss became louder and louder, as if some huge creature was climbing towards the ground, and gravel fell like raindrops.

Since it was still daytime, Ren Qing's consciousness could not attach to the ghost shadow, and he could only distinguish the situation through the information sent by the latter.

At least a hundred-meter-tall Buddha corpse was actually climbing up the rock from the ground.

Ren Qing initially thought that the Buddha corpse was rioting due to his breakthrough, but after carefully checking several times, he did not find any exposed aura.

Bang…

The murmuring of Buddhist scriptures became more and more intense, it was obvious that the Buddha corpse was not far from the cave.

Ren Qing once again confirmed the size of the Buddha corpse through the ghost shadow, his heart full of disbelief, did a Buddha corpse of about a hundred meters have the ability to move?

The Buddha corpse soon went to the ground, and the heavy footsteps gradually moved away.

Ren Qing shook his head, Cishi revealed strangeness everywhere, he didn't know the specific situation, so he should prepare to evacuate at any time.

His stomach wriggled autonomously.

As soon as the Rebirth Pagoda came into contact with the Eternal Prison, it was devoured by the latter without resistance, causing the Stomach World to begin to transform.

This was much louder than when Dao Dao Dao broke through to the Golden Core stage (Ghost Messenger realm).

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