The Secret Way of Immortality

The several teams of constables who left Sanxiang City at the same time as Ren Qing and the others arrived at the temporary camp on Camelback Mountain in succession after two days.

As expected, they were ambushed by wild beasts on the way, so not many constables survived, and all of them were injured.

This was thanks to the Jailers' intervention, otherwise they would have all died.

After that, the wild beasts suddenly stopped their indiscriminate attacks, possibly because Song Rong realized he was wasting his efforts, or perhaps he had other plans?

Under Ren Qing's allocation, the constables gradually joined the excavation work on Camelback Mountain.

The wheelbarrow he designed for transporting earth was also manufactured. Relying on the tool to transport sand and soil, the efficiency was indeed greatly improved.

The temporary camp now has the rudimentary shape of a village.

The military tents were damaged by wind and rain, so the constables built simple wooden houses around the cave.

The water source problem was solved by the numerous mountain springs in Camelback Mountain, but the lack of large-capacity containers for transportation was troublesome, so they had to find clay to make pottery later.

The only fortunate thing was that there was indeed a constable who had experience with pottery making.

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The sky was dimly lit.

Ren Qing woke up, spent a few minutes maintaining his Great Miao Sword.

Then he went out alone to look for traces of wolves nearby, thinking of hunting a few to use for cultivating the Divine Foot Sutra.

With the help of wolf blood these past two days, he had tasted a lot of sweetness.

Ren Qing had secretly tried it in the mountains and forests. His werewolf transformation had reached his waist and abdomen, and he estimated that it would not be long before he could completely transform into a werewolf.

At that time, his strength would be significantly improved, especially after he got used to holding the knife with both hands after the werewolf transformation, the speed of wielding the knife would probably be several times faster.

It was a pity that he could not eat too much, otherwise his body would be eroded and completely animalized.

The progress of the other spells was only average, especially the Human Skin Book. Without medicinal baths, it could only be described as stagnant.

This made Ren Qing slightly helpless, but after all, one cannot have both fish and bear's paw. If he encountered danger, he would simply consume his lifespan to forcibly advance.

He crawled forward away from the camp, using his Double Pupils to observe the traces of wild beasts.

However, after searching for most of the day, the wolves seemed to have learned their lesson. He only found a wild boar rolling in a mud pit.

Ren Qing cleanly smashed the boar's spine with his fist, then carried the hundreds of pounds of wild boar and quickly returned to the camp.

He casually threw it on the open space, signaling Xiao Wu to come and handle it.

The other constables in the camp had calm expressions when they saw this.

In addition to being somewhat accustomed to it, they were also no longer emotionally affected after witnessing the Jailers' strange methods.

Ren Qing was preparing to find a place nearby to practice his sword, when he noticed that the inner camp was a bit lively.

"Hehehehehe..."

The purplish-green frogman Jailer named Huang Ziwan had just come out of the cave and was washing the dust off his body with clean water.

When Huang Ziwan noticed Ren Qing's figure, his eyes became playful and he kept making strange laughter.

Ren Qing did not react, Huang Ziwan quickly signaled him with his eyes to look not far away.

Song Zongwu stood there with his four arms crossed, and coldly said to Ren Qing: "Bring a pickaxe and wait for me in the cave."

"Okay, Senior Song."

Ren Qing's expression froze. What was coming had finally arrived.

In fact, Song Zongwu had already hinted two days ago that mining could temper his body, but he pretended not to understand. He didn't expect retribution to come so quickly.

Ren Qing smiled bitterly, picked up the pickaxe and turned to drill into the deep cave.

On the way, he noticed Guo Qing and the others pushing wheelbarrows full of earth, their faces covered in dirt. Because the light was dim, they did not notice Ren Qing.

Since he was going to mine, Ren Qing chose to continue walking in, and finally stopped in front of a fork in the road.

There were a total of five mine entrances in front of Ren Qing, which should represent the five Jailers respectively. Two of the caves kept making knocking sounds.

He carefully looked at them. The third cave entrance did not seem to have been excavated, because the rocks had large areas of corrosion.

It might be the cave of that frogman Jailer.

The remaining caves either had claw marks or looked like they were forcibly punched out with half-meter-sized fists.

Only the first cave was relatively normal.

After Ren Qing waited for a while, Song Zongwu walked over with five or six shovels.

"Senior Song..."

Ren Qing greeted him with a smile, just about to explain, but heard Song Zongwu earnestly say.

"Ren Qing, I know your talent is good, but because..."

Song Zongwu, taking into account the other Jailers in the cave, said with restraint: "The more so, the more you need to temper your body and accurately grasp all your strength."

Ren Qing really wanted to tell him that he could advance the Human Skin Book at any time, but after opening his mouth, he wisely closed it.

"Ren Qing, lend me your knife."

Ren Qing quickly handed over the Great Miao Sword.

Song Zongwu drew the knife out of its sheath, carefully observed it for a long time and sighed: "Little Liu Hu's craftsmanship is getting better and better, I almost didn't recognize it."

"Senior Song, do you also use a knife?"

"I don't, but it's enough."

Just when Ren Qing was puzzled, Song Zongwu gently stroked the blade with his palm, then slashed hard at the stone wall.

Sparks flew everywhere!!

A two-meter-sized square stone slowly fell, and dust flew up immediately.

Ren Qing's heart jumped to his throat. The Great Miao Sword was indeed of good quality, but it was definitely not as sharp as mud. The blade would definitely be damaged by this.

Song Zongwu returned the Great Miao Sword to Ren Qing and said: "Don't worry, I won't use the knife, but at least I won't hurt the knife."

Ren Qing glanced at the Great Miao Sword and found that the blade was still as clean as new, and even the applied knife oil still had remnants.

Song Zongwu smiled on his face: "You first use the pickaxe to excavate, and after gradually adapting, you can switch to the knife."

"Thank you, Senior Song."

Ren Qing said sincerely, relying on the information stream, he indeed lacked tempering, thanks to Song Zongwu's timely reminder.

"It's okay."

Song Zongwu waved his hand.

The reason why he valued Ren Qing so much was that talent only accounted for a small part. The main reason was that Ren Qing adhered to his original intention of spells.

As long as the Blind Eye Method swallowed human eyes, it would inevitably mutate into a Hundred-Eyed One. Even if he strayed and realized his mistake, the direction of mutation should be a One-Eyed One.

Ren Qing advanced to the unheard-of Double-Pupiled One, indicating that he never wanted to take shortcuts and swallow human eyes from beginning to end.

The Gluttony Method was the same. Foodies and Giant-Stomach individuals were relatively easy to cultivate, and could be enhanced by eating a lot.

But Ren Qing still chose the Auxiliary-Stomach, which was also the most promising direction of mutation that Song Zongwu believed.

Song Zongwu patted Ren Qing on the shoulder and said: "As you dig deeper, the rocks in the mountain will become harder and harder, even I won't find it easy."

Ren Qing couldn't help but ask: "Senior Song, why do you use a shovel? Shouldn't it be faster to do it directly with your bare hands?"

Song Zongwu picked up the shovel and gently pinched it into a lump of scrap iron.

"The shovel is like tofu to me. I can use it to comprehend lifting weights lightly, so that I can better restrain my own strength."

After he finished speaking, he walked towards the first mine, leaving Ren Qing dumbfounded.

Huang Ziwan passed by Ren Qing with a strange smile and walked into the third mine.

"Tsk tsk tsk, as expected of Old Song, what he said makes me want to dig earth all night long."

Before long, a pungent smell came from inside, accompanied by a sizzling corrosion sound.