The Secret Way of Immortality

Tian Fang slept for a good half of a shichen.

For ordinary people, sleep generally requires more than three shichen, and half a shichen is not enough to restore their energy.

But zombies are sleepless creatures, never having experienced the comfort of sleep.

Tian Fang fell into a daze as soon as he woke up, his expression constantly changing, obviously suppressing his joy, and appearing a little flustered.

For the past half day, he had been afraid to believe that everything in his dream was real.

The magnificent and splendid dream town, with tens of thousands of immortals, Buddhas, demons, and monsters passing through it, and all kinds of magical artifacts and spells left Tian Fang dumbfounded.

This was still Tian Fang being trapped in the coffin shop, only able to peek through the window.

Coffin Old Man had received Ren Qing's message in advance, and was slightly helpless about it, but anyway, it was just another helper, so he didn't care.

No matter how Tian Fang asked, he only instructed the latter to take care of the coffins.

And unintentionally, Coffin Old Man would reveal that this place was an immortal's dream.

Tian Fang was already over a thousand years old, but his experience was far inferior to Coffin Old Man's, and under the impact of a large amount of information, he was a little surprised and delighted.

He kept moving around the Melting Fire Furnace, his expression uneasy.

Although Tian Fang had always resented the injustice of fate, when he faced an opportunity to change his fate, he didn't know what to do.

He remembered Coffin Old Man's words, that he could share the opportunity with others.

Tian Fang quickly walked to Ren Qing, and just as he was about to open his mouth, he realized that the other party had no intelligence, and couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

“I’ll go out for a walk, you stay by the Melting Fire Furnace and don’t move.”

Tian Fang hurriedly left, but after only a few steps, he turned back.

He felt that this opportunity was somewhat related to Ren Qing, after all, if it weren't for the latter being there, he wouldn't have drunk the wine.

Tian Fang hesitated for a few breaths and said, “If I can escape the sea of suffering in the future, I will definitely help you.”

After saying that, he disappeared into the silent and dark cave.

This was also the first time in hundreds of years that Tian Fang had left the Melting Fire Furnace, like throwing a stone into the water, causing ripples.

Ren Qing diverted some of his attention to the affairs in the Corpse City, but his main focus was on the Corpse Refinement Art.

Time passed quickly.

During this period, Ren Qing was responsible for adding firewood to the Melting Fire Furnace, and Tian Fang was always elusive, and he didn't know what he was busy with.

He had only asked Coffin Old Man to teach Tian Fang and the other zombies the art of making coffins, but it seemed as if they were in contact with the immortals' all-powerful spells.

Ren Qing didn't care about this, feeling that these zombies had been idle for too long.

He immersed himself in perfecting the Corpse Refinement Art, gradually filling in the details, and finally forming a new spell.

【Corpse Refinement Art】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires the body to be in a half-human, half-corpse state, and absorb Yin Qi as a guide to achieve success.】

From the perspective of cultivation conditions, it is definitely simpler than the original Corpse Refinement Art, and closer to the concept of the Jailer Law.

Now, the realm of the Corpse Refinement Art has undergone a complete change.

The process of nurturing the soul in the Pseudo-Zombie Realm was removed by Ren Qing as dross, and mastery starts from the Purple Zombie.

In Ren Qing's eyes, the Pseudo-Zombie is not considered a Martial Artist Realm at all, its strength is entirely in the strength of the body, and has nothing to do with the soul.

Moreover, as long as there is a Yin Gathering Array, the Corpse Refinement Art does not require the step of raising corpses at all.

Purple Zombie represents the Martial Artist Realm, White Zombie represents the Half-Corpse Realm, Green Zombie represents the Ghost Messenger Realm, Hairy Zombie represents the Underworld Official Realm, and Flying Zombie represents the Yang God Realm.

The Corpse Refinement Art is actually similar to the Netherworld Heavenly Insect Law, and more like a derivative spell of the Jailer Law, with a single path of alienation, the spell itself is extreme, and strange objects will be nurtured only at a high realm.

Because the changes in the various realms of zombies are produced by the nourishment of Yin Qi, even Ren Qing is not very clear about what is different.

But one thing is certain, the Corpse Refinement Art is not the Jailer Law, but a unique spell.

He knew that a “Corpse Pill” would be condensed in the Green Zombie stage, which is equivalent to a strange object, used to stabilize the Yin Qi in the body.

Ren Qing stretched his back, who knows how much content of spells he had sewn together to perfect the Corpse Refinement Art.

A full dozen or so incomplete spells were created, all of which were discarded in the Stomach World.

It would definitely be inappropriate to sell them in Dream City, the drawbacks of the incomplete spells even Ren Qing could not bear, and cultivation deviation was commonplace.

【Can consume one year of lifespan to exempt the cost of mastery】

Ren Qing restored his vitality to 50%, and his lifespan was immediately revealed.

【Lifespan: Two thousand three hundred and eighty-six years】

Although the entry to the Corpse Refinement Art only requires one year of lifespan, Ren Qing is still afraid to try to get it for free by zombifying.

After perfecting the Corpse Refinement Art, he became more afraid of the state of “no lifespan”.

Because the Corpse Refinement Art is to bring cultivators closer to the direction of zombies, not a permanently constant state of immortality like the Scripture of the Dead.

Even if Ren Qing wants to try, he will let Tian Fang and other zombies be the guinea pigs first.

One year of lifespan disappeared in an instant, and the corpse Qi all over his body began to boil, vaguely affecting the strange object of the Grand Duke of Jupiter Scripture.

Fortunately, Ren Qing concentrated his attention, so that the aura did not leak out.

He first felt that every inch of flesh and blood was being baptized by Yin Qi, and the surrounding Yin Qi suddenly surged towards Ren Qing.

The Netherworld Skill has already transformed Ren Qing into a Yellow Spring Immortal Body, which is extremely compatible with shadows.

The Yellow Spring Immortal Body instinctively began to reject the zombie body, and seeing that the Yin Qi was about to fight with the Nether Origin, it was stopped by the information stream in time.

The information stream did not reason at all, and forcibly merged the two physiques.

Ren Qing couldn't help but lean his right hand on the Melting Fire Furnace, and suddenly a severe pain swept through his body, causing him to tremble uncontrollably.

It just so happened that Tian Fang returned to the Melting Fire Furnace, and was startled by Ren Qing's abnormality.

He wanted to go forward to check, but noticed that Ren Qing seemed to be in the process of transformation, and was likely to be promoted to White Zombie soon, but the Yin Qi attracted was a bit too strong.

Ren Qing's shriveled and withered flesh gradually recovered, and the traces of decay were still there, but far less terrifying than ordinary Purple Zombies.

He even mixed with a strange immortal Qi.

Ren Qing opened his eyes, breathing in the air from the Forbidden Zone of the Dead, and the corpse transformation no longer bound him, but instead made him feel like a fish in water.

Clearly, it was just the entry to the Corpse Refinement Art, but it made a Yang God Realm cultivator feel the pleasure of a surge in physique.

It was not an illusion, the Corpse Refinement Art was a spell that extremely squeezed the potential of the body.

He also did not need vitality to maintain himself, and vitality stabilized at about 30%.

Of course, if Ren Qing continued to increase the proportion of vitality, his body would still break away from the zombie transformation and become an ordinary flesh and blood body.

Seeing this, Tian Fang couldn't help but feel disappointed, originally thinking that Ren Qing would be promoted to White Zombie, but he was still a Purple Zombie with no intelligence.

He turned around, and then another burst of Yin Qi broke out.

Tian Fang's eyes were fixed on Ren Qing, his heart full of doubts, did he just fail to transform into a White Zombie? Thinking about it, it was impossible.

Little did he know that Ren Qing chose to continue to consume his lifespan to advance the Corpse Refinement Art.

However, just the Half-Corpse Realm White Zombie consumed 50 years of lifespan, which shows the price to be paid to maintain the zombie body and not conflict with various spells.

【Whether to advance to White Zombie, will consume 50 years of lifespan】

Transforming into a White Zombie was another kind of experience, and a large number of weaknesses of the Purple Zombie gradually disappeared, especially the decay on the surface of the skin.

Due to the fusion of Ren Qing's White Zombie body and the Yellow Spring Immortal Body, the characteristics of the zombie became less obvious.

Most White Zombies have extremely swollen flesh and blood, and liquefied corpse water will flow out of the pores, like a corpse that has been soaked in water for a long time.

At most, Ren Qing's skin was pale, showing an abnormal gray-white color, and his eyes were red, and his nails contained dark green corpse poison.

He was not obvious in the corpse group, and even more so in the Jailer Hall, there were all kinds of strange demons and monsters.

How should I put it, he belonged to the “Corpse Immortal” among zombies.

The more Tian Fang looked at Ren Qing, the more strange he felt, but after careful observation, there were no flaws, and seeing the other party's dull eyes, he couldn't help but sigh.

“Tian Fang, Tian Fang…”

Lu Liang was calling Tian Fang in the distance, obviously something urgent was looking for the latter.

Tian Fang couldn't care about exploring Ren Qing's situation, and quickly left the Melting Fire Furnace with Lu Liang, his back looking extremely hurried.

Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to perceive the Corpse City, and found that coffins were being refined all over the city, already seventy or eighty of them.

He immediately realized that when Coffin Old Man taught Tian Fang the art of coffin making, he was probably mixing some refining techniques into it.

But that's fine too.

Thousands of Green Zombies are buried under the Corpse City, and they are basically on the verge of collapse.

The purpose of the zombies should be to refine more suitable coffins to imprison the Green Zombies, in preparation for finding a glimmer of hope in the future.

【Whether to advance to Green Zombie, will consume 300 years of lifespan】

Ren Qing took a deep breath, and was somewhat shocked by the lifespan required by the Corpse Refinement Art, advancing to the Ghost Messenger Realm already required 300 years of lifespan.

To what extent would the Underworld Official Realm reach?

He could only hope that after condensing the Corpse Pill, the consumption of lifespan would be reduced to a normal range, otherwise this spell might stop at the Underworld Official Realm.

Ren Qing painfully confirmed in his heart, and his lifespan immediately decreased by 300 years.

Terrifying Yin Qi crazily poured into his body with him as the center, and for a time, the vicinity of the Melting Fire Furnace turned into a vacuum.

Fortunately, Tian Fang had already left this place, otherwise he would have been shocked by the phenomenon that Ren Qing had created.

Ren Qing sat cross-legged on the Melting Fire Furnace, and Yin Qi condensed in his Dantian, forming a pill-like body like the Golden Pill stage of the Netherworld Skill.

At the same time, the swelling unique to the White Zombie receded, and the flesh and blood became mixed with corpse poison.

Under the maintenance of vitality, Ren Qing's appearance was almost indistinguishable from ordinary people, but as long as the light was dim, his skin and flesh would emit a ghostly green light.

Ren Qing did not check what was different about the Green Zombie body, and first summoned the information stream.

【Whether to advance to Hairy Zombie, will consume 1,500 years of lifespan】

“The Underworld Official Realm requires 1,500 years…”

Ren Qing was silent for a long time, the consumption of lifespan by the Corpse Refinement Art made his scalp tingle, estimating that the Yang God Realm would require six or seven thousand years.

He even had the urge to peel the Corpse Refinement Art into the Stomach World.

Ren Qing looked at the Corpse Pill in his Dantian, although it was considered a special strange object, it did not give birth to intelligence, and it stored Yin Qi.

But when he focused his attention on the Corpse Pill for a moment, he had an unexpected discovery.

The Corpse Pill was growing stronger with the passage of time.

“Could it be that the Corpse Refinement Art can increase cultivation through age?”

“Then wouldn't consuming lifespan to advance other spells be equivalent to cultivating the Corpse Refinement Art?”

Ren Qing stared at the Corpse Pill for a long time, and found that his control over the Corpse Pill far exceeded the ordinary.

If the Scripture of the Dead transforms the Corpse Refinement Art into a secondary spell, even low-realm strange objects should be able to suppress the Corpse Pill.

The Corpse Refinement Art is a spell that focuses on absorbing Yin Qi and transforming the body, and does not need to follow the advancement method of the Jailer Law.

He guessed that even at the Heavenly Guile Realm, the Corpse Pill would still be in the Dantian, but it would be very troublesome to peel it off in the Stomach World at that time.

Ren Qing did not want to take the risk of advancing to the Heavenly Guile Realm in advance, but the Corpse Refinement Art undoubtedly gave him a choice.