The Secret Way of Immortality

After obtaining immortality, even though it wasn't complete, Ren Qing felt a sense of relief, as becoming an immortal seemed within reach.

He didn't meditate to stabilize his realm but closed his eyes to rest.

The dangers of this world had always given Ren Qing a sense of urgency, preventing him from being negligent and forcing him to extend his lifespan through various means.

Now that he suddenly didn't need lifespan, achieving immortality seemed just around the corner.

Ren Qing slept soundly for several days, his body and soul relaxed, without the previous unease.

He got up and stretched his limbs, causing a hurricane to erupt in the cave.

The mushrooms growing in the corner instantly turned into powder, scattering in the air, and the protective magic items emitted sounds of being overwhelmed.

Ren Qing frowned slightly. His physique had increased after cultivating the Corpse Fengdu, but now he couldn't control it precisely, and every move was a flaw.

If he were in a fight, even the smallest flaw could be exploited.

To adapt quickly, Ren Qing chose the most straightforward method: wearing robes that could control weight and gradually adding more robes.

At first, every step he took caused his knees to sink into the ground.

Later, Ren Qing gradually gathered his strength, and the resulting noise decreased geometrically, showing a hint of effortless power.

He felt as if he had returned to the Changsheng Forbidden Zone, honing his body at the Qingfeng Martial Arts School and practicing physical martial arts.

Thinking of this, Ren Qing couldn't help but sigh.

Although only a few decades had passed outside, a century had passed in the Changsheng Forbidden Zone, and the situation in the town had changed beyond recognition.

Ren Qing's adopted sister, Wang Ling, although she practiced physical martial arts and took lifespan-extending pills, her intelligence was insufficient to advance to the Ghost Envoy Realm, and she had passed away not long ago.

However, for Wang Ling, the Changsheng Tree was her younger brother Wang Shan's path, and she willingly accompanied him for decades.

In the end, Mu Yi buried Wang Ling next to the Changsheng Tree, in an inconspicuous grave.

On the other hand, Xiao Wu's talent for physical martial arts was quite good, and his humble and composed state of mind was very suitable for cultivating the Jailer's Law, so he sought stability.

Although Ren Qing didn't know Xiao Wu's current situation, he was definitely still alive.

However, Xiao Wu's great-grandchildren were already running and jumping, and his own children had passed away early. He was no longer the ignorant teenager.

Ren Qing was slightly dazed, and his punch suddenly didn't hold back, hitting the rock wall heavily, causing gravel to fall from the top.

The center of the two-meter-deep hole was a fist mark, emitting a sizzling sound.

That was the manifestation of Yin Qi with corpse poison. Even though Ren Qing had switched to cultivating Corpse Fengdu, the essence of his body was still a zombie.

It was just an emperor-level "Fengdu Corpse Emperor".

The cave was more than two thousand meters from the ground, so it was naturally impossible to attract the attention of the Beast Enclosure People, and besides, the Beast Enclosure People were preoccupied with their own problems.

After a long period of development, the population of the Beast Enclosure People had once again exceeded ten thousand.

Once their population reached a certain critical value, due to their special physique, their intelligence would improve by leaps and bounds.

The town could only be described as changing with each passing day.

The town was now about the size of Sanxiang City, with hundred-meter-high flesh walls built on all sides, accompanied by fungus fields similar to farmland.

While Ren Qing honed his body, he paid attention to the movements of the Beast Enclosure People.

He then discovered that they had imitated something similar to the Heavenly Demon Nest, creating "flesh magic items", or rather, "flesh organs", and used them to extend their lifespan.

These were the walls made of flesh, with the heads of "meat sheep" visible at the bottom, their bodies integrated into the walls.

Every Beast Enclosure Person whose lifespan was exhausted would go to the wall and touch the head of the meat sheep, using the exchange of flesh to extend their lifespan.

Ren Qing watched as a hunched Beast Enclosure Person walked to the wall, placed his palm on the forehead of the meat sheep, and his own flesh immediately began to boil.

In just a moment, the flesh flowed into the wall as if dissolving, replaced by fresh flesh, even the internal organs and bone marrow could be replaced.

For the Beast Enclosure People, the meat sheep were actually a medium for exchanging flesh.

Well, fortunately, the Beast Enclosure People hadn't mastered spells, otherwise, the flesh walls would definitely evolve into the structure of magic items.

Of course, with Ren Qing's vision, he noticed the flaws in the walls.

The flesh walls were still relatively fresh, but as the Beast Enclosure People extended their lifespan more and more frequently, the decaying flesh would eventually contaminate the walls.

Ren Qing had already noticed that there were faint corpse spots on the top of the walls.

As the decay of the walls deepened, the efficiency of lifespan extension would become lower and lower, and they might even need to exchange flesh every half a day.

Ren Qing felt that it wouldn't be long before the Beast Enclosure People would destroy themselves again.

A new Supreme Heavenly Demon was about to be born.

He also discovered something strange: the flesh walls were very similar to the flesh puppets, with many inexplicable similarities.

Ren Qing didn't know if the Beast Enclosure People had any memory remnants, but he felt that they were trying to break the situation and escape the predicament of lifespan exhaustion.

Ren Qing was very curious, so he had Dream Flower monitor the movements of the Beast Enclosure People, while he spent most of his time stabilizing his cultivation and adapting to the Yin Qi.

Unknowingly, several months passed again.

Most of the cracks on the surface of Ren Qing's tortoise shell had healed, but the divination now showed "good with ill", indicating that he might encounter opportunities in the near future, but with certain dangers hidden within.

According to his estimate of the recovery speed of the cracks, two thousand years of lifespan could be healed in one year.

The twenty thousand years required to advance to the Heavenly Guile Realm would theoretically only take about ten years.

Of course, the recovery speed might drop sharply as the cracks approached the limit, but it would only take a century at most, and he had that much patience.

Ren Qing should have been happy, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

He began to pay attention to the subsequent effects of the cracks during his daily practice, and suddenly discovered something very inexplicable.

The depth of the cracks could affect the power of various spells.

After the cracks healed, Ren Qing felt that the strange objects were no longer as active as before, and even his body had a slight weakening.

No matter how he looked at it, consuming lifespan had no drawbacks, but rather had benefits.

However, Tortoise Longevity was, after all, a spell for predicting disasters, and the cracks represented the dangers that were about to be encountered, so the situation seemed extremely strange.

Ren Qing couldn't help but feel a strong sense of dread.

Even though he possessed the information stream, cultivation in this world had always been an equivalent exchange, and even he couldn't avoid it.

Ren Qing didn't believe in free lunches. Forcibly advancing to a higher realm could still boost his strength. If he were really unscrupulous, he might pay some unknown price.

He carefully checked his body and soul, even going so far as to spread the fungus soul throughout his flesh and bones.

But he still didn't notice anything unusual, as if it was just Ren Qing's overthinking. Could it be that advancing to the Heavenly Guile Realm was that easy?

Ren Qing was noncommittal. The answer was likely hidden in the Heavenly Guile Realm.

Once he reached the Heavenly Guile Realm, he would naturally be able to obtain a large amount of information, and perhaps there would be secrets about achieving immortality within.

Ren Qing stopped thinking wildly and simply sat cross-legged in the cave, preparing for his advancement to the Heavenly Guile Realm, striving for no omissions.

He planned to advance to Corpse Fengdu first, which should allow him to increase the upper limit of lifespan consumption.

But just as Ren Qing was immersed in seclusion, the situation of the Beast Enclosure People began to deteriorate, even causing the cave to shake slightly.

Bang bang bang bang...

He couldn't help but narrow his eyes, his consciousness attached to the Dream Flower on the ground.

He saw that the town was full of Beast Enclosure People who were like walking corpses, their bodies covered with corpse spots from the inside out.

Houses and utensils were decaying to varying degrees, and the Beast Enclosure People were heading towards decay.

The flesh walls surrounding the town were also unable to escape this fate, constantly oozing pus, the cries of the meat sheep came to an abrupt end, attracting flies to circle.

Most of the heads of the meat sheep had lost their breath, and a few had grown dense black hair, beginning to transform into black goats.

The Beast Enclosure People became extremely desperate, and soon some people's emotions completely collapsed.

They brutally killed their own kind, chopped up the corpses, and threw them at the flesh walls, trying to make the entire wall fresh again.

Unfortunately, it was useless, at most they could only survive for a few days.

Flesh dissolved, the Beast Enclosure People were howling madly, only the rotten flesh walls still stood on the outskirts of the town.

Just as Ren Qing was watching, the town was destroyed once again.

Terrifying faces appeared on the flesh walls, the flesh intertwined in decay, so that the souls could be liberated.

Finally, the first rain in several years fell on the beast enclosure.

The rainwater was black and gray, as if after a volcanic eruption, washing the flesh on the ground, and using the thunder to cover up the bleating of sheep inside the wall.

Newborn black goats crawled out of the wall and soon merged into the world.

Ren Qing observed carefully, and just as the black goats disappeared, he saw dense flocks of goats revealed in the dark clouds.

The number was not in the thousands, but clearly more exaggerated than the population of the Jailer Hall.

Ren Qing's expression was puzzled. With the ability shown by the Supreme Heavenly Demon when invading other areas, the terror of assimilating everything into itself.

Was the existence of the town really necessary?

The Beast Enclosure People's town gave birth to a black goat at most every six months, which was actually a chicken rib for the Supreme Heavenly Demon.

Or did the Beast Enclosure have a large number of similar towns?

But the town must rely on the Heavenly Demon Nest, and the conditions were quite harsh. After Ren Qing put himself in their shoes, he felt that it was putting the cart before the horse.

There were definitely artificial traces behind the Beast Enclosure People.

He sent Dream Flower to the Heavenly Demon Nest and soon witnessed the birth of the first Beast Enclosure Person after the destruction of the town.

A black goat crawled out of the Heavenly Demon Nest, and it could be clearly seen that there was intelligence in its eyes, and then it skillfully peeled off its own fur.

He then used the fur to breed a large amount of flesh, thereby attracting several black goats to come out.

Before long, the number of Beast Enclosure People had reached five, and they set off towards the ruins, apparently preparing to build a new town.

Ren Qing's expression was a bit subtle, wanting to check the memories of the Beast Enclosure People through Dream Flower.

But the Beast Enclosure People were likely humanoid creatures transformed from black goats, and the structure of their souls was unusually strange, seemingly connected to each other.

But they had independent thinking, indicating that they shared a brain that stored memories.

Ren Qing looked incredulous.

Removing the possibility of the Supreme Heavenly Demon's layout, the Beast Enclosure People might have developed a unique civilization, but it was difficult to contact.

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