The Secret Way of Immortality

The environment at the border between the North and South was very strange, even bizarre and inexplicable, to the point that even wild beasts would try to stay away.

Thump thump thump...

Heavy footsteps approached from afar, and a massive figure crossed the mountain ridge.

A moment later, the Corpse Elephant emerged from the mountains, its body emitting a thick corpse aura that caused the vegetation to wither.

Compared to hundreds of years ago, the signs of decay on the Corpse Elephant were almost invisible, and it no longer felt like its body and soul were on the verge of collapse.

Furthermore, a thin layer of iron armor had grown on the surface of its skin, which not only prevented physical blows but also prevented Yin energy from leaking out.

"Ditto, stop."

The Corpse Demon stroked the Corpse Elephant's head, and the latter immediately stopped, staring blankly at the border between the North and South.

The Corpse Vein of the Underworld had put far more effort into the Corpse Elephant than usual, completely treating it as a forbidden corpse to cultivate, using a large amount of resources.

The Corpse Elephant lived up to expectations. Although it originally had the cultivation of the Heavenly Guile Realm, its actual strength was only at the Yang God Realm.

As the Corpse Vein applied the Guile Embryo Technique to the Corpse Elephant's skin, flesh, and bones, even though the Corpse Elephant still couldn't flexibly use Yin energy, its physical body was enough to crush the Heavenly Guile Realm, making it virtually immortal.

The Corpse Elephant was therefore given the name "Ditto" by Ren Qing.

"This damn place..."

The Corpse Demon couldn't help but mutter to himself. Even though his internal organs were already withered, he still had a chilling sensation down his spine.

In the eyes of others, the Underworld was already extremely gloomy and terrifying, but compared to the border between the North and South, it still paled in comparison.

In the North, a purplish-red sun hung high, emitting distorted and chaotic rays of light, like threads spanning the sky.

It was the first time the Corpse Demon had seen materialized light with his own eyes, and his gaze couldn't help but sink into the purple light, causing him to be stunned for several hours.

In the South, there was a normal sun, and the two suns in the sky looked like a pair of eyes.

The land was also layered. The Corpse Demon's left side was shrouded in purple light, and the vegetation inside was unusually lush, with fruits resembling flesh and blood organs that wriggled from time to time.

The right side had a normal sun, but it was also covered with deformed and terrifying monsters.

Two-headed guinea pigs, three-legged toads, multi-eyed rabbits...

When the deformed beasts were in the North, they could survive under the protection of the purple light, but once they went to the South, their vitality would gradually be lost and they would die.

As a result, the border between the North and South was filled with deformed beasts struggling to survive, and their bones filled the soil, nourishing carrion insects, like a scene of human purgatory.

The Corpse Demon personally saw a wild goose fly into the range of the purple light.

Before long, a palace-like organ grew out of the back of the goose's head, like blood vessels and meridians drilling out of its body, and it turned into a flower stamen in a moment.

The Corpse Demon vaguely had a guess that the South was said to be related to the Celestial Venerable of Morality, which was why all things were constantly circulating and reproducing.

Then, for reproduction.

The way living beings use their bodies to reproduce offspring was indeed too inefficient.

Puff!!

The palace behind the goose's head bloomed like a dandelion, and several baby birds chirping for food crawled out of it and fell to the ground.

Within a few breaths of the baby birds landing, their wings grew rapidly, and they immediately adapted to flying in the sky.

The baby birds that didn't fly were entangled by the branches of vegetation and became natural nutrients.

The Corpse Elephant couldn't help but shudder, and the Crab Man parasitizing its spine made a hissing sound, reminding it of the danger from the purple sun.

"According to the location given by the Immortal Venerable, the White Bone Lady should be at the border between the North and South."

He carefully confirmed the mission information, and then controlled the Crab Man to wriggle, its tail needle directly piercing into the interlayer of the Corpse Elephant's spine.

The Crab Man's translucent tail sucked the Corpse Elephant like a needle, and a gray-black liquid was drawn into its body.

The Corpse Elephant paced uncomfortably.

Then, the Corpse Elephant's body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the Crab Man remained unchanged until the Corpse Elephant completely disappeared.

With the Underworld's resource allocation, the Corpse Demon had reached the Heavenly Guile Realm.

He had finally suppressed Mu Snake Daoist, so he didn't have to worry about trouble arising in the Underworld, although Mu Snake Daoist had no intention of pursuing fame or profit.

The Corpse Demon restrained the Yin energy in his body and strode towards his destination.

The undead could stay in the range of the purple light for a short time, but if they stayed for too long, plant seeds would try to drill into their bodies and take root and sprout under the influence of the purple light.

Plant seeds had no intelligence, but the purple light made everything strange.

Hundreds of years ago, the zombie cultivators used the strange rules of the border between the North and South to hide here unscrupulously.

The Corpse Demon searched along the mountains and forests and soon found the cave leading to the underground.

He held the Immortal Key to enter and exit the world within his stomach, bent down and drilled into the cave, and a strong Yin energy immediately rushed towards him.

The Corpse Demon couldn't help but nod slightly. Although the Yin energy was not as good as the third level of the Underworld, it was comparable to the second level of the Underworld.

In addition, there was a strange smell mixed in.

It was a bit like high-salinity seawater, extremely fishy and stinky, which even the Corpse Demon, whose five senses were impaired, could clearly smell.

The strange smell emanated from the soil and should come from a deeper level of the underground. Perhaps the underground river at the border between the North and South was connected to the ocean?

The Corpse Demon continued to walk down, his spirit extremely tense.

The cave was filled with all kinds of forks, and if he took the wrong turn, he might accidentally enter the North and eventually get lost in the radiation of the purple light.

Fortunately, the Corpse Demon could find the right direction based on the concentration of Yin energy.

After walking for about ten days, the narrow cave suddenly opened up, and a dense array of coffins appeared in front of the Corpse Elephant.

Each coffin was placed in a karst cave in the form of a Yin-gathering array.

They also deliberately buried the corpses in the karst cave, thereby forming a congenital Yin vein to ensure that Yin energy would always gather here.

The Corpse Demon didn't rush to open the coffin but continued to search in the karst cave.

He found that there were more than a dozen connected karst caves, with more than 30,000 coffins, most of which exuded the aura of the Ghost Envoy Realm.

"Strange."

The Corpse Demon was still a little puzzled because, according to the information Ren Qing told him and his perception through the Crab Man, the number of the undead should be far more than 100,000.

He came to the coffin closer to the entrance of the cave and inserted his fingernails into the gap in the lid.

As the Corpse Demon exerted force, the coffin was successfully opened, revealing a strange-looking zombie, which made him gasp.

The flesh and blood on the zombie's body were shriveled, almost skin and bones.

But the head was five times the size of a normal person, causing the scalp to appear translucent, and the surface of the skull grew many irregular protrusions due to the continuous proliferation of bone tissue.

The Corpse Demon's first reaction was that the body was supplying nutrients to the head.

But zombies were the same as corpses. Growth and development had stopped, and they didn't need to replenish food and water. They could survive by relying on Yin energy.

"What the hell."

The Corpse Demon put his palm on the zombie's forehead, and his divine sense poured into its Niwan Palace.

But the soul in the Niwan Palace was extremely chaotic, a tangled mess squeezed together, with a tendency to collapse at any time.

"No wonder the Immortal Venerable said that the undead at the border between the North and South might not be able to provide clues. I'm afraid they are about to be destroyed."

The Corpse Demon looked at the zombie and smiled, as it didn't suffer any pain before death.

He heavily closed the lid and checked several other coffins, and the results were the same. They were all "big-headed corpses."

The Corpse Demon selected some coffins and sent them to the world within his stomach to see if the Corpse Vein could find useful clues, and then came to the end of the cave.

He didn't believe it and started digging. Since it was said that there were 100,000 zombies, the number could not be wrong. Maybe they were buried deeper.

After the Corpse Demon advanced to the Heavenly Guile Realm, his use of the Crab Man became even better.

With a slight thought, the Crab Man combined into a cone-shaped drill, pressed hard against the hard rock wall, and began to dig.

Gravel and soil flew, and the fishy smell in the air became even stronger.

The Corpse Demon simply closed his mouth and nose and temporarily gave up his sense of smell.

In theory, zombies didn't need the five senses. They didn't rely on sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch.

But the characteristics of living people on zombies were very few. If they actively lost their five senses, they might become more and more like corpses.

This unique cultivation deviation of zombie cultivators was called "death disaster."

The Corpse Demon didn't know how long he had been digging. He would occasionally release his sense of smell, and each time, the fishy smell he smelled would be a bit stronger.

He thought about bringing some zombie cultivators from the world within his stomach.

But the Corpse Demon was currently in the state of Law, Heaven, and Earth projection, so he wasn't afraid of life and death at all, but the zombies who came through the Immortal Key might not be.

As expected, he might have to contact the White Bone Lady next.

Even if the White Bone Lady had not yet become an immortal, her strength was not comparable to ordinary Heavenly Guile Realms.

Crack crack...

The sound of the drill crushing the rock became sharp. The Corpse Demon took a closer look and found that in front of him was a wall made of bones.

The wall was compressed from bones, and almost no traces of bones could be seen.

Upon seeing this, the Corpse Demon took out a storage bag and put the bone powder into the mustard space. Buildings built with bone powder would autonomously emit Yin energy.

Bones were indeed very common in the Underworld, but they would never be flooded.

The Corpse Demon dug through the bone wall that was more than ten meters thick before reaching the central space. From the fishy smell that rushed towards him, he could tell that the source of the strange smell mixed in the soil was inside.

He put away the Crab Man, and the dust raised by the bone powder gradually dissipated.

The Corpse Demon's pupils dilated, and he stood there in disbelief, the fear in his eyes making him tremble.

"Damn it..."

At this time, the Crab Man opened its mouth and spat out a palm-sized fish from its stomach.

The fish wagged its tail, and its bones grew while its flesh expanded, and its scales fell off in an instant, eventually turning into a human form.

Ren Qing stretched his arms, his skin was the unique black-gray of zombies, and his fangs protruded outward, and his muscles appeared extremely refined.

Half of his skeleton was exposed on his skin, like wearing a piece of armor.

After advancing to the Earth Immortal in the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, the split soul could choose an immortal body, allowing the clone to temporarily inherit 100% of the power of a technique.

Ren Qing's Heavenly Demon Possession this time was to choose the immortal position "酆都 Corpse Emperor."

The Corpse Demon retreated a few steps, and under Ren Qing's pressure, he almost knelt on the ground. Only when the Yin energy of Corpse Fengdu was restrained did he feel better.

"Corpse Demon, if you want to return to the world within your stomach, leave immediately."

Ren Qing was four meters tall, only half a palm away from the top of the cave, so he deliberately shortened his body by half a meter and walked towards the darkness.

The Corpse Demon quickly followed behind Ren Qing while releasing corpse beetles to guard the entrance.

Ren Qing illuminated the dim space, and what came into view were glass jars, which actually contained fresh brains.

The number of brains should be around 100,000, and their volume was even larger than the zombie heads in the coffins. The whole was gray-black, and Yin energy was constantly pouring into the jars to nourish the brains.

Ren Qing uncomfortably touched his nose. The smell underground was indeed unpleasant.

It should be related to the water quality in which the brains were soaked. It was likely that a high concentration of salt water was added to ensure that the brains would not rot.

The materials that Ren Qing could distinguish at least included "mixed corpse powder" to help absorb Yin energy and "檀古 incense" to stabilize the spirit.

The liquid in the jar could still guarantee to be crystal clear, indicating that the refining steps were complicated and that the various materials were fully integrated.

"They..."

The Corpse Demon hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but interject, "Immortal Venerable, are they still alive?"

"Yes."

Ren Qing gently tapped the glass jar with his finger, and the brain inside clearly made a instinctive reaction, and the fine nerves contracted one after another.

"They are still thinking."

Ren Qing's words were without waves, and at the same time, he used his toe separation technique to sense that there were no three souls and seven spirits in the brain, only empty shells.

Upon hearing this, the Corpse Demon couldn't help but fall into a trance.

It was not difficult to keep the corpse active, but the organs of the zombie had no normal function, just a pool of dead meat, but the brain in the jar was maintained in a state of non-life and non-death.

"Why bother..."

Ren Qing did not answer the Corpse Demon's question and carefully drilled into the brain with his split soul, while checking with the information flow.

【Corpse Brain】

【Extracted from the zombie's body, it can hold a large amount of Yin energy.】

The content of the information flow was unremarkable, but Ren Qing knew that something was definitely hidden.

The bacterial soul attached to the corpse brain and found that because the soul did not exist, the memory had already been lost, but it was operating in a strange way.

"Dreaming?"

Although Ren Qing's toe separation technique did not detect a dream, the trajectory of the corpse brain's activity was indeed very similar to that of mortals in sleep.

Ren Qing's main body performed Law, Heaven, and Earth, and a figure suddenly appeared next to the Corpse Demon.

A moment later, two floating heads appeared in front of the Corpse Demon, and the aura of the Yang God Realm Perfection flashed past.

The Corpse Demon quickly recognized the comer, who was the elder of the Forbidden Prison Hall, "Head in a Jar."

The head in a jar no longer needed to hide in the jar. The white-haired head floated brightly in the air, and the shadow reflected was slightly different. It was the little man in the bottle.

The current state of the two was not fusion, but parasitism.

The head in a jar was unable to deal with the little man in the bottle, which caused him to be stuck in the Yin Servant Realm and eventually face the exhaustion of his lifespan.

Just as he was about to die, the little man in the bottle took the initiative to parasitize in the shadow, allowing the head in a jar to successfully advance to the Yang God Realm.

After the head in a jar solved the drawbacks of the technique, his cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds.

He had hope to break through the Heavenly Guile Realm, provided that the little man in the bottle would not rebel. The two were prosperous together and suffered together.

"Hehehehehe..."

After seeing the brains in the glass jars, the little man in the bottle let out an excited strange laugh and grabbed towards the jars with part of his body.

"Cough cough."

With a cough from Ren Qing, the little man in the bottle immediately became honest and shrank back into the shadow.

The head in the jar was about to say something, but was attracted by the bottles of corpse brains and couldn't help but lean closer for a closer look.

"Little man in the bottle, help me see if there are any differences in these brains."

The head in the jar called out a few times, but the little man in the bottle didn't dare to come out at all,蜷缩蜷缩蜷缩蜷缩 in the shadows, not moving.

Ren Qing smiled helplessly, turned to the corpse ghost and said, "Let's go see Madam White Bone, I don't know what the situation is."

"Ah? Madam White Bone is here?"

Ren Qing came to the bone wall on the other side and gently stroked it with his hand. The entire wall disappeared, revealing a deep passage.

The walls of the passage were covered with claw marks, obviously dug by Madam White Bone, so the method was relatively crude.

After Ren Qing and the other left, the head in the jar emerged from the shadows.

The little man in the bottle skipped over the corpse brains, and then separated part of his body to meticulously classify each corpse brain.

It can be said that Ren Qing's understanding of the brain was not as familiar as the little man in the bottle.

After all, the little man in the bottle's food was the evil thoughts inadvertently produced by the human brain. In the past, there was a prison where prisoners were tortured daily, which was applied to the brain.

Ren Qing walked along the passage for more than ten miles, and at the end was a hastily excavated karst cave.

What came into view were hundreds of meat balls hanging upside down, wailing incessantly, and in the center was Madam White Bone sitting cross-legged.

Madam White Bone's appearance was very strange. Under the flesh attached to the skeleton, one could see that it was completely filled with thick fat.

"I want to become an immortal... I want to become an immortal..."

Madam White Bone muttered to herself unconsciously, reaching out and grabbing a meat ball and stuffing it into her mouth.

In the process of digesting the meat ball, the fat layer of her body was still accumulating, causing milky white grease to seep out of the skin surface.

"What is this?"

The corpse ghost pointed to the meat ball, barely able to notice its deformed facial features, internal organs and bones were already twisted, but the brain was still intact.

"People."

Ren Qing was very familiar with the meat ball. After a long period of reproduction, the mortals of Peach Blossom Spring would appear in this terrifying appearance.

The boundary between the North and South is actually not far from Peach Blossom Spring. If the undead want to go, they can still do it with their physique.

Ren Qing doesn't have many informants in Peach Blossom Spring. Even if he can descend to the statue at any time, it doesn't mean he can keep an eye on Peach Blossom Spring at all times.

He stared at Madam White Bone and found that the Immortal Position of the Giant Force Ghost King had been transferred to the brain, and the body was on the verge of collapse.

Ren Qing suddenly seemed to realize something and said to the corpse ghost, "You stay here and watch Madam White Bone, I'll be right back."

"Yes, Immortal Venerable."

Immediately, Ren Qing's clone walked into the gateway to the stomach world.

The corpse ghost agreed very quickly, but facing Madam White Bone alone, he was still a little虚的, especially since the situation was a bit weird.

He leaned against the rock wall, and from time to time, strange laughter came from the little man in the bottle, as well as Madam White Bone's muttered "I want to become an immortal".

The corpse ghost thought Ren Qing would return soon, but he didn't expect to wait for several months.

If it weren't for the constant sounds from the little man in the bottle, his state of mind would definitely be affected. Fortunately, Ren Qing arrived late half a year later.

When Ren Qing returned to the cave, he was holding a heavily异化 Si Mountain villager.

The villager's legs had been replaced by tentacles, the pitted skin was full of凹槽, and the exposed spine was a full ten meters long.

During this period, Madam White Bone had swallowed half of the meat balls in the cave. The skin was stretched by the newly added fat, and the whole looked like a ball.

Ren Qing took off a meat ball and threw it to the corpse ghost.

The corpse ghost hurriedly caught it and followed Ren Qing back to the cave where the corpse brains were stored. The head in the jar seemed to have been waiting for something.

One hundred thousand corpse brains were divided into two categories and placed neatly on the ground.

After the head in the jar noticed Ren Qing, he quickly asked, "Ren Qing, where did these brains come from, and where are the souls inside?"

The corpse ghost interjected in shock, "What souls?"

The head in the jar patiently explained, "Their souls may still exist. It is because of the activity of the souls that the brain is indirectly affected."

"Look, 20,000 brains are no longer active, indicating that the souls are damaged."

"During these days, the brains are either weak or excited, but in fact, there are rules to follow. If I'm not mistaken..."

The head in the jar hesitated, probably thinking that his guess was unreliable.

"Senior, please speak."

Ren Qing's expression was extremely calm, obviously he had expected it.

The head in the jar said hesitantly, "It's a bit like the Immortal Ascension Ladder of the Yang God Realm. When facing the Heavenly Dao, the cultivator's soul will disappear for no reason, but the body still has a sense."

"Heavenly Dao!"

The corpse ghost did not practice the Forbidden Guard Method and had not experienced the Immortal Ascension Ladder. Now he suddenly reacted and realized that the situation was indeed very similar.

The two looked at Ren Qing, who nodded to express his approval.

"Won't we know if we try?"

Ren Qing signaled the corpse ghost to put down the two heavily异化 people, and then took out a bottle of stinky liquid.

The head in the jar praised, "Ren Qing, you actually replicated it?"

"The liquid for storing corpse brains, in addition to ensuring the freshness of the organs, can also accelerate异化. Let's see what will eventually happen."

Ren Qing soaked the two in the water. To their degree of异化, they no longer have any intelligence and can be regarded as strange objects.

The Si Mountain villagers are like this because of the formation. Even if their bodies and souls are异化, their brains still maintain their original appearance.

The mortals of Peach Blossom Spring, due to the purple light emitted by the Mother of All Things, no matter how畸形 their bodies become due to reproduction, their brains remain unchanged.

Ren Qing suspected that the mortals in the six gathering places in this world should be similar.

Under the stimulation of异化, the mortals showed different directions of异化. Peach Blossom Spring had thickened fat layers, and Si Mountain Town had elongated spines.

Ren Qing and the others stared unblinkingly, and the Peach Blossom Spring people were the first to change.

When the fat broke through the skin, the fat did not spill out as usual, but gradually dissipated in the form of烟尘.

The soul of the Peach Blossom Spring people then disappeared, just like on the Immortal Ascension Ladder.

The烟尘 has no roots and no source. Ren Qing did not find any clues, as if it was connected to another world.

In the end, only a complete brain was left.

Lacking the protection of the liquid, the brain then萎缩, and the traces left by the Peach Blossom Spring people in this world completely disappeared.

Only half a day later, the spine of the Si Mountain Town people exceeded 20 meters, and the end of the spine was shrouded in mist. Flesh and bones climbed along the spine into the mist, and soon a brain was left behind.

"It shouldn't be facing the Heavenly Dao directly..."

Ren Qing has been paying attention to the Forbidden Guard Hall cultivators ascending the Immortal Ascension Ladder. The space where the Three Daos Ancestors are located has remained the same, only the Moral Heavenly Venerable is missing a head.

However, the "world" where the body and soul go is likely to be created by the Three Daos Ancestors, otherwise how could it be in the form of the Immortal Ascension Ladder.

The undead on the border between the North and South probably discovered the pattern hundreds of years ago. They used the Peach Blossom Spring people to ascend, but were afraid of having death without life, so they specially preserved the brain.

The zombies in the coffin should be experimental products of ascension.