The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing arrived at the entrance of the rope knot cave and found Lin Cheng half-dead.

Lin Cheng's skin was covered in burns, his right arm was missing, and his legs had been crippled by Sun Yishan.

Even though he was less than a hundred meters from the Disciplinary Hall, he was lying in the acid, unable to move, and had closed his eyes in despair.

Exhaustion was one factor, but the main cause was excessive blood loss.

Although he had managed to stop the bleeding with his powerful vitality, his injuries were too severe, and the distance of a hundred meters felt like a thousand.

Moreover, the jailer he had eliminated not long ago was in the process of revival.

It almost foreshadowed the end of his life.

Before his death, countless memories flashed through Lin Cheng's mind, and he finally remembered Ren Qing, wondering if he had encountered Sun Yishan.

"Not dead yet?"

Lin Cheng blinked a few times before opening his eyes, noticing Ren Qing squatting beside him.

"Looks like you're still alive, good that you're not dead."

Ren Qing dragged Lin Cheng's right foot and walked straight towards the Disciplinary Hall, leaving the rope knot cave just before the jailer arrived.

Lin Cheng seemed to have a moment of lucidity before death, and then used all his strength to remind him: "Be careful, there is a cultivator who has mastered the Raging Bull Strength and kills people to eat their flesh."

"It's okay, he's already dead."

Ren Qing wiped the large Miao sword with a cloth to prevent corrosion damage.

Lin Cheng opened his mouth in astonishment, and then noticed the bloodstains on Ren Qing's clothes, indicating that he had indeed encountered a fierce battle.

Ren Qing spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood, and couldn't help but ask, "Can you hold on until you leave the Disciplinary Hall?"

Lin Cheng closed his eyes weakly. His internal organs were failing to varying degrees, and the loss of his right arm was irrelevant to his life.

He said with a dim look in his eyes: "The injury is too serious, and the flesh and blood are constantly melting, I probably won't be able to hold on until I get out."

Seeing this, Ren Qing asked, "What if you had food to replenish?"

"It is possible."

Lin Cheng suddenly seemed to think of something, and his face became extremely stiff.

There was no food in the Disciplinary Hall. Sun Yishan had survived the rope knot cave by eating human flesh.

Could it be…

Ren Qing picked up Lin Cheng, and a mouth cracked open in the palm of his right hand, forcibly stuffing a large number of pig eyes into his mouth.

Lin Cheng felt the fishy smell of the pig eyes rushing to the top of his head, and couldn't help but feel nauseous, but he forcibly suppressed it in order to survive.

After replenishing food, his body began to regenerate blood, so his injury no longer deteriorated.

Lin Cheng barely regained some energy, but he knew that his internal organs were still failing, and he would still lose his life if this continued for too long.

"But this arm of yours…"

"I practice the Snake Shedding Technique. Every time I break through a realm, I will transform into a snake skin. Even if only half of my body is left, I can grow back."

After Lin Cheng finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that Ren Qing's eyes became strange, like a butcher seeing the meat on a chopping board.

But this strangeness was fleeting.

Ren Qing prepared to leave the Disciplinary Hall as soon as possible, so he asked, "Lin Cheng, the exit of the Disciplinary Hall should be at the ribs, right?"

"Yes, my uncle told me to remember to collect a fragment of a rib before I left, but I don't know what it's for."

"I see."

Ren Qing picked up Lin Cheng, who did not struggle and lay on his shoulder like an ornament.

He did not intend to continue to obtain spells in the Disciplinary Hall. If it delayed his time to advance to the Ghost Messenger Realm, it would indeed outweigh the benefits.

"By the way, you've been in the rope knot cave for so long, how did you not die from corrosion?"

Lin Cheng said somewhat guiltily: "My uncle gave me a pill. After taking it, I can stay in the rope knot cave for several days."

"…"

The corners of Ren Qing's mouth twitched. Song Zongwu was too unreliable. He knew nothing about going to the Disciplinary Hall.

If it were someone else, they would have died long ago.

The two headed towards the ribs.

Ren Qing took advantage of his free time to check the armor-piercing skill's mutated tree.

【Bone Armor: Internal bones grow outward】

【Spine Bone: External objects are conceived internally】

【Living Bone: Body bones are like weapons】

Specific information can only be obtained by asking Song Zongwu first, and then determining the mutation route of the spell.

The two passed through one cell after another, which were filled with dusty furniture, as if some disciplinary officers had lived there before.

Lin Cheng explained in a deep voice: "When the disciplinary officers are about to die, they will choose a cell here to live in until they die."

Ren Qing felt a chill down his spine.

Who knows how many strange objects the Abi Hell has swallowed.

Ren Qing was about to continue speaking when he suddenly stopped, and Lin Cheng, who was lying on his shoulder, broke out in cold sweat from the pain.

"Wh… what's wrong?"

Ren Qing adjusted Lin Cheng's posture, and saw a huge shadow on the corner wall not far away.

The shadow twisted with the candlelight.

Ren Qing chose to detour, and the shadow seemed to be moving as well, keeping parallel with them.

Lin Cheng gasped and said, "There are indeed inexplicable rules in the Disciplinary Hall."

"If you encounter a dog with a human face near the prison…"

Lin Cheng continued with fear in his eyes: "Don't pay attention to it, and don't believe what it says, just ignore it and walk past."

Ren Qing nodded and walked away, while his arm grabbed the hilt of the knife.

The two quickly arrived at the corner. As soon as their bodies turned around, a monster with a human face and a dog's body appeared in front of them, seven or eight meters in size.

The human-faced dog's head looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties, his skin was covered with wrinkles, and his eyes were full of wisdom.

It really had no intention of hurting anyone, and even lowered its head in fear.

Ren Qing's muscles were tense, but the latter just stayed there quietly.

Just as Ren Qing brushed past the human-faced dog, murmurs poured into his ears.

"Take the internal organs of a living person and give them to him. If he loses his internal organs but does not die, boil them with medicinal materials for thirty-six days, and he can be cured of wind-cold…"

Ren Qing was slightly surprised. The human-faced dog was telling crazy things. Why use cruel methods to cure wind-cold?

When they could no longer hear the sound, they looked back and the human-faced dog had long disappeared, making people feel inexplicable.

Ren Qing couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"

"It may be similar to a jailer. They only say things that induce people's hearts and will not hurt people."

After Ren Qing observed with his heavy pupils, he found that the human-faced dog's body was relatively illusory, and it did not make any movement from its appearance to its disappearance.

He shook his head and said nothing more.

There were too many secrets in the Disciplinary Hall, and some of them were probably unknown even to Song Zongwu.

The two fell silent, and as they reached the depths of the prison, the terrain became higher and higher, and the ribs were not far away.

Lin Cheng's face was pale, which was caused by the loss of blood from his internal organs. Even if Ren Qing replenished him with pig eyes several times, it was still of little use.

Seeing this, Ren Qing quickened his pace and spent two or three hours crossing the prison area.

During this period, he noticed that there were cultivators appearing at the rope knot entrance in the distance, who should have taken the pills provided by the disciplinary officers.

It can be seen that the reason why the Disciplinary Hall chooses reserve officers and asks the gangs to provide cultivators may just be to recycle strange objects.

The real reserve candidates are all related to the disciplinary officers, such as Lin Cheng.