The Secret Way of Immortality

The Dragon-Snake Spine snaked out from the crack in the wall, a ghostly figure attached to it, observing the surroundings.

Seeing no danger, the crack gradually widened into a half-meter opening, and two people quietly squeezed out from it.

Ren Qing had already figured out the pattern of the terrain changes within the cave. Although it took some extra effort, it was still a safe and uneventful journey.

Huang Ziwan couldn't help but stare dumbfounded at the kitchen, which had been magnified countless times.

It was said that the appearance of the restricted area was not static. Due to the devouring of strange objects, subtle changes might occur.

Ren Qing noticed that their location was exactly shrouded in shadow, and he quickly used the Mirror Image to cover the two of them.

He observed the surroundings and found the restricted area to be extremely silent.

It seemed that the Rice Grain Giant had been here recently. There was an abundance of moldy rice covering the ground, perhaps because the Rat People had been wiped out, resulting in no beasts venturing to eat it.

Ren Qing then noticed the details within the kitchen, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

The floor tiles were covered with traces of corpses being dragged, the rice grains were mixed with white bones, and there were also heads of unidentified beasts.

He even smelled a faint scent of blood in the air.

He then noticed several ducks with human heads in the rice pile, looking very flustered, as if they were deliberately avoiding something.

The human-headed ducks had also shown a tendency towards plant transformation after eating the rice grains, indicating that the ecology had begun to adjust naturally.

"Ren Qing..."

Huang Ziwan couldn't help but ask, but saw Ren Qing pointing not far away.

A two-meter-tall Lizardman loomed.

The Lizardman could obviously change its own color, and should be transformed from a Chameleon Strange Object, gradually approaching the human-headed ducks.

Ren Qing didn't expect the Lizardmen to have formed such a scale in just a few days.

However, the Jailers' Strange Objects had all reached the Ghost Envoy Realm, which was not comparable to the half-corpse realm of the Rat Mother.

The Lizardman suddenly darted out, its sharp claws easily killing the poultry, and then a tube-like proboscis extended from its mouth to suck the blood dry.

Just as the two figures were revealed, the sound of flapping wings echoed in the air.

A dozen Insect Men pounced down, attacking the Lizardman in a suicide attack, even sacrificing half of their numbers to snatch the corpse of the human-headed duck.

Their attacks were unusually crude, simply grabbing the other's body and gnawing fiercely.

Outnumbered, the Lizardman quickly chose to give up, allowing the Insect Men to take away the corpse, and then fled the spot in a panic.

"Something's not right..."

Ren Qing frowned. The Insect Men's movements were stiff, and he didn't feel like they were living creatures.

He looked towards the position of the iron cage, and found that the railings had been completely stained red with blood, and occasionally there would be fragments of the Insect Men's limbs falling down.

In this short period of time, the Insect Men had launched several attacks, although they had snatched a few corpses, it had also resulted in countless casualties.

"What's wrong?"

Huang Ziwan's heart skipped a beat. With his eyesight, he naturally couldn't see clearly, but he felt that Ren Qing's face was a bit solemn.

Ren Qing didn't reply.

Several Insect Men crawled out from the iron cage railings, still clutching charred corpses in their hands.

Looking at the direction they were going, it should be towards the stove.

Ren Qing shook his head and explained: "I don't know the specifics, but anything can happen in the restricted area."

"Let's go to the stove first. If you want to find an exit, it's easier to enter the nearest cave from the outside."

All the monsters formed by the strange objects were in the cave, the outside was actually safer.

"Okay."

The two walked along the edge of the table towards the stove. Along the way, they could still see the corpses of Insect Men, but they were already severely rotten.

During this period, the Rice Grain Giant did not appear, so it was still a safe and uneventful journey.

Ren Qing always felt that Lizardmen were following behind him, seemingly treating the two as prey, but were hesitant to approach.

They spent at least half a day reaching the bottom of the stove, but the light was dim in the restricted area, so it was impossible to figure out the time.

The stove was no different from ordinary people's.

There was a statue of the Stove God at the top, and some decorative patterns could also be seen, while the stove eye where firewood was placed was burning with raging flames.

The material used to maintain the flames was human bones, making the color appear ghostly blue.

Ren Qing looked back, and the Lizardman had taken the initiative to retreat, as if deliberately avoiding it.

Huang Ziwan wiped the sweat from his forehead. The flames in the stove eye made people feel uncomfortable from body to soul, maybe it was formed by some kind of spell.

Ren Qing was better, the Twin Nightmares isolated the strangeness half a meter away.

The two communicated with each other in soft voices for a moment, then came to the most remote corner of the stove, preparing to climb to the top along the wall.

But before they could make any moves, a mass of Insect Men flew from the top.

"What the hell?!"

Huang Ziwan's head felt a little swollen when he saw the appearance of the Insect Men at close range.

He originally thought that the Insect Men only maintained a human-like form in size, but what he saw was completely different, as if pieced together from corpses.

Ren Qing frowned.

He had already felt something unusual when he looked at it from a distance before, and now he was even more certain that something should have happened during this period.

Most of the Insect Men were pieced together with human limbs, either human hands or human feet, and he even saw a head missing half of it.

How does it feel like zombie Insect Men.

"It seems we can only kill our way up."

"Kill if we have to, an early death leads to early rebirth."

Huang Ziwan spat out poisonous gas from his mouth, and a dozen Insect Men fell to the ground weakly, but their hands still tried to climb over.

Seeing this, Ren Qing opened his right palm, and the Dragon-Snake Spine extended out.

The Dragon-Snake Spine turned into a thunder python and pierced into the swarm of insects, instantly causing the death and injury of a dozen Insect Men, and a thick heat slowly emerged.

The burnt smell mixed with the stench of decay made Huang Ziwan couldn't help but feel a little nauseous.

The Insect Men couldn't see their intelligence, so they were not afraid of death at all. Even if they were cut in half, they still crawled towards the two.

Ren Qing stared at the blackish blood flowing from the wounds of the Insect Men, as if they had been dead for a long time.

He stepped aside two meters, and after the ghostly shadow covered himself, the Insect Men neatly swarmed towards Huang Ziwan, completely ignoring Ren Qing beside him.

"Damn it..."

Huang Ziwan cursed inwardly, facing the Insect Men's encirclement without dead ends alone, the pressure was instantly full, and he even almost got close and injured several times.

"Old Huang, don't show your breath."

After hearing this, Huang Ziwan quickly covered his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose with venom.

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But the Insect Men still clung to him.

Ren Qing's legs were possessed by ghostly shadows, and he instantly appeared in front of Huang Ziwan, and the Mirror Image's ability concealed the two.

The ghostly shadows covered their bodies again, and the last trace of smell disappeared.

The Insect Men suddenly disappeared from the sight of Ren Qing and the two, flying towards the stove like walking corpses, appearing extremely dull.

Ren Qing bent down to check the corpse of the Insect Man, and sure enough, he verified the guess in his heart.

The corpse was not recently dead at all, but looked like it had been some time, and the flesh and blood had already rotted and festered.

The human limbs were obviously stitched onto the Insect Men the day after tomorrow.

However, in Ren Qing's view, the Insect Men did not become stronger, and even because they were extremely unaccustomed to the limbs, their movements appeared extremely stiff.

He expressed his opinion: "I'm afraid a Jailer went to the stove one step ahead and has already controlled the Insect Man group."

Huang Ziwan's face was full of disbelief.

"How is it possible, the soul is separated to find the main body..."

After entering the restricted area, the soul doesn't even know the location of the main body, let alone go to the iron cage hanging on the top of the stove.

Huang Ziwan believed that if Ren Qing hadn't rescued him, his fate would definitely have been reduced to a dish.

"I also feel a little unrealistic, let's go up first."

Ren Qing took the lead in climbing to the top, grabbing the cracks in the wall with both hands. It shouldn't take long, but he couldn't rest on the way.

Huang Ziwan quickly followed.

His original palms had suckers, but because they were covered by ghostly shadows, he had to honestly work hard to climb.

The stove was like a high mountain.

The more they went up, the more they felt their bodies becoming heavier.

As if hanging hundreds of pounds of weight, the muscles could not help but ache faintly.

It should be known that Ren Qing's body is still like this, if it is the plant-based puppet body, it is impossible to climb to the stove at all.

How could a Jailer do it?

The two had extremely strong adaptability. After eating some dry food, they quickly adjusted.

It took them several hours to reach the top, and they couldn't help but sit on the ground panting, and they were a little exhausted.

The surroundings looked more ordinary at first glance. Steam was coming out from the edge of the pot lid, and it seemed that the Rice Grain Giant was cooking something.

But the surface of the stove was covered with a layer of viscous blood, and some scattered pieces of meat.

Zombie Insect Men flew over again from overhead, its hands clutching corpses, and blood fell on the stove like drizzle.

The zombie Insect Man finally flew into the gap between the stove and the wall. There were many holes there, I'm afraid it was the location of the nest.

Ren Qing looked down at the ground from top to bottom.

In this short half day, the rice grains had been eaten clean.

The number of human-headed ducks had grown geometrically, showing the speed of the restricted area's adjustment to the ecology, and it could adapt and change in just a few days.

This point was indeed a bit underestimated in the restricted area, it seems that it is not enough to just peel off the Rat Mother's Strange Object.

With a thought in Ren Qing's mind, the Rat Mother's Strange Object in the prison in his abdomen was taken out again.

In Huang Ziwan's stunned gaze, he threw the Strange Object out of the stove, and then heavy footsteps came from outside the kitchen.

"You..."

"Let's go to the cave to avoid the wind first."

Ren Qing didn't have time to explain, only by making the restricted area unable to take care of the two can the danger other than the Rice Grain Giant be reduced.

Just as they were preparing to go to the crack, they suddenly felt that the outside of the kitchen window was covered by a fire.

There was nothing in the restricted area, but the vision must be a harbinger.

Ren Qing and Huang Ziwan looked at each other, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised and uncertain, did it seem that the Jailer Hall was preparing to block the restricted area?

"They should still be searching, but they have already determined the approximate location."

Ren Qing recalled the last scene he saw before the split soul was damaged, the location of the restricted area was probably near the village in the mountains.

The Jailer Hall was afraid that they were setting fire to burn the mountains.

This straightforward method was their consistent style.

When the mountains and forests disappear, whether it is digging three feet into the ground or using spells to explore, the restricted area will soon have nowhere to hide.

Ren Qing's heart froze, it seems that he must leave as soon as possible.

Song Zongwu's time to fight for should not be much, after all, he is not a person who puts himself above the safety of the Jailer Hall.

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