The Secret Way of Immortality

The distance between Shuize and Xiangxiang was only half a meter, but the environment was vastly different.

Ren Qing, dressed in a Taoist robe, couldn't help but gasp as he stepped into Shuize.

He felt a wave of heat rushing towards him, and his throat experienced a slight stinging sensation when breathing. Before the sweat could flow out, it was dried by the high temperature.

He prepared to walk further away before summoning the sand boat and couldn't help but look up at the sky.

The two suns were clearly no different, but the sunlight became extremely scorching. Under the effect of the high temperature, the air was distorted.

Whoosh…

Ze sand struck like bullets, crackling against the Taoist robe.

Ren Qing began to doubt whether mortals could really survive in such a harsh Shuize. Thinking about it, it seemed somewhat unbelievable.

He was about to use Ghost Shadow to cover his body to dispel some of the heat.

But he suddenly noticed that the Substitute Ghost Skin had become somewhat active. Clearly, the flame-like sunlight could promote the practice of the technique.

He was slightly speechless about this.

It seemed that the Human Skin Book really strengthened itself through torment. If Ren Qing didn't have a cheat, he would probably suffer a lot.

However, he guessed that the ability of the Substitute Ghost Skin was not only to transfer injuries, but also to subtly help cultivators adapt to the environment.

For example, in Shuize, resistance to high temperatures would gradually increase.

The sand under Ren Qing's feet was also releasing heat. As the Ze sand slowly flowed, he had to constantly move his feet to avoid being burned.

This place, Shuize, was too strange.

Ren Qing continued forward for another hundred meters. Once he was far away from Xiangxiang, he summoned the sand boat from his abdominal prison.

Bang!!!

The ferocious sand boat broke through the air, its overall appearance resembling a bone-armored vessel, with a lifelike ghost wolf head at the bow.

Ren Qing jumped onto the deck.

But before the sand boat could start sailing, in just a few breaths, half of the hull had already sunk into the ocean of Ze sand.

Ren Qing didn't bother to drink water and quickly unfurled the sails.

Although the sand boat magic weapon was refined by him, the materials were extraordinary, making it quite complex to operate.

The wind beat against the sails, and the entire sand boat creaked.

Ren Qing felt unsure, but as the sails absorbed some wind power, they gradually began to drive the sand boat northward.

The sand boat emerged from the sand dunes, and its speed was not yet fast, but how could a magic weapon be compared to ordinary boats? The sails suddenly straightened.

Boom!!!

The sand boat broke through the obstruction of the sand dunes, as if a pair of large hands were pushing it forward.

Most importantly, the surface of the sand boat had an invisible field that easily blocked the wind and sand outside.

Only the sunlight was still scorching, and Ren Qing's sweat poured from his pores.

Ren Qing was not in a hurry to collect Ze sand. He then took out clear water from his abdominal prison and used the Mirror Immortal's ability to lower the temperature.

The cool water poured into his throat, and he seemed to come back to life.

It was evident that staying in Shuize for a long time, even for cultivators, would still cause physical problems, possibly contracting stubborn diseases similar to fire poison.

That "Wine Gu" transformed from the lungs was indeed somewhat useful.

Could it be that there really were mortals in Shuize, and had they formed a certain scale?

At this time, Ren Qing noticed that the water vapor formed by sweat evaporation was floating in the air, and it did not dissipate even under sunlight.

Previously, when walking, the wind and sand were too strong, making it difficult to notice.

"Shuize, clearly a vast desert, yet it is full of connections with water."

Ren Qing poured clear water on the deck, and it was quickly evaporated, but there was no condensation of water vapor.

He had a strange idea, could it be that the water vapor had life, but was as short-lived as mayflies?

Ren Qing tried to touch the water vapor with his hand, but passed right through.

The Different Mouth could not absorb it into the abdominal prison, and the Ghost Shadow was also powerless.

Only after using various techniques did he confirm that the water vapor only existed in the eyes and could not be affected by the outside world.

Ren Qing remembered the extra person in the house when Yan Feng was unconscious, and the lack of water in his body. The two were likely related.

Currently, Yan Feng was still unconscious. The tenon said that the physical alienation had disappeared, but the consciousness was missing.

Li Tiangang should have reacted to this matter, so there had been no similar alienation among the jailers in recent days.

"Ze people… Ze people… What the hell are these things…"

Ren Qing muttered a few words and then took out a map from his pocket to check.

The map was drawn by the Jailer Hall and given when accepting tasks. It mainly showed the location of temporary camps.

There were also some precautions, such as high temperatures and day and night temperature differences.

He did not plan to go to the camp for the time being and would explore within a hundred miles first.

Ren Qing put away the map and hesitated for a moment, then used clear water to touch the Ze sand again. As a result, there was no surge of water like in Xiangxiang.

However, a slight scream came from within the Ze sand, and the remnant soul was destroyed because of it.

Shuize seemed to be preventing the Ze sand from escaping.

Therefore, only in Xiangxiang could the remnant souls in Shuize break free from their bonds, although they ultimately ended up being destroyed.

Ren Qing walked to the edge of the deck, squinting at the endless desert, which probably would not change in the slightest for thousands of years.

After a few hours passed, what he could see was still an empty desert, and he could not see any change at all.

Ren Qing suddenly felt bored. Although Shuize revealed strangeness everywhere, finding clues to the Wine God Method would definitely not be possible overnight.

Ren Qing's mentality calmed down.

He adjusted the direction of the rudder and sat cross-legged in the center of the deck.

The Different Mouth in the palm of his hand opened, and the Ze sand gathered into a bundle and was swallowed by the abdominal prison. The growth of the sandman was further improved.

Now the sandman was a full twenty meters tall, and the piled-up hills were getting higher and higher. The ghost wolf and Kunpeng deliberately stayed away from it when they saw this.

This showed that even with the loss of control of alienation, techniques such as boundless sand and mountain spirit clearly had a higher upper limit.

But the sandman also had flaws. Its intelligence was clearly not as high as the ghost wolf and Kunpeng, giving people a dull feeling like a stubborn stone.

I am afraid that if the cultivator who mastered the Wind and Sand Method really messed around like Ren Qing, he would completely lose his intelligence before long.

After Ren Qing absorbed countless Ze sand, he found that although the sandman's growth was unlimited, it would soon be in a state of saturation and had to wait for digestion to end.

He stopped visualizing the Gluttonous Method and stretched his waist after opening his eyes.

During this period, a lot of sweat had been lost.

The floating water vapor turned into a human form, and it was indeed very similar to Ren Qing's appearance.

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It was unknown what would happen when the water vapor was completely formed, but Ren Qing would not risk the risk of alienation. After all, it was possible that Yan Feng fell into a coma because of this.

He tried to touch the water vapor again, and after seeing that there was still no response, he walked into the cabin.

The temperature in the cabin was much lower, mainly because the materials of the sand boat were all Yin attributes, and bone wood could even be used to temporarily accommodate souls.

Ren Qing spent some effort on the decoration in the sand boat.

Even if he didn't need to rest, he still prepared a bed, and even the kitchen had a stove for burning fire.

Ren Qing brought the husky to the outside world, allowing the latter to jump up and down in the aisle.

It wasn't until the husky rushed into the deck and then let out a scream that it returned to the cabin with a gray face, daring not to run around anymore.

Ren Qing let the divided soul be located at the top of the ship's pillar. With the protection of bone wood, there was no major problem, and it could be on guard for a long time.

The husky's role was similar. Although it was just a slightly stronger beast, it was extremely sensitive to disasters.

It could just remind himself at any time.

Ren Qing checked his body for any abnormalities and found that his skin had become much darker.

However, the skin's heat resistance had improved to a certain extent. Presumably, it would not take a few months to adapt to the high temperature of Shuize.

Ren Qing walked into the kitchen and began to fiddle with food.

The various resources in the abdominal prison were enough to consume for three or four years, and they could be replenished at any time by entering the Abi Hell, so there was no need to save.

But just as he was steaming rice, a strange clicking sound came from the bottom of the sand boat, and then the speed of the voyage suddenly slowed down.

Ren Qing quickly walked to the deck, and a bone-chilling chill came over him.

The sun set and the crescent moon rose.

The night was much colder than imagined, as if he had come to another world.

Ren Qing knew that the desert was warm during the day and cold at night. The day and night temperature difference in the Sahara was tens of degrees. He didn't expect Shuize to be so exaggerated.

A thick layer of frost formed on the surface of the sand dunes, directly causing the sand boat to get stuck in the Ze sand and unable to move unless it released the wind power stored in the sails.

With alternating cold and heat, countless water vapor seeped up from the sand dunes, forming large patches of clouds that obscured the crescent moon.

The clouds dissipated extremely quickly, lasting only a few breaths.

Ren Qing felt that during the flow of the clouds, it seemed to form vague visions similar to mountains and rivers, but it disappeared in a flash.

He didn't know if it was a coincidence, so he stayed where he was.

The night was quiet and silent.

Shuize was indeed a graveyard of living beings. Not only were there no plants or animals, but even insects were not seen.

The moment the sun rose, the ice layer of the sand dunes melted, the wind and sand rolled up, and the sand boat moved again involuntarily.

Ren Qing mainly went northeast.

He continued to absorb Ze sand, but he specially used the divided soul to observe the water vapor that his sweat had turned into.

It seemed that once the water vapor became human-shaped, it would no longer continue to change.

Ren Qing secretly pondered and realized that Yan Feng was likely to have experienced the alienation out of control when the day and night alternated.

Under normal circumstances, when water vapor encountered cold, the water vapor should turn into ice crystals, but what if it turned into another special life?

The so-called Ze people?

Ren Qing didn't plan to verify this with himself. He left the deck at noon, and the water vapor quickly dissipated.

He waited quietly for the arrival of night.

As the sun slowly set, the time of day and night alternation came again.

Ren Qing appeared on the deck, and the three dream seeds turned into eye pupils on his forehead. The main and secondary souls brought the No Eye Method to the extreme.

As a result, the blood vessels around the eye sockets bulged, and tears flowed out slowly due to stimulation.

He looked up at the clouds.

Whether it was real or fake, he saw towering peaks standing in the clouds.

The peaks became more and more strange, and it turned out to be an old Taoist with only the upper body, as thin as firewood, and his skin covered with sores.

The old Taoist was huge, with several Taoist temples on his head, and dozens of Taoists stepping on clouds were spinning around like flies on rotten meat.

The five characters "Immortal Residence·Qingxu Temple" were engraved on his forehead in blood.