The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing, in his half-human, half-dragon form, glanced sideways at the rabbit-toad cultivators.

Although he was eager to test them with spells, he needed to proceed cautiously to avoid alerting them and jeopardizing the evacuation of Jingzhou by the Forbidden Corps.

Ren Qing's figure disappeared back into the clouds.

Xuan Gongyue revealed a cruel smile, muttering to himself in a chilling tone, "For some reason, I suddenly feel a strange sense of unease…"

He grabbed several demonic beasts and stuffed their heads into his mouth.

As his jaws clamped shut, the beasts' heads exploded, splattering blood and brains everywhere, a savory taste lingering in his mouth.

Xuan Gongyue stood upright, the pustules on his neck bursting, releasing purple-red pus.

The surrounding demonic beasts, as if drawn by an extremely delicious scent, crowded around to lick it up, their own demonic aura surging.

They swelled in size at a visible rate, while frantically devouring their own kind.

In a short while, five giant demonic beasts were born, their cultivation reaching the realm of demon kings, though their aura was rather unstable, clearly forcibly enhanced by external means.

Roar!!!

"So noisy…"

Xuan Gongyue narrowed his eyes, casually striking one of the demon kings, turning it into a pile of minced meat, blood and bone fragments raining down.

The remaining four demon kings dared not linger, setting off towards Wuwei City.

Ren Qing turned his head away, a surge of killing intent rising in his heart, then subtly placed a wisp of ghost shadow not far from the bone throne, using it to monitor Xuan Gongyue's movements.

He informed Song Zongwu about the four demon kings attacking the city, and as expected, more Yin Transformation realm cultivators would join the battlefield this time.

Ren Qing continued to traverse the clouds, heading towards the demonic beast tide in the distance.

He noticed that although these demonic beasts lacked intelligence, they possessed an innate ability to avoid disasters; after some of their kind died in the restricted area, they intentionally avoided the same routes.

However, this was also because the restricted area had not sealed off Wuwei City.

In the eyes of Song Zongwu and the others, maintaining the status quo of Wuwei City was crucial; only after the town was refined into a Guitai artifact would the Forbidden Corps prepare to evacuate.

Moreover, despite the menacing appearance of the demonic beasts, they could provide a wealth of resources.

If the Forbidden Corps' hard power could contend with the Blood Moon, they would have loved to stay in Jingzhou forever, accumulating resources.

"Here."

Ren Qing, sensing that the distance was right, stopped in mid-air to observe the ground.

Demonic beasts were scarce here, the few that were present were all mixed breeds, but the vegetation was extremely lush, emitting a faint demonic aura.

He found a relatively secluded valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Ren Qing did not rush to release the aberrant creatures; he touched his forehead, and the aberrant mouth opened, pouring out a dense demonic aura.

The demonic aura tended to sink, quickly forming a mist that permeated the valley.

Ren Qing used the demon market's control over the demonic aura to allow the vegetation to absorb it as much as possible, and soon rustling sounds came from the mist.

Aberrant creatures undergoing celestial demonification were not enough to cause trouble for the rabbit-toad cultivators; he had to generate a continuous stream of Black Mountain Goats.

However, the demonic beasts within a few thousand miles had already been driven towards Wuwei City, so Ren Qing could only try to create some demonic beasts himself.

Demonic aura possessed a special assimilating property, allowing all things to cultivate into demons.

The vegetation quickly grew facial features, its roots supporting its body as it stood up, instinctively absorbing the large amount of demonic aura in the air.

However, after they reached the level of mixed demons, they actually wanted to move their roots towards Wuwei City.

Ren Qing frowned, looking at the crescent moon faintly rising on the horizon.

The Blood Moon was definitely a terrifying magic artifact, suspended overhead, invading the region; in comparison, the Heavenly Dao Worm, without the support of the Wuwei Taoist Temple, had indeed fallen to a lower level.

Ren Qing knew he could not wait any longer; the higher the cultivation of the vegetation demons, the deeper the influence they would receive.

He came to the center of the valley, then transformed into human form, the dragon spine protruding from his tailbone becoming a hundred meters in size, the dragon head staring at the ground.

The ghost shadow possessed the dragon spine, making the latter transform from solid to illusory.

Boom!!

The wind howled.

The dragon spine directly drilled into the depths of the earth, as if to pierce through the entire land.

When it reached several hundred meters, the dragon spine, through the aberrant mouth connected to the Yongjian Leixie, spat the celestial demonified aberrant creature into the outside world.

The aberrant creature's appearance resembled a river mussel, its open shell revealing a mass of twisted, deformed white flesh, with dozens of goat heads growing on it.

Baa…

The goat heads emitted strange cries, while spewing out a dense celestial demon aura.

In just a few breaths, the originally dark brown soil actually became moist, gradually mixed with dark red, viscous blood.

Ren Qing only felt his scalp tingle.

The process of turning dead objects into flesh and blood was terrifying.

The vegetation demons in the valley suddenly stopped moving, their roots re-embedded in the ground, absorbing the celestial demon aura contained in the soil.

Xuan Gongyue, thousands of miles away, began to breathe heavily, instinctively looking behind him.

"Another celestial demon?"

Xuan Gongyue's pupils dilated, and because of his emotional agitation, the color of the exposed pustules on his skin deepened.

However, the distance was too great to determine the exact location.

He prepared to move to investigate, but the celestial demon aura disappeared again, as if it were just an illusion, making Xuan Gongyue's face look ugly.

Xuan Gongyue looked up at the crescent moon, seemingly communicating with it, and after a moment, he regained his composure and sat back on the bone throne.

From the outside, the valley was still filled with demonic aura.

In reality, the celestial demon aura had already flooded the area, and the vegetation that had become demons began to shed their bark, and half-meter-sized celestial demon eggs grew on the branches.

Ren Qing was also startled by the sudden uncontrolled celestial demon aura.

Fortunately, he had simply refined the aberrant creature, using the methods of flesh and blood artifacts, so that the subsequent aura release was relatively gradual.

Ren Qing was about to release the second aberrant creature when he felt several figures heading towards the valley, seemingly searching for the source of the celestial demon aura.

It wasn't the rabbit-toad cultivators, but five humanoid demonic beasts who had already surrendered.

They imitated the rabbit-toad cultivators, wearing gorgeous Taoist robes, chewing on the limbs of their own kind, and had moon-shaped tattoos engraved on their faces, their expressions incredibly fanatical.

Ren Qing smiled coldly; he was lacking sacrifices to feed the Supreme Celestial Demon.

He grabbed the tail of the dragon spine and left the valley, coming to a forest hundreds of miles away, leaking a trace of weak celestial demon aura.

The demonic beasts, believing they had found a clue, were filled with longing for immortal destiny.

According to their understanding, "celestial demons" were usually fixed in one place, constantly eroding the surrounding environment.

As long as they didn't get too close, it wouldn't be too dangerous.

Once they understood the specific information about the celestial demon and reported it to the demon immortal, they could obtain a large amount of demonic aura and the delicious flesh and blood of mortals.

The demonic beasts rushed towards the celestial demon aura, all wanting to gain the greatest merit in order to please the demon immortal from the upper realm.

However, when the demonic beasts arrived at the source, they saw an incredible scene.

A man was sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain, his shadow taking the shape of a dragon, exuding an aura that frightened them.

Fan Liu, the eagle demon, had once seen "celestial demons" with the demon immortal, and they certainly didn't look like the man, who looked more like…

He cautiously asked, "This… could you be a demon immortal?"

The other demonic beasts also became respectful, but their behavior was clearly probing; as long as they sensed something was wrong, they would immediately attack.

Ren Qing said, "Do you know that immortals stroke my head, and I receive longevity when my hair is bound up?"

"Huh?"

Ren Qing instantly disappeared from the spot, then placed his hands on the foreheads of two demonic beasts, celestial demon aura pouring out from the Yongjian Leixie.

Fan Liu's scalp tingled, and in his daze, screams rang out from his companions.

But then the screams turned into strange bleating sounds, and their skin gradually aged and fell off, revealing flesh and blood.

Fan Liu watched as a bizarre Black Mountain Goat crawled out of their skin.

The Black Mountain Goats frantically pounced on the demonic beasts, and only Fan Liu survived, fleeing in terror from the unspeakable horror.

Ren Qing casually used celestial demon aura to enlighten the two demonic beasts that were being gnawed on by the Black Mountain Goats.

The four Black Mountain Goats ignored Ren Qing, who had lost his sense of presence, and did not continue to slaughter living beings, but headed southwest.

Although they had no intelligence, their goal was clear: to find the aberrant creatures that had undergone celestial demonification and use them to attract more Black Mountain Goats to the Remnant Moon Layer.

Fan Liu fled for more than ten miles before trembling, took out a piece of rubble from his arms, and wanted to crush it to inform the demon immortal of the situation.

Just then, the shadow under his feet squirmed like a living thing.

The shadow spread to Fan Liu's hands and feet, making him freeze in place like a stone statue, only able to watch as Ren Qing walked towards him.

Ren Qing took Fan Liu into the Yongjian Leixie, and disappeared in a few flashes.

After a dizzying sensation, Fan Liu landed heavily in the wine lake, and then countless black ropes bound his entire body.

Then he fell into an eternal nightmare.

Through fragmented memories in the dream, Ren Qing roughly understood the purpose of the rabbit-toad cultivators: they were indeed using the Remnant Moon Layer as a springboard.

The Blood Moon, because of the Buddhist sect, was probably badly injured, so it couldn't wait to eat the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm to restore its injuries.

He quickly returned to the valley.

The ecology inside had undergone earth-shattering changes, the grass, trees, and rocks all showing a tendency to turn into flesh and blood, and bleating sounds could be heard everywhere.

Ren Qing successively buried the remaining two celestial demonified aberrant creatures underground, and the degree of flesh and blood transformation of the ecology in the valley became even more exaggerated.

The fruits hanging on the branches were like palace chambers nurturing living beings, and Black Mountain Goats were on the verge of being born.

Before long, the celestial demon aura would completely destroy the ecology.

Ren Qing used the Disaster Elimination Technique, Wu Gui temporarily swallowed the valley's sense of existence, and then he transformed into a black dragon and left.

He came to the place agreed upon with Hu Wen, and sat on the cliff with his eyes closed.

A few hours later, a terrifying celestial demon aura erupted in the distance, but it was not caused by the valley, but by several Black Mountain Goats causing trouble.

The demonic beast tide clearly stagnated.

The rabbit-toad cultivators immediately got up to deal with the disaster caused by the Black Mountain Goats.

But even Ren Qing underestimated the destructiveness of the Black Mountain Goats; celestial demon aura began to erupt one after another, and chaos spread.

The Primordial Era had not yet arrived, but the situation was tilting towards out of control.

The Jingzhou chapter is slowly coming to an end!!