The Secret Way of Immortality

Bones piled up like mountains, stretching out endlessly, with no end in sight.

Such strange sights were scattered across the plains, resembling a human hell under the backdrop of gray-black clouds, sending chills down one's spine.

Dark masses of carrion insects swirled around the bone hills, attempting to find some lingering rotten flesh from the clean skeletons.

However, even in such a desolate land, there were still living beings.

Among the hills, faint, short figures could be seen wandering aimlessly, like scavengers in a garbage dump.

There were many scavengers, and their appearances were even more bizarre.

They wore tattered robes, and their exposed skin was translucent, revealing the internal organs, bones, and even blood vessels beneath.

The scavengers seemed to be searching for something, wandering aimlessly and no different from the carrion insects.

Occasionally, some scavengers would accidentally fall from the top of the hills, and even if they were on the verge of death, their companions would not react in the slightest.

There was no sun or moon in the sky, but the sky gradually darkened.

The scavengers left the bone hills one after another, most of them without any gains, and without lingering, they walked neatly towards a certain place.

Bang bang bang...

The sound of bones colliding suddenly came from the hillside, echoing continuously, immediately attracting the attention of some scavengers.

They pulled bone carts and quickly approached the source of the sound, not afraid of any potential dangers.

Obviously, the scavengers' intelligence was not enough to understand that something abnormal must be a demon, and their behavior was more like being driven by instinct.

More and more scavengers gathered, and soon they reached their destination.

Unexpectedly, the sound came from an inconspicuous pit, rustling, like rodents climbing upwards.

The scavengers took out tools similar to mining picks from the carts and began digging at the pit, their movements extremely stiff.

But their strength was surprisingly great, even a beastly cultivator in the half-corpse realm could not have such strength.

Crack...

A scavenger's hand bone could not withstand the recoil of the mining pick and broke, the bone immediately turned into three sections, and bone spurs pierced through the skin, dark red blood flowing down along the elbow.

He stared blankly at his right hand, without panic or pain, and actually walked directly towards a pile of skeletons beside him.

The scavenger forcibly pulled out a hand bone from the skeleton, compared it with his right hand, and then used his sharp nails to cut through the skin.

The translucent skin cracked, and more blood spurted out.

The bloody smell immediately attracted a large number of carrion insects, which eagerly rushed towards the wound, sucking the scavenger's blood.

The scavenger allowed the carrion insects to do evil, his expression still extremely dull.

He removed the broken hand bone, then gestured with the complete bone, and then forcibly stuffed it into the skin and flesh of his right hand.

The wound healed instantly, and the nerves and blood vessels autonomously connected to the new bone.

The scavenger moved his arm, and continued to dig expressionlessly, unable to see that the bone had been broken not long ago.

The situation of the other scavengers was similar, because of improper exertion, the bones all over their bodies suffered great torture.

But for the scavengers, it seemed that bones were just replaceable items, and if they broke, they simply replaced them with new ones on the spot.

The most outrageous thing was that a scavenger accidentally smashed his companion's skull with a swinging mining pick, but the latter installed a new skull without any impact.

Nothing could stop the scavengers from stopping until they dug out a shriveled, strange corpse, and then they put down their mining picks.

The corpse's skin was covered with wrinkles, and the body was relatively swollen, looking like it was piled up with hundreds of layers of skin.

The scavengers carefully placed the corpse on the cart, but then did not choose to leave, but raised their mining picks and dug again.

After a full five or six hours.

There were three more similar corpses in the cart, all covered with layers of thick human skin, and the volume far exceeded ordinary skeletons.

The scavengers looked at each other, wondering what kind of communication they were using.

After a few breaths, they took the initiative to transport the corpses in groups of three, otherwise the bone cart could not bear the weight of the corpses at all.

Bang bang bang...

Just as the scavengers were about to leave the bone hills, an arm suddenly stretched out from the pit.

The arm was covered with traces of decay, but it did not attract carrion insects, and the flesh had begun to show signs of atrophy.

Under the gaze of the scavengers, a dried corpse crawled out of the pit, and the stench killed more than half of the carrion insects.

When the smell of the dried corpse converged again, the body seemed to recover some vitality, and its mouth made a hoarse murmur.

"What a hellish place, almost let the Tai Sui Sutra get out of control."

The dried corpse was naturally Ren Qing himself, he muttered, jumped onto the bone cart, and casually found a corner to lie down.

The scavengers' intelligence was difficult to understand the behavior of the dried corpse.

They were like puppets set with certain instructions, they didn't care about Ren Qing at all, and pulled the cart towards the bottom of the bone mountain.

Ren Qing closed his eyes to check his own situation, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Originally, he thought that the corpse transformation when the giant corpse Buddha's stomach fell into the ground was already very exaggerated, but he did not expect the hinterland to be even more terrifying.

As soon as Ren Qing approached a hundred meters from the surface, he felt the moisture in his flesh and blood being drawn away, and even his internal organs shrunk to one-tenth of their size.

He almost fell into dead corpse transformation, but fortunately he reacted in time to perform the Rebirth Technique.

The vitality Ren Qing used to maintain was more than twice as much as before, which barely prevented the corpse transformation of his body from continuing to deteriorate.

The corpse transformation of the creatures in the stomach world also became more intense, so they had to reduce the time flow to normal and maintain it with vitality.

He couldn't help but feel jealous, fortunately he didn't rush to bring the giant corpse Buddha, otherwise at least half of the cultivators in the Forbidden Corps would die violently.

In stark contrast to Ren Qing were the three cocoon people who emerged from their cocoons.

Don't look at their appearance like corpses, but their vitality has been recovering, but their souls are lost and it is difficult to wake up their consciousness.

Ren Qing had a bold guess in his heart, and the ghost shadow under his feet touched the scavenger's body, and suddenly a stream of information surged.

[Pijie]

[Age: Three hundred and twenty-six]

[Lifespan: None]

[Art: Corpse Refining Technique (Pseudo Zombie)]

[Corpse Refining Technique]

[Created by ***, cultivation requires the body to have no vitality, but the soul still exists, absorb corpse energy for ten days to recover, and then it can be cultivated.]

The dead man's restricted area really involves ***, could the dead man's scripture also be created by him, how does it feel that there is a lot hidden in it.

If a non-existent person wants to lay out a plan, I am afraid that no one in the world can stop it.

The "pseudo zombie" displayed in the information flow is also difficult for Ren Qing not to care about.

Perhaps only zombies can keep their lifespan constant at "none", allowing Ren Qing to be immortal and attain immortality.

Ren Qing decided to obtain the corpse refining technique, maybe there are clues to the dead man's scripture in it.

With a slight movement of his mind, the dream flower fell on the brow of the scavenger named Pijie, and as a result, he noticed that the latter's three souls and seven spirits were extremely weak, and his consciousness was so weak that he could not think independently.

Fortunately, Ren Qing still obtained some scattered memory fragments.

The memory fragments were all scenes from the scavenger's life, allowing Ren Qing to understand the existence of "jellyfish people".

Jellyfish people are very similar to jellyfish in the ocean, the semi-transparent skin dominates the body, and flesh and bones are not important.

Although they use internal organs to maintain their bodies, use bones to support flesh, and use brains to contain souls, these organs are replaceable.

In this way, jellyfish people theoretically have the ability to be immortal, and as long as the organs are aging, they can be directly replaced with new ones.

But unfortunately, no matter how jellyfish people replace their organs, the limit of heaven and man can never be avoided.

The lifespan of jellyfish people is generally the same as that of cocoon people, about three hundred years, which is a chilling coincidence.

When they reach the limit of heaven and man, they will secrete a viscous liquid to wrap their skin, and finally turn into an amber state, sealing themselves in it.

In the records of the jellyfish people, there are actually rumors similar to breaking out of cocoons and becoming immortals, but they are called "petrified immortals".

The scavengers in the dead man's restricted area have actually experienced petrified immortals.

Just like the cocoon people who emerged from their cocoons, even without vitality, they can adapt to the environment of the dead man's restricted area, which shows that there is indeed some connection.

Ren Qing suspects that whether it is cocoon people, or jellyfish people, or earthworm people who have not been in contact much, any creatures involved in the dead man's restricted area will attain immortality after their lifespan is exhausted.

These ordinary cultivators, or cocoon people who have not experienced becoming immortals, will inevitably appear corpse transformation trends in the dead man's restricted area.

Like the difference between stowaways and natives.

Wait...

Ren Qing was startled.

After the corpse transformation reaches the level of dead corpse transformation, will he want to enter hibernation, could there be another way to attain immortality?

If he conforms to the dead man's restricted area, can the Forbidden Corps adapt to the situation of corpse transformation?

Ren Qing then shook his head and denied it. Although becoming an immortal makes the physique transform, there is no doubt that the soul will be destroyed.

It is estimated that the place where the scavengers took the cocoon people should have a means to give birth to the latter's soul, forming a similar pseudo zombie?

Ren Qing looked back at this inconspicuous bone hill, the giant corpse Buddha was buried a thousand meters underground.

What puzzled him was that the goal of the Buddha's aura was clearly the dead man's restricted area, but when the giant corpse Buddha arrived, it fell into silence again.

The feeling Ren Qing had was very strange, as if the Buddha's aura only knew that the current Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva was in the dead man's restricted area, but did not know the specific location.

He prepared to figure out the situation before saying anything, and then converged his sense of existence.

The scavengers walked in the bone-covered plain, facing the afterglow of the setting sun, and occasionally replaced their bones because their arms were broken.

If there is a underworld in this world, it should be like this.

When the world was about to be shrouded in darkness, the scavengers came to a quiet foot of the mountain, standing still in a daze.

Ren Qing suddenly felt something was wrong, there was a malice floating in the darkness.

He looked behind him, the double pupils of his eyes exerted to the extreme, but he did not notice the slightest strangeness, as if it was just an illusion.

The wind howled, mixed with ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Just as Ren Qing couldn't help but use the ghost shadow to protect himself, a white bone boulder was pushed away, revealing a bottomless cave.

The scavengers stepped into the cave, and the white bone boulder was moved back.