The Secret Way of Immortality

The city of corpses was surrounded by howling winds, and thousands of zombies were undergoing a renewed cultivation of the Corpse Refinement Method, the atmosphere no longer as deathly silent as before.

The green zombies confined in coffins could avoid the collapse of flesh and blood and awaken from their long slumber as long as they could enter the Corpse Refinement Method.

However, their intelligence was clearly affected, causing them to become dull.

Of course, Ren Qing felt that the simple-mindedness of zombies was not a bad thing, at least it allowed them to focus on the cultivation of the Corpse Refinement Method.

As for the Sui Sui Art, the zombies' progress was somewhat slow.

Ren Qing could not provide resources to help them for free, so the zombies have not yet shown a trend towards reaching the Martial Artist Realm.

He didn't have a good solution for this.

Only after the zombies were incorporated into the Giant Corpse Buddha could they obtain enough resources to cultivate the Sui Sui Art through various tasks.

Fortunately, the zombies had not lived for hundreds or thousands of years in vain, at least their accumulation in the aspect of refining tools was quite good, as could be seen from the coffin making.

With the replenishment of more than ten thousand zombies, the Corpse Guard Hall should be able to control the Giant Corpse Buddha.

Moreover, the zombies were not affected by the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone, and they did not need vitality to maintain their bodies, which could reduce a lot of pressure on the Underworld Yellow Springs.

Currently, hundreds of cultivators have tried to master the Sui Sui Art, and with the bladder inside the Giant Corpse Buddha able to maintain the vitality of some people, the Underworld Yellow Springs barely managed to break even.

Some alchemists saw the business opportunity and began to refine pills to increase vitality in large quantities, earning blood crystals from it.

The Corpse Guard Hall's purpose was to pursue resources, mainly due to Ren Qing's stimulation of the market, and even the Cishi people could not avoid it.

Ren Qing chose to stay in the Molten Furnace, watching his lifespan constantly approaching five thousand years, allowing his state of mind to gradually calm down.

The Undying Immortal of the Yang God Realm was a fusion between bizarre objects, and even if there was information flow, it did not mean that there was no danger at all.

Moreover, as long as he consumed five thousand years of lifespan, the Corpse Refinement Method would definitely be promoted at the same time.

Ren Qing had to be fully prepared to avoid unforeseen accidents caused by sudden changes in the two techniques.

He seemed to be forgotten by all the zombies, secretly rejoicing that he had not chosen to reveal his identity.

Only Tian Fang would occasionally come to the Molten Furnace to check whether Ren Qing had developed intelligence, but found that the latter was becoming more and more dull.

He was very disappointed by this and thought about finding a way to enlighten him from the Immortal's Dream Realm.

Ren Qing ignored Tian Fang, his energy was focused on sensing bizarre objects, and even his safety was protected by the Ghost Shadow.

............

The white bone hills on the ground.

Scattered scavengers wandered among the mountains of bones, trying to find fresh corpses to cultivate zombies and send them to the city of corpses.

However, since the problem of green zombies' flesh and blood collapsing was solved, the number of corpse raisers gradually decreased, let alone scavengers.

Corpse raisers went to the city of corpses one after another, where Lu Liang taught the contents of the Corpse Refinement Method.

Of course, there were also corpse raisers heading towards the surface.

Zhu Dashuang stepped onto the white bone hills amidst the gatekeeper's impatient instructions, his swollen and pale body constantly dripping with corpse water.

He muttered to himself and walked hesitantly into the distance.

Li Yiliang had been a gatekeeper for five hundred years. He looked at Zhu Dashuang's back, and then put the boulder back in place, blocking the entrance.

He knew that Zhu Dashuang had become accustomed to the identity of a corpse raiser, and so had he.

But since the zombies in the town found a way to solve the drawbacks of the Corpse Refinement Method, they began to gradually shrink their grazing grounds.

Zhu Dashuang had brought back three batches of pseudo-zombies in the past ten days or so. Once there were no more scavengers outside, he would have to go to the city of corpses.

Li Yiliang heard a rumor.

Tian Fang discovered the inheritance of the "Corpse Immortal", no longer having to endure the pain of flesh and blood collapse, and obtained the immortal cultivation method.

They were now mainly focused on cultivation, waiting for the Corpse Immortal to guide them away at any time.

Li Yiliang couldn't help but feel a myriad of thoughts, and an imperceptible longing appeared on his face, as if even the heart in his chest was beating.

He had recently received the evacuation information, and as soon as the corpse raisers brought back all the pseudo-zombies, he could explore the Corpse Immortal Dao.

However, thinking of this, Li Yiliang's eyes were filled with worry.

The underground was indeed calm, but that did not mean that the ground was the same. At least, he could occasionally hear rustling strange noises.

Especially at night, there were even earth-shattering sounds mixed in.

Li Yiliang had been a gatekeeper for hundreds of years, and he almost forgot when he last encountered such a situation, so he couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

Fortunately, the town was located deep enough, and the outside world would not affect them.

Li Yiliang leaned against the bottom of the boulder, his breath slowly restrained, and soon he became like a corpse, closing his eyes and waiting quietly.

He could hear the sound of the corpse-summoning bell ringing outside, gradually moving away.

That was the unique magic weapon of the corpse raisers.

Zhu Dashuang looked back at the closed entrance, and soon moved away from here.

Relying on the corpse-summoning bell's attraction to the pseudo-zombies, he gathered more than a dozen ragged scavengers in just a moment.

Zhu Dashuang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it would not be long before he could complete the task.

Of course, his efficiency was so fast thanks to the newly refined corpse-summoning bell, which could attract wandering pseudo-zombies within ten miles.

This magic weapon was specially refined by a green zombie in the Immortal's Dream Realm, who found a powerful cultivator to refine it.

Thinking that he was about to come into contact with the Immortal's Dream Realm, the confusion in Zhu Dashuang's heart suddenly disappeared, his pace unconsciously quickened, and his right hand shook the bell vigorously.

He was responsible for the area within twenty miles nearby, which was far from heavy.

After going out for several consecutive days, there were not many pseudo-zombies left in the white bone hills.

"Soul, come back, soul, come back..."

As long as the scavengers noticed the sound of the corpse-summoning bell, they would immediately get up and head towards the source, but their walking speed was relatively slow.

Then, Zhu Dashuang noticed that in the team of scavengers behind him, there were actually more than a dozen fresh corpses placed in carts.

Doubt filled Zhu Dashuang's heart.

Under normal circumstances, finding a corpse in thirty days was already very lucky. In fact, it was not surprising even if there were no gains for several months.

But now, how could so many corpses suddenly appear?

Zhu Dashuang's intelligence could not understand this abnormal phenomenon, so he simply stopped thinking about it and continued to summon scavengers with the bell.

What surprised him was that the number of corpses was still increasing, and soon it exceeded a hundred, and even the carts were full.

Zhu Dashuang also noticed that the corpses were not the common cocoon people and hibernating people, but a type he had never encountered before.

The lower bodies of the corpses were withered, while the upper bodies were covered with a thick layer of insect armor, and the flesh and blood in the gaps was orange-yellow.

Zhu Dashuang could only pile the corpses in the carts.

He did not know that the corpses were not naturally generated from the ground, but came from the creatures parasitizing within a huge behemoth.

There was only one possibility for the sudden appearance of a large number of corpses.

That was that a huge behemoth had approached the heart of the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone, and the corpses were accidentally brought out of its body during its movement.

Zhu Dashuang hurriedly looked around, and the number of pseudo-zombies had reached dozens, so he planned to return to the ground immediately.

Just then.

Crack...

One of the carts was damaged due to hitting a white bone skeleton, causing several corpses inside to scatter all over the ground.

Zhu Dashuang shook his head helplessly and had to signal the pseudo-zombies to carry the corpses forward.

But in this way, the pseudo-zombies would be affected by the heavy bodies, affecting their walking speed.

If it were a cultivator from the Corpse Guard Hall, he would definitely make a choice at the first time, after all, no matter how many corpses there were, it was just an unexpected gain.

Losing a few corpses was harmless, and the most important thing was his own safety.

But Zhu Dashuang had gone through hundreds of years of raising corpses, and his thinking had become inflexible, only thinking about bringing them all to the yamen to report.

This shows the rigidity of the zombies, so when they encounter unsolvable troubles, they have been in a state of waiting to die for thousands of years.

Even if there was an outlier who noticed the flaws in the Corpse Refinement Method, the ending was that they were forcibly buried underground, fearing that it would break the balance.

Zhu Dashuang led the corpse group towards the entrance.

He occasionally turned his head to pay attention to the pseudo-zombies behind him, so as to avoid the situation of falling behind.

But to Zhu Dashuang's surprise, those pseudo-zombies not only did not slow down because of the corpses, but instead walked faster and faster.

They even came from the rear of the corpse group to the front row, side by side.

Even if Zhu Dashuang was stupid, he realized that something was wrong, and his whole body suddenly emitted Yin Qi, raising his eyes to look at the strange pseudo-zombies.

I saw that the slender lower body of the corpse actually pierced into the spine of the pseudo-zombie, parasitizing on it in an alternative way.

The outer shell of the corpse covered the skin on the neck of the pseudo-zombie, and the face grew on the back of its head.

It can be said to be "one body with two faces".

Zhu Dashuang's pupils dilated, and the parasitism of the corpse on the pseudo-zombie enhanced its physique in disguise, and its behavior was still controlled by the corpse-summoning bell.

But the extra face on the back of his head was chattering to itself.

"Coming...coming...coming..."

"Coming...coming...coming..."

The voice from the face became louder and louder, as if reminding of the approaching danger, soaking Zhu Dashuang's whole body with corpse water.

"What's coming? What the hell is it?"

A strong sense of foreboding arose in his heart, urging the corpse group to speed up as much as possible.

Zhu Dashuang then discovered that the other corpse raisers in the distance were also encountering similar situations, and were rushing towards the entrance in a panic.

Boom boom boom...

The white bones were pouring to both sides, and a crack hundreds of meters long gradually appeared.

The thick corpse aura rushed towards them, and the carrion-eating insects flying in the air scrambled to get away, but many of them still turned into pus.

Bang!!!

A giant pincer hundreds of meters long stretched out from the ground, smashing on the ground and scattering the white bones.

When had Zhu Dashuang ever seen such a terrifying aura?

He couldn't care about the overturned corpse group. Whether he could survive next depended on fate.

No matter how hard Zhu Dashuang tried, it seemed that he was still within the range of the giant creature, which showed how huge the other party was.

Bang!!

A giant pincer stretched out from the ground.

The black-purple shell was covered with barnacles, and the barnacles were filled with eyeballs, constantly turning as the giant pincer opened and closed.

The huge behemoth struggled to crawl out of the crack, its appearance like a crab nearly a thousand meters long.

The protruding eyes showed colorful colors, and the limbs supporting the body were replaced by countless rotten tentacles.

The corpse crab spewed out thick yellow foam from its mouth, mixed with a large number of corpses.

Zhu Dashuang reacted. The huge behemoth was attracted by the strange corpses. He immediately pulled out the copper coin sword from his waist.

He killed the parasitized pseudo-zombies, and spat out corrosive corpse water to pour on the white bone cart, completely cutting off the vitality of the corpses.

Zhu Dashuang nimbly rushed into the fork leading to the entrance.

The corpse crab crawled smoothly, raised its giant pincer, picked up the corpse and sent it to its mouth, and then chewed it into pieces and sent it into its stomach.

It could cross hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and the struggling zombies were like headless flies.

Taking advantage of the gap when the corpse crab was feasting, Zhu Dashuang quickly came to the entrance and kept knocking on the closed boulder with his arms.

"Li Yiliang, open it quickly, Li Yiliang..."

Li Yiliang could hear the despair in Zhu Dashuang's voice. After hesitating for a few breaths, he quickly moved the boulder away from its original position.

Zhu Dashuang rushed into the cave in a panic.

Li Yiliang saw the giant crab whose size reached the sky, and couldn't help but be stunned in place. Zhu Dashuang pushed the boulder back.

After Zhu Dashuang completed all this, he lay on the ground exhausted and gasped for breath.

"This place is no longer safe, let's go quickly."

Li Yiliang came back to his senses. The movement made by the corpse crab became more and more intense, as if its appetite was endless, and even the white bone skeletons were stuffed into its mouth.

The two corpses did not dare to stay for too long, and hurried towards the city of corpses.

On the way, they also encountered several green zombies who wanted to find out what was going on. After Zhu Dashuang told them the details, the city of corpses immediately rang the copper bell.

The copper bell was placed on the top of the city wall, and had been reduced to decoration for thousands of years. Unexpectedly, it was rung several times today, deafeningly.

In front of the corpse crab, the zombies were like ants avoiding natural enemies, becoming extremely chaotic.

Inside the Molten Furnace, Ren Qing sat cross-legged beside the furnace. His appearance seemed ordinary, but his flesh and bones had turned into a demonic dark red.

He couldn't help but open his eyes after hearing the bell, and looked towards the ground.

The aura emitted by the corpse crab was too abrupt, and he could naturally sense it.

There was little Ren Qing could do. The corpse crab was at least in the Yang God Realm before it died, but after death, it became even more powerful because of the forbidden zone.

He did want to do something, but once the information flow was activated, it could not be stopped.

But that was fine, at least after breaking through to the Undying Immortal, his strength could be greatly enhanced, and he could advance and retreat freely at that time.

The reason why Ren Qing chose to be promoted to Undying Immortal was not the Shadowless Ghost, but the Eyeless Method.

After all, the Eyeless Method could help him better control the Giant Corpse Buddha, so as to exert strength far beyond the Yang God Realm.

Among the five techniques of the Eyeless Method, only the Nightmare Skill was still in the Yin Messenger Realm, so he consumed an additional five hundred years of lifespan for this.

After the Nightmare Skill was promoted to the Yang God Realm, it was called "Nightmare Demon Emperor", and its ability was mainly reflected in the complete control of the Nightmare Demon transformation of the body.

If it hadn't been forcibly suppressed by the Eyeless Method, Ren Qing would have completely turned into a Nightmare Demon.

The Nightmare Demon ignored physical attacks, and could freely shuttle through dreams, and could even use nightmares to achieve long-term possession of others.

Ren Qing spent a few days familiarizing himself with the Nightmare Demon Emperor, and immediately devoted himself to breaking through to the Undying Immortal.

[Do you want to be promoted to the Undying Immortal? It will consume 5,000 years of lifespan]

He had just reduced his lifespan to just over ten years, but something went wrong outside, and it was obviously unrealistic to want to pause again.

Ren Qing tried his best to restrain his breath. The Undying Immortal was fine, with the information flow in control, but the trouble was in the Corpse Refinement Method breaking through to Mao Zombie.

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This chapter is four thousand words, and there's one more chapter to come.