The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing couldn't help but feel delighted, but he subconsciously looked at the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord, who had mostly freed himself, and was instantly doused with a bucket of cold water from head to toe.

The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord's amorphous body was constantly changing, with only the face lacking facial features remaining fixed.

The memories of refining treasures in Ren Qing's mind became increasingly bizarre, even including methods to refine forbidden cultivators into magical artifacts.

He closed off the five senses of his soul, feeling the guidance of his body.

After a moment of weightlessness, Ren Qing once again felt the cold touch of the rock, and the previous encounter seemed like a dream.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and erased the memories tampered with by the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord. Only a small portion of the content was useful to him, and most of it was highly poisonous.

The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord seemed to be dumping garbage into the souls of others, which could easily lead to the alienation of ordinary cultivators' souls.

Ren Qing carefully sorted through everything for more than ten days, and after confirming that there were no traces left, he felt relieved and summoned the information stream.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: 134 years】

Techniques:

【Corpse Fengdu (Initial Stage)】

【Mysterious Object: Unmelting Bone Zombie】

【Divine Power: No Life for the Dead】

【Celestial Position: Fengdu Corpse Emperor (Pseudo)】

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The "Pseudo" after the celestial position was because Ren Qing had not yet become an immortal and attained the Dao, so he had not completely mastered the celestial position of Fengdu Corpse Emperor.

【Corpse Fengdu】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires a dead body with an undying soul, and continuous nourishment of the body with the soul's aura for three years, after which the body's nascent soul can be devoured to complete the technique.】

【The upper limit of Corpse Fengdu is the Earth Immortal realm, and it can accommodate other techniques.】

Ordinary cultivators who attempt to cultivate Corpse Fengdu will only end up with a fragmented soul.

Once the body gives birth to a secondary soul, the main soul may not be able to subdue it, and may even be devoured by the secondary soul in turn. The difficulty of the technique is imaginable.

However, Ren Qing thought that it was normal since it involved Fengdu.

In the Taoist scriptures, the most famous deity related to Fengdu is the "Fengdu Emperor", also known as the Fengdu Beiyin Emperor, the Beitai Emperor, and the Beiyin Son of Heaven, who is in charge of the Netherworld.

The Fengdu Emperor's duty is to govern the six heavens of ghosts and gods under Fengdu, and is the incarnation of the Ziwei Emperor in the Netherworld.

An ancient saying goes: "In the past, the Jade Void Emperor of the North Pole Ziwei resided in the Ziwei Enclosure, as the master of all phenomena, surrounded by stars, as the emperor of all Dharma Golden Immortals, attending the Golden Palace above, and leading Fengdu below."

In the Taoist system, the Fengdu Emperor's authority in the Netherworld is extremely terrifying.

Of course, Ren Qing's celestial position is the Fengdu Corpse Emperor, not the Fengdu Emperor in the pure sense. Is it like a zombie becoming emperor?

Corpse Fengdu also has unique realms, namely the "Initial Stage" of the Martial Human Realm, the "White Ledger" of the Half-Corpse Realm, the "Life Recorder" of the Ghost Envoy Realm, the "Spirit Controller" of the Netherworld Official Realm, the "Ghost Official" of the Yang God Realm, the "Heavenly Fiend" of the Heavenly Guile Realm, and the "Grand Emperor" of the Earth Immortal Realm.

Ren Qing's current lifespan is still not immortal, but after cultivating Corpse Fengdu, he should gradually move closer to being ageless, unliving, undying, and indestructible.

【Do you want to advance to the White Ledger, which will consume one year of lifespan?】

He consumed his lifespan without hesitation, and the corpse core in his dantian immediately produced a change, from which a massive amount of Yin energy surged to nourish his flesh and blood.

Although it was still a zombie body, there was no decaying trend.

Ren Qing felt his flesh and blood perfectly absorbing the Yin energy, causing his body to undergo a transformation, approaching a state of neither life nor death.

【Do you want to advance to the Life Recorder, which will consume ten years of lifespan?】

The bones then followed the flesh and blood in absorbing the Yin energy, and even the internal organs became restless, and the blood began to cheer.

Ren Qing wanted to take advantage of the situation and advance to the Netherworld Official Realm, but found that he did not have enough lifespan.

When immortality was only a few steps away, but he could not reach it, Ren Qing naturally felt impatient and quickly looked towards the world in his stomach.

Ren Qing threw all kinds of lifespan-extending materials he had stored into the flesh and blood furnace, watching his lifespan increase towards the two hundred years required for the Netherworld Official Realm.

After a while, the impatience in his heart was mostly worn away.

Ren Qing knew that he could not avoid being affected by Corpse Fengdu. The temptation of immortality was too great, and it almost caused his state of mind to become unbalanced.

He forcibly closed the information stream, and while continuing to extend his lifespan, he paid attention to the situation of the beast pen people.

Although Ren Qing only felt that the ascent to the Heavenly Ladder was only half an hour, in reality, it had been several days, and the situation of the beast pen people had undergone earth-shattering changes.

They rebuilt the town, and the population size barely reached two hundred.

Houses and utensils made of flesh and blood appeared again. The seemingly unchanged development actually had subtle differences in all aspects.

The beast pen people deviated from their original path, using the principle of black goat wool to nurture flesh and blood, raising a creature called "meat sheep".

The meat sheep looked like skinned goats, but their habits were relatively docile.

The beast pen people treated the meat sheep as blood relatives, and fed them their own flesh and blood from childhood to adulthood, so that the meat sheep usually grew to hundreds of meters in size.

Ren Qing found that as long as a beast pen person was injured or their lifespan was exhausted, they would extract the flesh and blood of the meat sheep to strengthen themselves.

The lifespan of the beast pen people could indeed increase, but their daily consumption of lifespan was very fast, possibly several years or more each day.

Ren Qing noticed that because of their fear of lifespan exhaustion, the beast pen people focused on the meat sheep instead of flesh and blood machinery.

He was curious whether the fate of the beast pen people would change.

Ren Qing observed for a moment, realized that the town's population had not yet reached a surge, and then withdrew his consciousness and continued to cultivate in seclusion.

His lifespan finally reached more than two hundred years half a day later.

【Do you want to advance to the Spirit Controller, which will consume two hundred years of lifespan?】

Ren Qing exhausted his remaining lifespan, and suddenly a numb tingling came from all over his body, even his blood could not avoid it.

He frowned, and the feeling of weakness brought about by the exhaustion of lifespan was slowly disappearing, replaced by an almost constant physical state.

When the Corpse Fengdu advancement was completed, Ren Qing couldn't wait to summon the information stream.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: None】

………

Ren Qing could sense that his current immortality was different from when he was a zombie.

The immortality of a zombie was more like a manifestation of death and Dao dissipation. After living for thousands of years, the body would still become decayed.

However, Ren Qing also understood that only by reaching the level of an Earth Immortal with Corpse Fengdu, thereby completely mastering the celestial position of Fengdu Corpse Emperor, could he be considered truly ageless, unliving, undying, and indestructible.

He had reason to suspect that incomplete immortality had drawbacks.

【Do you want to advance to the Ghost Official, which will consume one thousand years of lifespan?】

Ren Qing hesitated again and again, silently canceled the Corpse Fengdu information stream, and then randomly picked a strange object jailer in the world in his stomach.

【Do you want to choose the branch Food Disaster Swift Wolf, which will consume two hundred years of lifespan?】

The ghost wolf was slightly uneasy, but soon found that a stream of energy was涌 out from its body, causing its body to continue to expand, and hideous bone armor covered it.

The ability of the Food Disaster Swift Wolf was similar to that of the Turtle Longevity, which could sense the location of disasters.

However, the ghost wolf could only detect military disasters, that is, wars between living beings, and use the killing aura emitted by the battlefield to cultivate.

The ghost wolf successfully advanced to the Netherworld Official Realm, and then was thrown back into the wolf den by Ren Qing.

Ren Qing did not find anything unusual about himself, but a subtle crack appeared on the turtle shell on his upper jaw at some point.

He first carefully confirmed it several times and found that it was not an external factor.

That means that before Ren Qing mastered the celestial position of Fengdu Corpse Emperor, consuming lifespan did have inexplicable drawbacks.

Fortunately, Ren Qing noticed that the crack on the turtle shell was slowly recovering.

After thinking for a few breaths, he removed the rule of the Dream City collecting lifespan, which greatly reduced the efficiency of lifespan extension.

However, it did not affect the speed of the crack recovery.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as it was not a chicken rib immortality that overdrafted lifespan in advance, it would be a great improvement for him.

【Do you want to advance to the Ghost Official, which will consume one thousand years of lifespan?】

Ren Qing continued to advance Corpse Fengdu to the Yang God Realm, and the corpse core completely shattered, causing Yin energy to fill the flesh and bones of his whole body.

The density of flesh and bones increased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It can be seen that the effect of Corpse Fengdu is extremely pure. In addition to the control of Yin energy, it completely acts on the strength of the body.

Crack crack crack...

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the rock under him, which was the leakage of strength pouring into the ground, indicating that his physique had skyrocketed too fast.

Ren Qing opened his mouth and spit out a thick Yin energy, filling the cave.

He felt that as long as his mind moved slightly, the bones in the surrounding soil could be revived, and the residual souls could also be turned into wronged souls.

Although the bones and wronged souls would temporarily occupy a part of the Yin energy, as long as they died, the Yin energy would return to Ren Qing's dantian.

For Ren Qing, it was like obtaining the ownership of Yin energy. No matter how he used it, there would be no consumption at all.

As long as the enemy he faced was weaker than himself, he could draw away their Yin energy at any time.

Ren Qing could imagine that when he advanced to the Earth Immortal, the Corpse Immortal would probably not even have the power to resist. No wonder it was the Fengdu Corpse Emperor.

Zhi Li Meng Xian was in charge of the world's dreams and diseases, and the Fengdu Corpse Emperor was in charge of all Yin souls and ghosts.

Ren Qing has a total of five main and secondary techniques. When he obtains all the celestial positions, I am afraid that even those above the Earth Immortal will not be able to do anything to him, right?

But soon the cruel reality hit Ren Qing.

The cracks on the surface of the turtle shell had extended several times, and were deeper than during the ominous omen, but the hexagram was clearly auspicious now.

Ren Qing guessed that the changes in the turtle shell should involve the Heavenly Guile Realm, or even becoming an immortal and attaining the Dao.

He watched the cracks gradually recover, and couldn't help but summon the Corpse Fengdu information stream to check.

【Do you want to advance to the Heavenly Guile Realm, which requires consuming 20,000 years of lifespan?】

Ren Qing resisted the idea of consuming lifespan. The Corpse Fengdu in the Yang God Realm should have a limit to bear, but he didn't know how much it was.

20,000 years or 30,000 years?

He always felt that directly advancing to the Heavenly Guile Realm was not safe. After touching the limit of incomplete immortality, there might be unpredictable changes.

Ren Qing decided to be cautious and wait for the cracks to shorten before proceeding.

Anyway, although this ghostly place of the beast pen is a poor and desolate place, at least there will be no danger, after all, the deterrence of the Supreme Heavenly Demon is there.

He plans to honestly cultivate in seclusion in the cave, and it is best to advance all five techniques to the Heavenly Guile Realm in order to protect himself.

Ren Qing is very curious about the division of the Heavenly Guile Realm. What is the road to immortality like?

What kind of world can he come into contact with after becoming an immortal?

Thanks to Zhihao Daoren, Lala Lala I am a newspaper seller, Book friend 20210221221038048, Yang, Red-haired brother, Chaimen Wen Fei's reward.