The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing's pupils dilated, and using the information stream to check, he found that they were merely dead eggs of the Heavenly Dao Insect.

But it wasn't just one or two Heavenly Dao Insect eggs that were abnormal; in fact, hundreds of thousands of them were cultivated from infant embryos.

He sent some of the Heavenly Dao Insect eggs to Li Yaoyang's cave dwelling in his stomach world, asking the latter to help find the clues within.

Ren Qing then took out several hundred Heavenly Dao Insect eggs and placed them in front of him, then used the Ancestral Vein Manifestation.

After advancing to the Heavenly Aberrant realm, he no longer needed to bestow dragon blood to living beings through blood; he could do it merely with the saliva from his mouth and nose.

Ren Qing then established a primary-secondary connection with the Heavenly Dao Insect eggs.

The Heavenly Dao Insect eggs trembled for no reason. Although they were still dead eggs, they briefly revived with the help of the fused, diluted dragon blood.

Ren Qing crossed his arms and stared intently at the insect eggs with a solemn expression.

Before long, the volume of the insect eggs began to swell, and the embryos inside also grew, the deformed flesh gradually disappearing.

What Ren Qing was doing was removing the Heavenly Dao Insect bloodline from the insect eggs, then stimulating the embryos to develop, creating the illusion of revival.

The Heavenly Dao Insect eggs stopped developing when they reached half a meter, mainly because the dragon blood content was too low.

Inside the amber-colored insect eggs, corpses of seven or eight-year-old children were curled up, and it was clear from their appearance that they were Heavenly Dao Sons.

However, the Heavenly Dao Sons only had shells; there was no sign of souls being nurtured, and their skin, flesh, limbs were twisted to varying degrees, and their skin was covered with a layer of fine dragon scales.

"What exactly is going on with the insect nest?"

The insect nest had likely been in contact with the Non-Action Daoist Temple hundreds of years ago, but why use the flesh and blood of Heavenly Dao Sons to cultivate Heavenly Dao Insect Humans?

Could it be because the Heavenly Dao Sons, as the heads of the Non-Action Daoist Temple, had the most Heavenly Dao Insects parasitized in them, making them closer to the concept of human-insect integration?

Ren Qing was confused. He couldn't figure out the specific situation by guessing alone; he would at least have to contact the broodmother of the insect nest to know.

After hesitating for a moment, he directly took the four broodmothers' cave dwellings into his stomach world.

Fungus people densely covered all parts of the cave dwellings, collecting useful clues, not even letting go of the dust in the cave dwellings.

Ren Qing obtained the information acquired by the fungus people in his mind, and thousands of fungus souls analyzed the clues.

From some traces, he could discover the broodmothers' daily habits, but there seemed to be no reproductive behavior.

Perhaps the broodmothers did not lay eggs in the cave dwellings?

Ren Qing left the entrance of the cave dwelling with doubts and appeared next to Taihan Zhenren.

When Taihan Zhenren saw that it was Ren Qing, he quickly bowed and said softly, "Immortal Venerable, it shouldn't be long before we can sort out the resources in the insect nest."

"That doesn't matter. I have something I want to ask you."

Ren Qing looked at the busy Insect Vein cultivators. In fact, all the Heavenly Dao Insect Humans were male, but he hadn't paid much attention to it before.

Ordinary Heavenly Dao Insect Humans did not participate in reproductive activities at all.

Mainly because the broodmothers' image was half-woman and half-maggot, he assumed that the gender of Heavenly Dao Insect Humans would undergo earth-shattering changes after advancing to the Heavenly Aberrant realm.

"Taihan, you and Yuhua should be approaching the Consummation of Spirit Division, right?"

"I have reached the late stage of Spirit Division, Zhenren Yuhua is a little behind, but the resources of the Insect Vein are very abundant, so it shouldn't be long."

Taihan Zhenren didn't know what Ren Qing meant, but he still answered honestly.

Ren Qing continued to ask while looking at Taihan Zhenren, "Taihan, have you ever felt anything unusual about yourself?"

"Returning to Immortal Venerable, no, I haven't..."

Taihan Zhenren only felt that Ren Qing's gaze was unusually eerie, as if he was completely exposed in front of the other party.

Even at the Yang Soul realm, Heavenly Dao Insect Humans were only about two meters tall.

They did have human faces, but their bodies were in the shape of Heavenly Dao Insects, and they were generally closer to Heavenly Dao Insects rather than humans.

But the broodmothers were more than a thousand meters tall, with insect bodies on their lower halves and women on their upper halves, almost comparable to the Blessed Earth Immortals.

The two didn't seem to be the same race at all...

Perhaps the Heavenly Dao Insect Humans, the broodmothers' descendants, were fabricated Heavenly Dao Insect Humans cultivated based on the blood of the Heavenly Dao Sons?

After all, theoretically speaking, if Heavenly Dao Insect Humans would transform after breaking through to the Heavenly Aberrant realm, then there should be signs of it in the Yang Soul realm.

Ren Qing then asked a few more questions.

He learned from Taihan Zhenren that the number of broodmothers in the insect nest had not increased or decreased for thousands of years; it had always been the current four.

Ren Qing couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and Li Yaoyang did discover something unusual.

Li Yaoyang noticed that the original Heavenly Dao Insect eggs in the insect nest were essentially different from the Heavenly Dao Insect eggs bred by the Blessed Earth Immortals; the insect nest eggs were more like crude replicas.

The broodmothers must have interfered with the insect nest eggs to some extent; otherwise, the hatched Heavenly Dao Insect Humans would be very weak.

Finally, there was a large-scale screening of insect eggs to make them closer to Heavenly Dao Insects.

After Li Yaoyang learned that Ren Qing had hundreds of thousands of insect nest eggs, he immediately felt a faint pain in his temples and couldn't help but feel a headache.

Even if he forcibly used resources to stimulate the insect nest eggs, the survival rate would probably be frighteningly low.

"Brother Ren, the insect nest eggs don't seem to be bred; they seem to be generated by spells."

After hearing Li Yaoyang's opinion, Ren Qing gradually had some guesses in his mind.

As the broodmothers were closest to the Blessed Earth Immortals, they were likely of the same lineage thousands of years ago, but they chose to betray Jingzhou.

They were probably unable to reproduce, so they tried to replicate Heavenly Dao Insect eggs using the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Dao Sons.

They did try successfully, but the Heavenly Dao Sons were only at the Yang Soul realm when they were alive, so it was estimated that Heavenly Dao Insect Humans would have difficulty breaking through the limits of the Yang Soul realm.

Now that the Non-Action Daoist Temple had been destroyed, the survival rate of insect nest eggs should be decreasing year by year. If the broodmothers obtained the Immortal Seat of the Blessed Earth Immortals, they could actually solve the problem from the source.

The insect nest had been unable to get what it wanted, and the human-insects were probably an alternative attempt.

Although the human-insects had a low lifespan, Ren Qing had checked that at least the human-insects could reproduce, and their cultivation potential was still not bad.

The only pity was that the human-insects were still contrary to the Blessed Earth Immortals.

The human-insects transplanted insect limbs and needed to use the secretions of Heavenly Dao Insects to suppress them. Acquired rejection could also be suppressed by refining Gu.

It was also reasonable for the broodmothers of the insect nest to abandon the human-insects.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction of Jingzhou. There must be some reason why the four major broodmothers led millions of Heavenly Dao Insect Humans out of their nests and headed to the Buddhist realm.

The situation in Jingzhou was becoming more and more complicated. He didn't know what kind of trouble the insect nest would cause.

"Taihan."

"Here."

Ren Qing's expression was calm, and then he issued an order: "Finish processing the resources of the insect nest as soon as possible, and return to the Heavenly Palace immediately."

Taihan Zhenren immediately made arrangements, and the cultivators of the Imprisoned Corpses Hall began to thoroughly plunder the inside and outside of the insect nest, not letting go of a single flower or grass.

While collecting resources, they also arranged spells in key positions.

The role of the spells was to produce violent explosions. Naturally, Ren Qing could not allow the Imprisoned Corpses Hall to leave obvious traces in the insect nest.

Next, he had to focus his energy on the dual Immortal Seats of Jingzhou and had no time to deal with other things.

Ren Qing came to the ground of the insect nest and waited for a moment before the cultivators of the Imprisoned Corpses Hall swarmed out of the entrances of the caves.

He signaled Taihan Zhenren to assess the gains of each cultivator, and he also had to compensate the cultivators responsible for guarding and vigilance with some blood crystals.

The Insect Vein and Corpse Vein made a lot of money this time, and he didn't know how many cultivators broke through bottlenecks.

Ren Qing's mind moved slightly, and ghost shadows covered the mountain, and a hundred-meter-sized portal loomed.

Led by Yang Soul realm cultivators, the cultivators immediately returned to the stomach world, and the originally lively insect nest suddenly became silent.

Hundreds of thousands of human-insects followed behind the team, watching the portal with ignorant expressions.

They breathed rapidly, never thinking that they could go to the Immortal Realm, where it was said that they didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and they could also cultivate immortal arts and attain the Dao.

The insect beasts, as appendages, were pulled towards the portal with iron chains.

The human-insects were assigned to the Gu Insect Island overseas, where they would also cultivate Gu refining techniques.

However, the resources of the island were limited, and they could only obtain them from the Wine Sea, hunting sea beasts and exchanging them for the necessities of life from Dream City; otherwise, it would be impossible to support a million people.

Ren Qing glanced at the empty Gobi Desert, and then activated the spells.

Boom boom boom...

Deafening explosions rang out from the air, and the ground suddenly sank continuously towards the center, and the flat insect nest turned into a basin.

Ren Qing didn't know if the broodmothers could sense the condition of the insect nest, but of course, they probably didn't care about hundreds of thousands of human-insects.

Ren Qing used Celestial Demon Possession and came to the familiar Dragon Blood Sea.

During his stay in the insect nest, the Buddhist realm of the Light-Fixing Buddha had expanded again, and the Endless Forest had been covered by four-fifths of it.

It should be known that the Endless Forest was formed by a Heavenly Aberrant corpse, and it was possible that the Buddhist realm would cause some negative effects.

Ren Qing then busied himself with transferring the Immortal Seat, choosing a valley 50,000 miles away from Jingzhou.

He had a gradually complete map in the Treasure Pavilion of the stomach world.

Now that the cultivators of the Imprisoned Corpses Hall were exploring the strange areas of this world, the speed of map completion was getting faster and faster, and it already encompassed hundreds of thousands of miles.

The place that Ren Qing planned to use as a temporary cave dwelling was named "Ape Mountain" by him.

Ape Mountain was located in a remote area, and the only force occupying it was an old and frail Yang Soul realm cultivator, and the rest of the cultivators didn't even have a Yin Messenger realm.

Ren Qing transformed into Ancestral Dragon and plunged into the deep and boundless ocean.

The water waves suddenly became turbulent, and thousands of meters of black shadows shuttled through it, and the nearby dragons were frightened and fled.

Boom!!!

When the dragon's head leaped out of the water, it was already biting two crystal-clear jade stones in its mouth, which were the magical artifacts used to seal the Wind God Boqiang and the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal.

The dragon claws also grabbed a well-shaped magical artifact, which contained the Longevity Forbidden Zone and two Arhats who listened to the hypothetical Dharma assembly.

Because of the particularity of the Immortal Seat, Ren Qing didn't dare to put it into the stomach world, and Celestial Demon Possession couldn't take the Immortal Seat tens of thousands of miles away.

He simply threw the Immortal Seat and the Forbidden Zone to the ghost shadows for preservation, and then eliminated his own sense of existence and soared towards his destination.

Ren Qing was careful all the way, and he was always 5,000 miles away from Jingzhou.

However, because of the deterrence of the Light-Fixing Buddha, the surrounding forces had already withdrawn, and not to mention cultivators, even wild beasts could not be seen.

Even if there were towns and villages, they were already empty.

Ren Qing had the illusion that this world had returned to normal.

But when he came 10,000 miles away from Jingzhou, he noticed that there were many forces with ulterior motives, all secretly staring at the Light-Fixing Buddha.

However, the forces were relatively restrained, and their main purpose was only to pay attention to the movements at all times.

If the Buddhist realm continued to ferment, he didn't know what kind of waves it would form, and it might produce unexpected changes.

When Ren Qing approached Ape Mountain within a hundred miles, he saw a valley hidden in the forest, which seemed to be silent.

Within a radius of thousands of miles, there were almost no high-value resources.

As a result, Ape Mountain rarely came into contact with the outside world, like the Fengkong people of that year, and it might not be able to encounter other forces for hundreds of years.

The topography of the valley was very special, and the whole was vertically downward for thousands of meters, like a gully existing in the corner of the forest, and few people visited it.

If Ren Qing arranged a formation, he could easily hide the valley.

The most important thing was that, according to the exploring cultivators, there was a crack in the valley, connecting the underground river that ran for tens of thousands of miles.

The underground river might even have tributaries leading to the direction of Jingzhou, and it might be possible to find out the situation if it was partially covered by the Buddhist realm.

Ren Qing could continue to breed the Dragon Blood Sea in it to help heal the Heavenly Dao cracks.

He put away the Ancestral Dragon True Body, and then landed on the top of the mountain next to the valley, looking towards the dense forest, he could vaguely hear the sound of monkeys chirping.

As the name suggests, Ape Mountain was occupied by a group of wild monkeys.

The wild monkeys had developed an alternative cultivation civilization, but unfortunately they did not understand human language, and they were elusive, and the exploring cultivators did not go deep.

When Ren Qing arrived, all the wild monkeys gathered in the corner of the valley, seemingly holding some kind of ceremony, and the scene was extremely noisy.

The wild monkeys did not wear clothes and rarely used tools.

They didn't even know how to speak, and they relied entirely on gestures to communicate on weekdays, making it impossible for the outside world to detect the signs of wild monkeys.

Ren Qing saw hundreds of monkeys dancing on the back of the ridge.

They were surrounded by an old monkey with white hair all over its body. It seemed that the latter was the leader of Ape Mountain, but its lifespan was exhausted.

Ren Qing didn't plan to pay attention to Ape Mountain and was going to go directly to the underground river.

He found that the pond in the valley was connected to the underground river, which made the pond water warm in winter and cool in summer, and occasionally flushed fish corpses.

The ceremony held by the wild monkeys was not far from the pond.

Ren Qing instantly came to the pond in mid-air, leaned over and wanted to rush into the water, when he suddenly heard the old monkey in the Yang Soul realm couldn't help but roar.

"Huh?"

His eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly noticed the power system of Ape Mountain.

In the dantian of the wild monkeys, a blood-red aura would be derived, which could be used to nourish the fur and increase their own defense.

According to the information flow display, the spell of Ape Mountain was called "Skin Nourishing Method", an extremely rudimentary spell, which was very difficult even for the Yang Soul realm.

[Skin Nourishing Method]

[Created by eunuch Huang Ling, cultivation requires holding an ounce or two of heart meat in the tip of the tongue until the heart meat rots, then it can be completed.]

The Yang Soul realm cultivated by the Skin Nourishing Method was probably not even an opponent of ordinary Yin Messengers.

What Ren Qing cared about was that the Skin Nourishing Method was actually created by Huang Ling, and this person had appeared several times in the spells of the Imprisoned Corpses Hall.

The old monkey was dying, and its arms were beating its chest like a flash in the pan, making a loud roar in its mouth, and then becoming weak.

The wild monkeys looked greedy and scrambled to get in front of the old monkey.

The old monkey used a stone shard to pierce its forehead, enduring the pain as it cut open its skin, a foul, rotten stench spreading from the wound.

The surrounding wild monkeys became exceptionally terrified, pointing at the old monkey and retreating repeatedly.

The old monkey trembled, dropping the stone shard, and with both hands, it gripped the two ends of its fur, forcefully tearing the entire pelt off bit by bit.

It revealed a bloody body, and its cultivation visibly deteriorated.

Even though the old monkey was barely breathing, it refused to let the monkey troop help it shed its skin, enduring until the pelt was completely removed.

Ren Qing noticed that the skinless old monkey had no tail at all.

This suggested that they were likely ordinary humans originally, but because they wore monkey skin, they had eventually completely transformed into the appearance of apes.

The monkey troop then selected a candidate to inherit the pelt, a strong young monkey whose cultivation was among the few at the Ghost Envoy realm.

It peeled off its own skin, screaming in agony from the pain, and finally put on the old monkey's pelt, its cultivation immediately rising from the Ghost Envoy realm to the Yang God realm.

"As expected of the techniques created by Huang Ling, they are truly incredibly wicked."

Ren Qing knew of three Huang Ling techniques: "Human Skin Book," "Resurrection Technique," and "Beast Heart Ghost," all of which required torture to cultivate.

【Human Skin Book】

【Created by Eunuch Huang Ling, cultivating this technique requires peeling off the skin completely, taking specific medicinal primers to regrow it, repeating this seven times to achieve success.】

【Resurrection Technique】

【Created by Eunuch Huang Ling, cultivation requires using the willing souls of blood relatives as a primer, creating a gap between one's own soul and body, using this to replace the brain, only then can it be successfully cultivated.】

【Beast Heart Ghost】

【Created by Eunuch Huang Ling, cultivating this technique requires cutting off a child's limbs, taking medicinal primers and hiding them in an animal's palace, waiting for the limbs to regrow before it can be successfully cultivated.】

When the young ape wore the old ape's pelt, the wounds automatically healed, and its seventy years of life were reduced to just over five.

The other wild monkeys scrambled to snatch the young ape's original pelt.

Monkeys with low cultivation would wear the pelts of those with high cultivation, using external objects to break through their own levels, eventually leaving only a Martial Human realm pelt.

Ren Qing nonchalantly picked up the pelt and casually put it into the Treasure Pavilion.

He felt that Huang Ling's skin-nurturing method was interesting, and he might be able to refine a Dharma cloak that could temporarily increase cultivation.

If Ape Mountain were given a thousand years, it could very well develop into a bizarre civilization.

Apes would be domesticated into puppets, and pelts would be passed down from generation to generation, sooner or later breeding intelligence and forming a strange symbiotic relationship.

Ren Qing used Toe Separation to directly obtain the contents of the technique from the ape's memory, discovering that it had the same effect as the Human Skin Book.

He handed the pelt to Little San'er,tasking the latter with exploring the possibility of refining magical items.

Since the skin-nurturing method was indeed a shortcut technique, Ren Qing told Little San'er to avoid leaking the contents as much as possible.

Ren Qing originally wanted to take all the monkey troops into the stomach world, but since Huang Ling was involved, if Ape Mountain was the latter's farm, it was better not to act rashly, as it would easily startle the snake.

He only took some Martial Human realm apes and placed them in the central mountains of the stomach world.

The monkey troop happened to be able to surround the newly born mountain gods, especially the White Bone Lady's pseudo-soul, making the whole thing very active, and the speed of intelligence growth was also the fastest.

It was just that the Tai Sui Taoist's spores showed no reaction even after merging with the Ghost Immortal position.

Ren Qing plunged into the pond, using the amorphous shadow dragon body to drill into the source of the water flow, feeling the turbulent and rapid river.

Traveling hundreds of miles along the underground river, the surrounding space became wider and wider.

There were also some strange creatures in the river, with appearances like deformed and terrifying half-fishmen, with low intelligence, relying entirely on instinct to hunt.

Ren Qing checked the information flow of the strange fish, and as a result, the strange fish also mastered the skin-nurturing method.

He was even more certain that this place was Huang Ling's farm, but after thousands of years, whether Huang Ling was still alive was a question.

Besides that, there were no flaws in the underground river.

Ren Qing found a karst cave to settle down, and then began to arrange the cave, and released a large number of fungal people to help manage the environment.

The efficiency of the fungal people was extremely high, and they quickly covered the cave, and then began to plant dragon blood moss.

There was no need for Ren Qing to do anything, some insects had already shown a tendency to dragonize, as the end of the food chain, it would not take long for them to spread the dragon blood ecosystem.

Ren Qing stood in the cave, the surrounding environment was constantly changing, and there were even patches of newly excavated fertile land in the corners.

The fungal people only needed a moment to ensure self-sufficiency in food.

For them, one breath might be as long as one day, and in just half a day, the fungal people tribe could reproduce for several generations.

Ren Qing stored the Immortal Position in the cave, and set up spells to protect it.

He just wanted to rest, and by the way, meditate on the Creation of Heaven and Earth, to prepare for the perfection of the Heavenly Abnormality Realm, the Heavenly Dao Rift would be healed in a few years.

As a result, a tributary of the underground river collapsed, and the Buddhist Realm began a new expansion.

The area added by the Buddhist Realm was irregular, it had been more than half a month since the last time, and Ren Qing thought that the Fixed Light Buddha was no longer messing around.

Darkness was like a flood, and the Endless Forest was completely submerged by the Buddhist Realm.

If Ren Qing could see the Endless Forest, he would find that the blood vessel-like vines were drawn from the soil, and the trees were pieced together to form the framework of bones.

The Buddhist Realm also took into account the effect of the Heavenly Demon aura, and flesh and blood grew from the skeleton.

The skeleton frantically absorbed the darkness, causing the range of the Buddhist Realm to shrink for the first time, and the exposed ground was scarred.

The ground could see human-shaped pits, as if a Black Goat was hiding in them, but was driven to the depths of the Buddhist Realm.

The Endless Forest was not the resurrection of the Heavenly Abnormality Realm cultivators who had died, but a huge Black Goat was being born.

Ren Qing's scalp tingled, he suspected that the expansion of the Buddhist Realm to the Beast Pen was the end, what kind of situation would appear then?

It was impossible for him to stop the Fixed Light Buddha, there was no one in this world to sacrifice himself, anyway, all the family property was in the stomach world, and he could run away at any time.

Ren Qing felt that the Fixed Light Buddha had a great influence on the Nameless, especially the only two Heavenly Abnormality Realm "Black Crow Matriarch" who had fallen into the Buddhist Realm.

His plan was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the Little Heavenly Court had attracted hundreds of cultivators.

The cultivators cleaned up statues of Immortals and Gods from the ruins and placed them at the South Heavenly Gate, and actively searched for external information.

Some of the Immortal and God statues did involve external Immortal Positions, and only the truth and falsehood could deceive this group of cultivators who were hundreds of years old.

Ren Qing intentionally or unintentionally guided them, and the exploration of the Buddhist Realm had not stopped.

But relying on the fungal souls alone, the progress was not as fast as the expansion of the Buddhist Realm, especially since it was impossible to perceive direction and time in the darkness.

Ren Qing wanted to figure out how to shield the influence of darkness, otherwise finding the Taiyin Star Lord who was trapped in Jing Prefecture was completely like looking for a needle in a haystack.