The Secret Way of Immortality

The Might of Giants Grotto was a completely barren desert, devoid of any flora or fauna. The Light-Chasing Flies were surprisingly the only living creatures.

Most cultivators had already noticed the strangeness of the Might of Giants Grotto.

The vengeful spirits would unknowingly absorb lifespan, while also numbing the soul's perception of the body, making it difficult for them to notice.

By the time they became aware, their lifespans had generally decreased by two to three hundred years.

Don't underestimate the fact that Heavenly Guile Realm cultivators can live for over two thousand years, and even rely on various methods to extend their lives for another thousand years or so.

But the problem was that the thousand or so cultivators participating in the Investiture of the Gods generally had lifespans of less than a thousand years, and two to three hundred years was enough to make their hearts ache.

If they went deep enough into the Might of Giants Grotto, the lifespan reduction would be far more than that.

If the Investiture of the Gods lasted for several hundred years, it was likely that half of the cultivators would die, still frustrated by the exhaustion of their lifespans.

Moreover, there was a saying that if one's strength couldn't compete with others, they could compete on who lived longer, perhaps there would be a chance to pick up a bargain in the future.

After the cultivators withdrew from the Might of Giants Grotto, they swarmed towards the Herb Crushing Grotto, where they discovered the market established within.

The market was led by Mu Yi, and initially was only used to sell pills.

However, as more alchemists moved in, it gradually developed into a market, and the fragrance of medicine could be smelled for dozens of miles around.

The goods in the medicine market were naturally mainly pills, but without exception, the most expensive pills were all used to extend lifespan.

Even though Mu Yi could exchange for alchemy materials from Dream City at any time, and lifespan extension pills were indeed not too expensive in the Forbidden Corpses Hall, they were still speculated to an extremely exaggerated price.

The two hundred years of lifespan lost by a Heavenly Guile Realm cultivator might require emptying their savings, plus working for the Forbidden Corpses Hall for half a year, to barely be enough.

Ren An's expression was subtle, he didn't know where Mu Yi learned her capitalist methods.

She was actually using lifespan extending pills as a means to control cultivators, secretly controlling them to collect useful clues for the Forbidden Corpses Hall.

Ren An could imagine that when the effects of lifespan extending pills became useless, Mu Yi would come up with new lifespan extending methods.

In the Forbidden Corpses Hall, lifespan was indeed not a very valuable thing.

As long as one didn't die unexpectedly, reaching the lifespan limit of the current realm was not difficult, and the world in the stomach was full of cultivators who were slacking off and wasting time.

Ren An understood that Mu Yi didn't plan to fight alone, she knew that the Immortal Position wasn't urgent, so she began to arrange the Herb Crushing Grotto, and specially selected a group of cultivators to investigate.

The Undead, like the White Bone Lady, had no intention of leaving the Might of Giants Grotto.

The Might of Giants Grotto was filled with a dense Yin Qi, and the vengeful spirits could hardly attack physical bodies, it was simply a blessed land for the Undead.

The White Bone Lady's actions were the most aggressive, and she had unknowingly stepped into the depths.

She traveled through the towering jagged mountain range of the Might of Giants Grotto, searching for the location of the Throat Cave, preparing to go to the Five Viscera and Six Bowels.

The surroundings were shrouded in thick fog, which showed how dense the Yin Qi was.

The White Bone Lady knew a lot about the Might of Giants Ghost King, and had secretly pondered the Immortal Position.

She knew that although the Might of Giants Ghost King also controlled Yin Qi, he was not a demon or monster, otherwise he would not have chosen the Elephant Lord at the time.

The Might of Giants Ghost King followed the path of overpowering force, and the Immortal Position was likely to be in the heart.

The White Bone Lady thought of this, and a trace of complexity couldn't help but appear in her eyes, and she looked obscurely at the Elephant Lord dragged behind her.

The Elephant Lord now had no limbs, and even the trunk on his face had been cut off.

His consciousness had fallen into a deep sleep, and his head was stuffed into his chest. If he hadn't been a Heavenly Guile Realm cultivator before his death, he would probably have died long ago.

The Elephant Lord had completely become the White Bone Lady's means of diverting danger, and there was not much life left, which showed the latter's ruthlessness.

Crack crack crack crack...

At this time, a strange and inexplicable movement came from the top of the mountain range, like teeth rubbing together, or like iron blocks colliding together.

The White Bone Lady took a deep breath, and the Yin Qi emanating from her body suddenly converged.

Through the practice of the Entering Divinity Art, flesh had grown on the surface of her body. She was originally a red-faced white bone, but now she had become a withered and emaciated living corpse.

Instead, it was even more frightening.

The White Bone Lady stared at the source of the movement in the shadows, ready to escape at any time.

In fact, the Undead in the Might of Giants Grotto were not unscrupulous, because there were far more than just vengeful spirits in the grotto.

On the surface of the grotto, there was also a monster named "Tooth Ghost" by the White Bone Lady, whose aggressiveness far exceeded that of the vengeful spirits.

Only the Tooth Ghost could make the White Bone Lady so fearful.

Crack crack crack crack...

The figure of the Tooth Ghost appeared not far away, the whole body was like a flawless white statue, the facial features on the face were similar to ordinary people, but instead revealed a unspeakable horror.

Moreover, the body of the Tooth Ghost had gaps of different sizes everywhere.

Black liquid flowed from the gaps, and wriggling sprouts like tentacles could be seen, or bubble-like dense eyeballs.

Every period of time, a large number of vengeful spirits would emerge from the body of the Tooth Ghost, which seemed to be a breeding ground for vengeful spirits at the same time.

The White Bone Lady noticed that the Tooth Ghost was not picky about food, and ate almost anything.

When hungry, the Tooth Ghost would even hunt and kill vengeful spirits, but what it liked most was... the flesh and blood of living people.

The White Bone Lady had been hiding for a long time, and thought that the Tooth Ghost had not noticed her trace.

As a result, after smelling the unique smell of flesh and blood, the Tooth Ghost rushed towards the White Bone Lady's location in an awkward posture.

The White Bone Lady was annoyed, the Tooth Ghost could not be killed by conventional means, once it locked on to its prey, it would never stop, frantically pestering the other party until it tasted the taste of flesh and blood.

The higher the realm of existence, the stronger the attraction of flesh and blood to the Tooth Ghost.

The White Bone Lady had tried to exchange flesh and blood in Dream City, but the effect was far less than that of the Elephant Lord, and besides, she didn't have much Blood Crystals at all.

The Tooth Ghost has another strange characteristic.

The Tooth Ghost will not kill its prey, as if it is raising livestock, and will only appear to harvest flesh and blood every period of time.

The White Bone Lady did not hesitate to take out a sharp weapon, cut off a large piece of flesh from the Elephant Lord's shoulder, and threw it in the direction of the Tooth Ghost.

The Elephant Lord let out a muffled groan, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

Even if the Tooth Ghost had already discovered the White Bone Lady's figure, it would not continue to choose to pursue after obtaining enough flesh and blood.

The White Bone Lady released Yin Qi, and the Elephant Lord's wound suddenly made a sizzling sound, and the wound was then covered with a thin layer of ice.

She grabbed the Elephant Lord, bypassed the Tooth Ghost with light steps, and continued to go deep into the grotto.

Now that she had reached the mouth of the Might of Giants Grotto, where could the White Bone Lady retreat? Either die in the grotto, or ascend to the Investiture of the Gods.

Crack crack crack crack...

The White Bone Lady's face stiffened, the Tooth Ghost generally has a sense of territory, and in theory it is impossible to encounter it again in a short time.

She turned her head with a gloomy face, and noticed that several figures flashed past.

A dozen Tooth Ghosts were shaking in the thick fog, they seemed to be hunting prey, but it was hard to imagine what prey could attract so many Tooth Ghosts.

The White Bone Lady's breathing became rapid, and her expression became distorted and extreme.

There was no doubt that the Tooth Ghost would not be picky eaters at all, and several of them immediately turned their heads to look at the White Bone Lady's location, making sniffing movements.

The White Bone Lady threw the Elephant Lord out directly, and ran without hesitation to the rocky forest with complex terrain, her right hand was placed on her left forearm.

If there were still Tooth Ghosts, the White Bone Lady could only pay with her own flesh and blood.

After the White Bone Lady ran out for hundreds of meters, the thick fog suddenly became silent, and then heavy footsteps sounded, accompanied by elephant roars.

She looked in surprise, but saw a thousand-meter behemoth in the mist.

The behemoth had a decayed body, plus a straight proboscis, and its limbs stood on the ground like stone pillars.

"Corpse Elephant?"

The White Bone Lady didn't expect that the Corpse Elephant that was left in Jing Province was still alive, and had even recovered to the Heavenly Guile Realm.

The Corpse Elephant's nose rolled up the Elephant Lord, and a thick black and red liquid flowed from its nostrils, wrapping around the Elephant Lord's body, so that the latter would not die in frustration.

"Something's wrong."

The White Bone Lady also found two other unfamiliar auras on the Corpse Elephant's spine, and couldn't help but infuse Yin Qi into her eyes.

The Corpse Elephant broke through the thick fog and appeared in the range of the jagged mountain range.

Its footsteps seemed heavy, but its limbs were tied with magic weapons, and the sound would not be transmitted at all, which made it appear and disappear unpredictably.

A sturdy zombie cultivator was also sitting on the Corpse Elephant's back, and the auras of the two were intertwined, pushing the zombie cultivator to the Heavenly Guile Realm as well.

The flesh and blood needed by the Tooth Ghost was not worth mentioning to the Corpse Elephant, as if it had been bitten by a mosquito, it had already satisfied a dozen Tooth Ghosts.

The Corpse Ghost showed a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth, and motioned for the Corpse Elephant to get up and leave.

The natal Gu worm at the back of his spine was connected to the Corpse Elephant, and the three barely became a whole. As long as he stayed on the back of the Corpse Elephant, he could temporarily raise his cultivation to the Heavenly Guile Realm.

The Corpse Ghost easily surpassed the White Bone Lady by sacrificing the flesh and blood of the Corpse Elephant along the way.

He did not act rashly, and planned to build a camp behind the entrance and exit of the throat, and welcome the upcoming Corpse Vein army.

The White Bone Lady was stunned, watching the Corpse Elephant disappear into the Yin fog.

"Heavenly Court..."

The White Bone Lady understood that the Heavenly Court had finally intervened in the Might of Giants Grotto. She was unscrupulous for the Immortal Position, and even sold the Elephant Lord who had been familiar with her for thousands of years, and the result seemed to be in vain.

When she was in Dream City, she had actually encountered zombie cultivators.

The zombie cultivators claimed to be "Netherworld Corpse Vein", and there were not many of them in Dream City. The cultivators were generally around the Yin Messenger Realm, and she thought they were not a threat at all.

But she didn't expect that there was actually a Heavenly Guile Realm in the Corpse Vein, plus a resurrected Elephant Lord, which was already a considerable threat.

The White Bone Lady looked unwilling, and glanced at the sharp weapon in her palm.

She cut the sharp weapon on her body, and the newly grown flesh outside the skeleton was scraped clean, and the practice of the Entering Divinity Art was in vain.

But she could also cut off the possibility of being targeted by the Tooth Ghost because of this.

The White Bone Lady understood that when she met the Elephant Lord again, the two would definitely be in a never-ending battle, and the competition for the Immortal Position had just begun.

"It's troublesome, I knew I should have nipped it in the bud..."

The ruthlessness in the White Bone Lady's eyes flashed, and then returned to normal.

She was not the kind of person who would regret it, but instead calmed down and had no intention of antagonizing the Heavenly Court for the time being.

The White Bone Lady's consciousness went to Dream City to inquire about news, and after confirming that the branches had not issued a wanted order for her, she chose to continue her journey.

To put it bluntly, there was only one Immortal Position.

If the Heavenly Court's Corpse Vein was prepared to intervene, then it was impossible to unite with the Corpse Elephant, after all, the Corpse Elephant was the biggest competitor.

Although the White Bone Lady had no flesh and blood, her attitude was more cautious.

When she reached the throat position of the Might of Giants Grotto, she realized that she had underestimated the Corpse Vein, and she didn't expect the scale to be so terrifying.

The White Bone Lady had only been on the road for more than half a month, but the Corpse Vein had already built a magnificent zombie town at the throat.

The scale of the town was extremely terrifying, almost completely blocking the throat.

The buildings of the Corpse Vein were very special, with eaves made of white bones, walls painted with flesh and blood, and even the floor tiles were made of white bones.

This was actually a typical Netherworld style. In a sense, the Might of Giants Grotto was not much different from the grotto in the world in the stomach.

The same ghosts were everywhere, and the same dense Yin Qi.

After the Corpse Ghost moved in, he built a second Netherworld in a few days, and 100,000 zombie cultivators poured in.

The Corpse Vein didn't have much of anything, only the number of members had been accumulating.

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During these days, the Forbidden Corpses Hall also had major actions against the outside world, but the casualties of each branch were relatively stable, and not many cultivators who switched to zombies had been consumed.

If the Corpse Vein continued to develop, it would soon break the 1 million zombie mark.

Even if the efficiency of zombie cultivation was very low, the population base was there, and sooner or later it would surpass the Corpse Vein and become the head of the six branches.

In the center of the town was a mountain-like pile of corpses, which could continuously absorb the Yin Qi of the grotto, which was equivalent to the existence of a Yin Gathering Formation, which showed that the Corpse Vein planned to station in the Might of Giants Grotto for a long time.

The White Bone Lady watched for a long time, and even when she was opposed to the Elephant Lord, she was not so dignified.

She found that the pile of corpses was transformed by the Corpse Elephant, which showed that the Heavenly Court had refined the Corpse Elephant into a flesh and blood magic weapon, which could be easily controlled and could also be transformed into a source of releasing Yin Qi at any time.

Similar to the role of the Earth Immortal of Blessing.

"Investiture of the Gods, is it a trap set by the Heavenly Court for us?"

The White Bone Lady was not afraid because of this, and slowly walked into the town, not concealing her identity at all.

As expected, the Corpse Vein had no objection to her, as if building the town was only for mining resources.

As everyone knows, the Corpse Vein really intends to focus on resources and supplement the Immortal Position. After all, zombies have the lifespan of immortality, and the demand for becoming immortals is lower.

The Corpse Ghost was more willing to wait for Ren An to become an immortal, maybe he could "ascend to heaven with the chickens and dogs".

Of course, he came to the Might of Giants Grotto in person, definitely with the idea of breaking through the Heavenly Guile Realm, so he commanded the Corpse Vein to steadily advance.

Bang bang bang...

While the White Bone Lady was stunned, the sound of heavy objects walking came from the depths of the throat, and the buildings in the town also vibrated slightly.

She looked up and saw a thousand-meter giant transporting bone-like ore.

The breath emitted by the giant obviously had the strength of the Heavenly Guile Realm, which made the White Bone Lady even more unable to see through the depths of the Heavenly Court Corpse Vein.

In fact, the giant was the zombified corpse of the Wine and Meat Taoist.

Previously, the corpse of the Wine and Meat Taoist was placed in the Little Leiyin Temple in the Longevity Forbidden Zone, and later the Fruit Positions were released, and the corpse fell into the hands of the Corpse Vein.

They called the corpse "Immortal Corpse", which barely had the strength of the Heavenly Guile Realm.

But the Immortal Corpse was just bluffing people, just using the accumulation of his life to accommodate Yin Qi, the breath reached the Heavenly Guile Realm, it did not mean that the strength could be comparable.

In fact, the Immortal Corpse was difficult to fight even the Corpse Ghost of the Yang God Realm.

The Giant Force Cave and the Medicine-Pounding Cave gradually fell into tranquility, and the cultivators were not in a hurry to go to other caves, but were secretly making preparations.

Ren Qing was not in a hurry either, indulging in seclusion and unable to extricate himself.

His figure had already soared to just over 20,000 meters, and after his body merged with the Immortal Seat, it inadvertently exuded the rules unique to the Immortal Seat.

Ren Qing didn't pay attention at first.

But he soon noticed that a large number of viscous liquid shadow creatures were breeding on the surface of his body, seemingly born from the stimulation of the Immortal Seat fusion.

Unknowingly, he was already in the very center of the forbidden area, with the corpses of other Immortals and Gods rotating around him like asteroids.

Ren Qing didn't expect that the Immortal Seat forbidden area would undergo subtle changes because of him.

Currently, the shadow creatures didn't reveal anything significant, and didn't seem to have any intelligence, just clustering together and living all over Ren Qing's body.

The appearance of the shadow creatures was just a mass of disordered slime.

It was a bit like the Shadowless Ghost, but in reality, it was transformed from the Heaven and Earth Manifestation, the Toe Separation Art's World Like a Dream, and the Heavenly Demon Tribulation's Walking the Earth, and likely represented something.

Ren Qing observed it for a long time, but didn't notice the reason for it.

He was too lazy to delve into it further, as long as the tortoise shell's divination didn't worsen, and remained in the "ominous with good fortune" state, the rules of the forbidden area would not affect his safety.

【Do you want to advance to 'Life Creates All Things', which will consume 40,000 years of lifespan】

Ren Qing took advantage of his free time to advance the Heavenly Demon Tribulation to the Heavenly Guile Realm's Completion first, and then concentrate his energy on the Corpse Fengdu.

He was too eager to figure out the situation of the Corpse Immortal, and the purpose of the Nameless Heavenly Demon's transformation.

According to Ren Qing's estimation, the time flow rate outside was different from that of the Immortal Seat forbidden area, and should be about four times faster.

He had been in the Immortal Seat forbidden area for nearly ten years, and forty or fifty years had passed outside.

The Beast Pen was probably about to determine the winner, and whether the Supreme Heavenly Demon lived or died was very important, perhaps marking the fate of the next few thousand years.

A sound of bones colliding came from Ren Qing's body, and his flesh and bones were once again demonized by the Heavenly Demon.

Because the caves revolved around Ren Qing, the influence of the Heavenly Demon transformation became more and more obvious, and the environment showed extraordinary phenomena.

The caves were composed of Immortal Seats, and the rules inside were extremely stable.

Not to mention the changing of seasons, even day and night simply didn't exist.

But after Ren Qing's Heavenly Demon transformation, small snowflakes began to float in the sky above each cave, and the temperature also decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The cold was eerie and bone-chilling, and even Heavenly Guile Realm cultivators found it difficult to resist.

The falling snowflakes were light gray, and as the snowfall gradually turned into a blizzard, the color of the snowflakes became as black as ink, and was mixed with a faint Heavenly Demon aura.

The Heavenly Demon aura was not enough to erode living beings, but it caused plants, trees, mountains, and rocks to become demonized by the Heavenly Demon.

The environment of the caves became more and more complex, as if they had arrived in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month.

The cultivators had no choice but to stop all actions, honestly using various means to keep warm, and waiting for the end of this black snow.

Ren Qing's breakthrough in the spell only lasted for ten days, and when the Heavenly Demon Tribulation stopped running, the temperature rebounded and the snow water began to melt.

The impact of the Heavenly Demon Tribulation on the cave environment was actually both good and bad.

For example, after accumulating Yin Qi for more than ten days, the Giant Force Cave instantly released it, and hundreds of thousands of zombie cultivators received considerable benefits.

A large number of Heavenly Dao insects died on the surface of the Blessing Virtue Cave, which also made it easier for the Jailer Hall to obtain resources.

The cultivators just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but as a result, Ren Qing immediately began to cultivate the Corpse Fengdu, once again radiating the caves on a large scale.

However, Ren Qing had not yet transformed into an Immortal Body, and the Corpse Fengdu only caused the caves to fall into silence.

Vegetation showed a tendency to wither, strange objects seemed to be preparing for winter, their food intake had a significant increase, and even cannibalism occurred.

Wraiths and Tooth Ghosts constantly attacked the towns at the throat, but fortunately, the defense line had been established.

Ren Qing wanted to restrain his aura, but even using the Heavenly Demon Tribulation had no effect, the rules of the forbidden area were centered on him.

Ren Qing didn't know what would happen if the forbidden area continued to develop, but his original intention of becoming an immortal and attaining the Dao would definitely not change.

Those shadow creatures on the surface of his body also underwent strange changes.

The shadow creatures gradually transformed into human figures, constantly migrating towards the limbs and head, and from time to time their numbers would inexplicably decrease sharply.

Ren Qing had never understood the meaning of the shadow creatures, so he continued to cultivate the Corpse Fengdu, and his realm advanced towards completion.

Ten years passed, and the Corpse Fengdu was successfully promoted to the Heavenly Guile Realm's Completion.

During the ten years, the caves were shrouded in the radiation of the Corpse Fengdu, but on the contrary, it allowed them to understand the ecological chain of the caves more and more.

The Immortal God Cave that was first logged into had already been explored to the intestines and stomach.

The five internal organs were only a matter of time, and the next step was to find the Immortal Seat.

Cultivators had successively logged into the other Immortal God Caves on a small scale, but because they were too far away from the recognized supply point, "Medicine Pounding Cave", they were currently only collecting clues.

Ren Qing opened his eyes, and the corpse transformation all over his body receded like a tide.

He let out a long breath, and even his normally calm expression couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy, four of the five spells were already complete.

With only the Ancestral Vein of Derivation remaining, Ren Qing would be able to achieve an unprecedented foundation for becoming an immortal.

His current feeling was that every inch of his flesh was filled with endless strength, he could control spells as easily as he could control his arms and fingers, and he could easily display localized immortal body transformation.

Ren Qing's body had already soared to nearly 30,000 meters.

He still couldn't be compared to the corpses of Immortals and Gods, but the difference was not much, and any movement would inevitably cause disaster.

If there were no intelligent creatures in the caves, they would definitely enshrine Ren Qing.

Under such circumstances, Ren Qing was instead unable to interfere with the caves, for fear that it would cause inexplicable changes in the corpses of the Immortals and Gods.

He was just about to use the Corpse Fengdu to try to sense the Corpse Immortal outside.

As a result, he suddenly discovered that the shadow creature community on the surface of his body had completely transformed into human figures, and he could clearly see the clothes they were wearing, and their movements didn't seem to be without intelligence.

Even if Ren Qing erased the shadow creatures, they would still breed after a short time.

The newly generated shadow creatures had the same appearance, and their habits were almost exactly the same, very close to ordinary mortals.

Their migratory behavior looked like they were fleeing.

Ren Qing suddenly realized that the shadow creatures were likely projections of mortals from the outside world, and under the effect of the Heaven and Earth Manifestation, the World Like a Dream, and Walking the Earth, they were accidentally projected here.

He couldn't help but stare at the mortal projections on his shoulder.

He saw the mortals gathered together, thinking about settling down temporarily, so they built simple camps, and he could even see children playing around the bonfire.

Ren Qing frowned slightly, noticing that casting spells could not affect the mortals.

The two seemed to be in different dimensions, perhaps Ren Qing's strength was insufficient, and the Heavenly Guile Realm's Completion was difficult to do the things of Immortals and Gods.

Ren Qing distracted himself to pay attention to the mortals on his shoulders.

Multiple waves of refugees gathered together, and the number of mortals had already exceeded a thousand.

But Ren Qing knew that if they were really avoiding some danger, clustering together would only cause the danger to take the initiative to come to their door.