The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing opened his eyes, examining his soul, which was flickering with light and shadow, and a hint of joy couldn't help but arise in his heart.

The soul, being in a state of resurrection, had always felt somewhat ethereal, as if a gust of wind could scatter it.

Ren Qing had tried various methods to temper his soul, but without any progress. On the contrary, after merging with the Heavenly Dao rules, his soul body gradually became more solid.

Especially his head, where one could clearly see the brain emitting a dazzling seven-colored light, with specks of dust rotating around the immortal bones.

If someone were to gaze upon Ren Qing's soul, countless illusions would arise before their eyes, as if their consciousness was experiencing dream after dream.

At the same time, their body would be inexplicably invaded by unknown diseases.

Most importantly, Ren Qing had found a clue to comprehending immortal techniques, and he should be able to resolve the drawbacks of the Three Purities Heaven during his body's resurrection.

He sat cross-legged under the Heavenly Dao Tree, meticulously recalling the contents of the Toe Severance Art.

It should be known that although the Toe Severance Art was created by Ren Qing, it would have been impossible to comprehend it without the blessing of the Three Dao Ancestors.

In addition, Ren Qing had always used information flow to master and advance his techniques, never deeply understanding the Toe Severance Art.

Now, through the Heavenly Dao rules, Ren Qing could perceive each and every vein of the Toe Severance Art, and the mere hundreds of words of content were instantly understood.

He seemed to be observing the Toe Severance Art from a three-dimensional perspective, with the Heavenly Dao Tree comprehensively analyzing the technique.

It didn't take Ren Qing long to completely comprehend the Toe Severance Art.

Since the Toe Severance Art could be done this way, the other four techniques could certainly be as well, and even the Buddhist techniques could be comprehended together.

He took a deep breath, and when the Heavenly Dao rules related to the techniques were integrated into his soul, he would definitely be able to find the path to advancing to the Heavenly Dao.

"The Heavenly Dao is within reach..."

If possible, Ren Qing wanted to become the fifth Heavenly Dao to descend upon the world, after the Supreme Heavenly Demon.

Ren Qing's thoughts were chaotic, and it took him several days to return to the state of mind he had when he began his seclusion.

He didn't intend to delve deeply into the Dream Disease Heavenly Dao. As long as he merged with enough Heavenly Dao rules, they would promote progress among themselves.

Ren Qing's gaze fell on the Proliferation Heavenly Dao produced by the Ancestral Vein of Derivation.

The Proliferation Heavenly Dao had four branches of rules, one more than the Dream Disease Heavenly Dao.

They were "Dragon Ancestor," "Dragon Blood," "Blood Source," and "Dragon Molting."

The Dragon Ancestor Heavenly Dao was the closest to the Proliferation Heavenly Dao, because mastering this Heavenly Dao could bestow dragon blood upon all things, giving rise to a massive number of offspring.

The Dragon Blood Heavenly Dao involved the unique erosive nature of the dragon veins.

When beasts consumed dragon blood, they would change in the direction of dragons. In a sense, the nature of dragon blood was the same as a curse.

The Blood Source Heavenly Dao was the key to preventing the dragon blood from rampaging. Otherwise, a few drops of dragon blood could destroy the ecology of the stomach world.

The final Dragon Molting Heavenly Dao originated from the Human Skin Book's ability to adapt to the environment, and it was also the reliance of dragons to purify their bloodline. Otherwise, dragons would be trapped by the limitations of dragon blood and unable to progress.

Ren Qing chose to start with the Dragon Molting Heavenly Dao, placing the Dragon Ancestor Heavenly Dao at the end. After all the branches were merged, he would then comprehend the Proliferation Heavenly Dao.

His consciousness entered the Heavenly Dao Tree, and the figures of dragon beasts immediately appeared before his eyes, all descendants of the Ancestral Dragon eroded by dragon blood.

Ren Qing immersed himself in the Heavenly Dao, and his new body was also being resurrected accordingly.

When he successfully integrated the Dragon Molting Heavenly Dao into his soul, the progress of the Death Without Life unknowingly reached about 40%.

This meant that Ren Qing's body buried in the burial mound was already taking shape, and at least the skeleton was nearly complete. Next would be the internal organs.

His control over techniques had recovered somewhat, and he could barely interfere with the rebirth of his body.

With a slight thought, Ren Qing couldn't help but look at the White Bone Heavenly Dao on the Heavenly Dao Tree.

If he could comprehend the White Bone Heavenly Dao, wouldn't it make the resurrected body more perfect, even rising to a level close to the Dao?

Ren Qing divided his attention to digest the White Bone Heavenly Dao, while also checking the burial mound.

Few people came to the burial mound to dispose of corpses, possibly because of its location in the jungle. There was almost no sign of human habitation around.

In order to better observe the outside world, Ren Qing controlled his right arm bone to detach from his body and slowly crawl towards the surface of the soil.

Then he discovered that the right arm bone, as white as jade, was too conspicuous in the burial mound. The other corpses were all deformed and terrifying.

Ren Qing separated a phalanx, with the right arm five meters above the ground.

The missing phalanx of the right arm quickly recovered. When the White Bone Heavenly Dao was comprehended, he could even shoot the bones out of his body as arrows.

The patterns of the White Bone Heavenly Dao were on the trunk of the Heavenly Dao Tree, indicating that it was not a superior Heavenly Dao rule, and comprehension should not be difficult.

Unfortunately, Ren Qing's control over his new body was limited, causing the phalanx to be unable to move far away from the right arm bone, otherwise it would lose contact.

Ren Qing examined the corpses one by one. Regardless of the time of death, their appearances were extremely strange.

Multiple arms and legs were not bad, but the most bizarre corpse had its head naturally embedded in its chest and abdomen, with its ribs open and piercing through its flesh.

The corpse's limbs were like those of a beast, crawling on the ground, and its head could only look at the sky.

What Ren Qing cared about most was that the clothes worn by the corpse were very simple, but the material was like dried meat fiber woven together, and the buttons should be made of chalcopyrite ore.

Ren Qing was not surprised by the speed of development of the outside civilization.

The Buddhist sect could use palace chambers to accommodate souls, giving birth to a massive number of monks out of thin air.

With the strength of the Three Dao Ancestors, creating mortals was as simple as drinking water.

"It's really a bizarre civilization..."

Ren Qing's vision was very limited, only limited to one-third of the burial mound, and he couldn't even see the sun, moon, and stars overhead clearly.

He only knew that the color of the vegetation outside was grayish-white, and the trees were not only twisted, but also covered with large and small holes.

Even during the day, the sky was covered with a thick fog.

Ren Qing divided his attention to focus on the burial mound, but still no one came for a long time, completely exhausting his patience.

He hid the phalanx in a remote corner of the burial mound.

Just as Ren Qing was about to withdraw his consciousness, footsteps came from far to near.

After the footsteps reached the range of the burial mound, it turned out to be a hunched figure pushing a cart, with a dimly lit chalcopyrite lamp hanging from his waist.

The figure was already seventy or eighty years old, and the wrinkles on his face covered his features.

His limbs had no joints, and were twisted into an arc shape, forcing the old man to rely on a broken cart to walk.

The cart was made of chalcopyrite, and contained more than a dozen broken corpses. The weight caused the wheels to make a harsh sound, constantly echoing in the empty burial mound.

Ren Qing realized that the outside civilization seemed to be built on chalcopyrite, and other resources were extremely scarce, making it difficult to be self-sufficient.

The old man buried the corpses in the cart in the soil, then respectfully lit incense and prayed, chanting words with a strange tone.

After finishing his work, he was already covered in sweat, and his body was covered with wounds of various sizes due to unconscious collisions with the cart.

Black blood flowed from the wounds, but the old man's expression was extremely numb.

After the old man finished processing the corpses, he stumbled back to the cart, his strength exhausted by the simple labor.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes, and the right arm bone separated another phalanx, landing in the old man's cart.

Ren Qing watched the old man walk away, and the sensation of the phalanx gradually decreased.

He couldn't observe the situation outside the burial mound through the phalanx, but losing a phalanx was nothing, anyway, it would grow back in a few months.

Ren Qing's purpose was to find towns and villages where mortals gathered, using the location of the phalanx after resurrection, and collect some clues along the way.

However, just as the old man walked away, dense dog barks rang out, and monsters that looked like earth dogs ran towards the burial mound in groups.

The forelimbs of the earth dogs were longer than their hind limbs, and their crawling posture was similar to that of wild monkeys.

Attracted by the corpses, they rushed into the burial mound and feasted, and the flesh on the skeletons was quickly licked clean.

Ren Qing didn't think that the earth dogs were strange creatures transformed from wild beasts, because the more he looked at the faces of the earth dogs, the more they looked like humans, and their physiological structure was also.

He intentionally made some noise, attracting the human-dog group to rush over.

The human-dog group frantically searched for edible flesh, and one of them noticed the phalanx in the corner, and the barking in its mouth stopped abruptly.

It couldn't help but bite the phalanx and disappeared into the dense jungle.

Ren Qing let the earth dog take away the phalanx, and continued to close his eyes to comprehend the White Bone Heavenly Dao, unscrupulously perfecting his body.

Silently, the burial mound changed.

In theory, no one would come to the burial mound for several years. The old man should only bury the corpses once after the number of corpses accumulated to a certain level.

But after a few days, the burial mound welcomed another group of earth dogs, and the leader was the one who took away the phalanx.

The earth dog had changed a lot, its size had soared by about half a meter, its hind limbs were as long as its forelimbs, and its slender tail was shortened by half.

Ren Qing's expression was strange. The phalanx should be in the earth dog's abdomen, which seemed to make the latter more... how should I put it, more like a human?

The earth dog group came to the grave where the phalanx was buried before, and used their claws to dig in the burial mound.

They were clearly looking for the traces of the phalanx, and it seemed that Ren Qing's remains had an extraordinary effect.

Ren Qing didn't care at first, but in just the past ten years, more and more mortals came to the burial mound.

They led earth dogs around the burial mound, occasionally digging in the burial mound with tools, their eyes filled with indescribable greed.

The mortals were indeed like the corpses, their bodies were born deformed.

The burial mound didn't last long, and was turned into a deep pit in the hands of the mortals. The corpses inside were randomly discarded in the jungle, and quickly corroded under the action of rainwater.

Ren Qing naturally withdrew from his body, and also scattered the bones of his limbs in various parts of the burial mound.

The bones could also be used as a medium for Death Without Life. If the body had not been conceived before, and the plague species died on a large scale, he would not be unable to use Death Without Life.

Ren Qing was also very curious about what his bones were used for, which actually caused a scramble from the outside world, perhaps he could use this to set up a layout.

He deeply understood that the Three Dao Ancestors didn't care about him at all.

Whether it was the shelter or the gradually resurrected body, it was impossible to escape the eyes of the Three Dao Ancestors, but the other party didn't care at all.

Ren Qing wanted to strengthen himself as much as possible while his strength could not threaten the Three Dao Ancestors.

When he broke through to the Heavenly Dao, I'm afraid the Three Dao Ancestors would take action to kill him, so the timing of the promotion must be chosen well.

"After the Supreme Heavenly Demon descends, maybe I can give it a try."

Ren Qing glanced at the stomach world. With his current control of techniques, he could only perceive the general situation. There seemed to be no abnormalities in the three realms.

However, the stomach world should have experienced internal strife. The towns had signs of damage, and the astonishing number of corpses in the underworld Huangquan could not be achieved by natural growth.

Ren Qing was still unable to communicate with the stomach world, so he still didn't know about the disaster brought by the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord.

He focused his energy on the Heavenly Dao rules, comprehending the core Dao while occasionally involving some minor Daos.

Then he perfected his body through the minor Daos, trying to refine a perfect Dao body.

The Heavenly Dao Tree was originally a part of Ren Qing's body and soul. The more Daos he mastered, the more smoothly the minor Daos could be integrated.

Ren Qing proved with facts that the strategy of comprehending the Heavenly Dao was correct.

In just five hundred years, the soul had merged with more than fifty kinds of Heavenly Dao, including three core Heavenly Daos.

The soul was already like substance, and the revealed Heavenly Dao phenomena were instead restrained.

Based on the Heaven and Earth Birth, Ren Qing created a brand new immortal technique, but currently only the most basic content of the first three realms was available.

The perfected Heaven and Earth Birth was renamed "Heavenly Dao Birth" by him. The cultivation method was slightly strange, but in fact it secretly conformed to the Heavenly Dao.

[Heavenly Dao Birth]

[Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires the roots of the Heavenly Dao Tree to be implanted into the dantian, and nourished with the afterglow of the Dao. It can only be cultivated when the roots are generated.]

The so-called afterglow of the Dao is actually the monk's understanding of the spell.

Ren Qing can practice Heavenly Dao Birth immediately through the Heavenly Dao Tree, but ordinary monks must devour other people's souls and find the afterglow in their memories.

And the roots of the Heavenly Dao Tree will grow autonomously, constantly forcing the monks to obtain the afterglow, and eventually become monsters that eat people and dig brains.

Ren Qing has no body, so he can't practice Heavenly Dao Birth, but it doesn't prevent him from preventing the revival of the Three Purities Heaven and making various restrictions.

When the body was conceived to the internal organs, the control of the technique also reached more than 50%.

Ren Qing was finally able to sense the situation in the stomach world, but unfortunately he still couldn't interfere.

His consciousness swept across the stomach world, where tens of thousands of years had passed, but there were still classics recording the disasters of that year.

Just ten days after the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord descended, the disaster came late.

The disaster affected all the monks in the shelter. Their cognition went wrong, and the creatures in their eyes became deformed monsters.

Even the five senses began to distort.

When what you see, hear, listen to, feel, and touch all tell you that the world they knew before was false, and now is the real world.

Half of the city guards in the shelter immediately went crazy.

The immortals barely controlled the situation, but the disaster also spread in the stomach world, but it was not as terrifying as the loss of the five senses outside, and often one of the five senses had a deviation.

Song Zongwu and others sent the city guards into the stomach world, then completely destroyed the path to go, and then left the shelter.

They considered that the disaster of the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord might affect them.

With the strength of the immortals, if they fell into madness, the creatures in the stomach world would be devastated, and even repeat the events of the two strange turbid immortals.

They chose to act separately, each finding a hidden place to retreat, waiting for Ren Qing to wake up from the state of alienation and loss of control.

Now the stomach world has returned to calm.

Perhaps because Ren Qing lost his body, the disaster could not act on the stomach world, and the creatures inside no longer had errors in cognition.