The Secret Way of Immortality

The government dispatched a large number of soldiers to collect the giant maggots, which would only appear on the stalls after their distribution.

This shows how scarce resources are in Huangsha City.

However, the social structure formed is extremely stable. Even though the people barely have enough to eat, at least they don't encounter any danger on a daily basis.

Ren Qing searched the courtyard for a while, but did not find any trace of Sha Shanzi and the other person.

The room was rather messy, with several Taoist scriptures with different handwriting on the table.

He simply retracted the ghost shadow within the statue, then sat cross-legged on the roof beam, quietly waiting for a living person to approach.

It wasn't until the sun was high in the sky that Sha Shanzi returned to the courtyard, but he was alone, his face filled with deep sorrow.

He walked into the dim room, his head emitting bursts of white smoke, which was a special characteristic of the Gobi people's physique, allowing them to lower their body temperature without consuming too much water.

Sha Shanzi picked up a jar of wine from the corner, poured out some turbid wine, and drank it in small sips.

"A Zhuo, ah A Zhuo, becoming an immortal is a path of no return, yet you insisted on going to the Huanghe Temple to be a Taoist virgin, truly…"

A Zhuo, who originally followed Sha Shanzi in performing rituals for the dead, chose to go to the Ze people's Taoist temple because of his desire to become an immortal.

Sha Shanzi shook his head.

He didn't show any hatred, which shows that the Gobi people can no longer muster any resistance against the Ze people, who are like gods.

Sha Shanzi swallowed the wine in his mouth.

He kept muttering about his past experiences working in the Taoist temple.

Ren Qing had many thoughts. Now was indeed a good opportunity. His original plan was to have a public identity in Huangsha City.

Then find an opportunity to seize the Water Marsh Technique and the missing Wine God Technique.

From the decorations in the room, he could tell that Sha Shanzi, as a Taoist who performed rituals for the dead, should be relatively solitary.

However, there were several Taoist scriptures on the table, indicating that there was contact between the officially appointed Taoists, which could be used to obtain more clues.

Ren Qing could completely replace Sha Shanzi. Since A Zhuo was missing, others wouldn't notice anything strange.

He was just about to jump off the roof beam when he noticed something unusual about Sha Shanzi.

He thought Sha Shanzi was drinking because he was feeling depressed, but he didn't expect there to be another reason.

Sha Shanzi unsteadily placed the wine jar back in the corner, then lit a human bone incense, pressed his left palm on the position of his lower dantian, and placed his right hand on the back of his left hand.

Sha Shanzi began to meditate, and the aura he emitted gradually faded.

Ren Qing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows at this.

The technique displayed by the other party was obviously not the three realms of ascension, but another extremely crude visualization method, at most newly created.

Sha Shanzi's meditation movements were very standard, which was orthodox Taoism from ancient times. There were also records of this in the Wuwei Temple, but the specific method had been lost.

However, according to Tian Daozi's annotations, ancient cultivators should be far inferior to the Heavenly Dao Technique. Even if they refined it to the extreme, they would at most be Golden Core or Nascent Soul.

Ren Qing immediately became interested, his pupils rotated, staring at Sha Shanzi's blood flow, and the result was as expected.

Sha Shanzi used wine to stimulate the blood flow in his body, then circulated it throughout his body along the blood vessels, and finally returned to the lungs.

I'm afraid it was an inspiration discovered by mortal Taoists from the heteromorphism of the lungs, and finally created after years of exploration.

Cultivation is nothing more than strengthening the body, far inferior to even the entry-level Heavenly Dao Technique.

Disappointed, Ren Qing knew in his heart that this crude method might be related to the Wine God Technique. As long as he traced the source, there would definitely be other gains.

After Sha Shanzi transported the wine energy to his lungs, he opened his eyes, exhaled a long breath, and his expression seemed a little dejected.

A strong sense of powerlessness arose in his heart.

Thinking back to when he obtained the "Qi Refining Technique", he regarded it as a treasure, and even fantasized about returning to the Taoist temple with it, but in the end, it was all in vain.

He originally planned to take in a disciple to inherit the position of officially appointed Taoist, but how could the business of dealing with the dead compare to the temptation of becoming an immortal?

Just then, a low voice rang out from the room out of nowhere.

"It's really laughable…"

"Who!!!"

Sha Shanzi stood up, carefully moved to the back of the door, and scanned the small room vigilantly with his eyes.

No one was found hiding behind the stone table and stone chair. Finally, he looked at the three Taoist ancestor statues.

The statues were crudely made, but they were as tall as three meters. It was not surprising to hide someone behind them, but he didn't know who was so silent.

Sha Shanzi was about to leave the room.

The statue of Yuanshi Tianzun suddenly opened its eyes, and its expression was dignified and awe-inspiring.

Crack, crack, crack.

The statue slowly walked down from the altar, bringing an extremely terrifying sense of oppression.

Sha Shanzi opened his mouth incredulously, his mind blank.

Could it be a Ze Immortal…

In a daze, the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun returned to the altar, but there was a man in front of him who looked like a banished immortal.

He was clearly of ordinary appearance, but he exuded a suffocating aura, but not as creepy as the Ze people.

Sha Shanzi was convinced that this person was a Ze Immortal, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Immortal, I shouldn't have had such disrespectful thoughts in my heart, spare my life…"

After Ren Qing advanced to the Yellow Spring Immortal Bone, pretending to be like a Ze person was indeed comparable, but he was usually more restrained.

He didn't want to explain anything, he stretched out his finger and pointed it at Sha Shanzi's brow, and the Heavenly Dao Dream Seed came to the other party's Niwan Palace.

The Heavenly Dao Dream Seed does not have the invasiveness of the Heavenly Demon Dream Seed, but as long as it is attached to someone else's soul, it can unconditionally generate trust.

It should be derived from the inexplicable influence of the Heavenly Dao Insect on the host.

Ren Qing asked, "Do you have any secret manuals of the Qi Refining Technique?"

After hearing this, Sha Shanzi, who was clearly so frightened that he had no strength, instinctively took out a tattered human skin book from under the bed.

His mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.

Ren Qing took the book, and the text recorded inside was slightly different from Xiangxiang. The realm is divided into Small Zhoutian, Great Zhoutian, and Zhoutian Completion.

[Qi Refining Technique]

[Derived from the Wine God Technique, it was created by Chao Yangzi who endured the heteromorphism of his body. It can only be cultivated when the wine merges into the blood.]

[Cultivating this technique can resist some Ze Sand heteromorphism and strengthen the lungs.]

[Can consume three days of lifespan to master the cost exemption]

Ren Qing asked curiously, "Do you know a Taoist named Chao Yangzi?"

Sha Shanzi was surprised, how could anyone know Chao Yangzi: "I know him, but he died on the Ascension Ladder a few years ago."

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"I found this Qi Refining Technique when I was sorting out his body."

He couldn't help showing fear on his face. Some things he was clearly prepared to keep in his stomach for the rest of his life, but at this time he easily said them.

Could it be that the Qi Refining Technique has attracted the attention of the Ze Immortal…

Sha Shanzi thought that he had unintentionally spread the Qi Refining Technique, and he was more saddened than grieved, fearing that he had harmed others.

Ren Qing casually consumed his lifespan to master the Qi Refining Technique, but only felt a heat in his lungs, but it disappeared in an instant.

A faint scent of wine wafted from his mouth.

However, in Sha Shanzi's eyes, it seemed a bit shocking.

The Ze Immortal clearly has no physical body, how could he cultivate the Qi Refining Technique…

Ren Qing looked at the information stream, and it would only take ten days of lifespan to reach Great Zhoutian.

He simply spent a month or so of lifespan to upgrade the Qi Refining Technique to Zhoutian Completion, but only his lung capacity increased slightly, and there were not many other changes.

"Huff…"

Ren Qing exhaled half a meter of wine vapor, causing the room to be shrouded in white smoke.

No matter how slow Sha Shanzi's reaction was, he realized that the man in front of him was not a Ze Immortal.

But it is definitely impossible for him to be a mortal, after all, he cultivated to Zhoutian Completion in just a few breaths right under his nose.

He looked at the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun, and a very absurd thought arose in his mind, this person is probably related to Yuanshi Tianzun.

As soon as Sha Shanzi's thought arose, it was firmly reinforced by the effect of the Heavenly Dao Dream Seed, and his expression became respectful.

Ren Qing noticed that Sha Shanzi's soul was stable, so he took back the Heavenly Dao Dream Seed, and then asked about the affairs of Huangsha City.

Sha Shanzi told everything he knew.

There are thirty-two Taoist temples of various sizes in the city, including the one where the Ze Immortals are located.

Large Taoist temples like the Huanghe Temple usually have at least three Ze Immortals stationed there, and small Taoist temples mostly have one or two Ze Immortals.

Sha Shanzi was originally a Taoist of the "Green Snake Temple" in the west of the city, which worshiped the Self-Eating Realm Ze Immortal known as the "Green Snake Immortal".

However, the Green Snake Immortal chose to ascend because he failed to advance to the "Other-Eating Realm".

After Sha Shanzi left the Green Snake Temple, he became an officially appointed Taoist responsible for handling corpses under the allocation of the government.

He only knew the superficiality of the three realms of becoming an immortal, and only after becoming an officially appointed Taoist did he realize that the Taoist children who have not become immortals will turn into dry corpses.

Due to the division of power among the Taoist temples, the government has almost stopped interfering, at most just coming forward to maintain basic order.

Listening to Sha Shanzi's description of the government, Ren Qing found that it was very similar to the structure of Xiangxiang, indicating that they shared a common system.

Although he didn't know what drastic changes had occurred, it could be seen that there was still contact between the regions thousands of years ago.

Sha Shanzi spoke more and more, as if venting the boredom in his heart.

In addition to the Taoist temples and the government, there is also a gathering of officially appointed Taoists in Huangsha City, called the "Huangsha Taoist Association".

The government is also aware of the existence of the Taoist Association and tacitly approves of it.

This is mainly because there are also many officially appointed Taoists within the government.

Not all officially appointed Taoists are from Taoist temples like Sha Shanzi. In fact, most of them are obtained through the imperial examination in Huangsha City.

Equivalent to officials who manage various industries.

The Huangsha Taoist Association is more like a poetry appreciation among scholars, discussing Taoist scriptures.

Sha Shanzi, as a non-imperial examination officially appointed Taoist, did not have many connections, and only used the Qi Refining Technique to open the door to the Taoist Association.

The Qi Refining Technique is not a secret.

Ren Qing felt a little strange. In Huangsha City, which is ruled by the Ze Immortals, the Huangsha Taoist Association cannot develop dissent in a short period of time.

But what about in hundreds of years?

Just Chao Yangzi was able to create a crude technique, and with the exchange and development of the Taoist Association, the Qi Refining Technique will definitely not stop at the Zhoutian Completion realm.

Mortals will eventually master the power that is not weaker than the Ze Immortals, provided that they do not die prematurely.

Ren Qing thought to himself.

It seems that he can teach the Gobi people the Forbidden Prison Technique, so as to lay the foundation for the expansion of the Forbidden Prison Hall, but the current timing is not right.

Wait until the Forbidden Prison Hall finds a way to deal with the Ze people.

Ren Qing decided to go to the Taoist temple where Liu Chuan belonged to check the situation first.

He turned his head and asked, "By the way, what exactly is the use of the Ascension Ladder in Huangsha City?"

I was temporarily called to work overtime at the unit, the next chapter will be a little later