The Secret Way of Immortality

A wisp of soul descended into the Immortal Forbidden Zone.

After a brief period of unconsciousness, Ren Qing gradually regained clarity, but his entire body felt weak and feeble. Even lifting his eyelids took a considerable amount of effort.

His clothes were scattered nearby. He forced himself to sit up cross-legged, enduring the drowsiness as he put them on, and his breathing became labored.

Ren Qing felt a sense of foreboding because the rhythm of his heartbeat was clearly off.

He had once again arrived at the Immortal Forbidden Zone. His divided soul had materialized into flesh, and the accompanying ailments still existed, though not as severe as before.

Ren Qing carefully examined himself. Although his internal organs were far from failing, his heart clearly had a congenital defect.

This caused him to instinctively gasp for air.

The multiple fleshy tumors on Ren Qing's shoulders had also disappeared, indicating that the ailments were indeed related to the divided soul.

It seemed the fewer traces of cultivation, the lighter the accompanying ailments would be.

At the same time, his five senses were not weakened too much. At least his eyes could barely see clearly, and his hearing was only slightly impaired in his right ear.

"Immortal, immortal, where is there any trace of immortality besides this short-lived appearance?"

He couldn't help but smile wryly. He looked around and found himself still at the original puddle, presumably descending based on his location of death.

The water's surface reflected a deathly pale face covered in dark red bumps. Anyone who saw it would think he was nearing his end.

Ren Qing was in the wilderness, but there were no traces of wild animals.

He tried to communicate with the Eternal Imprisonment, but unfortunately, his divided soul was too weak. Otherwise, he could have relied on devouring food to replenish his strength.

Ren Qing drank the stagnant water without hesitation, figuring at worst the divided soul would die.

He closed his eyes to rest for a while. At least he could stand up. Then, he walked into the mountain forest to find fruit to fill his stomach.

Several fruits hanging from the branches had fallen to the ground. From a distance, they looked like hearts; up close, they resembled bloody fleshy tumors.

Ren Qing didn't bring Ghost Shadows, so he couldn't summon the information stream. He simply ate the fruit as food.

After the fruit entered his stomach, it was quickly digested.

Streams of warmth flowed through his body along with his blood vessels, dispelling the chill. At the same time, the feeling of fullness made the drowsiness in Ren Qing's heart even stronger.

Ren Qing casually found a patch of grass to rest. He didn't know the current situation in the Immortal Forbidden Zone, so he should recover his strength as soon as possible.

Moreover, it was getting late. After all, it was a Yang God Realm forbidden zone, possibly filled with all kinds of strange and bizarre objects.

He tried to cultivate the entry-level Heavenly Dao technique, but his body showed no response. The same was true when he switched to the Imaginary Art technique.

Unknowingly, Ren Qing fell into a deep sleep.

He didn't wake up groggily until late in the morning.

Ren Qing experienced the troubles of birth, aging, sickness, and death that ordinary people faced, which made him even more eager for "immortality" and hoping to transcend the mortal world.

He was about to continue exploring the situation inside the forbidden zone when he suddenly clutched his chest, and beads of sweat poured from his forehead uncontrollably.

His heart had swollen by a circle and was beating at an unbearable speed.

Ren Qing knew that after eating the fruit, the ailments in his body seemed to have become more serious, and his skin was also itching painfully.

"What kind of ghost world is this?"

He waited until he got used to the heavy heartbeat before getting up and walking slowly through the mountain forest.

At this time, Ren Qing discovered that this place was not without living creatures. In fact, he could see small rodents and reptiles.

But without exception, they all had strange deformities.

Ren Qing personally saw a field mouse with a fleshy ball protruding from its chest and abdomen, which kept jumping as it moved. It was clearly a heart.

Based on his knowledge from his previous life, the field mouse resembled a congenital ectopia cordis, mainly caused by incomplete rib development.

Immediately afterward, Ren Qing saw a sparrow with wings of different sizes.

Normal animals also existed, but the proportion was not high.

He traveled intermittently for two days, with rest time accounting for more than half of the time.

The Immortal Forbidden Zone at night was also safer than Ren Qing had imagined. He rarely heard the roars of wild animals, and most of the time it was silent.

Because he was hungry, Ren Qing had to eat the fruits of the vegetation, but without exception, they would cause his body's ailments to become more serious.

At this point, his heart would ache with every step he took. His breathing sounded like a blower, and his mouth was mixed with a rusty, bloody taste.

Just as Ren Qing was about to give up on this divided soul, he suddenly noticed traces of footprints.

His heart leaped. There were actually living people in the Immortal Forbidden Zone. Could it be survivors who had strayed into it and gradually multiplied?

What was the difference between the so-called Yang God Realm forbidden zone and the real world?

Ren Qing guessed that clues to prolonging life should not be difficult to find. After all, despite such a dangerous place, there were three prison guards who were able to prolong their lives.

He followed the footprints toward the rising sun and soon saw a winding mountain road, presumably approaching a village.

Ren Qing took out a palm-sized fleshy leaf from his pocket, ate a third of it, and put it away again to avoid accelerating his own death.

This leaf was a food that he had experimented with and had the least impact on the ailments. The fleshy tumor fruit, on the other hand, had the opposite effect.

He braced himself, walking as far as he could. If it really didn't work, he would re-incubate a divided soul and go to the Immortal Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing estimated that if the divided soul didn't cultivate, the resulting body would be healthier and wouldn't die suddenly within a few days.

As the sky gradually darkened, his failing internal organs were on the verge of collapse, and his heart was three times the size of a normal organ.

Ren Qing struggled to walk over the mountain and noticed that the mountain road became smoother. Not far away, there was an extremely dilapidated temple.

Wisps of green smoke were coming out of it.

When he came to the broken temple, three characters "Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity" were engraved on the plaque, but the handwriting was crooked and clearly had been abandoned for a long time.

Ren Qing walked into the broken temple, which was clearly temporarily occupied by someone.

The front of the Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity Temple was three dusty statues, similar in size to the Three Dao Ancestors, but their appearance was extremely terrifying.

The Prosperity Immortal stood in the center, with jade-like fleshy Ganoderma lucidum growing on his head and arms, and his beard was made of meridians and blood vessels.

On the right was the Longevity Immortal, whose iconic large forehead was replaced by a fleshy tumor, with blue veins protruding on the surface, making people shudder.

The Longevity Immortal held a peach made of a baby's head in each palm, and one could still vaguely notice a resentful and resentful smile on its face.

The last Fortune Immortal seemed relatively normal, but the lower half of his body was connected to a sika deer, and the golden boy hugged by his arms was only a skeleton.

From the worshiped gods, one could see that the Immortal Forbidden Zone was indeed bizarre and inexplicable.

"Who's there?"

There were also two emaciated men in the temple, dressed as martial artists who traveled the world, but their vitality was not as good as that of children outside.

Their bodies also had varying degrees of ailments, most of which were concentrated in deformities of the hands and feet, or hidden defects in organs.

They seemed to be eating something before and immediately put it away when they heard footsteps.

"I'll stay for one night, and I'll leave on my own tomorrow."

Seeing that the two men didn't react, Ren Qing walked to a corner of the temple and sat down, closing his eyes as if to rest.

The men looked at each other, their expressions a mixture of surprise and joy, and their eyes were filled with greed as they looked at Ren Qing from time to time.

Ren Qing pretended to sleep, but in fact, he carefully listened to the two men's whispers, but his hearing was limited, resulting in intermittent sounds.

"So… haven't died yet?"

"Really think it's…"

"Can exchange for a lot of food, right?"

"Must be… but must be careful… there may be evil ghosts…"

The more Ren Qing listened, the more confused he became. He gently swallowed the leaves into his stomach, and his heartbeat accelerated as he prepared himself.

The two men no longer spoke, and their positions deliberately formed an encirclement.

Ren Qing could sense that they were very nervous, indicating that they were not people who specialized in committing crimes. This action seemed to be a sudden idea.

He was even more curious about the worldview in the Immortal Forbidden Zone. It seemed that everything was closely related to disease.

It wasn't until half an hour later that the two men made up their minds to attack Ren Qing.

They tiptoed within two meters and then suddenly pounced, drawing their long knives from their waists to try to control him.

Although Ren Qing's cultivation was not obvious and his body was comparable to a centenarian, he was originally in the Yin-Yang Realm and had a wealth of experience in dealing with such situations.

"Evil ghosts are coming!!"

Hearing Ren Qing's bluff, one of the men turned his head in horror.

Ren Qing pulled out the wooden short spear from his waist and directly stabbed it into the shoulder of the man closest to him, and then used it to form a hostage.

He held the wooden spear against the other man's neck, and his lungs felt a burning pain.

The other man looked at Ren Qing with the eyes of a fierce beast, especially when he noticed the dark red blood flowing from the latter's facial features.

Just as Ren Qing was about to ask about the situation, the man ignored his companion's life and death, dropped his long knife and ran away, quickly disappearing into the night.

"Evil ghosts, there are evil ghosts…"

"What evil ghosts?"

Ren Qing was puzzled when he discovered that the hostage's skin had developed similar red spots to his own, and soon the flesh emitted a foul stench.

The man trembled and fell to the ground, his breath becoming weaker and weaker.

Ren Qing immediately understood that the evil ghosts in the mouths of the two men were actually the infectious diseases on his body, which could be said to cause death upon contact with blood.

He used the wooden spear as a crutch and deepened his tone, saying, "Do you want to die or live?"

"Want… to live…"

The man's pupils were already dilated, but the instinct to survive forced him to cheer up.

"Where are you taking me, and why?"

"Uh… uh… uh…"

The man tried his best to say something, but the speed of flesh corrosion was visible to the naked eye, and finally, he only squeezed a few words from his throat.

"Medical… hall…"

Before he could finish speaking, he had already turned into a pile of rotten mud.

Ren Qing realized at this moment how dangerous he was. His body not only had congenital heart disease but also infectious diseases.

He felt the loss of life, and his limbs lay paralyzed.

The lesions on his body may have a certain degree of randomness. Unless Ren Qing completely stopped his divided soul from cultivating techniques, he would definitely get sick.

But Ren Qing vaguely felt that the Immortal Forbidden Zone was related to disease everywhere, and perhaps prolonging life also had some special connection.

Otherwise, the two men clearly knew that he was extremely dangerous, but why did they still want to capture him and send him to the "medical hall"? There must be some hidden clues.

Ren Qing's head tilted, and his body also quickly rotted and disappeared.