The Secret Way of Immortality

The giant corpse Buddha sank back into the depths of the earth, moving away from the forbidden zone of the dead.

But before a few days had passed, Li Tiangang discovered that the forbidden zone, originally composed of bone fragments, was now showing traces of soil and rock.

The soil contained a faint Yin energy, which unknowingly seeped into the giant corpse Buddha's body.

The erosion of Yin energy could cause the flesh to zombify, and the most affected was the jungle within the intestines, where the vegetation withered in unison.

Seeing this, the Forbidden Corps inscribed a massive Yin-gathering array in the stomach, gathering all the Yin energy from the giant corpse Buddha's body into it.

Zhen Xuzi, arriving at the intestines and stomach, looked at the busy cultivators and felt somewhat unaccustomed.

He could clearly perceive that within the Fude Earth Immortal's forces, the dominant position was not held by the Heavenly Dao insect-men, but by human cultivators.

Zhen Xuzi was confused and didn't know how to integrate into the Forbidden Corps.

The Forbidden Corps was busy with various matters and paid no attention to the insect-man cultivators, merely restricting their activity to the intestinal and stomach areas.

Zhen Xuzi felt somewhat lost and even discovered Taihan Zhenren, who was transporting goods, during his aimless wanderings.

"Master..."

Taihan Zhenren looked embarrassed. In the insect nest Taoist temple, he was at least the abbot, and all the insect-man cultivators were essentially his disciples.

But now he was doing hard labor in the Forbidden Corps.

"You..."

Taihan Zhenren wanted to ask Zhen Xuzi why he had come here, but remembering his own act of abandoning the Taoist temple, he wasn't any more noble.

"Master, when did you start following the Fude Earth Immortal?"

Taihan Zhenren said breathlessly, "Have you... seen the true form of the Fude Earth Immortal?"

Zhen Xuzi nodded and then recounted the events that had occurred in recent days. Taihan Zhenren couldn't help but break into a cold sweat after hearing this.

Although he hadn't seen Ren Qing transform into the Fude Earth Immortal, he didn't believe that the Yang God realm cultivators of the various forces were all mistaken.

Taihan Zhenren was mostly convinced of Ren Qing's identity.

He hesitated, unsure whether to speak, and finally could only leave the words "Unity of knowledge and action," before pushing the goods away with his insect body.

"Unity of knowledge and action... Unity of knowledge and action..."

Zhen Xuzi muttered these four words, and suddenly had a plan in mind.

Before long, Li Tiangang noticed that the insect-man cultivators from outside were successively participating in the inscription of the Yin-gathering array.

He hadn't expected the insect-man cultivators to be so willing to do such menial work.

The moment the Yin-gathering array formed, dense Yin energy surged towards the stomach, turning into white mist that made the buildings in the camp sizzle.

Immediately afterwards, the magical artifacts for containing Yin energy were activated, and the Yin energy was gradually absorbed into them.

The magical artifacts were refined by the cultivators themselves, and some were even made in a rush by weapon-refining shops in Dream City.

This was mainly due to the new task assigned by Li Tiangang.

They could exchange the collected Yin energy for blood crystals or spirit crystals, and apart from the fact that Yin energy damaged magical artifacts, it was almost a cost-free business.

Of course, in terms of profiting from Yin energy, ordinary cultivators were no match for zombies.

Zombies came in droves to the center of the Yin-gathering array, allowing the Yin energy to wash over their bodies, which greatly accelerated the speed of re-cultivating their techniques.

It wouldn't be long before the corpse ghosts could regain their Yang God realm strength.

It could also nourish the crab-man magical artifacts, which were special parasitic magical artifacts with a realm no different from that of zombies, making it a win-win situation.

At the same time, the Forbidden Corps was also paying attention to the situation within the forbidden zone of the dead.

Jiang Feng secretly deployed a large number of eyeballs. With his three times of distortion cultivation, he could barely see the towns on the ground.

The towns were currently peaceful.

They used trade to obtain enough Rebirth Pills for more than a hundred years, as well as various resources, and even food and wine.

As for the price they paid, it was merely some chicken-rib resources.

The Yang God realm cultivators lost face due to the appearance of the Fude Earth Immortal, and after the giant corpse Buddha left, they ridiculed him without restraint.

But they soon noticed something was wrong.

The immortal sects indeed no longer had zombies appearing, but the continuous acid rain became more and more frequent, raining every five days.

As for why they had become so sensitive to time, it was because a sun and a moon suddenly appeared in the sky above the land of the dead.

The sun and moon were side by side, but their brightness differed during the day and night.

On the white bone hills, fungi began to multiply, and the originally silent forbidden zone of the dead became increasingly vibrant.

Anything abnormal must have a cause.

After the thirteenth day.

A bloodshot eye grew out of the center of the sun, its imperceptible pupil constantly scanning, and anything it saw would ignite with a ghostly green flame.

The moon resembled a woman's palace, and the sounds of wailing could be heard from within, its slightly wriggling appearance suggesting that it was gestating something.

After the twenty-first day.

Cultivators could no longer look directly at the sun and moon, otherwise their bodies would uncontrollably distort, turning into a purplish-red corpse brain in a few breaths.

The Yang God realm cultivators regretted not following the Fude Earth Immortal to leave.

They no longer cared about their duty to protect the immortal sects, and after suppressing the zombification with Rebirth Pills, they began to look for a way to leave the forbidden zone of the dead.

But unfortunately, since the ground had turned into soil filled with Yin energy, even Yang God realm cultivators could not forcibly leave the forbidden zone of the dead.

After the thirty-sixth day.

The Yang God realm cultivators became insane, and some even took hundreds of Rebirth Pills, bursting from the vitality and turning into a pile of rotten flesh.

The acid rain no longer stopped, but poured down, covering most of the forbidden zone of the dead.

After the fifty-seventh day.

The rain was like a vast ocean, causing most of the forbidden zone of the dead to be submerged, and the Yin energy directly enveloped the water surface within ten meters.

Only the high ground of some white bone hills remained as a foothold.

Corpse water poured back into the entrance and exit of the corpse mirror, forming a vortex on the water surface, causing the immortal corpses that shot straight into the sky to gradually corrode.

………

The dramatic changes in the forbidden zone of the dead seemed to foreshadow the beginning of something.

However, the Forbidden Corps had no way of knowing the subsequent changes. Jiang Feng's eyeballs only lasted for ten days before being corroded by the rain.

Ren Qing's fungal soul and ghost shadow lasted a little longer.

But when the sun and moon were activated, he found that the fungal soul and ghost shadow were simultaneously distorted and gradually out of control, so he immediately destroyed them.

Ren Qing's divination had changed from "ominous with good fortune" to "ominous," but the cracks remained unchanged.

This indicated that the ominous signs were still present, but as the giant corpse Buddha moved away from the forbidden zone, the situation was improving, at least without any signs of great misfortune.

Ren Qing secretly rejoiced that he had mastered the Longevity of the Tortoise, and this feeling of "all disasters are always one step behind me" was quite good.

In fact, in the eyes of Li Tiangang and others, Ren Qing's luck far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Of course, from another perspective, no matter where Ren Qing went, he was accompanied by unimaginable disasters, belonging to the type of person with bad luck.

After Ren Qing saw that the giant corpse Buddha was stable, he began to advance his dream technique.

【Do you want to advance the Ladder to Immortality, which will consume five thousand years of lifespan?】

About to step onto the Ladder to Immortality was equivalent to stepping into the Heavenly Aberrant realm with one foot, and half of the path to immortality and enlightenment had already been taken.

Ren Qing couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion, but this time he no longer suppressed it.

Five thousand years of lifespan disappeared in an instant, and he suddenly heard an explosion in his ears, followed by a burst of white light in his eyes and a buzzing in his ears.

Ren Qing saw an old monk reading the Surangama Sutra, his eyes uncontrollably bleeding, and then eyes popped out of his skin.

The old monk spent an unknown amount of time finally completing the Eyeless Method, and then collapsed.

Then the scene changed to the appearance of the Great Dream Master as a child, constantly trying to leave the unchanging bottom dream.

His body and soul were thus alienated and out of control, turning into distorted light and shadow.

But the Great Dream Master also saw a technique hidden in the depths of the dream through the light and shadow transformation of his soul, and its name was "Dream Butterfly Method."

The scene changed.

The scholar Li Yiyang suffered from severe insomnia since childhood, and the longest he went without sleep was three days.

Li Yiyang's parents sought a Taoist priest for him, who gave him a Nightmare Demon Diagram.

It was said that as long as one contemplated the Nightmare Demon Diagram, insomnia could be cured.

Li Yiyang stared at the Nightmare Demon Diagram for several days, believing that he had been cured.

But in the eyes of his parents, he never slept again, and his mind became more and more distorted and insane.

After ten days of insomnia, Li Yiyang scratched the full text of the Nightmare Art on the wall with his fingernails, and then died violently.

Then came the Grand Duke Scripture.

A Taoist priest searched for immortal fate for more than ten years, but gained nothing, until he was old and dying, but accidentally obtained the immortal technique.

According to what was recorded in the immortal technique, one must be in their prime to be able to withstand the entry.

The Taoist priest wanted to return his body to its prime, so he used all kinds of methods, even injecting the blood of infants into his body.

His actions naturally aroused public anger, and he accidentally lost the immortal technique while fleeing.

The Taoist priest went completely mad, and went to the deserted burial ground at night, extracting the corpse blood from the bodies of dead infants and forcibly injecting it into himself.

The next day, he died, but his corpse was covered with bright fungi.

When he opened his eyes again, he was the Grand Duke Taoist Lord controlled by fungi.

The last scene was the Six Sickness Method.

It was a village ravaged by plague, and anyone infected with the disease would turn into a towering banyan tree in a short period of time.

The trunk of the banyan tree resembled human skin, and the branches resembled deformed hands and feet.

Dozens of people up and down the village died in the plague, and only one unborn baby was trapped in the banyan tree and survived by chance.

The baby curled up in the banyan tree and gradually grew into an adult.

A hundred years later, a merchant passed by the village and discovered that it seemed to have experienced a plague, leaving only lush banyan trees.

The merchant also saw a humanoid tree hole on one of the banyan trees.

However, it was empty, but the bark was engraved with strange characters, which could not be understood, but the content could reach the mind directly.

It seemed to record some kind of technique for becoming an immortal and attaining the Tao.

The merchant engraved the text on paper with ink, and then burned the village to the ground.

This technique was circulated several times, and finally fell into the hands of a Taoist priest who was old and dying.

………

Ren Qing opened his eyes during the interval of the technique's advancement. Sweat had soaked his entire body, and even formed a pool of sweat under his feet.

The five Forbidden Corps Methods seemed to be created by others, but the creators were in a state of loss of control at the time, and only realized it on the verge of madness.

Ren Qing finally understood why the Heavenly Dao Insect was given the name "Heavenly Dao."

The Heavenly Dao Insect could influence the host, causing them to comprehend techniques. This was how the Heavenly Dao Method of the Wuwu Taoist Temple came about.

The Grand Duke Taoist Lord and others stared directly at the "Heavenly Dao" that constituted the world, and also comprehended the technique.

It could be seen that the Heavenly Dao was crazy.

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