The Secret Way of Immortality

#5 - Living human skin

Ren Qing felt his blood rush to his head.

He let go of the corpse, dropping it to the ground, then used his foot to hold down its armpit, grabbing the arm and twisting it with force.

Crack.

The sound of bones dislocating rang out as Ren Qing forcibly dislocated the corpse's joints.

"Let's go."

Xiao Wu's scalp tingled, but the fear in his heart was somewhat diluted.

However, he felt that the corpse's empty eyes had a kind of chilling resentment...

The two quickened their pace, and nothing strange happened after that.

By the time they returned to the Fire Worker Hall, it was almost dawn.

Ren Qing couldn't help but collapse on the ground, gasping for breath, after all, his physique was still weak, and he was relying entirely on the heat radiating from his pig eyes to keep him going.

He only rested for a moment before getting up from the ground, then dragged the corpse in three steps and two steps to the front of the furnace.

"What's wrong, Ren Qing?"

Li Mian and the other two quickly followed, and they saw Ren Qing open the furnace door, which hadn't been cleaned for several days, and the dust from the ashes scattered everywhere.

"Start the fire, this corpse can't be left here."

"Okay."

Ren Qing stuffed the shopkeeper's corpse into the furnace, then filled it with firewood and closed the furnace door.

Xiao Wu was so nervous that his hands trembled, and it took him a long time to light the firewood with the fire starter.

As the flames rose, the temperature around the furnace gradually increased.

They breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their foreheads at the same time.

"These next few days, the four of us will have to work hard, taking turns to rest and clean up the corpses in the mortuary."

Ren Qing thought of the bloodstains left by the corpse, although the path was relatively remote, it was better to cover them up just in case.

"You guys watch by the furnace, remember to keep an eye on the mortuary."

With that thought, he relied on the heat generated by his pig eyes to barely support himself as he walked outside.

Suddenly, a knocking sound came from the furnace, and there was a faint scream, which couldn't help but send chills down people's spines.

Ren Qing hesitated for a few breaths, and after discovering that the movement had disappeared, he turned and left.

Wait...

He suddenly realized something absurd, could it be that the bookstore owner wasn't completely dead, and was his life being sustained by the No-Eyed Method?

No, the information stream didn't react, so he must be dead for sure.

Ren Qing didn't dwell on it any further, after all, the corpse had already turned to ashes with the flames.

He carefully followed the bloodstains, covering the traces with sand.

In any case, at most someone would pass by the outer wall of the yamen, as long as it didn't look strange from a distance, there was no need to be too careful.

Ren Qing took the opportunity to check his own information stream.

【Ren Qing】

【Age: Seventeen】

【Lifespan: Five years and eighty-five days】

【Technique: No-Eyed Method】

Although it only increased by two or three days, Ren Qing was still very satisfied.

The effect of eating pig eyes raw to prolong life should be subtle, otherwise the Hundred-Eyed Old Monk would not have been unaware.

He only needed to eat pig eyes while comparing it with the information stream, figure out the rate of lifespan increase, and then he would know how to take them for the best effect.

Now that the problem of lifespan was temporarily resolved, mastering the second technique also had to be put on the agenda.

The No-Eyed Method was indeed very suitable for Ren Qing, but it was still a bit too much to rely on it to face strange things.

Could he consider the "Divine Foot Scripture"?

But those beggars were probably controlled by a certain force in the west of the city, and with Ren Qing's current strength, the risk was still too great.

After spending half an hour, Ren Qing cleaned up near the outer wall, and just as he was about to return the way he came.

Suddenly, he keenly sensed a terrifying aura, like being targeted by a predatory beast.

Ren Qing was already crouching, and he quickly lay down on the ground, then glanced around with his peripheral vision.

In the distance, a tall figure was walking towards the eastern district of the yamen.

That person was wearing light armor, a bamboo hat, a three-foot-long sword at his waist, and seemed to be holding a bloody leather object in his hand.

Ren Qing's gaze first stopped at the token hanging at the end of the scabbard, and he saw the word "Forbidden" engraved on it in a flamboyant style.

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Forbidden Guard...

This was the first time Ren Qing had encountered a Forbidden Guard. Whether it was going to the scene to deal with corpses or inside the yamen, he had never heard of anyone coming into contact with them before.

He even suspected that the yamen was divided into four areas, leaving out the central Forbidden Guard Hall, because of the Forbidden Guards.

Ren Qing then looked at the leather object in the Forbidden Guard's hand, his eyes becoming sore from concentrating.

The leather object kept dripping blood, and it wriggled like a living thing, trying to break free from the Forbidden Guard's restraints, but it was being held tightly.

Ren Qing opened his mouth in disbelief, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like human skin?

Living human skin? !!

Sure enough, this was a world with a strange style.

After the Forbidden Guard's figure disappeared, Ren Qing continued to lie down for a long time before dragging his exhausted body back to the Fire Worker Hall.

For the next two days, the furnace never stopped burning, it was constantly burning.

When the last three Fire Worker corpses turned to ashes, the ashes in the furnace had accumulated a thick layer, and there were some bone fragments.

The ashes were taken away by the runners, and no one knew what the yamen was going to do with them.

During this period, the west of the city seemed relatively calm, and no one had died in Tan Street.

But in other yamen areas, Fire Workers carrying corpses could be seen coming in and out every day.

According to the news Ren Qing inquired about, a dozen people had died in the east of the city, and all the corpses had no heads, and their postures were kneeling.

He felt that it was the Hundred-Eyed One's doing.

If Ren Qing was that Hundred-Eyed One, he would definitely deliberately avoid the west of the city when committing crimes, and then cut off the heads to confuse the public, so as not to be discovered that he was missing human eyes.

By doing so, he was probably under the impression that the "No-Eyed Method" had fallen into the hands of the yamen, not knowing that Ren Qing had picked up a bargain.

These days, Ren Qing had to watch over the furnace, and explore the path of cultivation, so the frequency of going to the butcher shop had been greatly reduced.

In addition to inquiring about news of the No-Eyed Method, he noticed that things seemed to be uneasy within the yamen, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

The gains from seclusion were naturally quite plentiful.

Ren Qing was already able to freely enter the state of visualizing the No-Eyed Method, but he controlled the time within an hour.

If it exceeded an hour, the darkness in his eyes would become terrifyingly strange, and he would also have the desire to dig out his eyes.

Ren Qing also found the pattern of eating pig eyes raw to increase lifespan, it was most appropriate to swallow a pig eye every three hours or so.

In this way, he could increase his lifespan by four or five days every day.

The progress was a bit slow, but at least he didn't have to worry about his lifespan running out.

Now Ren Qing no longer had his original sickly appearance, and his energy and blood seemed much fuller.

It was just that the way Xiao Wu and the other two looked at him was becoming more and more complicated.

Could it be that he really ate something that was greatly nourishing?

After Ren Qing finished studying the No-Eyed Method, he was just thinking about going to the martial arts training ground in the yamen to take a look, even if he couldn't find any clues about techniques, it would be good to learn some self-defense external skills.

But suddenly, trouble came knocking on his door.

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