The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing returned to his senses and continued to devote himself to comprehending the Ascension Art.

Having experienced the Dragon Devouring Art, he already knew how to construct the Ascension Art, and his purpose became extremely clear.

Ren Qing spent more time on the Shadowless Ghost Ascension Art than on all other techniques combined, having deduced it for over a decade.

In his opinion, the advantages and disadvantages of the Shadowless Ghost were very obvious.

The disadvantage was the low correlation between the primary and secondary techniques. It could be seen from the grotesque object "Five Yin Horned Dragon" formed by the Immortal of Non-Birth that the secondary technique, Dragon-Snake Spine, faintly showed signs of overpowering the primary one.

If the information stream hadn't suppressed the secondary technique without leaving any loopholes, Ren Qing might have been backlashed by the technique.

However, the Shadowless Ghost also had advantages, which was why it could form an Earth Immortal Ascension Art.

If one delved into the technique itself, Shadowless Ghost, Dragon-Snake Spine, Human Skin Book, Armor Plating, and Underworld Art were all related to flesh and bones.

As long as the direction of the Ascension Art leaned towards strange beasts, its potential could be stimulated.

The statue of the Celestial Venerable of Morality continued to shatter, the bleating of goats made one's hair stand on end, and thick black smoke enveloped the surroundings.

Deformed and terrifying pieces of flesh squeezed out from the cracks in the statue, the surface showing irregular mouths dripping with mucus, and tongues covered in sucker-like tentacles within the mouths, as black smoke spewed out.

With the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, Ren Qing's comprehension was enhanced by more than a hundred times, and he could analyze in almost every breath what would normally take him several days to conceive.

However, he could also perceive that the Celestial Venerable of Morality stimulated the primitive instincts in his heart, and all kinds of distracting thoughts of the seven emotions and six desires constantly arose.

The Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning was a constantly splitting and recombining bubble; the Celestial Venerable of the Numinous Treasure was pieced together from various strange limbs; the demonic aura of the Celestial Venerable of Morality stimulated the instinct of desire.

He didn't know what exactly caused the three Ancestral Daos to transform into such grotesque appearances.

Ren Qing shook his head. Besides himself, could anyone really comprehend the Earth Immortal Ascension Art in front of the Three Ancestral Daos?

The bodies and souls of cultivators like Grand Dream True Man appeared to have been transformed and lost control when facing the Three Ancestral Daos.

In the noisy murmurs of the Celestial Venerable of Morality, the third Ascension Art was born.

【Ying Dragon Art】

【Created by Ren Qing. It requires consuming dragon blood continuously for five years until a dragon pearl is produced in the dantian, then digging out the dragon pearl and placing it in a pure Yin alchemic furnace to burn for seven years before it can be cultivated.】

【The upper limit of the Ying Dragon Art can be cultivated to Earth Immortal, and it can take into account other techniques.】

【Immortal Rank: Lightning-Crossing Ying Dragon】

The appearance of the Lightning-Crossing Ying Dragon flashed through Ren Qing's mind.

The Ying Dragon was covered in purplish-green scales, lightning surrounded its body, its huge dragon horns were extremely ferocious, and wings resembling bird wings were spread out on its back.

According to legend, a water serpent transforms into a dragon after five hundred years, a dragon transforms into a dragon after a thousand years, a dragon transforms into a horned dragon after another five hundred years, and a horned dragon transforms into an Ying dragon after a thousand years.

The Ying Dragon was already the pinnacle of true dragons, a Dragon Immortal was not an exaggeration. In the myths of his previous life, it had helped the Yellow Emperor slay Chi You and Drought Demon.

Was Ren Qing satisfied with this? Of course he was, but he still chose to erase the memory of the Ying Dragon Art and comprehend a new Ascension Art from scratch.

With each comprehension, the thoughts in his mind became clearer and clearer.

Even at the moment when the Ying Dragon Art was formed, Ren Qing had already developed confidence that the next Ascension Art would definitely be what he wanted.

Crack, crack, crack…

The Celestial Venerable of Morality in the statue drilled out, and one could see goat hooves of different sizes hanging on the exterior, twitching from time to time.

The Supreme Heavenly Demon was not comparable to the Celestial Venerable of Morality at all. The former was like a piece of flesh that had fallen from the latter's body.

Ren Qing's Adam's apple bobbed, and desire filled his mind, but the final clarity was protected by the information stream, so that he would not lose all reason.

He was not too panicked, after all, he had faced the coercion of the Three Ancestral Daos four times, and he would inevitably continue to come into contact with them in the future.

The content of the Ascension Art quickly took shape.

In the lines of concise text, there was a sense of oppression full of dragon breath, as if a giant dragon of several thousand meters appeared in front of him.

The fourth Ascension Art was faster than the previous techniques.

Ren Qing glanced at the Ascension Art displayed by the information stream, and then drove his soul back to his body, the bleating gradually moving away.

He suspected that if he hadn't escaped from the gourd, he wouldn't have been able to return to his body on his own, and could only wait for the information stream to forcibly retrieve his soul.

If the information stream failed, Ren Qing's soul would inevitably stay in the gourd for hundreds or thousands of years, and might turn into a new Supreme Heavenly Demon.

Ren Qing's body regained consciousness, and then he moved his limbs.

He was too familiar with the Heavenly Demon aura, which led to the Celestial Venerable of Morality having little influence during comprehension, and he finished the promotion one time ahead of schedule.

The information stream surged.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: None】

Techniques:

【Evolving Ancestral Vein (Scaled Carp)】

【Grotesque Object: Five Yin Horned Dragon】

【Divine Power: Dragon's Roar in the Box】

【Immortal Rank: Primordial Ancestral Dragon (Pseudo)】

………

【Evolving Ancestral Vein】

【Created by Ren Qing. It requires simultaneously implanting dragon skin, dragon spine, dragon heart, and dragon brain into the body, spine, chest, abdomen, and head, and subduing the living organs with the soul before it can be cultivated.】

【The upper limit of the Evolving Ancestral Vein can be cultivated to Earth Immortal, and it can take into account other techniques.】

【Immortal Rank: Primordial Ancestral Dragon】

The realm of the Evolving Ancestral Vein is divided into the Martial Man Realm's "Scaled Carp", the Half-Corpse Realm's "Water Serpent", the Ghost Envoy Realm's "Dragon Snake", the Underworld Official Realm's "Hornless Dragon", the Yang God Realm's "Horned Dragon", and the Heavenly Grotesque Realm's "Ying Dragon".

The Daoist scriptures say: "The first year of the Dragon Han is the ancestral calamity. Dragon takes its change, Han takes its greatness. Before heaven and earth took shape, one Qi roamed in the space, wriggling its body, changing constantly, constructing spirits and gathering essence."

The meaning is that although the Ancestral Dragon has a fixed body, it can change as it pleases, and it was born before the heavens and earth were opened.

The characteristics of the Ancestral Dragon perfectly fit the Ghost Shadow.

Its image is similar to the Ying Dragon, but its body is larger, its dragon horns are as crystal clear as ink jade, and it does not have a dragon pearl as a weakness. It can manipulate clouds and rain and control thunder with ease.

Ren Qing looked at his feet, and a Ghost Shadow of several meters emerged from the shadows, the wings on its back were not solid, but presented as smoke.

He closed his eyes, and his skin, spine, heart, and brain were covered with scales. As long as he used the Evolving Ancestral Vein, he could transform into the Ancestral Dragon.

Ren Qing and the Ghost Shadow still retained traces of secondary techniques.

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The manifestation is that under the scales, there is a second layer of dragon skin like insect clothing, the body and soul can be transformed into illusory shadows, and the spine can be stripped off separately for use as a magic weapon.

The Primordial Ancestral Dragon acts on the body, not only does it not conflict with the Corpse Emperor of Fengdu, but it complements each other, showing the connection between Emperor and Dragon.

In fact, the Ancestral Dragon is also called the "Dragon Ancestor Great Emperor" in the Daoist scriptures.

Of course, the most terrifying aspect of the Ancestral Dragon is not the blessing of the body, but its role as the source of bloodlines for all dragons in the world.

Ren Qing defined the core elements of the Evolving Ancestral Vein as "All living beings in the world have dragon veins, the ancestor is above all dragons."

The divine power, Dragon's Roar in the Box, also showed subtle differences.

From animating all things, it becomes bestowing dragon veins to all things, thereby transforming living beings.

Dragon blood is somewhat like a virus, it can assimilate living beings, forcibly transform them into descendants, and affect thousands of descendants from the source of the bloodline.

In a sense, the Supreme Heavenly Demon is very similar to the Primordial Ancestral Dragon.

Ren Qing is the ancestor of the dragon veins, and can influence any descendant of dragon blood, and even collapse their bodies and souls with a single thought.

He looked at the world in his stomach, and then the entire mortal realm was covered with dark clouds.

Raindrops containing dragon blood fell heavily, and whether it was land or wine sea, it could not avoid being eroded by the power of dragon blood.

Even plants, trees, mountains, and rocks have been transformed into Ren Qing's dragon blood descendants.

However, Ren Qing did not impose dragon blood on anyone. In fact, with his current strength, even the Yang God Realm of the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld cannot avoid it, but dragon blood also has drawbacks.

The reason why the Forbidden Corps was able to develop from a small force in Xiangxiang to its current scale in a hundred years is partly because he led the way with cheats, and partly because of the diversity of the Forbidden Corps Art.

As long as a certain type of resource is obtained, the corresponding branch can become stronger.

Once dragon blood is popularized, the path of cultivation for the Forbidden Corps will be locked, and no matter how they cultivate, they will eventually move towards the True Dragon.

If the techniques are not as good as transforming into a dragon, the potential of the world in the stomach will be almost exhausted.

If Ren Qing only possessed one immortal rank, the Primordial Ancestral Dragon, he could do so, and the role of the immortal rank would be maximized.

But he is the "Corpse Emperor of Fengdu", "Toe Leaving Dream Immortal", "Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor", and "Primordial Ancestral Dragon".

The immortal rank that Heavenly Grotesque Realm cultivators envy is just one of the choices for Ren Qing, and he is even troubled by the strong erosion of dragon blood.

If Chen Changsheng knew, the coffin lid would probably not be able to hold it down.

Ren Qing pondered for a moment, and then used the Evolving Ancestral Vein to change the rules for the promotion of dragon veins, only insects, snakes, fish, turtles, shrimps, and horses can transform into dragons.

Of course, the conditions for transforming into a dragon are very harsh, and it takes dozens of generations of breeding to have a chance to become the lowest-level water serpent.

The descendants of dragons do not mean that they are water serpents, they may still be stupid beasts.

If a water serpent wants to become a dragon snake, in addition to chance, it must also be baptized by thunder.

Ren Qing looked around the world in his stomach, and suddenly noticed that the first water serpent in the world was about to be born, and quickly looked over.

It was a remora, which usually adheres to the abdomen of large fish.

However, the remora that Ren Qing found had been following the Kun Peng, using the latter to swallow and spit out seawater to bathe in dragon blood, eating the dividends of the blood rain.

Seeing this, he opened up a "Dragon Transformation Palace" in the Heavenly Palace, sprinkled some vegetation containing dragon blood, and captured a batch of beasts in the mortal realm.

After a dragon snake appears in the mortal realm, the Dragon Transformation Palace will guide it to ascend to the upper realm.

In the center of the small world is a stone tablet engraved with the technique "Dragon-Snake Spine", but the content is only the alienated route "Spine Dragon", which will gradually transform towards the True Dragon with cultivation.

In addition to the land, the Dragon Transformation Palace also has large lakes, which need to nurture ecology for a long time.

It is temporarily impossible for dragon snakes to appear in the mortal realm, at least it will take hundreds of years, so Ren Qing did not deliberately speed up the process.

Ren Qing cultivated the Evolving Ancestral Vein, consuming lifespan to constantly break through the realm.

The dragonized organs in his body began to spread to the rest of his flesh and bones, and the pressure released made the fungus people dare not approach at all.

………

Inside the skull magic weapon, less than a hundred miles away from the ghost ship.

Tens of thousands of bone cultivators were gathered inside, and the skeletons of many cultivators were pieced together, looking uneven.

At the top, a bone chain was used to pull the throne, and four skeletons were sitting on it.

One of the skeletons opened his eyes, his spine was as long and narrow as a dragon snake, and he shuddered as he looked at the empty outside.