The Secret Way of Immortality

Xiangxiang remained as it always was, except that its area was constantly being compressed by the endless forest.

On the official road covered with weeds, several carriages were heading towards what was once Crane Mountain Town, with the occasional neighing of horses.

The horses looked slightly strange, with their necks truncated and several insect-like antennae protruding from their blood vessels.

The antennae seemed to be the organs the horses used to sense their surroundings, replacing their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses.

"Old Tang, how long until we reach the edge of the Great Desert?"

A young man's nervous voice came from the carriage at the rear, the sound like metal striking metal, enough to make ordinary people's hair stand on end.

"At most, a month or so."

Old Tang cracked his bone whip on the horse's hindquarters, and the horse obediently stopped.

"Let's all take a break. We've been traveling for more than half a year. A little delay won't make much difference."

After Old Tang parked the carriage, he jumped out. He was wearing earth-gray clothes, and obvious insectification could be seen in his hands and feet.

The others were the same, with insect-like organs.

He Si couldn't help but say, "The Insect Immortal told us to deliver it to the edge of the Great Desert within two years, but almost a year has passed…"

Old Tang looked worried, his eyes glancing at the contents of the carriage.

Although covered with black cloth, it was clear that they were oval objects, constantly wriggling rhythmically like a heart.

He withdrew his gaze, took out a palm-sized jade bottle from his bosom, filled with pure white grease, and smeared it on the joints of his hands and feet.

The insect limbs were likely sewn onto his body, and the grease was used to suppress the rejection reaction between the body and the foreign organs.

The others smeared grease in unison, discussing the hardships of the journey.

Old Tang seemed to remember something and couldn't help but say, "He Si, are you sure the direction is correct? Are we still heading north?"

He Si nodded. His insect-like features seemed few, but in fact, his brain was the key.

He placed a centipede next to his nose and mouth, letting it burrow into his brain through his nasal cavity, then his eyes rolled back, and a phantasm appeared before him.

He Si convulsed, his vision moving into the distance, quickly arriving in the sky above the Great Desert, followed by a huge moon disc falling.

He woke up from this, his body noticeably thinner.

"He Si, what did you find through the guiding insect?"

He Si shook his head, but as he was about to speak, he noticed that his tongue had been bitten off by his teeth, so he had to scribble in the dirt with his fingers.

"Ah, what a pain."

Old Tang treated He Si's wound while muttering to himself with a sigh.

If possible, no one would come to this place. Just the half-year journey had shrunk the caravan by a third.

But they dared not disobey the Insect Immortal.

Old Tang directed the others to set up a temporary camp, and night gradually fell, the sound of cicadas instantly dispelling the fear in their hearts.

They sat around the campfire, eating dry food in small bites.

"This is a really good place. If we arrive early, we can stay here…"

Before Old Tang could finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed drastically, and his limbs swelled to varying degrees, prostrating in place in a strange posture.

He stared intently at the darkness, and the others stood ready.

Someone's abdomen swelled, and their skin became translucent, then they vomited water from their mouth, extinguishing the campfire, and everything fell silent.

Immediately afterward, they heard rustling sounds coming from the grass.

An inexplicable sense of tension surged into their hearts, especially for the insect responsible for guarding, half of the six eyeballs on its forehead exploded.

"You guys retreat. I'll go see what's going on."

He Si reminded worriedly, "Old Tang, you…"

Old Tang crawled towards the grass, and said softly, "Don't forget my travel speed. If I really encounter danger, I can retreat at any time."

The others looked at each other, then cautiously moved away in the opposite direction.

Old Tang couldn't help but be a little timid, but if he had to detour because of this, it would be absolutely impossible to reach the edge of the Great Desert within two years.

He approached the grass on all fours, and then found that the sound seemed to be coming from underground, as if something was drilling out of the ground.

Old Tang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't a demon or ghost, even if it was a strange beast, the insect's combat power could easily deal with it.

He parted the grass, and a gradually rising earth slope came into view.

Before long, a python drilled out of the soil, and its bizarre appearance frightened Old Tang.

The python looked like an elongated arm, with few joints, giving him the feeling that it was pieced together from human bones, and the mouth of the snake's head looked like a clenched fist being released.

A faint pressure enveloped the surroundings, and Old Tang fell to the ground in a panic, unable to move.

Under Old Tang's astonished gaze, the python's scales shed, flesh grew, and bones constantly recombined, transforming into a human form in just a few breaths.

Ren Qing loosened his muscles and bones, feeling slightly unaccustomed to using the Heavenly Demon Possession for the first time.

There are two types of Heavenly Demon Possession.

Soul Possession, where the body remains in place and the soul descends into the target's Niwan Palace, or of course, you can use the fungal soul instead.

Body and Soul Possession, where the body and soul completely replace the target of the spell.

Ren Qing used Body and Soul Possession, after all, to take the Longevity Forbidden Zone into his stomach world, the soul alone would definitely not be enough.

In just half an hour, he arrived in Xiangxiang under the effect of the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, consuming only a severed limb of a Flood Dragon.

After stabilizing his cultivation, he immediately planned to take away the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

After obtaining the position of the Free Heavenly Demon, Ren Qing's courage undoubtedly grew, and he no longer feared the mastermind behind the layout of the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing didn't believe that there was a Heavenly Ghoul Realm that could kill him, so he first transferred the position of the Wind God Bo Qiang to the deep sea, which would be needed for the upcoming layout.

He slowly walked to Old Tang, his expression a little surprised.

Ren Qing pointed at Old Tang's brow, and the Toe Separation Technique digested his memories, revealing that he was connected to the insect nest tens of thousands of miles away.

The insect nest somehow learned about the Blessing Earth Immortal and drove the insects to deploy in advance, establishing a mother nest in Jingzhou at that time.

According to Old Tang's memory, the insect people were an affiliated race that had emerged in the last hundred years, which were semi-insectified humans with very rough bodies sewn together.

True Man Taihan and True Man Yuhua had no idea about the changes in the insect nest.

Ren Qing squinted his eyes, the insect nest going to Jingzhou shouldn't be a coincidence.

The Blessing Earth Immortal was falling behind, and would even turn into a Turbid Immortal in less than a hundred years. The insect nest was going to Jingzhou before such a crucial node, it was impossible that they weren't interested in the immortal position.

Among the forces of the Heavenly Ghoul Realm, probably only the insect nest had an obsession with the Blessing Earth Immortal, willing to go all out to seize an opportunity.

It was as if a large hand was manipulating things in the dark, influencing the battle between the Taiyin Star Lord and the Blessing Earth Immortal, and interfering with the insect nest in Jingzhou.

This group of insect people was not the only one, the insect nest had sent at least thousands of teams.

Although Ren Qing didn't know about the abnormality in Jingzhou before, the insect people would trigger the eyeliners he left behind if they went a few miles deeper.

From this, it could be seen that the insect nest probably didn't know about Ren Qing's existence.

He erased Old Tang's memory of himself, and attached a Dream Flower to his soul, then flashed a few times to catch up with the caravan.

The insect people stood stiffly in place, their consciousness sinking into a deep dream.

Ren Qing checked the items in the carriage and found that they were a kind of flesh magic weapon called "Mother Egg", which was very bizarre and strange.

【Mother Egg】

【Condensed by the Mother Insect, it can give birth to an insect nest.】

After confirming that there were no hands or feet, he picked up a Mother Egg and took it into the stomach world, handing it over to Li Yaoyang to study the reality of the Mother Egg.

Ren Qing would not go to the insect vein for all matters involving the insect nest, after all, he understood that he was not the Blessing Earth Immortal at all.

After Ren Qing left, the caravan moved as if nothing had happened.

Ren Qing came to the underground where the Longevity Forbidden Zone was stored, then took the dry well into the stomach world, and then cast the Heavenly Demon Possession again.

His body and soul gradually atomized, and disappeared completely before long.

The clouds in the sky cracked open a gap, and a beam of sunlight shone towards Jingzhou, but it disappeared after just a sweep.

Ren Qing casually found a dragon to possess, and had already returned to the sea area.

The corners of his mouth showed a cold smile, staring at the direction of Jingzhou, that beam of light should have come from the mastermind, maybe the other party had also intervened in Jingzhou.

"No matter what your purpose is, if you dare to touch the immortal position in Jingzhou, even a tiger will have its teeth broken."

Ren Qing waited for Li Yaoyang's feedback, while considering which technique to promote next.

After thinking for a long time, if there were no accidents, either Heaven and Earth Birth would break through to Dao Birth One, or the Toe Separation Technique would break through the Heavenly Ghoul Realm.

Heaven and Earth Birth would expand more immortal positions, and the dream of the Toe Separation Technique was very important for the upcoming layout.

Ren Qing felt the disease species bred by the Matchmaker Immortal, it would not take long to completely saturate, and the operability of the True Immortal corpse greatly increased.

After a few days, Li Yaoyang told Ren Qing the use of the Mother Egg.

The Mother Egg was also a new thing that had emerged in the last hundred years, which could parasitize on living beings, absorb nutrients, and breed various insects.

It was a bit like a forbidden zone, a unique ecology would form in the body of the living being, and only constant eating could maintain the Mother Egg's plunder of nutrients.

Li Yaoyang also had an uncertain guess, the Mother Egg seemed to have a certain degree of growth.

Multiple Mother Eggs could merge with each other, and even transform the environment, but probably only the Mother Insect of the insect nest knew how to use it.

Ren Qing paid attention to Jingzhou, and glanced at the situation of the Forbidden Soldiers Hall.

Li Yaoyang would be able to attack the All Yang Immortal in a short time, and after Song Zongwu's karmic fire was suppressed by the immortal position, the progress of his cultivation was slightly faster, and he had reached the realm of the All Yang Immortal.

However, Song Zongwu only had two Forbidden Soldiers techniques after all, so the All Yang Immortal was relatively simpler.

True Man Yuhua successfully broke through the Yang God Realm, but Miss Bai failed to advance, fortunately, the fungal soul mobilized the heavenly path to suppress the strange object, otherwise it would not be as simple as being seriously injured.

Miss Bai still had a chance to continue to break through after she recovered, just taking the opportunity to precipitate.

The number of Forbidden Soldiers Hall reaching the Yin Difference Realm was even greater, in addition to some relying on devouring strange objects to advance, the rest could see the potential of the Yang God Realm.

Before long, the Yin Difference Realm of the Forbidden Soldiers Hall would explode.

Ren Qing rubbed his temples with a headache, it seemed that he still had to promote Heaven and Earth Birth first, and not conferring immortal positions for a long time would easily lead to class solidification.

However, in this case, he didn't know if the Toe Separation Technique of the Yang God Realm Perfection would be enough.

Ren Qing's consciousness went to the Matchmaker Immortal, the Lost Soul disease species had spread throughout the flesh and bones, only the Niwan Palace without a soul was left.