The Secret Way of Immortality

When dark clouds gather, the sky gives the illusion of falling towards the ground, a phenomenon mortals call "Tide Fall."

But that's merely a difference in perspective, and few cultivators take it seriously.

However, the premonitory signs of the Heavenly Dao's descent were entirely different. The dark clouds were indeed falling slowly at a uniform speed, and the roar of thunder within was clearly audible, growing increasingly louder.

Initially, no one paid attention until the clouds touched the towering mountains.

Bang!!!

Under the influence of the thunder, the mountain exploded with tremendous force, instantly turning hundreds of meters of rock into dust.

Not into uneven chunks of stone, but into fine powder like rice flour.

A gust of wind swept through, and the mountaintop vanished, leaving behind an incredibly smooth break.

This was not an isolated case. High mountains throughout the world turned to dust, and the clouds showed no sign of stopping their descent.

The thunder was also inky black, composed of a unique aura of Heavenly Demons.

Lord Xiang stood on the walls of the Sanctuary, staring intently at the outside world.

Even though he had experienced Heavenly Immortal Tribulation, he was terrified by the Heavenly Demon Thunder, his body instinctively trembling, and he was drenched in sweat.

Lord Xiang had a premonition that if he were to face the Heavenly Demon Thunder head-on, he would surely die without a doubt, his body and soul completely annihilated.

Low-level cultivators were fine, merely marveling at the elusiveness of the phenomenon.

The Forbidden Prison Hall immediately convened a meeting, inviting all cultivators above the Yang God realm to discuss how to deal with the impending disaster.

After Grand Dream True Man and Song Zongwu announced their secluded death cultivation.

The first to step up were Han Li, Li Yaoyang, and Mu Yi, among others.

Li Tiangang, having never broken through the limitations of the Heavenly Ghoul Realm, and growing old, had lost the ambition to advance further, so he simply relinquished his power to the younger generation who had reached the Earth Immortal level.

He sat on a prayer mat in the front row, surrounded by the heads of the various branches.

Sen Sheng was one of the few branch heads who had survived the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation, faintly exuding the aura of an Earth Immortal, his body exceeding ten meters in height.

Beside him sat True Man Yuhua and Corpse Ghoul, who also held the position of Heavenly Immortal.

True Man Yuhua's survival of the tribulation was not surprising, given his background and the fact that the Insect Vein was a race skilled in refining treasures.

However, it was indeed somewhat astonishing that Corpse Ghoul survived the tribulation with his zombie physique.

The cultivators present suspected that Corpse Ghoul must have been aided by his master, Li Yaoyang, otherwise, how could it have been so easy?

Involving the Heavenly Dao, the atmosphere was terribly oppressive.

Even when cultivators communicated with each other, they used divine sense, not daring to make the slightest sound.

The sudden crisis of the Heavenly Dao's descent caused the situation in the Forbidden Prison Hall to be far less optimistic than it appeared on the surface, mainly due to the lack of a leader.

Ren Qing had been in seclusion for hundreds of years, and Elder Song Zongwu had reached a critical point in his breakthrough, leaving them lacking a cultivator who could make a final decision.

The Heavenly Demon Thunder raged outside.

Crack, crack, crack…

They could hear the sound of thunder flashing in their ears, as if a sharp sword was hanging at their necks, making their hair stand on end.

The meeting officially began after the remaining cultivators took their seats.

Star Lord Upper Life seemed somewhat distant, after all, he had only joined the Forbidden Prison Hall for a century, and had not yet come into contact with core matters, usually assisting with miscellaneous tasks such as refining treasures.

If it weren't for his Earth Immortal cultivation, he would probably have difficulty even getting miscellaneous tasks.

His seat was arranged in the second row. Star Lord Upper Life nodded towards Han Li, grateful for the latter's reciprocal gesture.

"Everyone, Immortal Reverent Zhen Yuanzi transmitted to me yesterday that the Heavenly Dao is about to descend."

Li Yaoyang's opening words shocked the nearly thousand cultivators present. The name Zhen Yuanzi was more effective than the Three Dao Ancestors in the Forbidden Prison Hall.

After all, Ren Qing was a great power who created the world within the stomach.

But only Li Yaoyang and a few others knew that the news was told by Ren Qing before he went into seclusion, and they had not been able to contact him during this period.

They couldn't possibly disturb Ren Qing's seclusion. If it affected his breakthrough and led to cultivation deviation, it would be a greater loss than gain.

The scene became chaotic. They had heard about the Heavenly Dao's descent for some time, but there had never been a specific date. Now, suddenly, they had a feeling that disaster was right in front of them.

They understood that the Sanctuary was for avoiding the disasters brought by the Heavenly Dao, and that only with Ren Qing, this Corpse Dissection Immortal, were they able to avoid losing control.

Killer asked, "Heavenly Venerate Han, why are the Three Dao Ancestors descending?"

A head in a jar echoed, "There is no record of it in ancient books. The Three Dao Ancestors have never descended in history."

They had faced the Three Dao Ancestors directly when advancing to the Immortal Ascension Method, and understood that the Heavenly Dao was far from what they imagined, completely an indescribable object.

Li Yaoyang calmly replied, "The reason for the Heavenly Dao's descent has not been determined, but we must prepare to deal with it, otherwise, we can only die and disappear."

Han Li frowned and continued, "According to Senior Zhen Yuanzi, the Heavenly Dao will descend successively, namely the Three Dao Ancestors of the Daoist school and the Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha of the Buddhist school."

"…"

The cultivators pondered the meaning, all feeling unparalleled fear. Was the Heavenly Dao trying to destroy the world?

While they were stunned, a magnificent voice came from the clouds.

In an instant, it was as if countless Daoist children were chanting along, the sound echoing through the heavens and earth, and countless creatures instinctively knelt towards the sky.

"The one above is revered."

"The High True is the first, and all saints jointly revere him, therefore he is called the Supreme Lord Lao."

"The old one is longevity."

"It is clear that Lord Lao cultivates the heavens and the earth, and naturally has longevity, therefore he is called old."

"The lord is a title of respect, with the Way clear and virtue extreme, therefore he is called lord."

………

"The Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning."

Han Li smiled wryly and murmured, "The first to descend is actually the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning. I don't know if it's good or bad."

Half of the cultivators present couldn't help but cover their heads. A long-sealed memory emerged in their aching brains, the scene of facing the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning on the Immortal Ascension Ladder.

They quickly and actively sealed their memories to avoid being influenced by the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning.

Han Li looked at the sky again, and the speed of the clouds' descent increased. The mountains were crushed into powder without resistance, and the water vapor, mixed with dust, turned into a thick fog that was rare to see in a thousand years.

The Sanctuary was surrounded by pure white, flawless fog, with extremely low visibility, and above was a dark cloud layer, which looked extremely eerie.

Han Li wiped the sweat from his forehead and signaled the cultivators to prepare and increase the Sanctuary's resistance to the Heavenly Demon Thunder as soon as possible.

The ocean could not stay for long. This place was completely unable to cope with the Heavenly Demon Thunder.

When the clouds were low enough, the thunder would gradually accumulate in the ocean, turning the vibrant waters into barren land.

They couldn't return to land, where there was a Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning's head about to be activated, which was likely to conflict with the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning.

After discussions in the Forbidden Prison Hall, the final plan was determined.

They planned to go to the bottom of the sea and then tunnel deep into the soil. In addition to increasing the Sanctuary's and Heavenly Demon Cave's thunder resistance, the enclosed soil layer had to be filled with various protective magic tools.

When the plan was implemented, millions of people immediately became active.

The Forbidden Prison Hall was already accustomed to large-scale mobilization of manpower, so they performed their duties in an orderly manner, like a precise machine.

Alchemists refined magic tools to isolate the Heavenly Demon Thunder overnight. The finished product was a fleshy fungus that could absorb Heavenly Demon aura and thunder.

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators, dressed neatly, lay on the outside of the city wall and smeared a thick layer of the fungus.

The Sanctuary sank to the bottom of the water, pulled by several Heavenly Ghoul Realm dragon beasts, and swam towards the depths of the ocean, soon disappearing without a trace.

Three days later, two figures appeared on the sea.

They were Star Constellation Heartfire and Star Lord Taiyin. The two searched for the Sanctuary in horror, their eyes filled with unspeakable despair.

As a result, not to mention the Sanctuary, several large islands had already been completely submerged by the sea under the scouring of the tide.

The two still underestimated the horror of the Heavenly Dao's descent.

The indiscriminate Heavenly Demon Thunder was not something that could be avoided by opening a cave. This was clearly an indiscriminate biological extermination.

Earth Immortal? The time they could withstand the Heavenly Demon Thunder might not even be as long as that of an ant.

Star Lord Taiyin cried and kowtowed repeatedly: "Immortal Reverent Zhen Yuanzi, I was wrong. As long as the Heavenly Court is willing to protect us, I am willing to be a beast of burden..."

Star Constellation Heartfire covered her eyes, and the throbbing state of mind led to the deepening of Heavenly Dao transformation, and fist-sized eyeballs grew on her back.

But no matter how much they begged for mercy, the response was always the noisy sea breeze.

"What to do, what to do, what to do..."

Star Constellation Heartfire kept murmuring to herself. Suddenly, she realized something and turned to Star Lord Taiyin and said: "Let's go to Purple Sun, that may be the only place of vitality."

"Purple Sun..."

Star Lord Taiyin gasped. Purple Sun was transformed by the head of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning. The Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning was about to descend, would there really be vitality there?

But after thinking about it carefully, he seemed to have no right to choose at all.

Even though the Heavenly Demon Thunder was hundreds of thousands of miles away from the ground, the two's bodies and souls had already shown a faint burning sensation, indicating that time was running out.

The two ran desperately towards the border between the north and south.

The journey that usually took several months took them half the time, at the cost of making the Heavenly Dao transformation more obvious.

The two stood outside the range of the purple light and found that the head of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning was no longer in the sky.

They searched carefully for several days and noticed that Purple Sun was also buried in the soil, which showed that even it had to avoid its edge when facing the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning.

The head of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning was even larger, and the cracks on the skull were difficult to heal, and the beating brain inside could be seen.

The two had goosebumps, but they still gritted their teeth and stayed near the head.

As long as the head of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning sank a hundred meters into the ground, they would sink a hundred meters with it, enduring the purple light's erosion of their bodies and souls.

The two thought that the Heavenly Dao transformation would continue to worsen, but unexpectedly, the situation was completely the opposite.

"Hehehehe..."

Star Lord Taiyin laughed neurotically. He raised his right hand, and the holes that had been all over his skin had disappeared.

Star Constellation Heartfire's situation was similar, and the eyes that grew on her spine disappeared: "It seems that only the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning can protect us."

"The Heavenly Court is just a group of rats who are barely surviving."

Star Lord Taiyin said venomously: "Even Heavenly Dao transformation can be eliminated. It seems that we have found a way out of the disaster. I wonder how desperate Zhen Yuanzi will be when he knows our situation."

The two's eyes were full of joy, as if they saw the Sanctuary's tens of millions of people killing each other under the gaze of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning.

Zhen Yuanzi took action to meet the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, but didn't even have the power to fight back.

As they spoke, their bodies couldn't help but touch each other. The Mother of All Things controlled the reproduction of all things, and even Earth Immortals could not avoid it.

Even though Star Constellation Heartfire used to be a burly man with thick body hair, he had transformed into a woman due to the practice of the Entering God Art, but he was also burning with lust under the influence of the Mother of All Things' head.

In the fusion of body and soul, the erosion of the purple light was everywhere.

In their own eyes, the Heavenly Dao transformation had disappeared, and their bodies and souls had returned to normal, and even their cultivation had increased.

But the two did not know that the head of the Mother of All Things would affect the five senses.

Their bodies gradually became deformed, and their life forms deviated from the category of flesh and blood, with many plant characteristics.

Crack, crack, crack...

The cracks in the head of the Mother of All Things were constantly spreading, and the brain inside was about to come out.

If you got closer, you could hear the whispers from the head of the Mother of All Things. Obviously, it had developed intelligence and completely separated from the main body.

"Eat, eat, eat, more food, a lot of food, eat, eat, eat."

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It kept sucking on the Buddha teeth, and the remaining karma fire burned its mouth, causing a large number of pustules to appear on its tongue, but the head of the Mother of All Things seemed to enjoy the process of alienation and loss of control.

The Buddha teeth then responded, and the karma fire became extremely strong.

The cracks in the head of the Mother of All Things expanded again. The cracks were already several meters in size, and the white brain tried to drill out of them.

As soon as the brain was exposed to the air, the brain turned into a milky white gelatinous substance, exuding a strange and foul smell.

When the complete brain separated from the skull, its shape became like layers of stacked moon discs.

Sharp bone spurs grew from the bottom of the moon disc to support its body movement, and swollen eyes were all over the top, surrounding the "beak" composed of sheep horns in the middle of the moon disc.

Its body wriggled disgustingly, its bone spurs digging into the hard soil, and its beak uttered sharp and piercing murmurs from time to time.

Somewhat abruptly, it still kept the Buddha teeth, using them to absorb karma fire.

This head, which was cut off from the Mother of All Things, emitted a somewhat weak aura due to its recent separation from the main body, but it was still at the level of Corpse Dissection Immortal perfection.

If Ren Qing used the information stream to check, he would learn its newly born name.

[Mirror of the Moon]

The Sanctuary, far in the depths of the sea, also sensed the aura transmitted by the medium due to the Mirror of the Moon.

However, it did not cause any waves. The manpower of the Forbidden Prison Hall was concentrated outside.

Tens of thousands of dragon beasts gathered on the seabed, responsible for digging up the mud and sand and sending the Sanctuary to a safer deep area.

Numerous dragons with thin dragon blood gathered at the top of the Sanctuary.

Many dragons were engaged in a massive slaughter, with the winners devouring the flesh and blood of the losers to purify the dragon blood in their bodies.

They were not affected by Ren Qing's Ancestral Vein Evolution, but by the instinct to drive away disasters.

When disaster strikes, seabirds usually fly away in groups, insects migrate to higher ground, and wild animals hoard food and run around.

Dragons can also sense the arrival of danger.

The shallow sea has now been covered by Heavenly Demon Thunder, and sooner or later the deep sea will also fall. Only by following the Sanctuary can they barely preserve their vitality.

They then spontaneously underwent natural selection, selecting the strongest of their kind.

The Forbidden Prison Hall did not interfere in the struggles of the dragons, focusing all their efforts on resisting disasters, spending three years digging to a depth of 50,000 meters.

The main reasons for not continuing to dig were that the Celestial Venerable of Morality was estimated to descend in about six years, and the soil became increasingly hard.

The shelter was stabilized at 30,000 meters, and pre-prepared magical artifacts began to be deployed.

The dragons also cooperated by planting dragon blood vegetation, which could hide the aura of the shelter, and might have miraculous effects against the Celestial Venerable of Morality.

Its leader was Ao Xing of the Jiaoren race, who was willing to lower his status for the sake of the race's rise and fall, and cooperated with the Merman race to maintain the underwater cave.

Compared to the long millennia, six years passed in the blink of an eye.

No one knew whether the Celestial Venerable of Morality had descended into this world, but demonic thunder had spread to every corner of the sea, causing hundreds of millions of creatures to be reduced to ashes.

The Forbidden Prison Hall's magical surveillance in various places only collected a few breaths of footage before being destroyed by the demonic thunder.

If there were no accidents, the land, sea, and air would be barren.

What the Heavenly Dao did first was indeed a great cleansing, as if the Celestial Venerable of Morality hated every flower and plant in this world.

The shelter was completely sealed in the cave, and they were unaware of the situation outside.

The boring and fearful days lasted for several months, the shelter still seemed extremely lively, but it was difficult to see high-level cultivators on the streets.

"The superior is honored."

"The High Perfected is the first, and all sages respect him together, therefore he is called the Supreme Old Lord."

"The old one is longevity."

………

When they heard the Taoist boy chanting the words of the Celestial Venerable of Morality again, they realized that the Celestial Venerable of Morality had finally descended.

A sense of fear enveloped their hearts, and panicked shouts rose and fell.

Then, even though the shelter was located deep underground, they could still feel the vibrations transmitted by the rocks, as if a huge monster was passing by.

Restlessness grew in the shelter, and the business of brothels soared several times.

After Han Li realized the influence of the Celestial Venerable of Morality, it was too late to stop it. In just one night, tens of thousands of women became pregnant.

Women conceived infants in just six or seven hours, and soon the streets were full of pregnant women.

In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating, Li Yaoyang put Gu worms in the water of the shelter, solving the problem from the source, temporarily castrating all the men.

The Sending-off-Children Goddess Temple sent experienced temple priests to deliver the babies, but without exception, the infants' bodies and souls had the characteristics of goats.

The black goat infants were handed over to the underworld in the stomach world for care, and it was still unknown whether killing them would cause the Celestial Venerable of Morality to notice anything unusual.

A few days later, an unexpected rainstorm suddenly occurred in the underwater cave, mixed with demonic thunder, which was eventually blocked by the shelter.

The rainstorm seemed to appear out of thin air, because the cave had no entrance or exit at all.

Soon, even the stomach world began to rain, but without the existence of demonic thunder, it would not endanger the foundation for the time being.

But it was definitely not a long-term solution, and floods alone could destroy towns and villages.

The Forbidden Prison Hall tried to disperse the rainstorm, but it seemed to be a strange change in the rules of the Heavenly Dao, which could not be changed by human power.

What frightened them the most was that the movement from the top of the cave became louder and louder.

Whether the Celestial Venerable of Morality was retrieving his lost head was unknown.

No cultivator dared to verify it, and the answer could only rely on speculation.

At this time, several Earth Immortals noticed that the Flesh Body Tathagata at the core of the shelter seemed to be trembling uneasily, and the sound of chanting became weaker and weaker.

The Flesh Body Tathagata seemed to foreshadow the approaching danger.

Whenever the movement at the top of the cave became louder, the Flesh Body Tathagata would be silent for a moment, and Mount Ling was also constantly shrinking.

The shelter became extremely silent, and the people could hardly restrain their tension.

Seeing this, the Forbidden Prison Hall ordered the mortals to evacuate the shelter in an orderly manner. Even though the stomach world was also constantly showing anomalies, it was better than constantly enduring the pressure from the Heavenly Dao.

The movement sounded non-stop for ten years, and the sound was getting closer and closer to the cave.

The Forbidden Prison Hall didn't have a very good solution. Even if they faced the Celestial Venerable of Morality, they had to buy as much time as possible for Ren Qing's retreat.

On the key nodes of the shelter controlling various magical artifacts, cultivators were stationed day and night, ready to activate the defenses at any time.

Bang bang bang...

The Earth Immortals stared at the rock wall, always feeling that the Celestial Venerable of Morality would appear in the next moment.

But unexpectedly, a viscous liquid flowed out of the rock wall, causing the rainstorm to mix with a foul and fishy smell.

The corpse ghost's face changed drastically. As the master of the corpse lineage, he had seen too many corpses. The liquid was clearly human brain matter.

At least a million people would have to be killed to obtain such a massive amount of brain matter.

The corpse ghost wanted to see through the rock wall, but the rainstorm seemed to be filled with a strange aura, and it was difficult for spells to work outside the shelter.

Li Yaoyang looked around, his eyes falling on the Upper Star Lord and said, "Upper Star Lord, your eyes should be able to find some clues, right?"

"Yes, I'll try."

The Upper Star Lord quickly nodded in agreement. Being accepted by the higher-ups of the Forbidden Prison Hall was already great news for him.

He erupted with the aura of an Earth Immortal, and hundreds of eyes appeared on the surface of his skin.

The Upper Star Lord's perspective slowly zoomed in, and blood flowed from his eyes at the same time. The usual distance of a foot was now like being separated by the sun and moon.

When his perspective came to the rock wall, he could no longer move forward.

Just as the Upper Star Lord was about to give up helplessly, Mu Yi stretched out his right hand and tapped his forehead, and blood vessels turned into plant fibers that pierced into his eyes.

The Upper Star Lord only felt a medicinal power acting on his eyes, receiving several times the blessing.

His perspective directly penetrated the thick rock wall, seeing fossils formed by ancient sea beasts, and black thunder covering the soil.

The Upper Star Lord quickly locked onto the source of the sound. What came into view was an extremely strange moon disc, and his three souls and seven spirits immediately showed a tendency to split into remnants.

"Ahhh!!"

The Upper Star Lord let out an unconscious scream. Although the layers of moon discs were full of cracks, they still retained disgusting characteristics, crawling with bone spurs pushing their bodies.

"What did you see?"

Mu Yi quickly retracted the roots. The Upper Star Lord's eyes burst open, and his brain split into four parts, actually fighting each other for control of his body.

The Upper Star Lord's expression was foolish. Before his three souls and seven spirits recovered, he could only become a walking corpse without any intelligence.

"Is it really the Celestial Venerable of Morality?"

Li Yaoyang contacted cultivators all over the city with Gu worms. Pillars of light rose up, which was a sign that magical artifacts had been activated.

They couldn't care about too much, and used spells to vigilantly watch the rock wall.

"That's not the Celestial Venerable of Morality."

The voice of the Great Dream True Man came, and the cultivators looked relieved, only to see a scholar-dressed man appear beside them.

The man's appearance was so ordinary that he was inconspicuous in a crowd.

The Great Dream True Man said solemnly: "It is the offspring of the Celestial Venerable of Morality.

"A monster born from the head."