The Secret Way of Immortality

Scorching lava converged into a liquid state, washing against the walls of the sanctuary, causing the temperature within the city to continuously rise.

To ensure the city's temperature did not exceed its tolerance limit, a magical formation enveloped the sanctuary, sending the high temperatures outside through violent winds.

The number of heat-repelling magical artifacts had already increased to one hundred thousand, and alchemists were still continuously refining new ones.

After the temperature of this world reached the range of three thousand degrees, it still showed an upward trend, seemingly about to rush towards five thousand degrees.

The earth had completely transformed into an ocean of lava, with surging waves, the high temperature devoured all remaining things.

The sanctuary barely maintained a temperature of around eight hundred degrees, while the interior was five hundred degrees.

As the lava ocean flowed, the sanctuary couldn't help but rise and fall, causing the city-guarding cultivators to have to repair the damage from time to time.

They wore bulky robes, wrapping their bodies within, the robes limited the temperature to about one hundred degrees, preventing any harm to their lives.

But even so, the bodies and souls of the city-guarding cultivators would be subjected to alienating erosion.

They had to return to the stomach world every few days to suppress the alienation of their bodies and souls, otherwise, they would inevitably experience cultivation deviation.

Ren Qing was the only one in the sanctuary who did not wear robes, even a terrestrial immortal could not stay naked in the range of thermal radiation.

He even deliberately moved from the core area to the top of the city wall to cultivate, just to adapt to the drought brought about by the wriggling chaos.

The Heavenly Dao drought was not the same as a traditional disaster.

An ordinary drought could not possibly cover the entire world, after the evaporated rivers turned into water vapor, they would definitely form large rain clouds.

The drought caused by the wriggling chaos should be related to the rules of the Heavenly Dao, which is why this world has turned into a lava hell.

From this, it can be seen that the purpose of the Three Dao Ancestors is to cleanse the entire world, burn away excess matter, and create a new world.

So no one was spared, and even the stomach world was indirectly affected.

After all, Ren Qing himself was within the scope of the Three Dao Ancestors, and with the strength of a Cadaveric Immortal, he could only allow the stomach world to obtain a certain reduction.

The degree of the drought in the stomach world was far lower than the outside world.

Among the three realms, only the mortal realm was most seriously affected by the drought, but it was only covered with yellow sand, and the mortals had all been evacuated.

The high temperature often kept the central area of the mortal realm above three hundred degrees, but the areas near the north and south poles were not even one hundred degrees.

After nightfall, the lowest temperature at the north and south poles would reach about forty degrees.

Under such circumstances, there was still life in the desert.

Groups of tumbleweeds shuttled through the desert with sandstorms, attracting the heads of omnivorous lizards to peek out from the shadows, unaware that they had been targeted by sand eagles in the clouds.

Although the food chain was simple, it still existed.

The desert was also dotted with oases of varying sizes, the largest of which was near the northern coast, with an area equivalent to one-third of Xiangxiang.

The ecology of the oasis was still relatively complete, and even intelligent desert macaques had appeared, forming a tribe-like collective.

The wine sea did not dry up due to the drought, and the temperature of the deep sea did not change significantly.

Aquatic plants and animals subconsciously migrated to the deep sea, and after several generations of reproduction, they had recovered to a certain scale.

Although the mortal realm could not harvest resources on a large scale, it at least maintained its ecology.

Compared to the degree of disaster in the mortal realm, the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld were undoubtedly much lighter, especially the Underworld, which was shrouded in Yin energy, with only a decrease of about 40% in the content of Yin energy.

The stomach world was still in order, and Ren Qing's cultivation was naturally smoother.

Ren Qing sat cross-legged on the city wall with his eyes closed, the scorching temperature caused his skin to sizzle, and fire poison drilled into the depths of his flesh and bones, flowing through his body like a living thing along his blood vessels.

The aura of the Three Pure Heavens was crystal clear, constantly circulating in the meridians.

If the aura of the Three Pure Heavens was viewed from a microscopic level, it could be found that the aura was gathered by five spells, complementing each other.

Ren Qing guided the great circulation of the aura of the Three Pure Heavens, and each time he completed a great circulation, the total amount of aura would inexplicably increase by a few points.

Even though he knew that the principle of the Three Pure Heavens was to increase cultivation through the stomach world, he still had a vague understanding of the spells.

Ren Qing used countless bacterial souls to analyze the Three Pure Heavens, and through a deep understanding of the spells, he tried to speed up the efficiency of his cultivation.

The city-guarding cultivators deliberately stayed away from the area where Ren Qing was, with expressions of utmost reverence.

Boom...

The lava waves crashed against the city wall, and the sanctuary staggered.

A large number of tiny cracks suddenly spread across the west city wall, and lava seeped in from the outside, causing damage to the heat-repelling magic formation.

"Assemble!!!"

The city-guarding cultivators quickly issued a warning, and thousands of cultivators rushed to the damaged area.

They held magical artifacts in their hands, carrying out repairs on the walls, while maintaining the magic formation from collapsing, ensuring the safety of the sanctuary.

As soon as the lava entered the sanctuary, the murmuring voice of a Taoist boy sounded, causing the temperature to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Immediately afterward, twisted and deformed masses of flesh crawled out of the lava.

The masses of flesh were like piles of rotten flesh, with countless hands and feet appearing on the surface trying to crawl out, but to no avail.

The appearance of the strange creatures immediately caused a commotion among the city-guarding cultivators.

Ignoring the possibility of their robes being damaged, they prevented the strange creatures from destroying the magic formation, and the situation only stabilized after cultivators in the Yang God Realm intervened.

Unknowingly, the temperature of the sanctuary had approached the critical point of one thousand degrees, and if it exceeded the range of one thousand five hundred degrees, the heat-repelling magic formation and magical artifacts would definitely collapse.

Ren Qing's eyes were half-closed, and he casually opened the passage to the stomach world.

The bronze door appeared on the edge of the city wall, and a strong Yin energy gushed out from the cracks, and the temperature of the sanctuary instantly dropped to eight hundred degrees, and the strange creatures also became lazy as a result.

The city-guarding cultivators seized the opportunity to completely repair the walls.

Without the replenishment of external lava, the strange creatures did not last long, the sanctuary returned to silence, and the temperature returned to stability.

Ren Qing closed the passage to the stomach world and continued his cultivation of the Three Pure Heavens, and the city-guarding cultivators all looked at Ren Qing's upright figure with awe.

In the eyes of the cultivators of the Forbidden Corpses Hall, Ren Qing was the backbone of the Forbidden Corpses Hall, and even the Three Dao Ancestors did not have as high a reputation as Ren Qing.

They did not go crazy in the face of the disaster of destroying the world, because Ren Qing was in charge.

Ren Qing had almost become a synonym for Dao Ancestor, even though many cultivators were older than him, it still did not affect his reputation.

You know, the opening of the road ahead is always the most difficult.

Some side-door spell lineages may require the efforts of several generations to raise the upper limit of the spell by a small realm.

But Ren Qing has always been on the path of subverting cognition.

There are thousands of spells in Dream City, most of which were deduced by Ren Qing, and he has also created more than a dozen spells that directly point to the Yang God.

Even the introductory method "Body Martial Arts" was popularized thanks to Ren Qing.

Not to mention, Ren Qing's improvement of Body Martial Arts, and the creation of the Strange Fetus Refining Artifact Method, which laid the foundation for the Forbidden Corpses Hall's thousands of years of refining artifacts.

Originally, the upper limit of the Forbidden Corpses Method was only the Yang God Realm, Ren Qing was the first Heavenly Strange Realm to cross the Yang God Realm, and during the Heavenly Strange Realm, he presided over the sealing of immortals, forcibly raising the upper limit to the Terrestrial Immortal.

Even so, he was not satisfied, and he opened up two immortal paths belonging to the Forbidden Corpses Hall, allowing ordinary cultivators to have the opportunity to attain enlightenment and become immortals.

They are the immortal path of crossing the thunder tribulation and the divine path of collecting incense.

After a cultivator has gone through untold hardships and stepped on Ren Qing's shoulders to become an immortal, when he looks up again, the latter is still in the clouds.

At the same time as Ren Qing advanced to the Cadaveric Immortal, the upper limit had already reached the Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Now, even if the Forbidden Corpses Hall is trapped in the disaster of the Heavenly Dao, even if they are in the sanctuary, their bodies and souls will be tortured by alienation.

A little carelessness will lead to death and the end of the soul.

The reason why the cultivators of the Forbidden Corpses Hall can maintain their sanity and suppress the alienation of their bodies and souls is only one thing, trust in Ren Qing...

The Forbidden Corpses Hall will definitely ascend to the Heavenly Dao.

Millions of cultivators have no doubt about this, Ren Qing cannot possibly stop, his end point is definitely not the Cadaveric Immortal.

Some of the city-guarding cultivators were severely burned, but when they passed by Ren Qing, they still respectfully gave a Dao salute.

That was the etiquette for the Heavenly Dao.

As long as Ren Qing exists for one day, the Forbidden Corpses Hall will not collapse.

The sanctuary was full of dangers, and the drought made the Forbidden Corpses Hall like a flat boat in the tide, and the damage to the walls was not an isolated case.

However, with the city-guarding cultivators repairing one after another, it was barely maintained.

Ren Qing only occasionally helped, and he also found that his actions would invisibly drive the cultivation of the Three Pure Heavens.

The Three Pure Heavens have no bottlenecks, and he does not know how far he is from the Heavenly Dao.

Ren Qing simply did not pay attention to the progress of the Three Pure Heavens, and focused on cultivation, pushing the aura to meditate over and over again.

After the drought lasted for two hundred years, the final temperature was maintained at five thousand degrees.

At this time, the area of the wine sea in the stomach world had shrunk by a quarter, most of the oases had been reduced, and the ecology was about to collapse.

Fortunately, Ren Qing had the incense immortals of the Heavenly Court.

The incense immortals of the Thunder Department were stationed in the mortal realm, and they drove rain clouds to the desert to rain, trying to ensure that the temperature did not exceed three hundred degrees.

Except for the tenacious bacteria of the sanctuary, the Peach Blossom Garden had been swallowed by the lava ocean, and only the phantom of the Mother of All Things remained in place.

Ren Qing was slightly uneasy, he was just afraid that the drought of the wriggling chaos would only stop after the sanctuary disappeared.

The sanctuary drifted with the tide on the blade for thousands of years.

The temperature finally began to drop.

Ren Qing took a long breath, and looked around and noticed that the cultivators who could stay in the sanctuary all had the cultivation of the Yin Difference Realm.

The population of the stomach world has expanded to just over 30 million in thousands of years.

The 30 million mortals were actually lower than Ren Qing's expectations, if it were not for the drought, thousands of years would be enough for the population of the stomach world to exceed 100 million.

Ren Qing could clearly feel that the efficiency of cultivation had increased by 50%.

His consciousness swept across the stomach world and found that many acquaintances had switched to cultivating zombies, such as Sun, who failed to attack the Yang God Realm, and Huang Ziwan, who went crazy in the Wusheng Immortal.

It is worth exploring that cultivators who have immortal positions and are still in the stomach world when they are promoted to the ladder to immortality, the Heavenly Dao they visualize is not the unspeakable Three Dao Ancestors, but the Heavenly Dao Tree.

However, the immortal ascension method that cultivators face when they comprehend the Heavenly Dao Tree does not involve immortal positions, and the upper limit of the immortal ascension method is at most the Heavenly Strange Realm, and becoming an immortal still requires the baptism of thunder tribulation.

It can be seen that the Three Pure Heavens can indeed promote the progress of the stomach world, and the Heavenly Dao Tree is gradually replacing the role of the Three Dao Ancestors.

Ren Qing was happy to see it, and at the same time got up and walked out of the range of the sanctuary.

Under the astonished gaze of the cultivators, he only hooked the edge of the city wall with his little finger, and his whole body was exposed to the scorching lava.

You know, even a terrestrial immortal would turn to ashes in the lava in a short time.

The lava brought by the wriggling chaos is not just as simple as high temperature, but also contains the corrosiveness of twisting the Heavenly Dao.

Ren Qing let the lava burn his skin and flesh, and also used the heat of the lava to temper his body and soul, and could feel that his aura was increasing every moment.

He was not just resisting the lava, the protection of the spells had been removed, and he took the initiative to let his skin and flesh absorb the heat in the lava.

The Yan Ancestor Vein, blessed by the Three Pure Heavens, made Ren Qing's body gradually adapt to the lava.

The creatures with dragon blood in the stomach world were also beneficiaries, and Ren Qing, as the source of the bloodline, "Hunyuan Dragon Ancestor", could indirectly affect the direction of all dragons' promotion.

The dragons began to have a strong tolerance for high temperatures, and even used high temperatures to cultivate.

There were already a number of reptiles in the desert of the mortal realm, and they were born with thin dragon blood, but they did not reach the scope of scale carp.

Under the stimulation of Hunyuan Dragon Ancestor, reptiles took the initiative to move on the surface of the sand dunes.

Even if most of them died due to the high temperature, a few reptiles gave birth to transformation, and at the same time as their bodies skyrocketed, they grew some dragon-like characteristics.

Ren Qing's expression was unexpected, and he did not expect that he could accidentally stimulate the bloodline of the dragons, and the cultivation efficiency of the Three Pure Heavens would undoubtedly continue to increase.

"If I can only get rid of the Three Dao Ancestors by achieving the Heavenly Dao, then I will establish my own Heavenly Dao."

He let the ghost shadow under his feet hook the city wall of the sanctuary, and jumped into the lava himself.

The fire poison drilled into his flesh and bones, and Ren Qing's body began to become shriveled, and then recovered in the blink of an eye.

He fell into an infinite loop of recovery and destruction, and the potential hidden in his body was also released during this period, becoming more resilient.

Ren Qing realized that the disaster brought by the descent of the Three Dao Ancestors was definitely devastating, but it was also an opportunity for him.

Maybe, he can really create an indestructible golden body through disaster.

Ren Qing devoted himself to cultivation, and the sanctuary was also drifting in the lava ocean, and no one knew where they were.

After becoming an immortal, a hundred years seemed like a big dream.

Ren Qing woke up once every hundred years, witnessing the sanctuary experiencing more than a dozen crises, and the Forbidden Corpses Hall was constantly rebuilt and improved, and this large magic weapon was reborn with him.

Because the temperature dropped to three thousand degrees, the lava ocean could not help but become viscous, and the sanctuary no longer swayed up and down.

But the decline in temperature does not mean that the drought has ended, and it may take thousands of years to completely restore the normal temperature.

Ren Qing's physical strength has increased by at least five times.

He felt that he could kill the Cadaveric Immortal with his fists without using spells, but he was still very far from the Heavenly Dao.

Ren Qing therefore clarified one point, the Three Pure Heavens not only made his cultivation without bottlenecks, but also his body and soul could grow infinitely.

This is indeed a spell that directly points to the Heavenly Dao.