The Secret Way of Immortality

After digesting the memories of the separated soul, Ren Qing couldn't help but become more interested in the Longevity Forbidden Zone, and he also discovered many clues from the details.

He noticed that the flow of time within the Forbidden Zone seemed to differ from the outside world.

Time clearly moved faster within the Longevity Forbidden Zone, likely involving some kind of technique.

If Ren Qing could acquire this technique and then form a master-subordinate relationship with the Gluttony Method, he could control the flow of time within his stomach world.

"The Longevity Forbidden Zone is indeed worthy of being a Yang God realm. There's no telling how many strange objects are hidden inside. It's truly a treasure trove."

Ren Qing was excited and decided to focus his energy on exploring the Forbidden Zone.

After all, with his current life-extending efficiency, he definitely wouldn't be able to advance to the Yang God realm before the strange anomalies completely turned Jing Prefecture into a primordial wilderness.

Only the Longevity Forbidden Zone could offer a glimmer of hope for reaching the Yang God realm.

Ren Qing issued some tasks to continue collecting wild beasts, and then began visualizing the No-Eyed Method, striving to re-incubate a separated soul as soon as possible.

He also kept an eye on Jing Prefecture to avoid falling too far behind on the news.

The construction of Non-Action City was nearing completion. The next step was more about refinement, so the Jailer Hall began organizing manpower to leave the city.

The world outside the city was changing rapidly. Under the erosion of demonic energy, many plants grew more than ten meters overnight and became demonized to varying degrees.

Li Tiangang examined the demonized plants and beasts, noting that they had organs for absorbing demonic energy. After dispelling the demonic energy, they became excellent materials.

The Jailer Hall's Great Dream Pavilion originally relied entirely on cultivators selling their own materials to accumulate resources, barely enough to support the Jailers' auxiliary cultivation.

Now, due to the rise of the Strange Embryo Weapon Refinement Method, the Jailers' demand for magical artifacts had greatly increased, causing the Great Dream Pavilion to become somewhat insolvent.

Jing Prefecture happened to fill the gap.

The Jailer Hall encouraged probationary Jailers from Water Marsh and Xiang Township to come to Jing Prefecture. The ghost market bulletin board already had a thick stack of tasks related to demonic beasts.

To ensure a steady stream of backup forces, Non-Action Academies were located throughout the city, where Daoists taught children spells.

Ren Qing could clearly feel that the number of Ghost Envoy realms was rapidly increasing geometrically, with three or four people reaching the peak and entering seclusion.

Many people could see that Jing Prefecture was full of opportunities. With the influx of resources, the difficulty of breaking through to the Ghost Envoy realm was gradually decreasing.

It was a pity that the Jailer Hall, in order to prevent the city's population from becoming too large and fearing that the Blood Moon would cause serious damage, did not issue many Jailer quotas, but probationary Jailers were not restricted.

Ren Qing had not yet incubated a separated soul, but progress had been made on the matter of strange beast mounts.

The ghost market also welcomed a shock.

The branches of the Dream Tree extended more than ten meters, and while the area of the ghost market streets increased, a fenced-in area appeared at the end.

A large number of strange wild beasts were kept in the fence, some resembling the demon beasts of Jing Prefecture.

Several probationary Jailers couldn't wait to inquire, and a shop assistant transferred from the Great Dream Weapon Forging immediately stepped forward to introduce them.

Ren Qing named the strange creature formed by devouring the blood of the Jailers as "Strange Beasts", after all, they were completely unrelated to demon beasts and their temperament was considered docile.

Strange Beasts had some room for growth, but limited by the Jailer's realm, they could only reach the Half-Corpse realm at most, and their assistance in combat was negligible.

Their intelligence was also relatively dull, and they would not actively cultivate the aura within their bodies.

If they were in the Eternal Shackles, Strange Beasts could continuously absorb the aura emitted by the Jailers, gradually increasing their cultivation.

In the outside world, it depended on whether the Jailers were willing to purchase resources for the Strange Beasts.

Ren Qing had checked the Strange Beasts with the information flow, and their lifespan was generally around twenty years. Of course, advancing to a higher realm would extend their lifespan.

There were two types of Strange Beasts sold in the ghost market, one was a giant wolf transformed from the blood of a ghost wolf, and the other was a lizard more than two meters long.

The lizard's appearance was slightly terrifying, with each scale the size of a palm, and distorted faces could be seen on the surface.

It was clearly related to the Sand People and was very suitable for traveling in the desert and Gobi environments, but it was more ordinary in mountains and plains.

Ren Qing mainly targeted those probationary Jailers who were preparing to come to Jing Prefecture.

Because the journey to Jing Prefecture was long, probationary Jailers usually had to wait two or three months for a free sand boat to go there. Having a lizard mount would make it much easier.

The selling price was not cheap, and the alien stomach formed by the Gluttony Method could not store living things for a long time, so special magical artifacts had to be customized.

In addition, the Jailers had to cultivate spells to control the minds of wild beasts, or spend more money to purchase corresponding magical artifacts from the Great Dream Weapon Forging.

The magical artifacts were refined from materials related to the Gluttony Method and could only be used to store Strange Beasts. The cost was there, making it difficult to reduce the price.

It could be seen how troublesome it was to raise a mount. Ren Qing was really making a killing.

The crowd grew larger and larger.

Even the disciples of the Daoist temple came to join in the fun. Hundreds of people surrounded the area, discussing and causing the scene to become somewhat out of control.

Ren Qing stopped paying attention after opening the Great Dream Strange Beast.

In his opinion, it might not be until the mass production of Strange Embryo Weapons that a large number of Jailers would buy Strange Beasts.

But Ren Qing clearly underestimated the Jailers' pursuit of novelties.

Even if it was difficult for even the Ghost Envoy realm to afford, it didn't mean that they had to buy it individually. After all, the Strange Beast could clearly seat at least three or four people.

Many Jailers bought them in groups, and even started a business of escorting people to Jing Prefecture.

The Great Dream Strange Beast was quickly sold out.

Ren Qing simply asked Yuan Si to be responsible for the breeding of Strange Beasts, and by the way, try more varieties, even if most of them were not suitable for riding.

The Jailer Hall did not interfere with the ghost market's discovery, but many people wanted to buy Strange Beasts through the back door from Ren Qing.

Especially the Gobi people who were very interested in lizards. Sha Shanzi shamelessly asked Ren Qing to provide some Strange Beasts.

The Gobi people still lived in Water Marsh and really needed transportation.

Ren Qing agreed to provide them with a batch every month.

Seeing that the ghost market was on the right track, he continued to visualize the No-Eyed Method to incubate a separated soul.

But as soon as Ren Qing sat down cross-legged, the ghost market heard the call of the Dark Crow, and quickly descended his consciousness into the Dream Butterfly projection.

Sun spread its wings and landed on the top of the Dream Tree, staring at Ren Qing with wide eyes, the black feathers all over its body constantly shaking.

Naturally attracting the attention of the Jailers.

"Ren boy, help your brother with a favor."

Sun found that more and more Jailers were gathering around, and simply grabbed Ren Qing's soul butterfly projection with its claws and flapped its wings to fly to the corner.

"Uh..."

Ren Qing's expression was a little hesitant. Exploring the Longevity Forbidden Zone was not something that could be done overnight, how could he have time to toss other things?

He was thinking about how to reject Sun, but heard the other party ask: "How is your strange beast formed?"

Ren Qing tentatively replied: "It's somewhat similar to the Artifact Spirit Method, but it needs to be formed with the help of strange objects."

"Strange objects?"

"It's really difficult, must it be strange objects? Will spells work?"

"Of course."

Seeing Ren Qing nod, Sun's beak made a joyful cry, and eagerly asked: "If I pass the Deathly Crow's Cry to you, can you incubate a similar strange beast?"

Ren Qing had some impression of the Deathly Crow's Cry, knowing that it was the spell cultivated by Sun, and also one of the spells he most wanted to use as a Jailer.

【Deathly Crow's Cry】

【Created by the Crow Immortal, the cultivator's throat is removed and replaced with a bird's throat. It can only be refined if it does not die for seven days and emits a cry.】

Ren Qing considered its feasibility. If the strange object of the Deathly Crow's Cry was turned into a Jailer, and then the Artifact Spirit was refined with the Nightmare Demon aura.

The strange beast derived from this was likely to inherit the characteristics of the two spells.

"It shouldn't be a big problem..."

Sun's flight speed increased again, and it couldn't help but mutter to itself: "Do you know, just because I have to be responsible for the Jailers' contact, I have to stay in Abi Hell most of the time."

"It's boring, it's really too boring."

The content of the Deathly Crow's Cry was engraved on the feathers and thrown to Ren Qing. Sun put down the latter and disappeared, obviously a little unable to restrain itself.

"Ren boy, remember not to cultivate, this spell has great drawbacks."

Ren Qing's consciousness returned to his body, looking at the Deathly Crow's Cry with great interest.

The information flow, facing spells with detailed records, can naturally obtain more clues.

【Announcer of Death: Predicts death disasters】

【Crier: Voice like a crow's cry】

【Chaser of the Dead: Quickly chases after the dead】

Ren Qing saw the Chaser of the Dead at a glance, which should be Sun's path of alienation, and 殁 in ancient times meant death.

The ability of the Announcer of Death to predict ominous disasters is not small, but after all, it needs to be possessed to maintain the spell, and the Jailer is imprisoned in the Eternal Shackles, which seems very useless.

The Crier should be an offensive alienation route, using the harsh and hoarse cry of the Dark Crow as the main means.

Ren Qing directly chose the Chaser of the Dead, consuming lifespan to advance to the Ghost Envoy realm.

The Ghost Envoy realm of the Chaser of the Dead is called "Death-Probing Raven".

The feathers of the Death-Probing Raven will turn into special magical artifacts, which can be placed somewhere, and the cultivator can sense it through spells.

However, only when it reaches the Yin Official realm of "Nether River Black Mansion" will the feathers have the wonderful use of traveling through the world, and the Dark Crow will use this to go to its destination.

Ren Qing's skin immediately produced a tingling sensation, and he also felt dry mouth, indicating that he was gradually alienating into a Dark Crow.

Seeing this, the Human Skin Book moved, trying to suppress the strange object of the Death-Probing Raven.

Ren Qing quickly imprisoned the Death-Probing Raven in the Eternal Shackles, and the latter formed a giant Dark Crow two meters long, landing on the top of the mountain in the corner.

Before the Dark Crow could build a nest, the ghost shadow bound it with the Nightmare Demon aura, skillfully engraving the pattern of the Artifact Spirit on the surface.

Ren Qing used death aura materials beside him to maximize the alienation of the Dark Crow.

After the Dark Crow mastered the Nightmare Demon aura, the feathers appeared semi-solid and semi-virtual, like black smoke that constantly dissipated and gathered.

Ren Qing took out some Dark Crow blood and fed it to the birds.

He chose a smaller sparrow. After being transformed into a strange beast, it was only the size of a palm, and its strength was not even as good as ordinary birds of prey.

Ren Qing checked the sparrows and found that although they could not travel from the Eternal Shackles to the outside world, they could freely enter and exit the Dream Market.

In this way, it could be possible to transmit information like the Dark Crow through the Dream Butterfly Method, but the sparrows were too fragile and could easily die inexplicably.

Ren Qing threw the sparrows into the market and asked Yuan Si to continue trying other birds.

The separated soul was also incubated during this period.