The Secret Way of Immortality

Outside of Unburied Town, a prison cart slowly approached, carrying dozens of prisoners.

Seeing that dawn had not yet broken, Jin Chengxiang signaled the soldiers to drive the prisoners to the open ground, while he took intermittent puffs from his dry tobacco pipe.

After the chaos of the previous few days, the soldiers harbored some resentment towards him.

Jin Chengxiang sighed and said, "Everyone, perk up. Unburied Town is deeply involved. There will be dozens more patients coming. Be careful."

The soldiers responded one by one, and the prisoners were then concentrated in the open space where the Longevity Immortal imparted the Dao.

The prisoners all looked terrified. They were burdened with crimes punishable by execution after the autumn harvest, yet they were inexplicably exiled to this place.

The oppressive atmosphere of Unburied Town felt as if man-eating demons were hidden in the shadows.

Ren Qing noticed that the guard force had increased significantly. He used Ghost Shadow to pinpoint their positions in case of accidents.

After several days of imparting the Dao, the patients had unknowingly suffered heavy casualties, and even one of the Celestial Masters had died from a sudden outbreak of illness.

But no one could enter the medical clinic.

Occasionally, the soldiers would throw some rotten food into the town, barely enough to ensure basic sustenance.

The patients didn't have much to say about this, as they were all immersed in cultivating immortal techniques.

Ren Qing had not yet received the immortal technique imparted by the Longevity Immortal, which caused Gao Liang to urge him constantly.

He knew it was probably the limitations of the split soul that made it impossible to imagine the immortal technique. In fact, he could make up for it by using the main soul's consciousness to possess him.

However, Ren Qing was not in a hurry. He used Ghost Shadow to record the physical changes of the patients.

Although they all had several years of lifespan, due to the diseases they contracted, the lifespan they consumed each day was several times that of ordinary people.

Moreover, the deeper they mastered the immortal technique, the faster their lifespan was consumed.

The morning sun slowly rose from the horizon outside the house, and the figure of the Longevity Immortal reappeared. The patients left their houses and flocked to the open space.

They completely ignored the prisoners and gathered according to specific positions.

Ren Qing had failed several times in his attempts to access the immortal technique, mainly because Night Roam would expire as daytime approached.

He was interrupted each time, so this time he simply looked at the Longevity Immortal in advance.

The two Celestial Masters stared at Ren Qing, their faces somewhat annoyed, but their bodies were too old and frail to reprimand him.

Zhou Yi jumped out of the crowd with a flushed face, cursing, "You want to be taught the Dao while being so disrespectful to the Immortal Venerable?"

Ice crystals condensed in his palm, obviously planning to take the opportunity to strike a deadly blow.

Seeing this, Gao Liang hesitated for a few breaths, but did not step forward to stop him. Even he himself doubted whether Ren Qing would be able to obtain the immortal technique.

The other patients looked at Ren Qing with schadenfreude, and the Celestial Masters watched to see what would happen.

However, the prisoners' expressions became dazed after smelling the burnt odor in the air, and they even fought each other, fist to fist.

Jin Chengxiang raised his arm and ordered the soldiers to shoot the out-of-control prisoners.

Then he stared at Ren Qing for a moment, and seeing that the patients had not caused too much chaos, he decided to ignore it.

But at this moment, all the patients looked at Ren Qing in astonishment.

The scene seemed extremely strange.

Ren Qing closed his eyes, like an immortal being receiving the worship of prisoners.

A gust of wind howled past, blowing away the bamboo hat on his head, revealing the appearance of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Five Energies Ascending to the Origin.

Ren Qing's appearance seemed strange, but in reality, he had a mysterious aura.

After cultivating the Ze Immortal Technique, one would naturally have an ethereal, immortal aura. The Heavenly Dao Technique was the same, which caused the split soul to become different.

He muttered to himself, obviously reciting the Longevity Immortal's immortal technique.

Gao Liang's face showed ecstasy. He raised his hand and released the Iron Armor Curse, forming a spiritual light that enveloped Ren Qing, just in time to block the ice crystals thrown by Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi looked at the Longevity Immortal statue in surprise, which was emitting a dazzling halo.

It was not known whether it was related to Ren Qing.

After being stunned for several minutes, the patients began their daily morning lesson.

At the moment when his main soul's consciousness was about to leave, Ren Qing finally recorded the immortal technique, the content of which was all seemingly nonsensical characters.

This immortal technique was called "Soul Eating Curse," which was more or less related to the Ze Immortal Technique.

Just as he was about to examine it carefully, information flow actually appeared.

【Do you want to advance the disease type—Deformity, which will consume one year of lifespan】

The main soul's consciousness returned to the main body, but in the outside world, the information flow could not acknowledge the Soul Eating Curse, indicating that this technique was unique to the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

It might be related to longevity.

Ren Qing did not know the situation of the main body. He left the open space without waiting for the morning lesson to end.

Gao Liang's face was gloomy. He wanted to step forward to stop him, but because he was in the crowd, he was delayed for a few breaths, and the other party had disappeared.

"Cough cough cough cough cough..."

The Celestial Master coughed, revealing a skeletal body under the black robe.

Gao Liang quickly and respectfully turned his head, but heard the two Celestial Masters talking about Ren Qing's affairs, their words full of longing for longevity.

"Tu Bo, since the Longevity Immortal has an unusual phenomenon, the immortal technique taught to this person must be different?"

"Bring him here, and we will explore the Great Dao together."

Under the order of the Celestial Master, the patients began to search for Ren Qing's residence in Unburied Town, among which Gao Liang was the most frantic.

Gao Liang, with red eyes, tried to find Ren Qing day and night.

As long as he obtained the immortal technique that even the Celestial Master was interested in, he would definitely be able to go to the medical clinic, and the Great Dao of Longevity seemed to be within reach.

The chaos lasted for half a month.

Gao Liang had hardly slept, and there was hardly any flesh left on his body, and his movements became slow. "Ren Qing" was about to become an obsession.

Just when the other patients had given up, he still did not stop.

Gao Liang searched the houses again and again, even no longer participating in the morning lessons, constantly chanting words about wanting to gain longevity.

What he did not know was that Ren Qing, wearing Ghost Shadow, had walked out of Unburied Town in a fair and upright manner, and the delusion had disappeared with it.

Ren Qing came to the dilapidated temple outside the town, and then sat cross-legged on the ground.

The main body was completely unable to master the Soul Eating Curse, indicating that this technique relied on the unique rules of the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Maybe it had something to do with prolonging life.

He imitated the cultivation methods of those patients, closed his eyes and chanted the Soul Eating Curse, and immediately felt an abnormality in his meridians.

Although it was slightly stinging, the speed of blood flow was significantly accelerated.

Ren Qing's body became thin and skinny because of this, and no matter how much he ate, it was difficult to make up for it. The speed of lifespan consumption became more and more serious.

He knew it was because of the physical weakness disease type, which resulted in the inability to absorb food nutrients, cutting off the possibility of this body cultivating the Soul Eating Curse through normal channels.

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Ren Qing cursed a few times in his heart.

The physical weakness, which at the time felt like a minor drawback, was actually the most troublesome.

Without a way, he had to use the information flow.

【Do you want to advance the disease type—Deformity, which will consume one year of lifespan】

In addition to the Deformity disease type, the physical weakness disease type can also be advanced, but just in case, it is more reliable to choose the Deformity disease type.

After he secretly confirmed, the original lifespan of only five years was immediately reduced by one year, and the deficit in his body became even more serious.

The five long-grown human faces twisted and began to laugh uncontrollably, but under the effect of the information flow's exemption of cost, these unusual organs became quiet again.

But Ren Qing did not feel any stronger at all, but instead became more and more weak.

【Ren Qing】

【Lifespan: Four years, nine months, twelve days】

【Disease Type: Physical Weakness, Deformity】

In the disease type column, only the color of the two words Deformity was darker.

His information seemed to be not much different, but his lower body had lost consciousness, and his lifespan was decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Ren Qing's current state should be equivalent to a Celestial Master, but he did not know how to go to the medical clinic.

He drank a few mouthfuls of peach wine in a row, which slightly restored some strength.

Then Ren Qing looked at the lifespan required to continue advancing the Deformity disease type, which directly became four years, equivalent to most of the split soul's life.

After hesitating for a moment, he found that he had no choice at all.

Since he could not cultivate on his own, he could only rely on lifespan to forcibly advance. Ren Qing wanted to see what this immortal technique was for.

【Do you want to advance the disease type—Deformity, which will consume four years of lifespan】

While Ren Qing drained his lifespan, the Deformity disease type took root and sprouted in his body, but it still lacked an opportunity, and seemed to be short of a dramatic change.

The split soul fell into near death, and the meridians all over his body burst out of his body like plant branches, but stopped growing under the suppression of the information flow.

If there was no information flow, he would likely have turned into a humanoid seedling.

Ren Qing's pupils dilated, his blood had dried up, and the few months of lifespan left were not enough to maintain his vitality.

In his dying moments, he looked at the information flow again.

【Disease Type: Physical Weakness, Deformed Tree Seed】

Then the split soul completely died, and the corpse decayed into mud in a short time, while the Ghost Shadow carried the Dream Seed and hid behind the Three Immortals statue.

Ren Qing's main body opened his eyes, and memories flooded into his mind. After walking between life and death, it took a long time to calm down.

He stretched, but suddenly felt something was wrong.

Why did the main body also have the feeling of rapid lifespan consumption?

Ren Qing quickly called out the information flow, and then his expression became surprised, because the lifespan was decreasing by half a day per minute.

But the lifespan consumed appeared out of thin air, suddenly five years more.

Wait a minute...

Ren Qing's breathing became heavy. Could it be that the lifespan consumed by the information flow in the Longevity Forbidden Zone was actually added to the main body?

He stared at the lifespan, and only after the five years of lifespan were completely lost and the lifespan returned to its normal state did he breathe a sigh of relief.

From this, it can be seen that temporary lifespan can indeed be obtained in the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing was overjoyed.

He did not ask for hundreds of years of lifespan, even if he prolonged his life by fifty years each time, it would be enough, just enough to carry out the variation of the technique.

Of course, he also had to think of a way to prolong the life of the split soul in the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing, apart from hoping for the medical clinic in the center of Unburied Town, had better have other means, otherwise the split soul would die too fast.

His attention turned to the mutated tree in his mind.

Ren Qing could only rely on the Ghost Shadow and Dream Seed that he carried to the Longevity Forbidden Zone. He had to find a variation ability to break the situation from them.

However, the variations of the Dream Technique had been completed, so he could only start with the secondary techniques of the Shadowless Ghost, "Human Skin Book" and "Armor Plating Technique."

The variation branches of the secondary techniques would naturally affect the Ghost Shadow.

There were as many variation branches of the techniques as there were hairs on a cow, and he had previously skimmed over them.

These two techniques were close to breaking through, and rashly contacting the mutated tree would cause the bottleneck to loosen and self-advancement to occur.

The variation will come tomorrow, let's unfold the Longevity Forbidden Zone first.