The Secret Way of Immortality

As the tower-shaped space was gradually pulled into the stomach, the cultivators within the Everlasting Shackles noticed and stood on the walls of No-Action City to watch, their expressions filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Li Tian罡 vaguely saw a white light rushing deep into the ground of the plains, and the tremors suddenly stopped, as a faint fragrance permeated the air.

Right at the very center of the Everlasting Shackles, a bamboo shoot abruptly sprouted from the top of the hill, and the fragrance emanated from it.

The bamboo shoot grew into green bamboo at a speed visible to the naked eye, swaying with the mountain breeze.

Ren Qing didn't expect the Rebirth Stupa to appear in the Everlasting Shackles in the form of green bamboo; he had thought it would be a pagoda-like structure.

Information about the Rebirth Stupa flooded into his mind.

Plants and animals would inadvertently leak vitality.

The function of the green bamboo was to collect the scattered vitality within a radius of ten meters, which could heal injuries and reverse assimilation.

On the other hand, Ren Qing could forcibly extract the vitality from his body, putting himself in a state of no pain and immunity to toxins.

The abilities of the Rebirth Stupa were two extremes.

Ren Qing planned to advance the Rebirth Art to the Yin Messenger realm in one go, so he used his consciousness to examine the mutated branches on the tree.

[Cannibalism]: Can obtain vitality by devouring human flesh.

[Tower Artifact]: The Tower Realm will transform into a tower-shaped magic weapon, independent of the body.

[Preserve Death]: Can absorb the death energy emitted by corpses, which can be used to decay flesh and blood.

[Cherish Life]: Can extend lifespan by absorbing vitality.

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Ren Qing immediately chose Cherish Life as the first mutated ability.

Currently, the life extension efficiency was not as good as before, so it was good to have another way to extend life, otherwise, how long would it take for the Everlasting Shackles to advance to the Yang God realm?

Ren Qing carefully examined the mutated branches, and finally, his gaze fell on the Preserve Death mutation, feeling that the effect of death energy would not be limited to the decay of flesh and blood.

After Dao Dao Dao advanced to the Yang God realm, could he use it to modify the rules of the small world and construct an alternative cycle of life and death?

Ren Qing hesitated for a few breaths, then chose Preserve Death as the second mutation.

The green bamboo grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, quickly reaching a height of more than ten meters, and then more bamboo shoots emerged around it, forming a bamboo forest covering the entire hilltop.

As long as there was enough stored vitality and death energy, the area of the bamboo forest would continue to expand.

The bamboo in the bamboo forest was divided into two colors, green and gray alternating, each absorbing vitality and death energy, creating a sense of inexplicable disorder.

Coincidentally, a bird was caught and killed by a hawk, and its corpse emitted a faint death energy, which was gradually absorbed by a gray bamboo in the bamboo forest.

After wild beasts passed by the bamboo forest, they seemed to sense a threat and quickly detoured to escape.

On the contrary, the nearby tribal demon cultivators were bolder, even taking tools to enter the bamboo forest, wanting to dig up the newly grown bamboo shoots.

Ren Qing confirmed that the bamboo shoots were harmless to living beings and would even increase their lifespan by a few days to a dozen days, so he ignored their actions.

As for the third mutation, he chose Bamboo Artifact.

[Bamboo Artifact]: Every thirty days, the bamboo will shed half a meter; eating green bamboo can strengthen the body, and eating dead bamboo can decay the body.

On the one hand, Ren Qing valued the effect of bamboo artifacts as refining materials, and on the other hand, bamboo artifacts could be regarded as a stable source of food.

Although it still couldn't completely solve the problem of insufficient food in the Everlasting Shackles.

After the Everlasting Shackles and the Longevity Forbidden Zone were interconnected, bamboo artifacts could also assist the hundreds of thousands of people inside in cultivating body techniques, which was very useful.

He continued to summon the information stream without stopping.

[Do you want to choose the branch Boundless Rebirth, which will consume two hundred years of lifespan?]

Ren Qing felt a slight heartache, but he still watched as his lifespan decreased by two hundred years, and then the Rebirth Art began to transform.

The green and gray bamboo grew wildly upwards, and its height quickly exceeded fifty meters.

Ren Qing fell into a brief daze; originally, the bamboo forest could only absorb the vitality and death energy of nearby plants and animals, but at the moment of advancing to the Yin Messenger realm, the range directly expanded to the entire Everlasting Shackles.

A large amount of vitality and death energy poured into the bamboo forest.

The green bamboo that absorbed vitality became as warm and smooth as jade; the gray bamboo that absorbed death energy was covered with cracks and its leaves turned yellow.

In addition, Ren Qing could also release two strands of aura, which could be used to heal or fight.

He controlled the flow of vitality throughout his body, using the blood to nourish his bones and flesh, and sure enough, his lifespan was slowly increasing.

Although the life extension efficiency was not very high, it was good that he didn't have to worry about it.

He estimated that after reaching the Yang God realm, he would be able to plunder lifespan like the Longevity Tree, and maybe it would become the main force for life extension at that time.

Ren Qing nodded in satisfaction, looked at his remaining hundred years of lifespan, and decisively sacrificed the clone in the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Unfortunately, the clone could only obtain lifespan by devouring the strange objects born after the death of the Longevity Species, which should involve a certain rule within the forbidden zone, or perhaps the Longevity Species themselves were very special.

Anyway, with the Taboo Realm now, the Jailer Art could at least exert six or seven levels of its strength, so there was no need to deliberately ensure the clone's realm.

The clone very simply crushed its internal organs with ghost shadows, and the corpse fell heavily beside the Longevity Tree.

The Longevity Tree digested the corpse as fertilizer, and then a large fruit grew on the branches, and a new body began to be re-bred.

[Lifespan: Five hundred and thirty-seven years]

Ren Qing saw that his lifespan exceeded the five hundred years required for the Everlasting Shackles to advance to the Release Yin God realm, so he did not use the wine mine at the bottom of the box to extend his life.

He had already experienced breaking through the Release Yin God realm, and he was familiar with the road without any waves.

The Everlasting Shackles only expanded slightly in area, and there was no obvious improvement, but the primary and secondary techniques were more closely connected.

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Gluttony Art (Devouring Immortal Art, Wine God Art, Dao Dao Dao, Rebirth Art)

Everlasting Shackles (Furnace Core King, Body Wine River, Vat Dojo, Boundless Rebirth)

[Jailer, Boundless, Crescent Moon, Forging Furnace, Tinder Sun, Embers, Peach Wine, Wine Mine, Wine Cloud, Cherish Life, Preserve Death, Bamboo Artifact]

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Ren Qing stretched his waist; he had unknowingly stayed in the cave for a month, and it was almost time to go out.

Bang bang bang!!!

Another Buddhist corpse crawled towards the ground, causing even more noise than the previous one, indicating that its volume was at least over a hundred meters.

The corners of Ren Qing's mouth twitched, and he sat back in the cave.

It's better to stabilize the realm first, and then try the mutation fusion.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and visualized the Gluttony Art, while simultaneously controlling the Jailer and Boundless mutation branches of the Gluttony Art to fuse first.

It would be fine if he didn't go into seclusion, but once he went into seclusion, he would easily forget the passage of time and devote himself wholeheartedly to the mutation fusion.

There were a total of fifteen mutation branches, requiring fourteen mutation fusions.

The difficulty would continue to increase during the period, so Ren Qing would need at least five or six hundred years of lifespan to forcibly complete the mutation fusion.

More than two years passed in a flash.

Relying on his own efforts, Ren Qing had fused six mutations with each other, but he still canceled the state of seclusion.

Mainly because he felt that the Bottomless Abyss was not suitable for staying for a long time, and the noise produced by the Buddhist corpses was getting louder and louder.

Although the frequency had decreased slightly, the Buddhist corpses that had appeared recently were a full two hundred meters tall.

The Everlasting Shackles had developed well, and food was currently barely self-sufficient.

Many acres of good land had been opened up, but unfortunately, due to the different environment, most varieties of food could not adapt, so they had to use the Jailer Art to stimulate plant growth.

Ren Qing also asked Yuan Si to open a small animal pen, using the Imagination Art to try to create meat rations with high meat production and moderate food intake.

The situation in the Longevity Forbidden Zone was not optimistic.

After body techniques were gradually promoted to the whole people, food became stretched.

Although there was a Yin Messenger realm Mu Yi, the area covered by the Longevity Tree was limited, and it was impossible to plant food like the Everlasting Shackles.

When hundreds of thousands of people cultivate body techniques, it would be impossible to support them without the support of the Everlasting Shackles, so Ren Qing could only desperately produce.

Ren Qing held the fetal meat in his hand and climbed towards the ground along the rock wall.

He wanted to understand the situation of the Compassionate Clan and also inquire about the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.

Sorry, this chapter is a bit short, just in time to go to the Compassionate Clan in the next chapter.

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