The Secret Way of Immortality

To Ren Qing, Corpse City felt like a graveyard, a place to bury corpses.

Lü Liang's destination should be beneath Corpse City. The passages within the city walls were unremarkable, but filled with lifeless white corpses.

After Ren Qing followed Lü Liang for the better part of an hour, the strange feeling became more pronounced, even sending a chill down his spine.

Most zombies, after becoming immortal, would likely lose their way, especially since the zombies in Corpse City suffered from a deadly cold.

The horror of the cold was evident from Lü Liang. Not long after leaving the yamen, the pathogens began to spread, his flesh dissolving uncontrollably.

He no longer suppressed the illness by replacing his organs, but instead took out a crystalline stone from his chest, forcefully swallowing it.

The crystal clearly originated from the Immortal Devouring Art, completely dispelling the cold from Lü Liang.

Lü Liang trembled as he swallowed the crystal, looking at Ren Qing with fervent eyes and saying, "As long as you're willing to bring me the Corpse Ash, I can provide you with resources for cultivation..."

He noticed Ren Qing's expressionless face and muttered regretfully to himself, "When you gain intelligence, when you gain intelligence, I'll come find you again..."

Lü Liang couldn't wait to quicken his pace, carefully storing the Corpse Ash, seemingly consuming it every time the cold flared up.

Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to intercept some of the dropped Corpse Ash.

Information flowed.

【Corpse Ash】

【Condensed from the Immortal Devouring Art, obtained by burning purple zombies as material. After consumption, the body falls into complete corpseification, and it can assist in the cultivation of the Immortal Devouring Art.】

In short, the purpose of Corpse Ash is to completely kill the consumer's body, thereby suppressing the restless cold pathogens within.

Ren Qing glanced subtly at the purple zombie traveling with them.

The purple zombie had only been in Corpse City for a little over half an hour, and it had already started to breed cold pathogens, indicating that cold was the source of the pathogens.

If Ren Qing wanted to, he could easily absorb the cold pathogens from the zombies throughout the city with the Six Afflictions Art combined with the Grand Elder Scripture, but it would only be a temporary solution.

He pretended to be newly intelligent, remaining silent along the way.

As Ren Qing approached the center of Corpse City, the surrounding temperature gradually rose, and he could smell an unpleasant burnt odor in his nostrils.

The aura of the Immortal Devouring Art intensified.

When the temperature reached scorching levels, he finally saw the full view of the Molten Fire Furnace.

Ren Qing's pupils constricted. A familiar aura told him that the front was indeed the dantian of the Wine Meat Taoist, likely stripped from within the Stomach World.

As for why the dantian was abandoned, could it be that the cultivator who killed the Wine Meat Taoist was not only aiming for the Stomach World?

Or perhaps after the Wine Meat Taoist's Stomach World was taken to be refined into a magic item, the dantian was just leftover waste that was abandoned?

In the environment of the four walls, the end of the road was actually a furnace.

The furnace's exterior was made of flesh and blood. At first glance, it was clearly a complete dantian, the bloody exterior giving off a strange, bizarre feeling.

As for the furnace mouth, it was like a gap that had been forcibly dug out.

Inside, raging flames burned, and blood vessels covering the furnace gradually channeled unknown liquids deeper into the ground.

Ren Qing's eyelids twitched wildly. The Molten Fire Furnace was definitely the Wine Meat Taoist's dantian.

The area around the furnace was empty, with only a small, old green zombie standing next to it.

The old green zombie's condition was much better than Chen Chuan's, possibly because the aura of the Immortal Devouring Art suppressed the flesh and blood that was about to collapse.

Lü Liang continued to lead the purple zombie forward for a hundred meters, but his skin sizzled.

The purple zombie was even more unbearable. As a carefully selected zombie, its flesh almost caught fire instantly, and bright flames burst out.

They struggled desperately to get away from the Molten Fire Furnace, but it was all in vain.

"Tian Fang, I've brought the consumables, and a purple zombie that can resist the molten fire. Can you give me some Corpse Ash?"

The old green zombie named Tian Fang had no expression, but he still threw out just enough Corpse Ash for one use, then picked up an iron fork.

Lü Liang hesitated, but didn't say anything more, then turned and left.

Tian Fang forcefully stabbed the iron fork into the purple zombie's chest and abdomen, then dragged it quickly towards the Molten Fire Furnace, throwing it directly inside.

The flames burned even more fiercely, and the ground trembled faintly.

Ren Qing frowned. Why did the city move slightly when the purple zombie was used as firewood? Could it be that something was hidden underground?

He also noticed that the flames absorbed the surrounding heat, causing Corpse City to be as cold as winter.

One of the reasons for the proliferation of cold pathogens was this Molten Fire Furnace.

Tian Fang said in a cold tone, "What are you standing there for? Help me move the consumables."

Ren Qing immediately took action, and the two quickly threw all the purple corpses into the Molten Fire Furnace, making the flames inside even fiercer.

Of course, this also indirectly caused the temperature of Corpse City to drop sharply.

Tian Fang took the ashes of the purple zombie out with an iron shovel, then stored them in various containers.

Before long, a long line formed next to the Molten Fire Furnace, with thousands of white zombies eager to use Corpse Ash to suppress the pain brought by the cold.

But in Ren Qing's eyes, everything seemed upside down.

Corpse Ash could indeed cure the cold, but if purple zombies weren't thrown into the Molten Fire Furnace, the cold wouldn't be so severe.

After finishing his work, Tian Fang ignored Ren Qing, just squatting in his small area.

Occasionally, purple zombies would be sent to the Molten Fire Furnace, but other than that, Tian Fang was like a corpse, without any extra movements.

Ren Qing was happy to be idle, letting Ghost Shadow collect useful clues throughout the city, and trying to refine zombies with the Corpse Refinement Art.

He had always felt that the Corpse Refinement Art was strange, after all, this crude technique was created by ***. Looking at the Disaster Elimination Art, Mirror Immortal, and Storyteller, they were clearly not on the same level.

Now Ren Qing had the yin energy collected by the Dream Flower, which could be used for refining corpses.

The corpses he chose himself would definitely far surpass the cocoon people and other creatures, increasing the speed of promotion as much as possible.

Ren Qing initially used the corpses of the prison guards who died in the Stomach World, then soaked them in the death intent of the Rebirth Yellow Springs.

After wasting dozens of corpses, he simulated a state similar to corpse transformation.

Ren Qing also used the moon pattern to refine the corpses to a certain extent, making them more suitable for absorbing yin energy, but he didn't expect the efficiency to be low.

"It seems that transforming into an immortal allows the cocoon people and other races to adapt to the rules of the dead man's forbidden zone."

Ren Qing couldn't help but have a headache.

He wanted to figure out why the flesh and blood collapsed after white zombies were promoted to green zombies.

But from Chen Chuan's body, it could be seen that the cultivation of zombies was measured in hundreds of years, and the promotion speed was too slow.

Ren Qing had many thoughts in his mind, constantly filtering through various methods.

He finally found inspiration for refining corpses by using the "fetal flesh" used for the Storyteller's parasitism, and took action for this.

Tian Fang would occasionally fall asleep, no longer paying attention to external affairs.

Ren Qing took the opportunity to dig out a fist-sized piece of flesh from the purple zombie's body, then used Box Dragon's Roar to turn the flesh into an independent entity.

When the flesh grew facial features and internal organs, it was equivalent to a miniature purple zombie.

Ren Qing's three divine powers each had their own characteristics, but in terms of being unreasonable, Box Dragon's Roar far surpassed Like a Dream and Heaven and Earth Dharma.

He also separated a part of his mind to refine an extremely superior yin-gathering coffin in the Stomach World.

For this, Ren Qing specially used yin energy to nourish the giant tree, and with the remnants of reincarnation souls, the giant tree was born to be able to accommodate a certain amount of yin energy.

Finally, the coffin magic item was completed after engraving a complete yin-gathering array.

The exterior of the coffin was unremarkable, but the carved patterns showed the results of Ren Qing's learning coffin-making from Coffin Old Man in Chen Street.

Ren Qing put the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie into the coffin, then activated the magic item to devour yin energy.

He secretly used two Dream Flowers to absorb yin energy for more than ten days in advance, and the contained yin energy would definitely allow the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie to reach the green zombie level.

Of course, this was mainly because the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie was smaller in size, and the essence of the Corpse Refinement Art was body refinement, so the efficiency was naturally extraordinary.

Ren Qing waited for the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie to transform.

He honestly worked as an assistant for Tian Fang at the Molten Fire Furnace outside. Anyway, the frequency of adding firewood was not high, only once every half a month.

In this way, several months passed.

Ren Qing experienced the joy of immortality. After corpseification, the passage of life was extremely slow, and a few months felt like a blink of an eye.

If it weren't for the distance between the giant corpse Buddha and Corpse City gradually increasing, he would have even thought that only ten days had passed.

The yin energy Dream Flower in the center of Ren Qing's eyebrows jumped continuously, then he looked at the Stomach World, the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie was about to be promoted to green zombie.

The coffin magic item was placed on a wine sea island far from the land.

This island was not transformed by a jailer, but a natural island created by Dao Dao Dao, so there would be no interference from the Jailer Law.

The yin energy in the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie's body reached a critical point, then it twitched continuously.

Its arms waved subconsciously, and a deafening sound came from the coffin, almost lifting the lid.

Ren Qing was slightly surprised, he didn't expect that the green zombie could barely reach the strength of the Jailer Law's Yin Messenger realm.

But when he had the idea of mass-producing zombies, the aura of the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie suddenly weakened, showing a sharp downward trend.

The flesh and blood of the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie collapsed, switching between decay and recovery, causing its body strength to be even inferior to that of a white zombie.

Ren Qing quickly called out the information flow to check, but the pseudo-dragon transformed zombie had clearly been successfully promoted.

"What the hell? How could the Corpse Refinement Art have such obvious flaws?"

Maybe it was a technique created by *** in his early years?

Impossible, judging from the strange door in the center of the forbidden zone, ***'s cultivation was at least in the Heavenly Strange Realm when he came to the dead man's forbidden zone.

Ren Qing was puzzled.

Wait...

Thinking from the other party's perspective, this *** without me in the world, was probably only pursuing immortality, right?

His coming to the dead man's forbidden zone was definitely for the Dead Man's Scripture, and he might have already mastered it, so he created the Corpse Refinement Art.

Ren Qing swallowed.

If, if the Dead Man's Scripture had irreversible flaws, and after mastering it, *** had some unexpected changes.

His first reaction was probably to create a secondary technique that could indirectly interfere.

The cocoon people and other races all looked like experimental products used to cultivate the Corpse Refinement Art.

As a result, due to irresistible reasons, the Corpse Refinement Art was only completed in its prototype, but with ***'s ability to save his life...

"Damn it, could it be that he's behind the strange door?"

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