The Secret Way of Immortality

As the flow of time within his stomach world accelerated, Ren Qing could feel the efficiency of lifespan extension increasing.

Apart from the hundreds of thousands of people in the Everlasting Forbidden Zone, the Cishi people from the Heaven Above Heaven were also brought into the Dream City, bringing the population to six or seven hundred thousand.

Even if Ren Qing's lifespan reached two thousand years and the effect of the Dream Butterfly Art was further weakened, the sheer number of cultivators in Dream City was still significant.

Unfortunately, trading with zombies could not acquire lifespan, as the Dream Butterfly Art required the target to possess lifespan in the first place.

He felt that it wouldn't be long before he could attempt to advance to the Unborn Immortal realm.

Ren Qing had assumed that Tian Fang was busy preaching and wouldn't return to the Molten Furnace, but unexpectedly, he brought dozens of green zombies with him.

A strong stench of corpses permeated the cave. If the furnace didn't contain extraordinary fire, it would probably ignite the corpse energy and cause a violent explosion.

The green zombies came from all over the city, their bodies exhibiting uncontrolled flesh collapse.

They didn't approach the Molten Furnace, stopping about two hundred meters away, and then surrounded Tian Fang in the middle.

Ren Qing was puzzled from afar. Judging by appearances alone, it looked like a heretical gathering.

Chen Chuan glanced at the motionless Ren Qing and couldn't help but say, "Old Tian, since you're going to practice the so-called Immortal Arts, isn't it good to have a white zombie watching?"

The other green zombies cast strange glances, remaining silent.

Tian Fang refused, "What does it matter? Although he's a white zombie, he has no intelligence and can't leave the Molten Furnace anyway."

Tian Fang's preaching among the white zombies had been relatively smooth, but a few green zombies were skeptical, fearing hidden dangers.

They were extremely resistant to entering dreams, unable to witness the bustling Dream City.

Therefore, Tian Fang simply demonstrated the practice of corpse refining arts himself to dispel the green zombies' concerns.

Only by gaining the approval of the green zombies holding high positions in the yamen could he gain more say when heading underground next time.

After these days of exploration, Tian Fang had gradually approached the entrance to the corpse refining arts, making him the fastest among the many zombies.

The zombies piled up an altar, and then Tian Fang sat cross-legged on it.

The green zombies stared intently at Tian Fang. If the latter suddenly lost control, they would throw him into the Molten Furnace to be incinerated.

Tian Fang calmed his mind, guiding the surrounding yin energy into his body.

The differences between the two corpse refining arts were quite obvious. The one taught by the Immortal revealed extraordinary aspects everywhere, making it hard to imagine it was perfected in a short time.

The yin energy above Tian Fang gathered more and more, entering his flesh and bones through the crown of his head.

The sound of bones colliding came from his body. The flesh collapse was indeed gradually收敛, but the corresponding characteristics of the green zombie were decreasing.

The other green zombies looked at each other as they watched Tian Fang transform into a white zombie.

If the corpse refining art taught by the Immortal only caused a drop in realm, then it would be at most a way to prolong life, still unable to avoid flesh collapse.

The moment Tian Fang mastered it, he closed his eyes and felt the pleasant sensation throughout his body.

Chen Chuan's mouth opened slightly. Just as she was about to say something, Tian Fang suddenly emitted an extremely restrained aura that made her hair stand on end.

The aura was far from what a white zombie could compare to, and even green zombies were hard to match.

Tian Fang then stomped hard, the altar collapsing into ruins. His eyes became cold, sweeping over the disarrayed green zombies.

Although zombies don't have high intelligence, they are not benevolent. They can even be described as bloodthirsty and warlike, but their instincts have been suppressed deep within their hearts by living in Corpse City for a long time.

"As expected of the Immortal Venerable's teachings, how could we, as inanimate objects, fathom it."

Chen Chuan could sense Tian Fang's killing intent and immediately showed goodwill first. The other green zombies also reacted and echoed him.

At the same time, they believed most of the rumors about the dream town.

Tian Fang looked at Ren Qing with a complicated expression. If he wasn't mistaken, Ren Qing had mastered the Immortal's corpse refining art even before any other zombie.

He didn't speculate too deeply, only suspecting that his ability to go to Dream City was probably unintentionally caused by Ren Qing.

Ren Qing must have accidentally come into contact with the Immortal in the dream. No wonder he could advance to a white zombie without any intelligence. It seemed he had obtained a considerable opportunity.

Tian Fang didn't know that the Immortal in the dream was right beside him.

With the final obstacle to the corpse refining art gone, soon seven or eight thousand zombies in the city entered the dream and went to Dream City.

Tian Fang really didn't have many selfish motives, and he taught both the corpse refining art and the Sui Sui Sutra to the zombies.

Ren Qing secretly observed the zombies' cultivation of the arts, gaining a deeper understanding of the "eternal" zombies.

First of all, the zombies' physique was different. Corpse transformation was almost all over every inch of their flesh and bones, making it even worse than the Cishi people to practice the Forbidden Troop Method.

In simple terms, zombies, apart from the corpse refining art, found it difficult to master other arts.

Even with the help of various resources for auxiliary cultivation, the Forbidden Troop Method could only be cultivated to the Ghost Envoy realm at most, and it was difficult to go further.

From the Devouring Immortal Art mastered by some green zombies, it could be seen that being able to cultivate to the Half-Corpse realm took hundreds or thousands of years.

As for where the Devouring Immortal Art came from, there was no specific way to verify it. It should have been casually taught by ***, possibly wanting to see the zombies' cultivation aptitude.

It's a pity that the potential of zombies, perhaps, was exhausted after they were resurrected.

Even their cultivation of the corpse refining art wasn't necessarily fast. It would take Tian Fang at least ten years to complete his re-cultivation.

Ren Qing even suspected that the zombies' immortality also had drawbacks, otherwise, some zombies wouldn't have deficiencies in their intelligence.

He estimated that if he consumed lifespan in a state of no lifespan, it would probably subtly affect his soul.

Ren Qing didn't have too many regrets. To put it bluntly, the corpse refining art was just used to assist the Dead Man Sutra. Using it to achieve immortality was obviously unrealistic.

Therefore, he didn't place the corpse refining art in the Great Dream Art Tower, and even forbade the zombies from teaching this art to the Forbidden Troop Hall's cultivators.

Ren Qing was afraid that the cultivators would take shortcuts and choose to turn into zombies.

The prosperity of the Forbidden Troop Hall was built on a large population. Once they turned into zombies, it would mean the loss of fertility.

He informed Li Tiangang of the situation in Corpse City, and the latter warned the other cultivators.

Fortunately, the cultivators of the Forbidden Troop Hall had never been as obsessed with easily replenishable lifespan as Ren Qing.

Seeing the zombies' rigid appearance and learning that it was difficult to cultivate other arts at the same time, most of them had already dismissed the idea of becoming zombies.

Only some cultivators were still interested and even put their energy into it.

However, they were more concerned with whether they could transform into a zombie physique with their soul consciousness retained after their death.

Ren Qing didn't stop them. As long as they didn't shake the foundation of the Forbidden Troop Hall, they could do whatever they wanted.

The distortion of the giant corpse Buddha was also continuing. Currently, most of the organs had been fused with the eerie objects of the Ghost Envoy realm.

Ren Qing naturally hoped to have more time for the Forbidden Troop Hall to develop, and his accumulation of lifespan was also steadily increasing.

He simply stayed in the Molten Furnace, playing the role of a corpse incinerator.

However, as the zombies gradually mastered the corpse refining art, the wind and cold pathogens couldn't harm their bodies, and their reliance on the Molten Furnace naturally began to decrease.

Ren Qing was happy to have some peace and quiet. Soon, even the Molten Furnace became rarely visited.

Only Tian Fang would occasionally visit Ren Qing, taking out that bottle of corpse wine he had been drinking for who knows how many years, taking a few sips with mixed feelings.

………

Unknowingly, more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

Taking advantage of the Forbidden Troop Hall's prosperous development, Ren Qing's lifespan reached more than three thousand years, not far from four thousand years.

When he had enough lifespan for the Unborn Immortal, he would probably be able to advance the art while also breaking through the corpse refining art to the Hairy Zombie realm.

During this period, the distance between Corpse City and the giant corpse Buddha had widened somewhat, but it was at most a dozen miles, still within a controllable range.

However, Tian Fang and the other zombies finally collected several thousand coffins to imprison the green zombies.

They placed the coffins on the grave mounds in the center of Corpse City. Looking up, it was densely packed with coffins, causing the yin energy to condense and not dissipate.

Tian Fang prepared to use the coffins to alleviate the green zombies' condition and then teach them the corpse refining art.

Under the mobilization of thousands of zombies, they began digging into the grave mounds, and a large amount of soil and gravel was dumped outward from the city walls.

No wonder the ghost shadows couldn't find any clues. It turned out to be the literal meaning of the depths of the earth.

As the zombies dug, they revealed coffins deeply buried in the grave mounds, but the coffins had rotted to varying degrees.

Ren Qing slipped out of the Molten Furnace and stood on top of the city wall, watching the center of Corpse City.

He saw that many of the coffins were mostly broken, empty inside. Obviously, the green zombies had completely turned into corpse water at some point.

The remaining coffins were opened one by one, revealing the sleeping green zombies.

But what surprised Tian Fang and the other zombies was that these green zombies were covered in tentacles, absorbing the collapsing flesh.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes. The Yang God realm zombie was indeed alive and well, and it seemed to have formed a symbiosis with the Molten Furnace.

It was very likely that the other party was using the characteristics of the undying flame to barely maintain itself.

He then moved his mind slightly, and ghost shadows gathered from all directions towards the center of Corpse City.

As long as this zombie had the slightest abnormality, it would be subjected to Ren Qing's thunderous methods, instantly eliminating the hidden danger in Corpse City.

But Ren Qing didn't expect that the tentacles wrapped around the green zombies would actually retract into the ground.

Such an action was definitely not because the Yang God realm zombie sensed the threat of the ghost shadows. After all, the Disaster Elimination Art had been used as much as possible.

It was more like actively expressing goodwill.

Seeing this, Ren Qing retracted the ghost shadows, wanting to find the main body of the Yang God realm zombie. He estimated that he would have to turn Corpse City upside down.

He still wanted to gather the five thousand years of lifespan for the Unborn Immortal in Corpse City.

Tian Fang and the other zombies were silent for a moment, and then carefully replaced the coffins, and taught the arts by reciting the contents.

Seeing that their efficiency was extremely slow, Ren Qing directly pulled the consciousness of the green zombies into Dream City.

The zombies noticed that it was the Immortal in the dream who had taken action, and immediately called out his name.

Only Tian Fang belatedly looked towards the city wall in the distance, as if there was a familiar figure standing there, but it disappeared in a trance.

Ren Qing returned to the secluded Molten Furnace and found that the flames inside had become much dimmer, so he casually threw some flesh into it.

Spring and winter came and went in the stomach world.

In the Dead Man Forbidden Zone where life and death did not exist, time seemed to be the most worthless thing.