The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing's appearance undoubtedly dropped a boulder into the calm lake, and his purpose and identity were unknown, causing the cultivators to feel restless.

After several days of peace, they became even more apprehensive.

In their view, the Land of the Dead was by no means a blessed place with natural treasures; apart from the Immortal Gate, there was only endless desolation.

Or were they trying to enter the Immortal Gate?

However, it had been hundreds of years since dozens of cultivators entered the Immortal Gate, and no news had come out, so they must have met with misfortune.

If their respective forces hadn't required them to guard the Immortal Gate and removed their escape route from the Land of the Dead,

they wouldn't have stayed for two hundred years.

Fortunately, it was said that after three hundred years, cultivators would come to replace them.

Taihan Zhenren glanced at the direction of the giant corpse Buddha out of the corner of his eye. The latter was too close to the Taoist temple, making him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

But at the same time, he had an idea.

The cultivator impersonating Lingxiao Daoren was likely an Immortal Guest of the Heavenly Guile Realm, and perhaps he could use this to escape the hellish place that was the Land of the Dead.

Taihan Zhenren quickly dismissed the idea. He would be able to leave the Land of the Dead in a hundred years at most, so why create more changes? Maintaining the status quo was the right thing to do.

Just as he was in a daze, a shadow crept into the town along the wall.

The shadow wriggled quickly and finally stopped in a secluded corner, from which a half-human, half-insect cultivator slowly crawled out.

Yuhua Zhenren couldn't help but look around. He had just learned about the existence of Taihan Zhenren from Ren Qing not long ago.

He had left the insect nest only fifty or sixty years ago, and he was already in the Golden Core Realm at that time, so his status in the insect nest was not low.

However, Yuhua Zhenren had never heard any news about the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.

He recalled carefully that some insect nest cultivators had indeed disappeared because they went to the surface, but they should have died.

Ren Qing didn't say much, but Yuhua Daoren still took the initiative to go to the outside world.

He wanted to obtain some Heavenly Dao insect eggs through Taihan Zhenren to build the power of the insect nest in the Imprisoned Corpses Hall, otherwise, he would become an appendage sooner or later.

Yuhua Zhenren scanned the street, and all around were Heavenly Dao insects with human characteristics.

In the insect nest, the aptitude of Heavenly Dao insect people was usually judged by how close their bodies were to human form, which was related to whether they had enough intelligence.

The Heavenly Dao insect people beside the Taoist temple, although each had the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Realm, were in fact as intelligent as beasts and difficult to improve further.

Yuhua Daoren, through the resources of the Imprisoned Corpses Hall, had reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm. If he hadn't also been cultivating the Shadowless Ghost, he might have already tried to break through to the Distraction Realm.

As he walked on the street, the other Heavenly Dao insect people didn't pay any attention at all, and he soon arrived at the Taoist temple where Taihan Zhenren lived.

Yuhua Zhenren took a deep breath.

The danger of leaving the giant corpse Buddha alone was conceivable, and without Ren Qing's protection, it would be useless if he really died.

Yuhua Zhenren used the ghost shadow of the Half-Corpse Mirror to explore the way, and then walked into it.

Taihan Zhenren was on the eaves, and he didn't notice Yuhua Zhenren until he was within a hundred meters, and his expression changed unpredictably in a few breaths.

He had an almost obsessive idea of leaving the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.

When he first saw Yuhua Zhenren, his first reaction was that the insect nest had sent someone to replace him, but then he remembered Ren Qing and couldn't help but be suspicious.

After all, Ren Qing appeared first, and then a Heavenly Dao insect appeared. How could it be such a coincidence?

"Who are you..."

Taihan Zhenren narrowed his eyes, spit out a flying sword condensed from true essence, and looked at Yuhua Zhenren with a threatening tone.

"Elder Taihan, I am a disciple of the Calamity Rotting Insect Mother, named Yuhua."

"Calamity Rotting Insect Mother... Calamity Rotting Insect Mother... Calamity Rotting Insect Mother..."

Hearing this familiar name, Taihan Zhenren's eyes were filled with excitement, and he kept moving around in place, at a loss.

"If you're here to replace me, let's go, let's go, let me take you to see..."

Taihan Zhenren talked endlessly, but Yuhua Zhenren didn't respond at all, and his voice became weaker and weaker.

He asked in a cold voice, "There are no reinforcements, right?"

"In the insect nest, Elder, you have already died. We have never heard of the rumors of the Land of the Dead."

Yuhua Daoren nodded. The Taihan Zhenren in front of him trembled uncontrollably, and his true essence showed signs of going crazy.

The other Yang God Realm cultivators in the town noticed the abnormality, and the Molting Hermit, who was familiar with Taihan Zhenren, immediately set off towards the Taoist temple.

Seeing this, Yuhua Zhenren quickly said, "Elder Taihan, I can take you out of the Land of the Dead. To be precise, the Blessed Earth Immortal can take you out..."

Before he could finish speaking, he realized that the Molting Hermit was about to arrive, and he quickly used the Shadowless Ghost to temporarily merge into the shadows.

Taihan Zhenren's pupils dilated when he heard the words "Blessed Earth Immortal".

As a cultivator of the Heavenly Dao insect lineage, how could he not know the Blessed Earth Immortal, the true immortal who was rumored to be in charge of the earth veins?

The Molting Hermit landed not long after, looking at Taihan Zhenren in confusion.

"Taihan, are you okay?"

Taihan Zhenren came back to his senses and pretended to be calm and said, "I encountered a bottleneck in my cultivation and almost went crazy, but fortunately, it's not a big problem."

The Molting Hermit was relieved and left the Taoist temple after exchanging a few pleasantries.

The reason why the three forces can survive in the Land of the Dead for two hundred years is because they have secretly formed an alliance with each other.

Taihan Zhenren was silent for a long time, and only spoke after the town returned to calm, "Yuhua, have you really seen the Blessed Earth Immortal?"

Yuhua Zhenren hesitated for a moment. Ren Qing had told him not to spread the information about the Imprisoned Corpses Hall, but there was no prohibition against the Blessed Earth Immortal.

"The one who came a few days ago was the Blessed Earth Immortal."

Taihan Zhenren opened his mouth. He hadn't noticed the true essence in Ren Qing before, so he couldn't possibly believe it completely.

But Ren Qing was in the distance. If the other party was really the Blessed Earth Immortal, then questioning him would be challenging the authority of the true immortal.

Yuhua Zhenren didn't know Taihan Zhenren's entanglement. Since he didn't dare to stay in the town for a long time, he said directly.

"Elder Taihan, how many Heavenly Dao insect eggs do you have here?"

"Well... there are still five thousand three hundred and twenty-one left, but some of them have turned into dead eggs."

Yuhua Daoren pretended to be powerful, waving the banner of the Blessed Earth Immortal and said, "Okay, the Blessed Earth Immortal wants me to take two thousand."

Taihan Zhenren opened his mouth wide. Remembering that whether Ren Qing was the Blessed Earth Immortal or not, he couldn't afford to offend him, he honestly took out the insect eggs.

The Heavenly Dao insect eggs of the insect nest are different from those of the Non-Action Taoist Temple.

The appearance is amber-like, but inside there is a miniature version of the baby, connected to the Heavenly Dao larva by the umbilical cord. The two are symbiotic.

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When the insect eggs gradually hatch, the human and insect will merge into one.

Yuhua Zhenren took it with a happy face. As long as he asked Li Yaoyang to help hatch them, the Heavenly Dao insect people could form a scale.

"Thank you, Zhenren Taihan. After I get the news of the Blessed Earth Immortal, I will inform you in advance when to leave the Land of the Dead."

For him, it didn't matter whether Taihan Zhenren was willing to join the Imprisoned Corpses Hall.

With Taihan Zhenren, a Yang God Realm cultivator, the status of the Heavenly Dao insect people would definitely be greatly improved, but it would inevitably threaten Yuhua Zhenren.

As for whether Ren Qing would accept the other party, it had nothing to do with him. With the power of the Earth Immortal, it would be easy to control a mere Yang God Realm cultivator.

After Yuhua Zhenren walked away, Taihan Zhenren fell into a long period of contemplation.

Originally, he still had the patience to continue waiting for a hundred years, but now that he might have to stay in the Land of the Dead forever, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Yuhua Zhenren returned to the giant corpse Buddha without any danger.

He didn't notice Ren Qing's figure. After informing him of the situation with a bird-like strange beast, he went to find Li Yaoyang to discuss hatching the insect eggs.

………

After Ren Qing finished copying the Dead Man's Sutra on the surface of the Immortal Gate, he tentatively approached it step by step.

Carrion-eating insects were in groups, like sandstorms in the swamps, flying around the corpse of the Immortal Gate in large swaths, making it extremely noisy.

Ren Qing stopped a hundred meters away, and then released the ghost shadow to spread forward.

He couldn't help but murmur, "The Immortal Gate, related to the door, inevitably reminds me of the Calamity Elimination Method's Guile Gate, but what if... this thing is not a door?"

The ghost shadow touched the mountain-like toes of the Immortal Gate's corpse, and the information flow surged.

【Corpse Mirror】

【Condensed from the Immortal in the Mirror, others can enter the mirror through the corpse mirror and create a substitute that inherits complete memories.】

Ren Qing smiled bitterly. If it was the Immortal in the Mirror, then everything could be explained.

If nothing unexpected happened, ***'s Immortal in the Mirror had the same mutation route as him, both were strange and inexplicable "Guile Mirror Walkers".

The corpse mirror is equivalent to a magic weapon with the ability of a Guile Mirror Walker.

Under normal circumstances, after performing the Guile Mirror Walker, the cultivator's true body will enter the mirror, and the substitute will replace him.

The substitute has all the memories of the main body, and even the spells he has mastered are the same. Even the strange objects will be temporarily stripped off and given to the substitute.

The substitute does not know its own existence and perfectly inherits everything from the main body.

Until the substitute dies, the spell effect is lifted, and the strange object can return to the main body, allowing the main body to leave the closed mirror world.

"It seems that Lingxiao Daoren really entered the corpse mirror, and the one outside is just a substitute."

I'm afraid that all the dozens of cultivators back then were like this, but they didn't know what they encountered in the mirror world. In the end, only Lingxiao Daoren's substitute appeared.

The corpse mirror is the entrance to the Immortal in the Mirror, but the exit should be all over the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone, and even outside the Forbidden Zone.

The many cultivators guarding the door are just abandoned pawns to prevent accidents.

Ren Qing was deeply suspicious. There must be many Heavenly Guile Realm cultivators who have gone to the mirror world. Their substitutes maintain the status quo in the outside world, relying on the ability of the Immortal in the Mirror to survive.

The current Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva used the mirror world to avoid sitting.

If the Buddhist energy comes to the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone and can't find the true body of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, it is estimated that it will leave to search for the substitute outside.

The cocoon people and other creatures also came from the mirror world, so they instinctively want to return.

Ren Qing stared at the unknown memory buried under the tree in the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

Why does it feel like it wasn't a backhand arranged by the Heavenly Guile Realm existence? After all, Lingxiao Daoren's memory was tampered with by the Immortal in the Mirror.

The unknown memory might be what Lingxiao Daoren saw and heard in the mirror world, but it was sealed by the Immortal in the Mirror in his natal golden core.

He played with the natal golden core with his consciousness.

The alchemy method makes the soul merge into the natal golden core. In theory, only by destroying the natal golden core can it be considered a true death.

"Lingxiao Daoren in the mirror world, is he still him after all?"

*** deliberately created a haven for the Heavenly Guile Realm, no matter what the meaning is.

It's really a big game.