The Secret Way of Immortality

【Confirm promotion to the Immortal Ascension Ladder? This will consume 5,000 years of lifespan.】

Ren Qing took a deep breath and paused for a few moments before consuming 5,000 years of his lifespan, allowing the Dead Blood Sutra to advance towards the Immortal Ascension Ladder.

His heartbeat quickened, and the corpse pill within him stirred restlessly.

Immediately afterward, a piercing shriek rang out, and he felt as if the blood in his body was flowing backward, his body temperature soaring to seventy or eighty degrees in an instant.

Before Ren Qing could adapt, his body temperature began to plummet rapidly.

Frost formed on the walls of the cave, and with Ren Qing's breathing, faint Yin energy diffused from his mouth and nose, eventually being blocked by the magic artifact.

Ghostly shadows enveloped the cave, preventing any magical aura from leaking out.

From intense pain throughout his body to numbness, Ren Qing's flesh and bones decayed at a visible rate, resembling a corpse that had been dead for a long time.

Memories of him creating the Dead Blood Sutra flashed before his eyes, and he couldn't help but twitch his lips, feeling a strange sense of incongruity.

When dream-related spells were promoted to the Immortal Ascension Ladder, the experiences of the spell creators that Ren Qing saw were all exceptionally dangerous and bizarre.

To comprehend the spells, they had to face the unfathomable Heavenly Dao, inevitably leading to irreversible mutations in their bodies and souls.

Ren Qing's Dead Blood Sutra was different.

The entire scene showed Ren Qing sitting cross-legged in his room, occasionally flipping through books, constantly piecing together various content.

Once it was almost done, he simply handed it over to the Mushroom Soul to complete, while he himself lay down and rested with his eyes closed.

Ren Qing found it both amusing and fortunate that he hadn't created many spells, and even fewer cultivators had mastered them.

Otherwise, if the spells were to spread, and cultivators saw Ren Qing's experiences differing from other cultivators when they advanced to the Immortal Ascension Ladder, they might realize that he was different from ordinary people.

The Jailer's Hall was still relatively closed, and spells couldn't circulate to the outside world, so cultivators all came from various branches.

By the time they advanced to the Immortal Ascension Ladder, Ren Qing would probably have become an Earth Immortal, so it wouldn't affect his path to immortality.

The scene in Ren Qing's mind shifted.

Before him appeared a mass grave covered in white bones, where thousands of crows circled in the air, occasionally pecking at the rotting flesh.

Not far away was a town comparable to Sanxiang City, brightly lit and extremely prosperous, with a constant stream of merchants coming and going.

Every few days, the town would transport a batch of unclaimed corpses.

Most of the corpses came from the lowest of occupations, and being wrapped in a straw mat was already considered good. No one cared about their lives or deaths.

Ren Qing stared at the mass grave for a while, trying to find clues from thousands of years ago, but he didn't find any traces of cultivators.

Until late at night, several corpses of courtesans were carried out from the brothel, all of whom had been accidentally beaten to death. In their lifetimes, they had even been famous throughout the prefecture.

One of the female corpses seemed to have a trace of life left. Her scarred face was a bloody mess, and one could vaguely see her chest rising and falling.

She desperately pleaded for help, but was still thrown into the mass grave.

Wild dogs roamed, crows croaked, and the fear in her heart turned into resentment.

Ren Qing could feel the woman's unwillingness. As a courtesan, she had enjoyed the attention of thousands, and was surrounded by flattering officials and nobles, but now she had been reduced to the point of having no remains.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

A crow landed on the woman, trying to peck at her flesh, but she suddenly rose up and bit the crow, frantically sucking its blood.

The woman's expression was extremely ferocious, and her desire to survive was so strong that it even revived her failing internal organs.

In this state, she stayed in the mass grave for several days, during which the skin and flesh all over her body gradually dissolved and peeled off, until only her bare bones remained.

The world lost a beautiful courtesan, but gained a "White Bone Lady."

Ren Qing suddenly realized that extreme emotions might make it easier to come into contact with the Heavenly Dao, thereby entering the Dao by comprehending the Jailer's Method.

The Heavenly Dao itself drove people crazy, and coupled with the fact that cultivators were also extreme, how could they create normal spells, thus achieving the path of the bizarre.

Before Ren Qing could recover from the experience of the White Bone Lady, the scene before him changed to him tirelessly dissecting the Dead Man Sutra.

Compared to the White Bone Lady, Ren Qing seemed to be reaping without sowing.

Ren Qing took advantage of the gap to stabilize his mind and prepare to come into contact with the next Heavenly Dao. After all, the Immortal Ascension Method involved too much.

He reviewed the content he had sorted out before several times, and then patiently waited until his soul showed signs of change.

A vast and majestic aura filled his body and soul.

Ren Qing only felt that his soul was about to leave his body, so he did not dare to resist the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao.

His soul was as if being pulled into an abyss, falling rapidly towards the depths of the earth, passing through solid soil and rock, and finally arriving in an endless void.

The sound of chanting scriptures came, obviously not in the tone of Ren Qing facing the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord, but the specific content was difficult to hear clearly.

Even though Ren Qing had been promoted to the Immortal Ascension Ladder once, he still couldn't avoid being nervous.

However, compared to ordinary cultivators whose life and death were uncertain, Ren Qing had prepared very well, and his rationality was still preserved.

The chanting of the scriptures came to an abrupt end, and then turned into a clearly audible song, the voice childish and without emotion.

"The Supreme Great Dao Lord of the Highest Purity High Saint."

"Covering the essence of the Jade Palace, the purple smoke of the Auspicious Clouds."

"Jade brilliance shines, gold reflects flowing truth."

"The union transforms containing beauty, the package condenses establishing spirit."

"The Dao Lord then widely proclaims the scriptures and registers, passing them on to all ages!"

"Passing them on to all ages!!!"

Ren Qing's mind was shaken. It seemed that the path of mutation of the Dead Man's Spell had little to do with the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord. This time he was about to face…

One of the Three Purities, the Lingbao Heavenly Lord!!!

Twisted and boundless light burst forth in the darkness, and the song became hysterical, giving Ren Qing a sense of absurdity as if gods were appearing in a play.

How should I put it, like mortals' clumsy imitation of gods?

A statue of the Lingbao Heavenly Lord appeared, covered in gold leaf, but many places were already damaged, revealing the clay body.

The statue of the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord was slightly ordinary, and the robes and ornaments were also crudely made, but the Lingbao Heavenly Lord was different, carved in more detail.

Ren Qing quickly suppressed his distracting thoughts. Although the true form of the Lingbao Heavenly Lord was unknown, it was definitely something he couldn't afford to provoke.

Crack…

Cracks spread across the surface of the Lingbao Heavenly Lord's statue, and smoky black tendrils stretched out from within, transforming into hands and claws in a moment, as if the flesh could not be fixed.

Ren Qing only glanced at it, and a large amount of memories of refining magic artifacts appeared in his mind.

This part of the memory was highly repetitive, and then began to blur his understanding of artifact refining, making the Bizarre Embryo Artifact Refining Method unrecognizable.

The new Bizarre Embryo Artifact Refining Method was like a cruel torture that played with life, tormenting living beings to madness before proceeding to the steps of refining artifacts.

Ren Qing's eyelids twitched wildly, and he stopped paying attention to the changes in the Bizarre Embryo Artifact Refining Method.

There was a backup of the Bizarre Embryo Artifact Refining Method in the world within his stomach. He would deal with the Lingbao Heavenly Lord's Artifact Refining Method after it was over, at least to prevent it from spreading.

He began to recall the details of the Dead Man's Spell, and with the Dead Blood Sutra as the main body, disassembled and integrated the Bone Tooth Method and the Dead Man Sutra into it.

Of course, the core of the Dead Man's Immortal Ascension Method had to be "eternal life."

Ren Qing resisted the pressure from the Lingbao Heavenly Lord, and relying on the preparations he had made before, he completed the Immortal Ascension Method in just a moment.

Countless souls wailed and begged for mercy, as if cultivating this method could control all souls.

Information flowed.

【Dead Mansion Method】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires dividing one's own soul to construct a mansion, requiring a total of five hundred soul bricks. It can only be completed after the mansion is complete.】

To cultivate the Dead Mansion Method normally, one would have to tear the soul five hundred times. Even if one didn't go crazy, one would be scattered.

The difficulty of the Immortal Ascension Method far exceeded that of the Jailer's Method.

【The upper limit of the Dead Mansion Method can be cultivated into an Earth Immortal, and can be compatible with other spells.】

Ren Qing's expression lit up. All aspects of the Dead Mansion Method met his expectations, and the time spent was several times less than that of the Toe Separation Technique.

As for eternal life, as long as the core elements of the Immortal Ascension Method remain unchanged, no matter what immortal position it is, it will not affect eternal life.

It's just that the "eternal life" of each immortal position may have some deviations.

【Immortal Position: Reincarnation Ghost Immortal】

Reincarnation Ghost Immortal?

Ren Qing was slightly stunned, and then reacted.

Reincarnation Ghost Immortal should refer to the Reincarnation King in the Ten Kings of Hell, belonging to the ghost king of the underworld, whose status far exceeds the Soul-Hooking Ghost Immortal Black Impermanence.

In the underworld, the Tenth King of Reincarnation is responsible for distinguishing good and evil among the ghosts in each hall, and managing matters of reincarnation.

Ren Qing was a little conflicted at this time.

Although the Reincarnation King did not exclusively control dreams like the Dream Immortal Toe Separation, after all, life and death reincarnation involved all aspects, and the power was supreme.

But he always felt that he had not fully exploited the potential of the Dead Man's Spell.

Ren Qing looked up at the statue of the Lingbao Heavenly Lord, from the cracks stretched out countless limbs that transformed between arms, tendrils, and claws.

One could vaguely see a deformed and terrifying body seeping out.

However, given the extent of the statue's damage, it would take a long time before it completely shattered. The cracks currently only covered the upper body of the Lingbao Heavenly Lord.

Ren Qing calmed his mind and erased the content of the Dead Mansion Method from his memory.

As long as the Dead Mansion Method exists in any form in the world, he cannot use the Heavenly Dao again to comprehend the Immortal Ascension Method unique to the Dead Man's Spell.

Ren Qing continued to sort out the Dead Man's Spell, replacing the core element of the Immortal Ascension Method, "eternal life," with "ageless, unbirth, undying, and indestructible."

The "ageless, unbirth, undying, and indestructible" of the Soul-Hooking Ghost Immortal must be incomplete, otherwise the true immortal who once held the immortal position would not have died.

Ren Qing pursued eternal immortality, which showed his ambition for the Immortal Ascension Method.

In this case, comprehending the Immortal Ascension Method would undoubtedly be more complicated, but fortunately, with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, he did not stagnate.

Crack, crack, crack…

The cracks in the Lingbao Heavenly Lord's statue were constantly expanding, and then a head stretched out, the face without facial features, but covered with purple-red suckers.

Ren Qing could feel the deterrence, but the progress of comprehension was even faster.

Finally, at the moment when the cracks in the statue spread to the lower half of the body, the new Immortal Ascension Method was completed, and the remaining time was even enough for another chance.

Ren Qing summoned the information flow, glanced over the general content, only confirming the upper limit and compatibility of the Immortal Ascension Method, as well as the name of the immortal position.

【Immortal Position: Fengdu Corpse Emperor】

When he saw "Fengdu Corpse Emperor," he immediately returned his soul to his body.

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