The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing returned to his main body's Niwan Palace, bringing with him the consciousness of the Life-Taking Child.

The Life-Taking Child's consciousness was entirely composed of memories, making it seem incredibly ethereal, and it felt like it was about to dissipate while in the Niwan Palace.

Ren Qing was curious about the Life-Taking Child, his gaze scrutinizing it.

The function of the fleshy nodule was to give consciousness independent intelligence, but the Life-Taking Child had clearly left the false world, yet still retained its intelligence.

This showed that the Life-Taking Child could indeed achieve ascension to the upper realm in the true sense of the word.

When the Life-Taking Child left the false world, even though the disasters it caused disappeared, the world became both real and unreal.

Houses and landscapes seemed shrouded in mist, making it impossible to see their entirety.

A gust of wind blew, and the fields produced golden ears of rice, but in the next instant, they turned into withered weeds; the rules had collapsed.

The other Beast Pen humans seemed to have had their intelligence extracted, leaving only the most basic instincts, wandering aimlessly in the false world.

Ren Qing suddenly realized that the so-called dimensional reduction strike from his previous life was like this.

This was because the Life-Taking Child played a decisive role in the structure of the false world, and many things even depended on its consciousness to survive.

Once the Life-Taking Child left, the false world would fall into stagnation.

Ren Qing looked at the Heavenly Devil Nest; the fleshy nodules on its surface had shrunk by nearly half, and it was insignificant compared to the miles-long wall of flesh.

If the Beast Pen humans wanted to restore the reality of the false world, they would either need to increase the number of consciousnesses tenfold, or create another Life-Taking Child.

Neither was likely, so the false world would be difficult to restore in the short term.

Ren Qing sealed the path to the Heavenly Devil Nest and strictly prohibited digging towards it.

Ren Qing then returned to his cave, putting aside the matter of the techniques for the time being, preparing to awaken Song Zongwu's consciousness as soon as possible.

He always felt that the Nameless Ascetic Monk's arrangement was not so simple.

What made the Nameless Ascetic Monk think that Ren Qing could complete Song Zongwu's consciousness? Even a Land Immortal might not be able to do it.

Perhaps he had prepared a backup plan beforehand, but didn't have time to implement it?

Ren Qing was very puzzled by this; where was the Arhat Fruit Status that had been stripped away? Was it related to the Spirit Inspiration Temple of the Deer-Riding Arhat?

He couldn't help but shake his head; the answer could only be answered by Song Zongwu himself when he woke up, as the person involved would know the ins and outs.

Ren Qing took out part of the forbidden corpse's brain and tried to refine a fleshy nodule using cancer pathogens, wantonly distorting the brain in various ways.

The fleshy nodule was formed by chance in the Heavenly Devil Nest, with a certain degree of coincidence.

He thought that the difficulty of refining it would be considerable, but only when he started refining it did he realize how troublesome it was, especially replicating the intricate structure of the brain.

Ren Qing repeatedly failed, wasting an unknown amount of time.

Fortunately, he didn't have to work behind closed doors; there were hundreds of artifact refiners in his stomach world, and even if they kept making mistakes, they could find the right path.

Moreover, Little San'er's artifact refining skills were already comparable to Ren Qing's without the help of the Ghost Shadow.

Later, Ren Qing simply acted as a hands-off shopkeeper, letting the Fungal Soul control the pathogens and modify the brain according to the ideas of the artifact refiners.

He himself had to pay attention to the progress of the distorted brain at all times, and it was not easy to immerse himself in cultivation, so he observed the Life-Taking Child's consciousness in the Niwan Palace.

Ren Qing suddenly felt that the Life-Taking Child was a bit tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard.

He thought that the Life-Taking Child was different from ordinary people, and planned to raise it in his stomach world, but in fact, the latter did not have the potential for cultivation at all.

Although the Life-Taking Child's intelligence was independent, it was not even considered a soul, and it seemed that it could only be transformed into a zombie cultivator.

But in that case, with the limitations of zombies, the Life-Taking Child would soon become ordinary.

Ren Qing stared at the Life-Taking Child, which only had instinct left, and found that its consciousness was still filled with the idea of ascending to the upper realm, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Maybe, this Life-Taking Child..."

He didn't rush to deal with the Life-Taking Child, but first used the World as a Dream technique to influence its memory, completely erasing the memories about Ren Qing.

Ren Qing then absorbed the Life-Taking Child's consciousness into the Nanshan Small World.

Under his interference, the Nanshan Small World moved closer to the scene of the virtual world, with towns and farmland appearing, and even the people were the same.

Not to mention the Life-Taking Child, even Ren Qing could hardly distinguish the difference between the two worlds.

A smile appeared on the corner of Ren Qing's mouth; after the Life-Taking Child landed in the Nanshan Small World, it became extremely confused and didn't know where to go.

After a few days of wandering aimlessly in the town, the Life-Taking Child went to Purple Household Mountain, where it had always been in seclusion, to practice its self-created Soul Flight Immortal Technique.

The Soul Flight Immortal Technique was not a technique, but more like a self-hypnosis technique.

The Life-Taking Child used hypnosis to separate its consciousness along with its memories, and even let its consciousness get rid of the shackles of the fleshy nodule.

Ren Qing waited for a moment, and sure enough, the Life-Taking Child's consciousness turned into two strands, and then the sub-consciousness gradually went to the outside world.

In the end, it was naturally intercepted by Ren Qing and sealed under the diseased tree in the Niwan Palace.

After Ren Qing repeatedly confirmed that the Life-Taking Child's main consciousness would not be damaged, he let a Fungal Soul be responsible for guarding the outside of the Nanshan Small World.

The purpose of the Fungal Soul was to continuously harvest the Life-Taking Child.

Ren Qing then began to refine the zombie's body non-stop. It was not troublesome to piece together an empty shell using flesh, blood, and bones, at most it would consume some resources.

He mainly wanted to verify the idea in his heart, so he first completed two hundred zombies, and they were still the lowest level, Purple Zombies.

At this time, the Life-Taking Child's consciousness had been harvested about forty or fifty times, and Ren Qing instilled the consciousness into the Purple Zombie's body.

The degree of fit between the body and consciousness was extremely low, which meant that the efficiency of cultivation was greatly affected.

Ren Qing didn't care at all, and even took great pains to help the Life-Taking Child's consciousness merge with the body, wasting more than half a month to complete it.

Dozens of zombies gradually gave birth to souls, but their intelligence was unsatisfactory.

But even though they were in the Yin-rich land of bones, their absorption of Yin energy was not even as good as ordinary corpses.

In the eyes of corpse ghosts, this batch of zombies only deserved to be locked in coffins forever.

Ren Qing, however, was interested, and then used the Corpse Fengdu technique to control the Yin energy, helping the zombies master the Corpse Brain Technique disassembled from the Dead Man's Scripture.

【Corpse Brain Technique】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires pouring corpse water into the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose until the head is filled, and the five senses are closed. It can only be cultivated if one does not die for thirty-six days.】

The corpse change of the Corpse Brain Technique is located in the brain, and the Yin energy will be concentrated in the Niwan Palace.

Although it will lead to damage to intelligence, the Corpse Brain Technique is extremely strong in the use of Yin energy, while the Corpse Refining Technique and the Corpse Bone Technique are both mainly based on the physical body.

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Ren Qing planted Yin energy in the Niwan Palace of many zombies, and imitated the practice of the Beast Pen humans, using umbilical cords to connect them to each other.

Yin energy flowed from the umbilical cords, forming a great cycle between dozens of bodies.

In this way, the Yin energy obtained by the zombies cultivating the Corpse Brain Technique all came from the same source, and their consciousnesses were also closely related because of the Life-Taking Child.

Dozens of zombies turned into a whole, which not only made up for the efficiency of Yin energy enhancement, but even the Yin energy could be gathered and dispersed at any time.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes; the total amount of Yin energy of the Corpse Brain Technique zombies was already at the Half-Corpse Realm.

This was only the level of dozens of them. As long as the number continued to accumulate, even if the cultivation of individual zombies stagnated, quantitative change could cause qualitative change.

Ren Qing nodded in satisfaction; as a container for storing Yin energy, the Life-Taking Child could guarantee that he could replenish Yin energy at any time.

Unfortunately, the Yang God Realm was already the limit, after all, the method was too opportunistic.

Their souls had a mysterious connection, and they actually recovered part of their intelligence, and soon figured out the cause and effect of the matter.

"Thank you... Immortal... for bestowing... immortal fate..."

The zombies knelt on the ground in unison. Although their intelligence was slightly rigid, they generally inherited the Life-Taking Child's memory.

"Life-Taking Child, cultivate the Corpse Brain Technique that I taught you well."

Ren Qing was not worried that the Life-Taking Child would rebel, on the one hand because he had arranged some tricks in its memory, and on the other hand, as the Corpse Emperor of Fengdu, he held the power of life and death over the zombies.

Even the Corpse Immortal would not have the slightest ability to resist after he advanced to the Land Immortal.

Ren Qing brought the Life-Taking Child to the outside world and handed it over to the corpse ghosts for arrangement. It just so happened that the resources in the cave needed a large number of people to maintain.

The corpse ghosts were very surprised by the existence of the Life-Taking Child. Why did so many bodies share one consciousness? It seemed strange and inexplicable.

The Corpse Vein currently lacked high-level combat power. The Life-Taking Child should be able to be comparable to the Yin Messenger Realm, or even the Yang God Realm, in a short time.

Of course, the Life-Taking Child's shortcomings were also very obvious. As a zombie cultivator, the body was a weakness and could easily be targeted and assassinated.

Ren Qing let the corpse ghosts be responsible for refining the Life-Taking Child's body. Harvesting consciousness was simple.

He still left the matters of the Corpse Vein to the zombies to handle themselves. He didn't want to be distracted by this, affecting the sorting out of the Immortal Ascension Method of the various techniques.

Ren Qing mainly focused his energy on the primary and secondary techniques of the Ghost Shadow.

The five techniques of the Ghost Shadow had the lowest correlation. A slight carelessness could affect the understanding of the Immortal Ascension Method, so he had to be fully prepared.

This showed that the number of techniques was not the more the better, the most important thing was compatibility.

Ren Qing was immersed in the Immortal Ascension Method and did not pay attention to the time at all. When he came back to his senses, he found that the crack in the Heavenly Dao had been shortened a lot.

The imitation fleshy nodule magic weapon was also refined by Little San'er, and called it "Soul Brain". The functions of the two were different.

The fleshy nodule allowed memory to have autonomous consciousness, but the Soul Brain allowed the remnant soul to recover consciousness, but the specific effect was still unknown.

Ren Qing looked at the Soul Brain and couldn't wait to bring it to Song Zongwu.

He originally planned to refine Song Zongwu's brain into a Soul Brain, but as a precaution, he transplanted the Soul Brain to the neck.

Song Zongwu's body suddenly had two heads, one large and one small.

Ren Qing then connected the blood vessels and nerves to the Soul Brain. Song Zongwu's remnant soul indeed became active, and his fingers trembled slightly.

Song Zongwu's soul still needed a long time of nourishment to completely wake up, but at least he could see some possibility of completion.

The alchemists stepped up their efforts to develop a pill formula to nourish the soul, and invested a lot of manpower.

Indeed, as the tortoise's long life divination showed, the Beast Pen was a treasure land for the Forbidden Prison Hall, and everything was developing in a good direction.

As Ren Qing's Elimination of Calamity Technique's secondary techniques successively advanced to the Yang God Realm, the area covered by the No-Strange Cage was becoming larger and larger.

Who would have thought that in the Beast Pen where the Supreme Heavenly Devil was entrenched, there were tens of thousands of cultivators hidden underground.

Ren Qing did not stop advancing. All the techniques soon reached the Yang God Realm, waiting for the subsequent breakthrough to the No-Birth Immortal. At that time, he could prepare for impacting the Immortal Ascension Ladder.

Sorry, viewers, there is only one chapter today.

The next chapter will advance the remaining techniques to the Yang God Realm. There are many techniques involved, and it is really a bit of a card.