The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing knew a story from his previous life called "Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors."

It referred to giving two peaches to three strong men, who then died fighting over them.

And the "Immortal Position" in his hand was actually a "peach" used to borrow a knife to kill, as long as the news of the Immortal Position was released, it could affect various forces.

Since Ren Qing planned to mobilize the chess pieces in Wuming's hand, he had to release the clues of the Old Man Under the Moon little by little, so that Wuming would make his moves according to his chess path.

He was confident that even if Wuming knew that the Old Man Under the Moon was bait, he would still take the bait.

After all, the Old Man Under the Moon was too suitable for the Disaster Elimination Method. Even if the potential of the Old Man Under the Moon was not as good as the Earth Immortal of Fortune and Virtue or the Taiyin Star Lord, the primary condition for refining the Immortal Position was compatibility with oneself.

If Ren Qing could really control the situation in this world.

Not to mention the two Immortal Positions in the Buddhist realm, even the Immortal Position of the Rain-Assisting Heavenly Lord would not require the Jailer's Hall to put in too much effort.

Just cooperate and reap the benefits.

Ren Qing pondered for a moment, and then began to modify the Small Heavenly Court.

Regardless of day or night, a large number of cultivators were searching for clues in the Small Heavenly Court, and they could find something almost every few days.

The gradually revealed "ancient secrets" shocked them.

For example, fragments of immortal god statues, or murals recording the history of the Heavenly Court, the ruins seemed to contain earth-shattering secrets.

It was a pity that cleaning up the ruins consumed the aura of souls, so that even cultivators in the Heavenly Gu Realm could not stay in the Small Heavenly Court for a long time.

More than a thousand people had worked hard for more than a year, and only cleaned up one-fifth of the area of the Small Heavenly Court, which was still the peripheral palace buildings.

In the beginning, there were tens of thousands of Wind Sky people cooperating with them, but later, because the Wind Sky people accidentally fell into the Buddhist realm, the efficiency became even lower.

Ren Qing also tried to let the Mycelial Soul go to the bottomless abyss in the Buddhist realm.

Unfortunately, the bottomless abyss was too wide, and Ren Qing could sense that Feng Ye was fine, so he did not search on a large scale.

He planned to look for the Wind Sky people after the Black Goat Dharma Garment could be mass-produced.

Ren Qing's eyes swept across the Small Heavenly Court, and silently formed a shattered statue of an immortal god in the corner of the Thunder Department Palace, whose name was "Rain-Assisting Heavenly Lord".

The statue of the Old Man Under the Moon was placed separately in an idle palace, not belonging to the immortal department of the Heavenly Court, and the Old Man Under the Moon, who was in charge of marriage, was independent outside.

Ren Qing's modification of the Small Heavenly Court caused the sleeping Matchmaker Immortal to faintly move.

He couldn't help frowning when he saw the Matchmaker Immortal.

The transfer of the Matchmaker Immortal was really troublesome, and if he was not careful, he would be noticed by the outside world, and even attract the siege of some Turbid Immortals.

Fortunately, the Buddhist realm had just covered the Endless Forest, and the area of darkness had shrunk a lot some time ago, so it would not threaten the Matchmaker Immortal in the Dragon Blood Sea area for the time being.

However, keeping the Matchmaker Immortal in the Dragon Blood Sea area was definitely not a long-term solution.

"Deal with it as soon as possible, the dragon behemoths should be able to bear the body of the Matchmaker Immortal."

Ren Qing's mind moved slightly, and the Dragon Blood Sea area suddenly surged with wind and clouds, and giant Jiaolong beasts thousands of meters long swam into the deep sea.

He then cast the Heaven and Earth Dharma Image, even though the two places were tens of thousands of miles apart.

The Kunpeng was still swimming in the wine sea in the stomach world, and in the next moment, it left the stomach world and came to the Dragon Blood Sea area outside.

As a jailer, it had reached the Yin Messenger Realm through cultivation, but it had not experienced three strange changes, and its strength was far inferior to ordinary cultivators.

However, the Kunpeng's nearly two-kilometer volume was just right to assist in transporting the Matchmaker Immortal.

Ren Qing had actually planned the transfer of the Matchmaker Immortal for several months, denying many unreliable ideas before finding the most stable one.

He could neither take the sea route nor pass through the air, as a True Immortal was too eye-catching, and even the Heavenly Demon Tribulation could not completely erase his presence, so he could only find another way.

Ren Qing planned to dig an underground passage leading directly to the tributaries of the underground river, and then send it along the river to the secret cultivation cave he had opened up.

The underground river should still be relatively safe.

Although there were traces of Huang Ling's remains everywhere, Ren Qing estimated that the other party had already died, otherwise it would be impossible for no one to care for a long time.

A long cry rang out in the Dragon Blood Sea area.

The Kunpeng trembled when it felt the terrifying aura of the Matchmaker Immortal, and its fins kept waving, slowly swimming towards 20,000 meters below.

Even if it was unwilling, it could only honestly execute in the face of Ren Qing.

The other dragon behemoths were even more unbearable, most of them had only just reached the Jiaolong stage, and their appearance only had some characteristics of a real dragon.

They couldn't withstand the suffocating pressure from the True Immortal at all.

The situation of the dragons was the same as that of the Kunpeng. With the Mixed Yuan Ancestral Dragon there, they had to go happily even if they died, the limitations of bloodline were there.

Ren Qing's ghost shadows left in the Dragon Blood Sea area turned into rope-like shapes, tying up the Matchmaker Immortal's huge body and fins, and tying this nearly ten-thousand-meter-long salamander True Immortal tightly.

The ghost shadows suddenly made a cracking sound that could not bear the weight, and quickly grabbed the surrounding behemoths, distributing the weight to the dragons and the Kunpeng.

Ren Qing was a little weak, although the Matchmaker Immortal had no soul at all, it was still a True Immortal after all.

Any instinctive action of a True Immortal could lead to earth-shaking changes, and even cause the seawater of the Dragon Blood Sea area to flow backwards.

His actions were undoubtedly walking on the tip of a knife, and he would capsize if he was not careful.

Ren Qing had to use his Toe Separation Technique to appease the Matchmaker Immortal, and then probe little by little. The Lost Soul Mycelial Soul was even spread all over the Matchmaker Immortal's Niwan Palace, trying to keep the latter in a state of sleep.

The Matchmaker Immortal's water level slowly rose, the goal was to reach 20,000 meters.

The Jailer's Hall cultivators, in cooperation with the Jiaoren, had already excavated a cavern thousands of meters long, using it to take the Matchmaker Immortal towards the underground river.

"Hmm..."

Ren Qing signaled the Kunpeng to stop its movements, his forehead was covered with fine sweat.

The Matchmaker Immortal let out a long breath, no less than an earthquake in the deep sea, and a vacuum of hundreds of meters appeared in front of it.

The Kunpeng's abdomen turned upwards, falling into a brief coma in a supine swimming posture, only feeling as if death had brushed past it.

Several dragons with poor luck were crushed to pieces by the aftershocks.

The area around the Endless Forest was shaking, and this was only the Matchmaker Immortal's instinctive breathing, and its fins had not reacted at all.

Ren Qing secretly rejoiced that the Buddhist realm had been very active during this period, so the Matchmaker Immortal had not attracted attention, otherwise it would have been big news again.

The Matchmaker Immortal's changes indirectly affected the stability of the Niwan Palace.

The cultivators also discovered the strange phenomena in the Small Heavenly Court.

Madam White Bone looked towards the sky above the Nantian Gate, and suddenly revealed an endless long river, composed of starlight.

"The Milky Way?"

The elk cultivator next to Madam White Bone said to himself.

The Elephant Master's expression was also very excited, his long nose exhaled a hot breath, and explained: "According to the records of the murals, the Heavenly Court does have a long river running through the outer heavens."

"It is said to be called the Milky Way, and it is inhabited by millions of heavenly soldiers and generals."

"The Milky Way is a tool for the immortals and gods to control the world. The heavenly soldiers are all transformed from the hundred-battle soldiers of the mortal world, and the heavenly generals are not real immortals and gods, but should be ghost immortals cultivated from souls."

Madam White Bone added: "If we can figure out the beginning and end of the Heavenly Court's destruction, we might be able to find a shortcut to becoming an immortal."

"But..."

She said hesitantly: "The Four Sea Dragon Kings of the Thunder Department and the Northern Star Lord of the Five Dou Star Lords have not shown up for a long time, I'm afraid the Heavenly Court ruins are a trap set by others."

"It shouldn't be."

The elk Taoist shook his head and said: "It's just using us to clean up the ruins, don't forget the Immortal Ascension Method engraved on the surface of the statue."

"The Immortal Ascension Method may be like chicken ribs to those inheritors of the Heavenly Court, but they are all immortal methods that directly point to the Great Dao."

"Indeed."

The Elephant Master suppressed the worries in his heart. Finding immortal fate in the Heavenly Court could at least guarantee his own safety, which was far less dangerous than the multi-layered Jing Prefecture.

Just as they were discussing, a cultivator who looked like a groundhog came all the way from the cracks in the ruins.

"There's a new discovery."

"The palace in the northwest corner was found by the green ox with a plaque, named 'Old Man Under the Moon's Residence', and the immortal god involved is called the Old Man Under the Moon."

With Ren Qing's guidance, it was too easy for them to notice the clues.

Ren Qing hid a total of seventy-three statue fragments in the "Old Man Under the Moon's Residence". As long as they were all found, they could piece together an Immortal Ascension Method "Tying the Knot with Red Thread" that directly pointed to the Heavenly Gu Realm.

And half of the Earth Immortal Immortal Ascension Method, "Man in the Moon".

【Tying the Knot with Red Thread】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires using one's own blood vessels as red threads to wrap around a married couple. It can only be cultivated after half a year.】

【The upper limit of Tying the Knot with Red Thread can be cultivated to the Heavenly Gu Realm, and cannot be combined with other spells.】

【Man in the Moon】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires taking out one's own spinal cord and transplanting it into a married couple. If the two grow old together, both can be cultivated.】

【The upper limit of Man in the Moon can be cultivated to the Earth Immortal, and cannot be combined with other spells.】

【Immortal Position: Old Man Under the Moon】

Both Immortal Ascension Methods were deduced by Ren Qing through the Matchmaker Immortal. After all, the latter's flesh and bones were covered with dense seeds of disease.

The biggest feature of the Heavenly Court was that things could not be brought to the outside world, which made it difficult to hide any discoveries by the cultivators.

Therefore, Madam White Bone and other cultivators generously placed the immortal god statues they found at the Nantian Gate, and the surface of the statues was engraved with information about various Immortal Ascension Methods.

The content of Tying the Knot with Red Thread and Man in the Moon would soon spread out.

After Wuming learned about the Immortal Ascension Method of the Old Man Under the Moon, he would definitely try to figure out the source, and even risk his life.

What Ren Qing had to do was to guide their focus to the Buddhist realm.

Want Man in the Moon?

Go to the Buddhist realm.

Want to become an immortal and attain the Dao?

Go to the Buddhist realm.

Imperceptibly, the battle for conferring immortals had quietly begun, but it was still in the initial stage.

What Ren Qing had to do was to hold the emperor to command the princes, and use all the seekers of the Dao in this world to fight for a chance to become an immortal.

He wanted to see what was behind the Three Dao Ancestors and the Three Worlds Buddha. Could it be that Gu Immortals could not avoid becoming heavenly Daoized?

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes, paying attention to the situation in the Dragon Blood Sea area.

The Matchmaker Immortal arrived safely at 20,000 meters in the deep sea, hiding in the cavern excavated by the Jailer's Hall, and continued to fall into endless sleep.

The manpower Ren Qing paid for transferring the Matchmaker Immortal far exceeded imagination.

In front of the cavern, there were tens of thousands of cultivators, wearing Dharma Garments made of dragon skin, who could breathe freely in the water.

They continued to dig towards the direction of the underground river, and there were temporary camps in the cavern to rest. The dug-out soil was directly taken into the stomach world for processing, trying not to come into contact with the Matchmaker Immortal.

Behind the cavern, there was also a group of cultivators who were busy.

They were responsible for filling the cavern, trying to ensure that the space inside the cavern was not too large, so that even if it was covered by the Buddhist realm, there would be no trouble.

The number of cultivators used by the Jailer's Hall to transport the Matchmaker Immortal, plus logistics, was more than 30,000, almost covering all branches, and even the Human Insect cultivators participated.

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The Human Insect cultivators could not move freely in the cavern with a water pressure of 20,000 meters. Their main task was to replenish the supplies for the temporary camp.

Their appearance was not much different from ordinary mortals, except that their skin was translucent, and their chests were parasitized by Gu worms that resembled crickets.

The interior of the Human Insect had been divided into various tribes.

Among them, the Human Insect cultivators who refined the Water Weaving Worm could breathe freely in the water, and also had the ability to control water flow.

They had already reached the Half-Corpse Realm as soon as they were parasitized by the Water Weaving Worm, but their abilities were more biased and extremely dependent on Gu worms.

The Human Insect could easily master the Gu Refining Technique, mainly due to the special nature of their physique.

After all, they were a race cultivated with the Heavenly Dao Worm as a template, and they had an unspeakable affinity for Gu worms, which allowed the Gu worms to naturally treat their bodies as nests.

Ren Qing estimated that after the Human Insect's cultivation reached the Yin Messenger Realm, the Gu worms would develop intelligence, but there was a high probability of rebellion at that time.

In a sense, the Human Insect created by the Matriarch was indeed closer to the Non-Action Daoist Temple.

He did not interfere with the Human Insect's intentions.

The Jailer's Hall was a force that embraced all kinds of spells. If the Human Insect wanted to remove the drawbacks of the Gu Refining Technique, they could easily solve it by asking for help from the Non-Action Daoist Temple or Li Yaoyang.

Ren Qing had been deliberately involving the Human Insect in this mission.

If they seized the opportunity to produce several Yang God Realm cultivators, they could even become a new branch of the Jailer's Hall, revitalizing this stagnant pool of water.

Ren Qing used the seeds of disease in the cavern to focus on the Matchmaker Immortal.

He noticed that the figure of the Gu True Man was mixed in the crowd, and his cultivation had recovered to near the Ghost Messenger Realm, with a crab-man of about half a meter parasitizing his back.

It could be seen that the Gu True Man also understood that the Jailer's Hall wanted to support the Human Insect, so he did not want to completely sever his connection with the Human Insect.

The Black Water Taoist, who led the Human Insect, was naturally happy to see this.

Their strength had not yet reached the point of internal strife. They would definitely not refuse the intentional surrender of an immortal's disciple like the Gu True Man.

Of course, the Black Water Taoist was not aware of the Gu True Man's great ambitions.

Ren Qing did not like selfish people like the Gu True Man, but there would always be all kinds of people among the million cultivators in the Jailer's Hall.

He was extremely concerned about the Matchmaker Immortal, knowing that True Immortals were not easy to serve.

There were tens of thousands of cultivators surrounding the Matchmaker Immortal. If the salamander made any noise, it was estimated that they would all die in the cavern.

Ren Qing kept appeasing the Matchmaker Immortal at all times, not hesitating to use the Heavenly Demon Tribulation to eliminate the sense of existence of the cultivators.

With his energy focused on the Matchmaker Immortal, his attention to the Heavenly Court would naturally decrease.

He only noticed that Madam White Bone and other cultivators were jointly exploring the Old Man Under the Moon's Residence, but he did not know that because of the appearance of the Immortal Ascension Method, the outside world was no longer as peaceful as it used to be.

The more Madam White Bone and other cultivators learned about the Heavenly Court, the more frightened they became.

They all had a doubt in their hearts, how many fallen immortals and gods existed in the Heavenly Court?

Based on the current progress of clearing the ruins, at least thirty immortal statues have been revealed, although some are so dilapidated that their specific names are unknown.

But if the Heavenly Court were to truly reappear, the number of immortals might exceed two hundred, not to mention the celestial soldiers and generals in the Heavenly River.

Even something like the Heavenly Court's 'Red Thread Connection' immortal ascension method is a rare opportunity for independent cultivators.

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Perhaps the Heavenly Court cultivators have already obtained the complete immortal inheritance, so they don't care about the incomplete immortal ascension methods in the ruins.

By the time Ren Qing stabilized the Matchmaker Immortal's condition, more than a year had unknowingly passed, and the changes in this world were even greater than in the past fifty years.

First, the area of the Buddhist realm expanded five more times, only seven or eight thousand miles away from the Beast Pen.

Secondly, the attitude of various forces towards the Heavenly Court has completely reversed; any cultivator who can go to the Heavenly Court is now wanted by them.

After Ren Qing learned of this news from the black markets scattered everywhere, he immediately realized that Wuming had begun to exert his strength.

Without exception, those they were hunting down were all independent cultivators, and their strength was also below the Heavenly Aberrant Realm, obviously, the targets had been carefully selected.

This shows that some of the cultivators who can go to the Heavenly Court have not deliberately hidden their identities.

They had already been targeted by the forces, but due to the deterrence of the Heavenly Court, they initially chose to turn a selective blind eye.

Independent cultivators relied on the Heavenly Court to bully others, but unfortunately, they did not anticipate the herd mentality.

When the first force, under the influence of Wuming, issued an order against the Heavenly Court, the other forces did not want to fall behind, fearing that the already small number of cultivators would disappear completely.

Ren Qing looked at the Heavenly Court; the number of people inside had indeed decreased somewhat, but it did not change their determination to pursue clues.

But the situation was also more severe than imagined.

Without replenishing the number of people, their efficiency in clearing the ruins was greatly reduced, and it could be seen that cultivators were being captured by various forces one after another.

Of course, there were benefits; because of external forces, even if independent cultivators did not want to be associated with the Heavenly Court, they were deliberately classified as remnants of the Heavenly Court's same camp.

They simply called themselves Heavenly Court cultivators and were able to gain the support of independent cultivators.

Ren Qing discovered that the palace being cleared by White Bone Lady was precisely the main hall he had set up, which housed the statues of the Three Ancestors.

Dozens of cultivators gathered in the Heavenly Court at the same time, standing in front of the ruins, looking at each other in dismay.

Looking at the dilapidated plaque of "Hall of Morality" and the information revealed on the walls, they couldn't help but feel a sense of dread.

Since it was the Hall of Morality, it should have housed the statue of the Celestial Venerable of Morality.

But to their surprise, as the fragments were pieced together, the appearance of the statue of the Celestial Venerable of Morality began to take shape.

The statue's exterior was covered with sheep hooves of varying sizes, completely made up of deformed and terrifying flesh, with mouths opening and extending suction cup-like purplish-blue tongues.

The术法(spell) engraved on the upper body was a Beast Pen method that had been blurred by sharp objects.

The术法(spell) on the lower body was the Skin Nourishing Method that Ren Qing had adapted, which described how to make法衣(robes) from black goat's wool.

When the cultivators moved the statue of the Celestial Venerable of Morality near the Southern Heavenly Gate, something that made their hair stand on end happened.

A third of the original immortal statues actually mutated.

The statues developed the characteristics of the Celestial Venerable of Morality, resembling black goats, and they quickly moved them back to the Hall of Morality.

White Bone Lady stared blankly at the Celestial Venerable of Morality, and the memories hidden in her heart gradually fermented; had she seen it before?

"What's wrong?" Elephant Lord asked worriedly.

"I've encountered the Celestial Venerable of Morality, I should have encountered him in my previous life…"

White Bone Lady's words made the surrounding cultivators feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.

It was as if after they glimpsed a corner of the truth of the world, what they gained was not surprise, but a chilling despair.

White Bone Lady said in horror: "The Celestial Venerable of Morality… when he comprehended the Heavenly Dao."

The essence of the world is a deception; when the end of cultivation is an indescribable object, should one continue to move forward?

They fell into deep confusion and became even more eager to know the truth of the Heavenly Court ruins, hoping to find information about becoming an immortal and attaining the Dao.

Ren Qing did not tell the Turbid Aberrant about the descent of the Four Sea Dragon Kings to the Heavenly Court.

He wanted the information that all cultivators knew to be in various parts of the Heavenly Court, and the answer to finally becoming an immortal and attaining the Dao would point to the immortal positions within the Buddhist realm.

Ren Qing was perfecting his plan, needing to make every part logically consistent.

Due to Wuming's continuous moves, this world became chaotic, and at the same time, news of two more immortal positions emerged.

One was "Eastern Flower Hermit", located in the active volcano range, and had been worshiped by the Fire炎(Flame) people there for thousands of years, and was rumored to suppress volcanic eruptions.

After Ren Qing advanced to the Heavenly Aberrant Realm, his memory became more and more extraordinary, and he reorganized the memories of his previous life, with every word intact.

When he was a child, he watched a TV series about the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, in which Tieguai Li's alias was the Daoist Hermit. The origin of the immortal position was not small. Later, the Queen Mother of the West named him the Eastern Flower Master.

"Immortal Guai's surname is Li, his name is unknown, he has always had a foot ailment, the Queen Mother of the West enlightened him to ascend to immortality, conferred him the title of Eastern Flower Master, and gave him an iron crutch."

The other immortal position is a bit special.

The Taoist classics record that if a group of rabbits runs, there must be a jade rabbit pounding medicine chasing the lunar palace, "Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine" is the immortal position.

There is indeed a sea-like group of rabbits in the east heading towards Jing Prefecture.

Some cultivators have tried to intercept them, but found that the rabbits cannot be killed at all, let alone find the existence of the Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine.

"What is in the moon? The Jade Rabbit pounds medicine."

If it were Ren Qing who had not obtained the Sutra of the Dead, he would definitely be interested in the Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine, because the classics record that the rabbit immortal's elixir can bring the dead back to life and make people immortal.

Ren Qing sent some cultivators to investigate the two immortal positions.

The Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine should indeed exist, but to obtain the immortal position, one must individually select rabbits from the rabbit group.

If the selected rabbit is not the immortal position, the cultivator will become a member of the rabbit group.

There are too many rabbits, unless one has extremely good luck, even a Heavenly Aberrant Realm cultivator will only die in vain.

Ren Qing asked the Jailer Hall cultivators to monitor the movements of the rabbit group. If the Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine's target is really the blood moon transformed by the Lunar Star Lord, they might be able to find the Lunar Star Lord in the Buddhist realm.

However, he felt that the appearance of the Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine indicated that the Lunar Star Lord was not optimistic, even if the immortal position born from heaven and earth was without warning.

Some cultivators have already couldn't restrain themselves and went to the Beast Pen to hunt black goats.

They didn't want to enter the Buddhist realm, but merely realized that black goat法衣(robes) could be used to protect themselves from being eroded by the aura of the Heavenly Demon.

And by the way, verify whether the术法(spell) engraved by the Celestial Venerable of Morality is true or false.

Thank you to希思冰茶(Xisi Ice Tea), 小约翰(Little John), 得韬九歌(De Tao Jiu Ge), 人生魔术师(Life Magician), and 桐沂(Tong Yi) for their rewards.