The Secret Way of Immortality

Wang Ergou had been in the dark prison for months.

He had lost track of day and night, doing nothing but sleeping, and even when he was fed, it was only with leftovers. He couldn't see even a glimmer of hope.

Wang Ergou knew he was doomed.

If it were petty theft, he'd be locked up for ten days to half a month at most, and in more serious cases, he'd be sent to the iron mine outside the city for labor.

For someone like Wang Ergou, with no fixed term, there was usually only one outcome: being dragged out for public execution.

So he had long given up, waiting for his last meal.

But on this day, the sound of a stick striking the bars rang out, and a jailer shouted, "Wang Ergou, wake up! Lord Li is here to see you."

Wang Ergou groggily opened his eyes, muttering a few words.

"I don't know how many fat sheep I've slaughtered, Lord? What Lord Li? He's probably here to take me to the execution grounds."

Bah!!

Footsteps gradually approached, and a little light entered the dim prison corridor.

Wang Ergou subconsciously focused his eyes, and a tall figure slowly walked over, carrying an invisible and terrifying pressure.

The figure stopped at the corner just before reaching the cell.

"Wang Ergou, is it?"

Wang Ergou didn't speak, he was really a little scared, because the shadow on the ground was too frightening.

Lord Li's neck was several times thicker than usual, and his head hung on it like a lantern, like a demon escaping from the underworld in legends.

Lord Li continued, "I'll ask you, do you want to live or die?"

Wang Ergou was slightly stunned. The figure asked again, piquing his interest, so he opened his mouth to answer.

"Lord... of course I want to live, who wants to die?"

Lord Li chuckled strangely a few times, then continued towards the cell.

Seeing the other party getting closer and closer, Wang Ergou couldn't help but swallow, staring at the eerie shadow with trepidation.

Lord Li arrived at the door of the cell, allowing Wang Ergou to see him clearly.

The tall body was topped with a head far larger than normal, with blue veins all over his forehead, making his features unnaturally distorted.

"Uh, sav..."

Wang Ergou was about to say something, but he heard Lord Li say faintly, "Sleep."

Bang.

He fell to the ground neatly, and soon a thick snore was heard, his chest rising and falling rhythmically.

The cell door was opened, and Lord Li walked in, squatting down next to Wang Ergou.

He stretched out his palm and placed it on Wang Ergou's face, causing the latter's skin to gradually change, wrinkles disappearing, and the texture becoming like aged, yellowed paper.

Lord Li opened the book that Wang Ergou's head had transformed into, and saw that the pages were filled with writing, representing his memories.

He flipped through it at will, and used a brush to make changes.

As the words were added and subtracted, Wang Ergou's body also underwent corresponding changes.

His height was slightly shortened, and his originally rough appearance became delicate.

Just a strong man a moment ago, he had turned into a woman in the blink of an eye.

Although the original appearance could still be seen from the face, the change in gender meant that it would be impossible for acquaintances to recognize him.

After a moment, Wang Ergou's head returned to normal.

Lord Li took out a glass bottle from his arms, which contained a mass of black-gray substance, constantly twisting and wriggling.

If you looked closely, you could see that the substance was composed of dense insects, and its core was a piece of nail-sized, purplish-red flesh.

Lord Li stared at the glass bottle for a long time, and then poured it into the man's mouth, the gray-black substance merging into his flesh and blood.

"It should be enough."

He nodded slightly, then left the prison.

When Wang Ergou woke up, he only felt a splitting headache, and his expression became extremely dazed, even not knowing why he was here.

At this time, two jailers opened the cell door, and without saying anything, they directly carried him outside.

Wang Ergou came back to his senses, he had already changed into ordinary cotton clothes, standing on the crowded street.

He was like a walking corpse, as if a voice was guiding him in his head.

For some reason, Wang Ergou walked in the direction of the temple fair, but his walking speed was extremely slow, staggering with every step.

If you looked closely, you could also find constables protecting him in the dark.

………

Inside the Fire Worker Hall of the yamen.

Ren Qing sat cross-legged and swallowed a stone eye, the warmth in his stomach spreading throughout his body.

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He used the stone eye to restore his physical strength, summoned the Dragon-Snake Spine in the厢房, and controlled it with his mind to turn and move.

The Dragon-Snake Spine would occasionally touch the furniture, and the sharp bone blades would easily cut through it, but there was nowhere else to practice.

Unless it was night, he could be unscrupulous.

After a few days of nurturing, he found that the Dragon-Snake Spine was constantly transforming, nourishing the bones of his body.

Ren Qing also figured out a new use for the Dragon-Snake Spine.

With a thought, the entire spine made the sound of bones colliding.

The gaps between the bone joints closed together, forming a hideous bone knife.

Most importantly, this bone knife could be extended and turned into a chain at any time, greatly increasing its flexibility.

Even though the Dragon-Snake Spine was still mainly physical, Ren Qing was still confident that as long as it underwent three strange changes, it would be earth-shattering.

Ren Qing retracted the Dragon-Snake Spine into his spine, and then prepared to visualize the No-Eye Method.

Perhaps because the Gluttony Method had been promoted to the Ghost Envoy realm, the progress of the No-Eye Method was gratifying.

Even without using the information stream to consume lifespan, it should not be difficult to break through in two or three months.

However, the progress of Ren Qing's other spells was not obvious.

The Divine Foot Sutra was better, mainly because it stagnated without the assistance of wolf blood. He could replenish the resources next time at the ghost market.

There was no way to use the self-虐式 spell like the Human Skin Book unless he borrowed the reaction force in the cave.

After cultivating until night, Ren Qing prepared to eat something and rest for a while.

At this time, the sound of crows crowing sounded.

The paper window was broken open, and a Nether Crow flew in from the outside and spat out a note.

Bang!!

The Nether Crow's self-explosion was even more unexpected than before, but fortunately Ren Qing was prepared.

The strange mouth in the palm of his hand opened in advance, and the repulsive force enveloped the room, and the flesh and blood were completely absorbed by the prison in his abdomen.

Ren Qing opened the paper and checked it.

The location of the task was placed in the Temple of the Child-Giving Goddess, and the next day was the last day of the temple fair, which involved the festival.

The festival mainly involved opening an altar and parading, inviting the statue from the Temple of the Child-Giving Goddess in the west of the city to the south of the city, so that it could be considered a successful conclusion.

The Forbidden Guard Hall required staying around the temple fair, and the content on the paper did not reveal much.

Ren Qing guessed that the Forbidden Guard Hall was starting to prepare to close the net, and should have full confidence, so as not to allow the land to form a forbidden area after death.

He would naturally not let go of the opportunity to earn blood crystals.

Ren Qing had heard Bo Feng say that the annual celebration of the Temple of the Child-Giving Goddess was a big day, almost more lively than the New Year.

However, he was not in a hurry to go to survey the area, but first warned Xiao Wu and others, so as not to be accidentally involved in the task of the Forbidden Guard Hall.