This is how immortals are cultivated

The smell of decayed corpses that was supposed to be emanating from Changyin Temple to the outside world seemed to be attracted by some kind of vortex and condensed back.

The vortex was right in front of him.

The smell of corpse decay... is being absorbed by the person in front of me?

Chang Yinzi saw an incredible scene.

It was clearly the aura of corpse decay that restrained all the evil ways of flesh and blood that was absorbed by Fang Suichu.

The opponent's body showed no signs of decay, and his muscles instead had a crystal-like quality.

There was even a strange fragrance emanating from the body, dispelling the extremely disgusting stench.

Just one sniff of the fragrance makes you feel refreshed and full of energy.

"What kind of monster are you?!!"

Chang Yinzi really wanted to ask such a question, but he was unable to speak and could only look at Fang Suichu in horror.

In his eyes, Fang Suichu was no longer a human being, but some kind of indescribable monster, an unspeakable horror.

What on earth did Yin Yi bring up the mountain?

Chapter 15: Initiation

The final self-sacrificing attack did allow Fang Suichu to find the only way to kill Chang Yinzi. This was the limit of what he could do now.

Afterwards, Chang Yinzi's final struggle, in which he dispersed his own evil spirit and created a terrifying curse that would destroy both himself and the enemy, was beyond the ability of Fang Suichu to resolve.

Fortunately, at this time, the system took effect again.

The unknown power that turned reality upside down was still powerful this time. When Chang Yinzi "self-destructed", Fang Suichu came to his senses and was still a little panicked, but when he heard the voice of the system in his ears, he calmed down.

[After coming out of seclusion, the master was very satisfied with you after personally testing and teaching you.]

Master has bad news for you. He has not achieved a breakthrough after his retreat, and his time has come. Upon seeing such an outstanding junior, such a person, Master has decided to pass on all his life's cultivation to you.

[The immortal touched my head, and I received immortality through my marriage. Master gave you the initiation.]

[Why don’t you thank Master?]

When the system's voice sounded, it had already touched Fang Suichu's body, making him feel extremely cold. The corpse-like aura that should have corroded his flesh and bones turned into a warm current, wrapping Fang Suichu.

Fang Suichu only felt a sense of comfort that was a hundred times more comfortable than soaking in a hot spring on a cold winter night, which spread throughout his body. His originally exhausted body was reinvigorated with strength, and the wounds on his shoulders where the skin and flesh had been torn off and the tendons and bones had been repaired. The cracks in the bones were filled, and new flesh grew.

That’s not all.

Because it was an opportunity for "initiation" rather than producing elixirs for Fang Suichu to take, this process even motivated Fang Suichu's practice.

The remaining medicinal power in his body, driven by this warm current that seeped into his flesh, blood, and bones, polished Fang Suichu's muscles and bones, and condensed his qi and blood.

Bone forging not only requires a lot of resources, but also takes time and effort. However, at this moment, the completion of this realm is rapidly being completed with Chang Yinzi's "initiation".

As time went by, the comfort brought by the warm current gradually weakened.

Fang Suichu was like taking a bath in winter. As the hot water stored in the water heater was consumed, the water temperature dropped. He turned the valve to raise the temperature, but this made the hot water consumed faster.

Chang Yinzi in the outside world only felt that the vortex's suction speed was faster than the speed at which he released the corpse-rotting gas. The curse transformed from his own corpse was being actively sucked out.

It was as if this extremely filthy corpse was not something that people would be deterred from, but rather some kind of delicacy that people longed for.

The reversal of priorities had reversed the situation. Originally, it was Chang Yinzi who had cursed Fang Suichu, but now he was the one being cursed. Indeed, the fragrance emanating from Fang Suichu grew stronger and stronger, and that exuberant vitality was the greatest torture for Chang Yinzi, a dead being, bringing him immense pain.

This is also the reason why Chang Yinzi no longer regards Fang Suichu as a human being, but as some kind of indescribable and incomprehensible horror.

Turn death into life!

There is only a process of development from living things to dead things in the world, just like the passing of time, which only flows forward and never flows backward.

And if it really happened, things like time going back and the dead being reborn, could only mean that some huge distortion had occurred, a force that distorted the common sense of the world.

That is something that can only be achieved by those who have come into contact with the "Immortal Way", have surpassed the "Immortal", and obtained the "Tao".

“—Aaaaaaaaah!”

With the scream of complete collapse of fear, the last bit of Chang Yinzi's true spirit was crushed, and under Fang Suichu's exploitation, it turned into the last bit of resources and was completely devoured.

Chang Yinzi disappeared, both his true spirit and his physical body.

It cannot be said that it completely disappeared. His flesh and blood turned into corpse water and rotten gas, which were eventually transformed, but there were still some remains.

A shrunken skull with long, thick silver-white hair and a white spine with a small section broken.

After the initiation, Fang Suichu opened his eyes, shaking subconsciously. His perspective had shifted higher than before, indicating a slight increase in height. His frame was broad, with jade-like muscles clung to it. He exuded a muscular, toned figure, overflowing with energy and strength.

Raising his head slightly, Fang Suichu closed his eyes again, as if to experience the power contained in this body. He waved his hand gently.

From Fang Suichu's perspective, it was indeed a gentle wave, but to others, the waving arm instantly turned into an afterimage, and the air even made a slight explosion.

After receiving Chang Yinzi's initiation, the massive bone-strengthening project was largely completed within the brief time of half an incense stick. Most of Fang Suichu's 206 bones had been refined to perfection, and his body was now truly a work of gold and jade.

In this state, even Fang Suichu had a feeling that if he faced Chang Yinzi again, this time he would be no less powerful and faster than the other party.

"The boss's rewards are rich..."

After adapting to his current body, Fang Suichu looked at the last remnants of Chang Yinzi in front of him.

According to Li Qingming, when a person who practices ghost arts dies, the last thing that is left is a ghost object, which is inherently weird and cursed.

Because of the last stab, the spine in Chang Yinzi's neck was broken, and the spine left behind by Chang Yinzi was also broken into a small part.

But for Fang Suichu, the reward of the experience pack of initiation was enough, and the rest of the drops were unexpected surprises.

Fang Suichu bent down and picked up the spine and the skull that had shrunk a lot and was covered with silver hair.

After playing with it for a while, he discovered that the base of the skull was hollow, just enough for the spine to fit in. Immediately, he combined the spine and skull into one, and the two strange objects in his hands merged into a spine-skull whisk.

The material dropped by Chang Yinzi was naturally of higher quality than that dropped by Yin Yishi. The entire bone was much harder than Yin Yi's broken arm.

Fang Suichu noticed that the end of the spine was a sharp spike, so sharp that Fang Suichu only needed to gently scratch it against the hard bluestone brick on the ground, and the bluestone brick broke into two pieces.

Holding it in the right hand is a whisk, holding it in the back hand is a sword.

The Zhengyang Sword had just been destroyed, and now he had obtained a new weapon. Fang Suichu was naturally very satisfied with this.

Moreover, compared to using a severed arm as a weapon, although the spinal whisk is still scary in appearance, it is at least not non-mainstream.

"Let's call this weapon 'Qiuli'."

Although the system popped up the entry information again and named the whisk, Fang Suichu still gave it the name he wanted.

Chapter 16 Questioning and Doubt

After Chang Yinzi's death, the maze set up around Chang Yin Temple on Chang Yin Mountain should have disappeared.

Fang Suichu was not in a hurry to leave. Now that the BOSS was dead, he naturally had to explore the areas that he had not explored before to see if there were any other treasure chests.

Changyin Temple wasn't large, and previously, it only housed Master Changyinzi and his apprentice. When Fang Suichu had previously defeated Yin Yi, he had already explored the many side halls in the front courtyard. The unexplored area was the main hall where Changyinzi had previously been in seclusion.

The BOSS Chang Yinzi is already dead, so there seems to be no danger in the main hall anymore. Fang Suichu walked into the main hall with his newly acquired weapon in hand.

The main hall was completely dark. Aside from the main door, all windows were sealed, covered with talismans painted with cinnabar on yellow paper. However, the darkness didn't affect Fang Suichu's vision; he could still see the scene clearly.

Although the main hall is large, it does not have many furnishings. In the center is an altar, on which sits a nearly three-meter-tall clay statue of a god.

The statue depicted a deity in black robes, his entire body pale and his face blank.

Because Fang Suichu knew nothing about the ways of the occult, he had no idea of ​​the origins of the statue enshrined in Changyin Temple. However, the statue gave him a plain feeling, no different from an ordinary clay sculpture, and it didn't look like anything occult.

Although the statue looked ordinary, the gods worshipped in this world actually had certain agreements. To avoid any further trouble, Fang Suichu simply noted the statue's appearance and left it alone.

He turned to look at another eye-catching object in the hall.

It was a massive bronze coffin, nearly four meters long and as tall as a man. Its surface was covered in exquisite relief carvings of ancient totems. It was covered in rust, tinged with a dark red. It was clearly quite old, not recently crafted.

The heavy coffin fell to the side. It was obvious that it was not opened from the outside, but from the inside.

In other words, Chang Yinzi had been practicing while lying in this coffin before.

The friction and collision sounds that Fang Suichu had heard in the hall earlier were also the noises created by Chang Yinzi in the coffin.

Fang Suichu now seriously suspected that Chang Yinzi had been engaged in some kind of sideline work while practicing the strange way. For example, this bronze coffin was clearly unearthed from a large curtain.

Fang Suichu walked to the coffin and looked inside. It was empty, with nothing inside.

“There’s nothing…”

Fang Suichu suddenly felt disappointed. He fumbled inside the coffin unwillingly but did not find any secret compartments or mechanisms.

Fang Suichu shifted his gaze from the coffin to other places in the hall, but the hall was empty and there was nothing there.

Fang Suichu even knocked down the statue enshrined in the hall with one punch, in order to find out what was hidden in the clay.

Just as Fang Suichu was about to leave in disappointment, his eyes swept over the coffin lid lying quietly on the ground, but his gaze stopped, as if he discovered something.

He saw some scratches on the inside of the bronze coffin lid, which were very messy and obviously made by Chang Yinzi with his fingernails while hiding inside the coffin lid.

But in a small area, Chang Yinzi's scratches had a clear pause.

Fang Suichu walked in and observed carefully, only to find that this area was slightly different in color from other areas of the coffin lid.

Fang Suichu immediately reached out and slapped the coffin lid hard. Under such a huge force, some cracks instantly appeared on the coffin lid, and the outline of the bronze block embedded in it, which was almost integrated with the lid, also emerged.

Fang Suichu used the bone sword in his hand to pry off the bronze block and held it in his hand.

Although it looks like bronze, it feels like jade when held in the hand, and is as cold as ice.

You have to know that Fang Suichu is no longer sensitive to cold or heat now, and the fact that he feels cold shows that this palm-sized piece of bronze is no ordinary object.

When encountering special items, Fang Suichu's system will always pop up to give an explanation.

Just like now.

After Fang Suichu took the palm-sized bronze block in his hand, the system's voice also sounded.

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining a copy of the incomplete scripture "Taiyin Lianxing".]

[This scripture comes from a certain great lineage... Your master obtained this fragment by chance and achieved his current accomplishments.]

【And now, you have this scripture.】

Unfortunately, only the first half of this incomplete scripture remains, which briefly touches on the Dao of the Taiyin, as well as some related alchemy and formation techniques. The most important two volumes, the middle and lower volumes, are nowhere to be found.

Fang Suichu ignored the system's regretful sound. In his eyes, this was the third important type of trophies after pills and weapons.

"It's a skill book. Now I can finally do more than just normal attacks." Fang Suichu said excitedly, holding the bronze block in his hand.

"From some great sect? Come to think of it, Qingming also said that ordinary small sects of wild fox Zen would never be able to create something as complicated as a maze. If it comes from some great sect, that would explain it."

"A fragment of the scripture can make Chang Yinzi so powerful. If it weren't for me, how could Chang Yinzi achieve the 'Spiritual Secret' realm? If it is a complete scripture, it must involve a higher realm beyond the Spiritual Secret."

"I told you, this copy of Changyin Mountain may seem simple, but it is the first copy after all, and it must have subsequent quest lines. This incomplete scripture is obviously the proof of the subsequent large quest chain." Fang Suichu muttered to himself in words that others could not understand at all.

"And the skill books are long-term, meaning this system's skills can be further upgraded later?"

Fang Suichu was very excited. Apart from the reward of Chang Yinzi's initiation, the biggest reward of this Chang Yin Mountain copy was probably the skill book called "Tai Yin Lian Xing".

"This thing is just like a pill. You can only practice it yourself, and you can't just learn it directly... Speaking of which, is there any reward for skill infusion..."

This was the only thing that bothered Fang Suichu. But then again, this world wasn't really a game, otherwise it would be a complete mess.

Furthermore, given my intelligence and talent, I believe that learning it won’t be too difficult.

...................

The sun hanging in the middle of the sky has gradually set in the west.

Halfway up the mist-shrouded Changyin Mountain, two women sat on the steps. From time to time, they glanced back at the mountain beyond, their faces etched with worry.

The two women were Wu Yuanshuo and Li Qingming.

Since he was blocked on the mountain road, the monster in Changyin Temple seemed to have come out. Fang Suichu resolutely went back to Changyin Temple to dispel the maze. Almost an hour had passed.

Before leaving, Fang Suichu asked the two to find a way to survive on their own, but once Fang Suichu left, the two were worried about their safety and were so confused that they had no time to think about it.

It was just a situation of waiting to die when they returned to the cave. If they lived, they lived together, and if they died, they died together. After Fang Suichu left, the two of them simply sat on the mountain path and waited quietly.

It must be said that an incense stick of time ago, the screams on the mountain and the flocks of birds that were startled and flew away from the forest, as if they had sensed something terrifying and were running away in all directions, really made the two women feel nervous.

But nothing else unusual has happened since then until now.

Seeing Wu Yuanshuo, who had been in a trance since Fang Suichu left, Li Qingming couldn't help but comfort him:

"It's been so long, and no one from Changyin Temple has shown up. This is actually a good thing for the New Year's Eve."