Since that was the case, Ren Qing no longer planned to conserve anything. His gaze fell upon the Iron-Grinding Sword Method and Golden Bell Body-Forging displayed in the information flow.
[Advance Iron-Grinding Sword Method? This will consume ten years of lifespan..]
[Advance Golden Bell Body-Forging? This will consume ten years of lifespan..]
The three body martial arts began to undergo metamorphosis simultaneously.
The pain they brought was unbearable, even causing Ren Qing to clench his teeth tightly, his forehead covered in sweat.
He felt an extreme sense of hunger surge up in his heart, and hurriedly used both hands and feet to rush into the still relatively intact kitchen.
Muscles expanded and then contracted, becoming harder and harder; bones had already approached a metallic hue, supporting the body as it continuously grew taller; from the tailbone drilled out a bone-white tail.
Weian Town suddenly fell into silence.
When the many delirium patients had all been sucked dry into withered corpses, that maddening aura instead gradually disappeared, appearing somewhat abnormally strange.
Body martial cultivators hiding in the dark could not help but come out onto the streets.
They looked in confusion toward the Longevity Immortal statue piercing straight into the sky, always feeling as if the three immortals had already stopped taking action.
Xu Sanzhang supported Xu Shiwang, with the trembling Wang Ling following behind.
The three ignored the abnormalities around them, turned around, and hurriedly walked toward the outskirts of Weian Town, planning to seize the opportunity to escape this hellish place.
Xu Shiwang had completely gone mad, not due to delirium, but because he had begun to doubt the world he understood, his rationality already lost.
"Taboo... taboo..."
Xu Sanzhang had no idea what the taboo Xu Shiwang was muttering about. He could only stabilize the latter's emotions first.
Just as they were drawing closer and closer to the town's outskirts, the Longevity Immortal statue also underwent changes.
The Longevity Immortal statue's forehead grew increasingly swollen. The figure inside had already begun struggling, actually attempting to forcibly drill out.
"Run, run..."
The disheveled clan elder came into the crowd shouting loudly.
But the body martial cultivators all believed that the immortals had already obtained enough nourishment. According to past experience, what would follow was most likely the bestowal of immortal blessings.
The clan elder collapsed despairingly to his knees, muttering to himself, "It's not over, it's far from over, we're all going to die..."
He seemed to have given up resistance, looking at the Longevity Immortal statue with a miserable laugh.
From within the fleshy tumor on the forehead, a completely naked man truly drilled out. Petals of peach blossoms were born out of thin air, drifting through the sky above Weian Town.
The man's appearance resembled the Longevity Immortal, except that a monkey-like face had grown on his chest and abdomen.
This was precisely the "Peach Blossom Immortal."
The Peach Blossom Immortal gasped for breath as if drowning. Seeming to recall the scene before his death, his expression became twisted, his eyes filled with resentment.
Sword Gale Immortal said coldly, "How did you die?"
"I..."
The Peach Blossom Immortal hesitated, not knowing how to speak. He could hardly tell them that he had been killed by a rampaging Diseased Beast.
Moreover, that Diseased Beast was truly strange, why did it still retain intelligence?
Thick Earth Immortal said gently, "The opportunities left to us are few. Don't die again. You also don't want to see the Longevity Immortal follow in the footsteps of the Fortune Immortal and Prosperity Immortal, do you?"
"Alright, use the people and livestock in this town to help the Peach Blossom Immortal recover his realm."
After reviving, the Peach Blossom Immortal's realm had already fallen to the Half-Corpse realm, and he urgently needed to devour aberrant beings to return to the Ghost Envoy realm.
He nodded and walked to the Longevity Immortal's forehead, forcing out part of the aberrant matter into it.
The body of the Longevity Immortal statue actually became shriveled within just a few breaths, and a craving for flesh and blood arose, with delirium aura spreading along with it.
"All living beings are filth and mire!!"
The clan elder threw his head back and let out a long howl, both hands clutching his head as his fingers embedded deeply into his scalp.
His fingernails glinted with metallic luster, directly piercing into his brain. He then collapsed to the ground, his vitality gradually draining away.
Only then did the crowd belatedly try to flee, but it was clearly too late.
The delirium aura emitted from the Longevity Immortal statue intensified madly, even forming something tangible. Even body martial cultivators found it difficult to resist.
They knelt on the ground, their heartbeats racing to the extreme.
Xu Sanzhang and the others were clearly already near the town's outskirts, yet they still could not avoid being affected, even developing an impulse to walk back.
The things in his eyes changed, as if he were placed within an immortal realm.
"Sigh, I wonder if Shanlu successfully advanced."
Before Xu Sanzhang fell into unconsciousness, he cast a distant glance toward the direction of Blackstone Pavilion. Immediately afterward, terrifying howls rang in his ears.
Roar!!!
All the survivors' hearts jolted. The influence of delirium was forcibly suppressed, and even a bit of strength arose in their bodies.
Bang...
A several-meter-long white bone tail smashed the kitchen into powder.
Ren Qing's massive figure slowly walked out from the ruins. The aura from body martial arts caused all the cultivators to halt their steps, looking toward the distant Blackstone Pavilion.
A giant about five meters tall stood motionless. Rib joints and various other areas were covered with bone armor, and behind him an exaggerated bone tail swung about.
Ren Qing let out a thunderous mutter to himself, "Even demons and monsters dare call themselves immortals?"
Xu Fu, leading the few remaining Qingfeng Pavilion disciples, indeed recognized that this person was Wang Shanlu, but his heart was filled with disbelief.
Xu Shiwang suddenly stopped repeating himself and jumped about like a child, shouting, "It's body martial arts, body martial arts not weaker than immortals!!"
He broke free from Xu Sanzhang's restraint, dancing with hands and feet as he continued shouting, "It's here, it's here, the taboo is here..."
Ren Qing bent his legs and squatted down. Spiderweb-like cracks spread hundreds of meters from beneath his feet.
Boom!!
He transformed into an afterimage and shot into the sky. Blackstone Pavilion directly caved in several meters, his target precisely the Longevity Species atop the Longevity Immortal statue.
The Peach Blossom Immortal instinctively retreated several steps, involuntarily recalling that person within Weiwang Town.
That person had also used methods similar to a Diseased Beast to beat him to death alive. Even now that he had revived, fear still lingered in his heart.
Sword Gale Immortal glanced at the Peach Blossom Immortal, thick disdain written across his face.
He spat out gale-force wind like tangible substance, forming a vast barrier. Even iron weapons entering it would be instantly shredded into fragments.
Ren Qing had no intention of slowing down at all, continuously using the Longevity Immortal statue to climb upward.
Seeing the gale barrier right in front of him, he completely released the suppression coming from the insect body. His physique directly reached over seven meters.
Veins bulged across the surface of his muscles, his entire body presenting a purplish-red color.
The black insect drilled out from the ghost shadow, attached itself along Ren Qing's ankle and onto his back, transforming into a ferocious dragon-shaped tattoo.
Ren Qing stomped forcefully, stepping directly onto the Longevity Immortal statue's shoulder.
The sound of bones shattering rang out. The Longevity Immortal statue's shoulder collapsed inward, nearly breaking the right arm along with it.
Ren Qing charged into the gale.
Sharp wind blades sliced across his entire body, instantly opening wounds of all sizes. The deepest wounds were enough to reveal fresh internal organs.
Ren Qing paid the price, and thus arrived atop the Longevity Immortal statue.
Using his Double Pupils to survey the surroundings, he then stabbed his right hand into the Peach Blossom Immortal's chest at a tricky angle, pulling out a beating heart.
At the same time, the bone tail struck another Longevity Species' neck, nearly slicing the head off.
Seeing this, Ren Qing not only felt no joy, but instead sensed something was amiss.
Thick Earth Immortal gave him the deepest, most unfathomable feeling, he was likely already close to Yin Constable realm strength. The other Longevity Species were all at least at the Ghost Envoy realm.
Sword Gale Immortal narrowed his eyes, pale cyan wind blades circling around his body.
"Who are y-"
Ren Qing ignored the Peach Blossom Immortal's terrified gaze, forcefully crushed the heart into fragments, then used his tail to annihilate the other's life force.
Dodging Thick Earth Immortal's earthen spear, he nimbly attacked the severely injured Longevity Species.
On the ground, the body martial cultivators felt their hearts pound in terror. The Longevity Immortal statue was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, fragments continuously smashing down toward the town.
Civilians fled toward the outskirts in panic, and this time there were no obstacles at all.
The fighting grew increasingly intense, but many body martial cultivators noticed that Wang Shanlu was actually beginning to show signs of decline.
After settling Wang Ling, Xu Sanzhang rushed toward the town without hesitation.
In many people's eyes, this was undoubtedly courting death, yet several were still stirred, preparing to help Wang Shanlu kill the immortals.
Under the encirclement, Ren Qing already had the look of someone on the verge of death.
Sword Gale Immortal's expression turned pleased, savoring the prey's despair before death, while the other two Longevity Species tactfully withdrew.
Ren Qing could not help but curse inwardly.
Advance disease type , Cancer Disease Tree, will consume two years of lifespan
The Cancer Disease Tree within his body was already at the critical point of imminent eruption. Now, stimulated by the information flow, cancer cells immediately began to spread.
Sword Gale Immortal summoned a sword-wind, aiming straight for Ren Qing's throat, intending to let him taste the helplessness of suffocating to death.
Unexpectedly, the sword-wind landed on Ren Qing's chest. It was not that Sword Gale Immortal had misjudged, but that Ren Qing's height had once again surged.
Over seven meters directly became ten meters. His muscles took on a root-fiber form, writhing like living things.
Ren Qing bared his mouth, sharp fangs flashing with metallic luster.
The Cancer Disease Tree overdrew his life, but at the same time brought incomparable strength, even somewhat exceeding the scope of the Ghost Envoy realm.
Under the gaze of the other Longevity Species, he used his palm to grab Sword Gale Immortal's head.
"How... how is this possible?"
Sword Gale Immortal struck Ren Qing with raging winds in terror. The wounds caused fully healed within moments, though ugly scars remained.
Seeing this, Thick Earth Immortal fled toward the distance without hesitation.
With one hand holding Sword Gale Immortal, Ren Qing used his tail to directly nail the severely injured Longevity Species to death, then strode after Thick Earth Immortal.
Each of his steps shook the earth and mountains around him. In the blink of an eye, he came within five meters of Thick Earth Immortal and reached out to grab his head.
Cancer cells proliferated crazily. In the information flow display, the Cancer Disease Tree disease type had already transformed into a tree type, rapidly developing toward a disease tree.
Ren Qing first checked the aberrant matter contained within the Longevity Species. Finding that the techniques were of little use to himself, he then asked a few questions.
"How did the Fortune and Prosperity Immortals die?"
Sword Gale Immortal and Thick Earth Immortal did not reply, only staring at Ren Qing with strange gazes, their expressions mixed with a thought-provoking fear.
Sensing that the Cancer Disease Tree disease type was about to lose control, Ren Qing could no longer care about anything else.
Bang, bang...
The heads of the two Longevity Species turned into pulp.
Ren Qing's cancer cells had already begun to leak outward. Upon touching the Longevity Species' corpses, they devoured them completely, his lifespan increasing by over five hundred years once again.
Because the burden of the cancer cells on his body was simply too great, his lifespan was draining away at a rate of over a hundred days per breath.
Just as Ren Qing wanted to advance the disease type to consume lifespan, he collapsed weakly to the ground. If nothing unexpected happened, he would repeat the same fate as before.
But at this moment, the disease tree deep underground used its branches to coil around Ren Qing.
Although Ren Qing turned into a corpse, the Tree Seedlings formed by the various disease types instead grew vigorously, quickly becoming a towering giant tree hundreds of meters tall.
The main body opened its eyes.
The divided soul had indeed already died, but it seemed the nurturing steps had differed.
And what was going on with that disease tree?