Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 819: Corpse Preservation
Pu Yanlan sighed again and shed tears. Jian Zhongren invited Pu Yanlan to sit down again. After the two sat facing each other sadly for a while, they wiped their tears and talked about many past events.

Speaking of what happened before, Pu Yanlan said,

"Senior Jian is right. After the Tianyi Sect was destroyed, I was separated from my fellow disciples. I wanted to look for them, but the outside world was too chaotic, so I simply hid in the mountains to practice. Later, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dried up, and the outside world became more and more chaotic. I happened to hear that people could leave that world through a magic circle, so I found a magic circle, repaired it, and teleported here..."

Here I looked frustrated.

"I didn't expect the spiritual energy here to be so thin that I can't practice at all..."

Jian Zhong thought for a moment and asked,
"You are a rare alchemy genius from the Tianyi Sect. Don't you have any elixirs saved?"

Pu Yanlan glanced at Jian Zhongren.
"Of course I have some, but I used a lot of them in the mountains before. After the spiritual energy was exhausted, there were fewer natural treasures. I finally refined some more, but I didn't expect to consume a lot of them in this world!"

She turned and asked Jian Zhongren,

"Senior Jian is different from me. He specializes in the way of ghosts. After the chaos in that world, countless people died. This is actually very beneficial to the ghost cultivators. Why don't you practice in that world?"

Jian Zhongren shook his head and said,
"This... is what you don't know. That world is now in a state of reversed yin and yang, and the universe is shifting. If we stay there any longer, we will become evil ghosts in the underworld. I don't want to practice for many years to manipulate ghosts, but I don't want to become an evil ghost, so I led my disciples away!"

"Oh……"

Pu Yanlan nodded,
"Senior said so!"

The old man and the young were old acquaintances, and they chatted about the past for half a day. Afterwards, Jian Zhongren invited Pu Yanlan to stay here temporarily. Pu Yanlan gladly agreed and lived alone in a wooden house. Jian Zhongren waited until she entered the wooden house before he got up. However, after he got up, he lifted the hem of his robe, revealing a pair of animal legs covered with black hair. When he walked, his body swayed from side to side, and his posture was very strange.

A disciple came over to greet them.
"Master, Second Brother has been waiting for you!"

Jian Zhongren hummed, and went back to the wooden house, where he saw his disciple, who looked like a skinned baby, lying on the ground, trembling violently.
"Master..."

Jian Zhongren asked,

"How did you get back? And how did you meet Pu Yanlan?"

Wang Cang recounted what happened earlier and said,

"Master, there are still two little ghosts in my body. Please help me drive them out!"

Jian Zhongren snorted coldly.
"You have been a ghost since you were five years old. After following me for so many years, your ability has become increasingly weak. As soon as you returned to the sect, the little ghost in your body was taken back by her, but you didn't notice it at all. Has everything you learned over the years gone to waste?"

Wang Cang did not dare to respond, so he lowered his head and said nothing. Jian Zhongren snorted,

"I originally thought that there was only one sect in this world, and that I would die of old age in this world. But I never expected that there would be a Pu Yanlan who would come to this world. It seems that my fate is really not to end, and God is helping me!"

Wang Cang raised his head suddenly when he heard this.

"Master...what you mean is..."

"Humph……"

Jian Zhongren smiled strangely, looked at Wang Cang and said,

"You deserted the battlefield earlier, so you should be punished. However... you brought Pu Yanlan to the sect, which can be regarded as making up for your mistake. I will not punish you..."

After a pause he said,

"The teacher will also reward you..." Wang Cang was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Master..."

Jian Zhong is a humane person.
"Go to the back and pick a corpse, and change your body!"

After they came to this world, they collected a lot of corpses, and preserved them all with ten thousand year old warm jade, waiting for their disciples to replace them!
"Thank you Master!"

Jian Zhongren nodded and watched Wang Cang leave. His eyes narrowed. A disciple behind him whispered,

"Master, it's a pity that Pu is a female cultivator... You are using her body..."

Jian Zhongren nodded and said,
"I am indeed a little dissatisfied, but... there is only this one ghost cultivator in this world now. If it weren't for the trash like you, none of you can even reach the Nascent Soul stage, why would I, your teacher, have the intention to take advantage of her!"

This woman is a dual practitioner of two ways, and she is also the favorite disciple of the head of Tianyi Sect. She has a lot of skills. If I want to take her down, I'm afraid I'll have to spend some time! However, as long as I take her body, my life span will increase, and I will have plenty of time to find the formation to leave in this world, and find another place with abundant spiritual energy to practice!
Jian Zhongren frowned, and the disciple behind him who was bowing his head was thinking in his heart,
"Luckily we are all useless, otherwise all of us brothers would be in trouble!"

But nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Jian Zhongren sent his disciple to ask Pu Yanlan to talk. Pu Yanlan followed the disciple to Jian Zhongren's wooden house. This time they discussed the practice of the Ghost Way with each other. Jian Zhongren was a senior in the Ghost Way, so he naturally had more experience than Pu Yanlan. Pu Yanlan also had a lot of knowledge. Moreover, she was a fellow practitioner of the two ways, so she had unique insights into the practice of the Ghost Way. The two of them discussed the Dao, and there were talks back and forth, questions and answers. The disciples who were listening on the side either had expressions of enlightenment or excitement, and they benefited a lot from it!
Unconsciously, a day passed. When Pu Yanlan got up to say goodbye, Jian Zhongren invited her to come again tomorrow. Pu Yanlan gladly agreed. But on the second day, Jian Zhongren invited Pu Yanlan to see the corpses in his collection.
"My school of thought is to cultivate the art of resurrecting the dead. After arriving in this world, I collected some corpses and preserved them with the ten thousand year old warm jade. Although this is a minor art, it still has some unique features in preserving and refining corpses..."

As they were talking, Jian Zhongren walked in front and Pu Yanlan walked behind. The two of them walked to a big tree. Jian Zhongren stretched out his hand and pushed the tree away silently, revealing a huge hole.
"Here... I have set up a Hundred Ghosts Mystery Formation and changed the topography of this place... This is also to prevent ordinary people who are unaware of the situation from breaking in and harming their lives!"

Pu Yanlan nodded and followed Jian Zhongren into the cave. They saw a huge cave with a chill coming from the front. The chill was cold, evil, and a faint stench of corpses. If ordinary people came in, they would only need to stay for a while and go back with a minor illness. But for these two people, it was like a spring breeze. Jian Zhongren took a long, deep breath, as if he was enjoying it very much.

"Yanlan, come and see..."

He pointed to the dozen or so warm jade beds placed in the middle, on which lay naked corpses, men, women, young and old, all with their eyes closed and ruddy faces as if they were asleep. Pu Yanlan's beautiful eyes flickered as she reached out and pressed the arm of a corpse in front of her, nodding and praising.
"Senior Jian's method of preserving corpses is truly amazing. These people's souls have been out of their bodies for a long time, but their bodies are still as soft as when they were alive. The blood is flowing smoothly, and even their hearts are still beating slightly. It's truly amazing!"

This exclamation of praise came from the bottom of Pu Yanlan's heart. Using a corpse to revive the soul was an evil way, but evil ways also had their advantages. This method of preserving the corpse was something Pu Yanlan felt had never been mentioned in the ancient books and techniques she had seen!
Jian Zhongren smiled somewhat complacently upon hearing this.
"This skill of the old man was highly praised by the old Sect Master Mu even back then!"

Of course, he was also extremely disgusted with it, saying that reincarnation was just a minor method that would ultimately lead to immortality, and he let the major general focus on it!

snort!
Does he think I am willing to put my mind into this?
If my life was not coming to an end and the road was not too long, why would I be like this?

At this point, Jian Zhongren asked Pu Yanlan,
"I wonder if Yanlan is interested in learning my method of preserving corpses?"

He smiled kindly, like a generous elder. Pu Yanlan was also surprised, happy, and incredulous.

"Senior Jian, this is a secret that is not passed on. I dare not steal your advice without any merit!"

Jian Zhongren smiled and said,

"What do you mean by stealing a master's skills? None of my disciples can match your talent. To prevent this technique from being lost, I will pass it on to you. When I have one or two promising disciples in my sect, you can teach them!"

This is called passing on from generation to generation, and is also a common method used by many sects in the world of cultivation. For example, if the inheritance in a sect is temporarily interrupted, or the disciples are incompetent, the master will pass the skills to people from other sects who are virtuous and have high comprehension. After the master passes away, if there are disciples with high comprehension among the sect, the skills will be passed back to the sect!
Of course, this kind of passing on of knowledge is impossible unless the person is very familiar with the other person and has a close relationship with him!
What Jian Zhongren did was to treat Pu Yanlan as his own!
Pu Yanlan hurriedly said upon hearing this,

"Senior Jian really loves me too much!"

Jian Zhongren laughed and said,

"There are only cultivators like us in this world now. Yanlan, you come from a famous family, and I have faith in your character. We have come to this world together, and it is predestined. You don't have to refuse, Yanlan..."

Pu Yanlan refused even though she didn't need to refuse. But she had no choice but to accept. Jian Zhongren was very happy and gave her a jade slip.
"First, remember the formula in this jade slip. With your talent, you should be able to master it after memorizing it and practicing it three or five times at most..."

Pu Yanlan nodded and took it. She wrote down the incantations on the jade slip one by one, put it down, and recited them silently in her mind. She secretly made incantations with her hands and kept changing her gestures. Seeing that she was familiar with them, Jian Zhongren pointed to one of the corpses and said to Pu Yanlan,
"The secret formula for preserving corpses is not difficult, but the timing of using it is the most important. It requires a lot of practice. Why don't you practice with this corpse?"