The Path to Immortality: Starting with an Analysis of Basic Concepts

Once you start eating, you just can't stop.

In a very short moment.

All three jin of Blood Tooth Spirit Rice went into Zhu Yu's stomach.

Under the digestion of his stomach acid, which was enhanced by the prescription, the Blood Tooth Spirit Rice quickly took effect, and waves of warmth surged from his abdomen, spreading throughout his body.

Zhu Yu felt as if he were in a hot spring, his whole body gulping down the warm current as if it were starving, to replenish the deficiency caused by the spiritual energy radiation.

The warm current lasted for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

A sense of satisfaction rose in Zhu Yu's heart. Feeling his body become noticeably stronger, he summoned the control panel with a slight thought.

[Attributes: Physical Strength 3.5, Spirit 36.2]

My physical strength increased by one point.

Zhu Yu secretly praised, "Lingmi is really good!..."

Not only does it taste good, making it delicious even without any other dishes, but it also has excellent effects, especially suitable for someone like him who has recently broken through to Qi cultivation, as it can help his physique transform faster.

But the thought of the price of spirit rice immediately dispelled the idea of ​​eating it every meal.

"I still need to earn more spirit stones..."

Zhu Yu stretched his limbs, picked up the cloth bag containing the "corpse taro" root seedlings, walked out of the living room, and went to the ridge of the corpse field.

Because the seedlings are already cultivated, planting them is very convenient. Just dig a small hole, throw the seedlings in, and under the nourishment of the Yin energy, they will quickly sprout roots and take root in the corpse ground.

Zhu Yu looked around, measured the distance between the seedlings, stepped into the field, and the moment he raised his arm, most of the spiritual energy that had been lingering in the ring of his divine sea dissipated like mist.

With a swing of his arm, dozens of slender beams of spiritual light appeared out of thin air, accompanied by a series of muffled thuds, and small craters appeared in the oily, dark red corpse ground.

Zhu Yu nodded in satisfaction.

Having already cultivated immortality, he had no intention of painstakingly digging a pit. He grabbed a handful of corpse taro root seedlings from his cloth bag, raised his hand and tossed them out. The seedlings landed precisely in the pit, and after a gust of wind, the corpse ground was once again level.

Then, without stopping, they blasted pits and sowed seeds...

A short while passed.

Nearly three acres of land have been planted with taro root seedlings.

"Now we just have to wait for the harvest..."

Zhu Yu smiled, walked to the mound in the center of the corpse field, briefly checked the condition of the tiger corpse, and then turned back to the wooden house.

Before long, he came out carrying a water vat sealed with mud. Without stopping, he went straight down to the foot of the mound.

The eight crescent moons cast a pale silver glow, but it could not penetrate the thick, dark clouds that hung over the underworld. Occasionally, a dim beam of light would fall through the gaps in the clouds and illuminate the gray-white mounds, making the rolling hills appear even more eerie.

Zhu Yu continued walking, following the path he had come from, towards the main road.

Unlike the previous few days when he rushed to his own mortuary, this time he slowed down and glanced at the side of the road from time to time.

The structure of the underworld is similar to that of the spirit fields and animal enclosures.

The Corpse Grounds are located on mounds, about four or five miles apart, while the Pool of Vengeful Souls is located in a depression between two or more mounds. Compared to the Corpse Grounds, which still have some light, the Pool of Vengeful Souls is almost entirely shrouded in billowing black mist.

One of the pools of vengeful spirits is less than 100 meters from the path.

Zhu Yu carried the water vat closer and glanced at it curiously. The black mist surged, and he could vaguely see a blurry house and a short and a tall figure embracing each other, rolling back and forth.

He paused for a moment, thinking to himself:

"Is it really that open...?"

Fearing a sty, he didn't look for long. Just as Zhu Yu turned to leave, an anxious shout came from the mist.

"Which senior brother is passing by? I am Qi Yuanwu, and I have been attacked by a ghost I have been raising. If you are willing to help me, I will surely reward you handsomely afterwards."

"Hmm? Backlash?"

Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment, then without thinking, he quickly left, ignoring the shouts from behind.

Just kidding. For a ghost to turn on its master, it's either because the master's cultivation is extremely high, or the master has awakened an extraordinary talent or technique, or the cultivator who nurtured the ghost has not practiced "soul control technique".

Regardless of which of the above is true, it is not something that a cultivator like him, who has just entered the Qi Refining stage and whose physique has not yet fully transformed, can concern himself with.

And not long after he left.

"ah…"

A piercing scream echoed in all directions, and soon after, billowing black mist surged and quickly engulfed the house.

"waste…"

"Was that overconfident guy dead...?"

"It's better that he's dead. I don't know what he was thinking. He didn't even master the 'Soul Control Technique,' yet he used the 'Divine Control Talisman' to nurture ghosts and boasted about its effectiveness. Didn't he realize that if it were really that useful, would he have had the chance to discover it...?"

"It's better for someone with such limited intelligence to die, otherwise they might cause some serious trouble in the future..."

The screams startled the cultivators in the mound who were looking around. They stared at the pool of vengeful spirits being swallowed by the black mist, some with disdain and others cursing that the spirits deserved it.

Zhu Yu was unaware of these things. After stepping onto the main road, he slowed his pace and made his way to the Starry Sky Wood Corridor at a leisurely pace.

Occasionally, cultivators would come and go, but most of them were alone, or accompanied by undead, indistinct vengeful spirits; it was rare to see them in groups.

Wait until you enter the core area at the edge of the spirit field and the beast pen.

The number of cultivators who commanded living corpses and vengeful spirits gradually decreased, replaced by cultivators riding majestic demonic beasts and enormous carriages. They would greet acquaintances they met on the road, unlike the seemingly cold and lonely cultivators of the underworld.

"Is it due to the influence of malevolent energy, or something else...?"

The thought flashed through Zhu Yu's mind, but he immediately dismissed it. Regardless of what others thought, his True Vision Eye determined that the malevolent aura was only beneficial to him, not harmful.

We walked for about half a day.

A soft, non-glaring starlight appeared ahead.

Zhu Yu quickened his pace and soon entered the Starry Sky Wood Corridor. Because Mu Ruo had warned him that prolonged spiritual interaction with divine essence would turn him into an idiot, he did not extend his spiritual sense to make contact. Instead, he carried the water vat and slowly walked deeper into the corridor.

When they reached a deserted section of the road, they darted to a thick star tree that was nearly five people could hug. They used their spiritual power to quickly dig a deep pit, placed the water vat inside, buried it, and then stirred up a whirlwind to cover it up.

After a careful look, seeing no difference from other places, Zhu Yu returned to the corridor, walking towards the area for newly recruited disciples while thinking about the moon spirit that Mu Ruo had mentioned earlier.

He was no stranger to the word "elf".

What intrigued him was what kind of "spirit" it was.

Fair skin, beautiful face, pointed ears? Blue skin, bronze eyes, big head? Or something else?

Furthermore, the special spiritual energy that Mu Ruo mentioned was slowly formed from the life force dissipated by a second-tier moon spirit.

Not to mention that its life force can corrupt and alter spiritual energy...

It should be noted that a second-tier cultivator is comparable to a Foundation Establishment True Person. If what he said is true, wouldn't that mean that a Foundation Establishment True Person is buried beneath the Starry Sky Corridor?

"hiss…"

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Yu suddenly felt uneasy. With his current cultivation level of the early stage of Qi Refining, such a being could kill him with a sneeze.

He unconsciously quickened his pace, and just as he was about to leave the Starry Sky Corridor, he paused, reached out and grabbed a handful of Starry Sky Wood leaves and a handful of soil, before quickly leaving.