The sense of urgency brought about by the depletion of life span enveloped Jingzhou, and no matter how hard the ancient monks struggled to their death, it was of no avail.
This is likely to involve the unique rules of the immortal position. The three immortal positions are entangled with each other, and even the true immortals may not be able to influence them.
Under such circumstances, it is like a silent plague.
The shortcomings of the depletion of longevity soon spread to all parts of Jingzhou.
Regardless of whether they were men, women, or children in Jingzhou, they all noticed something was wrong with their bodies.
The skin begins to become withered, the texture of the bones becomes more and more loose, the internal organs continue to fail, and even the brain gradually forgets its memory.
Death is a curse. In today's Jingzhou, the curse has been accelerated countless times, and it affects all souls from ancient times indiscriminately.
Jingzhou has fallen into madness, and almost all the Gu insects in the wild have been captured, causing a large number of people to become insect warriors.
They didn't even think about how to refine the Gu insects, and chose to combine them with flesh and blood in the most primitive way, hoping to get rid of death.
All this stems from a rumor circulating in Wuwang City in the southwest corner of Jingzhou.
"Gu insects can increase life span."
In fact, their crude method of refining Gu insects can only affect the body and soul, and they may not live as long as expected.
Of course, in a short period of time, insect warriors are indeed more powerful than ordinary old people.
The Taoist and Buddhist forces did not want to sit still and wait for death, and wanted to promote the art of Gu refining to find a way out, so they immediately confirmed the rumors.
They use various methods to maintain their youthful appearance. Even if their flesh and bones decay, they can indeed bring hope to mortals.
Various forces are secretly looking for clues to the insect nest and want to continue to obtain the human insect souls. Unfortunately, the human insect suddenly disappeared.
All to no avail.
Minghe Tea House has completely lost its business, Ren Qing no longer has to be a hands-off shopkeeper, and Li Yaoyang and the zombie shop waiter have temporarily returned to the world in the stomach.
He stood at the window and read through the methods that Li Yaoyang had summarized. It was very feasible to use disease seeds to control Tiandao insects in disguise.
Ren Qing looked at Sanxiang City from the corner of his eye. It was already looking like a hell on earth.
Looking up, the people on the street, without exception, were all insect warriors with twisted bodies and horrific deformities.
The upper body is obviously an ordinary human shape, but the lower body has multiple legs like a centipede; or the head and facial features are like a hollow, with maggot-like things constantly coming out of it, seemingly replacing the normal five senses...
In front of the temple in the distance, Abbot Luoque stood on a wooden platform and led the believers transformed into reciting scriptures with an excited expression.
Behind him is a half-human, half-insect Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara. The countless arms behind him have been replaced with insect limbs.
Jingzhou is going crazy, and people's perceptions are also undergoing drastic changes.
The black cloth of Taoist Tianxu hanging in mid-air has been torn off, and hundreds of insect warriors are worshiping him as an immortal Buddha.
Those people who were unwilling to refine the Gu worms, or were unable to obtain the Gu worms, locked themselves in their houses and could only wait for death to come.
Ren Qing collected the secrets of Gu insects into the Treasure Pavilion. The recorded contents were indeed of great use, but the insect nest seemed to have disappeared.
As long as the Insect Nest's troops stood still, it was impossible for him to forcefully find trouble for the opponent.
The situation in Jingzhou becomes increasingly confusing.
Ren Qing also tried it with a yellow dog, and found that no matter how much life-extending materials Jingzhou people took, such as corpse food, they could not extend their life for a day or an hour.
Jingzhou seems to have a predetermined ending, and clues are gradually emerging.
"The shopkeeper..."
Huang Gou'er's old voice sounded, and Ren Qing turned around, only to see that the other person looked like he was forty or fifty years old, and he was also unable to walk.
Most people who do not have parasitic worms are like yellow dogs and will die of old age.
Ren Qing sighed and said: "Huang Gouer, you go and rest for a while. If you are sick, you need to take good care of yourself."
Huang Gou'er looked at Ren Qing's unchanged appearance and asked with admiration: "Shopkeeper, you must be an immortal, right?"
Ren Qing nodded and stopped talking. Huang Gouer's soul had begun to dissipate. Unless he became an immortal, he could not change life and death.
"It turns out there are real immortals in the world..."
Huang Gou'er murmured and returned to the guest room. With his memory, it might not take long for him to forget what Ren Qing said.
Ren Qing looked at the absurd Sanxiang City. The ancient monks were leading the people hysterically, trying their best to find the way forward.
Heishuizi was covered in blood. He grabbed Taoist Tianxu's meat and stuffed it into his mouth.
"I will become an immortal soon, and then I will transcend the limit of lifespan. You will all die, but I am immortal!!!"
"Taoist Master, save me, I don't want to die!!"
"Chief Immortal, you asked me to place the ox heart Gu in my heart and lungs. I did it. What should I do next? Don't let me die..."
Ren Qing shook his head helplessly, put the yellow dog into the world in his stomach, and then left the devastated Sanxiang City.
After he left, Minghe Teahouse lost the protection of the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, and soon several insect warriors rushed in, performed blood sacrifices in the lobby, and prayed to the immortal Buddha who had transformed into an insect.
Compared to the craziness of the town, the insect nest located underground is undoubtedly much calmer.
The eyeliner arranged by Ren Qing could detect that the size of the insect nest was still increasing rapidly, and the number of Tiandao insectoids had surged to 60,000 to 70,000.
It can be seen that the insect nest has some means to recruit Tiandao insects from the outside world.
The mistress also knows the arrangements of the people behind the scenes, and they are simply unscrupulous.
There are already seventy or eighty Tiandao Insects who have reached the Yangshen realm in the insect nest, and they are all waiting for their longevity to run out.
Even though the insect nest has an astonishing reproduction rate, if so many Yang Shen realms die in Jingzhou, it will still shake its foundation.
So the mistress probably knows that the situation in Jingzhou will not deteriorate.
Ren Qing still looked down upon the Insect Hive a little. In this era where immortality was impossible, a force with many Heavenly Creatures would undoubtedly be at the top.
The Fengkong people nestled in the remote outer mountains of Jingzhou.
After they entered Xiaotianting, Ren Qing used the toe separation technique to hint to Feng Ye, telling Feng Kong people not to go to the interior of Jingzhou for the time being.
The other forces are standing still. They must have realized from the insect nest that some unexpected drastic changes will occur in Jingzhou.
Time passed, and it was not until the last three days that the madness stopped.
Even insect warriors will gradually become exhausted when facing the depletion of life span. Now the streets are full of corpses that do not know whether they are alive or dead.
Ancient monks locked themselves in basements excavated in advance, trying to have a dream in which they could still become immortals after death.
Ren Qing stood on the top of the mountain, looking around at Jingzhou, which suddenly became quiet.
He stared at the jungle to the south, where Master Gu was still struggling desperately, trying to find the specific location of the insect hive forces.
The whole body of Gu Zhenren is five to six meters in size, and its body is like a hill. It is composed of countless Gu insects, which makes people's hair stand on end.
But he also had his life span exhausted and fell in the dense jungle.
Master Gu was breathing heavily and couldn't help but look to the south. He seemed to be able to see Xiangxiang with its distinct four seasons, and heard Old Tang's long-cherished wish in his ears.
His situation was very special. After realizing the shortcomings caused by eagerness for success, he thought of using Gu insects to advance to the Yin difference realm.
Theoretically, as long as the Gu worm reaches the Yin difference realm, the Gu insect will undergo transformation, and even the Gu master can escape from the predicament of losing control of his body.
At that time, he had hundreds of human bugs following him, and he could use nutrients to push himself into the underworld without harming the lives of human bugs.
Therefore, Master Gu did not hesitate to use the ant herder Gu. Under the nourishment of massive nutrients, the physical condition did show signs of improvement.
Unfortunately, there are a few people from Jingzhou among the human bugs with aphids.
When Master Gu absorbed the nutrients brought by the aphid cow voodoo, his life span became that of Jingzhou people, with only a few days left.
After his lifespan was exhausted, the nutrients he needed to obtain naturally increased, so hundreds of human insects were sucked into mummies.
Master Gu took a few steps forward, feeling unwilling to do so.
The possessed elephant armor Gu began to transform, and was promoted to the formless image power Gu in the Yin difference realm, and endless strength grew with the Gu.
But it still can't change the loss of soul caused by the depletion of longevity, and there is only one way to die.
Master Gu half-knelt on the ground. Looking back at the past, he found that he had no regrets at all. He only had a strong obsession with becoming an immortal who could transcend cause and effect, which allowed the inner demons to breed.
"If there is an afterlife...I must...become an immortal..."
Ren Qing dodged and came to the side of Master Gu. The latter was also completely unconscious, but his eyes were still wide open, staring at Jingzhou in the distance.
"Is there really an afterlife?"
Ren Qing glanced at the sun that had already dipped below the horizon, and Jingzhou finally reached the twelve o'clock countdown.
He just wanted to bring Master Gu's corpse into the world of the stomach. It was still in the Yin Chao realm after all, and it should have good potential to be refined into a zombie.
But at this moment, Master Gu's body decomposed at a slow speed, turning into tiny particles of flesh and blood, floating into the air.
Ren Qing frowned and realized that this was the case for all mortals in Jingzhou, even if their bodies had been buried underground.
Only Huang Gou'er was in the world in the stomach, and his body was not gradually decomposed.
Ren Qing hesitated for a moment, and finally threw the yellow dog into the rough underworld, letting the death energy transform him into a zombie.
He didn't know what was going on in Jingzhou. Could it be that thousands of years ago, everyone's longevity was inexplicably exhausted, and then their souls disappeared?
For the sake of safety, Ren Qing left the surface of Jingzhou and went to open a cave a thousand meters underground to secretly observe the dramatic changes in Jingzhou.
The body decomposes very slowly and lasts for several months before disappearing.
At this time, all the towns in Jingzhou suddenly fell into silence, just like what Chen Changsheng encountered when he came to Xiangxiang. All mortals were missing, but the towns remained unchanged.
Ren Qing paid attention to the movements of the insect nest, which seemed to be expanding its underground tunnels and heading towards several towns where Jingzhou is currently located.
As for the people behind the scenes, there is no trace of their appearance at all, as if they never existed.
During the rapid expansion of the insect nest, various forces reacted differently, but some even chose to occupy those deserted empty cities.
At the same time, the outside world is also rushing to Jingzhou.
