Chapter 144: Chapter 140: Becoming an Immortal in the Five Prisons! Chapter 144: Chapter 140: Becoming an Immortal in the Five Prisons! “Although I do not agree with the Outer Elixir Technique, both require the unity of spirit and body to ascend to immortality through flying into the clouds!”

“The Corpse-Soul Separation Technique, on the other hand, is about abandoning the physical body after cultivating to a certain degree and the spirit ascending. If the time of physical death has not yet arrived when one is ready for the spirit to ascend, a weapon is needed to kill the physical body, which is why the Corpse-Soul Separation Technique is also known as the martial dissolution method.”

“Though the Corpse-Soul Separation Technique requires one to forsake the body, it also demands that cultivators consolidate essence and nurture qi, perform more external deeds (which means doing more good deeds, accumulating virtue), and reach the Realm of the Unity of Heaven and Man. After death, the body turns into hair, clothes, or other personal belongings of the cultivator.”

“However, the Corpse-Soul Separation Technique can only result in becoming the lowest form of immortal, that is, a Ghost Immortal!”

“You’re not trying to tell me you’re using the Corpse-Soul Separation Technique, are you? It’s not meant to be used like this! Ye Wenjie, you devil! You lunatic!”

“Hahahaha!”

Ye Wenjie first laughed arrogantly, then shook his head and explained proudly:

“What I am using is a combination of the Corpse-Soul Separation Technique and the martial dissolution method, another method of becoming immortal: the Five Prisons Method!”

Li Ping’an heard this and was shocked, frowning as he said:

“What is the Five Prisons Method?”

Ye Wenjie replied arrogantly:

“The Five Prisons Method doesn’t require the cultivator to consolidate essence and nurture qi, or achieve the Unity of Heaven and Man. One only needs to perform external deeds, but these deeds are not acts of virtue. Instead, they involve killing the Five Prisons Malevolent Spirit and completing the sacrifice. Then, the chosen person can kill the cultivator through martial dissolution to increase the odds of becoming an immortal.”

“And the deaths of these five sinful individuals are actually a technique of the Five Prison Immortal Transformation Method, casting the Malevolent Spirits into hell while elevating one’s own ‘Spirit’ and ‘Dao’.”

“To put it more precisely, it’s a method of becoming a god and immortal (since it only retains the spirit and discards the body). One must find mortals who have committed five types of sins and execute them with five different punishments to complete the sacrifice. The person preparing to become immortal must have a specific individual kill them. Even though their physical body dies, their spirit ascends. By killing the Malevolent Spirits, they are cast into hell, thereby passing the trial. Once the six paths are fulfilled, one can achieve the immortal form and thus escape the nineteen layers of hell that is the human realm!”

“I’ve never heard or seen anything like your ‘Five Prison Immortal Transformation Method’. You’re clearly following crooked paths and evil ways! Or perhaps, you’re just making excuses to satisfy your desire to kill!”

Li Ping’an’s tone of questioning softened a lot because the “Five Prison Immortal Transformation Method” he’d heard from Ye Wenjie’s mouth was too fantastical, too eerie, and too bloody.

This kind of heart-shaking and chilling method of becoming immortal was like the first time he saw the power of the Six Demons of Five Finger Mountain, National Teacher Pudu Cihang, Yan Chixia, and Buddha Bone Temple’s Strange Buddha. It’s not that it doesn’t exist, it’s just that he’d never witnessed it, even though it sounds and seems like a devilish and evil doctrine!

“That’s exactly how it’s written in the Book of the Earth!”

Ye Wenjie replied with utmost confidence.

“Hello, hello, hello! This is the police station, do you need to file a report? Speak up, please!”

In Li Ping’an’s hand, the phone had connected to the police, and the person on the other end was still waiting for his response.

“Immortal Li, you will soon see whether one can become immortal. If not, then I shall commit suicide to apologize. After all, you lose nothing, and with your incredible prowess, are you worried that someone with both legs and eyes disabled like me could possibly escape?”

“…”

Li Ping’an gritted his teeth, pondered for a moment, and then silently hung up the phone.

“Alright, today I will see for myself how you use the Five Prisons Method to become an immortal!”

Eventually, Li Ping’an obediently sat back down.

Seeing Li Ping’an so compliant, Ye Wenjie immediately teased with a tone of envy and jealousy:

“Immortal Li, you are unique in this world! Not everyone can become an immortal as easily as you. It’s clearly written in the Book of the Earth, we ordinary people without cultivation and mana can only use this method!”

“…”

What Ye Wenjie had said was true; Li Ping’an indeed had relied on a great opportunity to achieve his current fate, but he still felt that Ye Wenjie was too evil, using human lives to aid his own ascension, utterly selfish and self-serving!

He didn’t know how to respond to Ye Wenjie, he was just even more interested in that “Book of the Earth” Ye Wenjie talked about!

“We’re just over ten seconds away from nine o’clock!”

The man in sunglasses checked the time and reminded Ye Wenjie.

“The hour has come, good and evil will be judged, the world is about to change! It’ll return to its original state! Activate the array!”

Ye Wenjie spread his hands, sensing the changes about to occur in the world around him. His excitement was beyond words; his entire body began to convulse violently:

“Immortal Li! I’m about to become immortal! I’ll leave this damned world to you!”

“Activate the array?”

Li Ping’an felt an overwhelming sense of urgency at the bizarre words of Ye Wenjie and immediately looked around, demanding an answer:

“Activate what array? What on Earth are you planning to do? Are you saying you’ve set up two formations?”

“Immortal Li, as I said before, becoming immortal and destroying this world are not at odds – I aim to achieve both. When the time comes, I’ll watch over you from the Immortal Realm as you continue to suffer. But for now, I still need your cooperation!”

Ye Wenjie suddenly picked up the gun that was next to the meditation mat and threw it towards Li Ping’an.

“How should I cooperate with you? Huh? You maniac!”

Li Ping’an cocked his head disdainfully:

“Don’t count on me, and what is this crap formation you’ve set up that’s supposed to destroy the world? Do you take me for a three-year-old?”

“This is the Five Prison Immortal Transformation Array!”

Ye Wenjie pointed with his left hand to the Human Rakshasas positioned at the Five Elements around them, and with his right hand to the formation beneath Li Ping’an and the surrounding cultivators, speaking with fervor:

“This is the Gouchen Grand Formation, capable of opening the Netherworld Gate. Once the gate to the Netherworld opens, our Nineteen Layers of Hell will connect with the Three Realms!”

Hearing this, Li Ping’an found it even more laughable. With crossed arms and scorn, he responded:

“This garbage formation? Relying on you mortals? Stop dreaming!”

“Then let Immortal Li witness me becoming an immortal!”

Ye Wenjie commanded the forty-nine male cultivators and forty-nine female cultivators sitting on the Gouchen Grand Formation:

“Prepare the altar! Recite the scriptures! Activate the array!”

“Yes!”

As soon as it struck nine o’clock, the man in sunglasses led the male and female cultivators in front of the True Immortal Taoist Temple, hanging four long banners, binding a three-layered platform, laying the Seven Treasures Sanqing Sacred Image, with the Twenty-Eight Mansions on both sides the twelve Zodiac Constellations, arranging the main stars and celestial officials for the ritual. Outside the hall, Supervisor Cui, along with Lu, Dou, and the god generals, were still present. Once the formation was set and the ritual instruments ready, the man in sunglasses stepped back outside the formation to watch silently, as the cultivators returned to their seats and chanted in unison. The voice of the Taoist scriptures suddenly filled the air outside the True Immortal Taoist Temple.

Li Ping’an quietly observed, not believing that anyone could achieve immortality through killing, let alone open the so-called Netherworld Gate that connected the Three Realms!

Ye Wenjie, you’re just a delusional clown!

That was Li Ping’an’s most genuine inner voice.