Chen Shi's heart pounded. He hurriedly followed Can'er toward the Imperial Garden, Let's hope the Witch Covenant grows up to be anything other than one of those creeping, serpentine vegetable-men winding up the crape myrtle tree!
Hu Feifei felt quite curious. She put down her memorials and followed right behind them.
Before long, the three of them arrived at the Imperial Garden in the inner palace. They saw only a few vines hanging from the crape myrtle tree—a centuries-old stump that had already been sucked dry and withered away.
Chen Shi looked up and saw a person hanging from the tree.
A completely naked person.
Hu Feifei let out a startled cry, hastily covering Can'er's eyes, picked her up, and fled as if escaping for her life.
Chen Shi looked up to inspect him, seeing that the man on the tree possessed a slender, well-proportioned figure and delicate skin. Various strange witch sacrifice Dao patterns surfaced across his surface; they were the Dao patterns of the Undying Immortal Method, but far more detailed than the Undying Immortal Method Chen Shi had seen before.
A slight stir moved through Chen Shi's heart, I, Yang Bi, and Zhong Wuwang have all comprehended the Undying Immortal Method, but the version we comprehended only includes the skeleton. Yet the true Undying Immortal Method grows outward from the inside, starting from the skeleton to produce flesh and blood, the five viscera and six bowels, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hair, and skin. The physical body has the Undying Immortal Method as well, but this immortal method evolves outward from the skeleton's immortal method! Only an Undying Immortal Method encompassing both skeleton and flesh is the complete Undying Immortal Method.
He felt a secret pang of regret. If he had stayed behind to observe the process of