The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing continued towards the lake, the ghost shadow returning from the stomach world to his feet, its dark body revealing a hint of dark red.

The ghost shadow sucked the blood of the manta ray cultivator, a habit derived from the Heavenly Dao Worm, but in reality, it didn't provide much benefit.

Under normal circumstances, the manta ray cultivator would be gradually dismembered according to the ghost shadow's habits.

After the blood was depleted, it would be the bone marrow, followed by the brain, and then the fresh internal organs, while the blood, flesh, and bones were somewhat disliked.

Ren Qing watched the ghost shadow torment the manta ray cultivator in various ways, vaguely hearing chilling screams, yet it still didn't show any signs of weakness.

Clearly, a centipede dies hard.

He didn't kill the manta ray cultivator, signaling the ghost shadow to return it to the hell prison.

Upon seeing this, the ghost shadow plunged its tail straight into the Yellow Springs, flinging out a tattered body, the disc-shaped manta ray cultivator riddled with holes.

Ren Qing locked the manta ray cultivator in the depths of the prison, a life sentence.

Compared to the corpses of Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators, he preferred to ensure the value of the cultivator, since once inside the stomach world, it was impossible to control one's own life and death.

That way, when refining tools or pills, he could simply take whatever materials he needed.

The third level of hell also became lively due to the imprisonment of many cultivators, but most of the prisoners had already given up hope of leaving.

The manta ray cultivator gasped for breath, the recent experience like a nightmare.

He was blinded by greed, feeling that the Heavenly Court was easy to manipulate, but what awaited him was one-sided crushing, with no power to resist.

He couldn't help but tremble all over, his injuries controlled by the Yin energy of hell, reduced to a state where he couldn't even die.

What frightened the manta ray cultivator the most was that this place was filled with indescribable Yin energy.

If nothing unexpected happened, even suicide would not bring relief, as the Yin energy would transform the corpses of all living beings into zombies.

He would still be imprisoned in the cell, unable to escape punishment for all eternity.

The manta ray cultivator stuck to the prison door, looking outside, able to sense the inexplicable weirdness of this place, as if there were more than one Heavenly Gu Realm cultivator.

"Heavenly Court, could it really be the order left behind by the ancient immortals and gods..."

He collapsed to the ground powerlessly, letting out hysterical roars, but unfortunately, they couldn't escape the cell, all in vain.

The manta ray cultivator's reckless behavior formed a butterfly effect, indirectly changing the situation in the inner world, causing the remaining forces to calm down.

As long as they weren't extremely radical cultivators with deranged minds, most forces had successively cut off the idea of going to the deeper world.

After all, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage was about to begin, the chessboard was already set up, and now they probably wouldn't even get a sip of soup, so it was better to stay in the inner world.

The Heavenly Court was a roadblock, and it didn't seem easy to offend.

They were obviously training the low-level Heavenly Soldiers, and there were old monsters guarding them in the dark, so they were both unyielding and uncompromising.

The Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators had to leave Jingzhou in frustration, unable to lower their faces to compete for resources with a group of low-level cultivators.

The remaining forces couldn't help but take the Heavenly Court's strength seriously, and the more they thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

There were more and more Heavenly Soldiers in the inner world, beginning to show a sweeping trend.

With Song Zongwu in charge, plus Ren Qing's secret protection, the Imprisoned Corps was able to dispatch cultivators unscrupulously, their number suddenly exceeding the ten thousand in the surface world, reaching more than twenty thousand.

The scene was extremely spectacular, and as soon as a place where Gu worms gathered was discovered, a team of Heavenly Soldiers would arrive in a moment, plundering resources.

The Heavenly Soldiers didn't have a trace of immortal aura, completely deserving of the name of demons and monsters.

The resources in the inner world were ten times richer, and they first picked the more valuable resources, so they hadn't yet revealed the terror of leaving no blade of grass behind.

But it still made the various forces feel as if they were seeing a pack of starving wolves.

In their eyes, the Heavenly Court was so greedy that they didn't let go of any resources, and upon seeing this, they couldn't sit still and chose to dispatch their subordinates one after another.

The inner world fell into a contest between multiple forces, but they tacitly didn't take action.

Unfortunately, the Imprisoned Corps was a maggot parasitizing a corpse.

In terms of squeezing out the remaining value, they couldn't compare to the Imprisoned Corps, and even Gu Zhenren and other cultivators had already set their sights on the various forces.

The reason they were tolerating them snatching food from the tiger's mouth was purely to save themselves the trouble of collecting resources.

Song Zongwu was eager to challenge the Yang God Realm of the various forces, with the intention of retracing his path of cultivation.

The branches of the Imprisoned Corps might have some minor friction that couldn't be brought to the table, but the hundreds of thousands of cultivators were very consistent externally, not united, but with similar "ideals".

Everyone was a fellow traveler who made a fortune by robbing together.

Ren Qing didn't realize that he had always wanted to train the autonomy of the Imprisoned Corps, and it seemed that he had trained it a bit too much.

But he didn't care about these things, because the four of them were already approaching the lake, and they could see the Fortune Tathagata in the center of the lake from afar.

The dense fog couldn't hide the figure of the Fortune Tathagata, making it appear faintly visible.

The Fortune Earth Immortal was originally a true immortal inclined towards femininity, and after being Buddhized, his appearance was still slightly effeminate, so it was somewhat strange.

He sat cross-legged on the lotus throne, his figure probably close to ten thousand meters, his head almost shrouded in clouds, no wonder the Fortune Tathagata could be clearly seen even in the Small Buddha Heaven.

In addition, a large number of meat lotus flowers floated on the lake, completely pieced together with flesh and bones, the fragrance of the flowers very similar to the smell of blood.

The flesh was like roots, the bones like petals, and the central stamen was the milk teeth of children upon closer inspection.

Ren Qing suspected that the meat lotus flowers were made from monks.

The meat lotus flowers still maintained their vitality, constantly wriggling as if breathing, enough to carry a Buddha nearly a thousand meters tall.

More than a dozen Buddhas were already sitting on the meat lotus flowers, all Heavenly Gu Realm Bodhisattvas.

They stroked their bellies with one hand, and placed their open palms on their chests with the other, with hundreds of selected monks standing in their palms.

Ren Qing looked at Tang Sheng, who was cultivating while walking, and even though the latter was only a step away from the completion of the Yin Difference Realm, he didn't plan to wait any longer and directly took him into the stomach world.

Since he couldn't expose the ghost shadow and had to separate the Four Seas Dragon Kings and the North Star Lord, he directly opened his mouth, creating suction out of thin air.

Tang Sheng struggled as he was swallowed into his mouth, thrown to his residence in the Heavenly Palace to continue his seclusion.

The Pig Taoist smiled obsequiously.

Regardless of the Heavenly Court or the Lingshan Tathagata, how could their methods be so cruel, even able to do things that harm their fellow Daoists, chilling to the bone.

Ren Qing looked around and said, "Let's stop here first, and pretend to be Buddhas before going in."

The Pig Taoist hesitated and said, "We are, after all, from the Daoist sect, and the Fortune Tathagata is not blind, how could he possibly..."

Ren Qing was too lazy to explain, grabbing the shoulders of the Pig Taoist and the Mu Serpent Taoist with both hands, allowing them to gain the eyesight blessed by the Toe Separation Technique.

The Pig Taoist immediately opened his mouth wide, staring at the dozen or so Buddhas in a daze.

Who would have thought that a third of them were dressed as Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators, but their methods were so hidden that they were difficult to detect.

The brain of a four-armed Buddha had been emptied, and the skull was covered with gold foil to block the aura, inside which was a cultivator resembling a seahorse.

Or a Buddha wrapped in a long snake, a cultivator in the shape of a needle and thread hiding inside the long snake, remotely controlling the Buddha's every move.

There was even someone who skinned a Buddha to refine tools.

If the magic weapons hadn't been carefully crafted, and they hadn't deliberately chosen remote thrones, even the Pig Taoist could have easily recognized them.

The Heavenly Gu Realm had been in the deeper world for some time.

Even if they hadn't mastered the technique of possession, the ample time was enough for them to think of a way.

Besides, the Fortune Tathagata seemed to really just be a decoration.

The mastermind was mainly using the characteristics of the Heavenly Dao Worm.

The Fortune Tathagata was a human-shaped spiritual vein, able to emit Buddha energy at all times, making the Immortal Position rules of Jingzhou very stable.

From this, it could be seen that building the Immortal Position rules required three conditions.

A method to seal the Immortal Position or true immortal, such as the mastermind using Buddha energy to wrap the Taiyin Star Lord; a source of constant production of exotic aura, making the environment different from the outside world; and finally, placing the Immortal Position rules in a limited space.

Ren Qing had been trying through the intestines of the Forbidden Corpse, but unfortunately, it was just a small matter, and it was probably not easy to achieve a similar effect.

It would take a long time to prepare, and a lot of manpower to explore and summarize.

But at least he already understood the direction, and it was only a matter of time to gather the conditions, and he could start preparing immediately after Jingzhou was over.

While Ren Qing was thinking, he took out some strange bronze pills.

"We two just need to take them, and He Wen Taoist, you spread them evenly on the surface of the skeleton."

The Pig Taoist was about to ask about the use of the pills when he saw Ren Qing swallow them directly, and his flesh and blood immediately began to show a tendency to metallize.

Compared to the ingenious methods of the Heavenly Gu Realm, Ren Qing's pills were more direct.

The alchemists of the Imprisoned Corps liked to mix various materials together all day long to see what kind of medicinal effects they could form in the end, and the "Buddha Transformation Pill" was one of the products.

The Buddha Transformation Pill could maintain the Buddha transformation as long as the body was not injured.

It did have some use, but it was usually taken when closing a death pass, which could put the body in a state of neither life nor death.

The Mu Serpent Taoist immediately applied the Buddha Transformation Pill, and the bone gradually turned dark gold.

"The White Bone Lady is really not slow."

The Hundred Wisdom Bodhisattva walked towards the lake, his body slightly different, feeling more like a woman, and the skeleton should have been replaced once.

The Elephant Lord and other Heavenly Gu Realm were mixed among the monks.

In terms of disguise ability, the White Bone Lady was second only to Ren Qing, but with the Corpse Elephant Hall brazenly lying in the palm, no cultivator could fail to recognize his identity.

But several Heavenly Gu Realm cooperated with each other, and their strength was the most difficult to offend.

After the Pig Taoist and the Mu Serpent Taoist completely Buddhized their bodies, they urged their spells to expand themselves to a little over a thousand meters.

The dream flower between their eyebrows emitted Buddha energy, making it difficult to see the clues.

Ren Qing was even simpler, the Fungus Soul was originally amorphous, and with a wave of his hand, a light and shadow Buddha more than a thousand meters tall was born, the Buddha energy all colorful.

They walked towards the lake, and suddenly the golden light shone brightly.

But in the eyes of the Heavenly Gu Realm, the picture was a bit absurd and strange.

A pig man, a skeleton, a light and shadow, how could they have the appearance of a Buddha, but the Buddhas present did not stop them.

They didn't know if they were ignorant or if their methods were seamless.

Ren Qing chose a blood lotus flower located behind the Fortune Tathagata, which was convenient for implanting the Immortal Position, and it could just oversee the overall situation.

The Pig Taoist and the Mu Serpent Taoist naturally sat down next to Ren Qing.

Ren Qing's expression was strange, similar scenes were really familiar, when he set up the Small Leiyin Temple in the Longevity Forbidden Zone, wasn't it done with almost the same means.

Now, after a big circle, it finally fell on his head.

And the scene was really strange, a bunch of Heavenly Gu Realm disguised as Buddhas, participating in a fake Buddhist ceremony, in order to contact the Heavenly Dao.

If the situation was told to cultivators unfamiliar with Jingzhou, probably no one would believe it.

"North Pole Immortal Venerable, don't you think we are a bit of an eyesore..."

The Pig Taoist couldn't help but sit on pins and needles, the appearance of the three of them was different from ordinary people, which caused them to be like fish on a chopping board.

"Just ignore it."

Ren Qing glanced at the Pig Taoist threateningly, he deliberately brought the two of them here to attract attention, so that he could arrange the Immortal Position.

And if he had to summon the Forbidden Corpse to the outside world, someone had to protect it.

After the Forbidden Corpse gradually became corpse-like, the畸变organs in its body weakened, and its combat power was not as good as usual, not to mention that all the cultivators present were Heavenly Gu Realm.

Ren Qing certainly didn't dare to drive the Forbidden Corpse unscrupulously, for the Imprisoned Corps, this guardian puppet was still very important.

"He Wen Taoist, be careful, remember not to reveal the Yin energy."

"Okay."

The Mu Serpent Taoist nodded, he felt that compared to any cultivator present, he didn't have any advantage, let alone the Fortune Tathagata.

He stared closely at the surrounding cultivators, observing their every move.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the Pig Taoist cheered up, fearing that a war involving true immortals would break out at any time.

The Buddhas successively rushed to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage, occupying the gradually decreasing meat lotus flowers.

"North Pole Immortal Venerable, if the Blood Bat Insect Mother arrives here, please tell us."

"She has already arrived."

Ren Qing gestured for them to look not far away, on the periphery sat a Buddha less than a thousand meters tall, discussing profound Buddhist teachings.

There was no sign that the core was a dull-witted insect nest cultivator.

"The Blood Bat Mother is parasitic under the heart, now in a deep sleep, so the Buddha's subconscious is controlling the body."

Ren Qing simply used the Toe Separation Technique to refine the dream flowers between their eyebrows, and their eyes immediately turned into the shape of double pupils, and their eyesight was immediately blessed.

The Pig Taoist didn't say much, it was indeed the Blood Bat Mother, who knew how the other party got into a Buddha smaller than herself.

No one knew the specific time of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage, so they had to wait patiently.

Sure enough, more forces came one after another, either the region was remote, or they were Buddhas dressed as Heavenly Gu Realm.

Ren Qing focused on implanting the Immortal Position.

His biggest advantage was that he was not the main body, but a clone transformed by the Fungus Soul, so he could cooperate separately.

The ghost shadow quietly drilled into the depths of the lake, and found that it was thousands of meters deep.

It could be clearly seen that the lake water was mixed with rich Buddha energy, and when the ghost shadow touched the bottom of the water, it found that the Buddha energy almost covered every inch of the land.

Obviously, the mastermind was guarding against opportunistic tricks.

But it couldn't stump Ren Qing, he tried various methods to probe, wanting to bypass the protection of the Buddha energy, and soon found a solution.

The ghost shadow relied on the dream flower to merge with the Fixed Light Buddha energy, and used this to come to the soil layer.

Whoosh...

The surface of the lake suddenly stirred, causing several genuine Bodhisattvas to stand up and sweep their angry eyes over the nearby Buddhas.

"Fellow brothers, has anyone done anything disrespectful to the Fortune Tathagata?"

The face of the Wrongful Life Bodhisattva was not hostile, but the arms behind his back pinched the orchid fingers, and the surging Buddha energy surged between breaths.

Ren Qing showed no sign of stopping, but the damage to the bottom of the lake had been repaired, causing the lake to become unusually calm again.

"Venerable Wangsheng, please calm your anger. How could extraterrestrial demons dare to come to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage?"

The Smiling Buddha immediately spoke to stop Wangsheng Buddha, who, upon seeing this, said nothing more and continued to sit cross-legged, chanting scriptures.

However, after this incident, Wangsheng Buddha had strangled nearly half of the monks in his palm.

The fleshy lotus beneath him greedily absorbed the dripping blood, and several more petals grew, making it look even more vibrant.

Ren Qing felt that the Buddhist sect must know that extraterrestrial demons would come to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage, but they were not clear about the exact number.

The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Numerous invisible gazes intersected, as if communicating with each other.

With the disparity in numbers, there were definitely more Heavenly Guijing cultivators than Buddhas, so in theory, they could directly take over the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage.

But not far away was the Fude Tathagata, so in the end, nothing came of it.

Ren Qing, as the instigator, remained firmly in control. He didn't care whether the two sides fought or not, at most they would just break up.

He originally wanted the ghost shadows to dig out a cavern in the ground, large enough to accommodate the upper body of the forbidden corpse, but he didn't expect the soil layer to be only a hundred meters thick.

The depths were an endless darkness.

Without the Buddha's aura enveloping it, the entire ground would probably collapse instantly.

Ren Qing sent a portion of the ghost shadows to explore the deep abyss beneath the surface world, while the remaining ghost shadows returned to a position closer to the surface.

He had abandoned his original plan and was now digging directly towards the location of the Fude Tathagata, intending to strike at the root of the problem.

It was unrealistic to make contact with the Fude Tathagata openly.

Even if Ren Qing's clone could unleash 80% of the power of the Zhili Technique, the Fude Tathagata was, after all, a terrestrial immortal. If he got within a hundred meters, he would inevitably reveal some flaws.

He might as well go from the underground, without worrying about cultivators noticing anything unusual.

The ghost shadows shuttled through the soil. Although Ren Qing was not far from the Fude Tathagata, it was only because of the terrifying size of several thousand or even tens of thousands.

The ghost shadows, compressed to the size of a needle's eye, could only take their time.

As time passed, the fleshy lotus was already overcrowded, and the Fude Tathagata began to chant an unknown Buddhist scripture.

"Jidi, Jidi! Bono Jidi, Bono Seng Jidi, Puti Savaho."

Ren Qing frowned. He hadn't noticed it before, but now that he heard it up close, he felt that the Fude Tathagata's accent was a bit strange.

He had been in contact with a large number of forces and had also digested the memories of the cultivators within them.

He had never heard such an accent before…

Wait.

Ren Qing recited the words several times according to the Fude Tathagata's accent, and found that the content was the most ordinary Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra.

Although he was a Taoist cultivator, he did have some knowledge of Buddhism.

The original text is “Jiedi, Jiedi! Bolo Jiedi, Bolo Seng Jiedi, Puti Sapohe.”

The general meaning is to persuade ascetics to cross over to the other shore and immediately act to achieve the Buddha Dharma.

The Fude Tathagata's pronunciation, the accent should originate from ancient times thousands of years ago, it feels like those believers who have never practiced Buddhism, occasionally hear monks chanting the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra.

They are illiterate, and oral transmission easily leads to deviations in the content of the scriptures.

The Buddhas present did not dare to question the Fude Tathagata, and the Taoist cultivators would not study it, only Ren Qing noticed the strangeness.

This was not a major discovery, but the Fude Tathagata had been controlled by the mastermind.

And the mastermind, as the son of the Dipankara Buddha, did not even know the most basic Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra of Buddhism, which was very absurd.

Ren Qing then randomly checked the souls of the ancient cultivators in the yellow circle in his stomach world.

There was not much information in their memories, but the background was indeed locked at around 7,600 years ago, with a time error of at most ten years.

"Seven thousand six hundred years ago, did something happen in Buddhism?"

Ren Qing remained noncommittal. The mastermind must know the answer to the question, but the other party has not yet revealed himself.

The fungal soul had arrived directly below the Fude Tathagata.

The ghost shadows slowly rose upwards, trying not to make too much noise, in case the Fude Tathagata suddenly went crazy.

There were also other situations happening near the lake.

The fleshy lotus was already full, but three more Buddhas had arrived.

The Heavenly Guijing looked at the three newly arrived Buddhas. Obviously, they did not choose to replace the Buddhas, but directly occupied the fleshy lotus.

"Senior brothers, could it be that extraterrestrial demons…"

Wangsheng Buddha sized up the three new Buddhas. Just as he was about to investigate, there were slight ripples on the lake again.

In a chain reaction, the Fude Tathagata's chanting became louder and louder.

The Buddhas did not know that their death was near.

Before they could explain, Wangsheng Buddha raised his right palm. Blessed by the Dipankara Buddha, he turned them into minced meat with just one blow.

"Silence."

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage did not begin because of this, everything seemed like an illusion.

Wangsheng Buddha squeezed another third of the monks to death. The surviving monks were very regretful, as if they could really go to the Western Paradise after death.

Ren Qing was the only one who looked shocked, because it wasn't that no anomalies had occurred.

The surface world was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, the ground was covered with cracks, lava was spewing out, and space was dissolving bit by bit.

If you looked at Jing Prefecture from the Water Swamp, you would find that the speed of the blood moon's rise had accelerated.

Ren Qing immediately notified the Forbidden Soldiers Hall to give them five days to clean the inner world, and they had to be ready to evacuate at any time.

Originally, the inner world was just a training ground, and it was enough to have a Yangshen realm to suppress it.

But after developing into an emergency mission, not only would the living forces of the Forbidden Soldiers Hall participate, but even war machines would be used.

Ships of the Yincha realm sailed into the inner world.

A large number of sand ships combined with each other to form floating giant islands, and dense masses of cultivators jumped off the decks.

Strange objects of the Yangshen realm are hard to find, but it does not mean that Guitai artifacts stop at the Yincha realm.

Using many magic weapons as formations is a novel approach researched by Xiao San'er. In theory, if there are enough of them, reaching the Heavenly Guijing realm is not impossible.

Although the Heavenly Guijing realm is not seen, the strength displayed is still frightening.

You must know that Song Zongwu is already red-eyed in the inner world, which indirectly shows that the Yangshen realm of the Heavenly Court is not afraid of being outnumbered.

They also understood a truth from the Heavenly Court's actions: Jing Prefecture is about to change.

The Forbidden Soldiers Hall was plundering the inner world, and Ren Qing also noticed that the soil layer at the bottom of the lake was becoming thicker and thicker without him realizing it.

How should I put it, it's like the surface world is merging into the deep world.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage also began.

What Wangsheng Buddha didn't expect was that the Fude Tathagata was still motionless, but the lake under their feet turned into an eye.

The blood moon had risen to thousands of meters, as if it was going to take them to the galaxy.

Ren Qing confirmed through his immortal position that although there were signs of the Lunar Star Lord breaking free, the Buddha's aura still firmly controlled the core of the true immortal.

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