The Secret Way of Immortality

Hundreds of thousands of zombie cultivators arrived outside and quickly devoted themselves to the construction of the sanctuary.

According to Ren Qing's estimation, the sanctuary would need to be at least a hundred miles in size, with the Corpse as Tathagata located at its central core.

Currently, they needed to lay the foundation to avoid affecting subsequent construction.

Ren Qing hoped that the cultivators participating in the sanctuary's construction would master the Demonic Embryo Refinement Method, so he simply opened up the Great Dream Pavilion's ordinary refining materials. Anyway, the Jailers Hall was not short of this little bit of resource consumption.

The million acres of fertile land in the stomach world had already been cultivated, reducing the demand for labor, which was perfect for freeing up people to mine and quarry.

As the Heavenly Dao, Ren Qing naturally did whatever was convenient.

Although he couldn't risk damaging the geological layer by extracting mineral veins, he could at least move them closer to the towns.

Even if mortals had to work hard mining, they wouldn't have to leave their homes.

At the same time, convenient magical tools were continuously supplied to the mortal world, increasing mining efficiency, equivalent to replacing manpower with semi-mechanized labor.

Large quantities of ore were sent to the Great Dream Pavilion, supporting the astonishing consumption of refining in the outside world, ensuring that the development of the sanctuary wouldn't stagnate.

Amidst the billowing smoke, the sanctuary resembled a modern town in the industrial era, with hundreds of refining furnaces constantly spewing thick smoke.

Even the clouds were stained gray-black, and vegetation showed signs of withering.

It seemed to have a severe impact on the environment, but as long as Mu Yi was present, regenerating forests and vegetation would be easy.

Now was not the time to be environmentally conscious; logically speaking, the destructiveness of the Heavenly Dao's descent far exceeded the Jailers Hall's impact on the environment.

The Jailers Hall continued to increase its efforts.

A total of one million cultivators poured out of the portals connecting to the stomach world.

They were responsible for integrating strange objects into the brick-like magical tools, starting with the most basic Martial Realm Demonic Embryos. If they failed, the magical tools would be destroyed.

However, as long as they were quick-witted, they could send the magical tools to the stomach world before they shattered, relying on immortal positions to nourish them and strip away the Demonic Embryos for continued use.

Under such circumstances, the consumption of refining was barely within Ren Qing's tolerance.

Zhou Zuo San's plan quickly took shape. He designed the sanctuary as a circle, with the buildings connected to each other, making the whole thing look like a planet.

Moreover, it was extremely mobile and could ensure the absolute safety of the Corpse as Tathagata.

Buildings made of metal materials were erected around the Corpse as Tathagata, emitting a bronze light due to the spiritual energy of Mount Lingshan.

In this rapidly changing era, anyone with ability could stand out.

The number of tasks used to be limited, but now they couldn't be finished at all. Countless demands were generated within the sanctuary every moment.

The development of the sanctuary gradually stabilized, and Ren Qing was relieved to leave it to Han Li to manage, while he went to investigate the reality of Peach Blossom Spring.

Ren Qing used Heavenly Demon Possession and instantly arrived within the range of the purple light.

The surrounding scenery was very strange.

Trees grew in deformed and terrifying ways, with tangled branches resembling blood vessels, constantly extending outwards.

The beasts and insects were no better off, most of them having lost their original forms.

Ren Qing personally saw a guinea pig with dozens of heads, each seemingly with independent thoughts, making the guinea pig extremely irritable and even actively attacking carnivores.

As soon as he came into contact with the purple light, he felt the cells in his body become active, and an unspeakable reproductive instinct arose in his heart.

He scratched his skin hard, and his fingernails were filled with dead skin. The new skin was clearly more adapted to the purple light, but bubble-like pustules appeared.

Ren Qing suppressed his distracting thoughts, and the disease strains in his body spread all over his skin.

He actively shed his skin several times until he could completely resist the purple light, and his skin showed no signs of distortion before he stopped.

If Ren Qing hadn't already achieved immortality, he would have consumed thousands of years in just a few minutes.

The distortion produced by the purple light was similar to Heavenly Dao transformation, but its effect should be to stimulate the potential of plants and animals, allowing them to adapt to the Heavenly Dao in a disguised way.

In simple terms, the Heavenly Dao was transforming the ecology of Peach Blossom Spring.

The reason Ren Qing chose to come to Peach Blossom Spring in his true form was partly because the head of the Mother of All Things was very troublesome, and it would take who knows how long to figure it out with just the Mycelial Soul.

On the other hand, he discovered that since the Beast Pen War, there had been no sign of Turbid Immortals in this world, and the Buddhist sect had completely fallen.

The existing Earth Immortals were all Heavenly Demon-transformed Buddhas, similar to Samantabhadra.

Ren Qing had tried to find the Turbid Immortals, but unfortunately, he had been unsuccessful all along.

This world was eerily quiet. Once the settlements of mortals disappeared, I am afraid that walking tens of thousands of miles would not turn up a single soul.

Ren Qing gradually went deeper into Peach Blossom Spring. As he approached the head of the Mother of All Things, the surrounding scenery became more and more distorted.

Vegetation had the characteristics of living things, and living things had the characteristics of vegetation.

The myriad things of Peach Blossom Spring were becoming similar, but this was not a good thing at all, because even if the head of the Mother of All Things left, Peach Blossom Spring would be difficult to restore to its original state.

The Heavenly Dao was like a tumor parasitizing this world.

Ren Qing had a guess in his heart: "The Heavenly Dao has definitely been replaced by an unnameable thing. The Three Dao Ancestors are incompatible with this world and show no connection at all."

He continued to walk more than ten miles, and the abnormality of his flesh became more obvious.

He could only continuously shed his skin to ensure that the distortion would not accumulate.

Fortunately, there was the Fengdu Corpse Immortal. Ren Qing's body essentially had the characteristics of a zombie, and was not as easily distorted as a living thing.

Otherwise, even an Earth Immortal, staying in Peach Blossom Spring for a long time, would experience unknown distortions, thus falling into madness.

If Ren Qing ignored the discomfort of his body and soul, his strength did tend to increase.

The Heavenly Dao transformation did not intensify; the increase in strength came from him being more compatible with Peach Blossom Spring, belonging to being recognized by the head of the Mother of All Things.

After Ren Qing arrived at the village where the Mycelial Soul had descended before, he found that the buildings inside were twisted, not to mention the villagers.

The villagers crawled on the ground like worms, most of them having ascended to the upper realm.

It shouldn't be long before the entire Peach Blossom Spring would be reduced to a no-man's land, and the remaining houses would inevitably be completely eroded by vegetation.

Ren Qing looked at the statues of immortals and gods in the spirit hall. The spirit tablets only lasted for fifty generations, and the descendants after that had already lost their minds.

He knew that he couldn't go any deeper into Peach Blossom Spring unless he didn't care about the drawbacks. Otherwise, the limit for Earth Immortals was only twenty or thirty miles.

Ren Qing stood in the open space at the entrance of the village and directly tore off his right hand.

As soon as his right hand left his body, it showed signs of activation, but it was suppressed by Ren Qing, who poured in a strong spiritual energy of Mount Lingshan.

In just a moment, the arm formed a half-meter-sized Buddha hand.

Seeing this, Ren Qing was still not satisfied and continued to pour in the spiritual energy of Mount Lingshan, causing the flesh, blood, and bones of the Buddha hand to continuously swell.

He only stopped when the Buddha hand reached a little over a hundred meters.

Ren Qing openly placed the Buddha hand in place and then left the village, intending to continue arranging around the head of the Mother of All Things.

After he left, dozens of Heavenly Dao believers drilled out of the soil.

The Heavenly Dao believers had lost the function of language, only communicating with each other using deformed arms, and also extending tube-shaped brainstems, trying to connect to the Buddha hand and read the information in it.

Ren Qing secretly observed the Heavenly Dao believers. Although they were still intelligent beings, they had nothing to do with humans anymore.

The otherness of their life structure meant that the way of thinking of the Heavenly Dao believers had undergone a world of difference.

After Ren Qing erected more than a dozen Buddha hands, he withdrew from the range of the purple light.

As soon as he left Peach Blossom Spring, he couldn't help but have blood flowing from his facial features. He took a few deep breaths to stabilize himself, and his body and soul returned to calm.

Ren Qing then realized that even if the Three Dao Ancestors didn't take the initiative to attack after descending, the distortion of their body and soul would be enough to drink a pot of it.

He closed his eyes and examined his body and soul until he was sure there were no hidden dangers before he breathed a sigh of relief.

The Heavenly Dao believers in Peach Blossom Spring had already dismantled several Buddha hands.

Their methods were very inexplicable, just using the flesh and blood of the villagers to set up arrays, wanting to trap the Buddha hands.

Ren Qing felt that the Heavenly Dao believers were helping the head of the Mother of All Things to assimilate the Buddha hands.

As the Heavenly Dao believers gradually adapted to the environment of Peach Blossom Spring, the human side would eventually become less and less.

Ren Qing's mind moved slightly, and the bones inside the Buddha hands turned hollow. When the weight was reduced to a certain extent, the Buddha hands floated towards the sky.

In the process of rising, the appearance of the Buddha hands became strange.

Pustules grew on the skin, and countless granulation tissues grew on the broken ends, forming deformed and useless internal organs.

However, Ren Qing still had some sense of the Buddha hands, watching them come into contact with the head of the Mother of All Things and very easily drill into the mouth and nose.

Among them, several Buddha hands were affected by the Heavenly Dao believers' formation, causing them to explode in mid-air and fall as minced meat.

After Ren Qing observed the head of the Mother of All Things for these days, the first thing he could confirm was that the head had no intelligence at all after leaving the body, not even instincts.

The smoothness of the Buddha hands also indicated that Ren Qing's guess was correct.

Before long, the Buddha hands took the initiative to take root in the depths of the mouth, and the connection with Ren Qing also declined.

But it didn't matter. Ren Qing took the Buddha hands as a medium for transferring karmic fire. As long as the connection still existed, he could grab it.

Ren Qing returned to the sanctuary and sat cross-legged next to the Corpse as Tathagata in the center.

The construction outside was in full swing, and the noise was deafening, but it didn't interfere with Ren Qing, whose state of mind was like a lake.

After the Corpse as Tathagata released the spiritual energy of Mount Lingshan for a long time, the speed of digesting karmic fire was slightly reduced. If Ren Qing didn't take risks, he would have to question whether he could be promoted to Corpse Disassembly Immortal within a thousand years.

Ren Qing took a deep breath and communicated with the Corpse as Tathagata with his consciousness.

The thousands of Buddha statues on the surface of the Corpse as Tathagata opened their eyes and chanted at the same time, causing the monks in the sanctuary to chant along.

Pig Daoist mixed in the crowd and couldn't help but swallow.

He heard the voice of the Corpse as Tathagata and almost had an stress reaction, showing how much he had suffered in the Western Buddhist world over the years.

Ren Qing observed the sanctuary from a God's perspective through the Corpse as Tathagata.

You could see the cultivators working hard to move bricks, and boxes of pills were sent everywhere, and no one would covet the carelessly guarded pills.

Because the Perfect Pills that restore essence, qi, and spirit are currently supplied for free.

Ren Qing's gaze passed over the sanctuary and looked towards the southern sea. In addition to noticing countless dragons swimming in the sea, there were also several Earth Immortals fighting.

Samantabhadra was not easy to deal with and was almost impossible to kill by conventional means.

Song Zongwu was trying to strip Samantabhadra from the multiple Dao bodies and then use the Eight Directions Locking Immortal Formation to seal him in place.

Ren Qing did not intervene in Song Zongwu and others, and glanced at the rest of the Earth Immortals.

Although the Great Dream True Man was in charge, these Earth Immortals each had Demonic Embryos and were not trustworthy. When it was absolutely necessary, they could be thrown out as bait to attract the Three Dao Ancestors.

Ren Qing instantly spanned the north and south, and swept across all things in the world with a transcendent perspective.

Finally, he landed in Peach Blossom Spring and went to the head of the Mother of All Things with his consciousness.

The Corpse as Tathagata suddenly stopped chanting, which was an instinctive fear of the head of the Mother of All Things, and couldn't help but restrain its own aura.

The head of the Mother of All Things remained motionless, illuminating the enchanting purple light.

Ren Qing's consciousness was consumed extremely quickly, which showed that the purple light was almost indiscriminate, and there was no way to avoid the influence of the Heavenly Dao.

He sensed the Buddha hands in the mouth of the head of the Mother of All Things, and the Corpse as Tathagata activated the remaining spiritual energy of Mount Lingshan in the Buddha hands.

The Buddha hands were like tree roots, intertwined with each other, and then wriggled.

Ren Qing controlled the Buddha hands to climb to the position of the gums in the mouth, forcibly drilled into the depths of the blackened gums, and then took root and sprouted.

Bronze-colored teeth grew out, and the Buddha hands disguised themselves as wisdom teeth, and the aura gradually converged.

The mouth was full of sharp teeth, the size of mountains, and the wisdom teeth transformed by the Buddha hands were only a hundred meters, which was a bit out of place.

The Buddha teeth were composed of a large number of distorted disease strains. Even under the action of purple light, only a few disease strains survived, but they still had terrifying mimicry abilities.

When Ren Qing used Toe Separation Technique, the Buddha teeth extended needle-shaped tentacles and directly stabbed the teeth next to them, trying to scrape off some bone powder.

As a result, the tentacles of the Buddha teeth suddenly broke, unable to shake the solid teeth.

Ren Qing had to release some of the disease strains to attach to the surface of the teeth, and at the same time, the Buddha teeth simulated its material, barely completing it before the disease strains died.

The Buddha teeth could currently achieve more than 30% similarity, at least no longer abrupt.

Ren Qing was slightly apprehensive. The next step was the most critical transfer of karmic fire, which must contain unimaginable variables.

"Should I wait until the sanctuary is more complete?"

Ren Qing denied the thought in his heart. It would take at least two hundred years for the sanctuary to reach the level of resisting Earth Immortals.

With such a severe situation, he couldn't afford to delay at all.

Ren Qing showed a wry smile. If the sanctuary was destroyed because of this, the loss would not be too great, after all, it had just begun to be built.

After he made up his mind, the Corpse as Tathagata burned with raging karmic fire.

The blood umbilical cord wrapped around the Corpse as Tathagata made a sound of being overwhelmed, but in the blink of an eye, the karmic fire gradually extinguished again, but it still caused serious damage to the blood umbilical cord.

Zhou Zuosan and other refiners were busy and quickly repaired the blood umbilical cord with materials.

Under Ren Qing's guidance, the karmic fire ignited from the surface of the Buddha teeth, and then followed the roots of the teeth into the flesh, and the karmic fire disappeared.

The karmic fire that Ren Qing transferred for the first time was equivalent to the consumption of ten years of life.

In front of the head of the Mother of All Things, it was a bit like a drop of water falling into the sea, unable to stir up any waves.

Ren Qing observed the Buddha teeth, and continued to transfer until his consciousness was exhausted.

Hundreds of years of karmic fire poured into the head of the Mother of All Things, and the Heavenly Dao cracks on the surface of the tortoise shell recovered at a slow speed.

Ren Qing's face was a little flushed because of excitement, and he finally grasped the shortcut to be promoted to Corpse Disassembly Immortal.

In just half a year, the Buddha teeth helped him fill the consumption of ten thousand years of life, or under the premise that the Corpse as Tathagata did not go all out.

The change in the head of the Mother of All Things was not too drastic.

END

No matter how Ren Qing examined them, it seemed their volume had only become larger, the range of the purple light increasing by about ten miles, with nothing else particularly noticeable.

On the contrary, the Buddha's tooth grew from just over a hundred meters to a thousand meters, and the upper limit of karma fire it could withstand increased considerably.

If Ren Qing wished, he could increase the total amount of transferred karma fire tenfold, but only if the head of the Mother of All Things did not show any abnormalities.

After much consideration, he decided to play it safe.

As long as he advanced to Corpse Disassembly Immortal within two or three hundred years, Ren Qing would have a chance to strive for a further possibility, and he would have a better chance of protecting himself when the Heavenly Dao descended.

Even...

He swallowed, his attention diverted to the construction of the shelter.

The selection of mortal settlements was quickly completed, and in the end, only seven or eight hundred thousand mortals could be saved, most of whom had already undergone severe alienation.

Even if pills were used to suppress the alienation, the mortals' bodies and souls could not withstand it.

However, Ren Qing did not leave the severely alienated mortals to the Heavenly Dao believers, but instead took them all into his stomach world, specially opening up an island to settle them.

From beginning to end, until the settlements were emptied, the Heavenly Dao believers never appeared, the deterrent power of the Earth Immortal was simply too strong.

Ren Qing also noticed that the internal affairs of the Heavenly Dao believers seemed to be becoming turbulent.

Their habit of worshiping the Heavenly Dao was to ascend to the upper realm through sacrifices, and in the rare sight of mortals, infighting naturally occurred.

Ren Qing had already seen several sacrificial ceremonies where they were indeed using their own kind.

Grand Dream Master was in charge of the settlements, and he had indeed not encountered any Heavenly Dao believers, but that did not mean there were no dangers outside.

Although the Turbid Immortals were nowhere to be seen, there were still many demonized Buddhas wandering around the world, existing in a state of immortality.

They encountered the Bodhisattva of Infinite Meaning, who could still be resurrected after being killed three times in a row.

In a moment of panic, the Lunar Star Lord thought of taking the opportunity to break free from the control of the Heavenly Court, but in the end, it was temporarily sealed by the Grand Dream Master, and the matter was dropped.

The Grand Dream Master also pulled the Lunar Star Lord's consciousness into a deep dream.

Under the gaze of the other Earth Immortals, the Lunar Star Lord's consciousness was almost completely obliterated in a few breaths, nearly dying in the deep dream.

The Grand Dream Master's warning was very useful, and this group of Earth Immortals immediately clarified their position.

They were brought back to the shelter and were responsible for nourishing countless brick magic tools, trying to shorten the interval of the Weird Embryo fusion.

The fate of being enslaved was destined to be unchangeable for the Earth Immortals.

The Imprisonment Hall also transferred the third batch of cultivators from the stomach world, this time numbering as many as two million, mostly low-level cultivators.

Their purpose was to improve the ecological chain of the shelter.

The Imprisonment Hall now consumes an extremely exaggerated amount of food every day. To ensure that the supply does not have accidents, Ren Qing is preparing to divide an area in the shelter for planting and breeding.

The shelter was being built in an orderly manner, but to fill more buildings, the streets were slightly narrow, and the street lights were powered by the spiritual mountain Buddha energy, maintaining a bright light.

Because low-level cultivators brought their families, the shelter was not without people living there.

Within a few years, all kinds of miscellaneous shops were opened on both sides of the street, and the signs were maintained at brightness with the spiritual mountain Buddha energy.

The Fleshly Body Tathagata has completely become the energy source for all walks of life.

Many furnaces for refining tools and elixirs use the spiritual mountain Buddha energy, after all, the shelter provides it without restriction, which is undoubtedly much easier.

It has a bit of a cyberpunk feel.

Ren Qing's seclusion was aimed at advancing to Corpse Disassembly Immortal in one fell swoop after hundreds of years.