The Secret Way of Immortality

The Buddha corpse used the throne beneath its feet to smash into the nearest flock of sheep, instantly turning several of the woolly creatures into a blur of minced meat.

The stench of blood filled the air.

The Buddha corpse then bent its arms and frantically devoured the blood and flesh with its head facing downwards.

The sheep were frightened by this and ran even faster, while the shepherd hurriedly directed them towards the canyon.

Logically, if Ren Qing wanted to use the shepherd to replenish the population of his stomach world, he could have taken the opportunity to save him.

He might even have been able to glean some useful clues.

However, he keenly sensed something strange.

The shepherds all rode on scrawny horses, wielding long whips to drive the sheep.

Yet, as the Buddha corpse chased after them, Ren Qing felt that the sheep's fear far outweighed that of the horses; the horses, on the contrary, seemed more startled by the sheep.

Animals have an instinct for avoiding disaster and can sense when danger is approaching.

Even when facing wolves, the horses wouldn't be so calm, which could only mean that the Buddha corpse's malice was mainly directed at the sheep, not the shepherds.

However, judging by the shepherd's terrified appearance, it didn't seem like they were feigning fear.

Ren Qing's brow furrowed even deeper, the plains revealing anomalies everywhere.

He had encountered such strange objects as Buddha corpses in the Heaven Above Heaven, which were essentially corpses warped by the erosion of Buddhist energy.

Buddhist energy alone wasn't enough; it also required various materials containing Buddhist energy.

Ren Qing himself didn't believe that there was no Buddhist force behind the Buddha corpse, let alone the fact that it was very likely related to Song Zongwu.

However, these Buddha corpses didn't contain even a trace of Buddhist energy. He couldn't be sure whether the Buddhist sect had done this intentionally.

"Could it be that Song Zongwu attracted them?"

Ren Qing pushed all kinds of pupil techniques to their limit, but still found nothing.

The shepherds were indeed ordinary mortals; at least, their flesh and bones showed no traces of spells, and their souls were naturally conceived.

The Warden Hall seemed to have inadvertently come into contact with some kind of scheme due to Song Zongwu's involvement.

After dozens of sheep were slaughtered by the Buddha corpse, the shepherds finally managed to approach the canyon.

They were then accepted, set up dwellings with the tents they carried, and chatted with each other in strange-sounding tones.

The Buddha corpse didn't choose to continue chasing; instead, it raised its throne and遁入了反方向 of the canyon, soon disappearing into the boundless plains.

"Ren Qing, have you discovered anything?"

Li Tiangang's voice rang out from outside the Wandering Serpent, and he quickly arrived beside Ren Qing.

He guessed that Ren Qing would go to the secondary brain first, so after noticing that Ren Qing had finished his closed-door cultivation, he immediately came to check on the situation.

Several tiger demons trembled, and then they noticed a familiar figure standing in the corner at some point, his arm still connected to the nerves of the forbidden corpse, seemingly sensing the outside world.

"Lord… Lord…"

Li Tiangang waved his hand, signaling the tiger demons to leave the secondary brain. The latter fled in panic, hurriedly boarding the ghost ship in the Blood River.

Ren Qing withdrew his arm and said in a low voice, "It's hard to say at the moment. Some things are… too normal."

"Yes… too normal."

Li Tiangang recalled the six-armed, headless body in the temple, and his emotions couldn't help but fluctuate, causing his skin and flesh to suddenly show a tendency to turn into pages.

Ren Qing reminded him, "Your Yang God realm cultivation is not yet stable, is it?"

"The Yang God realm was obtained through trickery. It will take several years before I am no longer affected by the alienation."

Given the flow of time in the stomach world, Li Tiangang should have spent twenty or thirty years stabilizing his cultivation during the five years that Ren Qing was in closed-door cultivation, indicating that the natal Golden Elixir was not without its drawbacks.

Ren Qing had no major problems taking the corpse pill, after all, the corpse pill and the Scripture of the Dead had the same goal by different routes, and there were also dream spells to help suppress it.

Li Tiangang didn't care about this. He was already lucky to have been promoted to the Yang God realm, and he didn't expect to be able to go further.

He only wanted to help Ren Qing strengthen the Warden Hall in his lifetime.

"In the past few days, I had cultivators use Gu worms to investigate the shepherds' tribe."

"The Gu worms weren't detected, were they?"

"No, they were specially cultivated fly worms that don't possess any spell aura."

Li Tiangang said in a deep voice that the herders' life trajectory was actually quite normal, but they would frequently trade sheep.

Usually, a trade would be conducted every three days.

Most trades involved exchanging single woolly sheep, but sometimes they could be exchanged for several times the number of woolly sheep. It was unknown what this meant.

In addition, the shepherds didn't care about the life or death of the sheep.

On the surface, they came to the canyon to avoid the Buddha corpse, but the surrounding fodder had been eaten away, and they didn't choose to migrate along the canyon.

The shepherds were only ten miles away from the forbidden corpse, and it was likely intentional.

Ren Qing couldn't help but release a dream flower and quietly approached the shepherds' tribe, but still couldn't find anything unusual.

He barely heard the shepherds' conversation, but unfortunately, he couldn't understand the language.

Ren Qing shook his head and said, "Senior Li, find an opportunity to get a woolly sheep, and… notify the artificers to complete the artifact transformation of the secondary brain's ears."

"Okay."

Li Tiangang agreed and immediately headed towards the stomach without further delay.

After receiving the task, the artificers set off for the Wandering Serpent's skull.

After five years of accumulation, their artifact forging skills had reached the point where they could independently engrave moon patterns, but the speed would be slower.

The artifact transformation of the ears then began, and Ren Qing asked Ghost Shadow to help assist.

Ren Qing wanted to figure out what the shepherds were saying, so he could only rely on spells. Fortunately, he had obtained a very special Warden Hall technique when he deduced with strange objects some time ago.

[Listening Ears]

[Created by the bandit Zhang, cultivation requires being born without ears, then piercing the head with iron needles along the position of the ears. One can only succeed if they survive.]

The aberrant paths of Listening Ears are all related to hearing, but they are not attack-based. The aberrant path of "Perceiver" is very suitable for the present.

Perceivers can detect hidden information from sounds.

However, since Listening Ears cannot be actively turned off, if a cultivator masters it, a constant stream of voices will be heard in their ears.

Listening Ears is good for refining strange fetuses, but cultivation can easily drive cultivators crazy.

Ren Qing had recently thrown Listening Ears into the Great Dream Art Building, marking the disadvantages and flaws on the cover of the technique, so no one paid attention to it.

"I wonder how the Corpse Mirror is doing?"

He realized the importance of the world in the mirror, and in a flash, he came to Xiao San'er's residence, which was located on the edge of the stomach.

If the shepherds were really involved with Song Zongwu, he had to figure out his current situation and might need to contact the Buddhist forces.

Although Ren Qing's divine power, Walking Among Humans, could silently replace someone, the Buddhist sect was, after all, specialized in playing with souls.

Mortals might have hidden tricks, or even be part of Buddhist spells.

In the sparsely populated grassland, using Walking Among Humans must be done with caution, but it can be used as a way to shrink the earth into inches.

The pseudo-dragonized arm released by Ren Qing can also become the target of Walking Among Humans. In terms of self-preservation ability, even Heavenly Guai realm cultivators are hard to match.

The reason he wanted to go to the world in the mirror was actually to obtain some Buddhist energy and then use dream flowers to disguise himself as a Buddhist cultivator.

There were definitely a considerable number of Buddhist cultivators among the thousands of bodies in the world in the mirror.

Even if their cultivation was gone, they would accumulate some spell aura over the years.

Even the contemporary Laughing Lion Arhat was imprisoned in the world in the mirror. One must know that the Arhat fruit position is a Heavenly Guai realm existence.

It didn't take Ren Qing long to find Xiao San'er, who was busy.

Xiao San'er deliberately moved his residence closer to the stomach, so that he could occasionally take out some of the forbidden corpse's flesh and blood to try refining it.

After all, the Corpse Mirror used the corpse of an immortal as material. It seemed that only the forbidden corpse could meet the conditions for imitating this kind of magic weapon.

Ren Qing didn't use the forbidden corpse to refine a large magic weapon.

He just wanted to open a side door in the world in the mirror and sneak in to obtain opportunities.

When Ren Qing saw Xiao San'er, the latter was already organizing his artifact forging manuscripts, which numbered dozens of pages, filled with complex moon patterns.

Xiao San'er was clearly immersed in the art of artifact forging, and his body had become much thinner.

"Senior Ren, you've arrived."

"It shouldn't be difficult to refine the Corpse Mirror, the main thing is that the artificer must master the relevant spells, otherwise the probability of success is not high…"

Xiao San'er breathed a sigh of relief and narrated endlessly, his spirit appearing extremely tense.

Ren Qing's expression was helpless, and he couldn't help but feel guilty. He touched Xiao San'er's brow with his index finger, causing him to fall asleep.

Xiao San'er had reached the first level of aberrant transformation a long time ago, but five years had passed without any progress. His peer, Han Li, was already attacking the Yin Messenger realm.

"Silly boy, I can't let you waste five years in vain…"

Ren Qing shook his head, and a faint dream flower magic weapon appeared in his palm. He then integrated the dream flower magic weapon into Xiao San'er's Niwan Palace.

He grunted and forcibly separated the dream flower magic weapon from himself, causing his main soul to sting.

However, Ren Qing only felt a sting. Even the bacterial soul couldn't affect the main soul, and separating the dream flower wouldn't damage the main soul.

In Ren Qing's eyes, dream flowers were not precious things. Several dream flowers could be produced every month, and the vines wrapped around the sick tree had spread all kinds of dream flowers.

But the meaning to Xiao San'er was different. He also mastered the double pupils of the Eyeless, and relying on the dream flower could save him a lot of detours.

Ren Qing planned to let Xiao San'er take charge of the artificers, and naturally didn't want to drain the pond to catch the fish.

He then left the house, memorizing the refining methods in the intervals of walking, and couldn't help but secretly praise Xiao San'er's talent.

Xiao San'er was actually able to innovate from the Strange Fetus Artifact Forging Method and create the "Demon Fetus Artifact Forging Method".

The Demon Fetus Artifact Forging Method goes in the opposite direction.

Xiao San'er used methods to attract strange objects to actively integrate into the main material. At this time, when refining the demon fetus artifact, the strange object would interfere with the refining process.

In this way, the refined demon fetus artifact would possess the ability of the spells it had before it became a strange object.

However, because the strange object's consciousness was not worn away, the magic weapon was difficult to control, and its potential for promotion was far inferior to that of the strange fetus artifact.

But Xiao San'er at least pointed out a new path.

With the Demon Fetus Artifact Forging Method, there was no need to start fusing with strange objects from the Martial Artist realm. Even Yang God realm strange objects could be refined into magic weapons.

Ren Qing began to prepare. Currently, he only had Ghost Envoy realm strange objects. It was still unknown whether he could sneak into the world in the mirror.

"Wait, there are so many cultivators in the world in the mirror…"

Ren Qing's face showed a smile, as if everything could be harvested like韭菜.

There's another chapter, please wait.