The Secret Way of Immortality

The gaunt man chanted the Dream Butterfly Art, his soul instantly emitting the unique aura of a Nightmare Demon, distorting the surrounding light.

"A'Liang, A'Liang..."

When his bedridden wife called out to the gaunt man, he immediately returned to normal and hurried to check on her.

Using the Matchmaker Immortal's red string, Ren Qing could vaguely sense the aura of the gaunt man's soul and immediately realized that something was wrong.

He had originally thought that after the Dream Weaver transformed into a mortal, the alienation of his body and soul would be suppressed by instinct under the influence of the art.

However, the gaunt man's soul was extremely normal, with only a faint aura of a Nightmare Demon.

"Could it be that this person is not the Dream Weaver, or is there some arrangement in place?"

Ren Qing frowned slightly, suddenly noticing a suspicious point. If the Dream Weaver had no memory, why would he participate in the ennoblement of immortal positions?

But the gaunt man named "A'Liang" did indeed possess the aura of the Dream Weaver…

Ren Qing had the Mycelial Soul monitor A'Liang, while his main soul prepared to communicate with the immortal position again, only to receive information transmitted by other Mycelial Souls.

His expression immediately turned surprised, and he hurriedly checked the souls connected to the other red strings.

After reviewing a large number of images, the second Dream Weaver appeared, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth…

Among the men and women controlled by the Matchmaker Immortal, at least one-tenth emitted the soul aura of the Dream Weaver, and they were distributed throughout the world.

"What the hell."

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes, and thousands of Mycelial Souls emerged from his Niwan Palace, slowly descending towards the deep sea under the protection of the Ghost Shadow.

The Mycelial Souls were also mixed with tens of thousands of various disease pathogens, like a bomb that could easily destroy the ecology of a thousand-mile radius.

The Ghost Shadow, mixed with the Mycelial Souls, arrived at the bottom of the deep-sea trench in just half a day.

During this time, Ren Qing carefully observed, but did not find any trace of the Matchmaker Immortal, as if the Fish Belly World did not exist at all.

The Mycelial Souls arrived among the mountain of discarded magical artifacts, with schools of sea fish overhead.

Ren Qing had the Ghost Shadow accommodate the disease pathogens, while the thousand Mycelial Souls burrowed into the bellies of the fish, each communicating with the associated souls along the red strings.

A large amount of memory flooded into his mind. If it weren't for the tens of thousands of Mycelial Souls sharing the burden, even a Heavenly Ghoul realm cultivator would have suffered a headache.

Ren Qing braced himself and began to distinguish the aura of the souls, gradually filtering them.

What surprised him in the end was that a total of three hundred and seventy-eight men, one hundred and sixty-five women, and six hundred and twenty-one children had the same aura as the Dream Weaver.

"Who knows if Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, or the butterfly dreamed it was Zhuang Zhou?"

【Dream Butterfly Art】

【Enlightened from dreams by the Dream Weaver, cultivation requires thirty days of sleeplessness and visualization of the Nightmare Demon in the dream. Only those who survive can master it.】

As a secondary art to the No-Eyed Art, Ren Qing rarely cultivated the Dream Butterfly Art, and had even forgotten the method of cultivation.

It was then that he realized that the Dream Butterfly Art could project consciousness into the Soul Butterfly.

Like Zhuang Zhou's Butterfly Dream, cultivators use the Soul Butterfly to experience the experiences of all kinds of people in the world, thereby promoting the cultivation of the art.

If Ren Qing was right, the Dream Weaver's soul was still in a deep dream, controlling hundreds of sub-souls in the outside world.

One breath in the outside world might be more than several years in the deep dream, giving him enough time to digest the insights brought by the sub-souls.

"However, the Dream Weaver's No-Eyed Art should only be a sub-soul…"

Wait, wasn't the Dream Weaver's departure from Xiangxiang for the Grand Duke of Jupiter?

Ren Qing could breed ten thousand Mycelial Souls, which was also related to the Grand Duke of Jupiter Sutra. If the Dream Weaver could obtain the remains of the Grand Duke of Jupiter, it would not be difficult to differentiate into thousands of sub-souls.

He couldn't help but sigh. These cultivators who could create the Forbidden Jail Art were indeed pure in their Dao hearts, willing to pay any price to set foot on the path to immortality.

The Dream Weaver, like the Buddha, was quite ruthless to himself.

According to Ren Qing's estimation, the Dream Weaver had been in the deep dream for at least several decades, and had experienced countless joys and sorrows.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have to accept a massive amount of emotions and memories every moment. Even if they didn't go crazy, their self-awareness would gradually be forgotten.

He wondered if the Dream Weaver had reached the Heavenly Ghoul realm?

Ren Qing immediately denied it. Each small realm of the Yang God realm's Forbidden Jail Art was a difficult hurdle. The Dream Weaver should only be able to reach the Deathless Immortal.

Next was the pursuit of the Immortal Ascension Ladder. Could it be that the Dream Weaver was asking for something from him?

Ren Qing looked at the hundreds of mortals transformed by the Dream Weaver's sub-souls. Because their souls were filled with the aura of the Nightmare Demon, none of them possessed the qualifications for cultivation.

Even if they accidentally came into contact with arts, it would be difficult for them to get started.

Ren Qing immediately understood and began to instill the content of the Dream Butterfly Art into all the sub-souls. Soon, many people unconsciously began to cultivate.

After the sub-souls mastered the Dream Butterfly Art, their souls would uncontrollably alienate towards the Nightmare Demon, eventually becoming more and more similar to the Dream Weaver.

At that time, the main soul would escape from the deep dream and devour the sub-souls, thereby advancing to the Yang God realm's perfection and ascending the Immortal Ascension Ladder to face the Heavenly Dao directly.

For mortals, the Dream Weaver's actions were indeed somewhat cruel.

However, with the Dream Butterfly Art's strict cultivation conditions, the sub-souls would have to experience at least several decades to achieve the expected complete alienation.

Almost a lifetime would have passed.

Seeing this, Ren Qing couldn't help but feel emotional. He possessed the information stream. If he couldn't attain enlightenment and become an immortal, he might as well smash his head against the wall.

Speaking of which, how did the Dream Weaver manage to use the Matchmaker Immortal?

His breathing became rapid, and his eyes stared intently at the schools of fish.

Since the Dream Weaver could use the Matchmaker Immortal for cultivation, there was no reason why Ren Qing couldn't. It might even be that the Matchmaker Immortal could no longer awaken.

Ren Qing had been considering how to induce the various forces to pursue the immortal position.

As long as the first batch of Heavenly Ghoul realm cultivators appeared to try to refine the immortal position, the situation would be like a rolling wheel, sweeping across the world.

Ren Qing could control the Matchmaker Immortal, and through the red string, he could have a more extensive network than the Buddha, radiating hundreds of forces.

Thinking of this, he began to prepare to integrate the Ghost Immortal Position into the Matchmaker Immortal.

The breakthrough from Heaven and Earth Generating One to Dao Generating One must also be put on the agenda. There were too few vacant immortal positions at present. Relying solely on the Ghost Immortal Position to balance the Matchmaker Immortal would definitely not be enough.

Ren Qing didn't rush to release the Ghost Immortal Position. Even if the Matchmaker Immortal wasn't a fully powerful Earth Immortal, it wasn't something that a Heavenly Ghoul realm cultivator like him could provoke.

He signaled the Ghost Shadow to release disease pathogens. Among the tens of thousands of diseases, there would always be some that could take effect on the Matchmaker Immortal.

Ren Qing's main body also busied himself, performing the Ancestral Vein Derivation Art to allow the Dragon Blood Ecology to spread towards the seabed, covering the canyon first.

The dragons in the sea seemed to sense Ren Qing's call and immediately boiled over.

Most of them were small fish and shrimp, and their bloodlines only reached the scale carp level. Not a single giant creature in the hundreds of meters deep sea had been transformed.

But the whales in the shallow sea had almost all fallen.

Only a long cry was heard on the surface of the sea.

A whale covered in scales jumped out of the water, and as its fins flapped, it actually glided in the low air for dozens of meters before slamming into the water.

The Jiaoren tribe imprisoned in the Ghost Ship was also released in its entirety.

They hesitated for a moment, and after not feeling any pressure from Ren Qing, they jumped into the turbulent seawater, hunting the sea fish to their heart's content.

The leader of the Jiaoren was a "虺虫" named Benbo'er, whose art had reached the Half-Corpse realm, and whose intelligence was not much different from ordinary people.

Ren Qing saved the Jiaoren from having to develop from scratch, so he transmitted the various knowledge from the Mermen there to Benbo'er, allowing them to be stationed in the shallow sea.

When their strength allowed, they could go to the deep sea to collect resources such as minerals.

Ren Qing stood in mid-air, the Casket Dragon Roar covering dozens of miles.

This caused the Dragon Blood Coral to spread rapidly. Its appearance seemed to be a plant, but in reality, it was an aquatic animal with the instinct to eat and reproduce.

Dragon Blood fruits matured one by one, attracting dragons to compete for them.

The biggest beneficiaries were those whales without natural enemies. Several of them directly crossed from scale carp to 虺虫, not far from Jiaoshe.

Ren Qing set about perfecting the Dragon Blood Ecology.

He targeted the aquatic plants, irrigating them with dragon blood and modifying them with the Casket Dragon Roar to allow the plants to better adapt to the environment.

The aquatic plants contained a small amount of dragon blood, and prolonged consumption could cause the dragons to transform.

Ren Qing's face showed joy, because as the dragons gradually became stronger, the speed at which the cracks in the Heavenly Dao healed also accelerated.

Presumably, True Immortals use themselves to influence the rules of the world to help increase their cultivation.

The underwater canyon was equivalent to a wooden barrel. Ren Qing had already closed the entrances and exits, and it was only a matter of time before the Dragon Blood Ecology completely covered it.

In just a few months, aquatic plants covered the underwater canyon within 20,000 meters.

The dragons had not yet reached such a depth, after all, they had to advance to Jiaoshe before their body strength could withstand the water pressure of 20,000 meters.

The deep-sea giants were forced to move to live at 25,000 meters.

Ren Qing did not continue to kill them all. The deep-sea behemoths were hundreds of meters long at every turn, and their bodies could be compared to the Yang God realm, so dragonification was indeed more troublesome.

Unless he went to the deep sea himself, but after all, it involved True Immortals, so there was no need to take risks.

The Ghost Shadow's probing of the Matchmaker Immortal finally paid off. Among the tens of thousands of disease pathogens, only the "Soul Loss Pathogen" could coexist with the Matchmaker Immortal.

The Soul Loss Pathogen usually acts on creatures with damaged souls.

Ren Qing used his Toe Separation Art to observe the Soul Loss Pathogen, and the appearance of the Matchmaker Immortal appeared in his mind.

The Matchmaker Immortal's appearance was similar to a salamander, with its limbs on the ground, red threads on both sides of its head, and a suction force generated out of thin air between breaths.

The tail was somewhat strange, with countless infant skeletons attached to the flesh, and the mouth frantically gnawing, causing the Matchmaker Immortal's flesh to be exposed.

"The Matchmaker Immortal's Niwan Palace really has no soul."

Ren Qing's Toe Separation Art could pull creatures with disease pathogens into a dream, but he couldn't find the Matchmaker Immortal's soul at all.

Instead, he became excited, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to compare the Matchmaker Immortal to a living immortal artifact.

"Why not play a big game and drive the Heavenly Ghouls to collect immortal positions for me."

Ren Qing's eyes flickered with danger as he simultaneously controlled the Ghost Immortal Position to integrate into the Matchmaker Immortal.

The Matchmaker Immortal had no soul and only instinct left. The Ghost Immortal Position definitely couldn't threaten True Immortals, so it integrated into it very smoothly.

Ren Qing felt a weak connection with the Matchmaker Immortal. The latter did have about 20% of Heavenly Dao transformation, and the recovery speed was extremely slow.

It was a pity that the Ghost Immortal Position was too low in rank. If it were an Earth Immortal Position, it should be able to barely influence the Matchmaker Immortal's actions. He wondered how many Heavenly Ghoul realm cultivators among the associated cultivators could be used.

Ren Qing glanced at the cracks in the Heavenly Dao on the surface of the tortoise shell, which were barely enough to consume more than 10,000 years of lifespan. He should advance the Disaster Elimination Art first.