The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing did not spare the souls of the dead Buddhas, throwing them all into the Yellow Springs, maximizing the exploitation of the remaining resources in Jing Prefecture.

He glanced at the lake, where Buddhist energy was still spewing out corpses from nowhere, the water completely turned dark red, emitting a strong stench.

Ren Qing felt that the Buddhist energy was performing a ritual.

The corpses spread out on the lake surface, and if viewed from mid-air, the pattern resembled a blooming lotus flower, reflecting the Fortune Tathagata in the center.

With curiosity, Ren Qing collected several corpses into his stomach world.

As a result, not long after, the empty spaces on the lake surface where the corpses had been were filled with new corpses, keeping the lotus pattern intact.

"The missing tens of thousands of meritorious monks, the inexplicably appearing corpses, could there be a necessary connection?"

Ren Qing's heart was beating extremely fast, because according to his guess, he might have touched upon the secret of the great changes in this world.

What surprised him the most was that the Heavenly Gu Realm's hexagram showed "ominous with auspicious".

The ominous omen was shallower, while the auspicious omen was deeper, indicating that the Heavenly Gu Realm was willing to continue waiting and might get its wish.

However, Ren Qing's main body's hexagram showed "greatly ominous".

The ominous omen was still deepening, even tending towards a death omen, but after Ren Qing signaled the Heavenly Gu Realm to leave Jing Prefecture, the greatly ominous hexagram began to lean towards the ominous omen again.

To reduce variables, he used the Toe Separation Technique to increase the sense of crisis among the Heavenly Gu Realm.

Moreover, the ghost shadows cooperated in digging, and the tunnel leading to the outside world was already hundreds of meters long, not far from penetrating the inner world.

However, some Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators were inconsistent in their words and actions.

They outwardly wanted to leave Jing Prefecture, but in reality, they still harbored hope for the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pilgrimage, and had not thought of giving up even now.

The reason was that after the blood moon rose to a height of 20,000 meters, its speed slowed down, and it even seemed to stop moving forward.

"Hahaha, it's broken through!!!"

Taoist Pig's ecstatic voice came, and a violent gale blew out from the tunnel.

The Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators nearest to the tunnel suddenly had a layer of flesh shaved off their bodies, and even their throbbing internal organs could be seen clearly.

However, for cultivators with vigorous vitality, the gale was not fatal.

Several cultivators couldn't wait to take out magical artifacts to protect their bodies, and then went straight into the tunnel, falling to the ground with a sigh of relief.

Lord Elephant was uncertain, suppressing the urge to leave.

"Madam White Bone, what do you think?"

Madam White Bone covered her mouth and said with a chuckle, "It's indeed a bit unwilling. After being in Jing Prefecture for so long, we were played for fools."

As she spoke, she looked around with a strange gaze.

"But I advise you, Lord Elephant, don't lose your life..."

After Madam White Bone finished speaking, she entered the tunnel without hesitation.

Lord Elephant snorted coldly and went straight to the corpse elephant, inserting his arm into its spine.

With a tearing sound, the corpse elephant let out a painful roar, and a spine hundreds of meters long was pulled out from its body, dripping with blood.

Lord Elephant ignored the severely injured corpse elephant and bent down to enter the tunnel.

Mother Blood Bat rushed towards the Fortune Tathagata, but she was covered in injuries and still couldn't touch the fairy seat she had been longing for.

In fact, the Fortune Tathagata's Heavenly Dao transformation had been transferred, and if it weren't for being sealed by Buddhist energy, its state would even be more stable than it was in the Wuwei Taoist Temple.

After trying several times, Mother Blood Bat had no choice but to give up and crawled into the tunnel.

However, Ren Qing could sense that Mother Blood Bat seemed to be communicating with the insect nest, and they might be staring at the blood moon's movements, still not giving up on the fairy seat.

Fewer and fewer Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators were at the tunnel entrance. The remaining cultivators had less than 500 years of lifespan left, and came to Jing Prefecture to risk their lives for opportunities.

Even though the Toe Separation Technique affected their state of mind, their subconscious was too firm.

Ren Qing didn't waste any words, and the ghost shadows under his feet silently surged towards them, imprisoning them in the third floor of the underworld's prison one by one.

They only felt dizzy, and just now they were in the tunnel, but in an instant they came to a dark and damp prison cell, surrounded only by dim candlelight.

Taoist Pig's expression still retained the ecstasy of being about to escape.

He had hesitated for a moment, after all, he knew a lot of the Heavenly Court's secrets, and he was afraid of being held accountable by the Lingshan Tathagata afterwards.

When Taoist Pig entered the tunnel, he was imprisoned in the underworld's prison.

"As expected, I can't escape."

"Old Pig, I surrender, I am willing to join the Lingshan Tathagata's seat, someone, ah..."

Before Taoist Pig could finish speaking, the surrounding environment changed again, and a mountain peak that was familiar to him appeared in front of him.

He couldn't help but burst into tears.

Only Taoist Mu Snake could freely enter and exit the prison cell. He swept over the various cultivators and turned to go to the Yellow Springs on the second floor.

Most of the Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators imprisoned by Ren Qing were loners.

After he let go of the Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators who had the protection of great forces, he could use this to follow the clues and prepare for the future Immortal Sealing War.

The hexagram of Ren Qing's main body was also completely fixed on the ominous omen, indicating that the subsequent dangers in Jing Prefecture could no longer threaten him.

Jing Prefecture became silent, and the tunnel was also recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the lake water maintained its state of overflowing with Buddhist energy.

Ren Qing felt that an unfinished ritual was about to continue.

He planned to take the opportunity to deal with the insect fairy seat, and then no matter what happened, he would achieve his purpose and be in an invincible position.

Ren Qing passed by the corpse elephant and noticed that even though the latter had turned into a pile of minced meat, it still retained a faint trace of life.

It was a good material for transforming into a zombie.

He was about to collect the corpse elephant into his stomach world, but he found that there seemed to be a faint Yin energy hidden in its bones.

"Madam White Bone, I wonder what your purpose is for staying in Jing Prefecture?"

"Hehehehehe..."

The sound of bones colliding rang out from the corpse elephant's abdomen, and then the flesh cracked open, and a skeleton the size of a seven or eight-year-old child crawled out from inside.

Obviously, Madam White Bone had deliberately left a clone in Jing Prefecture.

"North Star Lord, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?"

Ren Qing smiled without saying a word, and the opened mouth produced a suction force, directly swallowing the corpse elephant into the underworld of the stomach world.

He handed the corpse elephant over to the Corpse Ghost to deal with, as the Corpse Vein was best at refining zombies.

"I don't care if you are the North Star Lord or the Dragon King of the Four Seas."

"Sooner or later, I will dig out the secrets of your Heavenly Court..."

Ren Qing sighed a long sigh and said with a pitying gaze, "As expected of Madam White Bone, you can even guess this."

"But... why bother."

The main body, far away in the Dragon Blood Sea, inserted its arm into the ghost shadow.

This caused the ghost shadow in Jing Prefecture to transform into a gateway, and then a pale arm stretched out from it, and an unspeakable aura burst out.

Madam White Bone was facing a great enemy, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

She wanted to transfer the soul in the clone to the Niwan Palace of the main body, but the body and soul did not have the slightest feedback.

Madam White Bone could only watch as the arm grabbed her, and terrifying Yin energy poured into the clone, and the soul was forcibly fused with the clone.

Her cultivation was greatly reduced, and she almost fell to the Yang God Realm.

"You are..."

"Who exactly are you..."

Madam White Bone's expression was relieved, and she shouted excitedly, "Immortal, there really are immortals in the Heavenly Court, jie jie jie jie!!!"

Ren Qing imprisoned Madam White Bone on the third floor of the underworld as well, as if he had completed an insignificant matter. This was the suppression of the undead by the Fengdu Corpse Emperor, and it was impossible to fight against him.

At the same time, Lord Elephant looked solemnly at Madam White Bone's main body. The skeleton that could not be destroyed by magical artifacts was turning into ashes inch by inch.

He couldn't help but look up at the blood moon, realizing that Madam White Bone was in great danger.

Lord Elephant changed his past violent and mindless behavior and calmly muttered to himself, "White Bone, what have I always said? In the face of absolute power, your methods are useless."

"You want to test whether the Heavenly Court has the inheritance of true immortals, and I am naturally willing to accompany you to test it, but I don't know if you will get your wish?"

He carefully collected the ashes, and then walked away without looking back.

After repeatedly confirming, there were no more cultivators in Jing Prefecture.

He unhurriedly came to the side of the insect fairy seat. The aura leaking from the mountain range was very terrifying, but it only felt like a fairy seat, not a living true immortal.

To be precise, it was a mass of flesh similar to a chrysalis, used to seal the fairy seat.

The information flow surged.

【Fairy Seat: Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal】

"So it's called the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal."

Seeing this, Ren Qing recalled the records of the Silkworm Mother in "Jian Zhi Bian": "Pray to the Grain Father, pray to the Silkworm Mother, help guide the benefit of agriculture and sericulture."

Overall, the Silkworm Mother was a god with a very niche reputation, whose duty was sericulture, and even temples were extremely rare.

The reason why the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal played a more important role than the Fortune Earth Immortal and the Lunar Star Lord was because it did not possess life.

True immortals would more or less resist the arrangements of the mastermind behind the scenes.

Ren Qing continued to deal with it in the old way, and Meng Hua led the ghost shadows into the Buddhist energy, and the mountain range immediately made a sound that made one's teeth itch.

He didn't plan to implant an immortal position again. Since it was an unowned fairy seat, he would just take it away.

The Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal might not be strong, but it was very suitable for Li Yaoyang. Perhaps after being refined by Li Yaoyang, it could exert unimaginable power.

While Ren Qing was cracking the Buddhist energy protection outside the fairy seat, the Fortune Tathagata in the lake once again erupted with a strong Buddhist energy.

The Fortune Tathagata was trapped by the Buddhist energy and inevitably became a medium for the mastermind behind the scenes, affecting the progress of the inexplicable ritual.

The mastermind behind the scenes clearly did not show up, but could easily manipulate true immortals for his own use.

Ren Qing accelerated Meng Hua's speed towards the interior of the Buddhist energy. As Meng Hua approached the fairy seat, he could hear the fragmented sounds of hundreds of insects awakening in early spring.

A corpse in the lake floated in mid-air in a cross-legged chanting posture, chanting strange scriptures along with the Fortune Tathagata.

As if drawing back the curtain, the corpses seemed to come alive.

The corpses' expressions were distorted, and their mouths roared with vague words, but Ren Qing could hear that they were full of unwillingness and anger.

"Why is it that I can never get what I seek in my life?!"

"Buddha, this disciple wants to cultivate into fruition!"

"Where exactly is the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss?!"

Ren Qing commanded a strand of spore soul to enter the Niwan Palace of the corpse.

As a result, he found that there were indeed souls of meritorious monks in the Niwan Palace, but they were all trapped in the "卍" character composed of Fixed Light Buddhist energy.

The Fixed Light Tathagata was clearly far beyond the Earth Immortal, but because he needed to maintain an inexplicable ritual, he was bound hand and foot.

"How does it feel..."

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself with a face full of disbelief, "Could it be that the mastermind behind the scenes is really involved in the Three Buddhas of Buddhism?"

The Buddhas of Jing Prefecture were all possessed by the souls of ancient monks.

Therefore, he suspected that the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes was the Fixed Light Buddha Son, using the connection between the Fixed Light Tathagata and the Past Buddha Dipankara Buddha to summon a large number of souls from five thousand years ago.

Ren Qing noticed that the souls of the meritorious monks were forcibly fixed in the Fixed Light Buddhist energy, but a suction force was constantly acting on the tens of thousands of souls.

If there was no Fixed Light Buddhist energy to protect them, the tens of thousands of souls might sink into the ground.

"Heavenly Dao?"

Ren Qing gasped in a breath of cold air. The mastermind behind the scenes had really done it, stimulating the meritorious monks in a way that allowed them to come into contact with the Three Dao Ancestors.

But why bind the souls?

Ren Qing was about to observe the souls of the meritorious monks in depth, but found that because the bodies of the meritorious monks had died, the suction of the Heavenly Dao was also gradually decreasing.

The Buddhist energy surged.

The Fixed Light Buddhist energy reluctantly separated a portion and swept across all parts of the deep world, wanting to find even one Heavenly Gu Realm cultivator.

Currently, there was only Ren Qing in the deep world, and even the mortals had been scoured clean.

Ren Qing was still a body composed of spore souls and did not possess a physical body.

The Fixed Light Buddhist energy rioted, and the temples in the Great and Small Buddhist Heavens turned into ruins, and finally returned to the lake without success.

Tens of thousands of corpses opened their eyes at the same time, staring at Ren Qing and roaring, "Flesh!!!"

"Return my flesh!!!"

The Fixed Light Buddhist energy illuminated the inner world like a small sun, and a figure gradually walked out from the Buddhist energy, and then disappeared without a trace.

Ren Qing's pupils shrank, and the main body and clone closed their eyes at the same time, and a broken Maitreya Buddha statue appeared in their minds.

The Maitreya Buddha was dressed as a Bodhisattva, sitting with his legs crossed, then with his left leg hanging down, his right leg bent, and his right hand supporting his laughing cheek.

However, on the Maitreya Buddha's belly, there was a human face with sunken and glowing eyes.

Every time the human face blinked, the Maitreya Buddha's body would continuously shatter, but the emitted Buddhist energy originated from the same source as the Fixed Light Tathagata.

"My name is Maitreya, you and I have met."

Maitreya Buddha's voice seemed to be pieced together from countless men, women, old and young.

Ren Qing had a strange premonition that the threat of the Maitreya Buddha did not seem to be great, far less than the scene when he first encountered the Ratnasambhava Buddha.

He even felt that as long as he used the Toe Separation Technique, he could easily shatter the Buddha statue.

"Maitreya Ancient Buddha, when have we met?"

"Maitreya, this cloud is also Maitreya."

Maitreya Buddha's smile remained, without containing the slightest malice, but the human face on his belly was the exact opposite, wanting to eat Ren Qing clean.

Ren Qing asked suspiciously, "Could it be that the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva is the Maitreya Buddha?"

"Then why don't you show yourself in the image of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva?"

"Perhaps you are not the Maitreya Buddha at all."

Maitreya Buddha maintained his smile, but as if Ren Qing had discovered the secret hidden in his heart, his eyes became more and more terrifying: "I am willing to exchange the method of stepping into the Immortal Dao with you, just sixteen cultivators with the cultivation of immortal guests."

"Or three hundred ordinary cultivators, five hundred thousand mortals..."

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and finally both faces shouted hysterically, "Quickly bring the flesh, quickly!!!"

"Return my flesh!!!"

Ren Qing stared at Maitreya Buddha fearlessly for a long time, because the content displayed by the information flow had already explained everything.

【Buddha Soul】

【Affected by the aura of Maitreya Buddha, it can make the corpse incorruptible for many years and transform it into an indestructible golden body after consumption.】

“You are just a thought of Maitreya Buddha from thousands of years ago. Do you really think you are a Buddha?”

Maitreya Buddha seemed to have his sore spot stepped on by Ren Qing, unable to maintain his original composure at all, and karmic fire burned from all over his body.

“You don’t understand the great righteousness of Buddhism. I… as long as I can seal the Heavenly Dao…”

“Seal the Heavenly Dao?! !"

Ren Qing exuded the aura of a Heavenly Gu Realm technique, instantly suppressing the phantom of Maitreya Buddha.

He realized that what Maitreya Buddha said was true, because the Lunar Star Lord was a solid container, and the bottom of the lake where the Merit Monk was located was an unfathomable cave.

Ren Qing now knew why the Dingguang Buddha Qi wanted to bind the soul of the Merit Monk.

It was to use tens of thousands of souls to bring the Three Dao Ancestors to the present world, using the Lunar Star Lord as a container, Fortune Land Immortal and Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal as supplements, plus a wisp of Dingguang Buddha Qi.

Maybe there was really hope of sealing the Three Dao Ancestors.

Maitreya Buddha needed more flesh and blood from the Heavenly Gu Realm as sacrifices, but unfortunately Ren Qing interfered, causing the plan to be unable to continue.

“You variable, why don’t you understand the great righteousness of Buddhism!!!”

The Merit Monk roared heart-breakingly, his body collapsing even faster. After all, it was just a fragile thought, and it could easily dissipate.

“Forget it.”

Ren Qing couldn’t obtain any useful memories from his thoughts, and he didn’t want to waste any more words with Maitreya Buddha, so he directly let the Mycelium Souls swarm up.

Maitreya Buddha had no power to resist, and his thoughts immediately became fragmented, failing every time he tried to gather them.

Ren Qing felt that even if Buddhism wanted to seal the Heavenly Dao, it would never be out of good intentions.

Even if the Three Dao Ancestors went mad, as long as they were in charge of this world, the Three Worlds Buddhas of Buddhism would not be able to make any waves.

Wait……

Ren Qing had seen the appearance of Dipamkara Buddha in the memory of the Nameless Ascetic Monk.

Most of Dipamkara Buddha’s body had melted into a candle shape.

Ren Qing had preconceivedly believed at the time that Dipamkara Buddha was about to become the Heavenly Dao, but now it seemed that the truth might be the opposite.

If complete Heavenly Daoization was the heyday of Dipamkara Buddha, then absorbing karmic fire from other Buddhas was to recover from his injuries.

Combining Ren Qing’s experience of directly creating the “Tathagata Buddha Seat” after implanting a Celestial Position into the *Tathagata’s Intrinsic Self Sutra*.

“………”

He felt that he was very close to the truth of this world, at least part of the truth.

“The Three Dao Ancestors had a battle with the Three Worlds Buddhas, resulting in the death of Tathagata Ancient Buddha, the severe injury of Dipamkara Ancient Buddha, and the escape of Maitreya Ancient Buddha.”

If Ren Qing didn’t interfere with Jing Province, the Blood Moon might seal a Dao Ancestor, even if it was only for a few breaths, Maitreya Buddha might be able to revive or return to this world.

Maitreya Ancient Buddha was probably not just a remnant thought. The Three Worlds Buddhas must have other plans, otherwise Jing Province wouldn’t have gone so smoothly at the beginning.

Among the four Hive Mothers of the Insect Nest, one is related to the Three Worlds Buddhas, otherwise the Insect Nest couldn’t have cooperated so much with the layout of Jing Province at the beginning.

Ren Qing quickly controlled the clone of Jing Province.

Due to the lack of sacrifices of flesh and blood from the Heavenly Gu Realm, the Merit Monk gradually dissipated, but was forcibly gathered by the Dingguang Buddha Qi.

Ren Qing covered the ground with Ghost Shadows, forming a path to the world within his stomach.

Gray-white arms stretched out from the path, and the aura of the Corpse Sutra leaked out, causing the Lunar Star Lord and Fortune Earth Immortal to stir at the same time.

When the upper body of the Forbidden Corpse appeared, the aura of the Corpse Sutra became even stronger.

Ren Qing cast a hexagram for the clone, which had changed from ominous to death omen, and a crack ran through the tortoise shell, which came from the Corpse Immortal.

Dark clouds shrouded the top of the Blood Moon, and the Corpse Immortal loomed.

“It still doesn’t seem safe enough…”

You must know that Dingguang Tathagata is an existence above the Earth Immortal, and even three True Immortals are not enough for him to squander, at least he has to summon Immortals and Buddhas of the same realm.

Ren Qing simply poured out all the Demonic Qi he had collected that year.

The Demonic Qi eroded the mountains, rocks, plants and trees of Jing Province, and the materials gradually transformed into flesh and blood, forming independent Black Goats.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh……

Chains fell from the clouds, directly piercing into the flesh of the Lunar Star Lord.

The Corpse Immortal descended on Jing Province again, and after feeling the threat from the Forbidden Corpse, he did not hesitate to attack the Lunar Star Lord.

Ren Qing hadn’t seen the Corpse Immortal for a long time, and felt that the latter no longer had the original madness.

Nameless didn’t try to keep the Corpse Immortal away, so Ren Qing used the Corpse Immortal’s instinct to easily lure him to Jing Province.

The Lunar Star Lord shook violently, desperately trying to get rid of the control of the Dingguang Buddha Qi under the threat of the Corpse Immortal’s death.

The Blood Moon was riddled with holes, and the silver-white liquid dripping from the wounds turned into Rabbit Cicadas, falling to the ground from high altitude.

The Fortune Earth Immortal also sensed something was wrong, and was also trying his best to resist.

The two True Immortals simultaneously expelled the Dingguang Buddha Qi. Even if the Buddha Qi was a major tier higher than the Earth Immortal, it didn’t mean it could crush them.

The movement in the high altitude was deafening, and the melee of Immortals and Buddhas almost tore the space apart.

The deep world had shown signs of collapse, but the Dingguang Buddha Qi was still thinking of maintaining stability, but unfortunately it couldn’t stop it at all.

Ren Qing then took back the Mycelium Soul into the Niwan Palace, followed by the Celestial Position of the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal.

Even if he knew that the Celestial Position would be able to free up the Dingguang Buddha Qi to solve several True Immortals if it left the shackles of the Dingguang Buddha Qi, it would be enough to achieve his goal of destroying Maitreya Buddha’s plan.

The Celestial Position was stuffed into the Ghost Shadow body with great difficulty, and then transported to the world within his stomach.

Ren Qing hadn’t put the Celestial Position into the world within his stomach before, of course, also because most of the Celestial Positions he had come into contact with had already become the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Daoization of the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal was thoroughly absorbed by Dingguang Tathagata, and 80% was used to restore Dipamkara Ancient Buddha’s injuries.

So the Celestial Position was very stable, and Ren Qing was not afraid of damaging the world within his stomach.

The moment the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal came to the world within his stomach, all kinds of insects, whether on land or in the ocean, became extremely active.

Millions of locust plagues formed from the south, spreading overwhelmingly.

Ren Qing quickly sent the Celestial Position to the Dragon Blood Sea, and like the Celestial Position of the Wind God Bó Qiáng, it was sealed in an unknown corner of the deep sea.

When the clone in the deep world disappeared using the Heavenly Demon Possession, it meant that Ren Qing had successfully escaped from Jing Province.

Before Ren Qing lost his eyes in Jing Province, he could sense that the Supreme Heavenly Demon was coming.

After all, the Corpse Immortal was tricked by the Forbidden Corpse, and after discovering the Supreme Heavenly Demon, he chose to escape at the first time, leaving a mess.

The Supreme Heavenly Demon, facing two Gu Immortals who were not Heavenly Daoized at all, and Dingguang Tathagata, seemed to be aroused by his ferocity, and the Heavenly Demon Qi was overwhelming.

Even if Ren Qing was in the Dragon Blood Sea, he could feel the earth-shattering Jing Province, which was far from being comparable to the Blood Moon’s battle against the Heavenly Dao Insects.

He knew that the Supreme Heavenly Demon came from the gourd of the Moral Heavenly Lord, and he didn’t know to what extent he had reached, but he was definitely more than an Earth Immortal.

Involving the war of Immortals and Buddhas, it can be foreseen that it will last for a long time.

Through the Celestial Position, Ren Qing could perceive the state of the two True Immortals, and the Heavenly Daoization that had disappeared had rekindled.

It can be seen that the Supreme Heavenly Demon should be in an absolute advantage.

【I had a fever after testing positive, took some antipyretics and continued writing. I don’t think it has much impact, but the side effects make me want to vomit and feel nauseous, which greatly affects my coding.】