The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing hesitated at the cave entrance, with no intention of going in person.

As for the usually invincible Mycelial Soul, it couldn't survive in the depths of the Buddhist realm due to the intense Demonic aura.

As long as the Mycelial Soul was exposed to the air, it would turn to ashes in a few breaths, let alone the pathogens.

Even though both had some resistance to the Demonic aura, the gap between the Heavenly Guile realm and the Earth Immortal was too great.

Ren Qing subconsciously glanced at the divination symbols on the tortoise shell, which still read "ominous with auspiciousness."

However, he could clearly see that the ominous omen had reached the point of extreme misfortune, indicating that there was danger in entering the pit.

The reason it hadn't reached a death omen was mainly because Ren Qing's spells could be cast smoothly.

Ren Qing could instantly leave the Buddhist realm through Demonic Possession, or he could complete reincarnation after death, reviving with the help of Deathless Rebirth.

After hesitating for a moment, he let the Ghost Shadow under his feet go towards the bottom of the cave.

The Ghost Shadow was the only thing that could resist the Demonic aura and move freely in the Buddhist realm, although it couldn't completely resist the erosion of the Demonic aura.

As soon as the Ghost Shadow left Ren Qing by a hundred meters, it made a sizzling sound, and the shadow actually showed signs of boiling like boiling water.

Fortunately, the Ghost Shadow had no intelligence. Although it felt a little uncomfortable, it still followed Ren Qing's order and extended towards the bottom along the cave entrance.

Ren Qing diverted some of his mind to maintain the operation of the Demonic Tribulation, ready to cast Demonic Possession at any time.

At the same time, his consciousness descended into the Ghost Shadow, allowing him to better observe the situation in the cave and find traces of the Three Immortal Seats.

He faintly sensed that the Lunar Star Lord and the Earth Immortal of Fortune were underground, in a strange state of being half-dead.

The cave walls were corroded, and the soil formed crystalline particles.

It was as if a hot iron ball had been thrown into an ice block, and the high temperature of the iron ball melted the ice, causing the iron ball to slide down continuously.

Ren Qing frowned, feeling that this didn't seem like a conscious act of the Lunar Star Lord, but rather that some change had occurred, causing the Lunar Star Lord to inadvertently leak demonic energy.

He accelerated the speed of the Ghost Shadow. Since the Lunar Star was constantly falling, it was better to find the location of the Immortal Seat as soon as possible.

Ren Qing deduced from the width of the cave entrance that the volume of the Lunar Star Lord had been increasing, from five or six thousand meters to just over ten thousand meters, but the fall had slowed down instead.

Although the Ghost Shadow was extremely malleable, it couldn't be stretched indefinitely.

After the length of the Ghost Shadow exceeded five thousand meters, it had actually reached its limit. Ren Qing had to self-destruct the Ghost Shadows used as spies in various areas to replenish the Ghost Shadow's body.

Unconsciously, more than ten days passed.

Ren Qing's spirit was highly concentrated, and he had no energy to pay attention to the movements outside the Buddhist realm, even entrusting the Heavenly Court to the Mycelial Soul to handle.

It wasn't that he was afraid that the Dipamkara Buddha would suddenly return to the Buddhist realm, after all, the divination symbols could show clues.

The main reason was that the oppressive feeling brought by the Earth Immortal was too terrifying, and even if Ren Qing had been promoted to the Perfected Heavenly Guile realm, he couldn't completely eliminate it.

This kind of mental torture can easily drive people crazy.

To resist the invisible aura of the Earth Immortal, Ren Qing partially transformed his body into the Earth Ancestor of Zhenyuan, using the Immortal Seat to help himself escape the predicament.

He took a deep breath, and a gleam of light burst out from the eyes of his skin.

Ren Qing's internal organs gradually transformed into jade, and his body also soared from just over two meters to about ten meters, with a surging aura unique to the Heavens and Earth gestating within him.

The darkness couldn't help but surge, as the Earth Ancestor of Zhenyuan, as an Immortal Seat that ruled a small world, was already very close to the concept of a True Immortal.

If someone saw it, they would definitely be surprised by Ren Qing's image.

The immortalization of Ren Qing's internal organs indirectly affected his limbs and body, causing his shoulders to become thicker and his elongated hands to droop to his knees.

It couldn't be considered immortal demeanor, but one could feel that he was different from ordinary people.

"Huh?"

Ren Qing looked surprised, possibly because the Ghost Shadow belonged to the same body and was also blessed by the Immortal Body, it actually resisted the erosion of the Demonic aura.

The Ghost Shadow took the opportunity to extend wildly, penetrating more than a thousand meters in a moment.

When the speed of the Ghost Shadow slowed down again, Ren Qing finally felt the demonic energy of the Blood Moon, mixed with the true essence of the Heavenly Dao.

And a unique medicinal fragrance, most likely originating from the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal.

Ren Qing came to the Ghost Shadow's perspective, the cave was a full fourteen thousand meters wide, and the huge Lunar Star Lord appeared in the distance.

There were facial features on the surface of the Blood Moon, with a ferocious expression, closed eyes, and a chaotic demonic aura, obviously in a deep sleep.

Massive tentacles covered the Blood Moon, even the mouth of the Lunar Star Lord was filled with tentacles, and the tentacles resembled the body of the Heavenly Dao Insect.

The rabbit-toad cultivators on the Blood Moon were all half-hanging by the tentacles, with the ends of the tentacles connected to the back of their heads, responsible for providing nutrients for the Earth Immortal of Fortune.

Ren Qing searched carefully for a long time, but did not find the existence of the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal.

In order to allow the Ghost Shadow to observe the Lunar Star Lord in detail, Ren Qing simply jumped into the cave, but only stayed at a thousand meters.

Ren Qing dug a foothold of more than ten meters on the cave wall, sat cross-legged inside, and then continued to focus on the Lunar Star Lord.

The Ghost Shadow quickly extended a thousand meters, directly reaching the vicinity of the Blood Moon.

The Lunar Star Lord did not react to the existence of the Ghost Shadow at all, as if it were dead, let alone the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal and the Earth Immortal of Fortune.

Ren Qing instructed the Ghost Shadow to separate a large number of Shadow Dragons. Although they could not exist for long, they could figure out the truth of the Blood Moon.

After the Shadow Dragons approached the Blood Moon, they found that the exterior was already riddled with holes.

Dense holes were all over it, and wriggling tentacles could be seen inside. The whole thing was like a piece of meat hollowed out by maggots.

"Impossible."

"In terms of strength, the Lunar Star Lord should be better than the Earth Immortal of Fortune."

The main manifestation of the Earth Immortal of Fortune is the reproduction of offspring after transforming into a leyline, while the Lunar Star Lord is a pure war machine.

Ren Qing had seen it before, the Blood Moon instantly created hundreds of millions of rabbit-toads, each with the cultivation of the Yang God realm, and still growing.

During the battle in Jing Province, the Lunar Star Lord also had the advantage.

Even if both were trapped by the Dipamkara Buddha, but were equally severely injured, the Lunar Star Lord would not become the host for the Earth Immortal of Fortune to parasitize, right?

Ren Qing did not believe it and looked for clues, then noticed many strange things.

The figure of the Earth Immortal of Fortune could not be seen on the surface of the Blood Moon at all, possibly the Earth Immortal of Fortune had parasitized the core area of the Lunar Star Lord.

But if the two Immortals were to fight each other, it would be difficult for a True Immortal to be captured.

Ren Qing's expression became complicated, and he muttered to himself, "So, the parasitic relationship between the Earth Immortal of Fortune and the Lunar Star Lord may be forced by the situation?"

He had another discovery, part of the Lunar Star Lord's body did emit a weak true essence, and demonic energy was mixed in it.

Ren Qing's brows suddenly relaxed.

The deterrent power of the Dipamkara Buddha was too strong, plus the two Immortals were seriously injured.

They instinctively chose to huddle together to resist the erosion from the Dipamkara Buddha. The Lunar Star Lord took the initiative to let the Earth Immortal of Fortune parasitize, using the strength of the two True Immortals to resist the Buddhist realm.

Finally, it became the deformed appearance that Ren Qing currently saw.

The development of the situation was indeed a bit absurd, but facing the Demonic Dipamkara Buddha, it was normal for the Earth Immortal to have no power to resist.

They could survive mainly because the Dipamkara Buddha was not interested in the Earth Immortal.

Of course, the fusion of the Lunar Star Lord and the Earth Immortal of Fortune was not very successful. The image was very close to a Turbid Immortal, and it seemed that all reason was lost.

For Ren Qing, it was not good news.

Wanting to strip the Immortal Seat from it was no less difficult than directly killing the Earth Immortal, and that was without considering the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal.

Ren Qing let the Ghost Shadow drill into the interior from the holes in the Blood Moon to see if there was a chance.

If it really didn't work, he could only give up the three Immortal Seats that he thought were a sure thing. Anyway, Ren Qing already had four Immortal Seats in his hands.

The space inside the Blood Moon was like a small world, full of strange and inexplicable Heavenly Dao Insects.

The Heavenly Dao Insects had human characteristics, but they were deformed organs. They bit each other to obtain food.

Ren Qing's feeling was that the Earth Immortal of Fortune had completely gone mad.

He directly ignored the Heavenly Dao Insects and, according to the position in his memory, let the Shadow Dragon head towards the core of the Lunar Star Lord.

Ren Qing's heart was pounding wildly. If he couldn't obtain the Immortal Seat, his plan would at least lose 20% of its certainty.

After all, the remnant will of the Maitreya Ancient Buddha set up the restricted area using the Lunar Star Lord and the Earth Immortal of Fortune, and the two were prerequisites for reaching the restricted area.

He could copy the homework, and the difficulty would undoubtedly be reduced a lot. At that time, the remnant will of the Maitreya Ancient Buddha did not show strength far exceeding the Heavenly Guile realm.

Boom boom boom boom...

The Shadow Dragon's strength alone was only at the Ghost Envoy realm, and it was easy to die in the hands of the Heavenly Dao Insects.

Ren Qing could only guarantee that the Ghost Shadow would supply it continuously. This would definitely be the most stable way to act, but the process was a bit torturous.

He maintained various spells, and his consciousness was immersed in the casting of the spells.

Ren Qing didn't know how many Shadow Dragons had died because of this, until a Shadow Dragon came to the core, and he came back to his senses in a trance.

He quickly descended his consciousness into the Shadow Dragon.

The Shadow Dragon's head swelled up, and an eye grew out in a few breaths, barely gaining the ability to see in the dark.

Ren Qing looked up and was immediately shocked by the core of the Lunar Star Lord.

A fleshy tumor like a heart was suspended in mid-air, with vascular tentacles covering the inside and out, and a hairless rabbit face appeared.

The upper body of the Earth Immortal of Fortune was exposed, and the lower body was growing together with the core.

The beautiful face of the woman had turned into a wrinkled human monster, and the internal organs were hanging on the chest and abdomen, as if a person had been turned inside out.

The Earth Immortal of Fortune was squeezing the Lunar Star Lord, and the rabbit face should represent the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal.

The current Three Immortal Seats should be the Lunar Star Lord joining forces with the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal to fight against the Earth Immortal of Fortune, so that they are in a delicate balance.

Ren Qing guessed that the Medicine-Pounding Rabbit Immortal should have been summoned by the Lunar Star Lord when he was dying.

He didn't know what kind of indescribable thing the Three Immortal Seats would become if they continued to develop, but it was not what he wanted to see at the moment.

"How is it possible to strip them away? Any action may lead to a thunderbolt..."

Ren Qing exhaled a long breath, thinking about any possible ways, but after racking his brains for several days, he seemed to have no choice but to give up.

He shook his head and was about to cast Demonic Possession to leave the Buddhist realm.

Suddenly, a bold idea came to Ren Qing's mind.

Why not simply use the core of the Lunar Star Lord as the container of the restricted area and directly refine the Three Immortal Seats contained within?

The conditions for sealing the Immortal Seat or True Immortal had already been met by the Lunar Star Lord in front of him.

First, use Buddhist energy to isolate the conflict of the Immortal Seat; second, it can continuously produce different kinds of aura, so that the restricted area is different from the outside world; and finally, put the restricted area in a limited space.

Buddhist energy can be directly extracted from the Dipamkara Buddha energy of the Buddhist realm.

Although it seems that the Dipamkara Buddha energy mixed in the Demonic aura is not much, in fact, even the Earth Immortal cannot compare with it.

The alien aura can rely on the Earth Immortal of Fortune, and the remnant will of the Maitreya Ancient Buddha has already demonstrated it.

As for the container, even if the Lunar Star Lord is riddled with holes, it is still more reliable than the Matchmaker Immortal, and should be enough to accommodate more than a dozen Immortal Seats.

The more Ren Qing thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible, but the specifics still depended on the implementation.

Even if it failed, there would be no loss to him, because he originally had no ability to strip the Immortal Seat from this pile of indescribable things.

But the problem came again.

Ren Qing had to ensure that the Lunar Star Lord would no longer continue to fall, otherwise it would be difficult for the Ghost Shadow to affect the Three Immortal Seats, unless he had to risk leaving his body.

He hesitated again and again, the abnormality of the Lunar Star Lord should originate from the leakage of aura, as long as the first step of building the restricted area is completed, it can be stopped.

Ren Qing left part of the Ghost Shadow and took the rest back.

Then he returned to the cave entrance, pointed his right index finger at the center of his eyebrows, and the diseased tree in the Niwan Palace stirred up, and countless Mycelial Souls flew up and down.

Then the vines wrapped around the diseased tree gave birth to dream flowers.

Ren Qing's heart moved slightly, and the Mycelial Souls swarmed towards the diseased tree, and dream flowers fell on their foreheads, forming a mysterious and infinite double pupil.

Without exception, the double pupils were used to absorb the Dipamkara Buddha energy.

Ren Qing definitely couldn't release the Mycelial Soul in the heart of the Buddhist realm. He cast Demonic Possession to come to the outer area and directly opened his mouth.

The Mycelial Soul drilled out of his mouth, circled Ren Qing, and scattered away.

Their task was to devour the Dipamkara Buddha energy. Apart from using part of the Buddhist energy to feed the Flesh Body Tathagata, the rest was to seal the Immortal Seat.

It just so happened that a rogue cultivator passed by nearby and sensed a black goat standing in the darkness.

The black goat spat out a large number of souls, stirring the darkness into a vortex, and the indescribable aura was terrifying.

The rogue cultivators scrambled to escape, fearing that they would be targeted by this extraordinary black goat.

Ren Qing didn't care about them either, his consciousness had already come to Dream City, and he released an external mission about collecting Dipamkara Buddha energy.

The number of Mycelial Souls was definitely far from enough, and the Lunar Star Lord must be sealed in a short time.

Ren Qing took the opportunity to check what had happened in recent days, and as a result, he noticed that there were already thousands of cultivators in the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court consciousness played by the Mycelial Soul also bestowed the Entering God Art to a cultivator.

It was Feng Ye of the Wind Hollow Clan. This matter was also heavily publicized by various forces, and the ambition to become an immortal and attain the Dao had become increasingly high.

They had begun to use unscrupulous means to obtain the Immortal Seat.

They had not yet found the Immortal Seat, but it could be foreseen that the scattered Immortal Seats had been secretly targeted by various forces.

Ren Qing naturally allowed the situation to develop and instructed the Prison Guard Hall cultivators to go to the periphery of the Buddhist realm.

Each of the Prison Guard Hall cultivators carried dream flowers. They used flesh and blood to guide the Demonic aura to gather together, and then released dream flowers.

The efficiency was much higher than that of the Mycelial Soul.

The Flesh Body Tathagata was also fully digesting the Dipamkara Buddha energy, and the statue of the Dipamkara Buddha was faintly visible at the top of the Spirit Mountain.

Pig Daoist, who had been promoted to abbot of the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Temple, couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle in the face of the changes in the Flesh Body Tathagata.

Helplessly aboard the pirate ship, Taoist Pig could only pretend to be a devout follower of the Spirit Mountain Buddha.

Ren Qing wasn't idle. He appeared throughout the Buddhist realm, collecting dream flowers with a Buddha energy level reaching the Yin Infernal realm and replacing them with blank ones.

Like ants biting an elephant, Ren Qing's actions would inevitably reduce the Buddha energy in the periphery of the Buddhist realm.

The most obvious drawback was the increased proportion of Heavenly Demon aura, enhancing its invasiveness. Cultivators without the Black Goat Dharma Garment could no longer stay in the Buddhist realm for long.

As the Fleshly Body Tathagata digested the Fixed Light Buddha energy, his cultivation had reached the mid-stage of the Heavenly Aberrant realm.

His size swelled to thousands of meters, and the emanating Spirit Mountain Buddha energy was suffocating, causing the assimilated believers to undergo transformation.

Their skin turned bronze, and their pores involuntarily absorbed and expelled Spirit Mountain Buddha energy.

The monks' appearances gradually resembled Buddha statues. Taoist Pig glanced around and felt as if the mountains and plains were filled with ascetic Arhats.

Taoist Pig relied entirely on the disguise of the dream flower, so the Buddha energy he released was exceptionally pure.

Ren Qing's expression was a mix of surprise and joy. He hadn't expected that after the Flesh Mountain Tathagata fully digested the energy, his cultivation would soar directly to the perfect stage of the Heavenly Aberrant realm.

Unsurprisingly, he established a weak connection with the Fixed Light Buddha energy.

Ren Qing knew the time was ripe. Success or failure depended on this moment. He took thousands of dream flowers and flashed to the entrance of the Lunar Star Sovereign's cave.

Ghost shadows enveloped the dream flowers, surging mightily into the deep grotto.

Ren Qing followed closely behind, sitting cross-legged two thousand meters deep, controlling the ghost shadows to approach within a hundred meters of the Lunar Star Sovereign.

At the same time, he didn't allow the Jail Warden Hall cultivators to stop collecting Fixed Light Buddha energy.

Ren Qing was uncertain, but he had to try to achieve immortality, otherwise, directly consuming lifespan to advance would surely attract the attention of the Corrupted Immortals.

As long as he could successfully become an immortal, he would then advance the Heavenly Demon Tribulation.

Even if the Supreme Heavenly Demon made a move, Ren Qing, as a Free Heavenly Demon, was confident he could evade the opponent's pursuit and survive until he was invincible.

[Ascend to Earth Immortal, consuming a lifespan of two hundred thousand years]

Was two hundred thousand years a lot?

With the Fleshly Body Tathagata, Ren Qing could heal the Heavenly Dao cracks in a century. Given a millennium, he could reshape the Heavenly Dao of this world.

He forcibly suppressed his distracting thoughts and slowly shed his Yin Infernal realm skin.

The skin seemed to sense it was about to leave this treasure land filled with Heavenly Demon aura, struggling to escape from Ren Qing's palm.

Ren Qing unhesitatingly threw the skin into his Stomach World.

"Ugh..."

Ren Qing groaned as the Heavenly Demon aura brazenly drilled into his pores, and his body hair began to grow vigorously.

The Human Skin Book's ability played a slight role, stubbornly resisting the Heavenly Demon aura.

Ren Qing hadn't come to the Buddhist realm's core to train his skin's tolerance to the Heavenly Demon aura. Enduring the pain, he transformed into the Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor.

His body rapidly grew taller, and his hands and feet were a third longer than ordinary people's.

Ren Qing's Heavenly Demon characteristics vanished, and his skin revealed profound Daoist rhymes, with patterns forming landscapes, towns, and flying beasts.

The Immortal Body 'Return of All Phenomena' was still incomplete, but its height exceeded fifty meters, draped in a black and white Daoist robe, with white hair and beard, exuding the aura of an ancestral immortal.

Ren Qing could already unleash some of the Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor's power.

With a wave of his hand, a blank Go board of more than ten meters appeared before him. Between the grid-like lines was a miniature sandbox map.

Ren Qing suddenly understood that the Immortal Seat could manifest spells and divine powers.

The chessboard was the layout of this world he already knew, showing the darkness-shrouded Jing Province, the turbulent ocean...

Ren Qing's gaze landed on a spot on the chessboard, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

There was indeed something hidden in the underground river, a palm-sized Yang God realm forbidden zone. It was impossible to detect the clues with the naked eye.

He suspected it was Huang Ling's hidden hand from the past, and it was better to deal with it immediately.

Ren Qing raised his right arm, and a white Go stone formed between his index and middle fingers, heavily landing on the spot indicated by the underground river.

"Two thousand five hundred miles northwest of Ape Mountain, underground."

"Drop the stone, three thousand Dao soldiers."

Three thousand cultivators in the Stomach World received the summons of the Law, Manifest Heaven and Earth, and instantly descended into the waterway, their memories already knowing the beginning and end.

Their expressions were extremely greedy, according to what was said in the memory.

Because of Ren Qing's divine power, even if their three thousand cultivators died and their Dao vanished in the outside world, it wouldn't damage their souls in the Stomach World.

Then what was there to hesitate about? It was just a Yang God realm forbidden zone!

Plunder!!!

And use the resources to strengthen their cultivation!!!

Like beasts released from their cages, the Yang God realm forbidden zone couldn't stop them. Three thousand Dao soldiers were enough.

Ren Qing looked regretful. Unfortunately, the 'Dharma Chessboard' in front of him was limited by his cultivation. The place where he dropped the stone had to contain a spore soul or a disease seed.

If the Toe Separation Art advanced to Earth Immortal, all living beings in the world could become his eyes and ears. Coupled with the Heavenly Demon Tribulation's possession of all beings, and the Dharma Chessboard, he could easily control this world.

His transformation into the Zhenyuan Earth Immortal wasn't to try out the chessboard, but mainly because he needed the Immortal Body to suppress his soul.

Ren Qing looked at the Buddha dream flowers scattered like stars outside the Blood Moon.

He licked his lips, and the Law, Manifest Heaven and Earth, acted on his body. The target of the divine power was the Fleshly Body Tathagata in the Stomach World.

Ren Qing had never tried projecting the Fleshly Body Tathagata onto himself.

But to control the Fixed Light Buddha energy, projecting the Fleshly Body Tathagata was the only way. Even if he summoned the Fixed Light Tathagata, the greatest possibility was that it would be directly destroyed by the Heavenly Demon aura.

His flesh began to distort, and the Fleshly Body Tathagata was bound within the Immortal Body.

Ren Qing wasn't worried at all that the Fleshly Body Tathagata would conflict with the Zhenyuan Earth Immortal. When he comprehended the Immortal Ascension Method, he valued their mutual compatibility.

His body swelled again, producing a numb tingling sensation.

Two golden bronze arms grew out of his ribs, and a compassionate Buddha face formed on the back of his head. Auspicious clouds supported Ren Qing, causing him to float in mid-air.

After the Fleshly Body Tathagata completed the projection, Ren Qing had the Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor in front and the Fixed Light Buddha behind, giving off a creepy terror.

Ren Qing could feel that the reason why the Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor and the Fleshly Body Tathagata were at peace was because a second set of organs and tissues had appeared in his body.

As expected of the Heretical Dao style, it could never be normal.

He quickly communicated with the Fixed Light Buddha energy, and the Buddha face on his back opened its eyes, indeed almost exactly the same as the Fixed Light Buddha's expression.

Ren Qing laboriously controlled a portion of the dream flowers, releasing a massive amount of Buddha energy.

He then signaled the ghost shadows to throw out the prepared materials. The latter cracked open a gap, and the powdered Buddha bones drifted in the wind.

The Lunar Star Sovereign remained motionless, not daring to resist the Fixed Light Buddha energy.

Ren Qing nervously sweated. The Buddha energy surged towards the bone powder, and the two gradually mixed to form a hard shell, sealing the Lunar Star Sovereign within.

The Lunar Star Sovereign could actually break free now without any effort.

But as the Fixed Light Buddha energy was part of the Buddhist realm, unless it threatened the Three Immortal Seats, the irrational True Immortals would only play dead.

Ren Qing next needed to constantly thicken the bone powder and integrate the Fixed Light Buddha energy until the conditions for an Immortal Seat forbidden zone were met.