The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing was still in the process of Immortal Transformation and didn't rush to undo the Law Manifestation of the Fleshly Body Tathagata, instead observing the situation of the Lunar Star Sovereign.

The Lunar Star Sovereign had stopped sinking and was being held suspended in the darkness by the aura of the Heavenly Demon.

The layer of bone powder enveloping the Blood Moon prevented the Heavenly Demon aura from eroding the Lunar Star Sovereign, indirectly stabilizing the Three Immortal Positions.

Ren Qing estimated that, given the extent of the Lunar Star Sovereign's injuries, he had to complete the complete sealing of the Three Immortal Positions as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once the True Immortal's injuries recovered, there was a high possibility of a backlash.

Therefore, Ren Qing needed more Buddha Bones and a massive amount of Fixed Light Buddha Qi to help him construct an Immortal Position Forbidden Zone.

【Buddha Bone】

【Transformed from the Great Completion of the Maitreya White Bone Sutra. Consuming it can extend lifespan by a hundred years, but will cause the body to gradually transform into an Indestructible Golden Body.】

Buddha Bones were formed by the erosion of various types of Buddha Qi, not just from the Great Compassionate Maitreya Buddha, but also from Arhat-level Buddha Qi.

Ren Qing had the Ci people in his stomach world use Buddha Qi to erode the corpses of wild beasts, then use heavy objects to crush them into powder, and finally hand them over to the Great Dream Pavilion.

The Ci people quickly formed an assembly line.

They skillfully soaked the bones in water filled with Buddha Qi, and when the bone quality turned bronze, they fished them out for the next step of transformation.

Batches of Buddha Bones were sent to the Great Dream Pavilion, and even beast bones in Dream City became scarce.

The collection of Fixed Light Buddha Qi also didn't stop, and in fact, more and more manpower was being dispatched.

The cultivators of the Forbidden Corpses Hall could sense that a storm seemed to be brewing, and the wind was shifting towards the Buddhist realm, which might not be good news.

However, they had no objections to Ren Qing's orders, at least the rewards were extremely generous.

Seeing that the collection of materials was on the right track, Ren Qing sent his consciousness to the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court was still the same as before, with the remains of buildings everywhere. Even with cultivators cleaning up, the few thousand people were completely inadequate.

They were currently focusing on repairing the walls of the palaces, trying to understand the patterns on the surface of the walls and find clues to the Immortal Positions.

It should be known that the Immortal Positions exposed to the eyes of various forces had already been firmly controlled.

However, for the sake of stability, the Heavenly Gu Realm hadn't taken action against the Immortal Positions.

Most of the cultivators in the Heavenly Court were rogue cultivators, or insignificant members of various forces. Even if they got their hands on an Immortal Position, they wouldn't be qualified to inherit it.

Since it was impossible to get a share, they naturally focused on the Heavenly Court.

Apart from the devastated ruins, two palaces in the Heavenly Court had already begun to be repaired, with Feng Kongren being responsible for the reconstruction of the palaces.

These were the Fengbo Pavilion of the Wind God Boqiang and the Xinxiu Palace of the Heart Fire Constellation, the former belonging to the Thunder Department and the latter belonging to the Twenty-Eight Constellations, both of which were Immortal Positions returning to the Heavenly Court.

The statues of the two Immortal Gods were also painstakingly moved back to their original positions by the cultivators.

Ren Qing watched the busy cultivators and secretly used his Toe Leaving Technique to the extreme, targeting the entire Heavenly Court Dreamland.

If there were no accidents, the Matchmaker Immortal and the Heart Moon Fox would have to be stripped of their Immortal Positions, so the Heavenly Court Dreamland had to be transferred to the stomach world.

It just so happened that after the stomach world advanced to the Heavenly Gu Realm Great Perfection, unless it was an Earth Immortal, Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators wouldn't be able to easily detect the reality.

What Ren Qing had to do was to deceive the Matchmaker Immortal's instincts, taking advantage of the fact that he was in Immortal Transformation, and had just advanced not long ago, with about 30% of the Heavenly Dao Transformation blessing, his spirit, energy, and soul were at their peak.

During the process of transferring the Heavenly Court Dreamland, he opened up a small world in the Heavenly Palace.

The Heavenly Court shook, but to the cultivators, it was already commonplace, after all, the Heavenly Court ruins would have anomalies from time to time.

Ren Qing was wary of the Matchmaker Immortal's reaction, but fortunately, even if the Heavenly Court Dreamland disappeared, the Matchmaker Immortal remained motionless in the underground river.

It took him more than half a day to successfully transfer the Heavenly Court Dreamland.

During this time, only the White Bone Lady gave birth to some doubts, the rest of the cultivators didn't notice at all that the Heavenly Court had come to the stomach world.

Ren Qing canceled the Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, retracted his Immortal Body, and sat at the entrance of the cave to rest.

What he needed to do now was to improve the sealing of the Lunar Star Sovereign, and to advance the Toe Leaving Technique again, to facilitate the stripping of the Matchmaker Immortal's Immortal Position.

Ren Qing also left a ghost shadow inside the Lunar Star Sovereign. After isolating the erosion of the Heavenly Demon aura, the ecology of the Blood Moon was indeed warming up.

The deformed Heavenly Dao Insects died one after another, and the newborn Heavenly Dao Insects were like pythons. Although they still had no intelligence, at least they wouldn't kill each other.

Grass and trees grew on the ground, which should be influenced by the Jade Rabbit Immortal, and the prototype of the Forbidden Zone was taking shape in the depths of the Buddhist realm.

During the Lunar Star Sovereign's recovery period, the Blood Moon was constantly expanding inside and out.

I wonder if there will be multiple layers of worlds.

Ren Qing focused on dealing with the Lunar Star Sovereign, he knew that the Immortal Position Forbidden Zone needed to be nurtured, and he still had enough time.

After the Three Immortal Positions were stabilized, it was time to continue adding Immortal Positions, trying to ensure that there would be no conflicts between the Immortal Positions.

Everything was developing in a good direction.

Except for the Fixed Light Buddha transforming in the beast pen, who knows what the impact would be. Even if the Buddhist realm increased a hundredfold as a result, it wouldn't be unexpected.

The face skin transformed from Fixed Light Buddha and the blood vessels connected to the beast pen became increasingly dense.

The originally sluggish expression also became active due to the nutrients supplied by the blood vessels, occasionally revealing a creepy smile.

Ren Qing originally thought that the Supreme Heavenly Demon and Fixed Light Buddha were both transcendents beyond Earth Immortals, and there shouldn't be anyone who would target them.

But what he didn't expect was that the beast pen attracted another moth.

Ren Qing belatedly got up and looked up at the beast pen.

The eyes he had placed in the beast pen were several times more than in other areas, watching the transforming Fixed Light Buddha in all directions.

Ren Qing suddenly noticed that tens of thousands of refugees were heading north from the south, holding broken bowls, appearing to be beggars, their target being the beast pen.

The various forces were also a bit confused, because the appearance of the refugee wave was completely unexpected, as if tens of thousands of mortals had appeared out of thin air.

"This handwriting..."

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes, only the Buddhist sect that played with souls could do this so easily, many Buddhist magical powers were extremely mysterious and strange.

Why would the Buddhist sect be interested in Fixed Light Buddha, but there was no conflict of interest between the two.

The various forces were not fools, they had no intention of stopping the refugee wave, letting tens of thousands of people pour towards the beast pen.

Ren Qing's consciousness descended on the dragon limb adjacent to the beast pen.

He controlled a flood dragon to climb onto the trees on the top of the mountain, looking into the distance at the refugee wave, observing the actions of the tens of thousands of mortals.

The mortals were walking extremely fast, their joints had already turned purple.

An old man who had fallen behind the group fell to the ground after a few steps, his body rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon disappeared.

Obviously, some existence was influencing the refugee wave, but Ren Qing didn't detect any Buddha Qi at all, he could only wait and see...

As soon as Ren Qing's thought arose, he heard a murmur resounding through the heavens and the earth.

"Amitabha."

"Demons from beyond the realm are to be诛之by everyone."

The strong man leading the refugee wave couldn't help but cover his chest and abdomen, his facial features becoming extremely distorted, and then his flesh and bones rapidly expanding.

In just a moment, a Buddha of thousands of meters appeared.

The Arhat's expression was compassionate, holding an iron bowl in his hand, his kasaya was tattered, but his body was like that of a plump and wealthy man.

"Bowl-Holding Arhat."

Ren Qing's face showed a gleam of light. The Bowl-Holding Arhat liked to hold an iron bowl to beg for food, and was escorted by beggars when traveling. His cultivation was at the Arhat level.

The Bowl-Holding Arhat stared at Fixed Light Buddha, sitting cross-legged on the periphery without making a sound.

Obviously, he was here for Fixed Light Buddha.

Moreover, the Bowl-Holding Arhat's intelligence should be taken over by the Fruit Position. It was absolutely impossible for a Buddha Child to risk dealing with Fixed Light Buddha, wouldn't that be嫌自己命长?

Ren Qing recalled that although the Bowl-Holding Arhat was considered an outstanding figure among the Arhat Fruit Positions, he had not broken through the limitations of the Heavenly Gu Realm after all. It was completely unrealistic to rely on him to fight against Fixed Light Buddha.

Next, there might be more Buddhas rushing to the beast pen.

He didn't know why the Buddhist sect wanted to deal with Fixed Light Buddha. Could it be that Fixed Light Buddha's transformation might affect the Buddhist sect?

Ren Qing secretly pondered that it was a good opportunity for him to collect Buddha Qi.

If the Buddhist sect wanted to deal with Fixed Light Buddha, it would definitely be dogs biting dogs. It would be best if both sides were hurt, and it would be easier for him to become an immortal.

As for casualties, the body of a Fruit Position Buddha was Buddha Qi, which was difficult to completely erase.

Even if a Fruit Position Buddha was killed, he would be resurrected somewhere in this world, so the Bowl-Holding Arhat would come to the beast pen without fear.

Ren Qing retracted his consciousness, and then separated a small half of the Dream Flower to go to the beast pen.

If a battle broke out in the beast pen, he could use the Dream Flower to absorb the leaked Buddha Qi, so that the Fleshly Body Tathagata could impact the Earth Immortal realm.

As a result, Ren Qing was still dispatching the Dream Flower when another Arhat came.

Wherever this Arhat passed, vegetation grew rapidly, but after he left a certain range, the vitality of the grass and trees immediately died.

He was also fat and broad, his neck buried in fat, his expression seemed to be happy, and his arms were covered with dense grass seedlings.

Ren Qing recognized at a glance that the image was the Hand-Reaching Arhat of the Eighteen Arhats.

The Hand-Reaching Arhat sat in the open space a thousand meters away from the Bowl-Holding Arhat, meditating with his eyes closed in a semi-lotus position without saying a word.

In the distance, there was another Arhat carrying a pagoda walking, obviously the "Pagoda-Bearing Arhat".

Ren Qing's expression was tangled. The Buddhist sect obviously planned to make a big move. Maybe even Bodhisattvas and Tathagatas would gather in the Buddhist realm.

Logically speaking, it was not good for him to continue imprisoning the two Arhats in the Longevity Forbidden Zone...

Anyway, he had already stored a lot of Buddha Qi from the Joyful Arhat and the Deer-Riding Arhat, and their value had already been completely榨干 by him.

Ren Qing controlled his clone to find a remote area, released the Small Thunderclap Temple in the Longevity Forbidden Zone, and then turned around and left.

Sure enough, the two Arhats plus the Endless Meaning Bodhisattva seemed to have received news from the Buddhist sect.

They did not choose to covet the body and soul of the possessed Buddha Child, but directly forcibly descended into the mortal world and strode towards the Buddhist realm.

Fruit Position Buddhas only consider gains and losses, and there are almost no emotions and desires.

In a sense, Ren Qing had not offended the Buddhist sect, well, he also provided the two Venerables with a good place to lecture and chant Buddha.

Ren Qing was slightly guilty, but it did not affect him from stealing the Buddha Qi of the Eighteen Arhats.

If he wasn't busy with the Immortal Position Forbidden Zone, relying on the Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth to project the Fleshly Body Tathagata, maybe he could pretend to be a Buddha.

"Cough cough cough..."

Ren Qing suppressed the thought of courting death, and then issued an announcement in Dream City, asking the cultivators of the Forbidden Corpses Hall to suspend all activities in the beast pen.

It was best not to get close within a thousand miles. If a Tathagata Fruit Position Buddha appeared, the scene would be too big, and mortals could only retreat three feet.

But Ren Qing still didn't understand.

What was the purpose of the Buddhist sect in besieging Fixed Light Buddha?

Ren Qing took a deep look at the beast pen, and then continued to improve the sealing of the Lunar Star Sovereign.

After transforming into an Immortal Body, he used the Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth to project the Fleshly Body Tathagata.

This time, Ren Qing also only chose the flesh and blood of the Fleshly Body Tathagata related to Fixed Light Buddha, and the body gradually approached Fixed Light Buddha.

Half-faced Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor, half-faced Fixed Light Buddha.

However, Ren Qing had a sudden idea and used the Toe Leaving Technique that had reached Dao Birth One to try to see if he could兼容 the third type of Immortal Body "Nurgle Plague Dream".

As a result, as soon as he summoned the Immortal Body, Ren Qing felt a burning sensation on his skin.

He couldn't help but look at his four arms, and found that pustules were growing, and the wounds were as illusory as light and shadow.

It seemed that the Immortal Body Nurgle Plague Dream of the Toe Leaving Technique was still too incomplete, and Ren Qing could only borrow a little power at present, and it was still difficult to control.

However, he could already foresee it.

After the five Immortal Bodies all reached the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Gu Realm, what a strange appearance it would be to transform at the same time, the most诡仙 in the world?

Ren Qing showed a wry smile, took out the mountain of bone powder, and used the Buddha Body to pull it into the cave, a golden mist slowly falling.

After the golden mist came to the side of the Lunar Star Sovereign, it quickly adhered to the outer shell.

It could be clearly felt that the thickness of the outer shell was constantly increasing, and as a massive amount of Fixed Light Buddha Qi merged into it, the sealing became more and more solid.

Ren Qing didn't dare to be negligent, and spread the Lingshan Buddha Qi of the Fleshly Body Tathagata throughout the hard shell, preventing it from being used as a wedding dress by Fixed Light Buddha.

Of course, he hoped that the Buddhist sect would kill Fixed Light Buddha with great righteousness.

After all, according to Fixed Light Buddha's size, if he wanted to be resurrected again, it would definitely be in units of thousands of years, and he would have enough time to develop.

Ren Qing canceled the spell, put on the skin and meditated cross-legged.

He woke up once every six months, and it shouldn't be long before he could complete the advancement of the Toe Leaving Technique and try to control the second type of Immortal Body.

Ren Qing's days were similar to ordinary seclusion.

The Forbidden Corpses Hall increased the remuneration of cultivators of various realms, so that they could take advantage of this time to cultivate and meet the possible disasters in the future.

The various forces outside were going crazy because of the Immortal Position.

They didn't know the reason for the collective departure of the Buddhist Arhats, but the situation in the past hundred years really had the flavor of Immortals and Buddhas being born.

In addition to the rumors spread by the Heavenly Court cultivators, they deepened their worries.

What Heavenly Court Immortals and Gods were returning one after another; the road to becoming an Immortal had been restarted; the next hundred years would be a blowout period for becoming Immortals and attaining Dao; if they didn't seize the opportunity, they would be reduced to mortal ants forever...

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that they just wanted to stir up the water.

But the real situation was indeed as the rumors said, how could the Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators be indifferent? How could they not have any ideas?

Amidst the chaos, Ren Qing's seclusion only lasted two months.

However, he was not annoyed by being disturbed. Another wild Immortal Position was found, waiting for him to come and check.

Ren Qing hesitated for a few breaths and showed himself in the image of Zhenyuan Earth Ancestor.

It was time for the Heavenly Court to show its fangs, and besides, as the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Gu Realm, he didn't need to be afraid of any non-Immortals.

The force that discovered the Immortal Position was called "Burning Earth Ridge", and its foundation was still quite deep, with a total of two Heavenly Gu Realm cultivators and thirty-one Yang God Realm cultivators.

They deliberately found the dragon limb through the clues of the black market, and used a clone to pass the information to Ren Qing.

The Immortal Position was called "Fire Virtue Star Lord", an Immortal God that Ren Qing was familiar with.

The Fire Virtue Star Lord's duty should be flames, but there's also a saying that it's the kitchen stove.

The four directional gods recorded in ancient books are the Eastern Azure Dragon, Western White Tiger, Northern Black Tortoise, and Southern Vermilion Bird.

Therefore, the public generally believes that the Southern God governs fire, evolved from the Vermilion Bird into the Fire Virtue Star Lord.

Ren Qing didn't hesitate, directly descending onto the dragon's limb, and after a muffled groan, the aura of heaven-born spells was exposed without a trace.

The scene fell into dead silence.

Ren Qing looked around, and not far away stood a towering active volcano, with black smoke rising from it, accompanied by mountain winds blowing everywhere.

The cultivators of Burning Earth Ridge had built a hundred-meter sacrificial platform.

Because the platform's area was insufficient, Ren Qing floated in mid-air, the sense of oppression he brought was indescribable, making mortals unable to resist worshiping.

The cultivators all knelt on the ground, only the Heavenly Guile Realm elder stubbornly supported his body.

Their eyes stared blankly at Ren Qing.

Zhen Yuanzi was surrounded by clouds and mist, his skin had the phantoms of all things in the world, his hands were disproportionately large, but there was a delusion of covering the sky with one hand.

It was as if immortals should be like this, and not like the unnamable Turbid Immortals.

Ren Qing was also sizing up Burning Earth Ridge, their skin was dark, their upper bodies were naked, their appearances indistinguishable between male and female, and their body temperature was at least seventy or eighty degrees Celsius.

They were natural fire-attribute cultivators.

He only saw one in the Heavenly Guile Realm, and there were scorching wounds on him, indicating that there had been disputes within Burning Earth Ridge over the ownership of the Immortal Position.

There were also arrays set up nearby targeting Ren Qing, but under the elder's knowing glance, some cultivators were already dismantling them.

Ren Qing was too lazy to pay attention to the small tricks, and asked, "Where is the Immortal Position of the Fire Virtue Star Lord?"

"Imm… Immortal Venerable, this old one is Xiao Yun, may I ask how to address you?"

Xiao Yun smiled flatteringly, his facial features were squeezed together by wrinkles, completely inconsistent with the rough appearance he displayed, too slick.

"Zhen Yuanzi."

"Entrusted by the Heavenly Court, I have come to recover the lost Immortal Position."

"Immortal Venerable Zhen Yuanzi, the Immortal Position of the Fire Virtue Star Lord has been passed down through generations in our Burning Earth Ridge, it is at the bottom of the volcano, let us escort you…"

"No need."

Ren Qing waved his hand, and the Burning Earth Ridge cultivators couldn't react at all, and then he came to the top of the volcano, and a heat wave hit his face.

The crater was full of magma, and the temperature even made Ren Qing feel a little daunted.

The cultivators lowered their heads, and their eyes revealed a mixture of grief and indignation.

As the Burning Heaven Volcano symbolizing the ancestral souls' return, they couldn't willingly hand it over to outsiders, but their strength couldn't control the outcome.

Ren Qing was just about to absorb the magma into his stomach world when he heard Xiao Yun say, "We don't need Immortal Venerable to take action, we have our own way."

Xiao Yun's eyes swept over his clansmen, and he sternly shouted, "Swallow fire."

The cultivators were silent, and Xiao Yun repeated again, "I said! Swallow fire!"

Only then did they reluctantly open their mouths, and streams of flames poured into their mouths, and their abdomens began to swell.

"Eh?"

Ren Qing was surprised, he didn't expect that Burning Earth Ridge reproduced by relying on swallowing flames to conceive, so the individuals were neither male nor female.

Due to the actions of the Burning Earth Ridge cultivators, the flames of the active volcano began to subside.

A group of Yin Transformation Realm cultivators definitely didn't have the ability to extinguish the magma produced by the Immortal Position, but they seemed to have some connection with the Fire Virtue Star Lord.

After the magma cooled, it turned into a black stone-like substance, but it still maintained its fluidity.

The crater churned for a while, and the familiar aura of the Immortal Position leaked out.

Ren Qing raised his hand, and the magma gradually separated, revealing a fleshy pink mass of flesh, and fresh blood vessels could still be seen on the surface.

The flesh should be a woman's uterus, and the Immortal Position was integrated into it.

Ren Qing suspected that the former Fire Virtue Star Lord, before his death, cut off his own uterus, threw it into the magma of the volcano, and used the high temperature of the active volcano to maintain the uterus's vitality.

"Then I will take it away, and soon the Heavenly Court's consciousness will inherit the immortal techniques."

He reached out and picked up the uterus, noticing that there was a dead body inside, to be precise, the Immortal Position was hidden inside the corpse.

Ren Qing couldn't help but sigh, the ancient immortals and gods were truly unscrupulous in order to survive.

The corpse was similar to a clone, indicating that the former Fire Virtue Star Lord planned to use the heat of the active volcano to spend thousands of years resurrecting his body and soul.

After hearing about the inheritance of the Immortal Position, Xiao Yun couldn't help but look anxious.

He opened his mouth as if to speak, but stopped, at this time Ren Qing asked, "Has your volcano ever gone dormant?"

Xiao Yun respectfully said, "Answering Immortal Venerable, about two thousand years ago."

Most likely during the period when the volcano was inactive, the uterus lost the protection of high temperature, and the Fire Virtue Star Lord's resurrection might have been nipped in the bud.

Xiao Yun also wanted to tell the history of Burning Earth Ridge, but Ren Qing obviously didn't intend to give him a chance, put away the Immortal Position and took them back to the bottom of the volcano.

Ren Qing was very satisfied with the Fire Virtue Star Lord's Immortal Position.

The most important thing was that the Fire Virtue Star Lord would be extremely stable as long as he was in high temperature, and transporting him was not as troublesome as the Matchmaker Immortal.

Ren Qing didn't agree with Xiao Yun, so he prepared to use Demonic Possession.

"Xiao old thief, kill!!!"

A figure rushed towards Xiao Yun, the latter looked to be in his early thirties, also a Heavenly Guile Realm cultivator from Burning Earth Ridge, with far more serious injuries than Xiao Yun.

The man's right arm turned into magma, piercing into Xiao Yun's chest.

Xiao Yun's expression became somewhat gratified, it could be seen that the two looked almost identical, and there must be blood ties.

Ren Qing glanced at Xiao Yun, and was really not interested in the dog-blood plot of Burning Earth Ridge.

Xiao Yun should be the man's biological father, in order to let the man inherit the Immortal Position of the Fire Virtue Star Lord, he was willing to be the villain who betrayed the group.

Seeing the Burning Earth Ridge cultivators supporting the man, he really didn't die in vain.

Ren Qing let the Disease Seed attach to the man, and his consciousness was directly pulled into the Dream City, then he returned to the hinterland of the Buddhist Realm without saying a word.

In the Flesh Incense Immortal of the Stomach World, there was actually no Fire Virtue Star Lord, but every household worshiped the Kitchen God, and the incense was strong.

The Entering Divinity Art of Burning Earth Ridge, drawing the incense aura of the Kitchen God, was not considered burying the Immortal Position.

The statue of the Fire Virtue Star Lord in the Heavenly Court was restored to completeness, and the cultivators present understood that the Immortal Positions were being divided up one after another.

Ren Qing continued to add fuel to the fire, and the statue of the Silkworm Mother Insect Immortal followed closely behind.

Various clues about the Immortal Positions were flying all over the outside world, but there were not many Immortal Positions that had been truly confirmed, and now four Immortal Positions had changed hands.

There were not many opportunities left to become an immortal and attain the Dao.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was in the Beast Pen, ten of the Eighteen Arhats had already arrived, and the eleventh one who came was a Bodhisattva.

A monster thousands of meters tall walked towards the Beast Pen, its head drooping to its abdomen, its skin covered with lumps of relics.

"My Buddha is merciful…"

Looking up from the perspective of mortals, the monster was the Four Great Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, "Manjushri Bodhisattva", from other angles it was completely a deformed demon.

Manjushri Bodhisattva did not set foot in the Beast Pen, but sat on the periphery chanting scriptures.

The Buddha had unknowingly surrounded the Beast Pen.