The Secret Way of Immortality

Ren Qing was used to seeing demons and monsters, but he still couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive at the sight of such a bloody and horrifying scene.

“Cishi… Cishi… What exactly is the meaning of these two words?”

He continued on his way for a few more miles, and the corpses he encountered became increasingly mutilated. Gradually, traces of sharp teeth gnawing began to appear, and even the internal organs of many corpses were hollowed out.

Ren Qing was not surprised by this. In the eerie and terrifying environment of the Bottomless Abyss, it would be abnormal if it were only filled with corpses.

He carefully observed the tooth marks, and the more he looked at them, the more they seemed to be caused by human bites.

Moreover, the strength of the biter was extraordinary, capable of biting through thigh bones and sucking bone marrow. Even a mountain tiger would have its teeth chipped.

Chen Changsheng must have encountered some kind of strange creature in the Bottomless Abyss. After discovering the secrets contained within, he came to the conclusion that it was "not safe to go deep," indicating that the Bottomless Abyss was definitely not simple.

Ren Qing became more vigilant. He used his double pupils to observe the surroundings and noticed a large number of claw marks on the rock walls.

Presumably, the strange creature should be crawling on the ground with its limbs. Only when suspended in the air within the Bottomless Abyss is it relatively safe.

Seeing this, Ren Qing did not hesitate and directly summoned the ghost ship from the Perpetual Prison.

Although the ghost ship is most suitable for traveling in the desert, after advancing to the Ghost Envoy Realm, it can rely on the Kun Peng figurehead to achieve aerial flight.

In addition, with the ghost shadow possessing the ghost ship, it is undoubtedly in its element in the darkness.

The moment the ghost ship appeared, Ren Qing covered it with No Strangeness, but the unique aura of the Strange Embryo artifact still leaked out, causing a commotion.

A rustling sound came from the distance, and a very strange murmur could be faintly heard echoing, as if chanting something.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes and jumped onto the deck of the ghost ship with force from his legs.

He could sense that the aura emitted by the strange creature was very strange, with a vaguely familiar scent, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was.

Ren Qing was not in a hurry to let the ghost ship leave the ground, quietly waiting for the strange creature to approach.

However, because there was no fresh corpse blood nearby, the black shadow seemed to be planning to move away, and the murmuring sound became faint.

Ren Qing endured the heartache and took out some flesh and blood, throwing it within a hundred meters. His wide eyes stared intently at the black shadow, wanting to see its true form.

Patta patta...

The footsteps came from far to near, and the murmuring suddenly became very loud. It seemed to be a scripture mixed with local accents, but it was unintelligible.

A humanoid monster cautiously came to the flesh and blood, glanced around, bit the flesh and blood, and dragged it into the depths of the darkness.

On its back was a malformed mass of flesh and blood about half a meter in size. Unlike its body, it had no skin, like a statue sitting cross-legged.

The statue's facial features only had a mouth that kept opening and closing. The murmuring sound actually came from the statue on the monster's back.

It was unbelievable.

The monster acted as if it was carrying the statue, and its posture was extremely strange.

Ren Qing's pupils dilated, and suddenly he thought of something, and immediately understood why Chen Changsheng had left the Bottomless Abyss.

He did not hesitate to signal the ghost shadow to attack, directly swallowing the monster into its body.

The other monsters were frightened and wanted to escape, but they were all taken away by the ghost shadow one by one, and then the latter returned to Ren Qing's feet.

Feather-like patterns grew all over the ghost ship. Although it was not completely transformed into a jailer, it was still able to borrow the power of the Kun Peng.

Ren Qing's perspective gradually rose into the air, and the hurricane blowing towards him was like a sharp knife.

His mind was entirely focused on the strange and inexplicable monster, so he couldn't wait to enter the cabin and light a candle for illumination.

With the ghost shadow sealing the doors and windows, the light inside the cabin would not leak to the outside.

Ren Qing pushed aside the tables and chairs and took out the monster carrying the statue from the ghost shadow's body. A foul stench permeated the air.

It tried its best to struggle, but the ghost shadow had already locked its muscles and bones.

Ren Qing carefully observed that the monster was obviously formed from a corpse after some kind of change. If one didn't look at the flesh and blood statue growing from its back, it was no different from the corpses in the Bottomless Abyss.

The flesh and blood statue was somewhat similar to a Buddha statue, but its appearance was too vague.

The reason why the monster could come back to life was likely due to the flesh and blood statue. It must be hiding the secrets of Cishi.

Ren Qing then released the remaining monsters.

There were three in total, all of whom had their skin peeled off. However, the remaining two monsters had statues growing in different locations.

The statue of one monster grew on the sole of its foot, causing it to drag a heavy object when crawling.

The other one grew on its neck, causing its head to be distorted by the pressure of the statue, and the bones inside were squeezed into a ball, which could break at any time.

Ren Qing felt that the statues were very similar to Buddha statues, and couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

Perhaps Chen Changsheng discovered the monsters and realized that they might involve Buddhism, so he immediately left the Bottomless Abyss, not daring to go any further.

However, what puzzled Ren Qing was, why were the flesh and blood statues growing in different locations?

He touched the monster with his hand and immediately summoned the information stream. This time, a lot of content was finally revealed, but the information contained was terrifying to contemplate.

【Buddha Corpse】

【Condensed from the skin scriptures of Maitreya, eating it will cause the skin to mutate; after a thousand days of receiving precepts, there will be a time to become a Buddha.】

Ren Qing muttered to himself, "Which god and Buddha is involved, Maitreya? Cishi?"

"Damn it, it wouldn't be him..."

Xiang Township has no Buddhist temples, and Jing Prefecture also has none, but Jing Prefecture may be close to Cishi, so stories of gods and Buddhas are circulating.

Even many Buddhist festivals are brazenly disguised as Taoist festivals, and the people of Jing Prefecture still hold them on time every year.

Ren Qing knew the weirdness of Buddhist spells and deliberately supplemented his knowledge in this area, especially a few well-known Buddhas.

"Maitreya" mostly refers to Maitreya Buddha, but if the two words Cishi are added, then there is probably only "Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva".

There is also a folk saying that the two Buddhas are actually one.

Ren Qing had no way to verify it. After all, Monk Song Zongwu was just a novice at that time, and he had not even read a few scriptures.

The records of Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva are limited, and the summary is.

“The former Buddha entered Nirvana and was born in the inner courtyard of Tushita Heaven.”

“After four thousand years, he will be born in the human world and attain enlightenment under the Dragon Flower Tree in Hualin Garden. The Maitreya of the past, valued the Buddha and cultivated the Samadhi of Compassion, so he is called Cishi.”

It is said that there are dozens or hundreds of Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, but if you want to select eight from them, then there must be the figure of Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.

Ren Qing had no idea that Cishi was actually related to the existence of the Bodhisattva fruit.

Just take Song Zongwu as an example. At that time, he was almost tortured to death by the Unmoving Sutra he had mastered.

If it hadn't been for the Shura Dharma created by the nameless monk to barely suppress the Buddhist spells, he might have long been transformed into a member of the Hundred Buddha Diagram.

But even so, the Hundred Buddha Diagram behind Song Zongwu actually only has ninety-seven statues, representing the practitioners who were devoured by the Deer Sitting Arhat in the past.

With the terrifying level of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, the Hundred Buddha Diagram would have at least seven or eight hundred statues, not far from the Tathagata fruit of the Thousand Buddha Diagram.

Ren Qing's face was uncertain, and he wanted to run away on the spot.

But thinking that Buddhism is a million times more gentle than the Heavenly Demon and the Blood Moon, mainly focusing on conversion, he immediately calmed down again.

"Something's wrong, something's very wrong."

According to Song Zongwu, the conditions for practicing the Unmoving Sutra are extremely harsh, and not all monks can become Buddha.

The inheritance of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva should be even stricter. Then why are there tens of thousands of corpses with inexplicable deaths in the Bottomless Abyss?

Ren Qing looked at the three Buddha corpses, and then turned the ghost shadow into a blade, peeling off the flesh and blood statue from their bodies little by little.

The Buddha corpse shook violently. As the flesh and blood statue was cut off, the stench became more and more intense, and soon it stopped moving.

Ren Qing checked again with the information stream, and the result turned back into an ordinary corpse.

The flesh and blood statue also began to shrink, and the low murmur turned into a sharp roar, as if the body and soul were painfully roasted on a fire.

After a while, the flesh and blood statue turned into a piece of human skin the size of a fingernail.

Ren Qing picked up the human skin and looked at it. It may have been left behind when the corpse was skinned, and finally grew into a flesh and blood statue.

【Buddha Skin】

【Condensed from the skin scriptures of Maitreya, eating it will cause the skin to mutate; after a thousand days of receiving precepts, there will be a time to become a Buddha.】

"The culprit is a piece of human skin?"

"What exactly happened to the corpse before it died?"

"If the corpse retained a complete skin, what kind of monster would it form?"

Ren Qing's mind was full of doubts. The situation in Cishi was definitely not normal, and there might be some kind of problem with the Buddhist inheritance there.

It may also have been caused by the Buddha of Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.

He pondered for a long time and still planned to go to Cishi. After all, other areas may not be safe, and at least he understands Buddhism.

It is not difficult for Buddhist spells to reach the level of perfection, but perfection is equivalent to the end. Everything will belong to the Hundred Buddha Diagram.

No matter how powerful the Buddha is after he attains enlightenment.

In just a hundred years, he will become a member of the Buddha Diagram behind him, suffering eternal imprisonment, and will not be able to be reborn for millions of years.

Ren Qing knew that Chen Changsheng came to the Bottomless Abyss hundreds of years ago in this state, indicating that the abnormality was not caused by the Buddha of Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva attaining enlightenment, and the reason has been going on for a long time.

In his opinion, if he practiced Buddhist spells, even if he could live for ten lifetimes, he would not be able to withstand falling into madness.

Ren Qing took a long, deep breath and controlled the ghost ship to firmly sail towards Cishi.

At the same time, he began to actively observe various Buddha corpses, and found that the longer the Buddha corpse lived, the larger the volume of the flesh and blood statue.

The actions of the Buddha corpse were also more agile, but there was nothing special about it.

In addition to the skinned Buddha corpse, there is also a bone-extracted Buddha corpse in the Bottomless Abyss. The location of the flesh and blood statue has been changed to inside the body.

It should be that bone fragments were left behind when the corpse was bone-extracted, resulting in it being transformed into a Buddha corpse.

The information stream showed slightly different.

【Buddha Corpse】

【Condensed from the white bone scriptures of Maitreya, eating it will cause the bones to mutate; after a thousand days of receiving precepts, there will be a time to become a Buddha.】

Ren Qing then determined that both the Maitreya Skin Sutra and the Maitreya White Bone Sutra are not true Buddhist spells, and may have been derived from them.

While ensuring that the ghost ship was not exposed, he actively used Buddha energy to erode his skin, thereby enhancing the primitive fetal membrane's resistance to Buddha energy.

Possibly the quality of the Buddha energy is high, and the speed of resistance improvement is not fast.

Ren Qing had to grind it out bit by bit, simply slowing down the journey of the Bottomless Abyss, trying to make the Buddha energy resistance of the primitive fetal membrane reach a certain level before preparing to go to Cishi.