The Secret Way of Immortality

The shepherd traveled across the plains, the terrain gradually transforming into layered hills.

The temperature shifted from the freezing winter months to the scorching heat of early summer, as many regions in this world lacked distinct seasons.

The journey was relatively peaceful, although the occasional appearance of Buddha corpses could be seen, they wouldn't approach the shepherd's group as long as they didn't deviate from the route.

They held both fear and reverence for the Buddha corpses, even leaving food in open spaces for them.

From the shepherd's conversations, it was revealed that the Buddha corpses were actually called Buddha Demons, said to be formed from the stray thoughts of the Living Buddha, representing the other side of the Buddha.

Ren Qing felt a sense of disdain in his heart.

Back then, the Great Compassion Buddha Qi wanted to use Buddha corpses to replace his body, so he created a large number of them, completely disregarding the fact that monks treated them as true Buddhas.

Unlike the Esoteric Buddhist Sect, which clearly played with the lives of mortals, they insisted on labeling the Buddha corpses as Buddha Demons, obviously setting up a false front.

It was somewhat hypocritical, showing that the Nameless Ascetic Monk was no good either.

Ren Qing couldn't help but feel curious about how the Nameless Ascetic Monk and *** frequently came into contact with the Heavenly Dao.

When he was ascending the Immortal Ladder, he had seen the process of the Jailer's Dharma forming; the creators were all on the verge of death, and only by chance did they catch a glimpse of the Heavenly Dao.

*** could still be explained by innate talent, after all, he only created three spells in total, but the Nameless Ascetic Monk had created at least five.

If the ten bodies were counted, a dozen spells seemed unbelievable no matter how you looked at it.

Ren Qing learned from Song Zongwu's description of the Nameless Ascetic Monk that his body and soul showed no signs of distortion, making it impossible to imagine that he had faced the Heavenly Dao.

Or was it that beneath the normal appearance of the Nameless Ascetic Monk lay a mad heart?

Ren Qing couldn't help but have many thoughts. He rode the husky, which hadn't been outside for a long time, and his eyes kept watching the bodies and souls of the shepherds.

The husky wasn't very active; its cultivation was stuck at the peak of the Ghost Envoy Realm, and it was unknown how long it would take to break through to the Yin Official Realm.

Being in the dangerous plains, it naturally felt uneasy all over.

The husky usually acted like a tyrant in the Stomach World with Tian A, and even the Jailers didn't dare to offend the two of them, fearing Ren Qing's scolding.

Tian A was currently in seclusion in the Dream City. With his innate weakness, if he didn't put in some effort, he would die in a few years.

If Tian A suddenly wanted to concentrate on cultivation after breaking through to the Ghost Envoy Realm, then Ren Qing would try to integrate him into the Jailer Hall.

Ren Qing had Chen Haoyu protect Tian A's breakthrough to the Ghost Envoy Realm, and the freed-up husky was just right to be used as a means of transportation.

He closed his eyes and scanned the Stomach World, noticing that the demon clans were extremely lively, and the Jailers were dividing up the tens of thousands of extra demons.

This was mainly because the Fine-Haired Sheep had transformed into a half-human, half-sheep creature.

Ren Qing had absorbed a massive amount of demon qi in Jing Province, which he then stored in the Dream Artifact, becoming part of the construction of the Dream City.

The Fine-Haired Sheep regained its human form using the characteristic of the demon qi, "Everything can become a demon."

With Ren Qing's crude application methods, it was difficult for the demon qi to succeed on beasts, and the demons that were lucky enough to survive didn't show much intelligence.

However, since the Fine-Haired Sheep was originally human, the demonization was almost without loss, turning tens of thousands of sheep into sheep demons.

The biggest beneficiary was naturally the Demon Vein.

Compared to other affiliated forces, the Demon Vein didn't have any obvious advantages in any aspect, but the spells they cultivated were usually more extreme, thus enriching the means of the Jailer Hall.

Now, with tens of thousands more sheep demons, their numbers were second only to the Soldier Vein, and their strength greatly increased.

Unfortunately, the sheep demons were slightly dull, and their internal organs were also missing, so it would take at least a few years to make up for the deficit before they could cultivate the Jailer's Dharma.

According to Ren Qing's plan, the sheep demons could cultivate Mu Yi's Jianmu Technique, turning their fur into vegetation to help the Jailer Hall cultivate farmland.

"Living Buddha!!!"

The shepherd's cry interrupted Ren Qing's thoughts, and the speed of the group gradually slowed down, causing the husky to shake its head uneasily.

The old man couldn't help but shout excitedly, "Buddha, we're almost at Three Bodhi."

In the distance was a sparse banyan forest, but no buildings could be seen, only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.

Ren Qing opened his eyes and stared at the forest. The hexagram on his upper jaw was still "Auspicious with misfortune," but there were several more cracks.

If there was anything special about the forest, it was the statue standing in the center, but it was only a little over two meters tall.

It was difficult to associate the Living Buddha's Three Bodhi with the forest.

Ren Qing put the husky into the Stomach World to prevent it from panicking and causing unnecessary trouble.

The shepherds also chose to dismount, and their expressions became dazed.

They frantically shouted "Living Buddha," then used the sharp weapons they carried to slit the horses' necks, causing warm blood to gush out.

Amidst the horses' neighing, they constantly dismembered the flesh and bones, seemingly planning to use the bones to build an altar for the Living Buddha.

Ren Qing was even more determined in his idea of universal cultivation. In a world where immortals and Buddhas eat people, without strength, one can only be reduced to a pawn.

The old man dipped his finger in the horse blood and drew a few strokes on his forehead and cheeks.

"Buddha, Three Bodhi is just ahead."

He staggered and saluted, and seeing Ren Qing nod, he walked in front, chanting praises to the Living Buddha.

Ren Qing glanced at the shepherds, and the crying of infants could be heard in the blood and flesh piled up on the altar.

Before long, hundreds of Fine-Haired Sheep cubs were born, kneeling in front of the altar and licking the blood flowing from the horse corpses.

The Living Buddha's methods were very similar to orthodox Buddhism, but the breeding of living beings required the altar as a medium, which seemed extremely evil.

Ren Qing narrowed his eyes and followed the old man into the forest.

The forest was silent. Not to mention birds and beasts, even insects had disappeared. Only dense vegetation covered the bones in the soil.

The Buddhist dream flower on Ren Qing's forehead simultaneously revealed ripples, indicating that there was hidden Buddha qi here, not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

The old man stopped a hundred meters away from the statue, his expression only showing piety.

He kowtowed like a pilgrim, indicating that the statue was the so-called "Three Bodhi."

The Three Bodhi statue was extremely evil, as if pieced together from multiple human bodies, with three heads and ten outstretched arms.

The heads were like peeled bananas, and the black and gray stone brains could be seen.

Ren Qing noticed that one of the heads of the Three Bodhi was indeed very similar to Song Zongwu, but his face was full of bizarre and inexplicable piety.

He didn't choose to ask the old man. The latter's soul had already left his body, and it was probably the Living Buddha's intentional attempt to test Ren Qing.

Ren Qing secretly accumulated spells, slowly searching for a path to get closer to the Three Bodhi.

The forbidden corpse, under the non-stop refining of the artificer, had completed a simple weaponization, and could be turned into a zombie as long as Yin qi was poured into it.

If Ren Qing wanted to, he could peel off a complete Yin Official Realm corpse pill from the Bone Land of the Stomach World at any time.

He could use the corpse pill and the forbidden corpse to forcibly simulate the aura of the Dead Man Sutra.

Of course, even if he didn't fuse the corpse pill, it was equivalent to the forbidden corpse having an extra means of corpse transformation.

With the intelligence of the Corpse Immortal, Ren Qing had at least an 80% chance of summoning it, and it shouldn't be difficult to escape through the Human World Walk at that time.

Ren Qing was full of confidence because he had abundant cards.

He walked around the Three Bodhi and found that the statue was surrounded by trees, and only a withered old tree revealed a tree hole leading to the statue.

Ren Qing went straight into the tree hole, and boundless darkness enveloped him.

He could sense that a strange Buddha qi filled the tree hole, similar to the Living Buddha, and likely originated from one of the ten bodies.

Ren Qing quickly summoned the information stream.

【Void Buddha】

【Age: Nine hundred and seventy-six】

【Lifespan: Six thousand eight hundred and thirty-three】

【Art: Void Body】

【Void Body】

【The Void Body was created by the Nameless Ascetic Monk. It crushes thousands of remnant souls into a ball of souls and forcibly infuses them into the cultivator's body. Only when the body and soul turn into nothingness and are not destroyed can it be cultivated.】

Ren Qing thought to himself, "Another Yang God Realm."

"The Esoteric Buddhist Sect has only been established for a thousand years at most, but its accumulated foundation is not shallow. It may really have a Heavenly Aberrant Realm existence."

Ren Qing didn't know if Song Zongwu's body and soul were intact after being involved in the Esoteric Buddhist Sect. He only hoped that he retained his intelligence, and at worst, he could switch to cultivating as a zombie.

The tree hole was only half a meter deep, but it took him several minutes to see the light at the end, accompanied by deafening chanting.

Ren Qing pretended to chant along, stepped out of the tree hole, and came to the outside world.

A rich Buddha qi rushed towards him, but it was far less solid than the Buddha, and instead appeared extremely illusory, and even夹带着腐臭味.

He couldn't help but look up, and the Three Bodhi statue had become ten thousand times larger...

No, to be exact, he had shrunk by ten thousand times.

Ren Qing's figure was like an ant, and the small stones had now turned into several-meter-sized boulders, and the vines were like giant pythons coiling around the sky.

The volume of the Three Bodhi was even comparable to that of a forbidden corpse. The exterior didn't look like a stone material, but more like a corpse that had just died.

Countless monks were active all over the body of the Three Bodhi, and the skinned three heads would occasionally drip golden blood.

The monks even fought fiercely for the chance to bathe in the Buddha's blood.

"The Void Body should be similar to the Buddha's Kingdom in the Palm, a self-contained small world, so the Esoteric Buddhist Sect built its base in a remote forest."

Ren Qing looked around for a moment and then shifted his gaze.

The Nameless Ascetic Monk must have come to the Jailer Hall hundreds of years ago. The Three Bodhi of the Esoteric Buddhist Sect is actually very similar to the Abyssal Hell of the Jailer Hall.

Another layout of hundreds of years...

On closer inspection, the Karma Rank of this world is completely a wedding dress, and the Immortal Position has long been occupied by immortals, so the hope of becoming an immortal or Buddha is slim.

In an era when the path of immortals and Buddhas is cut off, I don't know how many old monsters are plotting against immortals and Buddhas.

Ren Qing's Toel離 Technique pointing directly to the Earth Immortal is extremely valuable. If it is exposed, it may cause many forces to go crazy.

He took a deep breath and headed towards the Three Bodhi.

Ren Qing quickly approached the Three Bodhi and saw tens of thousands of monks sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the statue, many of whom were already on the verge of death.

They were skin and bones, obviously from various Buddhist forces outside, and even saw a few monks from the Lion Buddha Temple.

Hundreds of monks climbed the Three Bodhi, and as they got further away from the ground, their bodies gradually became distorted, becoming less and less human.

What a boundless hell.

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