The Secret Way of Immortality

After the separation of the immortal and mortal realms within the stomach world, the resource points of various branches gradually withdrew. Even if they didn't move to the Celestial Palace, they would be in remote areas.

After the magic item transformed into a town was initially refined, it was located within the Celestial Palace.

The Heavenly Dao City, resembling a Taoist temple in appearance, is distributed with twenty-one main halls and over three hundred side halls, with distinctive decorations unique to the Non-Action Taoist Temple visible everywhere.

Statues of successive leaders of the Non-Action Taoist Temple are ubiquitous, with Ren Qing's statue in the center.

The Prison Guard City has walls that encompass the entire small world, with towering mushroom trees transformed from cultivators visible everywhere.

There are few buildings in the city, but they are thirty to forty meters high, with bridge-like passages connecting the tops, and the streets are suspended in mid-air.

After all, the ground is covered with mushroom trees, and one may be affected by spells if one is not careful.

The forbidden corpses are also in a corner of the Prison Guard Palace, with hundreds of cultivators transporting resources, mainly to facilitate the nourishment of distorted organs.

The restricted area of the stomach has been successfully integrated through Xiao San'er's refinement, but Ren Qing has not yet attempted to continue investing in strange objects.

The two Celestial Palaces are still being continuously improved, and there is still a gap from the upper realm recognized by Ren Qing. It is estimated that it will have to wait until an ecology far exceeding the ordinary is developed.

Wine Lake Island in the mortal realm is shrouded in thick fog, and the Dream City in the center has disappeared.

Ren Qing moved Dream City to the Celestial Palace, using it to create a third "Toe Departure Palace". Only Dream City is located in this small world.

If cultivators want to go to the Toe Departure Palace, they must communicate with Dream City in their sleep, otherwise, even if their realm is high, they cannot enter and exit at will.

Dream City is now a channel for communication between the branches of the Prison Guard Hall, with tens of thousands of cultivators buying and selling various resources inside at all times.

It can be seen that mortalization is still recognized by the branches, and they even do not hesitate to reduce the frequency of cultivators going down to the mortal world.

Try to ensure that the mortal world will not be interfered with by the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld, and maintain a virtuous cycle.

In the two years of Ren Qing's retreat, more than ten years have passed in the stomach world.

Now it is almost difficult to see cultivators above the Ghost Envoy realm in the mortal world, as for the mixed residence of various races, mortals have long been accustomed to it.

Prisoners also rarely approach the inland, honestly staying in the remote wilderness to cultivate, and their traces can also be found on overseas islands.

The records of gods, ghosts, and strange events seem to have become a thing of the past, resulting in newborn children in recent years who do not know whether ascending to the upper realm is true or false.

The duties of the Prison Guard Hall in the mortal world have returned to being government runners.

In the past, in the stomach world, due to external pressure and the popularization of cultivation, the people were single-mindedly focused on improving their realm.

Now, under the deliberate dilution of the Prison Guard Hall, the cultivation craze among the people has gradually subsided, but physical martial arts are still popular in the mortal world.

The perfect realm of physical martial arts is equivalent to the initial entry into the Ghost Envoy realm, and naturally, strange objects will be bred.

At that time, physical martial arts cultivators will be able to feel the existence of the upper realm and can choose to attain enlightenment and ascend.

In the short term, the number of cultivators promoted to the Ghost Envoy realm has dropped sharply, but from a long-term perspective, it can indirectly stimulate population growth.

Ten years have passed, the population of Non-Action City has easily exceeded one million, and the imperial examinations for scholars have begun to flourish again, not just practicing martial arts.

According to Ren Qing's estimate, after about a hundred years, with the support of a sufficient population, the number of cultivators ascending to the upper realm will once again explode.

Another reason lies in the alienation of the body and soul by the Prison Guard Method.

Alienation is the process of changing the form of life, and the probability of reproduction will gradually decrease, and even reproductive isolation will occur.

After Ren Qing reached the Heavenly Guile realm, he was no longer in the category of "human", but a half-footed fairy guest stepping into the gate of immortality.

Immortals and Buddhas do not need to reproduce at all, and mass-producing creatures is a common method.

During the two years of Ren Qing's retreat, he has been deducing Buddhist techniques. When he feels a bottleneck, he meditates on techniques or refines weapons and elixirs.

Buddhist techniques are more complicated and cumbersome than imagined, and it is almost impossible to find any rules.

According to the nature of Buddhist energy, he accidentally created a strange Prison Guard Method, but unfortunately, it does not have the particularity of a Buddhist fruit position.

【Nirvana Buddha Method】

【Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires absorbing Buddhist energy, then being in a filthy place, until the flesh and bones corrode the Buddhist energy, then it can be cultivated.】

The Nirvana Buddha Method has nothing to do with Buddhist techniques. The abilities of each alienation route after mastering it are mainly to resist Buddhist energy.

Ren Qing gave a copy of the Nirvana Buddha Method to Song Zongwu for reference, and the original was placed in the "Treasure Pavilion" of the storage Celestial Palace and will not be spread out.

The Treasure Pavilion has all kinds of strange materials and techniques, most of which have certain hazards and will cause chaos in the mortal world.

The techniques created by Ren Qing are strictly kept secret, and unless he becomes an immortal and attains enlightenment, he does not intend to teach them.

"Alas..."

Ren Qing frowned, and he was inevitably a little annoyed that he could not find a breakthrough, so he projected his consciousness into the Longevity Forbidden Zone.

The Little Leiyin Temple is shrouded in Buddhist energy, and the monks of Linggan Temple have been completely converted by the Fake Tathagata, chanting scriptures with the Buddha and Bodhisattvas.

Everywhere in the temple, you can see hundreds of dream flowers transformed into golden beetles. If there is a slight leakage of Buddhist energy, it will be absorbed.

Relying on the constantly producing Buddhist energy from the Deer Riding Arhat, the stolen Buddhist energy is equivalent to the Heavenly Guile realm, which can be called massive.

Ren Qing stared at Leshan. Among all the monks, he was the only one who was skin and bones. His body and soul had already been used as a consumable for Buddhist energy.

Leshan's face was devout, his body was on the verge of death, and his internal organs showed different degrees of decay, just waiting to be reincarnated and practice Buddhism again.

After they believed in the Deer Riding Arhat, their souls already had the imprint of Buddhism, and their way of thinking was completely different from ordinary people.

Even if transformed into a ghost, there are still drawbacks to intelligence.

The number of monks has decreased by more than a dozen, not because of birth, old age, sickness, and death, but because they disagree with Buddhist principles from time to time and are prone to fighting.

Ren Qing shook his head, the monks of Linggan Temple were really hopeless.

The Fake Tathagata's Buddhist scriptures were collected from folk temples, and most of the content was to guide others to accumulate merit and cultivate the next life.

But the monks can always distort the meaning.

For example, there is a sentence: "The world is like a sea of suffering, and people use the flesh as a raft to cross the sea".

They directly understood that they had to use flesh and bones to build an altar to pray to the Buddha, so they simply killed several novices and pieced together a creepy altar.

The novices still had smiles on their faces before they died, as if they were very honored to be selected.

When Ren Qing found out, the altar had already solidified into a material similar to bronze under the action of Buddhist energy and merged with the ground.

He silently waited for the opportunity. Since there was no progress in deducing Buddhist techniques, he could only start with the Deer Riding fruit position.

Leshan was a bit paranoid, so Ren Qing secretly spent many years quietly infiltrating the paranoid disease into his soul.

As long as Leshan dies, no matter how the Deer Riding Buddhist energy is dealt with, he will be aware of it.

Ren Qing learned from Song Zongwu that in the Buddhist reincarnation, creatures may become the target of soul attachment.

Usually in places far away from human habitation, they may be born from the belly of a beast.

Ren Qing did not accelerate Leshan's death. Any behavior may stimulate the Deer Riding Buddhist energy. There is no need to do anything extra at the last moment.

He stared at the Little Leiyin Temple. If he could not find clues from Leshan, the path of Buddhist techniques would be impassable.

Thinking about it carefully, if the Heavenly Dao Transformation can be transferred to the Burning Lamp Buddha by using the fruit position without mastering Buddhist techniques...

Becoming an immortal and attaining enlightenment can be at least hundreds of years faster, and the risk is minimized.

Ren Qing distracted himself by reading various Buddhist scriptures, and several months passed in a flash.

The Longevity Forbidden Zone will hardly change. After all, the ground and the sea of clouds are ruled by fungus people, which can interfere with the rules of the formation of strange objects.

In the Little Leiyin Temple's resounding chanting, there was a mixture of the old man's twilight panting.

"Cough cough cough cough..."

Leshan coughed violently, his face flushed red, and the aura revealed by his body and soul decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The surrounding monks looked at Leshan with envious eyes, wishing they could suffer for him.

In their hypocritical compliments, Leshan's heart stopped completely, and the Deer Riding Buddhist energy drilled out of his body with his soul.

His body was not wasted, and the Deer Riding Buddhist energy directly sucked it into ashes before letting it go.

The Deer Riding Buddhist energy floated above the monks' heads, but did not go to reincarnate.

Ren Qing's eyes flickered, and he noticed that the Deer Riding Buddhist energy had devoured Leshan's soul, obviously not intending to let the latter survive.

It seems that even if one inherits the fruit position, if one deliberately does not practice techniques in each life, even reincarnation will be deprived by the Buddhist fruit position.

After the Deer Riding Buddhist energy digested the soul, it drilled into the body of a Buddha child.

The Fake Tathagata said, "Zhihui, you have become a Buddha..."

The monks' faces were incredible. Why did Zhihui achieve the Deer Riding Arhat? Where did Leshan go? Did he go to the mortal world to hone himself?

Ren Qing ignored the waves in the Little Leiyin Temple, and used the dream-like feeling of the world to sense Leshan's soul, and then his expression changed slightly.

Leshan's soul was undergoing boundless illusions, and it was impossible to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

In the previous moment, he was still in the image of cattle and sheep on the grassland, and in the next moment, he turned into a cricket on a leaf, or a wild dog in the field...

For Leshan, every moment was as long as a lifetime, and his intelligence gradually sank.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and tried to look at the fruit position hidden in the Buddhist energy, but felt a strange palpitation in his heart, and the tortoise shell's divination turned into "ominous with good luck".

He knew that there could be no delay, so he simply controlled Leshan to infiltrate the Buddhist energy.

Eighty-seven Buddhas flashed by, Leshan's soul was immediately expelled, and it also vaguely revealed a threatening meaning.

Ren Qing took the opportunity to use the dissipation of the paranoid disease as the price, and finally glimpsed the fruit position.

His pupils dilated, and he immediately withdrew his consciousness from the Longevity Forbidden Zone, and he was relieved only after confirming that the cracks in the tortoise shell had completely recovered and the divination had returned to "auspicious sign".

Ren Qing did not expect the fruit position to be so... ordinary?

At the core of the Buddhist energy, it was actually an old and dilapidated Buddhist scripture. The cover was written with the words Immovable Sutra, and the name Pukong was also signed.

The Buddhist scriptures looked like the most ordinary books, and traces of frequent turning could also be found, with nothing magical about them.

Pukong is a Buddhist Dharma name, maybe it comes from a monk who copied the scriptures?

Ren Qing didn't know what to say. After seeing the secrets of the fruit position, he didn't know how to deduce Buddhist techniques even more.

He glanced at the Heavenly Dao crack, and temporarily prepared to advance to the Heavenly Guile realm first.

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