The Secret Way of Immortality

"What a terrifying world."

Ren Qing couldn't help but sigh, controlling the fungal soul to explore the inner world, discovering that the distribution of towns was almost identical to the surface.

Each town had a large number of monks, all under the guise of practicing medicine and helping the world, engaging in acts of robbery and prostitution, filling the inner world with despair.

However, Ren Qing did not find any power system in the inner world.

Including the monks, all the people were ordinary mortals, but their lifespan was higher, able to live to one hundred and fifty years.

The social order was firmly controlled by the many monks.

They controlled all walks of life, outwardly benevolent and righteous, but in reality, even brothels and casinos had the monks' figures behind them.

Don't think that the monks would fight openly and secretly for merit, but as long as they found that the people were suspicious of them, they would not hesitate to join hands.

Only by long-term rule over the towns could they more stably reap merit.

Ren Qing called this group of monks "Merit Monks".

The Merit Monks also had their own direct temples, but there were no Buddha statues inside.

According to them, only by believing in themselves could they cross the sea of suffering.

In Ren Qing's view, it was purely because the existence of the Buddha would make the people's gratitude to the Merit Monks impure, affecting the reaping of merit.

After Ren Qing returned to Sanxiang City, he attached the fungal soul to the Black Water Taoist.

After experiencing the separation of yin and yang from his wife and children, the Black Water Taoist's will became extremely depressed, and he seemed to have lost the motivation to live.

He wandered aimlessly on the streets every day, and only when he occasionally saw a monk did he come back to his senses, piously putting his hands together and greeting him.

After experiencing great ups and downs, the Black Water Taoist undoubtedly regarded the Merit Monks as good people.

If the temple didn't accept him, he would probably want to become a monk.

Wu Shan occasionally went to help the Black Water Taoist, so he wouldn't starve to death.

But he wasn't doing it out of kindness.

Rather, like the Black Water Taoist's situation, once his mentality was unbalanced and he wanted to do evil, it would be difficult to restrain him.

Inevitably, many disasters would arise, so he could continue to earn merit.

Compared to Kong Chan, Wu Shan, who had twenty-three merit relics, was indeed cunning and scheming.

Ren Qing had a premonition that Jingzhou on the second level was still not the end.

The monks' ascension to the Western Paradise must have a process.

Maybe they had to go through multiple layers of screening before finally coming into contact with the Three Dao Ancestors.

While he was secretly thinking, the Black Water Taoist finally stopped indulging in pain.

At this time, the Black Water Taoist's body was thin and gaunt, his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were dull, and his hair was almost completely white overnight.

He returned to the village outside the city in a daze, attracting whispers from the villagers.

Fortunately, it was now severe winter, and the bodies of his wife and children had not rotted, but there was more or less some stench, attracting carrion insects to fly around.

The Black Water Taoist dug a deep pit in the courtyard, then buried the bodies of his wife and children inside, and simply made two tombstones.

He also deliberately left a place in the tomb for himself to rest after death.

After completing all this, and after the seventh day, the Black Water Taoist regained some vitality and went to the lake to fish in a boat.

Ren Qing was not surprised.

The Black Water Taoist was not a person who worried about gains and losses in the surface world.

In fact, he gave Ren Qing the feeling that he was mainly ruthless and unscrupulous.

Unfortunately, in the inner world, even if the Black Water Taoist regained his spirit, he would only face more disasters and become a tool for others to obtain merit.

Ren Qing did not choose to follow the Black Water Taoist, he was too lazy to watch third-rate bloody dramas.

A few days ago, there was even a situation similar to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and finally the man and woman committed suicide under the peach tree.

The parents were in extreme pain, and the Merit Monks presided over the salvation ceremony.

As a result, the Merit Monks used tricks to take out two butterflies from their sleeves, saying that their souls were attached to the insects and they were still together.

Ren Qing was horrified by the Merit Monks' methods of reaping merit.

There was no need to stop them, because this was the rule of the inner world.

The interest group composed of Merit Monks affected the whole body.

For the time being, it was better not to act rashly, so as not to interrupt the only clues.

Ren Qing temporarily stayed in the Black Water Taoist's courtyard.

The village where the Black Water Taoist was located had a small population.

To be precise, because there was no trade, and it was difficult to buy bulk goods in the shops.

As a result, most of the population was concentrated in the towns, controlled by the Merit Monks.

The village was very safe, with only children under the age of fifteen and some women.

Ren Qing then realized why there were more men in the surface world.

He originally thought that it was because refining Gu worms required a strong physique, so men had an advantage.

Now it seemed that most women were not the target of the Merit Monks.

The Merit Monks needed women to reproduce and increase the efficiency of obtaining merit, so that more people would have the opportunity to ascend to the Western Paradise.

Ren Qing knew that going to the inner world was not difficult, and there was more than one way.

He could completely let the fungal soul refine a magic weapon that led to the mirror world, and the main body could go to the inner world through the mirror world.

Or, imitating the evil spirits of Jingzhou in the past, he should be able to gradually be drawn into the inner world by spreading Ren Qing's name.

Spreading his name was not urgent, and whether or not to bring the forces of the surface world to the inner world was another question.

So he first had to determine whether the inner world was unable to cultivate, and whether the rules for the formation of immortal positions had changed.

If he went to the inner world rashly and the spells failed, wouldn't he be trapped here and only be able to escape with the Undead Evasion?

With Ren Qing's current powerful body and soul, it would probably take decades to re-conceive a body after death, which was indeed a waste of time.

Thinking of this, Ren Qing searched the village and finally led an old dog back to the courtyard.

He planned to try to cultivate the Corpse Dog Technique.

The main reason for choosing this technique was that the fungal soul in the inner world was a "Rabid Dog Strain".

The Rabid Dog Strain was rabies in his previous life.

Patients were usually afraid of drinking water, became more and more irritable, and had a very high mortality rate.

Under normal circumstances, mastering the Jailer Law was very troublesome, but the Rabid Dog Strain was related to the physical martial art "Dog Beating Stick Technique".

If the physical martial art was cultivated to perfection, he could switch to the Corpse Dog Technique.

【Corpse Dog Technique】

【Created by the Corpse Dog Taoist, cultivation requires feeding newborn puppies with one's own flesh and blood.

After they grow up, use fragments of the internal organs to stimulate their ferocity, until they die violently before they can be cultivated.】

Physical martial arts have different schools, corresponding to three different alienation routes.

The alienation route of the Corpse Dog Technique is actually somewhat special.

Both are related to beast control, but the "Corpse Dog Master" seizes the corpse dog.

The Martial Artist Realm of the Corpse Dog Master focuses entirely on cultivating corpse dogs.

Only in the Half-Corpse Realm will they seize and possess the body, thus replacing it.

Ren Qing infected the old dog with the Rabid Dog Strain and began to help the latter enter the Corpse Dog Technique.

As a result, the old dog did not have the trend of mastering the spell, but instead was dying under the torture of the Rabid Dog Strain in a few days.

Ren Qing thought for a long time, then stripped the Rabid Dog Strain from the old dog's body, and then the old dog left the courtyard with its tail between its legs.

It seems that mastering spells in the inner world should be unrealistic.

Ren Qing had to set his sights on Gu worms.

In theory, since they were all the same immortal positions, the rules should be related.

Although there were no Gu worms in the inner world, it did not mean that Gu could not be refined.

Ren Qing was considering the details of refining Gu when he suddenly heard dense footsteps.

He saw many children walking towards the courtyard.

After the children learned of the death of the Black Water Taoist's wife and children, they went to worship the tomb with some paper money, under the instructions of the women.

In Jingzhou, there was indeed a saying of using children to ward off bad luck.

Although they were a little scared, they still mustered up the courage to walk into the courtyard.

After all, poor people became heads of households early, and basically had to help with farm work in their early teens.

Ma Shan walked in the front, fourteen years old, his skin already tanned, patiently explaining to the children next to him.

The children did not dare to neglect, first using a broom to sweep away the fallen leaves on the ground, and then Ma Shan held a tile pot and lit it with a fire.

They chanted the Rebirth Mantra, but it was indeed a mantra of the Buddhist Pure Land.

"Namo Amitabha, Datagaya, Datadiya, Amitoli, Amitata..."

Paper money was sprinkled into the brazier, scattered in the air.

The children's ignorant eyes did not realize the impermanence of life and death, but they still saw the sorrow from the bloodstains on the surface of the tombstone.

"The Rebirth Mantra is chanted wrong..."

"Who!!"

Ma Shan widened his eyes and looked around in disbelief.

His eyes fell on the bottom of the banyan tree.

The smoke and dust from the burning paper money slowly gathered, forming a blurred half-meter phantom, with a dragon head and a human body.

The children's expressions changed several times, and finally they were no longer afraid under the influence of the fungal soul.

"Follow me to chant the Rebirth Mantra."

"The Supreme Order commands you lonely souls, ghosts, and all four forms of life to receive grace..."

After the salvation was completed, the coldness in the courtyard warmed up slightly.

The Toe Separation Technique was silently performed, and the children already completely trusted Ren Qing.

Ren Qing asked the children to help him catch some insects in the mountains around the village.

After hearing this, Ma Shan immediately led the other children out of the courtyard excitedly.

The experience just now seemed like a dream.

It wasn't that Ren Qing lacked manpower.

In fact, he wanted to use this to try whether he could travel through multiple worlds using the method of evil spirits.

Suddenly, Ren Qing's expression became strange, and his consciousness returned to his main body.

He closed his eyes and felt the difference in his body and soul, and found that there was indeed an imperceptible abnormality, as if the connection with the inner world had deepened.

A strange sense of抽离涌上心头.

It seemed that even without telling his name, even knowing his existence could make Ren Qing be gradually drawn into the inner world.

Fortunately, Ren Qing had taken preventive measures for the children's souls, otherwise, if one told ten, and ten told a hundred, he might be forced to leave the surface world.

Ren Qing stroked his chin and looked at the surface Jingzhou, which was in a dormant stage.

It was indeed a bit unreliable for him to go to the inner world alone, he still had to find a way to get all the forces to go there.

Since the Merit Monks thought the surface world was hell, if he brought this group of evil ghosts to the inner world, he wondered what their expressions would be?

Ren Qing was also very curious, the fanatics in the second level world were very crazy, but far from reaching the level of contacting the Dao of Heaven.

What would the scene be like in the deeper world?