The Secret Way of Immortality

“I feel like something's not right…”

Pig Taoist swallowed, seemingly aware of the changes in Jing Province's rules, as if marking the unfolding of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage, yet Fortune Buddha remained unfazed.

The lake's area continued to expand, the increase quickly exceeding one-third.

Boom boom boom…

The edge of Jing Province rose, forming towering mountains that reached into the clouds, completely enveloping the deep world like a cage.

Fortune Buddha released Buddha-qi, but the coverage area contracted repeatedly.

Clearly, the mastermind was driving the Buddhas towards the center of Great Buddha Heaven, not even intending to spare ordinary monks.

The dense Buddha-qi corroded the old and frail monks, turning them into withered corpses, while the young and strong were able to barely survive.

The opposite was true for the Buddhas; one moment they were besieging extraterrestrial demons in the Small Buddha Heavens, but after losing the protection of Buddha-qi, their souls showed signs of collapse the next.

The surviving cultivators looked around in astonishment, collapsing to the ground exhausted.

After days of attacks by the Buddhas, the living cultivators were already terrified, and they had no intention of staying long in the face of such a terrifying situation.

They scrambled to leave Jing Province, but had barely crossed the mountains at the edge.

The three souls and seven spirits in their Niwan Palace disappeared inexplicably, and corpses lay scattered ten meters from the water's edge.

In just a moment, thousands of people in the deep world died indiscriminately.

Ren Qing controlled the immortal position, integrating it into Fortune Buddha, while signaling Ghost Shadow to gather the remaining population.

The Buddhas stripped the souls and took them to the Yellow Springs, the monks were captured into the Western Buddhist world, and the ascension cultivators were all imprisoned in the cages on the third level of the underworld.

He didn't understand the mastermind's plan, but he certainly wouldn't let the other party get their way.

Many of the monks in the palms of the various Buddhas died because they couldn't withstand the increasingly dense Buddha-qi, dyeing the lake water pale red.

The development of the situation was unexpected, not at all like a Buddhist ritual.

Apart from Ren Qing still being able to escape through the Stomach Pouch World, it seemed that the deep world had become a cage, trapping them tightly.

The Buddhas present, whether disguised as Heavenly Guile Realm cultivators or insect Buddhas with compassionate faces, couldn't help but become nervous.

However, the Tranquil Light Buddha-qi that filled Jing Province seemed to possess inexplicable power.

Even now, there were still cultivators immersed in the possibility of contacting the Heavenly Dao, never even considering the possibility of escaping.

They frequently looked towards Fortune Buddha, seemingly wanting to understand the truth of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage from the latter's reaction.

Unfortunately, Fortune Buddha had no reaction.

Ren Qing showed pity, judging from the actions of the cultivators who died in the Small Buddha Heavens, only by leaving the range of the Buddha-qi could they have the thought of escaping.

Otherwise, no matter how dangerous, they would mostly sit and wait for death.

Lady White Bone controlled the Buddha, and said with a sneer: "Fortune Buddha is just a puppet, who exactly organized the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage?"

She thought her words would displease the Buddhist sect, but none of the Buddhas spoke.

Lady White Bone immediately understood that even the Buddhist sect itself didn't understand much, and had even tacitly accepted the reality of Fortune Buddha.

She didn't bother to say anything more, closing her eyes to search for clues about the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage.

Ren Qing's immortal position had already burrowed into Fortune Buddha's body, sensing that even the flesh was mixed with Buddha-qi, making it difficult for the immortal position to move an inch.

He took the opportunity to try to communicate with Fortune Buddha, but found that the consciousness had no intelligence.

Strangely, although Fortune Buddha's consciousness was chaotic, his body and soul showed no signs of being transformed by the Heavenly Dao, and might have been transferred to the Dipamkara Buddha.

The deep world was still transforming, and the Jailer Hall in the inner world, under Ren Qing's arrangement, had already begun to evacuate one after another.

Serpent Tamer Taoist muttered to himself: "It seems… corpses, many corpses."

As an undead who cultivated Yin energy, he sensed the unique smell of corpses, as if it was emanating from the Buddha-qi.

As the Buddha-qi overflowed, corpses fell like raindrops in a very strange way.

This caused a massive number of corpses to appear out of nowhere in the lake, most of them monks who died in various ways, their expressions extremely狰狞.

Pig Taoist's hair stood on end: "What's the connection between the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage and corpses?"

Serpent Tamer Taoist shook his head, then stared at Ren Qing, who still hadn't made any movements for a long time, seemingly lost in thought.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva contacted Fortune Buddha again and again, just like his daily morning lessons.

Fortune Buddha usually didn't respond at all, and it was the same now, but this time, even the comfort of his own Buddha-qi was gone.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva looked incredulous, then scooped a corpse out of the water.

The corpse looked exactly like him, but there was a long, narrow wound on the neck, which was clearly the cause of death.

The Buddhas all noticed the similar corpses, as if the lake was a mass grave.

The cultivators had different thoughts, and unconsciously, the aura of spells had already dissipated, and suppressed killing intent was revealed.

Ren Qing's immortal position had come near Fortune Buddha's internal organs, finding a vague phantom of the immortal seat, and the two gradually merged.

At the same time, he paid attention to the anomalies that occurred outside.

Ren Qing suddenly realized something, his pupils dilated instinctively, and although he had been silent for a long time, he spoke when the atmosphere was at its tensest.

"Wangsheng Bodhisattva, can I ask you an impudent question?"

"Extraterrestrial… demon… you…"

Wangsheng Bodhisattva half-straightened his body, the thousand-meter body bringing a substantial sense of oppression.

All eyes were fixed on Ren Qing.

Ren Qing ignored Wangsheng Bodhisattva's threat, and continued to speak to himself: "Do you still remember how you died in your previous life?"

"Extraterrestrial demon, you are bold…"

Ren Qing's brows were tightly furrowed, the light and shadow that made up his body became more distorted, and even the surface of the lake was boiling, his aura soaring.

"Wangsheng Bodhisattva, I'm asking you again, do you still remember how you died in your previous life?"

Serpent Tamer Taoist was on guard, his spine collided and made a sound, preparing for battle, and Pig Taoist could only brace himself and echo.

Lady White Bone recalled the identity of Serpent Tamer Taoist, and after many years of not seeing him, he was willing to act for others.

What surprised the cultivators even more was that Wangsheng Bodhisattva actually chose to answer.

"The same way as the corpse died."

"I was the abbot of Dragon Head Temple in my previous life, but my neck was cut open in my sleep…"

Ren Qing pointed out several inconspicuous Buddhas, who were not actually disguised by Heavenly Guile Realm: "What about your deaths?"

"I was beaten to death with an iron rod while begging for alms…"

"I accidentally fell off a cliff while cleaning the stairs…"

Ren Qing scooped up similar corpses from the lake and threw them in front of them.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva's personality seemed rough, but in fact, he harbored a lot of careful thoughts, and his previous reckless actions were just a means of testing.

"The corpses in the lake are indeed related to us, but it doesn't explain anything…"

"It explains that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage is indeed real."

"Utter nonsense, where did the Merit Monk go?"

Some cultivators retorted on the spot, they had tried so hard just for a chance to contact the Heavenly Dao, but they didn't expect to not even see a shadow of a person.

Ren Qing didn't speak again, just now he was like a madman's unintentional words.

Anomalies appeared again in the deep world.

Plants, trees, mountains, and rocks were gradually decomposing, and the inner world was also disappearing, as if Jing Province was returning to its most primitive state.

But the blood moon that enveloped Jing Province did not stop rising.

The world fell into a white expanse.

The Buddha-qi isolated them on the lake, and some cultivators were already impatient.

When the cultivators urged the Buddha-qi, they could naturally isolate the Buddha-qi from entering their bodies, but they had already lost the best time to escape.

Buzz…

Elephant Master let out a low roar, his body transformed from just over two meters to a thousand meters, his elephant feet directly crushing the meat lotus, and one foot landed in the water, splashing water flowers hundreds of meters high.

He was too lazy to attack the Buddhist sect, and tried to shatter the nearby Buddha-qi.

Myriad Sounds Bodhisattva said in a deep voice: "What are you planning to do, did you cause the disasters of the Large and Small Buddha Heavens?"

"Why don't you ask the existence who arranged the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage."

Elephant Master punched the lake surface several times in a row, and water columns soared into the sky.

Fortune Buddha was really just a decoration, further encouraging the courage of the Heavenly Guile Realm, and besides, they couldn't possibly wait to die in place.

The pressure in the deep world became heavy, and as the Buddha-qi surged, dreamlike scenes appeared in the sky, they could no longer see the traces of the Small Buddha Heavens, only a huge sun.

The sun was reflected from outside the blood moon, representing the disintegration of Jing Province's rules.

The anxious atmosphere was on the verge of breaking out, and the Heavenly Guile Realm didn't intend to pretend anymore, and revealed their true forms, glaring at each other.

Lady White Bone climbed out little by little from the top of Hundred Wisdom Bodhisattva's head, the latter still retained consciousness, and let out a shrill scream from his mouth.

In just a few breaths, Hundred Wisdom Bodhisattva turned into tattered pieces of meat.

The two forces were full of gunpowder.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Guile Realm looked down on the Buddhist sect, and the Buddhist sect's strength was unable to resist them, which led to the situation barely being on the verge of losing control.

The cultivators wanted to find a way out, and used various spells to break through the blockade from the Buddha-qi.

After all, the Buddha-qi originated from Tranquil Light Tathagata, who was a Buddha far beyond the Earth Immortal, how could a group of Heavenly Guile Realm cultivators succeed.

Even Pig Taoist and Serpent Tamer Taoist had joined the ranks of the cultivators, but it was undoubtedly like an ant trying to stop a chariot.

On the contrary, Wangsheng Bodhisattva was extremely calm, and actually took the initiative to walk to Ren Qing's side.

"What exactly do you know?"

"Wangsheng Bodhisattva, I'm very curious, are you clear about the source of the Buddha-qi here?"

Wangsheng Bodhisattva was speechless after hearing this, he had felt not long ago that the revival of the Large and Small Buddha Heavens was blessed by Fortune Buddha.

Ren Qing's words were transmitted to everyone's ears, and while asking Wangsheng Bodhisattva, he also seemed to be asking them.

Lady White Bone covered her mouth and chuckled, without the slightest panic because of the sudden change in Jing Province: "This slave is clear, I don't know what this official's name is?"

"Heavenly Court, Polaris Sovereign."

She thought that Heavenly Court had disappeared, but the other party had already reached into the hinterland of Jing Province, and the visitor was not even the Four Seas Dragon King.

Lady White Bone continued in an unquestionable tone: "According to the characteristics of Jing Province's Buddha-qi, it should come from the Tranquil Light Buddha of the Tathagata fruit position."

"If there are no accidents, the mastermind who arranged Jing Province is Tranquil Light Buddha's son."

"This Polaris Sovereign, what do you think?"

Ren Qing smiled without saying a word, answering a question that was not asked: "You can escape Jing Province from the ground, but you have to dig within the range of the lake, so it's not a dead end for the time being."

They also realized that Jing Province was rising sharply, and what Ren Qing said did have some truth.

Elephant Master couldn't help but stomp hard on the shore, immediately blasting out a pit several meters deep, which seemed more reliable than the airtight Buddha-qi.

"But the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage is indeed real, staying behind may allow you to contact the Heavenly Dao."

No cultivators listened to the second half of Ren Qing's sentence, it was already difficult enough to seek survival from desperation, how dare they harbor illusions about opportunities of unknown authenticity.

Lady White Bone was increasingly unable to understand the man in front of her.

Ren Qing looked at the embarrassing ritual scene, the Buddhas kneeling and praying, the cultivators scrambling to dig, and the blood moon had already exceeded ten thousand meters in the sky.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva breathed heavily and asked: "What are you talking about?"

He always felt that the conversation contained unimaginable information, but he couldn't understand it at all, and could only watch the advent of the apocalypse.

Thinking of this, Wangsheng Bodhisattva's face became distorted.

But before he could react, Jing Province's immortal position rules affected the Gu worm transformation, causing the Buddhas to fall into the loss of control of their bodies and souls.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva plunged into the lake, the thousand-meter body quickly sinking to the bottom, and the cold lake water poured into his mouth and nose.

"If Tranquil Light Tathagata never existed, or the mastermind doesn't exist?"

Ren Qing lowered his head and thought to himself, his gaze seemed to cross the long river of time.

He vaguely had a guess about the true identity of the mastermind, but the connection was great, and it might involve the truth of thousands of years ago.

If he wanted to figure it out, he could only wait for the subsequent development of Jing Province.

If Ren Qing's guess was true, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Paying Homage might have already begun, but the main battlefield was not in the disintegrating Jing Province.

He narrowed his eyes, although it was a clone in Jing Province, his main body trembled unconsciously, which was an instinct for unknown things.

Ren Qing considered the gains and losses, during this period the immortal position had been completely implanted into Fortune Buddha, so he let Ghost Shadow dig a hole, and soon formed a space sufficient to accommodate the forbidden corpses.

Bang!!!

A loud noise came from the Buddha-qi, as if a mountain peak had grown from the ground.

Ren Qing sensed a familiar aura, which was clearly unique to the immortal position, and the third immortal position that made up the rules of Jing Province finally revealed itself.

The insect immortal position was also blocked by the Buddha-qi, trapped in a boulder like a lake.

He released the Dream Flower and headed towards the source, while he closed his eyes to feel the state of Polaris Sovereign, carefully pondering the changes in the situation.

Ren Qing intentionally reduced his body to just over ten meters, and used the Heavenly Demon Tribulation to remove his presence, and he was unknowingly forgotten.

The cultivators may have had a great impression of Polaris Sovereign not long ago, but they didn't realize that they seemed to have forgotten someone.

The Buddhas turned into corpses one by one, and the drastic changes in the rules were fatal to them.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva spat out blood foam, and until his death, he could not understand the behavior of the extraterrestrial demons, and why the Large and Small Buddha Heavens would be destroyed.

"Fortune Buddha, shouldn't you protect us…"

His tongue had rotted, and he only had the strength to simply turn his eyeballs.

Wangsheng Bodhisattva only noticed before his death that the Buddha amber on Fortune Buddha's body was shattering one by one, and his appearance was becoming more and more unfamiliar.

His eyes were wide open, and the vitality of his body was completely extinguished.

The death of a large number of Buddhas meant that the three immortal positions were gradually getting rid of the control of the Buddha-qi, and the mastermind's arrangement was about to surface.

[Dear viewers, happy new year 2023, there will be less updates today.]

The fever wasn't a big deal, but the after-effects have been torturing me. Coughing, nausea, and cold sweats all over.