As the pagoda-shaped space was gradually pulled into the stomach.
All the cultivators within Eternal Space Prison sensed it and stood upon the walls of Wuwei City to observe, their expressions uncertain and suspicious.
Li Tiangang faintly saw white light rush into the depths beneath the plain. The tremor abruptly stopped, and a faint fragrance spread through the air.
At the very center of Eternal Space Prison, on the summit of a hillside, a bamboo shoot suddenly sprouted. The fragrance came from it.
The bamboo shoot grew into green bamboo at a speed visible to the naked eye, swaying with the mountain wind.
Ren Qing did not expect that the Rebirth Pagoda would appear inside Eternal Space Prison in the form of green bamboo. He had originally thought it would resemble a pagoda-like structure.
Information regarding the Rebirth Pagoda flowed into his mind.
Plants and animals unintentionally leak vitality.
The function of the green bamboo was to collect the vitality drifting within a dozen meters nearby, which could heal injuries and mutations.
On the other hand, Ren Qing could forcibly extract the vitality from his body, placing his body into a state with no pain and immunity to toxins.
The abilities of the Rebirth Pagoda could be said to be two extremes.
Ren Qing planned to push the Resurrection Technique to Yin Difference realm in one go, so he examined the aberration branches at the tips of the mutation tree.
Cannibalism: vitality can be obtained by devouring human flesh.
Pagoda Vessel: the pagoda realm will transform into a pagoda-shaped magical artifact independent of the body.
[Store Death: can absorb death qi emitted by corpses, and use it to rot flesh.]
[Cherish Life: lifespan can be extended by absorbing vitality.]
Ren Qing immediately chose Cherish Life as the first aberration ability.
Currently the efficiency of extending lifespan was far inferior to before. Having an additional method to extend lifespan was good; otherwise who knew how long it would take for Eternal Space Prison to advance to Yang God realm.
Ren Qing carefully examined the aberration branches and ultimately set his gaze on the Store Death aberration. He felt the use of death qi would not be limited merely to rotting flesh.
After Dao Dao Dao advanced to Yang God realm, could he use it to modify the rules of the small world and construct an alternative cycle of life and death?
Ren Qing hesitated for a few breaths, then chose Store Death as the second aberration.
The green bamboo grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, soon reaching more than ten meters. Then bamboo shoots emerged around it, forming a bamboo forest covering the entire hilltop.
As long as enough vitality and death qi were stored, the area of the bamboo forest would continue to expand.
The bamboo within the forest had two colors, alternating between green and gray, each absorbing vitality and death qi respectively, creating a strange sense of disorder.
Just then a small bird was killed by a falcon. The corpse emitted a faint death qi that was gradually absorbed by a gray bamboo in the forest.
Beasts passing near the bamboo forest seemed to sense danger and hurriedly detoured to flee.
On the contrary, nearby tribal demon cultivators were bolder. Some even entered the bamboo forest with tools, intending to dig up the newly grown bamboo shoots.
After confirming the bamboo shoots were harmless to living beings and could increase lifespan by several days to over ten days, Ren Qing ignored their actions.
For the third aberration, he chose Bamboo Vessel.
Bamboo Vessel: every thirty days the bamboo sheds half a meter; consuming living bamboo strengthens the body, consuming dead bamboo corrodes the body.
On one hand, Ren Qing valued Bamboo Vessel for its effect as a refining material. On the other hand, it could even count as a stable food supply.
Though it still could not completely solve the food shortage problem within Eternal Space Prison.
Once exchange with the Longevity Restricted Zone began, Bamboo Vessel could also assist the hundreds of thousands of people there in cultivating physical martial arts, making it extremely useful.
Without stopping, he continued to summon the information flow.
Do you choose the branch Boundless Resurrection? Two hundred years of lifespan will be consumed.
Ren Qing felt a bit pained, but still watched helplessly as two hundred years of lifespan disappeared. Immediately afterward the Resurrection Technique began transforming.
The green and gray bamboo shot upward wildly, their height quickly exceeding fifty meters.
Ren Qing fell into a brief trance. Originally the bamboo forest could only absorb vitality and death qi from nearby plants and animals, but at the moment it advanced to Yin Difference realm the range expanded directly to the entire Eternal Space Prison.
Vitality and death qi surged massively into the bamboo forest.
The green bamboo that absorbed vitality became as smooth and warm as jade; the gray bamboo that absorbed death qi was covered in cracks, its leaves yellowing.
Aside from this, Ren Qing could also release the two types of aura outward to heal or to fight enemies.
He circulated vitality through his entire body, nourishing bone and flesh through the blood. Sure enough, his lifespan was slowly increasing.
Although the efficiency of extending lifespan was not particularly high, it required no effort.
He estimated that once it reached Yang God realm, it could plunder lifespan like the Longevity Tree. Perhaps at that time it would become the primary method of extending lifespan.
Ren Qing nodded in satisfaction. Seeing that he had only about one hundred years of lifespan remaining, he decisively sacrificed the split soul inside the Longevity Restricted Zone.
Unfortunately, the split soul could only gain lifespan by devouring the aberrant objects produced after longevity species died. This likely involved some rule of the restricted zone; perhaps longevity species themselves were special.
In any case, with the Forbidden Realm now present, the Restraint Officer method could at least exert sixty to seventy percent of its strength. There was no need to deliberately maintain the split soul's realm.
The split soul decisively used the ghost shadow to crush its internal organs, and the corpse collapsed heavily beside the Longevity Tree.
The Longevity Tree digested the corpse as fertilizer. Soon a massive fruit grew from its branches, and a new body began to gestate again.
[Lifespan: five hundred thirty-seven years]
Seeing that his lifespan exceeded the five hundred years required for Eternal Space Prison to advance to Spirit Release, Ren Qing did not use his hidden wine mine lifespan extension method.
He had already experienced the breakthrough to Spirit Release before, so he was very familiar with it and remained calm.
Eternal Space Prison only expanded slightly in area without obvious improvement, but the primary and secondary techniques became more tightly integrated.
The Taotie Method (Food-Consuming Immortal Technique, Wine God Technique, Dao Dao Dao, Resurrection Technique)
Eternal Space Prison (Fuel King in the Furnace, Wine River Between the Body, Jar-in-the-Stomach Daoist Grounds, Boundless Resurrection)
Prison Guard, Boundless, Waning Moon, Forge Furnace, Kindling Sun, Remaining Ash, Peach Wine, Wine Mine, Wine Cloud, Cherish Life, Store Death, Bamboo Vessel
Ren Qing stretched lazily. Without realizing it, he had already stayed inside the cave for over a month; it was about time to go out.
Bang bang bang!
Another Buddha corpse climbed toward the surface, creating even greater commotion than the previous one, indicating its size was at least over one hundred meters.
Ren Qing's mouth twitched, and he sat back down inside the cave.
Better stabilize his realm first, and conveniently try aberration fusion.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and visualized The Taotie Method while Spirit Division controlled the Prison Guard and Boundless aberration branches of The Taotie Method to fuse first.
When he did not enter seclusion it was fine, but once he did, he easily forgot the passage of time, devoting himself entirely to aberration fusion.
There were fifteen aberration branches in total, requiring fourteen aberration fusions.
The difficulty would continuously increase, so Ren Qing needed at least five to six hundred years of lifespan to forcibly complete the aberration fusions.
More than two years passed in an instant.
Relying on his own effort, Ren Qing had already fused six aberrations together, but he still ended his seclusion.
Mainly because the Bottomless Pit did not seem suitable for staying long. The disturbances caused by the Buddha corpses were growing larger and larger.
Although the frequency had slightly decreased, the Buddha corpses appearing recently were over two hundred meters tall.
Inside Eternal Space Prison, development was fairly good. Currently food was barely self-sufficient.
Many acres of farmland had been excavated, but due to environmental differences most crop varieties could not adapt. They had to rely on the Restraint Officer method to stimulate plant growth.
Ren Qing also had Yuan Si open a small livestock enclosure, using imaginary techniques to attempt creating meat livestock with high yield and moderate appetite.
The situation in the Longevity Restricted Zone was not optimistic.
As physical martial arts gradually spread to the entire population, food became increasingly scarce.
Although Muyi, a Yin Difference realm cultivator, was present, the area covered by the Longevity Tree was limited. It was impossible to plant food there like in Eternal Space Prison.
Once hundreds of thousands of people practiced physical martial arts, without support from Eternal Space Prison it would be impossible to sustain them, so Ren Qing could only produce food desperately.
Holding Fetal Flesh in his hand, Ren Qing climbed upward along the rock wall toward the surface.
He planned to determine the situation of Cishi and also inquire about the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.