Ren Qing has, up to now, refined quite a number of techniques, and many were originally created by himself, so he understands the techniques themselves inside and out.
Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires taking the saliva of a Heavenly Dao Insect and ingesting it; only after the blood undergoes mutation can it be successfully cultivated.
In the later refined version, Daoist temple disciples usually use black insects derived from ghost shadows to get started, which makes cultivation efficiency extremely high.
The version Ren Qing intends to modify this time, because it is for the Giant Corpse Buddha to cultivate, does not need to consider too many fine details.
After all, the only advantage of this thing is that it is not easy to die.
He must take advantage of the opportunity of corpse water corroding the stomach and intestines to let the Giant Corpse Buddha master it; only then can it truly be foolproof.
After spending several days of effort, a variant Heavenly Insect Method was freshly produced.
Created by Ren Qing, cultivation requires taking the saliva of a Heavenly Dao Insect and ingesting it; after the blood undergoes mutation and Nether Yuan becomes tainted with Buddhist qi, only then can it be successfully cultivated
Ren Qing immediately drilled out of the heart, injected the saliva of the Netherworld Heavenly Insect into the blood vessels, and mixed in a small amount of spirit crystals containing Nether Yuan.
The function of the insect saliva is to make the cultivator's physique suitable for the Heavenly Insect Method. Back then in Jingzhou, it was precisely because of this that hundreds of thousands of civilians turned into half-human half-insect beings.
When the insect saliva affected the blood vessels, the Buddhist qi immediately became restless, showing that the compatibility of the Heavenly Insect Method is far inferior to the Restraint Officer method.
One must know that when facing the danger of damage to the stomach, the Buddhist qi had already allowed the proliferation of disease seeds.
But when it came to the seemingly ordinary Nether Yuan, it indeed triggered rejection from the Buddhist qi; however, because the Nether Yuan was not yet significant, it was not obvious.
If it were under normal circumstances, the Buddhist qi would definitely stop Ren Qing, or even erupt violently.
Ren Qing took a deep breath as the Buddhist Sect Dream Flower detached from his glabella.
The Dream Flower attached to the surface of the spirit crystals; although it looked out of place, it could at least conceal the abnormalities from the Heavenly Insect Method.
Ren Qing activated the Planting Demons Scripture, and the heart's beating frequency immediately became orderly.
Using the Planting Demons Scripture, he drove the spirit crystals to gradually melt; a strand of Nether Yuan, as thin as a hair, traveled along the blood vessels throughout the Giant Corpse Buddha's body.
At the same time, because the Nether Yuan carried insect saliva, scale-like mutations grew on the surface of the blood vessels.
The Giant Corpse Buddha's walking motion halted, and then its flesh uncontrollably trembled, showing signs of imminent qi deviation.
The people of the Restraint Officers' Hall felt it deeply in the stomach.
Fragments of flesh fell mixed with rainwater.
It could not be described as earth-shaking; no matter how great the previous commotion, the stomach wall above had never had flesh dissolving.
Seeing this, Ren Qing clenched his teeth.
The Giant Corpse Buddha's reaction indeed exceeded expectations, but it was a crucial step in gaining control over it.
Through the disease seeds, he observed the situation in meticulous detail; his right hand had already accumulated a vast amount of vitality from the Rebirth Technique, if ineffective, he would immediately drive the vitality to repair.
After Nether Yuan circulated for more than ten minutes, the result was unlike normal, let alone no increase in cultivation, it instead shrank by a quarter.
In the end, the Nether Yuan followed a specific route into the Giant Corpse Buddha's stomach.
Ren Qing's key point was to let Nether Yuan become tainted with Buddhist qi, turning it into a variant aura that could nourish the Indestructible Golden Body.
He had contemplated the idea for a long time, and only dared to try after the information flow acknowledged it.
When the Nether Yuan arrived in the stomach, Ren Qing immediately activated the Taotie Method of the stomach and intestines, forcibly increasing the pressure the stomach exerted on the Nether Yuan.
The Nether Yuan became as thin as mist, circling once around the stomach wall.
The portion of Buddhist qi leaking from the Buddha Forest was attracted by the Buddhist Sect Dream Flower, then approached the Nether Yuan, and under the effect of the Taotie Method, fused together.
This process was extremely ingenious.
No one else could have created such a whimsical method.
Ren Qing had written hundreds of different Heavenly Insect Methods before obtaining one technique acknowledged by the information flow; the difficulty was evident.
The Nether Yuan, mixed with a trace of Buddhist qi, left the stomach, which stopped the deterioration of the Giant Corpse Buddha and allowed it to grow through circulation of the Zhou Tian.
Ren Qing used the Planting Demons Scripture again and again to guide the Nether Yuan flowing through the blood vessels; each time it passed through the stomach, it absorbed a strand of Buddhist qi.
When the Nether Yuan changed from pitch black to dark gold, and its total amount increased more than tenfold, it was considered successful.
Ren Qing let the Nether Yuan circulate the Zhou Tian on its own and closed his eyes to sense it.
The Netherworld Heavenly Dao Insect poked its head out from the shadow, then returned to the ghost shadow, clearly not very interested in the Buddhist Nether Yuan.
Ren Qing felt that the connection with the Nether Sea Breathing Art still existed, meaning it could not break through the Yang Spirit realm.
If the Netherworld Heavenly Dao Insect wanted to devour the unique Buddhist Nether Yuan, it would need to purify this aura.
Ren Qing estimated that using the flesh furnace could separate the Nether Yuan within it; it would indeed be laborious, but definitely profitable.
In just a moment, the Giant Corpse Buddha had already reached the Qi Refining stage, showing how fast the Buddhist Nether Yuan grew.
However, to make the Buddhist Nether Yuan liquefy and replace blood would likely require at least the Foundation Establishment stage.
Ren Qing did not choose to wait passively; he took out piles of spirit crystals from the stomach-contained world and placed them beside the heart, letting the Giant Corpse Buddha absorb them.
Soon the cultivators of the Restraint Officers' Hall noticed the anomaly arising in the stomach.
When the originally thin Buddhist Nether Yuan moved through the dense fog, it could not be seen at all; they could only feel an inexplicable aura surging.
But as the Giant Corpse Buddha's cultivation rose, the total amount of Buddhist Nether Yuan became increasingly terrifying.
Without even deliberately circulating the Zhou Tian, the Buddhist Nether Yuan had already connected into a line within the blood vessels, like a Möbius ring with head and tail linked.
Daoist Yuhua stood blankly at the mountaintop; the exhaustion from transporting sand and stone was swept away, leaving only reverence for the Blessed Virtue Earth Immortal.
The dark-gold Buddhist Nether Yuan hung in midair, directly splitting the dense fog into two.
It was as dazzling as a galaxy.
Daoist Yuhua examined it carefully for a long time; although the Buddhist Nether Yuan was extremely mixed, it clearly contained immeasurable Nether Yuan.
"As expected of the Blessed Virtue Earth Immortal, letting a corpse of the same realm master a Heavenly Dao method…"
He suddenly seemed to recall something, his expression becoming extremely desolate; the Blessed Virtue Earth Immortal's series of actions clearly aimed to recreate vitality within a corpse.
No matter how one put it, the Blessed Virtue Earth Immortal likely intended to cultivate parasitically using the Giant Corpse Buddha.
"Could it be that parasitism is the Great Dao?"
Daoist Yuhua's breathing grew heavy, unwillingness showing in his eyes; his thoughts completely denied the thousand-year pursuit of the Insect Nest.
"Impossible, impossible, there must still be a way to become immortal and attain the Dao…"
"I must make the Blessed Virtue Earth Immortal go to the Insect Nest; those astonishing predecessors' concepts must hide the path to ascension."
Daoist Yuhua muttered in the language of the Insect Nest like one possessed; no one but him could understand.
But he did not know that not far away, another cultivator had also noticed the anomaly of the Buddhist Nether Yuan.
Han Li secretly pondered that if Nether Yuan could be tainted with Buddhist qi, then by using similar means, could he strengthen its connection with the Restraint Officer method.
He now found it very strenuous to run multiple techniques in parallel; in the future he would have to consider primary and secondary techniques, this might be an opportunity.
The other cultivators were astonished by Ren Qing's grand methods and cheered for it; next they should no longer need to live miserably in the Buddha Forest.
Ren Qing came back to his senses, replenishing the amount of spirit crystals while taking out the Planting Demons Scripture's eerie embryo.
The eerie embryo at the Martial Practitioner realm smoothly fused into the heart; although complete digestion would take some time, its effects had already begun.
The heart's beating frequency increased, making the circulation speed of Nether Yuan like a rushing river.
Ren Qing had not expected to accidentally discover the benefits of cultivating both the Planting Demons Scripture and the Heavenly Insect Method; the former could indirectly increase cultivation efficiency.
However, for Daoist temple disciples to move Nether Yuan from meridians to blood vessels was equivalent to abandoning all the blood in their body, making it extremely easy to lose control due to mutation.
After all, Nether Yuan flowed with the blood vessels to all organs throughout the body, inevitably causing insect-like mutations; the drawbacks were quite obvious.
To prevent Daoist temple disciples from noticing clues within the Giant Corpse Buddha, Ren Qing directly placed information related to the Planting Demons Scripture into the Great Dream Technique Pavilion, clearly stating its pros and cons.
As for whether Daoist temple disciples still wished to cultivate it, that depended on whether they could handle it themselves.
The galaxy above the stomach grew wider, while the scorching high temperature gradually decreased, and the heavy rain showed signs of easing.
Until the Buddhist Nether Yuan occupied the top of the stomach, this aura began to liquefy.
Daoist Yuhua's pupils dilated; he had not expected that right before his eyes, the Giant Corpse Buddha would break through from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage.
He could not help but doubt life, then realized that as a member of the Restraint Officers' Hall, he already had the qualification to go to the Great Dream Technique Pavilion to choose techniques.
Daoist Yuhua planned to try cultivating the method mentioned by the Daoist temple disciples.
When the Buddhist Nether Yuan completely liquefied, the aura in midair began to devour the acid clouds, wearing away the corrosive corpse water within them.
The dense fog vanished completely, and the pitted ground of the stomach reappeared.
Only then did Li Tiangang notice that after the corpse water had been scorched by high temperature, it had left behind a large amount of amber-like crystalline ore.
The Buddhist Nether Yuan carried a faint glow, causing the crystals to emit seven-colored light.
Formed by burning corpse water, it has extremely strong corrosiveness toward flesh; after consumption, it can cause the body to become corpse-like and reduce lifespan.
Xiao San'er could tell at a glance that the corpse stones could be used for refining artifacts.
Because most crystalline materials have unique effects, they are very suitable to be ground into powder and added into artifacts.
Li Tiangang had Jiang Feng check the condition of the stomach.
Jiang Feng used more than a dozen eyes to look upward and found that the top covered by Buddhist Nether Yuan could block any foreign aura from corroding the stomach.
In this way, the stomach as the camp of the Restraint Officers' Hall could be considered impregnable.
Li Tiangang felt relieved and signaled the cultivators to withdraw from the Buddha Forest area, cleaning up the extremely messy stomach in an effort to restore it as soon as possible.
He then went to look at the intestines; there was not a trace of acid rain inside.
However, because most of those who retreated inside were Cishi people and had not seen much of the world, they were inevitably frightened by the commotion coming from the stomach.
Li Tiangang inadvertently discovered that dark-gold blood was flowing in the Giant Corpse Buddha's blood vessels, which looked exactly like Nether Yuan.
He could not help but be shocked by Ren Qing's boldness.
Turning the Giant Corpse Buddha into an artifact was not the end, even making it cultivate, could it be that he intended for a corpse to wield artifacts?
Compared to the Restraint Officer method, which can only use flesh artifacts, the Heavenly Insect Method indeed has more possibilities in terms of artifacts.
Li Tiangang stroked his chin and pondered, then issued a task requiring the forging of a flying sword artifact enlarged several hundred times.
They could first try with ordinary materials; if successful, then choose more precious materials.
In just a few days, the temporary camp was rebuilt by the Restraint Officers' Hall, and it was even more magnificent than before, already having the scale of a large town.
After all, having confirmed the safety of the stomach, it was reasonable to spend more resources on construction.
However, what puzzled Li Tiangang was that although everything had calmed down, Ren Qing had not returned to the stomach and intestines, nor was he seen in the heart region.
If not for Dream City remaining stable, he would have suspected something had happened to Ren Qing.
The cultivators unanimously guessed that Ren Qing was likely in seclusion somewhere; could it be that he was about to break through a bottleneck of some technique again?
Within the blood vessels, the liquefied Buddhist Nether Yuan rose and fell like waves; a height and width of seven to eight meters was just enough to accommodate the shrunken ghost ship.
Ren Qing's lifespan had already reached more than 1,200 years; he indeed had thoughts of advancing the Taishui Scripture and the Six Diseases Method, but this trip into the blood vessels was to arrange a new disease seed.
Disease Seed, Cancer Disease Tree He realized that the water depth of the swamp was still increasing, and after reaching the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone in the future, the Giant Corpse Buddha might encounter different harsh environments, so he prepared in advance.
Ren Qing also issued tasks for the other organs, handing over the basic refining to the Restraint Officers' Hall, which saved quite a bit of effort.
The Cancer Disease Tree disease seed proliferated within the Giant Corpse Buddha's flesh, mainly in the limbs.
The reason Ren Qing chose the easily uncontrollable Cancer Disease Tree disease seed was actually to coordinate with the deformity disease seed.
For him, after the erosion of corpse qi, the greatest gain was not anything else, but the deformity disease seeds spread throughout the body.
Deformity disease seeds meant that Ren Qing could arbitrarily remodel the Giant Corpse Buddha's body.
The Cancer Disease Tree disease seed could amplify the effects of deformity disease seeds, accelerating the speed of flesh mutation, easily forming organs similar to insect eyes.
Ren Qing used deformity disease seeds to restrict the mutation range of the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed, and then used the Six Diseases Method to precisely control the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed.
Whether the Giant Corpse Buddha could fuse eerie embryos of the Half-Corpse realm and the Ghost Envoy realm depended on his use of deformity disease seeds and the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed.
However, Ren Qing was not in a hurry; after circling the Giant Corpse Buddha once through the blood vessels, he went to the skin layer where the insect eyes were located, preparing to practice with it.
He had already been tricked once on the Rotten Blood Plain, and deeply knew that the Giant Corpse Buddha's slow movement also had benefits, at least there was ample time.
The Ghost Envoy realm of the Insect Eye practitioner is called "Four-Directional Compound Eyes"; under normal circumstances, a cultivator's two eyes mutate into fist-sized insect compound eyes.
In terms of dynamic capture ability, Double Pupils practitioners cannot compare to Insect Eye practitioners at all.
Of course, Insect Eye practitioners are too extreme, carrying two huge eyes, as long as the opponent is not too foolish, they know the insect eyes are the weak point.
Under Ren Qing's controlled mutation, the insect eyes on the Giant Corpse Buddha's abdomen gradually grew larger, and the artifact aura they displayed climbed toward the Ghost Envoy realm.
But due to the uncontrollability of the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed, the insect eyes would from time to time develop in unexpected directions, even directly turning into tumors.
After failing an unknown number of times, more than a month had passed by the time the Four-Directional Compound Eyes formed.
Ren Qing then fused the eerie embryo of the Half-Corpse realm into the Four-Directional Compound Eyes, making the patterns displayed on the stomach's flesh wall extremely clear.
From vague and incomprehensible patterns, it suddenly leapt to distinctly layered ink paintings, immediately making the cultivators somewhat unaccustomed.
At the same time, they noticed that the swamp they were in had turned into a boundless corpse water lake, with the Giant Corpse Buddha floating on the surface.
Closer to the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.
An explosive update of eight thousand words, barring accidents, it will continue tomorrow.