Ren Qing decisively activated the aberrated organs throughout the giant corpse Buddha and controlled the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed to reproduce in order to speed up the giant corpse Buddha's excavation.
After receiving the order, the cultivators of the Restraint Officers' Hall all nourished the organs with resources, maximizing the giant corpse Buddha's strength through this method.
Soon, sounds of bones shattering came from the giant corpse Buddha, mixed with the tearing of flesh as its bodily structure underwent earth-shaking changes.
The Restraint Officers' Hall operated like a precise machine. More than ten thousand cultivators each carried out their assigned duties, remaining constantly busy without a moment's rest.
Jiang Feng immediately shut his eyes and placed his right hand over the eyeball embedded in his forehead.
Through the eyeballs spread throughout the giant corpse Buddha, he notified all cultivators to withdraw and assemble, while also taking responsibility for contacting Li Tiangang.
The Heavenly Dao insect people who had only recently joined the Restraint Officers' Hall were left stunned by the scene.
In their eyes, it was simply unbelievable that a faction composed of many different races could function with such seamless coordination.
"What are you standing around for?!"
"Huh?"
Seeing the insect cultivators still standing blankly in the gastrointestinal region, Han Li, as the senior brother of Wuwei Daoist Temple, began directing them to work.
Under the Restraint Officers' Hall, there were actually quite a few affiliated groups that had banded together for mutual support.
For example, the original Restraint Officers; the demon-kind made up of half-demons and demon cultivators; the insect cultivators of Wuwei Daoist Temple; and Cocoon Men, zombies, and others.
As a result, the status of the Heavenly Dao insect people within the Restraint Officers' Hall was somewhat awkward.
As an outsider Yang God Realm cultivator, Daoist Taihan could not participate in the Restraint Officers' Hall's missions at all, and the area in which he could move was strictly restricted.
Meanwhile, Jade Splendor had to cultivate the newly born Heavenly Dao insect people, so the insect cultivators from the Insect Nest temporarily had to be managed by Wuwei Daoist Temple.
To Han Li, whenever a task involved the Restraint Officers' Hall, aside from personal rewards, the affiliated faction would also receive additional rewards.
Naturally, he could not allow the insect cultivators to drag down Wuwei Daoist Temple.
"Fellow Daoist Han Li, it's like this..."
Zhen Xuzi had just been about to explain when he noticed Han Li's surging qi and blood. The pressure he emitted even gave the illusion that he was stronger than Daoist Taihan.
He obediently shut his mouth and listened to Han Li's instructions, directing the disciples toward the aberrated organs.
Ren Qing did not care much about the internal divisions within the Restraint Officers' Hall. After all, they had only interacted for a little over a decade. Expecting complete harmony was unrealistic.
After a few hundred years, they would naturally become a unified whole.
As long as he remained in charge, major chaos could never arise within the Restraint Officers' Hall. Any signs of trouble would be detected by his dream techniques.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and connected with the giant corpse Buddha, causing it to tremble uncontrollably.
The giant corpse Buddha's flesh then began to shrivel. Under the effect of the Human Skin Book, its skin secreted mucus similar to that of earthworms.
With the mucus reducing friction, the excavation speed immediately increased by over thirty percent.
However, the consumption of vitality within the bladder also increased correspondingly. Li Tiangang simply had dozens of alchemists pour Revival Pills into it.
Thousands upon thousands of Revival Pills fell into the pool. If the various forces within the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone saw this, they would probably cough up blood in anger.
They had sacrificed more than half of their population resources just to obtain such precious spirit pills.
Yet in reality, after the Stomach World opened the Yellow Springs of Reincarnation, Revival Pills had become increasingly worthless. Many cultivators even used them to practice alchemy.
Not long afterward, the giant corpse Buddha's secondary head actually shrank into its chest cavity, while its limbs developed scaled claws resembling those of a lizard.
Its left arm activated the Beast Heart Ghost's ability and directly transformed into a hundred-meter-long pangolin, leading the giant corpse Buddha toward the outside world.
The giant corpse Buddha was becoming increasingly complete. Even though only a handful of aberrated organs had reached the Yin Difference Realm, the Earth Immortal corpse was already beginning to take shape.
The cracks on the tortoise shell attached to Ren Qing's upper palate immediately decreased, and the hexagram that had been heading toward a great ominous sign stabilized at merely an ominous sign.
Seeing this, he refrained from further increasing the aberrations. After losing its Buddhist qi, the giant corpse Buddha's techniques required manpower from the Restraint Officers' Hall to sustain.
The current number of cultivators was just enough to balance work and rest, preventing them from remaining awake indefinitely.
Of course, Ren Qing alone could actually sustain the giant corpse Buddha's consumption.
But in that case, the Restraint Officers' Hall would receive no training. It was impossible for them to immediately retreat into the Stomach World every time they encountered danger.
The giant corpse Buddha dug faster and faster. As it approached the surface, the black mist representing calamity in Ren Qing's eyes gradually faded.
Rumble, rumble, rumble...
The direction of the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone suddenly shook violently. Something unknown had happened within it, and the recent ominous sign had probably originated from there.
Ren Qing shook his head. It was most likely a situation arising from the world within the mirror.
While using Longevous Tortoise to observe the vitality outside and guide the giant corpse Buddha, he also prepared to reorganize the secondary techniques linked to the Dead Man's Sutra.
His understanding of Ascension Methods had already changed. The techniques he had previously selected definitely needed to be reconsidered so they would not affect his immortal position.
Just as he was about to call up the Information Stream to examine the techniques, he suddenly noticed something.
It seemed that after coming into contact with the Heavenly Dao, the Information Stream had undergone an almost imperceptible change, one he had only now discovered.
Previously, he had needed physical contact to view Information Stream entries. Now, as long as something was within a hundred meters, he could use the Information Stream on it.
Ren Qing subconsciously called up the Information Stream information for the Dead Man's Sutra, and more content appeared.
[Dead Man's Sutra]
[Created by Corpse Immortal. Cultivation requires sealing the Laogong Acupoint, Yongquan Acupoint, Shenmen Acupoint, and Yintang Acupoint with rivets, then burying oneself underground for three years. Upon mastery, one becomes ageless, unborn, undying, and indestructible.]
The upper limit of the Dead Man's Sutra is the Heavenly Aberration Realm and it can be cultivated alongside other techniques.
Ren Qing froze for a moment. He had already suspected that the Dead Man's Sutra's upper limit did not reach Earth Immortal.
After all, the Dead Man's Sutra had been created by Corpse Immortal through the fusion of three techniques. No matter how heaven-defying his luck had been, its Ascension Method could not possibly involve the Earth Immortal level.
Still, Ren Qing felt that if the goal had merely been immortality, there would have been no need to trap oneself inside the world within the mirror.
However, none of this had anything to do with him. He only wanted to leave the range of the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone as soon as possible and enter seclusion to pursue the immortality of the Dead Man's Sutra.
Aside from that, there were no changes to ordinary techniques in the Information Stream. It was only that Ascension Methods now revealed more hidden information.
For example, the Heavenly Dao methods.
[Xuantian Method]
[Created by Heavenly Daozi. Cultivation requires implanting a Heavenly Dao Egg into the Qihai Acupoint. Once one's meridians completely wither, the technique is achieved.
The upper limit of the Xuan Tian Method is Earth Immortal, and it can be cultivated alongside other techniques.]
[Immortal Position: Fortune Virtue Earth Immortal]
Because only Heavenly Dao Insects could cultivate Heavenly Dao methods, the restrictions of their Ascension Methods were not particularly severe. Cultivating only Heavenly Dao methods could barely be considered a path forward.
However, once a Heavenly Dao method reached the Ascension stage, obtaining the immortal position would require facing a true immortal.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and reviewed the techniques, occasionally paying attention to the outside world.
Five days later, the soil surrounding the giant corpse Buddha had unknowingly become damp, indicating that it was about to reach the corpse lake above the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.
At the same time, something strange occurred.
Despite the tortoise shell on Ren Qing's upper palate still indicating an ominous sign, the black mist he could see had almost completely dispersed, making it seem nothing like an ominous sign at all.
The remaining black mist had actually taken on a linear shape, with one end shooting into the sky and the other seemingly connected to the location of the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.
Such a bizarre omen left Ren Qing deeply puzzled.
He could only remain as cautious as possible. Even after hearing the sound of flowing water from the corpse lake, he did not relax in the slightest and once more connected with the giant corpse Buddha.
As the giant corpse Buddha broke through the surface, water poured into the opening at the bottom of the lake.
Ren Qing felt the erosion of corpse transformation vanish completely, and a sense of relief arose within him. Yet the ominous sign on the tortoise shell still had not changed into a favorable one.
He quickly stimulated the Cancer Disease Tree disease seed, causing the giant corpse Buddha to grow gills and fins. Its scales became corrosion-resistant, and even its eyes were covered by a thin membrane.
The giant corpse Buddha paddled with its limbs, riding the waves through the lake. However, it did not recklessly leave the concealment provided by the corpse water.
Ren Qing moved to a position near the surface. The secondary head emitted sounds of bones colliding, then its neck emerged from the chest cavity.
The secondary head rose above the water, and the situation of the corpse lake immediately came into view.
Through the images projected on the stomach wall, all the cultivators involuntarily sucked in cold breaths.
The outside world had originally been a lake formed from corpse water, but for some unknown reason, the corpse lake had expanded several times over, resembling a glittering ocean.
The island at its center had long since been submerged. Only silent deathly stillness remained.
Crack crack crack crack...
Yet beneath the calm appearance, the tortoise shell continued to fracture endlessly. It was already not far from becoming a great ominous sign.
Ren Qing's expression became solemn. Naturally, he could see far more than ordinary cultivators.
He saw strands of black mist piercing into the lakebed, their source located high in the sky. The clouds within a hundred miles were pitch black with ominous signs.
The vague outline of the black mist looked increasingly like an indescribable mass.
The Hexagram Mark on the tortoise shell was also a bloated humanoid figure formed from piled-up chunks of flesh, making its meaning impossible to decipher.
Ren Qing spotted the source of vitality at the edge of the corpse lake and instructed the giant corpse Buddha to head toward it.
He could clearly feel that as the giant corpse Buddha gradually moved away from the center of the corpse lake, the cracks on the tortoise shell healed one by one.
It felt as though immortals were fighting each other, while he had merely stumbled into the middle of it by accident.
He was not overly panicked. After having the weaker cultivators return to the Stomach World, he assigned tasks involving the refinement of flesh artifacts.
Ren Qing's requirements for flesh artifacts were not high. They only needed basic life characteristics and skin with a certain degree of corrosion resistance.
After attaching bacterial souls to the flesh artifacts, he continuously tossed them into the corpse lake, watching them drift with the currents and scatter throughout the area.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and sensed Walk Among Mortals.
The flesh artifacts could barely substitute for living beings. If danger appeared, he could use Walk Among Mortals to achieve a limited form of "shrinking the earth into an inch."
After all this work, one-third of the cracks on the tortoise shell healed.
This showed that hexagrams were not impossible to change. In truth, Longevous Tortoise was equivalent to an opportunity for advance preparation, allowing many troubles to be avoided.
If not for the fact that Longevous Tortoise brought more harm than benefit to the Restraint Officers' Hall, Ren Qing would have already spread it widely.
Just imagining large numbers of cultivators mastering Longevous Tortoise was enough. The moment danger appeared, they would immediately seek survival based on their hexagrams.
The Restraint Officers' Hall would instantly become a disorganized mob.
However, it could still be taught to specific groups, forming something similar to the Sending Child Guanyin Temple and creating affiliated forces responsible for childbirth assistance.
Ren Qing focused his attention on the giant corpse Buddha's journey. With the support of various techniques, a trip that should have taken more than half a month was completed in only a few days.
The giant corpse Buddha left the corpse lake and once again stepped onto the Corpse Stench Plains.
Ren Qing could not help but let out a sigh of relief.
Whoosh!!!
A gigantic chain followed the trajectory of the black mist and plunged from the clouds into the earth below.