The Secret Way of Immortality

After Huiwu's bones were stripped away, his corpse was tossed into the bottomless abyss like garbage, drifting away with the hurricane to who knows where.

His thousand years of lifespan likely vanished due to the bone's mutation.

The monk returned to the Vajra Temple carrying the bones, while the other monks dispersed.

Ren Qing separated a wisp of ghost shadow, attaching it to a monk from the Vajra Temple, and then continued to investigate the situation in the Heaven Above Heaven.

He discovered that not only were all the monks in the city male, but there were also no fields for cultivation.

Ren Qing didn't see any stalls or shops selling food either. Throughout the entire Heaven Above Heaven, aside from the bizarre events of skinning and bone extraction, the monks inside seemed to lack any desires.

Not to mention greed, anger, and hatred, even the desire for food seemed nonexistent.

The Heaven Above Heaven occupied an extremely vast area, housing at least several hundred thousand monks, nearly ten times the size of Non-Action City.

The number of temples was also exaggerated, totaling hundreds, and the scale of the Vajra Temple could already be considered a large temple.

The Vajra Temple mainly cultivated the Maitreya White Bone Sutra, even the young novices practiced it.

Ren Qing didn't find any clues about the Buddha corpse. After the hundred-meter behemoth climbed onto the ground, it vanished like a gust of wind.

The sky gradually darkened, and the monks all returned to their homes.

They chanted while striking wooden fish for their evening meditation, filling the entire city with deafening murmurs, and the ground even trembled slightly.

Ren Qing noticed that the monks in the Vajra Temple were grinding Huiwu's bones into powder.

However, because the bones were as hard as metal, the grinding efficiency was very low, and they could only chip away at the bones bit by bit with stone tools.

The ghost shadow hid in the shadows of the courtyard, constantly watching the movements of the Vajra Temple, while Ren Qing didn't hesitate to delve into the bottomless abyss.

Although the surface of the Heaven Above Heaven was calm, for some reason, he felt no sense of security, as if a man-eating beast was lurking in the dark.

Ren Qing specifically chose to dig a cave under the stone bridge spanning the bottomless abyss, a relatively secluded spot, perfect for hiding.

He decided to wait and see what would happen in the Heaven Above Heaven.

To ensure he wouldn't be distracted, Ren Qing didn't attempt a grotesque fusion, but instead chose to meditate and stabilize his cultivation, while also observing the Vajra Temple.

Time passed like a fleeting white horse.

When the morning sun rose on the horizon, not even the slightest anomaly had occurred within the Heaven Above Heaven.

The hundreds of thousands of monks in the city meditated until the second half of the night, then simply washed up and went to sleep, their lives so disciplined that they hardly seemed like living people.

Ren Qing frowned slightly.

It seemed that obtaining the secret of Maitreya's thousand-year lifespan would be truly difficult.

Perhaps he could only wait for another Buddha corpse...

Just as this thought arose in Ren Qing's mind, he suddenly seemed to sense something, his expression extremely astonished, and he immediately attached his consciousness to the ghost shadow.

His perspective switched to inside the Vajra Temple.

The temple's scale was indeed not small, with a full thousand monks living inside, and in the center was placed a statue of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.

Even in the dead of night, there were still several monks going to wipe the statue.

Ren Qing's gaze fixed on a novice monk among them, about thirteen or fourteen years old, who was diligently handing the old monk a rag.

At the instant the morning sun pierced the horizon, sunlight filled the earth.

The originally noisy Heaven Above Heaven suddenly turned into a silent expanse, all sounds vanished, and hundreds of thousands of monks froze in place.

Time seemed to stand still.

Ren Qing frowned, using the ghost shadow to entangle the little novice monk's body.

The sun fully revealed itself.

The little novice monk underwent a drastic change, the sound of bones colliding echoing within his body, his height increasing from the original one meter twenty or thirty centimeters until it stopped at one meter seventy.

Right before Ren Qing's eyes, the little novice monk transformed from a teenager into a man in his twenties or thirties.

Even his internal organs seemed to have aged by more than a decade, and his soul likewise transformed into that of a middle-aged man.

It wasn't just the little novice monk alone, the old monk aged at a visible rate, but his intelligence seemed to be preserved.

The old monk's expression was extremely excited, as if he had seen some existence.

But at the same time, he felt immense fear at his impending death, chanting the name of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, and finally turned into withered bones.

Immediately, crying came from the withered bones, and inside, an infant had appeared at some unknown time, growing into a child of seven or eight years old in just a few breaths.

Ren Qing now understood why the monks in the Heaven Above Heaven were at most only three years old.

One year old was a child, two years old grew into an adult, and three years old was an old man on the verge of death.

One day, one year, three years, a cycle of withering and flourishing.

They seemed to be trapped in some kind of infinite loop, experiencing the suffering of reincarnation every three days, never to be liberated.

Only some monks similar to Huiwu were forcibly stuffed into earthen jars to sit in meditation until death, but it seemed they were thus liberated from the infinite cycle.

This was most likely the means of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, after all, the Maitreya White Bone Sutra and the Maitreya Skin Sack Sutra were both techniques created by him.

The Heaven Above Heaven returned to its bustling state, the monks not noticing the changes at all, still acting according to specific patterns.

From time to time, there would be a few lucky ones who were inexplicably liberated, forcibly skinned and had their bones extracted, their corpses thrown into the bottomless abyss.

The human skin and bones were then guarded by the various temples, and Ren Qing used his ghost shadow to steal some to examine.

【Buddha Bone】

【Transformed from the Great Accomplishment of the Maitreya White Bone Sutra. Consuming it can extend lifespan by a hundred years, but will cause the body to gradually transform into an indestructible golden body.】

【Buddha Skin】

【Transformed from the Great Accomplishment of the Maitreya Skin Sack Sutra. Consuming it can extend lifespan by a hundred years, but will cause the body to gradually transform into an indestructible golden body.】

Ren Qing remained calm, a very bold idea arising in his mind, hiding in a cave near the exit of the bottomless abyss, pondering to himself.

"If I can refine a puppet that can be mistaken for a real person, can I use it to steal lifespan?"

Ren Qing was truly envious that the monks of the Heaven Above Heaven each had a thousand years of lifespan, although they were destined to be harvested like韭菜, there might be a place where it could be exploited.

For him to join the infinite cycle of the Heaven Above Heaven himself was too risky, but if he used a puppet instead, it seemed feasible.

Even if he couldn't directly seize the puppet's lifespan, Ren Qing could use the transactions of the Dream Market to peel away layers and secretly extend his lifespan.

As for why not pull the monks in the town into the Dream Market, and go to such lengths.

Ren Qing mainly considered that on the one hand, he hadn't figured out the details of the Heaven Above Heaven, and on the other hand, these monks had been eroded by Buddhist energy, and were completely devoid of desire.

It was unrealistic to have them trade in the Dream Market.

However, to refine a puppet that was indistinguishable from a real person, he had to imitate the means of the Blood Moon.

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Ren Qing still decided to risk it and try, anyway, after the puppet was refined, the main body could completely hide in the bottomless abyss hundreds of miles away.

Of course, even if he had the method of refining rabbit-toads recorded in the Asahi Moon Law, it was unrealistic to reach the level of the Blood Moon in a short time.

Ren Qing patiently hid in the cave, the divided soul comprehending the Moon Rune through the Forbidden Realm.

The main body continued to complete the grotesque fusion. If the Eternal Imprisonment could form a supernatural power prototype, it would definitely greatly improve his strength.

At the same time, he published some of the content of the Asahi Moon Law to the Dream Market.

Don't look down on the fact that the strength of rabbit-toads is not as good as the Forbidden Soldiers of the same realm, but they are like precise machines, the focus is completely different.

The difficulty of refining rabbit-toads can be imagined.

Ren Qing held the idea of treating a dead horse as a living one, to see if there were any cultivators in the Forbidden Soldiers Hall who could overcome the difficulties of the Asahi Moon Law.

Especially in the Moonfall.

Ren Qing had also tried it in his spare time, but using remnant souls to refine a complete magic weapon soul, no matter how you looked at it, was impossible.

If he hadn't seen the rabbit-toads beforehand, he would have thought that the Asahi Moon Law was fabricated.

As soon as the notice about the refining task was posted in the Big Dream Market, hundreds of people surrounded it, and they took on the task without hesitation.

They considered their refining level to be passable, and in addition, the Asahi Moon Law was related to the Blood Moon, so they couldn't help but be interested in the recorded content.

However, when the cultivators successively obtained the next page of the Asahi Moon Law, their expressions were dumbfounded.

What the hell?

Hammering renewable metal into silk, melting hundreds of silks together, and finally turning them into flesh and blood fibers.

A rabbit-toad's arm actually required hundreds of thousands of flesh and blood fibers, and any mistake would lead to all previous efforts being wasted.

What they couldn't understand the most was the Moonfall. What was the difference between the means of refining the magic weapon soul and recreating living beings?

Was this a refining method that Ghost Envoy Realm and Yin Messenger Realm could come into contact with?

Little San'er stood next to the notice with a hoe on his shoulder. After taking on the task of the Asahi Moon Law, a large amount of information poured into his soul out of thin air.

He pondered for a moment, then shook his head helplessly.

The method of refining the Moonfall in the Asahi Moon Law did have a certain feasibility, but the materials used to contain the remnant souls were too difficult to find.

Little San'er felt that focusing on the Asahi Moon Law was not as good as cultivating a few more acres of land.

Now the hundreds of miles around Wine Lake have been turned into farmland, and a large number of cultivators are traveling through it, stimulating the growth of crops with spells.

Jiang Feng specializes in recording the growth of various crops.

Every piece of farmland is equipped with a scarecrow, and he attaches his eyeballs to it, observing the adaptability of crops to the Eternal Imprisonment environment.

After several years of screening, thousands of crops have been reduced to only seventy-five.

They plan to reduce it to less than ten, and then mass-produce the crops, striving to spend a year to hoard ten years of food.

Compared to the almost completed cultivation, the progress of livestock is not fast, after all, livestock also needs grain to feed.

Little San'er turned around and prepared to go to the lake shore, when suddenly a familiar man appeared in front of him.

"Senior Li..."

Li Yaoyang was obviously here specifically for Little San'er, so he went straight to the point and asked, "Zuo San, what kind of materials does the Moonfall need?"

"Hmm..."

Little San'er touched his chin, hesitatingly replied, "It must have a certain vitality, preferably one that originally contained a soul..."

"How about this?"

Li Yaoyang took out a translucent amber-like insect egg from his arms, inside which was a wriggling maggot, which did emit a faint vitality.

He had exhausted all his efforts to resurrect the Heavenly Dao Insect's dead egg, and the larva was indeed alive, but without a soul, it could not break open the insect egg.

Little San'er used his double pupils to examine the Heavenly Dao Insect egg, and said with great interest, "It's feasible, I have to take it home and ponder it slowly."

"It's very precious..."

"I know."

Little San'er dropped his hoe and disappeared.

………

Ren Qing fully realized the benefits of having his own small world. In just a few days, some cultivators began to discover the Asahi Moon Law.

Just as he was about to browse it, he heard the sound of climbing rocks again from the bottomless abyss.

We are here facing a level 14 typhoon, which caused the unit to have to resist the typhoon, so it was late