The Secret Way of Immortality

The monks of the Heavenly Sky Temple were sleeping later than usual, as they were spending a lot of time steaming and cooking food in addition to chanting scriptures.

In a sense, their behavior was now more normal, except the food they were eating was a bit too horrible to look at.

After the rotten rice was finished, the monks began to target the plants and trees within the city. Despite it being early summer, the leaves had already fallen.

Through Dream Flower, Ren Qing observed that the monks' appetites had expanded to the point of indiscriminate hunger, and they didn't even notice when they swallowed their fingers.

The Heavenly Sky Temple's food supply wouldn't last long. Once the plants and trees were gone, it was unknown what the monks would eat.

Ren Qing didn't think too much about it.

He continued to select from the hundreds of thousands of monks, pulling those with milder cases of dissociative identity disorder into the Nanshan Small World.

Ren Qing was already helpless against the dissociative identity disorder of the hundreds of thousands of monks.

Originally, it could be erased by the Six Afflictions Method, but the current rate of spread of the dissociative identity disorder exceeded the capabilities of the Six Afflictions Method.

He checked the Nanshan World Spirit, and after last night's training, the small world's capacity had increased by another two or three thousand people.

It would be at full capacity at most by tomorrow or the day after.

Ren Qing began to pull the monks' evil thoughts into the Nanshan Small World, and the empty space quickly filled with fourteen or fifteen thousand figures.

They sat cross-legged on prayer mats, densely packed together, chanting scriptures piously.

If Ren Qing were to transform the Nanshan Small World into the Western Paradise, it would be a scene straight out of a Buddha's sermon.

Mirror Immortal, in coordination with Dream Incantation, caused the limbs and severed legs of corpses to appear before the monks.

They couldn't even restrain themselves for half a breath, frantically stuffing the flesh and bone fragments into their mouths, splattering blood everywhere, making it look extremely bloody.

As the evil thoughts intensified, fleshly aberrations simultaneously affected their bodies.

In just a moment, more than ten thousand monks transformed into fleshy pillars with thousands of hands, hundreds of arms grabbing blood food from all directions.

Ren Qing glanced at his information stream, and the rate of lifespan increase was even faster than last night, breaking through a century in a short period of time.

He even had a delusion.

If he could stay in the Heavenly Sky Temple for a long time, he could step into the Earth Immortal realm in at most ten years, and the long-awaited immortality would be just around the corner.

Ren Qing calmed down again, wishful thinking was not allowed, it would lead to big trouble.

Moreover, if he didn't have other opportunities to obtain lifespan, the terrifying lifespan required by the Earth Immortal realm was simply impossible for the Dream Butterfly Method to gather.

"Dead Man Sutra, Dead Man Sutra, no matter what kind of immortality it is, as long as it's immortality, I can use it to transcend..."

Ren Qing closed his eyes and used his consciousness to observe the changes in the monks and the Buddhist aura, the evil thoughts absorbing madness as nourishment for growth.

Because the Buddhist aura was extremely vast like the sea, the evil thoughts were infinitely diluted as soon as they merged, but it was still somewhat noticeable.

As dawn gradually broke, the evil thoughts autonomously detached from the Nanshan Small World.

Ren Qing summoned the information stream.

【Lifespan: One thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight years】

In just two short nights, it was almost catching up to Ren Qing's gains in the Forbidden Prison Hall for ten years, but a thousand years of lifespan was still just a drop in the ocean in the Heavenly Sky Temple.

After hesitating for a moment, Ren Qing decided to immediately advance the Yongjian Cage to the Yang God realm.

Consuming lifespan as much as possible could also indirectly improve the efficiency of lifespan extension.

After Ren Qing's lifespan reached two thousand years, the lifespan gained from Three Inch World would be reduced by at least 30 to 40 percent, or even more.

He set up magical artifacts to shield the aura in the cave, and inscribed moon patterns with similar effects to avoid attracting outside beings.

Fortunately, the commotion caused by the information stream advancing the realm could almost be omitted, otherwise Ren Qing would not dare to break through here.

After all preparations were completed, Ren Qing specially checked several times to make sure there were no omissions.

Just as he closed his eyes and visualized the Gluttonous Devour Method, bringing his state to its peak, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked up at the Heavenly Sky Temple in astonishment.

On the city wall near the north, it was crowded with monks like sardines.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of monks were also on the adjacent streets.

Their eyes were all staring outside the city, their expressions extremely ferocious, and golden blood dripped from their tightly clenched teeth.

Although each monk's face was round, their sunken eye sockets looked like they had been hungry for days, as if they were starving ghosts from the cave.

The city had been dug three feet into the ground, and all the plants and trees had been eaten clean.

If it weren't for the Buddhist aura restricting them to the Heavenly Sky Temple, they would have rushed into the mountains and forests long ago, feasting on everything without discrimination.

Dust flew on the mountain road.

A full five or six thousand refugees were walking towards the Heavenly Sky Temple.

Compared to the monks in the city, they were emaciated, but their eyes were filled with reverence for the Great Compassionate Maitreya Buddha.

After all, the Heavenly Sky Temple they were about to reach was the legendary Pure Land.

Reality did not deviate from expectations. After crossing the last hill, a town seemingly made of glazed tiles came into view.

The Great Compassionate Maitreya Buddha's believers knelt down one after another, quickly forming a line of tens of thousands of people, and sobbing could be heard.

The speed of the procession suddenly increased.

They seemed to be able to see their lives in the Heavenly Sky Temple, no more pain, no more hunger, and they could live carefree forever.

However, when the tide of refugees approached the Heavenly Sky Temple, the leading monks stopped.

They stared at the city wall in horror, only to see countless monks standing on it, licking their lips with greedy expressions.

The old monk leading the refugees did not rush to set foot in the Heavenly Sky Temple, staying in place, wondering what he was thinking.

He did not go to the city wall, and the others in the procession chose to wait quietly, showing how terrifying the old monk's prestige was among the refugees.

The young monk next to him opened his mouth and asked, "Old Master, I... I..."

He opened his mouth several times but couldn't say the disrespectful words, but his expression had already revealed the panic in his heart.

"It doesn't feel like the human world?"

The old master took a deep breath and said, his trembling hands exposing the throbbing in his heart.

"Yes, I..."

The old master forced a smile on his wrinkled face and said in a calm tone: "The world is changing, nothing is permanent, and so is the Heavenly Sky Temple."

The young monk looked at the old master, then at the madmen in the city, but still firmly said: "I still want to go to the Heavenly Sky Temple, that's just the Great Compassionate Maitreya Buddha's test for us, without experiencing suffering..."

Before he could finish his words, he found the old master stepping towards the open city gate, and at the same time, the latter made a gesture to stop.

"I don't go to hell, who will?"

Tens of thousands of people witnessed the old master approaching the Heavenly Sky Temple and couldn't help but hold their breath.

The old master smoothly walked into the city, welcoming him were tens of thousands of monks, the naked appetite seemed to foreshadow something.

Hope flashed in the refugees' eyes, intending to follow in the footsteps of the old master.

Roar...

The roar of a beast came from the city, and then a monk pounced on the old master with force in his legs, and the other monks hurriedly rushed to be the first.

They tore at the old master's flesh and blood, and in just a few breaths, only a dilapidated skeleton remained in place.

The old master shook his head before he died, as if silently persuading the refugees.

Many monks looked back outside the city, and the skeleton was quickly dragged to the bottomless abyss and thrown into the dark crack.

A little light floated past.

Dream Flower inadvertently passed through the head of the skeleton, taking the soul of the old master to an unknown place.

Then a lifelike butterfly appeared on Ren Qing's fingertips, and the soul of the old master hidden in it seemed to be completely scattered.

He didn't know why, but he felt that this mortal soul had an incredible purity, so he simply put it into the flesh and blood furnace.

Use the vigorous fire to ensure that the soul is not destroyed.

The refugees also returned the same way in the opposite direction because of the old master's sacrifice, but the atmosphere became dead silent.

The Buddhist Pure Land they were pursuing had been occupied by demons and ghosts.

When the refugees left the scope of the Buddhist aura, hundreds of thousands of monks acted as if nothing had happened and walked towards their residences chanting scriptures.

Ren Qing's heart moved slightly, and found that the Buddhist aura would not stop the refugees, and the ghost shadow under his feet immediately drilled out of the cave and traveled through the stone walls.

The exhausted refugees casually found a mountain to rest, and for a time, they didn't know where the road ahead was, and the atmosphere seemed lifeless.

Returning to Buddha Heart City was not realistic. The demon attacks that erupted every few years caused the villages around the town to be empty.

Now that the Heavenly Sky Temple could no longer be visited, it seemed that only dying in a foreign land awaited them.

At this moment, the ghost shadow had arrived at the location of the refugees, and tens of thousands of people did not notice that the shadow area was expanding.

The children playing in the mud were instantly swallowed by the ghost shadow.

Seeing that the Buddhist aura did not move, and this place was already outside the range, Ren Qing was relieved and signaled the ghost shadow to make a quick decision.

The ghost shadow no longer hid itself, and the cultivation of the Yang God realm burst out instantly.

Before the refugees realized it, the entire mountain had been covered by the ghost shadow, and then tens of thousands of people were taken into the boundless darkness.

Then the ghost shadow quickly rushed to the cave.

It was not until the refugees were in the Yongjian Cage that Ren Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

The number of refugees was close to 60,000, and they had not practiced any magic, they were all good embryos to master the Forbidden Prison Method.

Ren Qing put the refugees in a corner far away from the Forbidden Prison Hall.

It was unrealistic to let the refugees come into contact with the Forbidden Prison Hall in a short time, after all, the demons and ghosts they encountered might not be as terrifying as the Forbidden Prison.

Ren Qing had to subtly change the refugees' thinking first.

After the refugees came to the Yongjian Cage, they noticed that there were piles of various grains not far away, as well as farming tools and seeds for planting fields.

They couldn't help but be ecstatic, thinking that the Great Compassionate Maitreya Buddha was showing his spirit.

Ren Qing currently did not have the energy to interfere with the development of tens of thousands of refugees, and directly transmitted the contents of the Nether Heaven Worm Method to them, and also let the jailer Nether Crow secretly protect them.

After these people of Maitreya gradually practiced, the efficiency of lifespan extension would naturally increase.

Ren Qing closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. After being delayed by the refugees for a while, he had to hurry up and break through as soon as possible, so as not to affect the lifespan extension at night.

His attention was on the Food Immortal Method and the Wine God Method, which had not yet advanced to the Yin Official realm.

The information stream surged.

【Do you want to choose the branch Belly Containing Wine Sea, which will consume two hundred years of lifespan】

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