Ren Qing originally only planned to dig a vertically downward passage, but later because he was busy with aberration fusion, he forgot about it.
As a result, without noticing, the ghost shadow had actually excavated a space dozens of meters wide, more than enough to contain a Buddha corpse.
Seeing this, he simply sealed the path leading to the outside world completely.
Then Ren Qing chose to remain inside it, where safety could be completely guaranteed, and the environment for closed-door cultivation no longer needed to be improvised.
The Bottomless Pit already carried darkness that blocked perception. Now that he was hidden within the rock wall several hundred meters deep, how could anyone possibly discover him.
As for the problem of air, Ren Qing could completely rely on Eternal Space Prison to replenish it.
He hung a glowing magical artifact above his head, leveled the ground and laid carpets on it, and placed furniture such as a bed and wardrobe.
Monitoring the movements of Heaven Above Heaven relied on the ghost shadow and the dream seed.
After Ren Qing finished arranging the cave dwelling, he suddenly had a whim and began aberration fusion, and within moments he immersed himself in a focused state.
When he awoke, more than ten days had already passed.
Eight kinds of aberration fusions within Eternal Space Prison had been completed. As long as one more aberration branch was fused, he could consume lifespan to reach the completion of Yin Difference realm.
Ren Qing still looked forward to the embryonic divine ability formed by the world inside the stomach.
He received the information from Heaven Above Heaven during this period and discovered that there was no difference, except that nearly a thousand monks had accumulated deaths in the city.
Logically speaking, although Heaven Above Heaven had several hundred thousand people, since they could not reproduce, they would sooner or later be completely exhausted.
Ren Qing forcibly suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind and picked up a thick stack of papers to read.
The contents recorded on the papers were all related to the Facing-the-Moon Method. They were suggestions from cultivators about refining flesh puppets after he issued tasks through the dream market.
Ren Qing originally did not hold much hope, but soon became quite interested.
The method recorded in the Facing-the-Moon Method for refining Rabbit-Toads required materials all produced by Blood Moon, so substitute materials had to be found.
Unexpectedly, through experimental refinement, the cultivators had already explored approximate materials.
However, with their artifact refining level, let alone the Facing-the-Moon Method, even the Artifact Spirit Method created by Ren Qing was difficult to enter, resulting in ideas without finished products.
Ren Qing distributed rewards based on the help provided by the cultivators, then picked up the final booklet.
"Hm?"
He noticed the signature on the paper was Li Yaoyang and Zhou Zuosan, and his expression immediately became serious as he scanned the contents.
"Xiao San'er hasn't been seen for a long time, his artifact refining level has indeed improved greatly."
Unlike the other cultivators who pondered how to refine the limbs of the flesh puppet, he directly studied the most complicated core "Broken Moon Meteor".
"Using Heavenly Dao Insect eggs as a container, borrowing the Other Shore Flower to produce pseudo souls, refining the two into an alternative Broken Moon Meteor..."
Ren Qing thought for a moment and felt that the possibility was not small.
Back when the Restraint Officers' Hall tried to revive Ksitigarbha, did they not use a similar method. If not for True Person Dameng, it might really have succeeded.
However, the function of the Other Shore Flower was that after consumption the soul split into a pseudo soul possessing three souls and seven spirits, both originating from the same source.
Ren Qing himself certainly would not eat the Other Shore Flower. If flesh puppets were refined in batches it would inevitably damage souls, so who should consume it...
His gaze swept across Eternal Space Prison. Kunpeng immediately trembled with fear, as if faintly sensing a familiar malice.
Sigh, jailers may not have low intelligence, but they themselves did not possess souls.
Cultivators met the requirements, but this kind of act of harming one's own people could not be done.
While Ren Qing had a headache, he suddenly noticed the flesh furnace deep beneath Eternal Space Prison. The Fuel King sitting on the White Bone Throne was a soul body.
Theoretically, the Fuel King could be used to nurture pseudo souls. After all, it could transform between illusion and reality and could recover itself by absorbing kindling.
But first the Other Shore Flower had to be planted.
The phantom formed from Ren Qing's consciousness landed beside Jiang Feng. The latter was observing crop growth beside fertile fields, looking less like a Restraint Officer and more like an old farmer.
Jiang Feng trembled and could not help stepping back several steps.
"Brother Jiang, how many mu of fields are there beside Wine Lake now?"
Jiang Feng said awkwardly with a smile, "Lord Ren jokes, you may call me by my name in the future."
"It's not far from ten thousand mu. What we consider is storing grain. Once the granaries have sufficient reserves, we will abandon part of the fields."
Ren Qing hesitated before saying, "Set aside one hundred mu to plant Other Shore Flower, or open another hundred mu of land."
Jiang Feng's heart pounded wildly. After knowing Ren Qing for so long, he understood the latter's ability to stir trouble, not to mention it involved Other Shore Flower.
"But Other Shore Flower growth requires remnant souls."
"Don't worry, will the Restraint Officers' Hall lack remnant souls?"
Naturally formed souls were indeed rare, but remnant souls in the Marsh Desert were abundant. Back then many cultivators in the Restraint Officers' Hall had used various containers to collect remnant souls.
They were eventually sold to Dameng Pavilion, leaving Ren Qing with a large quantity of remnant souls.
Jiang Feng could only agree, though he had a headache about planting Other Shore Flower. After all, this plant had extremely high environmental requirements.
However, as long as remnant souls were guaranteed as nutrients, directly accelerating growth with techniques should not be difficult.
Ren Qing allocated all the remnant souls to Jiang Feng for handling, then returned to the cave dwelling to continue seclusion. The completion of Yin Difference realm was close at hand.
He did not start immediately. After all, when aberration fusion reached the ninth time, the difficulty had become extremely terrifying. Without the information flow, even a tiny mistake would be fatal.
Ren Qing meditated on the Taotie Method, trying to keep his mental state stable.
Several days passed.
When he felt it was about time to complete the aberration fusion, after confirming once again that Heaven Above Heaven had no abnormalities, he closed his eyes and began aberration fusion.
However, the beginning was somewhat unsuccessful. Outside, another Buddha corpse climbed up along the rock wall again, causing slight tremors inside the cave dwelling.
If Ren Qing had not had experience before, he might have failed because of Spirit Division.
This seclusion lasted more than two months. During that time he nearly could not resist consuming lifespan to advance, but fortunately his willpower was firm enough.
When Ren Qing awakened, he rested for half a day before recovering.
Even though the location of the cave dwelling was already safe enough, being in Cishi inevitably produced heart demons formed from distracting thoughts.
He once again confirmed the situation of Heaven Above Heaven. Although several thousand more people had died there, it was still relatively calm for the time being.
Ren Qing discovered that Eternal Space Prison was relatively successful in planting Other Shore Flower. Perhaps the environment suited its growth, and a batch of blooming Other Shore Flowers had already been harvested a few days earlier.
The appearance of Other Shore Flower was extremely enchanting. Black patterns layered upon each other, who would imagine it was nourished by countless remnant souls.
[Other Shore Flower]
[Cultivated by Zhuoliuzi. After consuming the Other Shore Flower, if the soul cannot withstand the aberration it will dissolve; otherwise, after thirty-six days a pseudo soul will be nurtured.]
Ren Qing pulled the Other Shore Flower into the flesh furnace beneath Eternal Space Prison, hesitating for a long time without knowing how to make the Fuel King consume it.
As a result, once the Other Shore Flower approached the Fuel King, the latter actually devoured it on its own initiative.
The Other Shore Flower encountered high temperature and turned into ashes, then was absorbed by the Fuel King, yet its appearance remained that of a skeleton without any change.
Ren Qing doubted whether the Fuel King could nurture pseudo souls, so he ignored it.
Whether to choose the aberration gestation of Eternal Space Prison, lifespan will be consumed for nine years.
Advancing through self-cultivation would also increase the lifespan consumed by information flow advancement, but the increase was not large. Nine years did not exceed his expectations.
After confirming inwardly, Ren Qing felt the aberration branches easily merge together under the influence of the information flow.
He could not help curling his lips. With the information flow present, his own efforts seemed meaningless. Unfortunately, a short lifespan limited his talent.
Whether to choose the aberration gestation of Eternal Space Prison, lifespan will be consumed for eighteen years.
Whether to choose the aberration gestation of Eternal Space Prison, lifespan will be consumed for thirty-six years.
Whether to choose the aberration gestation of Eternal Space Prison, lifespan will be consumed for seventy-two years.
The final six aberration branches fused together consumed a total of five hundred sixty-seven years. Ren Qing's lifespan once again dropped below one hundred years.
He had painstakingly saved more than six hundred years of lifespan, yet had only reached the completion of Yin Difference realm, still far from Yang God realm.
Ren Qing looked at the four secondary techniques of the Taotie Method. Food-Consuming Immortal Technique and Wine God Technique were only at Ghost Envoy realm completion. Advancing them to Yin Difference realm would require another four hundred years of lifespan. The gap was simply too large.
The advancement process of the information flow naturally had no waves at all.
Ren Qing simply shifted his attention to the flesh furnace, observing the changes of the Fuel King.
After absorbing the Other Shore Flower, at least one-third of the Fuel King's soul showed abnormal movement, constantly attempting to seize the opportunity to separate from the main soul.
Its teeth clattered together, and it actually chose to strip off the pseudo soul voluntarily, forming a faint black cloud that floated above the flesh furnace.
The Fuel King opened its mouth to absorb kindling, and its soul recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Ren Qing was full of surprise as he examined the strange pseudo soul, yet did not detect any remaining heavenly demon aura.
He then used the information flow to confirm the pseudo soul before finally storing it in Eternal Space Prison.
[Pseudo Soul]
Refined by the Food-Consuming Immortal Technique. It does not possess intelligence, but absorption can nourish the soul. There is a certain risk of aberration losing control.
Ren Qing continued throwing some Other Shore Flowers into the flesh furnace. Seeing the Fuel King actively absorb them, he went to check the embryonic divine ability.
[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 Within the Body, Jar-in-the-Stomach Daoist Grounds, Boundless Resurrection)]
[Divine Ability: Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth]
Ren Qing stared at the four characters "Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth" and could not help becoming stunned. How could he not know this divine ability from the myths of his previous life.
Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth came from Journey to the West. Both Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen had used it. It belonged to a type of transformation technique.
Even the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations could only reach transformations of at most a thousand zhang.
But Ren Qing vaguely remembered that Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth could transform into a giant ten thousand zhang tall, a divine ability belonging to the ceiling level of combat power.
His breathing could not help becoming rapid.
Not to mention ten thousand zhang, even a hundred zhang would greatly increase Ren Qing's strength, especially since it could complement his transformation into a coiled dragon.
However, when he figured out the effect of the Dharma-form divine ability, his expression became complicated.
This Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth was not the Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth from Journey to the West.
Ren Qing's Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth was closely related to the world inside the stomach, causing this somewhat auxiliary technique to produce an alternative transformation.