After the giant corpse Buddha left the region where the Heavenly Demon aura was relatively dense, it did not continue traveling north but instead found a place to recover from its injuries.
The flesh across its body had been destroyed by the Heavenly Demon aura. Even though the giant corpse Buddha was only a temporary container, that did not mean it could be replaced casually.
Taking advantage of the relatively safe respite, Ren Qing began considering matters of refinement.
Especially since the giant corpse Buddha was material equivalent to an Earth Immortal, the difficulty of refining it into an artifact was extremely high, not to mention creating a subsidiary small world.
By comparison, the issue of recognizing a master was easier to solve. Leaving a backdoor should not be troublesome.
Once the giant corpse Buddha reached the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone, the Buddhist qi would certainly abandon it in order to search for the contemporary Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva.
If Ren Qing could complete refining the giant corpse Buddha beforehand, it might become the foundation for him to stand upon within the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone.
"But the aberrant fetus artifact..."
Ren Qing could not help shaking his head slightly. Aberrant fetus artifacts required integrating materials related to Restraint Officer methods, which would undoubtedly affect the quality of the giant corpse Buddha.
Moreover, the Buddhist qi would absolutely not allow the giant corpse Buddha to produce an artifact spirit.
In fact, Ren Qing was not without materials for refining a subsidiary small world. Even without counting the taboo realm within the Longevity Forbidden Zone, the Heavenly Dao Insect molt was also a material involving an Earth Immortal.
But the problem was that these materials had nothing to do with Restraint Officer methods, making it difficult to refine an aberrant fetus artifact.
After all, the aberrant fetus artifact refining method required integrating strange objects, so the compatibility between the primary material and the aberrant fetus was extremely important.
Ren Qing seemed able only to attempt creating a method different from the aberrant fetus artifact refining method.
He suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind. For now, it would be better to first inscribe Moon Patterns and preliminarily complete the refinement of the giant corpse Buddha's stomach, lest they encounter another attack from the Supreme Heavenly Demon.
Otherwise, with the current defensive strength of the giant corpse Buddha's flesh, it truly would not be enough.
Ren Qing swept his gaze across the prosperous dream market. In the corner of a street grew a plant resembling a butterfly. It was the Dream Butterfly artifact.
After this period of cultivation, the Dream Butterfly had produced five additional blank Dream Flowers, representing that five Restraint Officers could be brought into the stomach.
Ren Qing removed the Dream Flowers and brought them outside to absorb the Buddhist qi scattered from the Indestructible Golden Bodies.
The Buddhist qi had to maintain itself and was already in a state similar to circulating a great cycle. During inhalation and exhalation, some aura inevitably went to waste.
Ren Qing wanted to prepare protective kasaya artifacts for the cultivators coming to the stomach.
But the stored Buddha bones and Buddha skin were already extremely scarce. The materials he had collected earlier were enough to refine at most three kasaya artifacts.
After hesitating for a long time, he used "Buddha Sense" instead.
Buddha Sense was the remnant souls contained within the Buddhist qi. After being burned and condensed in the Flesh Furnace, it appeared like pale golden powder.
It was condensed by the Food-Consuming Immortal Technique, using Buddha souls as material and burned into existence. After consumption, the body would gradually transform into an Indestructible Golden Body.
The kasayas refined using Buddha Sense had a slightly weaker Indestructible Golden Body aura, but at least the robes would not appear to be made from human skin.
By the time Ren Qing finished refining the kasaya artifacts, three days had unknowingly passed.
He had maintained the vitality-stripped Half-Corpse state the entire time. Only after returning to his senses did he notice that something seemed wrong with his body.
His skin was covered with purple-red rotting marks, indicating that remaining without vitality for a long time would cause the corpse transformation to worsen.
With the kasaya artifact and the Buddhist Dream Flower present, there was no need to continue maintaining the Half-Corpse state.
Ren Qing once again used the Rebirth Technique, gradually reintegrating vitality into his body.
The pale face regained color, and the previously rotting wounds healed accordingly.
Ren Qing felt somewhat nervous, fearing that the giant corpse Buddha might expel him again, but after half a day there was still no movement in the stomach.
Perhaps in the perception of the Buddhist qi, the aura emitted by Ren Qing shared the same origin and could also benefit the giant corpse Buddha, so his usefulness was clearly not small.
Ren Qing then informed all cultivators about the situation of the giant corpse Buddha's stomach through a notice posted in the dream market.
For a moment, the cultivators of the Restraint Officers' Hall—including those in the Longevity Forbidden Zone—erupted into excitement.
From the description in the notice, the many cultivators could sense the danger of the outside world.
Yet even in such a situation, Ren Qing was inside an Earth Immortal's body and still intended to refine it.
Such behavior was truly somewhat audacious.
However, while fear arose in their hearts, an incomparable excitement also emerged, as if they were about to dance upon the edge of a blade.
The cultivators forming the Restraint Officers' Hall—whether the earliest people of Sanxiang, or the later-joined Gobi people and Jingzhou people, even demon-kind—
Without exception all had mastered various Restraint Officer methods. At every moment they could feel the threat of death from strange objects, and most of their mental states were somewhat abnormal.
Ordinary people would weigh gains and losses when facing opportunities, but what remained constant for them was the pursuit of power and the desire to break through to higher realms.
If they could go to an Earth Immortal's stomach, it represented resources comparable to the era of Wuwei City. Even dying because of it would not matter.
After a brief silence, thousands of cultivators in the dream market began roaring continuously.
One must know that when the Restraint Officers' Hall was in Jingzhou, countless Ghost Envoy realm cultivators were born, even Yin Difference realm and Yang God realm cultivators.
They did not want to miss the opportunity and were already tired of the days of farming and building cities in the stomach world, so they all chose to sign up to go to the giant corpse Buddha.
In a certain sense, Restraint Officers were indeed a group of corpse-eating "maggots".
The transaction volume of the dream market immediately began to surge. This was a foreseeable trend, since every major movement was like this.
Meanwhile the cultivators in the Longevity Forbidden Zone could only watch them eagerly, feeling incomparably envious of their great opportunity.
Unfortunately Ren Qing had limited Buddhist Dream Flowers and naturally could not bring everyone.
Relying solely on the Dream Butterfly artifact to produce Dream Flowers was far too slow in efficiency. He would have to see later whether the kasaya artifacts could be improved.
Without relying on the effect of the Buddhist Dream Flower, the kasaya artifacts might simulate the aura of a corpse Buddha.
As for the candidates among the cultivators, Ren Qing already had people in mind and soon sent letters to them via bird-type strange beasts.
Li Tiangang stood on the rooftop at the very center of Wuwei City.
The entire town appeared unchanged, but the distance between buildings was constantly shifting by a few micrometers without being noticed.
He was practicing the embryonic divine ability "Embracing Books Hundred Cities". Of course, he had also been frightened by the task issued by Ren Qing.
What concept was an Earth Immortal?
Moreover, it was connected with the Buddhist sect.
Yet at the same time he had to admit that the opportunity contained within was impossible to estimate, even enough to elevate the Restraint Officers' Hall to another level.
Ah... ah... ah...
A bird-type strange beast landed on Li Tiangang's shoulder and spat out a paper note covered with saliva.
Compared to Sun's Underworld Crow clone, Ren Qing's strange beasts would at least not suddenly explode, merely flapping their wings and flying away into the distance.
Li Tiangang casually picked up the paper note and directly stuffed it into his temple.
The information contained within the note was immediately digested by him, and he correspondingly understood the situation of the outside world. The corners of his mouth could not help twitching.
"Ren Qing, this kid..."
Ren Qing had only said that he accidentally entered the giant corpse Buddha's body and then temporarily decided to refine it into a magical artifact.
Although Li Tiangang did not believe it, he still nodded in agreement. Immediately afterward a kasaya artifact and a Dream Flower appeared before him.
As soon as Li Tiangang draped the kasaya over himself and the Dream Flower transformed into Double Eyes attached to his forehead, he felt dizzy and instantly arrived in a strange environment.
It was somewhat like the previous Avici Hell, with flesh surrounding everything.
Ren Qing said awkwardly, "Senior Li Tiangang, look at this situation..."
"Ren Qing, your realm is higher than mine, and well, your courage is also greater than mine."
"It's just for the sake of self-preservation. Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva does not reject us, so there won't be danger for a short time."
Ren Qing explained the plan to Li Tiangang. The latter combined it with the actual circumstances and analyzed how to construct the stomach of the giant corpse Buddha.
While the two chatted, Li Yaoyang appeared nearby.
The moment he arrived in the stomach, his gaze locked onto the flesh of the giant corpse Buddha. That was top-tier material for cultivating gu insects.
It could be said that when Li Yaoyang successfully advanced to the Yin Difference realm back then, the corpse of Meat and Wine Taoist contributed at least eighty to ninety percent of the credit.
Now, with the Heavenly Dao Insect dead eggs given by Ren Qing, he had already touched the Spirit Release realm. In addition, with the giant corpse Buddha involving an Earth Immortal, even the Yang God realm was possible in the future.
In Li Yaoyang's eyes, Ren Qing was entirely a benefactor.
So as soon as he appeared, he immediately stood on Ren Qing's side, constantly pondering how to refine things in order to strengthen the stomach's defenses.
The third Yin Difference realm cultivator was the taciturn White Lady.
Because White Lady needed to refine large numbers of sword sheaths, her aberrant fetus artifact refining method was very skilled—though only in refining sword sheaths.
For the remaining spots, Ren Qing did not choose newly advanced Yin Difference realm cultivators like Chen Haoyu, but instead selected Han Li and Xiao San'er.
The total number of newly advanced Yin Difference realm cultivators in the stomach world had already reached four, all breaking through based on foundations accumulated in Jingzhou.
However, they had not yet reached the stage of fusing the Yin Spirit and their control over strange objects was not yet proficient.
Ren Qing feared they might accidentally leak the aura of Restraint Officer methods and trigger a riot from the Buddhist qi, so it was better to choose reliable Ghost Envoy realm cultivators.
Han Li and the other showed slightly surprised expressions, not expecting the good fortune to fall upon them.
They respectfully performed the disciple's salute toward Ren Qing.
Looking again at the Buddha Within Buddha, the monks inside were all kneeling on the ground.
Five Buddha figures like heaven-supporting giants suddenly appearing naturally made them even more afraid to look directly at Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva.
Soon the monks began spontaneously carving statues of Ren Qing and the others. Ren Qing stood in the center, depicted as Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva.
Li Tiangang and the other five were depicted as Arhats beneath him.
Ren Qing and the others arrived at the flesh wall previously broken open. The wound had still not fully healed even now, showing how corrosive the Heavenly Demon aura was.
Li Tiangang shook his head and said, "Ren Qing, can you detect the movements outside?"
He was mainly considering that once refined into an artifact it could be actively activated. If another situation occurred, they could not continue remaining passive.
"My Double Eyes cannot see through the flesh."
"Can we observe through magical artifacts?"
Ren Qing looked toward Li Tiangang and then explained:
"The giant corpse Buddha's flesh collapsed because its capacity to bear Buddhist qi reached the limit. Ordinary artifacts would definitely be ground away by the Buddhist qi."
"For now let's focus on the stomach."
Ren Qing looked toward the intestines connected to the stomach and said quietly:
"Only after we complete the artifactization of the giant corpse Buddha's eyes will we probably be able to observe the outside."