Thirty days of lifespan may be consumed to exempt the cost and master it.
Ren Qing did not hesitate much and immediately consumed thirty days of lifespan to master the Tai Sui Scripture. Soon after, the beating of his heart slowed.
As the final secondary technique predetermined for the Dream Path techniques, once the Tai Sui Scripture was mastered it also represented the completion of the Darkest Demon Lord.
It could be said that aside from the Disaster Elimination Method, the other three of Ren Qing's primary and secondary techniques had all reached five methods. With this foundation he could climb toward the Yang God realm, and even the Heavenly Aberration realm.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and sensed the strange object of the Tai Sui Scripture.
It resembled bacteria and could be said to spread throughout the entire body, hidden within flesh and bones, circulating along the meridians while continuously influencing the body.
Ren Qing discovered that the roots of the Darkest Demon Lord aberration tree had actually taken the initiative to wrap around the Tai Sui Scripture aberration tree, and the two quickly formed a connection.
Afterward, characteristics different from ordinary humans appeared on his skin.
The main characteristic manifested as corpse transformation. Even the Tai Sui Scripture at merely the Martial Practitioner realm could mutate Ren Qing's Yang God realm body.
Corpse transformation did not originate only from disease types; it even came from the strange object itself. Unless Ren Qing forcibly stripped it away, it could not be avoided.
But since the Tai Sui Scripture had already become a secondary technique of the Darkest Demon Lord, forcibly stripping it into the stomach world to become a jailer would cause the strange object to lose control.
Just as Ren Qing was examining the corpse transformation, Han Li was following Li Tiangang collecting Maitreya Blood.
Maitreya Blood resembled ore. Most of it was exposed on the surface, while part of it was hidden within the stomach's flesh and had to be carefully excavated.
Han Li belatedly looked toward Ren Qing, and his blood began boiling uncontrollably, clearly triggered by the strange object of the Blood Fungus Record.
He immediately showed signs of petrification, indicating that the balance between the Blood Fungus Record and The Taotie Method had been broken for some inexplicable reason.
Han Li had unspeakable suffering and tried his best to suppress the strange object. Just as the aura of his technique was about to leak out, his shoulder was suddenly slapped heavily by Li Tiangang.
"Are you alright?"
The strange object of the Blood Fungus Record had only just completed aberrant transformation. In front of Li Tiangang, who had perfected the Yin Difference realm, it immediately calmed and stopped moving.
Han Li wiped the sweat from his forehead and answered with lingering fear, "I'm fine, but Senior Ren Qing seems a bit off."
"Mm, let's go take a look."
Li Tiangang casually sealed the Maitreya Blood within paper.
For him, the flesh across his body had long ago mutated into tens of thousands of sheets of paper, so sealing methods were almost instinctive.
Just like when Ren Qing stored the stomach world, no trace of the aura of Restraint Officer methods would be revealed.
Han Li hesitated for a few breaths, then followed behind Li Tiangang. Soon they arrived not far from Ren Qing and were immediately startled.
Ren Qing's skin was shriveled, faint corpse spots could be seen, and he emitted a faint smell of decay, like a corpse that had died not long ago.
Li Tiangang could not help examining Ren Qing. The latter was clearly undergoing bodily mutation.
He hurried forward intending to help suppress it, but Ren Qing opened his eyes and the corpse transformation receded like a tide, quickly returning to normal.
Li Tiangang warned, "Ren Qing, what's going on with you? Don't play with fire!"
"It's fine, I'm cultivating a technique."
For a moment Li Tiangang was speechless. They were already in such a dangerous place, why would he still have the mood to cultivate techniques?
Han Li vaguely sensed something unusual.
He thought about how the Blood Fungus Record had been created by Ren Qing, and it was very likely that the Blood Fungus Record he cultivated was closely related to Ren Qing's techniques.
"Pay more attention. We'll go stand guard around the area to avoid another attack on the stomach."
Seeing that nothing further happened, the two turned and continued investigating the stomach world.
Ren Qing kept his eyes closed, drawing vitality from the Rebirth Yellow Springs to maintain the drawbacks of the Tai Sui Scripture so they would not affect him.
At the Martial Practitioner realm, the vitality required to eliminate corpse transformation from the Tai Sui Scripture was not much.
But the problem was that death qi within the Rebirth Yellow Springs would overflow.
Around the bamboo forest of the stomach world, some vegetation had already begun to wither.
Ren Qing felt somewhat troubled. The total amount of vitality and death qi had to remain nearly equal. If either side weakened, balance would automatically be maintained.
He planned to refine an artifact when he had time, one specifically for storing death qi. Otherwise this situation would definitely not be sustainable.
Ren Qing looked toward the aberration paths of the Tai Sui Scripture.
[Fungal Body: without blood or bone]
[Fungus Devotee: microscopic within the fungus]
[Fungal Filth: the body conceals toxic filth]
According to the recorded content, regardless of which aberration path was chosen, the Tai Sui Scripture could cultivate a natal fungus species. Therefore stability should be prioritized.
Ren Qing first eliminated the Fungal Body.
If the body had no blood or bones, then as expected the fungi would likely replace his flesh and bones themselves, involving far too many body parts.
The Fungus Devotee was slightly better, but the fungus species would hold more dominance than the cultivator.
It would be like cordyceps, where the fungus species controlled the instincts of the cultivator.
Ren Qing decided to use Fungal Filth as the aberration path. The model of nurturing disease types within the body was also more suitable for the stomach world.
Shall the branch Fungal Filth be chosen? It will consume one year of lifespan.
Just after advancing to Fungal Filth, Ren Qing's face immediately turned extremely red. Faint steam rose from his pores, and the moisture throughout his body dried up at a visible rate.
Ren Qing could sense that disease types were treating him as a breeding ground, continuously reproducing while worsening the corpse transformation.
The ground beneath his feet also darkened in color, with fungal threads spreading. It was obvious that the disease types integrated when engraving Moon Patterns were gradually taking effect.
Ren Qing endured the discomfort. The advantages and disadvantages of the Tai Sui Scripture were indeed exaggerated.
If it were a contagious disease-type disease type, it would be a technique that did not distinguish between enemy and ally, once released it would spread instantly.
However, what puzzled Ren Qing was that after the Six Disease Method became connected with the Darkest Demon Lord, it had clearly developed characteristics of Dream Path techniques.
But why had the Tai Sui Scripture not changed at all?
The moment Ren Qing formed this thought, the Mud Pellet Palace buzzed as if struck by a heavy hammer against his head, immediately making him dizzy.
He could feel the "Cold Disease Type" suddenly appearing out of thin air. After being nourished and stimulated by the Tai Sui Scripture, it even began affecting the main body.
At the same time, the split soul far away in the Longevity Forbidden Zone suddenly collapsed.
The split soul had just been chatting with Sun, then suddenly turned into powder and disappeared. Because the death was so unexpected, its expression remained extremely astonished.
"Ren Qing, you kid..."
Sun spread his enormous wings and hurriedly flew into the air to look toward the Ghost Market.
Fortunately the Ghost Market remained unchanged, indicating that Ren Qing's main body was not seriously harmed. The technique had probably only affected the split soul.
However, the distant Longevity Tree had its trunk covered with bacteria.
Ren Qing looked toward the Mud Pellet Palace. The split soul had already begun regenerating within it.
But what surprised him greatly was that the split soul's appearance was no longer humanoid but a fungal tree almost identical to the Longevity Tree.
Ren Qing touched his forehead. Because of the Cold Disease Type he now had a faint fever, and his throat felt slightly irritated.
He now understood why corpse transformation was not considered a drawback of the Tai Sui Scripture, after all, only corpses could be immune to various bacteria.
Ren Qing felt somewhat troubled and summoned the information stream of the split soul.
[Disease Tree]
[Disease Types: Giantization, Hard Bone, Flesh Increase]
The split soul had actually been renamed Disease Tree. The disease types contained within it were normal, exactly the three that the split soul possessed during life.
The main point was that the split soul had to continuously revive, so it could not select too many disease types. This way the cultivation time could be reduced several times.
"Wait, could it be that after the Tai Sui Scripture connected with the primary and secondary techniques of the Darkest Demon Lord, the split soul became a container for storing disease types?"
The moment Ren Qing formed this thought, the fever quickly subsided. The Cold Disease Type immediately surged into the Mud Pellet Palace and was then absorbed by the Disease Tree.
Looking again at the Disease Tree's information stream, the Cold Disease Type had indeed been added.
[Disease Tree]
[Disease Types: Giantization, Hard Bone, Flesh Increase, Cold]
These disease types were currently the medium through which he used the Tai Sui Scripture.
Unfortunately, even though Ren Qing's main body no longer carried disease types, corpse transformation still continued. He had to constantly use vitality over long periods to maintain it.
Handling death qi was even more troublesome.
At this moment the Disease Tree suddenly extended its roots, which followed the blood vessels into the stomach world and finally reached the Rebirth Yellow Springs, absorbing the leaking death qi.
Ren Qing discovered that death qi served as nourishment for the Disease Tree. More precisely, disease types needed to consume death qi in order to expand and reproduce.
He absorbed vitality, while the Disease Tree absorbed death qi. The balance of the Rebirth Yellow Springs was no longer broken, and the drawbacks of the Tai Sui Scripture were properly resolved.
However, the Disease Tree had rooted itself in the Mud Pellet Palace and could not move.
Fortunately, Ren Qing faintly sensed a weak connection between the Disease Tree and the Longevity Tree.
Ren Qing felt somewhat greedy toward the countless disease types within the Longevity Tree, and could only hope that after the Tai Sui Scripture broke through realms he could obtain the contained disease types.
He continued advancing the Tai Sui Scripture.
Shall the branch Blood Diseases Entangling the Body be chosen? It will consume ten years of lifespan.
After the Tai Sui Scripture reached the Ghost Envoy realm, Ren Qing noticed that his body required more vitality to maintain itself without corpse transformation.
At the same time a large amount of death qi was devoured by the Disease Tree, causing its branches to become increasingly lush and covered with all kinds of fungi.
It could be seen that the Disease Tree had completely turned into a container for disease types. It was unclear what would happen once more and more disease types were stored.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and digested the information of Blood Diseases Entangling the Body in his mind.
At the Ghost Envoy realm, Blood Diseases Entangling the Body could already extract bacteria from infected individuals and store them within the split soul to cultivate the disease types of the Tai Sui Scripture.
Most importantly, the connection between the Disease Tree and the Longevity Tree had become closer.
Ren Qing's consciousness arrived in the Longevity Forbidden Zone through the dream market. Around him were all kinds of civilians and groups of martial artists.
He ignored them and approached the Longevity Tree.
The moment he touched it, Ren Qing felt just as he had the first time he came to the Longevity Forbidden Zone, immersed in boundless darkness.
Nearby he could see countless disease types emitting faint light.
Ren Qing could not distinguish the disease types, and without the ghost shadow he could not check their information. He simply touched several nearby disease types.
Soon afterward, several tumor-like fruits grew from the branches of the Longevity Tree.
At the core of each fruit was a mysterious disease type.
Ren Qing estimated that once the fruits matured, Restraint Officers could pick them.
The Disease Tree could obtain disease types through the fruits of the Longevity Tree, or through infected patients.
With the tens of thousands of people within the stomach world, it would not take long before common disease types were fully collected.
Ren Qing then looked toward the aberration tree of Blood Diseases Entangling the Body and began selecting the abilities of its aberrant branches.