The situation of the Tai Sui Scripture was similar to the Six Disease Method. Because of the Dream Path techniques, rather unusual aberrant transformation branches appeared.
For example.
[Dream Disease: dreams can be used to influence another person's soul, causing stubborn illnesses to arise in the body.]
[Dream Healing: dreams can be used to extract another person's disease type, causing stubborn illnesses to recover.]
[Brain Disease: any disease related to the body will only affect the brain.]
Ren Qing did not hesitate and made Dream Healing the first aberrant transformation of Blood Diseases Entangling the Body. This way he would not need to personally extract disease types.
Right after the Dream Healing aberrant transformation was completed, many civilians in the stomach world who suffered from stubborn illnesses inexplicably recovered after sleeping once.
Even if the area of the stomach world was extremely large, the Dream Healing aberrant transformation could cover it entirely.
However, Ren Qing did not intend to influence the cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death in the stomach world. If no one ever became sick, physical constitution would inevitably decline generation after generation.
The Dream Healing aberrant transformation targeted disease types that the Disease Tree did not contain.
Ren Qing continued selecting aberrant transformation types and soon had a target for the second transformation.
[Dormancy: the time when disease types erupt can be controlled, and disease types can be placed into a dormant state.]
He mainly considered that if disease types were used to transform the Giant Corpse Buddha, there could not be a risk of the disease types losing control, otherwise it might trigger a violent reaction from the Buddhist qi.
As for the third aberrant transformation, Ren Qing chose "Calamity of Disease".
Calamity of Disease: the intelligence of disease types can be actively stimulated, allowing them to absorb nutrients from the host and thereby derive new pathological changes.
Calamity of Disease could nurture more troublesome illnesses, but it was a double-edged sword and had to be used carefully, otherwise it might spiral out of control.
After the aberrant transformation branches were completed, Ren Qing prepared to advance the Tai Sui Scripture to the Yin Difference realm.
Unfortunately, after the split soul became the Disease Tree it was fixed within the Mud Pellet Palace, equivalent to losing one channel of extending lifespan.
Shall the branch Overwhelming Fungal Calamity be chosen? It will consume two hundred years of lifespan.
The Tai Sui Scripture at merely the Ghost Envoy realm was certainly insufficient to influence the Giant Corpse Buddha. Only by reaching the Yin Difference realm could it be used to carry out artifact transformation.
The process of the Tai Sui Scripture's breakthrough mainly manifested in the Disease Tree. Its size directly swelled several times larger, and holes of varying sizes formed on the surface of its bark.
They seemed like pairs of resentful eyes.
Ren Qing could feel the terror of the Tai Sui Scripture. If the split soul Disease Tree were not used to contain disease types, a single drop of his blood might cause the death of tens of thousands of living beings.
After achieving "Overwhelming Fungal Calamity", he could probably spread massive numbers of disease types with a mere wave of his hand.
He suddenly discovered that he could indirectly control the Longevity Tree within the forbidden zone, using the roots spread beneath the city to devour Longevity Seeds.
Although he lost the lifespan gained from the split soul cultivating body martial arts, as long as Longevity Seeds attacked the town again, he could probably extend his life by hundreds or even thousands of years.
Ren Qing summoned his information stream.
[Lifespan: 913 years]
[Techniques: Shadowless Ghost, Human Skin Book, Bone Armor Technique, Nether Method, Dragon-Snake Spine, The Taotie Method (Food-Consuming Immortal Technique, Wine God Technique, Dao Dao Dao, Rebirth Technique), Avici Hell (Great Inception Flame, Stomach Contains Wine Sea, Wuwei Dojo, Rebirth Cycle), This World Yin Spirit, Primordial Fetal Membrane, Spiritual Marrow Bone Immortal, Netherworld Wasted Immortal, Coiling Dragon Shedding to Python, Eyeless Method (Dream Butterfly Method, Dream Demon Technique, Six Disease Method, Tai Sui Scripture), Darkest Demon Lord (Three Inches of the Human World, Demon Dream True Person, Scattered Disease Plague Lord, Overwhelming Fungal Calamity)]
[Divine Ability: Dragon Roar Within the Casket, Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth]
[Aberrant Transformations: Dream Seed, Soul Garment, Dream Artifact, Butterfly Molting, Butterfly Attachment, Messenger, Dark Light, Recollection, Stacked Dream, Layered Dreams, Long Dream, Nightmare Demon, Dream Healing, Dormancy, Calamity of Disease, Disaster Elimination Method (Storyteller, Mirror Immortal), Strange Belly Hidden Gate (Lecturing Old Master, Strange Mirror Walker), Hunger Resistance, Thirst Resistance, Kill Resistance, No-Thought, Parasitic Nurturing, Planting Demons, Glazed, Phantom Body, Illusory Reality]
Since the five techniques related to dreams had all completed aberrant transformations, Ren Qing could now begin aberrant fusion to prepare for the Yang God realm.
"Sword Comes"
However, there were too many matters at the moment, so it could only be postponed.
Ren Qing then inspected the Disease Tree. Within a short time the disease types it contained had already increased by more than a dozen common illnesses.
His gaze landed on one of the disease types. After pondering for a moment, he took it out.
[Disease Type: Bloating]
There was still no disease type that increased stomach toughness, but the Bloating Disease Type should be a good choice, since it could expand the stomach's area.
The stomach of the Giant Corpse Buddha was even smaller than the former Wuwei Dojo.
Although the stomach could easily contain several thousand cultivators, it was far from enough for Ren Qing to deploy various artifacts.
Moreover, Buddha Forest alone occupied a full one third of the space, and artifacts might affect the Indestructible Golden Body.
Ren Qing somewhat nervously brought the Bloating Disease Type into the outside world.
In his open palm lay a speck invisible to the naked eye, yet it contained unimaginable power.
Ren Qing quietly blew a breath of air toward his palm.
The Bloating Disease Type immediately landed on the ground and was then absorbed by the flesh of the Giant Corpse Buddha.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and controlled the Bloating Disease Type to continuously reproduce. Within a short time it had already increased by three to four hundred.
This was without applying the Six Disease Method. Otherwise the Bloating Disease Type could cover most of the stomach in the blink of an eye, showing how the two techniques complemented each other.
Li Tiangang and the others vaguely sensed something.
The stomach was clearly a semi-sealed environment, why had a breeze suddenly appeared?
The Buddhist qi had no reaction whatsoever to the Bloating Disease Type, which emboldened Ren Qing. He took another Bloating Disease Type from the Disease Tree.
This time Ren Qing used Dragon Roar Within the Casket, transforming the disease type into an extremely tiny pseudo-dragon.
His connection with the Bloating Disease Type became even closer. If he further used the Calamity of Disease aberrant transformation to give the pseudo-dragon disease type intelligence,
new pathological changes would probably appear soon.
Ren Qing likewise allowed the pseudo-dragon disease type to reproduce in the stomach. As for the other regions of the Giant Corpse Buddha, artifact refinement still had to be done first.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
A violent wind rose within the stomach, mixed with a faint stench of decay.
The Moon Patterns covering the flesh walls gradually changed from golden to gray-black, indicating that the invisible influence of disease types was even more thorough than that of Buddhist qi.
In the eyes of the Buddhist qi, disease types were simply illnesses produced by the Giant Corpse Buddha itself. As long as they did not threaten the body, they would not be cared about.
The stomach resembled an inflating balloon, and its area immediately expanded by more than double.
Seeing this, Ren Qing quickly placed the Bloating Disease Types into dormancy to avoid accidentally exploding the stomach, which would cause more harm than benefit.
The monks inside Buddha Within Buddha looked on with reverence. In their eyes, the methods of the Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva were divine powers that recreated heaven and earth.
Li Tiangang and the others all gathered around Ren Qing.
Not long ago the stomach of the Giant Corpse Buddha had only been crudely artifact-refined, but without anyone noticing, the Moon Patterns had already undergone transformation.
Moreover, because the pseudo-dragon disease types continued reproducing, the transformation of the stomach had clearly not yet ended.
Li Tiangang asked in disbelief, "Ren Qing, have you already taken control of the stomach?"
"Not exactly..."
Li Tiangang sighed with relief, only to hear Ren Qing continue:
"Probably about sixty to seventy percent."
The others looked at each other in shock. They had not expected that Ren Qing's idea of refining the body of a land immortal would already show signs within just a few days.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and sensed that disease types had already merged into the flesh everywhere, and even the Moon Patterns contained large numbers of Bloating Disease Types.
Especially the disease types fused with Moon Patterns, they had actually developed characteristics of artifact transformation.
A thought moved in Ren Qing's mind.
Since he could not refine every inch of the stomach's flesh into an artifact with fine detail, he could instead use artifact-transformed disease types to complete the sacrificial refinement.
In that case, Ren Qing had essentially already bound the stomach as its master.
However, disease types were not part of the Giant Corpse Buddha itself, yet they were closely connected, allowing him to exploit a loophole in the Buddhist qi's perception.
Seeing Ren Qing return to his senses, Li Tiangang quickly began discussing the next steps.
First, Li Yaoyang's gu insects had already begun to show results. They were pure white beetles that emitted a faint trace of Buddhist qi.
Although the raw material was Heavenly Dao insects, after devouring various materials they had become this strange Buddhist gu insect.
Overall, Heavenly Dao insects were extremely malleable, worthy of being strange creatures capable of becoming spirit veins.
The only drawback was that they were difficult to control. Li Yaoyang was still experimenting, but presumably it would not take long before he could command the gu insects to explore the intestinal region.
Bai Guniang asked curiously, "Where should we focus our target on the Giant Corpse Buddha?"
Ren Qing hesitated for a moment. Theoretically the internal organs were the core region of the Giant Corpse Buddha, but he wanted to go to the spine.
As long as the spine could be controlled and the Hard Bone Disease Type and Giantization Disease Type were fused into it, the combat power of the Giant Corpse Buddha could increase by at least seventy to eighty percent.
Boom boom boom...
Suddenly earth-shaking sounds came from the outside world, accompanied by shaking in the stomach.
Although it lasted only a few minutes, it still strengthened Ren Qing's resolve. He then said,
"Using the intestines as stepping stones, we will head toward the spine of the Giant Corpse Buddha."
Just as Ren Qing finished speaking, he suddenly discovered that something seemed to be trying to break into the stomach, but after scratching the outer wall with claws it left.
"Trouble has come."
"We do not know where the Giant Corpse Buddha currently is. It is very possible that other beings may enter its body as well. We must be extremely careful."
Ren Qing's words made Li Tiangang and the others highly vigilant.
Indeed, if even they could reach the abdominal core where the Indestructible Golden Body was stored, other existences could surely do the same.
The Buddhist qi did not care about the condition of the Giant Corpse Buddha at all, unless the container itself was damaged.
As the journey continued through more and more areas, it was foreseeable that many strange creatures would parasitize the Giant Corpse Buddha.
For Ren Qing, controlling the Giant Corpse Buddha would not be easy, especially while also defending against external attacks.
He now felt fortunate that he had started from the stomach. At least there was sufficient space to arrange things, and the distance to the spine was not very far.
"Bai Guniang, take Han Li and the others to refine artifacts that will protect Buddha Forest. In a few days members of Restraint Officers' Hall will arrive."
Bai Guniang immediately agreed.
The three soon left, and Li Tiangang impatiently asked, "Have you already found a way to send large numbers of cultivators to the stomach?"
"More or less."
After refining the stomach, Ren Qing understood the preferences and dislikes of the Buddhist qi more clearly and knew how to avoid triggering a violent reaction.
He was even already considering how to harvest the lifespan of the monks in Buddha Within Buddha.
He still had to grasp the principle of mutual benefit.