Inside Wuwei City it was empty, almost all of the cultivators had already come to the stomach and intestines of the gigantic corpse Buddha, filling the shortage of manpower.
However Ren Qing did not close the fissure leading to the Stomach-in-the-World, allowing Restraint Officers' Hall to still travel back and forth between the two worlds inside and outside.
Cultivators relied on the fissure to transport the grain planted in the intestines to the Dream Market.
Relying on Maitreya Soil, the crops matured in only a little more than half a month, the branches producing rice grains that were plump and full.
This rice was called "Maitreya Rice".
Many cultivators could not wait to exchange Blood Crystals for it. After eating it they would undergo a brief rebirth of flesh and bone; once the flesh transformed, the hidden injuries of the body would heal for the most part.
Cultivators who in earlier years had damaged their foundation and could not break through bottlenecks, after being nourished by Maitreya Rice, all showed signs of about to break through.
It could be seen how important resources involving an Earth Immortal were to Restraint Officers' Hall.
Just the output of Maitreya Rice alone was enough to produce a large batch of Ghost Envoy realm, not to mention after completely controlling the gigantic corpse Buddha.
Although Ren Qing had already entered seclusion, Restraint Officers' Hall's exploration of the gigantic corpse Buddha had not stopped.
Li Yaoyang used Gu insects to head toward the spine, while Little San led several artifact refiners to begin drawing Moon Patterns at the end of the intestinal region.
Restraint Officers' Hall only controlled one third of the intestines, but through Little San's efforts, they expanded outward several meters every day.
The stomach and intestines became flourishing and prosperous, already showing the outline of Wuwei City.
The buildings of the temporary camp had already been completed. Not only residences, even shops selling artifacts and resources had all internal organs complete.
Numerous cultivators moved through the streets, each with clearly defined duties, without the slightest leisure.
"Buddha Within Buddha" was placed at the center of the camp; at first glance it looked like a bonsai, but when approaching one could hear the orderly sound of chanting scriptures.
For monks such as No-Thought, the changes of the Land of Ultimate Bliss were somewhat too great.
Thousands of Buddhas suddenly appeared in various places, each wearing kasaya robes; although their appearances were somewhat strange, their cultivation and divine abilities were vast.
Jiang Feng stood atop the eaves of a building, using more than ten eyes he had split apart to observe the outside situation from the perspective of the Insect Eyes.
The gigantic corpse Buddha had already left the region filled with active volcanoes, temporarily still relatively safe, but how would he dare relax vigilance.
Cultivators who mastered eye-pupil techniques would take turns staring at the flesh wall, in case unexpected changes occurred.
Now the gigantic corpse Buddha was on a boundless plain, no trace of living creatures could be seen, yet there were large quantities of half-buried skeletons.
Within the stomach and intestines crowds moved back and forth without end, only Ren Qing obtained leisure, sitting cross-legged in a quiet corner, and no one would disturb him.
Ren Qing quietly maintained the Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth, his head unexpectedly presenting a crystalline form, and the Buddha Qi did not produce the slightest reaction to this.
He continuously muttered complicated spell technique content with his mouth, clearly immersed within it.
At the same time Ren Qing split his mind to observe the Stomach-in-the-World. One could see large tracts of farmland clearly uncultivated by people, yet the grain grew extremely well, and not even half a weed could be seen.
The blazing sun emitted scorching sunlight; the Stomach-in-the-World was in summer.
The grain inevitably dried out. If it were before, cultivators would already begin using water-attribute spells, drawing torrential rain.
Just then Kunpeng emitted a long cry.
Buzz...
It transformed into a Peng bird soaring in midair, then again became a Kun whale; with the flapping of its twin fins the lake water actually took on the momentum of a tornado, causing rainwater to fall to the ground.
Kunpeng seemed to open the curtain, Ghost Wolf, Blood Python, Nether Crow and other jailers appeared one after another.
The jailers used spells to open channels to guide water, irrigating ten thousand mu of farmland.
Among them was also mixed a several-meter ancient tree, which should be a newly born jailer. The ancient tree's strength was only at the Half-Corpse realm, yet the efficiency of cultivating farmland was not low at all.
Ren Qing swept his gaze over the fields with satisfaction. Ten days earlier the jailers completed their metamorphosis, just in time freeing the remaining cultivators of Wuwei City.
The jailers' appearances seemed not very different, yet in fact they were already completely different.
As strange objects imprisoned within the Stomach-in-the-World, the jailers lacked the ability to cultivate independently, unless Ren Qing used the Information Flow to forcibly advance their realm.
Ever since the Stomach-in-the-World reached the Yang Spirit realm, through metamorphosis the jailers could already cultivate spells like ordinary cultivators.
Moreover most jailers leapt forward to advance to Second Strange Transformation, even Third Strange Transformation, showing how deep their previous accumulation had been.
As for the jailers' cultivation method, aside from growth with the passage of time, it somewhat resembled the totem deities of tribes?
The jailers mastered the Demon-Strange Method originating from the same source as demon-kind. In daily life demon-kind would emit vital energy beneficial to the jailers' cultivation.
This system mainly relied on the Demon-Strange Method causing the jailers and the tribe to possess a certain primary-secondary relationship.
Naturally the jailers wished to increase the number of the tribe, only they could not use forceful methods.
The reason Ghost Wolf and the other jailers were willing to manage farmland was because Ren Qing promised that after the grain matured, they could obtain a portion.
Only with grain could the tribe multiply and prosper; the increased population naturally influenced the efficiency of the jailers' cultivation.
Ren Qing also discovered that the Stomach-in-the-World could create jailers by devouring strange objects.
However the jailers would likewise have the desire to devour flesh and blood, so for now he had no intention of collecting too many strange objects.
Ren Qing only transformed three Half-Corpse realm strange objects into jailers, respectively:
[Jianmu Skill]
[Created by Elder Withered Glory, cultivation requires swallowing water, tree seeds, and soil into the abdomen, and sealing the five senses as well as the po-gate, until the tree seed sprouts into a seedling, only then can it be completed.]
Jianmu Skill was precisely Muyi's primary cultivation technique. The mutation routes corresponded to vine, tree, and grass, while Ren Qing chose the tree type.
The tree type stimulated plant growth, most suitable for the Stomach-in-the-World.
[Ice-Cold Art]
[Inscribed upon Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence. Cultivation requires stabbing an ice spike into the chest and abdomen, piercing through the heart without dying, only then can it be completed.]
[Rock-Soil Method]
[Created by Daoist Thick Earth through enlightenment from mountain rocks. One must pour one's own blood onto a mountain rock, crush flesh and bones and smear them across the surface, embed the internal organs within it, and only when the rock becomes a living being can it be completed.]
For both the Rock-Soil Method and Ice-Cold Art, Ren Qing chose the most extreme mutation routes.
The characteristic of the Ice-Blood type was that after the cultivator mastered it, the temperature of their blood approached extreme ice, while the mutation route of the Rock-Soil Method resembled Spirit of the Hill.
However the Stubborn Stone type was even more extreme; the other mutation routes all involved rock becoming spirit, but Stubborn Stone from beginning to end still maintained the state of a dead object.
Just from the appearance of the Stubborn Stone type, it was a massive rock. How it would advance to the Ghost Envoy realm was not even recorded by Restraint Officers' Hall.
The Stubborn Stone type and Ice-Blood type turned into islands within the Wine Sea, one ice island and one stone island, enriching the ecology of the Stomach-in-the-World.
Although they were only Half-Corpse realm, their realms would gradually rise imperceptibly over time, and Ren Qing therefore saved the lifespan cost of breaking through.
The jailers formed from crystal mountains, volcanoes, ice islands, stone islands, and great deserts generally did not show intelligence, even described as wooden-headed.
Ren Qing let out a deep breath, seeming to think of some key point, which just happened to solve the problem of Cishi people cultivating spells.
Of course the main credit should go to Tang Sheng.
Tang Sheng attempted cultivation of more than a hundred techniques, but those barely entering the gate were only techniques such as Shadowless Ghost and Corpse Dog Technique that did not involve the body and soul.
But such strange objects were located outside the body. If one did not cultivate other techniques concurrently, the main body would inevitably be weak, causing the strange object to backlash.
Seeing this, Ren Qing also abandoned the idea of letting Cishi people directly cultivate the Restraint Officer Method.
Therefore most of his time was spent considering how to construct mutated organs, and whether Body Martial Arts could help Cishi people enter the Restraint Officer Method.
He guessed the reason Chen Changsheng did not bring Body Martial Arts to the outside world was very likely because Body Martial Arts required disease seeds to cultivate.
And disease seeds contained too many uncontrollable factors; to control them with delicate precision, the Six Diseases Method and the Taishui Scripture were both indispensable.
Only Ren Qing could satisfy these conditions.
He looked around. Seeing that the situation inside the stomach and intestines was relatively stable, he felt relieved and seized the time to advance the Six Diseases Method to Yin Difference realm.
"Do you choose branch Dead Disease Pestilence Immortal, this will consume two hundred years of lifespan?"
The lifespan that had finally exceeded a thousand years was again left with just over nine hundred years.
The disease tree in Ren Qing's mind took root and sprouted. The disease seeds originally stored in the trunk were forcibly separated, transforming into fruits.
Inside the fruits were contained thousands of disease seeds, all poisons capable of destroying an ecosystem.
Ren Qing closed his eyes to feel the changes inside and outside his body. An inexplicable feeling surged up and continued fermenting.
He opened his eyes, and the Double Eyes subconsciously began rotating.
The Six Diseases Method produced a connection with the Eyeless Method, allowing Ren Qing to use the Double Eyes to see the residual diseases within other people's bodies and make use of them.
Jiang Feng accidentally looked toward Ren Qing, only feeling the latter emitting a terrifying aura.
With a slight movement of Ren Qing's thought, Jiang Feng suddenly felt his throat itch, and his nasal cavity became moist, but it disappeared in an instant.
When Jiang Feng looked toward Ren Qing again, the other had already closed his eyes once more, unaware that he had just experienced the generation of a Wind-Cold disease seed.
Ren Qing's expression was calm like an ancient well, long having expected the correlation between primary and secondary techniques.
After the Eyeless Method locked onto the bacteria of wind-cold, the Taishui Scripture instantly transformed the bacteria into even more terrifying disease seeds, then the Six Diseases Method caused the disease seeds to reproduce without limit.
If Ren Qing wished, Jiang Feng's body would produce various pathological changes, deriving pneumonia disease seeds, brain-swelling disease seeds, high-fever disease seeds...
In an instant it could destroy Jiang Feng's immune system.
Dead Pestilence Immortal represented supreme control over disease seeds. Ren Qing also had confidence in refining the gigantic corpse Buddha and promoting Body Martial Arts.
He pondered briefly, then his consciousness appeared within the Great Dream Technique Tower.
Tang Sheng was startled, but quickly calmed down, saying with devout expression: "Great Merciful Maitreya Bodhisattva, this disciple is here."
"Tang Sheng, have you come to seek the true scripture?"
"Yes."
Tang Sheng hesitated for a few breaths. He did not know whether what he had contacted during these days was truly scripture, only feeling the content recorded in the books extremely sinister.
"Tang Sheng, choose a technique."
Tang Sheng walked to the counter and looked at the various technique manuals.
He did not choose Shadowless Ghost which he could barely cultivate into entry, but chose one technique called "Vajra Body".
[Vajra Body]
[Created by the Mad Old Monk. Cultivation requires grinding the skin with metal sand until flesh and blood over the entire body are exposed, only then can it be completed.]
"Then I shall bestow the true scripture upon you."
"Many thanks to Great Merciful Maitreya Bodhisattva."
Ren Qing felt deeply surprised. Whether intentional or unintentional, the Vajra Body chosen by Tang Sheng indeed suited the Cishi people, and even did not require using a Malformation Disease Seed to make the physique more compatible.
He took out a Calculus Disease Seed, as if seeing endless lifespan.
The Calculus Disease Seed merged into Tang Sheng's body, crazily increasing the metallic content of his flesh and blood, causing the latter to tremble uncontrollably.