Ren Qing could only clearly detect the fungus soul in the darkness when the corpse was ignited. It can be seen that even Daoshengyi's toe separation technique cannot affect the influence of Dingguang Buddha.
Turns out, Dingguang Buddha is trickier than imagined.
To be precise, Ren Qing is afraid that he doesn't even know the reality of Dingguang Buddha. What kind of weird and inexplicable monster will become after the Tathagata Buddha is taken away by the supreme demon?
There is not much information known at present. It only clears the darkness that spreads for tens of thousands of miles. It is the Buddhist world formed by Dingguang Buddha. It already has rules similar to the restricted area, which makes the monks fall easily.
Fortunately, the danger in the Buddhist world is not high. At least the ghost realm monks inside are still alive.
The Jailer Hall's exploration of the Buddhist world soon reached a bottleneck, especially when they discovered that the darkness would continue to expand.
Seven days after the initial expansion went without any danger, the Buddhist world experienced another strange movement.
The darkness was like a tsunami, spreading outwards with Jingzhou as the center, and finally stopped when it increased to an area of thousands of miles. It can be seen that Dingguang Buddha, as an earthly immortal, is so terrifying even with his remaining power.
Dingguang Buddha can be said to have perfectly inherited the characteristics of Buddhism and the Supreme Demon, showing the terrifying method of corroding all things.
Ren Qing evacuated the Dragon Blood Sea one after another. The transfer of the immortal position was simple, except that the matchmaker fairy on the seabed was difficult to move.
He had to cultivate the giant dragon beast first and prepare to slowly move away from the matchmaker.
Fortunately, the expansion trend of the Buddhist world has slowed down slightly. If it wants to spread to the Dragon Blood Sea, it will take at least ten years, and there is still plenty of time.
Ren Qing couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. The frequency of darkness expansion had slowed down, which at least showed that Dingguang Buddha's Buddhist realm had an upper limit.
If expansion never ends, it may take a hundred years to cover this world.
After trying various conventional methods, the monks of the Jailer Hall found that they could not shake the deep and boundless darkness, so they gradually withdrew from the periphery.
As long as Li Yaoyang's poison enters the Buddhist world, it will be like a mud cow entering the sea. It cannot be recalled with magic, and it cannot sense life and death.
And Xiao San'er's magic weapon puppet is completely a gift to Guang Buddha.
The demons used the excavation to go to Jingzhou, which was also a bit unrealistic. They were stopped soon after and they all rushed back to the world in the stomach.
No matter how deep the cave is, as long as it is within the scope of the Buddha Realm, it will fall into endless darkness.
What worries the Jailer Hall the most is that even if Yang Shen realm monks are in darkness, they will gradually lose their sense of time and direction.
The Jailor Hall conducted an experiment and tied monks with ropes to enter the Buddhist world.
As a result, they were obviously only three or four meters away from the outside world, but like headless flies, they could not find the path after hours of groping.
Corpses in the Buddhist world will turn into shriveled corpses.
After lighting the corpse, the monks seemed to see indescribable terror, and most of them fell into madness, calling for the Dingguang Buddha.
Ren Qing completely gave up the possibility of escaping from the Buddhist world on his own, and simply divided the ghost into multiple strands and went into the darkness to look for survivors.
By the way, the ghost shadow can also figure out the location of the two true immortals.
Ren Qing could sense through the energy of heaven and earth that Taiyin Xingjun was seriously injured, but Fude Dixian had not damaged his roots.
With the vitality of the Earthly Immortal, he should not die in the Buddha Realm.
However, the condition of the two true immortals has not improved at all. They seem to be lingering on, and they are probably buried in the center of Jingzhou.
When Ren Qing had a headache, the Jailer Hall transferred its main energy to the insect nest. While the four mistresses were trapped in Jingzhou, a large number of monks began to station near the insect nest.
The insect nest area looks like a desolate Gobi desert with no useful resources in sight, and the temperature difference between day and night is as high as 40 to 50 degrees.
From the outside, no force would be interested in the insect nest.
After several trials, the Jailer Hall found a mediocre response from the insect nest, so they marched into the Gobi with great fanfare and used magic to break open the soil.
Master Taihan looked at the busy insect cultivators. Many of them had already gone underground and followed his instructions to the gathering place of the insect nest.
Song Zongwu was half a step behind, looking at Master Taihan with a vague look.
It was said that they were cooperating with Insect Pulse, but Song Zongwu was definitely on guard against Master Taihan, and even asked Li Tiangang to take Master Yuhua to surround the insect nest from the opposite direction.
Only by spreading out the insect veins can we be foolproof.
Even if Song Zongwu understands that the chance of Insect Pulse's rebellion is very small, he must consider the jailer's hall to prevent any accidents from happening.
Master Taihan didn't care. After officially joining the Jailer Hall, he had already expected that one day he would be the leader, but he didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.
"A hundred years ago, the ecology of the insect nest was still relatively lush. However, because the Tiandao insects completely hollowed out the ground, the soil's nutrients were severely lost, and it eventually turned into a desert."
Master Taihan seemed to be narrating an ordinary thing, but in fact Song Zong could not detect the confusion in his words.
If you compare the Insect Pulse and the Tiandao Insect, they are actually two completely different races, and their habits in all aspects are completely different.
Master Taihan looked at the insect monks who were walking in and out of the ground. Due to their ability to practice the Jailer Technique, their body shapes were not limited to maggots, but even had animal or human forms.
They don't care about the insect hive, but are filled with greed for resources.
Song Zongwu asked curiously: "Taihan, the insect nest resources are so scarce, you must have the habit of migrating, right?"
"It's true that we migrate every thousand years because of lack of food."
Master Taihan hesitated for a moment, and then added: "It's almost time to migrate, but if the mistress is not here, the other insect hive monks have no decision-making power at all..."
He shook his head, his frown never loosening.
It has been more than a hundred years since Master Taihan last returned to the insect nest, and Master Yuhua is not much better.
The two of them didn't know much about the current structure of the insect nest, and were afraid of misjudgment.
Song Zongwu said calmly: "According to the information collected by the monks, the insect nest seems to have fallen into civil strife after the four mistresses left, and the tunnel leading to the deep layers has been sealed."
"The specific situation depends on us going underground in person."
As he spoke, the Insect Vein cultivator flew into the cave with his magical weapon. The movement was not obvious, and the entrance of the cave was only about ten meters away.
They found that the deep soil showed signs of desertification.
It can be seen that the insect nest's destruction of the environment only takes a hundred years to completely drain the thousands of miles of insect nest area.
In contrast, Wuwei Taoism pursues the transformation of ecology, and spiritual veins can allow vegetation and animals to thrive more.
Song Zongwu was responsible for exploring the interior of the insect nest, while Li Tiangang was on alert, guarding the mountain peaks with a wide view.
Even Ren Qing didn't know why the Insect Nest and the Ford Immortal went in opposite directions. There must have been some kind of drastic change in the two forces.
Ren Qing accidentally paid attention to the insect nest, and the jailer hall had found the gathering place of human insects.
The situation in the gathering place is not optimistic. The tunnels leading to the depths are blocked, causing the humans and insects to lack food supply and start killing each other.
Even though it is just a human insect nest, it still looks grand and exaggerated, which shows the creativity of the insect hive monks in digging underground towns.
The dense tunnels are intertwined, and the structure of the underground cave seems simple, but in fact, every part has a corresponding use.
The house is made of stone bricks, and fungi and moss are planted in the courtyard, which can barely provide a certain level of food for insects and beasts.
Before the tunnel leading to the depths was not sealed, the Insect Hive monks would provide them with a sticky dry food every day, which was said to be a gift from the Immortal Ford to the Insect Hive.
But in fact, after Song Zongwu checked the remaining dry food, he found that the main ingredients were the dead skin shed by the mistress, mixed with the ashes of dead and burned humans and insects.
Even Song Zongwu couldn't help but be surprised at how cruel the insect nest was to human insects.
The Insect Hive will not guide human insects to practice, nor will they be allowed to have writing, and even food is provided free of charge.
Free food means that there is no supply relationship between the insect nest and the human insects, and the human insects have become an insignificant subsidiary race.
Although the Jailer's Hall is somewhat repulsive to foreign races, it will at least give them a path to climb up. The three-realm system in the stomach world is also relatively fair.
The hive hierarchy is very distinct. The higher the status, the lower the position. The bottom is the mistress's cave, which even Master Taihan has never touched.
Song Zongwu was very cautious at first, but soon realized something was wrong.
All the tunnels leading to the depths are sealed to prevent humans and insects from entering by mistake, and the rock can only be forcibly dug by the jailer's hall.
The rock layer of the insect nest is also very special. It is said that it was smeared with the saliva secreted by the mistress. It is not only as hard as steel, but also has indescribable defense against magic attacks.
Song Zong had a premonition that there might be no one in the depths of the insect nest, and the four mistresses went to Jingzhou with no intention of coming back.
After all, the resources of the insect nest are already close to being exhausted, so it is normal to look for other places.
Master Taihan asked the human bugs and found that most of the human bugs had a low status. The Tiandao bugs obviously looked down upon them, so it was naturally impossible for them to know useful information.
The human insects followed the previous orders given by the insect hive monks, entrenched themselves in the caves and did not dare to go to the surface rashly.
Song Zongwu had no choice but to continue his old profession, let the insect veins take over the control of the human insects, and then led a group of monks to dig new tunnels.
The support from the Jailer Hall soon reached the insect nest, and the number soon exceeded 5,000.
Ren Qing's ghost has discovered traces of Han Li, but the latter is not in a hurry to return to the world in his stomach and insists on looking for his comrades.
The Buddhist world is indeed relatively stable, and no monks continue to suffer casualties.
How should I put it, the Buddhist world seems to be at a delicate balance point. There is not much danger for the time being, but it seems to be pregnant with something secretly.
Ren Qing had a vague guess that the four mistresses were likely to cause trouble in the Buddhist world, especially since there were Wuming and Buddhist informants among them.
He didn't intend to continue waiting for things to ferment, so he used the demon to seize the body and descend on the insect nest.
Ren Qing hadn't gone deep enough when he noticed an unpleasant stench coming from the chaotic town built by human bugs.
Human insects and insect beasts live together, and their status is at the bottom of the insect nest.
The meaning of their existence should be to raise insect beasts and use them as consumables when the mistress needs cannon fodder.
After the Jailer Hall took over, the humans still maintained a boring life.
Ren Qing stood at the entrance of the town. Dozens of human insects were passing by, pulling insect beasts with them. The insect veins in the jailer hall were distributing food.
The so-called insect beasts are actually giant maggots that are several meters long. The difference between them and Tiandao insects is that they have no physical characteristics of humans.
The insect beast's intelligence is very poor, but it can produce a colloid containing sugar, which is the food of the Tiandao larvae.
When the Jailer Hall took over the town, the bug beasts were kept in captivity. Even so, the humans and bugs were still obedient to the bug beasts.
Song Zong didn't want to waste time on human insects. Anyway, he could just take them to the world in his stomach in the future. After several generations of human insects, any bad habits would disappear.
The human insect looked at the insect monks who kept coming and going with envious eyes.
In their understanding, Tiandao insect people are all descendants of immortals and are born to be immortal.
Unlike them, the elders in the tribe only live until their early twenties, and then die due to various reasons.
The Insect Vein cultivators seemed extremely disdainful of the ingratiating attitude of the humans and insects.
If Ren Qing reveals the aura of his Yanzu Vein, even if it is only mixed with obscure heavenly methods, it will still make human beings kneel down and kowtow.
The bloodline of human insects has been engraved with the hierarchy of class.
Ren Qing shook his head, then disappeared from the spot, and then came to the mine that was being excavated. Inside, there was a group of zombie monks with corpse veins waving the mine manuscripts vigorously.
The advantages of zombies are fully realized in coolies.
They don't need to rest and can work around the clock. Even if their muscles are damaged, they can take Yin Qi elixirs to recover from the injuries.
Under such circumstances, the efficiency of mining is naturally far beyond imagination.
Ren Qing's expression was a little strange. He suddenly remembered the scene when he first joined the Jailer Hall, when he and Huang Ziwan and others were outside the disaster relief restricted area, using their strength to hollow out the mountain.
He immediately found Song Zongwu, who actually chose to dig together.
Song Zongwu's six arms waved his fists so fast that they were invisible to the naked eye, and cracks suddenly appeared on the rock wall in front of him.
Ren Qing discovered that Song Zongwu's aura was condensed and undissipated. He had reached the ultimate level of Yang Immortal and was only half a step away from being promoted to Wusheng Immortal.
He was determined to help Song Zongwu, so he canceled the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, and walked into the mine openly without concealing his presence.
When Song Zongwu sensed Ren Qing's arrival, he couldn't help but smile.
"Ren Qing, let me see the difference in the strange world below?"
Ren Qing took out the long-lost Odachi. The blade made of ordinary materials could not withstand the destruction of the insect nest rock.
"Senior Song, you are almost over 500 years old, but your skills are still the same as before."
Ren Qing slashed with all his strength. Even though he had not used cold weapons for a long time, he knew that the world in his stomach could digest other people's memories, and his sword skills had made great progress without realizing it.
boom! ! !
The rock wall exploded, revealing knife marks half a meter deep.
The zombie monks around him were startled by the silence. They couldn't help but stop what they were doing and looked towards the end of the mine.
Song Zongwu laughed loudly and used his fist as a pendulum not to be outdone.
Under the repeated bombardment of the six arms, the excavation progress suddenly increased several times, and the gravel splashed and crackled.
Ren Qing deliberately guided Song Zongwu to exert his strength without reservation, and he could see the latter's laughter becoming more and more cheerful.
However, Song Zongwu was only at the Yangshen realm after all, and his body and soul were not integrated with strange objects, so his strength was not endless.
Ren Qing stimulated Song Zongwu, and even used "hyperthyroidism disease" to sneak into Song Zongwu's heart and brain silently.
Hyperthyroidism can make Song Zongwu become excited, his fists gradually lose control, and he only pursues raw power and speed.
The zombie monk felt his scalp numb.
A pebble from the rock shattered directly into the belly of the nearest zombie monk, leaving a deep gap with visible bones.
Looking at the massive stones falling like raindrops, how could they dare to get any closer.
If it were a monk from other branches, there might have been casualties, so the zombie monks would not be afraid of physical damage.
Ren Qing put away the Odachi and looked at the blade that was still as smooth as new with satisfaction.
He mainly assisted Song Zongwu, and even if he wanted to take action, he would leave it to Guiying, which always made Song Zongwu's nerves tense.
Song Zongwu felt tired in body and soul only after ten days and nights in the mine.
His fists began to slow down, his six burning eyes showed a hint of fatigue, and the tip of his tongue was bitten by his teeth at some point.
Ren Qing looked at Song Zongwu, and saw that the other party's aura had reached Zhongyang Immortal Cauldron Peak, only half a step away from Wusheng Immortal.
"Senior Song, I remember that your martial arts is to seek death without rebirth, right?"
A flash of light flashed in Song Zongwu's eyes, and the hyperthyroidism fungus soul entered the Niwan Palace, and the three souls and seven souls suddenly boiled.
A faint smoke came out of the pores all over his body, and the temperature in the mine rose rapidly.
"Everyone get out."
After Ren Qing spoke, the zombie monks didn't dare to stay. They all ran away with their heads in their hands. Some of the monks' skin and flesh were already covered with blisters.
Ren Qing frowned and did not stare at Song Zongwu. The fire of karma still remained.
The physical Tathagata absorbed the karmic fire of Song Zong's disembodied soul, but the temperature did not drop, indicating that the karmic fire had penetrated deep into the bone marrow.
For Song Zongwu, he didn't know whether it was good or bad. The fire of karma was entangled with the foundation, replacing the original Buddhist status.
"break!!!"
Song Zongwu shouted loudly, and six arms shot out at the same time.
An overwhelming sound sounded from the rock wall, and it was stopped after going down ten meters. Shura Fa was successfully promoted to the Immortal Immortal.
Song Zongwu closed his eyes and crossed his legs, and the strange things of Shura Technique and Listening Technique merged with each other, but both of them contained a little karma.
Ren Qing did not disturb Song Zongwu and directly took him into the cave in the world in his stomach.
The next climb to the Immortal Ladder is actually simpler than that of the Immortal Immortal. It only requires hard work, but there are risks in facing the way of heaven.
It won't be long before the Jailer's Hall will have another monk who can ascend the Immortal Ladder.
Dameng Zhenren is not concerned about worldly affairs now, and his mind is focused on ascending to the Heavenly Deception Realm. With his talent, it should not be a big problem.
Ren Qing opened his mouth to swallow up the remaining karma fire, and then stepped to the end.
An exaggerated dragon head emerged from his shadow, and corrosive Youyuan poured out, acting on the rock blessed by the Insect Hive Mother.
The rocks became like tofu, and wherever the ghost passed by, the rock walls turned into pus.
Only the snapping sound was heard, and the tunnel to the depths was finally clear. Ren Qing did not feel the presence of the monks inside.
On the contrary, there were only dozens of weak breaths at the bottom of the insect nest.
"What the hell is the Hive doing?"
Ren Qing did not let the zombie monk go to the tunnel, walked into the hinterland of the insect nest alone, and immediately noticed the extremely rich true energy.
Under normal circumstances, only the Immortal of Fortune can generate true energy, because the core of the Immortal Position is to "incarnate spiritual veins and breed spiritual intelligence."
He didn't expect that the interior of the insect nest would be filled with true energy that satisfied the Heavenly Creation Realm.
However, as Song Zongwu expected, the insect nest had been emptied of people, and the four matrons apparently headed to Jingzhou with millions of people.
"put all one's eggs in one basket?"
Ren Qing swept through the buildings hanging in the underground caves. The Tiandao Insects were not in a hurry when they evacuated the insect nest, and they seemed to be unhurried.
The residence of the Tiandao Insects is very neat and tidy. The divisions of the buildings are clear at a glance. There are flags embroidered with the Immortals of Fortune everywhere.
If you don't look at the appearance of the Tiandao Insects, the Insect Hive is actually a traditional Taoist force.
Their worship of the Immortal of Fortune has always been carried out, and even the insect nest method also retains traces of the heavenly method, especially in the initial Qi training period.
Ren Qing spread the disease and it took him most of the day to spread it to every corner.
After he determined that there was no danger, he asked Master Taihan to lead the monks from the Prison Hall to carry out a thorough sweep of the insect nest.
When Master Taihan came to the familiar underground cave and stared at the empty town, his expression became extremely complicated.
However, the Insect Vein cultivator cannot empathize with Master Taihan.
They rushed towards various temples and Taoist temples in unison, looking for the lost resources, even the buildings themselves.
Master Taihan didn't see Ren Qing anywhere. Knowing that the latter was probably going to his mistress's cave, he chose to remain silent.
The tunnel leading to the Mistress's Cave was not deliberately arranged.
Ren Qing then came to a magnificent palace. The true energy in the air was already in substance, and its source was in the cave.
The palace plaque is engraved with "Scale Armor Cave", referring to the Scale Armor Mistress.
The Tiandao Insects under the Scale Armor Mother's Seat are all covered in thick scale armor. Their position is similar to the cocoon veins of the Prisoner's Hall. They are responsible for bearing the enemy's attacks in battle.
Ren Qing discovered that there were many resources in the Scale Armor Cave that the Mistress looked down on, and tens of thousands of Tiandao insect eggs were stored, but they were no longer viable.
He collected the eggs into the world in his stomach and gave them to Li Yaoyang to forcefully hatch them.
When Ren Qing was ingesting the eggs, he noticed something unusual. Almost 90% of the eggs had physical defects.
The Tiandao Insects should all be carefully selected by the Mistress.
He thought that the scale-armored mistress deliberately destroyed the vitality of the insect eggs before leaving, but he did not expect that the Tiandao insect eggs were already dead when they were born.
Ren Qing walked along the tunnel to the remaining three palaces, namely the "Blood Bat Cave", "Earth Snake Cave" and "Black Crow Cave". Among them, the Black Crow Mistress is the one in the Heavenly Creation Realm controlled by the Corpse Immortal.
He noticed more shocking dead eggs of Tiandao worms in the cave.
"This is……"
Ren Qing collected approximately 700,000 to 800,000 dead eggs of Tiandao Insects. The number was so exaggerated that it could pile up into a mountain, which could increase the true energy content of Tiandao Palace to a level comparable to that of the "Immortal Realm".
But there were a few dead eggs of Tiandao worms that made him extremely concerned.
The insect eggs were amber-shaped, and inside was the corpse of a half-human, half-worm baby. The more Ren Qing looked at the baby's features, the more familiar he felt.
"Tiandaozi?"
Ren Qing let out a long breath and suddenly realized that hundreds of thousands of insect eggs came from Tiandaozi who had been dead for hundreds of years.
(End of chapter)
