The cracks originally left behind by Corpse Crab gradually spread, and under the dumbfounded gazes of the zombies, a giant hand stretched out from within.
Bang!!!
As the arm exerted force to climb upward, a head nearly a hundred meters large emerged from underground.
The head had three eyes, the one on the forehead being Double Pupils, while the others were blood-red, the connected technique named "Blood Hunt Technique".
[Blood Hunt Technique]
[Created by the Blood Demon, it requires dripping the heart blood of mortals into both eyes for a hundred consecutive days, until they transform into blood pupils, only then can it be cultivated successfully.]
The mutation route selected by Restraint Officers' Hall under Ren Qing's indication was "Blood Chaser", able to detect living beings within several li through the eyes.
When Blood Chaser advances into Hundred-Li Blood Butcher, the sensing range will greatly increase, and it can even distinguish heterogeneous auras.
After the Giant Corpse Buddha mastered Blood Hunt Technique, together with insect eyes and Double Pupils, even if encountering danger it could react immediately.
For the sake of self-preservation, Ren Qing had truly exhausted painstaking effort. Naturally, he hoped to obtain Dead Man's Sutra without any risk, thereby attaining longevity and the Dao.
The subsidiary secondary head was specifically used for battle, distributed with thousands of eyes, being the Hundred-Eyed One of the Eyeless Method.
Bang bang bang...
The cracks were forcibly pried open, and the upper body of the Giant Corpse Buddha was revealed accordingly, bringing terrifying pressure as if materialized.
Under the influence of Giantization Disease Type, the Giant Corpse Buddha had already reached around one thousand five hundred meters, merely its upper body comparable to Corpse Crab.
Moreover, it was still far from the limit of Giantization Disease Type.
Dense smoke and dust spewed from its mouth and nose, causing the air to crackle.
Corpse Ghost finally understood why the immortal had spoken thus. Compared to the Giant Corpse Buddha, Corpse Lizard was like a minor shaman meeting a great shaman.
Unfortunately, he was about to die...
Ren Qing looked with satisfaction at the humanoid magical artifact forged through painstaking effort. Just as he was about to communicate with Li Tiangang inside it, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
As soon as the Giant Corpse Buddha was within the depths, the Buddhist qi within its stomach and intestines began stirring restlessly, causing all organs to tremble involuntarily.
Li Tiangang directed the cultivators toward the world inside the stomach.
Fortunately, there was the river of blood within the blood vessels acting as a transportation hub. Riding Sand Ships, cultivators could reach the stomach in at most a few breaths.
One Indestructible Golden Body after another began showing signs of collapse. Terrifying Buddhist qi leaked outward, and one could see countless twisted faces mixed within.
Ren Qing hurriedly controlled the Giant Corpse Buddha's brain, causing the head to lift upward.
The Indestructible Golden Body completely shattered, and the Buddhist qi impatiently surged toward the esophagus, along with Buddha Within Buddha and the main brain inside the Mud Pellet Palace turning to ashes.
Boom!!!
A sky-piercing golden pillar of light broke through the clouds, and the Giant Corpse Buddha's head exploded apart, burns appearing inside and outside its entire body to varying degrees.
Such a scene frightened the zombies badly.
Before the aura of an Earth Immortal, even Ren Qing developed the illusion of being an ant.
Indeed as Ren Qing had expected, the target of the Buddhist qi was solely the contemporary Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva. The Giant Corpse Buddha was merely a vessel.
Of course, if the Buddhist qi wanted to take away the Giant Corpse Buddha, Ren Qing had absolutely no means of stopping it.
After losing the Giant Corpse Buddha comparable to an Earth Immortal, he could only leave Dead Man's Forbidden Zone in a miserable state and wait until Heavenly Aberration realm.
After confirming the Buddhist qi left no residue whatsoever, Ren Qing had Restraint Officers' Hall return to the intestines and stomach again.
The Giant Corpse Buddha's injuries also gradually healed, though without Buddhist qi suppressing it, recovery had to rely on the vitality within the bladder.
He considered letting the Giant Corpse Buddha attempt mastering Corpse Refinement Method, thereby increasing the toughness of skin and flesh.
If it could reach the Corpse Fiend realm, using Corpse Fiend's ability to control hair could complement Bone Armor Technique's bone armor perfectly.
Under Li Tiangang's direction, large quantities of materials increasing vitality were brought to the bladder, while cultivators used magical artifacts to store the overflowing death qi.
As Ren Qing watched Restraint Officers' Hall so busy, his gaze involuntarily landed on the zombie crowd.
All the zombies immediately shuddered.
After seeing the Giant Corpse Buddha appear, the unwillingness in Corpse Ghost's heart became even denser, causing Melting Furnace to show signs of reigniting once more.
But unfortunately, his body had already been squeezed dry. In the end, he still could not escape death and Dao dissipation.
Ren Qing slowly approached Corpse Ghost, unable to suppress a trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, then turned his head and cast Dragon Roar Within the Casket on Melting Furnace.
"If you want to live, then do not resist."
Although Dragon Roar Within the Casket could forcibly animate everything in the world, to remodel freely still required Corpse Ghost's wholehearted cooperation.
Ren Qing was still very optimistic about Corpse Ghost's potential, naturally intending to preserve as much of his former Yang God realm cultivation as possible.
Even though Corpse Ghost could not avoid realm decline when recultivating Corpse Refinement Method, it likely would not take long before he naturally restored Yang God realm.
Currently there were not many cultivators in Restraint Officers' Hall with the chance to advance into Yang God realm. Adding a free fighter was also good.
"Ah..."
A shrill scream came from Corpse Ghost's mouth. Under tightly clenching, his teeth shattered one after another, while the flesh all over his body collapsed inch by inch.
To reach White Zombie, which one had not lived hundreds or thousands of years and seen countless corpses, yet they still felt chills down their spines.
Moments later, the screams of Corpse Ghost's original body abruptly ceased, the body turning into minced flesh. Then the voice instead sounded intermittently from inside Melting Furnace.
The zombies' hair stood on end as they watched Melting Furnace grow facial features, followed by limbs, while the body gradually elongated.
In Tian Fang's eyes, only immortals could revive the dead and regenerate white bones with flesh.
Ren Qing carefully reconstructed Corpse Ghost's physical body. Fortunately, the latter belonged to one soul with two bodies, so the soul had absolutely no rejection toward the new body.
However, it was not without drawbacks.
First, Corpse Ghost had to remain restrained by Ren Qing. Even if his cultivation became heaven-reaching, so long as Ren Qing canceled Dragon Roar Within the Casket, he would turn into a puddle of rotten flesh.
Second, his potential further declined.
Aside from Food-Consuming Immortal Technique and Corpse Refinement Method, Corpse Ghost would find it difficult to master any technique, only able to attempt cultivating more in the future.
That is to say, Corpse Ghost could not accelerate Corpse Refinement Method cultivation through Year-Year Technique. If it were an ordinary zombie, they could already give up.
However, with his previous foundation, Corpse Ghost returning to Yang God realm should not be a major problem, but Heavenly Aberration realm no longer needed to be considered.
After Ren Qing noticed Corpse Ghost's state stabilizing, he stored him into the world inside the stomach.
"Tian Fang."
"Ah, this humble one is here."
When Tian Fang saw Ren Qing calling him, for a moment he had not yet reacted.
Ren Qing pointed at the Crabmen and said: "Have the zombies transport all nearby corpses over here. One dou of blood crystals per corpse, quickly."
Without Tian Fang even reminding them, the zombies immediately set out. After witnessing Dream City's prosperity, yearning for blood crystals inevitably arose in their hearts.
Ren Qing's gaze swept across a corpse raiser within the zombie crowd who might have been the culprit, with a Crabmen parasitizing his back.
The other party's physique was clearly stronger than zombies of the same realm.
Ren Qing somehow felt Crabmen could be refined into magical artifacts unique to zombies. Ordinary cultivators definitely could not withstand Crabmen parasitism, only zombies could barely control them.
Currently speaking, zombies cultivating Restraint Officer methods progressed slowly, their immediate combat power truly too poor.
But if Crabmen could be refined into special "parasitic magical artifacts", then over ten thousand zombies would become a considerable force.
The zombies naturally did not know that the blood crystals they obtained from painstakingly transporting Crabmen would not take long before being reclaimed by Ren Qing.
Soon after, mountains of piled-up Crabmen were stored into the world inside the stomach.
Ren Qing specifically found a lake beside Yellow Springs of Rebirth for raising them. He discovered death qi could maintain the yin qi within zombies from dissipating, preventing them from dying immediately after leaving the forbidden zone.
Corpse Ghost also completely finished reconstruction, his long-limbed body differing from zombies.
His cultivation barely maintained Yang God realm level, but due to the defects of the old version of Corpse Refinement Method, his flesh continuously collapsed.
Ren Qing taught the perfected Corpse Refinement Method to Corpse Ghost, then forcibly poured death qi into the latter to prevent accidents.
The remaining Melting Furnace was not wasted either, stored on an island in the world inside the stomach.
Another half an hour passed.
The zombies had already gathered over a hundred thousand Crabmen. There might still be Crabmen left outside, but Ren Qing did not plan to wait longer.
The disturbance caused by Buddhist qi was too great. Remaining in place truly was unsafe.
These Crabmen were sufficient for consumption, and substitutes could still be sought. At most costs would increase, and presumably by then the zombies would already have become wealthy.
The only pity was that zombies had no lifespan, making it impossible to harvest them repeatedly through Dream City.
Seeing the timing mature, Ren Qing waved his hand and stored the zombie crowd into the world inside the stomach, using the fissure to bring them into the Giant Corpse Buddha's intestines and stomach.
He himself could not be so convenient, only able to get up and head toward the entrances and exits of the facial features.
After the zombie crowd arrived in the intestines and stomach, they were immediately shocked by the several thousand cultivators shuttling within, after all the figures in Dream City were relatively blurry.
Where had they ever seen the demons and monsters of Restraint Officers' Hall? Under the effects of Restraint Officer methods, nearly everyone had more or less mutations.
Even among the Cishi people there were many cultivators who had mastered techniques besides Great Compassion Maitreya Vajra Sutra, causing the atmosphere to gradually become unified.
The Giant Corpse Buddha strode toward the north.
Because too many organs were involved, Restraint Officers' Hall was busy running everywhere, and the passing cultivators turned a blind eye to the zombie crowd.
Tian Fang wanted to stop a Cocoon Man to build familiarity, but Sen Sheng was urgently heading to the liver to complete a task and paid them no attention whatsoever.
The zombie crowd stood dazed within the stomach, not knowing what to do.
In the end it was Little Three who recognized Tian Fang, bringing them to the camp and handing them over to Li Tiangang, causing the zombies to successively throw themselves into the various organs.
Ren Qing directly arrived at the Giant Corpse Buddha's Mud Pellet Palace and began complete refinement.
He could finally allow the Giant Corpse Buddha to give birth to an artifact spirit. Not only could the technique's power increase by more than twenty percent, control could also become as easy as moving one's arm.
The Crabmen were handed over to Li Yaoyang to handle. Parasitic magical artifacts had to connect with flesh and blood. Compared to magical artifacts, they were actually more like alternative gu insects.
After Li Yaoyang came into contact with Crabmen, he felt himself extremely close to the ideal of unity between man and insect, the answer in his heart ready to emerge.
If he could seize it, perhaps he would touch Yang God realm even earlier than Li Tiangang.
Naturally, everything had to be credited to Ren Qing.
Heavenly Dao Insect eggs, Insect Nest Method, Crabmen were all provided by Ren Qing. To Li Yaoyang, it was simply smashing opportunities directly into his face.
The surroundings were shrouded in dimness, only the sound of a heartbeat occasionally echoing.
One robed man after another was embedded within the flesh walls, covered in blood vessels, using their own blood to maintain the heart's vitality.
"How long has it been..."
"Several decades, or a hundred years, I don't remember."
Soon after, the atmosphere sank into silence.
"The shell left behind when Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva last came to Dead Man Land, we failed to seize it, should not have... should not have... missed it."
Their words were filled with fear, even causing the flesh walls to tremble.
"Leave this damned place, what immortality, what attaining the Dao and ascending..."