Black Tiger originally should have changed from prime age to old age when day and night alternated, but because his internal organs had turned into living things, his condition became extremely unstable.
His body seemed stuck in the process of aging, causing the three consciousnesses of childhood, prime age, and old age to begin merging with each other.
Black Tiger's entire body could not help convulsing, yet the evil thoughts in his heart not only did not weaken, but instead intensified more and more, as if he had suffered deviation and entered demonic obsession.
The prime-age consciousness clearly had no intelligence, yet gradually devoured the other two consciousnesses.
Ren Qing secretly guessed that the condition to achieve seated transformation into a Buddha corpse required the three consciousnesses to merge, turning into the state of a Buddha soul.
However Black Tiger, under the interference of the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon, had his three consciousnesses accidentally intersect, thereby producing the tendency toward seated transformation.
Ren Qing did not stop this process, merely using the dream seed to observe Black Tiger's changes while indirectly controlling the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon.
As a crudely made artifact soul, the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon truly had no functions whatsoever, but after Ren Qing's Dragon Roar Within the Casket enlightenment, some mysterious effects had still emerged.
They were mainly reflected in the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon's ability to seize the memories of others.
The Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon left the position of the heart and voluntarily crawled along the blood vessels into the head, using countless tentacles on its body surface to stab into the brain.
Black Tiger's limbs began wildly flailing, accompanied by foaming at the mouth, loss of bladder and bowel control, and even partial paralysis.
Clearly the methods of the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon were extremely crude, completely using a physical method to extract Black Tiger's memories from the brain.
Ren Qing watched with his scalp going numb and touched the back of his own head with empathetic discomfort.
After a long time the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon detached from the brain, then crawled out of Black Tiger's mouth and ran off into the shadows, disappearing.
Black Tiger still lay flat on the ground, and soon monks discovered that he had fainted.
More than ten monks surrounded Black Tiger. Among them an older monk could not help squatting beside him to check what was wrong.
A novice monk asked worriedly, "Senior Brother Wuhui, why do I feel that Wu'ai seems like he suddenly comprehended and is about to undergo seated transformation?"
Old monk Wuhui frowned and sternly scolded, "Do not speak nonsense. Wu'ai has only come to Golden Light Temple for a few days, how could he possibly..."
Before he finished speaking, Black Tiger suddenly opened his eyes. The Buddhist qi around his body became extremely active, indeed looking like he was about to undergo seated transformation.
Wuhui opened his mouth wide, his expression full of disbelief. After all most monks cultivated for decades without being able to step into the realm of seated transformation.
He could not help leaning closer, wanting to carefully examine Black Tiger's situation.
Black Tiger grinned, naked killing intent filling his eyes, yet the nearby Buddhist qi did not reject him in the slightest and instead surged toward him first.
He extended his sturdy arm and grabbed Wuhui's neck.
"Junior Brother Wu'ai, you..."
Wuhui desperately struggled, but Black Tiger was a ruthless man who had robbed and plundered for years and could easily handle an old monk with no strength to truss a chicken.
Kaka kaka...
Under the gaze of the other monks, Wuhui's neck emitted the sound of bones colliding, and then it was twisted into a spiral.
They were instantly stunned and for a moment did not know what to do.
The monks of Heaven Above Heaven all believed in Buddhist doctrine. Their temperaments had long been eroded and assimilated by Buddhist qi. They had never seen someone kill so decisively like Black Tiger.
The novice monks hurriedly fled away from Black Tiger, and soon even the abbot No-Thought was alarmed.
Many monks stared at the blood-covered Black Tiger. The latter had no intention of resisting, only constantly chanting the name of Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva.
No-Thought said with an ashen face, "Wicked creature, why have you committed additional slaughter?"
Black Tiger threw away the corpse and with difficulty sat cross-legged, replying indistinctly, "Without experiencing greed, anger, ignorance, and hatred, how can one find the small boat to cross the sea of suffering?"
"Wicked creature!"
No-Thought clearly knew that what Black Tiger said was crooked reasoning, but when he saw the latter close his eyes in contemplation while Buddhist qi overflowed around him, he actually truly entered seated transformation.
He did not know how to refute him, and deep confusion arose in his heart.
Could it be that even the Buddhist qi had acknowledged Black Tiger?
A novice monk softly asked, "Abbot, what should we do?"
No-Thought shook his head and said wearily, "Take Wu'ai to the place of seated transformation and prepare an earthen jar to conduct the nirvana ceremony for him."
The monks of Golden Light Temple could only comply. Like sending away a plague god, they took Black Tiger to the side of the Bottomless Pit and hurriedly stuffed him into an earthen jar.
Not long after, Black Tiger turned into a withered, thin corpse.
Next the monks should have skinned and removed the bones, but Black Tiger had only just come to Heaven Above Heaven and had not yet cultivated the Buddhist heart scripture, so he had not grown Buddha bones or Buddha skin.
They could only throw the entire corpse into the Bottomless Pit.
After completing everything, the monks of Golden Light Temple could not help letting out long breaths and returned to the temple with lingering fear.
Black Tiger's corpse was lifted by the astral wind of the Bottomless Pit and flew from north to south.
However before it had flown far, ghost shadow drilled out from the rock wall, directly swallowed the corpse, and then sent it to Ren Qing's cave dwelling.
Ren Qing curiously examined Black Tiger's corpse. Although the latter's three consciousnesses had already merged, remains without Buddha bones and Buddha skin simply could not transform into a Buddha corpse.
Seeing Black Tiger's soul gradually dissipating, he hesitated for a moment and then took out a piece of Buddha bone the size of a fingernail and stuffed it into the corpse's mouth.
When the Buddha bone acted upon the corpse, Black Tiger's soul instantly fused with the body, and the flesh statue attached to the corpse gradually began to take shape.
"If an evil Buddha became a member among the mountain of Buddhas, I wonder..."
Ren Qing chuckled awkwardly and put away the corpse, deciding to honestly extend lifespan first.
Six Illnesses Method aura burst from his entire body. Using the connection of dream technique, his consciousness attached itself to the dream seed of the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon.
Through this Ren Qing controlled the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon to search for suitable targets.
He soon noticed the abbot No-Thought in Golden Light Temple, who happened to be alone in the temple with no monks nearby.
No-Thought had not followed the nirvana ceremony and instead chose to chant scriptures before the Buddha statue.
Originally he was only one sudden comprehension away from the seated transformation realm, but after witnessing Black Tiger's seated transformation, his faith was already filled with cracks.
Black Tiger's existence was like a rat dropping thrown into soup.
If Ren Qing allowed Black Tiger to live, with that person's crooked Buddhist reasoning, over time it might cause the entire Heaven Above Heaven to fall.
It might even alarm Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva.
Ren Qing had also considered stability, so he maintained the current situation.
The Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon took advantage of No-Thought's moment of distraction and directly drilled into his mouth and nose.
No-Thought clutched his throat in terror, only feeling some unknown thing moving through his flesh, heading straight toward the Mud Pellet Palace.
"Someone come!"
"Someone come!"
Under No-Thought's shouting, more than ten monks hurried to the main hall.
When they arrived, they discovered No-Thought had already returned to calm, as if the voice earlier had not come from him.
"It's nothing, withdraw."
"Yes, Abbot."
The monks left the main hall with puzzled expressions.
Unbeknownst to them, the Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon was already lying on No-Thought's brain, and Ren Qing had earlier erased No-Thought's negative emotions through the dream seed.
Ren Qing cautiously began using the Six Illnesses Method.
In order not to be noticed by the Buddhist qi of Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva, the aura of the Six Illnesses Method released by the dream seed was extremely weak, at most at the Half-Corpse realm level.
Ren Qing's plan was very simple.
The Six Illnesses Method could cause others to contract diseases. Now after linking with dream techniques, diseases targeting the soul naturally became easier to handle.
Ren Qing planned to use the Six Illnesses Method to make the monks of Heaven Above Heaven suffer from "split personality disorder".
The monks' condition was already very similar to split personality disorder, so the difficulty of operation was not great. The key lay in adding a new consciousness.
Ren Qing planned to use Black Tiger's consciousness as a template and implant a fourth consciousness into them.
This consciousness would normally not appear. Only when monks rested or slept, when their minds emptied, would it seize control of the body.
Once the monks awakened, the three main consciousnesses would regain control.
Simply put, the fourth consciousness would steal lifespan. Whether it could succeed would depend on the effect of the Six Illnesses Method.
Ren Qing felt the chances were not small.
After all from Black Tiger it could be seen that the Buddhist qi did not care about whether consciousness was good or evil.
It was not that he had not considered directly pulling the monks into the dream market, but the monks' three existing consciousnesses were extremely devout and had become devoid of desire under the erosion of Buddhist qi.
Since the monks had no greed in their hearts, they would not deliberately conceal the existence of the dream market and might easily expose Ren Qing.
Ren Qing also could not force monks to trade in the dream market.
Because of the spell ability of Three Inches Human Realm, both parties in a transaction could not have the slightest resistance, otherwise Ren Qing could not obtain even a bit of lifespan.
Therefore while Ren Qing harvested the Restraint Officers' Hall like cutting leeks, he also used other lifespan-extension methods to compensate the lifespan cultivators lacked due to trading, otherwise the dream market would have long been unable to continue operating.
Ren Qing focused all his energy on the old monk No-Thought, constructing a spell disease according to the symptoms of split personality.
He now could not help being glad that what he had mastered was the Six Illnesses Method rather than the Taishui Scripture.
If it had been the Taishui Scripture, disease seeds would have to be nurtured through a gu-refining method. Although the power was terrifying, the uncertain factors were too many.
Ren Qing spent more than ten days before barely causing No-Thought to unknowingly suffer from split personality according to his plan.
He let out a breath of relief. Secretly casting the Restraint Officer method within the range covered by Buddhist qi always felt like dancing on the tip of a blade.
No-Thought appeared no different on the surface, but his soul had become extremely chaotic. The seed of the disease had already been planted, and adding consciousness instead became easier.
The Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon poured memories related to Black Tiger into No-Thought's brain.
No-Thought faintly sensed a stabbing pain in his head and returned to the guest room to rest.
Once his eyes closed, his expression turned ferocious, veins bulging on his forehead, completely lacking the appearance of an enlightened eminent monk.
The Broken Moon Meteor pseudo dragon left No-Thought's body. The dream seed emitted faint light, allowing Ren Qing to examine the twisted face.
He could cancel the Six Illnesses Method at any time, and fortunately the Buddhist qi still remained calm.
The fourth consciousness was generated using Black Tiger as the template. Although it still retained devotion to Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva, most of it actually came from naked instinctive desire.
Among them the most obsessive was appetite.
In this way, satisfying appetite in the dream market was extremely easy. No resources needed to be paid, almost a business with no capital.
Ren Qing was just about to pull No-Thought's evil thoughts into the dream market when he suddenly stopped.
"No, Eternal Space Prison is full of Restraint Officer cultivators. If a monk's consciousness enters the dream, the soul might leak its aura."
Ren Qing stared at the divine ability Method of Modeling Heaven and Earth and muttered to himself, "Wait, it seems possible to construct a secondary small world?"