Xiao San'er watched the Xiangxiang civilians transporting supplies and could not help saying, "Brother Wu, I'll give you a magical artifact that can increase strength…"
Xiao Wu did not reply. He directly lifted a heavy object weighing more than a hundred jin with one hand, leaving Xiao San'er staring with his mouth wide open, not knowing what to say.
In fact, body martial arts had already become widespread within the Longevity Forbidden Zone. It was only limited by food supplies, keeping the number of practitioners at around fifty thousand.
Now that the ghost market continuously provided food, achieving universal martial training would not be difficult.
Although Ren Qing could not directly support the Longevity Forbidden Zone through the ghost market, the replenishment of supplies alone had already allowed the Restraint Officers' Hall to catch its breath.
Of course, the most important point was that the reappearance of the ghost market carried extraordinary meaning for them.
The Restraint Officers' Hall all knew what a forbidden zone represented. Back then, sealing the Disaster Dispelling Forbidden Zone had buried many cultivators, not to mention the Longevity Forbidden Zone.
They had originally believed that once trapped inside a Yang Spirit realm forbidden zone, there would never again be a day of escape.
But now it seemed that since the Dream Market had reopened, it meant that the three Yang Spirit realm cultivators outside had already found a solution.
Ren Qing's split soul also participated in defending the city. Even though most of the body martial arts he possessed were only at the Ghost Envoy realm, he still handled things with ease.
His main soul consciousness attached itself to the ghost shadow's body and circled the city wall several times.
He noticed that after a Longevity Seed was killed, if it was within the range of the taboo realm, there would be a half-breath interval before the forbidden zone devoured the strange object formed after the Longevity Seed's death.
The Restraint Officers' Hall could attempt to collect the strange objects and use them to expand the Great Dream Strange Dao.
After Ren Qing's stomach world advanced to the Yang Spirit realm, its ability to extract memories had improved further. In theory it could use strange objects to reverse deduce the corresponding techniques they practiced while alive.
He told Muyi about the idea, and she immediately took action.
Muyi had actually noticed this earlier, but the Restraint Officers' Hall had been exhausted from defense and also lacked means to seal strange objects.
Now their situation was different. Even if the outside support was only food, it still carried extraordinary significance for them.
Hundreds of thousands of people practicing body martial arts together represented a population where everyone was a soldier.
Muyi controlled vines to seize the strange objects, wrapped them up, and tossed them into the ghost market.
Han Li and the others had long been prepared. They used various magical artifacts to seal the strange objects, then took them to the Great Dream Strange Dao to exchange for blood crystals.
Seeing this, Ren Qing's main soul consciousness simply returned to his main body.
He took out a strange object at the Martial Practitioner realm and threw it into the stomach world. Countless black ropes emerged from the soil and directly dragged it deep underground.
Immovable Method
Created by Daoist Immovable. One must keep the body motionless for thirty days until the blood congeals and the heart stops before it can be cultivated successfully.
The strange object of the Immovable Method struggled frantically, but in front of a Yang Spirit realm existence it was obviously insufficient. Fragmented text poured into Ren Qing's mind.
After examining it, Ren Qing felt puzzled. The contents of the Immovable Method jumped from one sentence to another with no apparent connection.
He continued extracting it, but let Avici Hell process it on its own.
In fact, Restraint Officer methods could also increase the foundation of the Restraint Officers' Hall. In terms of importance, they were even more meaningful than harvesting resources in Jingzhou.
Perhaps he might even discover a technique suitable for himself among them.
Before Ren Qing could be pleased for long, the Longevity Seeds suddenly stopped attacking the city and retreated in the opposite direction like a receding tide.
Ren Qing suspected that the target of the Longevity Seeds was the Longevity Tree in the center of the town, which most likely represented the remaining consciousness of Chen Changsheng.
But this was also good. It would give the Restraint Officers' Hall sufficient time to develop.
Currently the production of grain and meat in the stomach world was in a stage of rapid growth, mainly due to the effect of Reincarnation Remaining Souls and the foundation Ren Qing had established in previous years.
The ghost market became extremely crowded, with cultivators setting up stalls everywhere along the streets.
Even mortals could go to the ghost market to trade as long as they had mastered body martial arts, thereby stimulating the enthusiasm for universal martial training.
Ren Qing glanced at his own information. Unfortunately the base of more than two thousand years of lifespan was too large, resulting in lifespan extension efficiency that still was not particularly fast.
But once body martial arts became widespread, even the scraps of lifespan from hundreds of thousands of people would be enough to feed an elephant.
With the Longevity Forbidden Zone flourishing, Ren Qing naturally no longer needed to worry about it and could focus his energy on improving his own strength.
No matter what Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva intended to do, since it involved Dead Man's Sutra, Ren Qing would never abandon the current clues.
Heaven Above Heaven would continue for some time. He had to take advantage of this opportunity to prepare.
After thinking for a long time, Ren Qing decided to temporarily delay advancing the stomach world to Multitude Yang Immortal. The more than two thousand years of lifespan had to be used cautiously.
If Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva continued meditating for another dozen years, given the time flow of the Longevity Forbidden Zone, he might actually gather the five thousand years of lifespan needed for No-Birth Immortal through universal body martial arts.
Compared to Multitude Yang Immortal of the stomach world, the improvement from ghost shadow reaching No-Birth Immortal was definitely greater.
After all, No-Birth Immortal involved the fusion of strange objects. Whether the techniques themselves or the divine abilities would undergo significant changes.
But before that, he would first advance Mirror Immortal to the Yin Difference realm.
Mirror Immortal could add life-preserving methods and could also indirectly strengthen related techniques. It might prove extremely useful at a critical moment.
As for the Six Diseases Method and Dream Demon Technique advancing to the Ghost Envoy realm, they might increase the lifespan extension efficiency of Three Inches of the Human World.
Ren Qing planned to wait until universal martial training had spread before considering it. For safety he would keep the lifespan for now in case of emergencies.
Whether to choose the branch Strange Mirror Walker, which will consume two hundred years of lifespan
Ren Qing immediately confirmed, and two hundred years of lifespan were stripped from his body.
Yet he still had more than two thousand years remaining. If necessary, he could even directly advance the Disaster Dispelling Method to the Yang Spirit realm.
However without five main and secondary techniques, it would still fall somewhat short of the perfect foundation Ren Qing envisioned.
The breakthrough process of Mirror Immortal appeared calm and uneventful, as if no one even knew where the creator of the technique was located.
But after Mirror Immortal reached the Yin Difference realm, the ability it obtained left Ren Qing feeling puzzled.
First, to use Strange Mirror Walker, a mirror the size of one's body was required. Once the ability was activated, Ren Qing's body and soul would merge into the mirror.
Then a perfect substitute would be born from it, while the mirror shattered into fragments.
The substitute possessed all of Ren Qing's memories. Even the techniques it mastered were identical, and the strange objects were temporarily separated and granted to the substitute.
The substitute did not know of its own existence, because it perfectly inherited everything from the main body.
Only when the substitute died and the technique effect ended could the strange objects return to the main body, allowing the main body to leave the sealed mirror world.
The most terrifying aspect of Strange Mirror Walker was not merely the substitute.
It was that the substitute could continue using Strange Mirror Walker, sealing itself inside a mirror and creating a "substitute" of the substitute.
This ability resembled Russian nesting dolls. Once used, it might create endless nesting dolls, ultimately trapping the user forever without escape.
Ren Qing showed a cautious expression. His techniques were all extremely bizarre, but it had to be said that his survivability was maximized.
Like a centipede that does not stiffen even after death.
Even if all Heavenly Aberration realm cultivators who practiced Restraint Officer methods died, he did not believe he himself would die.
Ren Qing planned to prepare around the Disaster Dispelling Method, Storyteller, and Mirror Immortal.
He vaguely had an idea. If it could truly be realized, going to Dead Man's Forbidden Zone would become extremely easy.
Of course, the premise was that Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva's objective was the same as his.