The information flow was summoned.
[Heavenly Daozi (Fragmented)]
[Age: Two days]
[Lifespan: Seventy-five days]
[Technique: Divine Possession Technique (Possessing Heavenly Demon) ???]
[The Divine Possession Technique was created by the Supreme Heavenly Demon. Cultivation requires using the body as fuel to ignite the soul's Soul Flame, absorb Heavenly Demon remains, abandon the body to refine the soul, and only then can it be completed.]
Ren Qing couldn't help but show a complicated expression.
So it turns out there never was any Summoning Spirits Art, or even if there was, it could never summon a soul at the Yang God realm.
Actually, the three souls like the Corpse Dog were all false souls created by the Restraint Officers' Hall using the Other Shore Flower.
No wonder the old Restraint Officers all prepared soul-defending magical tools without needing to speak.
The Restraint Officers' Hall really knows how to plan. Using some method, they preserved a remnant soul of Heavenly Daozi, then forcibly reincarnated it into a monstrous infant.
This way, Heavenly Daozi would have a body capable of devouring the Other Shore Flower.
Compared to the soul aberrations of Heavenly Daozi, the false souls are indeed still sinister, but undoubtedly far safer, at least there's no hidden hand of the Supreme Heavenly Demon.
The layout of the Restraint Officers' Hall certainly wasn't built in a year or two, it's likely been ongoing for decades or even centuries.
Wait...
A chill suddenly crept up Ren Qing's spine, and a question arose in his mind.
Why could the false soul of Heavenly Daozi substitute for the soul of Ksitigarbha?
The souls like the Corpse Dog had clearly merged into Avici Hell, so no matter how many times the Restraint Officers killed them, the three souls could still revive intact.
Ren Qing didn't believe in coincidences, how could there be so many lucky chances in the world?
Since Heavenly Daozi's false soul could integrate into Avici Hell, there could only be one explanation.
Ksitigarbha's soul had likely long since become part of the Supreme Heavenly Demon!
In a certain sense, Heavenly Daozi and Ksitigarbha were two consciousnesses of the Supreme Heavenly Demon, like split personalities.
They were already one and the same...
But if the Restraint Officers' Hall was relying solely on false souls to assemble Ksitigarbha's three souls and seven spirits, the risks involved would still be too great.
After all, the source was still the Supreme Heavenly Demon.
A gleam of excitement flashed in Ren Qing's eyes.
Ksitigarbha still had over two hundred years of lifespan. The Restraint Officers' Hall clearly hadn't acted in haste.
There must be a way to eliminate the flaws of the false souls, but Ren Qing's current status in the Restraint Officers' Hall was not high enough to access it.
What the Restraint Officers' Hall had laid out was only the tip of the iceberg, far from the full picture.
But even just seeing this surface layer, he had to admit that they might really succeed in reviving Ksitigarbha.
If the Restraint Officers' Hall could produce another Yang God realm cultivator, then Yin Runner-level cultivators like the Great Dream True Person would have a much greater chance of breaking through.
The Forbidden Zones across Xiangxiang could also be handled then.
Of course, even the Yang God realm still wasn't much in this world. The Beast Pen and Jing Prefecture only represented small areas on the map.
Ren Qing slapped his cheeks, forcing himself to calm down.
He knew that opportunity came with risk, and often the risk far outweighed the opportunity. If things went wrong, Xiangxiang might be wiped out entirely.
Wuwei Monastery was the precedent.
Ren Qing couldn't possibly go to Li Tiangang and say he had a cheat, give him ten years to reach the Yin Runner stage, and the odds of success would increase a lot.
He could only ensure his own survival.
Ren Qing returned to his senses and looked at the remnant soul of Heavenly Daozi, bound by the Dragon-Snake Spine.
Speaking of which, when Heavenly Daozi cooperated with the Restraint Officers' Hall back then, he probably never expected things to turn out like this...
Ren Qing even had a suspicion, the way the Restraint Officers' Hall obtained the remnant soul was likely not honorable.
Fifty years after Wuwei Monastery, Heavenly Daozi's madness was already deeply rooted.
Expecting him to willingly divide his soul and gift it to the Restraint Officers' Hall was impossible.
So the Restraint Officers' Hall must have forcibly taken it.
From what Ren Qing knew, the Restraint Officers' Hall was cautious and meticulous from top to bottom, they would never wait until Heavenly Daozi had become the Supreme Heavenly Demon to act.
Most likely, they backstabbed him while he still retained a shred of sanity.
Ren Qing had no words for this.
From a bystander's perspective, the downfall of Wuwei Monastery was inevitable.
When facing the Heavenly Dao Worm, Heavenly Daozi's attempts to use either the Beast Pen Technique or the Restraint Officer methods had both ended in failure.
But the Restraint Officers' Hall had already taken everything it wanted from Wuwei Monastery.
They broke down the Sect Gate Techniques into martial arts to strengthen commoners' bodies, used Heavenly Daozi's remnant soul to set up summoning plans, and patched their spell flaws with refining techniques.
Ren Qing couldn't help but laugh.
In the end, weren't the Restraint Officers just maggots thriving on a corpse?
Ren Qing pinched the blood heart hidden in his chest to notify the Restraint Officer stationed in the city.
Within a few breaths, a figure approached, it was Li Tiangang, the one in charge of this matter. Upon seeing Ren Qing, he showed a brief hint of surprise.
Li Tiangang then pulled out a sheet of paper and directly sealed the monstrous infant into it.
Ren Qing wanted to ask something but didn't know how to start.
Li Tiangang said flatly, "Since you've taken the mission, help keep an eye on things. Over the next few days, about thirty monstrous infants will emerge, mostly birthed by goats."
"How can there be that many?"
Ren Qing raised an eyebrow.
Good grief, they must be afraid of Heavenly Daozi's soul causing trouble, so they forcibly divided the remnant soul into more than thirty parts.
Li Tiangang nodded and said, "It's related to the Summoning Spirits Art."
"Then Senior Li Tiangang, why not gather all the goats in the city together?"
"The conditions for the birth of monstrous infants aren't strict, but multiple ones can't appear in the same area."
Li Tiangang thought for a moment and continued, "Monstrous infants involve an extremely dangerous spell, that's why the Restraint Officers' Hall is keeping it secret."
Ren Qing tentatively asked, "Senior Li Tiangang, they say there was once a summoning..."
Li Tiangang gave him a deep look and said in an unreadable tone, "A lot of people went insane at the time. Some are still locked in the Stomach within the Stomach, you should've seen them."
Ren Qing's mouth twitched, Li Tiangang was clearly warning him.
Perhaps he sensed that Ren Qing was trying to learn about information related to the Beast Pen Technique.
While Ren Qing was lost in thought, Li Tiangang had already disappeared.
Ren Qing released the reserve officers back into the real world, then used Twin Nightmare Ghosts' dream entry.
Yan Jun and the others quickly woke up, they had no idea what had happened, their expressions dazed.
Ren Qing didn't explain much, he simply said they'd been affected by a Supernatural Remnant.
Since monstrous infants would continue to appear, the upcoming missions would likely be handed over to full Restraint Officers.
Reserve officers, exposed to the Supreme Heavenly Demon's aura, would struggle to stay rational.
He checked on the couple, their condition had somewhat improved.
The physical aberrations on their bodies had begun to recede, but the main problem was still the soul, it was unclear whether that could recover.
Ren Qing handed the couple over to the arriving constables. The two were tied up in burlap and taken away, they'd likely have to remain in the Reflection Chamber for some time.
Ren Qing returned to Corpse Burners' Hall.
He decided to take advantage of this period to explore Wuwei Monastery again.
Ren Qing always felt that, as someone at the Yang God realm, Heavenly Daozi must've had some way to resist soul aberration.
Since nothing had been found in the Hall of Non-Action or the Fire Refining Palace...
Then perhaps he could find something in the Doushuai Palace.
Also, he was very curious about Wuwei Monastery's pill-refining arts.
But first, Ren Qing planned to refine a few skull-shaped magical tools, for sale at the next Ghost Market.