As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately drew the attention of the other Restraint Officers, and the gazes they cast at Ren Qing carried more or less some surprise.
"Ha ha ha..."
Sun could not help but burst out laughing.
Then he noticed that the Great Dream True Person remained silent, and the surrounding atmosphere was extremely quiet, so he tactfully shut his mouth.
Ren Qing secretly regretted it in his heart, but in order to extend his life he could only resort to this desperate move.
Don't look at how he spent only a few years to advance to the Yin Runner Realm, with no small amount of say in the Restraint Officers' Hall, and with the Yang God Realm to be expected in the future.
But Ren Qing knew that in this world, in the Yin Runner Realm, it was difficult even to protect oneself.
According to the clues he had obtained, the Heavenly Abomination Realm was far from the end; otherwise, the Meat and Wine Taoist would not have had the inner space in his body seized.
Just the Heavenly Dao Methods alone were divided into Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Division, Ascension.
The Ascension Stage was already equivalent to the Heavenly Abomination Realm.
And the Heavenly Dao Worms of the parasitic cultivators could, on the basis of the Ascension Stage, go one step further and reach the Earthly Immortal Stage beyond the Heavenly Abomination Realm.
Yet even so, the situation of the Heavenly Dao Worms in Jingzhou remained far from optimistic, being firmly suppressed by the force to which that blood moon belonged.
Ren Qing did not have much time to develop slowly; if things went poorly, the flames of war in Jingzhou would burn to the Marshlands, or even to Xiangxiang.
Song Zongwu saw everyone looking at each other in dismay, and just as he was about to speak up to smooth things over for Ren Qing so as not to let the Great Dream True Person grow angry,
The Great Dream True Person suddenly looked at Ren Qing, and the light and shadow forming his body twisted, then he stretched out an arm and tapped Ren Qing's glabella.
A great amount of information poured into Ren Qing's mind, it was precisely the contents of the Butterfly Dream Technique.
Song Zongwu could see that the Great Dream True Person was imparting a technique, and very likely it was the rumored Butterfly Dream Technique, so his six eyes widened in shock.
Ren Qing let out a sigh of relief.
Luckily, the Restraint Officers' Hall did not put much weight on the inheritance of techniques, otherwise it would not have been his turn to touch them.
Ren Qing could not possibly walk the path of the Great Dream True Person; the latter used the Butterfly Dream Technique as his core technique, whereas Ren Qing was only using it as an auxiliary.
Ren Qing clasped his fists respectfully and said: "Many thanks, Great Dream True Person."
The head in the jar fell to the ground, its expression briefly entering a daze.
The tea in Li Tiangang's cup was already at the bottom, yet he continued to drink, showing the turmoil of his state of mind, he had truly not expected this.
He suddenly discovered that within the twisted light and shadow of the Great Dream True Person, those eyes actually also presented the form of Double Pupils, though slightly different.
Who would believe it if there was no relation between these two?
Song Zongwu reminded: "Ren Qing, with your artifact refining arts managing the Ghost Market, you will surely allow the Restraint Officers' Hall to benefit, but..."
"You also know the Merging the Yin God, right? With so many techniques, you must make choices."
"Rest assured, Senior Song, I already have my plans."
Song Zongwu left it at that, for Ren Qing must also have it clear in his heart.
His meaning was for Ren Qing to abandon some techniques, taking several that formed a system to advance to the Yin Runner Realm, and by this to construct primary and secondary techniques.
But how could Song Zongwu know that Ren Qing planned to walk the path of multiple core techniques.
It could be called: myriad methods, all incorporated into my body.
After the interlude of the Ghost Market, everyone calmed down somewhat, but their dread toward the Marshlands did not diminish in the least.
Li Tiangang began to discuss countermeasures, this time becoming rather more cautious.
During this, the Great Dream True Person said nothing, just standing silently at one side.
Very soon a rough plan was made, preparing to probe the consciousness of the Meat and Wine Taoist as the main task, and thereby to determine the direction of subsequent actions.
If the consciousness of the Meat and Wine Taoist was already difficult to maintain, then the Restraint Officers' Hall would take control of Huang Sand City, and even all of the Ze People.
It would then be entirely possible to influence Qingxu Temple imperceptibly through the Ze People.
If the Meat and Wine Taoist's consciousness was clear, then naturally the opportunity for cooperation was to be sought.
At this point of discussion, everyone's breathing inevitably grew heavy.
It must be known that just the Avici Hell left behind after the death of Ksitigarbha was enough to let the Restraint Officers' Hall develop for hundreds of years, so then what of the corpse of a Heavenly Abomination Realm cultivator...
For the Yin Runner Realm, the Meat and Wine Taoist was a hard-to-resist opportunity, tied to the possibility of advancing to the Yang God Realm.
Misfortune hides where fortune leans.
"I think, no matter what, it is necessary to ensure the existence of Qingxu Temple."
Ren Qing suddenly recalled the blood moon he had seen at the top of the Immortal Ascension Ladder, and he recounted his conjectures about the situation in Jingzhou.
The old Yin Runner Realm veterans all knew of Jingzhou and the Beast Pen, but they had not expected there to be a third force interfering.
As if recalling something, Song Zongwu muttered to himself: "Blood moon..."
Seeing this, Li Tiangang could not help but ask: "Old Song, speak."
Everyone's eyes looked toward Song Zongwu.
The only Restraint Officers of Xiangxiang who might have had contact with the outside were the Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu, and both of their techniques were relatively unusual.
Song Zongwu hesitated for a moment, then said: "I have heard that if you go several thousand li southward, near the ocean, there are fishermen who worship the moon."
Miss Bai played with her flying sword and asked: "Why is Xiangxiang expanding toward the Marshlands? Now that the Avici Hell can move, it could entirely develop toward the southern forests."
Muyi shook her head and said: "That forest looks ordinary, but in truth the vegetation grows extremely quickly, and it is not suitable for farming like the plains."
Ren Qing estimated that the true situation was not as simple as in their words.
The dead of the Heavenly Abomination Realm were definitely not only the Grand Duke Taisui and the Meat and Wine Taoist.
Under the influence of the corpses of the Heavenly Abomination Realm, special environments were very likely to appear.
And Xiangxiang, in the end, was still mainly farming; even if compelled, it would only consider migration after full preparations.
The concrete means of migration would very likely require the use of large-scale magical artifacts.
After discussing for a while, Li Tiangang prepared to take some Ghost Envoy Realm cultivators to Huang Sand City, to ascertain the degree of Qingxu Temple's control over the lower world.
But they still had to wait for Ren Qing's sand boat to be refined, so there was no need to be too hasty.
Sha Shanzi had become the number one guide, and in his heart could not help but feel sorrow.
But he also understood that the Ze Immortals were not kind, and that Huang Sand City, which on the surface seemed calm, in fact hid a crisis of being annihilated at any time.
After filling in the details, the Yin Runner Realm cultivators left the Great Dream Pavilion, each with somewhat different tasks, and still having to distribute missions to the various Restraint Officers.
Muyi and Miss Bai still had to go into seclusion for now to stabilize their realms; if the Releasing the Yin God went out of control, it could very likely lead to large-scale disaster.
Song Zongwu planned to return to Xiangxiang.
Because he was departing alone, he did not plan to wait for the refinement of the sand boat artifact.
He would not be going to the Marshlands again in the short term, and next was preparing to attempt to break through to the perfection of the Yin Runner Realm, requiring secluded cultivation.
Sun would no longer remain to guard the Avici Hell; he would fly to the Marshlands to replace Song Zongwu.
Next, the Restraint Officers' Hall would use the Nether Crow to probe Qingxu Temple, and to gauge the reality of the corpse of the Meat and Wine Taoist of the Heavenly Abomination Realm.
The Yin Runner Realm cultivators gradually began to leave the Avici Hell, and even the Great Dream True Person vanished from sight.
When Ren Qing stepped out of the Ghost Market, before he could react, the Ghost Market at the branches of the Dream Tree suddenly vanished into smoke.
The Great Dream Pavilion, the Great Dream Technique Hall, and other buildings all transformed into twisted light and shadow; very likely only when the Ghost Market reappeared could they be restored.
It could be seen that although the Great Dream True Person imparted the Butterfly Dream Technique to Ren Qing, he had no thought at all of helping to maintain the Ghost Market, and decisively canceled the technique.
Ren Qing awkwardly scratched his head, so being the Lord of the Ghost Market was not so easy.
Luckily the main buildings had not dissipated, and once the Butterfly Dream Technique was advanced to the Ghost Envoy Realm, it should be enough to maintain the most basic operations of the Ghost Market.
Sun let out a gloating laugh, his wings flapping as his huge body passed straight through the Avici Hell into the outside world.
Only Muyi stopped her steps, smiling as she said: "Ren Qing, I can use vines to help you construct a few buildings."
"Many thanks, Miss Mu, I accept your good will. The Ghost Market will soon reappear."
At present, Ren Qing's lifespan was enough to let the Butterfly Dream Technique advance to the Ghost Envoy Realm.
Even when his lifespan reached its end, relying on eating eyeballs raw to complete a strange transformation would not be difficult.
"Then farewell. I hope that you and I can soon reach Merging the Yin God."
Seeing this, Muyi transformed into a sea of vines and disappeared into the fungal forest.
Ren Qing still remained in place, his gaze fixed toward the direction of the Ghost Market, planning in his heart how to obtain more lifespan.
He suddenly realized that opening a shop like the Great Dream True Person was not very efficient.
It also required spending a great deal of effort to operate the Ghost Market.
If he could get all the Restraint Officers to trade with one another in the Ghost Market, then Ren Qing would only need to take a small cut of lifespan to be overflowing with wealth.
Even in the future when he left the range of the Avici Hell and could not return for long periods, he would still have an endless stream of lifespan.
Thus could be seen the importance of opening a market.
Ren Qing could not help but fall into thought, wanting to encourage Restraint Officers to trade with one another in the Ghost Market could not be achieved merely with stalls and shops.
He must popularize artifact refining and pill refining.
But now the artifacts of the Restraint Officers' Hall were truly rather weak, usable only to patch flaws in techniques, and not a necessity for cultivation.
And as for pills, there was completely no such concept, Restraint Officers all just directly stuffed materials into their stomachs.
As long as they did not die, they would just keep eating.
Ren Qing steadied his mind.
He prepared to next attempt to improve the Heavenly Dao Artifact Refining Method, and best of all to complete his past idea of refining artifacts with Supernatural Remnants as the materials.
Only such artifacts could change the situation, and raise the combat power of Restraint Officers by a level.
As for pills, he had no clue for the moment; the pill refining methods of Wuwei Monastery were utterly without reference value, so it could only be taken slowly.
Ren Qing then returned to the outside world, his skin once again feeling the blazing heat.
A faint candlelight lit the stone house.
Huang Ziwan was flipping through a manual called Poison Bone Art, his expression sighing helplessly.
The pain of digging out bones was hard to bear even for cultivators, let alone that to achieve mastery one had to soak all the bones of the body in poison water.
Noticing Ren Qing, Huang Ziwan opened his mouth with a face full of sorrow and said: "Ah, Brother Ren Qing, this Poison Bone Art..."
Ren Qing glanced at him, rose, and headed for the door.
"Old Huang, as a poison man, just use the poison in your body to wrap your bones, why must you dig them out."
With the rise of cultivation, there were always many opportunities to take advantage of in mastering techniques.
Huang Ziwan froze for a few breaths, then gave himself a slap.
No wonder Ren Qing could master so many techniques; just this nimbleness of thought could not be compared, let alone the difference in talent.
Ren Qing found Li Tiangang in the camp and told him of his intention to go into seclusion in the desert, and to refine artifacts as well.
For him, the best place for seclusion was undoubtedly on the sand boat, as he had far too many methods that could not be seen in the light.
The sand boat landed on a sand dune hill, stirring up a gust of sand.
Standing at the bow, Ren Qing quickly disappeared into the boundless desert.