Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing discovered how the Ci clan preserved its population and then entered the Giant Corpse Buddha by parasitizing a disposable clone, hoping to travel safely to the Immortality Forbidden Zone. The chapter left him inside the Buddha’s stomach, considering how to benefit from his unusual shelter.

• Ren Qing found that the Ci clan’s Spirit Bone Pagodas absorbed souls and gestated new people, recycling the dead through Buddha aura.
• Ren Qing crossed the Ci clan territory with the Giant Corpse Buddha and spotted Heavenly Demon aura near its northern edge.
• Ren Qing tested whether an Indestructible Golden Body clone could survive inside the Giant Corpse Buddha and confirmed that the Buddha eventually expelled it after it died.
• Ren Qing used the Storyteller to parasitize another clone, then directed it toward the Giant Corpse Buddha with Ghost Shadow and Dao Dao Dao.
• The Giant Corpse Buddha swallowed the clone, and Ren Qing sensed its injuries as he began considering how to coexist with Buddha aura and gain benefits.

Ren Qing emerged from a Buddha statue inside the giant corpse Buddha, where Buddha qi forced countless monks into an endless cycle of starvation, death, and rebirth. As the monks hailed him as the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, Buddha qi detected him and surged toward him.

• No Thoughts repeatedly starved to death and was reborn while being forced to help maintain the Buddha statues with blood.
• No Thoughts discovered a statue that seemed to breathe and prayed before it, believing it was the true body of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.
• The statue cracked apart, and Ren Qing emerged from within it before the monks of Buddha among Buddhas.
• Ren Qing recognized that Buddha qi treated the monks as tools and that the Buddha statues stored its power.
• Buddha qi sensed Ren Qing and poured out from the statues as scriptures and wooden fish sounds filled the Buddha Forest.

Ren Qing concealed himself from the giant corpse Buddha’s aura, discovered that Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva’s Buddha aura was its true body, and cautiously helped protect the Buddha while feeding its monks. After the Buddha aura repelled an attack by Heavenly Demon creatures, Ren Qing began considering how to turn the giant corpse Buddha into an artifact.

• Ren Qing used the Rebirth Art and a Corpse Buddha Kasaya to stop the giant corpse Buddha from expelling him, then calmed the monks gathered in the Buddha Forest.
• Ren Qing learned from the Information Flow that Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva’s Buddha aura was its true body and that disciples who mastered the Maitreya Sutra served as its reincarnations.
• Ren Qing placed No Thoughts in the city and gave the starving monks dried rations and water.
• Heavenly Demon aura corroded a hole into the giant corpse Buddha, and a Black Goat tried to enter before the Buddha aura melted it.
• Ren Qing used Reincarnation Remnant Souls and Moon Patterns to repair and strengthen the breach, and the Buddha aura accepted the altered flesh as an artifact.
• After the giant corpse Buddha passed through the densest Heavenly Demon aura, Ren Qing considered bringing Jailer Hall cultivators inside and refining the body into an artifact.

Ren Qing prepared to refine the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach and invited selected Jailer Hall cultivators to help, while thousands more eagerly registered to enter. The group began assessing the damaged stomach, but Ren Qing said they would need to transform the Buddha’s eyes into artifacts before they could observe the outside world.

• Ren Qing made kasaya artifacts from Buddha Sense, restored his vitality, and announced that cultivators could enter the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach.
• Thousands of Jailer Hall cultivators registered for the dangerous opportunity, and Ren Qing selected Li Tiangang, Li Yaoyang, Miss Bai, Han Li, and Xiao San'er to join him.
• Li Tiangang, Li Yaoyang, Miss Bai, Han Li, and Xiao San'er entered the stomach wearing kasayas and using Buddhist Dream Flowers.
• The monks carved statues of Ren Qing and the five cultivators, placing Ren Qing as Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva and the others as Arhats.
• At the ruptured wall of flesh, Li Tiangang asked whether they could observe the outside, and Ren Qing said they first needed to transform the giant corpse Buddha’s eyes into artifacts.

Ren Qing and his companions refined the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach into a crude artifact, spreading disease strains through its flesh and discovering Maitreya Blood. Ren Qing then advanced the Rebirth Art to the Yang God Realm and prepared to cultivate the Tai Sui Scripture, whose power he hoped would eventually let him refine the giant corpse Buddha.

• Ren Qing assigned his companions to refine the stomach, search for resources, and create Gu Insects for exploring the intestines while the monks mistook their work for the Buddhas’ mission.
• Ren Qing used blood containing disease strains to engrave golden Moon Patterns across the stomach, strengthening its defenses and establishing a faint connection with it.
• Li Tiangang and the others found regenerative amber containing Maitreya Blood, which Ren Qing identified as a substance that increased the ability to contain foreign auras.
• Ren Qing entered seclusion and advanced the Rebirth Art to the Yang God Realm, forming a Yellow Springs-like river of vitality and death aura within the stomach world.
• Ren Qing examined the Tai Sui Scripture and learned that cultivating it required fungi in his body and would eventually transform his flesh and organs into corpses.

Ren Qing mastered the Tai Sui Scripture and chose the Fungus Scum User route, but its disease strains caused corpse transformation and killed his Split Soul. He discovered that the Split Soul had become a Disease Tree that absorbed death energy and stored disease strains, then used the Longevity Tree to obtain new strains as he advanced Blood Malady Entanglement.

• Ren Qing spent thirty days of lifespan mastering the Tai Sui Scripture, triggering corpse transformation that he suppressed with vitality from Yellow Springs Rebirth.
• Han Li’s Blood Mycelium Record flared up near Ren Qing, but Li Tiangang suppressed it and checked on Ren Qing as his corpse-like appearance faded.
• Ren Qing chose the Fungus Scum User route and developed a wind-cold disease strain that caused his Split Soul to collapse and re-form as a Disease Tree.
• Ren Qing discovered that the Disease Tree stored disease strains and absorbed death energy, balancing the vitality he drew from Yellow Springs Rebirth.
• After advancing Blood Malady Entanglement, Ren Qing touched the Longevity Tree and caused fruits containing disease strains to grow for the Forbidden Guards to harvest.

Ren Qing advanced the Tai Sui Scripture to the Yin Messenger Realm and used disease strains to expand and begin artifactizing the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach. After sensing an intruder outside, he planned to use the intestines as a route to the spine and prepare for more cultivators to enter.

• Ren Qing chose Dream Healing, Dormancy, and Calamity Transformation as Eerie Transformations, then advanced the Tai Sui Scripture and gained Fungal Calamity.
• Ren Qing released Bloating disease strains into the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach, where they multiplied and expanded it to more than twice its size.
• Ren Qing put the disease strains into dormancy and realized their artifactized fusion with the Moon Patterns could let him sacrificially refine the stomach.
• Li Tiangang reported that Li Yaoyang’s Buddhist Gu Worms were developing, and Ren Qing decided the group would use the intestines to reach the giant corpse Buddha’s spine.
• After something tried to force its way into the stomach and withdrew, Ren Qing sent Miss Bai, Han Li, and the others to protect Buddha Forest and told Li Tiangang he had a way to bring in many cultivators.

Ren Qing prepared to send demons into the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach while Tang Sheng traveled to Wuwei City seeking cultivation scriptures. After Tang Sheng arrived, Ren Qing secretly guided him into the Great Dream Art Tower and began testing which Jailer Method suited him.

• Ren Qing refined kasaya Artifacts from the stomach’s flesh and selected sturdy demons to establish a temporary camp outside.
• Tang Sheng traveled west from Heavenly Heaven, survived the wilderness with Tian A’s help, and reached Wine Lake on Husky’s back.
• Tian A summoned a huge catfish to carry Tang Sheng across the lake, and Tang Sheng headed toward Wuwei City.
• Tang Sheng entered Wuwei City, saw its strange inhabitants and the monks gathered near a fissure, and was directed to the dream market to cultivate an Art.
• Ren Qing supplied Tang Sheng with written explanations, sealed him in the Great Dream Art Tower, and secretly tested his compatibility with Jailer Methods.

Ren Qing and the cultivators took control of the giant corpse Buddha’s intestines, discovered a Heavenly Dao Worm inside, and began cultivating crops in the Maitreya Soil. After the Buddha’s body was violently shaken from outside, Ren Qing changed plans and sent an Aberration disease seed toward its skin to create an eye and learn what was happening beyond the body.

• Ren Qing sent Li Tiangang and five demonkind into the intestines, where they found and sealed a breach made by an unknown creature.
• Li Tiangang brought back a piece of a Heavenly Dao Worm, and Ren Qing learned it had cultivated the Xuantian Method to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ren Qing and the cultivators refined part of the intestines into an artifact, which produced Maitreya Soil suitable for growing healing crops.
• The giant corpse Buddha’s body shook violently, and Ren Qing used his Strange Mouth and vitality to protect Buddha among Buddhas and Buddha Forest from damage.
• Ren Qing abandoned the plan to reach the spine first and sent an Aberration disease seed toward the Buddha’s skin to make an eye for Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.

Ren Qing captured a foreign Heavenly Dao Worm, learned about the Insect Nest’s cultivation system, and modified the giant corpse Buddha by giving it a regenerating Insect Eye. The eye revealed the volcanic wasteland surrounding them, where strange short-lived lifeforms attacked the Buddha, and Ren Qing turned to creating Arts for the Ci Clan people.

• Ren Qing captured a humanoid Heavenly Dao Worm hiding in the giant corpse Buddha and extracted its memories of the Insect Nest and its Heavenly Dao Method.
• Ren Qing created an Insect Eye on the giant corpse Buddha’s abdomen, connected it to the Buddha’s nerves, and began fusing it with a Martial Human Realm Eerie Fetus.
• Ren Qing projected the Insect Eye’s view onto the stomach wall so Li Tiangang and the other cultivators could see the surrounding landscape.
• Active volcanoes erupted, and smoke-and-dust creatures attacked the giant corpse Buddha, while the heat destroyed the crops in its intestines.
• The giant corpse Buddha regenerated its flesh and Insect Eye after the eruption, and Ren Qing focused on Tang Sheng to develop Arts for the Ci Clan people.

Ren Qing advanced the Six Maladies Method to the Yin Messenger Realm, gaining precise control over disease strains and strengthening his confidence in refining the giant corpse Buddha and spreading body martial arts. In the Great Dream Art Tower, Tang Sheng chose Diamond Body, and Ren Qing began adapting him for its cultivation with a gallstone disease strain.

• Jailer Hall expanded its settlement in the giant corpse Buddha and cultivated Maitreya Rice while Ren Qing observed the stomach world's growth and the transformed prison guards.
• Ren Qing considered how to help Ci Clan people cultivate, then advanced the Six Maladies Method to the Yin Messenger Realm at the cost of two hundred years of lifespan.
• The Six Maladies Method connected with the Eye-less Method, allowing Ren Qing to detect diseases in others and amplify them into deadly illnesses.
• Ren Qing met Tang Sheng in the Great Dream Art Tower and asked him to choose an Art.
• Tang Sheng chose Diamond Body, and Ren Qing merged a gallstone disease strain into him to increase the metallic content of his flesh and blood.

Ren Qing created Jailer Initiation Methods and alchemy pills, fueling a cultivation craze that increased his lifespan. He altered the monks of the Buddha among Buddhas and began refining the giant corpse Buddha, but its arrival near the vast Dead Man Forbidden Zone intensified his sense of danger.

• Ren Qing created the Great Compassion Maitreya Vajra Scripture for Tang Sheng and replaced the Longevity Tree’s body arts with Jailer Initiation Methods.
• Ren Qing made Bone Augmentation Pills to help mortals meet the methods’ requirements, and cultivators spread alchemy throughout the Jailer Hall.
• Ren Qing turned alchemy into tasks in the Great Dream Art Tower, gaining more than three hundred years of lifespan as cultivators rushed to participate.
• Ren Qing altered the bodies of tens of thousands of monks and taught them the Great Compassion Maitreya Buddha Blood Scripture, which would help nourish the Indestructible Golden Body.
• Ren Qing spread the Hard Bone Disease Type through the giant corpse Buddha’s spine and implanted the Fatty Liver Disease Type into its liver.
• The giant corpse Buddha entered a region of clotted blood near the Dead Man Forbidden Zone, whose immense reach and danger alarmed Ren Qing.

Ren Qing and Jailer Hall refined the giant corpse Buddha’s liver and spine while parasitic blood vessels attacked the cultivators. Ren Qing used the newly completed Heart Burning Method to destroy the swarm, then returned to refining the spine and advancing the Eyeless Method.

• Ren Qing chose the Fatty Liver Disease Type to shape the giant corpse Buddha’s liver into an artifact of the Heart Burning Method, while Li Tiangang led the cultivators refining it.
• Ren Qing began refining the spine with the Hard Bone Disease Type, completing one vertebra before continuing the laborious process.
• Li Tiangang and the cultivators discovered parasitic blood vessels surging toward them, and Li Yaoyang suspected the insects had been drawn by the liver’s scent.
• The blood vessels kept attacking even after the liver became an artifact, so Ren Qing appeared and unleashed flames from it, burning the swarm to ash.
• Ren Qing returned to the spine to continue its refinement and work toward advancing the Eyeless Method, while the giant corpse Buddha paused to adapt to its Aberrations.

Sen Sheng and the Cocoon People entered the giant corpse Buddha in search of a gate to their ancestral land, and Ren Qing learned that their destination was the Dead Man Forbidden Zone. After taking them in and assigning them to work in the stomach world, Ren Qing continued refining the giant corpse Buddha’s spine.

• Sen Sheng led the Cocoon People up the giant corpse Buddha and through its navel, losing many of them along the way as they dug through the wall of flesh.
• Jiang Feng’s cultivators subdued Sen Sheng and the survivors in the intestines, and Li Tiangang ordered the navel passage sealed while Ren Qing examined Sen Sheng.
• Ren Qing learned from Sen Sheng’s memories that the Cocoon People lived beneath the Corpse Blood Plain and sought a gate in the Dead Man Forbidden Zone, which they called their ancestral land.
• Ren Qing taught Sen Sheng and the other Cocoon People the Xiangxiang dialect and the Human Skin Book, then assigned them to farm in the stomach world.
• Ren Qing continued his Eerie Transformation Fusion, refining the giant corpse Buddha’s spine toward the Bone Armor User and its Immaculate Steel Body.

Ren Qing prepared the giant corpse Buddha for the harsher terrain ahead while advancing its artifact transformation and fusing his dream Arts. He sensed Great Dream True Person trapped in a deep dream, and the chapter ended with the Buddha approaching the corpse-stench hills as Tang Sheng’s teachings spread among the Ci Clan.

• Ren Qing released Tang Sheng from Wine Lake Island and sent him toward Heavenly Heaven to spread the Great Compassion Maitreya Vajra Scripture.
• Ren Qing collected Maitreya Oil, fused the Heart Burning Method anomalous fetus into the giant corpse Buddha’s liver, and ordered Xiao San'er to refine its intestines.
• Ren Qing’s dream Arts began to fuse, allowing him to sense Great Dream True Person, but their contact ended when the dream world shattered.
• After more than two months of seclusion, Ren Qing found the giant corpse Buddha’s spine fully transformed and saw the corpse-stench hills approaching.
• Ren Qing discovered that Tang Sheng had reached Heavenly Heaven with Cocoon Person Sen Sheng and the Heavenly Dao Worm, and that tens of thousands of Ci Clan people had begun cultivating the scripture.

Ren Qing cultivated the dream Arts, awakening the Divine Ability World Like a Dream and advancing his Nightmare Art and primary Art to higher realms. He transformed the dream market into Dream City, expanded its trade and income, and discovered he could not reach Great Dream True Person or Song Zongwu.

• Ren Qing gained World Like a Dream, which let him draw disease types and memories from nearby beings through disease-fruit dreamscapes.
• Ren Qing advanced Nightmare Dream True Person to the Yin Messenger Realm and gained the ability to transform into a Nightmare Demon.
• Ren Qing advanced Supreme Dark Nightmare Lord to the Yang God Realm, bringing his secondary Arts to Yin Messenger Realm Grand Completion.
• Ren Qing advanced Three Inches of Human World and transformed the dream market into Dream City, where he offered thousands of shops for rent.
• Cultivators opened shops in Dream City, increasing Ren Qing's lifespan income and boosting the Great Dream Pavilion's business.
• Ren Qing tried to contact Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu through the dream Art, but their locations were shielded and communication failed.

Ren Qing expanded the giant corpse Buddha’s stomach and intestines, organized their artifact forging, and summoned more than a thousand Ci Clan people from Heavenly Heaven to help. The newcomers settled into work as the giant corpse Buddha neared the Corpse Stench Hills, while Jade Splendor Daoist was sent to the intestinal region to haul eerie beast droppings.

• Ren Qing spread Hard Bone Disease toward the giant corpse Buddha’s legs, gave artifact refiners Moon Pattern manuals, and sent Xiao San'er to tell Li Yaoyang to focus on forging the heart.
• Ren Qing propagated Skin Sensitivity Disease through the feet and fused the Gluttony Law Eerie Fetus into the stomach and intestines, enlarging the stomach more than threefold and doubling the intestines.
• Ren Qing summoned support from Heavenly Heaven, where Tang Sheng, Sen Sheng, and Jade Splendor Daoist gathered more than a thousand Ci Clan people to travel to the giant corpse Buddha.
• Li Tiangang assigned the Ci Clan people to cultivate fields and allowed them to travel back and forth to the stomach world, while the cultivators continued transforming the giant corpse Buddha into an artifact.
• Jade Splendor Daoist searched for signs of the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm but was taken to the intestinal region to transport eerie beast droppings.

Tang Sheng learned how to adapt the Ci Clan people to Jailer Hall as Ren Qing guided the giant corpse Buddha through Corpse Stench Hill and mutated its body to withstand Corpse Qi. The hill’s enormous corpses began stirring, and Ren Qing discovered trapped worm-men and suspected Dead Man Forbidden Zone was a prison holding indescribable Wraiths.

• Tang Sheng calmed the Ci Clan people and learned that Ren Qing’s world lay inside his stomach, while he sought a way for them to join Jailer Hall.
• Ren Qing activated the stomach’s Artifacts before the giant corpse Buddha’s flames triggered an explosion in the Corpse Qi, badly injuring it.
• Ren Qing used Nightmare Demon aura, the Tai Sui Scripture, and Disease Seeds to mutate the giant corpse Buddha’s skin and help its wounds recover.
• The giant corpse Buddha reentered the Corpse Qi with Bone Armor forming over its lower body, while its upper body was stripped down to its skeleton.
• Ren Qing sensed creatures inside the corpses at Corpse Stench Hill, and a corpse released worm-men that tried and failed to reach the giant corpse Buddha.
• Ren Qing concluded the worm-men were trapped creatures seeking Dead Man Forbidden Zone and wondered whether the Forbidden Zone was a prison for powerful Wraiths.

Ren Qing reorganized the Jailer Hall and recruited Jade Splendor Daoist to share the Insect Nest Method, which could help advance the giant corpse Buddha’s transformation. After agreeing to let Jade Splendor join, Ren Qing monitored him and took the method to Li Yaoyang before heading to the heart region.

• Han Li recruited qualified cultivators to nourish the giant corpse Buddha’s liver under Ren Qing’s stricter task system.
• Sen Sheng chose Yearly Resolution for the cocoon people, whose layers of skin let them benefit from its healing and aging effects.
• Jade Splendor Daoist struggled with menial work in the intestines and missed his former life in Heavenly Heaven.
• Ren Qing showed Jade Splendor a Heavenly Dao Worm dead egg and asked whether it could hatch.
• Jade Splendor identified the egg as a viable dead egg and explained the Insect Nest Method to Ren Qing.
• Ren Qing let Jade Splendor join the Jailer Hall, attached a disease strain to monitor him, gave Li Yaoyang the method, and headed to the heart region.

The giant corpse Buddha fought corpse beasts and catfolk in the Corpse Stench Hills while Ren Qing used its organs to repel the intruders and strengthen its abilities. After the corpse beasts were destroyed, the Buddha entered the Corpse Stench Swamp, where the water began eroding it and could help Ren Qing complete more aberrations.

• The giant corpse Buddha encountered corpse beasts at a dark green swamp, and they attacked its exposed flesh while its Bone Armor held them back.
• Catfolk hidden inside a corpse beast invaded the giant corpse Buddha, prompting Li Tiangang to organize the Jailer Hall cultivators to defend its organs.
• Ren Qing used the Heart Burning Method to burn catfolk and sent them toward the skull, where they died after gnawing at it and provoking the Buddha’s blood vessels.
• Ren Qing strengthened the giant corpse Buddha’s heart with Fat Heart Disease and the Demon Seeding Scripture, causing the nearby corpse beasts to explode.
• The giant corpse Buddha waded into the Corpse Stench Swamp, where the corrosive water began eroding its body.