Ren Qing felt a surge of an extremely familiar sensation in his heart, it was clearly the separation of body and soul unique to cultivating The Blindless Method.
Before he could react, his eyes suddenly fell into endless darkness.
Zhun explained, "You all can stay in the Nether Feather for at most two hours. If you're afraid of being killed by a wraith, then hide."
"And don't run around, if you're at the outer edges, you'll only encounter Half-Corpse Realm wraiths."
Before Ren Qing could open his mouth to ask, the surrounding sounds grew fainter and fainter.
Fortunately, because he had barely touched upon the Twin Nightmare Ghosts, he could faintly hear Zhun's murmuring by his ear.
"Zhou Mei, her main cultivation technique seems to be the Divine Leg Sutra, then she'll be placed on the leg."
Ren Qing struggled to maintain the separation of body and soul. The darkness before his eyes gradually cleared and slowly became distinct.
He discovered that Zhun's body had become incorporeal, passing through Ksitigarbha's flesh like a soul, surrounded everywhere by rotting stench.
Moreover, inside the blood vessels there seemed to be traces of animals and plants, could these be the so-called wraiths...
Ren Qing knew Zhun probably couldn't leave the boundaries of the flesh, otherwise, the Restraint Officers' Hall wouldn't be unable to locate Ksitigarbha's position.
"We're here, Ksitigarbha's right leg."
Zhun's wing beats slowed and he stopped in the air above the flesh plain.
Zhou Mei's soul was stripped away, a feather carrying her off somewhere unknown.
Ren Qing's pupils contracted, he saw the plain crawling with numerous terrifying monsters.
Like giant elephants stitched together from various animals; indescribable flesh balls covered in legs; or centipedes with human faces and a hundred feet...
Most likely, like the gigantic herbs growing in the Disaster-Dispelling Forbidden Zone, they were manifestations of the Supernatural Remnants inside Ksitigarbha's body.
Before Ren Qing could get a good look, Zhun moved on to the next location.
It was a boundless swamp shaded bluish-purple. According to Zhun, this should be within Ksitigarbha's arm region.
Zhang Mu's soul was deposited here.
Next was Lin Cheng, Zhun passed through numerous blood vessels, arriving at a location even closer to Ksitigarbha's outer skin.
Lin Cheng's soul was released, and he had clearly regained a bit of intelligence, his expression was filled with panic and unease.
During this time, that man with mutated facial features struggled to move toward Ren Qing's location, seemingly wanting to get closer to him.
But in the end he failed, Zhun tossed him onto a flesh plain belonging to the eyeball region.
It was only then that Ren Qing came to a realization.
The function of the Nether Feather was to allow body and soul separation, and then use some method to let the soul touch upon the Ghost Envoy Realm, thus reducing risk.
But then Ren Qing realized, he was already at the Ghost Envoy Realm. Zhun would likely soon notice the abnormality in his soul.
It would be difficult to explain why, in such a short time, two techniques had both reached the Ghost Envoy Realm.
Cold sweat broke out on Ren Qing's forehead, and he began urgently contemplating a countermeasure.
Zhun continued transporting the souls of the reserve members, Ren Qing was also in the eyeball region of Ksitigarbha, only separated by some distance.
Just as Ren Qing was scratching his head in frustration, his soul suddenly underwent a change.
Ren Qing felt as if his soul had split into two parts, the primary soul seated within the body, while the secondary soul wanted to drift outward.
Could it be the Twin Nightmare Ghosts?
Zhun also noticed Ren Qing's secondary soul about to leave the body: "Oh? Interesting. This technique actually separates body and soul on its own?"
With a flap of his wings, he created a massive wave of wind and in the blink of an eye arrived at the destination.
Ren Qing was immersed in the duality of soul, it seemed he had touched the bottleneck of the Ghost Envoy Realm, and a breakthrough might be close at hand.
Without hesitation, Zhun threw down Ren Qing's secondary soul and took his body to an unknown location.
Ren Qing fell into a dizzy spin, but he could still sense the presence of the primary soul, which was hidden within the niwan palace of the body.
The secondary soul instinctively sensed its surroundings.
On the flesh plain, hillocks shaped like eyeballs bulged up, and in the far distance stood a giant brain-shaped tree reaching into the sky.
Beside the giant tree seemed to be a human figure, but it wasn't clearly visible.
He didn't know how much time passed.
When Ren Qing regained consciousness, he noticed he was surrounded on all sides by enclosed walls, and seemed to be immersed in viscous liquid.
What the hell?!!
Ren Qing's face was full of confusion, he had no idea what was going on, and no one had given any detailed explanation about the Nether Feather.
He had no choice but to swim forward, and as soon as he touched the wall, information surged into his mind.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be like this...
Inside the Nether Feather existed vast numbers of Supernatural Remnants, they had manifested into all kinds of wraiths, living on the barely surviving Ksitigarbha.
Possibly influenced by lingering consciousness, the wraiths in the Nether Feather were very peculiar.
Their lifespans were extremely short, like mayflies, once they leapt out of the water, they were close to death.
To survive, the only way was to kill each other and absorb the soul aura, thereby strengthening themselves and continuing to live.
Any soul that entered the Nether Feather would be forcibly turned into a wraith and dragged into this drawn-out war.
Fortunately, cultivators could use the method of communicating techniques through the soul to gain sufficient survival power in the Nether Feather.
And by absorbing soul aura, cultivators could temporarily increase the stability of their soul, making the advancement to Ghost Envoy Realm more likely.
But this method was only effective for the Ghost Envoy Realm.
Rustling sounds echoed.
Ren Qing's expression grew grim, he had to move quickly, or he'd die before he even got started.
No wonder Zhun thought so highly of him, because according to the rules of the Nether Feather, his advancement to the Ghost Envoy Realm wouldn't be difficult.
If he could use The Taotie Method, perhaps he could even try to seize some opportunity.
...
In a dim tree hollow, a wraith stared greedily at a not-far-away flesh blossom. The petals had complex patterns on their surface.
The wraith looked somewhat like a rabbit, but its tail was a long tendril with a huge eyeball at the end.
It stared greedily at the flower bud, its desire pushing it forward step by step.
Just then, a crack appeared in the petals, and a head with an eyeball emerged, inside, the Double Pupils spun continuously.
The rabbit-wraith bared hundreds of sharp teeth, its body closing in.
Ren Qing slightly adjusted to the body, sensing the feeling of lifespan draining, at most half an hour remained before death.
Just as the rabbit-wraith was about to strike, Ren Qing leapt out from the flesh flower.
His appearance was now extremely bizarre, like a smooth meat-egg, with Double Pupils at the center, looking far weaker than the rabbit-wraith.
The rabbit-wraith let out a hiss and lunged.
Its claws and tail coordinated, each move aiming to stab Ren Qing's eyeball.
Ren Qing narrowed his eyes, his movements were calm and composed. With simple dodges he avoided the attacks, then smashed heavily with his hardened skull.
Blood splattered from the rabbit-wraith.
Even though it was at a disadvantage, it still fought desperately. Soon however, it had been rammed into a bloody mess by Ren Qing.
Ren Qing originally intended to wear it down in a drawn-out fight, but he suddenly sensed another wraith's aura rushing in, and quickly traded injury for injury to kill the opponent.
A hyena covered in arms charged right at Ren Qing.
Ren Qing felt the pure aura of the rabbit-wraith merging into his soul, and used that to connect to a second technique.
A spine sprouted from his back, instantly impaling the hyena-wraith on the spot.
Now his form looked even more grotesque, once he locked onto a target, the Dragon-Snake Spine could easily finish it off.
But Ren Qing knew bis time was short, after enhancing himself with two techniques, his lifespan was once again compromised.