Secret Buyer

Chapter 583: Chapter 354: The Dead Before Us, Reversed Cause and Effect_2

Or rather, they are unable to articulate it.

For example, why call oneself the Sect Hierarch.

Or who is the one giving the command to protect the Zhang Family.

After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Fusheng asked again:

"Is the one who killed you the Sect Hierarch?"

The grim skeletons nodded in unison:

"It is the Sect Hierarch."

Zhang Fusheng narrowed his eyes slightly and continued to press:

"Is the one who killed you me?"

The grim skeletons seemed to freeze, their lidless jaws opening and closing without a word for a long while.

Zhang Fusheng rubbed his brow, changing his method of inquiry:

"Am I the Sect Hierarch?"

"You are the Sect Hierarch."

"Was the one who turned you into skeletons the Sect Hierarch?"

"It was the Sect Hierarch."

"Then, is he me?"

The skeletons once again fell into a state of inertia.

This time,

Zhang Fusheng kept his Fire Eyes Golden Gaze active, pushing the Taiyi Chapter to its limits, penetrating the cause and effect of the two grim skeletons,

He acutely sensed, at the last question,

the already blurred and chaotic cause and effect of the two grim skeletons suddenly became even more chaotic and disordered, even presenting a brief reversed state!

Cause becomes effect, effect becomes cause.

Zhang Fusheng continued to ask several questions, and whenever the questions involved himself, the skeletons’ cause and effect became briefly more chaotic,

at the same time, they would fall into an obvious state of inertia,

either answering with meaningless words or simply not responding.

Shen Baobao, who had been watching the scenes, couldn’t hold back:

"Ancestor, what on earth is happening?"

Zhang Fusheng, wrapped in blazing fire rays, shook his head and didn’t explain, but after a moment of reflection, he spoke:

"Since I need your assistance, I shouldn’t let you work for free."

Shen Baobao’s eyes brightened, and her heart raced.

She saw the Ancestor ponder for a moment and then point a finger towards her.

"Fall, go."

In an instant,

Shen Baobao saw a grand lotus growing in the void, accompanied by Golden Spring, Immortal Flower, and other phenomena,

these auspicious phenomena emerged from nothing and gathered together, transforming into a half-human-high pool, radiating brilliant light.

"Fortune Pool."

Zhang Fusheng succinctly stated:

"In the coming half month, you may slumber within, under the nourishment of the Fortune Pool, you will reap many benefits."

"When the time is ripe, I will awaken you, and then you will leave the Douluo Palace to find the person named Zhang Xunzhu."

Shen Baobao, without hesitation, respectfully acknowledged and then took a deep breath, leaping into the Fortune Pool.

As soon as she entered the pool, she was immediately submerged, her consciousness gradually settling, falling into a deep sleep state.

Zhang Fusheng nodded slightly.

This Fortune Pool, indeed, is a grand opportunity for Shen Baobao.

Within, there is not only a vast amount of Divine Essence,

but also threads of spiritual nature from the Peach of Immortality, willow branches, and other things planted in his own brow’s Ancestral Acupoint,

immerse for half a month and upon emerging, Shen Baobao might break through the bottleneck, stepping into the Celestial Human realm, also prematurely gaining a Venerate-level physique!

After all, considering we’re on the same side, Zhang Fusheng wouldn’t be stingy.

He exhaled a breath of clear air, put away the Haotian Mirror, and after a moment of pondering, left a spiritual imprint on the two grim skeletons,

then instructed them to search left and right in the depths of the Douluo Palace, and once anything unusual is found, immediately contact him through the spiritual imprint.

"This Douluo Palace, is similar to the Eight Sceneries Palace, but immensely larger..."

Zhang Fusheng murmured to himself, in the Douluo Palace besides the rear hall, the front hall is filled with depths,

where eyes cannot see, ears cannot hear, and Divine Thought is lost,

and it seems vast and boundless, to find the so-called ’suppressed thing’ by Shen Baobao, he has to use this slowest method. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

However, two grim skeletons are obviously insufficient.

Zhang Fusheng’s thought moved, releasing several thousand grim skeletons, although their Cultivation naturally falls short of the two earlier, they are more than adequate for searching.

Once all the grim skeletons submerged into the depths,

Zhang Fusheng first attempted the Eight Trigrams Furnace, confirming that he currently cannot lift the lid nor communicate with the things inside,

then finally turned to the rear hall.

He did not pause before the Now Gate, his purpose this time was clear—the Cyan Lamp suspended high in the rear hall.

This Cyan Lamp merely by existing dispelled the depths of the rear hall, it’s no ordinary object.

After attempting several times but unable to move the Cyan Lamp,

Zhang Fusheng did not become disheartened, holding up the Three-Treasure Jade Ruyi in his hand, gently swept it over the lamp flame—a wisp of the Cyan Lamp’s flame was thus taken down.

"This is..."

Silently sensing the breath within the cyan lamp’s candle flame,

Zhang Fusheng felt a jolt of shock in his heart.

Such rich fortune and momentum of the Human Path!

Just this little bit,

surprisingly surpasses the Human Path’s fortune and momentum seen in Shen Baobao’s Divine Realm, the entire Fire Cloud Cave and Fire Cloud Palace by far!!

And this is merely a trace descended from the cyan lamp...

"Supreme, oh Supreme..."

Zhang Fusheng toyed with the candle flame, his gaze unfathomably deep, for Fire Cloud Cave and Fire Cloud Palace are the ancestral grounds of the Human Path,

Logically, it should gather the richest fortune and momentum,

Yet before this cyan lamp, it is like a glowworm compared to the blazing sun and bright moon!

How much fortune and momentum of the Human Path has the Supreme grasped??

"In this little taken candle flame, the fortune and momentum are overly heavy, not something I can absorb right now...But after proving to be a Great Divine Power User, I should be able to."

Clearing the cluttered thoughts from his mind, Zhang Fusheng took a deep breath, carefully stored away the Jade Ruyi with the Three Treasures,

and walked back to the front hall, sitting cross-legged on the meditation mat.

Elevation, elevation, more elevation.

Higher than the illusory Eight Sceneries Palace, yet similar to the feeling when seated in the Jade Void Palace!

"Douluo Palace, Eight Sceneries Palace...."

He murmured to himself, internally observing the transformation of a wisp of his will, borrowing the formed "Body of Imperial Might" from the Fire Cloud Cave,

As reality unfolds, everything attained by each self quietly attaches to the true self outside of reality.

"The urgent task is to first prove as a Great Divine Power User...then, it’s time to start the ’Central Pole Struggle’ in the Netherworld."

Zhang Fusheng spoke to himself, his gaze profoundly deep, a stronger premonition rising within him.

This change in the Netherworld might involve, connect, and affect a very, very large scope.

Larger than his imagination.

"True spirits of the old world, deities of the current world, perhaps even Different Dimension...maybe even directly becoming the battlefield for the Supreme ones."

Zhang Fusheng spoke to himself, this premonition is so strong to the point of certainty!

"I must make all preparations."

He contemplated, pondered, and finally made a decision.

"Though flight and disguise are good, ultimately, the various selves are not the true self."

"It is time to unite the various selves, prove as a Great Divine Power User, and attain the Fruit Position of Bodhisattva or True Monarch..."

"Once proven, the true self shall revert to shadow and trace."

In the midst of self-talk, thought quietly peeled off from the Body of Imperial Might, returning to the ’Body of Daoist Venerable’ within the Celestial Capital.

Thus, the hemp-robed youth standing in the courtyard opened his eyes, carrying a wooden bowl, walked back to the lake pavilion, and gracefully sat down.

At that moment, the lacquered red door was knocked once more.

Zhang Fusheng pointed a finger, opening the door wide; a guest appeared at the threshold, their aura like the mighty river or great tide.

"A Great Power....."

Zhang Fusheng squinted his eyes and shouted:

"Come in and speak."

The visitor wearing a conical hat and dressed in a white robe entered the Zhang Family’s courtyard, closing the lacquered red door, and respectfully saluted Zhang Fusheng from afar:

"Greetings, Daoist Venerable, sir."

Zhang Fusheng stared at the visitor, the conical hat on their head seemed mysterious, unseen through or penetrable.

"Since you’ve come to visit, why hide yourself?"

The visitor saluted again:

"The Daoist Venerable, sir might not know, my identity is rather sensitive, hence this forced measure...I’ve come today with great sincerity, bearing great opportunity."

Zhang Fusheng’s expression was indifferent, silent.

The visitor paused, sighed:

"I was careless, truly shouldn’t have been so cautious...let me be straightforward!"

With those words,

The visitor stepped into the lake pavilion, lightly waved their sleeves, a void-born array encompassed the lake pavilion, obstructing prying eyes,

Following which, they removed the conical hat and saluted again:

"War Department, third deputy director, on behalf of my lord to ask."

"Would the Daoist Venerable be willing to join us, and together divide the Federation?"

A dull voice echoed within the lake pavilion.

Zhang Fusheng abruptly raised his head, his gaze fiercely intense, causing the visitor to be slightly startled. freeweɓnovel.cøm

Staring intently at the visitor’s sword-browed and star-eyed face, Zhang Fusheng took a deep breath.

Among the past reflected by the Haotian Mirror of two grim skeletons, one looked exactly like the person before him.

Sword-browed, star-eyed, robed in white.

This world grows more and more absurd.

Is it temporal dissonance?

Or...

Zhang Fusheng recalled the peculiar state of Cause and Effect he had glimpsed.

Or,

Is it a reversal of Cause and Effect?

He suddenly understood, achieving clarity.