Secret Buyer

Chapter 625: Chapter 370: Qingshan Nursing Home (1/2)

"I told you long ago to move into the retirement home with me, but you didn’t listen. Do you realize what a great opportunity you missed?"

"Oh please, a great opportunity at a retirement home..."

"You little brat, what kind of tone is that?"

"Hey, hey, hey? Old man, put down the cane, put it down! We have guests coming, show some dignity..."

Amid the banter of the elderly grandfather and grandson, Cui Baihua and the others had already entered the hotel. To call it a hotel was an overstatement; it was more like a small inn—though particularly tall.

"How many rooms for the three of you?"

The little old man called out loudly, while an elderly man with white hair and a cane sat fuming, huffing and puffing as he glared from a nearby chair.

"Boss, make that three rooms."

The Old Master stepped forward with a smile, and took the opportunity to inquire about the matchmaking martial arts competition at the town entrance and the Gao family.

The little old man naturally repeated everything he had told Zhang Fusheng, word for word, causing the old man beside him to furrow his brow.

"Three rooms... all on the 12th floor, 1202, 1203, 1204, here are your keys!"

"The snacks and water in the hotel are free, and hot water is from the faucet on the right. If you need anything, just knock on the utility room at the end of the corridor. Each floor has an attendant..."

The boss rambled on, watching as the three guests entered the elevator, while the old man’s expression slowly changed to one of danger:

"You’re just babbling about the Gao family like that?"

The boss backed away, cautiously eyeing the cane the old man had raised again, and mumbled:

"Well, I said what I said, the Gao family isn’t anything good anyway..."

The old man’s face twisted in pain:

"Aren’t you courting disaster for yourself?"

"Bah!"

The little old man was indifferent:

"Aren’t you here, old man? Others might not know, but surely I know how formidable my grandfather is?"

After a moment, he cheerfully added:

"I remember clearly, over two hundred years ago, when I was just a lad, I personally saw you beat a Level 4 Star Beast to death with a single stroke..."

The old man grumbled:

"And did you learn even half of my skills? You’re not even a Martial Artist. I told you to come to the retirement home with me, but you wouldn’t go..."

"I just don’t see what’s so good about that retirement home..."

"You brat, what do you know!"

The old man raised his cane again, gesturing as if to strike, and the little old man scrambled to get away.

Meanwhile.

"Not even a Martial Artist..."

On the top floor, room 1201.

Sitting cross-legged on the windowsill, the young man slowly opened his eyes, and in a mutter, an extreme sense of the passage of time flickered in his eyes,

Yet that sense of time was extinguished in an instant—or rather, at that instant, was corrected and erased by the Contract.

Zhang Fusheng exhaled slowly.

The light masses... were mostly digested now.

All that remained was ten thousand years of cultivation, as well as the positions of Master of the Stars, Northern Emperor of Slaughter, and Nine Netherworld Emperor, yet to be fused—not the right time.

Positions are not Celestial Positions; a position is more like the weight held in a particular area or domain,

not directly calling upon the power of a Celestial Position, yet holding mystique not far beneath them. To merge positions, it would be best achieved after attaining Great Divine Techniques.

But even so...

"Just how strong am I at this moment?" Zhang Fusheng murmured deeply, his gaze profound.

Unknown.

Even he had no clue.

The techniques and mystical paths the Northern Emperor practiced across those countless ten millennia became his,

and with the Northern Emperor’s enlightenment and towering perspective, his ten millennia of practice could equal millions or even tens of millions of years for him!

All those techniques, all those paths of enlightenment, now all added to himself,

fully mastering the 72 Earthly Fiend Techniques, and having touched upon over half of the 36 Heavenly Gang Divine Techniques!

"Passing Ghosts, Expelling Spirits, Concealing the Sun, Divine Movement, Swordsmanship, Summoning, Sunburst, Nightmare Prayer..."

These are the 72 Earthly Fiend Techniques, or rather the 72 Divine Techniques, each possessing inconceivable capabilities, even touching upon concepts!

"Using Fate and Creation, Reversing Yin and Yang, Resurrecting the Dead, Changing Forms in the Womb, Blooming in an Instant, Vertical Earth Golden Light..."

These are the 36 Heavenly Gang Divine Techniques—Flying and Manifestation, Moving the Stars and Changing the Dipper included among them,

Ordinary Celestial Venerates and Buddhas, having one Great Divine Technique, are already outstanding among their peers,

The average Daluo would know only three to five Great Divine Techniques at most!

"The Northern Emperor, truly the foremost under the Supreme Result, the pinnacle among Daluo."

Zhang Fusheng mused internally, his smile growing.

He wanted to find an equal opponent for a good fight.

Great Power... wouldn’t do.

He needed to find a Great Divine Power User.

This place’s Evil Cult had at least over ten Great Divine Power Users.

No rush, no rush...

Zhang Fusheng exhaled deeply several times, calming his thoughts, and his expression became gradually resolute, carefully contemplating the conversation he had overheard between the boss and his grandfather.

"Strange."

Zhang Fusheng squinted his eyes,

According to what the old man with the surname Jin said, the boss hadn’t even completed Martial Arts training, not even a Martial Artist,

yet he had lived for two to three hundred years, and even sensed by his own perception, his vitality was still very robust, far from reaching the end of his life...

This was peculiar.

And the retirement home?

Zhang Fusheng’s mind stirred, his thoughts quietly sweeping through, covering the entire town,

But aside from Wei Lingzhu and the other two next door, he couldn’t sense even a single cultivator!

However, upon closer inspection, he found that nearly every elderly person here had a very rich aura of time, having lived at least two hundred years,

And if one were to observe their karma, it revealed an abyssal depth.

As abyssal as Douluo Palace."

"Wait a minute."

"Where is the retirement home?"

Zhang Fusheng’s mind tensed; his Divine Thought didn’t even detect the location of the retirement home. From a bird’s-eye view, he only sensed a ’blank’ area in the Gao Manor,

The position was just right in the south—could this be the retirement home?

"It’s undetectable by Divine Thought?"

Zhang Fusheng grew even more intrigued, his interest increasingly piqued.

Gao Manor... curious indeed, curious indeed.

After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Fusheng made up his mind, ready to activate within the Thirty-Six Great Divine Techniques of the Celestial Dipper,

the three truly conceptual escape techniques of [Vertical Earth Golden Light], [Five Elements Great Escape], and [Plunge Abyss Shrink Earth] at any time,

He gently opened the door and saw Wei Lingzhu, who appeared as a village girl, also stepping out of her room.

Wei Lingzhu curiously glanced at this seemingly ordinary young man, watching him enter the elevator before heading to Granny Cui’s room.

"Granny Cui..." she just opened her mouth, but was stopped by a raised hand from Cui Baihua, who also appeared like a village girl,

The latter was extremely serious, the black cloth on her back mysteriously disappeared, revealing the ancestral tablets placed on the small round table.

Wei Lingzhu instinctively looked over, and on the tablets were the words [Cui Jue]. At this moment, the entire ancient tablet was shaking violently,

as if something was about to emerge from it!

Wei Lingzhu swallowed and instinctively looked at the Old Master beside her, who also shook his head gravely.

After a while.

The tablet stopped trembling, and Cui Baihua, sweating heavily, breathed a sigh of relief.

"There is something wrong with this place."

She spoke with great certainty, reaching out to gently touch the ancestral tablet, only to withdraw with a start from the heat—it was burning, but she was a Great Power!

Cui Baihua looked at her reddened fingertip, her expression growing even more solemn,

Next to her, Wei Lingzhu couldn’t help but ask softly:

"Granny Cui, what exactly happened? What on earth... is going on?"

Cui Baihua shook her head, staring at the ancestral tablet:

"This place is definitely not a good place, Underworld, Underworld..."

Common Great Divine Power Users do not understand the meaning of the Underworld, but how could she not know?

When the shop owner mentioned the curse of the Underworld, Cui Baihua’s heart had already sunk heavily,

Now, seeing the anomaly of the ancestral tablet, her Spiritual Sense was shaking intensely!

"Well."

In the silence, Cui Baihua suddenly spoke:

"The more dangerous this place is, the safer we actually are, such that those evil cult Great Divine Power Users cannot act recklessly here."

The three exchanged glances.

.........

Outside the Two Realms Mountain area.

The Sutra Taker and his wife, Cui Linglong, were riding on a white horse, moving slowly through the mist-laden mountains.

"Two Realms Mountain..." Cui Linglong held her husband’s waist and spoke softly: "I have a bad feeling."

"Your premonition is not wrong."

Li Xiuyuan replied softly:

"There seems to be an anomaly here, shrouded in an unknown great formation."

As he spoke, the white horse had already entered the area of Two Realms Mountain.

Cui Linglong nodded slightly, and suddenly asked:

"Where are we going?"

"Ahead, there."

Li Xiuyuan pointed, and Cui Linglong followed his gaze to see, in the distant front, amidst layers of mountains,

there was a strange, pitch-black presence, rolling, floating, and silent.

"What is that?"

"The Abyss, also known as Five Finger Mountain."

Li Xiuyuan said calmly:

"However, before we go to Five Finger Mountain, we will head there first."

He pointed in another direction.

Cui Linglong looked over and saw a small town at the foot of the mountain; it was not very prosperous, nor was it extensive.

She strained her eyes to look, seeing the bustling crowd at the town’s entrance, and...

and the massive stone tablet standing at the town’s gate.

"Gao Family Manor."

Li Xiuyuan, or rather [Zhu Bajie], spoke in a low voice:

"I’m really curious, why is there a Gao Family Manor here?"

He was lost in thought, his face showing a reminiscent expression, thinking about something.

For a long time.

Li Xiuyuan turned back to look at his wife:

"Do you remember Gao Family Manor?"

"Me?"

The confusion on Cui Linglong’s face deepened:

"Did I... come here before?"

"No."

Li Xiuyuan said gently:

"But many years ago, in your many cycles of reincarnation, you once grew up in Gao Family Manor."

"Later, after that great calamity subsided, you also gained a wisp of Merit Purple Qi, drifting through countless reincarnations without ever perishing."

Cui Linglong blinked:

"I don’t understand."

"You will understand in the future."

Li Xiuyuan smiled, and the white horse carried the two of them slowly toward the direction of Gao Family Manor.

Meanwhile.

Above in the sky, amidst the clouds.

"The Sutra Taker has gone to that small town... let’s take a look too."

A Great Divine Power User said indifferently, the companion beside him nodded:

"Is the opportunity in that small town?"

"Not sure."

"However, since the Sutra Taker is heading there, the opportunity must be either in the Abyss or in this mountain town... let’s have a look."

The two Great Divine Power Users hid their divine radiance, quietly descending on the long street of the mountain town,

They looked around calmly, and one of them suddenly noticed a nursing home.

On top of the nursing home’s signboard, were written large characters.

"Qingshan Nursing Home..."

The Great Divine Power User frowned slightly, feeling something indescribable, just as he saw an utterly ordinary, average-looking youth walking up, standing in front of the nursing home.

The youth turned his head, smiling at the two.