Secret Buyer

Chapter 652: Chapter 381

Beyond the present world, above the flow of time.

This place does not belong to the end of this river of time, nor is it within the temporal region of a hundred thousand years before and after,

Here is the great chaos, the unspeakable land, the ultimate realm, and also the true grand arena where the divine wills dwell.

A green lotus, as real as it is illusory.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable quietly gazes at the lotus and suddenly asks:

"Taiqing, has the matter succeeded?"

Taiqing’s figure is very blurred, seemingly in some weakened state,

He lowers his eyelids, just standing quietly there, while eighty-four thousand paths swirl around him,

His existence is existence itself, the cornerstone of everything, the fundamental basis for the continuation of all things, the inevitable process from nothingness to being, from being to nothingness.

The Taiqing Celestial Lord of Tao and Virtue slowly extends a hand,

What is held in the palm,

is a bit of True Spirit.

Or rather, a seed hidden in the deepest part of the soul of a being from an old world.

He asks the True Spirit:

"Has the matter succeeded?"

The bit of True Spirit sways and happily responds:

"Great Master, it is done."

"That person named Zhang Fusheng, as you foresaw, indeed sought out Xuanqing and reached an agreement. After Xuanqing and Senior Brother Xuandu merge, the Supreme Fruit Position falls to that Zhang Fusheng."

Pausing for a moment,

he adds:

"Of course, that’s after you, Great Master, have taken the core, leaving behind the ’shell’ and ’remnants’ of the Supreme Fruit Position."

After speaking,

the child saw that both the Master and Primordial Great Master smiled simultaneously,

He was puzzled but habitually praised:

"Master, your schemes are truly divine... Xuanqing thought he suddenly awoke, wanted to be himself, the true self, thus opposing you, Master..."

"Little did he know, it was all arranged by you, Master."

"Even to the extent of placing me within Xuanqing’s True Spirit from early on, monitoring everything as if wearing a false garment with the prohibition...."

The Taiqing Celestial Lord of Tao and Virtue showed no change in expression, just lowered his eyelids and sighed deeply.

Nearby, the Primordial Celestial Venerable smiled:

"Taiqing, if we were to talk about scheming, you would be ranked first among all fellow Daoists."

Taiqing calmly spoke:

"Primordial, you are the Cause of All Results, you should understand even better than I do, everything progresses with its sequence, to follow the sequence, seek the result, to gain the reason among, to achieve what the heart desires, is only a natural result."

Pausing, he continued:

"I will not interfere too much with matters and things, just handle one or two subtly, and then let everything follow its course, and so desires are naturally fulfilled."

The Primordial Celestial Venerable shook his head with a smile:

"You are now the incarnation of the present; now that Fellow Daoist Shijia has already passed into extinction, your grasp of [present] is nearly as good as it was in the early years, naturally you can easily achieve all this, I cannot."

Taiqing shook his head, lecturing:

"That’s because you are unwilling to put in the effort."

The Primordial Celestial Venerable smiled silently.

The child listened somewhat confused, thought for a moment, then cautiously spoke:

"Right, Master, when I was monitoring the great world, I discovered that Zhang Fusheng also did one thing; he captured Venerate Ah Nan and seemed to have thrown him into some world."

"I suspect Zhang Fusheng wants to use reincarnation to wear away Venerate Ah Nan’s Buddha-heart, then cause him to convert..."

Pausing, the child continued:

"After all, Venerate Ah Nan is a means left by Shakyamuni Buddha, should I intervene a bit?"

The Supremes cannot gaze upon or interfere with the [present node], cannot directly interfere or influence the hundred thousand years surrounding it,

But can, by leveraging subordinate beings, grasp the process of the [present node], ensuring things still develop in accord with their thoughts,

Like Guang Chengzi to the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the child to the Celestial Lord of Tao and Virtue.

As Taiqing was about to respond, the Primordial Celestial Venerable smilingly interjected:

"This child cannot see clearly, do not act recklessly, Ah Nan is not Shakyamuni Buddha’s means."

The child hurriedly saluted, still somewhat confused, pondering for a while before suddenly realizing.

Since Venerate Ah Nan is not the means of Shakyamuni Buddha... then it can only be the means of the Master!

He swallowed hard, heart turning cold, even in a time when the Supremes cannot gaze or intervene, could the Master really cover everything like this?

The Taiqing Celestial Lord of Tao and Virtue at this time spoke with a smile:

"Ah Nan’s role was originally to prevent that monkey from truly overturning the heavens, but now it seems it won’t be needed anymore, there’s no need to focus on it."

His voice was very calm, yet the information revealed casually was extremely terrifying.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable nodded peacefully, pointing to the green lotus in front:

"But Taiqing, you should not be too careless, Upper Clarity suffered a huge loss due to momentary negligence, due to some minor Daluo level fellows, and has been asleep to this day..."

Pausing,

the Primordial Celestial Venerable continued with caution:

"Sun Wukong, Tai Shang Laojun, or even that child Yang Jian, appear unlikely to cause any storm, but there could still be other fellow Daoists’ means at play within them."

Taiqing nodded:

"I am certainly aware."

The two casually chatted, while the child listened nervously, swallowing hard, greatly shocked,

It turns out the monkey and the Tai Shang Laojun were plotting so many things..... but what they thought was hidden was, in fact, already seen through by the Master.

Silver Horn felt a surge of emotion, although already accustomed to the power of the Supremes,

but each time faced with them, he still couldn’t help trembling.

The Supremes, also called the Heavens Will, and the Heavens Will mean all things and all beings are within their will - including the rebellion against the Supremes.

The conversation between the two Supremes gradually came to an end, as the Taiqing Celestial Lord of Tao and Virtue pushed with his hand, the True Spirit of Silver Horn returned to the [present node],

Meanwhile, the Primordial Celestial Venerable’s expression suddenly turned solemn: