Secret Buyer

"Within ten days, all are prohibited from killing."

The atmosphere in Chongyang City turned slightly silent.

The few people in front of the Bodhi sapling also quietly faded into the silence, concealing their forms.

Meanwhile, beyond the heavens.

"Everyone, did you understand?" An elder asked gravely, with an incredulous look on his face:

"What exactly happened? I could only vaguely glimpse a trace of sword Qi..."

After a pause, his expression grew even more serious:

"That sword Qi is very mysterious, so much so that just a fleeting glimpse gives me the illusion of ’cracking’!"

"The most crucial point is that mortal girl, whose soul had already returned to the Six Paths Prison, yet she revived, as if time reversed!"

Silence filled the celestial vault, the gods’ faces more or less showing awe, contemplating what they had just witnessed.

After a while, Kong Shentong spoke in a low voice:

"It’s still the Dao of Cause and Effect."

All gazes turned to him, as he softly explained:

"The sword Qi seemed to descend along the lines of causality, leaving no chance to evade—unless someone who also grasped the Dao of Cause and Effect, severs the traced and locked cause and effect."

"Besides that, the grade, or should I say the position, of that sword Qi seems alarmingly high, even the New Heaven of the Celestial Principle Sect cannot protect against it!"

A divine spirit asked:

"And what about that mortal girl who seemed to reverse time and revival?"

"Still the Dao of Cause and Effect."

Kong Shentong’s face finally revealed an expression of admiration, sighing:

"I can vaguely see, there are invisible large hands manipulating causality, eradicating the cause of the girl’s death."

"Since the cause of death is gone, how can there still be the effect of having died?"

"Thus, she came back to life, and the process appeared like the scene of time reversing."

As he spoke,

Kong Shentong’s expression of astonishment deepened:

"The person skilled in causality, in my understanding, could be ranked in the top ten, no, top five."

The gods exchanged glances, this one who had lived countless years, seen countless powerful beings,

was himself a Great Divine Power User, and his circle was likewise—

Yet the mysterious person’s mastery of causality, among those Kong Shentong had seen, could be ranked in the top five??

That would be terrifying.

"Ten days of descent..." a divine spirit’s eyes flickered: "How will He descend?"

The spirit unconsciously used the term ’He’.

Though entering Chongyang Heaven and Earth signifies he’s not divine-level,

his terrifying methods were even greater than those of ordinary Venerates!

"Let’s watch, observe, listen," Kong Shentong simply said,

beside him, another elderly Great Divine Power User also nodded,

"I suddenly feel that the so-called great opportunity perhaps isn’t as important as that mysterious person, claiming to come from Ling Mountain, from beyond High Heaven, then what is His true purpose?"

"Is it merely for the so-called great opportunity?"

"I think, perhaps not."

The gods fell into contemplative silence.

......

Divine Realm.

Wa Country, capital’s Imperial Palace, Wa Goddess Hall.

The Imperial Guards surrounded the entire Wa Goddess Hall, the ancestor of Wa Country personally emerged from seclusion, stepping through immortal mists.

"Who is in the hall?"

The ancestor asked in a deep voice, while the current emperor shook his head:

"I don’t know, appeared out of thin air, directly entered Wa Goddess Hall, seems to perform rites there, any soldiers attempting to capture him fall unconscious."

The Old Celestial Being coughed, squinting, nodded, his sight piercing into Wa Goddess Hall, falling upon a young man with an illusory form.

Spiritual Sense trembled.

It wasn’t a warning, but an...exhilaration?

As if meeting the Supreme Venerate, having that feeling of bowing from the depths of one’s heart to the ultimate ruler, made the Old Celestial Being’s heart race.

After a moment of silence, he spoke in a low voice:

"No one should come near, nor disturb the presence within... establish this place as a restricted area for the time being."

The emperor, though perplexed, nodded to the director:

"Yes, ancestor."

Meanwhile, within the hall.

Zhang Fusheng exhaled lightly, seeming a bit weary, yet with eyes bright as stars:

"It truly is possible..."

He had indeed reversed a person’s life and death.

Though it was just an ordinary mortal girl.

But it at least proved that the Dao of Cause and Effect was truly boundless and profoundly mystical!

"Eradicating the cause of birth, thus the being is wiped out by heaven and earth—not simply dead, but never existed, never born, and even the soul is absent."

Zhang Fusheng murmured deeply:

"And if the cause of death is removed, then the effect of having died is gone as well, raising the dead or rather, making it as if they never died."

He silently contemplated, pondering:

"My mastery over the Dao of Cause and Effect is still too shallow, perhaps if it were a little deeper, I could touch upon the true flow of time."

Zhang Fusheng’s eyes blazed even brighter,

although erasing the cause of death for a mortal consumed enormous energy, the cost and benefits utterly imbalanced,

the lost essence, Qi, and spirit were enough to recreate a thousand Martial Arts Masters,

but the significance behind it was entirely different.

Moreover, this was not the limit of the Dao of Cause and Effect, far from it.

"If my cultivation was sufficient, my mana adequate, my insight into the Dao of Cause and Effect deep enough..."

"Then when I eradicate someone’s cause of birth, they would truly have never been born, not merely erased—entire timelines would change!"

"Eradicating the cause of death, the same."

"Ah, the Dao of Cause and Effect..."

Zhang Fusheng softly praised, then looked towards the Wa Goddess Statue.

The statue gleamed faintly, under the reflected light of the surrounding furnace fire and incense, appearing both dim and solemnly majestic.

The Wa Goddess Statue, after 4,600 years of incense tribute, had long birthed a trace of divinity, lodged within the statue.

A trace of divinity belonging to [Wa].

Divinity supreme, even far surpassing the other four divine statues in the Mortal Realm,

which is why Wa Country stands as the strongest among the five dynasties.

"Your Majesty, forgive the offense."

Zhang Fusheng whispered, reaching out to strip the supreme divinity from the Wa Goddess Statue.

Without any obstruction, easily done.

The Lady had permitted it.

He caressed the statue, stepping away from Wa Country, descending into the Nine Nether Realm, entering the Imperial Palace on Luofeng Divine Mountain.

"Daoist friend," the Central Pole Sect Leader performed a courtesy, and Zhang Fusheng returned it.

"Please assist me, Daoist friend," Zhang Fusheng said to the Central Pole Sect Leader—though both were [himself], with hearts completely in sync,

yet on a grander scale, they were entirely different individuals.

The Central Pole Sect Leader smiled, raised his hand, causing the enormous carcass of the Jingpeng resting in the Imperial Palace to float up,

Zhang Fusheng, with a thought, relocated the two Jingpeng carcasses he had previously collected along with Yingtian City,

The two stood side by side, carrying the three colossal carcasses up to the heavenly realm, to the clouds of the Celestial Realm.

Here, there was a flowing radiance—Six Ding Divine Fire.

"Let me have a taste first."

Zhang Fusheng opened his mouth to bite, now stronger than before, but after biting down...

his teeth shattered.

He grinned, not angry, and with a thought, his ancestral acupoint at the center of his brow opened wide, blending the founding sword Qi with his being.

Suddenly,

a sensation of extreme sharpness emanated from Zhang Fusheng,

so sharp that even the distant Six Ding Divine Fire trembled, as if it might be severed!

"The founding sword Qi..."

He marveled softly, taking another bite, successfully tearing off chunks of the Jingpeng flesh and swallowing them.

The Taotie’s devouring talent activated,

instantly digesting the Jingpeng flesh, with a vast amount of divine essence flooding Zhang Fusheng’s senses, his true spirit undergoing transformation!

"Am I growing Roc Feathers?"

"No, Sword Feathers."

He clicked his tongue in amazement, then as he gestured, the founding sword Qi resonated.

The massive Jingpeng carcass, difficult for even a Venerate to divide, was effortlessly sliced in half, leaving half to consume slowly,

while the other half, along with the two complete Jingpeng carcasses, was cast into the Six Ding Divine Fire!

"Today, let’s craft a body for [Wa]."