Secret Buyer

"What a pity, what’s the matter?" Cui Linglong softly asked again at this moment, Li Xiuyuan just shook his head and gently replied:

"Nothing."

Cui Linglong didn’t press further, instead said:

"Since the World Venerate you mentioned has already appeared, why don’t we go seek Him?"

Li Xiuyuan’s eyes flickered for a moment before he continued:

"Didn’t Miss Yutu make a bet with the owner of this estate, wagering on when the World Venerate would arrive in Chang’an Town?"

"You and I both know, Miss Yutu was originally a person close to the World Venerate—she would certainly come to this place, we just need to wait."

Cui Linglong nodded silently, but then said:

"Since coming to this town, I have had a strange feeling, as if there is someone with a blood connection nearby."

Li Xiuyuan casually replied:

"Isn’t it normal for someone from the Qinghe Cui Family to come here?"

"No."

Cui Linglong frowned:

"It is a higher-level blood connection... I suspect that a very senior member of my Cui clan is nearby."

Li Xiuyuan said indifferently:

"No worries, as long as it’s not your Cui Family’s ancestor—it’s definitely not Him."

"After all, in this heaven and earth, ordinary Divine Spirits cannot enter."

Cui Linglong hummed in response, just slightly furrowing her brows.

.........

Thatched hut.

Zhang Fusheng felt a bit parched.

He couldn’t help but speak:

"Are you saying... the Map of Mountains and Rivers?"

"Exactly."

Wa nodded gently:

"I don’t know how I knew, but upon seeing it, I realized it should be called that."

Zhang Fusheng breathed rapidly, Map of Mountains and Rivers!

No wonder,

At that time, the scroll displayed the real heaven and earth, it could even be directly influenced from outside the painting!

"And that ’Li Xiuyuan’ was weak, without cultivation, just an ordinary person, otherwise..."

Zhang Fusheng sighed inwardly, tracing through causality, he could sense that back then, Li Xiuyuan was just an ordinary person, not even a Martial Artist!

But because of this, it was even more terrifying.

Even an ordinary person could use the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

If it were me?

Zhang Fusheng’s heart trembled slightly as he tried to trace the location of the Map of Mountains and Rivers, but failed, even suffered backlash, with bright golden blood streaming from his eyes.

"Zhang Fusheng?"

Wa exclaimed, reaching out to gently wipe away his bloody tears, and blowing softly into the handsome young man’s eyes:

"Blow gently, and it won’t hurt anymore..."

She was very gentle, and as a cool breeze blew over, the cracks that had begun to form during the massive backlash on Zhang Fusheng,

immediately healed, and the terrifying backlash disappeared as well.

He looked at Wa with uncertainty.

"What is it?" Wa’s eyes were pure beyond measure, she tilted her head slightly, spoke hesitantly:

"I learned from [humans], many children get injured and their mothers will blow on the wound to ease the pain."

Zhang Fusheng was silent for a moment:

"Thank you."

"You’re welcome." Wa smiled happily.

She was constantly receiving all the knowledge known to countless [humans],

yet she was still like a ’newborn child,’ her mind clear like a blank sheet, very innocent.

"I need to go into closed-door cultivation for a while."

Zhang Fusheng said softly:

"If anything happens, wake me up."

He did not intend to seek out Li Xiuyuan immediately—this guy had a lot of issues, and even if he did possess the Map of Mountains and Rivers, he certainly would not hand it over.

"So, who are you really?"

"If the previous Li Xiuyuan was the true Li Xiuyuan, a backup left by Kasyapa Venerate, Living Buddha Jigong."

"Then what kind of existence would it be to seize the backup left by such figures?"

Zhang Fusheng whispered in his heart, his thoughts gradually sinking into the Divine Realm.

He stood above the cloud sea of the Celestial Realm,

his eyes revealed fine star lines, reflecting the various causes and effects upon himself—with those Star Beasts.

This is why Zhang Fusheng only kills, but doesn’t take.

Killing a kind of Star Beast, inherently creates a great cause and effect with that Star Beast clan,

And through causality...

Zhang Fusheng, along the cause and effect with the Fearless Lion, gained insight into one after another Fearless Lions in the Cosmic Star Sea,

He chose the best one hundred, reached out to grab them, and forcibly captured those Star Beasts back!

One type, two types, three types...

Until almost all the types of Star Beasts that had a causal connection with him were captured a hundredfold,

Zhang Fusheng took a deep breath.

Killing can give birth to cause and effect.

Eating can too.

"Let me try..."

He perceived the causality between himself and the Level 4 Star Beast—Mixed-Blood Golden Crow, selected the weakest one, and then followed the thread of causality, his gaze tracing back!

He wanted to catch a Golden Crow.

A living Golden Crow!

.........

Deep in the Star Sea.

"Hard to port, hard to port!"

The captain shouted hoarsely, his expression extremely pale, as the entire interior of the starship flashed red, sounding alarms!

"No, there’s no time, the unknown energy source ahead is rapidly approaching, we can’t avoid it!"

A crew member spoke despairingly:

"That level of energy source... it’s a Level 4 Star Beast!"

Everyone on this hunting ship held their breath, even their hearts skipped a beat!

A Level 4 Star Beast...

They were just a hunting team for Level 1 and Level 2 Star Beasts!

"It’s over..." The captain murmured in despair as he looked at the terrifying energy source getting closer on the screen.

A crew member, still maintaining basic sanity, was doing the last tasks, shouting:

"Unknown Level 4 life form is about to enter our observation horizon, countdown, three! Two!"

Light.

It was an incredibly dazzling, incredibly bright sunlight, surging in from afar, layer upon layer, like a great tide.

"Oh my god..."

Despite having shields and light filters, the captain’s eyes were almost blinded by this extreme light,

He murmured but did not turn away or close his eyes, just stared dumbly at the spectacle in the distance.

A grain of sun, a tiny micro-sun, was speeding in from afar, causing the void to shine, evaporating a nearby small asteroid...

"Sunbird!" A crew member shouted in despair: "It’s not coming for us, just passing by, but the heat wave from it is coming, the ship is expected to withstand for four minutes and thirty seconds—"

Everyone was silent, quietly watching the Sun God Bird streak across the starry sky.

The other was just passing by.

But that extreme heat was enough to doom the entire ship.

"Everyone." The captain took off his hat and spoke in a deep voice: "This is the last magnificent scene we face, and then, it’s a grave."

"The Star Sea will become our eternal tomb."

No one spoke, all staring dumbly at the beautiful Sun Bird flying through the Star Sea.

Suddenly.

"What’s that?!" Someone murmured.

The captain looked towards the extreme sunlight,

Vaguely, he could see chaos light suddenly surging out in a piece of void, and then—

It was a hand!

A giant hand as large as a planet!

"Oh my god..." Someone muttered dumbly, seeing a giant hand fall from the void, pressing down on that Sun God Bird!

The divine bird raised its head and screeched, the great sunlight like a tide, striking back against the giant hand,

But that hand emitted chaotic light, pressing down with the great sunlight!

"I seem to hear... the sound of scriptures?" A crew member murmured.

The captain listened closely, distinctly hearing Brahma sounds faintly chanting, reverberating in the Star Sea!

He saw,

The giant hand, as big as a planet, pressed on the divine bird’s back, then gently flipped over.

"Ugh!" He couldn’t help but retch.

Because when that giant hand flipped over, that piece of starry sky actually flipped over with it, as if everything was tilting!

It was starlight, it was planets, it was the Sun Bird!

That piece of starry sky, with the overturning of the giant hand, collapsed with a bang, suppressing the divine bird,

As if sword light flashed by, and then!

Then the divine bird wailed, the great sunlight dimmed, it struggled powerlessly, divine blood spilling across the starry sky.

Before that terrifying giant hand, it had no effect whatsoever.

The divine bird was captured by the giant hand.

Everything returned to stillness, the alarms in the starship quietly disengaged.

No one cheered.

Everyone dumbly watched that piece of starry sky, battered and shattered from the inversion, watching the disintegrating and collapsing planet in the starry sky.

"My god..."