Secret Buyer

Scorching, burning, blazing, pain.

This was all Zhang Fusheng could feel.

The Golden Crow, even if it was just a mixed-blood Golden Crow, its terrifying heat was enough to scorch through his palm!

"Screech!!"

The mixed-blood Golden Crow was shrieking, each of its radiant golden feathers like divine spears, piercing Zhang Fusheng with streams of blood!

He remained expressionless, just clutching the Golden Crow as he stepped to the Six Ding Divine Fire—ever since obtaining the Fire Eyes Golden Gaze,

his resistance to the Six Ding Divine Fire seemed to have greatly increased,

standing beside the flowing rosy light, he remained completely unaffected.

But this Golden Crow couldn’t stand it, furiously curling into a ball, letting out low whimpers and cries.

"Have you learned to behave?" Zhang Fusheng calmly inquired, then recalled that star beasts possessed no wisdom,

so he retreated slightly, the Golden Crow bristled again, Zhang Fusheng stepped to the Six Ding Divine Fire again.

Repeating this cycle many times,

the Sun God Bird finally learned its lesson, its giant figure shrinking to the size of a common bird,

only then did Zhang Fusheng nod, applying the same method, capturing another relatively weak venerate-level Golden Crow.

Two divine birds of different genders were held in one hand,

then he swept up more than a hundred other star beasts with a flick of his sleeve,

murmuring to himself:

"Now, is the most important step..."

it is about how to transform these star beasts into beings within his Divine Realm.

According to theory, it requires entities like a Buddha Country or Blessed Land forged from a small world to merge the star beasts with his Divine Realm,

but since he has yet to achieve Ascension to God, he cannot fish worlds in the Great Void, however...

"Cause and Effect."

Zhang Fusheng solemnly uttered, gazing at the cause and effect on each star beast,

attaching their cause and effect related to "belonging" one by one to his Divine Realm.

It was very slow and very difficult.

Common star beasts were manageable, at most consuming some energy, but when it came to the two Golden Crows, Zhang Fusheng truly felt numb.

They lacked wisdom, fighting purely by instinct, not possessing any Marvelous Techniques or Divine Techniques,

thus even if they were venerates, they weren’t his match, and with some effort, they could be suppressed,

but at least in terms of realm, the two mixed-blood Golden Crows surpassed him.

And shaking their cause and effect became extremely difficult, the consumption was astonishing!

With every difficult move of their belonging cause and effect, Zhang Fusheng had to swallow a mountain-sized amount of Jingpeng Meat to compensate for the loss,

until all the belonging cause and effect of the two Golden Crows were fully transferred, all the Jingpeng Meat was consumed—

that was half a giant carcass stretching a hundred miles!

The loss was great, but the gain was equally immense.

"As expected from the devouring of all things by Taotie." Zhang Fusheng closed his eyes sensing, vaguely feeling like he grasped the innate divine technique of Roc Feather transforming into Sword Furnace,

with a mere thought, illusory Roc Feathers appeared around him, thousands upon thousands,

and he discovered that, after the Golden Crow transformed into a living being of the Divine Realm,

his Divine Realm unexpectedly gained an unprecedented ’vitality’ and ’reality’!

It was like...

the entire Divine Realm had edged closer to the real world.

"Is it because of venerate-level star beasts?"

"No, it’s not."

"It’s because...a real sun!"

Zhang Fusheng realized, the more real the Divine Realm became, the more terrifying the power bestowed upon him!

He sat cross-legged on the celestial sea of clouds, glanced at the five major dynasties of the Mortal Realm, banishing all the star beasts to a corner of the celestial sea, forbidding them from entering the mortal world,

thus.

"Contract."

Seven thousand years of spiritual cultivation had silently merged with himself.

[In the first year, I continued to advance towards breaking through the second spiritual limit]

[In the second year, I succeeded.]

Zhang Fusheng’s spiritual world began a vast transformation, behind him, a towering Bodhi Tree emerged!

This was a great Bodhi Tree formed by the steaming of spiritual divine thoughts, it was not real, but surpassed reality.

[I sat under the Bodhi Tree, suddenly enlightened, the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi, this Bodhi was never a real Bodhi Tree, but rather a spiritual Bodhi like myself]

Zhang Fusheng understood, after the second spiritual limit, his True Spirit had resonated with the Great Heaven and Earth, in a certain sense, he had become part of the Great Heaven and Earth,

because of this, the things reflected by divine thoughts, even if not refined into reality, already possessed real characteristics!

Like this Bodhi.

"The Buddha back then, also attained enlightenment under his own Bodhi Tree."

Zhang Fusheng murmured deeply:

"Indeed, indeed, Bodhi signifies great wisdom, great enlightenment, it has always been a part of the spirit....."

He briefly opened his eyes, gazing at the old Bodhi Tree in front of the Great Leiyin Temple, suddenly pondering,

whether this Bodhi was excerpted from the Buddha’s spiritual world?

Whether it was the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment?

And whether it was a contingency by the Buddha?

Zhang Fusheng continued to immerse himself in cultivation, a hundred years, a thousand, in an instant.

[In the first millennium, I continued to climb upwards, attempting to glimpse the great power-level spiritual domain, it seemed not difficult]

[In the first thousand one hundred years, my spiritual accumulation thoroughly broke the millennium barrier, my thousand-year refining spirit position was ascending]

[It transformed into the position of ten-thousand-year refining spirit]

[In the fifth millennium, I immersed myself in the mysteries of the spiritual world, suddenly comprehending the truth]

[If the world is a sea of suffering, I am crossing it, whereas I am the spirit, soul, and true spirit, they are my essence]

[The physical body is merely the precious raft on which I rely to cross]

[In the seventh millennium, I gradually ceased cultivation, my spiritual thoughts combined with Bodhi]

[I also discovered, I had enlightened for seven days — a millennium for one day]