Secret Buyer

"Is this the Different Dimension?"

Standing at the Dimensional Overlap Point, Zhang Fusheng found himself engulfed in a unique sensory experience. The affairs of the current world and those from the Different Dimension unfolded simultaneously before his eyes,

much like when he once penned the Tao Te Ching, existing both in ancient times and the Spring and Autumn era.

At this moment, he existed in Yin Chang’an, and also within the Different Dimension.

In sight.

The earth was barren and shattered, though the sky held a remnant sun, it remained dim and oppressive—an undeniably true remnant sun.

Zhang Fusheng raised his gaze, seeing half of a sun, with the other half nowhere to be seen.

With his current eyesight, he couldn’t discern the details of the sun, feeling only a vague sense of terrifying oppression!

Merely looking at it, the oppressive sensation pressed down on his heart and body through the sunlight!

"How can a remnant sun invoke such?"

Zhang Fusheng was stunned. Only two or three had ever instilled such a degree of oppression in him.

One being the Supreme, another Wa, and the third, the Celestial Emperor seated upstream of the river of time.

"Could it be..."

A tremor passed through Zhang Fusheng’s heart as he forcibly activated the Fire Eyes Golden Gaze, his Essence, Qi, and Spirit barely sustaining the moment,

but this fleeting moment was enough.

A fleeting glimpse.

Zhang Fusheng saw that the sun wasn’t a sun, but a half-clad corpse in an Emperor’s Robe!

The lower half of the godly corpse was nowhere to be found, and the upper half had no head, just a torso and raised arms pierced by a long sword, nailed to the Celestial Vault, thus becoming the remnant sun!

And on that sword...

Zhang Fusheng saw two bloodstained characters on the sword’s body.

"Extinct Immortal."

Four Immortal-slaying Swords represent Extinct, Slaughter, Trapped; the Immortal Slaying Sword nails the Ancestor Roc Peng in the depths of the current world’s starry sky,

while the Extinct Immortal Sword sits at the Celestial Vault of the Different Dimension, nailing the ’sun’, nailing half a nameless godly corpse!

A violent burning sensation burst in his eyes, Zhang Fusheng groaned, blood tears flowed from his eyes, his body began to wither, crack, and collapse!

In an instant, he was near death, hastily knocking on the Gate of the Past, canceling his exploration of the remnant sun,

his body suddenly restored, the sense of impending death seemingly never existed, but...

His eyes still burned.

Blood tears continued to flow.

"Roar!!"

From Zhang Fusheng came a low growl, pain, immense pain—as if flames wildly burned his eyes, searing not only his eyes but also his soul!

The terrifying backlash ignored historical changes, transcending time to arrive!

Zhang Fusheng curled on the ground, rolling frantically, but the burning sensation never diminished, growing ever more fierce!

Only a boundless sea of fire remained in his vision, the fire surged from his pupils, engulfing two Great Sun Golden Lamps, smothering countless Cause and Effect star lines,

climbing up to the Kunlun Yuxu hidden in his eye.

"Clang!!"

Suddenly, the Golden Bell before the Jade Void Palace rang.

The burning pain abruptly scattered.

Relieved, Zhang Fusheng’s 36,000 pores opened wide, pouring out hot sweat.

"Remnant sun..."

Heart still uneasy, it took a long time for him to stand, daring not to peek again at the remnant sun, the godly corpse,

Zhang Fusheng scanned the desolate, fragmented land—an endless wasteland filled with collapsed divine peaks and broken immortal rivers. The Different Dimension is nothing but a wasteland!

On the shattered mountains and rivers, sword scars and blade marks abounded, as if a fierce slaughter had raged.

"So... why haven’t I ascended to divinity?"

Zhang Fusheng murmured, sensing something amiss. By all accounts, he should have ascended to divinity?

Frowning, his mind communicated via the scroll sealed with Red Bull True Monarch, questioning Old Bull.

"You’re at the Dimensional Overlap Point?"

Old Bull’s astonished voice echoed in Zhang Fusheng’s ear:

"Not ascended to divinity... that’s odd. Ascension through the physical body to achieve Fruit Position is quite simple, not even requiring millennia of Refining Spirit—it’s physical ascension to divinity."

"Wait."

Suddenly, Old Bull asked:

"How many scenes from the Different Dimension have you anchored in your Divine Realm?"

Startled, Zhang Fusheng quietly recalled and calculated, starting from Longevity Mountain’s Five Mansions Temple,

to the Other Shore Flower Cluster, Luofeng Divine Mountain, Dragon-Carving Platform, then Eight Sceneries Palace, Buzhou Celestial Pillar, Great Leiyin Temple,

plus the Celestial Realm’s cloud sea, Guanghan Palace, and Eastern Sea Dragon Palace...

He answered:

"Exactly ten locations."

"How much??" Old Bull exclaimed, then fell silent.

Zhang Fusheng frowned:

"Is something wrong?"

After a brief silence, Old Bull’s melancholic voice came:

"Too many."

"Nine is the ultimate number, many have anchored above nine major scenes, but they are those who have attained divinity. Who from the Six Realms of the Human Path can access so many Supreme Treasures?"

Pausing, Old Bull continued:

"Ten Different Dimension scenes should still allow ascension—unless the Position of your ten major scenes is very high."

Zhang Fusheng’s lips trembled in silence.

Old Bull sighed softly:

"Seems that’s indeed the case, explaining why your Divine Realm is too formidable, preventing the Dimensional Overlap Point from penetrating your Divine Realm to bestow the Fruit Position in your physical body."

Zhang Fusheng’s eyelid twitched, coming to an understanding; like Superman getting sick and unable to receive shots—the needle couldn’t pierce his skin.

He asked solemnly:

"Is there a solution?"

"Once you ascend, it’s quite simple. You can willingly open your Divine Realm, so no matter how solid it is post-ascension, you can achieve a higher Fruit Position."

"But presently, not having ascended is rather troublesome, highly challenging, depending on your luck."

Old Bull responded solemnly:

"It’s finding one of your anchored major scenes within the Different Dimension, entering it, sitting within, and using that major scene’s power to bestow the Fruit Position in your body."

"The issue is, in high-Position Different Dimension scenes, powerful beings are seated."

"Even without them, locating and reaching those places in the boundless Different Dimension is difficult."

Zhang Fusheng felt relieved at heart:

"It’s not too difficult... I’ll give it a try, by the way, has the Celestial Stele dimmed yet?"

Old Bull answered:

"Soon, not long, maybe a few days, a few hours, or... the next minute."

Zhang Fusheng fell silent, his Divine Thought returning to himself, softly exhaling.

For someone else, this might be a dead end, never achieving divinity in their lifetime, but he’s different due to his profound mastery of Cause and Effect.

"Though merely at the Dimensional Overlap Point, unable to stride within the Different Dimension..."

Dimensional Overlap Point is just a ’point,’ and under normal circumstances, all of Zhang Fusheng’s actions should be confined within this point.

However, there’s a clever way to bypass this.

After a moment of pondering, he Contemplated Five Mansions Temple, silently tracing the Cause and Effect between them, and instantly located Five Mansions Temple!

"Let’s give it a try."

With a thought, Zhang Fusheng imagined himself as an arrow and then stomped his foot, like a bowstring snapping, shooting himself out!

And then—

Cause and Effect Parallel.

With the Cause already emerged, the Effect has arrived.

Thus.

Zhang Fusheng shot towards Five Mansions Temple on the plane of Cause and Effect, using himself as the arrow and appeared at the actual Five Mansions Temple!

Although he only existed for a moment before being forcefully pulled back by that [point], it showed Zhang Fusheng the hope of success.

"I can only exist in Five Mansions Temple for an instant... This Dimensional Overlap Point is very special. If I forcibly leave, I will be immediately dragged back."

"Is it because I haven’t truly Ascended to God? Or is it for some other reason? Regardless, it doesn’t matter."

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, again using himself as an arrow, employing the method of Cause and Effect Parallel, and instantly arrived at Five Mansions Temple,

At the moment he was being dragged back by the Dimensional Overlap Point, he again used Cause and Effect Parallel, again posing himself as the arrow!

Consequently—

A strange scene unfolded at Five Mansions Temple.

A person, an unreal person, appeared outside the main gate of Five Mansions Temple, ’flickering’ at a very high frequency,

appearing for an instant, disappearing for three, resulting in an effect like a video losing frames,

Zhang Fusheng, in this peculiar state, stepped step by step into the Five Mansions Temple.

Many eyes were watching him.

Within Five Mansions Temple, there were people.

All were attendants and servants of the Ancestor of Land Immortals.

"Who dares trespass on the Five Mansions Temple of Heaven and Earth!" a Divine Attendant reprimanded, but Zhang Fusheng ignored them,

He disregarded those from Five Mansions Temple who surrounded him and went toward the Eight Trigrams diagram in front of the main hall on his own, where he sat down cross-legged.

Numerous Divine Attendants and servants surrounded him, yet none dared to make a move—because this scene was just too strange!

An outsider flickering at high frequency, appearing for an instant, disappearing for three, repeating perpetually...

Even each appearance of this strange person generated subtle space ripples, which increased over time, accumulating more and more,

faintly hinting at evolving into a space tide!

There was no choice.

Every four instants, Zhang Fusheng broke through the Dimensional Overlap Point to forcibly arrive, in the midst of attempts to leave and being dragged back,

The space around the Dimensional Overlap Point, like a giant slingshot, continued bouncing, thus creating space ripples, stacking infinitely...

For Zhang Fusheng, however, this was advantageous.

For instance,

A bold Divine Attendant wanted to test him, dropping a Primordial Qi palm, but before it could approach, it was swallowed by space ripples!

"Path of Space..."

Zhang Fusheng murmured, slightly easing his mind, sat in the center of Five Mansions Temple, closed his eyes, discarded external distractions, communicated with the Different Dimension, communicated with Five Mansions Temple.

He multitasked, part observing Yin Chang’an, part existing in the actual Five Mansions Temple, guiding its Essence, attempting to briefly penetrate Divine Realm,

The other part of his mind dwelled within Divine Realm, within an illusory Five Mansions Temple.

Inside the illusory Five Mansions Temple, Zhang Fusheng utilized the Celestial Eye Technique,

witnessing his blurred figure continually flickering before the main hall, an intensely peculiar feeling crept into his heart.

Three parts of his mind, three perspectives, three distinctly different places.

Divine Realm boomed, temporarily separated, within Essence, Qi, and Spirit, a hole was formed on top of [Essence] by [Spirit].

Thus.

The Fruit Position of Heaven and Earth follows the hole and sinks into his flesh—

Thusly.

Ascension of the Flesh.

Zhang Fusheng underwent immense and transformative change.

He stood truly within the Field of Divine Spirits.

He became [Venerate].

He became [True Man] and [Arhat].

The profound principles of heaven and earth, the Essence of all things, the mystical shadows of numerous paths—

At this moment, this time.

In front of his eyes, in his heart.

Venerate, it is the Realm of Manifestation;

Manifestation, it is the navigation through the void;

Void, it is where Multitudes of Worlds are spread;

Zhang Fusheng suddenly felt he underwent a Genesis-like experience—the Essence, Qi, and Spirit were that heaven and earth, an opened heaven and earth!

The clear and light ascended, while the murky and heavy descended, a fourth perspective unfolded, half of the True Spirit was anchored within a Different Dimension, what he witnessed was the void between Different Dimension and reality!

It was one ancient world after another, large and small, endless!

"Multitudes of Worlds....."

Zhang Fusheng muttered deeply, while the other half of his True Spirit anchored within the void—he, no, They.

They then had the ability to traverse the void, traversing the Multitudes of Worlds and even capturing the power of Multitudes of Worlds.

A massive Light and Shadow Giant reflected within the void.

"Refine Essence into Qi, Refine Qi into Spirit, Refine Spirit returning to Void, Refine Void to merge with the Path..."

"So this is the Realm of Venerate, the Realm of Manifestation, it is indeed Refine Void to merge with the Path, Void as the vast void, Path as Different Dimension—not exactly, more accurately speaking, it is Great Heaven and Earth..."

Zhang Fusheng realized completely, Three Flowers gather atop, Five Qi proceeds to origin!

The Realm of Venerate allows the True Spirit to simultaneously anchor in Different Dimension and the vast void, enabling a walk through Different Dimension and the vast void with this dual True Spirit.

Therefore.

They became God.

But it didn’t end.

True Man? Arhat?

No, no, no, it isn’t!

The Fruit Position of True Man and Arhat evidenced by Zhang Fusheng abruptly shattered!

And at this moment.

In the vast void,

The Light and Shadow Giant evolved from half of Zhang Fusheng’s true spirit suddenly adorned with Primordial Cloud, Primordial One Qi emerged behind his head, transforming into thirty-six colors of light!

In the moment of Ascension, the day of Realm Breakthrough.

The Fuli Chapter finally progressed from the Human Path Chapter into the [True Man Chapter].

Obtained, Primordial Innate One Qi.

Verified, Fuli True Man Fruit Position.

A huge wave surged across the void, impacting simultaneously on Different Dimension and the real universe as if a storm pounding the shore!