Secret Buyer

Time surged like a tide, gently reverberating within the Eight Sceneries Palace.

Occasionally, spray splashed up, startling all the seats into changing color.

Could this be... the river of time??

Most of the seats had never encountered the river of time, but Miss Mingyue of the eight seats was different,

Having followed beside Master Zhen Yuanzi, she had often gazed at the flow of time.

Indeed, it was the river of time.

A look of alarm appeared on Miss Mingyue’s face, although she had long been trapped between the Two Realms Mountain, trapped within Little Stone Mountain,

In those thousand years, she and Qingfeng had communicated and moved the master, learning many things from him,

For example, the Celestial Emperor who is suppressed above the river of time, blocking all creatures from crossing time!

But why can the True Man so easily stir the river of time?

The True Man is not the Taiqing Tao Ancestor...

Just as the seats were puzzled and uncertain.

The tides of time slowly subsided, Zhang Fusheng let out a soft sigh.

The limits of the dust-sealed years were much more severe than he had imagined much more...

Zhang Fusheng, in the guise of a True Man, stood beside the ’Great Celestial Venerate’, gazing at the seats, each already not ordinary, somewhat dazed.

For the seats, merely a thousand years had passed——it seemed long, but in the entire cosmic scale, it was insignificant.

And how many years had passed for Zhang Fusheng?

It had already become unquantifiable by numbers.

He listened to the teachings of the three Supremes, deduced each divine technique and great divine technique to Great Success and even Perfection,

He comprehended eighty-four thousand paths, leaving varying degrees of ’personal imprints’ on each path,

Moreover, he personally experienced all the dust-sealed history that had been altered and erased...

In every instant of history, he might have undergone thousands of alterations.

In some sense, Zhang Fusheng was already more ancient than all existing Daluo, truly able to stand equal with the Supremes in ’ancientness’.

But still unable to truly escape the dust-sealed years—even just an incarnation.

Silently,

Zhang Fusheng glanced at the ’Great Celestial Venerate’, the Chaos Fog did not obstruct his sight, the youth’s terrified expression was clearly visible.

This was Zhang Fusheng, borrowing the hand of a future Ancient Saint, leaving a seed in the current years,

Although named Zhang Fusheng, yet not Zhang Fusheng.

More so,

He used it as a piece to leverage the stealthily hidden ’Eight Sceneries Palace’ in a certain Great Void World—

Just before falling into the dust-sealed years,

He not only hid the Contract,

Even the illusory Eight Sceneries Palace was detached from his own Divine Realm, placed in the void world where Meng Ahnan resided,

And the fake ’Zhang Fusheng’ bound by cause and effect to this Eight Sceneries Palace,

In some sense, served as Zhang Fusheng’s marker for self-return, his anchor.

Nineteen years of time, relying on this anchor, finally managed to descend a faint and tiny seed of will within the Eight Sceneries Palace.

Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to let this strand of will exit the Eight Sceneries Palace.

But not too far off.

With his mind turning, gradually gathering itself, the ’True Man’ then looked toward the seats, "Perhaps from today onwards, you should no longer call me [True Man]."

All seats were momentarily stunned, the Buddha Son seemed to think of something, a look of astonishment appearing on his face:

"True Man, could it be... you have taken a certain crucial step?"

Standing beside the ’Great Celestial Venerate’, the ’True Man’ smiled:

"Sort of, from today on, you may call me Celestial Venerate."

With that, he turned around, slightly bowing to the ’Great Celestial Venerate’, "Of course, I am merely a Celestial Venerate, not an Infinite Celestial Venerate or a Tao Ancestor."

The seats were taken aback.

The current seats were no longer the same as before, naturally understanding what the title Celestial Venerate implied,

So to speak...

The True Man, no, Celestial Venerate, he had proven the Taiyi Fruit Position, which wasn’t supposed to be manifest in this world due to mysterious iron laws, comparable to the ancient world’s Celestial Buddha??

Chen Nuanyu blinked, quietly sensing something, her heart startled.

Across from the Celestial Venerate standing beside the ’Tao Ancestor’, an indescribable aura flowed, merely probing to sense it,

It made her seem to see the boundless, vast time cosmos, the endless, vast multitude of beings and objects!!

Chen Nuanyu reverently lowered her head, just as she had once done, just as she had a thousand years ago.

Simultaneously.

Zhang Fusheng looked toward the seats, his voice as gentle as before:

"The old rule, everyone should discuss among yourselves first, if there’s anything uncertain, the Tao Ancestor and I will offer explanations."

So saying, he again glanced aside, saluting toward the Chaos Fog’s ’Zhang Fusheng’.

’Zhang Fusheng’ was drenched in sweat.

He didn’t understand what had happened, nor did he understand what this True Man or Celestial Venerate was, where exactly he came from,

Instinctively, ’Zhang Fusheng’ also glanced aside, just meeting the [Celestial Venerate]’s gaze, noting the other’s deep and boundless eyes.

He, no, He... seemed to be able to see himself.

’Zhang Fusheng’s’ heart went cold with fear, yet he was even more puzzled, since he could see himself, he naturally knew he wasn’t that Infinite Celestial Venerate, wasn’t that Tao Ancestor!

But why not expose himself??

’Zhang Fusheng’ couldn’t fathom it, just huddling like a quail, watching as the figures far exceeding his imagination and cognition limits discussed one after another.

"Old rule... let me start."

One seat, Chen Nuanyu spoke in a low voice, her expression somewhat dazed, at the last gathering a thousand years ago,

She had nearly been unable to participate in the discussions between the seats, but now... it wasn’t quite the same.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Nuanyu shook her head slightly, "To be honest with you all, now I am in the upper realm——one of the top ten elders of the upper realm."