[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-232":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Secret Buyer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1759031,2324,"Chapter 232 - 178: He Sits Upon the Underworld","secret-buyer-chapter-232",232,"\u003Cp>This scene was astonishing, completely beyond Zhang Fusheng’s comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan was merely a Grandmaster, with a Minor Perfection spirit realm, completely incapable of influencing reality,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet at this moment, he cut his palm and wrist, and the blood sprayed forth, forming a small blood altar in the air!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A more terrifying scene unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you want to stop me now... it’s too late.\" Lin Shiquan allowed the blood to keep flowing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Furnace Fire behind his head quietly burning, drawing mysterious factors and subtle power of heaven and earth to stimulate the divine technique within the Flames—the Blood Rebirth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng frowned, spiritual thoughts sensing it, at the moment the blood altar was formed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a strange force field appeared around Lin Shiquan, he reached out his hand, only for the force field to block it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty million pounds of force, forty million, fifty million, until it reached the limit of its basic form—eighty million pounds of force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invisible force field creaked under unbearable weight, and a tiny crack splintered in the void where the palm pressed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smile on Lin Shiquan’s face suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Monster!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was horrified, without hesitation peeled open his chest and back skin, pulled out his spine, and with Blood Rebirth, a new spine grew, only to be pulled out again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bloody.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng’s palm pressed upon the unknown force field—it was essentially unable to stop him, he could break it with full strength,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even using [Cause and Effect Parallel], no matter how thick the force field, it would be futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t want to interrupt Lin Shiquan, his spiritual sense did not warn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to see what Lin Shiquan was up to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Zhang Fusheng’s gaze,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan pulled out his spine eight times, tore off his own skin more than ten times,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he endured the pain, wrapping the spine and skin into a simple drum of skin and bone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene made Zhang Fusheng’s eyelids twitch, oh how painful that must be...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And also, it was just too eerie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a cultist, even more than a cultist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan wasn’t doing well either, he mastered Third-class Secret Techniques, now sacrificing his own bloody bones and skin, which was the highest grade, yet also the most painful and damaging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was for the Divine Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should have realized earlier... to be treated this way by the Ancestor of Land Immortals, if not for another Deity, then who else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan panted heavily, the Furnace Fire behind his head flickering, he used all his strength to fiercely slap the skin drum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Dong!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The palm exploded into shreds upon the drumhead of skin pulled taut, a low and solemn sound reverberated, ripples formed on the blood altar amidst the drum sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sound!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan roared:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nine Netherworld!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clapped his hands crosswise, slamming the drum, each strike shattering a hand, then healing immediately under the glow of the Furnace Fire!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drumbeats droned on endlessly, bone fragments piled up on the ground, blood splattered, the altar grew taller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene was as bizarre as it was bizarre, as strange as it was strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng’s pupils suddenly shrank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard the drumbeats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ’down below’, within his spiritual perception, within the Divine Realm, faint, like the buzz of gnats,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet also harmonized with the roaring in front of him from Lin Shiquan’s arduous drumming!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once, once more, and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did he... achieve this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng murmured, his thoughts sinking into the depth of his spirit, deep into the Divine Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found the source of the drumbeats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the divine statue worshipped day and night by dozens of souls for hundreds of years, within the ever-burning incense burner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Tok! Tok! Tok!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drumbeats sounded, the souls worshipping were bewildered, faint words of prayer, invocations resounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng snapped his fingers, and the entire Divine Realm, except for the Five Mansions Temple and the Other Shore region, suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grim skeletons wandering, the flawless souls kneeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His form vague, blurred, after pondering a moment, merged his mind with the giant divine statue that had been knelt before and prayed to for hundreds of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The divine statue opened its eyes, looked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the Divine Realm, from an indescribable perspective, he saw within reality—and saw the altar, saw Lin Shiquan beating the drum, though beyond that was hazy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perspective happened to be within the force field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting, interesting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng marveled, pondering, operated the enormous divine statue that shouldn’t be able to move, and spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mercy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan beat the skin drum again and again, drenched in sweat, blood flying, bone shards gathering more and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mercy!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A solemn, majestic, divine-laden sigh resounded from the blood altar!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan ecstatically fell to his knees:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, Lin Shiquan, pay respects to the Nine Netherworlds Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kowtowed, his heart surged, it succeeded, it succeeded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan peeled out his heart, placed it on the blood altar,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Furnace Fire illuminated, he coldly glanced at the young man standing motionless outside the force field,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then continued kowtowing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a follower of the Ancestor of Land Immortals, yet this Deity was arrogant, offended the Venerable Lord, I now in the Venerable Lord’s name, fell into misfortune, seeking divine intervention to relieve my plight!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng’s thoughts sank into the Divine Realm, within the giant divine statue,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he silently perceived, stealthily operated the Primordial Ancient Scripture, able to vaguely sense some fragmented causes and effects—but it was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through cause and effect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng vaguely discovered the root which allowed Lin Shiquan to build the blood altar and reach this place was because of...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Incense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intangible and ethereal, yet truly existent incense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After hundreds of years of worship, the divine statue indeed encircled with incense, I descended with the Dharma Aspect of the Nine Netherworlds Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate, thus had a trace of incense presence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng murmured to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The special Dharma Gate Lin Shiquan used was to sacrifice himself, create the altar, then act as a guide with incense to communicate with the Deity...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, the limitations are still immense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With enlightenment skyrocketing, Zhang Fusheng, only through the divine statue’s perspective seeing into cause and effect, and just now monitoring Lin Shiquan’s every move,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at this moment arrived at a rough conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mysterious force gathered by such a small altar cannot pierce the barrier between reality and the Different Dimension.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, it can only barely communicate with the Deities of the Different Dimension, or perhaps...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Directly communicate or even contact the Deity leaving the Different Dimension.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoughts revolving, manipulating the divine statue with its head bowed, issuing a vast voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can I assist you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pray to the Venerable God to slay this brute!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan intoned, the altar rotated, facing Zhang Fusheng outside the force field, and from the perspective of the divine statue, Zhang Fusheng also saw his own body in reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kill myself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought occurred to Zhang Fusheng, his thoughts returned to his true self, as he raised his eyes, looking at Lin Shiquan with a crazed expression,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at the darkened blood altar, and at the vaguely towering form looming above...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, this is the perspective.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking from reality, there, that vague and towering divine statue seems like a boundless Dharma body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deity, incense...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoughts swiftly churned, then rapidly subsided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared on Zhang Fusheng’s face, he clasped his hands together and bowed to the blood altar:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Upper God, it’s been a long time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan’s crazed expression suddenly froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He panic-strickenly lifted his head, panic-strickenly looked at the blood altar, suddenly hearing a chuckle emanate from the altar’s celestial body:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve said it before, no need to call me Upper God, you helped me re-enter the Nine Netherworlds, there’s a debt of gratitude, you and I should call each other friends.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng solemnly shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That would be too presumptuous, if it weren’t for your repeated divine gifts, how could I, in just two months, have transformed from a mortal to my current state as a Great Sect Master?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I should be the one bowing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clasped his hands again, and bowed to the blood altar. The altar reflected a hazy, sky-reaching divine Dharma body, which calmly accepted the gesture and then sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The divine spirit’s authoritative voice resonated from the unknown:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you.....Lin Shiquan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan was now bewildered, his mind chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From mortal to Grandmaster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Zhang Fusheng...is a Grandmaster!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were just that it would be alright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is well-acquainted and familiar with this Nine Netherworlds Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan forced a smile more bitter than crying, prostrating on the ground, shivering slightly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Venerable God above, it’s the child’s arrogance that offended, I beg the Venerable God’s forgiveness...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan knelt on the ground, trembling:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am willing to create three thousand golden bodies among mankind to atone for today’s sin, I am willing to chant your name day and night, to offer sacrifices day and night...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hazy divine spirit reflected from the altar chuckled silently, turning its gaze to Zhang Fusheng:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young friend, what do you think?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng bowed, earnestly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are the Central Pole Sect Leader, Emperor of the Underworld, Nine Netherworlds Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate, sitting in the netherworld, presiding over the Underworld, how dare I make decisions on your behalf?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, he smiled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, I have no major grudges or feuds with this Inspector Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan, awed by the string of titles, lifted his head, casting a grateful glance towards Zhang Fusheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The altar vibrated, divine spirit’s authoritative voice resonated from the unknown:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let it end here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ancestor of Land Immortals...yet the end of your fate is near.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young one, remember what you said.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The altar reflected a flickering ethereal vision,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan respectfully bowed, looked up, in a fleeting glance, glimpsing a fraction of the Venerable God’s domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Venerable God, kneeling were vague soul spirits, afar were overlapping hellish landscapes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sky-reaching Ghost Gate, where countless souls float in a purgatory of death, a river slicing through the land, along its banks a faint glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That faint glow, as if gazing towards the Other Shore, like a destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The altar disintegrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan lay prostrate on the ground, gasping voraciously, hearing the protective barrier he had constructed shatter, as a pair of feet stepped before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With difficulty, he lifted his head, finding it was the young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence, silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the night sky, autumn winds gently blew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Th-thank you.\" Lin Shiquan began lowly, placing a hand on his shoulder, helping him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hold no grudge against you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng said indifferently:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yet you are willing to serve under Central Pole Sect Leader, Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate, hence we can stand together...your backer is Lin Yusheng, also a follower of Ancestor of Land Immortals, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan’s expression was complex, still drenched in cold sweat — for he had sensed divine wrath!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Already enveloped by the feeling of impending death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for Zhang Fusheng speaking up...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not question how Zhang Fusheng came to favor with a divine spirit, merely nodded, softly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once was.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan concealed nothing, having pledged allegiance to the Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate, naturally having to be loyal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke in a low voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Ancestor of Land Immortals was a complete madman, utterly indifferent to our lives, yet we erected so many temples for him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, Lin Shiquan looked at Zhang Fusheng again, cautiously asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder, in which sect does the Venerable God stand? Or is the Venerable God like half of the Ancestor of Land Immortals, standing alone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The latter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng smiled and patted Lin Shiquan’s shoulder, brushing off dust and blood stains:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate, just awakened from slumber, stands in the Nine Netherworlds, rooted in the Underworld.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Gulp!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan swallowed, somewhat lost, murmuring to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Truly residing in the legendary Nine Netherworlds of the underworld, where even deities cannot reach...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng raised his brows, what did it mean that deities could not reach?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Other Shore Flower Cluster’s Ancient Saint, then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait a moment, that Ancient Saint said, he was imprisoned, exiled there, seemingly not having seen any living beings for many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoughts circulated, temporarily contained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard Lin Shiquan ponder:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But if indeed in the Nine Netherworlds of the underworld, then the one who once traversed here...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng calmly replied:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was a worldly form of the Venerable God—brought by my guidance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan suddenly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Return and contact your uncle, Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate desires to see his sincerity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Shiquan’s demeanor tensed, after a brief silence, he bowed his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Divine Envoy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We will establish a sect for the Venerable God.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2159,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.351Z",1,"novelbin.me","ccd7bf51ebd588a8495eaa73d8a79e5cfd076fe4934ab61c41142aae780921b8","secret-buyer-chapter-233","secret-buyer-chapter-231",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]