[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-302":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},1759101,2324,"Chapter 302 - 231: Shift the Blame!","secret-buyer-chapter-302",302,"\u003Cp>\"There was an attack there by an unknown force. It was brutal. With the Cui family estate at its center, everything for miles was withered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A black mist surged like a tide, and the estate turned into a scene of unimaginable horror. Everyone was struck by a great plague. Even the two Innate warriors were infected, coughing blood, barely holding on!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The upheaval at the Cui family estate spread through Chongyang City like a gust of wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the city, lurking sects and Divine Favor Envoys all gazed towards the Cui family estate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only to see the black mist roiling, with grim, undying skeletons standing within it. A figure in a black robe emerged,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and everywhere he tread, plants and trees withered, leaving the ground covered with an indelible gray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two Innate masters of the Cui family fled through the sky, coughing brilliant blood along their way, a pitiful sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did they... come from?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taoist Xu from the Eastern Sect was shocked, watching the scene unfold:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Plague, withering, decline... Could it be related to the Western Sect, the followers of the Plague God?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taoist Xu’s expression slightly tightened, then relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"World Venerate above...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the distant black mist began to recede, and one by one, the grim skeletons and the enigmatic figure in the black robe\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>vanished into the shadows along with the retreating fog, disappearing completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that remained was the desolate land and the sky-high aura of pestilence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one dared to approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The underground market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one here knew about the shocking turn of events at the Cui family estate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most people didn’t even know who the Cui family was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He won!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yiyi exclaimed in amazement, and the crowd murmured in surprise, completely unexpected that this young man actually won a game!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would be the prize this time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intense gazes shot over, and the old chess stall owner breathed rapidly, his face extremely pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others couldn’t see it, but with the help of the chessboard, he could clearly see that this terrifying young man was repeatedly crushing the cause of his losing streak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most crucial thing is.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard the divine decree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great Ancestor of Land Immortals issued an order that resounded in his mind, containing only a brief sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The one who defies the god, lies within your reach]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it this young man?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be this young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng quietly gazed at the bald old man, reaching out to rub the very familiar chessboard,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had just taken the time to enter the Divine Realm and went to the Longevity Mountain’s Five Mansions Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one of the eighty-one rooms, Zhang Fusheng saw a dark red chessboard identical to this one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked in, using Touching the Void, gently caressed the chessboard, wanting to lift it, only to be shocked to find the chessboard incredibly heavy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng raised an eyebrow in disbelief, as behind him appeared the majestic Grotto Heaven consecrating the Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>instantly transforming into the Ten Thousand Feet Bull Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the narrow room could eerily accommodate the entire Ten Thousand Feet Bull Demon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>though towering at ten thousand feet, he didn’t even touch the three or four meter high ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rise!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng shouted, the Flame Divine Mountain shook, exerting all his strength to lift the chessboard—still, he failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A small chessboard, at least as heavy as a vast mountain range...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, his eyes gleaming brightly, and externally, the chess stall owner’s chessboard, should be an imitation of this chessboard from the Five Mansions Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here’s the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the chessboard did not, like other Supreme Treasures, drift into the real world, how could there be an imitation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an imitation bestowed by the Ancestor of Land Immortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness returned to his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng observed and noticed a few young folks with compasses, appearing frightened and hesitant to approach from afar,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the compass needles all pointed towards the old chess stall owner, directed at the old fellow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet Zhang Fusheng could sense that these people were terrified of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They recognized him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Tap, tap, tap’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng lightly knocked thrice on the chessboard:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, where’s my prize?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three knocks, in others’ ears, sounded ordinary, but in the chess stall owner’s ears, they were like three thundering heavenly booms!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His organs trembled fiercely, hair disheveled, he struggled to speak:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can’t afford to give a reward....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then come with me, how about it?\" Zhang Fusheng asked softly, his eyes deep as the tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This chessboard is very problematic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interwoven all over it were various causes, each thread seemingly from those who lost,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but these causes were extraordinary, like after Li Yiyi and Luo Cheng lost their games,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the causes connected to them continuously drew something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to be Essence, Qi, and Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet also seemed to be Qi luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ancestor of Land Immortals... Divine Descent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Descent requires a large amount of souls and blood as sacrifices, fleetingly communicating with a Different Dimension to establish a ’bridge’, only thus can part of a deity’s will be led to descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were a Stabilizing Needle.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the true body could descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man, now trembling, wore a smile uglier than a cry on his face:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Customer is kidding...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced himself to be calm, believing that this terrifying being playing with cause and effect might not know who he was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he hadn’t revealed any clues... right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald old man reassured himself with this thought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when he saw the young man tap the chessboard once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Tap!!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This soft sound left the chess stall owner dizzy and dazed, in a trance, his vision blurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he opened his eyes again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found himself in a vast hall, solemn and dignified around,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before him was a majestic incense burner, and a grand shrine, within which the tablet bore the words [Heaven and Earth]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An overwhelming might surged, and the old man involuntarily knelt before the Heaven and Earth Tablet, rejoicing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Venerable God above!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been here before.\u003C\u002Fp>",1024,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.352Z",1,"novelbin.me","cfbbcda314060908088189282a30387cd7996625f246344781731cb71054ad3b","secret-buyer-chapter-303","secret-buyer-chapter-301",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]