[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-303":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},1759102,2324,"Chapter 303 - 231: Shift the Blame!","secret-buyer-chapter-303",303,"\u003Cp>To be precise, I’ve seen this place before. Every time I communicate with the great gods, I catch a glimpse of vague scenery,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it’s this incense burner, this shrine, this Heaven and Earth Tablet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be the Venerable God sensing something and summoning me, bestowing the Dharma Marvel to relieve my predicament!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint, unclear voice echoed through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is the matter proceeding?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man prostrated, tears streaming down his face:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Within the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, I’ve gathered 2,700 people’s worth of cause and effect, not far from the ten thousand needed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once the essence, qi, and spirit of ten thousand people are gathered, I can use them as a foundation to carry your will!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the old man changed his tone, speaking horror-stricken:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Venerable God, the person you are seeking is right in front of me, staring at me, having played four games with me... he can manipulate cause and effect!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man prostrated, unable to see the Venerable God,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only hearing the great god’s slight sigh, different from usual, vague, dark, hoarse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten thousand essence souls, ten thousand cause and effect...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man responded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, Venerable God, then you can descend upon them, or command them as your most loyal puppets!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued bitterly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But, Venerable God, the man is still in front of me, what should I do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is indeed in front of you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint sigh sounded, the immense pressure of the Heaven and Earth Tablet suddenly subsided, replaced by a voice—\"You may lift your head.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chess stall old man instinctively raised his head and saw that it was not the great god but a young man sitting upright before the shrine’s meditation mat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curling blue smoke surrounded the young man, drifting about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bald old man’s mind went blank, a chill rising from his tailbone, spreading across his entire body in an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face twisted into a smile uglier than crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng sat on the meditation mat, solemn, surrounded by hidden golden lotus, immortal flowers, auspicious clouds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when he spoke, his voice was dark and indistinct, yet also like a morning bell, evening drum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many are like you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was certain that the Ancestor of Land Immortals had more than just laid this one piece for Divine Descent, for the chessboard held over two thousand cause and effect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>according to the old man’s efficiency, how long must it have taken to accumulate these two thousand causes and effects?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chess stall old man let out a bitter laugh, obviously terrified to the extreme, yet at this moment, closed his eyes without speech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A most sincere believer, is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So be it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual thoughts, like a smoke sea, surged and crashed towards the chessboard old man, intending to directly search the other’s soul memories!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng lightly questioned, sensing a heavy obstruction, a divine spirit level restriction in protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The methods of the Ancestor of Land Immortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was indifferent, a thought moved, and along the Heaven and Earth Golden Bridge formed through the Contract, he was already seated on the meditation mat of the Eight Sceneries Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, so-called divine restrictions were easily bypassed by Zhang Fusheng—his divine thought descending from infinite heights,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>those restrictions couldn’t intercept at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chess stall old man groaned and whimpered, trying to resist, but he was merely a Grandmaster, yet to ignite even the Spirit Furnace Fire, how could he resist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the day he was born a hundred or so years ago until today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small old man’s entire memory had already been thoroughly perceived by Zhang Fusheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A hundred imitation chessboards, eh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging from the chess stall old man’s memories,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this fellow was indeed the only one able to directly communicate with the Ancestor of Land Immortals, the most sincere believer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but there were indeed a hundred imitation chessboards, with the remaining ninety-nine in the hands of not so devout believers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>scattered across various places, quietly conducting Divine Descents through playing chess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These imitation chessboards possessed tremendous power, the victor indeed receiving benefits ’bestowed’ directly from the chessboard...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, ultimately just imitations, with a limit to the grade of bestowed items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if a chess player lost?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would be bound by a strand of special cause and effect, becoming a ’puppet’ or ’chess ghost’ for the chessboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the chessboard owner activated it, the puppet would immediately take effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such a method of Divine Descent is certainly difficult to detect...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng marveled, clicking his tongue, continuing to delve into the old man’s soul memories, discovering the way he communicated with the Ancestor of Land Immortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Turns out, a most sincere believer is itself an altar, a shallow bridge, able to span the chasm between reality and a Different Dimension, directly communicating with the Deity on the other side.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng understood, the once kindled intent to kill extinguished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, this old man couldn’t be killed so easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of great use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A precise starlight flickered in Zhang Fusheng’s eyes as he turned his gaze inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Cui Qingyi’s death, although his plans seemed to have succeeded,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he was still shrouded in a strong sense of crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to see what it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silently operating the Taiyi Chapter, aided by the meditation mat’s boundless elevated position, starlines appeared in Zhang Fusheng’s eyes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the lines interweaving into a vast star abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vaguely,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he saw that he, Li Yiyi, and Luo Cheng were all linked by the same strand of cause and effect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the cause and effect pointing in two directions, one toward the deceased Cui Qingyi, and another indistinct, possibly belonging to an unknown Innate Realm entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But why would an Innate Realm trigger my Spiritual Sense warning?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, why does it also involve the two little ones, Li Yiyi and Luo Cheng?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng couldn’t understand but dared not be careless, pushing the Taiyi Chapter to its limits, catching a glimmer of a scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the thread of cause and effect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he glimpsed a white-robed monk, one seated on a meat-lotus platform, and heard snippets of conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ling Mountain... Living Bodhisattva... Great Black Heaven’s gaze...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So that’s how it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng realized, fully grasping the cause and effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Qingyi’s casual move was unforeseen; the two Mandala Lineage Innate ones intended to summon Great Black Heaven,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hence his Spiritual Sense’s intense alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now all he could do was avoid Li Yiyi and Luo Cheng to naturally dissolve the crisis, but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin’s great tomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ziwei Emperor’s Robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I to confront Great Black Heaven directly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng shook his head, unable to do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one person could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze moved beyond the Taoist Palace, falling upon the bald old man within the Five Mansions Temple, Zhang Fusheng smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately knew the solution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hand Imbued with Cause and Effect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng attempted to shake this thread of cause and effect involving two Mandala Lineage Innate ones, possibly attracting Great Black Heaven—very difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultivation of those two monks matched his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To meddle with cause and effect related to beings of the same realm poses significant difficulty, and to face those stronger?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly impossible to shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Dao of Cause and Effect, while good for teasing weaklings, what about facing beings of the same realm or stronger ones?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng sat on the meditation mat, panting, using all his willpower to forcibly remove the cause and effect from himself, Li Yiyi, and Luo Cheng!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hand gently fell, brushing over the bald old man, transferring the cause and effect onto him as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus it was—[Shift the Blame].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let Great Black Heaven and the Ancestor of Land Immortals deal with each other!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1308,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.352Z",1,"novelbin.me","647fae4b1f3833e2f74a4a6ff074214737352673e87de25e1e02f3542d38e336","secret-buyer-chapter-304","secret-buyer-chapter-302",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]