[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-323":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},1759122,2324,"Chapter 323 - 248: Surviving the Three Tribulations, Attaining the Celestial Human Fruit Position","secret-buyer-chapter-323",323,"\u003Cp>On the Bridge of Helplessness, thunder rolled relentlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng bathed in the thunder, the great sun halo behind his head illuminating a boundless light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunder, like ocean waves, drilled into his body through thirty-six thousand pores!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he remained unmoved, like a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the blazing white light subsided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The thunder calamity is over...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng exhaled a turbid breath. Although he still needed to bathe in thunder for ten years, he could skip this process by using the Contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, he only needed to undergo the calamities of fire and wind; only then would he have survived the three calamities and could prove himself as a Celestial Human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the flickering thunderlight,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he glanced at the dazed residual soul of Emperor Tang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The river of purple energy flowing around the opponent was still digesting the words of this ’ancestor’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I Li Shimin, or Emperor Ziwei?\" he muttered to himself, a look of bewilderment appearing on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a long moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The residual soul looked at Zhang Fusheng and spoke in a low voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ancestor...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You needn’t actually call me ancestor,\" Zhang Fusheng replied calmly. \"I’ve said, I only bear the name of Taiqing, Laozi, not truly the Guardian Storage Room Li Er.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t carry the surname Li.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The residual soul of Emperor Tang nodded in silence and suddenly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am myself, not Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng sighed softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you first were Him, only then yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking quietly, Zhang Fusheng had already discreetly activated the stored cultivation time within the Contract, passing the ten years of the thunder calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There still remained decades of cultivation years within the Contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He exhaled, silently beginning the trial of the fire calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Fire ignited within his five viscera and six bowels, yet strangely, it did not cause significant harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the Yin Fire was attracted to the Yin World Wood Marrow, combining with it, but fiercer Yin Fire continued to roar out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calamities cannot be aided by external forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng coughed lightly, as the intensified nearly tenfold Yin Fire erupted, making the pores on his whole body emit cold fire energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was helpless; unwilling to rely on external help...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the combination of Yin World Wood Marrow and Yin Fire seemed to be undergoing some mysterious transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s residual soul closed his eyes; Zhang Fusheng had already delineated the current situation for him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>judging from various clues,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he served as the backup for Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, hence remaining as a sliver of residual soul here,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if no unexpected events occurred, upon the opening of the so-called Emperor’s Tomb,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his residual soul would revive as Emperor Ziwei’s, no longer as Li Shimin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s residual soul suddenly laughed softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Regardless of who I was in a previous life, whichever path of Immortals and Buddhas, in this life, I am me—I am absolutely not anyone else!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I unified the mortal world and sat in the Taiji Hall; how did it turn out that I became someone’s reincarnation? Absurd!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng gazed at the residual soul of Emperor Tang and suddenly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can forge a human body for you, allowing you to return to the living, and even attempt to sever your ties with Emperor Ziwei.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s residual soul turned aside and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What should I do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Collaborate with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng spoke softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of all the affairs within the Imperial Mausoleum, I want to take seventy percent—this is your mausoleum, you should know its contents, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The residual soul nodded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I may not know future events, as my memory halts at entry into the Underworld, but at that time, I had already crafted the Imperial Mausoleum, creating a Yin Chang’an.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the time I didn’t mind, but now thinking of it, those who insisted that I build the Imperial Mausoleum to mirror Chang’an had ulterior motives...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng nodded silently,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he indeed had no idea what role Emperor Tang played for Emperor Ziwei, but inevitably felt somewhat sympathetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He himself, was he not just another method of some Divine Buddha?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was for this reason that he had come so far—but now that he was here, he naturally had to escape everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he did not know who was behind it all—the Three Pristine Ones?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng took a deep breath, the fire calamity of Yin had gone amidst every word spoken, melding another ten years of cultivation time with himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ten years of bathing in flames, now only the wind calamity remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biting wind entered his being, eroding bones and consuming the soul, mind muddled, vision chaotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held on, stabilizing himself, silently chanting the Fuli Chapter, his flesh emitting a faint glow, the golden lamp flames in his eyes flaring up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their brilliant light forced Emperor Tang’s residual soul to retreat again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biting wind continued to rampage inside his body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the skin seemed intact, but the internal organs were dissolving, and the soul swayed with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why is the wind calamity so fierce?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng murmured, suspecting it was related to his consecutive overcoming of the three calamities, if it were any ordinary Innate Limit...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>fear and the soul would already have been scattered by the biting wind!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his Divine Realm’s towering spirit, accumulated over four thousand three hundred years, that allowed his soul to remain profoundly resilient, otherwise...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the wind calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng narrated the present world to Emperor Tang, discussing the disappearance of Immortals and Buddhas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, only three old-world Divine Buddhas remain that I know of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One is my true self, sitting at the infinite heights—Taiqing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s expression shifted slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another is the master of the Nine Netherworlds, the Central Pole Sect Leader, also known as Nine Netherworlds Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Zhang Fusheng’s demeanor became solemn; much of his encouragement for Emperor Tang’s residual soul to sever ties with Emperor Ziwei stemmed from this Central Pole Sect Leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Ziwei left backup plans everywhere related to the Underworld Nine Netherworld,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet it would be all right if not for that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the most crucial part is that, if he remembered accurately, Emperor Ziwei similarly possessed the authority to oversee the Underworld,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>occupying a position at least in the top three within the Underworld!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this renowned Divine Buddha truly returned through Emperor Tang’s residual soul?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would likely attempt to take control over the Nine Netherworld of the Underworld.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were such an old-world Divine Buddha indeed to tread the mortal realm, even as just a residual soul, for both the High Heaven Association and the heights above regarding himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it would pose a substantial risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His ability to achieve everything today stemmed from the Contract and another important factor, his understanding of the old-world past...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng did not think that merely sitting in the Eight Sceneries Palace would be enough to bluff the legendary Emperor Ziwei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s see as we go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured to himself; as for now,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the wind calamity was also concluded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally drawing ten years of cultivation, merging with himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The first year, enduring the biting wind’s erosion constantly, a bitter struggle indeed]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[In the tenth year, the Bi Feng within my body finally calmed down at this moment, and as of now, the three calamities are over.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I shall attain the Celestial Human Fruit Position.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoughts return to oneself, ten years’ vicissitudes in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the watchful gaze of Emperor Tang’s residual soul, uncertain and suspicious, this young man who called himself Laozi and had a great sun halo behind his head sat cross-legged on the Bridge of Helplessness,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he was glowing, shining brilliantly, naturally floating up, and attaining the Fruit Position!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Celestial Human Fruit Position?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang raised his eyebrow, apparently recognizing this scene, having seen it before, stroking his chin:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhang Fusheng is actually just a Celestial Human...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Celestial Human is not weak either; back then, the Celestial Generals in the heavens were at this level,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but a Celestial General, compared to the Immortals and Buddhas in the sky.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s residual soul gazed towards the Yellow Springs River below the bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What place is it that has nearly a thousand large coffins, seemingly hiding fierce ghosts, and the fierce ghosts seem to.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>follow my orders?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could sense that with a single thought, he could command the fierce ghosts to rise from their coffins and become a killing army under his command!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they seem not just to follow his orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Tang’s residual soul could clearly feel,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in this world, there’s another person who can command them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if blessed with understanding, he murmured:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Central Pole Sect Leader?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the wilderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jingpeng looked up, crying towards the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then saw divine power like a prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed, somewhat tricky...\" Yuan Feidao manipulated the blood and flesh puppet to speak in a low tone, \"What is that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the seats’ puppets and incarnations looked up towards the celestial vault,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they found that above the head of the Giant Whale Roc, there suddenly appeared a huge, translucent array, gathering a vast vortex!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Teleportation Array, it can also be called a Transmission Array.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gentle voice emerged from the eighth seat of the earth and stone puppet:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This array is constructing a passage, a passage to other provinces; looking at this scale, it seems to be intended to summon the descent of Divine Spirits.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seats were alerted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can’t delay any longer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one speaking was the Ten Thousand Soul Vajra, constructed by Shi Zhengyuan using the Buddha Country and the Nine-Ring Scepter, a peerless secret technique of the Ling Mountain lineage,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>equivalent to an actual Buddhist Vajra!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buddhist Vajra Guardian, also a [Celestial Human Fruit Position].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Buddhist Vajra Guardian showed a fierce appearance, his body swelling to a hundred, a thousand meters, with ten thousand giant hands shining with golden light spread fan-like behind him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>whether pointing or palming or fisting, ten thousand hands attacked towards the Giant Whale Roc simultaneously!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky was covered by blazing white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My god...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Chang’an Town, many people watched this scene, entranced, a thousand-meter Vajra with ten thousand hands, like a magnificent Great Buddha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Master frowned; this soul-transcended Vajra was just at the level of a calamity Celestial Human,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but even he wouldn’t fare well against this relentless bombardment of ten thousand fists!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Giant Whale Roc remained unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even slightly shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Woo!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jingpeng cried, with a cold voice echoing within:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"People from the High Heaven Association?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But a futile effort.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Jingpeng simply flapped his wings, and three thousand miles of Bi Feng swept across, mountains melted, and the earth was turned to powder where it passed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Legendary Wind Disaster!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yiyi watched this scene, exclaiming, her heart pounding, how could such a cataclysm happen right after finding the ancestor’s tomb??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s a Wind Disaster.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a wisp of residual wind blowing through would likely leave no one alive in the whole town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She licked her lips, seeing that unbelievable ten thousand-hand Vajra starting to melt, shrink in the Wind Disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was also a roaring sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Wentao and Zhou Guifang, anxiously looking for their son, followed the sound to see more ’giants’ appearing on the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a thousand-meter blood giant made purely of blood and flesh, a six-armed, compassionate black silhouette,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>also a stone giant formed from collapsing mountains, cracked earth’s powder, and other materials.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All were hunting the gigantic Giant Whale Roc!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Six-armed Great Black Heaven silhouette opened its eyes; the divine artifacts it held in its six hands, like the Vajra Pestle, bone bowl, White Bone Prayer Beads, all emitted brilliant light,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buddha Son managed the Great Black Heaven silhouette, charging at the Giant Whale Roc, and the Vajra Pestle smashed Jingpeng’s head into a depression!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all divine artifacts, spirit treasures, inherently crafted by divine spirits, possessing tremendous power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jingpeng cried, the array vortex above his head growing bigger and bigger, and from the other end of the vortex, a booming sound came, as if something was trying to squeeze in!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Shexing manipulated the Jingpeng carcass, pushing a divine spirit array to its limit, then a flap of the wings, and the Roc Feathers on the wings fell off, in thousands and thousands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the falling Roc Feathers stood on the celestial vault like Qingfeng, densely packed, not less than a million in number!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Buzz!!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A million Roc Feathers simultaneously emitted a sword hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Feathers united, transforming into a dazzling golden Sword Furnace, with an almost absolute overwhelming power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>tearing apart the Six-armed Great Black Heaven’s silhouette!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Vajra Pestle and White Bone Prayer Beads fell to the ground, causing a booming sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar, the Buddha Son coughed blood, his face heavy with seriousness, murmuring to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is Jingpeng? Even manipulated by an Innate Realm, it can wield power close to the divine spirit level...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately, the Great Black Heaven seems to be battling someone in a Different Dimension, unable to draw on more power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Buddha Son sighed, thinking the current situation was dire, the first meeting, the first cooperation of the seats, would likely end in failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He forced himself to stand, his mind descending once more, the shattered Great Black Heaven silhouette reassembling,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the remaining seats’ puppets and incarnations charged forward, but were all suppressed by the Sword Furnace!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just so.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold voice resonated from Jingpeng, echoing through the heaven and earth, the million sword feathers shining brightly, illuminating the entire Chongyang Heaven and Earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chang’an Town was on the verge of collapse, too close to the battlefield; Wei Bushi paced, contemplating whether to use his trump card to summon the ancestor’s spirit and perform the true Dream Dragon-Slaying Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Bridge of Helplessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng slowly opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As of now, precisely at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant after the three calamities were gone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Celestial Human Fruit Position was attained.\u003C\u002Fp>",2361,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.352Z",1,"novelbin.me","d9c03f53e84baeb5612df02ad971ea20448afd9d0835f67f205e9a8e7b6357d5","secret-buyer-chapter-324","secret-buyer-chapter-322",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]