[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-387":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},1758874,2324,"Chapter 387 - 281: Tao Te Ching","secret-buyer-chapter-387",387,"\u003Cp>Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Initiate level-one alert, immediately activate the special contact procedure, and establish communication with the Chairman!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every supreme department of the Federation was in chaos at this moment, with hardly anyone stepping forward to take charge—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the divine beings’ curiosity was too overwhelming, nearly seventy percent of the deities here,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were following the void rift, probing the situation in the Buddhist Temple area,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>directly causing countless divine spirits to become fixated, their gaze forcibly focused there, utterly unable to move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Energy level detection in progress...exceeding the instrument’s maximum measurement range!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the research institute, a researcher spoke with a trembling voice, almost like a moan:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the problem is, the maximum measurement power of our instrument is for a True Saint...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old director, one of the few not staring into the void rift, held his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A True Saint, a being above a Great Divine Power User, existing in the Fourth Realm of the Divine Path, was almost the pinnacle of divinity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which means...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Feiniao spoke tremulously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The will awakening, returning from the Buddha statue, surpasses a True Saint, at the very least an Celestial Venerate?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, perhaps it has touched that level,\" the old director said in a deep voice, \"just a wisp of will, can render all gods, including Great Divine Power Users, immobile.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could such power merely be that of a Celestial Venerate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Feiniao’s pupils contracted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You mean... the legendary existence that can touch time and prove eternity, past, present, and future all as one, and can freely define the rules of a True Universe, the Daluo?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not necessarily a Daluo, but at least half a step into that domain,\" the old director said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The emergency protocol should have been activated, but it might not be useful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unless the Chairman breaks through—though, the Chairman is in closed life retreat!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the old director spoke, he felt a bit of despair, murmuringly he said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In merely the beginning of a world of great contention, such an existence descends...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The research room fell into a deathly silence, everyone plunged into silence,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with only the piercing alarm, mingled with the urgent reports from various departments of the capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the big screen, the happenings at the Buddhist Temple were already being broadcasted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do we do now?\" Jiang Feiniao asked, but no one answered her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people from the Golden Province, who had just arrived at the institute, were also silent, what was happening was beyond their comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something big has happened,\" Zhang Xiaoxi murmured, not knowing exactly what was going on, but knowing the sky was about to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone’s eyes were focused on the big screen, all awaiting the complete awakening of that terrifying will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s someone there, flying fast!\" an observant researcher shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone looked at the corner of the screen he was pointing to, only to see a masked young girl running swiftly along a river of clear air,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and an unkempt old man, riding a large Red Bull, emerging from a wooden building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Energy level detection in progress... Venerate, approaching Venerate-level energy fluctuations, perhaps concealing its own!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A researcher shouted, how could a being emerging at this time just be a Venerate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s speaking! Attempting lip-reading recognition!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The footage on the screen was silent, everyone had to resort to the most primitive method—reading lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone repeated the old man’s words, word by word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today, as I go west out of Hangu Pass, just like in years past... shall I leave behind another volume of Tao Te Ching for the mortal world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What does this mean?\" Jiang Feiniao asked instinctively, but no one answered her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everyone’s eyes were fixed on the suddenly appearing old man in the footage—could this be the turning point?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s... writing?\" The old director murmured in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, outside the Buddhist Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thick fog that had been stagnating with the awakening of dreadful will suddenly began to flow once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Buddha statue, the presence that had been slowly occupying the weasel’s body, awakening from ages of deathly slumber,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>suddenly retracted its earth-shattering majesty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That will merely murmured incredulously,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could I be this unfortunate...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deep echo resounded between heaven and earth, every divine being’s gaze trapped there turned to look at the old man,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Light and Shadow Giant, frozen in the celestial vault, was also startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It beheld.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, in front of the wooden house, the unkempt old man on the back of the Red Bull lowered his head slightly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>taking a pen and paper from the hand of the masked girl beside him, who was preparing the ink for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The not particularly exquisite or expensive brush dipped in ordinary ink,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as the old man reached out and flicked, the rice paper floated in mid-air, then he began to write on it with flourish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Writing one character, reciting one character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Way that can be spoken of is not the eternal Way.\" He thus penned, thus said aloud, and no other change happened,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet some dreadful will returning from the deepest part of the Human Species Bag suddenly shivered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It fell silent, gathering all its might and form, suddenly becoming extremely docile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Zhang Fusheng continued writing and reciting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; Named, the mother of all things...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this moment, some Forms began to manifest, Cloud descending from the sky, accompanied by heavenly flowers and celestial lotuses,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with golden springs flowing over the parched, scorched land,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the earth, once burned to charcoal by the Golden Crow traversing the sky, was slowly reviving!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Way is void, yet use does not deplete it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deep, as if the ancestor of all things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man atop the bull seemed immersed in utmost wonder and truth, writing faster, reciting faster,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>suddenly, a unique Cloud, seeming to encompass all causes and effects, burst forth from his brow’s Ancestral Acupoint.\u003C\u002Fp>",982,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.352Z",1,"novelbin.me","663277cab1709c32a91b5d98283b1c3019fc3037fae9e1acdf30362a644c41ba","secret-buyer-chapter-189","secret-buyer-chapter-188",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]