[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-488":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},1758737,2324,"Chapter 488 - 324: Today I Attain the Dao—Diminishing All Things to Nourish Myself!","secret-buyer-chapter-488",488,"\u003Cp>The ancient banner beside him swayed, the bodhi behind him wavered, and above his head, scenes of the creation of heaven and earth rapidly flashed by!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the trembling of the entire Other Shore world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng defied the innate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the innate of the Innate Realm, but the innate born before the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Innate Spiritual Being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Water Dao Body, Innate Spiritual Being, and...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immersed himself in the profound mysteries and murmured to himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the Merit Dao Body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding to the past Saint’s Golden Body, Eighteen-foot True Body, and Fuli Dharma Body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>six layers of profound physiques gathered together,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a brand-new Innate Spiritual Being was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called Innate Spiritual Beings are born before or at the moment of creation, inherently aligned with a path,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>such as the Pure-blooded Innate Golden Crow — Ancestor Golden Crow, born to transform into a great sun, symbolizing the great sun;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or Innate Ancestor Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, etc., even to Ancestor Roc Peng, Ancestor Taotie, each symbolizing a certain path,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>above them, only the Innate Saint Spirits — such as The Three Pristine Ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Zhang Fusheng transformed into an Innate Spiritual Being, he quietly aligned with a path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is my path?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the Primordial of Fuli I’ve cultivated so far?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, that is the path of the Primordial of Fuli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the boundless heights brought by the position of Taiqing? No, that is the path of Taiqing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not the path of Buddha, of Great Brilliance, of Great Wisdom, nor the most ancient position of the Human Ancestor given by Wa—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all from the outside, not formed by himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Zhang Fusheng could completely choose these paths, they were not what he desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My path...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrapped in the ultimate essence of Dao, Zhang Fusheng contemplated within, the path of the sword?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remained silent, ultimately choosing to give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though transforming into the symbol of the path of the sword, which inherently pertained to massacre, could drastically boost his combat power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it was only a temporary thrill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, what exactly is my path?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Innate Merit Purple Qi surged and roared, and Zhang Fusheng knew he needed to make a decision quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of the Contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything he had achieved in more than half a year, from an ordinary high school student to where he stood now, relied entirely on the Contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Contract is for trade, transformation, and the cycle, but is this the path I demand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng pondered silently, realizing that all this time, he had not been trading but harming external things to benefit himself, which was [Sole Sovereignty].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Among the eighty-four thousand paths under heaven, which one should belong to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Heavens? Water and Fire? Decay and Flourish? Or the Cause and Effect, the Time I’ve understood the most?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, none of these.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heavenly Path uses the excess to replenish the lack.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human Path harms the insufficient to benefit the excess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although I speak of the Heavenly Path, I’ve always followed the Human Path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Harming all things and all beings, all Immortals and Buddhas, all worlds, past and present, to benefit myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I attain the Dao, I will give back to all beings.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Set!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He — It, after lightly uttering the word ’set’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That light, that splendid light, that glorious light, those wondrous scenes, all divine apparitions, strange phenomena,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in an instant, vanished completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All receded back into the young man’s shell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My path is to harm all things to benefit myself, and once I attain the Dao, to give back to all things, in endless cycles, revolving without end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He withers, he exhausts, he perishes, ceasing to be and rotting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I thrive, I flourish, I live, unceasing, and immortal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the Dao lingered, echoing throughout Yin Chang’an, all past events, all bygone happenings, became part of his position as an Innate Spiritual Being, became his path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The title of Taiqing, the position of Buddha, the technique of Fuli... all external things came to serve me, and I will forever just be me, and external things will always just be external things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is his own path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Fusheng knew he must not let the Supremes know this, so he chose self-deprecation and did not immediately conform to the ’Path of Sole Sovereignty’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or, in more precise terms, what should be called [My Path], or more accurately, [The Only Path].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng transformed into an Innate Spiritual Being, symbolizing [The Only Path], but he communicated with the chaotic bell on the yin side of the Divine Realm,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>using the chaotic bell to conceal all abilities, hiding this path as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, using the guise of the yin-yang cycle to cover up the reality of the only path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What I symbolize is merely the path of the cycle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Buzz!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar rose from the void, the Primordial of Fuli technique, the Cause and Effect technique, the Buddha technique, the Taiqing technique, the Sin-Extinguishing Celestial Venerate technique...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various techniques manifested, conforming to the only, evolving into a gigantic, inconceivable wheel of many Dao, quietly suspended behind the young man, quietly turning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Other Shore world no longer trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Chang’an also fell into dead silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sloppy old man, Li Yiyi, and Luo Cheng looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what had happened,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the former gazed at the young man with the rotating great wheel of many Dao behind him, attempting to call out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but the young man remained motionless, simply sitting cross-legged in the void,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only the wheel quietly rotating,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>growing denser and deeper with every turn, and everything in Yin Chang’an flowing toward the wheel of many Dao with each rotation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One turn, two turns, three turns...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng remained with eyes tightly closed, chaotic light floating under him, the Primordial Cloud swirling at the ancestral acupoint of his brow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while the Contract silently radiated light from somewhere unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to be asleep, forming a true [Dao Name] of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Only Path, the Path of Sole Sovereignty, is also the Path of the Cycle, the Path of harming all things to benefit myself...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng fell into complete silence, sitting in the void, the wheel behind him unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three watching him couldn’t help but form an ’answer’ in their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person before them was not the World-Honored One Buddha, not an ancient Daoist, not a Buddha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, It should be called —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blessed Infinite Celestial Venerable?\" Li Yiyi murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, this is the name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like it was always like this, as if it should have always been so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jiuzong Mountain Range suddenly shook, rocks rolled, and the earth split apart—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Thousand-Mile Zhaoling opened today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The closed-eyed Yuan Feidao suddenly began to glow, and the Maitreya Buddha Statue abruptly cracked!\u003C\u002Fp>",1154,"2026-06-08T09:33:25.352Z",1,"novelbin.me","cf9aa840d98851575026de9ff8f2617e2165ddc1f61bd9076e15f0854cd6e05c","secret-buyer-chapter-489","secret-buyer-chapter-487",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]