[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-secret-buyer":3,"chapter-secret-buyer-secret-buyer-chapter-524":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},1759223,2324,"Chapter 524 - 338: Just Call Me Central Pole Sect Leader!","secret-buyer-chapter-524",524,"\u003Cp>(The recent Chapters are difficult to separate, so they are merged into two for two days)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the hovercars of the Golden Province,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the hovercars of the Celestial Capital surprisingly have space warp patterns engraved within them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, they are only seven to eight meters long and three to four meters wide, allowing entry, but inside, they are even more spacious than a football field!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, it is also filled with people—all from aristocratic families rushing from the forty-nine provinces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking closely, there might be as many as ten thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So many people??\" Cui Wenda exclaimed in shock, with an elder beside him nodding slightly and explaining in a deep voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn’t the full crowd, approximately half of them, families with even a slight ambition from the forty-nine provinces have sent people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After pausing, the elder continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some families participating in the competition might have already declined, exhausting their last savings on travel expenses to the Celestial Capital, even heavily in debt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then do you know why, despite this, they still insist on participating in the contest?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Wenda shook his head in confusion, while Cui Liuduo and Cui Wending beside him also fell into contemplation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder asked and answered himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The reason is simple: when misfortune reaches its peak, a stroke of good fortune arises, genius from these declining families appear, and thus they pin their hopes on these geniuses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words... most of the people here, besides a small group accompanying them for the contest, are contemporary prodigies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All prodigies?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Wenda’s expression changed, while Zhang Fusheng quietly glanced around, his eyes momentarily reflecting dense strings of cause and effect,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>beneath the illumination of cause and effect, the details of the ten thousand people within the hovercar were laid bare to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They truly are remarkable...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng clicked his tongue in amazement, over ninety percent of the people here possess special constitutions or life plates,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for instance, having a natural sword bone, an innate body of purity, or being born with a ruler’s life plate or Seven Kill life plate, truly befitting this era of great contention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pondered, these people, if placed in other declining eras, the vast majority here would be protagonists of storybooks,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but now, they are merely among the masses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Insignificant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally, waiting for today’s last group... what’s ten visions thinking, coming early in the morning, yet insisting on waiting until nearly midnight when everyone’s here before arranging accommodations?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the hovercar holding over ten thousand people, it was bustling with noise, there were complaints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elder led several to their seats, murmuring:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This competition is arranged by the Ten Visions of the last round... it’s heard that the main hosts are the Kong and Meng families residing on the Floating Island...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kong and Meng families?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng raised his eyebrows; the Kong family, led by Kong Shentong, was the former Director of the Investigation Bureau and also head of the Ancient Saint Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Meng family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If remembered correctly, the head of Meng family is Meng Qingtian, current leader of the Observatory, and secretly, also the Pope of the Celestial Principle Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancient Saint and Celestial Principle sects seem incompatible on the surface, yet the popes are close friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng smirked silently, Old Kong...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This old guy, impure thoughts, audacious, scheming against himself, scheming against the Other Shore World, also scheming against the High Heaven,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it’s the perfect time to exploit the remaining value from this competition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As thoughts swirled, the hovercar started moving; at this moment, it was rushing towards the two-thousand-foot region,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>inside, voices were clamoring, many who knew each other among the aristocratic families were having heated discussions, many noticed the Cui Family members boarding last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that the Qinghe Cui Family?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, it’s them; I recognize that woman, her name is Cui Liuduo, the first prodigy of the Cui Family, said to be in her twenties, already at the pinnacle of the Innate Realm!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard the Qinghe Cui Family holds a Divine Book, capable of altering a being’s lifespan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed, the Qinghe Cui Family, although they rose to power over a thousand years ago, have the greatest chances in this Ten Visions contest...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such discussions permeated all around, many prodigies gazing over, mostly with undisguised hostility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To alter lifespans, in other words, anyone below a divine spirit encountering the Cui Family is likely going to die on sight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best way is before the Cui Family members can react... strike and kill them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least a thousand killing intents locked onto them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Wending felt uneasy, glanced at the calm expression of Duoduo sister, then at the unchanged expression of Cui Wenda,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he couldn’t help but mentally ask:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does the clan brother seem not the least bit worried?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Wenda replied through mental transmission:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The killing intent targeting us arises from fear and dread; I hold the Book of Life and Death, thus they should fear me, why should I panic?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Wending was rendered speechless; it seems... that makes sense?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subconsciously, he glanced again at the young man in hemp garments suspected to be the family’s trump card,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was bowing his head, seemingly lost in meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equally unmoved by the piercing, heavy, layered killing intents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearby, an immortal girl similarly so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems I fell to the lower grade.\" Cui Wending laughed bitterly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hovercar reached its destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still hard to imagine such a city existing in the world...\" an aristocratic family member remarked softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Fusheng opened his eyes, looking out the window, the hovercar was hovering next to a massive hotel,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place was situated on the ’platform’ of the two-thousand-foot region—the entire Celestial Capital was composed of ring-shaped platforms connected horizontally by divine trees,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The platform extended three hundred miles wide, surrounding the divine trees,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight thousand feet in height, with eighty layers, each larger than the former Jiangzhou City!\u003C\u002Fp>",993,"2026-06-08T09:33:41.990Z",1,"novelbin.me","008887305fb6bb48e1fcbc615b95ec14e5ceca58c5df70b5d49c4bf479ddc6ae","secret-buyer-chapter-525","secret-buyer-chapter-523",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsecret-buyer-cover.jpg"]