Secret Buyer

Chapter 389 - 282: Violet Qi Shapes the Body, Innate Physique

Five days later.

"So, where have I ended up?"

Within the heavy mist.

Zhang Fusheng lamented endlessly.

The apparent sage had fully manifested, and everything concluded perfectly, but a bigger issue arose.

He hadn’t brought along Third Lian and that little girl.

Therefore.

He got lost.

The dense fog made it impossible to discern directions, and the ground no longer had a road paved with yellow heavy soil—

Or rather, there had been one.

But at the moment he narrated the Tao Scripture, the vast lands for a hundred thousand miles around began to rejuvenate, no longer parched and cracked, with green grass flourishing.

The road paved with yellow soil disappeared.

Zhang Fusheng was somewhat speechless.

So,

where should I go, where is the Chongyang Heaven and Earth, have I left the Hangu Pass area?

He had no idea.

He could only ride the Red Bull, numbly moving forward, moving again.

On the way.

The Red Bull remained silent throughout, becoming extremely obedient, and Ruan Yutu also stayed quiet, silently leading the bull onward.

Zhang Fusheng sighed again and again.

Ruan Yutu and the Red Bull didn’t know why the old man sighed—they weren’t even aware that this terrifying old man was actually lost.

As one man and one bull continued on, they silently processed the earth-shattering changes occurring within themselves—

It was the Purple Qi.

The Merit Purple Qi distributed upon both man and bull.

As for Zhang Fusheng.

He caressed the [Tao Te Ching] and the pen, as heavy as a thousand weight,

These two previously unremarkable objects had been tremendously transformed under the blessing of the Merit Purple Qi.

The Tao Te Ching needed no explanation, in his perception, the scripture was as heavy as a deep sea, carrying a rich ancient aura,

even though it was written not long ago, it felt as if it had existed for ages past.

It even seemed,

when Zhang Fusheng examined the Tao Te Ching closely, at one moment it appeared as the Tao Scripture, and the next, it seemed to transform into the form of bamboo slips.

"When it takes the form of bamboo slips, does it signify the version written during the Spring and Autumn period, the true Tao Te Ching?"

Zhang Fusheng murmured in his heart.

As for the pen.

The pen had likewise become extraordinary, though perhaps not as much as the Tao Te Ching, the pen seemed to merge with the world,

Zhang Fusheng lifted the pen and in a tentative attempt wrote the character for river in the void,

and then...

beside him, an actual mighty river surged forth, extending for hundreds of miles on the land.

He also tried writing the characters [Primordial Qi],

the mysterious factors in the air suddenly swelled thousands and thousands of times over, becoming so dense they nearly liquefied!

Ruan Yutu and the Red Bull swallowed hard.

"The Tao Te Ching remains unclear, but this pen seems to have the power for reality to follow its script."

"Every time I begin to write, the world trembles slightly, crafting such creations on its own..."

Zhang Fusheng murmured to himself, feeling a faint sense of fatigue—it was obvious that using this pen came at a price.

He gently stroked the pen and the scripture, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.

Fortunately, he had bet correctly.

The returning Yellow Eyebrow indeed chose to seal itself—but how long it remained sealed was unknown.

Perhaps a thousand years, maybe a hundred years, or perhaps just ten years.

The thought of Yellow Eyebrow’s terror stirred a bit of fear within Zhang Fusheng; it was clearly just a wisp of will, a fragment of true spirit,

yet it possessed absurdly mighty power!

If not for Laozi’s form intimidating it....

Zhang Fusheng dared not keep Yellow Eyebrow around for long; sooner or later, such an ancient creature would uncover something amiss over time.

"And as for myself...."

Zhang Fusheng had, for the countless time, investigated his own body, trying to find where the heavy Purple Qi went,

but he found nothing.

This drove him a bit crazy—in his perception, even Ruan Yutu and the Red Bull were quietly transforming!

But what about himself!

Where was all that Purple Qi for himself!

In his perception, the Purple Qi was indeed within the physical and mental realms, but its exact path could not be traced.

"If nothing unexpected occurs, this Purple Qi is probably the ’feedback’ and reward from this heavenly fate event, right?"

"Or perhaps, the Purple Qi isn’t, but the Laozi Celestial Position is?"

"It might also have something to do with standing simultaneously before the ages and after the millennia...."

Zhang Fusheng sat on the bull’s back, quietly understanding.

Especially in that moment,

both before eternity and after the ages, both during the Spring and Autumn period at Hangu Pass, and on the World Plateau where Immortals and Buddhas disappeared.

In that instant, he seemed to truly become [Laozi].

"First and foremost, I am myself, then come other matters and objects..."

Zhang Fusheng repeatedly reminded himself so.

Ahead, there seemed to be a silhouette.

Zhang Fusheng lifted his eyelids, gazing into the distance; ever since acquiring the Celestial Eye Technique,

he could now see a thousand meters away, past the previously visible hundred-meter fog.

At this moment, casting his gaze,

he could faintly discern, at a thousand meters away, something resembling human presence.

Finally, someone!

Zhang Fusheng’s heart leaped, contemplating for a moment, forming an idea.

The outside world must be in turmoil, with countless Divine Spirit-level figures searching for the whereabouts of ’Laozi’,

it’s time to change appearance again.

"Purple Qi..."

Zhang Fusheng reached out, activating the Purple Qi within the Red Bull, simultaneously imparting the minor achievement Chapter of the [Great Sage Equal to Heaven Scripture],

Under the reshaping of the Purple Qi, the Red Bull’s Divine Embryo began to transform bit by bit—a black bull.

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven Scripture caused it to metamorphose into a demon bull, its skin and membranes turning into a rich ink hue,

while between its two horns, a vague purple aura floated,

the bull’s aura also surged significantly!

Venerate.

The Red Bull, initially beyond the celestial human, infinitely close to the Venerate level, under the effect of Purple Qi, had forged its demonic bull form and truly stepped into the Venerate level!