Secret Buyer

Chapter 435 - 301: Dialogue Across Infinite Ages, Celestial Emperor Celestial Position

Time flows forward, onward, and further on.

He felt some pressure—as if he were currently seated in the Eight Sceneries Palace, with a position both high and infinite,

otherwise, pursuing cause and effect across such an endless expanse of time, that pressure might have crushed him to death!

But even with the infinite high position to share the burden, Zhang Fusheng still felt everything in the world becoming heavier and heavier...

Just as he was approaching his limit of endurance.

Zhang Fusheng saw it.

It was a hand, a jade-like hand, lightly placing elder Jinchi into the Nine-Ring Scepter,

and the owner of that hand was initially blurry, yet gradually becoming clear and clearer,

until fully revealed before Zhang Fusheng’s eyes.

A... middle-aged man?

A middle-aged man draped in a magnificent Emperor’s Robe, crowned with a Twelve-Streamer Crown, sitting in immeasurable palatial halls.

Zhang Fusheng saw him.

He lifted his head and looked towards Zhang Fusheng.

Who is this?

Is it a certain Emperor Monarch of the Celestial Court?

Or the Celestial Emperor of the Four Directions?

Or perhaps... the Jade Emperor Celestial Venerate?

Zhang Fusheng did not know, and as they gazed at each other, he was shockingly aware that they were at ’eye level’,

no, more accurately, it was that middle-aged Emperor looking down on him, while he was looking up.

That is,

the other’s position was higher than his, seated on the meditation mat, supported by the Eight Sceneries Palace!

"Interesting."

A gentle voice echoed from ancient times, piercing through time, rolling down the long river of ages, exploding in Zhang Fusheng’s mind!

Its might was unfathomable!

Zhang Fusheng’s mind was briefly captured, wanting to close his eyes, wanting not to gaze upon this terrifying existence that transcends time,

but when he closed his eyes, he was frightfully aware that that immeasurable palace and that imposing middle-aged man in the Emperor’s Robe were still as clear as ever!

Zhang Fusheng’s heart skipped a beat, suddenly looking around.

But found himself no longer in the Eight Sceneries Palace.

He was sitting cross-legged above a vast and surging river, at the end of the river,

and as he glanced back, the river was rushing towards an unfathomable void, vaguely glimpsing a... Nine Netherworld in the void?

The void the river was rushing towards is the future.

Then...

Zhang Fusheng turned his head back, sitting cross-legged at the end of the river, facing the distant figure in the upstream immeasurable palace.

He observed the river, discovering that in each drop of river water was buried immeasurable great worlds, countless!

"Time, the long river of years..."

Zhang Fusheng murmured, clearly seeing small heads occasionally peeking out from the river,

and seeing the river occasionally changed, as if being interfered with, altered, during some of these interferences and alterations,

amazingly, he saw his own figure.

It was himself, altering past events by knocking on the Gate of the Past, all reflected in the river,

the altered history sinking to the riverbed, the new reality floating on the surface.

"What perspective is this?" he murmured to himself.

The emperor seated upstream in the river peacefully said:

"The perspective of a transcended being."

"What is a transcended being?" Zhang Fusheng asked the middle-aged man from afar.

The middle-aged man gently smiled:

"The Supreme, Heavenly Will, the most ancient, the witness of all... these are all names for the transcended being."

"Of course, the most accurate term should be Supreme Fruit Position."

Zhang Fusheng suddenly understood.

The Fuli Chapter has seven major Chapters, corresponding to seven major fruit positions, the Six Realms of the Human Path as the first fruit position,

the Venerate and Great Power as the second fruit position, Great Divine Power User and True Saint are the third fruit position, the Celestial Venerate and Buddha serve as the fourth fruit position, the Daluo level as the fifth fruit position—

And above Daluo, is the Supreme Fruit Position.

As for the seventh fruit position?

It is called [The Way].

"Who are you?" Zhang Fusheng asked solemnly, bowing his head, seeing the Eight Sceneries Palace beneath himself,

The perspective of the transcended being, or Supreme, Heavenly Will, is higher than the falsely surpassed Eight Sceneries Palace that transcends thinking limits.

He saw the chairs in the illusory Eight Sceneries Palace seemed to be in a stagnant state, as if the flow of time had been paused.

The being upstream on the river spoke peacefully from afar:

"I have many names as well."

"Some call me Heaven, some refer to me as the Almighty, others name me Haotian, but the me in this period of time you’ve seen, people call me the Celestial Emperor."

"It could also be the Jade Emperor Celestial Venerate."

Zhang Fusheng felt a chill in his heart, indeed it is this legendary one.

He remained calm, knowing fear is useless, as the other party had summoned him, even allowing him into the perspective of a presence of Heavenly Will level, meeting eye to eye, which already explained many things.

For example.

In the other’s eyes, he had the qualifications to be on equal footing.

Zhang Fusheng’s thoughts swirled, and he spoke:

"Why did you summon me?"

The living being upstream smiled:

"It was you seeking me, not me seeking you—you don’t need to refer to me as ’you’, nor talk about summoning."

"I see in you the shadow of Taiqing and the one in the Jade Void Palace, and I also see the figure of Wa and the Buddha..."

Pausing for a while,

The living being upstream continued:

"They have chosen you, so you may address me as a fellow of the Way."

Pausing a moment,

The Celestial Emperor, who did not seem very majestic and even a bit gentle, mused to himself:

"But, why would they choose you?"

And then,

In his eyes, a brilliant light shone, as if scanning the events that occurred at the end of the long river, and blood tears flowed down from his eyes.

Zhang Fusheng’s heart was stirred,

Why did blood tears fall?

Clearly it’s due to backlash... but where did the backlash come from?

Connecting it to the disappearance of the immortals and Buddhas, Zhang Fusheng speculated whether it’s due to some significant event,