Secret Buyer-Chapter 337 - 259: Wa

Zhang Fusheng remembers clearly.

He was walking with Emperor Tang across the Great Wilderness when he suddenly felt a surge of inspiration, the cause and effect resonating.

Looking up, he saw the blue sky.

But if he activated the Taiyi Chapter, using the golden light in his eyes and that thread of cause and effect from Kunlun Yuxu—

He could see the things of the Six Paths constantly rotating and colliding, Celestial Humans, Mortals, Asura, then to Beasts, Hungry Ghosts, Hell.

Six Paths of Reincarnation.

He also saw a girl—a girl who was overlooking himself through the Six Paths.

Zhang Fusheng followed this glance of cause and effect, and directly rode the Divine Chariot and arrived.

At this moment.

The black mist surged, and Meng Xiaoshi and Zhao Shanhe dared not breathe heavily, the scene before them was too terrifying.

A mysterious presence, surrounded and prostrated by countless Great Sect and Innate level skeletons,

He came from the black mist, and had once sensed the lock of the Six Paths Prison!

Meng Xiaoshi shivered.

"Look at me."

She saw the young man walking out of the mist smiling and whispering, and instinctively raised her head, her eyes meeting the young man’s.

’Boom!!’

Meng Xiaoshi’s head buzzed, she saw two blazing golden lights,

Then, in her vision, there was only these golden lights, and countless dense star lines.

In that instant.

Zhang Fusheng traced the cause and effect, seeing some past events from not long ago, his expression slightly relaxed, but then he softly exclaimed.

He said:

"Awaken."

Meng Xiaoshi shivered awake from the abyss, gasping for breaths, looking in horror at the young man,

Only to find that the young man was already in front of her, less than half a meter away.

The black mist rolled in, engulfing both her and Zhao Shanhe, falling into an endless abyss, sinking, still sinking.

They heard a voice of wonder:

"Such abundant fortune, like vast mountains and rivers... A child of destiny? No, not..."

A jade-like hand suddenly pierced through the black mist.

Zhang Fusheng stretched out his hand, after a caress across the girl’s chest, he held in his hand a seal.

The black mist dissipated.

Meng Xiaoshi and Zhao Shanhe’s legs softened, nearly collapsing to the ground, they looked up in terror, seeing the terrifying young man examining the seal.

"Mandated by Heaven, may you live forever?" the young man murmured.

The middle-aged man beside gave a start:

"It’s my Heirloom Seal of the Realm!"

"Now it’s mine." Zhang Fusheng quipped, weighing the Jade Seal lightly, not particularly heavy,

But it could be gazed at, sensed, with fortune and power vast as the sea within.

Zhang Fusheng gently stroked it, murmuring:

"It’s warming up, jubilant, like it has met an old master."

"The old master is here!" Emperor Tang interjected, a look of sentiment appeared on his face: "I never thought I could reclaim this item here..."

Meng Xiaoshi listened dazedly to the conversation between the two mysterious beings, instinctively swallowing a mouthful of saliva,

Old...Old master?

She looked in horror at the dignified middle-aged man.

Zhang Fusheng didn’t mind the two little ones, turned his head and asked:

"Erfeng, I observe this object, containing heavy grandeur, looking at it is like peering into the sky, wasn’t this created by Emperor Shi?"

"Yes and no."

Emperor Tang shook his head:

"It once had many forms, only eventually taking form in Emperor Shi’s hands."

He paused, recalling:

"As I know...it once was the Nine Ding during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties, transforming into a seal in the Qin Dynasty."

"If I remember correctly, Yuan Tiangang once said, in the era even earlier than Xia, Shang, and Zhou, this thing was once a Gan Ge, a Jade Halberd."

"It also was the wood in Suiren Clan’s hands to drill fire, the rock on which Shennong wrote the medical scripture..."

Not only Meng Xiaoshi and Zhao Shanhe were confused listening, but Zhang Fusheng himself was equally bewildered.

"So...this is more than just a Jade Seal, it’s the symbol of the Human Lord?" Zhang Fusheng asked.

"Naturally."

Emperor Tang nodded affirmatively:

"This object carries human fate, and partly heavenly fate. The bearer, if possessing Heaven’s Mandate, will be favored by the Human Path, otherwise..."

He shook his head slightly.

Zhang Fusheng carefully caressed the Heirloom Seal of the Realm, or rather the Human Emperor’s Seal,

For a long time, reluctant to let go to Emperor Tang, but Emperor Tang waved him off:

"You might have Heaven’s Mandate, but I definitely don’t anymore—Heaven’s Mandate will never descend upon the same person again."

Zhang Fusheng was stunned for a moment, then realized it had been countless years since the era of Emperor Tang.

Maybe a hundred thousand years, maybe a million years, or perhaps even more distant ages.

He held the Human Emperor’s Seal steadily, then looked again at the trembling two.

"I won’t make things difficult for you, just want to know, where did you two get this item? And these few kids, seems they’re hunting you?"

Zhang Fusheng pointed to several Celestial Principle Cultists’ heads on the ground.

Zhao Shanhe fell silent for a moment, finally not daring to lie before such a terrifying being, recounting truthfully in detail.

"We’re from the Federation’s Investigation Bureau..."

After a long while, he finished.

Zhang Fusheng fell into deep thought.

The Investigation Bureau is the highest-level agency under the Headquarter of the forty-nine provinces, set up in the Capital.

According to these two, during their mission, they unexpectedly obtained this item on the World Plateau,

Then were hunted by the Celestial Principle Sect like madmen, until escaping into the Golden Province, happening to encounter a sealed province...

The pursuing Celestial Human was blocked outside.

"What’s with the Six Paths of Reincarnation?" Zhang Fusheng asked again.

Meng Xiaoshi nervously opened her mouth:

"Are you asking about the Six Great Hells? That’s something established by the Speaker, all living beings have sins, the souls of the deceased will go to the Six Great Hells, only after cleansing their sins can they reincarnate..."

Listening to her words, Zhang Fusheng laughed.

Can they really reincarnate?

He understood, no wonder every time he took a life, at most only a residual soul could be left behind—it was taken by the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The so-called Federation Speaker, mastering the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fusheng could no longer laugh, that was the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

How many years has that Speaker presided over? How many soul spirits did they acquire? How powerful could they be?

It’s unimaginable.

Just know, the Golden Province alone has a population of hundreds of millions!

And that’s just humans.

What the Six Paths of Reincarnation drew wasn’t just human soul spirits.

He exchanged a glance with Emperor Tang.

The latter asked:

"How will we deal with these two little ones?"

With a sudden chill running down their spines, Meng Xiaoshi and Zhao Shanhe listened as the mysterious entity named Zhang Fusheng casually remarked:

"These two little ones are quite good, their cause and effect are clean, so let’s not make it difficult for them."

"On the contrary..."

Zhang Fusheng pointed a finger, causing a spiritual light to manifest and fall into the two’s bodies, purifying their physiques,

In just a moment, their bodies began to emit a pure light, each receiving great benefits.

Meng Xiaoshi felt as if every breath she took was exhaling immortal light,

She cautiously bowed and then reminded out loud:

"Senior, the Celestial Principle Sect values this seal greatly, perhaps there is an existence above celestial humans also pursuing it... They seem to have special means to track this object."

Meng Xiaoshi had thought it through clearly, this thing falling into the hands of this mysterious entity before her was certainly better than it landing in the cultists’ hands,

After all, since the entity was willing to let them go and even granted them great benefits, they surely were not a cruel and vicious person.

"Yes, I understand."

Zhang Fusheng responded calmly, not intending to make things difficult for the two or to silence them — there was no need.

He was just about to wave his hand and let the two go, but then he saw the girl muster her courage and continue:

"Senior, you don’t seem to be a cultist, and you seem to have some connection with our Investigation Bureau. We have met your... parents?"

She asked tentatively and then continued:

"I can tell, Senior’s father perhaps once held a position in the Investigation Bureau."

Zhang Fusheng looked at this little one with interest:

"Go on."

Though the two were older than him in age, to Zhang Fusheng, they were still juniors.

The reason was simple enough.

He was only eighteen years old, but in reality, he had already experienced nearly ten thousand years of time.

Meng Xiaoshi took a deep breath and bit her lip:

"This seal seems very important to our superior — our superior, the head of the Investigation Bureau’s seventh department."

She bowed her head:

"If you could hand this item over to the head of the seventh department, our superior would certainly give you even more... rewards."

Zhang Fusheng weighed the Human Emperor’s Seal in his hand and laughed:

"Tell me, why is it so important to the head of the seventh department you speak of?"

Meng Xiaoshi mustered her courage and continued:

"Our superior also has a similar seal; the two seem to originate from the same source."

Zhang Fusheng was somewhat surprised, casting a puzzled glance at Emperor Tang, who shook his head in confusion:

"Impossible, there’s only one Jade Seal in the world; how could there be a second Jade Seal? However..."

He paused, pondering:

"If they share the same source, it might be the seal of Emperor Fengdu, or perhaps... someone from the Celestial Court."

Zhang Fusheng’s pupils contracted.

He glanced at the two who were feeling uneasy, then suddenly smiled:

"Your superior is in the capital, right? If there’s a chance, I will visit."

Only then did the two heave a sigh of relief, wanting to speak again, but a blur fell over their eyes,

Only to find themselves unexpectedly now in the Golden City when they looked around.

They still heard the lingering voice of that mysterious senior.

"I have had someone send you away from the Golden Province."

The two were stunned for a moment, suddenly seeing the sky split open with dazzling light; looking up, it was a golden avenue descending,

They were lifted by the golden avenue, hazily seeing a bamboo forest, observing a middle-aged man curiously watching them, then another spin of heaven and earth.

They were directly sent out of Hangu City, arriving at the World Plateau.

This time, there was no Celestial Principle Cultist pursuing them — the seal was no longer on them.

"What is this?"

Meng Xiaoshi murmur, suddenly feeling something new in her arms, and upon taking it out, it turned out to be a token.

The token exuded a rich aura of immortality,

Depicting a Taoist Palace, a Buddhist Temple, and a school on the back, while the front was empty, seemingly meant to bear two characters.

"Was it given by that senior?" Meng Xiaoshi wondered, perplexed.

Zhao Shanhe shook his head solemnly:

"Don’t overthink it... Return to the capital immediately and report to the superior. As for this trinket, hand it over to our superior at that time."

The two hurriedly left.

......

Chongyang Heaven and Earth, the wilderness.

"Taoist Brother Fusheng, where are they?" Emperor Tang asked, confused.

Zhang Fusheng chuckled:

"I sent them away from the Golden Province, I need them as messengers to help deliver an item to the capital."

Emperor Tang seemed to understand somewhat, not pursuing further, and then heard Taoist Brother Fusheng shift the conversation:

"Erfeng, please guard me for a while."

With those words, he saw Taoist Brother Fusheng already seated cross-legged, eyes closed, surrounded by grim skeletons wandering and guarding.

Meanwhile.

Divine Realm.

Zhang Fusheng held the Human Emperor’s Seal, before him appeared one scroll after another, though all were fragmentary and partial.

He did not choose hastily, but sat back onto the meditation mat, using the immensely high position to observe this Human Emperor’s Seal, employing the Taiyi Chapter,

Sure enough, on the Human Emperor’s Seal, Zhang Fusheng saw its past shape.

It was the Nine Ding, the Gan Ge, the Jade Halberd, a stone inscribed with the Hundred Herbs Medical Scripture, a piece of wood drilled into flame...

Zhang Fusheng seamlessly followed the cause and effect, witnessing its origin without obstruction.

It was... a vine?

An unremarkable vine, specked with mud.

Only then did Zhang Fusheng look back at the scrolls.

Palace, palace, and more palaces.

The scrolls mostly depicted a corner of a palace, sometimes appearing in altar-like places, yet Zhang Fusheng felt he seemed not to need hesitance in choosing.

Because,

He saw familiar objects in two of the scrolls, one being the display of cause and effect, a stone tablet with medical scriptures.

The other was a vine, stained with mud.

In the painting, the vine was being grasped by a hand, splattering speckled mud.

Zhang Fusheng swallowed.

Because he saw the ’person’ holding the vine.

And that person.

That being half human, half serpent, also noticed him.

The exquisite female figure, half human and half snake in the painting, gave Zhang Fusheng a slight smile, her eyes kind, as if looking at her child.

Wa!

Zhang Fusheng leaned back.