Secret Buyer-Chapter 42: The Entire Federation Is an Evil Cult

Chapter 42: Chapter 42: The Entire Federation Is an Evil Cult

After repeatedly questioning Zhang Fusheng about ’Zhong Mountain’ without any result, Huang Qiuxian hastily left.

"You can wear this jade talisman, which contains a portion of my Divine Realm. If you encounter an unstoppable attack, you can crush the jade pendant; it might save your life."

Zhang Fusheng accepted it, thanked earnestly, and watched as Huang Qiuxian’s figure blurred and vanished.

Ten minutes later.

"Elder Huang has been quite kind to me." Feeling the jade talisman, Zhang Fusheng sighed softly: "I wonder what kind of grievances exist between him and my mentor?"

"Why would my mentor become enemies with someone like Senior Huang? Can they be persuaded to reconcile?"

He furrowed his brows slightly, pondering over and over, finally shook his head and sighed again:

"I think my mentor must have made a mistake..."

As he spoke, he paused for a moment.

Zhang Fusheng rolled his eyes:

"That old fox finally left."

After Huang Qiuxian twisted light and shadow to ’disappear’, he didn’t leave at all, he was standing just two meters away, staring at him!

Staring for over ten minutes!

Had he not also stepped into the True Divine Realm, he probably wouldn’t have been able to notice this old fox.

"Why does he seem so honest, yet has so many schemes?" Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, not mentioning anything else,

Just as he left the Martial Arts Dojo earlier, Huang Qiuxian interfered with reality with his spirit, cloaking him in a thin layer of light and shadow to make him invisible,

But after leaving the Martial Arts Dojo three kilometers away, that cloak seemed unsustainable and dissipated, as if Old Huang’s spiritual thoughts could only reach a maximum of three kilometers.

Only after Zhang Fusheng personally stepped into this spiritual level did he realize that ten years of spiritual accumulation could make the spirit strong enough to probe about a kilometer away,

Old Huang, being nearly one hundred and fifty years old, with almost one hundred and fifty years of spiritual accumulation, could probe his divine thoughts over ten kilometers!

Fortunately, he was cautious, deciding to change into Zhong Mountain’s face after being twenty kilometers away from the Martial Arts Dojo.

Just in case, within the first ten kilometers, that old fellow might have been secretly watching!

"True Divine Realm, thoughts interfering with reality, truly is a formidable tool..." Zhang Fusheng murmured: "Unfortunately, it can’t maintain the state of external probing for an extended period; the consumption is simply too great."

He felt a bit regretful, even if he didn’t maintain it all the time, he couldn’t spread his spiritual thoughts comprehensively to cover thirty kilometers,

At most..... Three hundred meters?

Only in a straight line could the thoughts fully extend thirty kilometers away.

"It seems a bit unreasonable, doesn’t it?" Zhang Fusheng rubbed his chin and muttered: "Even with some ability to refine illusion into reality, bringing the spiritual world into reality, yet the divine thoughts can only reach such a short distance?"

"There’s an issue."

He shook his head, decided not to think about matters he couldn’t understand for the time being.

After repeatedly inspecting the jade talisman and ensuring there were no problems, he put it away,

This thing, for him, was useless,

But for ’Zhang Fusheng’, it was indeed a lifesaving tool.

......

In the evening.

The three sat around a low table, as usual, for dinner, while a small television played the daily news,

Reportedly an intercity train in Jiangzhou was attacked by terrorists, resulting in an explosion.

"Cut off the surveillance and skipped a cultivation class?" the senior brother asked, chewing slowly without raising his head:

"Junior brother, what happened today?"

"I’m worried the attacks are far from over."

Zhang Fusheng explained with a smile:

"If so, the surveillance might be invaded, and there might be people among the trainees on the other side, I achieved significant progress in cultivating the Eight Forms in the [New Death Appearance] this afternoon, thinking to keep it as a trump card hidden from outsiders, so....."

Niu Dali and Chen Yuque exchanged a glance.

New Death Appearance??

Both felt a kind of powerlessness, people couldn’t truly compare to one another...

Zhang Fusheng poked his rice with chopsticks:

"Speaking of which, where is the little senior sister?"

"As for her." The senior brother said calmly: "A little incident happened, her neck was broken by someone."

Zhang Fusheng: "What??"

He was dumbfounded.

Yet the senior brother was indifferent:

"She’s not dead, just has a broken neck and was injected with a high-concentration blood suppressing toxin, resulting in a coma, receiving treatment at the hospital, probably taking ten to fifteen days to wake up."

After a pause, he added:

"Our ’business’ is prone to offending people; retaliation is common, but the other side didn’t dare to go all out, did they?"

Zhang Fusheng was speechless.

Chen Yuque nearby laughed:

"Such attacks occur occasionally, usually not targeting us personally, even if they do, they won’t be life-threatening.... As for the reason? Just observe the master’s reaction to your assassination to understand."

Zhang Fusheng pondered:

"I see, I’ve been staying inside the Martial Arts Dojo these past few days, but recently it’s been calm, making me think the mastermind behind my assassination has laid low."

He subtly revealed his intention to leave the Martial Arts Dojo,

The senior brother showed no reaction, maintaining his naive demeanor,

The second senior sister seemed contemplative but said nothing, instead changing the subject.

"By the way, junior brother, among the two deals handed to you, Chen Nuanyu’s bill is due today, did you retrieve it? I found she bought a ticket to Dragon Boat City, and I asked the rail company to cancel it."

Zhang Fusheng shook his head:

"Not yet, I plan to extend it for her and reduce some interest."

Chen Yuque’s expression didn’t change much as she teased:

"What, really fancy her?"

"A bit." Zhang Fusheng nodded shyly, looking bashful.

He certainly couldn’t really throw Chen Nuanyu into Purgatory... That Eternal Burning Heart, he was determined to obtain it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fusheng’s heart stirred:

"By the way, what is Chen Nuanyu doing in Dragon Boat City? Also, I asked her, and she said that those who are overdue will be punished in Descent into Purgatory, and second-time offenders will be forever trapped there... Is this Master’s Spirit Divine Realm?"

"Her mother is in the special hospital of Dragon Boat City, hospitalized." Chen Yuque replied calmly: "Besides, it is indeed Master’s Spirit Divine Realm."

Zhang Fusheng was pensive, he had heard of Dragon Boat City’s special hospital, which had great fame and was one of the few top hospitals set up in a small city.

His uncle’s family lived in Dragon Boat City.

Curious, he then asked:

"Master did such a thing, it couldn’t be just for nothing, right?"

Chen Yuque smiled and explained:

"Master, having attained Minor Perfection in the Contemplation Technique, already possesses his own [Divine Realm], and this Divine Realm thing is very unstable, easily backlashes the self."

Pausing, she continued:

"I heard Master say that the Divine Realm needs to be anchored as a ’fixed scene’, and must be filled with living beings to help stabilize the Divine Realm... The bones you saw in Purgatory are all real people."

Zhang Fusheng, though he had known for a long time, still showed an expression of horror:

"All real... people??"

"Hmm." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Chen Yuque patiently continued explaining:

"The Federation does not allow the arbitrary deprivation of living souls to fill a Divine Realm, so we all sign formal contracts, clarifying that after overdue, the soul will be deprived, of course, few who sign the contract believe it."

She shrugged and continued:

"Master said that living souls can not only serve as subordinates but also help stabilize the Divine Realm, most importantly, they share the pressure, at least a thousand Life Souls must be stored to advance the Contemplation Technique to the Perfection level."

Zhang Fusheng: ???

A thousand Life Souls to achieve Contemplation Perfection?

No, then what about me?

He asked without showing his emotions:

"And why’s that? The pressure shared by Life Souls, what is it?"

This time it was the senior brother who spoke:

"The Spirit Divine Realm, mysterious and profound, this path of cultivation bears enormous mental pressure, if there are not enough Life Souls residing in the Divine Realm as [Subordinate Souls] to share the pressure, one might easily fall into a demon."

Zhang Fusheng fell into silence.

Oh, falling into a demon...

He was familiar with that, having fallen into countless times in the past century.

The senior brother continued on his own:

"Of course, many, when they reach the limit, just a step away from the Realm of Perfection, will choose to disperse the subordinate souls and actively fall into a demon, junior brother, you are likely to achieve Perfection, and decades later, you could use this move as a last resort."

Zhang Fusheng was bewildered:

"Actively fall into a demon? Senior brother, I don’t quite understand."

Chen Yuque smoothed her hair and teased:

"Junior brother, haven’t you heard ’Tenfold Strength in Darkness’? Those who fall into a demon often experience sudden enlightenment in Divine Realm cultivation, at the very least, they improve slightly."

"If you manage to rely on this small improvement to successfully step into the level of Perfection, there’s a significant chance of awakening from the state of falling into a demon... Unfortunately, this ’shortcut’ can only be used once in a lifetime, as there’s only one awakening opportunity at the Realm Breakthrough Perfection."

Listening to the second senior sister’s words, Zhang Fusheng remained speechless for a long time.

No wonder, no wonder he broke from Minor Perfection to Perfection within two hundred years.

Others used falling into a demon as a last resort, but for him, it was... routine.

Now thinking back, every time after falling into a demon, indeed he gained some insight into the Contemplation Technique and Divine Realm.

But...

Zhang Fusheng exhaled:

"After mastering this self’s Spiritual World into a Divine Realm, it still needs a large number of Life Souls to... ’suppress’ it."

He thought that ’suppress’ was a fitting word, and continued:

"Why is this spiritual cultivation so sinister?"

"Sinister?"

The senior brother and second senior sister both laughed.

"This is sinister?"

Chen Yuque said casually:

"It’s not just spiritual cultivation, physical cultivation is the same, the further you go, the more sinister it gets, inseparable from things like ’Life Souls’, and it’s not just our sect, every sect is the same, really an exception is..."

She thought for a moment and said:

"I heard, besides the Pantheon, the other three so-called evil sects Dao, Buddha, and Confucian, each divided into two branches, Dao’s [Eastern Sect], Buddha’s [Ling Mountain Lineage], and Confucian’s [Ancient Saint Sect], none of them require Life Souls for cultivation."

Zhang Fusheng’s eyelids twitched, so they call these evil sects??

So what about those thousands in Huang Qiuxian’s Divine Realm?

Chen Yuque sighed softly:

"For example, junior brother, haven’t you achieved Great Success in the Contemplation Technique? With the Life Light Phase that comes naturally with Great Success, you can give birth to [Dead Man’s Bone], this process is very slow, but by merging Life Souls into the bone, you can accelerate this progress."

Zhang Fusheng was stunned for a while, unable to help but ask:

"Doesn’t this mean that for the strong to cultivate, they must kill people, kill many people??"

"No." Chen Yuque shook her head: "The Federation has numerous breeding planets in the galaxy, raising large numbers of ’biochemicals’ without memory, emotion, or subjective consciousness, but they possess souls."

Zhang Fusheng fell completely silent.

He suddenly felt that the Federation was the real evil cult.