Secret Buyer-Chapter 65: The Impending Deal and the Mystery of Five Mansions Temple

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: The Impending Deal and the Mystery of Five Mansions Temple

The next morning, all traces of blood had been cleaned,

and even the shattered pavement and lobby had been restored.

No one would have guessed the shocking events of last night.

The phone vibrated incessantly. Taking a look, it was a group chat started by Zhu Xiaoming, with three people casually chatting about Jiangzhou City’s news.

Zhang Fusheng glanced through it, mentioning that last night, the Public Security Headquarters launched a raid on a hospital in the Eighth District,

and as a result, over a hundred security personnel were killed. That area is now cordoned off, claiming the hospital was conducting some biochemical research, which leaked during the raid.

Did my report work?

Zhang Fusheng raised an eyebrow, biochemical leak...

’Ring ring!’

He answered the phone.

"Hello, Dad, it’s me... I’m fine, Uncle and the others are fine too."

"If I return to Jiangzhou, I plan to do so in the next few days. Yes, I know, I’ll call Uncle Yu when I get back."

After listening to his father’s nagging for a while longer, he hung up the phone.

After breakfast, he greeted his uncle’s family,

and when he returned to the room, Shi Zhengyuan was still standing there.

"Living Buddha."

Shi Zhengyuan turned around, his face full of compassion.

Zhang Fusheng remained expressionless:

"Does this count as having overcome a difficulty?"

"I don’t know."

Shi Zhengyuan shook his head:

"But when you regain the Buddha Wisdom and Buddha Body, it will signify the end of the nine hardships."

Zhang Fusheng forced a smile.

The old man asked:

"Are you leaving Dragon Boat City?"

"In the next couple of days."

"Before you leave, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me for answers."

Shi Zhengyuan said calmly:

"I cannot leave Dragon Boat City for long, so I cannot accompany you."

Zhang Fusheng crossed his legs, pondering for a moment:

"There’s indeed something I want to ask you. That day, I encountered a cultist..."

He briefly recounted the incident with Huang Zhongxiao, then asked:

"What exactly are the talismans used by Huang Zhongxiao? And what is the Venerate he recites?"

Shi Zhengyuan’s expression grew slightly more serious:

"The so-called talisman is actually a medium to draw power from a powerful entity. Since he chants ’Venerate,’ it means he’s borrowing strength from a Taoist elder."

"A Taoist elder?" Zhang Fusheng asked earnestly, "Can it really extend spiritual power so far? What level is that?"

Shi Zhengyuan shook his head:

"It’s not closely related to the realm. In extreme cases, even a Grandmaster like me can achieve this, provided that the anchored scene from a different dimension possesses corresponding special abilities."

Zhang Fusheng pursued further:

"Oh? Zhengyuan, please explain in detail."

Shi Zhengyuan patiently elaborated:

"High-positioned scenes from different dimensions generally possess various incredible abilities. For example, in the Ling Mountain lineage, before it declined, an ancestor had anchored a bamboo forest at sea."

"This bamboo forest seemed to be the Venerable site of a Great Bodhisattva. Through the site, that ancestor could lend power to many minor cultists, even allowing people from different places to meet in the bamboo forest, across vast distances."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fusheng’s eyes lit up:

"What exactly is the reason for this?"

"I don’t know."

Shi Zhengyuan shook his head:

"We speculate that it’s because the anchored different-dimensional scene has a high enough position and once served as a place for teaching and dissemination of technique, allowing it to possess this characteristic."

Zhang Fusheng inquired:

"What about my Five Mansions Temple?"

"If the position of the Five Mansions Temple is high enough, it could naturally work," Shi Zhengyuan replied.

Zhang Fusheng seemed to have a thought, realizing that as the High Heaven Association grows, could it be possible to meet each other through Five Mansions Temple?

His eyes flickered slightly, but the Five Mansions Temple belonged to ’Zhang Fusheng’ and must not appear in the Divine Realm of ’Zhong Mountain.’

He could only hope the Six Ding Divine Fire gave him a nice surprise.

After consulting Shi Zhengyuan for further knowledge on cultivation, and seeing him off,

Zhang Fusheng hurried to the ’Special Hospital’ where Chen Nuanyu’s mother resided.

This hospital was one of the most renowned among the numerous small cities in the Golden Province.

Upon reaching the hospital’s exterior, with a sweep of thoughts, he found Chen Nuanyu in a special care ward, accompanying a middle-aged woman.

The woman’s condition was dire, resembling dead wood—literally dead wood,

her legs were completely wooden, decayed and rotting.

Zhang Fusheng’s steps faltered slightly.

If he transformed into Zhong Mountain at this moment, it wouldn’t be a problem, but he feared Shi Zhengyuan might suddenly sweep over with spiritual thoughts,

and then Zhang Fusheng would vanish into thin air...

"Spiritual power can be extended through certain mediums, and the position of Five Mansions Temple is definitely high enough."

"Could I, like Shi Zhengyuan’s ancestor or the Venerate connected through Huang Zhongxiao’s talisman, communicate with Chen Nuanyu through a medium over great distances, thereby completing a transaction?"

With a resolution in his heart, he didn’t enter the hospital. Instead, he unhesitatingly returned to the Peace Hotel,

and unsurprisingly, on the way back, Zhang Fusheng sensed being swept over by spiritual thoughts two or three times.

Shi Zhengyuan was very concerned about him.

Well, he is a Living Buddha.

However, this old fellow had returned to the First District. From such afar, how was he able to sweep thoughts across this place?

Because of Buddha Country?

Zhang Fusheng didn’t know what Buddha Country was, but since Shi Zhengyuan could, through the wonders of Buddha Country,

’enlighten’ all the residual souls of those who died in Dragon Boat City into his Divine Realm,

he had reason to believe that Shi Zhengyuan’s Divine Thought could also envelop the entire Dragon Boat City when necessary, through the wonders of Buddha Country.

Zhong Mountain could no longer appear in Dragon Boat City.

Carrying four pounds of Star Beast meat back to the hotel, Zhang Fusheng rushed to the top floor, lay on the bed, and sank his thoughts into the Divine Realm.

He came once more to the [Five Mansions Temple].

The mountain gate was hidden by ten-thousand-year-old pines, and inside the Taoist Temple were one hall, two gardens, and eighty-one rooms, all quiet and still.

Without Shi Zhengyuan this time, Zhang Fusheng didn’t have to suppress the Divine Realm to the extent of ’Minor Perfection.’

Thus, it was no longer an Illusory Divine Realm, but a True Divine Realm.

Of course, the Five Mansions Temple was still fake, just a projection of a different dimension. According to Shi Zhengyuan, turning imagined things in the Divine Realm from fake to real wasn’t hard,

but turning things from a different dimension from fake to real required extremely high cultivation.

Entering within, his thoughts scanned the room. Most of the eighty-one rooms were cluttered, with clothes and other items hanging in some rooms,

as if they had recently been inhabited.

As he walked into the main hall of the Five Mansions Temple,

Zhang Fusheng suddenly paused.

Something wasn’t right.

In the main hall, the shrine enshrined the tablets of heaven and earth, and before it, the bright yellow meditation mat was slightly sunken. In the incense burner, a stick of incense was burning.

The smoke curled up gracefully.

Last time, the incense burner was empty.

A Tao Scripture also appeared in front of the bright yellow meditation mat.

Zhang Fusheng swallowed and walked forward, carefully observing the Tao Scripture. There were no words on the cover, and no matter how he tried, he couldn’t open it. Each page of the Tao Scripture seemed as heavy as a mountain.

Aside from the Tao Scripture, the shrine couldn’t be moved, but the other things could be manipulated at will. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Feeling a bit disappointed, he turned to stare intently at the burning incense. A minute passed, two minutes, three minutes.....

After a full half-hour, the incense remained burning, not even diminishing a bit, seemingly frozen in time, yet still emitting smoke.

He suddenly had a guess, exited the Divine Realm with a thought, and re-entered it three seconds later, returning to the Five Mansions Temple.

Sure enough.

The incense had burned out, and the indentation of the bright yellow meditation mat had also disappeared.

Even inside those eighty-one rooms, the arrangement of some clothes and household items had changed.

Zhang Fusheng’s heart pounded, he murmured to himself:

"So every time I open the Divine Realm, I’m re-anchoring the Five Mansions Temple situated in a different dimension and ’retrieving’ that scene again?"

"And in the different-dimensional Five Mansions Temple, there are actually... still people living?"

Chilled to the bone, he repeatedly exited and entered the Divine Realm,

and each time he entered and exited, there would always be minuscule changes within the Five Mansions Temple.

"Once the Divine Realm is opened, everything in Five Mansions Temple no longer changes, indicating it’s not syncing with the different dimension in real-time."

"Only by closing the Divine Realm and reopening it, will I retrieve a new state of Five Mansions Temple??"

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, closing the Divine Realm once more, waiting briefly before reopening it.

The position of the water bucket had changed, tea leaves appeared in a teacup, and the Tao Scripture was flipped open...

"As expected, let’s focus on figuring out how to borrow from Five Mansions Temple... wait??"

Huh?

The Tao Scripture... it was open.