I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#155 - The Demonic Rebellion

Chapter 154: The Heavenly Demon's Chaos

Xie Lingyun looked at the young man before him, only feeling that he was guilty, and of a kind that was unforgivable.

The world was still the same world, but he, such a dirty person, had sullied it.

Looking at the young man's pure and flawless eyes, Xie Lingyun didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Keep this rune close to your body. I will draw one for you every day from now on, ensuring that the Heavenly Demon won't dare to provoke you, until you master the method of drawing runes yourself!" Zhang Chen said to Xie Lingyun, pushing the rune over.

Xie Lingyun didn't refuse, but pointed to the soft couch on the side: "Just sit there and wait. If I encounter any problems with drawing runes, I'll ask you. Feel free to eat the pastries and fruits on the table, and don't be polite. Just treat this place like your own home."

Zhang Chen sat on the soft couch as he was told, picked up a pastry, and quietly began to eat it, looking very well-behaved.

Xie Lingyun looked at the rune on the table, picked up the brush, and slowly began to outline it.

Time passed quickly, and soon the sky darkened. Zhang Chen bid farewell and left, leaving Xie Lingyun in the room to continue drawing runes, studying the 'Suppress' character.

When Zhang Chen returned to the courtyard, a strong smell of medicinal soup suddenly wafted over. Zhang Chen walked into the house with surprise, only to see Xiao Douding sitting on a chair, drinking the medicinal soup spoon by spoon with a bitter face.

"Why are you drinking medicine?" Zhang Chen looked at Xiao Douding, who was drinking the soup, and asked in surprise. He hadn't heard that this little girl was sick?

Xiao Douding had a bitter taste at the corners of her mouth: "I was just thinking that my foundation is unstable, so I wanted to drink some medicinal soup to replenish it."

Zhang Chen didn't think much about it, but took out pears, grapes, and other fruits from his arms and handed them to Xiao Douding. Xiao Douding's eyes lit up when she saw the snacks. She quickly put down the medicinal soup, then quickly used the front of her clothes to catch the fruit, a hint of joy revealed in her eyes: "Zhang Chen, you're still the best to me."

"Eat quickly." Zhang Chen touched Xiao Douding's head and walked towards the house.

Xiao Douding looked at Zhang Chen's back and suddenly asked: "Zhang Chen."

"Hmm?" Zhang Chen stopped and turned to look at Xiao Douding.

"Do you think I look like a mental patient?"

As she said this, Xiao Douding looked at Zhang Chen with her pair of kawaii big eyes, her eyes full of anticipation.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, staring blankly at Xiao Douding, not knowing what Xiao Douding was up to.

But facing Xiao Douding's question, Zhang Chen still replied seriously: "You're just a normal person, how could you be a mental patient?"

Xiao Douding took a bite of the pear when she heard this: "Then it seems my illness isn't very serious yet."

Zhang Chen shook his head, speechless at Xiao Douding's question, not knowing what this child was thinking, her little head full of all kinds of strange ideas.

That night,

In the northwest corner of the Taoist temple, where the coffins were stored, accompanied by the moonlight, the black shadow suspended above the coffin suddenly opened its eyes: "That kid's light is so strange that it can actually injure my body. Fortunately, the last time I fought with Gu Mingyue of the Yellow Sky Dao, a trace of my aura escaped and was absorbed by this wronged ghost, giving me the opportunity to create a clone. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would have been trapped in that woman's body to death."

As he spoke, the black shadow's body flashed, and he transformed into a charming white-clothed woman. After leaving the coffin, she came to a house where disciples lived and knocked on the disciple's door, saying in a delicate voice: "Is there anyone in the room?"

At this time, the disciple in the room was practicing his horse stance. He was stunned when he heard the woman's voice: "How strange, where did this woman come from in the middle of the night?"

But he still opened the door, and the next moment, he saw a warm, jade-like figure fall directly into his arms.

Zhang Chen cultivated for a night, and now his soul was full. He wanted to make up for the homework he had fallen behind. But before dawn, there was suddenly a noisy sound, followed by a series of bell sounds, which woke Zhang Chen from his cultivation state.

"The bell rang six times. This is to summon all the disciples of the courtyard to gather. How strange, it's not yet time for the morning class, why are the disciples suddenly being summoned?"

Zhang Chen was suspicious, but he quickly got out of bed and washed up. But after washing up, he still didn't see Xiao Douding coming down from upstairs, so he climbed to the second floor and was about to knock on the door, but he heard Xiao Douding's muttering from inside the room: "It's over, my illness has worsened again. I'm actually hallucinating bell sounds in the middle of the night."

Zhang Chen, who was outside the door, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Xiao Douding's muttering: "Xiao Douding is sick? This child has been a little abnormal since last night."

"Senior Sister, get up! The Taoist temple is summoning all the disciples to gather. You'll be beaten if you're late." Zhang Chen urged outside the door.

There was a burst of crackling sounds from inside the room, and Xiao Douding's miserable voice rang out again: "Something's not right! Something's not right! That was clearly the sound of a bell, but I actually mistook it for a hallucination. Has my illness become so serious?"

Before long, the door opened, and Xiao Douding, with dark circles under her eyes, walked out of the room. At this time, she looked listlessly at Zhang Chen, yawning: "Are the elders of the Taoist temple crazy? What are they ringing the bell for in the middle of the night."

"Something must have happened."

Zhang Chen picked up Xiao Douding and quickly walked towards the square.

When he arrived at the square, Zhang Chen found that something had indeed happened. The disciples were discussing the ten dried corpses.

After inquiring a little, Zhang Chen learned the answer. It turned out that evil spirits had harmed people last night. The ten disciples had actually had their essence sucked dry by the evil spirits, and their souls had been squeezed clean. They couldn't be deader.

Zhang Chen looked at the ten dried corpses with his eyes. The dried corpses were black, and looked as if they had been dyed with black paint. The moisture on their bodies seemed to have been drained.

"How could this happen? How could evil spirits run rampant in the Yellow Dawn Temple, a place where great cultivators are stationed?" Zhang Chen was puzzled. Where's Gu Mingyue? Where did Gu Mingyue go? Why isn't Gu Mingyue in the Taoist temple?

At this time, a hint of disbelief appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.

"Senior Brother, I'm scared!"

Xiao Douding's timid voice rang in Zhang Chen's ears.

"Don't look, Senior Brother is here." Zhang Chen stroked Xiao Douding's head.

"Count the number of people and see how many disciples haven't come." The Enforcement Elder shouted loudly.

With his order, the enforcement disciples began to count the number of people. Before long, a disciple reported: "Elder, there are still fifty disciples who haven't arrived."

"Quickly send people to find them." The Enforcement Elder ordered.

But before long, a disciple reported in a panic that all fifty disciples were dead, and then one dried corpse after another, also with their essence sucked dry, was carried out.

A full sixty dried corpses made the elders feel distressed.

You must know that the Yellow Dawn Temple only cultivates three thousand disciples. How much grain does it take to cultivate one person? Sixty people died inexplicably in one night, which is definitely a major loss.

"Send a message to Ancestor Gu Mingyue, asking her to return quickly."

The Enforcement Elder instructed the crowd, "From now on, no disciple is allowed to be alone."

Zhang Chen looked at the anxious disciples and sighed softly, feeling a wave of emotion, but he didn't say much.

"Huangli Temple seems to be facing a major challenge. A monster is causing trouble at Huangli Temple, which means it must have some tricks up its sleeve. Could it be that the golden light that burst from my talisman that night injured that monster?" Zhang Chen wondered to himself.

Over sixty people died in one night, and the entire Huangli Temple was in a state of panic.

The Enforcement Elder looked at the disciples and said loudly, "Everyone will wait in the plaza. No one is allowed to leave. I suspect the murderer is hiding among you. We must wait for the Patriarch to return and personally examine each of you to confirm that you are not the culprit before you can leave."

Just as the Enforcement Elder was speaking, Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly flashed with golden light. He saw a black figure appear in the plaza at some point. It was standing quietly in the crowd, but everyone seemed to be oblivious to its presence.

"That… that evil spirit!" Zhang Chen's pupils shrank when he saw the black figure, and he quickly recognized its origin: "It's that woman who died unjustly! I didn't expect that after she became a force to be reckoned with, her revenge would be so vicious, killing more than sixty people in one night."

However, upon closer inspection, Zhang Chen noticed something was wrong because he sensed a trace of the Heavenly Demon's aura on the woman.

"It's that Heavenly Demon! Didn't I severely injure the Heavenly Demon, and it's hiding in Xie Lingyun's mind, refusing to come out? How did it run outside? And it's fused with that female ghost?" Zhang Chen was filled with shock, unable to understand the connection.

As if sensing Zhang Chen's gaze, the female ghost suddenly raised her head, gave Zhang Chen a strange smile, and then disappeared into the crowd without a trace.

"Something big is happening! How did the Heavenly Demon run out? Isn't it缠着 Xie Lingyun anymore?" Zhang Chen was confident that he was not mistaken; it was definitely the Heavenly Demon.

The Heavenly Demon's aura was too unique; one would never forget it after seeing it once.

"Zhang Chen, the esteemed lady summons you."

At this moment, an elder from the Taoist temple came to deliver the message.

Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this. Thinking of the previous Heavenly Demon, he felt that the esteemed lady's summons must be related to this matter. So, holding Little Bean Sprout, he walked towards the esteemed lady's residence. At this moment, he dared not leave Little Bean Sprout alone at the scene.

Zhang Chen arrived at Xie Lingyun's abode, placed Little Bean Sprout on the first floor, and entrusted the soldiers to look after her. Then, he went up to the second floor, only to see Xie Lingyun sitting cross-legged on a futon, her face as pale as gold, with incense burning in front of her.

"Esteemed lady," Zhang Chen said, bowing respectfully behind Xie Lingyun.

"You've come," Xie Lingyun opened her eyes, looking at Zhang Chen with bloodshot eyes, her voice hoarse and dry.

"Esteemed lady, what's wrong with you?" Zhang Chen looked at the haggard Xie Lingyun in front of him, shocked and filled with disbelief. He couldn't believe that the haggard woman before him was actually the radiant Xie Lingyun.

"Something big has happened! When Elder Gu Mingyue was suppressing the demon for me before, he fought with that demon, causing a trace of the demon's essence to escape. Unexpectedly, that trace of essence not only didn't die but became a force to be reckoned with, becoming its incarnation. The demon's incarnation frantically absorbed essence in the outside world last night to strengthen itself and then seize my body. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on. Do you have any solutions?" Xie Lingyun stared at Zhang Chen, her eyes filled with hope.

Zhang Chen asked upon hearing this, "Isn't the talisman working anymore?"

"The talisman can disperse the golden light, but the amount of Heavenly Demon essence dispersed is simply not comparable to the amount of Heavenly Demon essence that is regenerated. Every time the demon outside devours a person, the Heavenly Demon in my body grows stronger. If it continues to devour, I'm afraid I'm doomed," Xie Lingyun's mood was a rollercoaster of emotions, experiencing both hope and despair, a feeling that was truly pitiful.

"Elder Gu Mingyue is about to return! As long as Elder Gu Mingyue returns, he will never allow that demon to kill another person. By then, the demon will have no source of essence and will no longer be a threat," Zhang Chen comforted her.

"Gu Mingyue is having a hard time protecting himself! Why do you think Gu Mingyue left the Taoist temple in such a hurry? Even the Grand Celestial Master has fallen victim to that demon's tricks, let alone Gu Mingyue?" Xie Lingyun smiled bitterly, "Now, the only one we can rely on is you! If you have no solution, I'm afraid everyone in the entire Taoist temple will die."

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this. The Light of the True God cannot be applied to living beings. The Heavenly Demon is hidden in Xie Lingyun's spiritual world, a place that the Light of the True God cannot reach.

"I'm also powerless," Zhang Chen said in a low voice.

Xie Lingyun took a deep breath upon hearing this, a look of despair appearing in her eyes. Then, she took out a letter from her bosom and handed it to Zhang Chen, "The only person in the entire Taoist temple who has a chance to survive is you. If you can leave the Taoist temple, remember to deliver this letter to my father for me."

"Why doesn't Miss order someone to send the letter down the mountain now?" Zhang Chen asked.

"The Heavenly Demon's force field has already enveloped the entire Taoist temple. The entire Taoist temple is shrouded in an illusion, making it impossible to leave. That Heavenly Demon is determined to devour the entire Taoist temple and then eat everyone," Xie Lingyun said.

Zhang Chen was stunned upon hearing this and wondered to himself, "Illusion force field? Where is there an illusion force field?"

He hadn't noticed it!

Zhang Chen silently took the letter, and Xie Lingyun said, "Go down the mountain! Before the Heavenly Demon seizes my body, hurry down the mountain and see if you can escape this illusion force field."

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this, and after a long time, he said, "What can I do even if I go down the mountain? The Heavenly Demon will never let me go. Even if I escape to the ends of the earth, the Heavenly Demon will never let it rest."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Xie Lingyun smiled bitterly, "I've implicated you."

She also realized that Zhang Chen's methods could restrain the Heavenly Demon's manifested form, making him the Heavenly Demon's nemesis. How could the Heavenly Demon let Zhang Chen go?

"The Yellow Sky Taoists only have power but lack the cultivation realm of the mind, making them the Heavenly Demon's slaughterhouse, a breeding ground for the Heavenly Demon to parasitize. Once the Heavenly Demon's demon seeds spread, chaos will surely engulf the world," Xie Lingyun said.

Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun upon hearing this, then took a deep breath, and a thought flashed through his mind: "Miss, rest assured. Everything in this world has its counterpart. The Heavenly Demon is strange and powerful, so powerful that it defies the heavens, but precisely because of this, there will naturally be a person destined to face this calamity."