DiploNovel #226 - Cursed Devil
#226 - Cursed Devil
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the fox fairy Nannan's face showed a hint of grievance: "Then we've agreed, once we leave the tomb and reach a deserted place, you must remember to let me out. I'm getting suffocated inside."
After the fox fairy Nannan finished speaking, she looked at Zhang Chen: "What else do you want me to do this time?"
"Later, when I summon you into the spiritual world, please help me send this flower into the spiritual world," Zhang Chen said.
The fox fairy Nannan heard this and her eyes fell on the flower in Zhang Chen's hand: "What kind of flower is this? It looks so mysterious?"
"A flower that can take people's lives," Zhang Chen said, handing the flower to the fox fairy Nan's hand. Then, in the next moment, he sat down cross-legged and entered a meditative state, directly entering the spiritual world.
To be honest, Zhang Chen was now somewhat apprehensive about the spiritual world. Ever since he saw that terrifying figure in the spiritual world last time, Zhang Chen had become deeply wary of the spiritual world.
As Zhang Chen's soul entered the spiritual world, the Qinglian transformed by his mana flickered, and the green light fell down to protect Zhang Chen.
At this time, the Qinglian condensed into a solid form, and the falling green light became even thicker. The most important thing was that Zhang Chen noticed that the time limit for him to enter the spiritual world seemed to have been lifted.
As the Qinglian condensed into a solid form, it seemed to have entered a state of inexplicable perfection. The Qinglian could automatically absorb the power of the mysterious world to replenish itself, and the mana consumed by the Qinglian's falling green light to protect Zhang Chen seemed to be recovering faster than the Qinglian's absorption of the mysterious aura of the spiritual world.
"As expected of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, it really has divine abilities," Zhang Chen looked at the Qinglian with a look of surprise in his eyes.
Then, he cautiously scanned the dim black wind and flying sand in front of him, a look of prudence in his eyes. Seeing that the woman's crying was gone in the endless black sand, he relaxed and summoned the fox spirit.
In the next moment, the fox fairy Nannan appeared, holding the mysterious flower in her hands.
As soon as the flower appeared in the mysterious world, it burst out with red rays of light, seeming to echo something in the dark wind and sand from afar.
"This flower seems to have resonated with something in the spiritual world. There must be a place of creation in that darkness, nurturing miraculous elixirs," the fox fairy Nannan looked at the red flower with burning eyes, seemingly eager to fly towards a certain place.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen's expression was also surprised: "I didn't expect to have such a harvest, but now is not the time to explore. After I escape from the tomb and deal with the matters outside, it won't be too late to search for the creation in the spiritual world."
Zhang Chen's eyes swept across the entire ruins, and finally he cleared out a piece, temporarily built a simple 'shelter' with the broken ruins, and then placed the flower in it, and then sealed the lid with larger pieces of ruins before exiting the spiritual world.
Zhang Chen's soul returned, and in the next moment, it turned into mist and shuttled through the ruins. Soon, he came to the pool that Zhong Xiang had dug out. Sure enough, the pool was empty, and all the black pool water had disappeared.
"This is a big trouble! I didn't expect the Great自在天魔's words to come true. That curse demon god actually tricked everyone. Now the key is where the curse demon god is, whether he chose to possess someone or chose to escape alone." Zhang Chen looked at the black pool water, a look of caution in his eyes. The current changes were beyond everyone's expectations.
Zhang Chen looked around a few times and confirmed that there were no more omissions before turning into mist and shuttling through the ruins again. Then, he came to the ruins that had not collapsed, hesitated slightly, and revealed his true face.
This place was arid, and the sudden appearance of a mist would naturally attract attention. With those guys' intelligence, they would definitely try to test it. If he exposed his means of turning into mist, it would be bad.
Moreover, Zhang Chen regarded his transformation into mist as his trump card, which he would use to escape in the future, and he couldn't expose it casually.
Secondly, Zhang Chen now had disheveled hair and deliberately made his clothes and face a mess, so outsiders couldn't see Zhang Chen's true face at all, and Zhang Chen wasn't afraid of being recognized.
Zhang Chen revealed his form and quickly shuttled through the stone cave. There was no one in sight along the way. Obviously, everyone was afraid of being crushed to death in the underground space and had all escaped.
Zhang Chen came all the way to the entrance of the stone cave, and saw the rope hanging down from afar. He didn't know martial arts, so he couldn't climb up the dozens of meters high rope. So, Zhang Chen directly turned into a cloud of mist, quietly climbed up the rope, and then a wisp of cloud 'poked its head out' to observe the outside world. But there was no one outside, no one guarding the entrance, and even Zhong Xiang's army was gone.
"These people must be afraid that the mountain will also collapse and bury everyone alive, so they retreated to the foot of the mountain." Zhang Chen revealed his traces at the entrance of the cave, carefully looked at the surrounding mountains, and found that the collapse of the earth this time was very serious. Seven or eight mountains in the distance directly collapsed and turned into piles of rubble.
"Speaking of which, the Fengshui Great Array covers a radius of hundreds of miles. Could there be other array eyes to suppress the great array? There's no reason to have only one array eye, right?" Zhang Chen stroked the beads in his sleeves, a look of contemplation in his eyes.
Zhang Chen had greed in his heart and wanted to obtain more treasures, so he simply wandered around the mountains. A figure appeared in front of him from afar. Zhang Chen took a closer look, it was Huang Chao.
It was just that Huang Chao was not having a good time at this time. He saw that Huang Chao was covered by a black liquid all over his body. The black liquid was constantly rolling, pouring into his body through Huang Chao's mouth, nose, and skin.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen was shocked: "Curse Demon God!!!"
Who else could that rolling black liquid be but the Curse Demon God?
How did the Curse Demon God get mixed up with Huang Chao?
A look of caution appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes. He cautiously walked forward, but saw that Huang Chao's whole body was invaded by the black liquid. Huang Chao's face was covered by the black liquid, and he looked at Zhang Chen with a ferocious expression, and issued a plea: "Save me! Save me! Please save me!"
Huang Chao's entire face was covered by the black liquid, which was very gloomy and terrifying. At this time, after seeing Zhang Chen, he sent out a signal for help.
"How can I save you?" Zhang Chen asked.
Huang Chao's face was painful: "I don't know... I don't know... Save me! Please!"
"Great自在天魔, how can I save him?" Zhang Chen summoned the Great自在天魔.
The Great自在天魔's eyes swept over Huang Chao, who was covered in black liquid in front of him. At this time, a strange look appeared in his eyes: "Interesting! It's really interesting! I didn't expect that old guy, the Curse Demon God, still had a trace of spirituality preserved. But this guy now only has the last trace of spiritual instinct, without true wisdom and consciousness, but is instinctively trying to seize this kid, in order to get a chance to live again."
“Now, his cursed body is merging with Huang Chao's form, and his spirituality is invading Huang Chao's soul and consciousness. You just need to pull out his consciousness and buy Huang Chao time to merge with his body. Once the fusion is complete, his remaining consciousness will not achieve much.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon thought of Zhang Chen's strange soul-snatching chains, and a thought emerged in his mind: “I can't be the only one unlucky! I want all my old brothers to be unlucky too.”
“There's still residual spirituality?” Zhang Chen's eyes lit up upon hearing this. This was right up his alley.
Zhang Chen's expression became serious, and his eyes scanned his skill panel. The next moment, the Soul Snatching skill was activated immediately:
【Soul Snatching Skill Activated…】
【Soul Can Be Snatched!】
As Zhang Chen's thoughts moved, a strange energy flew out from his body and directly entered Huang Chao's body, marking the black liquid. Then, the energy transformed into a chain, connecting Zhang Chen and the cursed demon god's remaining spirituality.
The cursed demon god's remaining spirituality, having just been marked by Zhang Chen, vigilantly looked around like a startled rabbit.
Zhang Chen didn't give the cursed demon god's spirituality a chance to react. The next moment, the black and white world flickered before his eyes, and Zhang Chen's soul stepped into that black and white world, grabbed the chain connecting the cursed demon god, and gently tugged. Then, a cloud of black gas was pulled out of Huang Chao's body.
Zhang Chen's soul returned to his physical body from the black and white world, and the black gas also returned with it. At this moment, the black gas sensed its precarious situation and pounced on Zhang Chen, trying to attack him, but it was blocked by Zhang Chen's chains.
“The cursed demon god only has residual spirituality left now. I wonder if my Light of the True God can annihilate it.” Zhang Chen thought, activating the Light of the True God in his hand and pressing it down on the remaining spirituality. But to his surprise, the Light of the True God had no effect when it encountered the cursed demon god's remaining spirituality.
“This is the power of the 'Fruit' level. Your Light of the True God can't hurt it at all. The two are not on the same dimension.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon explained to Zhang Chen from the side.
“Then what should I do? I pulled this hot potato out, so what should I do next? Can my Nine Bends Yellow River Formation grind away its spirituality?” Zhang Chen turned to look at the Great自在Heavenly Demon.
“No! This is the most fundamental spirituality, the most fundamental thing without wisdom, pure to the extreme. Your Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array can only wash away people's cultivation, but it can't grind away any object. And this thing has no cultivation, it's just pure origin.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon shook his head, rejecting Zhang Chen's words:
“If you want to grind it away, there are two ways. The first way is to seal this wisp of spirituality, preventing it from contacting its main body. Without the nutrients provided by the main body, it will naturally disappear after a few hundred years. The second way is to have that kid named Huang Chao refine this wisp of spiritual origin… but it's too difficult, almost impossible! I'm afraid that this wisp of spirituality will become the master and swallow Huang Chao's soul. Then, like a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest, it will replace him and live again in the world.”
“Where would I get such a powerful sealing technique?” Zhang Chen said unhappily.
That's simply impossible!
But he can only hold the other party's soul with chains for three days. After three days, this wisp of spirituality will return to Huang Chao's body, and then there will be big trouble again.
“If this wisp of spirituality seizes Huang Chao, everyone will be unlucky.” Zhang Chen cursed and said, “Hurry up and help me think of a way, at least suppress this wisp of spirituality.”
He would need the Great自在Heavenly Demon's help for this kind of thing.
The Great自在Heavenly Demon pondered for a moment upon hearing this: “Actually, there is another way.”
“What way?” Zhang Chen asked with a surprised expression.
“The power of faith! As long as you gather the power of faith and use it to suppress and grind away the spirituality, you may be able to refine it and use it for yourself.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon said, “The power of faith is the most unique power in the world, possessing incredible creation and able to create incredible miracles.”
“Do you think Huang Chao has a chance to gather faith? Does he have that time?” Zhang Chen said unhappily.
“Originally, if Huang Chao hadn't met you, he would have been devoured by the cursed demon god in about a month, but now that he has met you, he has a chance. You pull out the cursed demon god's spirituality every few days, and as long as you interrupt the process of seizing his body, he will have to start seizing Huang Chao again. In this way, constantly repeating the process will always buy Huang Chao time.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon said.
That was a way, but it would be troublesome for him.
“Is there a better way?” Zhang Chen asked.
The Great自在Heavenly Demon shook his head: “This is the last way. If you can't do it, everyone will be unlucky in the future.”
Zhang Chen scratched his head upon hearing this. How could there be such a terrifying trouble in the world?
And he just happened to encounter this trouble.
Time passed little by little. As the cursed demon god's spirituality was pulled out, Huang Chao gradually calmed down, quietly accepting the cursed origin and becoming one with it.
“After Huang Chao masters the cursed demon god's origin, can he undo the curse for me?” A thought flashed in Zhang Chen's mind.
The Great自在Heavenly Demon sensed Zhang Chen's mental fluctuations and nodded: “Of course he can.”
“Really?” Zhang Chen was overjoyed upon hearing this.
“Of course, but he needs to fully integrate the cursed demon god's power and reach the 'Fruit' level.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon said.
“That's as good as saying nothing.” Zhang Chen rolled his eyes and waited for Huang Chao's fusion.
As time passed, the black liquid gradually disappeared, and Huang Chao's face began to turn rosy. The cursed demon god's spiritual origin seemed to sense something was wrong and wanted to return immediately to regain control, but it was held back by Zhang Chen and could not get close to Huang Chao at all.
Seeing that the last wisp of black liquid was also absorbed, the Great自在Heavenly Demon said from the side: “If I were you, I would release his spiritual origin at this time. To avoid Huang Chao overthinking after waking up, thinking that you are threatening him.”
Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this, feeling that the Great自在Heavenly Demon was right. He directly released the chain's restraint, and the next moment, the cursed demon god's origin spirituality directly窜into Huang Chao's body.
“Actually, as Huang Chao merges with the cursed demon god's origin, you can now regard the cursed demon god's origin spirituality as the opposite side of Huang Chao, that is, the so-called dark side, or the dark personality.” The Great自在Heavenly Demon said, “Huang Chao contains the cursed demon god's origin, which is equivalent to containing that wisp of immortal spirituality.”
“The dark side?” Zhang Chen pondered upon hearing this. He roughly understood what the Great自在Heavenly Demon was saying.
Perhaps what later generations called schizophrenia should be like this?
“What great fortune and creation. Huang Chao is simply going to defy the heavens in the future.” Zhang Chen looked at Huang Chao lying on the ground, a trace of emotion in his eyes.
“What? Are you envious? If I gave you this fortune, would you dare to take it?” The Great自在Heavenly Demon mocked from the side.