I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

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Ma Zhou felt his scalp tingling, his eyes fixed on Gu Mingyue's face, which was now radiating a chilling light, and his heart was seized by panic.

He distinctly remembered when he first arrived, Gu Mingyue had been all warmth and concern, treating him exceptionally well. How could she be like this now?

"Martial Uncle, why is this happening?" Ma Zhou asked, probing the situation.

"You still have the face to ask? Let me ask you, why didn't you attend the Rite of Investiture?" Gu Mingyue retorted, turning the blame onto Ma Zhou.

Ma Zhou was dumbfounded: "Rite of Investiture? Isn't the Rite of Investiture tomorrow? Which disciple didn't attend?

"What nonsense are you spouting? The Rite of Investiture concluded yesterday. You postponed your arrival and instead indulged in heavy drinking in your room, ruining a major event for my Yellow Sky Sect," Gu Mingyue rebuked him sternly, her voice like thunder.

"What? Yesterday?" Ma Zhou was even more flustered: "How long have I been unconscious?

"You should ask yourself how long you've been unconscious," Gu Mingyue said coldly. "From the end of the Investiture Rite until just now when we splashed you awake, a whole day and night has passed."

"Impossible! I only drank a little ordinary wine, how could I have been unconscious for a whole day and night, and even missed the Investiture Rite?" Ma Zhou exclaimed, his voice cracking, then his eyes darted towards Liu Feng, who was standing there.

"Martial Uncle, Liu Feng is framing me! Liu Feng brought wine and asked me to drink it. There must be something wrong with his wine. If you just interrogate Liu Feng, you'll surely clear my name!"

"Silence! Don't speak anymore! Liu Feng is already dead, how can he argue with you? Now that he's dead, you can say whatever you want, relying entirely on your glib tongue? Junior Nephew Liu Feng died for the Yellow Sky Sect, how can you slander him?" Gu Mingyue roared, unable to contain his anger. "Men, seize this insolent Ma Zhou and lock him in the dungeon. I will inform the Great Virtuous Teacher and then discuss how to deal with him."

"What? Liu Feng is dead?" Ma Zhou was stunned by the news, as if struck by lightning. He could no longer explain himself clearly, and was dragged away by the enforcement disciples, a look of utter bewilderment on his face.

Gu Mingyue watched Ma Zhou being dragged away, feeling helpless. His grand plan had been inexplicably disrupted, and the matter of dividing the Taiping Taoism in the Northern Lands would have to be postponed.

Among the crowd, Zhang Chen shook his head secretly, lamenting Ma Zhou's misfortune. After Liu Feng's death, he didn't even have the chance to confront anyone.

Zhang Chen stood in the crowd, looking at Liu Feng's body. He saw that Liu Feng's body was still rising and falling, and his breathing hadn't stopped. He wondered, "What is the state of Liu Feng's body at this moment?"

Liu Feng's soul had been scattered by his attack, and then devoured by that woman. It could be said that, spiritually, Liu Feng was indeed dead.

At this moment, Gu Mingyue regained his senses and swept his eyes across the audience: "Liu Feng failed to be invested as a deity, and his soul is scattered, with no chance of recovery. Although his physical body is intact, all vitality will be cut off after seven days and it will rot. From now on, the Yellow Dawn Temple will be led by Zhou Xu. You will immediately lead your disciples to repair the temple, cremate Liu Feng, and then preside over the collection of faith among your disciples."

Zhou Xu was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed respectfully to Gu Mingyue: "Disciple obeys!"

From today onwards, he would be the abbot of the Yellow Dawn Temple. Obtaining a Taoist temple for nothing was like a huge pie falling on his head.

After presiding over the meeting, the temple began to bustle with activity. The disciples repaired the temple while performing a Taoist funeral for Liu Feng. Then, before Zhang Chen's very eyes, Liu Feng's still-breathing body was burned to ashes.

Zhang Chen couldn't escape the task of repairing the temple and was conscripted into the work, getting busy.

What relieved Zhang Chen was that the tunnel he had dug out of the underground secret room was judged by the temple to have been dug in advance by those Jianghu people who had long harbored ill intentions towards the Yellow Dawn Temple, so it didn't arouse anyone's suspicion.

Gu Mingyue used his divine powers to collapse the tunnel, resealing it, preventing Zhang Chen from continuing to steal incense offerings. Fortunately, Zhang Chen didn't plan to steal incense power through that tunnel again in the short term.

Although Liu Feng was dead, Zhang Chen's life wasn't affected in any way because Xie Lingyun was still around.

At this time, Zhang Chen was holding a seashell, polishing it to make a windowpane. Beside him, Little Bean was also looking around furtively, then tugged at Zhang Chen's sleeve, pointing to Zhang Xiaohua in the distance: "Look at that kid, why does he look so dazed, like he hasn't woken up? I saw him sitting there polishing a seashell, and he fell asleep three times in an hour."

Hearing this, Zhang Chen turned his head and saw Zhang Xiaohua also polishing a seashell, but at this time, Zhang Xiaohua looked weak and listless, and his condition didn't seem very good.

Hearing this, Zhang Chen sneered inwardly. This was just the beginning.

He had secretly suppressed Zhang Xiaohua's Celestial Soul. Unfortunately, he didn't understand the art of curses, otherwise he would have tormented this grandson properly.

Zhang Xiaohua was polishing the seashell, his mind somewhat muddled, and he was in a daze. He didn't know where the problem was, why the divine position he had planned for had suddenly disappeared, and even his Celestial Soul had vanished without a trace.

Zhang Xiaohua was very flustered, but he was helpless, so he could only suppress the panic in his heart and try not to reveal it.

Zhang Chen ignored Zhang Xiaohua, and golden light flowed through his eyes. He looked towards the backyard of the temple. He could feel that his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl was in the backyard.

"My Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl was abducted by that Goddess. How did it run to the backyard?" Zhang Chen was puzzled, but unfortunately, he didn't have a suitable opportunity to check the backyard.

"You few, come over here, let's go repair the damaged main hall in the backyard together."

A craftsman master who had been hired from the foot of the mountain waved to Zhang Chen and Little Bean and the others. They came to the backyard together to assist the master in repairing the damaged doors and windows.

A group of people were busy in the backyard, repairing the main halls one by one. When they came to the innermost courtyard, Zhang Chen could feel that his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl was in the newly built temple dedicated to the Water God of the Miluo River.

Zhang Chen took the wood and casually entered the main hall of the Water God of the Miluo River. He saw a sculpture in the hall, which was neither male nor female, and his Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl had replaced one of its eyes, embedded in the sculpture.

Seeming to sense Zhang Chen's approach, the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl emitted a faint light, resonating with Zhang Chen, but then a rune flickered on the Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl, and the light dimmed again.

Zhang Chen calmly opened his Devouring Dharma Eye and scanned the entire main hall. He saw incense faith gathering towards the sculpture from the void, all of which was devoured by his own Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen suddenly understood: "So that's how it is. That Primordial Goddess is also doing the work of a thief. But that's my Ocean Stabilizing Divine Pearl, I have to find a way to get it back."

He couldn't afford to offend that Primordial Goddess, so he chose to be conciliatory, withdrew from the main hall, and temporarily ignored it. It wouldn't be too late to get revenge when his cultivation improved in the future.

"Alright, alright, you ancient goddess, relying on your high cultivation, you want to forcibly seize my Ocean Stabilizing Pearl, is that it?" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

Fortunately, the Ocean Stabilizing Pearl was painstakingly cultivated by me, and it can never be separated from me, otherwise, I would really lose both the lady and the army.

But thinking about the red knot he had formed with the goddess, Zhang Chen was a little confused, wondering what the red knot was for, as he seemed to be linked to the goddess by the red knot in the dark.

Zhang Chen subconsciously moved the ring finger of his left hand, and then looked at the sculpture with both eyes. For some reason, facing the goddess who stole his Ocean Stabilizing Pearl, he not only didn't feel angry, but also had an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

"How strange, I have no kinship with her, why would I have a inexplicable sense of closeness to her?" Zhang Chen wondered in his heart.

Zhang Chen glanced at the sculpture, feeling a little strange, but he didn't continue to think about it. Instead, he turned and walked out of the hall, joining the repair work.

Zhang Chen is very busy now, on the one hand, he has to comprehend the second level of Qi training, and on the other hand, he has to study the Mountain Moving Technique.

He has already entered the second level of Qi training. As for the Mountain Moving Technique, it will take time to figure it out, but he doesn't think it will take too long.

Time flies. With the joint efforts of thousands of disciples in the Taoist temple and tens of thousands of civilians drawn from the Pingbian Royal Mansion, the entire Taoist temple was completely repaired in just half a month.

It's just that now the entire Taoist temple is no longer the same, and many familiar faces have completely disappeared that night.

Half a month later, the Taoist temple was repaired, and Zhang Chen began his leisurely life of lying flat again. However, he still did not start with the incense and belief of the Taoist temple. He felt that he still needed to wait a little longer. After all, there are many people in the Taoist temple now, and maybe there are still high-level Taoist temple officials secretly watching him. He felt that it was better to slow down.

Of course, it wasn't that he didn't do anything. At least he had already noticed some clues. Gu Mingyue, the highest cultivator in the Taoist temple, had left the Taoist temple and went to the two-world passage to absorb the mysterious factor. But in order to be on the safe side, he still had to observe for a while, after all, what he lacked most was time. For him, stability was victory.

As for the Mountain Moving Technique, Zhang Chen already had some experience. He felt that in another half a month, he should be able to cultivate the skill panel of the Mountain Moving Technique.

Just as Zhang Chen was living a leisurely life, Xie Lingyun appeared in the Taoist temple, covered in dust, and came all the way to Zhang Chen's small courtyard.

"Why does elder sister have time to come today?" Zhang Chen showed a hint of surprise in his eyes when he saw Xie Lingyun.

"I miss you, so I came to see you." Iron-clad warriors blocked the entire courtyard behind Xie Lingyun, and then Xie Lingyun, dressed in green, sat on the chair opposite Zhang Chen:

"A major event has happened in the Northern Territory, have you ever heard of it?"

"Major event? What major event?" Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun curiously. He was in the mountains and really didn't have any inside information about the outside world.

"At the place where Liu Feng's divine body self-destructed, a nameless existence suddenly appeared. That existence opened a passage to a mysterious unknown world. Mysterious factors are constantly leaking out of that world, which can not only help people's cultivation and enhance people's bloodline, but even prolong life." Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen with both eyes.

Zhang Chenwen said thoughtfully: "I have heard about this matter."

"The most important thing is that I heard people say that the ancient god is the female corpse that the Pingbian Royal Mansion dug out from the ground before. I don't know why she was resurrected from the Pingbian Royal Mansion and opened a mysterious passage at the place where the Water God self-destructed." Speaking of this, Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen with both eyes:

"I secretly sent experts to the city to meet you that day, but I didn't see you..."

Xie Lingyun's probing was obvious. That night, Zhang Chen said he was going to the Pingbian Royal Mansion to cause trouble, and then the Pingbian Royal Mansion was in chaos. An expert, unafraid of the dragon energy of the Pingbian Royal Mansion, actually went on a killing spree and disappeared into the night, and then the female corpse was resurrected.

Xie Lingyun felt that all of this must be related to Zhang Chen, or at least Zhang Chen must know what happened that night. Asking here, she didn't continue to get to the bottom of it, but asked an irrelevant question: "Is there really a fairy world in this world? Can the fairy law even break the suppression of dragon energy?"

Zhang Chen smiled lightly when he heard the words, knowing that Xie Lingyun was asking himself why he could use his methods in the Pingbian Royal Mansion without being suppressed by the dragon energy, and was also asking about the origin of the space channel, so he replied unhurriedly: "The fairy law will also be suppressed by the dragon energy, but I have special means. As for the fairy world? Maybe there is! But I can tell you clearly that what is behind that space channel is definitely not the fairy world you are talking about."

"Not the fairy world? Do you know where that is?" Xie Lingyun's eyes lit up immediately.

"The first heaven of the spiritual world." Zhang Chen said.

Xie Lingyun's breathing stagnated when she heard the words. Of course, she knew what the first heaven of the spiritual world was, but precisely because she knew, her heart was even more shocked, and a huge wave was set off: "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Zhang Chen said.

Xie Lingyun was silent when she heard the words, but Zhang Chen could hear that Xie Lingyun's heartbeat was accelerating.

Although the opposite is not the legendary fairy world, the first heaven of the spiritual world is also equally shocking.

Those ancient books dug out from the tomb have too many beautiful descriptions of the spiritual world, such as peaches, ginseng fruit, nine-turn golden pills, etc. Taking out any one of them will make people realize transcendence.

Xie Lingyun's excitement was indescribable. Even if it was only the first heaven of the spiritual world, as long as you enter the first heaven of the spiritual world, wouldn't the second heaven, the third heaven, the fourth, and the fifth heavens be far away?

Xie Lingyun's eyes were full of surprise: "Are you sure?"

If she knew the origin of the opposite world one step ahead, checked the information about the opposite world, and made sufficient preparations, the future harvest would only be greater.

"The world on the other side is very dangerous, you must be more careful." Zhang Chen exhorted Xie Lingyun.

Xie Lingyun took a deep look at Zhang Chen, and then said: "Don't worry, I won't go in without making full preparations."

Speaking of this, Xie Lingyun said: "My father speculates that the space channel will be completely stabilized in another half a month, and then you can try to step into it. That channel can exist for at least a year. It all depends on your ability to get something from it. Do you want me to take you in? It's better for us to go together and take care of each other!"