I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 1029 The Last Era
"Dog Master, this matter is of great importance, please help him!" the girl said shyly in a low voice.

The big black dog glanced at Zhang Chen, then at the shy girl, and sighed helplessly, "What a disaster!"

"Please enlighten me, Ancestor." Zhang Chen raised his hand and bowed to Xiaotian Divine Lord.

Upon hearing Zhang Chen's words, Lord Xiaotian said, "Don't worry. The Dharma-ending Age is nearing its end. The spiritual world will lose the support of the power of 'Dharma' and will inevitably fall from the spiritual world. At that time, you will have the opportunity to enter the Thirty-Three Heavens and obtain the cultivation techniques there. However, by then, all the laws in the world will have disappeared. Even if you obtain the Eight-Nine Arcane Technique, what use will it be? You won't be able to cultivate it."

Zhang Chen ignored Xiaotian Shenjun's complaints and said with a happy expression, "The spiritual world is falling from the void? That's great! I won't have to worry about not being able to obtain the Eight-Nine Arcane Technique then."

Then he bowed to Lord Xiaotian and said, "Thank you for telling me, Ancestor."

After speaking, he glanced at Ji Feihua again and saw the girl lower her head shyly. Zhang Chen cursed inwardly, "This bastard is a troublemaker!" Then he hurriedly left, not daring to stay any longer.

Since parting ways with Lord Xiaotian that day, Zhang Chen's life has been quiet. He spends his days either collecting maps sent from various places or reviewing information sent from various places. Meanwhile, Wang Ye has been reporting good news one after another. He has conquered more than thirty vassal territories in succession, and then stopped attacking. He began to manage his own land, recuperate, restore order, and sort out the chaos within his territory.

However, Wang Ye's successive conquest of more than thirty vassal states terrified the surrounding vassal states, who feared that the ferocious demon army would be at their gates at any moment. As a result, they all sent envoys to submit their allegiance, extinguishing all their ulterior motives, and bringing a rare period of peace to the northern lands once again.

The restoration of peace in the north was a good thing for Zhang Chen, and even a strange thing for the whole world. After all, the various lords were fighting each other to the death, but the dozens of lords surrounding Zhang Chen's north had fallen silent and entered a strange state of tranquility. How could this not be strange?
Time flies by, and it seems that time has accelerated at this moment. Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. During these ten years, the calamity of the end of Dharma in the world has not worsened. It still maintains an environment where sixth-level powerhouses can survive. The northern lands have become more and more stable after ten years of development. Even the territory that Wang Ye conquered has been completely digested and absorbed by him, and has become his private territory that he can decide with his word.

Xie Lingyun stood under the eaves, munching on a peach. Ten years had passed, and Xie Lingyun had gained some of the marks of time, looking like a mature woman in her late twenties, beautiful and alluring.

"Strange, could it be that the changes of the Great Tribulation of the End of Dharma have ended? Is the sixth rank the critical point for all transcendent beings?" Xie Lingyun's words were full of curiosity.

Zhang Chen's face remained unchanged from ten years ago. Upon hearing this, he raised his head to look at the sun high in the starry sky. Just as he was about to say something, a thunderclap suddenly rang out in the clear sky, causing Zhang Chen to swallow back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.

Then an invisible wave spread throughout the entire world. In Zhang Chen's eyes, the remaining extraordinary power in the world was rapidly decreasing. In just over thirty breaths, there was no more extraordinary power in the air. The flow of the laws in the world fell into inertia, and the speed of the flow was a hundred times slower than before. The speed of the flow of the laws in the world was sluggish, rigid, and solidified, which was simply not enough to make the laws work.

“The extraordinary power has disappeared. So, starting from the sixth rank, it wasn't a gradual decline, but a direct jump,” Zhang Chen said. Xie Lingyun's face turned completely dark.

"My crow's mouth!"

Zhang Chen ignored Xie Lingyun's complaints and quickly sensed his Five Elements Authority. He then said with a grim expression, "I can only mobilize the Five Elements Authority within one meter around me at the moment."

A person with a height of one meter is indeed very strong, in an era without supernatural powers. However, they are not without weaknesses and are not invincible.

“The extraordinary power has completely disappeared, even the power of martial arts blood has disappeared. The final chapter of the extraordinary era has finally arrived.” Xie Lingyun stopped eating peaches and solemnly sensed her own body. She felt that the spiritual cultivation she had painstakingly rebuilt in her body had vanished into thin air, and the martial arts blood had also turned into nothingness, as if nothing existed.

Only the power that one has mastered and can not be destroyed by the divine can still be freely controlled by one's mind, and is still under one's control.

Although the extraordinary power has disappeared, the unique human skill can still be used.

"The martial arts that can withstand divine attacks are still very powerful. They develop human strength to the extreme and bring human senses to an unbelievable level. Even the ability to sense the autumn wind before it blows and to exert force three inches in mid-air still involves the use of the soul, just not as mysterious as in the extraordinary era." Zhang Chen felt the changes in his body. Although the martial arts blood and qi had disappeared, he could still condense his inner energy, which seemed to move like a little mouse under his skin.

“A martial artist who is indestructible may not be able to withstand a thousand troops, or even charge into a regular army, but for ordinary people, they are still incredibly powerful. It’s somewhat similar to the martial arts in novels, but even more exaggerated.” Zhang Chen kept pondering the changes in his body.

“Now that the era of extraordinary beings has ended, I fear the North will be in turmoil. Those lords who have grudges against us in the past, and those forces that have enemies with us, will likely make a comeback.” Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen with a serious expression, her eyes filled with worry. “It’s alright! Our Northern army is the most elite force in the world. Why would we fear the armies of various lords?” Zhang Chen, however, was unconvinced, his eyes filled with disdain.

He himself possessed extraordinary power, so what about an army of billions? In front of him, they would only be slaughtered.

Even if all else fails, he can assassinate the enemy leader and resolve the crisis in the north, so Zhang Chen does not share Xie Lingyun's concerns.

"It's also a good opportunity to see who the real enemies are, who the real friends are, and who is secretly plotting something. Your Inspection Division must keep a close watch on the North and see everyone clearly," Zhang Chen instructed Xie Lingyun.

Xie Lingyun nodded, a hint of disappointment in her eyes: "Has the extraordinary power truly disappeared completely?"

For extraordinary people, the feeling of having no hope at all is no different from being dead.

Upon hearing the other party's words, Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment: "Perhaps some peculiar treasures can exert a trace of incredible power during the Great Calamity of the End of Dharma, and can break the inert laws of heaven and earth."

Zhang Chen dared not say that all extraordinary powers in the world had been completely annihilated. Perhaps some unique treasures could still be preserved under the inertial laws of the Great Thousand World?

Xie Lingyun nodded upon hearing this, then turned and went to the Inspection Department to appease the people, leaving Zhang Chen standing in the courtyard looking at the sky in silence. After a long while, he opened his Heavenly Eye and took out a piece of innate Gengjin. The fist-sized piece of innate Gengjin appeared in the air, and all the innate energy within it instantly dissipated, leaving only a piece of metal shimmering with a white-gold luster, which Zhang Chen held in his palm.

As soon as Zhang Chen had a thought, the metal lump twisted and turned into a metal belt, which coiled around his waist and solidified. In this era of declining Dharma, the most powerful thing was undoubtedly the power of metal. Naturally, Zhang Chen had to prepare some metal weapons on his person so that he could mobilize them as quickly as possible in critical moments.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Zhang Chen only took out a fist-sized piece of metal; it could transform into more than a dozen small knives. If they were to swirl around him, they would create a death whirlwind that would shatter anything that came near him.

As the extraordinary era came to an end, undercurrents surged throughout the northern lands. After making preparations, Zhang Chen drove his carriage to the feng shui array he had built. He saw that the array was still operating, but it was a thousand times weaker than in the extraordinary era. Beasts kept rushing out of the tomb, cursing, "Zhang Chen, you son of a bitch, you tricked me!" But after only a few steps, they were drained of their life force by the Great Thousand World and turned into mindless beasts.

Meanwhile, the army guarding the feng shui formation fired their crossbows, killing the beasts on the spot.

As for why those demonic beasts didn't stay inside the feng shui formation?
Staying inside would only mean starving to death. Only a fool would stay inside. It would be better to rush out. Although the last bit of supernatural power would disappear, turning into an ordinary beast would give them a chance to survive, wouldn't it?

Zhang Chen's carriage stopped in front of the feng shui formation. He watched from afar as the demonic beasts kept charging out, and some powerful human-demon warriors who had surrendered to him died tragically under the crossbow bolts. After watching for a while, Zhang Chen turned and left.

He wasn't there to see the demonic beasts that had lost their extraordinary powers, but rather to see if the feng shui formation could break the shackles of heaven and earth and preserve those extraordinary powers.

Although Zhang Chen stood outside the feng shui formation, he had complete control over everything within it. The feng shui formation was like a deflated balloon, its extraordinary power being absorbed by the vast world. In two or three years at most, the extraordinary power within the feng shui formation would be completely gone. Therefore, the feng shui formation could not withstand the great forces of heaven and earth. Those ancient beings who wanted to rely on the feng shui formation to avoid calamities would probably perish completely in this era.

Just like the Queen Mother of the West, if she hadn't dug up the other party's great tomb, no matter how mysterious the Queen Mother of the West's tomb was, in this Dharma-ending Age, it would probably have completely turned into mortal dust in three to five years.

"The will of Heaven is unchangeable, and all things are but ants. When the laws of Heaven and Earth enter a period of inertia, even the Primordial Grand Luo cannot be mobilized. Where is there any extraordinary power? I am the only extraordinary being in the future." Zhang Chen sat in the carriage, his eyes not filled with the joy of becoming the only extraordinary being, but also with a trace of bewilderment, because he did not know how the future of the world would develop, or whether he could complete that feng shui formation and achieve the reincarnation of his soul.

"Let's just endure it for now and see if the fate of the world changes. No wonder the gods of the primordial era are so terrified; this era is too despairing," Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)