I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 143 The Distress of a Genius

In the eyes of the fox fairy Nannan, Zhang Chen really had delusions, he was crazy!
How can there be water in the spiritual world?
Besides, there is water in the spiritual world. You can just control it to flow out. Why are you still thinking of digging it out from the soil? Are you crazy?
This is not the way normal people think!

Zhang Chen paused while digging the ruins, and then he began to doubt himself: "How strange! Is there really something wrong with my brain? Since there is a spring in my spiritual world, why can't I just control it to flow out? Why bother digging the soil?"

Zhang Chen patted his head, threw away the stick, and began to use his magical water control technique.

Unfortunately, Zhang Chen’s water control technique failed and he was unable to control the flow of water in the spring below.

"Why did it fail?" Zhang Chen's eyes showed a hint of confusion.

It stands to reason that since I can sense the water flow, I should be able to control it. But why is it not working?
Zhang Chen looked at the skill page, wondering if there was a loophole in the skill page. The next moment, he saw the gold finger page flashing, and a new message appeared:

[Water of unknown level, beyond the scope of control. Currently, the host can only control water that does not exceed his own water control level. The target water flow contains a mysterious unknown power that is beyond his control. ]

Seeing this, Zhang Chen's eyes showed a trace of astonishment: "So that's it!"

Seeing that he was unable to control the underground water flow, Zhang Chen did not look angry but instead smiled.

Although he felt a little disappointed because he could only control water that did not exceed the level of water control, he smiled brightly when he saw that there was mysterious water hidden under the spiritual world, and it was a mysterious water of unknown level. It was good that he could not control it. When he dug up the soil, he would gain more.

"What are you doing standing there? Come and dig the hole." Zhang Chen reacted and said to the fox fairy Nannan.

"You are absolutely crazy! Don't you have the ability to control water? If there really is a spring, you can just control the water to fly out. Why bother digging it?" The fox fairy Nannan looked at Zhang Chen and felt like she was looking at a madman.

Zhang Chen sneered when he heard this: "What do you know? Just get to work and stop wasting time."

The fox fairy Nannan couldn't persuade Zhang Chen. The situation was stronger than she was. She wanted to continue practicing in the mysterious spiritual world in the future, so she could only listen to Zhang Chen's arrangements and the two of them dug together.

However, digging a 30-meter-long tunnel is not an easy task. Even if two people work together, it will not be possible to dig it out in a short time.

Especially those fragments of rubble pressed on the ground need to be cleaned out bit by bit.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen could accurately feel the location of the spring, so he found a place with only broken bricks and began his excavation.

Zhang Chen was holding half a tile and digging the soil. Fox Fairy Nannan was also holding a tile in her hand, digging the soil while complaining: "I say, we don't even have tools, how long will it take to dig like this? Just relying on this tile, you want to dig dozens of meters deep, aren't you kidding me?"

After digging for a while, the fox fairy Nannan looked at the pitifully small amount of soil she had dug out and threw the tile in her hand to the ground, immediately becoming unhappy.

"You're right. We don't even have the tools to dig. If we continue digging in this way, how long will it take us to finish?" Zhang Chen also stopped.

"No, we are not beasts and we don't have claws to dig the soil. It will take us forever to dig with our hands. By then, I'm afraid you will be old and dead!" said the fox fairy Nannan unhappily.

Ok?
Zhang Chenwen looked at the vixen, and a thought flashed through his mind: "No claws? Not good at digging holes?"

He is a human being and without claws he is naturally not good at digging holes, but the woman in front of him is a vixen!
Although the girl in front of him was dressed in white and looked like a fairy, and looked more human than Zhang Chen, her true form was a vixen.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" The vixen saw Zhang Chen's eyes fixed on her, and immediately realized something was wrong. She couldn't help but tighten her clothes: "I'm telling you, don't have any dirty thoughts. Although I'm as beautiful as a fairy and meet all your fantasies, I'm a vixen and you're a human. We're not of the same species. We have racial barriers."

Zhang Chen was speechless after hearing this. He felt that the vixen was overthinking. Who would want to fuck up their skills? Unless the other person was a pervert.

"Have you been dead for too long that you have forgotten what your true form is?" Zhang Chen reminded.

"My true form is a fox. We are discussing digging soil now. What are you doing..." The fox spirit seemed to come to her senses when she said this. She stared at Zhang Chen with a look of disbelief in her eyes. "Zhang Chen, you can't do this! You can't ask a fairy to turn into a fox to dig soil for you. It's not pretty."

The vixen's voice was trembling, she couldn't even imagine how shocking it would be if this scene really appeared.

"So? Will you come to the spiritual world again in the future?" Zhang Chen asked back.

The fox fairy Nannan stared at Zhang Chen with her eyes, swallowed hard, and wanted to smear the dirt in her hand on Zhang Chen's face, then pointed at Zhang Chen's nose and cursed him fiercely: "If you don't want to come, then don't come. I don't want you! I won't come even if you beg me in the future! This broken place is desolate, what's the point of coming?"

Thinking of this, the vixen immediately stood up, looked at Zhang Chen with a pair of eyes, and showed a bright smile: "Isn't it just digging the soil? What's the big deal!"

After saying this, she transformed into a fox spirit with snow-white fur. The fox fur was shiny and smooth, without a speck of dust. She looked like a Mosaye that had just taken a bath.

But at this moment, the beautiful picture was broken, and the fox spirit kicked the ground with its claws and began to dig the soil. In an instant, dust flew up and flew directly towards Zhang Chen's face, shocking Zhang Chen so much that he couldn't dodge in time and ended up covered in dust.

"This vixen did it on purpose. She is really unruly." Zhang Chen looked at the vixen, took a deep breath, and watched the vixen digging the soil. He kept telling himself, "Don't be angry! Don't be angry! It would be really interesting to tame such an unruly vixen."

Then Zhang Chen sat aside and pondered the runes, while supervising the fox spirit to prevent her from being lazy.

"I say, can you help me? I'll dig in the front and you'll expand it in the back. Helping me carry the soil can save a lot of time." Suddenly, the fox fairy Nannan's head popped out of the cave and said to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "That makes sense."

Then Zhang Chen started to help.

When the fox fairy Nannan dug two meters, she crawled out of the hole and transformed into a human form. She stood in front of Zhang Chen with a dusty face and a look of grievance in her eyes: "I'm tired."

"Take a rest if you are tired. We are not in a hurry." Zhang Chen smiled and comforted the vixen.

The fox spirit dusted off the dust on her body, and then after all the dust was wiped off, she began to meditate and practice. Soon, an hour was up, and Zhang Chen's magic power was exhausted, so he had to exit the spiritual world with the fox fairy.

“We’ve gained a lot today!”

Zhang Chen opened his eyes in the room, lit the oil lamp and wanted to read a book, but the next moment his stomach rumbled and he felt extremely hungry.

He was really hungry! He was so hungry that he couldn't stand it.

"Strange, why am I so hungry today?"

Zhang Chen forced himself to suppress his hunger and practiced calligraphy under the lamplight. But after a while, his body began to tremble with hunger and sweat started to pour out.

"Could it be that I dug the soil in the spiritual world before, causing my spiritual energy to be too exhausted, and even affecting the consumption of my physical energy and blood?" Zhang Chen pondered for a moment and guessed the reason. He stroked his rumbling stomach and said, "I'm so hungry! I won't steal meat, but it should be okay to steal some cakes from the side hall? I won't be caught by anyone, right? I'm not that unlucky, am I?"

Zhang Chen's mind moved, and he summoned the fox fairy Nannan. Before Zhang Chen could speak, the fox fairy Nannan said directly: "You don't have to tell me, I'll go find you something to eat."

"How do you know I'm looking for food?" Zhang Chen looked at the fox fairy Nannan in surprise.

"When did you summon me out in the dead of night? Wasn't it for food?" the fox fairy Nannan said unhappily.

"You have to be careful. A great monk from Huang Tiandao is in charge of the Taoist temple. Don't let him discover your trace. Don't go to the kitchen this time. Just go to the side hall next door to move some cakes." Zhang Chen warned the fox fairy Nannan.

The fox fairy Nannan knew the seriousness of the matter, so she turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the courtyard.

Inside Xie Lingyun's bamboo building, there was another round of game of chess, which ended when Xie Lingyun absorbed the scent of incense and defeated the black light.

After washing up, Xie Lingyun looked at the bright moon in the sky and found it difficult to fall asleep for a while.

"I don't have much time left." Xie Lingyun sighed, his voice full of helplessness: "Others are practicing hard and trying to break through immediately, but what about me? I just keep wasting my own practice and not letting myself break through."

The bright moon was reflected in Xie Lingyun's pupils, making Xie Lingyun's already miserable face even more pale.

"I inherited my father's talent, and later I came into contact with this mysterious thing by accident. So I entered a state of meditation at the age of three, left my body at the age of four, roamed at night at the age of five, roamed during the day at the age of six, and drove away monsters at the age of eight. It has been another eight years since then. In order not to break through the possession, I tried every means to seal myself and suppressed it for eight years. I practiced that mysterious visualization method, and unexpectedly gave birth to a demon inadvertently. As long as I break through to the realm of possession, the demon will take the opportunity to possess me and then live in the world instead of me. If it weren't for the power of the calming incense, I'm afraid I would have suffered a disaster." Xie Lingyun's heart was filled with bitterness.

What can she do? She is helpless too!

She was also distressed because her realm breakthrough was too fast and her foundation was too solid.

Especially in recent years, in order to suppress her realm, she constantly abandoned her cultivation and lowered her realm time and time again. However, all the power she lost was used to help the demon. Until now, her realm could no longer be lowered. She knew that her greatest calamity had arrived.

"Everyone says that I'm a genius, but who knows the troubles of a genius? It's not easy to be a genius." Xie Lingyun was upset and couldn't sleep, so he simply walked down the pavilion and wandered aimlessly in the Taoist temple.

It was now the second half of the night, and everything was silent. Only the faint sound of the armor colliding between soldiers on night patrols could be heard, breaking the tranquility in the darkness.

Xie Lingyun walked in the shade of the trees in the Taoist temple, looking at the quiet Taoist temple, with an inexplicable color flashing in his eyes, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.

At this moment, a figure in white suddenly appeared and attracted Xie Lingyun's attention.

I saw a figure in white clothes walking stealthily on the path of the Taoist temple with a package in his hand, like a thief.

"Woman? And a very beautiful woman?" Xie Lingyun was stunned when she saw the sneaky woman in white. She usually boasted that her beauty was unparalleled in the world and was not inferior to anyone else, but looking at the woman in front of her, she always felt that she seemed to lack some femininity for some reason.

The woman in white had an extremely beautiful face and a very graceful figure. If it was just about her looks, she wouldn't necessarily be bad either, but for some reason, that woman had a soft and charming aura that all men liked, and she couldn't help but lose her mind for a moment.

"No! This woman's soul is out of her body!" Xie Lingyun took another look and suddenly found some clues. This woman was not in physical form, but in a spirit out of her body.

The combination of the Taoist temple, night, women, out-of-body experience, and a package makes it hard not to think too much.

So Xie Lingyun pondered for a moment, a black energy circulated around his body, his body stayed where it was, but his soul left his body and slowly followed.

If I followed him with my physical body, it would definitely cause a commotion and alert the fox spirit. However, I have practiced a wonderful technique, and my soul can borrow the power of the devil. If my soul leaves my body, even a powerful Yin spirit will not be able to detect my whereabouts.

The fox fairy Nannan was walking stealthily in the darkness, completely unaware that she was being followed.

The fox fairy girl came to Zhang Chen's house with cakes wrapped in a cloth bag and threw the package on the table: "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission and brought back the cakes."

"No one has discovered your trace, right?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Of course, you can trust my ability, aunt. How could I make a mistake if I took action?"

Fox fairy Nannan said proudly.

Just as the two were talking, the talisman that was originally placed in front of Zhang Chen's desk suddenly emitted a ray of light. The light of the righteous god burst out and pierced into the darkness.

"Huh?" Zhang Chen was stunned upon seeing this sudden change, and the fox fairy Nannan was also confused.

"My talisman was blessed with the light of the righteous god by me, so it naturally has the effect of automatic cruising. Just now, the light of the righteous god actually attacked automatically. Could it be that a monster passed by? Or is the fox fairy Nannan being followed?" Zhang Chen was shocked.

(End of this chapter)