I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 154: Demonic Rebellion
Xie Lingyun looked at the young man in front of him and felt that he was guilty, and his crime was unforgivable.

The world is still the same world, but dirty people like me have made this world dirty.

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

"You should carry this rune with you. I will draw one for you every day. I guarantee that the demon will not dare to mess with you until you master the method of drawing the rune yourself!" Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun and pushed the rune over.

Xie Lingyun did not refuse, but pointed to the soft couch beside him and said, "Just sit there. If I encounter any problem with drawing talismans, I will come back to ask you. You can eat the cakes and fruits on the table as you like. Don't be polite. Just treat this place as your own home."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen sat down on the couch, picked up the pastry and started eating silently, looking very well-behaved.

Xie Lingyun looked at the runes on the table, picked up the brush and slowly outlined them.

Time passed quickly, and soon the sky darkened. Zhang Chen said goodbye and left, leaving Xie Lingyun in the room to continue drawing talismans and studying the character "zhen".

When Zhang Chen returned to the yard, he was suddenly hit by a strong smell of medicine. Zhang Chen walked into the house in surprise, and saw the little kid sitting on a chair, drinking the medicine spoonful by spoonful with a bitter face.

"Why did you drink the medicine?" Zhang Chen looked at the little girl drinking the medicine and asked in surprise. I haven't heard that this girl is sick?

The little bean had a bitter taste in his mouth: "I just thought that my foundation was unstable, so I wanted to drink some medicine to replenish it."

Zhang Chen did not think much about it, but took out pears, grapes and other fruits from his arms and handed them to the little kid. The little kid's eyes lit up when he saw the snacks. He quickly put down the medicine, and then quickly caught the fruits with the front of his clothes, with a hint of joy in his eyes: "Zhang Chen, you are still the best to me."

"Eat quickly." Zhang Chen touched the little kid's head and walked into the house.

The little kid looked at Zhang Chen's back and suddenly asked, "Zhang Chen."

"Hmm?" Zhang Chen stopped and turned to look at the little kid.

"Do I look like a psychopath to you?"

At this point, the little kid looked at Zhang Chen with a pair of cute big eyes, his eyes full of anticipation.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, and stared at the little kid blankly, not knowing what the little kid was up to.

But facing the little kid's question, Zhang Chen still replied very seriously: "You are a normal person, how can you be a psychopath?"

Hearing this, Little Bean took a bite of the pear and said, "It seems that my illness is not that serious."

Zhang Chen shook his head, speechless at the little kid's question. He didn't know what the child was thinking about. His little head was full of all kinds of strange ideas.

That night
At the northwest corner of the Taoist temple where the coffins were stored, the moonlight was shining, and suddenly the black shadow floating on the coffin opened its eyes: "The light from that boy is so evil that it can actually hurt my body. Fortunately, when I was fighting with Huang Tiandao's Gu Mingyue last time, a trace of my energy escaped and was absorbed by this wronged ghost, giving me the opportunity to split myself out. Otherwise, I would have been trapped to death in that woman's body."

As he spoke, the shadowy figure flashed and turned into a charming woman in white. She left the coffin and came to a room where a disciple lived. She knocked on the disciple's door and asked delicately, "Is anyone in the room?"

At this time, the disciples in the room were doing horse stance. When they heard the woman's voice, they were startled: "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 ball of warm and fragrant beauty falling directly into his arms.

Zhang Chen practiced all night, and now his soul was full, and he wanted to make up for the lessons he had missed before. However, before dawn, there was a sudden loud noise, followed by a series of bells, which woke Zhang Chen up from his practice.

"The bell rang six times, calling all the disciples to gather. It's strange, it's not even morning class time yet, why are they suddenly calling all the disciples together?"

Zhang Chen was suspicious, but he quickly got out of bed and washed up. However, 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 muttering from inside the room: "It's over, my condition has worsened again. I actually heard the sound of a bell in the middle of the night."

Zhang Chen, who was outside the door, heard the little kid's mumbling and was confused: "Little kid is sick? This kid has been a little abnormal since last night."

"Sister, get up! The Taoist temple is gathering all the disciples. If you are late, you will be punished with a stick." Zhang Chen urged outside the door.

There was a crackling sound in the room, and the little kid's miserable voice sounded again: "Something is wrong! Something is wrong! That was clearly the sound of the bell, but I mistook it for an auditory hallucination. Has my condition become so serious?"

Soon the door was opened, and a little kid with dark circles under his eyes came out. He looked at Zhang Chen listlessly, yawning, "Is the Taoist temple elder crazy? Why is he ringing the bell in the middle of the night?"

"Something must have happened."

Zhang Chen picked up the little kid and walked quickly towards the square.

After arriving at the square, Zhang Chen discovered that something had indeed happened. The disciples were surrounding the ten mummies and discussing something.

After a little inquiry, Zhang Chen found out the answer. It turned out that an evil spirit had harmed people last night. The ten disciples had their energy sucked dry by the evil spirit, and their souls were squeezed out, making them deader than dead.

After listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Chen looked at the ten mummies. The mummies were black, as if they were dyed with black paint, and the water in their bodies seemed to have been drained away.

"How could this happen? In Huangli Temple, where great monks are stationed, there are evil spirits causing chaos?" Zhang Chen was puzzled. What about Gu Mingyue? Where did Gu Mingyue go? Why wasn't Gu Mingyue in the Taoist temple?
There was a hint of disbelief in Zhang Chen's eyes at this moment.

"Brother, I'm scared!"

The little kid's timid voice rang in Zhang Chen's ears.

"Don't look, my brother is here." Zhang Chen stroked the little kid's head.

"Count the number of people and see how many disciples are missing." The law enforcement elder shouted loudly.

Following his order, the law enforcement disciples began to count the number of people. Soon, a disciple reported: "Elder, there are still fifty disciples who have not arrived."

"Send someone to search for them immediately." The law enforcement elder ordered. But not long after, a disciple reported in a panic that all fifty disciples were dead, and then the bodies of disciples who had been drained of their vitality were carried out one by one.

There were a total of sixty mummies, which made the elders feel very distressed.

You have to know that Huangli Temple only has 3,000 disciples. How much food is needed to train one person? Sixty people died inexplicably overnight, which is definitely a huge loss.

"Send a message to Patriarch Mingyue of Gu, asking him to return quickly."

The law enforcement elder ordered everyone: "From now on, no disciple should be left alone."

Zhang Chen looked at his disciples who were in a panic, and sighed in his heart. He couldn't help but feel emotional, but he didn't say much.

"Huangli Temple seems to have encountered a big challenge. There is a monster coming to Huangli Temple to cause trouble. It is obvious that he has some tricks. Could it be that the monster was injured by the golden light emitted by my talisman that night?" Zhang Chen said to himself.

More than sixty people died overnight, and the entire Huangli Temple was in panic.

The law enforcement elder looked at the disciples and said loudly, "Everyone wait in the square. No one is allowed to leave. I suspect the murderer is hiding among you. We need to wait for the ancestor to come back and personally check each of you. Only after confirming that there is no problem with you can you leave."

Just as the law enforcement elder was speaking, Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly flashed with golden light. He saw a black figure that had appeared in the square at some point and was now standing quietly in the crowd, but everyone was ignoring it.

“That… evil spirit!” Zhang Chen’s pupils shrank when he saw the black shadow, and he quickly recognized the other party’s origin: “It’s the woman who died unjustly! Who would have thought that after becoming powerful, she would be so vicious in her revenge, killing more than 60 people overnight.”

But when Zhang Chen took a closer look, he realized something was wrong, because he sensed a bit of the devil's aura on the woman.

"It's that demon! Wasn't the demon severely injured by me and hid in Xie Lingyun's mind and refused to come out? How did it run to the outside world? And even merged with that female ghost?" Zhang Chen was filled with shock. He couldn't figure out the secret behind it.

As if she had noticed Zhang Chen's gaze, the female ghost suddenly raised her head and gave Zhang Chen a weird smile. The next moment, her figure disappeared into the crowd without a trace.

"Something big has happened! Why did that demon come out? Wouldn't he bother Xie Lingyun anymore?" Zhang Chen was very confident that he was definitely not mistaken; that was the demon.

The aura of the devil is so unique that you will never forget it after just one look.

"Zhang Chen, the lady is calling you over."

Just then an elder from the Taoist temple came over to deliver a message.

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this, thinking of the demon before, and felt that the lady's summons must be related to this matter. So he carried the little bean towards the lady's residence. At this moment, he didn't dare to leave the little bean alone at the scene.

Zhang Chen came to Xie Lingyun's cottage, put the little kid on the first floor, handed him over to the soldiers for care, and then went all the way to the second floor. He saw Xie Lingyun sitting cross-legged on a cushion with a pale face, and incense sticks were burning in front of him.

"My lady." Zhang Chen came behind Xie Lingyun and bowed respectfully.

"You're here." Xie Lingyun opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Chen with bloodshot eyes, and his voice was hoarse and dry.

"Madam, what's wrong with you?" Zhang Chen looked at the haggard Xie Lingyun in front of him and was shocked. His eyes were full of disbelief. He could not believe that the haggard woman in front of him was actually the bright and beautiful Xie Lingyun.

"Something big has happened! When Elder Gu Mingyue was suppressing the demon for me, he fought with the demon, causing a trace of the demon's essence to flow outside. Unexpectedly, that trace of essence not only did not perish, but instead grew into a force and became its incarnation. The demon's incarnation was madly absorbing essence from the outside world last night in order to strengthen itself, and then take over my body. I'm afraid I can't bear it. Do you have any other solution?" Xie Lingyun stared at Zhang Chen with hope in his eyes.

Zhang Chen heard this and said, "Then the talisman is no longer effective?"

"The talisman can disperse the golden light, but the amount of demon origins dispersed is no match for the amount of demon origins regenerated. Every time the demon from the outside world devours a person, the demon in my body becomes stronger. If I continue to devour, I'm afraid I'm dead." Xie Lingyun's mood at this time can be described as extreme joy and sorrow, like ice and fire, with hope and despair. That kind of mood is really sympathetic.

"Elder Gu Mingyue is coming back. As long as Elder Gu Mingyue comes back, he will never let that devil kill anyone indiscriminately. By then, the devil will have no source of energy and will not be a threat to him." Zhang Chen comforted him.

“Gu Mingyue herself can’t be saved! Why do you think Gu Mingyue left the Taoist temple in such a hurry? Even the Great Heavenly Master fell into that devil’s hands, let alone Gu Mingyue?” Xie Lingyun smiled bitterly: “Now the only one we can count on is you! If you can’t do anything, I’m afraid that everyone in the Taoist temple will die.”

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this. The light of the righteous gods could not be applied to a living being. That demon was hiding in Xie Lingyun's spiritual world, a place that the light of the righteous gods could not reach.

"There's nothing I can do." Zhang Chen whispered.

Xie Lingyun took a deep breath, a look of despair in his eyes, and then he took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Zhang Chen: "In this entire Taoist temple, the only person who has a hope of survival is you. If you can leave the Taoist temple, remember to deliver the letter to my father for me."

"Miss, why don't you order someone to send the letter down the mountain now?" Zhang Chen asked.

“The force field of that demon has enveloped the entire Taoist temple. The entire temple is shrouded in an illusion and we can’t get out at all. That demon is determined to devour the entire temple and then eat everyone.” Xie Lingyun said.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "Illusionary force field? Where is the illusionary force field?"

He didn't notice!
Zhang Chen took the letter silently, but Xie Lingyun said, "Go down the mountain! Before the demon takes over my body, go down the mountain quickly and see if you can get out of this illusion."

Zhang Chen was silent after hearing this, and after a long while he said, "What will happen if I go down the mountain? That demon will never let me go. Even if I flee to the ends of the earth, that demon will never let me go."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Xie Lingyun smiled bitterly: "It's me who has implicated you."

She also came to her senses. Zhang Chen's methods could restrain the outer form of the devil. He was the devil's nemesis. How could the devil let Zhang Chen go?

“Huang Tiandao only has power but no spiritual cultivation. He is simply a slaughterhouse for the demons and a breeding ground for them. Once the demons spread, the world will surely be in chaos.” Xie Lingyun said.

Zhang Chen looked towards Xie Lingyun after hearing this, then took a deep breath, and a thought flashed through his mind: "Don't worry, Miss. All things in this world are interdependent and mutually exclusive. The demons are strange and powerful, so powerful that they defy the heavens. But because of this, someone who will be worthy of the calamity will naturally appear."

(End of this chapter)