I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 178 Changes in the Spiritual World
Zhang Chen looked at the young man opposite him who was crying loudly and felt that his thoughts were too distorted and must be corrected. He had to turn him back.

Zhang Chen's eyes swept across the boy opposite him, with a dangerous gleam in his eyes: "Are you saying that my life is worthless?"

Hearing Zhang Chen's words and looking at his dangerous eyes, the young man shuddered and even stopped sobbing. He asked tentatively, "Is it worth a penny?"

"..."

Facing the young man's anxious gaze, Zhang Chen felt as if he had been greatly insulted, but he sighed helplessly. For a moment, he was even a little bored and sat quietly on the ice in silence.

"What's wrong with you? Why don't you speak? You are very valuable, at least you are worth one or two taels of silver, right?" Zhong Xiang had learned a lesson from his failure and thought that he should suffer less, so he opened his mouth and asked tentatively.

Zhang Chen was so angry that his liver hurt. He didn't bother to pay attention to the other party. Seeing that the other party acted as if he had already paid a very high price, he really couldn't afford to be angry.

"I can buy a large number of my servants with just one hundred coins. Some people would come to my house for free just to have a bite of food. Some people even pay money to come into my house. I think the price of one penny is not low." Zhong Xiang felt a little uneasy and started to explain for Zhang Chen, fearing that Zhang Chen would get angry and urinate in his mouth.

Seeing that Zhang Chen didn't say anything but just stared at him, Zhong Xiang felt a little uneasy: "It's whatever you say, is that okay?"

"Do you want to pierce the left or right buttock this time?" Zhang Chen asked.

He didn't know what to say about this fucked up world, he could only slap his butt to vent his anger!
Zhong Xiang was furious when he heard this: "I am a great noble. You can't treat a noble like this. We can make a deal. As long as you name a price and tell me what price I have to pay to let you go, we can talk."

"I want your Qilin Heart, will you give it to me?" Zhang Chen asked.

Zhong Xiang's expression froze upon hearing this, and then he stared at Zhang Chen with his eyes, explaining very seriously: "The Qilin Heart has been melted into flames by me and integrated with my spirit, energy and spirit, turning into the energy of my spirit, energy and spirit. If I die, the Qilin Heart will also disappear. How can I give it to you?"

This fool in front of me is lawless. If I don't explain myself clearly, the other party will really dare to dig! He doesn't care about his status at all!

"Integrated into your spirit, energy and spirit?" Zhang Chen looked Zhong Xiang up and down, pondering the truth in Zhong Xiang's words.

"In fact, the so-called Qilin Heart is a mysterious flame that can make people immortal. If you get it, you can turn into flames and have an energetic body. It's nothing big. If you have such a great ability, why would you care about the Qilin Heart?"

Zhong Xiang met Zhang Chen's gaze, sensed the crisis, and spoke in a low voice.

Zhang Chen ignored Zhong Xiang. Anyway, he couldn't let Zhong Xiang get out alive. After he dug the tomb, he would send Zhong Xiang to see the King of Hell.

Zhang Chen extended a hand and placed it on Zhong Xiang's head. After checking the seal again, he sat aside and summoned the fox fairy Nannan: "Keep an eye on him for me. Remember to wake me up after an hour. I need to meditate and practice to recover my energy."

The fox fairy Nannan nodded when she heard this and sat obediently beside Zhang Chen. She knew that Zhang Chen was about to dig through the tomb and she also wanted to have a piece of the pie, so she was very flattering and obedient.

As for Zhong Xiang, he did not see any trace of the fox spirit, because at this time the fox spirit's cultivation was higher than his. Zhong Xiang was only at the fourth level of cultivation, so how could he see the form of the fox spirit?

Zhang Chen visualized the "Diagram of the Round Heaven and Square Earth" and the nameless Taoist appeared in his mind again. He saw the nameless Taoist making hand gestures, one hand pointing to the sky and the other holding a glass cup. His specific appearance could not be seen clearly, but his clothes were loose, as if covering the sun, moon and stars.

The colored glaze cup flashed with silvery-white light, drawing in the power of the moonlight from the unknown. Soon, the cup was filled with moonlight, which turned into white liquid and poured onto Zhang Chen's soul.

Zhang Chen's soul trembled after coming into contact with the liquid, and an indescribable sense of comfort came over him, as if his soul was sublimated.

With the dripping of moonlight, Zhang Chen's soul, which was depleted in Qi training, was constantly replenished. Then, with the rise and recovery of his spirit, a mysterious Qi flowed in the void. Zhang Chen only felt a flash before his eyes, and he actually entered the first level of the spiritual world again.

Just at the moment he entered the first level of the spiritual world, the entire Feng Shui formation seemed to sense something, and the Qi suddenly changed. Mysterious Qi came from nothingness and poured into Zhang Chen's body.

The aura was very mysterious, seeming to be there and not there, and even the fox fairy Nannan who was nearby did not notice the change.

As the aura of the Feng Shui formation flowed into Zhang Chen's body, Zhang Chen's "The Round Heaven and Square Earth" painting couldn't help but vibrate slightly, and the lines of the human figures on the scroll squirmed and moved, as if they were alive.

"Ok?"

At this moment, Zhang Chen's face changed, because he found that the first level of the spiritual world in front of him had also changed. The ruins of the palaces he had seen in the past were all gone. All he could see was a barren mountain. There was not a single blade of grass on the mountain. It was just an endless world of yellow sand.

Zhang Chen was standing on a world of yellow sand, with the sun hanging high above his head. The scorching sun seemed to melt his soul.

"No! I'm not in a soul state, I actually have a physical body!" At this moment Zhang Chen realized something was wrong, he lowered his head and looked, and he didn't know when he had a physical body.

"This is a spiritual world, how can I have a physical body?" Zhang Chen raised his hand with disbelief in his eyes and found that he did have a physical body.

"Illusion? Could it be that I am under an illusion in the spiritual world?" Zhang Chen was a little bit unbelievable.
"Where is that palace? What happened there?" Zhang Chen was actually a little confused for a moment.

Looking at the endless yellow sand, Zhang Chen felt thirsty and subconsciously activated the water control technique, trying to extract water from the air. Fortunately, his water control technique was successful. Water vapor gathered in the desert air and water flowed deep underground, floating in front of Zhang Chen.

"It's interesting."

Zhang Chen looked at the water floating in front of him, and a question popped up in his mind: Can the spiritual world drink water?
Zhang Chen opened his mouth, and as the water flowed into his stomach, a cool feeling came over him. Even the scorching sun above his head seemed a little cooler.

Zhang Chen proved with facts that even in the spiritual world, one can drink water.

Realizing that all skills could be mobilized, Zhang Chen finally felt a little bit of security. Even if the situation got worse, he would have some means to protect himself.

The endless yellow sand and scorching sun made Zhang Chen's skin painful. In just a moment, it turned bright red and seemed to be swollen.

Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes: "Isn't this sun too big?"

The sun was as big as a tall building. Zhang Chen could even see the solar storms blowing across the surface of the sun, ravaging the entire surface of the sun.

“This world isn’t normal.”

Zhang Chen didn't dare to stand in the yellow sand for a long time, nor did he dare to continue walking under the scorching sun. Instead, he went straight into the yellow sand and buried himself. At this time, it was best to bury himself in the yellow sand and wait for the night to fall.

"I originally wanted to clean up the ruins of the palace, but who knew I would end up in an unknown place." Zhang Chen buried himself in the yellow sand, and then brought clean water to wet the surrounding gravel, which finally lowered the temperature of his body by a few degrees. "According to common sense, when my mana is exhausted, I can go back... Shit, where is my mana?"

Zhang Chen realized it belatedly and finally sensed something was wrong. With a look of horror in his eyes, he poked his head out of the yellow sand. Where was the trace of Qinglian above his head?

"Where is my Green Lotus?" Zhang Chen was startled, and then the ancestral orifice between his eyebrows vibrated slightly, and the Green Lotus was projected on his forehead, as if responding to Zhang Chen's call.

"Didn't my magic power transform into a green lotus and float in the mysterious world before? How come it has suddenly returned to my body now? The most important thing is that my magic power doesn't seem to be consumed anymore, which means that even if my magic power is exhausted, I can't go back."

Zhang Chen put his head back into the sand, a look of horror in his eyes: "This shouldn't be happening. How could it be like this?"

Zhang Chen couldn't understand why he had come to this world full of yellow sand. It was still the palace, so why had not only the environment changed, but also the way he returned had changed?
Zhang Chen lay prone in the yellow sand, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"I couldn't have come to this world inexplicably. There must be a cause and effect. What is the cause and effect? ​​Is it because I took away the Yellow Spring in the ruins of the palace? No, that's not the case. After taking away the Yellow Spring and practicing the Nine-Bend Yellow River Talisman Formation, I have also entered the state of meditation several times, and there was nothing unusual." Zhang Chen quickly rejected this idea, because if it was because he took away the Yellow Spring, then he should not have continued to enter the abandoned palace afterwards.

"The last time I entered a state of concentration through meditation was in the Huangli Temple. The only difference between this time and this time is that the location has changed. I am now in the Tomb of the Imperial Daughter, and am also enveloped by a feng shui formation." Zhang Chen quickly analyzed the only difference between the two meditations.

“Could it be that when I meditate and enter the spiritual world, the experience will be different depending on the environment and location I enter?” Zhang Chen was full of doubts.

"The Feng Shui formation of the princess... If the Feng Shui formation or the changed environment caused me to enter a different spiritual world, that doesn't make sense. If I entered a different place in the spiritual world just because of the changed environment, then why would my magic power change? How could my spirit be given a physical body?"

Zhang Chen had too many questions in his mind and couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Then why did I enter this spiritual world?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of confusion.

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Chen still didn't get the answer. He could only crawl under the yellow sand and reflect silently.

"As long as I stay here, and when the time comes, the fox fairy Nannan calls me, I can always go back, right?" Zhang Chen made up his mind and didn't think about it anymore. He might as well make the best of it. This was the only thing he could do.

Time flowed very slowly at this time. Zhang Chen lay in the yellow sand, feeling stuffy and hot. Finally, as the sun set and only the last ray of afterglow remained in the sky, Zhang Chen quickly crawled out from the yellow sand.

As Zhang Chen got up, all the yellow sand slid down through the gaps in his clothes without any reluctance and fell to the ground.

At this time, the setting sun was shining in the sky, and stars as big as basketballs were twinkling in the sky.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he looked at the stars that were the size of basketballs.

Is this still a fucking star?

If you say it's the moon, people will believe it.

Q: What does it feel like when the sky is full of moons?
The night was very bright, and the moonlight sprinkled down like running water, making Zhang Chen's soul feel comfortable and as if he were floating in the air.

Zhang Chen walked on the yellow sand. Under the light of countless "moons", the dark night was like a 100-watt light bulb.

At this time, Zhang Chen was very hungry and his stomach was rumbling.

"This shouldn't be possible. I've often entered the spiritual world before, and I've never heard of being hungry. Moreover, I seem to have stayed in the spiritual world for seven or eight hours this time?" Zhang Chen felt a little uneasy. The spiritual world he entered this time seemed a little unusual.

"But how can there be food in the spiritual world? There's not even a small animal to satisfy your hunger." Zhang Chen muttered, but before he had taken a few steps, his footsteps stopped because he saw a living creature.

The creature was very small, only the size of a fingernail. It was a sandworm, moving swiftly in the yellow sand, and then disappeared from Zhang Chen's sight.

"Impossible! How can there be living beings in the spiritual world?" Zhang Chen's eyes showed a hint of disbelief, and his gaze was full of horror.

Is this still a spiritual world?

Not only did he turn into a real living being, but living beings also appeared in the desert.

"Could it be that I was ambushed by the dog coin of the Great Freedom Demon? While I was fighting with Zhong Xiang, the burning power burned the bottle and caused the Great Freedom Demon to escape, and then he ambushed me without knowing it? After all, when I was fighting with Zhong Xiang before, I didn't dare to waste a single minute, and all my mental attention was on Zhong Xiang. If the Great Freedom Demon took advantage of my tense mental state to ambushed me, it doesn't seem impossible, right?"

It may not only be big, but also very big.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen was a little flustered. A golden light flashed in his eyes. He quickly opened his Dharma Eyes. His True God Light could break all illusions, but after activating the True God Light, he could not see anything wrong. So he quickly activated his Soul-Catching Skill to locate the real body of the Great Freedom Demon. Was it inside his body, followed him into the spiritual world, or stayed outside?

The skill of bewitching souls is based on the law of cause and effect. Even if there are billions of worlds, long rivers of time, and vast universes between them, it cannot hinder the induction between the two parties.

As Zhang Chen's soul-stealing skill was activated, Zhang Chen clearly realized that his soul-stealing skill seemed to be stuck, and an indescribable obscure feeling came from him.

One breath...

Five breaths...

Ten breaths...

……

After the skill was activated and flashed for a moment, it seemed to be stuck and there was no response.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen was scared to death: "Damn it, how could this happen? This is impossible! I haven't heard that my soul-snatching skill will be stuck? Could it be that the Great Freedom Demon has invaded my spirit, so the address of the spiritual world I entered has changed? It has caused my soul-snatching skill to be unable to judge? Because the Great Freedom Demon is on me, it is normal if it cannot be judged."

Zhang Chen was filled with doubt and uncertainty at this moment. He looked at his own spiritual body, that completely solidified body of flesh and blood, and felt horrified for a moment.

(End of this chapter)