I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 190 Hou Tu
As the words fell, a strong man as big as a bear walked out of the stone house.

If the father worm of the rope is majestic enough, then compared with the man in front of him, it seems to be just a small worm.

"Hey, which tribe are you from?"

The man was stunned when he saw Zhang Chen.

Di hurried forward and whispered a few words to his father. The next moment, he saw a big smile on the man's face: "It turns out that a distinguished guest has come. My name is Lei, and I am Di's father. Thank you for taking care of my son. From now on, the Ape Tribe will be your home. You can stay here as long as you want."

There was eagerness in Lei's voice.

"I have been wandering for too long and I am just looking for a place to rest. I hope the clan leader will not annoy me." Zhang Chen replied politely.

Then Lei took out venison and fine wine to entertain Zhang Chen and arranged for Zhang Chen to stay in his home.

Zhang Chen sat in the stone house, looking at the crude stone house. There was nothing else except a simple bed with a straw mattress and a layer of animal skin on it.

There was a table in the room with freshly picked fruits on it, with water droplets still hanging on them.

Life in the primitive tribe was very simple, and Zhang Chen did not have too many demands. What he was thinking about now was how to ask the Ape Tribe for information about the 'Emperor' and the tomb.

"The Ape Tribe swept across the world in the past, provoking countless enemies. Now they hide their identities here to avoid being killed. It's difficult for me to find out the news." Zhang Chen stroked his chin: "How should I start?"

Zhang Chen could imagine that if he spoke rashly, it would definitely alert Lei, so he had to speak at the right time so as not to cause Lei to misunderstand.

"I need a chance to gain Yu Lei's trust." Zhang Chen stood in front of the window and thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out. Without a military advisor to give him advice, he really felt it was a bit difficult.

“By the way, I wonder what happened to the Great Freedom Demon? Since the Great Freedom Demon has been to this world, he should know the news about the Emperor.” Zhang Chen thought of the Great Freedom Demon again. This guy was making trouble all over the world, and no one knew what he was planning.

Zhang Chen thought about it, and the next moment a petal appeared in his hand. The petal twisted and turned into the appearance of the Great Freedom Demon: "Boy, why are you summoning me again?"

"I have something to ask you. Do you know the 'Ape' tribe and the 'Emperor'?" Zhang Chen asked.

The Great Freedom Demon was stunned, looking at Zhang Chen with strange eyes, then looked at the ground where he was chopping wood in the yard, and said calmly: "Of course I know."

"Is this ape tribe established by the descendants of the emperor?" Zhang Chen asked.

The Great Freedom Demon pondered for a moment, then said with an embarrassed look on his face: "The past and the future are uncertain, and the cause and effect are infinitely variable. I dare not say anything about this matter. If I say anything about the cause and effect, I am afraid I will not be able to escape the responsibility. Although I am immortal, if I am buried in the long river of time and space, it will be no different from being dead."

"I want to know the relationship between the tomb of the imperial daughter and the tribe in front of us." Zhang Chen asked.

The Great Freedom Demon shook his head: "Under the power of time and space causality, my memory of this period has been suppressed, and I can't recall it at all."

Of course what he said was false, because he couldn't tell Zhang Chen the truth, for fear of causing chaos in time and space.

Zhang Chen looked towards the Great Freedom Demon, and finally sighed helplessly: "Forget it! Forget it! I'll figure it out myself."

Zhang Chen collected the petals of the Great Freedom Demon, then looked towards the village chief's house. A thought flashed through his mind: "If I use the invisibility spell to go to the village chief's house to look for him... No, there is a god guarding the tribe. Although I don't know what level this god is, his strength must be higher than mine. My invisibility spell cannot be hidden from the god."

"I wonder if the gods in the tribe can give me any skills." Zhang Chen began to think about the benefits again. If he could get skills from the gods of the Ape Tribe, then countless other tribes should also be able to do so. So he must do an experiment on the Ape Tribe.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen walked out of the house, looked at the 'ground' where he was chopping wood, and asked, "Can I go to the temple to have a look? Since I have come to the territory of the gods, I should pay them a visit."

After hearing this, Di hesitated for a moment, put down the hatchet in his hand and said, "Since the gods have accepted you, it stands to reason that the mystic should not reject you."

"Brother, please come with me." He said to Zhang Chen.

The two walked out of the house, and Di introduced Zhang Chen: "The god of our tribe is called Hou Tu. He is a powerful god who has mastered the laws of the earth."

"Hou Tu?" Zhang Chen was stunned again when he heard that, and his steps couldn't help but pause.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" The young man looked at Zhang Chen in surprise.

"No, I just remembered something." Zhang Chen quickly shook his head to cover it up.

"Oh, let me continue to introduce you to the god of our tribe. The god of our tribe is very gentle and generous, just like a mother, completely different from the high and mighty gods of other tribes." The young man praised the god of his tribe highly.

As the two were walking, a figure suddenly came from a distance. It was Sheng's father, Chong. Chong came from outside the village, whistling, with a relaxed expression on his face, as if he had encountered something great.

Zhang Chen and the other saw Chong, and Chong also saw them. Then the smiles on their faces instantly faded, and they greeted them calmly: "Di, congratulations on igniting the blood. With you in the future of the tribe, our generation can rest assured. The future rise of the tribe depends on you."

As he was talking, he passed by the two of them and his figure gradually went away.

Earth looked at the back of the insect going away, with a strange look in his eyes: "Why was he so happy just now? Logically speaking, I had a conflict with Rope, and it was a life-and-death conflict. He should be terrified. Why is this happening?"

"Maybe he thought of an excuse to evade responsibility, and he was happy knowing that your father couldn't do anything to him." Zhang Chen said.

The 'rope' had always been very imaginative and flawless in his previous actions, and the 'earth' could only swallow its loss in silence because there was no evidence.

"Could it be that this guy wants to seize power and usurp the throne?" Zhang Chen thought of another possibility and reminded him.

"Just him? My father is a fourth-level warrior, his blood is like lead and mercury, it's a long way to go for him to usurp the throne." The young man sneered, "No matter what he plans, now that I'm back, father will never let him go. Father is ready to attack this old dog, but this man has some power, father needs to prepare for some more time, so that he can be sure that he will not cause unrest in the tribe."

The two walked away. The bug that had disappeared reappeared on the street. It looked in the direction where the two disappeared with a pair of eyes. A hint of coldness appeared in its eyes: "Haha, it's almost time! When the Mole Tribe takes action, the entire Ape Tribe will become history, and the gods of the Ape Tribe will be swallowed up by the Mole Tribe."

Zhang Chen and the young man came to the temple and looked at it. The young man pointed at the gate and said, "Brother, go straight into the temple. If you can walk in without being stopped, it means the gods agree to see you. If you are stopped at the gate, it means the gods don't want to see you."

Zhang Chen looked towards the temple. The temple was similar to the tiled houses in the northern rural areas in later generations. The entire temple had only one room, but the courtyard wall was hundreds of meters long and was made entirely of mud.

The gate was built with great momentum, and it had the aura of a great family in the palace. At this time, the gate of the temple was open, and one could see the buildings in the courtyard from outside the gate.

Zhang Chen walked towards the temple gate, and then walked into the temple without any obstacles. Seeing this, Di followed him in with a happy look on his face and said, "Brother, the gods did not reject you. You succeeded."

Zhang Chen walked into the temple and saw flat land with solid ground.

The temple for sacrifice is located in the northernmost part. There is a 13-meter-high altar in the temple, with a ball of light suspended above it.

The light looked like a bead, floating quietly above the altar, illuminating the entire temple and village.

However, when Zhang Chen saw one of the beads, his pupils shrank involuntarily and a look of disbelief appeared in his eyes, as if an 18-magnitude earthquake was sweeping across his body, making his head buzz.

how come! ! !
Zhang Chen looked at the bead floating above the temple with a hint of disbelief in his eyes, because he had seen this bead before. It was in the tomb of the imperial daughter. He had obtained this bead with great difficulty.

"Wasn't this bead buried by the 'Emperor' to be used as a node to suppress the Feng Shui formation? Why is there another bead here? Are there a pair of beads?" Zhang Chen was puzzled.

At the same time, he was even more certain that the ape tribe before him and the ape tribe recorded in the tomb of the imperial daughter that he saw in later generations must have an unbreakable connection.

The young man knelt down respectfully on the ground and kowtowed to the gods above. Zhang Chen looked at the beads in front of him, with a thousand thoughts in his mind. At this moment, the light on the beads suddenly twisted, and a figure appeared on the beads.

The figure was a ball of light, composed of billions of runes. It was standing in front of the altar, looking at Zhang Chen quietly.

“This is a spirit that was mysteriously born out of countless people’s kowtows and worships, and it is also the image of a god.” When Zhang Chen saw the glowing figure, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes.

"Come on stage and speak." The figure's voice was like an electronic sound, without any emotion, but with an indescribable heaviness.

The mystery before him was the mystery of the twelfth level. Zhang Chen had no choice but to walk up to the altar.

The "ground" under the altar had turned into a stone statue, kneeling quietly on the ground, losing its perception of the outside world.

Zhang Chen walked up the steps to the altar and bowed to the god in front of him: "Greetings, great god."

This is a twelfth-level god, worthy of Zhang Chen's greeting first.

Facing Zhang Chen's greeting, the god seemed to be ignorant of etiquette and said:

"You're not like us! What are you?"

Zhang Chen thought for a moment before saying, "A Qigong practitioner."

"Qigong practitioner? What is that?" Hou Tu asked curiously.

Zhang Chen was a little embarrassed when he heard this, not knowing how to explain it to Hou Tu. He now knew that the so-called seizing the fortune of heaven and earth, the mystery of the sun and the moon, was to steal the power of the gods for his own use, just like the Taiyin goddess, he stole the other's power.

If I tell Hou Tu now that I have stolen the creation of heaven and earth and the secrets of all things, I wonder if she will get furious.

So Zhang Chen racked his brains, thinking about how to explain to Hou Tu.

However, before Zhang Chen could explain, the god Hou Tu on the other side seemed uninterested in Zhang Chen's answer and spoke again:

"I am about to die. If you want this tribe, I can give it to you."

"What?" Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard that. There was a hint of disbelief in his eyes, and he raised his head in astonishment.

"I am about to die. If you want this tribe, I can give it to you. The condition is that you must protect my body from being taken away by other gods!" Hou Tu's voice was still emotionless.

Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at the sky. There was abundant mysterious matter between heaven and earth, which could continuously replenish the consumption of mystery. In theory, mystery could exist forever, so how could it die?

No wonder he had seen an aura of aging on this god before.

"Can gods also die?" Zhang Chenzhan asked.

"Gods will die, but as long as their bodies are immortal, they will be reborn in the future with enough offerings of incense. But by that time, I will no longer be myself, but a completely new me." Hou Tu said.

Zhang Chen tried his best to understand what the other party said. Fortunately, he was a person from the 21st century and had a concept of many things: "The other party probably meant that the body is still the same body, but the soul is not the same soul."

"I failed in my challenge to Donghuang Taiyi and was severely injured by Donghuang. My spirituality will eventually be annihilated." Hou Tu's voice was devoid of any emotion: "As long as you ensure that my body is not taken away by other gods, I can give you my tribe. So, what is your choice?"

"I have no interest in your tribe..."

Before Zhang Chen could finish his words, he saw the ground beneath his feet moving and his figure appeared outside the temple.

"..." Zhang Chen was speechless for a while. This god was so direct.

"Brother, how did we get out?"

'Di' climbed up from the ground and looked at the temple gate in confusion.

"This god wanted to make a deal with me, but I didn't agree. It seems... maybe this god is a little angry." Zhang Chen shook his head:
"Let's go back and take care of the next thing."

He now has more doubts in his mind, such as why there are two identical balls in the world?

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