I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 242: The Mysterious World's Sutra Library
Zhang Chen looked at the ruined palace in front of him, his mind full of questions?

It was said that there would be no living creatures, so what are these monks and temples?
"Of course there may be another possibility, that is, this palace and the entire mountain range suffered severe damage in the outside world, and then a powerful person sent the palace into the spiritual world at a critical moment." Zhang Chen glanced at the plaque. Except for the word "small" on the plaque, the rest of the words were distorted and could not be seen clearly.

After watching for a while, Zhang Chen glanced across the interior of the hall and saw a Buddha statue enshrined in the center of the hall, but the head of the Buddha statue had been smashed into pieces, and only the golden body was still standing quietly with its hands making hand seals.

The Buddha statue had a big belly, bare chest and exposed breasts, and was wearing a yellow short jacket. He sat in the center of a lotus pedestal, making hand gestures, and looked extremely solemn.

Zhang Chen stood outside and looked carefully for a while before he stepped into the hall. He saw that the floor was paved with gold bricks. The entire hall was covered with traces of blood, and the pillars and walls were covered with marks of knife and axe cuts.

"A shocking war once took place here, and there must have been a catastrophe that swept through the entire temple." Zhang Chen's eyes swept across the entire hall, and he saw that many of the golden bodies of the Buddha statues in the hall had been shattered to the ground. Except for the main sculpture, the rest of the sculptures had all turned into slag and gold powder scattered in the hall.

"It's a pity that no experience points or skills are dropped." Zhang Chen glanced at the entire hall with a hint of disappointment in his eyes. There was nothing valuable in the hall.

As for the gold powder that fell on the ground, it was just something in the spiritual world and he could not take it away.

Zhang Chen glanced across the entire hall, and after seeing that there was nothing of value, he turned around and continued walking towards the other side halls.

All the side halls were in chaos, the Buddha statues were destroyed, and the house was full of traces of fighting with knives and axes.

From the Main Hall to the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Hall of the Guardians, the Hall of Arhats and other Buddhist halls, we explored them one by one, and all we saw was ruins, without anything of value.

Zhang Chen continued walking through the palace, scanning room after room, and finally came to a three-story building that looked relatively intact.

This small building is very unique. It does not enshrine any Buddha statues. Instead, all you can see are bookshelves filled with countless books.

Looking at the books in the small building, Zhang Chen's eyes lit up: "Scripture Pavilion!"

The Sutra Repository is the most crucial point for a sect.

However, the Sutra Library was also in chaos, with countless books scattered on the ground, and the bookshelves were chopped and damaged by unknown weapons. The entire Sutra Library was in ruins.

Zhang Chen looked at the books scattered on the ground in the Sutra Library, with a hint of expectation in his eyes: "This is a Sutra Library from the mysterious era. If I can obtain some wonderful inheritance method, wouldn't I have to continue to live in Huang Tiandao? Moreover, even if there is no cultivation method, if I can obtain some magical formula, it will be a great gain for me."

Zhang Chen stood outside the Sutra Repository and looked carefully for a while. He was a little worried that there might be some mechanism or trap inside. After all, this was an important Buddhist temple. It would be reasonable if there was some secret layout or design inside.

When in doubt, you can ask the fox fairy Nannan. The next moment, Zhang Chen directly used the summoning method: "Fox fairy Nannan, come out!"

"Where is this? Are you in a new place again?"

The fox fairy Nannan appeared beside Zhang Chen and looked at the Sutra Library in front of her in surprise.

Zhang Chen quickly explained the current situation to Fox Fairy Nannan. Upon hearing this, Fox Fairy Nannan stared at the Sutra Library in front of her with shining eyes: "The Sutra Library in the mysterious world? This is a good place. If we can obtain any scriptures, we will make a fortune."

After saying that, the fox fairy walked straight into the Sutra Library. She dared to go into places that Zhang Chen did not dare to go into, and she also dared to touch things that Zhang Chen did not dare to touch.

Just as the fox fairy girl walked into the Sutra Library, her foot accidentally stepped on a book, and the next moment the book floated away in the air like ashes.

"This book is rotten." The fox fairy Nannan looked at the book at her feet, a trace of heartache in her eyes.

"Can things in the spiritual world also decay?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.

"Of course, after all, souls will decay, let alone books?" Fox Fairy Nannan said: "Of course, except for the Golden Book."

As she spoke, the fox fairy Nannan reached out her hand and touched the books directly. With her touch, all the books turned into ashes and dissipated between heaven and earth, just like paper money burned at a grave.

"What a pity." Zhang Chen looked at the countless ashes with a hint of regret in his eyes.

“Now we can only hope that there is a golden book in this scripture pavilion. Otherwise, we will have come here in vain and it will be just a false alarm.” The fox fairy Nannan blew a breath at the first floor of the scripture pavilion, and the energy swept through all the books. In an instant, the entire scripture pavilion was filled with paper ash, which slowly floated down in the air.

The ashes with the gleaming scriptures fell from the air, looking like burnt paper money, burying the funeral song of the times. For some reason, an inexplicable sadness appeared in Zhang Chen's heart.

"The first floor is worthless. Come on! Let's go to the second floor." The fox fairy Nannan walked through the ashes excitedly and headed towards the second floor.

Seeing that the fox fairy Nan was not in danger, Zhang Chen also stepped into the Sutra Library, and followed her to the second floor. However, he saw that the second floor was still filled with countless books scattered on the ground, almost the same as the first floor.

Some of the books on the ground opened during the fall, revealing the scriptures inside, but they were worthless to Zhang Chen. They were just broken scriptures, accounting for less than one percent of the entire book. What was the point of reading them?

"Go to the third floor. The third floor must have the most important classics of the entire temple. Hidden inside must be the core inheritance of the entire temple." The fox fairy Nannan used the same trick again. With a breath, the countless books turned into ashes, and then she ran directly to the third floor stairs.

As soon as the fox fairy Nannan stepped onto the third staircase, her whole body seemed to be under a spell, standing there stupidly and motionless.

"Why don't you leave?" Zhang Chen noticed something was wrong and asked from behind the fox fairy Nannan. The fox fairy Nannan was still standing there, not responding to Zhang Chen's words. She was standing on the steps, her body trembling, and ripples appeared in her soul and body.

"There's something strange about these stairs." Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the stairs, not daring to step in easily. Instead, he looked at the back of the fox fairy Nannan, waiting for her response.

Just when Zhang Chen was thinking about whether to summon the fox fairy Nannan back, he saw the fox fairy Nannan take one step forward and stand completely on the steps, then took a second step and stepped onto the second step.

But this time, the fox fairy Nannan stood longer, three times as long as the first time she stepped on the stairs. Then, with a ferocious look on her face and gnashing her teeth, she stepped on the third step, and this time she stood there even longer, seven times as long as before.

The fourth step
The fifth step
……

After climbing up to the sixth step, the fox fairy Nannan suddenly screamed, "Zhang Chen, you bastard, I, the fox fairy Nannan, will never let you go."

Then with a loud bang, the fox fairy Nannan exploded directly. Then Zhang Chen felt something strange happening in the dragon energy. It turned out that the fox fairy Nannan had been reborn in the dragon energy.

Zhang Chen's mind moved, and the fox fairy Nannan was summoned again, and then she asked: "What did you experience when you stepped on that step just now? Why did you die suddenly?"

"The stairs contain a strange power that can arouse people's seven emotions and six desires, trigger people's spiritual flaws, and make people fall into illusions and be unable to extricate themselves." Fox Fairy Nannan looked at the stairs, then turned her head to look at Zhang Chen, and then said: "These stairs test the power of the mind. It takes profound Buddhist teachings to transform it into concentration, break through the various illusions in it, and climb to the third floor of the Sutra Library. These stairs are not something we can climb, so let's go quickly, otherwise we will fall into it and lose our lives."

“Once you climb the stairs and cannot break the illusion, you will be regarded as an alien invader, and will be immersed in the illusion and killed. The most important thing is that once you take the first step, there is no turning back.” The fox fairy Nannan looked at the stairs. There were thirteen steps in total. They were made of an unknown tree and looked very extraordinary.

"What did you just experience in the last level of the illusion?" Zhang Chen thought of the words of the fox fairy Nannan, 'Zhang Chen, you dog thief, I, the fox fairy Nannan, will never forgive you', and asked.

The fox fairy Nannan's face changed when she heard this. She looked away a little, not daring to look into Zhang Chen's eyes. She looked at the steps with a vague look: "Just now on the sixth step, I encountered an unprecedented enemy. That enemy was extremely cunning, sinister and vicious. He was my lifelong nightmare. I fought with him for three hundred rounds, but he was so sinister and vicious that he secretly plotted against me. In the end, I was defeated and was suppressed and killed by him. My enemy was so sinister and vicious that his feet were oozing pus. He really deserves to be cut into pieces."

Zhang Chen's face suddenly turned grim upon hearing this, and he was so angry that his teeth were itching. If the vixen hadn't shouted at the end, he would have believed the fox fairy Nannan's lies.

However, he did not expose the other party, but said: "Tell me in detail about the illusion of the stairs."

"The illusion on the steps uses the thirteen powers of the seven emotions and six desires as the trigger, forming thirteen levels that constantly test human nature." Fox Fairy Nannan looked at Zhang Chen, not knowing that the fact that she had fought Zhang Chen for eight hundred rounds in the illusion before had been leaked: "All sentient beings in the world, no matter how high your cultivation is, will have to wander in the sea of ​​suffering of the seven emotions and six desires. No matter how strong your concentration is and how perfect your state of mind is, there will always be flaws that you cannot make up for. The seven emotions and six desires are a big net, and no one can escape from it."

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this. What the fox fairy Nannan said made sense. Even if you are a Buddha or a saint, you still have desires. You want to gain more powerful strength and more powerful cultivation. This is desire.

Only saints can control desires, understand and overcome desires, and see through the various tricks involved, but they do not indulge in them.

Zhang Chen was thoughtful after hearing this: "According to what you said, even Buddhist disciples cannot enter it? Because Buddhist disciples are not Buddhas, and they also have desires that cannot be eliminated."

"Of course." Fox Fairy Nannan nodded: "But I think those Buddhist disciples must have magical powers that can reduce and suppress the power of illusions, so that they have the opportunity to step into the third level to see the higher-level inheritance in the temple."

Zhang Chen was thoughtful after hearing this. Since the Buddhist temple had a way to trick its disciples, it meant that he must have a chance to get in.

When it comes to controlling illusions, who can compare to this old guy, the Great Freedom Demon?
Zhang Chen had a flash of thought in his mind, and the next moment he took in the fox fairy Nannan. Then a black lotus petal appeared in his palm, and he saw the Great Freedom Demon appear in the Sutra Library.

"Hey, is this the spiritual world?" As soon as the Great Freedom Demon appeared, he realized the origin of this place. He looked at the steps and couldn't help but be stunned.

"What did the ancestor see?" Zhang Chen asked when he saw the Great Freedom Demon staring blankly at the thirteen steps.

The Great Freedom Demon came back to his senses after hearing this, and couldn't help but sighed quietly: "This is the Buddhist path of refining the mind, usually designed in places like the Golden Pavilion to set tests for the disciples. Only when the state of mind reaches the standard can they be qualified to practice more advanced Buddhist teachings."

At this point, the Great Freedom Demon swept his eyes across the room, looking at the paper ashes all over the sky, and suddenly said, "Could this be the Sutra Library?"

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this: "It's the Sutra Library. I was just about to enter the third floor to see if there is any true teaching left inside."

At this point, Zhang Chen looked at the Great Freedom Demon and asked, "Old Ancestor, do you know the origin of this temple?"

“Wait a minute…” After saying this, the Great Freedom Demon rushed out of the Sutra Library and wandered around the temple. Not long after, the Great Freedom Demon turned around and came to Zhang Chen, with a strange look in his eyes: “I don’t know the origin of this temple, but it should be the story of an unlucky person who was deceived and went through untold hardships to come to the spiritual world, and then suffered a disaster.”

"Why do you say that?" Zhang Chen asked. There is a story between the lines of this Great Freedom Demon.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the Great Freedom Demon paused, with a look of surprise in his eyes: "Strange, why would I say that? I don't know why I said that, my memory is really too confused."

Zhang Chen glanced at the Great Freedom Demon and saw that the Great Freedom Demon did not seem to be lying, so he asked, "Is there any way to pass the test of the seven emotions and six desires?"

"Haha, what do I do, ancestor? This is my specialty. Just keep going forward, ancestor, I will help you suppress the desire in your heart." At this point, the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon turned his head and looked at Zhang Chen, with a strange look in his eyes: "Besides, are you stupid? Now the whole temple has been damaged, and the formation of the Sutra Library has stopped working. Why do you have to enter from the stairs? Can't you enter from the window?"

The Great Freedom Demon's gaze seemed to be looking at a fool.

(End of this chapter)