I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 244 The Locked Ruins
The great demon king Zhao Lie sensed something was wrong. How could such a thing get mixed into his own soul?

Unfortunately, Zhao Lie's roar turned into a cry of joy in Zhang Chen's ears. Zhang Chen smiled and said, "You are a lucky beast. With my magic, it will be a natural thing for you to open your spiritual wisdom and become a demon beast in the future."

When Zhao Lie heard what Zhang Chen said, he was so angry that he kept cursing and roaring like a tiger: "Who wants your luck! I have already gained intelligence and became a monster long ago". Unfortunately, the roar turned into childish whimpers, which almost melted Zhang Chen's heart.

"What's the secret of your forbidden spell?" The Great Freedom Demon watched from the side but still didn't notice anything unusual.

Zhang Chen smiled calmly upon hearing this, and then a light flashed in his hand, and an unknown symbol appeared: "It has been hit by my forbidden spell. No matter what kind of existence this monster becomes in the future, as long as I use my magical power, I can turn it back to its original form and control it."

"Such magical powers are truly beyond words." The Great Freedom Demon praised.

Zhang Chen smiled proudly upon hearing this: "This is just a trivial function of the Tathagata Mantra. Unfortunately, my cultivation is shallow and I don't understand Buddhism, so I can't use the Tathagata Mantra to exert its greater power. If I want to delve into the power of the Six-Character Mantra, I may have to look for Buddhist scriptures and use different Buddhist scriptures to comprehend the various wonders of the Six-Character Mantra."

The Great Freedom Demon looked at him with envy, but did not say much. Instead, he turned his head to look at Zhao Lie, with an inexplicable look in his eyes.

The demon king Zhao Lie over there was filled with grief and indignation, especially after hearing what Zhang Chen said, he became even more desperate and angry to the extreme. How could he, a great demon king, end up like this?
I was actually restricted by someone. Will I be controlled by someone else in the future? What a joke!
Unfortunately, Zhang Chen ignored Zhao Lie's grief and anger. Seeing Zhao Lie struggling in his hands, he smiled and reached out to take out the dragon tendon from his arms. Then he infused his magic power to lengthen the dragon tendon, tied it around Zhao Lie's neck, and tied it to a stone to prevent the little guy from running away.

Dragon tendons are as tough as iron and stone, and cannot be bitten off by ordinary wild beasts. Besides, it's just a little wild cat, so how can it bite off the tendons of a real dragon?

"This breath? Is this a dragon tendon?" Zhao Lie looked at the dragon tendons that bound him, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his eyes were full of disbelief. He quickly opened his small mouth and bit towards the dragon tendon. If he could swallow this dragon tendon, he could build an unparalleled foundation, allowing himself to cleanse his hair and marrow in his childhood and stimulate his qi and blood power in advance.

‘Crunch~’

The dragon tendon gave off a powerful elastic force that made Zhao Lie's head buzz and his whole body numb.

"Fuck, what's going on here? I'm too weak. Even if there's a supreme fortune right in front of me, I can't get it." Zhao Lie drooled as he looked at the dragon tendon, then raised his head and glanced at Zhang Chen:
"Who is this kid? He even has the tendons of a real dragon? This guy is too weird! It's my bad luck that I fell into the hands of this bastard."

The demon king Zhao Lie cried out in his heart. Looking at the crystal clear dragon tendon so close to him, a hint of helplessness appeared in his eyes. He simply held the dragon tendon in his arms and began to lick it.

Zhang Chen ignored Zhao Lie's actions, but pondered the formula of the six-word mantra.

He was so absorbed in the research that it lasted until late at night. At this moment, Zhang Chen's body twisted and changed, as if he was about to transform into the state of a toad. However, the six-character mantra in his spiritual world vibrated slightly, and infinite Buddha's light burst out to protect Zhang Chen, and actually made Zhang Chen transform back from the toad form.

"The six-word mantra can counter the power of a curse?" Zhang Chen was overjoyed after coming to his senses. If that was the case, wouldn't that mean his curse had been broken?
"You think too much. As the Curse Demon God's strength recovers, the curse power in your body will become stronger and stronger. Your six-word mantra can only temporarily suppress the curse power, but cannot break the curse power for you. You still have to find the blessed jade to break the means of the Curse Demon God. Otherwise, one day the power of the Curse Demon God surpasses you, and your six-word mantra will lose its effect, and you will turn into a toad again. Of course, unless you have absolute confidence that your strength will always improve faster than the recovery speed of the Curse Demon God, but is this possible?" The Great Freedom Demon poured cold water on him.

Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully: "If my six-word mantra becomes infinitely powerful, will the curse be suppressed forever?"

"In theory, it is true, but in reality, once the Cursed Demon God revives, his power will increase by leaps and bounds. Although your six-syllable mantra is magical, how much power it can exert still depends on the progress of your Qi training. Judging from your current progress in Qi training, it will take less than three to five months for you to be surpassed by the Cursed Demon God."

"No matter what, the issue of transforming into a toad has been temporarily resolved." Zhang Chen said unhappily. At least it bought him enough time.

"That spiritual world seems a little weird. I will continue to explore it." Zhang Chen got the six-word mantra at this time. He was very happy and meditated again and fell into a state of concentration.

Speaking of the Pingbian Palace, Mr. Wuliu and Gu Mingyue came to a mountain 300 miles away from Zhang Chen. Mr. Wuliu pointed to the mountain range under his feet and said, "This mountain range is the dragon vein of my Pingbian Palace."

"The Pingbian Palace is very strong. According to the current dragon energy, it will last at least another 800 years." Gu Mingyue glanced at the mountains and praised them.

"This is the result of the efforts of several generations of Pingbian Palace. Our Pingbian Palace loves the people like our own children, reduces taxes, lightens corvée labor, rectifies administration, wins over officials and gentry, and introduces external talents. We have worked diligently for hundreds of years to achieve the climate we have today." Mr. Wuliu's voice was full of pride.

"The Pingbian Palace has the aura of an emperor, no wonder the court is so wary of it. The court of Dasheng is full of hens crowing at dawn, eunuchs interfere in internal affairs, and land annexation is serious. It has been deteriorating day by day. In the future, when I, Huang Tiandao, establish Huangtian, your Pingbian Palace may not be able to rule the world, and then establish a kingdom of gods on earth, which will have a foundation for all ages and the blessing of immortality." Gu Mingyue's voice was full of anticipation.

Mr. Wuliu also showed a hint of expectation when he heard this, and then said excitedly: "This is the decree of King Pingbian. With the protection of this decree, you can avoid the backlash of the dragon vein. Please help and draw the soul and body of the old prince into the dragon vein."

Gu Mingyue took the decree and took it into his soul. The next moment, he saw him display his magical powers. It was unknown what means he used, but the body of the dragon in the deep Yellow River disappeared out of thin air, and when it reappeared, it was already in the mountains.

But Gu Mingyue was seen chanting mantras, and then the dragon's body collapsed directly, dispersing into streams of earth-yellow air that poured into the dragon vein, and Zhang Shicheng's body actually merged into the dragon vein.

"Please return your soul to the place where it belongs, old prince." Then Gu Mingyue pointed at the earth, and then a dragon roar was heard. Zhang Shicheng's dragon soul crossed the night sky and rushed directly into the huge real dragon energy floating above the north land. Then the earth veins emitted a huge suction force. The mighty energy in the sky and the wandering dragon energy were poured into the earth veins like a waterfall.

Three hundred miles away, Zhang Chen, who was preparing to meditate and practice, was suddenly awakened by the roar of a dragon from the dark. He quickly opened his eyes and saw that his own Bagua furnace was buzzing and vibrating, and a whistling sound came from the furnace.

"What the hell is this?" Zhang Chen was shocked. Why did his Bagua furnace suddenly move? Could it be that something went wrong?

Zhang Chen rushed to the Bagua furnace to check, and saw that the fire in the Bagua furnace suddenly increased by more than a hundred times. Under the fierce flame, the Taiyi Gengjin flying sword in the Bagua furnace began to melt gradually, and drops of melted iron dripped down. "How could this happen? How could the power of the flame in the Bagua furnace increase so dramatically?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of disbelief: "For what reason, the power of the flame in my Bagua furnace increased so dramatically?"

Zhang Chen kept trying to figure out the key to the problem, but he found no clues and gained nothing.

It was seen that not only the flying sword melted, but even the khaki ball of light seemed to be invaded and corroded by some unknown force, showing signs of melting.

"What happened? I seemed to hear the sound of a dragon's roar in the dark just now?" Zhang Chen stood in front of the Bagua furnace and thought.

Unfortunately, he still couldn't figure out anything after thinking for a long time, so he simply walked out of the cave to check, and saw that his Dharma eyes opened, and his eyes looked at the entire northern night sky. Then Zhang Chen was stunned: "What the hell? Where is the huge destiny gathered in the north? How did the huge destiny gathered by the dragon and the dragon disappear?"

Zhang Chen opened his eyes wide and looked hard, even though his eyes were as big as a cow's eyes, but the luck between heaven and earth really disappeared out of thin air.

"Impossible! Could it be that Zhang Shicheng failed to transform into a dragon? So the true dragon luck gathered between heaven and earth dissipated?" Various inferences kept flashing in Zhang Chen's mind, and then he performed the water control technique, silently sensing the flow of water vapor between heaven and earth, but soon Zhang Chen frowned:

"No, the water vapor in the world is still gathering towards the north, and the flow trend of underground water has not changed. But why has the true dragon destiny between heaven and earth disappeared?"

Zhang Chen was puzzled and confused for a moment.

But no matter what, the sudden increase in the flame in the stove was a good thing for him.

"According to the fierce power of the flames today, it will take about ten days for the nine flying swords to be refined into molten iron. But the sphere is a twelfth-level mystery, and its level is too high. Even without the power of the gods, it is extremely difficult to smelt it. This is still with the power of the Bagua furnace, combined with the strange fire of heaven and earth. If there is no power of the Bagua furnace, the power of the strange fire of heaven and earth alone is not enough to burn and forge the twelfth-level mystery. Even the twelfth-level flame is useless and cannot smelt the twelfth-level mystery!" Zhang Chen kept calculating in his mind, thinking about the key points.

After a long time, Zhang Chen walked back to the cave, continued to practice meditation, and entered the spiritual world to explore the Buddhist temple.

Zhang Chen summoned the fox spirit again, and the two of them kept wandering in the spiritual world, passing through one palace after another. However, they found that there was no fortune in the palace, and there was no gain except a pile of rubbish.

"It's a big temple after all, but there's nothing left. It's so damn disappointing." After Zhang Chen and the fox fairy Nannan searched the entire temple, they heard the fox fairy Nannan cursing.

The fox fairy Nannan was extremely disappointed. After all, it was a big temple in the spiritual world, so how could there be no good things left?
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen glanced at the fox fairy Nannan and did not refute her words. He also felt that the temple in this spiritual world was somewhat disappointing.

What happened to the countless creations in the spiritual world? What happened to the exotic flowers and herbs and Ganoderma lucidum everywhere?

Zhang Chen returned to the ruins again, dug out the strange red flower from the ruins, and then came to the abbot's residence, wanting to hide the small flower in the floor tile.

"This floor tile is a real treasure." Zhang Chen looked at the floor tile with envy: "I wonder if the underground world is opened up inside the floor tile, or is the floor tile just a connecting mechanism?"

He thought of the cave world and the dimensional space.

"Don't dream. If this is a cave world, it would have been discovered by its former enemy long ago. How could it be your turn? Only with a wonderful and sophisticated mechanism array can you escape the search of its enemy." The Great Freedom Demon seemed to know Zhang Chen's thoughts and said, "If you dig out the floor tile, the entire mechanism will be scrapped. And I don't recommend you to hide the treasure here. What if the mechanism suddenly breaks down due to disrepair..."

Zhang Chen was disappointed when he heard this. After a little thought, he went to the Sutra Library and hid the little red flower on the third floor of the Sutra Library. It was safer with the stairs on the third floor guarding it.

Zhang Chen hid the little red flower. This flower might be a lifesaver at the critical moment, or a means to turn the tide.

"Stop wandering around and meditate and practice. For us, meditation and practice are the most important." The fox fairy Nannan sat cross-legged on the ground, refusing to move. For her, it was a waste of a lot of time wandering around with no gain, so she might as well make good use of the time to practice.

Zhang Chen didn't take it seriously. There were countless mysterious creations in the spiritual world, and it was a waste of time to meditate and practice. Gaining a six-character mantra was enough to make up for all the time wasted.

That is the six-syllable mantra, the highest mystery of Buddhism and the highest supernatural power of Buddhism.

"You practice, I will continue exploring." After Zhang Chen finished exploring the top of the mountain, he turned and walked down the mountain.

Looking at Zhang Chen's back, the fox fairy Nannan gnashed her teeth in hatred. Zhang Chen has the ability to control the wind and sand. If Zhang Chen leaves and the black sand covers her, won't she be in big trouble?
There was no choice but to continue wandering around with Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen walked down the mountain along the steps. After walking for just an hour, he suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky. There was a slight breeze blowing around him, and a little bit of black sand fell down and landed on Zhang Chen's face and clothes.

A breeze blew, ruffling Zhang Chen's clothes and hair. Zhang Chen's pupils shrank involuntarily. "The power of the wind has increased! There shouldn't be any wind in my wind-fixing talisman, but at this moment, a breeze and sand are blowing in. The power of my wind-fixing talisman remains unchanged, the only factor is that the wind is increasing."

"The wind is weak at the top of the mountain, but strong at the bottom? This doesn't go against the laws of nature. Shouldn't the wind be strong at the top of the mountain and weak at the bottom of the mountain?" Zhang Chen stood there thinking.

(End of this chapter)