I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 287 Your crime is exposed!

He had practiced hard for more than ten years, but he didn't even realize the true use of his abilities. He was even worse than Zhang Chen who only took a glance.

He was very curious, how did Zhang Chen know the true usage of his skills?

As for how Zhang Chen knew this? He mastered the art of swallowing and was the ancestor of swallowing. In Zhang Chen's eyes, the opponent's method was too simple.

Swallowing the essence of all things can assist cultivation, enhance innate foundation, and transform one's footing. This is the true path, and what about the other party? The other party absorbs the essence of iron, refines copper skin and iron bones, and his future achievements are limited.

Even if the mortal iron is swallowed up, it can swallow the innate Gengjin, but then what? At most, it can temper one's own body to be immortal like the innate Gengjin, but it will not achieve the great way after all.

"It's just a guess." Zhang Chen replied with a smile.

"Junior brother, you will be my brother from now on. I will protect you in Huangtiandao. If anyone dares to bully you, I will stand up for you." Li Donglai patted his chest and promised.

Zhang Chen glanced at Li Donglai and said, "If that's what you said, I won't be polite. I do have an enemy in Huangli Temple, Zhang Xiaohua, the prince of Pingbian Palace. If you can help me get back my face and beat him to death with one punch, I will be very grateful."

Li Donglai paused when he heard this. He stopped making the promise and looked at Zhang Chen in surprise. His eyes were full of embarrassment. "The prince of Pingbian Palace... forget it. I can't afford to offend him! I can't afford to offend him!"

Li Donglai looked embarrassed and immediately became timid: "Brother, he is the prince of Pingbian Palace, how can I afford to offend him?"

Zhang Chen glanced at Li Donglai, who smiled awkwardly and came forward to flatter him: "Junior brother, you are so talented, why don't you help me think about how to train this belly. This belly is really in the way and affects my heroic appearance."

Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the man's stomach. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "I think the fire in your body is not strong enough, so those dregs are accumulated in your body. If you have a strong true fire power, you can refine those dregs into ashes, and then your body will naturally return to normal."

"True fire energy? But how can I obtain the true fire energy? Do I have to find a strange fire and bring it into my body to burn it?" Li Donglai muttered.

Zhang Chen's eyelids jumped when he heard this. Is this kid a bit fierce?

If the real fire is introduced into the stomach, won’t all the internal organs be burned?
"I think it's mainly because your current level is too low. If you raise your own cultivation level and the fire in your body becomes stronger, then the scum will naturally be reduced to nothingness." Zhang Chen hurriedly spoke to dissuade him. He felt that this kid was missing something in his head, so he had to refute him to death.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, the little fat man sighed and said, "But the upgrade is too slow. I have to wait until the end of time."

Zhang Chen curled his lips when he heard that, skin of copper and bones of iron was definitely the most powerful magical power in the world. Although this little fat man's level was not high, if he really had a body of steel, even Yangshen Zhenren would be unable to do anything to him if he met him, like a dog biting a hedgehog.

If I really cultivate a body of innate gold and turn it into a lump of iron, even if a great immortal comes, I'm afraid he will be in trouble, right?

It can be said that there is nothing wrong with the little fat boy's ability and he has a bright future, but the key lies in whether he can cultivate to that level.

"You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Just practice slowly." Zhang Chen comforted him casually.

The little fat boy was a generous person, and he quickly changed his mind: "I think you are right. My ability is very simple. As long as I can devour strong enough metal, I can directly upgrade. At worst, I can wander around various ancient tombs and steal and dig up some exotic metals. Maybe my upgrade speed will increase."

Zhang Chen perfunctorily dealt with the little fat boy for a while, then got up and went back into the house, sneaking underground to steal points.

Points are the most important thing to him. How can he have time to chat with this kid?
Not long after Zhang Chen left, the little fat boy was bored and came to Zhang Chen to chat and inspire inspiration. However, after entering the house, he could not find any trace of Zhang Chen, so he turned around and walked out of the yard to look for his friend.

In the evening, when Zhang Chen returned to the yard, he heard Li Donglai standing in the yard cursing and spitting out dirty words.

Li Donglai cursed very badly, from his father to his mother, and even to his eight generations of ancestors, all of them were cursed by him.

"What are you cursing at? It's so dirty." Zhang Chen walked out of the house with a smile on his face.

"Hey, when did you come back? I've been looking for you for a whole day, but there was no trace of you." Li Donglai said in surprise when he saw Zhang Chen walking out of the house.

But he quickly changed the subject and said, "Don't mention it. That damn Chu Mingyue actually held a night-light cup tasting conference in order to win over fellow disciples. He invited all the disciples in the academy, but he didn't invite me. I was so angry that he isolated me, so I took the initiative to come to his house to argue. I told him to take a look at me, but he was so stingy that he actually kicked me out."

At this point, Li Donglai became even more furious and said, "Not only did he not invite me, he didn't invite you either. He doesn't take us brothers seriously. If I hadn't been holding him back, I would have argued with him."

Zhang Chen glanced at Li Donglai and thought to himself, "This guy has a big mouth. I don't know what he said, which angered Chu Mingyue and got him kicked out. Chu Mingyue is a fellow disciple, so he shouldn't be so excessive, right?"

Li Donglai looked at Zhang Chen, and after seeing Zhang Chen's expression, he immediately knew that he didn't believe him, so he quickly said, "I know you don't trust me and think I'm a gossip, but that guy has been mixed up with Zhang Xiaohua and has surrendered to Zhang Xiaohua. He is our natural enemy, and we must not let him go."

Just as Li Donglai was complaining with a face full of anger, Cheng Yu walked in from outside the door, his voice full of indignation: "Fatty, stop talking nonsense! It's obvious that you came uninvited. It would have been fine if you took the initiative to come to my door, but you also said that Senior Brother Chu Mingyue's luminous cup is nothing but good-looking and useless, belittling the luminous cup to nothing. The other senior brothers were so angry that they came up to argue with you, and you relied on your bronze skin and iron bones to start a fight, disrupting a good banquet."

Li Donglai said confidently: "If he had invited me and didn't despise me, why would I have disturbed his party?"

At this point, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Chen: "Junior Brother Zhang, you are a reasonable person, please give us your opinion."

Zhang Chen shook his head when he heard this. He had seen how unreasonable and unreasonable this little fat boy was.

"Things have already happened, let's rest early. Why talk so much?" Zhang Chen said unhappily.

Zhang Chen walked into the house, leaving only Li Donglai in the yard facing Cheng Yu. Seeing Cheng Yu's clenched fists, he felt something bad happen, so he immediately shut up and stopped arguing. Instead, he chose to go back to the house and sleep. Seeing Li Donglai staying in the yard to sleep, Xiaodou Ding was immediately unhappy and rushed up to stop him: "Fatty, why don't you go to your own dormitory and stay here?"

"I asked him to stay." Zhang Chen quickly spoke up in the room to stop the conflict.

The little kid raised his white and tender little fist and made a threatening gesture towards Li Donglai, which frightened Li Donglai so much that he shivered. Then he turned and walked into Zhang Chen's room: "Junior brother, don't listen to that fat guy's nonsense. Senior Brother Chu Mingyue is a very good person, gentle, handsome and generous. He is a modest gentleman, not as annoying as that fat guy said."

Zhang Chen looked at the little kid in surprise, his eyes full of curiosity: "Why do you like Chu Mingyue so much?"

The little kid blushed when he heard that, and then he said unhappily, "Children, don't ask about adult matters."

Zhang Chen looked at the little kid and couldn't help laughing: "So he's just chasing stars. Such a young child knows how to chase stars. Kids nowadays are really precocious."

"Not really, it's just that Senior Brother Chu was my neighbor from my hometown, Huang Tiandao, and we came here together. Everyone in that village died back then, leaving only Senior Brother Chu and I." The little kid sighed softly, his eyes full of sadness: "I remember that I used to go to play with Senior Brother Chu every day. My father treated him like his own son, and he was like my own brother. But later on, something happened and we parted ways, and we've become a little estranged."

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect there was such a reason and didn't know how to comfort her.

"Zhang Chen, I don't think you are a match for Senior Brother Chu Mingyue. You'd better not compete with him, lest you get hurt by Senior Brother Chu. I would be in a dilemma then." The little kid seemed to remember something at this time and spoke to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen glanced at the little kid after hearing this and said, "You've betrayed me, girl. You used to expect me to win first place, but now you're speaking for your senior brother Chu Mingyue. You've betrayed our beliefs."

"Although you are my junior brother, Senior Brother Chu Mingyue slaughtered gods with his mortal body, but you are my idol, a guiding light for warriors like me, and idols need to be worshipped. Listen to me and give up the competition. If Senior Brother Chu takes action, you have no chance!" said the little bean proudly.

Zhang Chen laughed when he heard this, and lay down on the bed to sleep, too lazy to pay attention to the little brat. What did a five-year-old kid know?
Seeing Zhang Chen's attitude, Cheng Yu ignored him and walked upstairs happily, grinning foolishly from time to time, not knowing what he was thinking.

That night
As usual, Zhang Chen sneaked into the underground to steal points, and then came out early the next morning. Then it was morning class. When the class was over, Li Donglai and Xiao Douding had both disappeared, leaving Zhang Chen alone to go to the cafeteria to eat.

Zhang Chen looked from a distance and saw Chu Mingyue and Zhang Xiaohua sitting together. The food on the table was not from the cafeteria, but various delicacies from the Pingbian Palace.

At this time, all the fellow disciples surrounded the two of them and kept toasting them to flatter them.

Zhang Chen stood aside and watched coldly, watching the actions of the group of people and Chu Mingyue who was surrounded in the middle. He thought to himself: "Although Chu Mingyue pretended to be noble, he was flattering Zhang Xiaohua. This kid is not simple and has a deep mind."

But all this has nothing to do with Zhang Chen. He just needs to steal points to improve his skills. He also doesn't want to make close friends with these fellow disciples, so as not to get too deeply involved and make things difficult.

Zhang Chen was thinking about something and walked back. However, when he passed the Patriarch's Hall, his pace suddenly slowed down. He heard the voices of Liu Feng and Elder Wu coming from the hall:

"Master, how come the Conferred God Ceremony has been delayed for so long and has not been finalized? Various forces have been secretly restless and have begun to gather information behind the scenes. Some people suspect that I, Huang Tiandao, am bragging and making trouble, while others suspect that something has gone wrong with me, Huang Tiandao. If this continues, I am afraid that many troubles will arise."

"Something unexpected happened." Wu Changming sighed helplessly, his voice full of powerlessness.

"Ah?" Liu Feng was shocked when he heard this: "Master, this is not a joke. What went wrong? Can it be fixed? If something goes wrong, I'm afraid the good situation in the North will fall apart. The major forces may no longer believe in us, and the foundation of our faith will be shaken."

"The ancestor has personally taken action and has already investigated. The power of faith in the north has disappeared out of thin air, as if it had been stolen. Not only does the new power of faith gathered every day disappear out of thin air, but even the incense and faith accumulated in the past have begun to fill in. To put it simply, the income is not enough to cover the expenses." Wu Changming also sighed. The amount of power of faith determines the key to deification. If the accumulated power of faith is not enough, can one be deified at all?

The great cause of deifying the gods was delayed, and he had no way to stop it. Now the incense and faith in Huangli Temple disappeared out of thin air. If he didn't find out the reason, there would be big trouble.

"What should we do then?" Liu Feng responded anxiously.

"The Great Sage Master is ready to take action. He has secretly used his power to mix it with the faith. As long as the other party steals the power of faith again, he will be marked by the mysterious power. At that time, the Great Sage Master will naturally use his power to suppress and kill him." Wu Changming said, "Don't worry. The Great Sage Master will personally take action and it will only take a few days to solve this matter."

"By the way, has Ma Zhou arrived? This time, the position of Water God has been assigned to Ma Zhou by the Great Sage. Tell him to be ready!" Wu Changming said.

Liu Feng lowered his head when he heard this, and his facial expression could not be seen clearly. He just said respectfully: "Ma Zhou has arrived, and is bathing, meditating, burning incense and waiting."

At this point, Liu Feng couldn't help but twist his face. It was he who had done a great job in bringing together the Prince of Pingbian. Ma Zhou was just a descendant of the Great Sage. What merit did he have? How could he come here to pick peaches?
No matter how you calculate it, this deity position should be mine. Without my decades of diligent efforts in the north, how could I have been deified today?
Zhang Chen, who was outside the door, heard the conversation in the room and broke out in a cold sweat: "Did the Great Sage Master take action?"

"No, I have to be quiet for a while. Logically speaking, I only absorb two million points a day, so there shouldn't be such serious sequelae, right? All the blame should be placed on Zhang Xiaohua's jade plate." Zhang Chen cursed inwardly.

Although the amount he absorbs every day is not small, it will never reach the point of negative growth.

But if Zhang Xiaohua's jade token is added, the two together will suck blood from Huangli Temple day and night, which might really cause the incense to decline.

"No, I'll stop for now. Let Zhang Xiaohua take the lead first. Even if she is exposed, it should be Zhang Xiaohua who is exposed." Zhang Chen said to himself.

I wanted to continue eavesdropping, but the two people in the room stopped talking and left. Zhang Chen also left quickly, with various thoughts flashing in his mind: "I am sucking too much. If I divert the trouble to others and involve Zhang Xiaohua, and expose Zhang Xiaohua, then the Pingbian Palace and Huang Tiandao will do something dirty. Wouldn't I have the opportunity to use Huang Tiandao's power to deal with the Pingbian Palace?"

Zhang Chen's heart moved, and he turned his footsteps, wanting to walk towards the direction of the hall. However, halfway through, Zhang Chen suddenly stopped and said, "No, I can't go! I absolutely can't go! Maybe the hall has already laid a net, and anyone who goes there will be marked as a suspect. If I go there, won't I be walking into a trap?"

(End of this chapter)