I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 321 Mysterious Factor
The princess broke into the mysterious spiritual world, leaving behind a dark, twisting space passage, which attracted attention from all over the world.

After the princess left, everyone got up with a confused look on their faces and stood in front of the dark space passage. They all looked at each other in silence, not knowing what had happened.

"There is a mysterious aura flowing out of this black hole, which can strengthen our souls and bloodlines. Absorbing the mysterious aura escaping from the black hole can increase our strength." Someone standing in front of the black hole exclaimed, calling his friends to come over and occupy a favorable position.

A mysterious aura emanated from the spiritual world in the black hole. Those people faced the impact of that mysterious aura head-on. Their souls became stronger under the influence of that mysterious aura, and their bloodline power began to return to their ancestral state.

"Hurry! Hurry! Get to the black hole quickly. A mysterious force is flowing out of the black hole. This force can help us transform our body and soul." Someone shouted loudly, calling out to his friends to come and grab a spot.

"Who is that woman? And what is this black thing?"

At this time, someone was standing in front of the black hole, swallowing the mysterious factor while asking everyone's questions.

"That woman looks somewhat similar to the female corpse dug out from the ancient tomb of gods and demons." A Confucian disciple who had participated in the excavation of the tomb spoke up, but there was some uncertainty in his voice. After all, the female corpse was wrapped in golden light at the time, and people could not see the lady's face clearly. They could only make out her general facial features in the haze.

"Now that you mention it, I really remember that this woman is indeed somewhat similar to the female corpse." Someone else spoke up in agreement.

Everyone took up an advantageous position in front of the black hole, absorbing the mysterious factors that were released from the black hole. They looked at the mysterious space channel in front of them, and none of them dared to act rashly.

At this time, a figure stepped on the treetops in the mountains, like an elf dancing lightly in the moonlight. After a few rises and falls, he arrived at the field and landed in front of the black hole. His figure was revealed. It was Xie Lingyun in white. "This is the legendary space channel, but the space channel is not stable at the moment."

Xie Lingyun glanced at the various martial artists in the field and did not make any move to drive them away. Where are there ordinary martial artists in this world?

Ordinary people in the martial arts world are not even qualified to touch the secrets of martial arts.

She is not a fool and would not do something that would offend others.

Of course, everyone recognized Xie Lingyun's identity at this time. They looked at Xie Lingyun with awe and involuntarily made way for Xie Lingyun to absorb the mysterious factors flowing from the spiritual world.

As the daughter of the chief of the Northern Procuratorate and the jewel in the crown of the great master Yangshen, none of them have unknown forces behind them. They had done their homework before coming to the Northern Land. How could they not know Xie Lingyun?
Xie Lingyun was not polite and walked directly to the open space to accept the nourishment of the mysterious factor.

Xie Lingyun came here to chase Zhang Chen. Before, Zhang Chen made a big fuss in the city, and Xie Lingyun wanted to support him secretly, but who knew that Zhang Chen made such a big noise, so he killed himself.

"Commander Xie, do you know what this space channel is?" A gangster stepped forward and asked.

Xie Lingyun did not hide it: "The so-called space channel is the channel that connects the two worlds. There is a world behind this black hole, but the space channel is not stable yet and cannot be entered for the time being."

After hearing what Xie Lingyun said, everyone present held their breath. Someone couldn't help but exclaimed, "The aura emanating from this space channel is so powerful. I wonder what kind of incredible fortune there is in the other world of the space channel."

"Could it be that the other side is the legendary fairyland? Those books dug out from ancient texts that talk about the path of Qigong, isn't the ultimate goal to ascend to the fairyland?" Suddenly someone muttered.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's breathing became disordered, especially when they thought of the descriptions of becoming immortals in ancient books, the eyes of everyone standing under the black hole turned red.

Elixir of immortality, herb of immortality, Liquan, peaches...

Countless thoughts such as immortality, indestructibility, and eternal existence, at this moment, surged into everyone's hearts like a wave.

"Immortality...Fairyland..." Someone stared at the dark space passage with bloodshot eyes, then suddenly took a leap forward and jumped into the black hole, trying to rush over first and get the first place.

If the goddess could get through, maybe he could too? Speaking of which, he still didn't believe what Xie Lingyun said, thinking that Xie Lingyun was stalling for time. What if the experts from the Inspection Office arrived later and blocked the space channel, preventing him and his companions from getting in? Wouldn't it be a waste of time?
"Ah~"

Then the next moment there was a shrill scream, and the man exploded directly under the fluctuation of space, turning into blood and dissipating in the air.

This horrifying scene was like pouring a bucket of cold water on everyone's restless hearts, chilling them to the core.

"Everyone, don't be impulsive. Before the space channel stabilizes, there will be space turbulence that will form a strangling force. Even if Yangshen Zhenren enters it, he will be turned into dust and die. Everyone must be cautious." Xie Lingyun hurriedly reminded.

Zhang Chen, who was further away, was watching the scene in the field and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: "The strangling force of that space channel is really overbearing."

"Of course, that's the power of space. Don't you think about how high a cultivation level is required to be able to use the power of space?" The Great Freedom Demon muttered beside him, "Let's go back. This space passage may not be stable for more than a month. It's just a waste of time to stay here."

Zhang Chen nodded, agreeing with the words of the Great Freedom Demon. It was time for him to return to Huangli Temple. After all, it was almost dawn.

Zhang Chen turned into water mist, disappeared all the way, and returned to the Taoist temple. He saw that the shouting and killing in the temple had gradually resumed, and those men in black also began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Zhang Chen quietly returned to the pavilion and checked on the little boy. Seeing that he was sleeping soundly, he heaved a sigh of relief. He looked at the soldiers standing guard in the yard and thought of Zhang Xiaohua. He wondered if he could kill Zhang Xiaohua in the chaos.
"Not possible! If Zhang Xiaohua died in the Taoist temple, I'm afraid that the Huangli Temple would be massacred by King Pingbian! Zhang Xiaohua is King Pingbian's only heir, even if she dies, she must not die in the Taoist temple. Besides, how could King Pingbian's mansion give assassins a chance? Mr. Wuliu is a shrewd man, he will never give anyone a chance to take advantage of him."

Zhang Chen thought in his mind, and underground water vapor began to seep and spread into the air. Zhang Chen used the underground water vapor to continuously sense the humanoid creatures in the Taoist temple.

In Zhang Chen's perception, Zhang Xiaohua's pavilion was three layers deep, and there were probably three to four thousand soldiers, who surrounded the entire pavilion and villa without any escape.

"Ultrasound has limitations. It will bounce back when it encounters an obstacle, but water vapor is different. As long as it is within a thousand meters, I can sense humanoid creatures in all places covered by water vapor." Zhang Chen secretly compared the differences between ultrasound and water vapor, but sometimes ultrasound is much more useful than water vapor, especially in terms of reaction speed and accuracy, which is something water vapor cannot match.

Zhang Chen returned to the pavilion and waited for the incident in the Taoist temple to subside. When dawn came and the first ray of morning light illuminated the sky, the shouting and killing in the Huangli Temple completely stopped.

The morning bell rang, summoning the disciples of Huangli Temple, and at this time, the little boy also walked down from the pavilion in high spirits: "Zhang Chen, it's time for morning class."

"Why are there so many soldiers standing guard outside? They look like masters of the Procuratorate?" When the little boy saw the soldiers standing guard outside the pavilion, a hint of doubt appeared in his eyes. At the same time, his delicate little nose sniffed the air: "Something is not right. Why is there a burnt smell in the air, and also a smell of barbecue? Could it be that the Taoist temple has prepared barbecue for us today?" "Zhang Chen, let's go downstairs quickly. We have barbecue today." The little boy said excitedly, his face full of joy and excitement.

Hearing Cheng Yu utter the word "barbecue", Zhang Chen almost vomited the overnight meal in his stomach. Zhang Chen looked at Xiao Douding with a pair of strange eyes. The smell of barbecue that the other party mentioned should be the smell of burnt corpses. I wonder if Xiao Douding will still be so excited when he sees the corpses in the fire later.

"Let's go!" Zhang Chen touched the little kid's head, then took the little kid's hand and walked out of the cottage.

"The barbecue smells so good! So rich!" Cheng Yu twitched his little nose happily, sniffing the air. "The only pity is that the smell is a bit too much, as if it is burnt. The cooking skills of the brothers in the kitchen are always so poor, and they waste good ingredients. I want to eat more barbecue today, I am starving to death!"

The little kid was drooling greedily and sniffing the air.

Zhang Chen looked at the little boy sniffing around like a puppy, with a face full of anticipation for eating barbecue. He couldn't help but hesitate to say something. He wanted to open his mouth to remind him, but finally swallowed his words back.

As the two of them walked along, looking at the bloodstains on the ground and the burned temples, the little boy's eyes were filled with confusion.

How come when I woke up, the whole Taoist temple was in tatters, as if it had been destroyed by war?
"What happened?" Little Douding looked at the burning palace and asked, "Did the Taoist temple catch fire last night?"

Just looking at the bloodstains on the ground again, it seems a bit strange. How can there be blood in a Taoist temple fire?
Just as Zhang Chen was about to answer, he saw his fellow apprentice from the Taoist temple carrying a dead body walking by in the distance.

"Where did the body come from?" Cheng Yu opened his eyes wide.

Before he could come to his senses, the next moment he saw the two brothers carrying the corpse and throwing it directly into the burning temple.

At this time, the smell of barbecue emanated from the flames, and one of the brothers turned his head and looked at Cheng Yu: "Last night, the Taoist temple was attacked by thieves. We brothers fought desperately and left more than 80 bodies of the thieves. The ancestor ordered to throw them directly into the fire and burn them on the spot."

After hearing this, Cheng Yu's face turned pale, and then he ran to the grass and started retching.

The barbecue that I had been dreaming about turned out to be this? Who could bear this? Especially Cheng Yu, who kept smelling the aroma of barbecue along the way, felt even more upset when he thought of this.

"Stop vomiting!" Zhang Chen walked over and tapped the little kid's back.

The little kid kept retching but couldn't vomit.

"Fuck you, this is so disgusting!" The little kid cursed and swore, "I thought the Taoist temple was merciful and prepared barbecue, but who knew it would be so disgusting."

Zhang Chen comforted the little kid for a while, and then he saw the little kid following Zhang Chen with a pale face, cursing all the way as he walked towards the main hall.

As I walked along, I saw that some of the brothers had bruises on their bodies, wrapping their wounds with cloth strips, while others simply used crutches and limped around in the Taoist temple.

"Liu Feng's soul was destroyed and swallowed by the mysterious shadow. I wonder what happened to his body?" Zhang Chen was a little curious.

What will happen to a person's physical body if he loses his three souls and seven spirits?
Along the way, the number of senior brothers in the Taoist temple did not decrease. Everyone practiced martial arts on weekdays and cooperated with each other and was well-trained. Although those men in black had superb martial arts skills, they were suppressed by the army of Pingbian Palace and could not display their mysterious powers. They could not gain any advantage against the senior brothers in the Taoist temple.

The atmosphere in the Taoist temple was solemn at this time. When everyone came to the main hall, they saw Gu Mingyue standing in front of the statue of the ancestor, looking at the sculpture above with a heavy look in his eyes.

His plan failed, or at least in one respect, it was unsuccessful.

In front of Gu Mingyue, the body of the temple master Liu Feng stood, as dull as a wooden sculpture. Zhang Chen looked at Liu Feng's body and his pupils couldn't help but shrink. Liu Feng's body was still alive and not dead yet.

"Grandmaster, all the disciples have gathered together. Please give us some instructions." Elder Chuanwu stepped forward and said respectfully.

Gu Mingyue glanced at the disciples and asked in a gloomy voice, "Where is Ma Zhou?"

"Reporting to the ancestor, Ma Zhou is sleeping soundly. I sent someone to pass the message, but Uncle Ma Zhou still couldn't be woken up, so I asked someone to carry him here." At this time, Elder Chuanwu spoke.

Gu Mingyue's beard trembled with anger when he heard this, and he said angrily, "Bring up this bastard who almost delayed my Huang Tian Dao's event."

At this time, footsteps were heard outside the hall, and two disciples were seen carrying Ma Zhou on a stretcher and walking into the hall.

Zhang Chen looked over and saw Ma Zhou on the stretcher snoring loudly, which was particularly irritating in the dead silence of the hall.

"Bring some cold water and pour it over this beast to wake it up." Gu Mingyue said.

A disciple had already prepared cold water. After pouring a basin of cold water on him, Ma Zhou subconsciously turned his body, but he was still snoring loudly and showed no intention of waking up.

"How much did this damn bastard drink?" Seeing this, Gu Mingyue pointed at Ma Zhou, and saw a divine light from Gu Mingyue's fingertips falling on Ma Zhou's body. The next moment, Ma Zhou woke up from his coma and opened his eyes in a daze. Before he could see the situation in the hall clearly, he heard Gu Mingyue's scolding, the sound was like thunder:

"Evil creature, kneel down now!"

Hearing this, Ma Zhou was stunned in a daze. He subconsciously glanced around the hall, looking at the injured Taoist disciples and the livid Gu Mingyue. His eyes were full of confusion, not knowing what had happened.

"Uncle-master, why are you so angry?" Ma Zhou got up from the ground with a grunt, looking at Gu Mingyue with a pair of confused eyes, a bad premonition coming to his heart.

(End of this chapter)