I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 358: A Vicious Plot
The grudge between Zhang Chen and the Pingbian Palace had long been irreconcilable. Even though there was a relationship with the Zhang family in Shangjing, and even though the two sides might have had the same ancestor hundreds of years ago, Zhang Chen would never hold back on the Pingbian Palace. If he had the chance to destroy the Pingbian Palace, he would show no mercy.

Looking at the letter in his hand, Zhang Chen thought for a moment and then turned into a drop of water and disappeared into the soil. After leaving the Taoist temple, he turned into mist and shuttled through the mountains, all the way to the ancestral lineage of King Pingbian.

Although Chen Xu did not specify the meeting address of the two parties in the letter, this matter did not pose a problem for Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen instantly turned into a vampire bat in the air, and then the vampire bat split into seventy-two, emitting ultrasonic waves and continuously detecting among the mountains.

Originally, Zhang Chen could only transform into thirty-six vampire bats, but after his blood-sucking technique was upgraded, he could split into seventy-two.

Zhang Chen could sense the figures among the mountains from afar. Some of them were villagers from nearby villages who came to the mountains to dig grass roots and tree bark due to food shortage at home. Others were people from the martial arts world who came into the mountains in search of fortune.

When Zhang Chen found Chen Xu, he was sitting in front of the campfire, staring at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance.

The cold wind was howling, and Chen Xu huddled himself in his cloak, sitting in front of the campfire and warming his feet.

Seventy-two vampire bats turned into blood and gathered into the shape of Zhang Chen, appearing in a valley not far away.

"Brother Chen." Zhang Chen walked out from the valley, walking quietly in the biting cold wind. All the cold wind disappeared without a trace after it approached Zhang Chen's body within three feet.

"My benefactor, you are finally here." After seeing Zhang Chen, Chen Xu showed a look of joy on his face. He popped his head out of his cloak and greeted Zhang Chen.

The pheasant was roasting on the campfire. It was roasted to a golden and crispy color, and the oily texture made people's appetite whetted.

"Have you found the exact location of the ancestral tomb of Prince Pingbian?" Zhang Chen asked while sitting in front of the campfire, stretching out his hand to warm himself by the fire. Although he had mastered supernatural powers, he was not immune to water and fire.

"I have been blessed recently. My sensitivity to Feng Shui has increased. So I have lived up to expectations and finally found the ancestral tomb of Prince Pingbian. But..." Chen Xu paused and said, "There is just a little problem."

"What's the problem?" Zhang Chen asked. Anything that Chen Xu called a problem would definitely not be an ordinary small problem.

"Just follow me." Chen Xu picked up the roast chicken on the rack and ate it while walking in the cold wind.

The two climbed mountains and waded through water all the way. After crossing seven or eight hills, they arrived at Pingbian Wang Zumai. Then Chen Xu spat out a chicken bone, wiped the grease in his hand on his fur casually, pointed to a valley in the distance and said, "Look there."

Zhang Chen looked over and didn't see anything unusual, then his golden light began to circulate and his Dharma Eyes opened. The next moment, Zhang Chen was stunned to see colorful light rising into the sky from the distant mountains. The colorful light was like auspicious fairy light, covering an area of ​​ten miles in radius. The rising colorful energy rushed into the void and turned into the shape of a pool of water.

Zhang Chen had never seen such a majestic and mysterious aura. Even the aura of a dragon or a walking dragon was not one tenth as powerful as it.

The majestic and powerful aura actually formed a strange vision and evolved into the shape of a pool. The pool was square, and there were countless mysterious inscriptions carved on its walls. There were flying fairy patterns, fairies carrying flower baskets, phoenixes flying, and immortals preaching. At first glance, it seemed as if one was seeing the fairyland.

All these visions are manifested in the Dharma Eye and cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

"I haven't seen the ancestral vein of Pingbian Palace have such aura before. How come the ancestral vein of Pingbian Palace has such momentum?" Zhang Chen was surprised and doubtful: "If Pingbian Palace has such a foundation, why would it need to transform into a dragon? I'm afraid it would be directly against the will of heaven."

This huge and mysterious aura is not an ordinary phenomenon.

Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, but he felt that he could not see the details of the ancestral lineage of the Pingbian Palace.

"There is a formation there, as if it came out of nowhere, and appeared there inexplicably." Chen Xu said: "The formation contains a wonderful energy, which is released into the ancestral vein of the Pingbian King, causing incredible changes in the ancestral vein of the Pingbian King's Mansion. That's why I found the key point of the ancestral tomb. But the entrance to the ancestral tomb is shrouded by a mysterious formation. If you want to enter it, you have to break the formation."

Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Xu: This guy probably didn't just discover it, but should have discovered it a long time ago, and then because he couldn't break the formation, he had to ask for help from me.

"You have mastered the art of Feng Shui. You have even broken through the great tomb of gods and demons in the past. How can you not break through the mere Feng Shui formation in front of you?" Zhang Chen said.

Chen Xu shook his head upon hearing this: "Don't mention it. That formation is different from the one in front of me. The formation in front of me is like a rootless duckweed. It is not engraved in the dragon veins of mountains and rivers. I can't find its foundation at all, so there is no way to break it."

Zhang Chen stroked his chin, standing in the cold wind and carefully looking at the vast energy rising into the sky. This energy was not visible in the material world, so it was normal that ordinary people could not see it. Even for cultivators, without the special means like Chen Xu, it would be difficult to see the changes.

"Why did such a strange phenomenon suddenly appear? Come on, let's go and investigate." Zhang Chen pulled Chen Xu and wanted to go and investigate.

The two were climbing among the mountains, but before they had climbed for long, they saw dozens of figures suddenly passing by at the foot of the mountain, all the way to the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Chen had the sixth-level blood control technique and very good eyesight. He could tell the other party's origins at a glance. They were none other than King Pingbian, Mr. Wuliu, and dozens of cavalrymen under their command.

Those dozens of iron cavalrymen had energetic energy all over their bodies, and it was obvious that they had already cultivated their qi and blood, making them top-notch fighters in the martial arts world.

"A master from the Pingbian Palace." Chen Xu recognized the other party's origin at a glance.

Zhang Chen's heart was moved at this moment, he wondered if he could take the opportunity to kill King Pingbian, but after thinking about it he gave up the idea. The Prince Pingbian's Mansion had not yet run out of luck, and was still blessed by the north's veins. Before the Prince Pingbian's Mansion's veins were exhausted, it would be inappropriate to take action against it, so as not to offend the Heavenly Dao.

"Wait here for a moment. I'll see if I can eavesdrop on any secrets." Zhang Chen cast the invisibility charm and swaggered down the mountain. Not long after, he arrived in front of the guard of honor of King Pingbian. At this time, dozens of masters dispersed and guarded the surrounding area of ​​hundreds of meters, while Zhang Chen swaggered through the gap between the crowd and came to Mr. Wuliu and King Pingbian.

At this time, King Pingbian was seen talking with Mr. Wuliu. At this time, King Pingbian asked, "Why are you teaching me, sir?"

Mr. Wuliu raised his head and looked into the void. He seemed to see the magnificent and mighty aura. He was lost in thought. After a moment, he said, "What the villager said is correct. There is indeed a mysterious creation that has fallen here. However, the creation that fell has its own formation. It smashed into the ancestral vein and merged with the ancestral vein's dragon energy. It is beneficial to the prince and not harmful."

"After the mysterious thing fell, it released a large amount of supernatural matter and energy, which continuously nourished the earth veins, allowing the Northland Ancestral Vein to be nourished and continuously grow stronger, and even helped our ancestor's transformation into a dragon." Mr. Wuliu said with a scorching gaze, "In just a few days, the ancestral vein has been supplied with energy released by it, and it has become 30% stronger. It's really incredible. I don't know what kind of great fortune it is that actually has the power to nourish the dragon veins! If it is given time and allowed to nourish the ancestral veins for a year, not only can our ancestor successfully transform into a dragon, but it can also make our Northland Dragon Vein evolve and have the ability to rival the Great Zhou Ancestral Vein."

Zhang Chen, who was standing by, had already guessed after hearing this: "I probably know the process. It should be that the Dharma Realm was destroyed, and there was a mysterious immortal being that fell from the Dharma Realm into the material world, and happened to hit the ancestral vein of King Pingbian. Then its energy flowed from high concentration to low concentration, just like the Emperor's daughter and the Bashen, the mysterious substance in their bodies flowed to the material world. It just happened that this object hit the earth vein, and all the mysterious power that flowed out was absorbed by the ancestral vein, creating this earth vein. And King Pingbian Zhang Shicheng turned into a dragon and walked in the earth vein waiting for transformation. The mysterious power created the earth vein, which was also equivalent to nourishing Zhang Shicheng."

Zhang Chen secretly sighed in his heart: "This fellow Pingbian Wang is really weird. His luck is so strong that he can even see something that is almost a coincidence."

"This Pingbian Palace is in its heyday and looks like it has something to offer." Zhang Chen said to himself.

"Now the luck of the Pingbian Palace is like oil boiling on a raging fire. In front, the ancestor is about to transform into a dragon. In the back, tens of thousands of troops have undergone the transformation of the Basnake. In addition, due to the influence of the space channel, the first layer of the spiritual world in the north was destroyed, and the most mysterious objects fell to the north, so the luck of the north is skyrocketing. At present, it is only the foundation of the Pingbian Palace that has increased. After some time, the Pingbian Palace will digest those foundations, and the luck will increase again." Zhang Chen thought of this, and he couldn't help feeling proud: "It's a pity that you don't know that I have already calculated all this, and I have polluted Zhang Shicheng's dragon transformation in advance, and I have used the bloody air to pollute Zhang Shicheng's soul. The more proud you are now, the more embarrassed you will be at that time."

Just as Zhang Chen was thinking about this, the conversation between King Pingbian and Mr. Wuliu attracted Zhang Chen again. Mr. Wuliu said, "There is just one thing that is not right."

King Pingbian looked surprised: "What else is wrong?"

"The fate of the ancestral vein has changed so much that it cannot be hidden from those talented people. By then, who knows, those guys may become so crazy that they will set their sights on the ancestral vein." Mr. Wuliu's voice was full of hesitation.

"How dare they! This is a dragon vein, how dare they touch it?" King Pingbian's face changed when he heard this.

"Those people only know how to enhance their magical powers and strengthen their bloodlines. How could they understand anything about the changes in the laws of nature?" Mr. Wuliu shook his head.

"That king has sent an army of 100,000 to guard this place. Anyone who dares to touch the fortune in the dragon vein will be made to never return." King Pingbian's voice was full of coldness.

Mr. Wuliu shook his head and rejected it: "It still won't work! There are all kinds of strange tricks in this world. If the other party wants to take advantage of it secretly and dig through the underground mountains, who can prevent it?"

Hearing this, King Pingbian's face became even uglier. It was not a pleasant feeling to have valuable things at home and have them coveted by thieves all day long.

"Sir, do you have a solution to this problem?" Pingbian Wangdao asked.

Mr. Wuliu pondered for a moment before saying, "The best plan now is to break the formation and retrieve the mysterious object. The second thing is to speed up the use of the mysterious energy here. Once the mysterious energy is used up, it will naturally stop being coveted by those people in the martial arts world."

"How about we try both methods?" Pingbian Wangdao said.

Mr. Wuliu nodded and said, "That's great." Then he said to King Pingbian, "I have a trick here called 'Replacing a Life with a Dragon'. All you need to do is build a magic circle here, and then build a temple. Then find someone with a similar fate to yours to live there. Then I can reverse the yin and yang, use mysticism to turn it into a cauldron, guide the mysterious power of this place into its body, and then use mysticism to draw the fortune in its body to nourish yours."

“You must know how powerful the power of heaven and earth is. This method of refining the mysterious destiny at all costs consumes the vitality of the substitute. And all the benefits will benefit the young prince. Not only will it help the young prince to raise a true dragon, but he can even raise a second true dragon in the palace. By then, the whole world will belong to the palace.” Mr. Wuliu said with a smile.

Zhang Chen, who was standing by, heard what Mr. Wuliu said and couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Damn it, there really are no good people in the Pingbian Palace. They are all so vicious and unkind."

Wasn't that how the Pingbian Palace had planned for him back then? He wanted him to take the blame for Zhang Xiaohua, and then Zhang Xiaohua would replace him and go to the Zhang family in Shangjing City, accepting the Zhang family's identity and live on.

No one except the Pingbian Palace could have thought of such a sinister method.

Now the Pingbian Palace has resorted to such shady means, actually looking for an innocent person directly, at the cost of consuming his life, in order to speed up the refining of the mysterious power emanating from the ancestral vein. This is really shameful!
Such a vicious and cruel method did not attract lightning and fire, it's really retribution!

At this time, Zhang Chen put his hands in his sleeves, listening to the conversation between the two, and sneered in his heart: "Your plan is good, but unfortunately you met me. I will not let you succeed. This time I will make you lose both the wife and the army."

Zhang Chen would never be stingy about doing anything that could cause trouble for the Prince of Pingbian's Palace.

Just as Zhang Chen was thinking about how to disrupt the other party's plan, King Pingbian said, "It may not be easy to find someone with a similar fate to my son. If we delay for three to five months, I don't know what kind of trouble will be caused by then."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. We have a ready-made candidate." Mr. Wuliu said with a smile.

King Pingbian was overjoyed when he heard this: "Who?"

"Zhang Chen!" said Mr. Wuliu.

(End of this chapter)