I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 370 Immortal News
Unfortunately, she only has eighteen copper coins left.

Listening to Xu Erniu's words, Zhang Chen couldn't help but smile: "Don't worry, when I get better, I will definitely compensate you a thousand times."

"Take care of yourself first. If you had the ability to make money, you wouldn't be almost starving to death outside." Xu Erniu rolled her eyes.

Zhang Chen did not argue with Xu Erniu after hearing this. He thought that when he got better, he would naturally let the other party see his methods.

At night, Xu Erniu still cooked wild vegetables, but this time she took out a pancake from her bosom and handed it to Zhang Chen: "Take it and eat it."

Xu Erniu looked at the pancake in her hand, swallowed her saliva, and handed it to Zhang Chen reluctantly, then picked up the wild vegetables beside her and started to eat them.

The pancake was a coarse grain pancake, and there were even dirty fingerprints on it, but Zhang Chen was deeply touched when he saw Xu Erniu eating wild vegetables.

Zhang Chen took the pancake but didn't eat it. Instead, he looked at Xu Erniu and asked, "Where did you get the pancake?"

"Of course I bought it! One cake costs one penny, eat it quickly. You are a wounded soldier now, you need to eat something good to replenish your body. If you die of a disease because of lack of nutrition, my money will be wasted." Xu Erniu ate some wild vegetables and muttered to Zhang Chen, "Hey, kid, when you recover from your injury, you have to go to the mountains with me to collect herbs, and then return the money to me."

Zhang Chen broke the pancake in half, stuffed half into Xu Erniu's hand, broke the other half into pieces himself and put it into a broken bowl, soaking it in wild vegetable soup, and then ate it slowly.

Xu Erniu looked at the pancakes that Zhang Chen brought her and couldn't help but be stunned. She turned her dark face to look at Zhang Chen, then began to eat in silence.

After dinner, Xu Erniu ran to the corner again and began to count her own coins. A look of distress appeared in her eyes. One copper coin was missing from the eighteen coins.

Zhang Chen looked at Xu Erniu, who was covered in dirt and counting the coins in her hand over and over again, and couldn't help but find it funny.

Xu Erniu counted the copper coins again and again, then hid them carefully, and took out a small wooden sword from somewhere. The sword was the size of a palm, covered with patina, and looked quite realistic.

"Your craftsmanship is excellent." Zhang Chen praised the wooden sword in Xu Erniu's hand.

"This is the gift I will give to my father in the future." Xu Erniu took over the conversation after hearing this.

"You have a father?" Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard that.

Xu Erniu said unhappily, "I didn't come out of a crack in a rock, so of course I have a father and a mother."

"Then why did you become a beggar?" Zhang Chen was curious.

"Mom is dead and dad is not here." said Xu Erniu.

When she said this, a hint of sadness appeared in Xu Erniu's eyes.

"Where is your father?" Zhang Chen asked subconsciously.

"Mother said that my father is a deity from Mount Qingcheng. It is said that he was punished to practice in the mountains because he made a mistake. But it doesn't matter. As long as I save up 500 copper coins, I can buy 500 cakes. Then I can eat one cake a day and walk 50 miles a day, and then I can go find my father." Xu Erniu's voice was full of expectation:

"If I find my father, I won't have to wander around anymore."

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this: "Qingcheng Mountain? Gods?"

Are there also cultivation methods in the spiritual world? Yes, the spiritual world has extraordinary power, so how can there be no extraordinary cultivators?
Then can I go to those mysterious forces to see if I can find a way to resolve the situation in my body? Is there even a way to cultivate to a higher level in the spiritual world? Can I become a disciple and learn skills, and get a systematic way to practice?

Zhang Chen's heart was pounding at this moment, and his brain started to work. Now the Yin and Yang Qi were flowing in his body, destroying the supernatural powers in his body. If he wanted to recover, the only way was to make the Five-Colored Divine Light compatible with the Yin and Yang Qi to complete the transformation between the Five Elements and Yin and Yang.

If the transformation of the five elements and the yin and yang energies is completed, his magical powers will be raised to a higher level, so he is very interested in the Qingcheng Mountain mentioned by Xu Erniu.

"Don't worry, when my injury heals, I will make money with you, and then I will accompany you to Qingcheng Mountain." Zhang Chen said.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Xu Erniu's eyes suddenly lit up: "Really? I heard from my mother that Qingcheng Mountain is in a very far place. Are you really willing to accompany me?"

"Of course! I have nothing to do anyway." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

Xu Erniu was overjoyed when she heard this: "Great! I was right about you. Don't worry. When we get to Qingcheng Mountain, I will ask my father to accept you as my disciple and let you become a deity too."

Xu Erniu was very excited. She came to Zhang Chen with a small wooden sword and sat down. She said with longing in her eyes, "I heard from my mother that there are immortals all over Qingcheng Mountain. They can turn stones into gold and live forever. They have endless wealth and glory."

"Then we can become immortal gods." Xu Erniu's voice was full of anticipation.

Zhang Chen touched the little girl's dirty head and said, "That's right, let's go and be a fairy for fun."

The little girl was very thin, with almost no flesh on her body, just a skeleton, like a large skeleton. Zhang Chen stretched out his hand and held the little girl's head, and the little girl fell asleep in his arms.

Zhang Chen sighed softly upon seeing this, and began to think about future plans in his mind, to see if there was anything interesting in this spiritual world that he could take back.

The most important thing is the method of cultivation. It would be best if you have a complete method of cultivating immortality and practicing Qi. At the very least, you must get rid of the yin and yang energies in your body.

Time passed slowly, and the yin and yang energies in Zhang Chen's body automatically absorbed inspiration from the outside world to grow stronger, repairing Zhang Chen's body and cleansing his spirit.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Zhang Chen was able to move slowly. The injuries on his body had mostly recovered under the cleansing of the yin and yang energies. He just needed to avoid strenuous exercise.

The little girl sat in the corner and counted her coins carefully. After three days, she had three less coins.

"Zhang Chen, to repay you for going to Qingcheng Mountain with me, I'm going to take you to a big dinner today!" After counting the copper coins, the little girl carefully put them in the jar, and then buried it like a thief, and shouted to Zhang Chen.

"You're taking me to a big meal? The copper coins you have are only enough to buy some pancakes, how can you afford a big meal? Are you planning to treat me to two pancakes today?" Zhang Chen joked.

"You look down on people, don't you? Rich man Jiang is holding a birthday party outside the city today. I'll take you to have a free meal." Xu Erniu said with a smile, her saliva almost flowing out as she spoke.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this: "We are just two beggars. Can we go there to eat for free? Aren't we afraid of being kicked out?"

Zhang Chen felt that if the two of them went to eat for free, there was a high probability that they would be kicked out.

"What do you know? Mr. Jiang is a very good person. He won't care about it." Xu Erniu said to Zhang Chen, "Come on, follow me to pick flowers in the mountains." Then Xu Erniu pulled Zhang Chen and walked towards the mountains.

Zhang Chen's body was probably that of a child of seven or eight years old, and looked about the same size as the skinny Xu Erniu.

It was midsummer now. Outside the temple gate was the Daqing Mountain, with gurgling water flowing in the mountains and all kinds of blooming flowers by the stream.

Xu Erniu pulled Zhang Chen to the stream, stepped directly into it, and began to wash and take a bath.

The water was up to her waist. Xu Erniu floundered a few times and realized that Zhang Chen had not come down from the shore. She then shouted, "What are you doing standing there? Come down quickly. We are going to the banquet. How can we go without washing up?"

"You are quite particular." Zhang Chen followed and stepped into the water.

He had mastered the art of controlling water and was very familiar with water, so he was not afraid of drowning.

"Little brother, sister will teach you a lesson today. There are skills to eating for free. Since we are going to eat for free and taking advantage of the host, we should not cause trouble to the host. We should wash ourselves clean and have no odor, so that we will not disgust the guests of the host, right?" Xu Erniu said.

Zhang Chen looked at Xu Erniu in surprise when he heard this. He didn't expect this girl to speak in such a roundabout way.

The two soaked in the water for a while, the stains on their bodies began to soften and loosen, and then they began to rub the dirt on their bodies.

However, without the detergents of later generations, it was not easy to scrub off the solidified stains on the body. The two of them rubbed their skin until it turned red, but they only washed off a part of it. The remaining stains solidified on the skin, and it was not easy to scrub them off.

Zhang Chen looked at the old stains on his body, knowing that scrubbing like this would not work, so he set his sights on his own Yin and Yang Qi. The Yin and Yang Qi were the most overbearing. Zhang Chen wondered if he could use the Yin and Yang Qi to remove the stains, but to his disappointment, the Yin and Yang Qi did not have that effect.

There was nothing I could do but continue soaking in the stream until the cuticles all over my body softened, and then I could rub off the mud balls.

The two climbed out of the water and began to wash their dirty clothes, but without detergent, how difficult was it to wash the clothes?
After scrubbing for a while without seeing any effect, Zhang Chen looked across the mountains and found a kind of green grass that people in the material world often used for washing. So he went over and picked up a handful of it and started washing his own clothes.

This time the effect was very good. Large amounts of black water kept seeping down from the clothes. Xu Erniu, who was standing nearby, was overjoyed when she saw this and also rubbed a handful. After the two of them washed their clothes by the stream, Xu Erniu jumped into the river again and began to rub the green grass on her body and hair.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen followed him into the river and scrubbed them again, and only then were they both clean.

Then the two climbed ashore, spoke frankly to each other, and waited for their clothes to dry.

Xu Erniu was just a little kid of five or six years old, and there was no difference between boys and girls. After the two of them finished washing up, they finally became clean and looked like human beings.

Zhang Chen looked at Xu Erniu, who was skinny and had no fat on her face. She looked like a large skeleton, funny and pitiful.

Zhang Chen didn't laugh, and he couldn't laugh because he was almost the same.

Xu Erniu tied her hair behind her head with a straw rope, and then told Zhang Chen to pick wild flowers. She began to weave a flower basket. In just one hour, the flower basket was ready. At this time, Zhang Chen also collected a large number of flowers, and the clothes were dried. Then Xu Erniu said expectantly: "It's done."

Then he took Zhang Chen down the mountain and came to a farm outside Yangzhou city. At this time, there were many carriages and horses coming and going outside the farm, and it looked very lively.

"This rich man Jiang is not a simple person." Zhang Chen looked at the carriages and horses outside the farm. The people coming and going were all dressed in luxurious clothes. Then he looked at Xu Erniu who was carrying a flower basket. Although her clothes were clean, they were tattered and did not fit in with the carriages coming and going in front of him.

"Won't we get beaten if we go there?" Zhang Chen expressed his concerns to Xu Erniu.

"I'm here, what are you afraid of? I'm here to protect you." Xu Erniu patted her chest and pulled Zhang Chen towards the farm. From a distance, they saw people coming and going outside the gate, and a group of beggars gathered outside the gate, and someone was distributing cakes.

Xu Erniu took Zhang Chen and did not go to the place where beggars begged for food, but followed the large group of people to the place where people lined up to give gifts. People passing by looked at the two of them, and although their faces were strange, there was no plot of pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face.

In fact, that kind of pretentious and face-slapping plot only appears in novels. Everyone lines up to give gifts, and no one will stand up for the host to drive them away.

At this time, the stewards kept recording the betrothal gifts and then calling out the numbers, and the rich man Jiang stood at the door constantly welcoming and seeing off people.

Zhang Chen took a closer look at Mr. Jiang, who was probably in his fifties, with a kind face and a amiable manner. He was a little overweight and was chatting politely with the guests.

When it was Xu Erniu's turn, she placed the flower basket on the table and called out, "Xu Erniu wishes Mr. Jiang good health and a long life."

The clerk who was recording the gift book looked at the basket of bright flowers with confusion in his eyes. He glanced at Zhang Chen and Xu Erniu who were wearing tattered clothes, then turned to look at his master.

Master Jiang came over after hearing the noise, looked at the basket of flowers, and then looked at Xu Erniu: "So it's you, girl."

He turned to the servant and said, "Go and hang the flower basket in my bedroom."

Then he instructed the steward, "Take these two children to the kitchen and treat them as third-class guests."

Upon hearing this, the steward immediately bowed and said to Xu Erniu and Zhang Chen, "Please come in, both of you."

Xu Erniu raised her hand to express her gratitude to Mr. Jiang, then pulled Zhang Chen towards the backyard.

When they arrived at the backyard, the steward ordered people to serve six dishes and a soup, all of which were fish and meat, very rich, and then left.

"Do you know Mr. Jiang?" Zhang Chen asked.

At this time, Xu Erniu picked up the roast chicken and started to eat it. "I have been in Yangzhou for three years. I know which families can make a living and which families are kind. This Mr. Jiang is a kind man!"

Zhang Chen started eating directly from the elbow meat, and the only sound in the room was the sound of people wolfing down their food.

After the two of them had a full meal, their stomachs were bloated and they sat on the stools, unable to move.

At this time, the steward came in and took out the brown paper with a smile and said, "The master has ordered that the two guests can pack up what they can't finish and take it away."

As he spoke, he began to pack for the two of them.

Zhang Chen secretly praised in his heart: "This Mr. Jiang is really a kind man, and Xu Erniu is also a wonderful person."

(End of this chapter)