I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 418: Pickup: Ascension Pool Control Formula
At this time, the whole body of the Longevity Ancestor was surrounded by dragon-shaped energy and blessed by a dragon vein. He possessed the power to destroy everything and was extremely powerful.

Seeing the Longevity Ancestor rushing towards him, Zhang Chen suddenly panicked. He was definitely no match for the Longevity Ancestor, so Zhang Chen retreated behind the Innate Peacock without leaving a trace, and pushed the Innate Peacock out to block him:
"Old Peacock, you usually brag a lot, this time it's your turn! I want to see what you have and whether you are as good as you boast. You must not fail at the critical moment."

The innate peacock was pushed out by Zhang Chen to take the blame, and his face immediately turned green. He stared at the Immortal Ancestor opposite him and swallowed his saliva subconsciously.

He couldn't even withstand such a powerful Immortal Ancestor!
Just as a shocking war was about to break out, suddenly a hint of purple appeared in the sky, and then the purple color quickly expanded. In a moment, it had spread for thousands of miles, covering the entire Qingcheng Mountains, and turned into a purple thundercloud, floating above the Qingcheng Mountains.

"It's that lightning!" Zhang Chen's pupils couldn't help but shrink when he saw the purple lightning floating above the sky. This lightning was clearly the same lightning he had experienced when he first came to this world. He knew very well how powerful this lightning was.

"Purple Sky Divine Thunder! This is a punishment from heaven!" The Xiantian Peacock's face lost color, and the hairs on his body exploded at that moment.

"Run!" Xiantian Peacock called out to Zhang Chen, turned around and ran away carrying the Ascension Pool. Zhang Chen followed closely behind him and waved to Xiu Liu, signaling him to take Xu Erniu and run away.

The dragon energy around the Immortal Patriarch over there suddenly died down, and it wilted away like a deflated ball.

At this time, the Changsheng Patriarch raised his head and looked at the purple lightning in the void, with a look of unwillingness in his eyes, and roared to the sky: "Why!!!"

Over there, Zhang Chen and Xiantian Peacock also encountered big trouble at this time. With the appearance of purple lightning, the space between heaven and earth seemed to be distorted. After running for more than ten steps, they immediately realized that something was wrong and found themselves standing still.

"It's over! We are also targeted by the heaven's punishment! What a damn sin! It was that bastard Changsheng who destroyed the dragon vein of Qingcheng Mountain. Why does he bring this disaster upon me?" Xiantian Peacock cursed at the sky, his voice full of helplessness. He felt that he was purely innocent and implicated.

"What should I do?" Zhang Chen looked at the space locked by the heavenly punishment, then looked at the innate peacock next to him, asking the other party for a way to avoid it. He didn't want to be hit by the heavenly punishment again.

Xiantian Peacock gritted his teeth when he heard this, with a fierce look in his eyes: "Hide under the Ascension Pool, maybe you can hope to resist the thunder punishment between heaven and earth."

As the Xiantian Peacock spoke, he poured his magic power into the Ascension Pool, making the pool larger, and then he nimbly dived down.

"I say, why don't we jump into the Ascension Pool?" Zhang Chen asked, and while speaking, he followed him and dived into the Ascension Pool.

Xiantian Peacock looked at him as if he was a fool: "Boy, are you stupid? The Ascension Pool is open, what's the point of jumping in?"

Zhang Chen thought of Xu Erniu and quickly turned his head to look. He saw that the place where Xu Erniu and Xiu Liu were standing was not affected by the blood-colored divine thunder. Only then did Zhang Chen relax and breathed a sigh of relief.

As he was speaking, more than a dozen purple lightning bolts appeared from the sky to the ground, and powerfully struck towards the Ascension Pool where Zhang Chen was, as if to smash the Ascension Pool into pieces.

Not only was the Ascension Pool struck by lightning, but the Longevity Ancestor nearby was also targeted by seven or eight purple lightning bolts. Those seven or eight purple lightning bolts were like ropes, connecting the sky on one side and the earth on the other side, and moved down towards the Longevity Ancestor.

How could the Changsheng Patriarch dare to resist the Purple Sky Divine Thunder? His eyes turned and looked towards the Ascension Pool, and then he also drilled towards the Ascension Pool, wanting to use the Ascension Pool to avoid the calamity between heaven and earth.

But the innate peacock was not a pushover. Seeing the Patriarch of Longevity coming over, he simply slapped him and knocked him out of the cauldron, leaving him no chance to get in.

"Boom~"

At this time, the Purple Sky Divine Thunder smashed down, and there was a sound of earth-shaking. Zhang Chen felt that his soul was buzzing, and blood spurted out of his mouth and nose. Although the Purple Sky Divine Thunder did not hit him directly, the aftermath of the Purple Sky Divine Thunder still made him dizzy, his brain fainted, and his soul was floating in a daze.

Outside, the Grandmaster of Immortality screamed, his voice as shrill as a cuckoo crying blood. Zhang Chen couldn't help but shudder when he heard it, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.

At this time, the blood control technique in Zhang Chen's body was activated, repairing his lost five senses. As his five senses gradually returned, Zhang Chen turned his head and looked outside, and saw that the clothes of the Longevity Patriarch were tattered. The clothes that used to be meticulously taken care of had now become messy, like a bird's nest, and his whole body was pitch black.

Just as Zhang Chen was thinking, suddenly a ball of purple light fell from the Ascension Pool, landed at Zhang Chen's feet, and turned into a ball of experience points.

"Something has dropped! Something has finally dropped! Under the effect of the Purple Heavenly Thunder, something has finally dropped from the Ascension Pool." Zhang Chen was overjoyed when he saw this. He looked at the purple light ball with a hint of joy in his eyes. Purple light balls were also extremely rare in the past. Especially this ball of purple experience points, it didn't look like ordinary experience points, but similar to skills. Zhang Chen was very fond of the experience points of skills. At this time, the gold finger screen in front of him flashed:
[A new skill has been discovered. Do you want to pick it up? ]

"Pick it up!" Zhang Chen said without thinking.

As Zhang Chen gave the order, the purple light on the ground disappeared, and then the Gold Finger screen refreshed:
[New skills: Ascension Pool's ritual formula and activation formula]

[Note 1: Jumping into the Ascension Pool can transform you into a completely different person, cleansing yourself from the mundane world, and evolving from a mortal body to a higher level body]

The literal description was simple and plain, leaving Zhang Chen speechless. The main function of this Ascension Pool was to produce a magical liquid that could transform a person and cleanse their body. Using it as a weapon was just a by-product.

Just as Zhang Chen was thinking, he suddenly saw divine light flashing around the innate peacock and it attacked the outside world. At this time, the Patriarch of Longevity once again pounced towards the Ascension Pool, trying to dive under the Ascension Pool to avoid the bombardment of the Purple Sky Divine Thunder.

If you can get under the ascension pool, you may still have a chance of survival.

But the innate peacock was of course unwilling to do so. Divine light surrounded its body and kept bombarding the Patriarch of Immortality to prevent him from arriving.

As the Patriarch of Longevity approached, the lightning that was originally striking the Patriarch of Longevity and the lightning that struck Zhang Chen's innate peacock mixed together. In an instant, the lightning became countless times stronger, and the sky and earth were covered with lightning, which fell down together with great force. Then Zhang Chen felt his brain buzzing, and he had completely lost his perception of the outside world. Everything he saw between heaven and earth was purple, and the purple lightning shot out sparks.

He saw the peacock's feathers burnt, and saw the immortal ancestor outside with wounds appearing on his body, blood and flesh splattering, and emitting the smell of barbecue.

Zhang Chen's ears were buzzing. He saw the innate peacock next to him with its mouth open, roaring at something.

Through the lightning, he saw Xu Fu and Xiu Liu in the distance. Xu Fu's immobilization talisman had been released at some point, and he stood there anxiously, waving his hands at him, as if he was shouting something at him.

Seeing Xu Fu's anxious face, Zhang Chen forced a smile and waved at Xu Fu from a distance, signaling Xu Fu to be patient and not to be afraid.

At this time, Zhang Chen's blood control technique was running frantically, constantly repairing the injuries on his body. However, the lightning was too fierce. Before Zhang Chen's one wave of injuries was completely healed, the next wave of injuries came again.

"Pfft~"

Zhang Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes showing a trace of horror: "So the calamity of a cultivator is so terrible, who in the world can survive it? Wouldn't it be the end of death? No wonder the Grandmaster Changsheng has been hesitant to survive the calamity despite all his plans, it turns out it's because of this."

"Bang~"

Another bolt of lightning struck down, and the Ascension Pool beside Zhang Chen flickered. Sparks burst out and burned through the defense of the Innate Peacock. The sparks fell on Zhang Chen's arm, and then Zhang Chen's entire arm vaporized and evaporated, disappearing without a trace.

"Shit!" Zhang Chen was so frightened by the power of the Purple Sky Divine Thunder that he cursed. This power was totally beyond his ability to resist. It was just a spark that burst out, but it had such power. If the lightning hit him directly, he would be turned into ashes in an instant.

“This Purple Sky Divine Thunder seems to be several times more powerful than the one I encountered in the sea of ​​thunder!” Zhang Chen was secretly shocked, his eyes full of shock. He felt that the Purple Sky Divine Thunder in front of him was not the same as the Purple Sky Divine Thunder that he encountered in the sea of ​​thunder.

"Great Freedom Demon, do you have any way to deal with it?" At the critical moment, Zhang Chen had to call upon Great Freedom Demon, but at this time Great Freedom Demon had completely lost his voice, as if he did not exist at all.

"Pretending to be dead, huh?" Zhang Chen muttered, "If you don't come out, I'll drag you out."

Hearing this, the reluctant voice of the Great Freedom Demon finally sounded again: "Don't bother me! This is Heaven's Punishment, my number one nemesis. If Heaven's Punishment captures my breath, the power of Heaven's Punishment you will suffer will be a thousand times more terrifying. By then, I'm afraid both of us will be dead! The Purple Sky Divine Thunder we encountered before was just an ordinary Purple Sky Divine Thunder, and the Purple Sky Divine Thunder we encountered today is the power of Heaven's Punishment, which is endowed with Heaven's Punishment attributes. The power of the two sides is incomparable."

After saying this, the Great Freedom Demon fell silent and completely hid his tracks. It can be seen how much he feared the heavenly punishment and he dared not show his head at all, no longer as majestic as before.

(End of this chapter)