I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 496 Ten Years
Zhang Chen turned his head and looked at Dugu Qiu, then said slowly, "I can't ask you for help. Saving people is just my original intention, not for personal gain. I don't need your repayment, and you don't need to repay me. Let's just call it quits and forget about each other."

After saying this, Zhang Chen ignored Dugu Qiu and instead focused his gaze on his own golden finger, continuing to study the time skill.

For him, studying time skills is much better than talking nonsense with Dugu Qiu.

Zhang Chen looked towards the Gold Finger screen. This time acceleration skill was extremely useful. For example, it could take away the opponent's lifespan. Although it could only increase one year a day at the moment, as he continued to upgrade, in the future, a slap in the face would cause the opponent's lifespan to be wasted thousands of years and turned directly into dry bones.

“If I can replace time acceleration with time reversal, then this skill will be even more awesome. I will even have the chance to go back to the past and compete with those ancient gods. No, who said I don’t have the chance to master time reversal? As long as I keep upgrading my cheat code, one day I will have the chance to master time reversal.” Zhang Chen was shocked when he thought of this. He looked at his own skill panel and saw that he had not yet mastered time control and the experience points required were only 10 million.

"It only takes 10 million experience points to upgrade my skills. How many years can be accelerated in a single thought?" Zhang Chen had a flashing thought in his mind, and he looked towards the Bashe Space again. His own Bashe Space already had the remaining energy from the Ascension Pool. In addition, the Ascension Pool has been generating energy every day recently. Zhang Chen felt that as long as he converted the energy in the Bashe Space, he should be able to get enough points to upgrade his time skill.

As for accumulating enough energy to upgrade the authority of the Wood Element? Now that Dugu Qiu has been marked by me, is he still worried about not having enough lifespan to use?

Moreover, Zhang Chen had another idea in his mind. He could use the power of time to give birth to Tongtian Jianmu. As Tongtian Jianmu grew, the innate energy absorbed every day would increase, and the energy generated in the Ascension Pool would also increase. At the same time, the points he accumulated would also rise steadily.

At present, the number of points generated by the Ascension Pool every day is only 100,000 points. If I can stimulate the growth of Tongtian Jianmu for thousands of years, how much energy can be generated every day?

Time acceleration has so many uses!
If all else fails, you can cultivate spiritual medicines yourself, and then devour them to convert points.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen had an idea. Only a small amount of energy remained in the Bashen space to wrap the items inside. Then Zhang Chen directly swallowed all the energy of the ascension pool with the mouthparts of the innate mosquito.

The level of his own python space is too low to absorb the energy of the ascension pool, but his innate mosquito mouthparts have no taboos.

With the huge energy transformation, Zhang Chen's points accumulated rapidly and soon broke through the 10 million mark.

"Not bad! Not bad!" Zhang Chen looked at his own golden finger page with a satisfied expression.

[Skill 21 (Ungraded): Time Acceleration (0/10000000)]

[Note 1: If you use a skill on an item, time can be accelerated by one year.]

[Note 2: The same item can only be activated once a day]

【Points: 10000000】

Zhang Chen took a look at the Gold Finger page, and the next moment he clicked on it, and then he saw the Gold Finger page change:
[Skill 21 (Level 0): Time Acceleration (100000000/)]

[Note 1: You can use your skills on a certain item to speed up time by ten years.]

[Note 2: The same item can only be activated once a day]

[Note 3: If you use mana to activate, you can perform additional activations, which will not be counted. Activation condition: one Hui Yuan! ]

【Points: 0】

"Ten years!" Zhang Chen's breathing was a little disordered. Even if he could only activate the same item once a day, the time was too long. If one day added up to ten years, then a hundred days would be a thousand years.

The most important thing is the skill note. You can use mana to activate the power of time without limit. That means as long as you have enough mana, you can make millions of years pass in the blink of an eye. The mana required to interfere with time actually starts with the accumulated mana of one Hui Yuan.

How much mana does a Huiyuan have?
The total time is 129,600 years, and Zhang Chen has less than a fraction of it.

“But I see hope after all. When my cultivation reaches a higher level in the future, I will be able to break the limit of accumulated magic power one day. By then, I will have accumulated magic power for billions of years. If I activate it, won’t it be possible to end the world in an instant and turn the opponent into ashes?” Zhang Chen was very happy.

"What have you thought about, kid? Your breathing is disordered. If you have any requests, just ask. Don't be shy." Dugu Qiu asked Zhang Chen while adjusting his body, his voice full of anticipation.

As he actively mobilized the strength in his body to absorb the power of the golden elixir, Dugu Qiu's speed of absorbing the golden elixir was more than ten times faster. His face began to gradually turn rosy, and his aura became more stable.

Zhang Chen looked at Dugu Qiu without saying anything, but thought about how to avoid Dugu Qiu and increase the growth period of his Tongtian Jianmu by ten years. Zhang Chen thought about the uses of the power of time, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but curl up his mouth.

"Why are you grinning like an idiot? Just tell me what conditions you have." Dugu Qiu looked at Zhang Chen who was grinning like an idiot and thought that this boy might have something wrong with his brain.

"If you really feel bad about it, you can give me a few powerful mysteries as a way of repaying my kindness." Zhang Chen listened to Dugu Qiu's chattering and offered a compromise.

Dugu Qiu's face froze when he heard this. He was a pauper with nothing on his body. Apart from the Judgment Rod, he had no other mysterious objects.

But just because he doesn't have it doesn't mean he can't do it!
"Are you sure you want the mysterious object?" Dugu Qiu asked.

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this. He wanted to devour some mysterious objects, or raise some mysterious objects to gain experience points.

Dugu Qiu stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then took out an ancient Jiezi from his left hand and handed it to Zhang Chen: "This Jiezi is my life object that I accidentally refined when I was overcoming the Yang God Tribulation in the past. It contains my information and is my token. When you go to Kyoto in the future, just go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find me. This Jiezi is the proof. Not only will I prepare a mysterious object for you, but I will also reward you with wealth and glory."

At this point, Dugu Qiu said to Zhang Chen: "I don't know why, but I like you, old ancestor. How about you become my godfather? I have no children in my life. If you become my godfather, I will treat you like my own son in the future."

After hearing Dugu Qiu's words, Zhang Chen turned his head to look at Dugu Qiu, and saw that his eyes were sincere, and he was definitely not joking. Moreover, Zhang Chen had planted the six-word mantra sticker in his heart, and at this moment he could vaguely sense that his feelings were sincere, and he was definitely not fooling him with lies.

Zhang Chen was somewhat tempted. He was walking alone in this world, with many powerful opponents eyeing his children, so he also needed a backer.

If he just worshipped a eunuch as his godfather, how would Zhang Chen live in the future if the news got out? Wouldn't he be laughed at by the heroes of the world?

Dugu Qiu stared at Zhang Chen earnestly, his eyes showing a burning look: "Boy, what do you think? Just tell me whether it will work or not. If you become my godson, no one in this world can bully you anymore."

Zhang Chen remained silent, thinking about how to refuse. He did not want to have a eunuch as his godfather, as it would not look good if the news got out.

"What? Do you think I'm not worthy of being your godfather?" Dugu Qiu saw Zhang Chen sitting there without saying anything, with a hint of hesitation on his face. He immediately became unhappy, and even his words were a little cold.

Zhang Chen glanced at Dugu Qiu and thought to himself that something was not good. He had spent a golden elixir to rescue Dugu Qiu just to get the Longevity Tree Coffin. By the way, he wanted to gain some friendship with Dugu Qiu so that he would have a helper when he encountered problems in the future. However, seeing Dugu Qiu's expression change, Zhang Chen knew that if he didn't come up with a suitable excuse, he might not only fail to establish friendship with him, but also offend the other party.

So Zhang Chen sighed: "Do you know my identity?"

"Your identity? Is there any trouble in your life experience? Don't worry, no matter how big the trouble is, it is not a trouble in our family." Dugu Qiu's words were full of confidence.

"My name is Zhang Chen, and my father is Zhang Chengke." Zhang Chen uttered the heavy words.

He had known his father's real name through Xie Xuan. As the chief eunuch of the palace and a close confidant of the emperor, the old eunuch would not be unaware of the meaning of the three words "Zhang Chengke".

So when the old lady heard the three names of 'Zhang Chengke', she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Zhang Chengke from the Zhang family, one of the eight major families in Shangjing?"

"Not bad!" said Zhang Chen.

"Are you Zhang Chengke's son?" the old eunuch repeated, as if he couldn't believe it and kept confirming it.

"It's me!" Zhang Chen said.

After all, he didn't want to worship a eunuch as his father, but facing Dugu Qiu's eagerness, he didn't know how to refuse him appropriately, so he simply gave Dugu Qiu a reason that would make him give up the idea.

If he directly rejected a strong man like Dugu Qiu, he would definitely bear a grudge against him. The most important thing was that this old man was a eunuch. If he directly rejected him, would he be angry and ashamed?
Zhang Chen smiled bitterly and said, "I'm in big trouble. Anyone who runs into me will be implicated and will suffer with me. When I saw you lying in the mud with your serious injuries, I suddenly thought of my dead father for some reason. I felt close to you, so I was willing to waste the golden elixir to save you. But I know my own business. I'm in the mud now, and you're an innocent outsider. I can't drag you into the mud. I can't be so selfish!"

Zhang Chen said this with great emotion at this time.

(End of this chapter)