I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 500: Collecting the Essence of the Sun
The Great Free Demon was a little shocked. He suspected that Zhang Chen was the reincarnation of some old guy, and not just an ordinary old guy. Even among all the old guys, he was an extremely unique one.

He had lived for billions of years, but he had never heard anyone say that anyone could master the power of time. Not even the immortal founders had done it.

Zhang Chen glanced at the Great Freedom Demon and was too lazy to pay attention to this weird guy. He chose to keep the old guy in front of him mysterious, so that the Great Freedom Demon would be more awed by him.

Zhang Chen looked up and down at the towering branches of the Jianmu tree in front of him, feeling somewhat puzzled. He had added ten years of time power to them, but why didn't they show any changes?

"The growth of Tongtian Jianmu is measured in billions of years. Your power of time is too weak to cause changes in Tongtian Jianmu." The Great Freedom Demon said from the side.

Zhang Chen suddenly understood what was going on when he heard this, but he was not anxious. One day could add ten years to the life of the branches of Jianmu, and ten days would be a hundred years. After a thousand or ten thousand years, the branches of Jianmu would eventually change.

Then Zhang Chen looked at the book wrapped by the earth element magnet, so he took the book in front of the brazier and began to look at it carefully.

Zhang Chen felt that it would be better to remember the book in his own mind, and he also needed to carefully study the method of collecting the essence of the sun.

Zhang Chen now has an almost photographic memory. He reads book after book and throws it directly into the brazier to burn it. It turns into ashes and disappears between heaven and earth, so as to avoid missing any hidden layers in the book.

I have to say that it is worthy of being a book hidden by the Patriarch of Immortality. Many of its contents involve the practice of supernatural powers. Although it is operated by the energy of the earth's veins, it is still of great benefit to Zhang Chen to read it.

Days passed, and Zhang Chen read books underground for a month. When all the books were burned to ashes, the branches of the towering Jianmu finally underwent new changes.

On this day, with the blessing of Zhang Chen's power of time, a tiny bud finally emerged on the towering Jianmu.

"It took three hundred years to give birth to a sprout. If it relies on the towering Jianmu to evolve on its own, I'm afraid it will take forever." Zhang Chen looked at the sprout that was only the size of a grain of rice and complained in his heart.

However, he could not resist persisting for a long time. There are 365 days in a year, which means one year can be increased by 3,650 years, and ten years is 3,600 years. The accumulated figure is a huge astronomical figure, which is enough to cause a qualitative change in Tongtian Jianmu.

"Unfortunately, the speed is still too slow for me." Zhang Chen looked at the newly born buds and felt anxious. Time was passing too slowly. He only had five years to live and could not wait any longer.

This leaf has just sprouted, and it will take who knows how many years for it to grow. The innate energy that a leaf absorbs and exhales every day only increases by three or five strands, which is of limited help to him.

"I still need to look for some more opportunities." Zhang Chen muttered, looking at the last ashes in the fire, took out the golden book he got from Dugu Qiu, and looked at it in his hand.

"I remember when we were in the thatched cottage, the fox fairy Nannan put the golden page on the table, and the golden page automatically dropped experience points and skills. Why is there no change when it comes to me?" Zhang Chen stroked the golden page: "Could it be that because the fox fairy Nannan is a demon beast, its breath stimulated the golden page, causing the golden page to drop experience points and skills?"

Zhang Chen had some vague guesses in his mind, and then he activated his magic power and poured it into the golden page. The next moment, he saw that the golden page was stimulated by the magic power, and suddenly a ball of golden light fell.

[Skill discovered: Sun-collecting power, would you like to pick it up? ]

[Note: The Sun-Catching Technique was passed down from ancient times. It was carved by an unknown god or demon before his death. It can absorb the essence of the sun to cleanse the soul and bones.]

"Pick up!"

Zhang Chen's eyes lit up when he looked at the dropped skills. His blood control technique could absorb the essence of Taiyin. If he could also absorb the essence of the sun and cultivate the true fire of the sun, and then combine it with his own sun embers, who knows how powerful it would be.

[Skill 22 (Ungraded): Sun Power (0/1000)]

[Note 1: The Sun-Gathering Technique was passed down from an extremely ancient era. It was engraved by an unknown god or demon before his death. It can absorb the essence of the sun to cleanse the soul and bones. If it is cultivated to a high level, it can cultivate a large sun flame with the power to burn mountains and boil seas.]

[Note 2: When one cultivates to the Great Perfection stage, one can produce mysterious effects with the embers of the sun and the golden light of the righteous gods.]

"Interesting!" Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the skill panel behind Cai Ri Gong, and a gleam of light appeared in his eyes: "Finally, a normal skill has come, not the kind that consumes a lot of points. Cai Ri Gong starts with 1,000 points. Although the points required are high, for Zhang Chen, it is still affordable."

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen looked at his own points. After a month of accumulation, he had accumulated 300,000 points, which was enough for an upgrade.

Just a thousand points, just a drop in the bucket. [Skill 22 (Beginner): Sunlight Power (0/10000)]

[Note: You can collect a ray of Sun Essence every morning]

Zhang Chen's heart was moved by the simple skill introduction: "I seem to have a feeling now that as long as I stand in the sun, I can collect the essence of the sun. But why can I only collect a ray of the essence of the sun in the early morning every day?"

Moreover, Zhang Chen could see that the upgrade of his golden finger this time was not in level, but in terms of great success, small success, and divisions, just like the Mountain-Moving Seal. This already explained a lot of problems.

"Only one wisp can be collected a day?" Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows. The next moment, Zhang Chen activated the earth escape technique and appeared on a mountain outside. He saw purple light flowing in the sky. It was the time when the sun was rising.

Zhang Chen thought about it, and saw a ray of purple light from the sky being absorbed by his mouth and nose. The purple light poured directly into his spiritual world, and then cleansed his three souls and seven spirits, causing some inexplicable changes in his three souls and seven spirits. However, the change was too weak, and Zhang Chen could hardly feel the benefit intuitively.

As that ray of purple sun essence was absorbed, Zhang Chen's soul felt a sense of fullness. That feeling was not that Zhang Chen could not continue to absorb the sun's energy, but that his soul's digestion ability had reached its limit. If Zhang Chen continued to absorb the sun's essence, he would only be burst by the purple essence.

"Chun Yang?" Zhang Chen stood on the top of the mountain facing the purple sunlight, thinking. He is no longer an ignorant newbie. After reading countless books, his knowledge is far beyond what he had in the past.

"The practice of the Soul-Spirit Dao is about cultivating the Yang Spirit and removing the Yin Qi, while the practice of the Immortal Dao is about cultivating the Primordial Spirit and uniting the yin and yang of the whole body. I devour the purple energy of the sun every day, which helps my soul become pure Yang. Combined with the method of gathering the moon, it will have incredible benefits for my future practice of the Primordial Spirit of the Immortal Dao." Zhang Chen said thoughtfully.

“However, the realm of the Sun Gathering Technique is still too low.” Zhang Chen thought to himself and continued to improve the level of the Sun Gathering Technique.

Zhang Chen did not think that it was his problem that he could only absorb a ray of the sun's purple essence every day. He believed that it was because the level of his qi-gathering technique was too low.

As Zhang Chen's mind flashed, he saw the golden finger layout begin to change again:
[Skill 22 (Minor Achievement): Sun-Gathering Power (0/100000)]

[Note: You can absorb the essence of the sun at noon]

The introduction page was still simple, but the next moment Zhang Chen felt a hot current coming from the void and rushing directly into Zhang Chen's soul, causing some inexplicable changes in Zhang Chen's soul. It felt as if Zhang Chen's soul seemed to have undergone some special transformation and could accommodate more of the sun's essence.

Then Zhang Chen continued to absorb the purple air from the sky, and saw wisps of purple air from the sky surging towards Zhang Chen, pouring into Zhang Chen's mouth and nose, and penetrating into Zhang Chen's soul, constantly cleansing Zhang Chen's soul.

The purple light in the sky became brighter and brighter until the sun completely jumped out of the horizon. At that moment, as the real sunlight was absorbed into Zhang Chen's body, Zhang Chen noticed the difference between the morning light and the purple energy of the sun.

Those were two completely opposite forces, and these two forces were very strange. The purple energy of the sun cleansed the soul, while the morning sun advocated the transformation of the soul. It was a very overbearing force. As Zhang Chen absorbed the sun's energy, his soul was actually contaminated with a trace of the sun's breath.

"Incredible! The morning sun's energy carries a force of growth and contains a strong vitality that can promote the growth of all things, so it can transform my soul." Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully: "After being transformed by the sun, my soul will be more adapted to the power of the sun and absorb more of the sun's power for cultivation."

Zhang Chen thought to himself, "The Sun-Gathering Skill at the minor level can absorb the purple air in the early morning, and can also absorb the power of the morning sun. So according to this inference, once the Sun-Gathering Skill is fully developed, wouldn't it be able to continuously absorb the power of the midday sun? When it is perfected, it can absorb the setting sun... No, there is no setting sun when the sun sets, so what is perfection?"

Zhang Chen was not in a hurry to upgrade his level, but continued to absorb the essence of the sun in the sky. As the sun's light gradually approached noon, Zhang Chen felt the change in the sun's power. The sun's growth power became more and more overbearing, until noon, the sun's growth power completely transformed into a overbearing masculine power. That power was so mighty that it could cleanse all the evil spirits in the world. After Zhang Chen absorbed the last ray of growth sunlight power in the morning, his soul was already full and he could not absorb any more.

"I want to see what incredible effects the Sun-Gathering Skill at the Great Accomplishment stage will have." Zhang Chen looked at the Gold Finger screen, and the next moment the Gold Finger screen was upgraded directly:

[Skill 22 (Great Mastery): Sun Power (0/1000000)]

【Note: You can absorb the sun's essence all day long. 】

【Do you want to upgrade? 】

"upgrade!"

The introduction was simple and made Zhang Chen stunned for a moment. Then a warm current poured into his body, and Zhang Chen's soul underwent another inexplicable transformation.

(End of this chapter)