I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 654 A shocking reversal
A great war broke out. Shen Liang was unwilling to wait for death, so with the support of a large formation, he rose up to resist.

The Great Immortal Huli wanted to enter the ancient tomb of the Shen family to seize the opportunity of a breakthrough, so he attacked without mercy. For a moment, two figures were seen fighting in the water-blue light curtain. With the help of the formation, Shen Liang was able to hold his own against the Great Immortal Huli.

"This is the power of the formation. It can actually give a tenth-level cultivator the strength to fight against an eleventh-level cultivator. It's truly terrifying!" Tu Shanqing followed behind Zhang Chen, looking at Shen Liang who was fighting hard with the Great Immortal Huli, with a look of disbelief in his eyes.

"Formation is a way to defeat the strong with the weak!" Zhang Chen replied.

He had the Nine Bends of the Yellow River Formation, so he had the final say. Even if it was an innate god at his peak, he would have no choice but to flee if he fell into his Nine Bends of the Yellow River Formation. Back then, he had relied on the Nine Bends of the Yellow River Formation to destroy the innate peacock's body.

"kill!"

At this time, shouts of killing rang out, shaking the entire night. A group of cultivators appeared from nowhere and rushed towards the Shen family's formation. At this time, the power of the formation was restrained by Chen Zhifei, Hu Li Daxian, and the Eight Gates Locking Gold Formation. Those warriors actually rushed into the formation without any hindrance and started a fight with the children of the Shen family.

Zhang Chen watched as the children of the Shen family fell one by one. Their blood flowed out and watered the blue formation underground. It was absorbed by the lines on the formation and spread along the lines to the foundation of the formation deep in the earth.

"No one of the Shen family's disciples must be left alive. Only when all the Shen family members are dead can we use the blood of the Shen family to complete the blood sacrifice and open the ancient tomb of gods and demons." Gu Mingyue stood outside the formation to give orders.

At this time, the other two tenth-level warriors who had luckily escaped from Shen Li in Jinling City walked out slowly from the darkness, looked at the Shen family's formation, looked at the ninth-level god of the Shen family who was killing everyone, and then walked into the formation resolutely.

The ninth-level god of the Shen family has been blessed by the great formation, and his power has been infinitely increased. He has broken free from the shackles and forcibly possessed the power of the tenth level. If the two do not take action, the elite troops under their command will be killed in no time.

Therefore, even though the two knew that their strength would be suppressed by the formation and they would be put in danger, they still had no choice.

The moment the two stepped into the water blue formation, their shoulders couldn't help but feel heavy, as if a mountain was on their shoulders. A hint of caution appeared in their eyes. They realized that they seemed to be suppressed by something in the dark, so that they could not exert even 50% of their strength.

This is a great water formation with vast and majestic water laws. This is the main battlefield of the Shen family. Except for those who master the power of water, everyone else will be suppressed, even if two of them are tenth-level gods.

"Ye Liangchen! Zhou Quan! You two are old relatives of my Shen family. We have been intermarried for generations. Looking back hundreds of thousands of years ago, it was my Shen family that helped you, so that you could gain a foothold in Jinling City. Today you are so ungrateful and take advantage of our misfortune. If this gets out, won't you be laughed at by heroes all over the world?" The old lady with a head full of white hair walked out from the water curtain and stood in front of the two of them.

Zhang Chen, who was outside the formation, was stunned when he saw the old lady coming out. The old lady's hunched body in the past was so straight and upright. At this moment, she was full of majesty, and there was no sign of old age at all.

"The five major families and the Shen family have long been intertwined. No one is more noble than the other. Why do you still bring up those trivial matters?" Zhou Quan looked at Old Lady Shen and sighed softly: "The demise of the Shen family is a trend and destiny. We can only push them along and swallow up the Shen family's assets. We are asked to carry the bloodline of the Shen family and continue the Shen family in another way."

Zhou Quan's mother is a girl from the Shen family. In theory, the Shen family is his maternal uncle, but when it comes to the development and survival of the family, there are naturally differences in closeness and distance between them.

Not only Zhou Quan, but Ye Liangchen also has the blood of the Shen family. Even his wife is the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, and his descendants also have the blood of the Shen family flowing in their bodies.

The five major families in Jinling City have long been mixed together. You are in me and I am in you. Even if the Shen family is destroyed, it will survive in another form.

"Why don't you, the Shen family, give up resistance, so we can save ourselves a lot of trouble. It will be good for you, for me, and for everyone. We can continue to live on in place of the Shen family and continue the Shen family's glory." Ye Liangchen advised Old Lady Shen.

"Bah! You are a bunch of heartless people, you are just dreaming." The old lady cursed upon hearing this.

She was not from the Shen family either. She was a woman from one of the five major families. But when she gave birth to a child in the Shen family, the Shen family's property belonged to her son, so of course she had to protect the property for her son.

"Why bother!" Zhou Quan sighed: "You don't have the blood of the Shen family, so why should you be buried with the Shen family?"

"Let's do it! We can only see the result with our own hands!" Ye Liangchen said.

The next moment, the two of them were surrounded by brilliant divine light, and began to sublimate to the extreme state. A great battle was about to break out. Suddenly, a voice was heard in the distance: "Little sister, the demise of the Shen family is a foregone conclusion, come back with me!" A divine light in the distance streaked across the void, landed in front of the formation, and said something to Old Lady Shen.

But it was another tenth-level figure: Lord Horse King!
"This person is the tenth-level ancestor of the Ma family, one of the five great families in Jinling City. He is known as Lord Ma, and his real name has long been unknown." Tu Shanqing whispered in Zhang Chen's ear after seeing the person coming. Zhang Chen looked at the person in surprise, and then looked at the old lady. He didn't expect that the old lady was actually from the Ma family, and was the younger sister of the tenth-level god of the Ma family.

"Brother!!! Are you also going to wade into muddy waters and seize my descendants' property?" The old lady's voice was filled with sorrow when she saw the person coming.

"For the sake of the family's great cause, I have to come!" Lord Ma smiled bitterly: "The demise of the Shen family is a foregone conclusion. In this case, it would be better for my Ma family to inherit the Shen family's foundation, which can be regarded as another continuation of the Shen family's bloodline."

"That's the property of your nephew and grandson, how can you take it?" The old lady said in a bitter tone.

"Little sister, who can resist this situation? You should come back with me." Lord Ma gently persuaded: "As long as you nod your head, I will protect the bloodline of the Shen family, accept it into the Ma family, marry a woman from my Ma family, and continue it in another way, no matter how much it costs me today."

"Ma Jia! You have the nerve to say that! You forced me to marry into the Shen family, but now you're begging me to go back. This is simply the biggest absurdity in the world!" Old Lady Shen's voice was full of coldness at this time: "You don't need to talk nonsense anymore. Since you want to seize my Shen family's foundation, it depends on whether you are tough enough!"

"It's come to this, there's no turning back. You're trapped in a maze now, so there's no turning back. I'll capture you and let you calm down for a while, then you'll understand my good intentions." Lord Ma sighed softly, and the next moment he stepped into the light curtain, feeling the discomfort of being suppressed. He turned to Zhou Quan and Ye Liangchen and said, "Please lend me a hand and capture her and suppress her first."

"Of course!" Zhou Quan nodded.

The next moment, the three of them attacked together and pressed down the old lady, trying to subdue her quickly and not give her a chance to resist.

Although the old lady was not of the Shen family bloodline, she was not suppressed in this formation. Instead, there was some inexplicable blessing from within, which made her strength increase rapidly. Soon she was promoted to the tenth level, and then she walked towards the three tenth-level gods with the crutch in her hand.

At this time, the Shen family was in complete chaos. Zhang Chen and Tu Shanqing stood aside and watched the show. The two of them hid in a corner, relying on the effect of the invisibility talisman, and they looked natural and unrestrained.

"I didn't expect that the old lady of the Shen family actually had such a background." Zhang Chen was surprised.

"The major families in the world have long been intertwined with each other, forming a monopoly and not giving ordinary people a chance to stand out. It is extremely difficult for people below to stand out. Not to mention the human race, even the demon race is the same. All sentient beings in the world who have awakened their spiritual intelligence are no exception." Tu Shanqing spoke from the side.

Zhang Chen glanced at Tu Shan Qing. There was no doubt that this fellow was a noble of the fox clan. Otherwise, given his character of stirring up trouble everywhere, he would have been killed long ago.

"What should we do next?" Tu Shan Qing asked.

Zhang Chen touched his head upon hearing this: "What else can we do? Of course we have to wait for an opportunity! When the blood sacrifice of the Shen family is almost over, and those masters are both badly injured, we will find an opportunity to enter the tomb first."

"The only variable here is Zhang Xiaohua. I don't know when Zhang Xiaohua will come out of the pagoda." Zhang Chen was unsure of the timing of Zhang Xiaohua's appearance. If he couldn't sneak into the tomb before Zhang Xiaohua came out, he didn't know what kind of trouble it would cause. It would not be easy for him to sneak in at that time.

"Zhang Xiaohua will never come out before the tenth-order god of the Shen family dies." Tu Shanqing said in a low voice, "As long as we can sneak in before the tenth-order god of the Shen family dies, we will succeed!"

Zhang Chen seemed to be thinking about what he heard, but he did not speak. Instead, he swept his eyes across the battlefield in the distance. At this time, a shocking change had already occurred on the battlefield.

When masters compete, the winner can be determined by a reversal of power in an instant.

Just when the three tenth-rank gods were fighting with the old lady of the Shen family, suddenly at a certain gap, a cold light flashed from the sleeves of Lord Ma, and in the shocked eyes of Zhang Chen, it pierced into Ye Liangchen's back and directly into his heart, making a big hole in his heart.

"Lord Horse! What are you going to do!!!" Zhou Quan, who was standing aside, was shocked. He quickly jumped out of the battlefield and looked at Lord Horse with disbelief on his face.

Ma Jia sighed softly when he heard this: "There is no other way. Old Lady Shen is my sister, and the Shen family gave me too much! I have no way to refuse, so I can only play you a trick!"

(End of this chapter)