I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 668 Dead End!

Zhang Xiaohua climbed up the crystal barrier steps like a gecko climbing a wall, and came to the passage opened by Zhang Chen.

“I don’t know whether this passage was opened up by the ancient innate water god or by the great immortal Huli! It shouldn’t be the great immortal Huli. No matter how strong the great immortal Huli is, he can never be stronger than me. Even when I use all my magical powers, I can’t shake the crystal stone altar in front of me, let alone the great immortal Huli?” Zhang Xiaohua felt that she was overthinking. If the great immortal Huli had such ability, how could she not know it?

Zhang Xiaohua was seen lurking along the passage and approaching. When she arrived at the entrance, she saw Zhang Chen, Huli Daxian and the other two gathered together, staring at a small coffin, thinking about something. The three of them kept looking around at the coffin.

"That is the coffin of the innate water god! I can feel the rich law of water flowing in the coffin!" Zhang Xiaohua was overjoyed, but did not take any action. Instead, she hid in the dark and watched quietly.

"How strange! How did Zhang Chen get involved with Huli Daxian? When did they meet?" Zhang Xiaohua was full of doubts. Just when she was thinking about it, she heard Zhang Chen say, "Huli Daxian, please open the coffin!"

"Leave it to me!"

Divine power surged around the body of the Great Immortal Huli. As he urged the divine power, the inner coffin began to glow with divine light, and a ray of golden light burst out, forming a portal in the golden light.

"The portal leading to the burial place of the Water God's true body!" Zhang Xiaohua was overjoyed when she saw the portal. Without saying a word, she turned into a ray of water-blue light, rushed towards the portal, and dived into it.

Zhang Chen and Hu Li Daxian looked at each other, and Hu Li Daxian shook his head: "This kid has lived too short a time, and he doesn't know how treacherous people are. He fell into the trap!"

Zhang Chen and the other two abandoned the coffin and quickly retreated, all the way to the only entrance, and then stood there. Zhang Chen said to Hu Li Daxian: "What do you think this kid will do next?"

"Once he enters the inner coffin and finds that it has been looted, he must be furious!" said the Great Immortal Huli.

“What a pity. Logically speaking, the safest way is to set up the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and use it to trap him to death. But I’m afraid Zhang Xiaohua won’t give me the opportunity to set up the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.” Zhang Chen sighed.

As expected, as his words fell, Zhang Xiaohua had already sensed something was wrong, and rushed out of the inner coffin in an instant. Looking at Zhang Chen and the other two blocking the entrance, she couldn't help but change color: "Why is there an empty tomb inside?"

"The reason why the tomb is empty is, of course, because we have already emptied the fortune of the Innate Water God, and the body of the Innate Water God has also been divided among us." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"Then you pretended to open the coffin before..." Zhang Xiaohua's face changed when she said this: "I know, you took the initiative to lead me in! You were acting on purpose!"

"You are really smart. You thought of it so quickly." Zhang Chen said.

"Even if you lure me in, what can you do to me? Hand over the fortune in the tomb of the Xiantian Water God, and I will spare your lives and give you a way out. Otherwise, this day next year will be your death anniversary!" Zhang Xiaohua quickly came to her senses, regained her composure, and looked down at the three people from above.

"Zhang Xiaohua, you are so arrogant that you even look down on me." Huli Daxian said with a gloomy face, his voice full of dissatisfaction.

"You were severely injured by the Judgment before, and have only recovered to the tenth level now. If you were in your peak condition, I would naturally submit to you and would not dare to resist. But now... since you are involved with Zhang Chen, I can't let you go. Today I will deal with you all at once!" Zhang Xiaohua's voice was full of pride.

"Zhang Xiaohua, you think too highly of yourself, and you think too lowly of me!" Zhang Chen sighed faintly, "You and I have been entangled for more than ten years. You and your son have bad intentions. You are planning to kill my father and want to usurp my fate. I will never forgive you. Today is the day you die, and it is time to end our karma!"

"You want to kill me? Haha... I am no longer the person I was back then!" Zhang Xiaohua finished speaking, and divine light shone from her body. Eleventh-order aura burst out, and she pressed towards Zhang Chen step by step: "Today I will extract your soul and refine your spirit, and completely sever the cause and effect between us."

Zhang Xiaohua was very powerful and swung a palm towards Zhang Chen. Huli Daxian took a step forward at random, and the eleventh-level aura burst out from his body at the same time. He was no weaker than Zhang Xiaohua, and he punched towards Zhang Xiaohua with earth-shaking force.

"Oh!"

The two fought, and terrifying energy burst out, but they could not shake the crystal stone tempered by the ancient water god, causing the terrifying energy to explode in the narrow secret room. Zhang Xiaohua was shocked and flew out and fell back into the secret room, while Huli Daxian and Zhang Chen were also shocked and flew out of the passage, and they actually slid out of the passage and were about to fall into the weak water. Fortunately, Zhang Chen used his magical power at the critical moment to summon the weak water and turned it into an ice ladder to carry the three people.

"This Zhang Xiaohua is so powerful, you better act quickly. If you are late, something might happen." Huli Daxian said to Zhang Chen.

Although the shock force was strong, with the protection of the Great Immortal Tiger Power, neither Zhang Chen nor Tu Shanqing was hurt. Zhang Chen stepped into the crystal stone and took out the measuring ruler. Then he summoned the water bear from the ice hell and used the measuring ruler to close the void portal, forming a distorted space, blocking the entrance to the passage and preventing the water bear from flying out.

Then Zhang Chen activated the earth control technique, and saw the crystal stone twisted. All the space channels within fifty meters from the exit were closed and turned into a fifty-meter wall.

As soon as the tardigrades appeared in the passage, they began to gnaw at the crystal altar frantically. The crystal stone was being devoured at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What a vicious water bear, it can actually devour this crystal." Tu Shanqing was shocked when he saw the water bear devouring the crystal. Everyone has long known how hard the crystal is, but how shocking is it that the water bear can actually devour the power of the crystal?

Over there, Zhang Xiaohua noticed something was wrong. After steadying her body in the secret room, she turned into a divine light and rushed towards the passage. However, she ran head-on into a swarm of water bears.

For the water bear, eating an eleventh-level god is of course much more delicious than a crystal stone. Then the water bear pounced directly at Zhang Xiaohua's escape light and ate it until it turned into its original form.

"Bang~"

Zhang Xiaohua fell to the ground, looking at the blood and flesh disappearing quickly from her body and the insects that covered the sky. Her eyes were filled with fear: "What the hell is this!!!"

Zhang Xiaohua gathered her divine power and transformed it into countless blue lights, which rushed towards the water bear, dispersing it. The water bear got a temporary chance to catch its breath, and rushed to the front of the passage, dragging its bloody body that had been eaten, looking at the blocked wall with despair in its eyes.

"Open it for me!"

Zhang Xiaohua had already sensed something was wrong, so she used all her magical powers and slapped the passage, but she was unable to shake the entrance at all.

At this time, the water bear that had been forced back by Zhang Xiaohua rushed over again fearlessly and surrounded Zhang Xiaohua. Zhang Xiaohua's body was filled with divine power, and she continued to emit bursts of magical powers. She wanted to fight against the water bear and crush it to death, but who knew that after the water bear fell to the ground after being hit by the magical power, it was fully resurrected in just a moment and rushed towards Zhang Xiaohua again.

"What the hell is this!" Zhang Xiaohua was panicked when she saw the tardigrades that kept resurrecting.

Even though he was an eleventh-level warrior, he was helpless facing this immortal monster. At this moment, Zhang Xiaohua sensed the breath of death. He had never felt that he was so close to death.

He has already entered the eleventh level and become a world-famous great monk. How could he be willing to die here?
Seeing that the passage could no longer be opened and the water bears could not be eliminated, Zhang Xiaohua panicked and screamed miserably: "Zhang Chen!!! If there is anything, let's discuss it properly. Why don't we sit down and have a good talk? You and I were one family hundreds of years ago. We have the same ancestors and the same blood. Why should we kill each other? Why don't we join forces and create a great cause together? As long as you let me go, I will never oppose you again in the future. Whatever conditions you want, just ask!"

Zhang Xiaohua screamed miserably in the passage, and the sound was transmitted to Zhang Chen's ears through the crystal stone.

"Zhang Xiaohua, where is your previous arrogance?" Zhang Chen sighed quietly. Looking at Zhang Xiaohua, who was constantly being eaten by water bears and had become bloody, he couldn't help but sigh quietly.

"Brother Zhang Chen, I was wrong! I was really wrong! As long as you let me go, I can give you whatever you want! I will never go against you again! Please let me go! I can give you everything you want! As long as I have it, I will satisfy you!" Zhang Xiaohua was eaten by water bears and turned into a blood gourd. She kept begging Zhang Chen.

"It's rare that you know you're wrong! We've been fighting for so many years. I'm glad to see that you can recognize your mistakes now. It seems that you still have some conscience and are not hopeless." Zhang Chen stood outside the crystal stone and said with a smile.

"Zhang Chen, please save me! Please! Please let me go!" Zhang Xiaohua kept begging.

"If the situation between us is reversed, if you were in my position today, would you let me go?" Zhang Chen asked.

Huli Daxian turned his head to look at Zhang Chen, his eyes full of disbelief: "No way? Are you being too soft-hearted?"

Tu Shanqing also looked at Zhang Chen with surprise. Both parties had reached this situation. Zhang Xiaohua was an eleventh-level cultivator. Once released, it would be like letting a tiger return to the mountains.

(End of this chapter)