I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 702: Open Plank Road
"Hello, Brother Zhou!" Zhang Chen and Zhou Zhen clasped their fists and bowed.

"Hello, Brother Zhang." Zhou Zhen also returned the greeting, and then said with a hint of reproach: "You were living well in the mountains, why did you go down the mountain? And you didn't even say hello to me."

Hearing Zhou Zhen's words, Zhang Chen smiled and said, "My stepmother and younger brothers and sisters have been taken away by my distant relatives. They have their own future arrangements. As for me... although the mountains are good, they lack some popularity. I am not used to living there. It is not convenient for relatives and friends to visit me. Now I live at the foot of the mountains in Jinling City, which is much more convenient."

Zhou Zhen smiled when he heard this: "I see, then I won't force you..."

While the two were talking, they saw the delicate and weak Jiang Nan with a morbid beauty walking over from the side: "Senior Brother Zhou!"

Jiang Nan called out softly and bowed to Zhou Zhen.

"Who are you?" Zhou Zhen looked at Jiang Nan in surprise.

"My name is Jiang Nan, and I'm a student of the academy." Jiang Nan introduced himself.

Zhang Chen's face suddenly darkened when he heard this, but he still turned away silently.

Zhou Zhen suddenly realized: "I remember you. You are the girl who stood with Shen Ling and Zhang Gaoqiu before."

Jiang Nan nodded with a look of joy: "Officially, I am your daughter."

Zhou Zhen turned his head and looked at Zhang Chen: "So, you and Brother Zhang are still relatives."

Zhang Chen, who was standing by, heard this and did not wait for Jiang Nan to try to establish a relationship with him. He immediately spoke up to stop Jiang Nan from saying, "I dare not establish a relationship with Miss Jiang. I come from a humble background. How can I be qualified to have anything to do with Miss Jiang?"

Zhou Zhen looked at Zhang Chen and Jiang Nan thoughtfully. Jiang Nan smiled bitterly and said, "Zhang Chen, you still won't forgive me. How can you be so stingy as a grown man?"

Zhou Zhen's attitude was a little cold at this time, and he said to Jiang Nan: "Junior sister, what's the matter?"

"I'm not sure about some knowledge and would like to ask for advice from my brother," said Jiang Nan.

Zhou Zhen calmly turned him away after hearing this: "Please teach me? Didn't Junior Sister ask the master for advice?"

"The teacher said he was not sure. Then I thought, my senior brother is the only one in the entire academy who inherited the dean's true teachings. He is the only one I can ask for advice." Jiang Nan said hurriedly.

Hearing that the other party was asking for advice, Zhou Zhen couldn't refuse, so he could only say: "What knowledge don't you understand? Tell me about it."

Seeing this, Zhang Chen said to Zhou Zhen: "I'll go in first."

Then, without even looking at Jiang Nan, he turned around and walked into Linglong Tower.

About half an hour later, Zhou Zhen entered the Linglong Tower and came to Zhang Chen's side: "Brother Zhang, I think there seems to be some misunderstanding between you and Junior Sister Jiang Nan?"

"No misunderstanding!" Zhang Chen shook his head to reject Zhou Zhen's words, and then said seriously: "This woman is not simple, Senior Brother Zhou must be cautious."

Zhou Zhen smiled bitterly when he heard this: "As the senior brother of the academy, I really can't find an excuse to refuse or reject the request."

He was explaining to Zhang Chen, and then said with some disapproval: "After all, she is just a girl. Even if she is not simple, what can she do if she approaches me with a little calculation? I have no money or power, so how can I be worthy of her plotting against me?"

Zhang Chen shook his head and didn't continue talking. What else could he say? Zhou Zhen would have to make things difficult for him in the future.

Besides, he couldn't say anything! Because Jiang Nan used the excuse of asking for advice, no one could say anything to accuse him. If he said too much, it would make Zhang Chen look petty and mean, and make him a bad person. How could Zhang Chen do such a thing?

The two talked for a while, and then went their separate ways. Zhang Chen wandered around the Linglong Tower, and walked out of the Linglong Tower at noon. Suddenly, he found Shen Qiu's trace in a secluded forest.

At this time, Shen Qiu was sitting in the forest, sitting there blankly, his whole face was bruised and swollen, like a puppet, and seemed to have lost his vitality. There were seven or eight scholars around him, punching and kicking Shen Qiu, constantly mocking him, and Shen Qiu was curled up and sitting there, as if he didn't hear the scolding.

Zhang Chen looked at the people surrounding Shen Qiu and recognized their origins. They were the followers who followed Shen Qiu before. They were servile and flattering Shen Qiu all day long. Now that the Shen family has lost power, these people have become the hosts and started to show off in front of Shen Qiu.

After a while, several people spat fiercely on Shen Qiu, then turned around and left with laughter, leaving Shen Qiu sitting there alone.

Today, Shen Qiu is unkempt and skinny, looking nothing like his former high-spirited self.

Zhang Chen couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene. He thought of Wang Xifeng. According to Wang Xifeng, Shen Qiu could be regarded as her adopted son. He and Shen Qiu could be regarded as fellow travelers. So he walked up to Shen Qiu and stood beside him: "As the grandson of the Wang family, even if the Shen family fell into decline, if you went to live with the Wang family, you wouldn't end up like this, right? Continue to live your life of luxury and grow up under the protection of the Wang family. It shouldn't be difficult for you." "Humph! The Wang family is one of the behind-the-scenes forces that destroyed my Shen family. How can I go to the Wang family to eat charity?" Shen Qiu snorted coldly, then raised his head and glanced at Zhang Chen: "Are you here to ridicule me too?"

"I don't have the leisure to do that. I just want to advise you to know the current situation. The most important thing for you is to stay alive." Zhang Chen stroked the recipe of the Eight Treasures Locking Heart Pill in his sleeve. After a slight hesitation, he did not take out the recipe of the Eight Treasures Locking Heart Pill. The Shen family wanted to embezzle the Six Paths of Reincarnation left by his mother, and they deserved such retribution. This was the benefit they deserved.

"Hmph, put away your kindness. Don't I know what you're thinking? You're just here to watch me have fun!" Shen Qiu smiled coldly, "Don't laugh at me. You're also a poor creature who has been living in a nightmare of unrequited love. You were engaged to my younger sister, but she abandoned you. You fell in love with Jiang Nan, but Jiang Nan fell in love with me. You're just a poor creature. What qualifications do you have to laugh at me?"

Zhang Chen looked at Shen Qiu with a strange expression. Countless words came to his lips, and he wanted to spit them out, but he swallowed them back. Zhang Chen just said coldly: "It's true that a dog bites Lu Dongbin and doesn't know a good heart. I hope you can always be so tough."

After finishing his words, Zhang Chen smiled coldly, then turned and left.

"Poor thing!" Shen Qiu spat at Zhang Chen's back again, then smiled coldly and continued to lower his head in a daze.

Zhang Chen returned home and continued to meditate after dinner, without being affected by Jiang Nan at all.

She is just a woman, how could she make Zhang Chen feel so disturbed?

Second day

When Zhang Chen entered Linglong Tower again, he actually saw two figures inside the Tower, one was Jiang Nan and the other was Shen Qiu.

"How did they get into Linglong Tower?" Zhang Chen was stunned when he saw the two of them.

Zhou Zhen's voice came from not far away: "My father once received favors from the Shen family. Although the Zhou family and the Shen family are not close, my father still remembers the Shen family's favor. Now that the Shen family is gone, my father hopes that the descendants of the Shen family can rise again and master some skills to rebuild the Shen family."

As for the assessment? Asking Jiang Nan and Shen Qiu to enter the Linglong Tower was just a matter of Zhou Qiucheng saying a word.

"Sir, have you come out of seclusion?" Zhang Chen asked hurriedly when he heard it.

Zhou Zhen shook his head: "I just came out temporarily to do some things, and took the opportunity to explain the Shen family's affairs."

Zhang Chen was thoughtful after hearing this: "How is your injury, sir?"

Zhou Zhen smiled bitterly when he heard this: "We can only use the pagoda to suppress it. The situation is not optimistic. But my father also said that he wants to perfect his theory as soon as possible and enter the Yang God realm. As long as he can prove the Yang God, he can reverse the situation."

"It's not easy to reverse the situation." Zhang Chen sighed inwardly.

Then both parties went their separate ways to comprehend the scroll inside the pagoda.

Time passed little by little, and a month went by in a flash. Zhang Chen's life became more leisurely, but Jiang Nan and Zhou Zhen gradually became familiar with each other.

Jiang Nan looked for opportunities to ask Zhou Qiucheng for advice day and night, and the two sides gradually began to have contact.

Zhang Chen was just watching coldly. It was true that he had slept with Jiang Nan, but he had slept with many women. Da Baojian had slept with so many in his previous life. Did he have to be responsible for all of them?
A person's destiny and the path he takes are all chosen by himself, and no one can replace them.

One day, Zhang Chen was contemplating the mysteries in Linglong Tower. Suddenly, his heart moved. He raised his head and looked into the distance, with a thoughtful look in his eyes: "Huang Chao's matter has been accomplished!"

He could feel that his drop of blood had already invaded the opponent's body, attached to the opponent's soul, and began to invade and devour the opponent's soul power. However, the opponent was at least an eighth-level strongman, and his blood path was only seventh-level. It would take some time to completely devour the opponent, but it was not difficult for Zhang Chen to temporarily affect the opponent's thinking and turn the opponent into a crazy and demented lunatic.

Sure enough, when Zhang Chen returned to the yard at night, he saw Huang Chao sitting in the house with a happy face. In front of him were eight side dishes and a pot of old wine.

Seeing Zhang Chen appear in the yard, Huang Chao quickly stood up, rushed out and grabbed Zhang Chen's hand, his eyes full of eagerness: "Brother Zhang, you really helped me a lot, our plan worked! That guy suddenly went crazy today and started a killing spree in the branch, killing dozens of brothers. It was the Star God Zhao Lie who suppressed him and temporarily detained him."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen understood in his heart that the other party, under the influence of the Blood God Son, would continue to kill people and would become an unstable factor. Naturally, he was not suitable to continue to serve as the leader of Huang Tiandao.

If the other party abdicates, Huang Chao will naturally take over, and the matter will be settled.

As for the claim that there are experts in Huang Tiandao who discovered the trace of Blood God Son?
It’s not that Zhang Chen looks down on them. The power of the Blood Path must at least surpass the twelfth level to show any clues.

(End of this chapter)