I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 819 The Way of Formation
Upon hearing this, Lady Biyun looked Zhang Chen up and down, then covered her mouth and smiled softly: "You don't need me to take care of you. Queen Mother Xi treats you differently, but there has never been anyone like you before and there will never be anyone like you again. In the future, I will need your care."

After joking, Empress Biyun led Zhang Chen to travel through the palaces of Kunlun Mountain. Along the way, they passed through layers of palaces and pavilions, and constantly pointed out to Zhang Chen the origins of the pavilions in various places.

"There are three main pavilions in Kunlun Mountain. The first is the Sutra Library, which contains countless letters of the Queen Mother of the West and various wonderful skills. The second is the Lingxi Palace for alchemy, which is where the Queen Mother of the West makes elixirs. There are countless exotic flowers and plants, as well as a medicine garden where countless magical medicines are cultivated. The third is the pool where you practice your skills and where the golden armor warriors transform." Niangniang Biyun pointed to the palaces and introduced them to Zhang Chen.

We arrived at the Sutra Repository, and saw that it was twelve stories high, with mysterious forbidden techniques flowing inside. Outside the pavilion stood five golden-armored warriors, with mysterious power flowing around their bodies, making them look like sculptures.

Sensing someone coming, a golden-armored general opened his eyes and said expressionlessly, "Decree!"

"In compliance with the order of the Queen Mother of the West, take out the scriptures from the Sutra Repository. Here is the Queen Mother of the West's order." A jade tablet appeared in the hand of Lady Biyun, with divine light flowing on the jade tablet. The golden-armored general took a look and then closed his eyes, standing there quietly like a stone sculpture, without making a sound.

The jade token flashed towards the pavilion in front of them, and the door of the pavilion opened with a bang. Then Lady Biyun led Zhang Chen to the library and said to him, "These golden-armored gods usually fall into a deep sleep to save their lifespan. If no one disturbs them, they will not wake up at will. When they reach their level of cultivation, unless the Queen Mother of the West bestows subsequent skills, there is no way to improve their cultivation, and it is a waste of life to live."

Zhang Chen suddenly understood what was going on: "So that's how it is."

When the two of them arrived at the pavilion, they saw that there was a large bookshelf that went straight from top to bottom. The bookshelf ran through all twelve floors and was filled with densely packed golden pages.

"Golden books! All golden books!" Zhang Chen stared at the golden books covering the entire pavilion with his eyes wide open.

"Should the subsequent cultivation techniques of us Golden Armored God Generals also be placed in the pavilion?" Zhang Chen asked.

"It's on the top floor." Lady Biyun pointed to the pavilion on the top floor and warned Zhang Chen again: "If you want to obtain higher-level skills, you must make meritorious deeds. Don't think about stealing them because the entire bookshelf is protected by the Xiantian Great Formation. If you want to take away the skills, you must have the order of the Queen Mother of the West. Otherwise, it will definitely trigger the Xiantian Great Formation and alarm the Queen Mother of the West."

“Once there was a golden-armored general who could not stand the passage of time and came to the Sutra Library to steal scriptures. Unfortunately, although he sneaked into the Sutra Library, he alarmed the innate formation of the Queen Mother of the West, and then he was captured by the Queen Mother of the West and turned into gold water while alive.” Empress Biyun solemnly warned Zhang Chen.

"Innate formation?" Zhang Chen looked up and down the entire library, and did not notice the power of the innate formation. There was a hint of curiosity in his eyes, but thinking of the mysterious methods of the Queen Mother of the West, Zhang Chen felt that it was not that the innate formation did not exist, but that his cultivation was too low and he could not detect it at all.

Then, Empress Biyun soared into the air in the Sutra Repository, and the token in her hand emitted rays of light, which swept across the entire pavilion. The next moment, pages of golden scrolls flew out one after another and were caught in the hands of Empress Biyun. Then, Empress Biyun held the golden scroll and dropped it in front of Zhang Chen, and the green token turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the pavilion in an instant.

Lady Biyun looked at Zhang Chen and said, "This is the scripture given to you by the Queen Mother of the West."

"Why is the token gone?" Zhang Chen asked curiously after taking the golden scroll.

"That token is condensed from the golden words of the Queen Mother of the West. Anyone who comes here with the token can only take out the scriptures spoken by the Queen Mother of the West. Once the scriptures are taken out, the golden words will disappear." Empress Biyun said.

"What a wonderful method." Zhang Chen looked curious.

Queen Biyun led Zhang Chen out of the pavilion and said, "The Queen Mother of the West's methods are naturally incredible. After you get the scriptures bestowed by the Queen Mother, you should practice hard and never let the Queen Mother down. If you can continue to show yourself in front of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother will not hesitate to reward you. Whether it is the follow-up skills or the way to immortality, the Queen Mother of the West will give you."

"I will follow your instructions, sister." Zhang Chen bowed quickly to thank Lady Biyun for her guidance.

Empress Biyun seemed very satisfied with Zhang Chen's attitude. She led Zhang Chen to an empty hall. The hall was very luxurious. Although it was not as good as the Hall of Queen Mother of the West, it was many times better than the ancient imperial palace.

"This is where the golden-armored generals live. You are ranked 18th and should live in Palace 18." Lady Biyun led Zhang Chen into the palace and said to him, "Be careful of the golden-armored generals and the people around you, because behind every golden-armored general there is a tribe, and there is competition between tribes. Queen Mother Xi will bestow glory on your tribe based on your performance."

Zhang Chen was moved when he heard this. He didn't expect that there was such a secret. The golden armor god was actually related to the continuation of the tribe under Kunlun Mountain. "I heard that every year the Queen Mother of the West would recruit a large number of children to enter the mountain. If we count by age, Kunlun Mountain is already full of people. But why is Kunlun Mountain so deserted now?" Zhang Chen asked the question in his mind.

"The people you mentioned have died long ago." said Empress Biyun.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this: "Dead?"

Lady Biyun nodded: "Most of them did not complete the tasks assigned by the Queen Mother of the West and died of old age. A small number of them were killed and devoured by innate creatures while performing tasks outside, or were killed by the guardian power while picking rare flowers and herbs to collect the fortune of heaven and earth."

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this, and then he looked across the empty Kunlun Mountains and suddenly felt that this world was very dangerous.

"So now that you have the favor of the Queen Mother of the West, you must behave well and work hard to survive." Empress Biyun said.

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing that. Empress Biyun glanced at Zhang Chen and seeing that he had taken her words to heart, she stood up and said goodbye, leaving Zhang Chen standing in a daze in the empty hall.

After a long while, Zhang Chen came to the big bed in the center of the hall and sat down. The bed was made of an unknown tree. Zhang Chen sat on it and felt as if there was an inexplicable energy spreading out from the bed, nourishing his muscles and bones, extending his life, and repairing the murderous aura around him.

"This big bed has the effect of prolonging life, but the effect is not very obvious." After looking at the big bed for a while, Zhang Chen no longer paid too much attention to it. This big bed can only be called a strange tree. It is still some distance away from being an innate spiritual plant. It is not worth Zhang Chen's excessive thought.

Zhang Chen stroked the golden pages with his fingers and took the sutra in his hands to observe it. The sutra was as thick as the Xinhua Dictionary of later generations, and the whole sutra was very large, probably as big as an elementary school textbook. Zhang Chen looked at it carefully for a while before clapping his hands in praise, saying that it was wonderful.

What is recorded in your scriptures?
What was recorded on it was actually the great way of formations. It did not record any specific formation, but rather the most basic formation knowledge and mysteries, from the most basic formation analysis to the formation operation rules between heaven and earth, all were recorded in it.

“It’s amazing! Although what is recorded in it is the most basic principle of formation, it is more valuable than any specific formation. After learning the knowledge in it, I will be able to deduce the formation and create all kinds of incredible formations by myself.” Wonderful thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen’s mind, and then his soul’s thinking became active, constantly analyzing and recording the mysteries of the formation.

"The Queen Mother of the West is a good person. This formation not only records the great way of formations, but also the foundation of formations - the innate formation. What is recorded on it is the great way of innate formations, the infinite mysteries of the great formations of the innate era, which opened the door to the innate formations for me. Although all that is recorded on it are basic knowledge, it has greatly improved my knowledge and brought me the greatest foundation for comprehending the great way of formations in the future." Zhang Chen was obsessed at this time, constantly comprehending and recording the mysteries of the formation, and he was completely immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself.

Golden pages passed before his eyes, and countless knowledge, talismans, and laws flashed in his eyes.

"If you want to comprehend the great way of formation, you must cultivate your primordial spirit. Only by relying on the powerful calculation power of the primordial spirit can you master the laws of the operation of the formation. The Queen Mother of the West passed down the formation because I cultivated my primordial spirit, but..." Zhang Chen thought of a paradox at this time: "With the ability of the Queen Mother of the West, it should not be difficult to cultivate a cultivator who has cultivated a primordial spirit, right? Why is it that countless golden-armored generals have been born in the entire Kunlun Mountain, but only I have cultivated a primordial spirit?"

Zhang Chen suddenly thought of immortal techniques and the Great Yangshen Dao: "Could it be that this world cannot practice Qigong? So it is impossible to give birth to a Yuanshen?"

He thought of the ancestor of the earth immortals in the mysterious era. Didn’t the ancestor of the earth immortals also rely on the power of the earth veins to embark on the path of pseudo-immortality?

If you cannot practice the secrets of immortality, you cannot give birth to your primordial spirit.

"Does it mean that it was impossible to practice Taoism in the time of Queen Mother of the West? But if no one can practice, no one knows the existence of the primordial spirit. Then how did Queen Mother of the West know about the primordial spirit? Is Queen Mother of the West a Taoist?" Countless speculations were running through Zhang Chen's mind at this time, and he couldn't make sense of it for a while. Apart from Queen Mother of the West, no one was likely to know the secret.

"There is a big secret here, involving the biggest secret of the ancient times, the origin of immortality and all the secrets of the sacred era. It seems to be right in front of me." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)