I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 917 The White Ape's Handwriting

“This flame comes from the barrier of the world, it is not an ordinary flame, and its power is even greater than that of the Creation Spirit Flame.” Zhang Chen’s eyes showed a hint of caution. There must be a fire spirit in this kind of flame. Without knowing the strength of the opponent, he naturally had to make full preparations.

Especially since this place connects with the spiritual world, and the essence of the spiritual world pours in, Zhang Chen would believe that there are beings beyond the twelfth rank who could survive here.

"This flame is even more ferocious than the flame of the Heaven-Opening Fire Spirit!" Zhang Chen was stunned as soon as he stepped into the flame, his eyes filled with astonishment. The Heaven-Opening Fire Spirit was already the ultimate flame, so what was this flame that was even more ferocious than the Heaven-Opening Fire Spirit?
Zhang Chen put away the Heavenly Fire Spirit bead, and instead, a ruler slipped from his sleeve. He held the Heavenly Measuring Ruler in his hand, and with the activation of the fire attribute authority, the flames all parted to make way for Zhang Chen to pass through.

Walking through the sea of ​​fire, Zhang Chen sensed its unusual nature. He realized that the flames before him were composed of countless types of fire, including the Samadhi True Fire, the Nine Nether Fire, the Six Ding Six Jia Divine Fire, the Great Sun True Fire, the Taiyin True Fire, the Creation Fire, the Qilin Fire, and the True Dragon Fire, forming a world entirely made of fire.

"Back then, when I followed the Queen Mother of the West through the world barriers, we also experienced various dangers while traversing the void. However, all the dangers were nothing more than insignificant dust in front of the Queen Mother of the West. Therefore, she passed through various dangers with ease, so I did not truly perceive the obstacles she faced at the time. This created a misconception in me that the path was nothing special." Zhang Chen belatedly realized, while walking through the world of fire, just how incredible the power and methods the Queen Mother of the West possessed back then were.

However, although the flames were fierce, under the Fire Element Authority, they could only obediently submit to Zhang Chen's feet like docile sheep. Zhang Chen strode through the sea of ​​fire when suddenly a powerful wave came, carrying surging flames and sneaking towards Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen activated the Fire Element Authority, directly freezing the culprit who was sneaking in the flames. It turned out to be a scorpion made entirely of flames.

The scorpion was a true spirit born from flames, and its cultivation had already surpassed the twelfth level. However, faced with the fire attribute authority, it could only be obediently subdued by Zhang Chen.

"It's a pity that fire-type Pokémon can only survive in the land of fire and can't be taken outside, otherwise I could suppress a few fire-type Pokémon to use as henchmen." Zhang Chen's eyes showed a hint of regret.

Of course, if a fire-attribute spirit recognizes a master and merges with them, becoming their natal fire, it can also leave the world of fire. Just like Zhong Xiang, who refined a Qilin flame and then became arrogant and domineering, earning the title of Southern Qilin.

Seemingly sensing Zhang Chen's difficulty, the fire spirit that had been surviving in the shadows used its supernatural powers to move a stone the size of a house and hurled it at Zhang Chen from afar.

"They're really troublesome." Zhang Chen has fire-attribute authority and isn't afraid of these fire-attribute spirits, but he is afraid of them launching ranged attacks, such as moving a mountain to smash someone. This is the main reason why Zhang Chen summoned the Measuring Ruler for protection.

Those fire spirits are no pushovers; they've all gained sentience and aren't so easy to deal with.

A mysterious power flowed around Zhang Chen, the scales on his measuring ruler lit up, and the void around him slightly distorted. The boulder brushed past him, stirring up countless firestorms.

“There’s no need to get entangled with them. Those stones have been tempered by the flames here, and in terms of hardness alone, they are no less than innate spiritual treasures. If I were to take them head-on, I would only be asking for trouble.” Zhang Chen continued to walk deeper into the flames. Although the fire spirits kept manipulating boulders to smash him, causing some trouble, they could not stop his progress in the slightest.

The fire spirits didn't attack themselves; they just manipulated the stones to smash around. Zhang Chen only needed to use his fire escape technique to dodge, and the attacks couldn't harm him in the slightest.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, Zhang Chen reached the end of the sea of ​​fire, where a world of lightning came into view.

The world of lightning was filled with flashes of various colors of lightning. There were colorful lightning bolts that had descended from heaven as punishment in the past, as well as red lightning, white lightning, and so on. There were countless lightning bolts of various colors. Facing the overwhelming lightning, Zhang Chen stepped into it without expression. As soon as he stepped into the sea of ​​lightning, countless lightning bolts surged towards Zhang Chen like waves, trying to annihilate him in the ocean of lightning.

“The lightning here has turned into liquid.” Zhang Chen glanced at the surging lightning waves in the void with a look of surprise. All the lightning that came within three feet of him was absorbed by the Eye of Heavenly Punishment deep in his primordial spirit, and all the lightning turned into nourishment for the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

As the aura of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment flowed around Zhang Chen, the sea of ​​lightning seemed to undergo some unknown change. All the lightning bolts seemed to have met a king, and they all fell silent, turning into obedient little babies, stopping three zhang away from Zhang Chen, not daring to get any closer.

Zhang Chen even saw the elves hiding in the sea of ​​lightning. Originally, those elves wanted to attack Zhang Chen, but after sensing the aura of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, all the lightning elves disappeared into the depths of the sea of ​​lightning.

"Whether it's a sea of ​​fire or an ocean of lightning, they are merely dimensional spaces distorted by a feng shui formation. From the outside, they appear as just passageways, but only upon entering do you realize they are worlds hundreds of miles in size." Zhang Chen carefully sensed everything within the ocean of lightning and noticed some clues. Ignoring the others, Zhang Chen continued forward. After walking for about several dozen miles, he suddenly stopped, his eyes fixed ahead, a look of seriousness in them: A World Barrier!

He finally saw the world barrier! Not only the world barrier of the material world, but also the world barrier of the thirty-three heavens of the spiritual world. The two world barriers were forcibly absorbed and stuck together by the Feng Shui formation, turning into a thousand-mile-long void zone, in which countless chaotic energies and primordial energy were flowing.

"I misunderstood. What I previously thought was using a feng shui array to tear apart the barrier between the two worlds was actually using the feng shui array to suppress and smooth out the turbulent energy from the collision of the two worlds. The feng shui array was used to restrain the energy and form a stable channel, allowing people to pass through the channel and enter the spiritual world." After seeing the two world barriers and the feng shui array in front of him, Zhang Chen immediately realized that he had misunderstood.

The world's barriers are both invisible and tangible.

The tangible refers to the world barrier being a chaotic energy state, while the intangible refers to the world barrier not being a real barrier, nor an imagined material barrier.

He carefully observed the collision between the three, and from the traces of the feng shui formation, he could roughly determine why the feng shui formation in front of him had been leaked, thus creating a barrier.

"The collision between the material world and the spiritual world shook the feng shui formation, causing it to collapse. The collision of the two worlds shattered the space, and spatial power was released, but it was restrained by the feng shui power, forming small spaces." Zhang Chen secretly deduced, and his steps continued to move deeper into the passage.

The source of heavenly fire and thunder, and even the world barrier, the power emanating from the world barrier, transformed into various obstacles.

Zhang Chen once crossed the Great Thousand World Barrier. The World Barrier was not a simple barrier, but a void that covered countless miles. Within it, there was the flow of chaotic energy, the river of destiny, the river of time, and the wonders created by the earth, water, wind, and fire formed by the turbulent differentiation of chaotic energy.

The collision of the two world barriers impacted the chaotic zone, which evolved into earth, water, wind, and fire, resulting in the various heavenly fires and thunderbolts we see today.

The barriers between the two worlds are constantly colliding, and naturally, chaotic forces are constantly breaking apart into earth, water, wind, and fire, evolving into various strange forces, and then returning to chaos, separating and evolving again, creating all sorts of wonders.

"Interesting!" Zhang Chen thought to himself.

"That being from back then must have used the Feng Shui array to break into the spiritual world. Then, without anyone to control the Feng Shui array, it was damaged and leaked." Zhang Chen arrived at the edge of the sea of ​​lightning, stood at the world barrier, looked at the surging world power in the distance, and secretly marveled at the incredible power of the Feng Shui array.

The feng shui formation can achieve such a level of effectiveness; it is truly astonishing.

After observing for a while, Zhang Chen walked towards a broken section of the feng shui formation. Upon reaching the broken section, he saw stone tablets standing in the sea of ​​lightning. A familiar aura flowed from one of the stone tablets, causing Zhang Chen to pause in surprise: "It's the aura of that white ape."

Zhang Chen quickly walked over and looked at the inscription on the stone tablet. A look of shock appeared in his eyes: "It's definitely the aura of that white ape!"

Upon closer inspection of the inscription on the stone tablet, although the characters were somewhat blurred, Zhang Chen could still make out the general meaning.

The inscription on the stone tablet roughly records that with the great changes in the world, the Five Elements Formation of Kunlun Mountain could no longer maintain its operation. In the end, the Five Elements Formation was broken. The white ape gathered a large number of innate beings to find a solution. Finally, an unparalleled being opened up this Feng Shui formation and led the innate beings into the spiritual world to find a way to avoid the great calamity.

Looking at the stone tablet behind, it was not left by the white ape, but by the final words of the other innate beings. It recorded a shocking event: just as the innate beings were about to enter the spiritual world, an unparalleled enemy appeared, causing the feng shui formation to be destroyed. In the end, only a portion of them managed to enter, while most of the innate beings were buried here, turned into withered bones by the turbulent power of earth, water, wind, and fire.

(End of this chapter)