I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 977 The Descends of the Corpse Ancestor
Upon hearing that Zhang Chen possessed a space capable of sealing essence, energy, and spirit, the Empress's eyes lit up: "You have a place where you can seal me?"

Zhang Chen didn't explain, but instead directly opened his Frozen Hell: "In my Frozen Hell, I have sealed people whose cultivation is far stronger than yours. Experiments have proven that my Frozen Hell can indeed seal the essence in a cultivator's body from being plundered by the Great Thousand World."

After sensing the auras of the Queen Mother of the West and Xuanming, the Empress's expression changed, and a look of solemnity appeared in her eyes. Then, the solemnity in her eyes turned into joy: "This is a good place to hide. After I help you destroy the space of the spiritual world, we will hide here to avoid the calamity."

The princess stood up from the pool at this point: "Shall we make our move now?"

“Of course! But we still need coordinates to guide it, to ensure that the spiritual world falls within the capital of the Great Victory Kingdom,” Zhang Chen said to the Empress.

The Empress nodded upon hearing this: "This matter is not difficult for me. As long as I lock onto your aura, I can use it as a coordinate to control the location where my spiritual world falls. However, that old fellow is really troublesome. If I want to deal with him, I will need to consume a lot of my source energy. Therefore, I need to borrow your Measuring Ruler. If I have the Measuring Ruler in hand, after I master the power of space, I can save a lot of energy to block him."

"Here you go with the Measuring Ruler. I've already upgraded it to its peak state, sublimated it to its ultimate level, and infused it with enough innate energy. You just need to use it." Zhang Chen handed the Measuring Ruler to the Empress.

Upon hearing this, the Empress took the Measuring Ruler and looked at Zhang Chen with surprise: "Strange, where did you get your innate energy?"

"To be honest, I have created a small world and found the Heavenly Tree." Zhang Chen did not hide anything from the Empress: "As long as you accomplish this, I can provide you with innate energy to prolong your life. When my small world evolves into a middle world, you can enter it to avoid calamities."

The princess was stunned again upon hearing this, seemingly unable to believe her ears, her eyes filled with shock: "Is this true?"

Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "Of course it's true."

"Don't worry, even if it costs me my own life force, I will push that old Corpse Ancestor to the material world for you!" The Empress solemnly assured Zhang Chen.

"Thank you!" Zhang Chen thanked the Empress and then his spirit disappeared from the spiritual world.

Watching Zhang Chen's departing figure, the Empress's lips curled up slightly: "There's hope for breaking through this calamity!"

Material world

The carriage creaked and groaned as Zhang Chen sat quietly inside, his eyes scanning the crowd on either side. Suddenly, his gaze fell upon the Xie family father and daughter, fully armed and menacing, standing on a pavilion by the street.

Upon meeting each other's eyes, Zhang Chen understood the intentions of the Xie father and daughter; the two had chosen to hijack the prison cart.

Zhang Chen quickly activated the Law of Sound, and his words rang in the ears of the father and daughter: "You must not act rashly and ruin my important plans. I have my own plans for this matter, so you must not interfere."

The Xie father and daughter met Zhang Chen's gaze. Only after hearing Zhang Chen's voice in their ears did the father and daughter realize with surprise that Zhang Chen could actually use supernatural powers in the capital.

“Since he can use supernatural powers within the capital, it seems this is part of his plan. Let’s observe secretly for now. If that kid can’t hold on, it won’t be too late for us to make a move,” Xie Xuan said to Xie Lingyun.

Xie Lingyun nodded upon hearing this: "That's right. Given his abilities, since he can use supernatural powers, how could he be so easily captured in the capital?"

Neither Xie nor his daughter were fools. After hearing Zhang Chen's telepathic message, a look of wariness appeared in their eyes. They then led their trusted confidants to quietly follow behind the prison cart.

Seeing the Xie family father and daughter leave, Zhang Chen felt a little relieved. He couldn't let himself get involved with the Xie family father and daughter. He could sense a strange power in the void that had traversed the void and locked onto him.

Zhang Chen looked up at the clear sky, feeling the unseen force locking onto him: "Is the Empress about to make her move?"

As his thoughts were flashing through his mind, he suddenly saw dark clouds appear out of nowhere in the distant sky. The dark clouds were like a vast sea hanging upside down in the sky, spreading out with the momentum of an earth-shattering and mountain-crushing force. Then, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the dark clouds, accompanied by a sound like a mirror shattering. The sky above Kyoto suddenly broke apart, countless mountains fell from the sky, rivers poured down, and a sea of ​​insects swarmed down like a waterfall.

The Corpse Ancestor resided in the Sixth Heaven, while the Insect Sea was located in the Seventh Heaven. To avoid alerting the Corpse Ancestor and giving him a chance to react, the Empress directly attacked the Insect Sea Heaven of the Seventh Heaven, destroying it entirely. All the heavens below the Seventh Heaven shattered, falling from the spiritual world into the material world. The Insect Sea, seawater, mountains, and rivers within those heavens now crashed down from the shattered fragments of the world. If they were to fall all at once, the entire capital city would likely be destroyed in an instant.

Fortunately, the material and spiritual worlds are governed by their own laws. When extraordinary objects from the spiritual world fall into the material world, the vast source of heaven and earth within them begins to rapidly dissipate. The extraordinary power contained in the seawater quickly disappears and turns into ordinary seawater. The essence within the corpse worms also dissipates, suffering plunder from the vast world.

"Strange, the seawater is only at the third or fourth level, and the corpse worms are only at the fifth or sixth level, or even the first or second level. How could their essence be lost?" Zhang Chen stood in the prison cart, looking at the creatures whose extraordinary power was being lost in their spiritual world. A look of astonishment appeared in his eyes. This clearly did not conform to the reasoning.

"Because the Thirty-Three Heavens do not belong to the Great Thousand World, beings who wish to ascend from the material world to the spiritual world must pay a tremendous price. Similarly, beings within the spiritual world who wish to enter the Great Thousand World must naturally be baptized and assimilated by the laws of the Great Thousand World. This is the power of the collision between the laws of two worlds. What you see as the loss of vital energy is not simply the loss of vital energy, but rather the refining of the beings in the spiritual world by the laws of the Great Thousand World. It cleanses their aura, replaces their aura with the laws of the Great Thousand World, and imprints them with the aura of the Great Thousand World. Their essence, energy, and spirit must be refined anew, so the old essence, energy, and spirit must be expelled and replaced with new essence, energy, and spirit." The big black dog had somehow appeared beside Zhang Chen, seemingly understanding what Zhang Chen was thinking, and explained this to him.

"I never imagined there was such a trick to it." Zhang Chen looked enlightened upon hearing this.

Of course, once their original essence is assimilated and replaced, they can absorb the energy of heaven and earth to strengthen themselves and regain their strength.

It's like a species moving from freshwater to seawater; it needs time to adapt, and if it can't adapt, it will only face death.

So at this moment, many insects were turned to ashes by the great power of the universe, but some insects survived under the influence of the great power of the universe.

"Interesting!" Zhang Chen secretly praised, his eyes fixed on the chaotic space in the distance, seemingly searching for something. Suddenly, a terrifying aura burst forth from the void. The ancient artifact from the coffin in the sixth heaven seemed to awaken from its slumber, a terrifying aura spreading outwards, accompanied by an ancient and ancient rebuke that resounded throughout the world: "You bastard! What are you doing! Do you want to perish together with me?"

The Corpse Ancestor in the Sixth Heaven finally sensed something was wrong. A terrifying aura was flowing within his body. He raised his head and glared angrily at the Empress in the Eighth Heaven, his eyes filled with rage.

As the Corpse Ancestor opened the coffin, countless corpse worms fell, swarming towards Kyoto like dumplings being dropped into a pot. Kyoto was thrown into complete chaos. Terrifying auras surged up from the heavens and earth, and the twelve-tier beings, bloodline ancestors, and gods of all sizes from the Great Victory Royal Family took to the air and charged towards the strange creatures scattered throughout the world.

Kyoto is the stronghold of the Great Victory Kingdom. It is not only related to the stability of the Great Victory royal family, but also to the incense offerings of the three innate gods of the Great Victory royal family and the foundation of the three innate gods. Therefore, no mistakes can be allowed.

Fortunately, Kyoto is a place where dragon energy gathers, which suppressed the strange things that fell from the spiritual world, which relieved the Great Victory Royal Family and made it relatively easy for them to deal with it.

The convoy escorting Zhang Chen was now in complete chaos. At that moment, a monster descended from the sky and charged towards Zhang Chen and his group. Dugu Qiu had no choice but to lead his elite troops in a fight.

At this moment, a divine gift from the spiritual world also descended from the sky, causing various martial arts figures and powerful families to fight over it. In an instant, shouts of killing rose into the sky, and the capital was thrown into chaos.

"This is just an appetizer. The Great Victory Dynasty has the dragon aura to suppress the strange creatures that have fallen from the sky, so it can still handle them fairly well for now. But when the Corpse Ancestor from the spiritual world descends, that will be the real catastrophe! The dragon aura of the Great Victory Dynasty cannot suppress the power of the Corpse Ancestor!" Zhang Chen sat on the prison cart, coldly observing the world around him, a hint of mockery in his eyes.

Although he couldn't see the scene above the heavens, he vaguely sensed something. He saw the great tomb collapse and the feng shui pattern crumble. The figure in the coffin stepped out, glanced at the reincarnation disc floating at his feet, took it in and put it away, and then carried his own black coffin all the way to the eighth heaven, wanting to rush into a higher level of heaven to avoid the calamity of his origin being dissipated.

"This road is blocked, please turn back!" The Empress held the Measuring Ruler in her hand, standing inside the world barrier of the eighth heaven, looking down at the Corpse Ancestor who was rushing over. With a sweep of the Measuring Ruler, the spatial distance was stretched to infinity, forcing the Corpse Ancestor to stop.

"You bastard, do you want to die together with me?" The Corpse Ancestor glared at the Empress.

"To perish together? You're not qualified!" The Empress smiled coldly.

"Open for me!" The Corpse Ancestor channeled his divine power, and the coffin was smashed into the void, attempting to break through the seal of the Measuring Ruler and open a path to survival.

"Hehe, this advantage is on my side! You have been exposed to the vast world, and your origin is constantly leaking out. With the balance of power shifting, how long can you hold out? As long as I can stop you, I will have already won!" The Empress smiled coldly, her Measuring Ruler of Heaven in her hand circulating divine power, constantly distorting space and reinforcing the world barrier of the Eighth Heaven.

(End of this chapter)