I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Facing the sobbing little dumpling, Zhang Chen quickly hugged the little dumpling in his arms: "Don't cry! Don't cry! Even if you become a fool, I won't dislike you."

"Really?" The little dumpling looked at Zhang Chen with teary eyes.

"Of course, it's true." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

The little dumpling immediately threw himself into Zhang Chen's arms and cried in a spoiled voice: "Zhang Chen, you are so good, I will be the best with you in the future."

The little dumpling was really scared.

Zhang Chen stroked the little dumpling's head like coaxing his daughter. He felt like he had another daughter!

At this moment, there was the sound of footsteps outside the door. The Enforcement Elder returned and looked at Zhang Chen and the little dumpling hugging each other. He said earnestly: "You two are lucky to have caught the attention of the eldest lady. You still need to serve her well. If you can be valued by the eldest lady, you will be promoted directly."

"What's his background?" Zhang Chen looked at the Enforcement Elder and asked tentatively.

To be honest, although he had been in contact with the other party for a long time, he really didn't know the other party's identity and background. After all, this kind of thing was not something that people of his status could inquire about.

"Xie Xuan, the head leader of the Northern Inspection Department's daughter—Xie Lingyun! If you can climb this high branch, your future will be limitless." The Enforcement Elder patted the two of them on the shoulders with a solemn voice: "Children, seize the opportunity! In this life, there are only a few opportunities to change your destiny, or even only once. If you can seize it, you will seize it. If you can't seize it, you will always fall into the dust."

The Enforcement Elder said to the two of them: "You two go wash up and then go serve the eldest lady."

When Zhang Chen heard the words of the Enforcement Elder, his pupils shrank and his heart shook violently: Xie Xuan's daughter, Xie Lingyun?

He and Xie Xuan were old acquaintances!

If calculated according to seniority, he and Xie Xuan were of the same generation. Shouldn't Xie Lingyun call him uncle?

However, at this time, he also understood why Huang Li Guan would value Xie Lingyun so much. After all, that was the daughter of the head leader of the Inspection Department, even more noble than a princess.

"It's actually her!" Zhang Chen muttered in his heart, and conspiracy theories began to rise in his heart: "Could it be that the old guy Xie Xuan put a mark on me, so he sent Xie Lingyun here to seek a solution?"

"Can I still hide now?" Zhang Chen felt a little irritable in his heart. This feeling of guessing back and forth was not good.

"Find a way to obtain the higher-level formulas of the Qi Refining Technique in the Yellow Heaven Dao as soon as possible, and then leave here quickly. I always feel that there are old schemers around me, and I don't have any sense of security." Zhang Chen said secretly in his heart.

Faced with Xie Lingyun's personal assignment, Zhang Chen and the little dumpling could not resist. The two of them could only follow the Enforcement Elder out with a sullen face. At this time, their eyes were full of innocence. After looking at each other, they both frowned. Neither of them wanted to do the work of serving people. With their temperaments, even if there were truly great benefits of wealth and glory, they would never want to serve others.

After washing up, the two of them came to the southwest corner of the Taoist temple. At this time, the entire southwest corner was blocked by guards wearing iron armor. Although the sun was scorching in the sky, the guards in the iron armor did not seem to know the heat in the sky. Even the armor seemed to have layers of frost condensing on it.

When Zhang Chen saw this scene, a look of disbelief appeared in his eyes. Frost was condensing on the armor on a hot day? What a joke?

"This armor is not made of ordinary steel, but thirty years ago, the Inspection Department dug up a large tomb. There was a strange iron ore in the tomb. The iron ore contained the power of ice and attached incredible power." The Enforcement Elder explained.

When Zhang Chen heard this, he suddenly understood. Sure enough, in this mysterious world, anything could happen.

Zhang Chen and the little dumpling looked at each other, both silent, following behind the Enforcement Elder, all the way to a three-story bamboo building.

"The eldest lady is resting inside. You two go in. Remember, never anger the eldest lady, otherwise even the Heavenly King Lao Tzu can't save you." When the Enforcement Elder said this, he looked at the little dumpling: "Especially you, don't cause me any more trouble."

After speaking, the Enforcement Elder said goodbye and left. Then Zhang Chen and Cheng Yu looked at each other and walked towards the small building.

"You two come up." As soon as the two of them arrived downstairs, they saw the window on the third floor open, and Xie Lingyun in red makeup was sitting in front of the window, greeting the two of them.

At this time, Xie Lingyun was physically weak, and she seemed to have lost some of her usual heroic spirit and nobility, and gained a bit of a woman's tenderness and timidity, full of femininity.

The two of them went up to the third floor and respectfully saluted Xie Lingyun:

"Greetings, Your Excellency."

Xie Lingyun's eyes swept over the two of them, and then her gaze fell on Zhang Chen. Her eyes looked at Zhang Chen, and there were countless words and countless questions in her heart, but at this moment when she faced Zhang Chen, they were all swallowed back. No matter how she opened her mouth, she felt that it was inappropriate.

"You don't have to be restrained, come and have something to eat." Xie Lingyun pointed to the seven or eight plates of fruits and pastries in front of the table. The grapes were big and round, and they still had dew on them, as if they had just been picked.

Looking at the snacks on the table, the little dumpling swallowed hard, then raised her head and looked at Zhang Chen with her watery eyes.

"Thank you for your reward, Your Excellency." Zhang Chen respectfully saluted, then pulled the little dumpling, respectfully thanked him, knelt and sat in front of the table, picked up a pastry and took a small bite, but did not continue to eat it, but waited for Xie Lingyun to instruct him.

Xie Lingyun pointed to a corner: "You can sit wherever you want. You only need to serve me when I practice. At other times, you can do your own things, whether it is practicing or reciting scriptures, it is all right."

The two looked at each other, holding the pastries and sitting there obediently, but they were a little restrained and seemed quite uncomfortable.

Xie Lingyun understood the restraint of the two, but did not persuade them much. At this time, she was holding a scripture in her hand and playing with it, and her eyes fell on Zhang Chen: "Where are you from? How many years have you been in the Taoist temple?"

Zhang Chen quickly said: "I am a hunter in the mountains. Because of the severe drought, I fled, so I joined the Taoist temple a few months ago."

Zhang Chen's answer was very skillful. It seemed that he had answered, but in fact, he only answered what he wanted to tell the other party. For example, he had only joined the Taoist temple for a few months, and his entanglement with Huang Li Guan was not deep.

As for his background, it was all perfunctory.

Xie Lingyun glanced at Zhang Chen, and the corners of her mouth curled up, as if she didn't see through Zhang Chen's little trick: "In the future, when I need you, I will summon you over. When you are done, you can naturally go back to rest. Don't worry, you will get a lot of benefits!"

When Xie Lingyun said this, a strange smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Did she lack maids?

Of course, she didn't lack for them. As long as she spoke, countless maids would be transferred from the foot of the mountain. What she lacked was something to suppress the strange entity within her body.

Now, it seemed she had found it!

Zhang Chen pondered upon hearing Xie Lingyun's words. It seemed Xie Lingyun had set her sights on him. He now understood Xie Lingyun's intention: she wanted to use the golden light within him to eliminate the Heavenly Demon.

Xie Lingyun looked at the little one and saw her eyes fixed longingly on the pastries on the low table, her throat constantly bobbing as she swallowed. "Look at how restrained you are. Take the pastries and go downstairs. I have something to discuss with your senior brother."

She had mistaken Zhang Chen for a senior brother and the little one for a junior sister.

"Esteemed guest, you're mistaken! I'm the senior sister, he's the junior brother!" The little one looked at Xie Lingyun very seriously, correcting her. This was very important to her.

Xie Lingyun was taken aback upon hearing this. She looked at the little one, who barely reached Zhang Chen's waist, and then at Zhang Chen. Seeing that the little one didn't seem to be joking, she said in surprise, "That's strange indeed. You're so small, how did you become the senior sister?"

The little one lowered her head, feeling wronged and unable to speak. Facing the esteemed guest, she couldn't lose her temper, nor could she break the esteemed guest's legs.

"Senior sister, you should go back." Zhang Chen patted the little one's head. The little one sullenly picked up the pastries from the low table and walked downstairs.

Looking at the pastries in her hand, the little one's thoughts raced: "Forget it, for the sake of her treating me to delicious food, I won't hold a grudge against her."

After the little one left, the room instantly quieted down. Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen and tentatively said, "Thank you for your help at the temple today."

Zhang Chen was inwardly alarmed: 'Here it comes! Just as I thought.'

He now had two choices. The first was to deny it outright, and he figured Xie Lingyun wouldn't make things difficult for him. The second was to admit it, and perhaps he could even befriend Xie Lingyun and even leverage Xie Xuan's power.

However, what Zhang Chen was unsure about was whether Xie Lingyun had come to the Daoist temple unintentionally or if Xie Xuan had secretly instructed her to do so.

But regardless of the situation, it seemed he had encountered a troublesome matter.

Moreover, there were two crucial points. First, Xie Lingyun had helped him. Although he didn't need Xie Lingyun's help, from the perspective of an ordinary person, Xie Lingyun was undoubtedly a purely good person. She was the first noble he had seen who was willing to help ordinary people.

Second, that Heavenly Demon was a great scourge. Now that he knew he could restrain it, when the Heavenly Demon retaliated, that damned thing would definitely not let him off.

Helping Xie Lingyun was helping himself.

Only by taking advantage of the fact that the Heavenly Demon hadn't fully interfered with the material world and eliminating it in its embryonic state was the best option. If he waited until the Heavenly Demon had invaded the Great Celestial Master and the others, it would be too late for him to fight back.

"Esteemed guest, you're joking. It was just a coincidence. It's my good fortune to be able to help you." After a moment of thought, Zhang Chen directly and generously admitted it.

"What method is that golden light of yours? You should know that even my father is helpless against the strangeness in my body." Xie Lingyun immediately became interested.

Zhang Chen shook his head upon hearing this: "I don't know. I only accidentally mastered the art of drawing talismans in the past. After unintentionally drawing a talisman, I mastered the means of warding off evil."

His answer was very important. Although he wanted to help Xie Lingyun solve her troubles, he also had to be wary. What if Xie Lingyun killed and plundered treasures? That would be asking for trouble.

People's hearts are always fickle. Zhang Chen must never entrust his safety to people's hearts.

If he said it came from the mysterious, what if Xie Lingyun asked him to hand over the mysterious? If he said it came from cultivation? The other party would be dumbfounded if they wanted to seize this acquired ability. Moreover, if the other party coveted his secret manual, well… Zhang Chen had already thought of a countermeasure in his mind.

So, Zhang Chen directly attributed everything to drawing talismans. If Xie Lingyun was interested in drawing talismans, he could just pass on the art of drawing talismans. Xie Lingyun didn't have magic power anyway, so mastering the art of drawing talismans would be useless. If Xie Lingyun couldn't learn it by then, he couldn't be blamed.

"Drawing talismans?" Xie Lingyun was stunned upon hearing this. She looked at Zhang Chen in surprise: "Talismans are a legendary method. Isn't that just ancient people putting on an act?"

"I don't know either. I just saw the talismans were fun those days, and after imitating them, I gained some inexplicable abilities." Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun in front of him. At this moment, golden light flowed in her eyes. Xie Lingyun was surrounded by a mysterious fiery-red aura, but that fiery-red aura was covered by a black aura, as if covered by a layer of black gauze. Clearly, Xie Lingyun was still troubled by that Heavenly Demon.

"Draw one for me to see?" Xie Lingyun became interested at this moment: "What materials do you need for your talisman drawing method?"

"Yellow paper and cinnabar are enough," Zhang Chen said.

"Go and fetch yellow paper and cinnabar," Xie Lingyun said.

Soon, a guard brought yellow paper and cinnabar. Then, Zhang Chen mixed the cinnabar and created a Stasis Talisman on the yellow paper in one go.

However, after drawing the Stasis Talisman, Zhang Chen secretly blessed the talisman with the Light of the True God, storing it in the talisman. However, this time, Zhang Chen applied a lot of golden light, a super amount.

"I don't see anything unusual." Xie Lingyun stared at the talisman in front of her. In her eyes, it was still an ordinary talisman paper, without any abnormalities.

"But it can temporarily solve the esteemed guest's hidden danger," Zhang Chen said.

Upon hearing this, Xie Lingyun took the talisman that Zhang Chen had just drawn and fell into deep thought: No wonder I couldn't detect the source of the mystery when I went to the courtyard several times before. I didn't expect the so-called mystery in my eyes to come from the legendary art of talismans?

Xie Lingyun played with the talisman, a trace of contemplation appearing in her eyes. If she hadn't personally experienced the wonders of the art of talismans, she would have thought she was being fooled by Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen drew the talisman right in front of her eyes. To verify whether this talisman really had an effect, or whether this talisman really was the mystery she had seen before, she needed to verify it herself.

"How do I use this talisman?" Xie Lingyun's bright eyes looked at Zhang Chen.

"You only need to stick it on your body to use it. However, the talisman has a usage period of only one day. Once it is not used within a day, the effect will disappear." Zhang Chen was referring to the Light of the True God, which could only be stored in an item for twenty-four hours. Once it exceeded twenty-four hours, it would automatically dissipate.