I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 31: The Broken Stone Tablet (Part 1)

Zhang Chen carried the leftover chicken from last night and made his way to the beehive. He saw countless hornets flying out, swarming him, crawling all over his body, hair, and head, expressing their affection.

Zhang Chen smiled at this, casually placing the diced meat on a blade of grass for the hornets to eat. Then, he brushed the hornets off his body and headed towards the depths of the mountains. He hadn't used his Beast Mastery skill today and intended to use the mountain bees to gather honey.

"It's a shame I haven't found any beehives. If I could find a beehive, I wouldn't lack honey to eat," Zhang Chen sighed softly, looking at the mountain scenery.

In these deep mountains and forests, beehives are well-hidden and not easy to find. Moreover, Zhang Chen wasn't one to take without giving. The bees worked hard to collect honey, and if he took it all, they would probably starve to death. It was better to use Beast Mastery to drive the bees to serve him for an hour. Over time, he could accumulate some honey.

Activating Beast Mastery, countless bees shuttled through the mountains and forests, diligently collecting honey for Zhang Chen. After an hour, Zhang Chen looked at the jar, now filled with another seven or eight 'lids' of honey, and contentedly stuffed it into his basket before turning towards the tomb.

He felt uneasy about the stone tablet in the tomb. After all, it was a strange entity, and who knew what other tricks it had up its sleeve? He wanted to eliminate it as soon as possible.

He was actually a little worried. What if the strange entities in the world were immortal, or if he couldn't destroy the stone tablet and it ran away?

If the stone tablet ran away, Zhang Chen feared he wouldn't sleep soundly again.

Zhang Chen arrived at the tomb. The flames inside the tomb were still burning, and scorching heat continuously poured out of the cave. Zhang Chen stood at the entrance, waiting quietly. He had nothing else to do that day and felt more at ease waiting in the mountains for the tombstone's changes.

Zhang Chen went up the mountain at six in the morning. Eight hours later, the fire went out. It was now about two-thirty in the afternoon, still an hour away from his usual time to return home.

Zhang Chen usually climbed out of the tomb around four in the afternoon, packed his things, and went home to avoid any terrifying and strange entities in the tomb.

Once the flames inside the tomb died down and the heat gradually dissipated, Zhang Chen squatted down and crawled into the tomb. But as soon as Zhang Chen entered the tomb, he was stunned, his eyes fixed on the stone tablet in front of him, his face filled with shock: "What's that?"

The stone tablet was still a stone tablet, but its entire color had changed. It was previously the color of stone, but now, after being burned by the raging fire, it had turned into the color of jade, like mutton-fat jade, looking white, delicate, and lustrous.

Faint red light flowed within the stone tablet, with countless threads weaving back and forth, appearing faintly visible.

"It's mutated?" Zhang Chen stood five steps away, examining the stone tablet. After looking at the stone tablet up and down for a long time and not seeing anything unusual, he cautiously entered the cave and circled the stone tablet, but he didn't see any experience points or skill points dropping.

"Interesting! Such a large piece of mutton-fat jade. If I carried it out and sold it, I'm afraid I'd be rich. It would definitely sell for a good price," Zhang Chen stood in front of the stone tablet, his eyes gleaming, looking at the stone tablet up and down, but he didn't see any abnormalities. Only the blood-red writing had faded, turning golden, seemingly with a hint of sacredness.

Golden light burst from Zhang Chen's palm, and he slapped the stone tablet. No, it should be called a jade tablet now.

Golden light burst from Zhang Chen's palm, directly penetrating the stone tablet. This time, it penetrated deeper and further. When the red threads met the golden light, they were directly evaporated, and a large area of jade tablet threads became nothingness.

Zhang Chen constantly adjusted his breathing, urging his Light of the Righteous God to continuously invade the red threads in the stone tablet.

But after an hour, Zhang Chen stopped his movements, looked at the stone tablet in front of him, and frowned: "No change? Could it be that the strange entities in the world are truly immortal? If that's the case, it's troublesome."

Zhang Chen suddenly felt a sense of urgency. Now the jade tablet was moving every day, thinking of escaping from this place. He had to turn it into nothingness before the stone tablet escaped.

Seeing the cold air in the cave rising again, Zhang Chen had to prepare to retreat.

Before leaving, he glanced at the stone tablet uneasily, and Zhang Chen walked back worriedly.

Life seemed to have suddenly calmed down. If it weren't for the pressure of rent, everything seemed fine. He routinely inspected the mountain traps and caught two pheasants. Zhang Chen tied up the pheasants and cut some green grass before slowly walking towards his home.

Just as Zhang Chen walked to his door, golden light automatically burst from his eyes, and then Zhang Chen saw a phantom-like girl carrying a large bag of pork belly, holding a basin of coarse rice, and walking happily from the village.

"What the hell... no wonder the fox spirit isn't harming me anymore. It turns out that this fox spirit is probably tired of eating meat and is now targeting the people in the entire village," Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit walking from afar, dared not look any longer, and quickly walked into his yard.

He threw the green grass directly to the two roe deer, then Zhang Chen went into the house, took out the coarse rice to feed the pheasants, then took out yesterday's barbecue and made pan-fried pork belly in the stove, ate his fill, then washed up and went to sleep.

Nothing happened overnight. The one person and one fox next door also seemed to be quiet. The blood-red pages hadn't erupted with any abnormalities in the past few days.

The next morning, Zhang Chen, with worries in his heart, woke up early, directly picked up a piece of steamed dried meat, and walked towards the mountain.

He checked the traps, fed the falcons, then hurried to the tomb and directly drilled into the cave, his eyes looking at the jade-like stone tablet.

There were still no experience points or skill points dropping from the stone tablet, but the stone tablet had left a long mark on the ground, the mark cutting deeply into the ground.

"It's about a step away, which means that in less than half a month, this jade tablet will be able to 'walk out' of the tomb passage and appear outside. Once it appears outside, if it absorbs the essence of the sun and moon or draws on the blood of external creatures, things will become even more unpredictable," Zhang Chen stood in front of the stone tablet, a hint of caution in his eyes.

He no longer had the mind to dig for experience points and upgrade skills. He just wanted to destroy the stone tablet in front of him as soon as possible.