I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 79: The Severed Mysterious Era

The words "good-for-nothing" and "waste" instantly ignited Fox Fairy Nannan's anger, her forehead covered in black lines. If she weren't currently restrained, Fox Fairy Nannan would have fought him to the death.

This was too insulting to foxes!

"Although I cannot traverse obstacles, I can still move through cracks. No matter how small the crack, it cannot stop me." Fox Fairy Nannan wanted to vindicate herself; she was not a good-for-nothing.

However, Zhang Chen ignored Fox Fairy Nannan's explanation, holding the luminous pearl in his hand, standing before the dark and deep stone wall, staring at the wall in thought, desperately trying to recall the fragments of memories from his dreams.

"It shouldn't be! How could this be? The Imperial Daughter's Tomb was clearly buried next to the True Dragon Tomb in the same place, so how could it be gone? Even the fox spirit didn't notice it?" Zhang Chen was somewhat incredulous. If he didn't know that the fox spirit had become his skill and couldn't lie to him, he would have suspected that the fox spirit was deceiving him.

"Could you have made a mistake? Or did you get lost inside the stone wall? There is clearly an ancient god's tomb behind this stone wall, so how could you not have discovered it?" Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the fox spirit, questioning her again.

"Impossible! There isn't a place within a hundred miles that I'm not familiar with! Moreover, I have explored all the mountains, rivers, and soil around the True Dragon Tomb, and there is no tomb you speak of at all. If there were another tomb, how could it have escaped my eyes?" Fox Fairy Nannan's voice was full of certainty, replying decisively.

Hearing Fox Fairy Nannan's words, thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind as he pondered where the problem lay: "Could it be that the shifting of the earth's crust caused the Imperial Daughter's Tomb to move far away with the tectonic plates?"

But thinking about it, that was unlikely. The location of the True Dragon Tomb hadn't shifted at all, so how could the Imperial Daughter's Tomb have shifted far away?

Zhang Chen stood in front of the stone wall, thinking. The only way to verify it now was to break open the stone wall himself and dig directly inside. Whether or not there was an Imperial Daughter's Tomb inside would naturally become clear.

"Could it be that your brain is broken and you've developed delusions? If there really is an ancient god's tomb here, how would you know? Could you possibly discover such good fortune?" At this point, Fox Fairy Nannan suddenly paused, thinking of the unknown ability Zhang Chen possessed. The words of ridicule she was about to say were immediately swallowed back.

"Are you really sure there's an ancient god's tomb here?" Seeing Zhang Chen standing in front of the stone wall, silently pondering, Fox Fairy Nannan came forward and asked, her voice carrying a hint of flattery.

There was nothing she could do; the situation was stronger than her. What could she do? She was also very desperate! She had become someone else's skill without knowing why, and she couldn't get any help no matter how hard she tried.

"Of course! There is definitely a tomb here! And it's a tomb from the ancient era," Zhang Chen said with certainty.

"Now that you mention it, I do have some clues," the fox spirit said to Zhang Chen.

"How so?" Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the fox spirit, his eyes full of inquiry.

"I once suspected that there was another tomb hidden here, because years ago, I picked up several coins from the era of the ancient Heavenly Emperor in that earth fissure. However, after searching within a hundred miles, I couldn't find any more clues. At the time, I just thought that the coins were accidentally left behind by ancient people, and I didn't investigate further. Now that I think about it, how could ancient coins appear in the True Dragon Tomb?" Fox Fairy Nannan said.

"Where did you find the coins?" Zhang Chen's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

"In that underground fissure," Fox Fairy Nannan pointed to the crack that had been opened by the earthquake.

Zhang Chen came to the opening of the earthquake fissure and carefully observed it. He saw that the opening was one meter wide, with a dark and bottomless abyss below. Only the sound of rapid water flow hitting the stone wall echoed in the narrow crack, clearly reaching Zhang Chen's ears.

Then, without saying a word, Zhang Chen directly activated his skill. Fox Fairy Nannan looked bewildered, her soul already reacting automatically, embracing Zhang Chen.

"My body is not heavy now, especially after being abused by the fox spirit these years, leading to poor development. My weight shouldn't be over 100 pounds, right? Fox Fairy Nannan can move things weighing 100 pounds, so moving me should be just right."

"Could this be considered flying through the air? In the future, the world will be mine to explore!" A thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind at this moment.

However, Zhang Chen was quickly disappointed. No matter how hard Fox Fairy Nannan tried, baring her teeth and showing her claws, she couldn't move Zhang Chen's body even a bit. She even stumbled from trying to move him, and Zhang Chen and the fox spirit rolled into a ball:

"What are you doing! ! ! Are you trying to take advantage of me? ? ? ? I don't even have a physical body anymore, and you won't even let my soul go? ? ?" Fox Fairy Nannan's soul was hugging Zhang Chen's body, the position very ambiguous. However, because she couldn't move him and fell, she was directly used as a cushion by Zhang Chen, stumbling and slamming her head into the ground, deforming her head.

"My weight is over 100 pounds! The idea of flying through the air has failed! Should I lose some weight?" Looking at Fox Fairy Nannan baring her teeth and showing her claws, constantly trying to crawl out from under him, a look of disappointment appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes: "Has my diet been so good recently?"

"No, it's not that I'm too fat, it's that this fox spirit is too useless!" Zhang Chen suddenly realized that he was just a young boy, weighing only a little over 100 pounds, while the other party was a seventh-order great demon. How could she not even be able to move him? What was she if not useless?

"Useless! You can't even move me!" Zhang Chen got up unhappily.

At this time, Fox Fairy Nannan, hearing Zhang Chen's mockery, glared at Zhang Chen: "Kid, I can move items weighing 100 pounds, but you must weigh at least 120 pounds now, right? You're being so rude! Don't you know your own weight? Moreover, I am at least a person with dignity and intelligence. Can you discuss it with me before you ask me to work? Respect me a little?"

Fox Fairy's words were somewhat aggrieved and even a little humble!

Hearing this, Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit, too lazy to pay attention to her words. What human rights did a mere 'humanoid skill' have in front of him?

However, the fox spirit's unreliability shattered his vision of flying through the air. He still needed to think of a way to enter the underground fissure.

However, this matter couldn't stump Zhang Chen. As Zhang Chen's thoughts moved, the underground river water directly rolled up, transforming into a staircase made of river water, appearing under Zhang Chen's feet.

"This ability of yours?" Seeing Zhang Chen's water control technique, the fox spirit was completely stunned, her eyes wide open: "It's simply awesome!"

"Lead the way," Zhang Chen said to the fox spirit.

The fox spirit didn't dare to delay, quickly leading the way in front. Then, Zhang Chen followed behind the fox spirit, the water bridge constantly transforming wherever they went, turning into ice stairs carrying him as he walked in the void.

"You possess such means, capable of greatly interfering with the material world, truly envious," the fox spirit said, looking at the constantly winding water bridge under Zhang Chen's feet, a hint of envy in her eyes.

"What? Is this skill very rare?" Zhang Chen asked without leaving a trace.

The fox spirit's eyes turned green with greed: "Extremely rare! You'll know later."

Speaking of which, the fox spirit looked at Zhang Chen with her eyes, cautiously probing and asking, "You were clearly just a mortal, an ordinary person, so why did you suddenly master so many miraculous abilities overnight? Could it be that you obtained them from this ancient god's tomb?"

The fox spirit felt that Zhang Chen had entered the ancient celestial being's tomb and obtained his abilities there, which gave him the opportunity to fight back against her. Otherwise, how could he be so certain that there was a tomb inside the stone wall?

Thinking of this, the fox spirit was so annoyed that she wanted to jump up and down. Why hadn't she carefully checked everything in the first place? Now, someone else had taken advantage of her oversight, causing her to be reduced to someone else's slave.

Her heart was filled with extreme sorrow. It was truly a sin. She had guarded this place for more than ten years, but she hadn't discovered anything. Why hadn't such good fortune allowed her to discover it?

If time could be reversed, her ancestor, Fox Fairy Nannan, would definitely turn this land upside down and find the tomb of the ancient god. She would obtain such heaven-defying skills, and then she would enslave this kid to carry her sedan chair and serve her by washing clothes and folding quilts every day.

Fox Fairy Nannan's thoughts were written all over her face, and Zhang Chen found it amusing, but he didn't say anything. This was a wonderful misunderstanding.

Soon, the two arrived at the canyon. Fortunately, Zhang Chen had a night-luminescent pearl, so he wasn't afraid of the darkness in front of him. Fox Fairy Nannan led the way to a stone wall on one side, where there was an uneven stone platform, about two meters in size. The top was dry, and there were pots, pans, and bowls, as well as salt and firewood.

However, when Zhang Chen looked at the pots, pans, and bowls, his face immediately darkened, because he was very familiar with those items. They were all from his house.

"You even cook here?" Zhang Chen didn't argue with the fox spirit, but instead asked. Now that the other party had become his skill, he would have plenty of opportunities to send her on errands and take revenge in the future, creating even greater value for himself.

"Five years ago, my ancestor fought with someone and suffered serious injuries, so she hid here to recuperate. She rested here for two years, and I came here day and night to cook and serve her," Fox Fairy Nannan said.

"Ancestor?" Zhang Chen couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. Then, his scalp tingled. There was actually another fox spirit? And an ancestor-level fox spirit at that?

This was simply terrifying!

Even Fox Fairy Nannan was already so difficult to deal with, let alone the Fox Fairy Ancestor?

"Where is your ancestor?" Zhang Chen secretly raised his guard and casually asked.

"She seems to be plotting something with your human 'Huang What-Road'. She hasn't returned since she left that year," Fox Fairy Nannan said.

"What is your ancestor's cultivation level?" Zhang Chen asked.

"She has already condensed her Yin Spirit!" Fox Fairy Nannan said with some pride in her voice.

"Condensed Yin Spirit? What realm is that?" Zhang Chen asked, puzzled.

"One level higher than me," Fox Fairy Nannan said.

"Tell me about the levels of cultivation," Zhang Chen asked curiously.

Fox Fairy Nannan's expression turned strange when she heard this: "To be precise, there are no levels of cultivation in this world. The levels I'm talking about are just the cultivators' development of the spiritual world."

Zhang Chen was puzzled. The fox spirit said, "Humans have martial arts: Ming Jin, An Jin, Hua Jin, Bao Dan, and then Seeing the Divine. This Seeing the Divine is seeing one's own soul. The soul is the spirit in the human body. The Seeing the Divine realm is already the limit of the physical body, the limit of physical strength. And when you reach this realm, the path of cultivation is cut off."

"In ancient times, there were creatures in the world who mastered supernatural powers. Using these supernatural powers as a guide, they opened up a path of cultivation for the mortals of the world. But later, something unknown happened in the world, and the secret methods for cultivating the soul above Seeing the Divine were cut off. Until sixty years ago, a human expert in the Seeing the Divine realm traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, wanting to find the legendary reclusive experts and seek the wonderful methods to break through the Seeing the Divine realm, wanting to use the human body to pursue transcendence and fight against the mysterious. Then, he accidentally fell into an ancient god's tomb and excavated an old article from it. From it, he found a way to refine the spirit and was lucky enough to break through to the Out-of-Body realm, beginning to involve himself in the mysterious realm. Then, the acquired cultivation method opened a new chapter."

"That's why I say that we are born with supernatural powers, we are born gods. Those damn spirit refining incantations are just acquired cultivation methods. As long as we find their physical bodies, we can easily kill them in seconds. They are not worth mentioning," the fox spirit said.

Zhang Chen was thoughtful when he heard this. He didn't dare to underestimate the spiritual cultivation methods. The spiritual world was definitely not as superficial as the fox spirit said.

"What do you mean by saying there are no cultivation realms?" Zhang Chen asked.

Fox Fairy Nannan said when she heard this, "How mysterious is the spiritual realm? Everyone has only been exploring it for less than sixty years. Naturally, everyone cultivates their own way. What I call the Yin Spirit or Out-of-Body are just innate abilities born after the soul becomes strong."

"However, the cultivation of the spiritual realm is extremely mysterious and difficult. Only a very small number of you humans have dug out the inheritance, but it's hard to say whether you have actually stepped into it. I have heard that a dozen of your human grandmasters in the Seeing the Divine realm suddenly went crazy one day. It seems that they must have encountered problems when they were in the Out-of-Body realm," Fox Fairy Nannan said. "The cultivation of the spiritual realm is not a simple matter. Once you fail, your soul will definitely suffer serious injuries, and the whole person will go crazy."

"The cultivation realms I'm talking about are just my ancestor's self-verification. The abilities obtained during the cultivation process are used to determine the name of each stage. The first stage is the ability to separate the soul from the body. The second stage is the ability to travel at night. The third stage is not afraid of the great sun and can travel under the scorching sun. The fourth stage is the ability to control objects. The fifth stage is not afraid of the magnetic field of life and can possess the bodies of living beings. The sixth stage is the ability to condense into a physical body in front of people, so that mortals can see it with their naked eyes. The seventh stage is the ability to seize other people's bodies. The eighth stage is the Yin Spirit, but I don't know this realm. The ancestor has just stepped into this realm and hasn't told me about it in detail."

Fox Fairy Nannan didn't hide anything.

"Humans haven't even stepped into the spiritual world, but your ancestor has actually reached the Yin Spirit stage?" Zhang Chen's pupils shrank rapidly when he heard this, and a look of disbelief appeared in his eyes.

He really wanted to ask: Why?

"My ancestor is different. She is a natural god, possessing energy that can interfere with the soul, so cultivation is naturally easy for her. Moreover, my ancestor also has a unique ability to quickly recover from soul injuries, so she can go faster and further," Fox Fairy Nannan said with a proud look on her face.

Zhang Chen looked at Fox Fairy Nannan with his eyes, and thousands of thoughts churned in his mind, but he always felt that the cultivation of the spiritual world was not as simple and easy as Fox Fairy Nannan said. If fox spirits can rely on their innate skills to cultivate quickly, can't the human race do the same? Aren't there any innate ability users in the human race?

However, all of this was too far away from him. What he had to do was to dig out the tomb of that god!

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