I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 82 Cultivation Methods

After viewing the "White Fox Devouring the Moon" picture, Zhang Chen's soul did not grow stronger, but his bloodline ability from the mysterious and strange did, accompanied by the movement of the crystal core, with mysterious and unpredictable symbols faintly appearing and disappearing behind it.

The mysterious symbols flickered with silver-white light, branded under Zhang Chen's skin, as if they could turn into a pair of wings and rush out at any time. Zhang Chen felt the changes in his body and thought to himself:

"Those one hundred and twenty symbols seem to combine with my ability to evolve bats from blood, causing incredible changes. On the fifteenth of each month, during the full moon, I seem to have the ability to transform!"

"If I want to verify my ability, I still need to go out and verify it under the moonlight."

How shrewd was the fox spirit? Hearing Zhang Chen's words, she immediately noticed a trace of abnormality: "Could it be that you have also noticed some other effects? This picture scroll comes from the ancient mythological era, and my fox clan only discovered it later, and has only studied it for seventy or eighty years. There may be some secrets in it."

"What did you find?" The fox spirit leaned forward, and a unique milky fragrance came, which smelled quite good.

Zhang Chen shook his head. How could he tell the fox spirit what he had discovered?

Zhang Chen was certain that his crystal core now had another ability: absorbing moonlight + full moon transformation.

And under the full moon, there seemed to be other changes. The specifics still need to be verified on the day of the full moon! Today is three days away from the full moon!

When the symbol was engraved in the crystal core, he already knew the ability brought by the symbol.

"Perhaps the crystal core in my body evolved from the power of demons and evil, so after seeing the symbol, it actually gave birth to a inexplicable induction, copying one hundred and twenty of the symbols. Although the remaining thousands of mysterious symbols did not cause my crystal core to sense, it does not mean that they are useless. It can only be said that the bloodlines of both sides are different and cannot cause bloodline induction."

As for why his crystal core engraved the symbol of absorbing moonlight, Zhang Chen thought that perhaps all living beings in the world take absorbing moonlight as the basic method of cultivation, so his crystal core extracted these one hundred and twenty universal symbols from it.

"My crystal core seems to be a bit evil! Fortunately, there is the light of the true god in my body, and I still have absolute control over the crystal core, otherwise I would really worry about being backlashed by the crystal core one day," Zhang Chen thought to himself.

"Speak quickly, what exactly did you find? By the way, how can you, a human, perceive any good fortune in the secret map of the demon clan?" The fox spirit's eyes were full of curiosity.

Hearing the fox spirit's words, Zhang Chen did not answer her, but instead held the torch and came to the other side of the stone wall.

The picture scroll on the other side was even simpler, with only a blurry figure of a person, with three stars of the sun, moon, and stars floating above the figure's head, seemingly representing the three treasures of human essence, qi, and spirit.

The figure was wearing a wide robe, with tens of thousands of strange symbols engraved on the lining of the robe, which looked very mysterious.

Above the picture scroll, four large characters were engraved, which Zhang Chen did not recognize, and turned to ask the fox spirit: "What are those four characters?"

"Heaven is round, earth is square," said the fox spirit.

"This picture scroll belongs to your human race and is suitable for your human race to observe and preserve the spirit to strengthen the soul," the fox spirit said here, looking at Zhang Chen with a pair of eyes, her words somewhat hesitant.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Chen noticed the fox spirit's abnormality and turned to look at her.

"I just want to tell you, don't take risks. Even if you get this visualization map, you must not practice it, otherwise you will definitely die from the exhaustion of essence, qi, and spirit," the fox spirit sighed quietly.

"Why?" Zhang Chen asked puzzled.

"Because if you want to complete the visualization map to strengthen the soul, you must have a huge amount of blood as nourishment. The human race is born with a weak physique. Only by first practicing martial arts, starting from Ming Jin to temper the physique, Dark Jin to cleanse the bones, Hua Jin to wash the marrow, and Dan Jin to embrace the Dan all over the body, so that the Qi and blood are perfectly integrated and unique, can the Dan Qi that is born nourish the soul. And if you want to see the soul, you can only break through to Seeing God is Not Bad, can you control the coordination of Qi and blood and soul, so as not to deplete the Qi and blood. Loss of life!" the fox spirit explained.

"Moreover, all things in the world have their weight. If you rashly practice the visualization method, the weight of the soul will increase, which will burden your body. I'm afraid your body can't bear it, and you will die from exhaustion of Qi and blood."

She was not helping Zhang Chen out of kindness, she was just afraid that Zhang Chen would die, and then implicate her family.

The fox spirit hadn't lived enough yet!

Even if she was reduced to a slave, she hadn't lived enough.

"Qi and blood?" Zhang Chen smiled suddenly when he heard this. He was a little glad that he had obtained the blood-sucking skill. Others might be afraid of Qi and blood consumption, but he was not afraid?

He plundered other people's Qi and blood, he had infinite Qi and blood, infinite resources.

The only thing he was worried about was that the weight of the soul that the fox spirit said would crush his body.

In fact, he could understand what the fox spirit said about the weight of the soul crushing the body. In his previous life, some people with good brains had particularly poor physical fitness, which was actually because their souls were too heavy and their bodies could not bear the burden.

However, he was different from others. His body had undergone transformation. What others could not bear, he might not be able to bear.

Of course, the prerequisite for all of this was that he had to first get started and comprehend the visualization method in front of him. Then he would consider the various things about the body's load!

When the fox spirit saw Zhang Chen laughing, she immediately felt insulted. She kindly reminded him, what did he mean by sneering? Was he mocking her?

She simply stood aside and said nothing, quietly watching Zhang Chen's movements.

Zhang Chen stood in front of the stone wall, holding a torch and carefully observing the pattern in front of him. From the collar of his clothes to every symbol in his sleeves, he could see clearly and understand clearly. He must know that this was the key to his future cultivation, and he could not be careless in the slightest.

Only when Zhang Chen had read the entire picture scroll did he frown and stand in place without saying a word.

Because he had gained nothing!

After an unknown amount of time, the fox spirit next to him looked at Zhang Chen's pale face and was a little worried about his physical condition, so he asked, "Are you hungry?"

"Go catch fish for me in the water, and remember to cook them with the torch after you catch them," Zhang Chen said to the fox spirit without turning his head, his eyes glued to the symbols.

The fox spirit was stunned when he heard this, and then crushed a mouthful of silver teeth: "This old lady is an eighth-level existence, and you asked me to fish for you?"

"Huh? Could it be that I activate the skill and ask you to move fish in the river? If you hit a rock or fall into the mud, don't blame me," Zhang Chen said with a smile.

The fox spirit was speechless when he heard this, and could only grit his teeth and turn into a stream of light and fly away, diving into the river to catch fish.

Before long, the fragrant grilled fish was handed to Zhang Chen's mouth. Zhang Chen held the torch in one hand and the grilled fish in the other, staring at the pattern, trying to observe every detail. He had to know that this was the key to his future cultivation, and he could not be careless in the slightest.

It was only after Zhang Chen had read the entire picture scroll that he frowned and stood in place without saying a word.

Because he had gained nothing!

Without any sensation, it was as if this was just an ordinary stone carving, without any brilliance. It wasn't even as reactive as the previous demonic scroll?

If the 'White Fox Swallowing the Moon' hadn't caused the crystal core in his body to mutate, he would have suspected that the fox spirit was playing tricks on him.

"Strange, why do I feel nothing when I look at this painting?" Zhang Chen turned to the little fox spirit and asked the question in his heart.

"Puchi ~"

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, a smile appeared on the fox spirit Nannan's face, she laughed so hard that she bent over, gasping for breath, as if she had heard something funny.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhang Chen noticed the mockery in her laughter, and his face darkened instantly. He probably knew that he had said something wrong, which caused the fox spirit to laugh at him.

"How long have you been looking at this pattern?" The fox spirit asked.

"About seven or eight hours," Zhang Chen said.

"Have you memorized the entire pattern?" the fox spirit asked.

Zhang Chen shook his head: "Not to mention the lines, there are more than 12,000 symbols on it, how could I possibly remember them?"

This pattern was many times more complicated than the demon clan's pattern.

"Do you know how long it took someone as smart as this Old Ancestor to understand the 'White Fox Swallowing the Moon' pattern?" The fox spirit Nannan's eyes were full of pride: "This Old Ancestor observed the pattern for eighteen years, sitting in the stone chamber for eighteen years, before finally entering samadhi. Even so, this Old Ancestor was still called the number one genius of the demon clan. You, a mere brute who doesn't know how to read, want to enter the Dao after watching for seven or eight hours? That's just wishful thinking."

Hearing the fox spirit Nannan's words, Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly turned, and he said: "You entered the Dao at eighteen, how old are you this year?"

Zhang Chen looked at the beautiful girl in front of him, thinking to himself: 'Could she be an old monster who has lived for hundreds of years?'

Seeing Zhang Chen's expression, the fox spirit Nannan immediately understood what he was thinking, and said proudly: "This Old Ancestor is thirty-one years old this year. Since I was eighteen, I have been breaking through one realm every year. This year is the eighth realm. I was also delayed for five years because of the possession. This Old Ancestor is extremely talented and is expected to reach the tenth realm in the future!"

Zhang Chen's pupils shrank when he heard this. He became more cautious about the fox spirit in front of him. One advancement per year, even riding a rocket wouldn't be that fast, right?

Although he didn't know how the speed of cultivation was divided in the cultivation world, the fox spirit's one realm per year was definitely ridiculously fast. This fox spirit was not simple.

Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit, seemingly struck by it, and turned his head to look at the pattern on the wall, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

The stone wall was embedded here, did he have to sit here for more than ten years?

Not to mention more than ten years, he couldn't accept sitting here for even three or five years.

"Do you have paper there?" Zhang Chen asked.

"What do you want paper for?" the fox spirit asked.

"To draw this stone carving, so I can study it when I go out in the future. I can't be trapped here forever!" Zhang Chen said.

Hearing this, the fox spirit shook her head: "Don't even think about it. This kind of pattern cannot be copied. Once it is copied, it loses its true meaning and its artistic conception. It's just a waste of paper. Otherwise, wouldn't it have been better for me to study the copy in the fox clan? Why come here to study it?"

"Can't it be copied?" Zhang Chen was disappointed.

"Studying this thing means you have studied it, and not studying it means you haven't studied it. Some people sit for a lifetime and still can't enter samadhi, while others only need to sit there for seven or eight days to understand the mysteries and directly enter a state of concentration. I remember there was a guy from the human race named 'Xie Xuan' who went to a temple one year and happened to witness the excavation of a mysterious stone statue at the Great Compassion Temple. He directly entered samadhi with just one glance. Later, his whereabouts were unknown. Either he was taken in as a disciple by the Great Compassion Temple, or he was taken away by the imperial court," the fox spirit said.

Hearing this, Zhang Chen couldn't help but feel fascinated. What kind of incredible talent would it be to enter samadhi with just one glance?

"But you, kid, can't even recognize a basket of big characters. Don't even think about it. You won't even be able to get started even if you are given decades," the fox spirit didn't hide her mockery and contempt at all.

Zhang Chen's face darkened when he heard this. He was too lazy to pay attention to the fox spirit and instead looked at his golden finger interface.

He didn't feel anything about the pattern in front of him after looking at it for eight hours. He knew that his talent was probably not that high, but why did he have golden fingers?

It didn't matter if his talent wasn't enough, his golden fingers just needed to be strong enough, right?

Zhang Chen looked at the golden finger skill interface, but saw that the golden finger interface didn't respond at all, and there was no intention of recording the skill at all.

"It's tricky!" Zhang Chen closed the golden finger interface, a look of embarrassment on his face, but the pattern was right in front of him, and he couldn't give up, right?

Moreover, this pattern was really complicated. Not to mention the lines of the pattern, which were easy to remember, there were more than 10,000 strange symbols, and it was almost impossible to record them.

It was already so difficult for people to remember a few Chinese characters and words on weekdays, let alone so many strange symbols?

However, Zhang Chen was not in a hurry. After all, he had caused such a big commotion outside. Zhang Chen must have reported it to the authorities. He could hide here to avoid the limelight and go out after ten and a half months.

As for his stepmother, those dried meats and clear water, if he saved a little, would be enough to eat for two or three months.

"I don't believe it!"

Zhang Chen carried the torch and stood in front of the stone wall, staring at the pattern on the wall with his eyes, desperately trying to remember those symbols in his mind.

One torch burned out, two torches, three torches, four torches...

Zhang Chen recorded the symbols on it over and over again. When the torch burned to the seventh one, the crystal core in his heart trembled slightly. At that moment, Zhang Chen seemed to feel that his body was starting to heat up again. The crystal core emitted a strange wave. At that moment, Zhang Chen felt that the air in front of him was changing, and his vision seemed to be soaring. He saw the microscopic world, the trajectory of dust in the air, and the arrangement of atoms in matter.

His eyes looked at the stone wall pattern, and as his eyes came into contact with it, the crystal core in his body jumped, and the orange aura on the stone wall in front of him was attracted by the crystal core. Then, the next moment, the orange light on the stone wall flickered, and like flowing water, it drilled into Zhang Chen's eyes. Zhang Chen only felt a blur in his mind, and suddenly it seemed like something was added for no reason.

As Zhang Chen's thoughts moved, a picture suddenly appeared in his mind. Zhang Chen felt that there was an extra picture in his mind. The picture was exactly the same as the pattern on the stone wall in front of him, with no difference in charm and symbols. Even if he left this place in the future, he would only need to visualize the 'Heaven and Earth Square' picture in his mind to practice.

"That's a bit interesting!" Zhang Chen was overjoyed. My crystal core seems to be very unusual.

"Hey, you idiot, look quickly! Come and see! What happened to the stone wall in front! Come and see what happened to the stone wall in front!" The fox spirit suddenly shouted loudly at Zhang Chen, startling Zhang Chen. He hurriedly looked at the stone wall, and then the next moment, his whole person couldn't help but be stunned. He saw that the entire stone wall had turned into dust and scattered on the ground, and a stone chamber appeared in front of him.

Zhang Chen looked at the stone chamber behind the stone wall and suddenly felt a shock in his heart: Could it be that the tomb of the missing imperial daughter has appeared?