I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#485 - Burning the mountains and boiling the sea

“Seven days? That's enough!” Zhang Chen muttered to himself. It was enough time for him to complete his final tasks in the North.

He needed to collect the Colored Realm Fire from the Eight Trigrams Furnace and return to the Yellow Dawn Temple to see if there were any other opportunities within.

“A mere water demon is not to be feared!” Zhang Chen possessed the art of beast control and naturally wouldn't take the water demon seriously. “By the way, where is Cheng Yu?”

“Cheng Yu is currently in secluded cultivation, about to enter the Object Manipulation realm. That girl's talent is truly rare, even surpassing mine.” Xie Lingyun revealed a hint of amazement in her eyes when mentioning Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu's talent had indeed astonished her.

“I intend to take that girl as my disciple. What do you think?” Xie Xuan asked.

Zhang Chen met Xie Xuan's gaze and then shook his head. “I have already paved the way for Cheng Yu. I don't need Head Commander Xie to worry about her. The matters within the Surveillance and Rectification Department are too complicated and not suitable for that girl's growth.”

Zhang Chen didn't want to deal with the imperial court because the people in the court were too despicable. Once a superior asked you to do something against your conscience, would you do it or not?

If you didn't, the Surveillance and Rectification Department would enforce its family laws. If you did, you would violate your conscience, and demonic obstacles would arise in your heart, which would not be conducive to cultivation.

“Why do you fear the imperial court like a tiger? In fact, the imperial court is not bad.” There was a trace of helplessness in Xie Xuan's voice.

“I'll go see Cheng Yu.” Zhang Chen looked at Xie Lingyun.

“Follow me.” Xie Lingyun said.

The two got up and came to the outside of a secret cabin. Dozens of martial artists who had cultivated their blood energy guarded the outside of the cabin. Obviously, Xie's father and daughter knew how much Zhang Chen valued Cheng Yu, so they were afraid of disturbing Cheng Yu's cultivation.

“Cheng Yu is cultivating in the room. She has been in seclusion for six days.” Xie Lingyun said.

Those who cultivate are full of energy. Even if they don't eat or drink for a month, it won't have any effect.

Zhang Chen could sense Cheng Yu's aura within the room through the Blood Control Technique. Her blood energy was stable, and her heartbeat was extremely slow, indicating that she had reached a critical point in her cultivation and entered a deep state of meditation.

Seeing that Cheng Yu was fine, Zhang Chen felt relieved and turned to Xie Lingyun and said, “I still have something to do. I will definitely return in five days to help the Surveillance and Rectification Department's army through the tribulation.”

Xie Lingyun's expression turned solemn when she heard this. “Be careful. The North is now a mixed bag, completely chaotic. All kinds of crises are lurking. Even those great experts in the Yang God realm don't dare to say that they can protect themselves. The tenth-order experts of the demon race have entered the North. The entire North is already in a state of panic, and experts from all walks of life of the human race are also keeping a low profile, lest they be targeted by those demon experts.”

“You should know my methods, sister. When it comes to the ability to protect my life, few in this world can compare to me.” After saying that, Zhang Chen jumped directly into the water and disappeared without a trace using the Water Evasion Technique.

Zhang Chen concealed himself all the way, constantly running in the water. However, Zhang Chen was frightened by what he saw along the way. Why?

There were commoners screaming in the water, constantly struggling and floating. This flood came suddenly, and countless commoners were buried in the water, becoming food for fish and shrimp.

Zhang Chen looked at the commoners struggling in the water, hesitated slightly, and then left directly. It wasn't that he didn't want to help, but he couldn't save them all. He could save ten, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand people, but what if there were hundreds of thousands of people struggling in the water? Millions?

Where did Zhang Chen have the ability to save them all?

After another hour, there was a sudden fluctuation of mysterious energy ahead. Zhang Chen stopped his escape and, after hesitating slightly, rushed towards the source of the mysterious fluctuation. When he got closer, he saw a big tiger sleeping in the water, with purple light flowing around it, undergoing a transformation.

It was strange that the big tiger could sleep in the water without drowning. Wasn't that strange?

Zhang Chen manifested his human form in the water, looked at the five-meter-long tiger, and realized: “This is just an ordinary big tiger. Because it obtained a Dragon Pearl fragment, it obtained luck and is undergoing a transformation, about to evolve into a demon beast. And the Dragon Pearl fragment has the ability to control water, so it has the ability to ward off water.”

Zhang Chen looked at the transforming tiger and thought to himself, using Water Flow Strangulation. The big tiger directly turned into a pile of minced meat, and a rice-grain-sized purple Dragon Pearl fragment flew out, captured by Zhang Chen's outstretched hand, and then he turned into Water Evasion and continued to travel far away.

Once these kinds of demons become powerful, because they have obtained the good fortune of a True Dragon, they are not comparable to ordinary demons. They will definitely master innate skills upon birth and will definitely become a major problem for the human race in the future.

Zhang Chen traveled through the water all the way, but soon he felt a little scalp tingling, because there were too many Dragon Pearl fragments that had shattered at the beginning, and there were too many demon beasts that had become powerful. Zhang Chen couldn't kill them all.

Along the way, Zhang Chen encountered at least hundreds of demon beasts that had obtained Dragon Pearl fragments and were undergoing transformation. The most important thing was that some demon beasts had already digested the Dragon Pearl fragments, integrating the Dragon Pearl fragments into their blood. Zhang Chen strangled them, and their blood flowed out, carrying the essence of the Dragon Pearl, which further polluted countless ordinary aquatic creatures, causing those aquatic creatures to obtain luck and undergo transformation.

“The North is no longer suitable for human habitation and has become a demon kingdom on earth.” Zhang Chen sighed softly, his voice full of helplessness. He simply gave up and stopped wasting time, and instead came all the way to the mountain where the Eight Trigrams Furnace was hidden.

The mountain where the Eight Trigrams Furnace was hidden was not submerged by the flood. When Zhang Chen came all the way to the mountain where the Eight Trigrams Furnace was located, he saw that the Eight Trigrams Furnace was cold and silent. The Eight Trigrams Furnace had long lost its heat.

Zhang Chen walked into the stone cave, looked at the Eight Trigrams Furnace in front of him, and a look of disappointment appeared in his eyes: “The Colored Realm Fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace has actually been extinguished?”

“How could the Colored Realm Fire be extinguished?” Zhang Chen's eyes were full of disbelief.

Zhang Chen placed his palm on the Eight Trigrams Furnace, sensing the condition of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and sighed after a long time: “King Pingbian deserves to die!”

King Pingbian flooded the North, causing the people to be displaced. The dragon energy was weakened to the limit, and it was difficult to supply the Eight Trigrams Furnace as firewood, unable to maintain the burning of the Colored Realm Fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. And without firewood, the Colored Realm Fire would naturally be extinguished. Zhang Chen was ultimately one step late.

“It's a pity that this Eight Trigrams Furnace is a place of good fortune. I don't know if there will be a chance to reuse it in the future.” Zhang Chen was very disappointed and wished he could cut King Pingbian into pieces. However, since things had come to this, there was no use in regretting it. He could only return empty-handed.

Fortunately, he was not without other options. He also had a newly acquired skill: Ember of the Sun.

He didn't know if he would be able to grind this skill into True Sun Fire in the future. True Sun Fire was one of the most domineering flames in the world. If he could grind it out, he didn't know if it could replace the Colored Realm Fire.

“That's right, I can experiment with this Ember of the Sun skill!” Zhang Chen looked at the vast water at the foot of the mountain. The next moment, he stretched out his palm, and a grain of rice-sized dark red charcoal appeared in his palm.

After the dark red charcoal appeared, Zhang Chen didn't notice anything unusual. He took it in front of him and looked at it for a while, but he still didn't see anything special about it.

“Is that it?” Zhang Chen was disappointed when he looked at the dark red charcoal in his hand. This skill was too weak. He casually flicked his finger, and the charcoal crossed the void and fell into the river at the foot of the mountain.

“Boom~”

The next moment, an explosion came. The feeling was like someone pouring a basin of cold water on a high-temperature furnace. The cold water instantly boiled after falling on the furnace.

And after Zhang Chen's grain of Ember of the Sun fell into the water, the river within a ten-mile radius instantly boiled, setting off a terrifying heat wave. Mist rose up and filled the world, and a逼迫temperature dissipated in the world, shocking Zhang Chen dumbfounded: “It's cooked! It's all cooked! All the fish and shrimp in the water are cooked!”

Zhang Chen's eyes were full of horror.

In just a moment, all the water within a ten-mile radius was boiled. What a terrifying amount of heat was that?

Looking at the boiling river, Zhang Chen had to admit that he had misjudged and underestimated the power of this Ember of the Sun.

If this terrifying temperature were to fall on a person, even a Yang God expert would be melted, right?

“This is Ember, the temperature may not be worse than the real True Sun Fire! I was wrong!” Zhang Chen scratched his head, a pensive look in his eyes.

Is the burning coal fire hot, or is the charcoal fire after burning hot?

The temperature of charcoal is not low either!

Although Ember is a flame that is about to be extinguished, it is one level lower than the temperature of charcoal, but that is benchmarked against True Sun Fire.

This is Ember, not ashes!

“I've made a big profit! I've really made a big profit this time. It seems that I have a means to pose a threat to Yang God True Men. However, Yang God True Men drive the energy of heaven and earth, and their bodies gather and disperse invisibly. It's not easy to smash this Ember on them, after all, they are not wooden stakes.” Zhang Chen was overjoyed.

But can you say that this Ember is weak? This is simply a means of group attack!

Especially since he also has the Combined Sand Art. If the Combined Sand Art is combined with this Ember of the Sun, I don't know what kind of terrifying means it would have.

“Wind can help the fire grow. I wonder if my Combined Sand Art can blow this Ember into True Sun Fire and make the True Sun Fire burn completely.” Zhang Chen had an amazing idea in his mind.

“A little interesting!” Zhang Chen muttered to himself, his eyes swept over the boiling river in front of him. The Ember of the Sun gradually cooled in the river and finally turned into ashes and disappeared into the river, but the mysterious energy fluctuations caused were spreading in the world.

“Someone is coming, they should have sensed the fluctuations of my Ember of the Sun. My Ember of the Sun contains pure Yang energy, which is a great tonic for Yin God cultivators and can help them transform Yin God. Even if its power is not comparable to the Sun fragments collected by Xie Lingyun, it is still a first-class pure Yang treasure.” Zhang Chen was thoughtful. The next moment, the Water Evasion Technique was activated, and he disappeared without a trace.

Now Zhang Chen doesn't want to cause trouble for himself. He just wants to be a low-key developer.