I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#570 - Attain the Primordial Spirit

Chapter 567: Achieving the Primordial Spirit

The little girl's voice was full of tragic determination, her steps unsteady and her body swaying. Although she had reached her limit, her face was still full of determination as she actively moved toward the direction where Zhang Chen stood.

At this moment, Zhang Chen stood within the dense forest, a thoughtful look on his face as he observed the blisters and pustules on his body. In the next moment, Zhang Chen's Blood God power flowed, and all the blisters and pustules on his body disappeared completely, the rotten skin rapidly repairing itself to its original state.

"You gang of thugs from the Cao Gang, I'm going to fight you to the death! Even if I die today, I'll bite off a piece of your flesh!" Just as Zhang Chen was pondering in his heart, the little girl, covered in blood like a blood gourd, charged towards Zhang Chen with a long saber, her momentum fierce.

However, upon seeing Zhang Chen standing in the dense forest, the girl's steps faltered, her tragic cry resembling the strangled squawk of a duck, all her words swallowed back into her throat: "Zhang Chen? You're alive?"

The little girl's big eyes looked at Zhang Chen, her small face covered in blood and dirt, staring in shock at the figure opposite her. Then, in the next moment, her eyes rolled back and she fainted directly.

Zhang Chen's figure flashed, appearing in front of the little girl, and he held her in his arms. He saw the terrifying and hideous wounds on the little girl's body were turned outwards. Zhang Chen took out a medicinal pill and placed it in the little girl's mouth, sighing softly: "You've worked hard!"

Then, water flowed and gathered in the air, washing away the blood from Cheng Yu's body. In the next moment, Zhang Chen stepped out towards the edge of the forest.

The Zhang family's carriage was parked in place. Seeing Zhang Chen return with Cheng Yu in his arms, their faces immediately turned anxious as they stepped forward: "How is this girl?"

Cheng Yu's clothes were tattered and torn, looking like a beggar, which made Zhang Shi's eyelids twitch.

"She's overexerted, plus she's suffered some injuries. She'll be fine after a period of recuperation." Zhang Chen said to Zhang Shi, "Let's get on the road."

He didn't put Cheng Yu in the carriage, lest the bumps of the carriage affect the healing of the little girl's wounds. At this moment, Zhang Chen held Cheng Yu in his arms, walking extremely steadily.

Zhang Shi led the carriage, walking beside Zhang Chen: "Chen'er, what happened to you this time? You scared everyone to death."

"I broke through a bottleneck in my cultivation. That bottleneck came so suddenly that I didn't have time to explain to everyone, and I directly fell into a kind of wonderful state." Zhang Chen's voice was full of self-reproach: "I'm sorry for causing Mother to worry. In the future, I will definitely tell everyone in advance."

Looking at Zhang Shi's red and swollen eyes, surrounded by a large dark circle, Zhang Chen's heart was filled with guilt. However, this was also a good thing, allowing him to see clearly whether his family was worth his efforts. The facts proved that his family was worth fighting for.

The two little ones also jumped down from the carriage at this time, following behind Zhang Chen, one on the left and one on the right. Zhang Fei looked at Zhang Chen with a pitiful face: "Big brother, I will definitely cultivate martial arts properly in the future, and I will never make you angry again."

"Big brother, me too! I will never dare to argue with you again! As long as you're alive, even if you ask me to practice martial arts every day, I'm willing." Zhang Tuo tugged at the corner of Zhang Chen's clothes, pleadingly.

Zhang Chen looked at the two little ones' red and swollen eyes, now swollen as if they had been stung by bees, only revealing a slit. It looked quite comical, but Zhang Chen didn't laugh. Instead, he put on a stern face and said, "It's good that you two know you were wrong. You must work hard in your cultivation in the future."

The two little ones nodded like chickens pecking at rice. Zhang Chen then asked Zhang Shi: "Aren't we traveling by boat? Why are we traveling by land again?"

Zhang Shi recounted what happened on the boat, and finally solemnly instructed: "Especially that Miss Jiang Nan. If you meet her in the future, you must personally visit her to express your gratitude. We owe her a great favor this time."

"I know!" Zhang Chen nodded: "It's just that the matter on the boat is a bit strange. The blisters and pustules on my body were very abnormal. Logically speaking, after I broke through, such abnormalities shouldn't have appeared on my body."

He felt that something was wrong, but Zhang Shi said: "The Shen family has treated us well! Especially the steward on the boat, he has been doing his best, and only reluctantly asked us to leave the boat after being in a difficult position. He has never been rude to us. Are you being too sensitive?"

"Too sensitive?" Zhang Chen remained noncommittal upon hearing this. He always felt that something was not quite right, especially Shen Qiu's decisiveness and Jiang Nan's helping hand, which gave birth to many thoughts in Zhang Chen's heart.

Now that he had cultivated the Primordial Spirit, his thinking was dozens of times more agile than before. In a moment, he had already captured some clues: "Shen Qiu has a problem! My younger brother and sister's bloodline is already enough for people to confirm that we are from the Zhang family. Otherwise, Jiang Nan wouldn't have taken out the medicinal pill. Is there any way Shen Qiu wouldn't understand a problem Jiang Nan could figure out? Unless he harbors hostility towards me and doesn't want me to go to Jinling alive..."

Zhang Chen's thoughts raced, and countless clues were deduced by him. Since cultivating the Primordial Spirit, his thinking had reached an indescribable level of agility.

The Primordial Spirit is the beginning of the Qi Refiner's journey on the Great Path, and also the beginning of the Immortal Path finally showing its head.

Zhang Chen internally observed his own body. At this time, there were no more divine anomalies in his body. Only within his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows was there a figure shimmering with golden light. The figure's body was actually flowing with True God Golden Light. His Blood Dao crystal core had now transformed into a huge chain completely composed of runes, running through the Primordial Spirit's body, like blood vessels flowing and changing.

The physical body now was merely an ordinary physical body. All its divine anomalies had already fallen into the Primordial Spirit.

"Even if I were to abandon my physical body now, I could still seize another body and be reborn, but the physical body is, after all, the foundation of my Immortal Path, and it cannot be abandoned. Even for immortals, once the physical body is injured, it is also an extremely troublesome matter. For example, Nezha... Once the physical body is damaged, the Great Path is also cut off! The physical body is an anchor point, the key to fixing the connection between the Primordial Spirit and the physical body, and also a cauldron used to refine and nourish the Primordial Spirit. Therefore, even when I reach this realm, the physical body is still extremely important, and it is the key to the unity of heaven and man." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

Having cultivated to the Primordial Spirit realm, Zhang Chen finally sensed the mysterious laws between heaven and earth, but those laws were too vast, like a scroll of heavenly book, which Zhang Chen's mortal body could not understand or comprehend.

However, upon reaching the realm of the Primordial Spirit, Zhang Chen realized that his realm was very peculiar, being between the Yin Spirit and the Yang Spirit.

It did not have the shortcomings of the Yin Spirit, but it also did not have the pure Yang Qi of the Yang Spirit.

"If placed in the Immortal Path, Yang Spirit experts should be able to be called Pure Yang True Immortals, having refined away the Yin Qi dregs from their bodies. The Primordial Spirit, however, walks the Heavenly Immortal Great Path, not the Pure Yang Immortal Path. If the Primordial Spirit realm can be broken through again, then it should be the Immortal Dao. The cultivation of the Immortal Dao does not follow the levels of this world. The Immortal Dao breaks through one great realm after another. Although the Primordial Spirit cannot directly mobilize the power of the laws of heaven and earth like the Yang Spirit, it also has the opportunity to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth and understand the mysteries of the laws of heaven and earth. In simple terms, it is better than those below, but not as good as those above!" Zhang Chen secretly compared the differences between the two cultivation methods.

The carriage was rumbling along, stirring up trails of dust. Cheng Yu slept soundly in Zhang Chen's arms, then opened her eyes and looked at the living face, her eyes full of surprise: "Zhang Chen, it really is you! You actually really came back to life."

"Senior Sister, thank you for your trouble this time." Zhang Chen looked at Cheng Yu with a smile. Under the effect of that medicinal pill, the injuries on Cheng Yu's body had completely recovered.

"Zhang Chen, you brat owes me a big favor. You must treat me better in the future. You must always think of me first when there are delicious food and drinks, and you must give me good treasures to use first. Otherwise, you will be letting down this grandma's efforts." Cheng Yu complained to Zhang Chen: "For your sake, I have suffered the pain of a thousand cuts. Look, my body is full of knife scars. How will this grandma marry in the future?"

While speaking, Cheng Yu raised her arm to show Zhang Chen the knife wounds on her body, but in the next moment, Cheng Yu was shocked and stood there blankly: "Where are the knife scars on my body? Where are the wounds?"

Cheng Yu disregarded Zhang Chen and directly opened her clothes, looking at the smooth skin on her body. The previous injuries seemed to be a dream. The whole person was stunned in place, then raised her head and looked at Zhang Chen: "Is this your doing?"

"It's my doing!" Zhang Chen said with a smile: "This time, thanks to Senior Sister. In the future, when Junior Brother gets benefits, I will definitely let Senior Sister enjoy them first."

"It's good that you still have a conscience." Cheng Yu nodded with satisfaction. After realizing that she was being held by Zhang Chen in a princess carry, she immediately became unhappy and struggled to jump out of Zhang Chen's arms: "Zhang Chen, are you treating me like a child? Who carries people like this! Only children carry like this."

Hearing Cheng Yu's words, Zhang Chen smiled and stroked Cheng Yu's little head: "It's Junior Brother's fault. Senior Sister is right to scold me."

"Zhang Chen, you're not allowed to touch my head! I'm your senior sister!" Cheng Yu glared at Zhang Chen, looking at him with shame and anger.

Zhang Chen fiercely rubbed the little girl's head, turning the little girl's head into a honeycomb, and then ran forward triumphantly.

"Zhang Chen! I'm not done with you! We're not done between us!" Cheng Yu glared at Zhang Chen, moving her feet to chase after him.

Zhang Shi looked at Zhang Chen, who was jumping around, and the little girl, who was also jumping around, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "That's great."

That night

The family set up a bonfire. Zhang Chen sat cross-legged in the darkness, silently circulating his energy and mobilizing his Primordial Spirit, preparing to use his Primordial Spirit to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.

"This is my first time comprehending the laws of heaven and earth. I hope to gain some insights!" A hint of anticipation appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.

In the next moment, the void behind Zhang Chen twisted, and the Primordial Spirit had already left the body, appearing behind Zhang Chen. The Primordial Spirit's face was exactly the same as Zhang Chen's, and its body was also exactly the same, except that its figure appeared illusory and not so solid.

Along with the Primordial Spirit's departure, the void in front of Zhang Chen changed, and an unprecedented world appeared before his eyes.

What are the laws of heaven and earth? When you see them, you will naturally understand!