I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#397 - Battle for the body

Venerable Hai Chan kowtowed to Zhang Chen several times with utmost respect, then looked at Zhang Chen with a flattering smile: "Young Daoist brother, are you satisfied now? Can you let me out of the grand formation now?"

Zhang Chen looked at Venerable Hai Chan, his voice full of emotion: "I never thought that there would be such a shameless person in the world. When looking down on others, it's always 'ant this' and 'ant that', but when asking for help, it's 'little brother this' and 'little brother that'."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Venerable Hai Chan was furious, his teeth grinding with hatred, but he still wore a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen felt very bored and said, "Little monk Hai Chan, I was lying to you. Now that you've fallen into this grand formation, how can you have a chance to get out? Don't worry, I'll send people to burn paper money for you every year in the future."

Venerable Hai Chan's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, and he immediately knew that he had been tricked by Zhang Chen!

Instantly, his eyes blazed with anger. Without another word, he suddenly jumped up, transforming into a stream of light and pouncing towards Zhang Chen, intending to restrain him and force him to release him.

Venerable Hai Chan's speed was extremely fast, giving Zhang Chen no time to react. He had already seized the key points around his body, a look of ferocity in his eyes: "Little Daoist child, you dare to trick me? Quickly open the grand formation and let me out, or you'll stay here and be buried with me today."

As the words fell, Zhang Chen, whom he was holding, exploded directly, turning into yellow sand that scattered in the air, slipping away from Venerable Hai Chan's palm.

Looking at the yellow sand slipping away from his palm, Venerable Hai Chan's heart skipped a beat, and he muttered "Bad!" It was too late to react. Only Zhang Chen's voice came from the vast yellow sand: "Venerable Hai Chan, today is your death day. Rest in peace, buried in this yellow sand."

"Young Daoist brother, everything can be discussed. Why do we have to fight to the death? If you have any requests, just tell me, and I will definitely satisfy you. Even if you want the true teachings of my Buddhist sect, I will tell you everything." At this time, Venerable Hai Chan's voice was full of humility.

Although he had lived for tens of thousands of years, he didn't want to die at all. Living was always better than being killed directly. As long as he could escape today, he would have a bright future, countless years to live, and countless beautiful women to accompany him. How could he bear to die?

Hearing Venerable Hai Chan's words, Zhang Chen smiled lightly, his laughter full of mockery: "I think it's better to make your soul fly away and scatter. Then everything you have will be mine."

"Are you really not willing to leave me a way out? Although your grand formation is powerful, my cultivation is not made of paper. You may not be able to kill me! If I manage to escape with a trace of my true spirit, I will definitely make you die without a burial place!" Seeing the murderous intent in Zhang Chen's words and that he was not leaving him a way out, Venerable Hai Chan's pupils contracted sharply, his voice not as weak as before, gradually becoming stronger.

"You want to escape? Hehe, if you have the ability to escape, then go ahead and show it. Let's see the truth on our hands!" Zhang Chen said no more nonsense, directly urging the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation, wanting to refine Venerable Hai Chan to death within the formation.

As Zhang Chen activated the formation, the yellow sand within the formation rolled, and the overwhelming yellow sand covered Venerable Hai Chan.

Venerable Hai Chan roared, Buddhist light flowing around him, transforming into a thousand-foot-tall Dharma idol. The Dharma idol stood tall, shrouded in mysterious power, and lines of runes and scriptures flowed on its skin. The giant struck out with a palm, stirring up ten thousand feet of yellow sand. However, the formation space was endless, and no matter how the giant rampaged between heaven and earth, it was like a mortal facing an endless sea of sand, unable to shake it even slightly.

In contrast, there was a strange power in the void, constantly eroding Venerable Hai Chan's mana and soul. Before long, his cultivation would turn into flowing water and fall back into the mortal world, becoming an ordinary person.

Zhang Chen looked at the Dharma idol that seemed to have the power to move mountains, fill seas, and shift stars, his eyes full of horror: "Is this the existence above the twelfth level? If we fought head-on, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be a match for one move."

"This is nothing. Right now, it's just Venerable Hai Chan's original power. This guy hasn't even used his magic weapon yet. His Vajra Pestle was disarmed by you in advance, otherwise his skills would be ten times stronger! You must know that the difference between a person fighting with bare hands and a person holding a treasure sword is like heaven and earth." The Great自在天魔 stood beside Zhang Chen, his eyes full of ridicule, feeling that Zhang Chen's knowledge was shallow.

Faced with the invasion of the endless yellow sand, Venerable Hai Chan's Dharma idol's physique continued to shrink, and his cultivation was constantly eroded by the yellow sand. In just over thirty breaths, Venerable Hai Chan's Dharma idol was beaten back to its original form.

At this time, Venerable Hai Chan finally panicked, his eyes full of horror, standing in the yellow sand, surrounded by Buddhist light, desperately resisting the invasion of the sky full of yellow sand, and roaring, "Changsheng, are you really not considering our tens of thousands of years of friendship and want to kill me?"

His voice was full of sorrow and desolation, with a strong sense of disbelief, which was simply tear-jerking: "If it hadn't been for me blocking a sword for you in the past, you would have been killed by the immortal long ago. How could you have achieved today's achievements? Later, you established the Qingcheng Mountain Daoist tradition and chose the Qingcheng Mountain dragon vein to cultivate. There were great demons entrenched in Qingcheng Mountain, and it was I who risked my life to drag you out of the great demon's mouth. How can you treat me like this?"

Unfortunately, no matter how sadly Venerable Hai Chan roared, the only thing that responded to him was the endless yellow sand.

"Thieving Daoist Changsheng, from today onwards, I will never stand with you. Let's break off our friendship here. I must extract your soul and refine it!" Venerable Hai Chan felt that his mana and soul were constantly being eroded, knowing that something was wrong. He couldn't delay any longer. He directly abandoned his cultivation. A bright light rose from the Baihui point on his head, wanting to break through the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation and escape.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen sneered: "I've been guarding against you!"

Then Zhang Chen's heart moved, and two black and white dragons blocked Venerable Hai Chan's path in the yellow sand. The black and white dragons twisted together, and then Venerable Hai Chan screamed and turned into a bright light, falling from the void. Zhang Chen stretched out his palm and caught the light, carefully examining it in front of his eyes. It was a bead the size of a bowl, and the bead was like crystal, showing a bright white color, crystal clear and pure inside.

"What is this? A relic?" Zhang Chen had never seen this thing before, his eyes showing a hint of curiosity, and asked in surprise.

Hearing this, the Great自在天魔 said: "This is Venerable Hai Chan's 'fruit'. This thing is indestructible and is the foundation of Venerable Hai Chan. If there is a chance in the future, his true spirit will reassemble and resurrect within the fruit. So if you want to completely kill Venerable Hai Chan, you must suppress the existence of this 'fruit' and prevent Venerable Hai Chan's true spirit from ever having a chance to revive."

Zhang Chen held the crystal ball in his hand and asked curiously, "What exactly is a fruit?"

The Great自在天魔 pondered for a moment, and then said: "If I talk about the existence of the fruit, you may not understand, but if I use words you can understand, it means that all living beings in the world, if they want to prove the realm of the fruit, must rely on a certain part of their body, such as: mouth, tongue, eyes, nose, ears, limbs, spirit, etc., and transform it to the extreme, reaching a state of indestructibility. Even if they are killed, as long as the fruit still exists, they can be resurrected from time and space, reassembling the scattered true spirit."

"For example, the crystal left behind by Venerable Hai Chan is based on spiritual power and is a spiritual relic cultivated and cast into a strange existence. But this crystal is only a sustenance of the fruit, not the real fruit, and cannot represent the real fruit. This crystal is just an external manifestation when he proves the 'fruit'." The Great自在天魔 explained.

Zhang Chen didn't understand. This mysterious realm was too far away from him, almost hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Zhang Chen played with the crystal, his eyes showing a strange look: "I wonder if my Devouring skill can devour this fruit? Indestructible? Can it withstand my Devouring skill?"

Just as Zhang Chen's thoughts flashed in his mind, the body of Venerable Hai Chan underwent another change. As Venerable Hai Chan's true spirit left his body, five colored feathers floated up, and then a five-colored light rushed out of the five-colored feathers and entered Venerable Hai Chan's body. Zhang Chen saw it clearly and understood that the true spirit of the Innate Peacock was preparing to seize Venerable Hai Chan's body.

Now that Venerable Hai Chan's true spirit had been strangled by his Golden Scissors, only an empty shell remained in his body. It would be easy for the Peacock Ancestor to occupy that body.

Zhang Chen casually swallowed the bead into the Bashe space and was about to turn around and retreat, but a golden bowl fell from Venerable Hai Chan's sleeve. The golden bowl was covered with dense writing, which looked very extraordinary. As the sky full of wind and sand invaded, the scriptures on the golden bowl were corroded and disappeared by the wind and sand. At this time, a colored light revived in the golden bowl, and then a voice said in horror: "Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation!!! How did my true spirit fall into the Nine Bends Yellow River Grand Formation?"

Then the colored light flew out, hovered slightly in the yellow sand, and turned to rush towards Zhang Chen.

He had realized that Venerable Hai Chan's body had been occupied, and the existence occupying the body was very familiar to him. It was his biggest nemesis. If he entered that body at this time to fight for control, he was afraid that he would not be the opponent, and he would end up in a mess.

Zhang Chen, who was not far away, although his cultivation was a little weaker, was easier to seize because his cultivation was weak, right?

The most important thing was that he felt that Zhang Chen was an easy target, easy to seize and control. Zhang Chen's lack of strength was not a problem. As long as he seized the other party's body, wouldn't it be easy to restore his strength? Moreover, if he completed the seizure first, he could attack the Innate Peacock first, kill the Innate Peacock's body, and then devour the Peacock's creation. He would really make a fortune and take the opportunity to wipe out the great enemy.