I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#275 - The Emperor's Daughter Returns to Dreams

Until the strangeness surrounding Little Bean is cleared up, I will remain uneasy.

After the two finished eating the meat, Little Bean seemed to find something to do and didn't bother Zhang Chen. Instead, she obediently went to the bed to meditate and cultivate.

“This girl's talent is truly terrifying. I'm afraid it's even two or three points higher than Xie Xuan, who entered the Dao in one day in the Buddhist sect in the past,” Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

“Cultivation shouldn't be rushed for quick results. It also requires gradual progress and a combination of work and rest. You have already meditated and cultivated for eight hours today, so you should take a break to avoid depleting your energy,” Zhang Chen stood at the door and quickly stopped Little Bean when he saw she was about to meditate again.

Little Bean paused upon hearing this, looking at Zhang Chen with a surprised expression: “But I feel like my spirits are very good.”

“That's not okay either, it's still better to be restrained,” Zhang Chen said.

Little Bean listened to Zhang Chen the most. Upon hearing this, she climbed down from the bed and began to move her muscles and bones, practicing the True Dragon Great Stance.

After her whole body's blood circulation was activated, she came to Zhang Chen's side and asked curiously: “The method you taught me today, could it be the so-called Immortal Cultivation method?”

“It's just a part of the Immortal Cultivation method, not a complete Immortal Cultivation method,” Zhang Chen said here, looking at Little Bean very seriously: “You still need to cultivate the kung fu I taught you secretly in private. Remember not to let anyone know.”

Little Bean nodded vigorously upon hearing this: “I know! I'm not a child. I'm your senior sister, do I still need you to teach me this kind of thing?”

“I didn't expect that I would also cultivate immortality. In the past, when you talked about cultivating immortality, I didn't believe it, but now I know that you didn't lie to me,” Little Bean said with emotion at this time.

Looking at the adult-like Little Bean, Zhang Chen smiled, stretched out his hand, and touched Little Bean's head, carefully instructing: “Tonight I'm going out for a trip. You sleep well in the house. I'll be back tomorrow morning.”

Little Bean nodded, and said with a curious face: “What do you go out to do every night? So mysterious?”

Zhang Chen knocked on Little Bean's head upon hearing this: “Children shouldn't inquire about adult matters.”

That night,

Zhang Chen transformed into a vampire bat and quietly left, all the way to the Eight Trigrams Furnace, found the guard hiding in the dark to inform him, and then returned to the stone cave where the Eight Trigrams Furnace was located to wait.

Zhang Chen didn't wait long before Xie Lingyun's Yin spirit came from the moonlight and stood in front of Zhang Chen.

“It's rare for you to call me out so late,” Xie Lingyun walked in the moonlight, looking at Zhang Chen with a curious face.

“Little Bean has a problem,” Zhang Chen didn't waste any time and directly explained the matter of Little Bean cultivating the Visualization Method and then the appearance of the palace.

However, he concealed the process of Little Bean entering the Dao and going out of her body in one day. This kind of talent was really shocking. Although he believed in Xie Lingyun, he still had to keep the secret for Little Bean.

Xie Lingyun frowned upon hearing this, and shook his head after a long time: “I have never heard of the scene you mentioned. Could it be that the girl has some special bloodline in her body, and the mysterious power stimulated the awakening of the bloodline when the Yin spirit came out of her body?”

Zhang Chen shook his head after hearing this: “It doesn't seem like it! That palace has the unique aura of incense, it should be composed of the power of incense, not the power of blood.”

“If you say so, I can't distinguish the clues. Tomorrow I will find an excuse to go to Huangli Temple in person to check the girl's abnormality,” Xie Lingyun said.

Zhang Chen nodded, and the two talked for a while, and then separated.

Zhang Chen returned to Huangli Temple in the middle of the night, without attracting anyone's attention along the way.

Zhang Chen had been mentally tense for the past few days, and decided not to cultivate tonight, but simply fall asleep to relax, so he directly drilled into the bed and fell asleep.

It was just that at the moment when Zhang Chen entered a sleeping state, his mental consciousness came to a strange void in a trance. A thick fog emerged in the void, and the fog was constantly flowing and drifting in the air.

“Am I trapped in a dream again?” Zhang Chen looked at the void in front of him, raised his guard in his heart, and cursed to himself: “Why am I trapped in a dream again? Could it be that someone wants to harm me through the dream again? This is forcing me to upgrade the Light of the True God.”

Zhang Chen decided that after returning, he would search for experience points and light up the Light of the True God. How could he leave such a big flaw? If someone wants to harm himself through a dream, he doesn't seem to have the power to resist, does he?

Just as Zhang Chen was determined to examine himself in his heart, there seemed to be a mysterious force in the dark, pushing Zhang Chen's figure to wander in the mist.

After walking ten steps, suddenly the void in front of him changed for a while, and then entered a mansion.

He was very familiar with the mansion in front of him. It was the mansion of King Pingbian, the main hall where the coffin was placed.

“Why am I dreaming here again? Could it be that something has changed again?” Zhang Chen was secretly frightened in his heart, knowing that it was the Empress's method, so he stepped forward and took the initiative to go to the main hall, and saw a group of figures gathered in the main hall from a distance.

At this time, King Pingbian, Mr. Wuliu, the ancestor of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, and a number of blurry figures were seen sitting around the corpse in circles.

The golden light protecting the corpse was constantly melting, and wisps of energy flowed to the heaven and earth, and then were absorbed by the people nearby, constantly drilling into the bodies of the people.

Along with strands of golden light entering the bodies of the people, the skin of the people actually flickered with metallic luster, looking like they were stained with a layer of gold powder.

Zhang Chen was shocked when he saw this scene: “I forgot one thing, the ancient power in the Empress's body is too strong. Coming to this world is a state of constant loss. Power also follows the law of flowing from high concentration to low concentration, so the power in the Empress's body will flow back to the heaven and earth. However, the onlookers took advantage of it. At the moment when the Empress's power left her body, they needed to find a host, so it was convenient for the onlookers.”

“Unless the Empress's body is placed back in the tree coffin, can the heaven and earth be isolated and the Empress's body power can be guaranteed not to be lost again,” Zhang Chen's mind was particularly bright in the dream at this time.

Just as Zhang Chen was thinking about the key points in his heart, suddenly his neck felt itchy, and strands of dark hair slid down from the roof beam, fell into Zhang Chen's collar, and then strangled Zhang Chen's neck.

“Here we go again!”

Zhang Chen felt his neck being strangled, immediately realized something was wrong, and quickly looked up, and saw the Empress's eyes full of resentment staring at him.

Zhang Chen met the Empress's eyes and quickly said: “I said…”

“Bang!”

Before Zhang Chen could finish speaking, he saw the Empress punching down and hitting Zhang Chen's face, blocking all of Zhang Chen's words back.

“Don't hit! At any rate, we are also related…”

“Bang~”

“Your father and I are acquaintances, we are friends, according to seniority, you still have to call me uncle!”

“Bang bang bang~”

It would have been better if Zhang Chen didn't say anything, the Empress hit even harder. Her fists were like a storm, hitting Zhang Chen's face.

The Empress only hit his face and not his body, hitting Zhang Chen so hard that he scurried around holding his head, but he was entangled by countless strands of hair, and he could only hold his head to avoid it.

I don't know how long they fought, but suddenly the dream in front of him shattered, and the sound of bells rang in his ears. Zhang Chen suddenly flipped over and sat up, listening to the bells of the Taoist temple, and couldn't help but shiver: "I was actually beaten by that girl all night?"

"How can you treat your uncle like this?" Zhang Chen was so angry that he cursed, but as soon as he cursed, he felt a pain in the corner of his mouth, and his whole face was in terrible pain.

He reached out and stroked his face, and then Zhang Chen broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, his whole face was swollen like a pig's head.

"The damage in the dream actually reflects into reality?" Zhang Chen was shocked by this scene, his eyes were full of shock, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.

A water mirror appeared in front of him, and then Zhang Chen looked at the face in the water mirror, it was indeed swollen into a pig's head.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen mastered blood control, and in just three breaths, all the redness and swelling had disappeared, and his face had returned to normal.

Zhang Chen dispersed the water mirror and sat on the bed with a frown: "There are countless masters in the Pingbian Royal Mansion. It is not easy for me to bring out the Emperor's daughter's body. Moreover, there are masters from the Pingbian Royal Mansion practicing around the Emperor's daughter's body all the time, so I don't have a chance to do anything."

Zhang Chen thought of his Combined Sand Art. If the Combined Sand Art is successfully practiced, will he be able to summon wind and sand at that time, and then sneak into the Pingbian Royal Mansion and steal the Emperor's daughter's body while in the chaos?

"I'm lacking experience points. If I had a lot of experience points to upgrade all my skills, who could find my trace when the max-level twelfth-order stealth talisman is activated?" Zhang Chen calculated secretly in his heart.

Anyway, the Emperor's daughter can still hold on for a while. If I can't save the Emperor's daughter now, then I should find a way to find the tree coffin. Sharpening the knife doesn't delay the work of chopping wood.

"Zhang Chen, get up and do your morning exercises." Xiao Douding's shout rang out from upstairs.

After listening to Cheng Yu's words, Zhang Chen quickly put on his clothes, and then followed Xiao Douding all the way to do his morning exercises. When the morning sun was just rising, Xie Lingyun arrived.

There was another chaotic arrangement in the Taoist temple, and Xie Lingyun ordered someone to bring a food box to Zhang Chen's small courtyard. After the three of them finished their exquisite breakfast, Xie Lingyun looked at Zhang Chen: "Don't delay, let's start quickly."

Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this, and led Xiao Douding and Xie Lingyun into the house. Zhang Chen instructed Xiao Douding to use his power to leave his body. Xiao Douding obediently did so, and then in Xie Lingyun's shocked eyes, a small girl appeared at the Baihui acupoint on Xiao Douding's head, laboriously supporting a large palace from the Baihui acupoint and flew out, but was instantly suppressed by the huge palace. Two lines of blood spurted out from Xiao Douding's nostrils, and Zhang Chen hurriedly went up to wipe them away.

"Senior Brother, don't worry, I'm fine." Xiao Douding was very sensible and comforted Zhang Chen at this time.

Zhang Chen touched Xiao Douding's head and turned to look at Xie Lingyun: "Can Sister see anything wrong?"

"This is definitely not the power of blood!" Xie Lingyun's face became serious at this time, looking very cautious: "But I can't see what method it is."

"This method prevents Xiao Douding from practicing, it's really a sinister method." Xie Lingyun cursed at this time, her voice full of anger: "She's just a child, who would do such a poisonous thing to her?"

"You are a cultivator, don't you have a way to crack the other party's methods?" Xie Lingyun asked Zhang Chen.

"With my meager cultivation, if I had a way to crack it, why would I ask Sister to help?" Zhang Chen replied.

Xie Lingyun frowned upon hearing this: "I am also powerless. This matter still needs to be handled by the Chief Commander, perhaps he can see something."

"I don't know how to ask the Chief Commander to take action?" Zhang Chen asked.

Xie Lingyun said: "Leave this matter to me. As long as you take Cheng Yu down the mountain, I can ask the Chief Commander to take action after returning to the Inspection Department."

"It's just..." Speaking of this, Xie Lingyun's face hesitated, and then she gave Zhang Chen a look. Zhang Chen understood and coaxed Xiao Douding to go out to fetch water, then he heard Xie Lingyun say: "I'm just afraid it's the Yellow Turban Taoist's method, then it will be troublesome. This kind of power is the power of incense, and the Yellow Turban Taoist is now collecting the power of incense. If it is really the Yellow Turban Taoist's method, it will be as difficult as climbing the sky for us to take Xiao Douding down the mountain. I'm afraid Huangli Taoist Temple will never agree."

"Isn't it the Yellow Turban Taoist's method? Wouldn't Sister know if you try it out?" Zhang Chen said to Xie Lingyun meaningfully.

Xie Lingyun nodded with a solemn expression upon hearing this, and then ordered someone to call Liu Feng. Not long after, Liu Feng hurried over, and beside Liu Feng was Zhang Xiaohua, the son of the Pingbian Prince.

In order to get close to Xie Lingyun, Zhang Xiaohua can be said to have done everything possible, not letting go of any opportunity.

"What are your orders for calling the little Taoist here, Commander Xie?" Liu Feng bowed to Xie Lingyun and then asked.

Xie Lingyun said with a smile: "I think this child Xiao Douding is very pleasing to the eye. I want to take her down the mountain to play for a few days and accompany me for a few days. What do you think?"

Liu Feng's expression changed upon hearing this, and he looked embarrassed: "Commander Xie has spoken, and in principle, my Huangli Taoist Temple has no reason to refuse, but... but..."

"But what?" Xie Lingyun's expression darkened when she saw the other party hesitating, and she asked sternly: "I'm just taking a child down the mountain, can't Huangli Taoist Temple give me this face?"

Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat when he saw this scene. As expected, the most棘手的 situation had occurred.

"The Great Virtuous Teacher has ordered that Xiao Douding must not go down the mountain. If you want to take this child down the mountain, you are making things difficult for the little Taoist. You might as well just take action and take off the little Taoist's head, so as not to have the Great Virtuous Teacher know that I have not followed orders and slap me to death." Liu Feng directly brought out the Great Heavenly Master.

Hearing this, Xie Lingyun frowned slightly. Even he couldn't afford to offend the Great Heavenly Master, even Xie Xuan wouldn't easily offend him.

"Then forget it, I didn't expect Huangli Taoist Temple to value her so much." Xie Lingyun probed without showing any signs.

"Cheng Yu is the person favored by the Great Virtuous Teacher. It is said that he will become the Great Heavenly Master's closed disciple in the future, so it is normal to keep a close eye on him. In case something happens to this child, we will not be able to explain to the Great Virtuous Teacher. If you like this child, you might as well come to the Taoist temple often to see this child," Liu Feng flattered.

Xie Lingyun remained noncommittal upon hearing this.

At this time, Zhang Xiaohua walked out, looked at Xie Lingyun and smiled and saluted: "Miss Xie, we have finally met. It's so difficult for me to meet you."

"So it's the Prince." Xie Lingyun casually replied to Zhang Xiaohua.

Zhang Xiaohua was not annoyed by Xie Lingyun's unapproachable attitude. Instead, he came forward to chat. Xie Lingyun maintained politeness and casually dealt with Zhang Xiaohua.

After talking for a while, Xie Lingyun gave Zhang Chen a look, and then said goodbye and left. Zhang Xiaohua, like a follower, chased after her.