lovenovelstory #366 - Body filling
#366 - Body filling
Zhang Chen patted Chen Xu's shoulder: "Don't make it sound so serious. Don't you know me? I'm known as the 'most loyal and reliable, benevolent and unparalleled' moral model young man in the world. How could I ask you to do something dangerous? The Pingbian Royal Mansion used magic to move a Taoist temple here. There's a Feng Shui formation inside that I can't quite decipher, so I want you to come and take a look."
Hearing Zhang Chen's series of self-praises, Chen Xu almost threw up. You, a honest and reliable young man? Then how come my secret treasure has been borrowed and not returned?
Hearing the words 'Pingbian Royal Mansion,' Chen Xu subconsciously swallowed, a look of horror in his eyes: "I say, sir, why are you going up against the Pingbian Royal Mansion? The Pingbian King is constantly bestowing godhood, and his strength is getting stronger and stronger. If we continue to oppose the Pingbian Royal Mansion, I'm afraid we won't gain any advantage."
"You little brat, you kick the cook after you've eaten your fill. Now you know you're afraid? If I hadn't opposed the Pingbian Royal Mansion, would you have been able to escape from it? I'm afraid you would have been chopped up and fed to the dogs by the Pingbian King by now," Zhang Chen said unhappily.
Chen Xu was speechless, not daring to say anything. He was now on Zhang Chen's pirate ship, unable to refuse his demands.
Zhang Chen took out an invisibility talisman and handed it to Chen Xu: "Experts below the Yang God realm can't see through my invisibility talisman. Let's hurry and set off."
Chen Xu didn't dare to resist and could only follow Zhang Chen all the way to the outside of the Taoist temple. Looking at the heavily guarded Taoist temple from afar, the two of them attached the talismans. Zhang Chen used the Mountain Moving Technique to grab Chen Xu, flipped over the courtyard wall, and landed in the courtyard.
After several transformations, Zhang Chen's body could easily jump over a two-meter-high wall.
"I say, what did you do that the Pingbian King actually imprisoned you here and guarded you with heavy troops?" Chen Xu stood in the courtyard and asked.
"The Pingbian Royal Mansion wants my life," Zhang Chen dispelled his own invisibility talisman, leaving Chen Xu in an invisible state, and then said, "The entire Taoist temple seems to be enveloped by a faint, almost imperceptible aura, but I can't understand it. Come and see the secrets within, and see if you can discern anything profound."
"Let me take a look," Chen Xu stood in the courtyard and began to examine the layout of the entire courtyard. Then, he went back and forth in and out of each room, examining them. After a full half-day, as the sun was about to set, Chen Xu arrived at the main hall in the backyard where the ancestral tablets of the Pingbian Royal Mansion were enshrined. His eyes swept over the enshrined tablets, finally focusing on the incense burner in front of the tablets.
The incense burner was very large, almost like a bronze cauldron, with mysterious and unpredictable symbols engraved on it. Then, Chen Xu jumped up and landed on the cauldron, ignoring the ashes inside. He directly reached in and dug around, and in just a moment, he dug out a fist-sized piece of jade carved into a strange beast.
Zhang Chen looked over and saw that the beast had three leopard heads, a Qilin body, and nine tails. The nine tails were like scorpion tails, and it had six legs. It was very strange.
"Hiss, the Pingbian Royal Mansion is so ruthless. They want your life!" Chen Xu looked at the runes on the strange beast and then said to Zhang Chen: "This is the Substitute Life Technique! The entire Taoist temple is shrouded in two obscure Feng Shui formations. I only understand the Substitute Life Technique, but I can't decipher the other one. As long as you light incense and insert it into the cauldron, it will activate the formation. At that time, fate will be reversed, and your destiny will be stolen."
"Now that I've dug this thing out, as long as it's not in the cauldron, the Feng Shui formation won't be activated. As for the other Feng Shui formation, it seems that divine power has intervened, and I can't understand it for the moment," Chen Xu said to Zhang Chen: "The Pingbian Royal Mansion has bad intentions. Why don't we burn down this Taoist temple and then roam the world freely? With your abilities, sir, you don't have to be afraid of the Pingbian Royal Mansion's pursuit. Why stay in this cage and wait for death?"
Hearing this, Zhang Chen laughed and took the jade monster from Chen Xu's hand. After looking at it, he reburied it in the cauldron: "I naturally have my plans. Lighting incense will activate the Feng Shui formation? That's a good trick."
"I roughly know the mysteries of the other Feng Shui formation," Zhang Chen said to Chen Xu: "I'll send you out, and you go and keep an eye on the ancestral坟墓 of the Pingbian Royal Mansion."
"Do you really want to stay here? These two Feng Shui formations are not simple. A little carelessness will cost you your life," Chen Xu's voice was full of worry.
Zhang Chen patted Chen Xu's shoulder: "Don't worry about me. Just be careful yourself outside."
Seeing this, Chen Xu didn't try to persuade him further. He roughly knew Zhang Chen's methods. He was definitely not a simple person. In Chen Xu's eyes, his strength was a mystery, especially his suppression of Zhong Xiang and his rampage in the Pingbian Royal Mansion. Even though Zhong Xiang had now entered the Mysterious Realm and mastered mysterious methods, he still found it unbelievable.
Zhang Chen was about to send Chen Xu out when Chen Xu waved his hand and refused: "No need. I've also obtained good fortune now and have some methods. This mere Taoist temple can't trap me."
Then, Chen Xu's figure twisted and directly transformed into a chopstick-thick little snake on the ground. The little snake's body flickered with black light, and mysterious power flowed through it. Runes were faintly visible on its scales. When Zhang Chen saw the little snake, he couldn't help but be stunned and blurted out: "Bashe!"
It really was a Bashe!
A very, very small Bashe. Then, the Bashe twisted for a while and disappeared between the buildings, leaving no trace.
"Transformed into a Bashe? Chen Xu obtained Bashe essence blood and actually gained such an incredible ability?" Zhang Chen's eyes revealed a trace of disbelief. This was a method he wanted to obtain but hadn't.
"This kid really has good fortune!" Zhang Chen muttered: "As long as he's not targeted by the remnant soul of the Bashe in the future, he'll become a twelfth-order existence sooner or later."
Seeing Chen Xu leave, Zhang Chen stood alone in the Taoist temple, silent, carefully considering his next plan.
After a long time, a thought flashed through Zhang Chen's mind: "This time, I'll grind the invisibility talisman. I must grind the invisibility talisman to the ninth order. At that time, the world will be so big that I can go anywhere."
Zhang Chen had personally experienced the benefits of the invisibility talisman. If it hadn't been for the existence of invisibility, how could he have absorbed the Bashe's good fortune under the eyes of countless experts?
[11 Skills (Eighth Order): Invisibility Talisman (0 / 160000000)]
Zhang Chen's gaze swept across the Golden Finger interface: "It's just 160 million points. Now that I have the Ascension Pool irrigating me, can't I grind out 160 million points?"
Various thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and he finally made up his mind to grind the invisibility technique. Even the Heavenly King couldn't stop him.
Then, he wandered around the Taoist temple again. The environment inside the Taoist temple was elegant, and there were various exquisite decorations. If it weren't for the Feng Shui formation, this would be a good place to go.
Zhang Chen walked all the way into the Taoist temple's library pavilion and saw more than a dozen bookshelves in the Sutra Collection Pavilion, with tens of thousands of books on the bookshelves.
Zhang Chen casually pulled out a few books and flipped through them, discovering that they contained everything from philosophical classics and local customs to myths, legends, and tales of the martial world.
The only thing that disappointed him was the absence of cultivation secrets on the bookshelf. There were no martial arts cultivation methods, let alone immortal cultivation techniques. However, Zhang Chen wasn't disheartened. For him, this room full of books was a great way to understand this world, making it a good place for him.
"I won't be lonely anymore," Zhang Chen muttered. After gradually understanding the classification of all the bookshelves, he casually pulled out a few books and took them back to the master bedroom, preparing to read them in his leisure time.
Zhang Chen lit the stove in the master bedroom, warming the room. Then, he stewed mutton. By this time, the sky had already darkened. Zhang Chen sat in front of the stove, reading the book in his hand and eating the tender, stewed beef, his eyes filled with contentment.
It had been a long time since he had enjoyed such quiet days. The last time he had such a pleasant life was when he was studying in his previous life.
Zhang Chen read very quickly, able to read a book in an hour. He had already reached the Jade Liquid Returning Elixir stage, and his essence, energy, and spirit had been elevated to an incredible level. Although he couldn't be said to have a photographic memory, he could remember about 70-80% of what he read.
He only read to understand the content and gain a general understanding of the knowledge within. He wasn't trying to memorize the books, so Zhang Chen read extremely fast, finishing hundreds of books by midnight.
Zhang Chen cherished time because he knew he only had three months left. There would definitely be changes on the second day of the second month of the coming year when the dragon raises its head. At that time, it might be when he would have to slay the dragon and the Pingbian Prince's Mansion would reveal its true colors.
Inside the house, the firelight swirled, making it warm as spring. Outside the house, the cold winter wind blew, making the bodies of the soldiers stiff.
At this time, Fifth or Sixth Mr.'s Yin spirit was walking alone in the darkness, all the way to the outside of the Taoist temple. When the soldiers saw Fifth or Sixth Mr., they respectfully saluted, "Greetings, Mr."
"How are the guys in the Taoist temple?"
"Very quiet," the soldier replied.
Fifth or Sixth Mr.'s Yin spirit ascended into the sky and glanced at the Taoist temple from afar. He saw firelight flowing in the Taoist temple, and a figure was projected on the window paper, the other party was quietly reading.
It was already midnight, and the other party was still studying. Even Fifth or Sixth Mr. couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder the other party rose from the humble beginnings and achieved such success, even making the young master suffer a big loss. His own aptitude is extraordinary, and he is so hardworking. He deserves to succeed."
Fifth or Sixth Mr. sighed, and then turned into nothingness and went away, only a sigh echoed in the wind: "What a pity!"
Zhang Chen read until the second half of the night, and he didn't know when, after adding fire to the stove, he fell asleep drowsily.
When Zhang Chen woke up the next day, after a little washing, he walked all the way to the main hall, he wanted to personally experience the mystery of the Feng Shui Grand Array. He did not believe that he could be bullied by the Pingbian Prince's Mansion, and made a wedding dress for that Zhang Xiaohua with his Devouring skill and Devouring space.
Zhang Chen came all the way to the main hall in the backyard, the hall was hung with eternal lamps, which was not dim.
Zhang Chen took the incense that had been prepared early and lit it with the eternal lamp, then casually inserted it into the cauldron. As the incense was inserted into the cauldron, the smoke from the burning incense did not float upward, did not float to the left, did not float forward, and did not float backward, but directly like flowing water, with a heavy texture, fell into the cauldron.
At this time, the runes on the monster in the cauldron lit up, the smoke drilled into the monster's mouth, and then a wonderful wave spread out from the monster's body, and then the wave passed through the cauldron, its runes flashing with mysterious power, the whole Taoist temple was filled with breath, and then the whole Taoist temple's aura changed.
Zhang Chen had already opened his Righteous God Golden Light Dharma Eyes, watching the void, observing the changes in the void, he saw at this time a mysterious aura connected the whole grand array, then an invisible force field enveloped the whole Taoist temple, the next moment he saw the strange beast in the cauldron suddenly spit out a monstrous colorful light, the colorful light exuded a mysterious aura, exactly the same as the aura of the Ascension Pool.
After the colorful light was spit out from the strange beast, it was directly absorbed by the entire Feng Shui Grand Array, and then the entire Feng Shui Grand Array changed inexplicably, the Feng Shui Grand Array seemed to be activated, guiding the overwhelming energy towards Zhang Chen according to some mysterious order.
But soon Zhang Chen noticed that this energy was not poured into his body, nor was it poured into his soul, but after contacting him, the endless mighty energy directly disappeared without a trace, Zhang Chen was like a bottomless pit, all the energy disappeared inexplicably after contacting Zhang Chen.
"Something's wrong!"
At the moment when the mighty energy poured in, although Zhang Chen's body and soul did not have any changes, but in the dark, his mind seemed to be put on a heavy shackle, put on his body and pressed him down, making his soul ignorant, an indescribable sense of drowsiness surged into his heart.
"I've been calculated! My Righteous God Golden Light Dharma Eyes can't even see through the changes in it." Zhang Chen was shocked at this time, the means of this Pingbian Prince's Mansion are really not simple, if he hadn't heard of the conspiracy of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion long ago, I'm afraid he would have been calculated silently at this time.
However, Zhang Chen was not flustered, his Righteous God Golden Light could not break through the changes in it, but he also had the Devouring skill, his own Devouring skill had never disappointed him.
Zhang Chen's mind moved, and the Eye of Devouring opened, and then he saw the world change before his eyes, and a strange dimension of the world appeared in his eyes.
At this moment, Zhang Chen saw a strange mass of air suspended in the essence, energy, and spirit above his head, the endless energy directly poured into the strange mass of air, and then disappeared without a trace.
"Fate! That's my fate! It turns out that the power of this Feng Shui Grand Array actually directly acts on the fate, no wonder the Pingbian Prince's Mansion dares to calculate me like this, and is not afraid of me finding out." Zhang Chen was secretly shocked in his heart when he saw this.
Looking closely at his own fate, it flickered with orange-yellow light, and even a trace of light red flickered in the orange-yellow light. In his own fate, there was a miniature version of the Feng Shui Grand Array running, accepting the majestic energy spit out from the monster's mouth.
That is the energy of the Flying Immortal Pool, which has the incredible creation of making people reborn. This power is poured into Zhang Chen's fate, but it has nothing to do with Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen can't absorb even half of it.
"With the energy irrigation of that Flying Immortal Pool, my fate is revealed, otherwise how can people see their own fate? Even the Eye of Devouring can't see it," Zhang Chen thought to himself.