lovenovelstory #177 - Melting rock layers
#177 - Melting rock layers
Zhang Chen felt that persuading this kid to actively cooperate with him was unlikely.
Moreover, he thought that if he released this kid's seal, this kid, with his Qilin Heart and other illogical things, might run away, which would be troublesome.
However, not cooperating was fine; there were ways to use someone who didn't cooperate.
This kid possessed the mysterious Qilin Heart, so if he suffered a fatal attack, he would erupt with scorching flames and melt the magma. At worst, he would just avoid stabbing him in fatal places and give this kid a few more cuts later.
“I actually have another idea. If this kid is stabbed in the throat, would that count as him being dead? Can I mark him then?” Thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen's mind.
Chen Xu went to seek dragons and explore the veins, searching for the location of the main tomb chamber, while Zhang Chen and Zhong Xiang waited in place.
In the evening, Chen Xu returned: “Now the magnetic field between heaven and earth is紊乱, making it almost impossible to find the location of the main tomb chamber, unless we wait for the power of the magnetic field between heaven and earth to stop, then I can conduct dragon-seeking and vein-fixing again.”
“How long will it take for the feng shui to stabilize?” Zhang Chen asked.
“Before, I thought it would only take ten days to half a month, but now it seems it will take at least three months,” Chen Xu said.
“No! I don’t have that much time to wait. Moreover, you also saw that the feng shui energy is leaking now, which will attract many old monsters to covet it in secret. We don’t have much time left,” Zhang Chen rejected Chen Xu’s words.
Although he had the Soul Hooking skill, it only worked against old guys who were about to die. If he was blocked by those Yang God realm existences, he would have no chance of winning.
“Then we can only try to enter from the entrance of the great tomb!” Chen Xu said, “It’s just that you’ve also seen the entrance of the great tomb. According to my calculations, that’s the entrance, but it’s all bluestone. I really can’t find a second entrance…”
“Whether that’s the entrance or not, we’ll know once we try it. Don’t we have a ready-made tool person?” Zhang Chen looked at Zhong Xiang.
Zhong Xiang ignored him!
“Do you understand the secret arts of breaking feng shui formations?” Zhang Chen asked.
To enter from the entrance of the great tomb, they would have to go through countless mechanisms and traps. Zhang Chen felt a headache just thinking about it. He had personally seen the means by which that ancient god changed the world. If he, with his small body, fell into it, he would be gone in an instant.
But he couldn't wait a month for those old guys to arrive.
“You think too highly of me,” Chen Xu said with a helpless bitter smile.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen had no choice but to pick up Nan Qilin and say to Chen Xu, “Now that things have come to this, we can only start from the entrance. We’ll start tonight and try to dig directly into the Imperial Daughter’s Great Tomb.”
Zhang Chen grabbed Nan Qilin's shoulders, carrying him on his back like a pig, which made Nan Qilin cry again, but unfortunately, he was immobilized at this time and unable to speak.
He had originally wanted to release the immobilization spell on him and have him walk on his own, but now he changed his mind. What if this kid left a mark along the way? It was better to work a little harder, which would save a lot of trouble.
“Your Excellency, why not hand him over to me? I’ll carry him for you,” Chen Xu said, looking at the crying Nan Qilin, especially his eyes staring straight at him, which made his little heart tremble. He quickly stepped forward and said.
“Can you carry him?” Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Xu.
Chen Xu looked at Nan Qilin's size. Nan Qilin was still a teenager, about 1.6 meters tall. Although his body was thin, he was definitely not light.
He had trouble climbing mountains himself, let alone carrying someone?
But looking at Nan Qilin Zhong Xiang's straight gaze at him, how could he dare to say that he couldn't carry him?
“I can carry him! Your Excellency saved my life, and I have no way to repay you. How can I let Your Excellency do the work of carrying people? Just leave it to me,” Chen Xu said with a bitter face, gritting his teeth.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen patted Zhong Xiang's butt: “I say, you group of dog nobles really deserve to die. Look, what have you forced ordinary people to become?”
A touch of emotion appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes. He couldn't change the world. People were in the rolling red tide. Unless a great man like Marx or Mao appeared, even if you knew the shortcomings of the times, you couldn't make any changes. An individual's power was just an insignificant wave in the torrent of the times, which would be shattered in an instant.
People in the tide of the times, even if hundreds of millions of people awakened their thoughts, it would still be useless.
Ordinary people under the tide of the times have no way but to curse impotently.
Everyone says that ancient people did not know how to resist under the rule of the old bureaucrats, but without great men, without the leadership of great men, who can find a new path?
What overthrows an era is never ordinary people, but a force overthrowing another force.
Zhang Chen patted Zhong Xiang's butt. He was not a great man. He was just an ordinary person. He couldn't change the general trend of the times. All he could do was make his own life passable and not be bullied.
It seemed that he had already embarked on this path.
“Master Chen Xu, do you think these nobles deserve to die?” Zhang Chen asked as he walked in front.
Hearing this, Chen Xu smiled bitterly: “Your Excellency is joking. Noble lords are born nobles, born noble, and should control everything in this world. We, the lowly people, should always be lowly people. This is fate! We can only blame ourselves for not being born into a good family.”
Hearing this, Zhang Chen stopped and turned to look at Chen Xu. This guy was hopeless. His slave mentality had reached his bones.
Or rather, the people of this era were hopeless!
“If you want to change the thinking of these people, you have to use the policy of愚民, to suppress their fear of kingship with faith.” Thinking of this, Zhang Chen suddenly felt that what the Yellow Sky Sect was doing now was just like that.
“This Yellow Sky Sect is a bit interesting,” Zhang Chen muttered, but he had no urge to stand up for the people of the world. It was already difficult for him to stay out of it. He couldn't carry such a large force on his small shoulders.
It was just that as Zhang Chen walked on the mountain road, he didn't know why he always felt a heavy weight in his heart, as if a big stone was pressing on him.
Along the way, they came to the pit. Zhang Chen looked at the pit and then casually threw Zhong Xiang into the pit, but Chen Xu quickly stopped him: “Sir, are you going to bury the noble alive? This is not allowed! Absolutely not allowed! If the Zhong family investigates, this matter will definitely not be concealed. At that time, our nine clans will not be enough to kill.”
Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Xu, ignoring his words, and directly threw Zhong Xiang into the pit, splashing up dust.
“Sir, I beg you, please let him go.” Seeing Zhang Chen throw Zhong Xiang into the pit, Chen Xu was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, his eyes full of pleading.
Zhang Chen couldn't afford to offend him, and he couldn't afford to offend Zhong Xiang even more.
“Look at you, you coward.” Zhang Chen scolded unhappily: “Just watch from the side. Where am I going to bury him alive? I just want to ask this noble lord to do something for us.”
"Not burying alive? Not burying alive is good! Not burying alive is good!" Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief, patting his chest with lingering fear.
Zhang Chen came into the pit, then took out a torch and shone it on Zhong Xiang. He saw that Zhong Xiang was covered in dust, his hair disheveled, his jade crown missing, and two tear-stained streaks mixed with mud flowing down his cheeks, making him look quite ridiculous.
"You're a grown man, what's with all the crying?" Zhang Chen took out a pickaxe and dug a fire-resistant cave in the nearby wall. Of course, the pickaxe was brought by the fox spirit.
After Zhang Chen dug the fire-resistant cave, he looked at the tearful Zhong Xiang again:
"Tsk tsk, even if you cry, it's useless. Today, you're going to be a tool person whether you like it or not."
Zhang Chen hid the pickaxe, then came to Zhong Xiang and re-examined and reinforced his Stasis Charm and Suppression Charm.
The Stasis Charm was to immobilize his body, preventing him from moving. The Suppression Charm was to suppress all the power in his body, preventing him from breaking through the seals of the Stasis Charm and Suppression Charm, or at least delaying the speed of breaking through the seals.
"This fellow has the heart of a Qilin protecting him. Once he suffers a life-or-death crisis, the mystery within his body will definitely erupt to protect him." Zhang Chen took out a dagger from his waist and stood opposite Zhong Xiang, feeling a little hesitant. After all, the space here was narrow. What if the power of the flames Zhong Xiang unleashed was too strong and burned him?
"First, I'll add skill points to the Fire Resistance Charm. It's always good to be prepared." Zhang Chen thought about it and still felt it was a bit unsafe. He was afraid that Zhong Xiang's flames, like his own Light of the Righteous God, had already reached the peak of their power, and the level increase was just strengthening the application methods.
Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger interface:
[12 Skills (Tier 1): Fire Resistance Charm (0/4000)]
[Completely immune to Tier 1 flames, with a very small chance of weakening burns from high-level flames]
[Points: 119400]
"Upgrade!"
He still had one hundred thousand points. If he didn't use them now, when would he?
[12 Skills (Tier 2): Fire Resistance Charm (0/8000)]
[Completely immune to Tier 2 flames, can slightly reduce burns from high-level flames]
"The points needed aren't too many, huh? It's actually just increasing by multiples?" A hint of surprise appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes. He had to know that this was a Tiered skill.
However, thinking that the Fire Resistance Charm was just an ordinary auxiliary skill, with no effect other than fire resistance, he could understand why the points required were so few.
[12 Skills (Tier 3): Fire Resistance Charm (0/16000)]
[12 Skills (Tier 4): Fire Resistance Charm (0/32000)]
[12 Skills (Tier 5): Fire Resistance Charm (0/64000)]
[Completely immune to Tier 5 flames, reduces burns from high-level flames by 10%]
[Points: 27400]
"It can only reduce the power of Tier 5 flames? I don't know what tier Zhong Xiang's flames are, but they're definitely not ordinary flames."
Zhang Chen pondered to himself.
Spending tens of thousands of points to upgrade the Fire Resistance Charm was a bit wasteful, but thinking of the Heart of the Qilin, Zhang Chen felt it was better not to think it was a waste.
The power of the flames that could instantly melt stone into magma was imaginable.
Moreover, the Qilin was a creature on par with the True Dragon. Zhang Chen felt that this fellow's flames were at least Tier 9.
After completing the upgrade, Zhang Chen still felt unsafe, so he drew out the groundwater and filled the fire-resistant room he had created with water. Then, looking at Zhong Xiang's pitiful appearance, his gaze finally fell on Zhong Xiang's butt.
He didn't dare to stab Zhong Xiang's throat, in case the death crisis was too great, causing the erupted flames to be too strong and break through his Stasis Charm and Suppression Charm. Wouldn't he be playing with fire and burning himself then?
He would only stab the other party's butt, which wouldn't cause such a strong crisis, and the power of the flames erupted by the other party wouldn't be that powerful.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen didn't even think and directly stabbed Zhong Xiang's butt with the dagger in his hand.
Seeing Zhang Chen stab his butt, Zhong Xiang's eyes were about to burst, his eyes full of murderous intent.
Then, Zhang Chen directly stabbed in, and instantly the dagger melted into molten iron, and Zhong Xiang's body was fiery red, and a ball of flames emerged.
It was strange to say, the flames around Zhong Xiang flickered, and the rocks instantly melted into magma, but Zhang Chen's two talismans actually resisted the burning of the flames. Although the power of the Stasis Charm and Suppression Charm were eroded under the burning of the flames, the speed was extremely slow, as if verifying the saying that true gold is not afraid of fire: "Golden talismans can last at least thirty breaths in the flames, and silver talismans can last twenty breaths."
"As expected of golden talismans and silver talismans." Zhang Chen praised inwardly.
"You lowly commoner, you're dead! When I melt your means, I must cut you into a thousand pieces! I will skin you alive and light the sky lamp, I will grind your bones to ashes!" As the power of the Stasis Charm was eroded, Zhong Xiang finally regained the power to speak, and at this time, he angrily cursed Zhang Chen with a crying voice.
"Heh heh, you fool, since I dare to do it, how could I not be prepared? Do you think I only have this one talisman?" Zhang Chen smiled coldly.
As he spoke, Zhang Chen took out golden talismans and silver talismans, ready to replace them at any time.
As for how to replace them?
He had already prepared for it. As his mind moved, the surrounding water surged, wrapping him up and turning into ice.
Zhang Chen's Water Manipulation Causality: All water within two meters can be turned into ice.
As the flames burned, a scorching heat wave burst out in the narrow space. Fortunately, Zhang Chen was prepared. The Fire Resistance Charm was activated, and at the same time, the water wrapped him up and turned into ice barriers.
The temperature of the flames was indeed very high. The ice in front of Zhang Chen melted and evaporated at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the terrifying temperature directly penetrated the ice and attacked Zhang Chen's body, but it was blocked by the Fire Resistance Charm.
Although the other party's flames could burn mountains and boil seas, Zhang Chen's Water Manipulation was heaven-defying?
The ice melted and evaporated into water vapor, but it was instantly captured back by Zhang Chen and turned back into ice.
Ignoring the laws of heat and energy, it directly turned into ice.
"These flames have definitely reached Tier 10 or above. Fortunately, my Water Manipulation is unreasonable, and fortunately, I upgraded the Fire Resistance Charm, otherwise I would have really capsized today."
Zhang Chen was secretly frightened in his heart.
The speed of the ice melting was very fast, or rather, it directly vaporized. The heat of the flames radiated onto the ice, and the ice directly vaporized. Fortunately, Zhang Chen could restrain the water vapor and gather it back again, and condense it into ice again.
But even so, there was still a terrifying heat that penetrated the ice and shone on Zhang Chen's body, causing Zhang Chen to be shrouded in a layer of red light, which was dissolved by the Fire Resistance Charm.
"I only stimulated a negligible bit of the power of the flames on Zhong Xiang's body. Fortunately, I stabbed his butt. If I had stabbed his throat, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to handle the erupted power." Zhang Chen's heart was full of luck.