I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 181 The Mysterious Age
After hearing Zhang Chen's words, Di said in a depressed mood: "The trial is about to fail, I choose to leave the tribe."

"Trial failed? Tribe?" Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this. Not only did living creatures appear in the first heaven, but there was also a tribe?

Is this the first heaven that I heard about from the fox fairy Nannan?
Before Zhang Chen could ask any more questions, the young man took the initiative to explain: "Children in our tribe, when they reach the age of ten, must go into the mountains alone to hunt a 'tooth beast'. Only by using the tooth beast for baptism and igniting the blood in their bodies will they be considered qualified to stay in the tribe. If they fail to complete the baptism, they will be considered to lack courage and be physically weak. They will only become a burden to the tribe in the future and will have to be expelled from the tribe."

Di was a little depressed when he said this: "I was accidentally tricked and stepped on by a Kui Niu. Three of my ribs were broken. I'm afraid I will never be able to ignite my blood and blood and return to the tribe. I can only live in exile in the wild. I don't know when I will become a meal for strange beasts."

Di's emotions fluctuated violently, his voice was full of resentment and helplessness, and his eyes were full of pain.

He was a prodigy in the tribe and was favored by countless tribal elders, but who would have known that he would be ambushed during the trial and end up like this?

To fall from a genius to an outcast overnight, this kind of gap is enough to drive a person crazy.

Zhang Chen picked up a rabbit leg and started eating it. "What's the name of your tribe? How many people are there?"

"Our tribe is called 'Ape'. There are three thousand people in it. It is a small tribe nearby." Di replied.

Zhang Chen glanced at the ground and said, "Eat meat!"

As he spoke, he tore off the ribs of the rabbit meat and handed them to the ground.

Upon hearing this, he began to eat voraciously. Zhang Chen smiled and rubbed the grease off his hands with yellow sand, then gathered some clean water to wash the sand clean.

"God! You are God!" Seeing the clear water gathered in Zhang Chen's hands, he was startled. The rabbit meat fell to the ground, and he knelt down and kowtowed in panic with a look of horror.

Zhang Chen dispersed the water in his hand, looked at the frightened Di, and asked, "Does your tribe have this kind of power?"

"All tribes rely on gods to exist, and gods protect the tribes. When gods are born, tribes exist. When gods fall, tribes perish." The young man answered Zhang Chen's words while cautiously looking at Zhang Chen out of the corner of his eye:
"It's just that the gods in the world are all kinds of objects. I have never seen a god in human form."

"No human form?" Zhang Chen was even more surprised. According to the young man's words, no one could master the mysterious power. In later generations, all living beings would obtain the mysterious power and integrate it into their bodies, thereby using and mastering the power of the gods. According to the young man's words, there seemed to be no one in this era who could master the power of the gods?

Why is this happening?

Zhang Chen looked at the big sun outside and asked the young man, "Isn't there anyone in your tribe who can borrow the power of the gods, merge with them, and thus master their great power?"

"You're joking. The gods are high above us, how can we ants blaspheme them? Who dares to blaspheme the power of the gods? Not to mention borrowing the power of the gods and becoming one with them." The young man 'Di' was shocked when he heard this, his eyes full of horror, as if he felt that Zhang Chen had blasphemed the gods, as if the gods would punish him the next moment.

After hearing what the young man said, Zhang Chen became even more confused. If he wanted to find the answer, he could only ask the Great Freedom Demon.

However, the Great Freedom Demon went for a stroll, and Zhang Chen could only temporarily suppress his doubts. However, he caught the key words in the boy's previous words: "All tribes have gods?"

"There are countless dangers in the wilderness. Only with the favor of the gods can the tribe avoid being invaded. A tribe without gods will turn into ashes when darkness comes."

The voice of Earth was also full of surprise: "Since you are a god, how come you don't know this news?"

"Who said I'm a god?" Zhang Chen said with a smile.

"You are not a god? Then why do you possess such power?" The young man's voice was full of surprise. He probably realized that Zhang Chen was easy to talk to and did not seem to be the kind of god that was difficult to communicate with, so he opened his mouth and said something.

"I am a Qigong practitioner." Zhang Chen said.

"Qigong practitioner?" The young man's eyes were full of doubt, as if he had heard this word for the first time.

Zhang Chen crossed his legs and said, "Qigong practitioners seize the creation of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, and create all kinds of incredible methods."

"Doesn't that mean we can be compared to gods? Can human power be compared to gods?" Upon hearing this, the young man's eyes widened, his eyes full of disbelief.

At this time, the boy's stomach was rumbling. Zhang Chen smiled after hearing the noise and pointed at the remaining roasted rabbit: "You continue to eat."

The young man looked at Zhang Chen cautiously, then picked up the rabbit on the ground and continued to eat.

Zhang Chen sat under a big tree, continuing to ponder the doubts in his heart. After the young man finished eating the rabbit, he sat obediently beside Zhang Chen, silently and not daring to disturb him at all.

It was not until noon that the young man saw that Zhang Chen was motionless, and then he spoke cautiously: "My Lord God, it's time to worship Donghuang Taiyi."

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard the words "Donghuang Taiyi": What the hell? Donghuang Taiyi?

Isn’t that a character from ancient mythology?

"Tell me about Donghuang Taiyi." Zhang Chen asked.

The young man looked at Zhang Chen cautiously, wondering why Zhang Chen didn't even know Donghuang Taiyi, so he pointed to the sun outside and said, "Donghuang Taiyi has blessed all living beings. At noon every day, all living beings, no matter what they are doing, must put down their work and worship Donghuang Taiyi devoutly. Donghuang Taiyi is in charge of the day, and Goddess Wangshu is in charge of the night. All living beings and gods, big and small, must worship him day and night without any neglect."

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard the words, and subconsciously raised his head to look at the sun in the sky. Golden light flowed in his eyes, and his Dharma eyes opened instantly. Then the next moment Zhang Chen was stunned, and saw a huge divine bird hanging high in the sky in the vast starry sky. A golden mysterious aura flowed around the divine bird, and the mysterious aura turned into endless runes, weaving into a big net, covering the entire universe.

"Pfft~"

Zhang Chen's eyes exploded and blood spurted out as he was attacked by the powerful force. Even the golden light in his Dharma Eye was dispersed at this moment.

"Sir, what happened to you?" The young man was frightened when he saw Zhang Chen's eyes suddenly burst open and blood spurted out, so he hurried forward to ask.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a little hurt." Zhang Chen heard the anxious words of the young man and spoke to comfort him. The next moment, the blood control technique was activated, and countless buds in his eyes moved crazily, quickly repairing Zhang Chen's injuries. Zhang Chen summoned clean water and cleaned the blood stains on his body. At this time, his eyes had been repaired again, and he saw the young man kneeling in the sun and worshiping devoutly.

Zhang Chen did not move. He was a Qigong practitioner. There was no way he could worship the mystery.

"The sun? The three-legged bird?" Zhang Chen looked at the scattered sunlight through the shade of the trees, a trace of thought in his eyes: "Is it the sun or the three-legged bird? All the sunlight turned into a silk net, covering billions of living beings and the entire world. It is really a mighty god."

"What level of mystery is that big bird?" Zhang Chen pondered in his mind. He always felt that the level of the big bird must be beyond his imagination.

"The twelfth level?" Zhang Chen wondered.

But that divine light enveloped the entire world. Is this something that a twelfth-level mystic can do?

"My sphere is the twelfth-order mysterious power, but it doesn't seem to have such power, right? Or is it that my twelfth-order mysterious power is restrained and cannot be exerted at all?"

Zhang Chen had more and more doubts in his mind.

The more he knew, the more confused he became, and the more he wanted to understand the world.

First of all, the mysteries that are not common in the material world are actually found in all major tribes in the spiritual world? Although it cannot be said to be mainland goods, it can be considered common, right?
"If the first level of the spiritual world has such good fortune, then what kind of incredible fortune must the second level, the third level... and even the thirty-third level have? How incredible and mysterious must they be?" Zhang Chen's eyes were full of disbelief: "Peaches and the Fountain of Youth may not be fake."

"That doesn't make sense. I just suffered the backlash of the three-legged golden crow, so why didn't my skills drop? When my fate collided with the real dragon before, some skills did drop." Zhang Chen's eyes revealed a hint of confusion.

Zhang Chen looked around and indeed no skills were dropped.

"After coming to this world, perhaps the greatest opportunity should be these mysteries themselves. If I go to various tribes and quietly grind for mysteries, and ask the mysteries to drop some skills, wouldn't I make a fortune?" Zhang Chen's heart was a little excited when he thought of this.

At this time, the young man had finished worshipping Donghuang Taiyi, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Chen. Seeing Zhang Chen's eyes as pure as water, he couldn't help but reveal a touch of joy: "Venerable God, are you okay?"

"Of course I'm fine. It's just an injury. It's nothing to me." Zhang Chen said with a smile.

The young man looked at Zhang Chen with a hint of admiration in his eyes.

"Take a good rest. The sun is so scorching in the sky. We should get a good night's sleep and go for a walk in the mountains after noon." Zhang Chen said to the young man, and the young man immediately ran obediently to the shade of a tree thirty meters away to cool off: "Venerable God, call me if you have any instructions."

Zhang Chen smiled at the young man, then pulled the chain in his hand and directly pulled the Great Freedom Demon back.

"I was wondering why you pulled me back? Didn't you say you would let me go for a walk?" The Great Freedom Demon looked at Zhang Chen with dissatisfaction.

"I just have some doubts I want to ask you." Zhang Chen said.

"Fortunately, I, the ancestor, have not taken action yet, otherwise you would have almost ruined my great plan. If you have any questions, please ask immediately and don't waste my time." said the Great Freedom Demon.

"I have two questions." Zhang Chen held up two fingers:
"First, why can the mysteries of the real world merge with living beings, but the living beings in the first heaven cannot merge with the mysteries and borrow the power of the mysteries?"

"Because this world is full of mysterious substances. Those mysteries are the essence of laws. By absorbing the mysterious substances between heaven and earth, one can ensure that one's body does not disintegrate. However, the material world we live in lacks mysterious substances, and the bodies of sentient beings are made of matter, which helps the mystery to stabilize the body and prevent it from disintegrating into laws."

At this point, the Great Freedom Demon was afraid that Zhang Chen would not understand, so he said, "When the concentration of the mysterious substances between heaven and earth is greater than the concentration of the mysterious substances within the gods themselves, the gods can absorb the mysterious substances between heaven and earth. But if the mysterious substances between heaven and earth are thin, and the concentration of the mysterious substances in the gods' bodies is higher than that of the outside world, they will spread and flow to the outside world."

"Do you understand?" the Great Freedom Demon asked Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded: "So that's why."

"Not only because of this, the more important reason is that the gods in the material world need to absorb the lifespan of all living beings to maintain their own lifespan and repair their own injuries. You must know that in the past, with the decline of the mysterious matter, they were all buried. Later, the mysterious things were dug out from the tomb, and they were themselves lingering on." said the Great Freedom Demon.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen suddenly realized that this was a balance between mystery and living things, and he had to do it.

"Then why do we need to worship? For example, the Donghuang Taiyi who is hanging high in the sky?"

Zhang Chen asked, "What use is the faith of all living beings to gods? Gods are so high above, how could they look down on the faith of all living beings?"

"The gods we are talking about are actually the essence of the laws between heaven and earth. They are the product of the chaotic collision of laws when the world was created. Since it is a collision of laws, some essences are a fusion of several laws, which is very complicated, while some essences only have one law, which is very pure." said the Great Freedom Demon.

Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully after hearing this: "The mystery can use the faith of all living beings to separate the complicated laws?"

"Who told you?" The Great Freedom Demon looked at Zhang Chen as if he was looking at a fool. "Those essences originally had no intelligence, but after being worshipped by the acquired creatures, they were contaminated with their spirit, energy and spirit, and integrated with their joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, so they became intelligent. The more sentient beings worship them, the stronger their spirituality becomes."

"After gaining spiritual wisdom, the gods knew the importance of faith. If they wanted a stronger spirituality, or even to decipher the laws and order between heaven and earth, they needed a strong spirituality. Of course, faith has more effects than that. It can even chop its own complex laws into an incarnation to integrate the laws of heaven and earth." The Great Freedom Demon said: "The strength of spirituality is related to the foundation of the gods and the speed of comprehending the laws of heaven and earth."

"So that's it. This is the true purpose of the power of faith." Zhang Chen suddenly realized.

There was so much information contained in the few words of the Great Freedom Demon that Zhang Chen found it difficult to digest for a moment.

"What if humans gained the power of faith?" Zhang Chen asked.

"What do you think?" asked the Great Freedom Demon in return.

(End of this chapter)