I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 283 Ding Haizhu

If there was a chance to eliminate Zhang Xiaohua safely and without leaving any trace, Zhang Chen would never mind taking action.

"This matter still needs careful planning. I need to give Zhang Xiaohua a fatal blow at the critical moment. If I fail, I will die. If I succeed, Zhang Xiaohua will disappear into the past. If I fail, I'm afraid I can't stay in Huang Tiandao. Of course, the most important thing is to find a way to remove all traces of me and not give Huang Tiandao a chance to notice. For me, the most important thing is to hide and hide inside Huang Tiandao to absorb the incense and faith." Zhang Chen kept reminding himself in his heart.

Whether it was plotting against Zhang Xiaohua or rescuing Xie Lingyun, it was just a side job. His main purpose was to stay hidden in the Taoist temple, steal Huang Tiandao's achievements, and devour Huang Tiandao's power of faith to improve his own skills.

When Zhang Chen returned to the Taoist temple, Xiao Douding was practicing. Zhang Chen walked up to wake Xiao Douding up, and saw Xiao Douding staring at Zhang Chen with reluctance: "Zhang Chen, do you know that it is the most annoying thing to come and disturb others when they are practicing?"

"Yes, yes, I am annoying, but I got an item that can assist in the practice of visualization. I originally wanted to give it to someone as a resource for cultivation, but now that I am so annoying, forget it." Zhang Chen said nonchalantly.

"What? You have a treasure to assist in cultivation?" The little boy's eyes widened upon hearing this. He immediately jumped off the bed and threw himself directly on Zhang Chen, hanging on Zhang Chen's shoulders like a koala: "Zhang Chen, is what you said true or false?"

"Of course it's fake." Zhang Chen teased the child with a smile.

The little kid didn't believe it and hugged Zhang Chen's neck and shook him coquettishly, making Zhang Chen feel like he was holding his daughter. His heart was about to melt. He quickly said, "Okay, okay, come down first and I'll give you the treasure."

The little kid really jumped down obediently after hearing that. Then Zhang Chen took out a bottle of Yellow Spring Water from his sleeve and said to the little kid, "This thing is called Yellow Spring Water. It is extremely precious. You should use it well after you get it, but you must not reveal it to others, otherwise you will get yourself killed."

Xiao Douding was a sensible child. Hearing this, he carefully took the bottle and looked at Zhang Chen eagerly: "How do I use this?"

"One drop at a time." Zhang Chen said.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Douding immediately returned to his house upstairs with the water bottle in his arms: "I won't eat dinner, and don't bother me for lunch."

Looking at the little kid running away, Zhang Chen shook his head, walked to the bed and took out the gold sticker.

Looking down at the gold sticker in his hand, he saw that it was golden in color, woven with fine gold threads, and had exquisite scrolls made of pure gold at both ends.

Zhang Chen looked at the gold sticker with great satisfaction, and the next step was to use his magic power to refine it. In the past, Zhang Chen would have to refine it for at least eight to ten years before it could become a magic weapon. But now he had the power of incense to assist him and could restore his magic power at any time, so it would only take him three to five days to refine it.

If he just practiced the Six-Character Mantra Sticker, the upgrade time of the Dingshui Talisman would be delayed again. After a little hesitation, Zhang Chen chose to postpone the practice of the Six-Character Mantra Sticker.

Little Bean doesn't mind these ten days or half a month, but the time for the Taoist temple competition has not been determined, and the time for enthroning the water god has not been determined either. It may start at any time, so the most important thing for him is to work out the water-fixing talisman first.

Then Zhang Chen quickly came up with an idea: "The secret room in the underground space was created by divine power. If I devour the divine power of the underground secret room..."

Zhang Chen's heart beat fast. If he absorbed the divine power of the underground secret room during the day, and absorbed the divine power of the sculpture at night, wouldn't it mean that he could obtain two million points in one day?

Not to mention refining the water-fixing talisman, even refining the six-character mantra sticker would not be delayed.

The only thing he needed to worry about was whether the divine power in the underground secret room was enough for him to consume.

But as a human being, we should always have dreams. What if we succeed?

"If I want to absorb divine power underground, I need to manifest my true form underground. But the underground is all rocks and mud, so I need to open up a space first to accommodate me." Zhang Chen secretly calculated and deduced in his mind, and the next moment the infiltration technique was activated again. He sneaked all the way underground, and according to the direction he remembered last time, he found the secret room wrapped in the divine power of incense in a short time.

However, the secret room is surrounded by rocks, and it is not easy to open up a space for it.

Even if Zhang Chen mastered the art of controlling water, the underground rocks were extremely hard and he could not use the art to squeeze out underground space out of thin air.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen is worthy of being Zhang Chen. He set his attention on his own beast taming technique. His water control technique could not squeeze the rocks, but he could use the beast taming technique to dig them, right?
There is no shortage of pangolins in this world.

"We need at least ten pangolins, and then ask them to work day and night, so that we can dig underground as quickly as possible." Zhang Chen had an idea in his mind, so he used the infiltration technique to go down the mountain again to look for pangolins.

It was not difficult for Zhang Chen to find pangolins. Once the beast-controlling technique was activated, all the wild animals within a radius of two kilometers were within Zhang Chen's perception. After searching in the mountains for half a day, Zhang Chen had already harvested ten pangolins.

Then Zhang Chen calculated the location and began to arrange for the construction of Chuanshanjia.

Ten pangolins worked in three shifts day and night, and in just one day they had dug three hundred meters, from outside the Taoist temple to the secret room at the foot of the mountain, and then opened up a two-meter space outside the wall of the secret room.

Then Zhang Chen rewarded the pangolins with a meal of roe deer meat before letting the ten pangolins go.

It was already dark at this time, and Zhang Chen carried a bucket to the main hall to work, continuing to steal the power of the incense.

Zhang Chen subconsciously looked at the jade talisman in the mouth of the sculpture, and saw that the jade talisman was also absorbing the power of faith. The speed at which the other party absorbed the power of incense was much faster than his own.

"What exactly does the Pingbian Palace want to do? Aren't they afraid of angering Huang Tiandao?" Zhang Chen was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, since the Pingbian Palace and Huang Tiandao were allies, there was no need to resort to such petty tricks, right?
However, this was none of Zhang Chen's business. Instead, he could just breathe without any worries because even if something went wrong, he could put the blame on the Pingbian Palace.

One million points were earned overnight. Zhang Chen quietly left when the morning bell rang, then mixed in the crowd to finish his morning class. He quietly came to the wall of the underground secret room and looked at the divine power flowing on the wall of the underground secret room. "I don't know if this divine power is fixed, with only this much, or it is constantly added. It should be constantly added, right? After all, divine power will disappear with the passage of time. If there is no constant supply of divine power, it will not be possible to hold on."

"What's going on? We'll know if we try it." The innate mosquito mouthparts on Zhang Chen's palm extended out and pierced directly into the divine power in the wall, and then Zhang Chen began to devour it without hesitation.

吞~
吞~
As Zhang Chen swallowed, the divine power on the wall began to flow like running water. When Zhang Chen took a sip, the divine power would naturally flow back to replenish him.

Seeing this, Zhang Chen relaxed: "It turns out that the power of faith is constantly blessing me. In this case, I can absorb it boldly without worry."

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen touched his chin and pondered: "That's not right. If that's the case, then why would I wipe the sculpture? Wouldn't it just be swallowed up directly underground?"

"When I get back, tell Xiaodouding that I'm giving up the job of cleaning the hall. I just want to devour the power of faith. I don't want to work." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

Zhang Chen swallowed for two hours, and saw that as he swallowed, divine power continued to flow in from afar, replenishing him endlessly. Zhang Chen felt completely free.

When Zhang Chen felt that the time was almost up, he quietly returned to the yard and saw Xiao Douding practicing martial arts. "Senior sister, I have something to ask of you." Zhang Chen waved to Xiao Douding.

"What's the matter with you kid?" The little guy finished his training and turned to look at Zhang Chen with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"You can push the job of cleaning the hall off for me. Tell that unlucky guy to report to the temple and arrange for someone else to take his place." Zhang Chen said to the little kid.

The little bean looked at Zhang Chen in surprise, but did not say much. Instead, he smiled and said, "It's a small matter! It's a small matter! I'll arrange it for you tonight."

After saying that, the little girl ran out of the yard in a hurry. Zhang Chen laughed secretly when he saw this. After all, she still had the mentality of a little girl. Although her soul had left her body, her mentality was still unstable.

Zhang Chen saw that the matter was settled, so he did not delay any longer, turned around and quietly went back underground to continue to devour the incense and divine power. For him, every minute and every second of delay was a skill point.

Time passed quickly. Originally, it would take Zhang Chen eight days to upgrade the Dingshui Talisman and collect eight million points. However, after Zhang Chen stole incense points day and night without the constraints of time, he devoured them unscrupulously and collected the points needed for the upgrade in just three and a half days.

In the underground space, Zhang Chen looked at his own gold finger page:

[14th skill (level 0): Water-fixing Talisman (8011200/)]

【Points: 8012000】

"upgrade."

Zhang Chen didn't even think about it and clicked it directly. The next moment, he saw the points evaporate instantly, and then the skill board exploded and turned into countless snowflakes. Then the snowflakes turned into countless fine rune order chains that intertwined and reorganized again. After a quarter of an hour, the skills on the gold finger board appeared:

[14th skill: Dinghaizhu]

[Note: Can determine the origin of water]

It was a simple introduction, but it made Zhang Chen feel a little numb. The shorter the words, the more information it contained.

What is the origin of water?

There is absolutely no simple thing that can be called the origin.

"What a fun thing! It's really a fun thing." Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger page. At this time, the Dinghai Pearl was no longer a text introduction, but appeared in the shape of a blue bead.

The bead was azure blue, the size of an egg, and looked extremely gorgeous.

However, he didn't dare to take out the Dinghai Pearl to test. If the Dinghai Pearl caused any unusual phenomenon and was noticed by Huang Tiandao, then he would have a means to deal with it in advance, which would not be good news for him.

"Obtaining this bead has finally put an end to a worry in my heart. No matter what happens in the subsequent enthronement ceremony, I will have hope of a turnaround with this Dinghai Pearl." Zhang Chen felt relaxed and turned to look at the secret room in front of him. He saw divine power flowing on the walls of the secret room, and there was still no sign of any reduction in the power of incense.

"That's not right. Although the power of the incense on this wall has not decreased, and there is still a steady stream of power of faith replenishing it from all directions, it seems that the luster has dimmed." Zhang Chen still noticed the changes in the wall in front of him.

At this moment, Zhang Chen was alert: "How strange! Why is this happening?"

"But I have no choice now. Even if there are changes, I have to absorb them. For me, the fastest way to accumulate experience points is to absorb incense and faith. With such a huge benefit in front of me, how can I bear it?"

Zhang Chen muttered to himself, and stretched out his evil hand towards the power of faith and began to devour it.

In the secret room next door, Gu Mingyue and Wu Changming stood in front of the pool. They saw that the pool was about two meters in radius with golden water flowing in it. At this time, there were four springs around the pool, spewing yellow water into the pool.

"How strange!" Gu Mingyue suddenly stared at the pond and said something.

"What's wrong?" Wu Changming, who was standing by, came forward with a puzzled look on his face.

"Look at the water in the pool. Has it dropped by two points compared to seven days ago?" Gu Mingyue said, pointing at the golden water in the pool.

"No way?" Wu Changming's smile disappeared when he heard that, and his expression suddenly became serious.

The two of them carefully watched the water flow in the pool, and sure enough, it had dropped a bit compared to seven days ago.

Wu Changming took a deep breath at this time: "How is it possible! The preaching at the foot of the mountain is in full swing, how come the accumulated power of faith has increased instead of decreased, showing negative growth?"

This is simply impossible, but it happened.

Negative growth?
It's just hell.

The power of incense here is showing negative growth. What are the disciples down the mountain collecting by preaching?
The collected incense actually showed negative growth? What a joke! Not only did I not collect the power of faith, but I also lost money? There is no such thing!
"Could it be that someone has been mobilizing the power of incense and offerings to fight against others recently? Or is it that the Great Sage Master has been drawing on the power of faith on a large scale for the purpose of cultivation? Could it be that Master is about to break through and come out?" Gu Mingyue's eyes showed a hint of excitement.

If the Great Sage Master were to break out of the barrier, his strength would be further enhanced and would definitely change the situation in the world.

The world's situation has been rewritten! This great victory dynasty is not impossible to overthrow, and by then Huang Tiandao's pace will be infinitely accelerated.

"Send a letter to inquire and see if there is a problem with Master." Wu Changming said.

"Master once said that only when this pool is full of water can the great undertaking of conferring gods begin. Now, the water in the pool that accumulates faith has a leak, and we must get to the bottom of it. Is there a problem with the preaching down the mountain, or is there someone who has recently fought with others and drawn away the incense and faith, affecting the progress of the conferring? We must find out and give an explanation to all the managers in the sect." Wu Changming said.

(End of this chapter)