I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 688 Alchemy
Bai Cang lurked in the Pingbian Palace just to absorb the dragon energy of the Pingbian King. Now he has absorbed most of the dragon energy of the Pingbian Palace, and his cultivation has improved greatly, and he has derived the eighth tail. When he was thinking about how to further improve himself, he didn't expect that the Pingbian King would take the initiative to bring the opportunity to him.

If he were sent to Kyoto now, with his cultivation of the Eight-Tailed Fox, as long as he could collect the dragon energy of Daishincho, he would be able to break through the Nine-Tailed Fox and even evolve to the ancestor level.

"Your Majesty, are you really so cruel to send me away?" Bai Cang burst into tears upon hearing this, revealing the image of a beautiful woman shedding tears.

"I can't bear it, but the North is doomed to fall after losing its heir, and I am trying to find a way out for your future. I have noticed that my health is getting worse day by day, so you should make plans early." King Pingbian stood up, holding Zhang Xiaolan in his arms, his voice full of emotion:

"I have already planned to use the Northland's trump card to persuade the Zhang family in Kyoto to send someone to inherit the throne. The price is to kill Zhang Chen to accompany my son in death. If the Zhang family refuses, I can only turn to the Human King, and you are my biggest plan."

"Pack your bags and I will send you off tomorrow." King Pingbian's words were domineering and unquestionable.

Chongzheng Academy
Zhang Chen sat in the room all night. He never thought that he would encounter such a bad thing, but fortunately he still had time to make a detour.

"From the North to Kyoto, it will take at least three years at the normal speed. I still have time to develop. As long as I step into the twelfth level, or break through the twelfth level and enter the realm of 'fruit', who can do anything to me then?" Zhang Chen's mind gradually calmed down. What he lacked was time to develop, and the countless monsters sealed in the Linglong Tower were his opportunities to develop.

"Brother, did you not sleep all night?" Zhang Fei opened his eyes on the bed and looked at Zhang Chen who was sitting at the table practicing calligraphy, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"I just woke up early." Zhang Chen touched Zhang Fei's little head: "Why don't you hurry up and study. You must know that if you don't study hard when you are young, you will regret it when you are old."

Zhang Chen urged Zhang Fei, and after breakfast, he did not go to Linglong Tower, but went to the back mountain to find a place to refine medicine.

The Eight Treasures Heart Locking Pill is a supreme life-saving medicine, so Zhang Chen must do everything he can to refine it. In the past, when he didn't have the True Fire, he just used ordinary fire and failed countless times to refine the Eight Treasures Heart Locking Pill. Now that he has mastered the True Fire of the Sun, he can use the True Fire of the Sun to refine the medicine.

Zhang Chen wandered all the way in the back mountain and finally came to a thousand-year-old pine tree. As he thought about it, the power of the wood element was activated. The branches of the thousand-year-old pine tree instantly became dozens of times denser and turned into a huge canopy, blocking all the rain falling from the sky outside the canopy.

"The scenery here at the top of the mountain is superb. It's a good place to refine pills." Zhang Chen took out the alchemy furnace, transformed it into a normal size, and after scanning the entire furnace, he saw a sun's true fire falling into the furnace after a slight hesitation.

That true sun fire was indeed just a single flame, only the size of a candle flame, but in an instant, the innate restrictions within the entire alchemy furnace began to flow, pulling the flame into it. The entire alchemy furnace burst out with terrifying heat, burning the void so hard that it began to distort.

"The true fire of the sun is too overbearing." Zhang Chen felt that even if it was just a flame, its power was still too strong, so he began to control the flame to restrain its power.

Fortunately, the alchemy furnace has its own restrictions, which confine the power of the sun's true fire within the furnace, otherwise who knows what kind of noise the alchemy furnace in front of you would cause.

After adjusting the size of the flame, Zhang Chen poured the various elixirs that had been prepared long ago into the alchemy furnace in order and began to prepare various medicinal materials.

Alchemy is not a hasty task, but a slow and meticulous process that requires constant tempering of both the civil and military skills.

one day

Two days
Three full days passed. On the third day, a strange fragrance rose from the alchemy furnace and entered Zhang Chen's mouth and nose, waking up Zhang Chen from his meditation. Zhang Chen hurriedly looked at the alchemy furnace, and the next moment the water power in his body was activated, forming an airtight light shield that wrapped the alchemy furnace to prevent the strange fragrance from spreading out and causing trouble.

“Looking at this elixir, it should take two or three days to make it. Today should be the day when Huang Tiandao is deified in Jinling City, right?” Zhang Chen deduced in his mind.

Just as all kinds of thoughts were flowing in his mind, suddenly thunder rumbled in the distance, and a surging energy came from the south of Jinling City, carrying thousands of thunders and approaching the direction of Jinling City.

"That's the breath of the innate water god!" Zhang Chen saw the thunderclouds wandering in the clouds in the distance, his eyes full of caution: "Judging from his aura, he is already at the top of the eleventh level, and is only one step away from entering the twelfth level. This guy is probably only one direct descendant of the Zhang family away from the twelfth level. In other words, if another Shen Qiu dies, or another Shen Ling dies, he may be able to cross that critical threshold in an instant. I'm afraid that by then, unless the great virtuous master comes, he can't be subdued."

But the eleventh level is the eleventh level, even if it is only a hair's breadth away from the twelfth level, it is still the eleventh level. As long as the opponent's cultivation has not reached the twelfth level, Jinling City will have a way to deal with it, and the opponent will not be able to break the suppressive power of the Linglong Tower.

Seeing the thunder dragon wandering in the void, constantly raising the power of thunder and lightning, in an instant the entire cloud layer hundreds of miles south of Jinling City was dyed into a world of lightning, turning into an ocean of thunder and lightning that was rolling like a river, pouring down on Jinling City with great momentum.

Imagine that you are looking at the dark clouds in the sky on a rainy day. At a glance, the dark clouds have all turned into flowing lightning lava, and the lightning lava is like a river from the sky pouring back to the earth. What a terrifying scene is this?

“Even a twelfth-order god wouldn’t be able to withstand this!” Zhang Chen looked at the sea of ​​thunder and lightning in the sky with a hint of horror in his eyes.

At this moment, even though he had cultivated the eleventh-level Sun True Fire and had an innate spiritual treasure to protect his body, he couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.

The true fire of the sun is good at killing but not good at defense. If you are caught in it, you will surely end up dead.

"What means does Huang Tiandao have to deal with the Xiantian Water God?" Zhang Chen sat on the top of the mountain and looked at the world-destroying scene in the distance and swallowed his saliva: "This Xiantian Water God possesses the innate authority, and cannot be judged by the normal realm. Who has such power at the eleventh level?"

Although Zhang Chen mastered the eleventh-level true solar fire, he was sure that he could never create such a big scene.

“The Xiantian Water God is an eleventh-rank cultivator, but with his innate authority, I’m afraid he already has the strength of the twelfth rank, and can be called quasi-twelfth-rank. It’s like the tenth-rank masters of the five major families who have not forged a divine body…” Zhang Chen was secretly shocked.

Just as he was trembling with fear, there was a sudden earthquake in Chongzheng Academy, and the Linglong Tower was split into two. One of the towers turned into light and shadow, soared into the sky, and landed outside Jinling City, blocking the way of the sea of ​​thunder and lightning.

The exquisite tower fell to the ground and took root in the earth in an instant. Then the entire exquisite tower grew against the wind and penetrated directly into the clouds, turning into a towering existence.

The nameless Taoist rhyme flowed out from the Linglong Tower, permeating the heaven and earth. A majestic repressive force collided with the surging ocean of thunder and lightning. The repressive force turned into a dam, blocking the ocean of thunder and lightning surging from afar.

"Damned human ant, how dare you block my way?" The lightning between heaven and earth twisted and turned into Shen Liang's face, looking down at Zhou Qiucheng on the Linglong Tower.

Zhou Qiucheng, dressed in white, stood quietly on the Linglong Tower with a calm look in his eyes: "Every grievance has its perpetrator. If you want to seek revenge, I won't stop you, but if you want to destroy the entire Jinling City, I won't agree! You are an innate creature, born with the power of heaven and earth, and possess unmatched power among all living beings. You should follow the will of heaven. How could you do such a perverse act to harm innocent beings?"

“You ant, are you qualified to talk to me about God’s will? You want to seize my water authority, and the ants in Jinling City help me to do evil and provide him with the power of faith. Where are the innocent people? I hold the power of heaven and earth, and the general trend of heaven and earth. I am God’s will!” The huge human face opened his mouth, and the next moment a blanket of lightning spears shot towards the Linglong Tower.

In the city of Jinling, countless people hid in their homes, trembling in fear, and kept kneeling on the ground to pray.

In the center of Jinling City, Huang Tiandao had already prepared the altar. Gu Mingyue slowly stepped onto the altar with a fanatical look in her eyes: "The authority of the Water Virtue Star Lord left by Zhang Xiaohua has not yet dissipated. When I hold the God-conferring Ceremony this time, I will not only be able to become a natural water god, but also hope to obtain the status of Water Virtue Star Lord. By then, I may not be worse than the innate water god."

After he climbed onto the altar, he looked at the tens of thousands of people below the altar, and his voice was filled with seriousness: "That old fellow Zhou Qiucheng has already blocked the Xiantian Water God, but he can't block it for too long. Let's hurry up and hold the Conferred God Ceremony."

"Now I declare that the Ceremony of Conferring the Gods has begun. Please ask the Great Sage Master for the decree." Gu Mingyue said loudly.

Chongzheng Academy Hilltop
Zhang Chen sat under a thousand-year-old tree, looking at the battle between the Xiantian Water God and Zhou Qiucheng in the distance, as well as the aura rising in Jinling City below. He was ready to make a move: "If I take action now and ruin the Conferred God Ceremony..."

"By then, the entire Jinling City will be slaughtered by the Xiantian Water God. It's better to choose the lesser of two evils and let this matter go." Zhang Chen looked at the sea of ​​thunder in the distance. Its power far exceeded that of the eleventh level. Zhou Qiucheng was afraid that he would not be able to withstand it for long. The only way to save Jinling City now was to seize the power of the Xiantian Water God. Only in this way could he return to the strength that a normal eleventh-level strongman should have.

"Huang Tiandao has seized the authority of the Innate Water God. This will definitely attract the Innate Water God's attention and ward off disaster for me." Zhang Chen said secretly in his heart.

(End of this chapter)