I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 100: The Remains of Dragon Palace
The underground cave was very dark, so dark that it made people feel depressed. Looking up towards the exit, the exit gradually changed from the size of a carriage to the size of a manhole cover.

Moreover, due to the continuous increase in humidity in the air, the torch in his hand began to become dim and even precarious, as if it could be extinguished at any time by the thick water vapor in the air.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen used his skills in time, and all the water vapor within ten meters around him was swept away, and the torch regained its previous brightness.

But Zhang Chen was not afraid. As a capable person, he would not be afraid of the darkness, especially since he came here for the dragon seed.

A rune flashed in Zhang Chen's palm. Fox Fairy Nannan had already reached the bottom of the well before Zhang Chen. She shouted to Zhang Chen who was descending, "The bottom is a hundred meters away from the exit. This cave is really deep! And the underground is full of river water. It is a huge underground river. It is worthy of being the place where dragons turn into dragons. This place can already be called a lake."

A lake appeared underground. What a magnificent creation! It is incredible.

Zhang Chen stepped on the river, and the water beneath his feet froze into ice, turning into a small boat that held Zhang Chen up.

"The underground water is very deep, at least fifty meters deep!" Zhang Chen said with a slight sense.

Why at least? Because the range he could sense was only fifty meters.

Fifty meters is the limit of his perception, but it is definitely not the limit of the underground river water.

Zhang Chen looked at the rope tied around his body and stretched out his hand towards the water. The water turned into an extremely sharp ice knife and cut the rope in one blow.

Then Zhang Chen held a torch and steered a small boat through the underground river. It was dark underground, as if he had come to an underground world. Twenty meters above was the top of the cave, and below was an underground river or lake of unknown depth.

"How deep is the underground river?" Zhang Chen frowned, looking at the endless river. The crystal coffin was nowhere to be found. For a moment, he didn't know where to start.

"I have explored it. This underground river is an underground lake with a radius of 3,000 meters. I don't know its depth, but it is definitely 3,000 meters wide." The fox spirit appeared in front of Zhang Chen.

"How can there be such a vast underground lake? I'm afraid the West Lake is no bigger than this." Zhang Chen was secretly amazed.

Imagine there is a cave underground, and inside the cave there is an underground lake. What would that experience be like?
The most important thing is that the water in West Lake is only five meters deep, but this underground lake is fifty meters bottomless. It would be shocking if the news got out.

However, thinking that this was a strange world, Zhang Chen could accept it.

"We are in big trouble. Now that the crystal coffin has fallen into the lake, it will be difficult for us to find it." Zhang Chen complained to the vixen.

It is actually not easy to find a crystal coffin in a place deeper and larger than West Lake.

"Have you noticed that there is a strange power in this cave that actually suppresses my power." At this moment, the fox fairy Nannan turned her head and looked at Zhang Chen beside her.

Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, and then he hurried to check the energy in his body. The next moment, his expression changed slightly. The light of the righteous god, which had always been invincible, slowed down after arriving here. It seemed that it was an animal in hibernation, suppressed by some strange power.

Then Zhang Chenfa opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed in his eyes. At this moment, the entire world under the lake suddenly changed, and a world of dazzling golden light appeared before his eyes.

Before his eyes was a golden world. The water surface and the cave above were covered with golden light. Especially in the middle of the lake, there was a stone emitting dazzling golden light, which made Zhang Chen's eyes shed tears.

The light was too dazzling! The golden curtain of light was so dazzling that he couldn't open his eyes. He could only close his eyes, and then the golden world in front of him disappeared, and the lake returned to darkness again.

However, this time Zhang Chen had a target, and he directly urged the ice boat to swim towards the big rock that was emitting dazzling golden light.

"That's dragon energy! I've never seen such pure and amazingly concentrated dragon energy! That stone must be extraordinary." Zhang Chen urged the ice boat all the way and came directly to the stone. He saw that the stone extended five meters from underwater with five large gold-plated characters engraved on it.

As the torches approached, the five characters reflected golden light. The characters were extremely mysterious, as if countless rivers flowed through them. Every stroke represented a water vein in the world, as if it had turned into a surging river.

Zhang Chen looked at the five gold-plated characters with a hint of curiosity in his eyes. When he was wondering what the five gold-plated characters meant, suddenly the true dragon destiny in his soul shook slightly, and then Zhang Chen inexplicably understood the words engraved on the stone: Chunting Lake Dragon Palace.

Dragon Palace?

Zhang Chen looked at the five large gold-plated characters in front of him, with a hint of shock in his eyes: "Is there really a Dragon Palace in this world?"

But then I thought, there are even real dragons in this world, so if there is a Dragon Palace, it doesn’t seem like a big deal?
"There is a Feng Shui formation here. The entire underground lake is covered by the Feng Shui formation. We must be careful!" The voice of the fox fairy Nannan came from a distance.

"A Feng Shui formation?" Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully. If this place was the Dragon Palace, it would be normal to have a Feng Shui formation.

At this time, the fox fairy Nannan approached and came to Zhang Chen's side. She looked at the stone pillar under the torch with a look of astonishment: "Why is there a big stone sticking out from the water here? How high is this stone?"

"The text on it is so strange." The vixen complained, then her eyes fell on the large gold-plated characters, a hint of surprise in her eyes.

The vixen glanced at Zhang Chen, who was carefully studying the text and seemed to understand it. She said unhappily, "I said you were studying so carefully. If I didn't know your background and knew that you couldn't read a single word, I would have almost thought you understood it. Why are you staring at this big rock instead of looking for the place where you can turn into a dragon?"

"The Dragon Palace of Chunting Lake." Zhang Chen said.

"What?" The vixen was stunned when she heard that.

"I mean, the words on this stone tablet are called: Spring Court Lake Dragon Palace. Have you heard of Spring Court Lake?" Zhang Chen asked with a surprised look on his face.
Time goes back to the time when the Yellow River was flooding and Zhang Chen used the true dragon fate to tease and seduce the dragon seed. As the crystal coffin of the dragon seed appeared on the Yellow River, a subtle dragon roar suddenly sounded in a room in the Pingbian Palace that was closed all year round.

The Pingbian Palace covers a large area, about ten miles in radius. In the backyard of the palace there is a lake about a mile in size. A small island was built on the lake. The island is full of flowers and densely planted with bamboos, making the entire island lush and green.

In the very center of the island, there is a one-story house. The house is not big, only about 70 or 80 square meters, and is made entirely of bamboo. The whole house is square, except for the eaves on the roof, which look like two dragon horns reaching into the sky.

On the eaves of the four corners of the house, there are water-blue bells hanging, and under the bells are ceramic bowls hung. The bowls are filled with clear water, emitting thick mist that fills the entire island.

At this moment, the bells at the four corners of the house suddenly rang rapidly, and the sound spread into the house.

The windows of the house were tightly closed, making it airtight, but the whole house was not dark. Fourteen long-burning lamps were lit in the house, arranged in a unique pattern, illuminating the whole house as bright as day.

The oil in the oil lamp was azure blue, like an endless sea, and the wick was like a dragon, constantly swimming back and forth in the lamp.

In front of the lamp, there was a tablet covered with a blue cloth. King Pingbian was kneeling quietly under the tablet, with incense burning in front of him, looking very mysterious.

"My Pingbian Palace has been patient for hundreds of years, and has been working diligently and not daring to reveal even the slightest clue. If the ancestor can transform into a dragon successfully, I will get the help of the demon clan and form an alliance with them. By then, even if the court wins a great victory, they will not be able to do anything to my Pingbian Palace. The ancestor should transform into a dragon within these few months. I hope that everything goes well and nothing goes wrong. The true dragon destiny will return in time, and there must be no problems!" King Pingbian, with a head full of silver hair, knelt on the ground and muttered continuously.

King Pingbian is very young, looks to be only in his thirties, and is as strong and healthy as a young man.

At this moment, there was a sudden and urgent sound of bells outside the house, which made Pingbian Wang in the house change color. He stood up suddenly and rushed out of the house quickly. Then he looked at the bells that kept vibrating at the four corners under the eaves, and there was a serious look in his eyes: "Oh no! Something happened! Something serious!"

King Pingbian knew that things were getting serious!

Big trouble is waiting for him!
"There is a problem with the place where the ancestor turned into a dragon? This shouldn't happen. The ancestor's dragon transformation has reached the final stage. What kind of problem could there be? Could it be that the dragon vein was broken by someone?" King Pingbian stood under the eaves, looking at the four bowls of water hanging under the bell. At this time, accompanied by the sound of the bell, the four bowls of water actually burst out from the bottom of the bowl, forming four small whirlpools in the ceramic bowls. The small whirlpools kept spinning, and with the rotation of the whirlpools, the flow of air was stirred. The whole island was suddenly covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and strange visions kept bursting out.

"It seems that there is really a big problem!" King Pingbian had a gloomy expression. After leaving the house, he quickly came to the edge of the island and saw dozens of armored guards guarding the island.

"Your Majesty!"

When the guards saw Queen Pingbian, they immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully.

"Tell the chief steward to ask the prince to go to the ancestral land and ask him to use blood to appease the dragon spirit. In addition, you can tell the prince the truth. In the future, the entire palace will eventually rely on the prince for support, and he will have to take over many things personally." King Pingbian said.

The soldier immediately took the order and left. Not long after, the steward came to Zhang Xiaohua's bed again. At this time, Zhang Xiaohua was screaming in pain. When she saw the steward coming in, her voice was full of pain: "I really hope to catch that bastard Zhang Chen and let him enjoy all the pain I am suffering now."

"Prince, please be patient. Zhang Chen is not worth mentioning. You are going to do a big thing now, a big thing that concerns the future fortune of Pingbian Palace. If you succeed, a mere Zhang Chen will be nothing. Even if it means the future of the rivers and lakes of the world, you will have the opportunity to make the decisions yourself." The steward said with a smile.

"What's the big deal?" Zhang Xiaohua became excited when she heard this, her voice full of anticipation.

"Go see your ancestor!" said the steward.

"My ancestor?" Zhang Xiaohua was stunned when she heard this.
The chief steward didn't keep anyone in suspense at this time, and directly told Zhang Xiaohua the story of the dragon transformation. Zhang Xiaohua was shocked when she heard it, and her eyes were full of surprise: "You mean my ancestor is going to transform into a dragon? This is a great thing."

"Now the ancestor's destiny of transforming into a dragon is unstable. We need you, the direct descendant of the Pingbian Palace, to go to the river to offer sacrifices, and then use the power of your bloodline to communicate with the destiny of the north and contribute more powerful destiny to the ancestor, so that the ancestor's destiny can be stabilized and he can successfully transform into a dragon!" said the steward.

"Help me up quickly, let's get going now." Zhang Xiaohua's eyes turned red when she heard this: "The ancestor is in trouble, how can I not lend a helping hand?"

"Let's set off now and we will reach our ancestral home in a day. By the way, your mortal enemy Zhang Chen is also in the Yellow River. If he accidentally drowns and you risk your life to save him, it will be a good story if it gets out." The steward said with a smile.

Zhang Xiaohua's eyes lit up immediately when she heard this: "Great! That's perfect! If he falls into the water, I will risk my life to save him."

In an inconspicuous courtyard in the north
But I saw a middle-aged man holding a scroll in his hand, his eyes quietly looking at the surging clouds in the sky, with a sharp look in his eyes: "Turning into a dragon? How can I face the king in the future if you want to turn into a dragon under my nose? There is a saying in the martial arts world that three thousand soldiers can slay a dragon. I didn't expect that I can try it myself in my lifetime."

"Somebody come!"

The middle-aged man said.

"Sir." A middle-aged man in plain clothes walked into the yard and bowed respectfully with his fists clasped.

"Gather 10,000 soldiers and follow me. I, Xie Xuan, will slay the dragon today and obtain the blood of the real dragon for the emperor to prolong his life for hundreds of years. I will definitely be famous all over the world. The world has not known the name of Xie Xuan for many years, and now I, Xie Xuan, am back again!" The man's voice was full of excitement: "May the Great Victory Dynasty last forever!"

at the same time
A group of men wearing yellow scarves gathered in a dilapidated temple. Looking at the water vapor surging in the sky, they all fell into deep thought.

"I never thought that this evil beast would become so powerful and transform itself into a dragon! Now is the best time to slay the dragon. If we can obtain dragon blood and dragon balls, our cultivation will definitely be further improved."

The leading man was an old man in his fifties. He spoke softly, his voice full of longing: "Longevity!"

(End of this chapter)