I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 45: Strategies for the Frozen Land
Zhang Chen turned over and sat up from the bed, his eyes flickering with anxiety. He looked at the red sky with a look of doubt and uncertainty:
"Something's wrong! It's so wrong! Why did I dream about this? Could it be that I was digging a grave and was entangled by the weirdness inside the grave?"

It would be fine if I dreamed about it once, but to dream about it twice in a row?

Zhang Chen stroked his chin and pondered. After a moment, he had a guess in his mind: "Actually, there is another possibility. I sucked that drop of blood before, and then my body changed. I am dreaming about all this now. Could it be related to that drop of blood?"

Zhang Chen's mind was full of thoughts. After a long time, he began to tap his knee intermittently with his fingers, thinking about the transformation of his body. The only explanation was probably the changes brought about by that drop of blood.

Moreover, the perspective in my dream was all from that hand, so my dream about the mysterious tomb was most likely related to that drop of blood.

"That drop of blood..." Zhang Chen looked inward at his own bloodline, his eyes fell on the crystal core, with a trace of fear in his eyes: "Could it be that the demon wants to borrow my body to be reborn, and now it is changing my body and strengthening its own body, so as to bear the power of the palm to resurrect?"

"Not likely!" Zhang Chen shook his head and rejected this possibility. First of all, he was protected by the Light of the Righteous God in his body. If there was really an abnormality, his Light of the Righteous God would not have no reaction. Secondly, the most important thing was that his golden finger did not give any prompts. Whether it was the crystal core or all the changes in his home, they were all defined as "skills" by the golden finger.

Zhang Chen looked at his own Gold Finger page:

【Name: Zhang Chen】

[Skill 1 (Level 0): ​​Light of the Righteous God (5000/)]

[Skill 2 (Ungraded): Dragon Energy (0/2000)]

[Skill 3 (Ungraded): Blood Control (0/100000)]

【Points: 4690】

"From the previous blood sucking to blood control, that is to say, all the changes in my body are in the state of skills. They are all caused by the golden finger and are still under the control of the golden finger. Moreover, the crystal core and I are also blood-sensing. I can sense everything about the crystal core and control all the movement trajectories of the crystal core. The crystal core is like my finger. As long as I think about it, it can sense it." Zhang Chen's eyes showed a trace of relief:
"Since it is the change brought by the golden finger, then there is no problem! As for the fact that I dreamed about the dream, it must be the influence of the spiritual fragments brought by the blood. The crystal core in my body has undergone a mutation. There seems to be a drop of mysterious blood in it. The blood seems to be nurturing something, but I can feel that I have a blood connection with the blood in the crystal core. The one in the crystal core is another incarnation of myself. And I keep absorbing blood, which will have inexplicable benefits for the crystal core."

As he mastered new skills and gained a better understanding of his body structure, Zhang Chen felt that he seemed to have a new understanding of the skills.

"That's interesting. I want to see what you can transform into in the end. As long as the level of the Righteous God's Light in my body can suppress you, even if you really have some weirdness, you can never escape from my palm." Zhang Chen made up his mind that from now on, his Righteous God's Light will be his main skill, and the level of the Righteous God's Light must be ahead of all other skills. Even if something goes wrong in the future, he can rely on the Righteous God's Light to turn the corner and suppress it!
After figuring out the key, Zhang Chen relaxed and began to think about the ancient tomb: "Is there another ten meters to reach the deeper level of the ancient tomb? Then I can enter the ancient tomb. By then, countless fortunes will be unfolded to me, and that mere vixen can be suppressed with a snap of a finger. For now, I will just hide a little and give the vixen some time."

"Uncle Wang, I'm sorry to have to inconvenience you!" Zhang Chen silently mourned for Wang Wu for a second, then got up to feed the chickens and prepare breakfast to go into the mountains to hunt.

Zhang Chen has stewed meat for breakfast. He is now at the age of growing up. If he does not get enough nutrition, he will be in trouble.

After breakfast, Zhang Chen took a food jar, put the cooked meat in it, and then walked into the mountains carrying the basket on his back.

The so-called food jar is the lunch box in ancient times. Rural people would put the water they brought with them when they went up the mountain to work in the food jar.

At this time, the sound of reading could be heard from the next door. Looking at the candlelight reflected on the window paper next door, Zhang Chen couldn't help but sigh that although the poor scholar Zhang Chen was not a good person, he worked very hard in reading and literacy. The poor scholar Zhang Chen went to bed later than himself every day. Sometimes Zhang Chen got up to urinate in the early morning, but the poor scholar was still studying hard. And every day before dawn, when Zhang Chen got up, the poor scholar Zhang Chen must have already gotten up and was reading.

"This kid is not simple. This kind of tenacity is not something that ordinary people can have." Zhang Chen muttered to himself: "I don't know when Mr. Wuliu will come back. I can go to school and learn to read. Otherwise, I will definitely suffer a lot."

After walking to the village entrance, Zhang Chen stood there and waited for a while, then he saw Wang Wu, who had lost weight, appear in his sight.

"Uncle Wang, I brought you breakfast." Zhang Chen waved at Wang Wu in the morning light.

Before Wang Wu even got close, the reproachful voice had already sounded: "Didn't I tell you that I will take care of my own meals from now on? If that monster gets involved with you because of me, and drags you into the fire pit, it will be terrible."

"I'm not afraid!" Zhang Chen handed over the food jar with a smile.

"Don't bring it next time!" Wang Wu scolded Zhang Chen, but did not reject Zhang Chen's kindness. He squatted on the ground and started eating.

"Is there no way to restrain yourself in this world?" Zhang Chen looked at Wang Wu who was eating voraciously, then looked at his bearded face and disheveled hair, and asked tentatively.

"If you encounter this, you can only consider yourself unlucky!" Wang Wu said unhappily.

Zhang Chen was silent upon hearing this, with a look of deep thought in his eyes. He was confused about this world. Since there were mysterious powers like fox spirits, why had there never been any legends of slaying demons and eliminating evil?

If there was, it would have been passed down in the form of a myth. It was impossible for him and Wang Wu to have never heard of it.

"Perhaps my vision is too narrow, or the probability of the mystery is too small, so not a single word has been passed down." Zhang Chen muttered in his heart.

After Wang Wu finished his meal, the two of them walked towards the mountain together. At this time, Wang Wu walked in front and earnestly warned: "You kid must be careful, stay away from me recently, and don't send me food. My life and death are determined by fate, and my wealth is in the hands of God, but I, Wang Wu, will never surrender! No matter what the other party is, I, Wang Wu, will never surrender!"

Wang Wu is an old hunter who has been killing animals all his life. He has the power of life and death over wild animals, so he naturally has a murderous aura. Zhang Chen followed behind Wang Wu and said with a smile: "Uncle, what are you talking about? We are a family, why should we be so different? If it weren't for you, I would have starved to death."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Wang Wu shook his head: "It's different. You are still young and have a better future. I can't involve you. Besides, if we all die, who will bury us in the future? There won't even be anyone to attend our funeral."

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, there was an indescribable obsession in Wang Wu's voice, as if he was particularly concerned about his burial after death.

Perhaps this is the knot in the heart of the older generation.

Zhang Chen couldn't persuade Wang Wu, but he made up his mind to live his own life. Even if the vixen took revenge on him, it would only make his life a little harder. He would never let Wang Wu starve to death.

Zhang Chen and Wang Wu parted ways and first came to the cave to feed the bumblebees. Looking at the hive that was gradually taking shape, Zhang Chen smiled and said, "When I raise a million bumblebees in the future, they will swarm over the sky and earth as soon as I think about it. Even a huge army will have to retreat."

Of course, Zhang Chen knew that it was not realistic to raise a million bumblebees with his low-grade beastmaster alone, but he always had to set a small goal for himself in his heart, what if he could really achieve it?

The sound of the whistle shook the wilderness, and the falcon flapped its wings and flew happily into the sky. Zhang Chen carried a basket to check the traps. After checking more than a dozen traps, Zhang Chen summarized today's harvest: two pheasants, a wild duck, and two rabbits.

"There are so many rabbits in this world that it's almost a disaster. It's a pity that rabbit meat is not filling, and the more you eat, the hungrier you get. Otherwise, it would be an excellent food." Zhang Chen shook his head secretly.

Rabbits taste great and are full of lean meat. The only pity is that the more you eat rabbit meat, the hungrier you get. If you only eat rabbit meat, you will starve to death.

"And I haven't found a suitable bowstring for my slingshot yet. It's not easy to find suitable slingshot rubber bands in this world. I can only wait until my skills improve and hunt large beasts, then pull out their tendons to make rubber bands." Zhang Chen muttered to himself, and hurried towards the deep mountains and forests, starting his daily nectar collecting process.

After finding a place full of flowers, Zhang Chen activated the beast taming technique without hesitation and began to capture the bees in the air, urging the bees in the air to collect honey for him.

After just one hour, Zhang Chen stopped collecting honey and looked at the honey in the jar. It turned out that there was less honey than before.

"I forgot that there is a season for collecting honey. Once the honey-collecting season is over, the flowers will fall and bear fruit, and there will naturally be no nectar to collect. But even though I understand this truth, I can't change it. After all, I can only control the beasts for one hour every day." Zhang Chen shook his head: "My worries are a bit unnecessary. All I can do is to catch as many bees as possible in the right place every day and find a bigger flower cluster."

Zhang Chen looked at the honey in the jar and carefully covered it with gauze. The honey cannot be sealed after being picked. It must be air-dried first to evaporate the moisture in it, leaving honey that will not rot.

If inside a beehive, hundreds or thousands of bees would gather together and flap their wings to evaporate the moisture in the honey, but Zhang Chen does not have such convenient conditions and can only rely on natural evaporation.

"The next step is to excavate the ancient tomb. There is still ten meters away. I should be able to touch the real barrier of the ancient tomb. If I can break through the door and rush in, I will make a fortune. Don't say that the frozen soil is only ten meters, even if it is a hundred meters, a thousand meters, or ten thousand meters, I will dig it through." Zhang Chen entered the tomb carrying tools, then picked up a chisel and a hammer and began to chisel the frozen soil.

"I'm really confused. Why is there frozen soil here? It's totally unreasonable." Zhang Chen felt his palms numbed by the shock and frowned slightly, realizing that something was wrong.

This permafrost is obviously not ordinary permafrost, and the icy properties within it are not ordinary ice.

"Could it be that some mysterious power leaked out from the ancient tomb, causing the frozen ground here?" Zhang Chen guessed in his mind: "It is precisely because of the mysterious power leaking out that a large amount of experience points are dropped."

"Interesting." Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully. He remembered the vibration in his dream. The ancient tomb obviously experienced a vibration, and then the jade tablet was able to absorb the blood of the real dragon.

"I don't know how many years have passed since the tomb was buried. It is normal for the earth's plates to change and the world to undergo drastic changes. Unfortunately, my dream was not complete. I only saw some of the scenes intermittently. I roughly know the structure of the tomb, but I don't know what is arranged in it." Zhang Chen sighed. After all, he saw part of the content with the help of the third-person perspective of blood, rather than the perspective of the mysterious man who arranged the tomb.

Zhang Chen worked very hard at the chiseling, but after only half a day, he had to run out to bask in the sun to dissipate the coldness in his body.

"If I continue digging at this rate, I'm afraid it will take three to five years to break through the last ten meters of frozen soil. It won't work at this rate. I have to think of a way." Zhang Chen looked at the big sun in the sky and lazily slumped on the sand. He felt the coldness in his body disappear completely.

Zhang Chen had two ideas in mind. The first was to improve his skill level to see if he could develop some powerful skills to speed up the excavation process. The second was to light a fire in the passage with trees before going back every day. After a night of fire, even if the frozen soil could not melt, it would definitely be affected, speeding up his excavation.

"So I have to add another task now." Zhang Chen no longer rested, but instead picked up his axe and wandered around the mountains, starting to look for suitable dead trees and branches, collecting them and bringing them back to the underground cave.

"If I wasn't afraid that the gunpowder would collapse the cave, I would have used gunpowder to blow up the frozen soil directly." Zhang Chen cursed inwardly while cutting down trees in the mountains.

For him, digging the frozen soil is not the purpose, but to collect experience points. If the frozen soil is exploded and collapses, it will be really troublesome. He will have to clean up the soil again, and he doesn't know how much more work will be done. Zhang Chen is a smart man and will never do such a stupid thing.

ps: Sorry, I forgot to open it today, I’ll just show you one chapter.

Thanks to the boss “Sanqing Scholar” for the 100 points.

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