I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 5: The Light of God
Regardless of whether what was said in novels, movies and TV dramas in his previous life was reliable or not, Zhang Chen decided to dig only at noon when the yang energy was at its peak, and go home to rest after noon.

Although the property and experience points in the ancient tomb are important, your own life is more important.

At certain moments, people will always subconsciously choose to believe in superstition a little bit.

In the next room, the vixen looked at Zhang Chen's receding back, with a beautiful arc on her lips: "I knew this ruffian had taken the bait. No one can resist the temptation of money."

Zhang Chen carried a shovel and followed the path he had come from. He came to the cave entrance and observed it carefully for a while before saying in surprise, "The pheasant left the cave."

The fact that the pheasant was able to walk out of the cave means it is still safe inside, otherwise the pheasant would have died long ago.

Looking at the experience points at the entrance of the cave, Zhang Chen's eyes lit up, and he started digging without saying a word.

The experience points were only a few meters away from the cave entrance. Zhang Chen only dug for half an hour, and a large amount of experience points was already within reach.

“So many experience points!”

Zhang Chen looked at the experience points in front of him with a hint of surprise. He saw numbers floating on the red balls, some with '+10', some with '+20', some with '+50', and some with '+100'. Of course, there were also '+1', '+2', '+5', '+8', and '+9'. It could be said that all the numbers from one to one hundred were available.

"I'm going to be rich! I don't know how deep this cave is. Looking around, I see experience points all over the depths of the cave. If I continue digging, I'm afraid my skills will rise to the sky, and suppressing that vixen will be a piece of cake." Zhang Chen swallowed his saliva as he looked at the experience points in front of him.

At this moment, Zhang Chen's cheat code had detected the experience value, and the cheat code page popped up:
[Experience points found, would you like to pick it up? ]

"Pick it up!" Zhang Chen said to himself.

[Experience value +10]

[Experience value +30]

[Experience value +50]

[Experience value +9]

[Experience value +8]

[Experience value +35]

……

As Zhang Chen dug, his experience points also began to increase rapidly. It was not until noon that Zhang Chen stopped shoveling. He was sweating and panting as he dug a big hole on the spot. "Let me see how much experience points I have?"

Although digging holes is hard, the experience gained is very enjoyable.

【Name: Zhang Chen】

[Skill (Level 0): Golden Light to Repel Evil (500/)]

【Points: 350】

"Only 350 points?" Zhang Chen looked at the experience value on the board, feeling somewhat dissatisfied. He had been digging under the scorching sun for a whole afternoon, but had only dug out 350 points. This was a bit too little.

"I'm only one hundred and fifty points away from upgrading." Zhang Chen looked at the golden finger screen and muttered to himself, I only need to dig for two more hours at most, then I should be able to upgrade, right?

The temptation of upgrading to Zhang Chen is beyond words.

"As for whether there is something harmful in this ancient tomb, I don't quite believe it. After all, there is a village not far from here. If there is something harmful in the ancient tomb, rumors would have spread in the village long ago, and even the entire village would have suffered." Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at the sky. According to the time calculated by later generations, if he dug for another two hours, it would only be around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun would still be very bright at that time.

Looking at the golden finger page that showed he was only 150 experience points away, Zhang Chen picked up the shovel and continued to work hard without saying a word.

As shovelfuls of dirt were continuously dug out, the experience points on the golden finger board in front of Zhang Chen began to accumulate rapidly.

[Experience value +1]

[Experience value +9]

[Experience value +5]

[Experience value +20]

[Experience value +7]

[Experience value +35]

……

Finally, at a certain moment, Zhang Chen stopped his shovel and stared at his own Gold Finger page with excitement in his eyes:
【Name: Zhang Chen】

[Skill (Level 0): Golden Light to Repel Evil (500/)]

【Points: 507】

"Upgrade." Zhang Chen said without thinking.

【Name: Zhang Chen】

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

【Points: 7】

"What is that?" Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the skill. His own skill, the golden light that can ward off evil, has been upgraded from the first level to the second level, and from the golden light that can ward off evil to the light of the righteous gods.

Zhang Chen only felt his body getting hot, a warm current running through his whole body, as if he was immersed in warm water, an indescribable feeling surged into his heart.

His Dantian seemed to be breathing, as if it had life. With his every breath, there seemed to be a ray of light growing in his Dantian.

The light was so majestic that it seemed like a god in the world, emanating from it an indescribable sense of righteousness, as if the light could dispel all evil in the world, protect all living beings, and drive away all gloom and bad luck.

Its divine power is like an endless abyss that is immeasurable, and also like the sun hanging high in the sky, looking down at all living beings, blessing all things so that people dare not look directly at it.

"And then? It's gone?" Zhang Chen woke up from the majestic and majestic scene, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

Isn't this like cheating for yourself or something?
Not to mention moving mountains and seas, you must have some extraordinary power, right? How come it suddenly disappeared? Zhang Chen's eyes fell on the experience points after the "Light of the Righteous God", and he couldn't help but feel a toothache: "The experience points for upgrading from level one to level two are only 500, and now it takes 5,000 to upgrade from level two to level three?"

What does 5,000 experience points mean?
That is definitely not a simple matter of digging a few more meters, but it requires a tenfold increase. Even if each experience point he picks up is '+50' points, he still needs to pick up a hundred.

"Wouldn't it cost 50,000 to upgrade from level 3 to level 4? Then I guess it's unlikely to upgrade from level 3 to level 4 just by digging ancient tombs." Zhang Chen scratched his head. However, if conditions permit, there seems to be hope of upgrading from level 2 to level 3. After all, he has only been digging for half a day.

Zhang Chen had a flash of thought in his mind and felt his back and waist ache. He simply climbed out of the pit and left carrying the shovel.

"If I keep going like this, digging the ancient tomb will tire me out. After all, the deeper I go, the harder it is to dig, and transporting the soil is also a big problem." Zhang Chen carried the shovel, and a thought flashed in his mind: "If I can pick up a skill that increases strength, or a skill that allows me to burrow underground, then it will be easy."

Of course, Zhang Chen knew that this was just his own delusion. If the skills were so easy to acquire, he would not have waited so long.

"It seems that my skills can be obtained from the gold foils filled with scriptures. I wonder where the vixen got that page of gold foil. It would be better if there were more scriptures of that kind." Zhang Chen muttered to himself. He felt that the benefits of the vixen were still to be developed.

“I don’t know what kind of damage my second-order divine light will cause to the vixen, but I can’t waste it for the time being. I’ll hold back for now. After I’ve collected all the experience points in the ancient tomb, my skills won’t be able to be upgraded. Then I’ll give the vixen a big surprise. I’m going to catch the vixen and make her wash my clothes, fold my quilts, and warm my bed every day. I’ll also ask her to bring me food every day.” Zhang Chen had already thought of ten thousand ways to exploit the vixen.

"The poor scholar next door is so lucky." Zhang Chen shook his head. It was still early in the day, so Zhang Chen was not in a hurry to go home, but continued hunting in the mountains.

"It's a pity that my method of making traps cannot be used as a skill, otherwise I would have raised the skill level long ago and made traps that can hunt big monsters." Zhang Chen cut some branches in the mountains, and gradually weaved them into baskets and set traps in the mountains.

Of course, the main purpose of woven baskets is to transport soil dug out from the ground. I have now dug three meters deep. If I want to continue digging, it will involve the problem of transporting soil, which will make digging more difficult and troublesome.

"And the iron shovel is not suitable for digging ancient tombs." Zhang Chen thought of the Luoyang shovel in his previous life. Perhaps he could make a Luoyang shovel to use for tomb robbing.

“But I need to be careful when making the Luoyang shovel. I must not let anyone know the purpose of the Luoyang shovel. If people find out that I am a tomb robber, I will lose my head.” Zhang Chen said to himself.

In this world, once a tomb robber is discovered, it is a capital crime!

After all, this is a world of princes, nobles, and family inheritance. Everyone must be buried with honor after death, and there is zero tolerance for tomb robbers.

Zhang Chen's hands were rough but flexible, and soon the outline of a bamboo basket appeared in his hands.

Seeing that it was getting dark and the mountains were no longer safe, Zhang Chen picked up the basket and walked towards the village.

There was a blacksmith in the village, and he had a good relationship with Zhang Chen. Even the villagers in the village had a good relationship with Zhang Chen, because Zhang Chen was a hunter and often hunted game from the mountains. If the farmers in the village wanted to eat game, they had to deal with Zhang Chen.

The blacksmith's surname is Cui. His shop is passed down from father to son. His shop is the one with the brightest flames in the village no matter day or night.

Zhang Chen didn't go home and went straight to the blacksmith shop.

It was called a blacksmith shop, but in fact it was just three old and dilapidated mud houses. At this moment, the westernmost house was flashing red light, and the sound of clanging was vented out along with the heat wave.

"Uncle Cui!"

Zhang Chen shouted from outside the door.

When he went up the mountain to hunt, he needed to make traps, which required wire and nails, and he had to deal with the father and son of the Cui family.

"Hey, the kid from the Zhang family is here. What are you going to build today?" A sturdy man about thirty years old with a dark face walked out of the house, looking at Zhang Chen with eyes full of expectation.

He is a blacksmith. Forging iron requires strength and is a very exhausting job, so he has to eat meat to replenish his energy and complete his daily workload.

Zhang Chen usually went into the mountains to hunt, and most of the prey he could not finish eating went into the old blacksmith's stomach and was sold to the blacksmith and his son.

"What we are making this time is different from the past. I will tell you the size and pattern." Zhang Chen drew a picture directly on the ground and told Cui the blacksmith the size of the Luoyang shovel.

The Luoyang shovel is not an engineer shovel, so it is not difficult to make. It is actually somewhat similar to an ordinary shovel, except that it has wings for holding soil.

"What are you making? A shovel? But this shovel is too weird, isn't it?" Blacksmith Cui had never seen a Luoyang shovel. When he saw the strange shovel drawn by Zhang Chen, he couldn't help but frown and think, he couldn't think of the use of the Luoyang shovel.

"It's just to make it easier for me to set traps when I go into the mountains to hunt." Zhang Chen explained with a smile. This reason makes sense.

"Come to me tomorrow to get it." After taking a look, Cui the blacksmith memorized the pattern and said to Zhang Chen.

"Then I'll have to trouble Uncle Cui. How much does this shovel cost?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Just bring me two pheasants later." Blacksmith Cui said with a smile.

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this. To be honest, the price of two pheasants was not expensive. In the ancient times when production was backward, iron ore was a precious metal.

Seeing Zhang Chen about to leave, Cui the blacksmith quickly stopped him and said, "Don't go, don't go yet! I've made some fun stuff here, don't you want to take a look?"

Zhang Chen paused when he heard this and turned to look at Cui the blacksmith: "What's this?"

Cui the blacksmith did not answer, but locked the door directly, then dragged Zhang Chen into the room, pulled out a broken box from under the bed, opened the box and said to Zhang Chen: "Do you want it? If you do, I'll give you a discount."

Zhang Chen stared at the box with his eyes wide open, his pupils shrank: "Uncle Cui, you are courting death! This will cost you your head!"

"Of course I know you'll be beheaded, but isn't that something that no one knows about? And I recently received a large order. They are responsible for providing the iron ore, and I am responsible for secretly making things. I thought that you often go up the mountain to hunt, and if you encounter a ferocious beast, it would be a pity to lose your life, so I secretly withheld some iron ore and made things for you to defend yourself."

Zhang Chen stared at the box and took a deep breath. Inside the box was a gray, sharpened long knife.

The long sword was very ugly, with all its twists and turns and bumps, which was not beautiful at all, but the sharp edge of the blade concealed the ugliness, making people ignore its crudeness.

The long sword is very thick and looks very wear-resistant.

Next to the long sword, there were more than a dozen arrows flashing with cold light. As long as the arrows were installed and matched with a strong bow, he would believe it even if someone told him to go hunting roe deer or sika deer.

"I took all this iron ore from that big customer and secretly deducted it bit by bit. Do you want it? If not, I will sell it." Cui the blacksmith looked at Zhang Chen with a smile: "Don't say that I didn't take care of you. When there is a benefit, I will think of you first."

"Yes! Of course I want it!" Zhang Chen said quickly, and then he showed an embarrassment on his face: "But you know my financial situation, I'm afraid I can't afford the price."

"We live in the same village, so money is easy to come by and it will last a long time. Why don't you bring me some prey from time to time?" said Cui the blacksmith with a smile.

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(End of this chapter)