I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 628 Ruler Name: Measuring the Sky

Hearing Zhou Zhen's words, Zhang Chen's eyes showed a hint of horror. If so many strange things erupted, what kind of terrible disaster would it cause?

Not to mention the city of Jinling, even the entire Jiangnan region would be reduced to ruins in less than a month.

"My father said that these monsters are blessed with the power of inexplicable laws and possess all kinds of incredible powers. If you can obtain one of them, you will become the best in the world." Zhou Zhen patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder and encouraged him: "You kid, try your best and seize the opportunity. If you can comprehend a certain mysterious rule, you can summon it out. Then you will make a fortune."

Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "Thank you for your advice, brother."

After Zhou Zhen talked with Zhang Chen for a while, he turned around and left, leaving Zhang Chen standing there looking at the strange carvings on the mural in silence.

"How strange! If these patterns are so strange, why don't they drop any experience points?" Zhang Chen was confused.

Zhang Chen swept his eyes over the patterns on the wall, and sure enough, he didn't see anything strange, no experience points dropped, and no skills dropped.

"I wonder if my Godly Golden Light can stimulate these monsters to drop skills." This thought came to Zhang Chen's mind. The next moment, he stretched out his palm and pressed it on the inscription pattern on the wall in front of him. He saw a ray of Godly Golden Light flowing in his palm. The next moment, Zhang Chen retracted his palm with a thoughtful expression: "I think I know why these monsters have never dropped experience points. Because these monsters are sealed, their aura is wrapped by the power of the seal and completely isolated from the outside world, so no experience points have been dropped."

Zhang Chen felt a little regretful. There were more than 10,000 monsters here. If he could get any experience points, he would make a fortune.

As for the weirdness on the wall, Zhang Chen was not interested after taking a look. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the ruler: "That ruler is a good treasure. If I can get that ruler, it will be enough to offset all the gains. Even the ruler itself is not worse than this exquisite tower."

Zhang Chen walked towards the direction of the ruler at this time. When he came close to the ruler, he saw that there were no people around the ruler. Except for the initial curiosity, everyone dispersed after watching the fun.

Everyone was born into a powerful and wealthy family. Before coming to Chongzheng Academy, they had already secretly gathered information and knew all the tricks involved. They had also been told by their elders at home not to waste time on that ruler.

So when Zhang Chen arrived, there was no one there.

Zhang Chen walked forward, stretched out his delicate white palm, took the ruler in his hand, and then gently lifted it. Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows. The ruler was unexpectedly heavy, about 30 pounds. It didn't feel like rotten wood at all, but had a cold metal texture, as if he was holding an iron rod in his hand.

Zhang Chen held the ruler in front of him and looked at it. He saw that there were still some scales visible under the dark dirt, proving that it was a ruler.

The ruler has a total of thirty-six scales, but the main scale marks are missing at the critical points of each scale.

比如说一杆十厘米的尺子，其有0.1、0.2、0.3、0.4……0.9，但却偏偏少了整齐的刻度0和1，如此岂不是显得怪异？

Zhang Chen looked carefully at the thirty-six missing marks. He felt that the gaps looked somewhat familiar, but he could not remember where he had seen them.

"The gap in this scale is very strange. It looks somewhat familiar." The Great Freedom Demon walked around the ruler up and down, staring at the scale with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"It looks very familiar." Zhang Chen stood there with a thoughtful look on his face, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

However, with Zhang Chen's current spiritual power, he will not forget anything he has seen. Zhang Chen's memory was like a movie playing in reverse. It quickly went backwards. After thirty breaths, the picture froze and a picture of a blizzard appeared in his mind. In the blizzard, Zhang Chen was holding a small bag in his hand. There was a handful of purple gems in the bag, flashing mysterious light in the wind and snow.

"Bai Ya Academy, Chen Sanliang..." Zhang Chen finally recalled. The reason why the shape of the scale looked familiar to him was because part of the shape of the scale was covered by dirt, and the revealed appearance could not be seen clearly, so it was only vaguely familiar.

"Chen Sanliang said before that Baiya Academy has a secret treasure that can communicate with the legendary spiritual world. I think it should be these beads. It seems that this ruler is destined to be with me!" Zhang Chen stroked the gray ruler, and the golden light of the God in his hand flowed and penetrated into the ruler, but the ruler did not react at all, as if it was an ordinary rotten wood, and did not respond to the golden light of the God.

“The level of this ruler should be higher than my Golden Light of the God, that’s why there is no reaction.” Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

But it doesn’t matter, he has other means, he also has the power of devouring.

As long as it is a treasure, his devouring power will always be of use.

Zhang Chen's magic power was flowing, and the next moment, a mosquito's mouthpart slowly emerged from the place where his palm touched the ruler. Because Zhang Chen's palm was in close contact with the ruler, Zhang Chen's movements were extremely secretive. The mosquito's mouthpart flashed out like a hair and gradually pierced into the ruler.

The next moment, billions of silver threads on the ruler flickered, and then a silver ball of light fell out from the pitch-black ruler. A resistance force flowed from the ruler, trying to block the invasion of Zhang Chen's innate mosquito mouthparts.

Sensing the resistance from the ruler, Zhang Chen did not continue, for fear that the power of the ruler would be revived and cause trouble. So he put the ruler back and looked at the silver ball of light on the ground.

[I have discovered a strange power. Do you want to pick it up? 】

"Pick it up!" Zhang Chen secretly gave the order in his heart.

As Zhang Chen gave the order, the ball of light disappeared, and then a message flashed through Zhang Chen's mind:

[Picked up a set of innate spiritual treasure, the Heaven-Reaching Ruler, and the formula for controlling it. 】

Then a huge stream of information poured into Zhang Chen's mind. Zhang Chen's eyes were full of surprise at this time: "Innate Spiritual Treasure Heaven-Measurement Ruler?"

Feeling the huge amount of information in his mind, Zhang Chen suddenly realized after a long time: "No wonder the Heaven-Measure Ruler can sense the thirty-three heavens, because the Heaven-Measure Ruler is the transformation of the law of space, and it corresponds to the avenue of space."

Now that we have the mantra to control the innate spiritual treasure, wouldn’t it be easy to control this treasure?

Zhang Chen carefully comprehended the formula of the measuring ruler, and after a moment he reached out his hand again to take the measuring ruler. Looking at the gray body of the measuring ruler, what else could Zhang Chen say except sighing that the treasure was covered in dust?

Zhang Chen silently recited the control mantra and used his magic power to initially sacrifice and refine the Ruler of Heaven, so as to leave a trace of connection with it. However, after his magic power was poured into the Ruler of Heaven, there was no feedback. It felt like a clay ox sinking into the sea. There was no other feedback, let alone refining the Ruler of Heaven. Even if he recited the mantra in his mind until smoke came out, there was no reaction.

"Sure enough, it is not so easy to sacrifice and refine innate spiritual treasures, especially in the era of great changes in the world. It is extremely difficult to sacrifice and refine them."

Then Zhang Chen pondered for a moment, and a trace of innate energy flowed through the pores of his skin toward the Measuring Ruler. Sure enough, after the Measuring Ruler sensed the innate energy, billions of silk threads suddenly brightened up, greedily devouring those traces of innate energy.

"I knew that no innate spiritual treasure could resist the innate qi." Zhang Chen's eyes lit up at this time, and he took the opportunity to circulate his magic power to activate the mantra. Along with the infusion of innate qi, the billions of silver silk threads actually took the initiative to guide Zhang Chen's magic power into a certain silk thread, and stained the silver-white silk thread with Zhang Chen's traces. After an hour, the silver-white silk thread had completely transformed into qi, and was stained with Zhang Chen's soul mark.

Then Zhang Chen held back his mantra, and within this short hour, his mana had been exhausted. However, his gains were great, as he had already begun to sense the silver thread, and there was a slight connection between them.

But this was not the best time to take the treasure, so Zhang Chen put the ruler back. At this time, Tu Shanqing's voice sounded behind Zhang Chen, and he appeared behind Zhang Chen like a ghost: "Brother, did you see something about this treasure? I see you have been standing in front of this treasure for an hour."

Before Zhang Chen could open his mouth to speak, a mocking voice came from afar: "If standing there for an hour can help one comprehend such a supreme secret treasure, then the mysterious strong man in the palace of Dasheng should have deciphered all the secrets of this treasure long ago after staying in front of it for years and months?"

Zhang Chen looked over and saw Zhang Gaoqiu and Jiang Nan approaching from a distance. It was Zhang Gaoqiu who spoke, his voice full of sneers: "Is a little savage like him qualified to comprehend this treasure? Even if there is anyone who can comprehend this treasure, it is only me."

Having said that, Zhang Gaoqiu came to the measuring ruler, took it in his hand and looked at it.

"Where did you come from, you little jerk? How dare you be compared with my big brother..." Tu Shanqing looked at Zhang Gaoqiu's condescending, arrogant and disdainful look, and immediately became unhappy. There was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, and he was about to refute him.

"No need to say more. What's the point of wasting time talking to such an idiot?" Zhang Chen stopped Tu Shan Qing unhappily and walked towards the entrance in the distance.

"Hey, wait for me!" Tu Shanqing looked at Zhang Chen's back and hurriedly chased after him.

"Brother, I don't think you are the kind of person who can swallow your anger. Why did you allow that little jerk to mock you?" Tu Shanqing asked in confusion.

(End of this chapter)