I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 76: Chained Soul
Zhang Chen originally thought that his automatic cruise skill was useless. After all, he could already be possessed by golden light and could actively kill strange spirits. So what was the point of this automatic cruise?

But after experiencing this incident with the vixen, Zhang Chen finally realized that his automatic cruise control skill was really useful!
After all, human reaction speed cannot match that of monsters, but if there is automatic cruise control to block it, it will be enough to give it reaction time.

"Moreover, after my golden light was added to the long sword, it actually possessed the sharpness of the long sword, increasing its lethality. It's incredible. Could it be that when I add the golden light to something, the automatic cruising golden light that bursts out can acquire the properties of that item?" Zhang Chen pondered countless thoughts in his mind.

Zhang Chen quickly added golden light to the long sword. Suddenly, the stone wall not far away twisted and formed a familiar face. It was the vixen girl.

"Boy, what are you doing?"

The girl's face was made entirely of stone, and it was lifelike and exactly the same as the face of a fox spirit. At this moment, the stone was as soft as flowing water and became extremely soft.

As the stone face spoke, a clear voice reached Zhang Chen's ears.

Hearing the sound, Zhang Chen looked over quickly and saw a lifelike and moving human face on the stone wall. The human face's eyelids were blinking, and even the eyeballs were moving, and the human face was questioning him angrily.

Zhang Chen ignored the vixen girl's abuse and lowered his head to look at the long sword at his waist. His automatic cruise control did not respond to the face on the stone wall.

"The face of the fox spirit is enclosed in the stone wall, which is isolated from the real body. My automatic cruise control seems to be unable to do anything to the soul of the fox spirit enclosed in the stone wall." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

But it doesn’t matter. Automatic cruise control can’t do anything to that vixen, but doesn’t he have other skills?

"You want to kill me, and you ask me what method I will use?" Zhang Chen looked at the vixen in the stone wall, and the next moment he activated a skill: Soul Mark.

As Zhang Chen's skill was activated, a gray chain suddenly burst out from his pupils. The chain followed Zhang Chen's gaze and fell directly on the stone wall. It ignored the obstruction of the stone wall and directly penetrated into the soul of the fox spirit.

The moment the vixen saw the gray chains, she had a bad premonition in her heart. As the chains flew towards her, she seemed to hear a cold, icy, and evil rattling sound of chains from somewhere, echoing in the depths of her soul.

The voice seemed to carry a mysterious magic that made people feel as if they were in a nightmare. Their thoughts came to a standstill and their reactions slowed down infinitely.

She saw the chains approaching like a poisonous snake, and her heart trembled as if she had met a natural enemy. She was so scared that she wanted to hide deep in the stone wall, but her soul seemed to be frozen at that moment. She could only watch as the chains crossed the void, sank into her soul, and merged with the origin of her soul.

Then the next moment, Zhang Chen's heart moved, and he felt that he seemed to have a mysterious connection with the vixen in front of him. It felt like there was a chain linking him and the vixen together.

He could feel the position of the other end of the chain, and similarly the other end of the chain could feel its own position.

"What the hell!"

The vixen in the stone wall suddenly changed color, her eyes full of horror. She felt that she was offended, and suddenly there was something extra in her soul, as if she was not clean anymore.

Then the vixen followed the feeling, and the stone eyes on the face moved, and the sight fell on Zhang Chen, and the voice was full of panic: "Is this your method?"

The fox spirit seemed to have encountered something incomprehensible, and then several runes flowed in the fox spirit's body, and were cast at the chain, but the chain seemed to be non-existent, neither on this shore nor on the other shore, not in this time and space. All the means of the fox spirit passed directly through the chain.

It was as if it hit the air and went straight through the air.

"That's it!"

Seeing that the vixen was successfully marked by his own skills, Zhang Chen stroked the vixen's body around his waist and couldn't help but relax.

What he had to do now was to try it out. If he destroyed the fox spirit's physical body, would the skill determine that the fox spirit's time was up? And would he be able to enslave and control the fox spirit's soul?

"What kind of tricks are you using!" The vixen looked at Zhang Chen with anger in her eyes: "Quickly pull that damn thing out of my body!"

Zhang Chen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows after hearing this. He felt that this sentence was a bit strange, but he didn't know what was strange about it.

Remove skills?
Sorry! Although the skill belongs to Zhang Chen, he really has no way to remove the mark.

There are only two ways to remove the mark, one is Zhang Chen Ga, the other is the fox spirit Ga.

"Since you, a beast, dared to attack me secretly and wanted to kill me, have you ever thought about how I will retaliate against you?" Zhang Chen stared at the vixen with his eyes fixed, his voice full of coldness.

“Haha, so what if I sneak attack you? You are trapped here now. Without my help, you can’t escape at all. Unless you want to be trapped here forever, you dare not touch my body.” The vixen did not show any weakness. At this moment, her eyes were fixed on Zhang Chen with a look of pride.

If he kills his own physical body, Zhang Chen will be trapped here forever. As long as Zhang Chen is not crazy, he will never do such a thing.

"Boy, have you thought it through? If you know what's good for you, and hand over your true dragon destiny obediently, I, your ancestor, will take you away from here and give you a way to live. Otherwise, the next time I come, I'm afraid you will have starved to death in this tomb." The vixen's voice was very proud, and her words were full of arrogance.

After hearing what the vixen said, Zhang Chen knew that things would not end well.

Since there is no way to end it peacefully, then of course we have to kill him! The first to strike is the strongest, the last to strike will suffer!

Then the next moment, a tiny mouth suddenly appeared in the palm of Zhang Chen's hand that was stroking the fox spirit. Two fangs stretched out from the mouth and pierced into the body of the fox spirit. Then the next moment, the blood in the fox spirit's body flowed into Zhang Chen's body.

While Zhang Chen was sucking the fox spirit's blood, he was carefully observing the reaction of the fox spirit in the wall. However, the fox spirit seemed to be unaware of the lack of blood in its own body, as if this body was not its own at all.

After three breaths, until Zhang Chen had absorbed all the blood in the vixen's body, the vixen in the wall was still staring at Zhang Chen with angry eyes, waiting for Zhang Chen's choice.

Zhang Chen touched the fox spirit's body and confirmed that the fox spirit was no longer alive. However, the fox spirit's soul did not react at all. It was really strange!

"This shouldn't be possible! That physical body belonged to a fox spirit. Now that the physical body is dead, the fox spirit's soul has left the body but has no response to the physical body at all?" Zhang Chen was puzzled.

According to his understanding, the physical body is the root, the source of everything, and the source of the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. Now that he has destroyed the physical body of the fox spirit, and the fox spirit has no reaction at all, isn't that strange?

"Skill Soul-Snatching——Activate!"

The next moment, Zhang Chen used his new skill without hesitation. Then he saw the chains in Zhang Chen's soul shaking slightly. The next moment, Zhang Chen felt that the world had changed in front of him. A mist appeared around him. All the scenes and sounds in the tomb seemed to be far away. The world was dim and dark, which was quite similar to the netherworld in Journey to the West. However, at this time, the whole world was dead silent, without any sound, and only Zhang Chen was standing alone in the darkness.

"Where is this?" Zhang Chen looked at the dark world in front of him, and a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes. The next moment, he found that his body had become transparent and turned into the form of a soul.

A mysterious power blessed his soul, and a very mysterious rune emerged in his soul. Then the rune flickered. Zhang Chen seemed to understand the principle of the skill. He took a step forward, stepped onto the only chain, and walked towards the unknown fog.

Zhang Chen seemed to have walked a dozen steps, or seemed to have walked hundreds of steps. Suddenly, a ray of light flashed in front of his eyes. The clouds and mist of the underworld suddenly dispersed into a ten-meter-wide circle. Behind the ten-meter-wide circle, a dark and deep cave was revealed. The cave looked somewhat familiar. Zhang Chen's eyes passed through the circle and turned his gaze, only to find his own body standing on the ice opposite the circle of light, holding the night pearl in his hand.

He saw the white-haired fox behind the aperture. At this moment, its soul was attached to the stone wall, forming a human figure on the stone wall, looking down at him.

The foggy world where one's soul is located and the world behind the aperture seem to be two worlds. The world where one's soul is located is the underworld, and the world behind the aperture is the material world.

The chain was now under her feet, and the other end of the chain was actually inserted directly into the vixen's soul.

At this moment, the time and space in the stone cave behind the aperture seemed to have come to a standstill. Zhang Chen saw that his breathing had stopped rising and falling. The vixen paused in the middle of her words, and the cursing expression was now vividly engraved on the wall.

Zhang Chen had an intuition that as long as he pulled the chain a little harder, he could pull the soul from the material world into this strange world.

In fact, Zhang Chen did so. He bent down, grabbed the chain floating in the air under his feet, and then pulled it gently. Then, a miniature vixen was slowly pulled out from the body of the fox girl.

The little fox was very small, probably only the size of a fist, with confusion in its eyes, and no spirituality at all. It looked like a blind beast, and had no power to resist Zhang Chen pulling the chain.

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong!"

As the little fox's chain was pulled out, the one chain turned into two.

One is connected to the body of the little vixen, and the other is connected to the body of the fox fairy girl.

"How could this happen?"

Zhang Chen was stunned, looking in astonishment at the fist-sized, cute, white-haired little fox in front of him. Its clear big eyes were full of stupidity, and it didn't look like it had any intelligence at all.

As the little fox's soul was pulled into the gray world, the little fox, which had been stuck in a state of stillness in time and space, seemed to come back to life. It looked at Zhang Chen with surprise and horror, and let out bursts of whimpering sounds. It tried desperately to struggle, and the chains rattled as it pulled.

"This little fox is just an ordinary fox soul. It doesn't even have a green airflow! It doesn't look like it has awakened its spiritual intelligence at all!"

"How could this happen? What the hell is this little fox?"

Zhang Chen stared at the little fox in front of him with his eyes fixed. The chain in his hand rolled up, and the little fox was pulled by the chain and suspended in the air. It floated in front of Zhang Chen and struggled desperately to break free from Zhang Chen's restraints.

"That shouldn't be the case! There's no wisdom or agility in the eyes of this little vixen. It doesn't look like she has any intelligence at all. What's going on?"

Zhang Chen looked at his own Gold Finger page and said, "Gold Finger, did you come up with a bug? How could this happen? How can there be two souls in one body?"

Just when Zhang Chen was full of doubts, his own golden finger seemed to have sensed something. After a distortion, the information on the page collapsed instantly and turned into countless snowflakes.

Then the next moment the snowflakes reorganize and new information appears.

[Species: Common fox]

[Level: None]

[Lifespan: 0]

[Note 1: If the body is cut off, the soul can be summoned]

"A normal fox?"

Zhang Chen looked at the introduction on the Golden Finger page, his head buzzing. For a moment he couldn't figure out what was going on. How could there be a soul inside the body of a fox spirit?
Zhang Chen stared at the little fox soul carefully for a moment, and couldn't help but be stunned, his eyes full of surprise. He turned his head to look at the girl in white, and another chain was locked on the girl in white.

[Species: Fox]

[Level: Seventh level of possession realm]

[Lifespan: 0]

[Note 1: If the body is cut off, the soul can be retrieved (if the body is found within seven days, the soul can be taken over to prolong the life!)]

"Fuck!"

Zhang Chen looked at the information refreshed on the Golden Finger page, and he couldn't help but feel horrified. All the information in his mind was reassembled quickly like an electric current, and a movie played out in his mind.

Even all the unclear points in the past were now deduced by Zhang Chen.

"This vixen is hiding her true abilities! She told me before that she was a sixth-level manifesting being, but who knew she was actually a seventh-level possessing being!" Zhang Chen cursed secretly in his mind. He had made some deductions about what had happened in the past few years and had an idea in his mind.

Based on the information in front of him, Zhang Chen connected and sorted out all the information in the past five years. His mind was like a movie, and a truth emerged: about five years ago, for some reason, the fox spirit's body was destroyed, and then it took over the body of the little fox and suppressed the little fox's soul. At this time, the fox spirit had just taken over the body, and its skills turned into flowing water, and then it was caught by the hunter Wang Wu, and almost skinned it to make a fur collar.

At the critical moment, the scholar next door gave up his family business for some reason and bought the vixen from Wang Wu. Zhang Chen knew without thinking that there must be some tricks used by the vixen, and the vixen had established contact with Zhang Chen, and then Zhang Chen was willing to spend all his family wealth to buy the vixen.

(End of this chapter)