I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

“A whale falls, and a myriad things are born!” Upon hearing the other party's words, this thought suddenly surfaced in Zhang Chen's mind.

The Shen family is vast and prosperous. If the Shen family were to fall, countless forces would seize their assets and rise to become powerful giants.

“Aren't you afraid I'll go to the Shen family and report you? After all, those people in the Shen family are my relatives, at least.” Zhang Chen looked at Liu Ji and asked.

“Do you think the Shen family hasn't noticed anything amiss? If the Shen family were so slow to react, they wouldn't deserve to control seventy percent of the nation's water transportation. But even if the Shen family has sensed the danger and secretly begun to prepare a response, so what? To defeat the Shen family and swallow their assets, it's not just about simple schemes; it relies on hard power.” Liu Ji replied with a smile: “Even many officials in the court are secretly coveting the Shen family's wealth.”

“In the past, the Shen family controlling seventy percent of the nation's water transportation would have been fine. But now that the power of incense can be used to create gods, seventy percent of the nation's water transportation is enough to nurture an eleventh-tier deity. What virtue or ability does the Shen family have to enjoy this fortune? Even the various princes of the Dasheng Dynasty are envious of the seventy percent of the nation's water transportation and are among the masterminds behind the Shen family's downfall. Otherwise, do you really think my Yellow Heaven Dao would dare to act against the Shen family so openly?” Liu Ji's voice was light and casual, but Zhang Chen's pupils contracted as he listened. The waters here were too deep, and the Shen family couldn't hold on.

“Think about it. Ten percent of the nation's water transportation can create a twelfth-tier deity. And seventy percent can create an eleventh-tier deity. But if this seventy percent is divided up, how many tenth-tier deities can be created? How many ninth-tier experts? The benefits here are too great. Although the Shen family can be considered a local hegemon, they are still a level below the Eight Great Families of the capital. The Shen family cannot protect such a great fortune.” Liu Ji's voice was full of emotion.

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this. He now felt more and more that the Shen family was a powder keg, and the further he stayed away from them, the better.

Especially since he had younger siblings, he couldn't wade into troubled waters.

With these thoughts in mind, Zhang Chen bid farewell to Liu Ji. After using his escape technique to return to the Shen family, he pondered the Shen family's future situation and then got up and walked towards Jiang Nan's residence.

Jiang Nan had been kind to him. Out of both gratitude and reason, he should tell her this news and ask her to prepare in advance and jump out of the Shen family's fire pit as soon as possible.

When Zhang Chen arrived at Jiang Nan's residence, he happened to run into Shen Qiu again.

“Boy, why are you still sticking around like a piece of dog skin plaster? Didn't you remember what I told you before?” Shen Qiu blocked Zhang Chen's path and questioned him.

Zhang Chen glanced coldly at Shen Qiu, too lazy to bicker with a dying man whose family was about to be ruined. He turned to bypass Shen Qiu, but was immediately blocked again. Shen Qiu looked at Zhang Chen with a sinister gaze: “Boy, you better be sensible, or crushing you would be no harder than crushing an ant. You have younger siblings. You'd better think more about your siblings before you do anything.”

“Hm?” Hearing the other party threaten his younger siblings, Zhang Chen's expression changed, and a cold glint appeared in his eyes.

“What are you looking at? Such fierce eyes! You lowly scum!” Shen Qiu snorted coldly and disdainfully pushed Zhang Chen away: “You lowly scum who rely on my Shen family to survive, you can't understand your own identity and status. Some things are not for you to covet. Why don't you take a piss and look in the mirror to see what you are.”

After Shen Qiu finished speaking, he left with his head held high. Zhang Chen stared at Shen Qiu's back for a long time before finally retracting his gaze: “No need to argue with a dead man.”

Zhang Chen walked into Jiang Nan's courtyard. Guided by Mi Gao, he walked along the corridor and saw Jiang Nan sitting in the waterside pavilion, staring blankly at the goldfish in the water.

“Little Cousin.” Zhang Chen stepped forward and said.

“Why are you here?” Jiang Nan turned her head to look at Zhang Chen.

“I want to move out of the Shen family. Although the Shen family is good, it is full of trouble. After all, it is a place of trouble. Little Cousin is also an outsider. Would you be willing to live next to me? We can also keep each other company and have someone to look after each other.” Zhang Chen asked.

Jiang Nan was slightly stunned upon hearing this. After a moment of contemplation, she looked at Zhang Chen with a complicated expression. She did not answer Zhang Chen's words, but instead spoke about some unrelated matters: “I have already fallen in love with Cousin Shen Qiu. We formed a deep friendship on the way south. We will be engaged soon. So, we have no chance. Don't think too much about it. Let's always be a normal brother and sister.”

Zhang Chen was stunned upon hearing this and looked at Jiang Nan with a face full of astonishment: “You actually fell in love with Shen Qiu? You're going to get engaged to Shen Qiu?”

Jiang Nan uttered a single word: “Yes.”

Thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind upon hearing this, and he ultimately suppressed the information about the Yellow Heaven Dao. If he told Jiang Nan, and Jiang Nan told Shen Qiu, and then the Shen family questioned how he knew the information, he would be in trouble. He just wanted to live quietly and didn't want to put his family in trouble.

No trouble at all!

So Zhang Chen only hinted: “I'm afraid Shen Qiu is not a good match.”

“Little brother, one should be upright. It's not good to speak ill of others behind their backs.” Jiang Nan's voice was somewhat serious when she heard Zhang Chen say that Shen Qiu was not good: “If you have nothing else to do, leave! Staying here with me for too long will cause people to gossip.”

Zhang Chen was speechless upon hearing this. After taking a long breath, he didn't say anything more and turned to leave.

“Wait.” Looking at Zhang Chen's back, Jiang Nan called out.

Zhang Chen paused and turned his head to look at Jiang Nan, a hint of joy in his eyes: “Could it be that Cousin has changed her mind?”

“I just want to tell you that in the future, if there's nothing to do, don't come here. It's not good for us to be alone as a man and a woman. We still need to avoid suspicion. Furthermore, I'm afraid Shen Qiu will be unhappy when he finds out. I'm afraid he'll be jealous.” Jiang Nan said to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen felt as if he had been stabbed by a sword for no reason. A breath was stuck in his chest. He looked deeply at Jiang Nan and said: “Cousin, take care.”

“Also… I hope that if you meet me in the future, just treat me as a stranger. We don't need to talk or communicate.” Jiang Nan gave Zhang Chen another stab.

“Okay! In the future, when you and I meet, let it be as strangers.”

Zhang Chen said, then turned and disappeared from Jiang Nan's sight.

Looking at Zhang Chen's departing figure, Jiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief: “My relationship with him was already unclear. Now I need to avoid suspicion even more. There must be no connection at all, lest people see through the clues. The trouble will be even greater then.”

If she and Zhang Chen were innocent and had a clear conscience, she certainly wouldn't be like this. It was precisely because the relationship between the two was unclear that she had to cut off all ties.

“I have to seize the time to find an opportunity to repay Jiang Nan's favor. After all, the most difficult debt to repay is a favor.” Zhang Chen walked on the Shen family's path, thinking about all sorts of thoughts. A favor is a favor, friendship is friendship. He always had to find an opportunity to repay Jiang Nan's favor.

Back in his own courtyard, the three little ones were sitting cross-legged in meditation. Zhang Shi stood in the courtyard, exercising her muscles and bones. Accompanied by the humiliation they had suffered in the past few days, this family finally knew the importance of strength. Each of them worked hard to cultivate and didn't waste any time.

Zhang Chen came all the way to the patio, looked at the blue sky, and a strange thought appeared in his eyes: “I never thought that one day I, Zhang Chen, would be looked down upon like this.”

Soon, Zhang Chen composed himself, stood in the courtyard, and began to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, striving to comprehend higher-level supernatural powers and realms as soon as possible.

At Zhang Chen's current realm, it is not to say that he cannot continue to cultivate without techniques, but that it is too, too difficult for him to comprehend on his own. The most important thing is that the accumulation and summary of the predecessors for generations, how can it not be better than Zhang Chen's own comprehension?

This is like the law of universal gravitation. If Newton had not discovered gravity, countless people would have needed to comprehend and explore it. But after Newton's comprehension, later generations only need to learn it directly. The difficulty of the two sides can be imagined.

“It's too slow to comprehend on my own. I still have to strive to find the next step of the Immortal Path technique.” Zhang Chen thought to himself: “It's best to find the second half of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art. I don't know where that big black dog fell.”

Soon Zhang Chen's primordial spirit was exhausted, and he sat down again to recover.

Time passed quickly, and three days passed in a flash. During these three days, Zhang Chen went out to stroll around during the day, inquiring about various news about Chongzheng Academy, and practiced in seclusion at night to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, which was also a solid life.

On the morning of the third day, Zhang Chen used his escape technique to come to Liu Ji's courtyard, and saw Liu Ji sitting there sharpening his sword. After seeing Zhang Chen, he waved the sword in his hand: “Boy, how about my sword?”

Zhang Chen was stunned when he saw the sword in Liu Ji's hand, because he felt a trace of familiar aura on the sword.

“Immortal Slaughtering Sword!”

Zhang Chen's pupils shrank, his eyes full of disbelief.

How could he forget the aura of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword when Ancestor Changsheng held the Immortal Slaughtering Sword to fight the peacock in the past?

It's just that Zhang Chen later returned to the real world and didn't know where the Immortal Slaughtering Sword ended up. Especially since he didn't meet the Immortal Slaughtering Sword in the place where the Ascension Pool was located, Zhang Chen suspected that the Immortal Slaughtering Sword finally fell into the hands of the innate peacock.

The Immortal Slaughtering Sword is related to the clues of the innate peacock, which is very important to Zhang Chen.

In the sunlight, the sword circulated a trace of vicious sword energy, shining with a shining cold light, and the temperature in the air seemed to drop a few points, and a trace of frost condensed in the courtyard.

At this time, the snakes and insects in the courtyard did not cry, and the beasts were scattered in shock, all of which were shocked by the murderous intent.

For a time, the entire courtyard was silent.