Picking Up Skill Fragments in a Demonic World
Chapter 16

Golden Light Repels Evil

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After a moment, Zhang Chen's head suddenly popped out from under the covers. He yanked the blanket off, flipped over, and sat up abruptly. He grabbed the long saber from under his pillow, took the tinderbox in his hand, and felt the gunpowder pouch hanging on his clothes. Zhang Chen's sleepiness gradually dissipated, and he became fully awake.

Listening to the sound of the strong wind carrying sand and stones outside, Zhang Chen's first thought was: "What a strong wind and sandstorm! It's a good thing my thatched hut is built sturdily, otherwise it would have been blown away by that strong wind long ago."

The thatched hut swayed constantly in the strong wind, trembling slightly and changing shape.

"Someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night? This is very unusual? Could it be that Blacksmith Cui's matter has been exposed? Do those people want to come and kill me to silence me?" Countless thoughts raced through Zhang Chen's mind, his eyes filled with terror. Then he slowly stood up from the bed, holding the saber in his hand and approaching the door.

"Thump, thump, thump~"

The knocking became more urgent. Zhang Chen stood inside the room, a cold look in his eyes: "Strike first to gain the upper hand, strike later to suffer. Why don't I open the door and let them in, then use the terrain to kill them all, and then think about escaping or reporting to the authorities."

Listening to the howling outside, Zhang Chen couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, his smile in the darkness was very cold: "It's truly good weather for murder and arson!"

The next moment, Zhang Chen used the tip of his saber to pry open the door bolt. Then a gust of wind blew open the door. Zhang Chen quickly squatted down, his eyes fixed on the doorway. As soon as someone walked in, he would slash out with his saber.

But who knew that at this moment, Golden Light suddenly burst forth from his body? A red light flashed at the doorway, and then a faint scream came from the sandstorm. Then the black wind in the sky suddenly stopped. In an instant, the clouds dispersed, and the bright moonlight shone down, illuminating the area outside the house brightly, as if streetlights had been lit. Where was the sandstorm? Where was the knocking?

"What's going on?" Zhang Chen squatted in the room, looking at the bright moonlight, a bewildered look in his eyes. Then he quickly came back to his senses, a cold light in his eyes: "I've encountered some kind of dirty thing!"

Only when he encountered a dirty thing would his Light of the Righteous God automatically counterattack, primarily to suppress all abnormalities.

"How did I provoke such a thing?" Zhang Chen stood in the room holding his saber and did not go out. Instead, he stared cautiously at the door for a full two quarters of an hour before closing the door with his long saber, re-bolting it, and lying on the bed, his mind filled with uncertainty.

Next door

The Fox Spirit's eyes widened, filled with disbelief: "What the hell is that damned Golden Light? It actually made this ghostly thing flee in panic?"

"Although that Golden Light is very weak, it is very pure, and it seems to restrain all evil forces in the world. Moreover, it's only been a few days, and that kid's protective Golden Light has actually become stronger again?" The Fox Spirit's eyes were filled with terror: "Even with my soul inside my body, I was vaguely restrained by that Golden Light. What the hell is that damned Golden Light?"

However, the Fox Spirit quickly came back to her senses, a look of joy in her eyes: "That kid's Golden Light is so powerful, which is good news for me. It means he can go further inside the tomb, and even retrieve the treasure within that Great Tomb. At that time, my Qingqiu clan can tear up the 'New Covenant' and cross the White Bone Great Wall again to enter the Divine Land."

The Fox Spirit felt a little pleased in her heart, but soon the Fox Spirit couldn't smile anymore. Her eyes looked at the still-shaken Zhang Chen, and suddenly her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of Zhang Chen's desk. The Fox Spirit was so startled that she jumped up directly. On the desk, there was a red document, which was the document she had thrown into Zhang Chen's room earlier.

"Damn it! How is this possible? How could this happen?"

"Impossible! Impossible!"

The Fox Spirit stared intently at the document, her eyes filled with terror: "Zhang Chen has been marked by that damned abnormality?"

The Fox Spirit jumped onto the table in one step. Before Zhang Chen could react, she directly picked up the red document with her mouth and burned it under the lamp. As the blood-red document turned to ashes under the lamp, the little fox slowly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: "Thank goodness! Thank goodness! I finally burned this strange thing. I heard the old ancestors of the fox clan say that in the tomb of the Emperor's Daughter, a mysterious tombstone is buried. That tombstone was not originally the Emperor's Daughter's, but the 'Emperor' dug up the tomb of a certain arch-enemy, took a fancy to the other party's tombstone, and used it for the Emperor's Daughter. It is said that there is a great secret on that tombstone, which even the 'Emperor' has not deciphered. But how could it suddenly cause trouble?"

The Fox Spirit was completely puzzled.

At this time, Zhang Chen also came back to his senses. The man and the fox stared at each other, Zhang Chen didn't blame the Fox Spirit, but a bitter smile appeared on his lips. He picked up the incense next to him and came to a worshipped tablet, carefully lit three sticks of incense, and then prayed: "Immortal Grandpa above, please bless me!"

After offering the incense, he turned his head to look at the little fox: "My little ancestor, where did you get this strange thing that almost killed me?"

The man and the fox stared at each other with wide eyes. The little fox's eyes were full of innocence. She just wanted to get some opportunities and good fortune, what could she have done wrong?

"From now on, I can't be too far away from that brute next door. If there is danger again, without his Golden Light's restraint, something big might happen." The little fox secretly swore in her heart that she must keep an eye on Zhang Chen from now on.

But thinking of the speed at which Zhang Chen's Golden Light was increasing, she couldn't help but secretly groan in her heart: "Oh dear, his Golden Light is upgrading too fast, how long can I keep an eye on him?"

The night passed without a word. The next morning, Zhang Chen was awakened by the scream from next door. He lifted the covers and said impatiently: "Screaming, screaming! Knocking, knocking! There's no peace all day long!"

Next door

The little fox looked at the desk with a face full of terror. She saw that the blood-red scripture that had been burned last night had appeared on the desk completely intact. Then a earth-shattering and ghost-weeping scream came from the little fox's throat.

Zhang Chen had been half-asleep and half-awake last night and hadn't slept soundly until the latter half of the night. At this time, he was awakened by the Fox Spirit's scream, and then followed the little fox's gaze. A scream came from Zhang Chen's throat.

He remembered clearly that the little fox had personally lit that document last night. How could the document that was burned last night reappear?

"What's going on? How can a broken mirror be put back together? How can something that was burned reappear?" Zhang Chen's eyes were filled with terror, his gaze full of horror. He was so scared that his hands and feet were numb, and he sat on the bed in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Whether it was the little fox or Zhang Chen, they both knew that they had encountered a big problem!

Not a small problem, but a huge problem!

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