I Collect Skill Fragments in the Demon World-Chapter 715 - 370: Passing Down the Blood Dao

Zhang Chen and Xu Erniu each gnawed on half a cake, carrying a broken basket filled with spoiled vegetable leaves, as they walked the crowded streets with satisfied smiles on their faces.

To be honest, Zhang Chen didn’t have any great ideas to make money for the time being. For example, making glass—he didn’t know a thing about it! If glass were that easy to make, people in later generations wouldn’t need to buy glass to build houses.

Moreover, once they produced glass, the two of them could very well invite disaster upon themselves.

As for other trades, Zhang Chen was also hesitant to pursue them, primarily because he had too few means to protect himself. This was, after all, the second heaven of the Spiritual World, and encountering a master of Divine Demon Level wouldn’t surprise Zhang Chen. So he opted to keep a low profile for the time being.

However, it wasn’t as if he was doing nothing. He had already thought of a way to make money, but all of it would have to wait until his health fully recovered.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had gone by. Zhang Chen’s body had completely recovered. By now, he had noticed something peculiar about Xu Erniu—this girl never begged but led Zhang Chen to gather vegetable leaves discarded by others.

Sometimes vendors, moved by pity, would give her a steamed bun or a pancake, and she would be delighted for the entire day.

It was precisely because of Erniu’s stubbornness that she became quite famous in this area; many shop owners knew this unique little girl.

"Why don’t you beg for food?"

On the street,

Zhang Chen was picking up discarded vegetable leaves, asking Xu Erniu on the side.

Not only would Xu Erniu not demand food herself, but she also didn’t allow Zhang Chen to do so.

"We are destined to become Immortals. If it got out that we begged for food, wouldn’t that ruin our reputation and make us the laughing stock of the Immortal Realm? I, Xu Erniu, am destined to become a female Immortal, how could I do such a thing?" Xu Erniu stated with conviction.

Hearing this, Zhang Chen was left speechless. It became clear to him that the notion of becoming an Immortal was deeply ingrained in Erniu’s mind.

"By saving money like you are, how long will it take before you save up enough for the travel expenses to Qingcheng Mountain?" Zhang Chen asked with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"I’m young. If I save for a few more years, I’ll definitely have enough." Xu Erniu replied forcefully.

"Tomorrow, stop selling flowers; I have a way to make money." Zhang Chen told Xu Erniu.

Xu Erniu was stunned upon hearing this and turned her head to look at Zhang Chen in surprise. "What way?"

"Medicinal herbs." Zhang Chen’s gaze swept across the distant herbal shop, his lips curling into a smile.

"You know about medicinal herbs?" Xu Erniu was surprised by this.

"A little." Zhang Chen said.

Then Xu Erniu’s eyes curved into a big smile, "Really?"

Zhang Chen tossed a not-so-fresh vegetable into Xu Erniu’s basket. "Let’s go home!"

The next day, Zhang Chen took Xu Erniu into the mountains to gather herbs. After all, he had stayed at Huangli Temple for some time, and since ancient times, medicine and alchemy have been inseparable, so he knew a bit about preparing herbs.

The herbs in this mountain weren’t abundant, but they were definitely not scarce either; the main challenge lay in the complicated methods of preparation.

The two spent a whole morning gathering a half-basket of Huang Qi, then Zhang Chen returned to the ruined temple to prepare the herbs.

Xu Erniu watched for a while, then got bored and ran out of the ruined temple, disappearing from sight.

When an hour had passed, and Zhang Chen finished preparing the herbs, he noticed Xu Erniu hadn’t returned. He went out to look for her and, from afar, heard a commotion. Looking further, he saw a group of children from nearby villages playing together. Xu Erniu tried to join them, but they threw stones at her, shouting obscenities:

"We don’t play with beggars!" 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"Stinky beggar, stay away from us!"

"You smell so bad..."

"Stinky beggar, get lost!"

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A group of children surrounded Xu Erniu, mockingly pushing her, their words full of derision.

Xu Erniu stood there helplessly, letting a dozen children tug at her clothes, pull her hair, and kick and shove her around.

Watching Xu Erniu being bullied, Zhang Chen showed a thoughtful look in his eyes. Orphans like these, without parents, were the easiest targets for bullying.

Zhang Chen didn’t step forward to stop them but just watched quietly. It wasn’t until half an hour later, when Xu Erniu was pushed to the ground and couldn’t get up, that the group of children spat at her in disdain and left.

Zhang Chen said nothing but walked up to help Xu Erniu. Her face was streaked with tears, and she looked at Zhang Chen aggrievedly:

"Erniu took a bath, Erniu doesn’t stink."

"Of course, Erniu doesn’t have any smell!" Zhang Chen patted Xu Erniu on the head. "Go back and prepare the herbs. Don’t play with them anymore."

Zhang Chen led Xu Erniu back to the ruined temple, teaching her how to prepare the herbs. Then he asked, "The other day, the beggars who stopped us, do you know where they are?"

"I know, it’s in a rundown house not far from here." Xu Erniu said.

"Okay, let’s process the herbs." Zhang Chen lowered his head, his voice still gentle, but a trace of coldness appeared in his eyes.

The next day, Zhang Chen took Xu Erniu to town to sell the herbs, a whole basket of herbs, and only sold for thirty coins.

In these times, herbs are not valuable, and can only temporarily solve the problem of food and clothing.

Xu Erniu’s eyes lit up holding the thirty coins: "Zhang Chen, you’re amazing! It won’t be long before we’ll save enough for the trip to Qingcheng Mountain."

"This is just the beginning, the good days are yet to come."

Zhang Chen stroked Xu Erniu’s head, then used the thirty coins to buy a large pile of yellow paper.

"Why did you buy so much yellow paper?" Xu Erniu watched Zhang Chen spend over twenty coins on a large pile of yellow paper, her eyes reddening with distress.

"Don’t worry, we’re going to make a big deal." Zhang Chen patted Xu Erniu’s head, then they returned to the dilapidated temple, ate some wild vegetables and rested, while Zhang Chen sat by the dim campfire without sleeping, waiting for the quietness of deep night, when within his Spiritual World, the Golden Scissors activated, devouring all the Yin Yang Qi. At the moment the Yin Yang Qi was completely consumed, Zhang Chen held a golden Invisibility Rune.

"I have the protection of Yin Yang Qi, so I can’t use this Invisibility Rune myself, but that doesn’t mean others can’t use it. Moreover, the essence of this Invisibility Rune is a gold talisman, its greatest effect is actually replication."

Zhang Chen stroked the golden Invisibility Rune, a smile appearing in his eyes, then he took out Xu Erniu’s small knife, slowly cutting the yellow paper into sheets identical in size to the Invisibility Rune, then after examining the dozens of cut yellow sheets in his hands, at the next moment, the Golden Scissors activated again, sweeping away the Yin Yang Qi within Zhang Chen’s body.

Zhang Chen was a cultivator at the Jade Liquid and Golden Core stage, his Magical Power could automatically be generated, just when all the Yin Yang Qi was absorbed, a thread of Magical Power was born within Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen directly drove this thread of Magical Power to infuse into the gold talisman, directly using the gold talisman to replicate onto the yellow paper.

Moments later, a thread of Yin Yang Qi was born within Zhang Chen, and at this time, a sheet of yellow paper in Zhang Chen’s hand directly transformed into an Invisibility Rune.

Then Zhang Chen used this method again, extracting the Yin Yang Qi, at the instant Magical Power was born, continuously creating various runes.

After a night, Zhang Chen counted the runes in his hand, a hint of joy appearing in his eyes: "Fifty Body-Stabilizing Runes, fifty Invisibility Runes, enough to make a fortune."

These runes were unusable by Zhang Chen himself, he could only hand them over to others to use. He did not plan to give them to Xu Erniu, given Xu Erniu’s nature, even if she had the ability to be invisible, asking her to steal money, she would absolutely refuse.

Zhang Chen took the prepared runes, glanced at the sleeping Xu Erniu, greeted the slight morning light on the horizon, and walked out of the dilapidated temple.

Not far from the dilapidated temple where Xu Erniu was, there was a village, the village was not far from Yangzhou City, which could be considered a golden location, and the beggar whose finger was broken by Zhang Chen last time, lived in a rundown house in the village.

At this moment, Zhang Chen stepped into the morning light and arrived outside the rundown house, with the dilapidated front door opening, a snore sounded from inside. Once Zhang Chen entered the house, he saw a group of beggars casually lying on the kang sleeping, but there were two fewer people than last time.

However, the beggar’s hand injury was actually gradually improving without inflammation, it had to be said that the people of the Spiritual World have great physical constitution, constantly nourished by Mysterious Power, their physical constitution is remarkably good.

Zhang Chen approached the beggar leader, tugged at his pant leg, the beggar leader kicked his leg discontentedly, very unhappy that someone was pulling him.

"Sixth Son, be honest while sleeping, don’t tug at my clothes." The beggar leader mumbled.

"If you don’t get up now, you won’t need to get up at all." Zhang Chen’s dull voice sounded in the house.

The beggar leader who was sleeping in a daze suddenly shuddered with fright, immediately waking up from his sleep. That voice was too familiar to him, it recently appeared frequently in his dreams, after all, the wound on his hand still hasn’t healed.

Then the beggar leader’s snore stopped, following which he sat up abruptly, seeing Zhang Chen standing in the room looking at him. He shivered and sat up abruptly: Why is this harbinger of doom here?

Then he kicked his brothers beside him: "The little ancestor is here! The little ancestor is here!"

Then he directly knelt on the kang, smiled apologetically at Zhang Chen: "Little ancestor, what brings you here? Have we brothers offended you in any way?"

The beggars on the side also scrambled up at this moment, when they saw Zhang Chen’s figure, they were all trembling with fear one by one, they all knelt down there, looking at Zhang Chen with faces full of fear.

"Want to discuss a business deal with you." Zhang Chen said.

"Ancestor, if you have any orders, just instruct, we will certainly comply." The beggar leader hurriedly said.

Zhang Chen coldly smiled, warned them a bit, then turned and left.

The beggar leader held the rune, his eyes full of excitement, kept kowtowing to Zhang Chen: "Master, rest assured, from now on I’ll be your loyal dog, I will get this done properly and make you satisfied."

Zhang Chen paused his step at the words, turned his head to look at the beggar leader: "What’s your name?"

"I am called Xiu Liu." The beggar leader quickly kowtowed twice and then told his name.

Zhang Chen looked at Xiu Liu in front of him, showing a thoughtful expression. In the future, when he wants to make money, he might have to play dirty tricks, letting Xu Erniu handle things might not be feasible, the Xiu Liu in front of him seemed like a good candidate.

Zhang Chen waved his hand: "Come forward."

Xiu Liu crawled to Zhang Chen’s side, appearing truly like a dog, lying down obediently in front of Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen stroked Xiu Liu’s head, recalling the Blood Dao technique he acquired, then smiled and said: "Xiu Liu, since you want to be my dog, I’ll teach you a skill, as long as you can cultivate it, I’ll accept you as my dog."

Then, within Zhang Chen’s body, the Golden Scissors extracted all the Yin Yang Qi, and when Zhang Chen regained a sliver of Magical Power, Zhang Chen imparted the content of the Blood God Scripture into Xiu Liu’s mind.

Among Zhang Chen’s many techniques, only the Blood God Scripture took a unique path, requiring only forty-nine days to show results, becoming a Blood God Child.

Due to harmony concerns, this Chapter’s plot has been abridged!