Zhang Chen walked into the house carrying a basket on his back, but this time he didn’t take the pheasant out of the basket. Instead, he discreetly pulled out a prepared rubbing from a bamboo tube and placed it in the basket alongside the pheasant, then acting like a thief, he covered the basket with a blanket as if preventing his pheasant from being stolen again.
The next moment, the Fox Spirit’s soul passed through the wall, watching Zhang Chen’s sneaky behavior, a trace of disdainful smile flashed in its eyes: "Kid, trying to guard against your aunt is simply wishful thinking."
Zhang Chen is currently in a game of strategy with the Fox Spirit, the Fox Spirit thinks Zhang Chen can’t see it, but Zhang Chen is deliberately pretending not to see the Fox Spirit.
Just then, the Fox Spirit directly jumped over and entered the basket, the next moment, the Fox Spirit’s surprised voice came: "Huh, what did this kid fuss with? It’s actually contaminated with the aura of that great tomb?"
The next moment, Zhang Chen saw the Fox Spirit disappear into thin air, taking the pheasant and the rubbing with it.
"Is the Fox Spirit not hiding anymore? Is it bullying me on purpose because I can’t see it?" Zhang Chen widened his eyes, seemingly oblivious to the Fox Spirit’s actions, while internally complaining nonstop.
Zhang Chen didn’t have to wait long when suddenly familiar footsteps sounded outside the door, his home’s ’protagonist’ had returned.
Zhang Chen carefully went to the wall, poked open the hole again with a small stick, and moved his eye close to the gap, peering at the smoke next door.
Zhang Chen put down the book in his hand and looked at the cooked stew chicken and coarse rice on the table, a smile spread across his face, and he folded his hands and bowed reverently to the empty space in all directions: "Thank you to all the immortal grandpas for the gift, finally no need to eat venison, this humble student is deeply grateful."
Watching Zhang Chen repeatedly praying in all directions, Zhang Chen was grinding his teeth with hatred but couldn’t do anything to the other party.
After Zhang Chen finished praying, he washed his hands and sat at the table, first picked up a drumstick to feed to the Fox Spirit, then smilingly said to the Fox Spirit: "Something amusing happened at the school today, heard one arrogant farm boy actually brought two swans to seek mentorship, utterly oblivious to his station, a mere lowly wretch daring to touch knowledge, truly laughable."
The mocking words of the student next door reached Zhang Chen, although they didn’t directly curse him, still made him feel inexplicably humiliated.
The Little Fox Spirit, upon hearing Zhang Chen’s words, also chirped nonstop as if mocking Zhang Chen’s delusions.
Both person and fox ate happily, and soon only a table full of chicken bones remained. Zhang Chen cleaned up the chicken bones, picked up a book beside him, with a proud expression: "The Supreme Ancestor Master said ’in books there is beauty like jade, in books there is a house of gold’, nowadays I am able to fill my belly with three meals while reading, it shows the Saint’s words are not false. But when will this beauty like jade be realized? I suppose it’s because my reading efforts are not enough yet, in the future, I must read out a great beauty from the book, to prove the Saint’s words for all scholars."
Zhang Chen sitting by the wall, hearing the student’s foolish words, couldn’t help but shake his head: ’Turns out he’s a bookworm!’ However, when he thought of the Fox Spirit taking his chicken to feed the other party, Zhang Chen’s face immediately fell, his expression turned dark as water: ’If I had someone providing me delicious food every day, and all food appeared out of nowhere, I too would be willing to be a bookworm.’ Thinking of this, Zhang Chen couldn’t laugh anymore, the other’s ’foolishness’ was built on his own pain, how could he possibly laugh?
Zhang Chen gritted his teeth secretly, his eyes looking at the next door, indeed, the moment he anticipated most arrived, he saw the Little Fox bringing the blood-printed paper from earlier to scholar Zhang Chen, leaped onto the desk, sat on Zhang Chen’s books, then placed the printed paper in front of Zhang Chen.
"Huh, where did this little fox get a book today to test me?" Zhang Chen picked up the printed paper, stretched out his hand to unfold the paper, and when he saw the blood-written paper, he couldn’t help frowning, feeling a pungent bloody smell.
"Blood book?" Zhang Chen forced himself to endure the discomfort, his eyes looking at the book in his hand, showing a trace of surprise: "This text... this text... it seems it’s not modern-day writing, rather it bears resemblance to writings of Ancient Times, seemingly from the legendary Ancient Celestial Emperor Period."
The Little Fox Spirit looked at Zhang Chen with its eyes wide open, full of eagerness, waiting for Zhang Chen to recite, as if urging Zhang Chen not to waste time.
Zhang Chen chuckled, petted the Little Fox’s head, then held the article up to his eyes, looking carefully under the lamplight for a moment, his whole face gradually turned serious, the smile on his face slowly faded away.
"Where did this Little Fox Spirit find the blood book? This scripture is remarkable, seems like it’s from the legendary period of the Emperor, if spread out, it might cause quite a stir." Zhang Chen said solemnly.
The Little Fox Spirit squeaked at this time, Zhang Chen looked at the eager Little Fox Spirit, feeling helpless: "You want to hear it, but I don’t recognize it. The text is too ancient, I don’t recognize it either, once the teacher returns, perhaps I can seek the teacher’s advice."
Zhang Chen next door hearing this couldn’t help but frown, feeling somewhat disappointed: "Even this bookworm doesn’t recognize it?"
Slowly sealing the soil up, Zhang Chen’s mind flashed a thought: ’Seems like I can only dig indiscriminately, whatever I find will depend entirely on luck.’
Zhang Chen stood up, started washing up, ready to sleep, the guy next door didn’t recognize it, now there’s no hope, what else to do but sleep?
As for the content of the stone tablet, he was just curious, whether he knew the content or not didn’t affect his decision to keep digging.
The following morning Zhang Chen took his basket early up the mountain, first habitually checked the traps, caught two rabbits, then headed into the cave secretly making gunpowder, waited until the sun was high, then rushed towards the direction of the cave.
This time Zhang Chen deliberately took two pieces of animal skin for warmth, then bent down to crawl into the cave, but suddenly paused midway, looking at the site of the stele, a fist-sized blob of golden light quietly settled under the stele, flickering with vibrant golden light.
"I remember collecting all the experience points around here? And this time it’s actually golden experience points, that’s incredibly rare, usually experience points are just red. And it wasn’t this big before, how much experience points are these?" Zhang Chen hurried forward to collect, suddenly his Golden Finger flashed:
[Skill found, do you want to collect it?]
"Skill?" Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger Interface, his entire being was overjoyed, eyes full of ecstasy, the skill he had been longing for, unexpectedly appeared in this accidental way?
"I wonder what skill is obtained this time!" Zhang Chen exclaimed excitedly, quickly said: "Collect."
[You obtained a strand of Dragon Qi from a True Dragon]
Then Zhang Chen’s Golden Finger Interface flashed:
[Name: Zhang Chen]
[Skill (2nd tier): Light of the True God (0/5000)]
[Skill (Unranked): Dragon Qi (0/2000)]
[Points: 1100]
Looking at the Golden Finger Interface in front of him, Zhang Chen was stunned again, his gaze fell on the two thousand points, his eyes filled with confusion, he remembered the first time he upgraded Light of the True God it seemed like only fifty points were needed? How come this Dragon Qi upgrade requires two thousand?
ps: Thanks to the boss ’Gentlemen Hao’ for sponsoring.
ps: Asking all bosses to note the update schedule, it’s set to midnight every day, for now just this.