To preach the Dao, one needs many skills. As long as you master the skills of deception, even without any extraordinary power, you can still bewilder people.
And with extraordinary power, deceiving others becomes even easier.
"Please, brother, teach me," Huang Chao looked at Zhang Chen eagerly. He was just a beggar, unfamiliar with grand principles, and naturally needed someone to guide him through confusion.
Seeing this, Zhang Chen generously offered advice. After explaining numerous methods from future times on how to win people’s hearts, he worried that Huang Chao might not understand. Finally, Zhang Chen pointed out a clear path: "If you really can’t do it, just copy Yellow Heaven Dao. Yellow Heaven Dao has been quite successful in promoting faith."
Hearing Zhang Chen’s words, Huang Chao’s eyes lit up instantly: "That’s a great idea."
The two of them walked into the city, down the same familiar alley, standing in front of a familiar stall. Huang Chao shouted to the stall owner, "Three bowls of lamb offal."
Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this, sitting in front of the stall, looking at the lamb offal, and then at Huang Chao who was devouring the food across from him. His eyes were filled with helplessness: "Is this what you’re treating me to?"
Huang Chao, upon hearing this, smiled and said, "The money I have can only buy three bowls of lamb offal."
Hearing this, Zhang Chen picked up his chopsticks and pulled two bowls of lamb offal over, "Fine, lamb offal it is, I’m not picky."
At this point, Huang Chao had already finished one bowl of lamb offal. He picked up one of the two bowls in front of Zhang Chen, and with a shy smile, said to Zhang Chen, "Sorry, young master, these two bowls are mine, you only have one."
Zhang Chen paused in his action of holding the lamb offal, looking at Huang Chao. Indeed, he was a rare individual who could frustrate even the Eastern Emperor’s young master. He could only shake his head: "Fine, eat!"
One bowl of lamb offal was enough to fill him up; too much would just be unnecessary.
"You don’t know, for us beggars, what we want most every day is the lamb offal from this alley. I dream about it every day, but I’m poor and can’t afford it, so I came up with this spit trick. Although I might get slapped a couple of times, just being able to eat a mouthful of lamb offal makes it worth it," Huang Chao said with emotion:
"I really don’t ask for much, one bowl of lamb offal every day is enough."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen chewed the lamb offal carefully without speaking. Although the Northern Land was said to be peaceful and free of worries nowadays, due to geographical factors, it wasn’t good at producing food, so grain was still in short supply.
After finishing the lamb offal, Zhang Chen bid farewell to Huang Chao and returned all the way to the location of his own Eight Trigrams Furnace, looking at the fourteen million experience points he had gained.
Fourteen million experience points could upgrade his skills many times, but after much thought, Zhang Chen ultimately decided to allocate all his skill points to the Wind Stabilizing Rune.
The Yellow Springs and Six-Word Mantra he gained in the Spiritual World made him realize the importance of the Spiritual World, which was full of countless treasures waiting for him to explore.
Moreover, if he couldn’t break the fierce wind, he would always be stuck in one corner unable to explore more of Creation.
Points were precious, but as long as he broke out of the Black Wind Array that enveloped everything, he would surely discover more mysteries in the Spiritual World and gain more points.
Then Zhang Chen looked at his own Golden Finger Interface:
[13 Skills (Eighth Tier): Wind Stabilizing Rune (0/512000)]
[Points: 14000000]
Not more nor less, exactly fourteen million, not even a single point extra.
Looking at the Wind Stabilizing Rune, Zhang Chen mentally added the points:
[13 Skills (Ninth Tier): Wind Stabilizing Rune (0/1024000)]
[13 Skills (Tenth Tier): Wind Stabilizing Rune (0/2048000)]
...
[13 Skills (Twelfth Tier): Wind Stabilizing Rune (0/8192000)]
[Points: 8192000]
Seeing his own skill points explained so precisely, Zhang Chen was a bit dumbfounded. Was his skill upgrading planned like this?
The points needed for upgrading and the remaining points surprisingly matched exactly, no more and no less.
"Twelfth Tier... beyond the Twelfth Tier lies a new realm," Zhang Chen looked at the points and then at the skills on the interface, his gaze resting on the Twelfth Tier.
As long as he placed points into it, it would surely open up another world.
And with over eight million points remaining, it was enough for him to upgrade his skills again.
At this moment, Zhang Chen was in a bit of a dilemma, one was the mysterious power beyond the Twelfth Tier, the other was enhancing his own strength.
After a long time, Zhang Chen sighed, "A full meal and being well-fed every day, I can tell the difference."
Once he broke the Black Wind Array, he could explore the mysterious First Layer World and wouldn’t lack experience points by then.
Moreover, his curiosity was piqued about the so-called power beyond the Twelfth Tier. After all, the Divine beings like Eastern Emperor Taiyi had relentlessly pursued the power beyond the Twelfth Tier in the past.
Zhang Chen’s mind moved, and all points were instantly cleared. Then, Zhang Chen’s Golden Finger Interface twisted into countless snowflakes. This time, the reaction of the Golden Finger Interface was exceptionally long. It took a whole hour before countless snowflakes reassembled on the interface. This time, the writing turned into golden text, with extremely mysterious bird script symbols. The textures and silk threads seemed naturally formed, possessing an indescribable mystical order.
[13 Skills (Innate): Wind Stabilizing Pill]
[Remark 1: No wind can affect it.]
The introduction was simple, even seeming quite rudimentary, but the information it conveyed sparked endless imagination.
Feeling the information transmitted from the skill interface, Zhang Chen knew that the thirteen skills could no longer be upgraded.