On the table was a pure silver slingshot, along with seven golden marbles engraved with mysterious patterns, which looked quite extraordinary.
Zhang Chen saw extremely complex order chains inside both the slingshot and the marbles. Although they couldn’t match the steel trident, they were nonetheless remarkable.
Zhang Chen reached out to pick up a marble, but to his surprise, each marble was as heavy as a thousand pounds, making it impossible for him to lift.
"My goodness, a single marble weighs a thousand pounds. Is there anything here I can pick up?" Zhang Chen gave up on the marbles and reached for the slingshot, but unfortunately, he couldn’t lift that either.
Unable to move the marbles or the slingshot, Zhang Chen gazed around the entire cottage. Apart from the worthless pots and pans, there was nothing worth taking.
Zhang Chen then turned his head to the Big Black Dog, feeling angry. His eyes scanned over the dog and finally noticed something—a jade token with a mysterious aura hidden deep within the fur on the dog’s neck.
The jade token was small, about the size of a thumb, hidden within the dog’s fur, so Zhang Chen hadn’t noticed it before.
Zhang Chen leaned in closer to carefully observe it for a moment, tentatively reaching out to pull the jade token. However, the string threaded through the jade token glowed with a golden sheen, and Zhang Chen found that he couldn’t pull it off. The string was as if made from steel wire, and he couldn’t tug it at all.
"This must be something special if this Big Black Dog carries it around," Zhang Chen cautiously grabbed the string, stroking down the dog’s head, and then scanned the entire cottage again. Although there were treasures everywhere, he couldn’t take a single thing.
Having gotten the jade token, Zhang Chen didn’t have time to examine it. He wanted to hang it around his neck to avoid losing it but then reconsidered after glancing at the Big Black Dog. What grade was that damned dog anyway? If he hung the jade token around his neck, wouldn’t he be on the same level as that beast, becoming like a dog?
Zhang Chen stuffed the Dog Token into his pocket, reluctantly taking one last look at the steel trident and the slingshot. Then he unfastened his pants, approached the Big Black Dog, and relieved himself over its head.
Zhang Chen had always repaid his grudges. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
Humiliation was absolutely unacceptable. Then he heard the splashing water fall, dousing the Big Black Dog. Once its entire head was soaked, he contentedly said, "You little wicked dog, when has the great-granduncle Zhang Chen ever suffered such a loss? Today you’ll face retribution."
After urinating, he pondered for a moment, then looked at the Big Black Dog’s rear. In the next instant, he took out the proboscis of an Innate Mosquito and extracted a bit of the dog’s blood. This beast’s blood was more than enough to cultivate the Blood Transformation Divine Saber.
He then went into the courtyard, looked at the Golden Wind Flowers, hesitated for a moment, picked one, and then ran like mad.
He didn’t dare destroy the herb garden too much. If the owner returned, he feared he would be in over his head.
Bear in mind that even a dog was this terrifying, let alone the dog’s owner.
Zhang Chen raced out of the small courtyard and sprinted through the desolate mountains. After running several hundred miles, Zhang Chen’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit were exhausted, and he knew he needed to return to the real world.
Looking at the Dog Token and the Golden Wind Flower in his hands, Zhang Chen hesitated. If he left, and the dog followed his trail, he might not get to keep either of these treasures. So he must take both treasures back to the Material Realm.
"What is this Dog Token?" Zhang Chen examined it closely, observing that the entire token was made of Mutton Fat Jade, emitting a soft jade-like glow, looking very extraordinary.
Zhang Chen called for the Little Fox, intending to rely on its Transportation Technique to take the items out of the Spiritual World.
"I’ll be back shortly. Transport these two items out for me," Zhang Chen instructed.
Upon hearing this, Fox Immortal Nannan nodded while looking at the two items in its hands, without thinking too much: "No problem, leave it to me."
Seeing Fox Immortal Nannan agreeing, Zhang Chen’s figure flickered, and his consciousness crossed the Endless Void to return to his physical body.
"Finally back," Zhang Chen exhaled lightly in the underground stone cave. Due to the constant exhaustion of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, he decided it was too troublesome to go back and forth absorbing Incense Qi, so he simply hid in the stone cave, cautiously lying low.
Now that his consciousness returned, Zhang Chen took a deep breath and began summoning Fox Immortal Nannan to transport the items back from the Spiritual World. But the next moment, Zhang Chen’s face changed drastically. Along with the summoning of Fox Immortal Nannan, his Magical Power evaporated instantly, being drained by the Dragon Qi Skill. The Dragon Qi then self-sacrificed, offering its Power of Origin to activate the skill. After ten breaths, Zhang Chen’s Dragon Qi Skill had been downgraded.
"What’s going on? Why did it consume so much Magical Power for Fox Immortal Nannan to transport items back from the Meditation Realm this time?" Zhang Chen was dumbfounded, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief. Yet, since the skill had already activated, it couldn’t be stopped.
In the end, there were only two possible outcomes: either Fox Immortal Nannan tapped into the secondary skill’s Dragon Qi Origin to transport himself across dimensions, providing everything to ensure the Fox Immortal’s return, or the Dragon Qi had been completely drained, causing the skill to fall from the third tier to the second, or even collapse entirely, resulting in Zhang Chen losing a Divine Technique.