enjoyebooks #144 - The troubles of genius
#144 - The troubles of genius
Chapter 143: The Troubles of a Genius
In the eyes of the fox spirit Nannan, Zhang Chen was indeed suffering from delusions; he was crazy!
How could there be water in the mental world?
And if there is water in the mental world, wouldn't it be enough for you to directly control it to flow out? You're even thinking about digging through the dirt to get it out? What is that if not madness?
This is simply not the thinking of a normal person!
Zhang Chen paused in his movements of digging through the ruins, and then a sense of self-doubt arose in his heart: "Strange, could it be that there really is something wrong with my brain? Since a spring has appeared in the mental world, shouldn't I just control it to flow out? Why bother painstakingly trying to dig through the dirt?"
Zhang Chen patted his head, directly threw away the stick, and then began to operate his supernatural power, the Water Control Technique.
Unfortunately, Zhang Chen's Water Control Technique failed; he was actually unable to control the water flow from the spring below.
"Why did it fail?" A hint of puzzlement appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.
Logically speaking, since he could sense the water flow, he should be able to master and control it, but why did it fail?
Zhang Chen looked at the skill panel, wondering if there was a loophole in the skill panel. The next moment, the golden finger panel flickered, and new information was refreshed:
【Unknown Level Water, beyond the scope of control. Currently, the host can only control water that does not exceed the level of his Water Control Technique. The target water contains a mysterious unknown force that exceeds its control range.】
Seeing this, a look of astonishment appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes: "So that's how it is!"
Seeing that he was unable to control the underground water flow, not only was Zhang Chen not annoyed, but a smile appeared on his face.
Although he felt a little disappointed because he could only control water that did not exceed the level of his Water Control Technique, he immediately beamed with joy when he saw that mysterious water was hidden beneath his mental world, and it was even a mysterious water of unknown level. It was good that he couldn't control it; the greater his harvest would be when he dug through the dirt.
"What are you standing there for? Come and dig a hole." Zhang Chen reacted and said to the fox spirit Nannan.
"You are simply crazy! Don't you have the Water Control Technique? If there really is spring water, you can just control the water flow to fly out; why bother digging by hand?" The fox spirit Nannan looked at Zhang Chen, feeling like she was looking at a madman.
Zhang Chen sneered upon hearing this: "What do you know? Just come and work; stop being so long-winded."
The fox spirit Nannan couldn't resist Zhang Chen; the situation was stronger than her. She still wanted to continue cultivating in the mysterious mental world in the future, so she had no choice but to listen to Zhang Chen's arrangements, and the two of them dug together.
However, it was not so easy to dig through a thirty-meter passage. Even with the combined efforts of the two, it could not be dug out in a short time.
Especially the debris of the ruins pressed on the ground, which needed to be cleared out little by little.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen could accurately sense the location of the spring water, and he sought out a place with only broken bricks and began his excavation.
Zhang Chen took half a tile and kept digging the soil. The fox spirit Nannan also held a tile in her hand, digging while complaining: "I say, we don't even have tools. How long will it take to dig like this? Relying on this tile, wanting to dig tens of meters deep into the soil, aren't you joking?"
After digging for a while, the fox spirit Nannan looked at the pitiful amount of soil that had been dug out, threw the tile in her hand on the ground, and immediately became unhappy.
"You're right; we don't even have tools for digging. If we continue digging in this way, how long will it take?" Zhang Chen also stopped his movements.
"That's right; we are not beasts, and we don't have claws for digging. Just relying on our hands to dig, how long will it take? By then, I'm afraid you will be old and dead!" The fox spirit Nannan said unhappily.
Huh?
Zhang Chen's gaze turned to the fox spirit, and a thought flashed in his mind: "No claws? Not good at digging holes?"
He was a human, and without claws, he was naturally not good at digging holes, but the woman in front of him was a fox spirit!
Although the girl in front of him was dressed in white, fluttering like a celestial being, and looked even more human than Zhang Chen, she couldn't hold back the fact that her true form was a fox spirit.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Seeing Zhang Chen's eyes staring straight at her, the fox spirit immediately sensed something was wrong and tightened the clothes on her body: "I'm telling you, don't have any lewd thoughts. Although this young lady is as beautiful as a celestial being and meets all your human fantasies, I am a fox spirit and you are a human. We are not the same species; we have racial barriers."
Zhang Chen was speechless upon hearing this. He felt that the fox spirit was thinking too much. Who would want to sleep with their own skill? Unless the other party was a pervert.
"Have you been dead for too long and forgotten what your true form is?" Zhang Chen reminded her.
"My true form is a fox. We are discussing digging soil now. What are you saying this for…" Saying this, the fox spirit seemed to come to her senses. Her eyes stared at Zhang Chen, her pupils filled with an expression of disbelief: "Zhang Chen, you can't do this! You can't turn a fairy into a fox to dig soil for you; it's too unaesthetic."
The fox spirit's voice trembled. She simply couldn't imagine how explosive the scene would be if it really appeared.
"So? Are you coming to the mental world in the future?" Zhang Chen retorted.
The fox spirit Nannan stared at Zhang Chen, swallowing hard. She really wanted to smear the soil in her hand on Zhang Chen's face, and then point at Zhang Chen's nose and scold him harshly: "If I don't come, I don't come. This old lady doesn't care! Even if you beg me in the future, I won't come! This broken place is barren; what's so good about coming here?"
Thinking of this, the fox spirit immediately stood up, her eyes looking at Zhang Chen, revealing a bright smile: "Isn't it just digging soil? What's so great about it!"
After saying that, she transformed into a snow-white fox spirit. The fox's fur was shiny and smooth, without a trace of dust, and looked like a Samoyed that had just taken a bath.
It's just that at this time, the beautiful picture was broken. The fox spirit's claws pushed on the ground and began to dig the soil. In an instant, dust flew up, directly rushing towards Zhang Chen's face, startling Zhang Chen so that he couldn't avoid it and ended up covered in dirt.
"This fox spirit is doing it on purpose; she is really unruly." Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit, took a deep breath, and looked at the fox spirit who was working hard to dig the soil, constantly admonishing himself: "Don't be angry! Don't be angry! Taming such an unruly fox spirit is truly interesting."
Then, Zhang Chen sat aside to study the runes, while supervising the fox spirit to prevent her from being lazy.
"I say, can you help? I'm digging in the front, and you're expanding in the back, helping me transport the soil, which can also save a lot of time." Suddenly, the fox spirit Nannan's head drilled out of the cave and said to Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen nodded upon hearing this: "What you said makes sense."
Then Zhang Chen started to help.
When the fox spirit Nannan had dug two meters, she crawled out of the hole, transformed into human form, stood opposite Zhang Chen covered in dust, her eyes full of grievance: "I'm tired."
"If you're tired, take a break. We're not in a hurry," Zhang Chen said with a smile, comforting the fox spirit.
The fox spirit patted the dust off her body, and after shaking off all the dust, she began to meditate and cultivate.
Soon an hour had passed, Zhang Chen's mana was exhausted, and he had no choice but to withdraw from the spiritual world with the fox spirit Nannan.
"Today's harvest is quite abundant!"
Zhang Chen opened his eyes in the room, lit the oil lamp to read a book, but the next moment his abdomen rumbled, and he felt extremely hungry today.
He was really hungry! So hungry that he couldn't bear it.
"How strange, why am I so hungry today?"
Zhang Chen endured the hunger and practiced calligraphy under the lamplight, but after only a cup of tea's time, his body began to tremble from hunger, and sweat began to flow profusely.
"Could it be that I dug the soil in the spiritual world before, causing my spirit to be too exhausted, even affecting the consumption of my physical body's Qi and blood." Zhang Chen pondered slightly, already deduced the reason, stroking his rumbling stomach: "I'm so hungry! I won't steal meat, stealing some pastries from the side hall should be no problem, right? I won't be caught, will I? I'm not that unlucky, am I?"
Zhang Chen thought, summoned the fox spirit Nannan, without waiting for Zhang Chen to speak, the fox spirit Nannan said directly: "You don't have to order me, I'll find you something to eat."
"How do you know I'm looking for something to eat?" Zhang Chen looked at the fox spirit Nannan in surprise.
"In the dead of night, every time you summon me, isn't it for something to eat?" The fox spirit Nannan said unhappily.
"You have to be careful, a great cultivator of the Yellow Heaven Dao is sitting in the Taoist temple, don't let him discover your trail. This time, don't go to the kitchen, just go to the side hall next door and move some pastries." Zhang Chen instructed the fox spirit Nannan.
The fox spirit Nannan knew the importance of the matter, so she transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the courtyard.
In Xie Lingyun's bamboo building, after another game, Xie Lingyun absorbed the power of incense and ended after defeating the black light.
After a wash, Xie Lingyun looked at the bright moon in the sky, unable to fall asleep for a while.
"The time left for me is running out." Xie Lingyun sighed faintly, her voice full of helplessness: "Others are painstakingly cultivating and honing, wishing they could break through immediately, but what about me? I am constantly abandoning my own cultivation, not letting myself break through."
The bright moon was reflected in Xie Lingyun's pupils, making Xie Lingyun's already miserable face even more bloodless.
"I inherited my father's talent, and later accidentally came into contact with this mystery, so I entered meditation at the age of three, separated my soul at the age of four, traveled at night at the age of five, traveled during the day at the age of six, controlled objects at the age of eight, and now eight years have passed. In order not to break through possession, I have used every means to seal myself and suppressed myself for eight years. I practiced the visualization method that came with that mystery, and accidentally nurtured a demon, waiting for me to break through to the realm of possession, that demon can take the opportunity to possess me, and then replace me and live in the world. If it weren't for the power of that mind-stabilizing incense, I'm afraid I would have already suffered a calamity." Xie Lingyun's heart was full of bitterness.
What could she do? She was also very helpless!
Her realm broke through too quickly, and the foundation was laid too firmly. She was also very troubled.
Especially in recent years, in order to suppress her realm, she has constantly abandoned her cultivation, and repeatedly cut off her realm, but the power of the cut off has all fulfilled the demon, until now the realm can no longer be cut off, she knows that her greatest calamity has arrived.
"Others say that I am a proud son of heaven, but who knows the troubles of a proud son of heaven? Being a proud son of heaven is not so easy." Xie Lingyun was upset and couldn't sleep, so she went down the pavilion and wandered aimlessly in the Taoist temple.
It was already the second half of the night, and the world was silent, only the sound of the soldiers patrolling at night, their iron armor colliding, faintly broke the silence in the darkness.
Xie Lingyun walked in the shade of the trees in the Taoist temple, looking at the peaceful Taoist temple, a strange color flashed in her eyes, wondering what she was thinking.
At this moment, suddenly a white figure appeared, attracting Xie Lingyun's attention.
I saw that the white figure was sneaky, holding a package in his hand, walking like a thief on the path of the Taoist temple.
"Woman? And a very beautiful woman?" Xie Lingyun looked at the sneaky woman in white, and couldn't help but be stunned. She usually prided herself on her beauty, which could be regarded as unparalleled in the world and no weaker than anyone else, but looking at the woman in front of her, for some reason, she always felt that she seemed to lack a bit of femininity.
The woman in white was extremely beautiful, and her posture was extremely beautiful. If you only talk about appearance, you may not be bad, but for some reason, the woman has a gentle charm that all men like, which even made her lose her mind for a moment.
"No! This woman's soul is out of her body!" Xie Lingyun took another look and suddenly discovered a few clues. This woman is not a physical body, but a soul out of her body.
Taoist temple, night, woman, soul out of body, package, the combination of these elements makes it difficult not to make people think too much.
So Xie Lingyun pondered slightly, a black aura flowed around her body, her physical body stayed in place, and her soul directly left her body, slowly following her.
If the physical body follows, it will inevitably cause a commotion and alarm the fox spirit. But she has cultivated a wonderful skill, and her soul can borrow the power of the demon. If the soul leaves the body, even a strong Yin God will not want to detect her trace.
The fox spirit Nannan walked sneakily in the dark, not knowing that she was being watched.
I saw that the fox spirit Nannan wrapped the pastries in a cloth, came to Zhang Chen's room, and threw the package directly on the table: "I have not failed my mission, I brought back the pastries."
"Were your tracks discovered?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Of course, you can rest assured of my grandmother's skills. Since I have taken action, how can I make a mistake?"
The fox spirit Nannan said triumphantly.
Just when the two were talking, the talisman that was originally placed in front of Zhang Chen's desk suddenly burst out with a ray of light, and the light of the righteous god burst out and pierced into the dark night.
"Huh?" Zhang Chen couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this change, and the fox spirit Nannan was also dumbfounded.
"My talisman has been blessed with the light of the righteous god, and naturally has the effect of automatic cruise. Just now, the light of the righteous god actually attacked automatically. Could it be that there are strange things passing by? Or is the fox spirit Nannan being followed?" Zhang Chen was shocked.