I Collect Skill Fragments in the Demon World

Chapter 918 - 546: Hell

"You actually contain a thread of that fallen Ancient God’s Power of Origin within your body. This is enough to threaten even a Twelfth Tier being, but unfortunately, this thread of Origin is just too weak. If it were a bit stronger, it could threaten existential beings." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon noticed something unusual about Zhang Chen and spoke, eyes filled with shock:

"This aura is the unique power of that fallen Ancient God. How do you possess it?"

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s eyes were full of disbelief. He thought he had already seen through some of Zhang Chen’s background, but now he realized how naive he had been. The depths of this young man were as enigmatic as the vast ocean, far beyond his comprehension.

Zhang Chen ignored the Great Freedom Celestial Demon and instead focused his eyes on his Golden Finger Interface:

[Skill 24 (Fifth Tier): A Thread of Cold Qi Origin * Ice Seal * Freeze * Ice Domain (1 meter) * Gathering and Dispersing Formless (0/10000000000)]

[Note: Within the Ice Domain, you are an immortal being, capable of continuous rebirth by utilizing the domain. As long as the domain is not destroyed, you will not die!]

"Even though this domain is only a meter wide, it can still accomplish a lot at critical moments." Zhang Chen fixed his gaze on the words ’immortal’ with fervor in his eyes: "Besides, scientifically, it’s been proven that cold can freeze one’s life, halt the passage of time. Can I use this cold to make myself eternally youthful and achieve immortality?"

Thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen’s mind. As the domain slowly expanded, his consciousness seemed to extend into every corner and nook of the domain, akin to having absolute control over the domain. He felt like the domain’s god, able to manipulate all laws within it, like the supreme creator of the realm.

Here, even if slain, he could immediately materialize through the domain.

"As long as people don’t break my domain, I won’t die." Zhang Chen had a feeling of certainty in his heart.

Meanwhile, his thoughts began to stretch: "The entire Spiritual World Third Heaven was also transformed into a domain by that hand’s owner, hence controlled by it. So the Law of Ice suppressed the operations of Third Heaven’s laws, turning them into the Law of Ice. If I follow my current deduction, my domain making me immortal within it, then the owner of this hand..."

A sudden chill ran through Zhang Chen’s body, an indescribable terror surged within him: "Is the owner of this hand still alive?"

This time, Zhang Chen had to admit he was afraid, but he forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, turned to the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, and asked, "Do you think, is it possible that the owner of this hand is still alive? For beings of such magnitude, how could they vanish so easily?"

"Impossible!" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon shook his head decisively, saying, "Absolutely impossible!"

"Why do you say that?" Zhang Chen inquired.

"Ever since the great upheaval of Heaven and Earth, the universe can no longer accommodate beings beyond the Twelfth Tier. The owner of this hand definitely surpassed the Twelfth Tier and must be dead beyond doubt," the Great Freedom Celestial Demon stated confidently.

"Has the Spiritual World also been affected by the upheaval?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Of course, didn’t you see the miserable state of the Leiyin Temple if anyone tried to ascend from the First Heaven?" said the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen relaxed and silently absorbed the cold surging from the hand. At this point, leveling up required billion experience points, which was no small number.

Within the domain, the number of snowflakes continued to increase. It seemed there was a nebulous void overlapping the domain’s space, where millions of snowflakes danced, falling from the sky, disappearing on the ground, then reappearing in some unknown void, drifting down from there.

"When the snowflakes increase to tens of millions, I would roughly be able to level up!" Zhang Chen speculated.

The upgrade of his skill correlated with the number of snowflakes, from one to a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, then a million, showing a tenfold increase.

With the endless cold here, Zhang Chen was not worried about lacking experience points. Instead, he set his eyes on the myriad of glistening spheres by the hand.

Experience points!

All of them are experience points!

"This is incredible, this time I’ll really profit big! I refuse to believe I can’t grind out the Technique to seize life essence from the Authority of Wood Element now." Zhang Chen’s eyes gleamed at the dense experience points.

This hand seemed like a small mountain, how much experience was there scattered around it?

It should be more than that within the Empress Tomb!

"Compared to the woman with this hand, how does she stack up against the Princess?" Zhang Chen asked, curious to gauge her power by the Princess.

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon scratched his head at the question: "They aren’t from the same era, not really comparable. But I think the Princess is somewhat inferior to the owner of this hand."

"What evidence do you have?" Zhang Chen asked out of curiosity.

"When heaven and earth change vastly, those with higher cultivation tend to die faster. Now that the owner of this hand has died, while the Princess still struggles to live, this can already illustrate the gap between the two. Perhaps the Princess’s father, ’Earth,’ could compete with the owner of this hand," the Great Freedom Celestial Demon replied.

Zhang Chen relaxed upon hearing this. Since the owner of this hand had died, he was free to do as he pleased, gaining a wealth of experience points. His eyes gazed toward the Endless Void: "The power of a single hand is already so immense, it’s likely that the complete body resides even higher within the Thirty-Three Heavens. If I have the opportunity to obtain the entire body, my skills would surely advance to an unimaginable realm."

As Zhang Chen entertained these thoughts, the Great Freedom Celestial Demon circled around him, eyes scanning Zhang Chen and the snowflakes twirling around him, with a thoughtful expression.

However, Zhang Chen was not in haste to collect the experience points; his domain was expanded but immobile, a drawback of the domain.

Within the domain’s state, the rate of absorbing cold Qi was thousands of times faster than that of his physical body; even if experience points dropped, they wouldn’t escape. He intended to first upgrade his skills to resist cold Qi.

Thus, Zhang Chen probed the changes in the domain while standing still, absorbing cold Qi.

"Odd! This kid is truly peculiar!" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon circled Zhang Chen, pondering Zhang Chen’s background, unable to fathom him despite living countless years.

Time slipped by, passing two days. The snowflakes in Zhang Chen’s domain multiplied tenfold, growing from a million to ten million. As promised, the Golden Finger popped up with an upgrading interface:

[24 Skills (Fifth Tier): A Thread of Cold Qi Origin*Ice Seal*Freeze*old Ice Body*Ice Domain (1 meter)*Gathering and Dispersing Formless (10000000000/10000000000)]

[Note: Within the Ice Domain, you are an immortal being, capable of continuous rebirth through the domain. As long as the domain remains intact, you shall be Immortal!]

[Status: Upgradable]

"Upgrade," Zhang Chen said inwardly, watching the skill interface change. As anticipated, another skill was added:

"Ice Hell!"

[24 Skills (Sixth Tier): A Thread of Cold Qi Origin*Ice Seal*Freeze*old Ice Body*Ice Domain (1 meter)*Gathering and Dispersing Formless*Ice Hell (0/100000000000)]

"Ice Hell?" Zhang Chen felt the information from the Golden Finger.

[Note: Your domain will open up a void where individuals can be sealed inside, enduring the torment of the ice. Once someone enters the Ice Hell, they’re marked by it. Even if they escape, when night falls, the Ice Hell will track them, sealing and freezing them again.]

"Ice Hell?" Zhang Chen absorbed the information from the Golden Finger, his eyes revealing an inscrutable expression: "Interesting!"

He could feel an endless void opening at the boundary of reality and illusion within his domain, the location of Ice Hell. If he could suppress it within the domain, he could trap it in Ice Hell, making it undergo endless torment.

"Remarkable! This skill is remarkable! With Ice Hell, my Ice Domain has immense control capabilities," Zhang Chen praised. Unfortunately, Ice Hell cannot store ordinary substances, only those involving mysterious power, akin to the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, which can only contain substances with mystical attributes.

Zhang Chen’s eyes fell upon the Golden Finger Interface: "Wow, upgrading from the Sixth to the Seventh Tier requires a hundred billion experience points. Thankfully there’s this enormous hand, otherwise it would take years to accumulate such an amount. The hand possesses such divine power; perhaps it could max out, breaking through to the Twelfth Tier."

Watching the overwhelming cold tide pouring into his Ice Domain, Zhang Chen’s eyes glowed with excitement. It was his first surge to the Sixth Tier in a single day.

But he believed that, given the current power of his Extreme Cold Domain, it would not be inferior to those old figures. Whether it could withstand the power of those older figures at the Twelfth Tier was uncertain.

Zhang Chen had doubts, as once cultivators reached the realm of Yang God, with the ability to move mountains and overturn seas, even though his Ice Domain was strong, it had a fatal flaw—it was far too small.

If his Ice Domain could expand a thousand meters, the scenario would change significantly.

Moreover, once he executed the Ice Domain, he couldn’t move, which was a huge inconvenience.