I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen's heart stirred. He remembered how the fox spirit had been caught by Wang Wu, almost having its tendons pulled and skin peeled to make a fur collar. An idea sparked: "Could it be that the fox spirit suffered a heavy blow and couldn't use its magic, so it risked its soul leaving its body to move things? Or is there some other reason?"

Zhang Chen came to the gap in the wall, staring at it hesitantly for a long time, feeling apprehensive and unsure whether to continue looking. He was really curious about the demon, and now wanted to take the opportunity to see the fox spirit's secrets.

Moreover, if he didn't look, wouldn't that make him seem guilty?

But if he did look, he was afraid of further angering the fox spirit.

Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment, then decided to pry open the gap and secretly peek. Since the fox spirit had already discovered his actions, it would be worse if he didn't continue to peek, as that would reveal his weakness to the fox spirit.

Zhang Chen carefully pried open the dirt, and looking through the gap, he saw that the white-furred cat next door was still lying in its nest. A slightly illusory white-clothed girl was listlessly dealing with a pheasant in her hand, muttering: "Damn bad person, damn mortal, actually hurting Nannan. Nannan will never let you go, Nannan will punish you in the name of justice."

"I finally managed to achieve soul projection, night travel, day travel, object manipulation, and was about to reach the stage of possession and manifestation, but I was hurt by your damned golden light, losing who knows how much cultivation! You bastard really deserve to die!"

The girl muttered angrily, even calling herself 'old lady'.

"But this kid's golden light is so powerful, it can be put to good use. I dug out a page of golden scripture from that tomb, and there's a tricky fellow in that tomb..." The girl's eyes darted around, as if she had thought of something, a sly look flashing in her eyes.

The girl's movements were swift, as if venting her anger on the pheasant. Before long, the feathers on the pheasant had been plucked clean, and then the girl began to make pheasant stew with rice, muttering all the while.

While cooking, the girl turned her head to look at the gap in the wall, a sly look in her eyes. The next moment, seemingly unintentionally, she flicked the chicken meat, and a drop of scalding hot water shot straight towards the gap.

Zhang Chen was caught off guard. Before he could close his eyes, he let out a scream and fell to the ground, covering his mouth in pain, afraid to shout out. He rolled around on the ground in agony, cursing inwardly: "That damned fox spirit did it on purpose! She's deliberately retaliating against me!"

After a long time, the pain subsided. Zhang Chen opened his swollen eyes. Although that eye hadn't gone blind, his vision was blurry, clearly burned.

"But it's not without gains, at least I know some of the fox spirit's secrets. In the past, the fox spirit's soul looked like a real person, but now it looks like a illusory wild ghost. Clearly, it was badly hurt by my golden light before." Zhang Chen felt a little more confident. He was no longer a weakling without the power to protect himself when facing this fox spirit.

But the fox spirit's ability to manipulate objects with its soul still made Zhang Chen feel lingering fear. This time she could throw a water ladle, next time she could throw a kitchen knife, especially since her soul could pass through matter, making it even harder to defend against.

"Forget it, for the sake of skill points, I, your grandpa, will endure it!"

Zhang Chen said to himself, already inflated enough to upgrade himself to the fox spirit's grandfather.

Of course, Zhang Chen had thought about running away, taking the opportunity to get rid of the fox spirit's control, and then finding a place to start a new life, but he simply couldn't escape! When Zhang Chen first discovered the fox spirit's mischief, he had tried to run away, but halfway through, he 'accidentally' encountered a white-furred fox flashing before his eyes, and he had no choice but to scurry back. Now that he thought about it, it was clearly the white-furred fox toying with him. Wanting him to be a free worker, letting him support it.

The invisible threat is the most powerful and the most terrifying!

Without a doubt, Zhang Chen was afraid. He knew that was the white-furred fox's warning. From then on, Zhang Chen never ran away!

Now that Zhang Chen knew he had a sliver of ability to resist the fox spirit, he was immediately happy. He felt much better, and was no longer in a hurry to fight it to the death. Now that he had a golden finger, he just needed to quietly develop and pick up experience points to level up, and he wasn't afraid of not being able to deal with the fox spirit in the future.

And the price was just supporting the fox spirit, it wasn't a big deal. He, Zhang Chen, was known as a hunting expert. As long as he could get experience points, he wouldn't mind treating the fox spirit like an ancestor.

But the tree wants to be still, but the wind doesn't stop. Zhang Chen wanted to develop quietly, but the fox spirit wouldn't allow it.

He thought that as long as he could hunt prey, life would settle down, but on the third day when Zhang Chen went into the mountains again, he soon encountered a strange thing.

On this day, Zhang Chen went into the mountains but returned empty-handed. More than a dozen traps yielded nothing, quite different from the usual full harvest. Just as he was about to return empty-handed, a pheasant, from who knows where, actually crashed directly into the big tree in front of Zhang Chen, then fell to the ground, its wings bent at an unnatural angle.

Zhang Chen was overjoyed to see this, never expecting such a good thing to come to his door. Just as he was about to seize the pheasant while it was dizzy, he saw the pheasant flapping its broken wings, drifting through the forest.

Zhang Chen was an old hunter, knowing that pheasants' stamina was not long-lasting, and even less so after breaking a wing. Sooner or later, it would fall into his hands, so he chased after it with a happy face.

If he couldn't catch the pheasant, he would go hungry today, so of course he couldn't let it go.

Although the pheasant's wings were broken, it kept scurrying through the mountain grass and dead branches. Its escape speed seemed slow, keeping only a three-to-five-meter distance from Zhang Chen, but every time Zhang Chen was about to catch it, the pheasant would flap its wings and avoid Zhang Chen's capture, continuing to run through the mountains.

The man and the chicken chased each other for about two hours. After flapping its wings once again, the pheasant suddenly stopped, its body falling to the ground, then quickly burrowing into a dirt hole nearby.

"Hmm?" Zhang Chen couldn't catch up, and could only watch helplessly as the pheasant burrowed into the mud hole. The hole's opening wasn't big, about the size of a honey badger's hole.

"Damn it, how can this pheasant have such stamina, actually running for two hours." Zhang Chen stood at the entrance of the hole, panting: "Consider it lucky!"

Zhang Chen cursed and was about to turn back, but his footsteps suddenly stopped, his eyes looking into the dirt hole. In the shadows, there were actually specks of red light flickering.

That was the light of points!

“How could there be experience points inside the earthen cave?” Zhang Chen squatted down and peered inside, then he was utterly stunned. Not only were there experience points, but there were vast swathes of them.

“This cave?” Zhang Chen paused, looking at the experience points deep within the earthen cave, and couldn't help but hesitate.

Only places that monsters passed through had experience points. Could it be that there was a monster inside this earthen cave? Or was that pheasant a monster? Otherwise, it couldn't have run for two hours.

“Huh, there's also a fox's paw print, and it seems to be fading away.” Zhang Chen stared at the mark on the ground, a look of surprise on his face.

Zhang Chen wanted to leave, not wanting to court trouble, but facing the vast expanse of experience points, he couldn't move his feet.

There were just too many experience points inside. If he collected them, his Evil-warding Golden Light would definitely level up, and then it would certainly be a whole new world.

“Only when my skill level increases will I have the courage to face the fox spirit. Right now, experience points are right in front of me. If I don't face the danger before me, I will have to face the threat of that damned fox spirit in the future. My Evil-warding Golden Light level one can restrain the fox spirit's primordial spirit. If it upgrades to level two…” Zhang Chen felt a little anticipation in his heart. Would he be able to turn the tables and become the master then?

Most importantly, if he collected the experience points at the cave entrance, his Evil-warding Golden Light would very likely upgrade to level two. Even if there really was something strange in the cave, his level two Evil-warding Golden Light might still have a chance to restrain it.

He had to try. If things looked bad, he could just run away. He wouldn't lose anything.

“Huh, is this an antique?” Just as Zhang Chen was spying on the experience points in the cave, he suddenly discovered that there was an ancient coin of unknown age at the entrance, which looked quite old. Most importantly, the coin was actually made of pure gold, capable of enduring for billions of years.

The coin was shaped like a knife, completely different from the round-holed coins of the current dynasty.

“What dynasty is this currency from? Could it be that the cave is connected to an ancient tomb?” Thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and his whole body was stirred. Ancient tombs were accompanied by wealth. If he could dig it open…

He would have both experience points and money. Why wouldn't Zhang Chen do it?

Wealth comes from taking risks. Living next door to a fox spirit of unknown depth, if he didn't work hard to cultivate, what would he use to resist?

Zhang Chen turned around and walked back. He was going to get a shovel.

Not long after Zhang Chen left, the pheasant fluttered out, and a white figure emerged from the pheasant's body, turning into a wisp of smoke at the cave entrance, looking at Zhang Chen's back from afar. Her delicate nose wrinkled slightly: “The gold coin cast by the ancient Emperor Taihao, you got a bargain. This guy is usually so stingy and calculating, even a little rice and meat he haggles over with this old ancestor. This time, I'm not afraid you won't be tempted.”

Zhang Chen walked back along the same path, only to be stunned when he passed the trap, because there was a roe deer in his trap.

“Recently, I've really had good luck. Not only did I awaken the Golden Finger, but I'm also incredibly lucky, and I even discovered a source of experience points. Even the heavens are helping me!” Zhang Chen felt very happy in his heart. He felt that he was now the most beloved child of the heavens, the darling of the heavens, and his bad luck was finally beginning to dissipate.

Although excavating that ancient tomb was dangerous, it could definitely raise his Golden Light to the second level, or even higher, and even allow him to obtain new skills. At that time, whether he was facing the fox spirit or other monsters, his survival rate would greatly increase.

“Wealth comes from taking risks! The most important thing is that the experience points dropped from the fox spirit are not stable. Who knows when I will be able to accumulate enough points to level up to level two? And the fox spirit is very likely healing. The faster I level up, the more advantageous it will be to deal with it.” Zhang Chen's mind was calculating rapidly.

Moreover, he also had a backup plan. If he really alarmed the monsters in the tomb, he could divert the trouble, and let them fight the fox spirit to the death, and he would just reap the benefits.

Whether it would work or not, he had to try. What if the monsters in the tomb weren't that strong? What if there were no monsters in the tomb, but a unique item like that metal page?

Zhang Chen directly chopped off a roe deer leg, butchered it on the spot, and cooked a meal. He was afraid that if he went back, he wouldn't have anything to eat.

After Zhang Chen finished eating the roe deer leg, he smeared the roe deer blood on the trap as bait, and then carried the roe deer back.

As soon as he arrived in the courtyard, he saw the fox spirit squatting in front of the window next door, stretching its neck and looking forward to Zhang Chen, its eyes full of anticipation. But when it saw that Zhang Chen had actually carried another roe deer into the courtyard, the fox spirit's face showed a hint of disgust. That expression was very human-like, which made Zhang Chen stunned.

Especially when it saw that Zhang Chen hadn't skinned it, the fox spirit's displeased expression was even more obvious. But when Zhang Chen took the initiative to hang the roe deer on the wall, the fox spirit's foxy eyes showed an expression that seemed to say, 'You're a smart kid,' and it turned and walked back into the house.

Zhang Chen hung the hunted food on the wall of the east room as usual, as if nothing had changed, but this time he was willingly feeding the fox spirit!

Zhang Chen hung the roe deer on the wall of the east room, and soon the roe deer on the wall disappeared without a trace, and no experience points were left where the roe deer was lost.

“Sure enough, simply relying on the fox spirit to collect experience points is very unreliable. I have to dig that ancient tomb. There is such good fortune outside the ancient tomb, let alone inside the ancient tomb? It shouldn't be a problem for me to upgrade my Evil-warding Golden Light a few times, right? By then, my skills should be able to suppress the fox spirit,” Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

But thinking of the fox spirit's ability to control objects without a trace, Zhang Chen felt a little helpless. Controlling objects was a physical attack, and the other party was elusive. He couldn't possibly be on guard 24 hours a day, right? Once he failed to deal with the fox spirit, he would probably be waiting to die.

“I still need to prepare some methods in advance. When I upgrade my skills in the future, I can have more methods to restrain this damned fox spirit,” countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind.

Zhang Chen wandered around the courtyard, picked up the shovel on the ground, and turned to walk into the mountains.

Now the sun is high in the sky, just the right time for him to start. Don't the novels say that those evil spirits are afraid of the sun? It's the right time for him to start now.

He had already decided that he would only dig at noon in the future, so the danger would be less.

Whether what is said in the novels is true or not, he had to be prepared.