I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 41: Shedding a Layer of Human Skin

The so-called taming of a hawk is actually very difficult, because people often can't outlast the hawk and end up kicking the bucket.

Zhang Chen finished making the leather gear, then used it to secure the hawk on a perch. He sat opposite the hawk, his eyes fixed on the bird.

The taming began!

Next door,

the little fox spirit lay listlessly on the table, watching the bookish Zhang Chen recite scriptures. Her mind raced with thoughts, and she suddenly thought of the rough fellow next door: "I wonder what that brute is doing."

The thought had barely formed when the little fox spirit's soul left her body, and her Yin spirit passed through the wall. Her eyes caught sight of Zhang Chen taming a hawk.

"A hawk? Where did this kid catch a hawk?" The little fox spirit looked at Zhang Chen's hawk, a hint of fear in her eyes. She rolled her eyes and, without making a move, returned to her own house.

Time passed day by day, and the burning sensation within Zhang Chen's body intensified. He felt as if every inch of his body was being scorched by raging flames. Some kind of mutation seemed to be occurring within his blood vessels; their number seemed to be increasing.

Fourth day.

Finally, the hawk couldn't endure it any longer. When Zhang Chen offered it a piece of chicken and the hawk swallowed it, he knew he had successfully tamed the hawk.

Having succeeded in taming the hawk, Zhang Chen sat in the courtyard, eating stewed meat and brewing medicine, sensing the flow of blood within his body. He felt that the pain had lessened:

"Today, the burning sensation within my body seems to have diminished significantly."

"The root of the burning pain in the past actually came from that crystal core. The crystal core flowed through my body, and wherever it passed, it was like a small knife slicing through my meridians, which is why the pain was unbearable. After such a long period of adaptation, my blood vessels seem to have adapted to its flow, so the pain has gradually decreased." Zhang Chen brewed the herbs, then slowly drank them, feeling the liver's blood production speed increase. Zhang Chen slowly reached out and began to eat the meat.

[Name: Zhang Chen]

[Skill 1 (Tier 2): Light of the Righteous God (0/5000)]

[Skill 2 (Unranked): Dragon Qi (0/2000)]

[Skill 3 (Unranked): Blood Control (0/100000)]

[Points: 4650]

"Still three hundred and fifty points short!" Zhang Chen looked at the golden finger interface, feeling a bit dumbfounded. In the past, three hundred points would have been just a day's hard work for him, but who knew he would be stuck now.

"No need to rush. That ancient tomb is a bit abnormal. I'll go back when my strength is fully recovered. Now that I have nothing to do, I can train the hawk!" Zhang Chen felt the blood within his body, still one-fifth short. It would probably take about three days to replenish it completely, and then he could go back to work.

Of course, these three days were based on normally absorbing the blood of prey. If he relied solely on his daily diet, it would take a very long time.

But right now, the most important thing for him was to sleep! Even if his body was in pain, not closing his eyes for four days would be unbearable even for an iron man!

Nothing happened overnight, and he passed the time peacefully.

Early morning,

Zhang Chen was awakened by the sound of the hawk flapping its wings. Zhang Chen sat up, calmed the hawk, lit the oil lamp, cut a piece of minced meat to feed the hawk, and was about to wash up after filling a basin with water. After rubbing his hands in the basin, Zhang Chen was stunned on the spot.

Skin had been rubbed off!

That's right, a complete layer of skin had been rubbed off! Not the kind of dead skin! It was a complete layer of skin.

However, after the skin was rubbed off, what was revealed was not flesh and blood, but a patch of snow-white skin that was astonishingly white even in the lamplight.

"What's going on?" Zhang Chen looked at the large piece of skin that had been rubbed off his palm, then reached out and carefully pulled at it. Soon, he couldn't stop himself, and large pieces of skin were torn off. Half an hour later, Zhang Chen looked at the complete human skin on the ground, then lowered his head to look at his own snow-white, delicate, and flawless skin, a dazed expression on his face.

"I've shed a layer of skin, but it's not dead skin, it's complete skin. The burning sensation within my body before was actually skinning me alive, peeling off my previous skin to promote the growth of new skin." Zhang Chen raised his hands, and his palms were delicate and fair, all the calluses on them having disappeared.

If anyone were to see these hands, even the princes and nobles of wealthy families would be far inferior.

Although there was still a burning sensation, it had been greatly reduced. Zhang Chen had a premonition that this transformation of his would probably end in three to five days.

"This skin is too white. Even those pampered young masters are far inferior." Zhang Chen stroked his skin, a strange look in his eyes. He looked at the human skin on the ground, and without saying a word, he directly lit the stove and burned the skin.

The sensational matter of molting should not be spread, in case the people in the village misunderstand it as heresy, which would be a problem.

Moreover, this human skin cannot be kept. If there are any strange creatures in this world that can use human skin to harm people or curse me in secret, it will be troublesome.

Zhang Chen burned the dead skin clean, then cooked breakfast. After eating a bowl of meat soup, he walked out of the room with a happy face. At this time, the sun had already risen in the sky, and the sunlight shone on Zhang Chen's cheeks and skin. Zhang Chen suddenly felt a movement in his heart, and he felt that the world in front of him seemed different.

His skin seemed to be able to sense the flow of air, the wind in the mountains, and the sunlight in the sky, and seemed to be able to capture some inexplicable information.

Every hair seemed to have turned into a detector, capturing information in the air, transmitting it into the blood, and then transmitting it into the brain through the blood.

"What a strange feeling!" Zhang Chen stood there in a daze for a moment, shook his head, and walked towards the mountains.

It is not uncommon for skin to feel the flow of wind and feel cold and warmth. Ordinary people's skin can also do it, but his perception is just more acute. He thought it was because his skin was new and more sensitive to the airflow in the air.

At this time, Zhang Chen's blood had been refilled, and there was no dizziness like in the past.

It should be known that more than ten days have passed since Zhang Chen made the ceramic whistle, and it is normal for Zhang Chen to replenish his blood.

"The baskets at home don't seem to be enough. As the number of wild chickens and ducks caught increases, I still need to weave some baskets." Zhang Chen walked in the mountains, training the hawk as he walked.

He checked the traps. Today, there was a rabbit and a pheasant in the trap. Zhang Chen collected the prey and walked towards the karst cave. He was going to feed his wasps.

Several days have passed, and the wasp nest is already the size of a baby's head. It looks like it has some scale. The wasps are constantly busy in and out of the nest, working hard.

Zhang Chen took out the diced meat he had prepared, and saw the hornet in the nest fly out, rushing directly towards Zhang Chen.

The hornet landed on Zhang Chen's skin, and today Zhang Chen felt particularly strange, as if the hornet's movements were inexplicably transmitted to his mind through the hornet.

He could clearly feel every toe of the hornet crawling on his skin, he could even feel a slightly warm heat flow spraying on his skin with the hornet's breathing.

"Incredible!" Zhang Chen suddenly realized at this time that something seemed to have mutated in his skin. He had never seen an ordinary person feel the hornet's breath.

Zhang Chen gently shook his clothes, swept the hornet away, and then gently pushed his arm, the falcon soared into the sky and flew towards the sky.

The falcon is meant to roam the sky, and Zhang Chen will not completely confine the falcon to his side.

At this time, Zhang Chen picked up the honey jar and began to walk towards the mountains, looking for bees to collect honey.

While collecting honey and training with the falcon, Zhang Chen was busy and happy.

Zhang Chen came to a place with a lot of bees, and directly activated the skill, turning on the bee-driving mode. As Zhang Chen drove the bees to move, all the bees along the way were swept over by him. The overwhelming swarm of bees flapped their wings, startling the beasts in the mountains to flee and the birds to avoid their sharp edges.

When the overwhelming bees became a large swarm, even the tigers and wolves in the mountains had to retreat and escape far away.

Zhang Chen, who turned on the Beast Mastery mode, always felt that a quarter of an hour passed quickly, so he could only collect all the honey from the bees before leaving contentedly.

Zhang Chen put away the honey, took out a whistle from his mouth, and beckoned to the falcon soaring in the sky, making a return motion, but who knew that the falcon actually croaked and ignored Zhang Chen's instructions, like a sharp sword, it went away and disappeared into the mountains.

Looking at the direction in which the falcon disappeared, Zhang Chen was stunned on the spot, and a thought rolled in his mind: "Could this guy be the sixth oldest in the falcon family? Taking advantage of me taking him out for a walk, he actually ran away directly?"

At this time, Zhang Chen seemed to have been struck by lightning. His eyes stared blankly at the clear sky, and he was a little embarrassed for a while, not knowing what to do.

"Are falcons so cunning? Even animals can pretend and play a trick?" Zhang Chen's head was buzzing at this time. Wang Wu didn't tell him about this situation, and didn't mention that the falcon would run away by itself.

"Forget it, it's gone. I don't have experience in training falcons for the first time. I'll find a chance to train them again in the future." Zhang Chen put the whistle into his arms, with a look of loss in his eyes, as if even the honey he had collected before was not fragrant.

However, Zhang Chen's depression did not last long. Suddenly, a familiar cry came from the distant sky, but he saw that the falcon returned and hovered in the air. Of course, what surprised Zhang Chen the most was that the falcon had caught a little rabbit. What surprised Zhang Chen the most was that the falcon threw the little rabbit in front of him.

The falcon flapped its wings and landed on Zhang Chen's shoulder, looking at Zhang Chen with a proud face, as if showing off to Zhang Chen: "Look, I'm not a freeloader!"

Zhang Chen picked up the rabbit. The rabbit's internal organs were shattered, and it was obvious that it could not survive. In the spirit of not wasting, Zhang Chen directly sucked the rabbit's blood, pulled out the tendons, skinned it, and then went to the stream.

"Well done!" Zhang Chen praised the falcon and threw the chopped internal organs to the falcon.

There was no way, the falcon just liked this stuff! Animals like to eat internal organs, but they don't like meat so much.

Zhang Chen also didn't put the falcon in a cage. The falcon was unwilling to enter the cage and be restrained. In order to cultivate a relationship with the falcon, Zhang Chen didn't do anything that would damage the relationship.

"In this feudal society where human rights override the law, it would be nice to be an ordinary person and live quietly." Zhang Chen muttered. Although he had a golden finger, he didn't have much ambition. He was very satisfied with his life now, except for that damn fox spirit hanging over his head like a sword. To be honest, Zhang Chen didn't want to take risks.

Those strange methods were strange and varied. He couldn't even beat a fox spirit, so how dare he go around? Being able to survive well was enough for him.

Zhang Chen walked back with the back basket on his back, and a thought flashed in his mind: "Humans are the spirit of all things, I wonder what will happen if I suck human blood!"

But soon this idea was stopped by him. This idea was too dangerous! If he was accidentally seen by someone in the future, he would definitely be regarded as a demon and everyone would shout and beat him. Not to mention human blood, even if he sucked animal blood, if he met some moralists and saw him sucking blood, he might have a great battle to slay demons and eliminate demons. No matter how you look at his blood-sucking skill, it doesn't look like a serious skill. Whose serious skill sucks blood? This skill looks like a villain no matter how you look at it!

Walking to the foot of the mountain, Zhang Chen saw the tiger hunter Wang Wu from a distance. At this time, Wang Wu was carrying a roe deer on his shoulder, standing at the intersection with a smile on his face, waiting.

"Uncle Wang." Zhang Chen greeted from afar.

"I just heard the falcon chirping in the mountain, and guessed that you should have trained it, so I waited to see the results. The falcon was trapped by you for more than ten days, and suddenly soaring into the sky, it couldn't help but croak, venting the depression in its heart." Wang Wu looked at the falcon on Zhang Chen's shoulder with curiosity in his eyes.

Zhang Chen stroked the head of the falcon on his shoulder, his eyes full of joy: "It's just a preliminary success. This animal can only fly out and fly back, and it doesn't understand more commands."

Wang Wu's eyes showed a hint of envy, looking at the falcon on Zhang Chen's shoulder, his eyes full of heat.

"You must hide your falcon well, don't let those princes and grandsons see it, otherwise it may cause some trouble. Especially that Lin steward, who is the most greedy. If he knows you have a falcon, he may find a way to seize it by trickery." Wang Wu warned with a worried face.

Zhang Chen nodded when he heard the words. He was not the kind of person who caused trouble for no reason, and of course he knew that he should be low-key.

"I will put the falcon in the mountain tomorrow, and I won't bring it back, so I can save a lot of trouble." Zhang Chen said.

He was not only worried about Lin steward, but also worried that the damn fox spirit would catch his falcon and eat it.

The two returned to the village together. Zhang Chen carefully put the falcon in the house and hid it, then took out green grass to feed the roe deer, and then started cooking and boiling medicine.