I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 842 The Complete Creation of the Giants

Zhang Chen, who held power over the wood element, could sense that the peach tree possessed a spirit, but that this spirit seemed to be flawed.

The soul of the peach tree is enormous, but it only possesses instinctive consciousness and has no id-like thinking.

"That makes sense. The peach tree is a spiritual root of the same rank as the Sage Zhunti and Zhen Yuanzi in the novel, which can be considered a primordial deity. It's not surprising that it possesses a huge soul. Unfortunately, it encountered the Queen Mother of the West, who constantly suppressed its spirituality and prevented it from developing its own consciousness. So no matter how huge its soul is or how amazing its spirituality is, it has absolutely no chance of taking human form." Zhang Chen felt a little regretful. The peach tree had already developed a soul, and even if that soul was blank, it was not something he could shake.

This is the origin of a top-tier demon god; how could a nobody like him, who hasn't even achieved immortality, possibly shake it?
After wandering around the peach orchard, Zhang Chen realized that he seemed unable to do anything except eat peaches.

"Thinking about it, it makes sense. To refine an innate spiritual root, one would have to wait until it had just sprouted and hadn't yet developed any spirituality. But at that time, heaven and earth had just been created, so how could anyone have the opportunity to refine an innate spiritual root? By the time the innate spiritual root had grown, all the demon gods would have already taken human form, and the opportunity to refine an innate spiritual root would have been lost. Otherwise, the Queen Mother of the West would have refined the Peach Tree of Immortality long ago, how could it have been my turn? The reason I was able to refine the Heavenly Tree and the Tree of Immortality was because I had an advantage in that era. Those two spiritual plants were destroyed, but I managed to make them sprout and take root again..." A look of understanding appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.

"The Heavenly Tree and the Immortal Tree were no longer suitable for that era, so what about the Peach Tree? The Peach Tree shouldn't have been spared either, right? If I could obtain the peach pit of the Peach Tree in that era, and once it sprouted, wouldn't I have a chance to refine the Peach Tree into an incarnation?" Zhang Chen's mind raced with thoughts.

The probability is extremely high, but how can we preserve the peach pit of the flat peach?
Countless thoughts raced through Zhang Chen's mind. After a long while, he finally came up with a solution. The peach pits of the Immortal Peach were inconspicuous to begin with, and no one would question him if he carried them with him. After he left the Immortal Peach Garden, he could return to the alchemy room, go to the alchemy furnace, and swallow the peach pits into the Bashe space. That would be it.

"Now we need to think of a way to obtain the method of the giant opening the heavens. I have an endless supply of peaches of immortality. If I could obtain the method of the giant opening the heavens, it would only take a little time to master it." Countless thoughts raced through Zhang Chen's mind. He quickly came up with an idea: he would openly ask the Queen Mother of the West for it.

When you have perfected your practice of the Karma Transformation Technique, the truth will be revealed when the time comes. You will not know whether you will live or die, so why should you be afraid at that time?
Moreover, Zhang Chen had a perfect excuse in mind: after eating the peaches of immortality, the enormous medicinal power of the peaches would impact his body beyond what his physical body could withstand. So, he should be able to use the Giant Opening Heaven Technique to help him strengthen his physique, right?
That's the perfect excuse!

The Queen Mother of the West is now eagerly hoping to successfully cultivate her Karma Transformation Technique. If this mantra is helpful to her Karma Transformation Technique, the Queen Mother of the West will certainly not be stingy with it.

While munching on a peach, Zhang Chen used his supernatural powers to reach the edge of the great formation. Looking at the innate formation, he said to the void, "Senior, I wish to leave. Please open the door for me."

As expected, as soon as he finished speaking, the innate grand formation opened another passage, and Zhang Chen flew towards the altar, then landed below it: "This humble one requests an audience with the Queen Mother of the West."

"Weren't you in seclusion in the Peach Garden cultivating? Why did you come out?" The Queen Mother of the West's voice came from the high platform.

"After cultivating in the Peach Garden, I discovered a drawback: my physical body is not strong enough. The power of the peaches is too domineering. If I consume too many, it will damage my body. I beg Your Majesty to grant me the cultivation techniques after the Giant's Creation, so that I can refine the peaches more quickly." Zhang Chen directly expressed his request to the Queen Mother of the West.

After hearing Zhang Chen's words, the Queen Mother of the West pondered for a moment before finally saying, "Biyun!"

"Your Majesty!" A beam of green light came from the horizon, landed on the altar and transformed into the Azure Cloud Goddess, who respectfully bowed to the Queen Mother of the West.

"Take out all the techniques of 'Giants Opening the Heavens' and give them to Jia Shiba to practice," the Queen Mother of the West instructed.

Upon hearing this, Lady Biyun bowed respectfully, then stepped down from the altar and came to Zhang Chen's side, looking at him with concern: "How dare you make a request to the Queen Mother of the West!"

Zhang Chen smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "I don't want to either! But my physical body simply cannot support me consuming large quantities of peaches. If I cannot consume large quantities of peaches, my death will be in fifty years. Since things have come to this, I have no choice but to risk my life! Now that things have come to this, what is there that I cannot risk?"

He said this to both Lady Biyun and the Queen Mother of the West.

He felt that the Queen Mother of the West should be able to hear him. Lady Biyun didn't say much, but led Zhang Chen to the Sutra Repository, then, through token verification, retrieved the complete golden book and handed it to Zhang Chen.

The complete golden book contained the complete thirty-six layers of breathing techniques and the complete incantation for the giant to open the heavens. Zhang Chen glanced at Biyun Niangniang with the golden book and was about to turn back when Biyun Niangniang suddenly spoke: "The more you ask the Queen Mother of the West for now, the greater the price you will pay if you fail to meet her requirements when the fifty-year deadline arrives. Are you really prepared?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen paused, turned to look at Lady Biyun, and said, "This seclusion is a do-or-die situation. By the way, I need to go to the alchemy room to get some pills to aid my cultivation."

After finishing his speech, Zhang Chen arrived at the alchemy hall and went directly to the alchemy furnace, where he placed three peach pits into the ascension pool within the Bashe space.

These three peach pits were from a three-thousand-year-old peach pit, a six-thousand-year-old peach pit, and a nine-thousand-year-old peach pit, respectively. After Zhang Chen put away the three peach pits, he gathered some pills and then nimbly left the alchemy hall and entered the Peach Garden to continue his cultivation.

Zhang Chen arrived at the Peach Garden and compared the Giant's Heaven-Opening Mantra with his own Mighty Mountain-Moving Mantra. Sure enough, he found commonalities between the two. He didn't rush to cultivate them, but instead memorized the entire golden book before pondering to himself, "Although I can't take the Giant's Heaven-Opening Mantra that I cultivated in this time and space back with me, it can still provide some assistance, allowing me to familiarize myself with the cultivation of the Giant's Heaven-Opening Mantra in advance."

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Chen began to silently circulate the incantation for cultivation. The incantation for Giant Opening Heaven was different from that for Warrior Moving Mountain. Warrior Moving Mountain was a magical technique, which was constrained by Zhang Chen's immortal realm, while Giant Opening Heaven was a fundamental method, a method that could be cultivated all the way up. This incantation was not considered an immortal incantation, but rather a method for physical cultivation, similar to physical sainthood, but not quite the same.

While converting the peaches of immortality into points, Zhang Chen also used the power of the peaches to cultivate the Giant's Heaven Opening Technique, and from time to time used the experience points to upgrade his own Karma Transformation Technique by one level.

As it turned out, Zhang Chen's cultivation in the Peach Garden was indeed fast. With a continuous supply of peaches, Zhang Chen's cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds. His body actually shrank from an extremely large size to an extremely small size, gradually returning to normal size. Even his skin color changed from golden yellow to the color of an ordinary person.

Time flies by, and the number of peach trees decreases. However, the Queen Mother of the West has too many peaches. Even if Zhang Chen keeps eating them, he can't finish all the peaches in the hundreds of miles of peach orchard by himself.

So Zhang Chen simply abandoned the six-thousand-year-old peach and focused on eating the nine-thousand-year-old peach. In an instant, Zhang Chen's body was filled with fragrance, and his primordial spirit was also undergoing some subtle changes under the enormous medicinal power, seemingly transforming into a pre-natal form.

Zhang Chen munched on a peach, pondering the matter of the Queen Mother of the West: "The Queen Mother of the West is already a powerful being at the Hunyuan level, with a lifespan as long as heaven and boundless cultivation. In her eyes, the peach is just something to taste. It seems I made the right move. But how should I obtain the Primordial Fire Spirit? The Primordial Fire Spirit is of great importance to me. If I really turn against the Queen Mother of the West in the future... I will only be waiting to die. Whether I have the Primordial Fire Spirit or not makes no difference, because the Primordial Fire Spirit cannot shake the Queen Mother of the West. The difference in cultivation between the Primordial Fire Spirit and the Queen Mother of the West is too great."

The more Zhang Chen thought about it, the more he felt that the difference between the Primordial Fire Spirit and the Queen Mother of the West was enormous. If the Queen Mother of the West hadn't needed to refine medicine, she probably wouldn't have kept the Primordial Fire Spirit.

Time flew by, and Zhang Chen's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. In the first year, he had already cultivated three patterns, and in the second year, he had cultivated two patterns. In subsequent cultivation, the cultivation of the Giant Opening Heaven method gradually slowed down. Even though Zhang Chen had a huge supply of resources, he still needed time to settle down. Breaking through the Giant Opening Heaven method was still as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Ten years later, Zhang Chen finally broke through to another pattern. How many peaches of immortality did Zhang Chen devour during those ten years? What a massive amount of resources that was, yet it only helped him break through to the next level.

As for using points to break through? Zhang Chen was reluctant to do so. He planned to use points to break through after returning to the real world. Points were extremely precious and were only for emergencies.

Moreover, Zhang Chen dared not use points to break through the Giant's Heaven-Opening Realm at this moment. He felt that the Queen Mother of the West was watching him all the time. If he directly added points without any cultivation process, he was afraid that he would not be able to hide it from the Queen Mother of the West's eyes.

At this point, Zhang Chen had even reduced his direct skill point allocation for the Karma Transformation Technique, instead choosing to utilize the immense medicinal properties of the peaches to continuously break through and minimize the strangeness within himself. After all, there was a Great Luo Immortal watching over him in the Peach Garden, and he dared not be careless.

(End of this chapter)