I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 884 The Giant Hand Moves
With the Xie family father and daughter strongly supporting him, he certainly couldn't be too stingy.

For him, taking one more or one less pill doesn't make much difference. In fact, the peaches of immortality are just ordinary things to him. Now that he has control of the peach tree, why would he worry about not having peaches to eat in the future?

However, a single pill or a peach was enough to allow Xie Lingyun and others to defy fate and become supreme beings.

Upon hearing Zhang Chen's words, Xie Lingyun's eyes lit up like the sun in the sky: "Where did you get such great fortune?"

"The old turtle leads to the great tomb." Zhang Chen smiled.

"No wonder you wasted four years; it turns out you really made a great contribution," Xie Lingyun exclaimed.

"How are my younger brother and sister?" Zhang Chen asked.

“Since you entered the Zhang family, your younger brother and sister have been missing. Even the Inspectorate has been unable to find out any details,” Xie Lingyun said.

A hint of worry appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes. Several years had passed since he last saw his younger brother and sister. He wondered how they were doing and whether they had been led astray by the Zhang family.

Sending his younger brother, sister, and stepmother away before the chaos erupted in Jinling City was the best decision he ever made. Otherwise, who knows what unexpected things might have happened later. But now that Zhang Chen has risen to power and has accumulated enough strength, he feels that keeping his younger brother and sister by his side is the best way to nurture them.

"Alright, now that I'm in Kyoto, once I've settled my identity matters and have a legitimate identity, we'll naturally meet again. Please invite Ji Feihua over," Zhang Chen said to Xie Lingyun.

"Ji Feihua is an opportunity for you. She was once the top genius of the academy, even surpassing Zhong Xiang. Unfortunately, she suffered a calamity and was banished to the mortal realm. If you can save Ji Feihua, you can take the opportunity to befriend the Grand Tutor." Xie Lingyun said, then looked at Zhang Chen: "Should we first inform Ji Chuan? That old fellow is stubborn; if we don't inform him beforehand, he might not be willing to accept our help. We'd better negotiate the terms first before making a move!"

“Regardless of whether Ji Chuan agrees to my conditions or not, I have to take action for Da Hei’s sake, at least to settle the karmic debt between Da Hei and the Ji family.” Zhang Chen replied, “Besides, while it may seem gentlemanly to start with a petty approach and then back to a gentlemanly one, it is too unreasonable and not the proper way to ask for help.”

Xie Lingyun hesitated for a moment upon hearing this, but after thinking that Zhang Chen's words might not be without reason, she nodded in agreement: "I will go and invite Ji Feihua over."

Before long, Xie Lingyun invited Ji Feihua over. Ji Feihua bowed to Zhang Chen and said, "I'll have to trouble you again, Brother Zhang."

"It's alright. We've met in this vast sea of ​​people, so we must be destined to be together." After saying this, Zhang Chen turned to Ji Feihua and said, "Come with me!"

Zhang Chen led Ji Feihua to a quiet room. Zhang Chen gestured for Ji Feihua to sit down before slowly pressing his hand against Ji Feihua's forehead: "I need to check your energy and sense the condition of your body."

Ji Feihua did not resist, but quietly looked at Zhang Chen with her big, clear black and white eyes. Then Zhang Chen pointed his finger at Ji Feihua's brow and immediately sensed the abnormality in Ji Feihua's body. He felt an extremely cold aura from the ancient times in Ji Feihua's body, and a fragment of soul fluctuations flowed in that cold aura.

But after Zhang Chen sensed the source of the chill, he was stunned, a look of astonishment in his eyes: "I never imagined it was a wisp of His remnant soul!"

Whose remnant soul do you think it is?
Do you still remember that giant hand deep in Zhang Chen's icy hell?
The remnant soul fluctuations within Ji Feihua's soul and those of the giant hand originated from the same source.

It's not quite right to say that the other person's fluctuations are soul fluctuations; the correct interpretation is to call them incomplete true spirit fluctuations.

Zhang Chen sensed the fluctuations of the remnant soul. The giant hand within Zhang Chen's Frozen Hell seemed to resonate with the giant hand within Ji Feihua's body. The next moment, the giant hand within Zhang Chen's Frozen Hell trembled, passively materializing the domain where Frozen Hell was located. With a gentle flick of the giant hand's fingers, a crack was torn open in Frozen Hell, allowing its energy to resonate with the remnant soul within Ji Feihua's body.

"I knew it. My Frozen Hell couldn't hold these old guys. Even a single hand could actively manifest my Frozen Domain and tear open the spatial barrier of my Frozen Hell. My Frozen Hell really is just a fragile little bubble," Zhang Chen thought to himself, speechless.

Just as she was complaining, Ji Feihua was surrounded by a cold aura. Her clothes were torn to shreds and turned into dust on the ground, revealing her emaciated figure.

Ji Feihua was frozen in place, unable to move an inch. At this moment, the true spirit that was entangled in her soul suddenly severed itself from her soul. A sharp pain entered Ji Feihua's soul, causing her to involuntarily let out a shrill scream in the cold air.

The next moment, the true spirit transformed into a white light, flying out from Ji Feihua's body and heading towards the Frozen Hell. Seeing the white light, Zhang Chen activated his cheat ability immediately:
"mark!"

[Marked successfully] Then the white light flew into the giant hand, and Zhang Chen's Frost Domain closed, and the Frost Hell was repaired. Looking at Ji Feihua in front of him, she had turned into an ice sculpture.

"If it weren't for my intervention, she would likely have been possessed by that true spirit much sooner or later. In fact, that true spirit had already largely merged with Ji Feihua's soul, and now, stimulated by the giant hand, it recklessly tore apart Ji Feihua's soul and flew out. At this moment, Ji Feihua's soul has suffered severe damage. That girl is really unlucky!" Zhang Chen looked at Ji Feihua, who was frozen into an ice sculpture, and stretched out his palm, landing on the ice surrounding Ji Feihua. He activated his cold energy skill, and the cold energy that had frozen Ji Feihua quickly surged into Zhang Chen's body.

"However, this girl is also very lucky. She has obtained a trace of the extreme cold origin in her soul and a trace of the residual authority of that ancient being. Her future is extremely promising." Zhang Chen felt that Ji Feihua's future was boundless.

Before long, Ji Feihua's clothes froze into powder and vanished completely. Zhang Chen looked at Ji Feihua's body, her withered figure, and tore off his cloak to drape over her. After a moment's hesitation, some mysterious water vapor suddenly gathered in the void, transforming into a wisp of Three Lights Divine Water, which flew into Ji Feihua's body.

Although there was only a trace of the Three Lights Divine Water, it still had incredible effects on Ji Feihua, who was only a mortal, enough to restore her damaged soul.

Ji Feihua was still asleep and unconscious. Zhang Chen stood up and pushed open the door, where he saw guards standing watch outside.

"Please fetch a set of women's clothes, Your Excellency," Zhang Chen instructed the guard.

"I am honored by your kind invitation, sir. I will go and do it right away. Please wait a moment!" The guard quickly left. Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment before entering the house. He was afraid that if he left, someone might accidentally barge in, which would be troublesome.

As for the claim that he harbored ill intentions towards Ji Feihua?

That's absolutely impossible!
Why would anyone be interested in a skeleton covered in human skin?
A guard soon returned with a maid carrying a tray. The maid approached Zhang Chen with a respectful expression and said, "These are the young lady's clothes."

Zhang Chen took the clothes and said, "Give them to me!"

He didn't dare to let the maid go in and wait, in case it affected Ji Feihua's soul repair, or if the Inspection Department was hiding some traitor who took the opportunity to do something wrong, wouldn't he be in big trouble?

So Zhang Chen decided to continue guarding the house until Ji Feihua fully woke up.

After closing the door and placing the clothes beside Ji Feihua, Zhang Chen stood with his back to Ji Feihua in front of the wall, looking at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall. His heart sank into an icy hell as he observed the reaction of the giant hand.

As that fragment of true spirit entered the giant hand, Zhang Chen felt that the giant hand seemed to come alive. Unlike its previous instinctive consciousness, the giant hand now had thoughts, and the entire giant hand was undergoing a tremendous change. The change was indescribable, as if something was being nurtured within it.

"There are more and more uninvited guests in my Frozen Hell." Zhang Chen looked at the Frozen Hell, his eyes filled with solemnity.

Looking at the forty-eight thousand strange creatures imprisoned in the Frozen Hell, they had become extremely quiet. It seemed that they had sensed the arrival of a super terrifying being in the Frozen Hell, so they were all like quails, no longer causing any trouble.

"Perhaps this is my future comrade-in-arms." Zhang Chen looked at the Frozen Hell, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Just as his thoughts were racing, a faint noise came from behind him. Zhang Chen turned his head and saw that Ji Feihua had somehow created an icy domain around her.

"Really?" Zhang Chen was taken aback when he saw the icy domain appear.

No one knew the extraordinary nature of the Frost Domain better than its master, and he never expected that Ji Feihua would have such an opportunity.

Zhang Chen looked surprised as he scanned the icy domain surrounding Ji Feihua. He saw that the icy domain was only three feet long, less than a tenth of Zhang Chen's, but it contained a strange phenomenon that Zhang Chen's icy domain did not have. Within Ji Feihua's icy domain, there seemed to be a transparent and blurry human figure standing. The figure was so tall that it was difficult to see clearly. It seemed to resemble Ji Feihua, and also somewhat resembled the giant hand whose aura Zhang Chen had sensed.

"What is that? How strange!" Zhang Chen frowned and remained silent as he stared at Ji Feihua's ice domain, observing the differences between her ice domain and his own. After a long while, Zhang Chen thoughtfully stroked his chin and said, "It seems that there is an extra divine power in her ice domain, which has given her ice domain a certain blessing and added some unique attributes."

(End of this chapter)