I Collect Skill Fragments in the Demon World

Chapter 923 - 551: Sealed Hand

Zhang Chen’s body exploded like powder, turning directly into dust.

The power of that hand was simply too strong. Even though the hand didn’t specifically target Zhang Chen, just the aura unintentionally leaked from it froze Zhang Chen’s ice-transformed body into powder.

Turning objects into powder by freezing them sounds like a fairy tale, but it actually happened before Zhang Chen’s eyes at that moment.

Even Zhang Chen’s ice domain was trembling and precarious, as if a whale had intruded into a small pond, threatening to burst the small house anytime. However, the power of law circulated within the fingers, forcibly stabilizing the trembling domain, helping Zhang Chen prevent its collapse, and then directly entering the Ice Hell.

As the hand delved into the Ice Hell, the force acting on Zhang Chen’s ice domain disappeared, and the law of his ice domain resumed operation. In the next instant, the exploded ice powder recombined, and Zhang Chen was resurrected in an instant. He looked at his own Ice Hell with a face full of fright: "What kind of monster have I drawn in?"

He overrated his Ice Hell and underestimated those ancient beings.

Even just a hand possessed incredible strength, making it hard for Zhang Chen to resist.

Fortunately, Ice Hell and the ice domain are two dimensions. Now Zhang Chen regained control of the ice domain, while the Ice Hell contained the Endless Void, capable of accommodating any being.

"It’s unbelievable! This is just a severed hand, having lost the supply from its body, yet it retains such incredible power despite experiencing great changes between heaven and earth and constant energy loss. Is this really an existence I can contend with?" A wave of insecurity welled up in Zhang Chen’s heart: "Can I really seal such an existence?"

As Zhang Chen was resurrected and puzzled, he saw that the hand, upon entering the Ice Hell and seeing the black lotus, immediately realized it had been tricked. Subsequently, an angry roar echoed through the void: "Deception... death..."

The voice of the hand was cold and filled with endless anger as it slapped toward the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

"Kid, quickly take action!" the Great Freedom Celestial Demon exclaimed in shock, then transformed into a black streak of light to escape. However, the hand contained boundless power; with a mere thought, the void twisted, and the lotus form of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon was frozen in the void, becoming a vivid ice sculpture.

"Impossible! I can leap through the Endless Void; how could I be frozen by you?" The tiny figure formed by the Great Freedom Celestial Demon quickly jumped off the lotus stand, dodging the approaching cold wave, incredulously yelling, panic-stricken, into the void: "Zhang Chen, quickly take action and suppress this fiend, his cold qi origin is about to reach Absolute Zero, even the Power of Time is affected. I’ll distract him now, hurry up and act! If he escapes, both of us will meet disaster."

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon sensed something amiss; to freeze him required reaching the legendary Absolute Zero, capable of freezing space and time, thereby having a chance to freeze his innate talent.

How could such an entity exist in the world?

Facing a power that can freeze time, even legendary beings would retreat!?

Luckily, the opponent’s power had only barely touched this level, giving him a chance to react. Otherwise, he would have been instantly frozen. Although he transformed into billions, having one avatar frozen didn’t matter much, but each avatar of the Celestial Demon had its own independent mind and personality; he didn’t want to be frozen forever.

All Great Freedom Celestial Demons are one, but that one is not all Great Freedom Celestial Demons. If frozen, his ’persona’ would forever sink into endless darkness, never to be reborn.

Seeing the void within the Ice Hell filled with cold air, freezing everything in its path, chasing the Great Freedom Celestial Demon everywhere, Zhang Chen quickly employed Divine Techniques to receive the Great Freedom Celestial Demon. This old guy was very useful to him; he couldn’t let him die inside.

The void twisted, Zhang Chen opened a passage in the void, and the Great Freedom Celestial Demon seized the opportunity to flee from the Ice Hell.

"Die!"

The hand fixed its gaze on the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, its voice filled with anger, chasing after the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, intent on slapping him to death. But as the Great Freedom Celestial Demon escaped, the slap landed in the void, freezing a vast section of the void world. Zhang Chen quickly used suppression techniques, twisting the void into an independent bubble, trapping the hand inside.

"Kid, this hand is too fierce, we’re likely doomed!" the Great Freedom Celestial Demon said with lingering fear, standing beside Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen didn’t respond to the Great Freedom Celemon’s words, instead listening to the icy angry roar from the hand:

"Damned... you all should die!"

At this moment, the sequence of words from within the hand gradually became complete, indicating its consciousness was recovering. It was bound by the void barrier, but soon, terrifying energy surged around it. It suddenly slammed its palm onto the void barrier, causing it to crack like glass.

"Horrible! A palm shatters the void, is this the power of those ancient beings? And it’s just a hand." Zhang Chen was stunned and quickly cast the runes of the Nine Bends Yellow River Array. The runes transformed into beams of Golden Light, merging with the void barrier, forming an operating Yellow River Array, entrapping it within.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

With each impact, the Nine Bends Yellow River Array was tossed up like a ball, and handprint-shaped protrusions formed on the surface of the array, only to be suppressed back by the Nine Bends Yellow River Array.

Just listening to those powerful impact sounds and seeing the constant rise and fall of the protrusions on the Nine Bends Yellow River Array made Zhang Chen’s heart race.

This was the dual suppression of the Ice Hell and the Nine Bends Yellow River Array! Zhang Chen was certain that even a Twelfth Tier presence would be ground down to a mortal by him, but the fact that the other party could shake the array’s power was astonishing.

"Boy, we miscalculated!" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon stood in the void, looking at the twisted and tensed Nine Bends Yellow River Array, his voice filled with seriousness.

"How so?" Zhang Chen looked at the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

"If you were personally hosting the Nine Bends Yellow River Array, trapping this hand would be no problem. But you cannot always host the Nine Bends Yellow River Array; relying solely on the array’s automatic operation might not seal that hand." The Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s voice was somewhat anxious.

An array with a host and an array without a host are entirely different.

It’s like an intelligent machine and a person; although the machine is labeled intelligent, how can it compare to a person?

So Zhang Chen squinted his eyes, staring at the automatically running Nine Bends Yellow River Array without a host. In the next moment, divine light flowed in his hand, and a golden calligraphy guide flew out, landing above the Nine Bends Yellow River Array.

The Six-Word True Mantra Seal formed ten thousand feet of golden light, enveloping the entire Nine Bends Yellow River Array, suppressing its power.

The Six-Word True Mantra Seal might not suppress the hand, but it could serve as a ’stone’, placing weight on the array to increase its stability, enhancing its performance and power.

As the Six-Word True Mantra Seal pressed down, the protruding handprints on the array appeared much shallower, and the previously precarious array now had a strand of stable intent.

"Not enough! Still not enough! Without your constant hosting of the Nine Bends Yellow River Array, it still cannot contain this hand!" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon shook his head upon seeing the Six-Word True Mantra Seal.

Zhang Chen remained unperturbed, instead bringing out the prepared Sealing Rune. Although the Six-Word True Mantra Seal had absorbed Incense Faith, its level was far from the Sealing Rune, knowing that his Sealing Rune had already broken through to the Law Level, at least at the ’fruit’ level, and there were over twenty talismans. Zhang Chen was convinced that combining so many means could suppress a hand whose power had been lost over many millennia.

If you say he cannot suppress the entire hand’s master, he may not be able to; but to suppress a hand whose power has been lost over who knows how long, Zhang Chen felt confident it was possible.

In Zhang Chen’s hand, a Sealing Rune flew out, landing on the array, and the distortion of the Nine Bends Yellow River Array lessened.

"It’s working!"

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen was overjoyed, as four talismans flew from his hand, respectively landing in the southeast, northwest, and northeast positions around the array’s eyes, and the previously unstable Nine Bends Yellow River Array completely calmed down. Although there were still some ripples, they were not a concern.

"I have twenty-four Sealing Runes, and only four have been used; I still have twenty remaining. I imagine that hand can only be suppressed by me and will be hard-pressed to stir up any storms.

"Unbelievable! How do you have talismans of this level? No, I saw you use this talisman before, and it was only at the fifth level. How did it reach this level now? How did you, boy, manage this?" The Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s eyes widened upon seeing the talismans Zhang Chen brought out, filled with disbelief.

How did Zhang Chen bring a mere fifth-tier talisman to surpass the Twelfth Tier in just one or two years?

Zhang Chen did not answer the Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s question. Instead, he looked towards the Ice Hell, and after a long time, seeing no movement from the Ice Hell, he finally relaxed, closing his Ice Domain. His eyes turned to the Third Heaven before him, wrapped in ice, with shining eyes.

How many creatures did this Ice World freeze? And all of them are mysterious with unknown levels; if he could devour all the blood and flesh of these creatures, to what extent would his cultivation increase?