Who let him join the Sword Sect?!
Chapter 65: I Am a Dragon!

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: I Am a Dragon!

The letter passed among several hands and made its way back into Zhang Ze’s hand.

The atmosphere was somewhat silent, even Lily had quieted down.

Zhang Ze folded the letter and put it away.

"Why the long faces? Aunt Niao is fine."

"The illusion array remains unbroken, only a few of us have awakened."

"Aunt Niao’s family should still be quite safe."

"And the things in this box... it’s likely Aunt Niao’s contingency plan."

"She’s been communicating frequently with Elder Wang; if suddenly cut off, Elder Wang will surely come looking."

"Unless Elder Wang’s been sent out by the Pavilion Master."

Zhang Ze looked at the indentation on the jade box, took out the Jade Pendant from his chest, and compared them, finding they fit perfectly.

Originally, Elder Wang should have been the one to open this jade box.

He pressed the Jade Pendant into the groove, Spiritual Qi flowed, and the side of the jade box opened.

Inside, there were not many items, just a few things.

He laid out the contents of the box on the table: seven Pills, a piece of paper, a ring, and a letter.

A letter addressed to Wang Buyu.

Zhang Ze swatted away Lily’s meddling hand, put the letter back in the jade box, and stored it away.

"Old couple’s business, kids shouldn’t read. Beware of being silenced later."

Lily snorted, grabbed the ring, and ran to one side to examine it with Chen Qin.

Zhang Ze picked up the piece of paper.

Looking at the graceful writing similar to Elder Wang’s.

"This pill is named Dream Origin Pill."

"Can aid the Stone Pill in awakening from its dream."

Looking at the note, Zhang Ze felt uncomfortable. At such a stage, that Aunt Niao still remembered his matters.

Yet before Zhang Ze could pick up the Dream Origin Pill, the small orb leapt from his bosom.

"What a delicious smell!"

It spun around the seven Dream Origin Pills vigorously, and those seven pills began being quickly consumed.

No time to stop it, the seven Dream Origin Pills were completely consumed, the surface of the small orb enveloped in Spiritual Qi.

[Stone Pill absorbed the potency of the Dream Origin Pill]

[Hatch, task completed]

[Reward granted]

A dragon’s roar echoed in everyone’s ears.

Beasts of dragon and phoenix had completely vanished from the Four Continents after the Primordial times.

No one knew how a dragon roared.

But everyone present, upon hearing the sound, saw a phantom of a True Dragon spiraling above the nine heavens.

Staring at the illusion before him, Zhang Ze felt invincible.

He had already begun to fantasize about taming dragons and traversing the Four Continents.

"Sister is coming out!", after the dragon’s roar was the small orb’s arrogant voice.

The small orb hopped onto the ground, golden Spiritual Qi spiraled upward, and the mottled stone shell on the Stone Pill began to fall off.

A mass of Golden Qi burst out of the pill, condensed into a ball before everyone’s eyes, landed on the ground, and began reshaping its flesh.

Everyone held their breath, awaiting the descent of the True Dragon.

But when the white light faded, Zhang Ze’s expression stiffened.

"Kid, sister’s got your back from now on. If you say to hit someone, we’ll hit them. I’m invincible."

The reborn small orb stood on the ground, speaking arrogantly.

"And you are?", Zhang Ze asked with a strange expression, lowering his head.

"Sister is a dragon!"

The small orb’s reply was arrogant and domineering, overlooking the nine heavens.

Zhang Ze scratched his chin.

"I mean, aren’t you a bit short."

Feeling it’s a bit tiring standing, Zhang Ze squatted down.

"Although I haven’t read much, I do recognize dragons, and I’ve seen my fair share of Dragon Paintings."

Lily squatted down too, staring at the dragon.

"Maybe you should look at yourself."

Chen Qin bowed down, offering a small mirror to Sister Long.

Li Yueqi felt awkward standing alone and squatted down too.

Surrounded by everyone, Sister Long was baffled, took the mirror and glanced at it.

Seeing herself in the mirror, she gasped, terrified, and sat down on the ground.

"Wow! What is this little monster!"

"It’s you.", everyone spoke in unison.

In the mirror.

Short stature, pointed head, short tail, sharp claws, golden scales all over, and no horns on the head.

Zhang Ze was familiar with the little orb’s appearance from his past life.

He wasn’t sure what it was called here, but people over there generally called it a pangolin.

A nationally protected animal of the mammalian order Pholidota family.

"I really am a dragon!", Sister Long was devastated.

"Mm," the crowd responded perfunctorily.

"I really am a dragon, I can fly!"

Saying this, Sister Long jumped up, trying to prove the purity of her lineage.

Recalling her fragmented memories, she activated her divine techniques, golden light radiating around her, as if she was about to ride the clouds and mist, and soar a thousand miles as a dragon.

However, she only jumped to Zhang Ze’s knee height before she thudded to the ground.

The ground beneath her melted like water, and half of her body sank into it.

This earth affinity was not even inferior to Fuji’s by a fraction.

Sister Long crawled out from the ground, the light gone from her small eyes.

"Help me up," she tugged at Zhang Ze’s pant leg.

Zhang Ze picked Sister Long up and placed her on the table.

She gazed at the azure sky outside the door, her voice carrying a hint of world-weariness.

"Can you find a way to turn me back into a ball? Let me come out again, this time doesn’t count."

"It must be because I’ve been buried in the earth for too long, that’s why something’s wrong."

"Or maybe I ate something wrong earlier..."

"I really am a dragon..."

Sister Long rambled on for quite a while before finally falling silent, looking down at her small hands, squeezing them, and accepting reality.

Only then did Zhang Ze cautiously ask.

"I say, what’s your name?"

"I forgot, just give me any name," Sister Long, who had come to terms with her life as a dragon, replied calmly.

As someone terrible at naming, Zhang Ze couldn’t think of a good name either, but just calling her Little Ball didn’t quite fit.

Firstly, she’s not a ball anymore, and secondly, mentioning that name reminds him of Mu Qiu, which is kind of disgusting.

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Ze came up with a rather uninspired name.

"Then I’ll call you Li."

Zhang Ze initially wanted to call her Chi—after all, a dragon without horns is called Chi.

But he thought that name sounded really unpleasant, so he lazily pronounced half the characters, and called her Li instead.

"Whatever, just let me have some peace."

Leaving Li alone in the room to ponder life, the group headed out to the courtyard.

Zhang Ze faintly heard a sigh coming from inside the room.

"Ah, it’s just a bit of hardship..."

Despite the interruption, there was still important business to discuss.

Aunt Niao still hasn’t been rescued, and the undercover mole in Cold City hasn’t been caught yet.

Lily studied the ring, trying to see if there was a mechanism on it.

Chen Qin and Li Yueqi were coming up with all sorts of wild ideas.

Zhang Ze sat on one side, going over everything again.

’If Elder Wang were here, what would he do?’

’He would come to this house after finding no one at Five Rams Slope.’

’Then open the jade box, read the letter, and proceed to rescue Aunt Niao.’

The pills are related to the Stone Pill hatching, and that ring...

"Lily, let me see the ring."

Zhang Ze took the ring, and upon closer inspection, realized he had seen it somewhere before.

"It looks like Wang has a similar one."

"Could it be, like that jade pendant, an engagement token exchanged between that old couple?"

Zhang Ze decided to give it a try.

He took out a jade sword from the Hundred Treasures Bag, inside which purple lightning flowed.

This was a magical artifact Elder Wang had given him a long time ago for self-defense, containing a strand of Elder Wang’s Purple Thunder Sword Qi.

Zhang Ze put the ring on his hand, then held the jade sword, channeling a trace of sword qi, mimicking Elder Wang’s aura.

Sure enough, the ring changed, emitting a faint purple light pointing towards the direction of Five Rams Slope outside the city.

"Wow, how did you do that!"

Lily had no resistance to such novel things.

Her mind was probably racing with ideas of how many new gadgets she could create if she unlocked the secret of this ring.

Lily shook Zhang Ze’s arm, wanting to see if the purple light would sway with Zhang Ze’s movement.

As he was dealing with Lily, Zhang Ze sensed someone trying to contact him.

A Sound Transmission Jade vibrated once.

{Senior, I have completed your task}

It was Song Qingpao.

Casually tossing Lily aside, Zhang Ze took out the Sound Transmission Jade.

After reading the message from Song Qingpao, Zhang Ze spoke to Li Yueqi.

"Sister, a favor."

"What is it?"

"Catching the Demon Path, that Han Yao lady is from the Hundred Demons Sect."

"How do you know?"

"Secret, but internal info, guaranteed authentic."

"What about Ling Liu Senior?"

"We’ll just take separate actions."