Who let him join the Sword Sect?!
Chapter 73 Profound Bird Protecting its Young

Chapter 73: Chapter 73 Profound Bird Protecting its Young

"Can’t you handle that doppelgänger yourself?" Zhang Ze asked while glancing at Chen Qin.

His own junior sister was fierce, but this little monk in front of him was the reincarnation of an Arhat and undeniably a big shot, so by all accounts, he shouldn’t be in such a mess.

Upon hearing this question, Hui Xuan replied straightforwardly, "I can’t do it alone. Suppressing it was already my limit."

"And as you saw, I didn’t manage to suppress it in the end."

"Why?"

"The Buddha said, ’It is unspeakable.’

"..."

Zhang Ze felt a bit speechless. He thought this big shot would speak in a fresh and straightforward manner, but he didn’t expect him to still cling to the traditional way of monks.

Seeing the expressions of Zhang Ze and Chen Qin, Hui Xuan laughed.

"Just joking."

"I’ve been reading a mystical book recently and found the parts about looking enlightened before others quite interesting, so I couldn’t resist trying it out," the little monk said while scratching his head.

"What book is that?" Chen Qin asked.

"You, being a Cyan Thorn native, might have heard of it. It’s ’Taoist Path to Heaven.’

"Not only is the story interesting, but some of the phrases carry hidden truths."

"Such as the line, ’In front of my house, there are two trees, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree.’

"Although it seems like a grammatical error, it contains profound truths. I’ve pondered it for a long time and still couldn’t grasp it."

"The author must be an enlightened master. If fate allows, I would definitely seek their teachings."

Saying that, the little monk intended to take the book out from his spatial magical artifact to share with his new friends.

But as he looked up, he found the expressions on Zhang Ze and Chen Qin’s faces peculiarly subtle.

"Hmm? Why are you two making that face?"

Zhang Ze scratched his face, "Well, I wrote that book..."

The little monk was stunned for a moment, then awkwardly chuckled, "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you, hehe..."

"About those jujube trees...," with the author present, Xuan Hui naturally wanted to ask.

Zhang Ze felt even more embarrassed, "I think it was meant literally, there really are two jujube trees there."

"Also, I copied that sentence. I don’t know what the original master meant..."

Hui Xuan: "..."

"Ahem, do you know what greed, anger, and ignorance are?"

Even with Hui Xuan’s thick skin, he felt that continuing with the jujube tree topic would be too embarrassing, so he awkwardly shifted the conversation back to the doppelgänger.

"According to the Buddhist scriptures, greed, anger, and ignorance are the three poisons, three inextinguishable roots...," Zhang Ze answered.

After Zhang Ze finished, the little monk put away his smile, "The further you walk, the deeper the three poisons."

With that, the little monk said no more, turned around, and walked into the darkness.

As if making an exit.

"Master Hui Xuan, where are you going?" Zhang Ze hurriedly asked.

"Looking for a path," Hui Xuan replied, returning to his usual speaking style.

As Hui Xuan walked away, Zhang Ze watched his back and muttered to himself, "Indeed, monks are puzzle people."

"What are puzzle people?" Chen Qin asked.

"They’re like Master Hui Xuan. You understand every word they say, but you don’t comprehend the whole meaning.

"If you ask again, they just smile at you."

Chen Qin nodded, remembering the second new thing she’d learned today.

Hui Xuan searched for a while but still couldn’t find a way out. Just now, something unknown happened, and this space sealed itself again.

Moreover, Hui Xuan had only found half of his Buddha beads that he’d handled for so long; the rest had rolled somewhere unknown.

At the moment, he was threading the beads one by one onto a string, sighing at the hardships of life as he did so.

Zhang Ze suspected that the monk had just gone to find his Buddha beads.

Ignoring Hui Xuan, Zhang Ze and Chen Qin also reached a boundary.

Chen Qin touched it and confirmed that, as Hui Xuan said, the boundary had turned solid and hard again.

Zhang Ze touched it too, and his finger sank in halfway.

The Profound Identification Treasure Mirror, indifferent and ruthless to everyone else, showed exceptional gentleness towards Zhang Ze.

"Senior brother, is there something wrong with you?" Chen Qin asked as she looked at Zhang Ze’s half-embedded finger into the darkness.

"Don’t talk nonsense. I’m perfectly fine."

A person doesn’t stumble twice in the same place, so this time Zhang Ze naturally wouldn’t go and face the grass with his face.

He took out the binoculars again.

And then shoved them against the boundary.

"Ha, as expected."

Awaiting Zhang Ze was, once again, sword Qi, and it was multiple streams.

Outside the treasure mirror.

Having finished eating the steel bars, Li had nothing to do. The Ling family sisters weren’t talking to it, so it could only stare blankly at the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror floating in mid-air.

Clearly a mirror, yet it didn’t reflect anyone; its surface remained eternally pitch black.

Feeling sleepy, Li yawned, and then saw a long pole suddenly extend from the mirror’s surface, poking towards its throat.

"!"

Acting purely on instinct, Li spat out a blast of Purple Thunder Sword Qi. Having sneaked some of Zhang Ze’s steel bars, this sword Qi was much purer.

The sword Qi Li spat out shattered the long pole into fragments, then continued its forceful path, striking the mirror’s surface.

However, it caused no harm to the treasure mirror. Instead, it activated the mirror’s protection array.

"Uh-oh!" Li inwardly exclaimed as it sensed trouble and quickly ducked its head, diving into the ground.

With spiritual Qi flowing around, the treasure mirror emitted a series of buzzing noises, forming a pale golden vortex in the air that locked onto Li.

Ling Qi Yi to Ling Qi Wu panicked as the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror suddenly went out of control, losing their composure.

They bumped into each other, tumbling into stone cracks to hide. Although a bit self-deceptive, the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror’s target was Li, so they weren’t affected.

When Li popped its head back up from the ground, there wasn’t a single untouched spot around it, all marked by the traces of the Five Elements Taoist Technique’s bombardment.

Just then, Zhang Ze emerged from the mirror with Chen Qin and Hui Xuan.

"What’s going on here?" Zhang Ze asked Li.

Before Li could answer, Ling Qi’Er suddenly sprang out from a stone crack.

"How did you come out of the mirror!"

Seeing the little Stone Pill hopping in front of him, Zhang Ze felt a wave of nostalgia, "Li, is this your relative?"

"It’s your relative," Li retorted, pulling its legs out from the ground and shaking off the dirt.

"They’re your Aunt Niao’s daughters."

Although Li had ducked quickly earlier, it still got a taste of the residual power from the treasure mirror’s Taoist art, leaving its body numb.

"Answer my question! Who are you? How did you manage to walk out of the mirror by yourself?"

Seeing Zhang Ze ignore her, Ling Qi’Er continued jumping around, almost leaping into Zhang Ze’s mouth.

Meanwhile, the other Ling family sisters emerged from their hiding spots.

"Who are you?" This was the cautious Ling Qi Yi.

"Sorry, are you all okay?" It was Ling Qi Wu.

The Ling family sisters, turned into Stone Pills, chattered non-stop around Zhang Ze, bombarding him with questions.

Having understood the situation, Zhang Ze naturally responded with his well-practiced verbal skills.

"Let me tell you, we are indeed relatives..."

With Li and the little monk both stunned, having never seen Zhang Ze speak with such persuasion, it only took three minutes before the previously stubborn Ling Qi’Er began calling Zhang Ze ’big brother.’

"What about from Qi Yi to Qi Wu?" asked the mature Ling Qi Yi, "Who are you?"

These are your mother’s problem indeed, and that’s exactly why we are here," answered Zhang Ze casually.

Ling Qi Wu looked confused, "Mom’s problem?"

It seems that this guy named Zhang Ze has something important, and Leng Liu could be in big trouble.

"I need to speak to Lady Ling Liu. Can you take me to her?" Zhang Ze asked Ling Qi Yi.

"Of course, follow me."

They followed behind the Ling family sisters, passed through a phantom stone wall, and finally arrived at Madam Ling Liu’s chamber.

In the stone chamber, Zhang Ze finally saw Madam Ling Liu.

The stone chamber was filled with the sleeping forms of young birds, their bodies covered in bruises and scratches, yet they bore an uncanny resemblance to Madam Ling Liu, who lay in their midst.

Tiny specks of pale golden light hovered and danced around them, creating the Dream Maze Array that shrouded the entire Cold City in a mystic illusion.

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