Who let him join the Sword Sect?!
Chapter 81: Lang said, "I want to join Sword Sect!

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Lang said, "I want to join Sword Sect!

The next day.

Various messages, regardless of their truthfulness, rampaged through Cold City like wild horses off their reins.

Some said they had seen a headless ghost on the bell tower in the west of the city last night, seemingly with a massive grievance.

It was suggested that the Sword Hall act immediately to suppress it, preventing it from causing harm.

Others said that Fan Jin, the mad cultivator, had discovered traces outside the city this morning that appeared to be from a Sword Sect expert. He had an epiphany, comprehending the Supreme Sword Intent within and directly broke through three minor realms.

He was shouting, "I have become immortal," while running barefoot into the mountains.

He suggested everyone band together to fence the place, develop it into a scenic spot, and sell tickets.

Of course, these were just minor matters.

The major issue was still those Demon Race members turned into statues.

Last night, Fuji had moved the third layer of the Snake Cave to the underground yard of the Sword Hall.

But somehow the news leaked, and now a large circle of Demon Race members surrounded the Sword Hall entrance.

Most were there to see their loved ones, while a small portion intended to sneak in for the spectacle.

In any case, it was quite vexing.

However, fortunately, the old residence of the Ling Family was very quiet.

"Aunt Ling, what are your plans for the future?" Zhang Ze poured a cup of tea for Ling Liu.

"I want to visit your martial uncle at the Seventh Sword Pavilion—

as for later..." Ling Liu sighed, "I can’t stay in this Cold City anymore; it’s better to move to a different place."

Now that the dream of Cold City had awakened, though no one was paying attention to the Ling Family for the moment, once most of the truths came out, the matter of Ling Liu’s Dream-Locked Cold City would definitely not remain hidden.

Staying here would only be troublesome, so leaving might be the best choice.

"If Aunt Ling doesn’t mind, you can come to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion," Zhang Ze suggested.

"The Thousand Mechanism Pavilion is not far from the Sword Pavilion, and it has just been established, so there’s something fresh happening every day. Living there shouldn’t be boring."

"Alright." Ling Liu nodded.

After chatting for a while longer, Zhang Ze left the old residence of the Ling Family.

Walking down the street, he let out a sigh.

The task "Pill of Yin and Yang" was resolved.

But all he got was a riddle.

Ling Liu told him the second sentence of that Stone Pill was not a demon.

Stone Pill is a cage.

Upon hearing this sentence, the "Pill of Yin and Yang" task automatically completed, but the reward was that the task progress of "Thousand Mechanism City" increased by a full five percent.

The riddle was the reward, and it was related to the Thousand-Mile City task.

Zhang Ze didn’t understand, how could Li have anything to do with Thousand Mechanism City?

Would it be placed in as the formation eye?

Like Li, Ling Liu, born of the Stone Pill, couldn’t remember many things.

She only recalled someone telling her this sentence, as well as how to use an array and the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror.

As for why she and her daughters appeared in that secret realm, and how they died in their past lives, all of it was unknown.

However, Ling Liu also gave Zhang Ze some advice.

"I think you could try to decipher that array."

Pondering the issue of the Stone Pill, Zhang Ze wandered to the Sword Hall’s premises.

It was almost noon by now; the demon races searching for relatives were all registered and sent back home after being comforted.

Those who came for the spectacle were shooed away.

Only a few who were truly idle were still squatting across the street waiting for gossip from the Sword Hall.

After entering the Sword Hall and finding Lily, Zhang Ze paused for a moment.

"Lily, what are you doing?"

"Seeking the wisdom of the elders," Lily replied.

In a side hall of the Sword Hall, Lily was fiddling with a box.

She raised her hand and knocked three times from a 45-degree angle above.

It seemed to work. The array on top of the small box lit up.

The next second, the mechanism reversed, and the array reassembled.

A small Spirit Gathering Array gathered the surrounding Spiritual Power, the box opened, folded again, transforming into something resembling a picture frame.

Before long, the face of an old man appeared in the picture frame.

He opened his mouth silently, as no sound could be heard from this side.

"What is this?" Zhang Ze asked.

"It’s an image-transmitting Thousand Mechanism Tool. A few Thousand Mechanism cultivators from the Pavilion worked together to make this thing recently."

"This trial model has some flaws; you have to knock it three times before it opens."

"The image transmission quality is also lacking; it takes a few minutes each time."

"However, it’s cost-effective, costing over half less than a magical artifact with the same effect."

After speaking, Lily held the picture frame to her chest and hurried out of the side hall.

When Zhang Ze followed Lily to the third layer of the underground Snake Cave, the picture frame was already packed.

Full of elderly people, all crammed into the frame because their cultivation stages and ages were about the same, no one backed down.

Perhaps because they were underground, the signal was poor, making the faces within the frame alternately blurry and clear, and the sound and images were out of sync.

All these elders were Golden Core Stage Thousand Mechanism cultivators. Some were originally from the Sword Sect, others were invited or introduced by each other.

They had all hit dead ends in their respective Thousand Mechanism cultivation paths, unable to break through.

Zhang Ze had initially thought that the arrival of these elders would cause ideological conflicts for the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

But unexpectedly, these elders could adapt quickly, thus giving up formalities as swiftly as Lily.

Moreover, because of their rich experience, they were more uninhibited.

Now the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion had many items, from the Underworld and the Living World, all concocted by this group of senior citizens.

The ongoing discussion with Lily through the frame was naturally about how to unravel the Demon Refining Array.

At that moment, two elders from Dragon Tiger Mountain were arguing over a point of disagreement.

Of course, the sound and images were still out of sync.

Zhang Ze didn’t understand, so he naturally couldn’t interject; he lounged by the Demon Refining Array for a while, cocking his head to observe.

He felt he had seen this array somewhere before.

It looked similar to the array Ling Liu had given him.

Zhang Ze took out the array for comparison and found that many array talismans were similar, though some parts were entirely opposite.

Han Yao’s sacrifice of a hundred demons was to extract the Spirit Charm of the demon race to heal her Lifebound Spiritual Snake.

The Dream-Locked Cold City array could revert Ling Qiyi and the others back to Stone Pills, turning their original bodies into Spiritual Objects to sustain the array...

"Lily, take a look at this."

Zhang Ze handed the array in his hand to Lily.

"Boss, where did you get this?"

After listening to Zhang Ze’s explanation, Lily took the array and cradled it in her arms, running out of the side hall, the same way she had handled the frame before.

By the time Zhang Ze caught up with Lily to the underground third layer of the Snake Cave, the frame was already packed with people.

All senior citizens, crammed into the frame, were arguing, occasionally appearing in blurry or clear images due to poor signals in the underground.

All these elderly were Golden Core Stage Thousand Mechanism cultivators, some belonging to the original Sword Sect, some were invited, others had been introduced by each other.

They all hit dead ends on their respective Thousand Mechanism cultivations, unable to break through.

Originally, Zhang Ze thought that their arrival would create a clash of ideologies for the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

But he didn’t expect that the seniors’ arrival would bring an unrestricted sense of creativity to the Pavilion.

Many new and exotic things from the Underworld and Living World were now in the Pavilion thanks to this group of seniors.

Currently, two old men from Dragon Tiger Mountain were in a heated argument over a point of disagreement.

But of course, their words and faces were out of sync.

In the meantime, Zhang Ze’s thoughts wandered elsewhere.

He seemed to have solved those riddles.

It seemed he understood the meaning of those few riddles, which led him to think about something.

He felt that this matter was inseparable from Li Yueqi.

Or rather, the Beast Taming Sect.

"How can we trick Li Yueqi into joining the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion?"

No sooner had he said this than Chen Qin and Li Yueqi walked into the Sword Hall together.

Chen Qin was holding Li in her arms.

Li struggled to speak, and Chen Qin interjected, "Am I someone who goes back on my word? Hiccup..."

"Did you clean out the Second-Layer of the Snake Cave?" Zhang Ze asked.

"I’m not someone who goes back on my word, hic...

I was going to eat it, but I found that there were lots of things in the Second-Layer belonging to those who were turned to stone, so I gnawed a bit of a small Rock Essence Ore Vein and ended up eating too much."

"Li said she’ll take that small ore vein..." said Chen Qin, holding Li like a child.

Fifty thousand spirit stones couldn’t buy a small Rock Essence Ore Vein, Zhang Ze didn’t expect Li would accidentally discover one.

"Burp, maybe next week. I can’t fit more now, I need to digest," said Li.

Li Yueqi chuckled softly.

She was here to say goodbye, as Hei Qu seemed to be feeling unwell since last night.

But then Hei Qu suddenly headed towards Zhang Ze.

He raised his proud wolf head, seemingly having come to some kind of decision.

"Qinghe, have you been drinking too much?"