Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 387 The Corrupt Princess's Spy Set, and I'm Not Human Anymore!

"Come in first," Zhang Ze said, pushing open the heavy door in front of him and gesturing for them to enter.

Just as he was about to close the door, he stopped his junior sister, saying, "Wait a minute."

Then, under the bewildered gaze of his junior sister, Zhang Ze reached out and touched the back of her neck.

And following the clothes, downwards, downwards...
The junior sister froze on the spot.

"Please don't do this, the door isn't closed yet, I'm not angry."

"Shh." Zhang Ze made a shushing gesture, and after touching it for a while, he pulled hard and grabbed what he wanted.

It's Little Fukuhime.

A spy-type yaoi (female BL fangirl) with a face as thin as a cicada's wing.

Zhang Ze folded the rotten girl neatly and threw it like a dart.

After flying that one, he patted his pocket, took out a small medicine bottle, opened the cap, and released a mushroom-shaped toad.

Seeing the mushroom-shaped rotten princess grow legs and run away, Zhang Ze took out a short sword he had never seen before from his waist and threw it away with a snap, sending the disguised rotten princess flying as well.

After confirming that the surroundings were clean and there were no lurking Little Fuji, Zhang Ze closed the door.

"Why has Fuhime become like this?" the junior sister asked.

"I don't know, I guess he learned bad habits from Lily," Zhang Ze replied casually.

The cubicles have all changed; they're now piled high with clutter. Zhang Ze has put away all the portraits of the ancient sages because he's been staying here lately, afraid to go home.

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ze tidied up the messy things and took out two small stools and a small wooden table.

After the snacks and wine were laid out on the table, he gestured for his junior sister to sit down.

After the junior sister sat down, she spoke first before Zhang Ze could even open his mouth, saying, "I'll go first!"

“Okay, you go first.” Zhang Ze compromised quite readily.

"I……"

However, when the words were on the tip of her tongue, the junior sister didn't know where to begin, and had no choice but to turn the conversation back on track.

Junior sister, "Um...you...never mind, you go first."

Zhang Ze, "..."

"Okay, I'll go first... Well, what I'm going to say is that I'm not actually human."

Sitting across the table, Zhang Ze looked into his junior sister's eyes and said solemnly.

The junior sister was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded as if she had hit the nail on the head, saying, "Indeed, you are quite inhuman."

Zhang Ze, "..."

"That's not what I meant. I... well, I have indeed been acting rather inhuman lately. Anyway, let's not talk about that. The 'human' I was referring to is a human." Seeing that his junior sister had misunderstood, Zhang Ze quickly explained.

"Hmm, you're not human? Then what are you? A demon? A transvestite?"

The junior sister got up, came to Zhang Ze's side, circled around him, but couldn't find his tail.

“Neither a demon nor a transvestite.” Zhang Ze rolled up his sleeves and extended his hand to his junior sister. “I suspect I have now become my own kind.”

Junior sister, "?"

Zhang Ze: "Look at my hands."

Junior Sister: "You're quite fair-skinned, what's wrong... Hey? What's this?"

As Zhang Ze spread his right hand, crimson lines began to spread from his palm toward his arm, eventually forming battle patterns of eyes and flames.

The spread of the battle runes only stopped after they covered half of Zhang Ze's face.

"Isn't this the barbarian blood-eye battle mark? You... how do you know this?"

"I can do other things too."

Zhang Ze closed his eyes and rubbed his fingers with his left hand for a long time before he could produce a tiny, pale white spiritual flame the size of a fingernail.

The aura of the spiritual fire is cold and sinister; if an ordinary person stares at it for too long, they might even be bewitched by it.

Junior sister, "The spirit fire of the fox clan?"

Zhang Ze used the fox clan's innate divine power, the Nine Desires Demon Flame.

Logically speaking, only foxes can use this move; even dogs can't, let alone humans.

"And that's all." Zhang Ze snapped his fingers, dispelling the foxfire, and then waved to the outside of the cubicle.

Silvery-white liquid metal surged in, gathering around Zhang Ze like mercury, sometimes transforming into an elegant silver dragon, sometimes into a square pig.

This is the technique of all the star gods. By operating in sync with each other, they control these near-liquid, malleable metals.

The unique traits of four completely unrelated races—Star God, Human, Demon, and Barbarian—simultaneously appeared in Zhang Ze.

"What's going on?" The junior sister was so surprised that she picked up the wine on the table and took a sip.

"I've been marinated by the Earth Sea." Zhang Ze sighed, then shaped the silver metal into the form of Ah Li and hugged it to his chest.

"Resurrection comes at a price. Due to some accidents and improper operations, my body has developed some problems. If I were to be classified by the Beast Taming Sect, I could be considered a new species that looks just like a human."

The silver liquid metal deformed in Zhang Ze's hands. Before long, Zhang Ze had molded several small figures into them.

He drew a circle in the middle of the table with his finger dipped in wine.

Zhang Ze picked up the little figure. "Mountains, rocks, grass, trees, breeze, clouds, and rain—these are real things that exist in reality, and even mortals can perceive them."

He gathered energy in his left hand. "This is spiritual energy. Those with innate talent can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

Finally, Zhang Ze pointed to the circle on the table, "Beyond these two lies the unseen and intangible sea."

"Whether they can be observed or not, they exist objectively and influence each other."

"Human cultivators can perceive material reality and spiritual energy, but they can only make vague contact with the Earth Sea through spells similar to the Spirit Fusion Technique. They cannot observe it, like blind men touching an elephant."

Zhang Ze placed the miniature model representing the human race above the circle.

"The demon race can sense the sea of ​​earth, but due to their physical limitations, they can only 'see' it. To enter it, they need magical artifacts for protection and cannot directly control it."

Zhang Ze placed the dog-headed model representing the demon race on the right side of the circle.

"The barbarians cannot sense spiritual energy, but they can perceive the existence of the Earth Sea more clearly than the demons. However, their way of sensing is similar to 'listening'. The principle of their spellcasting is to affect the spiritual energy of themselves and the surrounding area by disturbing the Earth Sea."

Zhang Ze placed the model of the barbarian man wearing a leopard-print miniskirt on the left side of the circle.

"And I am in the middle. Because of some changes, I can now see, hear, and touch."

Zhang Ze placed the miniature figure representing himself in the center of the circle.

The root of his unorthodox constitution, which allows him to master all methods, lies here.

The junior sister looked at the little figure on the table, pondered Zhang Ze's words, and clapped her hands after a moment.

"I understand.

"The Earth Sea is like a pot of boiling water; it objectively exists right here in the courtyard."

"But we humans are deaf and blind. Unless we stumble upon it by chance while groping around, we would never have noticed the existence of this pot of boiling water."

"The barbarians are also blind, so blind that they can't see spiritual energy, but they have good hearing and thick skin. They can hear the sound of boiling water in the pot, thus finding the boiling water, and can even put their hands in it."

"Although the demon race is neither deaf nor blind, their entire bodies are sensitive. They would die if they were scalded by boiling water, so they only dare to play with the water with sticks and dare not reach out to get close."

"And you, my senior brother, you are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth. Only you can see and hear, and you are not afraid of boiling water. You dare to jump into boiling water seven times and come out seven times, swimming naked and jumping up and down."

Listening to his junior sister's cryptic words, Zhang Ze wondered if Lily had been eaten by her.

"Um...yes, that's pretty much it." Zhang Ze nodded somewhat awkwardly.

"So isn't this a good thing?" the junior sister asked, picking up another glass of wine.

Zhang Ze remained silent for a while, wanting to say something, but then abruptly changed the subject.

"But...but doesn't that mean I'm not human? Aren't you surprised?" Zhang Ze asked.

"So what if you're not human? You weren't human to begin with." After saying that, the junior sister finished her drink in one gulp.

"Besides, some people are just a blob of projection, and no one seems surprised."

The junior sister poured herself another cup.

Zhang Ze, "..."

"Besides this, is there anything else you want to tell me?" the junior sister asked.

Zhang Ze hesitated, as if the words were difficult to say.

So, before Zhang Ze could speak, the junior sister, emboldened by the alcohol, slammed her hand on the table and stood up.

To Zhang Ze's astonishment, she stood with one leg planted firmly on the table, holding a wine glass in one hand. Although her face was flushed, her eyes were exceptionally clear as she looked at Zhang Ze.

"You won't tell me, huh? Fine, I'll tell you then."

"Mm." Zhang Ze looked up at his junior sister and nodded.

"First thing! I! I want to be the boss!" After finishing her drink, the junior sister said directly. Then, she pinched Zhang Ze's chin and turned his face to the position she wanted.

"look at me!"

"Second thing! You're not allowed to hide here anymore! Go home tonight!"

After saying that, the junior sister let out a long breath and pinched Zhang Ze's cheek again. "These are the two things I wanted to say! Did you understand?"

"I understand, I understand..."

"Good, meeting adjourned!" The junior sister patted Zhang Ze's face, put down her wine glass, and took a step back. Then, seemingly still not satisfied, she stepped forward and pinched Zhang Ze's face hard.

"I'm leaving. You'll regret it if I don't see you tonight!"

After saying that, the junior sister touched the fruit plate, picked up a peach at random, and then got up and left the cubicle.

After the junior sister had completely left, Xiangxiang's projection appeared behind Zhang Ze.

"You've been rambling on and on for so long, why don't you just tell her the truth?" Xiangxiang asked.

"It's no use saying it; it only adds to the trouble and has no meaning whatsoever."

"Besides, I'm only going to live a few years less, it's not like I'm going to die tomorrow. I still have five hundred years, right? Once I break through to the next realm, I can live for even longer. And as long as I can break through to the Mahayana stage, then all the problems will be solved." Zhang Ze said, looking at the little figure on the table.

Others are outside the circle, he is inside it.

"My physical condition might actually be a good thing for me in terms of breaking through to Mahayana Buddhism."

"Besides me, there shouldn't be another dead pig in the whole world that can't be drowned in the sea."

"Moreover, I have already inquired with my master and found out that there is actually an unspoken agreement among the six sects."

"Whoever is the first to break through to the Mahayana realm will have the right to name it."

"I've already thought of a name. That realm will be called the Heavenly Virtue Dao Sect's Extreme Overlord Giant Kill Ultimate Limitless Divine Martial Realm."

"It sounds nice, doesn't it?"

"When the time comes, no matter who breaks through after me, I will broadcast it live throughout the four continents: [Congratulations to Fellow Daoist [Name] on breaking through to the Mahayana stage and entering the ultimate limitless divine martial realm of the Heavenly Virtue Dao Sect's Supreme Giant Killing Realm]."

"It takes half a day to refresh."

Zhang Ze began to daydream.

Xiangxiang, who was floating behind Zhang Ze like a ghost, sighed and looked at Zhang Ze, who had started opening champagne during the pre-match warm-up, and said.

"If you don't consider my method, I..."

“I won’t consider it. I’m not so cowardly as to risk the lives of those around me to survive.” Zhang Ze interrupted Xiangxiang and said seriously.

Xiangxiang: "Okay."

Unbeknownst to Zhang Ze, a tiny blue dot moved slightly in the shadows of the fruit plate.

In the corridor outside the hall, the junior sister pressed the eavesdropping fujoshi to her ear, listening to Zhang Ze's voice, and frowned slightly.

"idiot……"

With a soft murmur, the young master transformed into a gentle breeze and left the corridor.

……

Zhang Ze sat in the cubicle for a while, but finding it boring, he decided to find a quieter place to sit.

There was no other way; I had already promised my junior sister that I couldn't hide here anymore.

But it was too early to go back now, and the archives were too noisy, so Zhang Ze decided to go to Zha Shide for a while.

It was quiet there.

Although it's a bit outrageous, Zha Shi De is actually still not open to the public.

Since returning, Lily, the evil boss of the Zha Shide Auction House, has been staying at the System House, acting as if she has discovered a new continent every day.

The management of the fried food business had long been forgotten.

Meanwhile, all of Zha Shide's employees were still in the North, some visiting relatives, others traveling. It would probably be some time before they returned.

“I’m going to bomb Shide and take a look,” Zhang Ze said to Xiangxiang.

"Okay, then I'll go back to the archives." Because of the limitations of her physical form, Xiangxiang can't leave here for now.

As Zhang Ze left, Xiangxiang's projection faded and disappeared.

Just after she disappeared, a cloud of fungal mist, the same color as Xiangxiang, fell from where she had been floating.

The bacterial mist condenses and forms a shape.

It's a smoke-filled rotten princess.

She had been hiding inside Xiangxiang's projection.

Smoke-Smoked Princess looked at the small blue dot on the plate, her hands behind her back, looking like a secret service chief. "You? Which department are you from? Who's your superior?"

The blue-dot-shaped button-like eavesdropping otaku chuckled, "Hehe, don't ask, okay? I won't tell you. And don't push me too far. I have everyone's dirty secrets here, including yours. If you push me too far, I'll...hehehehe..."

Smoke Queen: "Impossible!"

The Button-Eavesdropping Type of Fujoshi: "I know it's impossible, I'm just reciting lines, how about that, I'm cool, right?"

"..."

"Yeah, we're so cool!" ×2
After a brief exchange, the two little spies inexplicably became happy. They joined forces and evolved into a hot air balloon-like rotten princess. They took off and then, with a "poof," disappeared without a trace.

……

The Sword Sect's headquarters.

After reporting the situation, the rotten princess in Sister Wang's hand jumped to the ground. "Commission complete, situation report finished, I'm leaving!"

Sister Wang, "Remember to keep this a secret. Don't tell anyone about it."

"Don't worry, my character is the best in the world!"

After saying goodbye, the little rotten girl waved goodbye to Sister Wang and then scurried into the shadows of the ancestral hall like a mouse, disappearing without a trace.

Sister Wang said, "Never mind, some things can't be forced."

It's unclear who he was saying this to.

After Xiao Fu Ji left, Sister Wang looked up at the portrait in the ancestral hall.

A portrait of Chen Xing, the patriarch of the Sword Sect.

The muscular old monster in the portrait was very different from the image he remembered.

In Sister Wang's memory, Chen Xing was always that naughty kid who followed behind her, running around, with a cheeky, annoying look.

"You lied to me and said you liked quiet girls, so I pretended to be quiet, and then you said you liked lively girls."

"In the end, I found out that what you really liked was big breasts."

"Ha, why don't you write this into your autobiography?"

Sister Wang placed the "Biography of the Sword Sect Ancestor," which she had bought at the foot of the mountain and which was said to be handwritten by the Sword Sect Ancestor himself, on the altar.

"Commoners, all of you in the Sword Sect are commoners."

After saying that, she turned and left the ancestral hall.

.........

Qianji Pavilion.

Zhang Ze stood in front of the gate of the Zha Shide Hotel and reached out to unlock it, but as soon as his hand touched it, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

There's a mine under this lock, and it's a trigger-activated one.

Before the thousand-machine thunder exploded in red light, Zhang Ze grabbed the lock on the door.

With a muffled thud, the sudden explosion did not cause further damage, and wisps of smoke emerged from between Zhang Ze's fingers.

Some brilliant strategist hid a thousand-machine bomb under the lock.

It's fortunate that Qianji Town has good public security; there are no families of thieves, and no one with a penchant for playing with this lock.

"Look! That guy farted with his hand!" a hapless kid passing by shouted from behind Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze turned around and glared at the brat, scaring him away before pushing open the door and entering the Zha Shi De.

He left a note at the front desk.

[Article 480 of the Zha Shi De Employee Handbook: Planting mines under locks is prohibited. A fine of fifty will be imposed for any further discovery.]

After leaving a note, Zhang Ze entered Lily's office with practiced ease, leaned back comfortably in his chair, and rummaged through the snacks Lily had hidden.

Rocking in the rocking chair, staring at Lily's ceiling, I quietly spaced out, contemplating life.

However, after a while, Zhang Ze's ears twitched; he heard someone coming upstairs.

At first, I thought it was Lily, but when the footsteps reached the door, I realized it was Momo.

The fluffy dog ​​stood on its hind legs, its front paws resting on the doorframe, and peeked furtively into the house.

Upon seeing someone inside, it initially tried to run away, but after recognizing Zhang Ze, it happily trotted back in, jumped into Zhang Ze's arms, and began to act affectionately.

"Good dog, really a good dog." Zhang Ze held Mao Mao in his arms and curled up, looking at the ceiling as he muttered to himself, "Sometimes it's good not to be human, don't you think? You can do whatever you want without any restrictions."

Mao Mao nestled in Zhang Ze's arms, glancing at him furtively while secretly munching on the snacks on the table.

It didn't understand anything Zhang Ze said; it was just there to steal snacks.

Just as the man and his dog were communicating across channels, a gentle breeze slipped in through a crack in the window.

Li Yueqi revealed her true form.

"The old man asked me to deliver this. What did you mean by saying you're no longer human... huh?"

After seeing Zhang Ze's appearance, Li Yueqi swallowed back the words she was about to say.

She remembered some bad things.

Because of the unique nature of the Beast Taming Sect, over the years, there have been occasional instances where cultivators, due to their close daily interactions with their spirit pets and their own inherent flaws, have committed acts that cross moral boundaries.

The Beast Taming Sect's attitude was to not support it and to keep it a secret.

Seeing Zhang Ze's doting gesture of holding Mao Mao, combined with his words that he was not human.

Li, the female knight-errant, remained silent, her thoughts wandering to the other side of the story.

"I'm sorry to have disturbed you, I'll be leaving now..."

"Hey! Don't go! It's not what you think!" Zhang Ze quickly got up.

Zhang Ze didn't know what Li Yueqi was thinking, but she recognized that look in her eyes, which was exactly the same as when she was exchanging information with the old lady at the village entrance.

Anyway, it's definitely not something good they're thinking.

"Don't come any closer! I won't tell anyone!"

"Listen to my explanation!"

Mao Mao tilted its head and watched Zhang Ze's departing figure, barked once, and buried its head back into the snacks.

Really fragrant.

(End of this chapter)