Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 390 The Correct Way to Raise Lily

After leaving the martial arts clinic, Zhang Ze and his junior sister flew in the Wind Chaser, carrying Lily who was sleeping like a corpse, towards the System House on the banks of the Qinghe River.

As Xiaoxue suggested, to resolve this issue, we need to find Dandan and the others.

As for Zhang Ze, although he also knows some of the Star God's methods, he is currently only limited to controlling those silver metals.

As for more advanced things, such as luminescence, Zhang Ze did not study them and did not know their specific principles and methods.

"This is outrageous." Zhang Ze turned around and looked at Lily, who was tied to the back seat, drooling in the wind with her eyes closed, and muttered to herself.

The junior sister, holding Ah Li, piloted another Windship. "Speaking of which, Lily's current state might also be related to the sea you mentioned."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Ze asked.

"The recent fluctuation not only shocked you deeper, but also reactivated the magic array in the Northern Territory. Although Sister Wang destroyed the magic array quickly, Lily and I happened to be within the range of its effect at the time," the junior sister recalled.

"It was a feeling of my soul being ripped away, as if I was being dragged into an abyss. Realizing something was wrong, I prepared to run away with Lily, but Lily started glowing before me and simultaneously created a barrier of energy to isolate herself from the influence of the Earth Sea magic array. At the time, I thought Lily had used some kind of magical artifact."

"Then why did you only think of it now?" Ah Li asked curiously, being held in her junior sister's arms.

"Who would have thought of this? It's completely unrelated, the differences are just too great." The junior sister was speechless.

“You said Lily was a giant monkey in disguise, and there are clues to that, but Star God… just like you, Ah Li, if there weren’t witnesses and evidence, who could imagine that you were square…”

"Waaaaah! We agreed not to talk about this!" Ah Li interrupted her junior sister with a strange cry.

Zhang Ze remained silent, but upon reflection, it seemed that Lily's special circumstances had not been entirely unexpected.

Rather, there were signs all along.

First of all, Lily is really good at enduring hunger. In the very beginning, when her master was gone and the Thousand Machine Pavilion had not yet been established, she could go for months without eating or drinking, surviving on the northwest wind. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her the queen of endurance.

Actually, Lily isn't stupid; she can learn human cultivation methods, but she always has some misunderstandings.

Finally, there's Lily's bizarre ability to manipulate magic arrays and her intuition in weapon crafting—both are quite outrageous.

Besides her operating methods being completely different from those of normal cultivators, Lily is also not limited by her cultivation level. Normally, a cultivator's ability to control magical artifacts is commensurate with their own cultivation level; attempting to control an artifact beyond one's level can easily lead to problems.

But Lily is different; she's like a spirit made of flesh.

Despite being a Foundation Establishment ant, he could easily control the power of a thousand magical artifacts at the Golden Core stage, and could even barely control magical artifacts at the early Nascent Soul stage.

This is really weird...

Zhang Ze's junior sister's voice interrupted his reverie, "We've arrived."

The riverbank is not far from Qianji Town, and we arrived at the destination in no time.

Zhang Ze retrieved the Wind Chaser in mid-air, then grabbed Lily and jumped down.

……

Lily felt like she had a very long dream, a dream that was ethereal and spanned thousands of years.

And I, like a fledgling bird, huddled in an egg, peering through a tiny crack at that illusory dream.

A sword immortal, clad in white, vanquishes evil spirits amidst the clouds; his sword flashes across nineteen provinces...

Amidst a gathering of guests, a Taoist priest in blue robes sang loudly and raised his cup in a hearty drink…

Time is out of order, and in a daze, I see again the clash of swords and the thunder of horses, dark clouds pressing down on the city, a scholar standing on the city wall, golden scales splitting the sky, quelling the chaos with a single stroke...

Following the direction of the blade, Lily plunged into the vast mountains, into an ancient cave sinkhole, where she watched an old man clad in animal skins pounding medicine and gazing at the sky...

Wandering in her dream, Lily found it all very interesting. Just as her boss had said, it was like Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi—a dream of truth and illusion, and she didn't want to leave.

Although she didn't know who Zhouzhuang was...

But she knew the next line... well, maybe not the next line, anyway, Lily just remembered this.

"The chick transforms into a roc, chop mushrooms; the roc transforms into a giant kun, chop potatoes; caramelize sugar, pour in hot water; add star anise, cinnamon, thirteen spices, soy sauce, white sugar, and red chili peppers; the kun is so big that one pot can't hold it all."

Thinking of the pot of stew that couldn't be cooked, Lily suddenly felt hungry.

"I'm starving! I want to eat!"

All that she saw in her dream vanished like smoke in the past, and Lily opened her eyes.

She noticed many people around her, including Zhang Ze, Chen Qin, Fu Ji, and a group of star gods radiating golden light.

A star god, shaped like a single-yolk egg, mimicked a weeping expression on the aura surrounding its egg white. A piece of paper floated in front of it, bearing the following words:
"You're awake? How did you turn into a girl?"

Lily, "?"

"What are you talking about? I am a woman, don't treat me like I'm not human."

Lily sat up in bed, and she began to glow again.

"I'm hungry, I'm hungry, anything is fine, just give me some!" Lily said.

Zhang Ze reached into his pocket, took out a steel basin, poured in a bunch of dried fruit, pastries, jerky, and pills, tossed it a couple of times to mix them, and then handed it to Lily. "This steel basin looks familiar," A-Li climbed onto Zhang Ze's shoulder and whispered in his ear.

Zhang Ze, "It's hairy."

Ah Li, "The things in that basin..."

Zhang Ze, "It's hairy."

Ah Li, "..."

Some things are better left unsaid than left unsaid. And to be honest, Mao Mao's recipes were specially commissioned by Medicine King Valley and Beast Taming Sect. So as long as the steel basin is replaced with a food box, and the dried fruit and meat are not chopped so finely, it will be a top-grade medicinal meal specially made for body cultivators, no matter where you go.

It replenishes qi and blood, nourishes essence and spirit.

"Hiccup~~"

Unaware of the truth, Lily, after finishing her meal, let out a long, inelegant burp, then jumped off the bed and stretched.

"I slept so well, I'm leaving now."

Judging from her appearance, Lily seemed to have forgotten that she was still glowing and how cowardly she had been crying this morning.

Zhang Ze grabbed Lily's collar, "You're still on."

"Ah, Liang... Ah! Boss, save me! Was that my last meal? If so, give me some more, it was pretty good..." Lily's expression changed as if she were drinking soup.

After removing Lily from the bed and making her sit up, Zhang Ze carefully chose his words and told her about Lily's situation.

……

"So, that's how it is... Lily, you..."

After Zhang Ze finished speaking, he saw Lily with her eyes lowered, looking as if she was reminiscing about the past.

"Are you alright, Lily?" Fuki climbed onto the bed and shook Lily's shoulders.

"Oh, I'm fine. I just remembered something from the past," Lily said.

“When I was a child, I asked my master where I came from, and my master told me that he had fished me out of the river.”

He said that one day, he found a large rock in the river that was shining with golden light, and after he pried it open, I lay inside...

"So Master wasn't making up a lie after all. I really am an egg yolk..."

At this point, Lily probably thought of something funny. She jumped off the bed with a grin, covered her face with one hand, and struck a pose.

"From now on, please call me by my new name: Liu Lili, the Primordial Egg-Born Immortal Roc, Overlord!"

Zhang Ze, "..."

'Hmm, the fact that she could come up with such a strange name means Lily is really alright.'

Lily accepted this very quickly, almost ridiculously quickly.

While it saved a lot of trouble, it also rendered the comforting words that everyone had prepared useless.

"Stop playing dumb, this isn't over yet." Zhang Ze tapped Lily on the head, then turned to look at the group of Star Gods.

"It's up to you guys. Teach her how to control the brightness."

Although Lily is fine, this luminous condition still needs to be treated. Just as Xiaoxue said, if it continues to shine, it will damage the foundation and affect her life.

"No problem, watch me." The old man, who had recovered and was eager to teach, said confidently, his yolk trembling.

It felt that it was its duty to be the master.

However, half a day later...

Lily sat on the bed, chuckling foolishly, the light around her shining even brighter, looking like she hadn't learned anything at all.

The old man huddled in the corner, the yolk of his egg flickering, looking like a defeated man eating dust, questioning the meaning of life.

Zhang Ze watched as his fingers, which lit up and then went out, constantly changed color, eventually even simulating the effect of a static screen on a television.

He started teasing the little rotten girl next to him with his finger.

The bad news is that Lily not only failed to learn it, but also angered the old man so much that he began to doubt the existence of eggs.

Good news! Zhang Ze, who was auditing the class, has learned it. He can now control any part of his body, causing localized light to emanate...

But it wasn't Zhang Ze who was sick.

After shaking the rotten princess for a while, Zhang Ze suddenly had an idea. He stood up and looked at the grinning Lily.

"Let me try, I might have a way."

(End of this chapter)