Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 392 A Child's Arm as Thick as a Child's Arm
Where are your hands?

The junior sister reached out, but there was nothing there.

"That's all. Didn't you want to see what was wrong with my health? Here, that's it." Zhang Ze casually flicked his sleeve.

The sleeves were empty; not only the right hand, but the entire forearm had disappeared.

The junior sister lifted Zhang Ze's sleeve and found no bloodstains or healed scars from his injuries.

All that remains is a smooth, grayish cut surface.

"I'm not watching anymore, please change back quickly, quickly."

The junior sister grabbed Zhang Ze's upper arm and shook it gently, momentarily at a loss for what to do.

Zhang Ze was somewhat troubled by his junior sister's request.

He scratched his head with his left hand. "It can't be done, it can't be turned back."

Zhang Ze sensed it and said, "Yes, we've completely lost contact now."

Junior sister, "?"

She was genuinely starting to panic.

"Then from now on, this is all you can do. I...it's all my fault."

"Don't cry, don't cry." Zhang Ze smiled and reached out his left hand to wipe away his junior sister's tears. "It's only temporarily gone, it's not like it won't grow back."

Junior sister, "You've grown back? What happened? Tell me quickly!"

“That’s a child without a mother. It’s a long story. Let me think about how to tell you.” Zhang Ze looked up at the ceiling, which was covered with pipes.

A moment later, he brought up another matter, “You know that I am immune to most soul-related spells and cannot cast soul-related spells such as astral projection.”

The junior sister nodded vigorously; she knew about it.

In the period immediately following the end of the Qinghe Gathering, almost every day people came to Zhang Ze to spar and practice.

One of the boys was exceptionally talented; he mastered the Lion's Roar Awakening Technique, which allowed him to control qi and shake the soul, injuring people invisibly.

This method is specifically designed to counter those reckless individuals who have no way to resist it.

However, the boy stood in a horse stance opposite Zhang Ze that day and shouted all morning, but he couldn't get a single hair out of Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze's soul was as if it were welded into his body.

If Old Tang hadn't come up with a random excuse to give the boy a way out, that unfortunate kid probably would have lost his voice in front of Zhang Ze.

"But what does this have to do with your hand?" The junior sister touched Zhang Ze's arm with concern.

"That's the problem with my body."

Zhang Ze took out a small bag of rice from his treasure bag and tossed it into his junior sister's hand. "Ordinary cultivators' souls reside in their spiritual platform. While unorthodox methods may differ, they mostly condense into human form and attach to a place within the body."

“But I’m different, I shook it well.”

As he spoke, Zhang Ze poured another bag of millet into the rice bag under his junior sister's questioning gaze, and then shook it.

“Look, that’s it.” Zhang Ze pointed to the mixed yellow and white rice grains in the bag. “My soul and body are in about this state.”

Rice is the physical body, millet is the spirit.

"Is this an illness?" the junior sister asked.
"Not exactly. Although this physique is rare, there are cases that can be found. It is called the Primordial Body, which is an innate holy body for physical cultivation."

Zhang Ze mentioned several names, but they were all people who had already passed away.

The last cultivator who was said to possess the Primordial Body was a person from the late Eastern Qi Dynasty.

"Isn't this a good thing?" the junior sister asked.

“It’s a good thing, but my Primordial Body has some flaws, and I can also see the Earth Sea,” Zhang Ze said with a wry smile.

For some reason, whenever Zhang Ze tried to completely stabilize his cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage, he would be strongly affected by the Earth Sea.

He will enter a state similar to 'diving'.

Because Zhang Ze was shaken evenly, his physical body also entered that 'diving' state.

Zhang Ze said, "Because of some accidents before I rose from the coffin, my Hunyuan Body has flaws."

"The result was that my physical body and soul strength were not matched, so when I 'floated', my soul swam back, but my physical body was dissolved by the sea of ​​earth."

Zhang Ze scattered the mixed rice on the ground, forming a human shape. Then, he reached out and flicked his finger, sending a burst of spiritual energy to the human shape's forearm.

The rice representing the physical body was ground into dust, while the millet representing the soul was evenly distributed to other parts of the human-shaped body.

He is currently in a predicament where he is caught between two obstacles.

To completely break through to the Nascent Soul stage, he needs an even stronger physical body.

However, because his Primordial Body has flaws, he needs to break through to the Nascent Soul stage first if he wants even stronger physical strength...

"That's the grim story," Zhang Ze said, pointing to the grayish cut surface on his arm. "And although my soul has returned, it will take at least three days to completely get rid of the effects and grow my hand back."

After saying that, Zhang Ze took out a Thousand-Mechanism Silver Hand from his treasure bag and put it on himself.

I did some light exercise, and it felt quite comfortable.

Aside from the sudden urge to find a skyscraper and burn it to ashes, it has no downsides.

Chen Qin, "Isn't there a solution?"

The junior sister held the cold... well, not really cold, because Zhang Ze had thoughtfully turned on the heating mode, and now this silver hand was like a hand warmer.

"Yes, there are two options at the moment," Zhang Ze said while warming his junior sister's hands.

"Firstly, I will continue to cultivate the Spirit Fusion Technique and find a way to continuously enter the Spirit Fusion state without emitting light. In this way, I can abandon the physical body and ignore the limitations of the Earth Sea to continue my cultivation."

Zhang Ze made it sound easy, but it was anything but simple, because even those old men couldn't stay in the Spirit Fusion state indefinitely.

Over time, if you're not careful, you can easily ruin yourself.

"As for the second method... I think it's more reliable, which is to find a way to complete my second-hand mixed body. So that after I 'dive' at the moment of breakthrough, my body can also 'swim' back."

Zhang Ze looked down at his silver Thousand Machine Prosthetic Arm and said.

……

That's how many things are; explaining them only adds to the trouble. Although it was Zhang Ze's business, his junior sister was even more anxious than him, wishing she could find a solution right now.

Zhang Ze spent a long time comforting her before finally calming her down.

However, it was of no use.

The decisive junior sister had already made up her mind to pack her bags and return to the Sword Sect's main hall tonight to search through the vast library and see if there were any clues about the Primordial Body or other useful information.

Zhang Ze had actually taken action on this matter long ago.

On Xiangxiang's side, she transformed into a top-notch secretary, already poring over the intelligence gathered by Baidi City, Na Du Tong, and Zhen Dong Chamber of Commerce over the years.

Although Zhang Ze didn't explicitly tell Lao Tang, Lao Tang still issued a sect mission, asking Xiao Tang to return to Longhu Mountain and find some idle people to investigate matters related to the Hunyuan Body.

The same applies to the other cases. Zhang Ze posted the tasks in his own name and asked Lao Tang, Li Yueqi, and others to inform them to keep an eye on the matter.

So Zhang Ze originally wanted to tell Chen Qin not to rush, that he estimated a clue would come soon. But seeing his junior sister's expression, he realized that nothing he said would make a difference.

Unfortunately, we can only let nature take its course.

"Let's go home first," Zhang Ze said.

After the two left, a blue mushroom-shaped hairpin popped out from the corner of the room.

Fuhime quietly crawled over, devoured all the rice and millet on the ground, cleaned it up, and then shrank back into the corner.

"New intelligence, new intelligence, there's new intelligence here..."

"Primordial Body, does anyone know what Primordial Body is?"

"I don't know? What's wrong?"

"Zhang Ze needs the Primordial Body! With the Primordial Body, Zhang Ze can be our senior brother for life! Therefore, all the Fu Ji are mobilized! Let's begin the search for the Primordial Body!"

"yeah!"

"Oh, right, there's one more thing. This has to be kept a secret, especially from Lily the gossip."

"Roger that!"

"Okay!"

The news about Zhang Ze was spread through their internal network by the robot vacuum cleaner, Fu Ji.

All the unsuspecting rotten princesses began to take action.

...the next day.

Zhang Ze opened his eyes, took Ah Li off his face, stretched, and then habitually scratched his head with his right hand.

"Ok?"

Zhang Ze suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Didn't I lose my hand? What am I scratching my head with?
The silver, thousand-machine prosthetic arm was half-eaten by Ah Li last night, and the other half is currently sitting on the table.

and so……

Zhang Ze looked down and realized that he seemed to be recovering rather quickly this time.

The neat, grayish cut had disappeared, replaced by a layer of gray flesh, from which something was growing...

It's as thick as a child's arm.

Zhang Ze moved his little hands around and found that they were quite dexterous; they could grasp, hold, and unleash sword energy.

Aside from being somewhat funny and embarrassing to be seen in public, it has no flaws.

“How am I supposed to go out like this…” Zhang Ze moved his thick, muscular arm.

Little hands are like back scratchers.

The Thousand Machine Gauntlets are already ruined, and there's no way to replace them with new ones; these special models need to be custom-made.

By the time things are done over there, his novice will probably be fully developed.

As for Lily... never mind, she absolutely cannot know about this.

Fortunately, there are always more solutions than problems, and Zhang Ze quickly found a way to get out of the house.

He tugged at Ah Li's tail with his little hand.

"Ah Li... Time to get up and get to work."

"Huh?" Ah Li rolled over. "I don't want to go far away... I don't want to get into a fight..."

Zhang Ze: "We won't fight, and we won't go far. Just transform and come with me for a stroll outside."

……

At the entrance of Qianji Pavilion.

Zhang Ze stood on the stone lion in front of the gate, gazing into the distance towards the entrance of Qianji Town, where it was bustling with activity, as if some event was taking place.

Just as he was about to go and take a look, Li Yueqi's voice rang out from behind Zhang Ze.

"Hey! What happened to your right hand?"

Zhang Ze turned around and found that Li Yueqi had appeared behind him at some point and was looking up at him.

Zhang Ze did a somersault, flipping off the stone lion and showing Li Yueqi his right hand, which was decorated with dragon scales and gleaming with gold.

"Golden Right Hand, isn't it cool? It's Ah Li in disguise."

"So-so... but then again, if it were Ah Li, that would be great," said the female knight-errant with great emotional intelligence.

Zhang Ze had only asked casually and hadn't dwelled on it. He then asked, "Did Miss Li need something from me?"

Li Yueqi said, "Yes, Linglu Valley has returned from the Northern Border and is currently parked in a mountain hollow outside the town. There are some things there that I think you should go and take a look."

Zhang Ze: "What is that?"

“I’m not sure either, but I think it should be related to the Primordial Body you’re looking for.”

Judging from Li Yueqi's expression, it seemed that there was something strange about that thing, and Zhang Ze needed to go and take a look at it himself.

"By the way, there's also this."

Li Yueqi flipped her hand, and a uniquely shaped white tiger talisman appeared in her hand.

The talisman is entirely silver, square in shape, with a fat tiger nestled inside, its rear end facing people, giving a three-part domineering and three-part silly smile as it looks back.

It's exquisitely crafted, but it's just not being used in the right place.

"What is this?" Zhang Ze asked, taking the talisman.

“The key,” Li Yueqi replied.

"To prevent Spirit Deer Valley from being taken away by those stupid cats and dogs again, we've completely overhauled the security and defense arrays. Lily's things are no longer effective. You need a Four Symbols Talisman to enter the corresponding area."

"This is the highest grade White Tiger Talisman. With this, you can go anywhere."

"White Tiger? Logically, shouldn't the Azure Dragon be first among the Four Symbols? Why is the highest-ranking symbol the White Tiger instead of the Azure Dragon?"

The one asking the question wasn't Zhang Ze, but Ah Li, who had transformed into her golden right hand.

Because of its square-shaped pig, it is now quite sensitive to all topics related to dragons.

When Ah Li asked him this, Zhang Ze realized that not only this festival symbol, but many things in the Beast Taming Sect were named after tigers.

"Well..." Li Yueqi whispered after making sure no one was around, "Because my grandfather likes white tigers."

“So this White Tiger Talisman…” Zhang Ze looked at the adorable, chubby tiger.

“Yes, it was designed by my grandfather.” Li Yueqi nodded.

Zhang Ze, "..."

The old man has quite skillful hands...

After handing the White Tiger Token to Zhang Ze, Li Yueqi did not go with him. Instead, she turned around and went to the Sword Pavilion, where she was going anyway. Delivering the message was just a side trip.

After Li Yueqi left, Zhang Ze did not go directly to Linglu Valley, but was stopped halfway by the commotion in the town.

After their holiday, the employees of Zha Shi De hitched a ride back to Qianji Town along with Linglu Valley.

In hopes of a successful opening, this group of demons had been creating a lively atmosphere and excitement ever since they entered the town.

At this moment, the entrance to the Zha Shi De was filled with the sounds of gongs and drums, the crackling of firecrackers, the waving of red flags, and a sea of ​​people.

Spiderwoman, the general manager of Zha Shi De, dressed in a festive red outfit, stepped forward with a smile to get the key to open the door...

Zhang Ze, who had been happily mingling in the crowd watching the excitement, suddenly frowned, realizing that something bad was about to happen.

He remembered that he had also carelessly planted a landmine under the door lock.

"Hey! Don't drive! There's something there..."

However, it wasn't Zhang Ze who spoke up to remind her, but rather Her Majesty the Cat Girl who realized something much earlier.

Unfortunately, the moment she grabbed the spider girl's sleeve, the fireworks under the door lock were prematurely triggered.

Brilliant fireworks burst forth, blasting Spider Girl's face. At the same time, because the gate was unlocked, Mao Mao, who had been left inside the bombing ground by Zhang Ze and locked up for several days, broke out of the gate.

With half a door in its mouth, Mao Mao swept across the Spider Girl, knocking her to the ground, before leaping onto the roof and disappearing without a trace.

Because of this strange change, for a time the red flags stopped waving, the gongs and drums stopped beating, and the area around Zhashide was so quiet that even a fart would sound loud, except for the occasional crackling of fireworks and thunder.

Although she didn't know why her high-explosive Thousand Machine Thunder had turned into a dazzling firework thunder, the cat girl, who already knew she was doomed, was squatting on the ground, using the Silent Step technique, intending to flee in fear of punishment.

But disaster always comes first; silvery-white spider silk wrapped around her calves, suspending her high up.

The spider girl's articulated limbs stomped on the ground, revealing her half-spider, half-human form, and her eight emotionless eyes stared at Her Majesty the cat girl.

"What did you do?"

"Yes...no, that I..." His Majesty stammered.

"Let her go, I did it."

Zhang Ze pushed through the crowd and came closer, intending to explain the situation.

However, it was of no use.

"Boss, there's no need to defend her. I'll handle this idiot."

Zhang Ze, "..."

Spider Girl raised her head and looked around at everyone. "I apologize for making you all laugh. Today, Zha Shi De is undergoing internal reorganization and will reopen tomorrow. Please go back now."

Having said that, she dragged the catgirl, who was already bound in a cocoon, into the deep, dark corridor of Zhashide.

Zhang Ze raised his hand, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Forget it, let's go to Linglu Valley.

(End of this chapter)