Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 417 Today, the Firefly Seeks Its Hometown

A square-shaped pig that is immune to the poison of all herbs.

Ah Li shoved a poisoned dagger into the bottle, blew a puff of paraquat into the bottle, and viciously threatened Da Tou Cai.

"You, hurry up and confess."

Zhang Ze kicked Ah Li to make it behave.

Its guzzling manner was utterly unconvincing, making it seem as if the bottle contained not paraquat but water mixed with iced tea.

Having already finished a bottle, Ali ignored Zhang Ze's suggestion. It wiped its mouth and continued to brandish the knife in front of the cabbage.

"Tell me quickly, where did you come from?"

Big Cabbage ignored Ah Li, instead staring wide-eyed at the distant golden sea of ​​clouds, past Zhang Ze's shoulder.

"Where am I? Why does this place look so much like my home?"

The turnip made a gurgling sound.

home?

'Just as I thought.' Zhang Ze thought to himself.

As he followed the cabbage into Rainfall Mountain and stepped through the green gate, he felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had been to a similar place before.

At the time, his mind was in turmoil, and he didn't think of it for a moment. It wasn't until he saw Ah Li that Zhang Ze suddenly realized what was going on.

That inexplicable feeling of abnormality was exactly the same as the feeling he had when he had previously driven the golden core into A-Li's belly.

There is a certain commonality between Luoyushan and Ali.

Of course, when it comes to mystery, Ah Li is still a cut above.

The space within Luoyu Mountain is completely isolated from the outside world; otherwise, it is just ordinary and has no ability to restrict all laws or devour living beings.

But if that's the case, then what about Ah Li's background?
Zhang Ze's mind started to wander again.

"Where is this? Who are you?" Big Cabbage asked again when Zhang Ze remained silent.

Before it, the round pangolin was drinking its third bottle of paraquat, seemingly impervious to alcohol.

The monkey demon had bright, piercing eyes and stood there silently, propping itself up with a small stick. The young man stood at attention.

The man in the lead sat on a small stool, his eyes vacant and lost in thought.

None of them are like normal people.

"Where is this?" the turnip asked loudly again.

Fortunately, this caught Zhang Ze's attention.

Zhang Ze: "Oh, sorry, I was just spacing out. This is my Goddess Li's big appetite."

But before he could finish speaking, he was slapped by Ah Li's angry little tail.

Zhang Ze quickly changed his words, and after thinking for a while, he spoke again.

"This is my God Li's 'Sumeru Treasury, Golden Dragon Edict, Wealth from All Directions, Nine Luminaries of the Void, Boundless Cave Heaven, Returning Star Treasure Vault'."

After Zhang Ze finished speaking, Da Tou Cai looked at him as if he were an idiot.

"Say that again, you cabbage."

Zhang Ze: "I can't remember."

turnip, "..."

After Zhang Ze finished listing the dishes, Ah Li nodded in satisfaction while unscrewing the cap of the DDT bottle.

While Ah Li wasn't looking, Zhang Ze wrote a few words in his palm and showed them to Da Tou Cai.

You are inside its belly.

turnip, "?"

It didn't understand why, if it was inside the fat pangolin's belly, the fat pangolin was also here.

It suspected that the person in front of it was lying to it.

But Zhang Ze wasn't lying this time; it really was inside A Li's belly.

However, the actual situation was not as the turnip thought; it was Ah Li who ate herself.

To be precise, it was Ah Li who vomited out part of her stomach and refined it into a magical artifact.

Just like Zhang Ze has a new show every day, Ah Li also keeps up her own good work in her spare time.

After returning from the Northern Territory, it first learned the art of tortoise shell refining from Zhuluona, and then learned the method of refining external elixirs from a minor sect of the Xiaoyao Sect.

Finally, by combining the sword-sacrificing technique of the Sword Sect, a portion of the golden space within his body was separated and transferred to a top-grade flying sword, thus creating this long-named natal magic weapon.

Of course, Zhang Ze wouldn't tell Da Tou Cai the details.

"Just know that this is a hidden space. You can scream your lungs out here, but no one will come to your rescue." Zhang Ze paused, then continued to threaten, "Tell me honestly, where did you aliens come from, and what is your purpose in coming to our Four Continents?"

Upon hearing Zhang Ze's question, the cabbage behaved unusually, as if those words had offended it. It was far less cooperative than before, and the cabbage snorted and turned its head away.

"You won't explain yourself, huh? Fine, I'll have my Goddess Li digest you in a bit, and you'll turn into poop tomorrow, just like it," Zhang Ze said sternly.

After saying that, Zhang Ze patted Monkey King. Monkey King reacted for a moment before saying "Oh," and ran behind the small mound. Following the previous rehearsal, he walked out holding an iron chain.

At the other end of the chain was a deer-headed man without an anus.

The old puppet, which had been salvaged from the underground city of the Thousand Machines Pavilion, let out a miserable scream after being activated, and then crawled toward the turnip.

"I'm so miserable. Because I didn't tell the truth, I lost my butt... Help me... I don't want to die."

Whether it was because the puppet was so realistic, or because it was afraid of losing its own butt, the turnip that had just been blinking its big eyes and asking all sorts of questions, then turning its back and refusing to explain, suddenly started trembling.

"Tell him to stay away from me... I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!" the cabbage, tied to a small stool, struggled.

Although I don't know what happened, explaining the situation makes one a good comrade.

Adhering to the principle of "a big stick and a sweet date," Zhang Ze removed the puppet's psionic battery, tossed it aside, poured a basin of water for the turnip, and let its somewhat wilted roots soak in the water before asking it with a gentle expression.

"What do you mean by 'going home'? And why did you fight with your companions?"

"Confess now, or you'll be forced to drink pesticide." Ah Li sat to the side, eating a pig's trotter rice while sipping pesticide, singing a stern face.

Monkey King also asked Ah Li for a bowl. He didn't say anything, he just kept eating.

After seeing the deer-headed puppet being thrown far away, the turnip breathed a sigh of relief. It mumbled something under its breath for a while before finally looking at Zhang Ze.

"Let me ask you a question first: are you with those traitors?"

Zhang Ze, "Who... those white ones?"

The cabbage nodded.

Zhang Ze: "No, I'm just a Kamen Rider passing by."

"Okay, I... I can tell you, but you have to help me!"

"How can I help you?" Zhang Ze asked.

"Help me drive out those traitors who want to destroy our home!" Big Cabbage looked at Zhang Ze with wide eyes and a serious expression.

Then it lowered its head, gesturing for Zhang Ze to touch the tuft of hair on its head.

After Zhang Ze's fingers touched the ahoge (cowlick), the shared memories of the Fireflies flowed into Zhang Ze's mind...

……

From the first life sprouting underwater... to the giant beasts of the primordial era... the first firefly was born in the silvery-white ruins of Rainfall Mountain.

Scattered memories inherited from a fallen civilization, along with the illusion of something eternally fixed in the sea, constantly being destroyed and revived, influence the mind of the Firefly.

By confining them to Changzhou, they also became a part of this land.

Over the next tens of thousands of years, the fireflies, like ghosts in a dream, traveled along the roots of their mother tree, relying on their scattered and vague memories and driven by instinct to build their imagined home.

Through the combined efforts of Yingling and Changzhou themselves, this place has been transformed into its current sinister state, while constantly driving away outsiders who attempt to change it.

Throughout this long period, they had almost no will of their own, acting only as if driven by instinct and illusion, like rambling in a dream.

At this moment, they were less like living beings and more like byproducts of the chaotic will of Changzhou.

This situation should have continued forever.

Until one day last year, a firefly spirit discovered several black stones in an underwater cave near Rainfall Mountain.

It was probably washed ashore by the water.

The blank black stone needs to be activated by desire. Logically speaking, since it is a blank slate and the fireflies have no thoughts of their own, they should not be affected by it.

But for some reason, a message remained on one of the black stones: "Go home."

This message is like a light illuminating the darkness.

Starting with the firefly spirit that found the black stone, the ideas spread among the fireflies and subsequently influenced the entire Changzhou.

The balance has been broken.

The Fireflies are no longer the ghostly shadows of the past; a new race has been born.

They have developed their own will, and given time, perhaps one day in the future, something similar to a spirit of nature will awaken throughout the entire Changzhou region.

However, after the Fireflies gained free will, internal divisions arose among them.

On the issue of returning home, the fireflies were divided into two factions.

One faction believes that after a long period of time, the fireflies have found their home, Changzhou is their home, and it is their responsibility to protect the fireflies of Changzhou.

The other faction, influenced by the memories of the fallen race, believes that this place belongs to another land, and that their true homeland is on the other side of the distant starry sea. They do not want to stay here and want to return to their true homeland.

Seeing this, Zhang Ze randomly gave the two groups of turnips a name based on their expressions.

Dark green in color, with an expression of (°д°), wanting to stay in Changju, and capable of transforming into a Primal Giant, it is a Decepticon.

It has a whitish color, an o()o expression, and wants to leave Changzhou and return to its hometown. It can transform into a super cube and is an Autobot.

"What strange names. What do Decepticons and Autobots mean?"

Because of its connection to Zhang Ze through its sacred ahoge (cowlick), the turnip sensed some of Zhang Ze's thoughts.

"It's just a code name, don't worry about it, you can continue." Zhang Ze laughed it off.

"Oh." Big Cabbage closed his eyes and continued to share his memories with Zhang Ze.

Initially, although there were some disagreements, the two sides eventually got along peacefully. The green cabbages continued to patrol Changzhou as usual, maintaining the environment of Changzhou and continuing to build their home.

Meanwhile, the white turnips nestled in Rainfall Mountain, studying the black stone in their own way, uncovering secrets of the past, and searching for a way to leave the Four Continents.

Zhang Ze: "Isn't this peaceful? Why are you fighting?"

"We were living in peace until those white guys found the spark," said the turnip.

Zhang Ze, "Pfft!"

Cabbage, (.)
Zhang Ze quickly waved his hand, "You don't need to worry about me, you continue."

The turnips, "they intend to ignite Changzhou with fire, allowing their homeland to take off again and send themselves home."

“We absolutely cannot let this happen. Changzhou is our home. Those white guys are the traitors.”

"So we planned to launch a surprise attack to destroy the spark, but unfortunately we failed."

The turnip looked regretful.

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"Then why are you on the white side?" he seemed to ask, looking at the cabbage's roots, which had changed color from pale green to dark green after being soaked in water.

In the recent battle of Plants vs. Zombies, the green turnips were defeated and all of them were sealed away by the white ones. There shouldn't have been any that escaped.

"Because I'm a spy, a wet, hunched-over investigator who secretly infiltrated the traitors' ranks, and I'm here to destroy the spark," Turnip said proudly, raising his head.

"?"

Zhang Ze was taken aback by the sudden remark.

"No, where did you learn this word?" Zhang Ze had a bad feeling.

"I found it in a book." The cowlick's tuft of hair lit up as it transmitted the memory.

Zhang Ze looked at the pirated booklet that appeared before him, half-soaked by the rain, and chuckled softly.

"really."

Although the printing quality was poor, the title of the book was quite clear.

Me and My 108 Girlfriends

The author's identity is self-evident.

Because it was a pirated copy, this booklet was not complete; it only contained the seventh chapter, and because it was soaked in water, only the first half was available.

[Chapter Seven: Lady Hua Sits Backwards with the Purple-Gold Spear, Officer Leopard Accidentally Enters the White Tiger Hall]

Fortunately, that was all, and Big Cabbage didn't see it. [Chapter 40, Liang Shanbo and his sisters storm the execution ground, Little Silver gathers at the White Dragon Temple]

Looking into the innocent eyes of the turnip, Zhang Ze couldn't help but give himself a light slap.

'I'm so damned, these turnips are just kids... No, damned it's the piracy, how can there be piracy in a crappy place like Changzhou?'

While Zhang Ze was filled with guilt, Ali had finished a bowl of braised pork trotters and rice. She wiped her mouth and asked.

"What have you been talking about? What fire? What is that?"

"Look for yourself." Another tuft of hair sprouted from the top of the cabbage and stretched out in front of Ah Li.

Ah Li casually wiped the oil off her hands with her ahoge (cowlick).

The connection was established, and Zhang Ze and A Li saw the footage that the secret investigator had risked his life to record.

……

Well, it doesn't seem like I'm risking my life.

Zhang Ze felt that the white creatures weren't paying any attention to him at all, and if he hadn't been so nervous, he might have been able to simply take the fire away.

But as the story unfolds from Da Tou Cai's first-person perspective, Zhang Ze realizes he was wrong; stealing the fire seed would likely be difficult.

The thing that the turnip called the spark was not a cube, nor a flame, but a person.

Shi Xiu.

It was the senior brother Shi that Zhang Ze had been searching for.

Inside the Great Pyramid in the northern part of the Silver-White Ruins, Shi Xiu sat cross-legged in a courtyard made of honeycomb-shaped hexagonal crystals. He was neither unconscious nor under any unnecessary restraints; he simply gazed silently at the tattered star map that covered the entire pyramid dome.

The pale white turnips would occasionally emerge from various places, carrying all sorts of things, doing things that were useless but of great significance to them.

The promised thighs have turned into prisoners.

I wonder what kind of black technology those white turnips discovered, that makes their starting energy consumption so high, consuming the equivalent of a tribulation every hundred kilometers.

Looking closely at Shi Xiu's expression, he should also be bewitched by the black stone. It is unknown what exactly is causing his delusions.
It's astonishing that he was willing to do this.

That's the end of the scene. After identifying its target, the green turnip launched a surprise attack, and this secret investigator ended up in Zhang Ze's hands after the operation failed.

"What should we do?" Ah Li patted Zhang Ze's calf and wiped her hands on his body.

"Let's go out first, sneak in secretly, and wake up Senior Brother Shi Xiu first."

"Then rescue those who were captured. I think they probably have no interest in wandering the universe."

After saying that, Zhang Ze untied the magic rope binding the cabbage.

"You...you're really going to help me?" Big Cabbage stretched his arms and legs, asking uncertainly.

"You might not believe it, but the person you call the 'Spark' came to Changzhou because of me, so I bear some responsibility for this situation." Zhang Ze smiled somewhat awkwardly.

"Let's go out." Zhang Ze rubbed Ah Li's head.

The God of Stomach unleashed his power, and after a burst of golden light, the group emerged from Ah Li's magical artifact with its unusually long name.

There was no one or any turnips around, so they hadn't been discovered yet.

Just as the group was about to discuss their strategy, Zhang Ze suddenly remembered something else.

"By the way, why are you so afraid of deer?"

These turnips may be a bit weak when they're not combined, but they shouldn't be afraid of a mere deer.

"I..." Big Cabbage hesitated for a moment, but finally told the truth, "When I first regained my senses, I found myself being carried in the mouth of a deer, which was farting as it flew through the air..."

Zhang Ze, "..."

You know, it was actually quite scary; it's normal to have psychological trauma. Just as Zhang Ze was about to move on from this somewhat embarrassing topic and start talking about serious business, the sky outside suddenly darkened.

A blood moon appeared in the sky above the silvery-white ruins.

The entire space began to tremble, and the enormous pyramid emitted a dazzling light...

"Time to go home..."

Joyful, crisp laughter echoed beneath the blood moon.

Da Tou Cai's expression changed.

(End of this chapter)