Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 460 Good birds don't show their faces; great minds think alike.

Although the news Zhang Ze sent back was strange, considering the unlucky kid's troublesome nature and incredible luck, the junior sister and the others didn't keep it a secret.

They quickly reported the matter back to Qianji Pavilion, and then went to torment Old Tang and the others.

After all, reading comprehension cannot be done alone.

After analyzing the information, Lao Tang and his colleagues felt that the key point was not in the rituals and sacrifices to the gods, or the offerings to the Confucian scholars.

Zhang Ze would occasionally say this when he was just rambling on, and his junior sister and other close friends had all heard it.

As for the origin of this strange statement, the book that Zhang Ze called a Confucian classic had already been circulated in the world under the name of the White Emperor and was transmitted from the Northern Territory back to the Eastern Continent.

These otherworldly classics have long since been transformed into something else entirely through countless new annotations and deconstructions.

It became more in line with the values ​​and realities of the cultivators of the Eastern Continent and the demon race of the Northern Territory.

The phrase "since we're here, let's make the best of it" was interpreted by the Sword Sect as meaning "since we've come here, let's be buried here."

If you have spare energy, then use it for literature. In the understanding of the Beast Taming Sect, this means that if you have the energy after finishing your boxing match today, then go read a book.

These modified sayings on worldly wisdom and life principles, along with the accumulated knowledge of the four continents, were compiled into a book called "Classics" during the Eastern Qi Dynasty.

Health and inspirational books like "How to Succeed," "A Healthy Life Begins Today," "The Light of the Right Path," and "Cultivation and Love" sold on the market today are all new annotations and expansions of this "classic."

Therefore, Lao Tang and his group felt that the key lay in this fear of the saint.

Who exactly did Zhang Ze see?

However, even when browsing through ancient books and tracing back to the past, one cannot find any mention of this person in the legends of the prehistoric era, even in the most fabricated and exaggerated stories.

"If you ask me, this kid was just saying it offhand. Don't take it seriously. If you do, you'll lose."

After his disciples searched through countless classic texts to no avail, Old Tang made a professional judgment.

Everyone agreed that this made sense, so they decided to put the matter aside for the time being.

However, one person said she had some clues.

……

Changzhou.

Li Yueqi held Mao Mao's hand with her left hand and a strange red bird in her right.

She glanced at her catgirl apprentice, who was meditating and dozing off, sighed, then picked up a crescent-shaped gem and contacted the person she was somewhat reluctant to contact.

Although she is her biological mother, as a left-behind child, Li Yueqi and her mother really have nothing to say to each other.

But I feel uncomfortable if I don't say anything.

In short, my feelings are quite complicated.

After thinking it over, she decided to use Zhang Ze's messy situation as an excuse to have a chat and reconnect with her estranged mother-daughter relationship.

Gathering her emotions, Li Yueqi activated the jade pendant.

"Mother, I..."

Because of nervousness, her voice was a little dry, unlike her usual voice.

But before he could utter his heartfelt words, he was interrupted.

"Hey, who are you looking for? I'm not your mother."

Junior Sister's voice came from the other side of the gem.

Li Yueqi's remaining words were choked back by her junior sister's clear voice.

"..."

"How did this get into your hands? Where is my...my mother?"

Junior sister: "I don't know, maybe he went out with his uncle. He said this gem was pretty and gave it to me. I didn't know this thing could make a call."

Li Yueqi, "..."

Silence is common; the emotions she had been building up for half a day vanished in an instant.

"Never mind them. I have something important to tell you. I know someone who knows about the Fear of the Saint."

Junior sister: "Huh? Who is it?"

Li Yueqi, "Your bird."

Junior sister: "Where would I get a bird? How come I don't know about it?"

It would have been better if he hadn't said it, because as soon as he did, a series of flapping wings, bird beaks pecking at gems, and the barking of a furry dog ​​came from the other side.

Amidst the chaotic noise, Li Yueqi's voice came out intermittently.

"Ha! Stop pecking, Chen Qin, wait a minute... let's talk about the small walnuts."

A moment later, Li Yueqi, with her hair all messy, appeared opposite Xiao Hetao.

A strange, fiery red bird perched on her shoulder.

The strange bird had a single golden feather on its head, sharp eyes and brows like an eagle, and fiery red wings that shimmered with wondrous colors in the sunlight.

Its seven long tail feathers, moving freely like a snake, were now being used as a dog toy to tease Mao Mao.

Meanwhile, Mao Mao repeatedly rammed Li Yue's arm with its "Iron Head" attack.

Clearly, Li Nvxia's bird perch/wooden stake has become part of a playful interaction between a bird and a dog.

"Don't hit me! Go hit her!" Li Yueqi grabbed Mao Mao by the scruff of his neck and threw him at her good apprentice's face.

Then, there was another commotion over there.

In Fucheng, although no one knew what was going on, the junior sister who had been watching the commotion noticed something was amiss.

That was the strange bird perched on Li Yueqi's shoulder.

No matter how Li Yueqi moved, turned around, fought with the dog, or beat up her own apprentice, the bird's head always seemed to have its own balance axis, always facing the camera with that wise and mighty profile.

After Li Yueqi finally dealt with Mao Mao and also took care of her apprentice, she pointed to the handsome bird on her shoulder.

"I'm exhausted. Can't you guys raise your own spirit beasts? Don't just dump them on me whenever you're busy. If this isn't your bird, is it mine?"

Seeing that her junior sister still looked like she couldn't remember anything, Xiangxiang couldn't stand it anymore and whispered something to her.

"You forgot, your little phoenix, Rongrong, turned into an egg before you went to the Northern Territory, and then after you returned home from the Northern Territory, you entrusted it to the Beast Taming Sect."

Reminded by Xiangxiang, the junior sister suddenly remembered that there was such a thing.

A long time ago, when she was researching the Stone Pill, she and Lily extracted two spirit pets from it.

Lily got the Seahound Momo, while she got the Little Phoenix Fluff.

They, along with Ah Li, were jokingly referred to by Zhang Ze as the Three Great Sauces of Qianji Pavilion: Fatty Dragon, Yellow Dog, and Red Pheasant.

Of all of them, Little Phoenix Fluff is the most obedient and least likely to cause trouble.

After the Qinghe Meeting ended, Rongrong turned into a bird egg and began the next stage of transformation. At first, the egg could talk and bicker with A Li, but soon it fell into a deep sleep.

To be on the safe side, and because the junior sister herself didn't really know how to take care of eggs except for making egg pancakes, Rongrong was entrusted to the Beast Taming Sect for professional care.

Then, his junior sister forgot about it.
"How do you know so much about this?" The junior sister didn't move her mouth, but the spiritual energy behind her formed characters.

Xiangxiang said, "Don't underestimate my intelligence network. Fuji and I will be keeping an eye on all of you forever."

Junior sister, "."

Stopping dwelling on the matter, the junior sister picked it up and looked at her bird with a smile.

"Ah, it's the baby! The baby is so beautiful, I almost didn't recognize him!"

Faced with the clamp technique that even Zhang Ze couldn't withstand, the once-evolved Rongrong naturally succumbed.

It whimpered, as if forgiving its junior sister's forgetfulness.

"Good to know. Let's get down to business. I think I've heard of that fearful saint you mentioned."

Junior sister, "Where are you?"

"Before you summoned me from the stone core," Rongrong said.

Junior sister, "Huh?"

The creatures summoned from the Stone Pill carry some vague memories, mostly about themselves, and a small part about the place where they slept.

According to Rongrong, she only vaguely remembered a room with a closed door.

The house is decorated in an antique style, and you can vaguely see the shadows outside through the door.

And it often sees several large, thick-legged shadows walking back and forth outside the door.

Occasionally, voices could be heard, one pair of legs referring to another, even thicker pair of legs as the "Holy Terror"...

"That's just the way it is."

After speaking, Rongrong instinctively tried to tilt its head to preen its feathers, but quickly realized its mistake and stiffened its neck, continuing to present its handsome profile. The golden feathers on its head twitched, and Rongrong summoned a toothpick-like flying sword, using swordsmanship to tidy up its feathers, which had become somewhat messy after its fight with Li Yueqi.

"Fear of the Saint..."

The junior sister kept repeating the title, wondering if the place her senior brother went to was the source of the stone pill.

"Rongrong, can you come to Fucheng? I..."

The junior sister picked it up again, and Rongrong was initially delighted, but then startled. It swayed its body sideways in a panic.

"No...no, I'm very busy. I'm...very busy in Changzhou. See you later!"

After saying that, it controlled the toothpick-sized flying sword to shut down Little Walnut's communication.

The junior sister looked at Xiangxiang with a puzzled expression.

Xiangxiang shook her head. "Don't look at me. This isn't in my intelligence network."

She then looked at Dizhuomala.

This person also shook their head, "I've never kept birds; my father doesn't allow me to keep pets."

However, a message secretly sent by Li Yueqi soon cleared up her junior sister's doubts.

The child is going through an awkward phase; its face looks a bit goofy from the front. It's currently learning shapeshifting magic and plans to become more attractive before meeting you.

Along with this message, Li Yueqi also sent a picture, which was taken when Rongrong hatched for the second time and had just emerged from the egg.

The newly hatched kitten was covered in a dusty gray color, not yet turning a beautiful red. It looked around at this familiar yet unfamiliar world with a sense of bewilderment.

This scene was captured by Li Yueqi.

The junior sister couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw the photo.

That's really pretty stupid.

After laughing for a while, the junior sister also started thinking about serious matters. She was thinking about how to pass this message back to Zhang Ze.

"I've got it. I'll give it a try next time my senior brother contacts me."

That place.

Zhang Ze darted furtively through the forest, avoiding any overly conspicuous spells to prevent being discovered by the giant dinosaur again.

Along the way, he pretended to be a thief stealing bird dragons while observing this secret world.

The bird-stealing dragon that he had impersonated is still unconscious and is currently sleeping soundly in the Beast Taming Ring.

Although it couldn't be questioned, Zhang Ze still found some good things in its treasure pouch.

A map of a secret realm drawn with a claw.

This map has a strong sense of déjà vu, just like the "Lunyu" spoken by the sage.

The map is called "Shan Hai Tu" (Map of Mountains and Seas).

The mountains and rivers depicted on it are mostly labeled with place names from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The outer areas of the map are only marked with names, probably because the thief who stole the dragon never went there.

The area centered on this place is marked in great detail, with clear records of where the city and the river are.

A city called Moguan was marked on the map to the south by a thief who stole a dragon.

That should be the lair of that Mohist leader.

As he traveled, Zhang Ze kept checking the map and realized that this secret realm was excessively large.

After deploying a palm-sized drone, calculations showed that this area was conservatively estimated to be twice the size of Qingjing Land.

Furthermore, the ecology here is completely different from that of the Four Continents.

It's not like the one in Changzhou. Although Changzhou is strange, the creatures there can only be described as mutated.

Just like the deer in Changzhou, besides being able to fly with its farts, it is still a deer.

But this place is different; Zhang Ze walked for almost a hundred miles without seeing a single animal that resembled a deer.

Or rather, you can't see any large mammals.

The largest furry animal we saw along the way was a small water monkey hiding in a pond. The water monkey was about the size of a palm and looked like a toad lying in the water.

It was even worse than a toad. When Zhang Ze found it, it was being half-swallowed by a strange frog the size of a washbasin, covered in scales.

This is a secret realm ruled by all kinds of web crawlers.

Zhang Ze, who was already used to stealing Dragon Claw claws, was now holding a red machine and pointing it at the trees in front of him.

The tree is over ten meters tall, with bark like dragon scales, and grows straight up to the sky, with only a few branches at the very top.

The Red Machine Name Elf Encyclopedia, produced by Qianji Pavilion, records information on most of the flora and fauna of the four continents.

By simply scanning the object with the machine, one can roughly determine its value and whether it can be used for medicinal purposes such as aphrodisiacs.

However, Zhang Ze scanned the area and didn't recognize a single creature.

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After staring at a greenbottle fly the size of a fist for a while, Zhang Ze put away the broken machine.

He felt that this place was not like the Four Continents, but rather more like Blue Star, the Blue Star of the Mesozoic Era.

However, although they are somewhat similar, they cannot be simply divided into the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods as he understands them.

Because here, creatures from all eras are mixed together.

If I had to put it in a way, this place is more like a fantasy version of Jurassic Park.

It's as if someone resurrected these colossal beasts from the ancient times of Earth, along with their accompanying ecosystem, in a secluded, hidden realm beneath the Earth's sea.

And it opened up a new possibility for that era.

What if there hadn't been that meteorite that destroyed everything, and the world was filled with spiritual energy that could accelerate evolution and change the properties of matter?

Perhaps this place holds the answer.

but……

Zhang Ze pulled out the statue he had taken from the temple of terror and looked at the faceless, muscular man sitting on a brass throne, seemingly deep in thought while defecating.

If everything in this secret realm is a natural evolution, then where did this modified version of the Hundred Schools of Thought come from?
This place, let alone the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, didn't even have the terrifying upright ape that evolved there.

Where did those giant dinosaurs learn all these things from?

'It can't be me again, can it?'

Zhang Ze shook his head, trying to stop thinking about all this nonsense.

He continued to call out to Ah Li, and then fled south.

Without wasting too much time, Zhang Ze arrived at the foot of the Mo Guan city in just a few quarters of an hour.

Mo Guancheng looked somewhat different from what Zhang Ze had imagined.

The pass is located between a mountain stream. The city walls are made entirely of some unknown metal, and the city gate is very large, clearly designed to allow large beasts to pass through without hindrance.

Unlike that horror temple, its overall design does not imitate human architectural styles.

Some of the layouts and designs of Mo Guan were made to facilitate these dinosaurs.

At this moment, many dinosaurs were lining up to enter the city at the city gate.

Herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs mingled together in an orderly fashion.

Upon closer inspection, one can see them conversing with each other. A tiny Deinonychus wearing shoe covers is perched on the back of a Triceratops, discussing the sacred ceremony that is about to begin in the Mo Guan Zhong region.

Judging from his attitude and expression, it doesn't seem like he's being suppressed by rules, but rather that he's always like this.

"interesting."

Zhang Ze muttered to himself, preparing to blend in and find a way to get into the city.

He had barely peeked out of the bushes when he came face to face with someone.

A blue-skinned dinosaur also emerged from the grass on the opposite side.

This blue-skinned creature is about the same size as the Thief Dragon, but its limbs are much thinner.

A crown that could unfold grew around its head, which shimmered in the sunlight like a high beam.

Zhang Ze squinted, thinking to himself that something seemed off about this dragon.

That look in his eyes is so much like Brother Feng's.

"No way, great minds think alike on this?"

(End of this chapter)