Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 463 The Era in the Box
Zhang Ze swished his tail and walked along the right side of the street in the shadows to avoid being stepped on by some big, inconsiderate creature.

Because it is a basin, Mo Guan City is divided into upper and lower sections, and they gradually headed towards the lower city.

As the road twisted and turned, it narrowed, and the number of large dinosaurs around began to decrease.

In the end, only Xiao Chuachu, about the same size as Zhang Ze and the others, remained on the street.

"Where are we going?" Lin Feng asked quietly, following behind Zhang Ze.

"Just follow me to this secluded place."

Recalling the intelligence he had obtained from the thief Long, Zhang Ze led Lin Feng into a secluded alley.

At the end of the alley stood a long stone. As he approached it, Zhang Ze took out a delicate scale from his bag.

The moment the scales touched, a ripple spread across the low wall behind the stone, as if a curtain had been lifted, and a burst of hot air blew out, blowing onto the two of them.

Seeing the entrance open, Zhang Ze skipped and hopped inside.

As soon as they entered, sharp screams and roars, accompanied by lewd music, pounded into their ears.

"Is this the Ghost Market?" Lin Feng looked around curiously.

“Yes,” Zhang Ze nodded. “This place is called Anqu, and it’s the ‘ghost market’ of Mo Guan. The master behind it is the Grand Master of the Mo family.”

Most cities have similar places that harbor filth and corruption.

Whether large or small, it serves as a buffer, separating things that cannot be brought to light.

Even Qianji Town is no exception.

Even though Qianji Town has become so powerful that a new tea-drinking elder from the Six Sects appears every thirty meters, it still can't eradicate this stubborn problem.

However, there are some differences. Qianji's "ghost market" does not engage in human trafficking or the buying and selling of rare animals.

That run-down place was quite rudimentary; it sold nothing but pirated and secondhand goods.

It's not like no one has tried to sell bad stuff there.

Without exception, all of these people had their limbs broken, their cultivation sealed, and were thrown at the entrance of the government office in Qianji Town.

Each of the arrested heretical practitioners had small advertisements handwritten by those bootleggers pasted on their bodies.

They treated this good deed as if it were a provocation.
Thinking about these unrelated things, Zhang Ze sighed.

'I've only been away for a few days, why do I already feel homesick?'

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about the secondhand market in Qianji Town and quickly led Lin Feng toward a building in the center of the culvert.

It was a building resembling an anthill, with a rough exterior and no discernible material, covered with countless dark, hollow holes.

The continuous, decadent music in the underground canal all originated from this place.

Listening to those suggestive tunes, Lin Feng instinctively felt something was wrong, but because of his trust in Zhang Ze, he still followed him.

However, as soon as they entered, a sticky sound came close to them.

"Hey, a new face~ Sir, let me see your receipt~"

A long neck emerged.

Lin Feng looked at the beautiful head at the top of its neck. He never imagined that one day he would use the phrase "handsome and refined" to describe a reptile.

This creature resembled the aquatic dinosaurs he had just seen in the atlas, but its size was somewhat different.

Lin Feng looked back along his neck and saw a deformed body placed in a water tank, small and incomplete, which was very mismatched with his beautiful head.

While Lin Feng was in a daze, Zhang Ze came over and lightly tapped his beak-like mouth, making a series of tapping sounds.

Zhang Ze: "Yunniang, the usual, one room."

"How many do you want this time?" The plesiosaur, called Yunniang, rolled her eyes at Zhang Ze and asked in a sweet voice.

Zhang Ze said, "I don't want any of them. I'll bring my own this time."

Yunniang wrapped her arms around her neck, "Bring your own~ Bringing your own will cost extra."

"It doesn't matter, just clear the way quickly."

After showing Yunniang two certificates with the character "帅" (shuai, meaning handsome/handsome) printed on them, Zhang Zexian threw a small bag in front of her.

The bag floated in front of her. Yunniang counted the number inside and nodded playfully.

A flash of inspiration struck her, and a key resembling scales appeared in her mouth. She asked, with the key in her mouth.

"I have enough money, but you have to let me see what kind of girl you brought with you that can compare to my daughter."

Zhang Ze patted Lin Feng on the shoulder, "This is him."

Lin Feng, "?"

Yunniang, "?"
"Coco is male?"

"I know, I've changed my taste recently."

Zhang Ze gave a perfunctory reply, then took the key from Yunniang's mouth, and pulled Feng Ge deeper into the anthill.

Upon arriving at the entrance of a cave, Lin Feng finally realized, "What kind of place did you bring me here?"

Zhang Ze: "A brothel."

Lin Feng, "?"

With that, Zhang Ze pushed Lin Feng into the cave.

Zhang Ze then followed him inside. Under Feng Ge's terrified gaze, he slowly locked the door with the scale-shaped key.

They also set up a perimeter barrier to prevent further investigation.

After everything was settled, he looked at Lin Feng and said.

"Alright, now no one can hear anything here."

Lin Feng, "?"

Feng took a step back.

Zhang Ze made a hand seal but did not attack. Instead, he transformed back into human form, lay down on the velvet nest prepared for the small bird dragon, and stretched comfortably.

"Don't get the wrong idea. We came here because now Mo Guan only allows entry and no exit. We don't go outside, and this is the only place where we won't be disturbed and is the most peaceful."

"Although hiding in the Azure Lotus Dust is also an obstacle, I cannot send messages to the outside world from there."

Lin Feng transformed back into human form. He took a step back, still looking at Zhang Ze with some nervousness. "What did you mean by what you just said? What do you mean by 'change your taste'?"

"That's a lie. If I don't say it like that, how can I disgust that Yunniang and drive her away?" Zhang Ze straightened up and began setting up the magic array as he spoke.

“Places like brothels, though quiet and secluded, are definitely full of security cameras.”

"This is standard practice in the industry. That Yunniang is clearly an informant left here by the leader of the Mohist school, responsible for monitoring this ghost market called Anqu."

"How can I feel at ease making arrangements if I don't disgust her away?"

Zhang Ze pointed to the second barrier he was setting up, "This is a new trick developed by Dao Ye and his team. In addition to blocking external spying, it can also return the spells cast on it by the spy to an equal multiple."

"The outer layer is a warning array. This array is not difficult to break, but it is special in that no matter who breaks it, it will trigger an alarm."

"The reputation of spying on two men sleeping soundly is not good."

Lin Feng thought it made a lot of sense, but something felt off.

"Wait a minute! If you do this, won't our reputation be ruined too? I..."

Zhang Ze looked at Lin Feng speechlessly, "What does this have to do with us? The names I registered at the front desk are A Dao and Gargamel, not Zhang Ze and Lin Feng."

"So, what do these two perverts who booked a hotel room have to do with us?"

Raymond Lam, "Who is Gargamel?"

Zhang Ze: "Your current code name is just something you picked up randomly, don't worry about it."

Lin Feng, "..."

As Zhang Ze said this, the real thief, the dragon who had done bad things in his past life and only met Zhang Ze in this life, was in the Azure Lotus Dust, crunching and eating a pancake.

There were piles of Sizhou snacks that Zhang Ze always carried with him around. Under Zhang Ze's combination of harsh words and sweet promises, it had completely become a prisoner of delicious food, completely unaware that its reputation was about to be ruined.

……

After the second magic array was set up, Zhang Ze suddenly became serious.

He poured Lin Feng a cup of tea and then asked him a question.

"What do you think would happen if we lived in a closed box with boundaries on all four sides and limited resources?"

Lin Feng looked at the cup of tea, somewhat warily refusing to drink it. "The box... if it were me, I would definitely find a way to get out."

Zhang Ze: "What if we can't get out? What will happen inside the box?"

After thinking for a moment, Lin Feng said, "The number of living beings in the box will increase, the resources inside will be exhausted, and in the end everyone will die."

Zhang Ze nodded. "So, if it were you, what would you do?"

Lin Feng thought for a moment and then told the truth, "I will try to become the strongest one, occupy the most resources, provide limited supplies to others, and then... then I will try to get out of the box."

Zhang Ze: "That's right, a very efficient method. But the premise is that the box can withstand your abuse, and you really have the ability to survive in the void outside after the box explodes."

Zhang Ze tapped on the wall next to him that was covered by an array, and the pale blue spiritual energy barrier rippled.

"This secret realm called Shan Hai is a box with limited resources and no way to escape."

Lin Feng frowned slightly, recalling the velociraptors in the butcher shop, frantically gnawing on spicy velociraptor legs. "So, they cannibalize their own kind..."

"Population control and resource recycling are necessary measures for the long-term survival of this secret realm."

Zhang Ze picked up the teacup and looked at the red tea inside.

"It's just like drinking tea. You take a sip and spit it out. Although there will still be less tea, you can drink it all day if you don't mind the disgust."

After putting down his teacup, Zhang Ze told Lin Feng all the information he had heard from the thief Long.

"In the legend of these dinosaurs, a saint awakened their intelligence and allowed them to live in this mysterious mountain and sea realm."

"But soon after, the sages disappeared, the system collapsed, chaos ensued, and various races hunted each other, with constant warfare."

"Until one day, the first generation of the Fearful Christmas was born. It ended the chaos with its tyranny and established etiquette for all races."

"And after that, it followed the example of the sages and spread the Way to all peoples."

"At that time, the various dinosaur races believed that the boundaries of the mountains and seas were trials set up for them by sages. As long as they attained enlightenment, they could cross the barriers and go to the wider world."

"They called this era the Peach Blossom Spring Era."

"But unfortunately, there was nothing outside except a tree with a very talkative mouth."

Zhang Ze sighed as he thought about that empty sea of ​​earth.

"Even that fearful saint did not foresee this; his act of imparting cultivation methods to various races caused the depletion of the secret realm."

"And their bodies at this point have become unable to survive without spiritual energy."

"If this continues, there will only be two outcomes. One is that the spiritual energy will be completely depleted, and all the dinosaurs except for a few of the strongest will perish."

"Secondly, as the war for spiritual energy intensifies, this secret realm will be completely destroyed, and all the dragons will be wiped out."

Lin Feng, “So, they…”

Zhang Ze: "They chose to initiate a plan called Epoch Reincarnation."

As he spoke, Zhang Ze tossed the token engraved with the character "帅" (handsome) into Lin Feng's hand.

"That generation of fear saints joined forces with Laozi and defeated all those at the same level as them."

"After that, the leaders of the various factions made a covenant, with three thousand years as one era. At the end of each era, only those who hold the certificate can live to see the first day of the next era."

"Anyone without credentials will be killed by the Fear Saint and the Giant."

The idea that "a dragon without proof is not a dragon" is so deeply ingrained that they have no qualms about eating their own kind. Those who do have such concerns would have already been eaten by other dragons.

"At the same time, hunting outside the 'city' was permitted before the end of the era and was a normal part of the daily routine in accordance with etiquette."

"But conversely, once you enter the 'city' area, all fighting must cease, which is in accordance with the daily etiquette."

"This strange rule has now become part of their culture after several cycles of three thousand years."

"In order to ensure the survival of the whole, the original classics were rewritten, and propriety and barbarity were combined into one. Killing was for survival."

Lin Feng shook his head. "This...this is unreasonable. I don't understand."

Zhang Ze said, "I don't understand it either, but since it has been able to maintain itself until now, it must be reasonable."

Seeing that Lin Feng still didn't understand, Zhang Ze gave an example, "Can you understand Fu Hime? Do you think she's believable?"

Lin Feng, "..."

Zhang Ze's words were like a wake-up call, as if the toilet had been flushed, and all doubts vanished in the sound of Fu Ji's laughter.

Feng thought Zhang Ze's words made perfect sense.

So Feng gave up thinking about it.

Seeing that Feng was no longer conflicted, Zhang Ze continued.

"And this cleansing of the changing of the era not only applies to those below, but also to those above."

"The strong of each race will also be killed, and their deaths are the most important part of the transition between eras."

"According to the original alliance, the number and cultivation level of the strong people of each race cannot exceed a certain limit; those who exceed it will be killed."

"Therefore, at the end of each era, dragons nearing the end of their lifespan would voluntarily be killed, or fight each other to determine the victor who could survive."

"The powerful who died will be refined by secret methods and transformed into the most primordial spiritual energy, which will nourish this world. Their flesh and blood will also be consumed, and everything about them will become nourishment for the next era."

"We saw that Lord Shang at the city gate; that's how he died."

"Their population has exceeded the limit?" Lin Feng asked.

Zhang Ze shook his head. "No, it's that Lord Shang who broke through."

"It violated the covenant, so the Fear Saint borrowed the giant axe that could transform from the Grand Master, then rushed into the Legalist city, killed, and dismembered Shang Jun."

“Every generation of Terror Saints has the ability to kill those of higher levels. In one previous era, that Terror Saint even killed a savage dragon that had secretly broken through to the half-step Void Refinement stage and wiped out its entire race.”

Perhaps influenced by Zhang Ze, Lin Feng's mind also wandered when he heard this, and he suddenly realized a blind spot.

"Wait a minute. If Shang Jun was killed by Kong Sheng, then why did the Grand Master make such a big fuss at the city gate? Anyone who didn't know better would think that it was him."

"Hmm..." Zhang Ze, rubbing his chin, said after a moment, judging others by his own experience, "Maybe he's just showing off."

Lin Feng, "..."

Zhang Ze coughed lightly, bringing the topic back on track, "This year's end-of-era ceremony will be held at Mo Guan, tomorrow. The most important ritual of the ceremony is for the leaders to pay homage to the remains of the saint and pray for a smooth passage through the next era."

"At that time, the evil creature that followed you into the secret realm may also appear. We'll then adapt to the situation."

As he spoke, Zhang Ze tossed a few more new martial arts manuals to Lin Feng, telling him to hone his skills before the battle so he could use more force when stabbing someone tomorrow.

As Lin Feng began to close his eyes and cultivate, Zhang Ze also adjusted his state and prepared to contact his junior sister.

Regarding the box, there was something he didn't tell Raymond Lam, and Raymond Lam didn't mention it either.

That is, if the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm is a box, then the Four Continents are also a box.
It's just that the four continents are large enough that they haven't been completely drained yet.

Zhang Ze closed his eyes and began to communicate with the bouncy ball he had left with his junior sister.

……

In Fucheng, beneath the still-vibrant pink sacred tree, inside a certain vibrant pink treehouse.

Lying in the rocking chair, watching "The Temptation of Returning to the Sect" playing on the little walnut with his right eye to pass the time, while keeping an eye on his junior sister who was keeping watch on the little ball with his left eye, he suddenly jumped up.

The ball moved.

Seeing the ball start moving again, she pulled out a large hammer without saying a word and used a "scooping the moon from the sea" technique on the ball.

While smashing the object, he shouted, "Quick, quick, come help! Senior brother has sent another message!"

(End of this chapter)