Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 473 The Goddess of Glass Witnesses Past and Present
Zhang Ze exited the temple, closed the door, took a deep breath, waited for a while, and then opened it again.

However, Ah Li was still inside the ancestral temple.

This time, Ah Li changed her sleeping position.

This time it lay on its side with its back to the door, its head and feet tilted back, and its heels touching the back of its head.

With his little belly sticking out, it looked like a round, fat, curved knife.

Zhang Ze, "..."

Zhang Ze thought for a moment and then closed the door again.

It opened for the third time, but what I saw was still the round moon and the fat scimitar.

Zhang Ze, "..."

The few members of the Fear Saints who were forcefully watching outside the ancestral temple seemed somewhat confused by Zhang Ze's appearance, but they didn't want to disturb him.

They feared this was some kind of magical ritual belonging to humans.

The fearsome saint looked down at Lin Feng, "Man, what are your companions doing?"

Lin Feng, who was somewhat familiar with Master Ze, pondered for a moment before speaking.

"He probably saw something he didn't want to see; he's escaping reality."

……

To be honest, Ah Li's death-like sleeping posture somewhat ruined the atmosphere.

Zhang Ze had anticipated that this place was related to Ah Li.

But in Zhang Ze's imagination, that place must at least contain a mound of bones or the phantom of a saint.

At the very least, it has to be a nesting doll within a nesting doll, the ultimate secret of washing feet in the long river of time.

Sleeping with Ah Li is really not a good thing.

'Could it be that the reason Ah Li hasn't answered my calls is simply because it's been sleeping here?'

Zhang Ze stepped forward, put his toes under A Li, and before it could hug his thigh with its Sleepy Fat Dragon Fist, he gently kicked it up.

"Wake up, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, time to eat."

The word "eat" probably had an effect; Ah Li's nose twitched, and her eyelids began to tremble.

Her eyelids twitched slightly, then closed again, as if the world of her dream was too precious to be missed.

Seeing this, Zhang Ze grabbed Ah Li in his hand, holding her head and tail, and pulled hard.

Ah Li was stretched into the long, slender shape she had always dreamed of, and after Zhang Ze let go, she bounced back into a tight ball.

After playing it several times, Ah Li finally entered the "about to start up" mode after a long groan.

However, no one knows what Ah Li dreamed about in the end, because she suddenly let out a howl and raised her hand to punch Zhang Ze.

"Ugh, stay away from Zhang Ze!"

The punch was powerful and heavy, aimed straight at Zhang Ze's face.

Because the incident happened so suddenly, Zhang Ze instinctively ducked his head down.

Ah Li's fist grazed Zhang Ze's scalp and burst through the door, nearly shattering Xiaoyaozi's primordial spirit, which had quietly flown in and was lying at the doorway, ready to peek.

After Xiaoyaozi's primordial spirit fluttered away, A Li opened her eyes.

"Huh? Zhang Ze! What are you doing here? Where's your neck?"

Upon seeing Zhang Ze, A Li was overjoyed. Without waiting for Zhang Ze's reply, she broke free from his grasp and, with a graceful "Flying Dragon Swimming Arm" technique, slid smoothly onto Zhang Ze's shoulder, happily patting his head.

"It's nothing, just a minor accident, nothing to worry about."

Zhang Ze pulled his head out of his chest cavity.

"Speaking of which, what's going on here? What are you doing here?"

Zhang Ze pushed aside the little tail that Ah Li kept sticking into his mouth and asked.

However, when faced with this question, Ah Li didn't know where to begin.

A look of weariness and vicissitude appeared on Ah Li's chubby face, but it was fleeting.

It grabbed Zhang Ze's hair with one hand, took the snacks Zhang Ze handed it with the other, and asked a seemingly unrelated question while chewing.

"What do you think the development of civilization should look like?"

Zhang Ze didn't answer, but paused for a moment, "Hey, you can ask such profound questions?"

Ah Li, “(°д°)”

After prying aside the tail that was sticking into his mouth again, Zhang Ze entered a serious thought mode.

After thinking for a while, he stretched out his finger and used his spiritual energy to draw a helical structure similar to DNA in the air in front of him.

He looked at the drawing he had made, put his hands behind his back, and said.

"Based on my personal opinion and the situation in the four continents and a certain world, I believe, in my limited understanding..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Why are you adding so many prerequisites?" Ah Li waved her hand, interrupting Zhang Ze's nonsense.

Zhang Ze said, "This is called layered armor. If you do it this way, you won't argue with me."

"Normally it's fine, but today is a joyous day, our reunion after four and a half days of being out of touch. I think the atmosphere should be more relaxed." Ah Li retorted, "When have I ever argued with you? Our relationship..."

Zhang Ze, "A square pig..."

Ah Li, "Ahhhhh, shut up! What do you know about squares? That, that's..."

Zhang Ze: "See? I told you we needed armor."

Ah Li: "...Alright, you can continue."

After the long-awaited playful antics ended, Zhang Ze, having finished applying his armor, continued the previous topic.

He pointed to the drawing he had made and said.

"The pace of civilization development is uneven, and for most of the time it progresses quite slowly, or even stagnates or regresses."

"During this period, technological development lacked a clear direction, and everyone was searching for a way out."

"However, this stagnation and accumulation is not useless."

"When you accumulate to a certain level, you will reach a certain point."

"Scattered technologies will be consolidated, and key technologies will be broken through. After thousands of years of accumulation, civilization will usher in a brief period of explosive growth."

Zhang Ze thought of the Thousand Machines Pavilion and the millions of years that Blue Star had existed.

"But when the outbreak ends, we will stagnate again, going around in circles, accumulating, waiting for the next outbreak."

"Moreover, each period of civilization's explosion is both the time when civilization is at its most powerful and the time when it is most vulnerable."

"Danger is everywhere, whether due to external factors or simply because of one's own recklessness."

"If we cannot survive, civilization will come to an end."

Zhang Ze waved his hand, dividing the drawn shape into three.

He started annotating the nodes.

At the nodes representing the four continents, Zhang Zebiao marked each period.

In the primordial war among myriad races, the human race suddenly comprehended the Golden Elixir Method.

At the end of the chaotic Ten Kingdoms period, the Nascent Soul cultivator refined his primordial spirit and broke through to the Divine Transformation Realm.

……

Fifteen hundred years before the Great War of the Central Continent, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sect ascended to the Great Ascension Realm.

Now, at Qianji Pavilion.

After marking the four continents, Zhang Ze recalled the history of the mountains and seas that Kong Sheng had told him and marked the development nodes of the mountains and seas one by one.

As Zhang Ze said, there is a long period of stagnation between each breakthrough, during which the progress of civilization is negligible.

During periods of explosive growth, things that were unimaginable in the past thousands of years can be accomplished in a decade or a century. At the same time, each period of explosive growth is accompanied by war or drastic changes in the environment.

After drawing the illustrations of mountains and seas, Zhang Ze stopped looking at the last one, unsure how to explain it to A Li.

It's not that I want to hide it, it's just that it's a bit troublesome and I don't know where to begin.

But just as he was about to brush it off with the all-purpose excuse of dreaming.

Ah Li stretched out her little hand and touched those nodes before he could.

The first time I climbed down the tree.

My first time playing with fire.

This is my first time using this tool.

Migration during the Ice Age.

The first seed planted in the black soil of a tribe by the river.

The tribe transformed into a city-state, and the first altar was erected.

Dynasties rise, iron cavalry sweep across the wilderness, and white sails traverse the vast oceans.

Gunpowder was ignited, and cannons breached the ancient city walls.

Amidst the roar of steam and electricity, civilization soared into the sky, and the meat grinder of war descended once more.

The puncher knocked dots into the paper, and the rocket pierced the sky.

……

Ah Li carefully marked each node, and stopped at a point in the past where Zhang Ze was unaware of the future.

After a long silence.

“You…” Zhang Ze looked at A Li in shock.

Ah Li tilted her head and blinked her big eyes, "You told me all of this, partner."

After saying that, A-Li reached out her small hand and pressed it against Zhang Ze's forehead.

"Hmph, I remember now."

"Let me, the Goddess Li, guide you through the past and present."

(End of this chapter)