Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 754 - 389: The Correct Way to Develop Lily

After leaving the Martial Medical Hall, Zhang Ze and Junior Sister rode on the Wind Traveling Ship, carrying the sleeping Lily who looked like a corpse, flying towards the System House by the Qinghe River.

According to Xiaoxue's suggestion, to solve this matter, they still needed to find Dan Dan and the others.

As for Zhang Ze, although he knew some Star God techniques, he was currently limited to controlling those silver metals.

As for more advanced things, like emitting light, Zhang Ze hadn't learned them, and he didn't know the specific principles or methods.

"So absurd." Zhang Ze glanced back at Lily, who was tied to the back seat, drooling with her eyes closed against the wind, and muttered to himself.

Junior Sister, holding Li, piloted another Wind Traveling Ship, "Speaking of which, Lily turning out like this might also have something to do with that Earth Sea you mentioned."

"How so?" Zhang Ze asked.

"The fluctuation last time not only pushed you deeper but also reactivated the Northern Territory array. Although Sister Wang quickly destroyed it, at the time, Lily and I were right in the range of the array's effect," Junior Sister recalled.

"It was like having the Divine Soul stripped away, as if the whole person was being dragged into the abyss. Realizing something was off, I prepared to take Lily and run, but Lily started glowing first and even erected a Qi Barrier, isolating the Earth Sea array's influence. I thought Lily used some Magical Artifact."

"Why are you just remembering this now?" Li, held in Junior Sister's arms, asked curiously.

"Who would've thought of this, they couldn't be connected at all, okay? They're too different," Junior Sister replied, a bit speechless.

"You say Lily turned into a Big Flapping Monkey, there's evidence, but the Star God…like you Li, if there weren't witnesses and evidence, who could imagine you'd be square-shaped…"

"Wow wow wow wow wow! We agreed not to mention this!" Li interrupted Junior Sister with a strange cry.

Zhang Ze was silent in the front. Thinking back now, Lily's special situation wasn't without signs.

There were early clues.

First, Lily was really capable of starving. Initially, when her master was gone and the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion hadn't been established, she could go months without eating or drinking, simply living off the northwestern wind. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her the king of toughness.

Actually, Lily wasn't stupid, and she could learn the cultivation methods of the Human Race, but she always had some deviation in understanding.

Finally, Lily's bizarre array manipulation ability and her intuitive sense in Artifact Refining were exceptionally unusual.

Besides her manipulation technique being completely different from a normal cultivator, Lily wasn't constrained by cultivation level. Generally speaking, the Magical Artifacts a cultivator could control were equivalent to their cultivation level, and controlling artifacts beyond their tier could easily lead to problems.

But Lily was different; she was like a flesh-made Artifact Spirit.

With a Foundation Establishment ant's stature, she could easily control a Golden Core-level Thousand Mechanism Magical Artifact and even barely manage an Initial Tier Nascent Soul-level Magical Artifact.

Really uncanny...

Junior Sister's voice interrupted Zhang Ze's reminiscence, "We're here."

Qinghe River wasn't far from Thousand Mechanism Town, and they arrived shortly.

Zhang Ze put away the Wind Traveling Ship in mid-air, grabbed Lily, and jumped down directly.

...

Lily felt like she had a very long dream, an ethereal dream crossing thousands of years.

And she herself was like a chick curled up in an egg, observing that ethereal dream through a small crack.

There were Sword Immortals chasing clouds to slay monsters, dressed in white, a sword flash cold across nineteen provinces…

There were guests filling the halls, a Taoist in green singing loudly, raising a cup for a hearty drink…

Time was chaotic, and in a daze, there were golden spears and iron horses, black clouds pressing the city, a scholar standing on the city wall, golden scales opening the sky, a slash quelling the chaos…

Following the blade's path, Lily fell into the vast mountains, in the ancient Grotto Heaven pit, watching an elder in beast skin pounding herbs and observing the sky…

Touring within the dream, Lily found it very interesting, just like the boss said, was it Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou, true or false, not wanting to leave.

Although she didn't know who Zhou was…

But she knew the next line… okay, maybe not the next line, anyway, Lily just remembered this.

"Chicks transform into Peng, cut mushrooms, Peng transforms into great Kun to cut potatoes, sauté with caramel, pour hot water, star anise, cassia, thirteen spices, soy sauce, white sugar, red chili, Kun too large to fit in one pot."

Thinking of this Kun too large to fit in one pot, Lily suddenly felt hungry.

"Starving! I want to eat!"

Everything in the dream faded like fleeting clouds, Lily opened her eyes.

She found many people around her, including Zhang Ze, Chen Qin, Fuji, and a group of Star Gods shining with golden light.

A single-yolked egg Star God, on its egg white Qi Barrier, simulated a crying expression, with a piece of paper floating in front of it that read:

[You're awake? How did you turn into a girl?]

Lily was puzzled, "?"

"What are you talking about? I've always been a girl, don't disregard flat-chested people, okay."

Lily sat up from the bed, and she started glowing again.

"Hungry, hungry, anything will do, give me something!" Lily said.

Zhang Ze patted his pocket, took out a steel bowl, poured a heap of candied snacks, jerky, and pill medicine into it, tossed it twice, mixed it up, and handed it to Lily.

"Why does this steel bowl look familiar?" Li climbed onto Zhang Ze's shoulder and whispered into his ear.

Zhang Ze said, "Maomao's."

Li said, "And the things inside the bowl…"

Zhang Ze said, "Maomao's."

Li said, "..."

Some things left unsaid equate to never happening, and to be frank, Maomao's recipe was specially customized together by Medicine King Valley and Beast Taming Sect, so as long as the steel bowl is exchanged for a food box, and the candied meats aren't cut so fine, wherever you go, it's a top-tier medicated meal for Body Cultivators.

Nourishing Qi and blood, nurturing essence and spirit.

"Burp~~"

Unaware of the truth, Lily, who was full, belched very inelegantly and then jumped off the bed, stretching long and lazily.

"Slept so well, I'm off now ੧ᐛ੭"

Judging by her demeanor, Lily seemed to have forgotten that she was still glowing and her whimpering and weak appearance earlier this morning.

Zhang Ze grabbed Lily by the collar, "You're still shining."

"Ah, shining… Ah! Boss, save me, the food I just ate won't be my last meal, will it! If so, give me some more, it's actually pretty good…" Lily changed her face as if drinking soup.

Removing Lily, tossing her back onto the bed, letting her sit properly, Zhang Ze deliberated over his words and explained Lily's situation to her.

...

"So that's how it is… Lily you…"

After finishing, Zhang Ze saw Lily looking down with her eyes, her expression reminiscing about the past.

"Are you okay, Lily?" Fuji climbed onto the bed, shaking Lily's shoulder.

"Ah, I'm fine, I just remembered some things from before." Lily said.

"When I was little, I asked my master where I came from, and my master told me he fished me up from the river.

"He said one day, he found a big stone glowing with golden light in the river, and after prying it open, there I was inside…

"Turns out master wasn't making things up, I really was yolk-turned…"

Speaking here, Lily seemed to have thought of something fun, she giggled, jumped off the bed, covered her face with one hand, and struck a pose.

"From now on, please call me by my new name, the Original Egg-born·Eternal Dapeng·Overlord Liu Lili!"

Zhang Ze said, "..."

'Hmm, being able to come up with this ridiculous name shows Lily really is okay.'

Lily accepted the matter very quickly, surprisingly quickly.

Though it saved a lot of trouble, it also rendered the comforting words everyone had prepared useless.

"Stop monkeying around, things aren't over yet." Zhang Ze tapped Lily's head, then turned to look at the group of Star Gods.

"It's up to you, teach her how to control the brightness."

Though Lily was fine, the light-emitting issue still needed addressing, as Xiaoxue mentioned, staying bright all the time would eventually harm her foundation and affect her life.

"No problem, leave it to me." The old and wise yang yolk trembled confidently, eager to teach.

It deemed being a master its rightful duty.

However, after half a day…

Lily just sat on the bed giggling foolishly, with the light around her brighter, showing no signs of having learned anything.

The old one curled up in the corner, the brightness of its yolk fluctuating, seemingly exuding a sense of defeat and existential crisis.

While Zhang Ze looked at his fingers lighting up and dimming, changing the colors of his fingers repeatedly, and ultimately simulating a television snow screen effect.

He started using his fingers to tease the nearby little Fuji.

The bad news was Lily not only didn't learn but also made the old one doubt its yolkly existence.

The good news was that Zhang Ze, who was listening, learned. He could now control any part of his limbs to glow locally…

But, it wasn't Zhang Ze who was unwell.

After teasing Fuji for a while, Zhang Ze suddenly had an idea. He stood up and looked at giggling Lily.

"Let me try, I might have a way."