Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 769 - 396: Qiao Family’s Dramatic Prime-Time Show

"So, what are you looking for the old man for?" Qiao Lezhi asked, seeing Chen Qin's uncertain expression.

"Well... it's hard to explain right now, let's talk about it outside." Now that they had found the family member, the directory was no longer needed, and Chen Qin urgently wanted to leave this place.

For some reason, staying here made her feel not only drenched but also constantly watched by someone.

"Let's go," Qiao Lezhi said indifferently.

After the three of them left the first-layer of the old Library Pavilion, an ancient book placed on the top of a shelf opened its eyes, turning into a sticky blue.

A Fuji disguised as a book.

Fuji watched the direction in which the three left for a while, yawned, squirmed, and finally closed its eyes again, and its body returned to the color of a book.

A small note was tucked inside this book.

The writing on the note was somewhat blurred due to moisture, but it could still be somewhat recognizable.

[Fuji's Task Log]

[Task One: Help Brother Zhang Ze find someone (1/1)]

[Task Two: Hide here and give someone a scare (0/1)]

--- Fuji Task Execution in Progress ---

Main Pavilion of the Sword Sect.

To discuss matters, one naturally had to find a bright and refreshing place, and such places were scarce in the Main Pavilion of the Sword Sect, aside from the mountaintop, the best place was the Cloud Viewing Platform specifically used for drying quilts.

However, today's Cloud Viewing Platform was somewhat unsuitable.

Not because it was overcast today, but because there was a bald head in the sky above the Cloud Viewing Platform.

A bald monk from the Buddhist Sect was sitting suspended in mid-air, dignified in appearance, emitting a golden light all over his body like a small sun, coating the sheets and quilts hanging on the Cloud Viewing Platform in a layer of gold.

"Where did that monk come from?" Chen Qin asked.

"I don't know." Qiao Lezhi shook her head.

She had been staying near the old Library Pavilion these days and did not know much about the outside world.

"Let me check..." Mei'Er took out a small walnut, flipped through it, and soon found the answer.

"Oh, it's a task posted by a senior brother over at the Buddhist Sect."

Chen Qin, "What task?"

Mei'Er looked at the task and read it aloud word by word.

"Urgent, today's Main Pavilion of the Sword Sect is overcast, with rain expected the day after tomorrow. For the health of the juniors and sisters of the Main Pavilion, the future of the Six Sects, the peace of the East Sea, and the harmony of the Four Continents,

now urgently summoning a Buddhist sect brother who has cultivated the Great Sun Golden Light Spell to help us dry the quilts."

Chen Qin, "..."

Is this how the sect tasks are used after the integration of the Six Sects?

Chen Qin wasn't sure.

However, since they were already here, it didn't make sense to drive the person away. Just as the three were about to change places, they saw that bald head descend on his own from the sky.

The golden light converged, he nodded and smiled at Chen Qin and the others, then stepped aside and walked past them, towards the foot of the mountain.

Chen Qin looked at the bald one's back, "Master, where are you going? Not doing the task anymore?"

The bald head turned back, smiled slightly at Chen Qin, and took out a small walnut used for timing,

"This monk's time is up, if I continue drying, it'll cost extra."

"Is the benefactor considering adding more time?" The master asked earnestly with a dignified demeanor.

Chen Qin, "Haha, no need, Master, please take your time."

After the bald head left, by the sheets imbued with the fragrance of Buddha, Mei'Er and Chen Qin sat across the table, waiting for Qiao Lezhi to recount the thrilling past of the Qiao family.

Chen Qin remembered a night when Zhang Ze told her a story about the Qiao Family Mansion.

In the story, to seize the trade routes on the Great Sea Route, the Qiao family fought using Substitute Messengers, ultimately winning, reaching the end of the world. They climbed the Sky Tower and built a Qiao Family Mansion, ruling the world, as everyone had a star-shaped birthmark on their necks, so they were gradually dubbed the Five Star Elders.

Chen Qin thought the affairs of Qiao Lezhi's family should be similar.

However, the story wasn't as exciting as imagined.

Qiao Lezhi, "I've never met the old man; he passed away before I was born. If you want to know his affairs, you'd have to ask my father."

"And then?" Chen Qin hadn't even put the melon seeds in her mouth before the story ended.

"That's it. I've never met my grandfather, what else can I say?"

"Impossible, this can't be that simple. Think again, are there any other secrets in your family?"

To make Qiao Lezhi recall the so-called secrets of the Qiao family, Chen Qin hurriedly told Lezhi the story about her grandfather Qiao Tianqiao, which she heard from Zhang Ze.

Qiao Lezhi cracked the melon seeds, listening intently.

"Amazing, turns out Grandpa did such things..." Qiao Lezhi murmured.

"You really didn't know?" Chen Qin asked again.

Qiao Lezhi shook her head, indicating she truly did not know.

"Then, why did you come to the Sword Sect? Is it something arranged by your grandfather or your father?" Chen Qin was still unwilling to give up.

"There's no arrangement; I came to the Sword Sect simply because it's close to home. Sixty miles west of the Sword Sect is my hometown," Qiao Lezhi said.

Chen Qin, "Ah? Then your father..."

"He's currently at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, selling bracelets on the street there."

"..."

In Qiao Lezhi's memory, her father Qiao Erli had a slight advantage over the grandfather she'd never met.

But just a slight one.

Qiao Lezhi's father, Qiao Erli, had low cultivation, only at Foundation Establishment.

As a failed Loose Cultivator, he hadn't traveled to many places.

What he could tell Qiao Lezhi were the half-true tales he heard from taverns, about hunting beasts in the mountains and exploring the rivers and seas.

It was only after Qiao Lezhi entered the Sword Sect for cultivation and saw true cultivators that she realized the stories her father told were all fabricated.