Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 868 - 433: You’re Going to Be in the Textbooks

The room was brightly lit, and the song of God Li was blocked outside the window.

Junior Sister rested her chin on her hand, looking at Lily who was gobbling down food, feeling a bit sulky.

"Slow down, no one's fighting with you for it..."

"Nom nom, nom nom..."

Holding Maomao's small bowl, Lily slurped down the sea cucumber within as if she were drinking noodles. After licking the bottom clean, she tapped the bowl to signal for another serving.

Zhang Ze sighed and poured a pot of pig's trotters into a large food bucket, mixed it together, and handed it to Lily.

"Thanks, give me some sweet water..." Ditching Maomao's small bowl, Lily buried her head into the food bowl again.

At this moment, Lily's appearance was somewhat embarrassing; her prideful twin ponytails were cut in half, with the other half mysteriously gone.

Covered in dirt like she had been buried alive for three days, her clothes also had large holes revealing the shiny Golden Armor underneath, which made her figure look even more dramatic.

Overall, she exuded a sort of beggar punk vibe.

"What happened to you? Were you kidnapped?" Zhang Ze asked as he placed the peach juice beside Lily.

"Wait until I'm done. Boss, I barely made it back." Lily, with rapid movements, consumed the food quickly and finished half the bucket of pig's trotters.

Zhang Ze and Junior Sister exchanged a glance, shaking their heads, confused about Lily's situation.

Lily's appearance was quite sudden.

Strictly speaking, she didn't come back by herself; Zhang Ze 'summoned' her back.

When Lily's voice emerged from the earth, Junior Sister immediately searched the surroundings, unable to sense any trace of Lily.

There was no Lily scent, no Fuji scent, nor Maomao's sunny dog scent.

It wasn't until Zhang Ze asked, 'Lily, where are you?' that Lily's presence squeezed out from the void like jam.

However, Lily didn't sprout from the ground; instead, she crawled out from the purely decorative dry well at the corner of the yard.

With her hair disheveled and face gray and dirty, resembling a dirt-poor Sadako.

Then the scene with the food bucket occurred.

After eating her fill, Lily skillfully retrieved a [One-click Cleaning Talisman] from the drawer on the table and slapped it on her forehead.

With a flash of light, apart from her missing ponytail half, Lily returned to a near-new state.

Rubbing her belly, sipping tea, Lily leaned back in her chair and spoke.

"Boss, let me tell you, I've been to outer space too! Burp!"

Lily pointed a finger up to the sky.

...

The saying goes: fortune favors the bold. Though Lily appeared timid, in certain matters her courage was surprisingly great.

After hearing from Zhang Ze about the barrier and outer space, Lily couldn't resist the urge to explore the sky herself.

Therefore, she didn't return with Junior Sister but stealthily transformed into an ace pilot, preparing to fly up and see what's out there beyond the sky.

"I took a Flying Ship up there, and everything was fine at first, until I reached the end of the sky, and my Flying Ship malfunctioned."

Slurping her tea to quench her thirst, Lily exclaimed.

"Malfunctioned? Isn't there any Spiritual Qi near the sky?" Junior Sister asked curiously.

By now, her interest was piqued by Lily's story, and she postponed playing a round with Zhang Ze.

"No, there's an abundance of Spiritual Qi near the sky, even to the point of overflowing."

Lily placed her teacup on the table and stirred it with a toothpick.

"The Flying Ship and Magical Artifact malfunctioned due to a 'vortex' over there."

Lily flauntingly stirred the tea, attempting to manipulate the water with Qi, simulating the scene to display her prowess.

Then, she accidentally spilled tea all over the table.

"Uh, I didn't mean to... I'll clean it later, you check this out first."

Lily quickly brought out two small boxes.

The two boxes, one large and one small, were completely black, with metal plaques whose inscriptions had become indistinct.

Like they were burnt, reflecting distorted rainbow colors.

The box itself had dense dark red cracks, under the light, the color twisted like a runny rainbow.

"These two black boxes, the larger one was taken from the Flying Ship I rode up on.

"The smaller one was previously taken from the Flying Ship crashed under the Dongdong Express project."

Dongdong Express, a temporarily shelved project by the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

This project aimed to use fully automated Flying Ships as transportation to create the shortest East-West route across the Central Continent.

Thousand Mechanism Pavilion intended to use this aerial route to sell its products to the Western Barbarians.

Although the idea was sound, implementation faced challenges, not just dangers in the Central Continent, but resistance from the Western Barbarians too.

Some Western Barbarian tribes relied on being middlemen for profits.

They sent people to purchase, then carried the new products from Thousand Mechanism Pavilion to the west for resale at high prices.

Lily's direct sales strategy obviously threatened their business.

Many unmanned Flying Ships crashed either due to unknown reasons in the Central Continent or were secretly shot down.

Thus, the project was eventually abandoned.

Zhang Ze remembered this incident and took the two small black boxes, inspecting them for a while.

The black box in his hand had been rendered completely useless, now just an oddly shaped piece of stone.

"I don't know about the rest, but this black box definitely crashed in the Central Continent, and wasn't artificially tampered with," Lily pointed at the small box and said.