Who let him join the Sword Sect?!
Chapter 44: Fuji’s New Life

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Fuji’s New Life

Mei’Er brought Zhang Ze back to the Sword Pavilion, and as soon as they landed, they saw Chen Qin chasing after a woman in a black robe.

Her expression looked a bit panicked.

The woman in the black robe was Fuji, now shrunk to normal human size, and even her complexion appeared much more normal.

Though it still had some blue, you couldn’t see the mycelium anymore.

Although Chen Qin had already reached Foundation Establishment, she still couldn’t keep up with Fuji’s speed. It wasn’t due to her cultivation, but because Fuji didn’t walk with her legs.

At this moment, Fuji was popping out of the ground from various places, like a mole.

Sometimes, her head was here, while her body was there.

This was her innate divine technique; traversing the earth like breathing, it’s something ordinary people and demons couldn’t learn.

At this moment, Fuji was crouched in front of a flowerbed, tilting her head and staring at a little sparrow.

The sparrow also tilted its head, looking at Fuji, probably finding this person strange with a bluish face.

Fuji reached out her hand, and the sparrow tilted its head to the other side.

The sparrow had lived in the Sword Pavilion for years; although not a demon, it had gained some humanlike qualities. It knew that people here wouldn’t harm it.

Then the sparrow was swallowed by Fuji’s fingers.

"!" Zhang Ze’s eyebrow twitched.

By the time Chen Qin ran over, it was already too late. Seeing the little sparrow flapping around half-heartedly, Chen Qin only felt a surge of helplessness.

"Fuji sis, you can’t eat this."

"I didn’t eat it, I was just making friends with it."

Fuji’s fingers unfolded, releasing the frightened sparrow.

"Back then, I swallowed Senior Brother and Lily into my body, and that’s how we became friends."

"Making friends requires the mouth..." Chen Qin corrected Fuji’s misunderstanding from the side.

"Do I need to use my mouth to eat them in?" Fuji opened her mouth wide, as if testing how big she could open it.

"Not eating, but speaking; making friends requires using your mouth to speak."

To be honest, before knowing Zhang Ze, Chen Qin herself didn’t have many friends.

Forcing her to be Fuji’s life mentor was indeed a bit too much.

Before the topic went further astray, Zhang Ze decided to stop everything.

"Fuji sis, why did you come to the surface? Isn’t it hot?" Zhang Ze pointed to the sun overhead.

"Hello, Senior Brother." Sensing Zhang Ze’s approach, Fuji stood up and smiled at him.

"My master gifted me this treasure, an Illusionary Feather Cloak that can ward off the sun and gather yin energy. Wearing it allows me to move on the surface without discomfort."

"Master said it was seized from a Demon Cultivator by him a few years back."

Zhang Ze listened to Fuji’s words, unsure where to even begin finding faults.

How could a sister, who seemed to have lived for countless millennia, call a 16-year-old kid ’Senior Brother,’ and refer to Li Guanqi, who is over 300, as ’elderly’?

But in the world of immortal cultivation, seniority and age aren’t matters one should think too deeply about.

For example, Chen Qin calls Zhang Ze Senior Brother, and Aunt Mo Jingchun is his master’s junior sister.

The Pavilion Master is Aunt’s master, but now Aunt is also the matron of the Sword Sect, and has become the Pavilion Master’s mistress.

Regarding Chen Qin, old Li must call Zhang Ze Uncle Master, while Zhang Ze and Zhengyi should be considered buddies.

Zhang Ze thought about it, and decided, let them call him whatever they wanted.

She calls me Senior Brother, so I’ll call her sister.

"Sister, please come with me, I have something to ask."

"Alright."

Leading the way, Zhang Ze suddenly remembered something. He pulled out another book from his Hundred Treasures Bag and handed it to Chen Qin.

"Take a look, Junior Sister, it’s a novel written by Senior Brother."

Mei’Er’s face changed, and she wanted to snatch the book away, but Zhang Ze had already anticipated Mei’Er’s move in advance.

"Don’t worry, Sister Mei’Er, this one doesn’t have that part."

Mei’Er breathed a sigh of relief.

"Which part? And what does Senior Brother mean by ’fingers moist, selecting palace note’?"

Chen Qin, who always reads books from the middle, at this time was pointing at the words in the book, looking at Zhang Ze with curious eyes.

"Wouldn’t playing the pipa sound terrible if you dampen your fingers with water?"

Zhang Ze hurriedly snatched the book back.

"Wrong, wrong. It’s this one."

Zhang Ze pulled out the real edited version from his chest and handed it to Chen Qin, then under Mei’Er’s murderous gaze, also handed this one to Mei’Er.

Chen Qin received the edited version, flipped through it, and found the previous puzzling part was missing, she angrily glared at Zhang Ze.

Meaning to find out that issue no matter what.

Initially, Zhang Ze wanted to say, if Junior Sister doesn’t understand, Senior Brother can teach you when free.

But he felt that if he said this, Mei’Er would cut out his kidneys.

So he laughed it off and decided to talk about it some other day.

Fuji was just watching, smiling.

Though she couldn’t understand, she found it amusing. She felt that this way of life was nice, better than staying underground alone.

They went to Chen Qin’s place, where they found Liu Lili already waiting inside, very attentively brewing tea for everyone.

Zhang Ze sniffed the tea and found the aroma familiar, "Where did the tea come from?"

"Traded something with Elder Wang, have a taste, it’s said to be top-quality Spirit Tea, one sip replenishes energy and strengthens the foundation." Liu Lili generously boasted for once.

"What did you trade?" Zhang Ze asked.

"Nothing much, just a Heavenly Illusion Pendant, the limited edition kind, but I still profited greatly."

Zhang Ze leaned over to sniff the tea cake, and looked at Lily with the expression of someone seeing a fool.

"You lost, this isn’t Spirit Tea."

"This tea can be bought at the Yangguan Road market, five jin for one tael of silver."

"How do you know?"

"Because I bought it."

"..." Seeking revenge on Elder Wang, Lily didn’t dare, so she could only break off another piece of tea cake, transforming the bland tea into starlight.

"Drink tea, drink tea, Fuji sister try some too."

Fuji took the teacup, examined it, then threw the teacup into her body.

"Hmm, a strange taste, different from the tree roots I ate before."

"It’s somewhat old, must have been piled up in some dark place for a long time."

"But that’s also good, it removes the heat; I find it quite tasty."

After speaking, Fuji spat out the empty teacup after savoring the tea.

Zhang Ze was again taken aback.

’Damn, got cheated, this old tea was a loss.’

Chen Qin misunderstood, she leaned towards Zhang Ze and whispered, "This can’t be changed; Fuji sister eats steamed buns this way too."

"She eats steam buns?"

"No, she throws them in together, spits out the bun, then eats the bamboo steamer saying the taste is nice."

"Where are the buns?"

"Tricked Lily into eating them this morning."

Indeed, when you cut open a loli, it’s black inside.

Zhang Ze really felt the topic can’t continue; he must stop Chen Qin from becoming a comedian.

Someone has to maintain their persona.

Zhang Ze opened the system and glanced, finding Chen Qin’s title still illuminated as [One Sword, Thousand Mechanisms] not changed to something odd.

He clapped his hands, drawing everyone’s attention back to him, and spoke about business.

"Lily, how are those mechanisms I asked you to prepare?"

"All done, Sword Spirit Senior is testing them; those low-tier sword spirits need to be redesigned."

"How solid are they?"

"Tested by some Foundation Establishment Stage seniors, unless someone with exceptional talent tries, they can’t be broken."

Zhang Ze nodded, not waiting for her to ask, Chen Qin also raised her hand.

"I already spoke with mother, the delivery of that item will take some days, after all, it’s an old piece."

Zhang Ze nodded, finally looked at Fuji.

"Finally, the digging job will be entrusted to sister."

The natural cave in Celestial Driver Valley was sealed using sword arrays by Zhengyi because of Stone Pill and Innate Land.

A new Trial Cave needs to be excavated afresh.

"Where to dig?" Fuji asked.

Zhang Ze informed Fuji of the current positioning of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion and his requirements for the cave’s dimensions and depth.

Fuji listened, nodding, but her expression seemed absent-minded.

When Zhang Ze finished, seeing Fuji’s expression, he wasn’t sure if he had explained clearly.

Just as he was about to reiterate.

Fuji snapped back to reality, "It’s dug."

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