Zhang Ze felt for the first time that he couldn't understand human language.
He thought those words shouldn't appear together in a sentence.
"Is the information reliable?"
Looking at Xiangxiang who had logged out elsewhere and returned to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, Zhang Ze wore a complicated expression.
Life is full of surprises, it's not even the time to face death, yet he had witnessed so many new things.
Although Zhang Ze didn't understand, nor did he wish to, he was really curious.
Exactly which unmarried young lady had managed to gain the favor of a clan's Dragon...
No, we can't assume the other party's gender and species just yet.
After all, with the Village's stature and experience, anything is possible.
"What exactly is going on?"
Facing Mr. Zhang's questioning, Xiangxiang responded with an equally complex expression.
"Really, look..."
Just as Xiangxiang was about to speak, Zhang Ze raised his hand to interrupt, signaling her to speak later.
Then, under Lily's eager gaze, craving drama and wanting to see a big show, Zhang Ze turned around and pointed behind Lily.
"Hey, why is Maomao holding gold in his mouth?"
"Where, where, where?"
Without discerning true or false, Lily quickly turned around to look in the direction Zhang Ze pointed, and Zhang Ze took this opportunity to sneakily make a move.
Although Lily noticed nothing, her overprotective security array instantly lit up.
But just as the array lit up, Zhang Ze's hand suddenly vanished, reappearing instantly on the other side of the Protective Golden Light.
Zhang Ze gently tapped the back of Lily's neck, then pinched a technique with his fingers, conjuring a dark green pill out of thin air, which transformed into a wisp of medicinal smoke that went into Lily's nose.
Lily barely let out a hum before falling to the ground with a 'plop'.
Xiangxiang, "What are you doing?"
Zhang Ze, "It's a secret. If Lily hears it, by tomorrow, the whole Thousand Mechanism Pavilion will probably know about it."
Xiangxiang, "True, but by the way, what was that move? I've never seen it before?"
She hadn't seen this move in the database.
"This." Zhang Ze sent out another palm strike from a distance, his hand once again disappearing, and appearing next to Maomao in the next moment.
After petting Maomao's head and hiring Maomao to drag Lily away with the price of five sausages, Zhang Ze explained to Xiangxiang.
"This is the White Mountain Sect's Floating Cloud Palm, a new cultivation technique developed after the Qinghe Association, but the White Mountain Sect justifiedly disowned it, so I didn't upload it to the database," Zhang Ze explained.
Xiangxiang, "Justified disowning?"
Zhang Ze, "Yes, even if you chop off the White Cloud Sect Leader's head now, he wouldn't admit that this move came from the White Cloud Sect."
Xiangxiang, "Why?"
Zhang Ze, "Because it's embarrassing."
The White Mountain Sect's Floating Cloud Palm has very clear advantages, with abilities like remote object manipulation and breaking through array situations.
However, its disadvantages are equally prominent: initially, the attack trajectory is random, and the strike lands wherever fate decides.
Only after reaching a certain level can one control the direction of the attack.
Yet even if the direction can be controlled, its power is pitifully small due to the unique nature of the cultivation technique.
Though it can penetrate arrays, the force is too weak to break through the physical defenses of cultivators of the same level (excluding Lily), and at most it can only give the opponent a massage.
Since it couldn't be used to massage an enemy to death in battle, this useless new cultivation technique was sidelined as soon as it was created.
"Later, somehow this technique ended up with a certain pirating group, got plagiarized, its name changed to be a so-called 'Clothed Eighteen Touches' evil technique, exactly the kind of eighteen touches you are thinking."
"So that's how it is... Do you need me to upload it now?"
Xiangxiang shook her head, indicating to forget it, so as not to add to the White Mountain Sect Leader's troubles.
"Now, about the main topic, what's going on with the Village?" Confirming that Lily had already been dragged away by Maomao, Zhang Ze asked.
Xiangxiang sighed and started explaining the origins of the matter.
The matter had to start with the Spirit Deer Valley.
After the Medicine King Valley confirmed the wasteland restoration plan on Luoyu Mountain, the Beast Taming Sect, which always had a love-hate relationship with it, also decided to get involved.
Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility, nobody wants to be left out.
So, after the Mother Tree and Xiaoxue divided the whole wasteland into numerous tiny areas, the Beast Taming Sect selected a few areas to restore using their beast taming methods.
"The aura in the wasteland is chaotic and disorderly, reorganizing it is quite troublesome.
"But as the saying goes, destroy before rebuilding; overthrowing everything is actually more convenient. After consideration, Old Sect Leader Li planned to use the Dragon Qi from the Spirit Deer Valley to disperse the aura of the wasteland directly."
Xiangxiang pushed several meeting records of the Beast Taming Sect that Fuji had secretly observed in front of Zhang Ze.
"Can this work? What if it fails?" Zhang Ze asked, picking up the records. He thought this method sounded pretty reckless.
Xiangxiang seemed prepared and played an audio recording that Fuji had secretly listened to.
[Can it succeed? What if it fails?]
The question was from an elder of the Beast Taming Sect.
[There is no such thing as smooth sailing all the time, everything has a first time, whether it succeeds or not, you only know by trying.]
[If it fails, just start over.]
It was the voice of Old Sect Leader Li.
[And even if trouble arises, it doesn't matter, with Qin Lang covering, I have his signed note boasting about it.]
Again, it was Old Sect Leader Li's voice.
Xiangxiang cut off the audio, shrugged, indicating this was how things stood.
"So, what does this have to do with the Village? Isn't it still asleep? Also, who exactly has it set its sights on?" Zhang Ze was puzzled.
"It has a lot to do with it, because if it weren't for Old Sect Leader Li's clever idea, there wouldn't be so many troubles."
Xiangxiang projected another video.
Judging by the environment, it was secretly filmed outdoors.
From the tufts of hair intruding into the shots, the person filming this video seemed to be Da Tou Cai.
