Chapter 311: Chapter 232: Ah, there are still masters! _3
Li Yueqi looked back at her younger brother, and seeing that his clothes were indeed intact, and he hadn’t lost his innocence, she continued to ask.
"What’s your relationship with those straw coats?"
"Huh? Straw coats? Are they the rods? The rods are my clothes. I let them play by themselves today, the rods couldn’t beat me even if they tried."
Ying Ru wasn’t wrong, the straw coats absorb hidden spiritual qi, and have a bit of demonic immunity. When combined with Ying Ru, along with the gray mist he releases and the Water Manipulation Technique, it really is tough for an ordinary Golden Core to take them down in such an environment.
Moreover, Li Jue wasn’t even a Golden Core yet, so it was normal for Ying Ru to capture him on the spot and bring him back as a village wife.
But just imagining the scene of the big, white, and chubby Ying Ru wearing those straw coats... Not only did Li Yueqi fall silent, but so did Zhang Ze and the others watching the spectacle.
Lily looked down at the pomegranate in her hand and suddenly lost her appetite, directly stuffing half of it into Maomao’s mouth.
Chen Qin hugged Zhang Ze, rubbing her goosebumps.
As for Zhang Ze, besides marveling at the grand stage of the Primordial times, where you can come if you have a role, what else could he say?
And as for the system’s reward, it was a damn key.
Thus, the matter of Jishan was concluded, but the repercussions caused by the incident’s antecedents and consequences had not stopped.
The first thing, as the cause of the incident, the lady Nightmare Monarch who forgot about her child hadn’t yet realized she lost her kid, and the little monk was still staying at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, helping to take care of the little mare.
The second thing, Ying Ru and the straw coats were taken back to the Beast Taming Sect, and after hearing about this, Xia Yan went to have a fight with the complete Ying Ru.
For the sake of his wife, and having gotten intel on Ying Ru beforehand, Xia Yan was well-prepared, setting an array in the water and using the Medicine Stone Skill to separate the straw coats from Ying Ru, finally forcing Ying Ru onto the shore to resolve the battle.
Ying Ru also signed an agreement, promising not to target Li Jue again in the future.
The third matter, naturally, was Zhang Ze’s token of appreciation, since Li Yueqi helped a lot this time and was a great help. His good brother Li Jue also got quite a scare.
Zhang Ze prepared a generous gift and sent it to the Beast Taming Sect via express delivery.
Among the gifts, there was an extremely special one, with the most secretive packaging, prepared specifically for Li Yueqi.
It was a Mountain-worshiping Taisui.
White in color, peach-shaped, and bouncy.
As for such a Taisui, if you don’t know about it, it feels like it doesn’t exist, but if you seriously look for it, you’ll find it’s all over the place. This one was bought over from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Zhang Ze remembered the first time Li Yueqi saw Taisui, she slapped it repeatedly with great satisfaction, like a queen of sadism had awakened.
Today, he brought a bigger one, intending to give it to the female hero as a stress-relief divine artifact, to alleviate her recent fatigue.
Since it was carefully selected by Zhang Ze, the gift was not rejected by Li Yueqi.
However, Li Yueqi’s thanks were somewhat peculiar.
"If you dare to tell anyone about this, you’re dead meat!"
The last matter, though, was the main business.
That was the strangely abundant miraculous creatures appearing recently.
Nightmare Monarch, straw coats, Ying Ru...
Not only these, with the Sword Sect disciples and Beast Taming Sect disciples operating in their respective territories these days, more reports of miraculous creature sightings were reported back.
"Bai Shou, Tiger-striped Red Tail, looks like a Giant Ox, named Lu Yang"
"Its appearance like a quail, with a giant black-beaked, preying in the night, crying like an infant, named Mountain Infant"
Some were system prompts, some were recorded in ancient books.
And not all of these exotic beasts were safe and harmless; many, like straw coats, had only the instincts of wild beasts. To prevent trouble, the Sword Sect and Beast Taming Sect disciples were unbelievably busy these days.
To ensure safety and prevent incidents like Li Jue’s, Sword Sect disciples teamed up with Beast Taming Sect and Medicine King Valley disciples to handle these exotic beast sighting reports.
The outcome was that Zhang Ze obtained a lot of system points for free, and a large pile of identical keys...
It was as if the system was afraid Zhang Ze might lose a key.
...
In Thousand Mechanism Town, second-floor VIP room of the Fried Shide Auction House.
Zhang Ze was chatting with the little monk.
"Master, is the recent emergence of primordial exotic beasts a sign that something major is about to happen? Could it be related to why the Sect Leader won’t let me leave Cyan Thorn?" Zhang Ze asked.
The little monk sat across from Zhang Ze, holding a book of the Thousand Mechanism Heart Method, absorbed in reading it, while the little mare ran around the room, sometimes jumping on chairs, sometimes lying on crystal, watching the cultivators below bidding tens of billions.
"Everything in the world, the cycle of cause and effect, there’s cause thus there’s effect, where there’s effect there must be cause, he..."
"Master, just get to the point."
Knowing the little monk’s level of cultural literacy, Zhang Ze quickly interrupted the monk’s repetitive chanting.
The little monk wasn’t embarrassed, switching to speak in riddles.
"Both yes and no."
"What do you mean?" Zhang Ze asked.
"Life in the world is like this ball of thread, intertwined with fate, no one can escape it. I’m like this, and so is Donor Zhang. If there’s a great calamity, it’s the Four Continents’ great calamity. If there’s a fortunate event, it’s the Four Continents’ fortunate event. It’s not one person’s responsibility, nor one person’s fault."
After speaking, seeing Zhang Ze still had doubts, the little monk sighed and shook his head.
"What I mean is, if the sky falls, tall ones hold it up. What has that got to do with us? You’re Golden Core, I’m Foundation Establishment. Even if I’m the reincarnation of Bag Arhat, right now I’m just a Foundation Establishment. If anything huge happens, it’s not our concern, eat well, drink well, and do what we’re supposed to."
After he finished, he ignored Zhang Ze and continued to study the Thousand Mechanism Heart Method.
After hearing this, Zhang Ze thought to himself, the master truly is a master. He too felt it made sense, so he stopped overthinking and picked up the Floating Life Technique he bought from Daxiong to study it.
Meanwhile, east of Cyan Thorn.
Li, Rongrong, and Maomao, the three primordial divine pets, were hiding in the shadows, staring at the little primordial monster in the distance.
As members of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, it was their duty to help the sect and contribute to the peace of Cyan Thorn.
So, they joined the team in searching for primordial little monsters.
Of course, their main reason was just to go out and play.
"You call that a Giant Ox?" Rongrong stepped on Li’s head and asked.
"That’s what Zhang Ze said, how would I know?" Li said, indicating it had nothing to do with her.
Maomao said nothing, just lay on the ground, staring at that ’Giant Ox’ motionlessly.