Chapter 351: Chapter 248: Lily’s Spring or Summer
Lily sat on the bed, draped in a small garment, her cheeks flushed.
Chen Qin was sitting behind her, holding her waist, attempting to lay her down.
But Lily kept saying it hurt.
"Hurts, hurts, hurts, don’t touch there, it hurts like hell!"
Any scenario with suggestive interactions, once shifted to Lily, would develop towards a zoo-like direction, making it entirely uninteresting.
Absolutely none.
Moreover, looking at Lily’s posture, she seemed paralyzed?
She was even drooling.
"What’s wrong with her?" Zhang Ze sat by the bed looking at Lily, wondering what antics she got herself into to end up in such a state.
Lily slurped her drool, about to speak when Chen Qin pressed somewhere, causing her to become speechless from pain, focusing solely on the drooling.
Chen Qin channelled energy with her fingertips, sealing the last meridian gate, finally straightening Lily’s body, making her lie down.
"Lily was inspired to practice an Escape Technique, somehow she practiced into this state. I sealed her meridian gates, she’s temporarily okay but I don’t know how to heal, Senior Brother, could you find someone to take a look?"
Just as Junior Sister finished speaking, Lily started babbling, Zhang Ze listened for a while, but found he couldn’t understand.
However, solutions were available, Zhang Ze cast the Floating Life Spirit Listening Skill, Lily’s babbling soon became an annoying noise.
Lily said not to call anyone, she’d manage to recover slowly by herself, this appearance was too embarrassing.
Zhang Ze sighed, taking out a small walnut.
"Fuji, are you there? Anyone will do, come help Lily with her ailment."
"Babble babble babble."
"Lily says she’ll wait for you over at Chen Qin’s."
"Babble, babble babble!"
The right to explain lay with Zhang Ze now, Lily’s desire to avoid treatment was utterly ineffectual.
Five minutes later, Fuji emerged from the courtyard yawning as she walked into the room.
"Fuji, what’s up?" Zhang Ze asked.
"I don’t know, probably about to break through, yawn~ according to your calculations, I’m a Half-Step Nascent Soul, I’ve been stuck for ages."
Fuji looked as if about to doze off.
Fuji progressing to Nascent Soul doesn’t mean she’ll form a Nascent Soul, just as now she’s Golden Core yet lacks an actual Golden Core.
Talking about advancing to Nascent Soul is simply due to everyone’s laziness towards giving Fuji’s realm a new name.
"Congratulations, Sister Fuji."
"Nothing special, hehe."
Just as Zhang Ze, Chen Qin, and Fuji began chatting, Lily made a decayed sound from the bed.
"Babble babble babble!"
"Oh, right, let’s check on Lily first."
"Babble!"
Fuji had now refined herself into a top-tier elixir, as concluded by remote joint consultations from the Beast Taming Sect and Medicine King Valley.
Becoming like this is entirely due to Fuji’s accumulation and effort.
As a recluse, Fuji’s life is quite simple.
In the Primordial era, during Ten Thousand Races battling for supremacy, when the Human Emperor ventured into the sea, Fuji buried herself underground, feasting.
During the end of the Primordial era, historical relics, Ten Kingdoms Chaos, Fuji was still feasting.
During Dongqi’s rise and fall, as history repeated itself, Fuji continued feasting underground...
The difference between her and Li is that Fuji practices sustainable methods, not consuming everything entirely.
Regarding how many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Spirit Plant Immortal Roots she consumed, she herself doesn’t know.
Now part-timing at Medicine King Valley, Fuji’s hidden talent was directly unearthed.
Theoretically, Fuji can cure all ailments, or poison the world, entirely dependent on how she wishes to configure the forces within herself...
To heal, inhale once for stimulation, twice for tireless awakening, thrice for immortality, and the taste is terrific.
Of course, wanting to inhale Fuji requires her consent.
Otherwise, one must embrace the notion of enmity with Beast Taming Sect, Sword Sect, Dragon Tiger Mountain, Medicine King Valley, and eighty percent of Loose Cultivators, to abduct Fuji.
A self-aware divine elixir, Fuji walked to the bedside, tilted her head to glance at Lily, then placed her hand on Lily’s back.
Following this, Zhang Ze and Chen Qin witnessed a startling scene, Fuji’s hand penetrated directly.
Due to her posture, Lily didn’t know what happened and hence wasn’t scared into babbling. Judging from her relaxed expression and ceased drooling,
her ailment seemed to be cured by Fuji.
"Yawn, I adjusted internally. Lily’s meridians aren’t severely affected. It was merely a mishap due to cultivation technique backlash."
"Isn’t that quite serious?" Chen Qin asked.
"Reasonably speaking, yes, but Lily is exceedingly weak. For others, it might rupture meridians, yet for Lily, the backlash is manageable..."
"Such a situation should be classified as meridian spasms, after all, it’s my first time seeing it."
Zhang Ze sighed, uncertain whether to feel happy or sad for Lily.
With Fuji’s treatment, the room was filled with the aroma of medicine, and Lily could begin speaking.
"Don’t speak, hold this." Seeing Lily about to start babbling, Fuji immediately inserted her hand into Lily’s mouth.
"Mmm mmm!"
A cool liquid slid down Lily’s throat...
Meanwhile, beneath Fuji, several tendrils extended, wrapping around Lily, lifting her, beginning bone-setting and final adjustments.
This tendril trick is probably learned from the Tree Demon Xiaoxue, but theirs are green, while Fuji’s are light blue and transparent, slightly sticky...
Coupled with Lily’s mixture of discomfort and enjoyment, uttering odd sounds.
Zhang Ze and Chen Qin turned around, not watching the scene.
Zhang Ze maintained a customary expression, whereas Junior Sister lowered her head, blushing, tugging at Zhang Ze’s sleeve, seemingly recalling some recent events.
After a rather unwholesome treatment, Lily, who was revived perfectly as she was too weak and had too little maximum blood, needed only a small red bottle to be fully revived.
"Why are you practicing escape techniques when you have a teleportation talisman?" Zhang Ze asked.
"It’s your fault, you caught me during the day, so I thought of practicing escape techniques to run faster in the future," Lily said, rubbing her lower back with a grimace.
"So?"
"So I didn’t learn it. Maomao learned it, but I didn’t. This stuff isn’t suitable for me!" Lily said unapologetically.
Alright, having self-awareness is also a good thing.
Zhang Ze clapped his hands to calm Lily down, then explained his new agreement with Zhendong Trading Company to her.
"I want you to take charge of the part related to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion. If there’s anything you don’t understand, just ask Tang and the others. As for how many resources you can acquire, that’s up to you."
Lily looked at Zhang Ze with tears streaming down her face.
"Boss, you’re so good to me. You aren’t after my body, are you?"
Chen Qin sighed.
Zhang Ze shook his head, "Not at all, since you’re the comedic character, so do you agree or not?"
"I agree!"
The moment she made up her mind, Lily had already started planning her brand-new future, determined not to waste a penny and to allocate every resource wisely to live up to this trust and expectation.
No more doing things like installing a one-way teleportation array from the first to the second floor of Fried Shide.
Then, just when Lily was about to kowtow in gratitude, she fainted again from excitement.
Then, Fuji’s tentacles extended again.
Fuji thought that in this spring or summer, Lily might encounter a lot of danger, so she left a small part of herself by Lily’s side.
As a first aid kit.
Though small, its efficacy was not to be underestimated.
...
Several days later, Zhendong Trading Company’s "Thousand Mechanism Pavilion Investment Plan 7th Edition Revised I’m a Dog Edition" was finally finalized.
Not only did they launch large-scale cooperation in both the Thousand Mechanism Technique and the Thousand Mechanism Heart Method, but in other areas as well, such as the plan Zhang Ze only mentioned in passing about starting a school to teach everyone the Thousand Mechanism Technique was also put on the agenda.
Sister Wang’s ashes flew back to the Northern Territory on their own. Bai Tao and her eldest niece were left here to handle necessary communications before the main force arrived.
However, because there was actually nothing much to communicate, Bai Wanjun had been busy expanding her Past Spring Breeze sensual chain store business.
Bai Tao was engrossed in the Jade Book Illusion Realm.
She seemed to be in conflict with those Demons from the Ten Kingdoms Chaos era.
She must give the phantoms of the old era a good beating.
Now that the Jade Book Illusion Realm is officially open, one can pay to enroll after qualifying.
Under her leadership, many Demon Race cultivators wandering around the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion have also joined this team.
Li and Rongrong, these two idle divine pets, a dragon and a phoenix, recently contributed as well.
The reason Li and Rongrong were so idle recently was due to Zhang Ze and Chen Qin.
Because they had a lot of free time lately, Zhang Ze was still under a title seal and couldn’t enter the Jade Book Illusion Realm.
Chen Qin thought the Jade Book Illusion Realm wasn’t as fun as her senior brother.
So these two had been rather affectionate lately, getting cozy whenever they had time, and when they were together, they would shoo Li and Rongrong away...
However, with the passage of time, certain dynamics began to reverse.
Zhang Ze found himself somewhat unable to cope?
But Zhang Ze felt this was surely due to seasonal changes and had nothing to do with him personally.
And to comprehend the changes in the aura of heaven and earth, Zhang Ze sneaked out today to chat with the young monk.
Purify the soul a bit.
The young monk had recently been staying at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, studying the Thousand Mechanism Heart Method, and seemed not that interested in the Jade Book Tower.
The Grand Monk was the same, having little interest in the Jade Book Illusion Realm, and had been researching Thousand Mechanism Town’s shady cuisine, staying up all night to do so and turning a bit pale from the lack of sunlight.
Teahouse.
"Master, are you leaving?" Zhang Ze put down his teacup, looking at the young monk.
"Indeed." The young monk put down the book and smiled at Zhang Ze.
"Where to this time, still heading north?"
"Not north this time; I’m planning to head west to explore."
Keeping up with the times, the young monk took out a small walnut he bought, showing Zhang Ze his planned route westward.
"What about her?" Zhang Ze looked at the mare standing by the railing, gazing at the street outside.
That Nightmare Monarch lady disappeared after giving birth, seemingly forgetting she even had a child.
"Ga Yan shows promise; if she wishes, I’ll take her with me."
"I’ll go with the master," the half-spirit body mare said upon hearing the conversation, turning her head to speak.
Zhang Ze smacked his tongue inwardly, thinking that this journey for the young monk probably wouldn’t be smooth.
Heading west together with a foodie disciple who constantly wants to disband, now having a horse, they just need a monkey and a Monk Sha.
Wouldn’t that be the classic journey of hardships when the team is complete?
Plus, the young monk also requested a Thousand Mechanism Heart Method, so they even have their scripture...
Hoping the young monk stays safe.
But there’s no other way; this is how it is in the Four Continents, where everyone has their business to attend to, and there’s little point in stopping them.
However, some are exceptions.
Namely, those brats from the Hundred Demons Sect.
Looks like it’s about time for them to start causing trouble again.
East Sea.
Song Qingpao, the long-absent distillery boss, crushed the communication talisman in his hand and excitedly thought.
"Senior! It’s time for us to make our mark!"