Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

This time, Li Jue didn't get beaten up because Zhang Ze intervened in time, and he didn't have a chance to say anything too offensive.

"You go out, I have something to discuss with Zhang Ze," Li Yueqi gestured to her brother to get up from the chair.

Li Jue obediently complied, got up to give his seat, helped his sister sit down comfortably, and then picked up the tea leaves from the table, intending to brew tea for the two.

"Don't linger here, go out." Li Yueqi saw through Li Jue's little trick.

Li Jue sighed, called out to Bai Xiao, and turned to leave.

"Don't squat by the wall." Li Yueqi frowned, once again seeing through Li Jue's little trick.

Helpless, Li Jue pretended to leave and got up, moved towards the window, and gradually stepped out of the courtyard under Li Yueqi's gaze, thoughtfully closing the courtyard door.

However, Li Yueqi understood her brother too well. She closed her eyes and sensed briefly, then said towards the rooftop, "Bai Xiao, you go out too."

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sound like a pigeon flapping its wings from the rooftop.

Bai Xiao, Li Jue's last fallback, flapped its wings and left the courtyard.

Meanwhile, Zhang Ze quietly watched from the opposite side of the table without saying a word.

Li Yueqi didn't start speaking until she was sure no one was eavesdropping.

"I'm going back to Cang Mountain. I'll figure out how to fulfill my promise to help you obtain an identity with the Beast Taming Sect. I'm here to say goodbye."

After saying that, Li Yueqi closed her mouth.

"That's it?" Zhang Ze waited for a while and, seeing that there was no follow-up, he asked.

"That's it. What else do you want to hear?" Li Yueqi nodded.

Seeing that Li Yueqi had been mysterious earlier, Zhang Ze thought there would be something big, but it turned out she was just saying goodbye, leaving Zhang Ze feeling a bit bewildered.

The room briefly turned awkward.

"Then, until we meet again?" Zhang Ze tried to break the awkward silence.

"Until we meet again," Li Yueqi looked at Zhang Ze and said.

After saying that, silence ensued once more.

When Zhang Ze escorted Li Yueqi out of the courtyard, he still didn't quite understand why Li Yueqi made such a fuss just to say goodbye.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop of a courtyard three buildings over, outside Li Yueqi's sensing range, Li Jue had been watching through binoculars all along.

He had the perfect angle, able to see their lip movements through the window.

Skilled in lip-reading, Li Jue understood their conversation completely.

As Li Yueqi left the house, Li Jue quickly descended the rooftop with a stealthy move and hid behind the house wall.

Bai Xiao landed on Li Jue's head, "See, they're just normal friends; nothing as dirty as you imagined."

Li Jue pulled Bai Xiao off his head and made a professional judgment.

"What do you know? There's definitely room for a turnaround. Just wait until I get back to Cang Mountain and plan carefully."

"What are you planning?"

Just as Bai Xiao's figure flashed by, flying behind the vacant house, Li Yueqi curiously followed and found her brother squatting in the corner, talking to himself.

She happened to miss the first half of his sentence.

Li Jue turned around, seeing his sister's normal expression, he secretly sighed with relief, "Of course, it's about planning business."

"Working with Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, the strength of our Beast Taming Sect's Foundation Establishment Stage disciples could more than double."

"I'll have to talk to father properly when we get back."

Li Jue stood up ahead to lead the way for his sister, while diverting the topic to other things.

"Besides, persuading father requires sister's involvement."

"I wonder if you'll go back to Cang Mountain with me, or do we go our separate ways?"

"Why don't we go separately? I still have some things to do."

Li Yueqi suddenly stopped, speaking in an icy tone, "How do you know I'm going back to Cang Mountain? I haven't told you yet."

"I... well, I guessed," Li Jue's hand trembled slightly.

Having slipped up, Li Jue tried to locate Bai Xiao, hoping to blame it for the mishap.

However, after searching for a long time, he discovered that Bai Xiao had vanished from sight as soon as Li Yueqi appeared.

Li Jue felt a pair of hands on his shoulder, and he inexplicably thought of the legend of the wolf on the back.

Li Yueqi's icy voice sounded behind Li Jue, "Speak, how did you eavesdrop?"

"Can I not say?"

"No."

...

In the small courtyard.

Not knowing the girl's thoughts, nor aware that Li Jue was about to get beaten, Zhang Ze was pondering Li Jue's proposal.

As he thought, the image of Beast Taming Sect began to deviate in his mind.

The survival hunter image of a fishing spear followed by both human and pet vanished.

Replaced by a spiritual ox giant deer wearing Thousand Mechanism Armor, with two grenade launchers on its shoulders.

Spiritual monkeys swinging through the jungle, wielding the Rainstorm Shattered Silver Needle launcher, and carrying a string of Thousand Mechanism Thunder at their waist like Rambo.

Flocks of spiritual birds flying over with hundreds of Heaven-shaking Thunder bombs on each.

A bit too modernized.

Originally, Zhang Ze had planned this scene for future Thousand Mechanism Cultivators.

But since Li Jue's thinking and Zhang Ze's brilliant mind coincided, why not experiment with its feasibility in the Beast Taming Sect now?

Firstly, to gain experience, secondly, to make money.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Ze contacted Li Yueqi.

"Please tell Brother Li that what he mentioned earlier, I think it's worth trying."

"What thing?" Li Yueqi asked.

Zhang Ze briefly explained Li Jue's proposed modernization strategic plan for the Beast Taming Sect, and after listening, Li Yueqi waited for a moment before replying.

"My brother can't speak conveniently right now, but that should be fine."

"What's wrong with Brother Li?" Zhang Ze asked.

"He accidentally fell while walking. It's nothing; I'll take him back to Cang Mountain."

Before Li Yueqi ended the call, Zhang Ze faintly heard some sobbing noises.

But he didn't think much of it, merely attributing it to deep sibling affection, as thick as water.

Li Jue's matter ended as well, leaving Zhang Ze back in a state of having nothing to do.

Li Yueqi and her brother left, Brother Feng started his next infiltration, Chen Qin returned home to visit, and Li was making money by fortune-telling while the master was on his way to visit Dragon Tiger Mountain.

Zhang Ze felt he couldn't continue being a lazy bum like this; with the Demon Sect not yet eliminated, he was uneasy.

Thus, he decided to oversee Lily's work and speed up the progress.

The snow had already fallen; dragging on too long would risk it being discovered by the Hundred Demons Sect.

The Jade Scrolls and Array had been moved to the Black Tower, and Zhang Ze went alone to the underground through the Teleportation Gate.

In the deepest room, he found Lily.

Lily was buried among a pile of Jade Scrolls, inspecting them one by one, occasionally scribbling on the paper.

Seeing Lily looking exhausted, Zhang Ze thought that physically turning into a project manager and urging progress was a bit inhumane.

Not a righteous act.

Cajoling day in and day out - what's the point? Better to give money.

Money cures all ailments.

Zhang Ze walked to the table, took out a storage pouch filled with Spirit Stones from his coat, and placed it in front of Lily.

It was the pouch taken from Nameless, about a few thousand; Zhang Ze hadn't counted.

"Thank you for the hard work these past two days. This pouch of Spirit Stones..."

Before Zhang Ze finished speaking, Lily immediately revived full of energy.

"It'll be done tonight, boss, rest assured!"

Zhang Ze could only acknowledge Lily's prowess. With Lily's guarantee, Zhang Ze found a chair to sit on.

He took out the Dharma Conch that could deliver to the Hundred Demons Sect and Nameless's Black King Order from the storage bag.

He pondered over how to perfectly handle this express delivery and prank calls.