Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Despite having had a fight, the still-energized Wei Dalu began to tell Zhang Ze the story of the Divine Egg Gang.

The reason Wei Dalu spoke so freely wasn't because Zhang Ze had any sort of kingly aura.

It was because Wei Dalu insisted that Li and Dan Dan were sworn brothers.

The group sat comfortably in the room, and Chen Qin had already hit it off with Bai Tao.

Having eaten too much and unable to resist, Li naturally became the girls' plaything.

The two girls took turns rubbing its round little belly, helping it with digestion.

Wei Dalu took a sip of wine and began to talk to Zhang Ze about the Divine Egg Gang.

Of course, to have a Divine Egg Gang, you need a Dan Dan.

Wei Dalu met Dan Dan because of his severed arm.

Once one's cultivation reaches the Nascent Soul stage, they can regenerate lost limbs unless something goes wrong in their cultivation or an accident like what happened to Pavilion Master Zhengyi causes permanent loss of a limb.

Wei Dalu was no exception.

As he told it, he lost his arm while slaying an evil snake in a secret realm at the time.

After slaying the mother snake, he was caught off guard and bitten by its headless body.

The snake had quite a backstory; it wasn't an ordinary demon beast. Its final strike in death was perilous.

Though not injured in essence, Wei Dalu's arm was completely ruined. Even with limb regeneration spells, the new arm would soon fester.

Wei Dalu cut off his right arm to prevent the poison from spreading, but soon lost consciousness and fell into the underground dark river. When he awoke, he met Dan Dan.

He found himself washed into an inverted underground forest, where the massive trees grew downward from the cave's ceiling, flourishing without sunlight.

"When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying on a cart, with a forest overhead, and Dan Dan pulling the cart ahead of me. After traveling for a while, we arrived at a cave, which was Dan Dan's home."

"Dan Dan healed my wounds and made me a new arm."

"Much better than my original one, I can even use it as a backscratcher."

Putting down his wine glass, Wei Dalu removed his metal arm and handed it to Zhang Ze for a look.

The entire metal arm was light as feather, with a smooth texture, only featuring some simple engravings at key points. Its elbow and finger joints were also simple, connected through spherical joints, and by controlling these spheres with spiritual qi, this iron arm could move freely.

Besides this, the iron arm had no special mechanisms, quite different from the mechanism techniques of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Wei Dalu retrieved the arm and reattached it to his shoulder before continuing, "Dan Dan is a bit picky. When I asked him how to repay him, he said he wanted to become famous."

"I thought to myself, with Dan Dan's skills, he could be worshiped as an ancestor at any sect he went to, just leave the cave and he's set. But Dan Dan said it wasn't time for him to come out yet."

"Maybe he trusted me. After all, my character has always been good. Dan Dan thought for a long time and asked me to do him a favor by finding his brother."

"At the time, I thought, a round ball like that should be easy to find."

"Who would've thought, after years of searching, I never found him.

"Just a few decades ago, when I went back to chat with Dan Dan and mentioned this, he didn't blame me, just said never mind, instead let's research how to make him famous."

"But that was harder than finding his brother; after all, he can't emerge, yet he wants fame. It was a dead end."

"After much deliberation, we came up with a compromise."

"I asked Dan Dan to draw an egg on the iron arm, then created the Divine Egg Gang, having fun with old friends every day, and in my spare time, taking care of the kids and doing good deeds."

"Then I wove Dan Dan's abode into a story for everyone to talk about."

"Unexpectedly, it was this story that helped Dan Dan find his brother."

Concluding, Wei Dalu opened his iron hand, aimed it at Li, and a formation pattern glowed, forming a design that flashed with green light.

"Dan Dan said, when you find his brother, the formation pattern will flash green."

"But honestly, your little guy isn't as round as Dan Dan."

After telling the story, Wei Dalu leaned back comfortably in his chair and started drinking again.

Zhang Ze looked at Li, "Besides looking like you, are there dragons that look like spheres too?"

Li very much wanted to get up and reprimand Zhang Ze for his rudeness, tarnishing the dragon race's dignity, but he was too full to move easily.

Helpless, he just shook his head to indicate he didn't know.

Ignoring Li, Zhang Ze asked Wei Dalu again, "The Dan Dan you mentioned, was he also transformed from a Stone Pill?"

"What Stone Pill?" Wei Dalu asked in return.

Zhang Ze described the Stone Pill's appearance to Wei Dalu and mentioned Fan Dachui, and then Wei Dalu came to a realization.

"So these little stone balls are called Stone Pills, huh? I always wondered what they were."

After saying this, Wei Dalu produced a small pouch, flipped it, and several Stone Pills rolled out and scattered over the table.

"Dan Dan had plenty of these things. I was curious and asked, and Dan Dan just said they were useless and handed me some."

"After Fan Dachui stole one, I put the rest away."

"However, recently, I gave a few to the kids as toys."

Zhang Ze picked up a Stone Pill from the table, sensing it, he realized it was also empty.

Zhang Ze became increasingly curious about Dan Dan's identity.

"Can you take me to see this Dan Dan you mentioned?" Zhang Ze asked as he set down the Void Stone Pill.

Wei Dalu looked at the Li, who was being held and played with by his adopted daughter, thought for a moment, "Alright, come with me, it's not far."

Before leaving, Zhang Ze went to find Lin Feng to see if he wanted to come along.

After searching around, Zhang Ze finally found Brother Feng in the dungeon of the Demon-slaying Bureau. Unexpectedly, the usually adventurous Lin Feng shook his head this time, saying he should sit it out.

"Qiu Jidan seems a little off, I need to keep an eye on him," Lin Feng said, pointing at Qiu Jidan, who was lying on the bed covering with a small quilt.

Qiu Jidan was indeed behaving strangely. After all, to round up all those demon cultivators was quite an achievement, for which Qiu Jidan deserved the first credit.

The reasons for his actions were still unclear to Zhang Ze.

It couldn't be that he had really turned over a new leaf, could it?

Although there was a possibility, due to Qiu Jidan's special identity, he required further observation. Lin Feng felt it was prudent for him to handle this matter himself.

Upon leaving the dungeon, Zhang Ze saw Wei Dalu and Bai Tao, but Chen Qin was nowhere to be found.

After waiting a while, Zhang Ze finally saw Junior Sister running out from the Demon-slaying Bureau, with a small pouch sewn from cotton fabric hanging in front of her, and Li sitting inside, hiccupping.

Zhang Ze had seen something like this back at He Gang; it was used by the Demon Race for carrying babies.

I wonder why such a thing would be in the Demon-slaying Bureau.

"Let's go!" Chen Qin was very excited about the joint adventure with Zhang Ze.

...

Northern Territory Great Wall, Wangyang City segment.

Zhang Ze jumped off his junior sister's flying sword and looked up at the ice-covered mountain wall, marveling.

Chen Qin and Li felt the same; the Northern Territory Great Wall looked different up close than from the sky above.

The duo, plus the pet, continuously sighed in amazement, taking out small walnuts to take photos and mark their moment of being there.

Wei Dalu, however, was lost in thought as he stared at a piece of ice.

"What's wrong, godfather?" Bai Tao walked up and asked.

"Last time I was here, this wasn't how it was," Wei Dalu said, staring in surprise at the writing that appeared on the ice surface.

"[Dan Dan's Grand Stage, Dare to Come]"