Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

He continued reading with his head down.

...

Over at Li's side.

Ox's stomping on the ground was just a feint; its real goal was to run away.

Ox didn't have any ill intentions; it just wanted to quietly munch on grass.

Seeing the odd-looking Little Earth Dragon and the red chick assuming defensive stances, Ox immediately deployed the Inch Formation Technique, shrinking its body with the plan to flee before they could react.

The plan was good, but unfortunately, it encountered Li.

In terms of digging and shrinking the earth, among peers, Li feared no one except Fuji. She even cracked a sly smile, indicating that she could handle challenges beyond her level.

The shrunken Ox had barely escaped three zhang before it was scooped out of the ground by Li, like catching a bug. Despite shrinking several times, Ox couldn't escape Li's grasp.

Even clay figures have their grievances, let alone Ox.

When Ox got angry, it grew larger.

Ox expanded once more, stamping its hooves on the ground, creating a mighty pressure that spread out from its center. The earth around it began to crack and shatter, and soon, Ox sent everything into the sky.

Li and the others were swept into the air along with it.

Rongrong caught Maomao, who had Miaomiao in its mouth, while Li adjusted her posture and transformed into a dragon-headed shape in the sky.

As for Erlang and Cang, because they were too far away, they flew in a different direction.

Frankly, Erlang and Cang hadn't anticipated Ox to be so dangerous. The aftermath of the upheaval had shattered all the Protective Magical Artifacts on them.

Now they were in a panic.

At this moment, as they were about to transform into meteors, they had no mood to shout declarations like we'll be back someday, because in a few moments, they might truly be dashed to death.

Fortunately, destiny favors the fortunate.

A gentle breeze supported them, placing them on a hillside and returning Miaomiao, who was held by Maomao, to them.

In the next moment, Divine Weapon descended, a longsword hanging over Ox's head, its entire body as white as jade.

Three beams of sword light struck the ground around Ox, forming frost and snow with chilling Sword Qi that constructed a cage, locking the world around Ox.

Ox wasn't satisfied, mooing twice, and something like a golden bean flew out of its Spirit Platform, heading straight for the sky.

[Lu Yang, with the golden bean on its head, defeats foes amongst the beans]

The golden cloud capped the sky, and the golden bean rushed upward.

Unfortunately, this bean was not that bean; it was soon suppressed by one layer after another of Binding Arrays.

Above the clouds, Pavilion Master Mumu from the Sword Pavilion of Jing State held a sword in one hand and a giant tower the size of a hill in the other, accompanied by several Purple-robed Heavenly Masters from Dragon Tiger Mountain.

The giant tower in Mumu's hand was the Secret Realm of Dongqi discovered by Jing State Sword Pavilion.

She came to Cyan Thorn by her father's order to deliver the tower.

And those layers of Arrays were the handiwork of the Purple-robed Heavenly Masters Sect.

During the Sword Pavilion's exploration of Dongqi's Secret Realm, they made some gains and found the layer-upon-layer method of stacking Arrays akin to donning multiple pants very useful.

Thus, after extracting the essence and discarding the dross, they created a Combined Skill.

While today's use seemed like overkill, not using a new skill when available felt unbearable.

After the bean was smacked back into Ox's body, Chen Mumu reached out and captured Ox in her hand. As Ox left the ground, its form grew smaller until it became palm-sized once again.

Playing with the Ox trapped in the Sword Array, Mumu found this little thing quite interesting, so she tucked it into her sleeve, planning to raise it for fun back home.

She was idle anyway lately.

However, after casually subduing Ox and Lu Yang, Mumu faced a dilemma, as she felt like she should say something but didn't know where to start.

She had to maintain her aloof persona.

Left with no choice, she gazed at Rongrong and Li with a composed expression, hoping they'd catch her drift and step forward to converse.

But Li and Rongrong were also unsure of what to say, making the scene awkward until Tang descended from the sky on his Wind Traveling Ship.

He stylishly stopped in front of Rongrong, Li, and Maomao.

"Come, get aboard," Tang said with a wave.

——I'm the divider for excessive use of double words——

Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Tang sat in his old seat, adjusted his position, and then picked up a teacup to skim off the tea leaves.

Even though the teacup hadn't been filled yet, Tang always did this, even when drinking plain water.

Overall, this was the ritual belonging to a former top-tier Great Power.

"Kid, what do you think, that thing is pretty good, right?" Tang put down the teacup after Lily had eagerly brewed some cheap tea and asked Zhang Ze.

Zhang Ze raised his head, looking at the giant tower that almost touched the sky, feeling somewhat speechless.

He suspected these bigshots had become addicted to demolition and wondered why they hauled a tower the size of a mountain here.

It seemed the wonders in Thousand Mechanism Pavilion were a bit too many.

"Old Man Wei said that although this giant tower was hidden by the Brocade Dragon Guard of Dongqi, it isn't actually an armory but a Jade Book Tower."

Tang sipped the cheap tea without complaint and had Lily refill it.

"What's a Jade Book Tower?" Zhang Ze asked.

Tang thought for a moment, "Old Man Wei said the Jade Book Tower is just a place for storing records and important matters, but there aren't any books inside."

"If not books, then what?"

"How would I know? I wasn't around during Dongqi. He said you'd understand once you go inside," Tang replied straightforwardly.

"Didn't Senior Wei Zhuang come along?"

"No, he went west; he has something to do."

After quenching his thirst, Tang got up and walked outside the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

"Taoist! What does it look like inside the Jade Book Tower?"