Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

However, upon hearing this, Lily turned to glance at Bai Tao.

Bai Tao ignored Lily's gaze and looked at Lin Feng.

"What about Brother Lin?"

"I can use a sword." Lin Feng, the only honest one present, said softly.

After Lin Feng finished speaking, the group looked towards Zhang Ze.

"I know a bit of everything." Zhang Ze, also an honest person, but his words were just as if he hadn't spoken at all to the others present.

After this half-hearted self-introduction, they finally started talking about the main topic, which was to first resolve the restrictions they were under.

"The urgent task is to first determine what type of restriction we are under. If it's a Gu Technique, it might be a bit troublesome. We can't find the corresponding herbs here, and even if we knew, there's nothing we can do. However, if it's an array-type restriction, maybe... what are you doing?"

Bai Tao turned to look at Zhang Ze before finishing his sentence.

Zhang Ze was sitting cross-legged on the ground, one hand above, one hand below, both reaching behind his back, clasped together like in yoga.

The pose looked a bit dumb.

It was clear that Li was up to something, and Zhang Ze understood why Li was doing it; it simply wanted to experience what it felt like to be able to touch its own back with both hands.

After all, neither its spherical juvenile form nor its elongated complete form supported reaching its hands to its back.

Though Li was enjoying it, how to explain his behavior was Zhang Ze's problem.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Ze explained earnestly, "In this era, different races mix. I suspect the Golden Core who placed the restriction on us is from the Barbarian Race. I'm now using a secret technique from the Western Barbarians to relax tendons and activate blood, sensing the body's condition through body technique secret techniques."

Listening to Zhang Ze's nonsense, Bai Tao was a little curious, "How do you know techniques of the Western Barbarians?"

"I told you, I know a bit of everything."

At this point, Li probably had stretched his arms enough, put down its arms, and moved along with Zhang Ze's words.

Seeing Zhang Ze lower his arms, Lily asked, "So, is the restriction related to the Barbarian Race?"

Without waiting for Zhang Ze to answer, Lin Feng, who was keeping watch, spoke up.

"It's an array."

He pulled up his sleeve, revealing a black human-face tattoo on his arm, more accurately a human-face-shaped array. The face had round pupils and a wide mouth, with black lines spreading from it, infecting the surrounding skin.

The group also pulled up their sleeves, discovering the same array on their bodies.

While discussing the ghostly face array on their arms, Zhang Ze's increasingly overlooked system stirred.

A message popped out.

This message was regarding the suddenly appearing primordial creatures.

Outside the Jade Book Tower, somewhere in the mountains of Cyan Thorn, one of Zhang Ze's senior brothers was lifting a pink rabbit from the bushes.

After blocking the rabbit's three mouths with stones, he pinned it to the ground, tied its hands behind its back, then stuck a Tao Talisman on its backside before throwing it into the Beast Taming Ring.

As he tossed the rabbit into the ring, Zhang Ze's task progress also reached completion.

The collection progress reached twenty-five percent, and the system issued a stage reward again.

[Task 1, Ancient Wilderness, long-term collection task, please find primordial creatures revived across the East Continent.]

[Detecting, the Cyan Thorn region's illustrated guide collection progress has met the standard, stage reward issued]

But this time, the reward wasn't points or tangible items, nor was it a key, but a string of numbers.

Seven six eight nine four three.

A string of numbers with no apparent pattern, looking like some password.

Zhang Ze had no impression of the number; he couldn't remember which of his previous life game accounts used this password.

And regarding this number, the system provided no explanation; after Zhang Ze memorized the number, it vanished.

An unseen type of reward...

But just as Zhang Ze was pondering what foreshadowing the system was laying, Li suddenly moved his body.

Li agilely jumped up and stepped back.

Zhang Ze snapped back to reality, seeing Lily holding a rusty ancient milled kitchen knife, staring at his arm with a thoughtful expression on where to cut...

"What are you doing?" Zhang Ze asked.

"I was thinking if we cut this arm off, would it break the restriction set by that minor Golden Core cultivator."

"After all, we're in the illusion trial, cutting some parts won't really cost us arms or legs."

"How about we give it a try? We still have a doctor, right? Straw should be able to stop the bleeding..."

Lily earnestly said the most reckless things.

Although what she said sounded nonsensical, it was the result of Lily's deep consideration.

Though her cultivation was sealed, her vision remained sharp. If it were poisoning or other methods, Lily couldn't figure it out, but array work was Lily's forte.

Especially since this restrictive array was from the past, many of its array talismans were primitive and ineffective.

This ghostly face array had barely any counter-talisms.

For instance, the shape of the face and the edge patterns were entirely meaningless; even more mana was required to deal with these superfluous talismans during casting.

Other than for show and intimidation, it had no purpose.

The core restriction and refinement array had commendable aspects, but it overlooked the duration of the array's effect.