CHAPTER 59: CHAPTER 59: CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, EVERYONE SQUAT BY THE WALL

Cold City.

"Senior Sister, where did you get this dog?"

Zhang Ze looked enviously at the black dog following Li Yueqi.

This dog is just Zhang Ze’s type, like a husky. If he could negotiate somehow, he would love to have one to raise.

The back mountain of the Sword Pavilion is so vast, not having a dog feels like a waste.

"Call him Senior!", a voice angrily sounded above his head.

Zhang Ze’s ears were hurting and then he realized that the big dog was talking to him.

"Hei Qu doesn’t have a good temper, you better show some respect."

"Also, he’s a wolf," Li Yueqi said.

"Hello, Senior Hei, what breed of wolf are you exactly? Do you have any younger relatives you can introduce to me?" Zhang Ze was still hopeful.

Hei Qu started baring his teeth; if this person wasn’t Li Yueqi’s friend, he would have probably bitten him by now.

"Stupid dog, shut up! I’m sleeping!"

Another more furious voice sounded, full of resentment for being disturbed.

And upon hearing this voice, Hei Qu immediately dropped his tail.

The fierce and deadly look cleared up instantly, he glanced around pretending he hadn’t just bared his teeth.

Completely lacking the dignity of a Golden Core spirit beast.

Zhang Ze turned around, thinking Qiao Lezhi had arrived.

But seeing no one around, he realized it was the little orb talking.

Now the little orb could transmit sound, looking like it was another step closer to breaking out of the core.

It’s just that this one step is forever out of reach, just like collecting payment on Pinduoduo.

Zhang Ze still had to find Aunt Niao.

"Stupid dog, scolded by the Senior, huh?"

The spiritual snake had climbed onto Hei Qu’s head at some point, flicking its tongue and mocking its companion.

The voice sounded like a little girl, very cheerful.

"You call it Senior?" Zhang Ze asked while squeezing the little orb.

At this point, the orb felt hard to squeeze, indicating it had fallen asleep again.

This was the pattern Zhang Ze discovered over this period; the orb was hard when sleeping or playing dead.

The spiritual snake shrank its body, distancing itself from the orb, "Naturally, only this stupid dog can’t sense that pressure."

"This snake is called Qinghe, call me whatever you want, I’m easier to get along with than this stupid dog."

"Ugh, hum~"

Hei Qu bared his teeth in a manner as if to bite the snake, but since its mouth couldn’t reach his forehead, he could only give up reluctantly.

Seeing Zhang Ze was about to cozy up to Hei Qu with the orb as his backing, Li Yueqi sighed and quashed Zhang Ze’s notion.

"Don’t think about it, Hei Qu belongs to the wolf race spirit beast of the sect family from Beast Taming Sect, you can’t raise one."

"Even if I gifted you one, without the Beast Taming Sect heart method, you would eventually be countered."

"Always with the heart method," Zhang Ze said, somewhat helpless.

After reaching Foundation Establishment in cultivation, the system also opened the exchange permissions for the next stage of cultivation technique heart methods in the major sects.

But the Six Great Sects’ heart methods require disciples’ credentials to exchange.

Those aren’t easy to come by.

Su Qin can be the prime minister of the Six Kingdoms, but Zhang Ze felt he couldn’t become a disciple of the Six Sects.

As for those cultivation techniques.

They are exchangeable, yes, but without the support of the corresponding heart method, they cannot unleash their full power.

So Zhang Ze’s exchange points are temporarily saved, as for glitching the system, there’s currently no lead.

"Anyway...," Li Yueqi paused and turned around, looking at Zhang Ze with a strange expression.

"Inside your little orb, resides a Great Demon, connected to you in mind, its essence already attached to you."

"This is an opportunity even I’m jealous of."

"You’re like this already, why are you still thinking about other spirit beasts?"

Li Yueqi was puzzled.

"Can I say I just like dogs?" Zhang Ze looked at Li Yueqi innocently.

"Do you think contract spirit beasts are like cabbages, all based on preference."

"What else? I cultivate as an immortal all based on my likes," Zhang Ze’s eyes appeared even more innocent.

Li Yueqi felt a headache.

She didn’t understand who brought him into the Sword Sect.

With this kind of personality, he should be mixing with that group of Taoist Dian at Dragon Tiger Mountain.

"No, just now at the inn, this boy was using a spell from Dragon Tiger Mountain."

"Where did he learn it?"

Li Yueqi couldn’t figure it out.

...

The two walked through the dark alley, arriving at South Street.

The demons were lively, and Cold City connected to Cang Mountain, the area governed by Beast Taming Sect, with many cultivators around, there was naturally no curfew reason.

It was already past midnight, and this main street was still bustling.

Zhang Ze suddenly stopped after walking a few steps, feeling like he heard something he shouldn’t have.

"Sister, do you think we should still keep this child?"

"What are you saying, sister? This is our husband’s flesh and blood; if you keep saying that, I’ll be upset."

"But I really want to perform the dragon dance."

"Hold on a bit, we’re almost to Medicine King Valley."

Zhang Ze glanced over, seeing two women dressed in blue and white at a tea stall, chatting and drinking tea.

"Why are these two snake demons here?"

"Weren’t they heading to Medicine King Valley?"

"Medicine King Valley is westward; why are they going north?"

These two snake demons had become somewhat mythical at the Seventh Sword Pavilion, and Zhang Ze had heard a bit.

Seeing them now, they were certainly not ordinary demons.

"Hey, you two are lost," Zhang Ze approached to remind them out of goodwill.

"Eh!?"

After explaining, the two snake demons remained clear-eyed, without any hint of distress.

"Lost is lost,"

"We’ll head directly to the Northern Territory, maybe we’ll see a real dragon." The sisters said in unison.

Alright, accepting things as they come is also a virtue.

Bidding farewell to the sisters who decided to go with the flow, Zhang Ze found Li Yueqi looking towards a market in the southern part of the city.

"There are Sword Sect cultivators there fighting with someone, I’ll go take a look."

After speaking, Hei Qu turned into a gust of black wind, carrying Li Yueqi away from the spot.

The Beast Taming Sect’s escape techniques all require assistance from their life-bound spirit beasts, but the effect is much better than other escape spells.

"Golden Core is really nice, traveling is so convenient," muttering this, Zhang Ze also stepped forward to follow.

...

Lounge.

Cold City’s most potent one, not serving mortals.

The patrons inside are all from the demon race and cultivators, playing all sorts of games, however ruthless.

Places like lounges are controlled very strictly by the Celestial Sect. But here at Sword Sect, the attitude had always been indifferent, as long as people weren’t played to death.

So, when this group of people and demons, all disheveled, squatted along the wall hugging their heads, they couldn’t understand.

"What’s going on?"

"They never cared about this before," muttered a chubby loose cultivator.

"Squat properly against the wall, don’t look around."

"Do not use your cultivation, be wary of flying swords being blind."

A Sword Sect cultivator tapped the fat butt of a loose cultivator with the cold scabbard.

"What a mess."

The loose cultivator wanted to curse but didn’t dare, helplessly pulling his shirt down further.

"This Sword Cultivator is quite handsome, huh."

Spoke a bird demon lady squatting with her head held but showing no tension.

She glanced at the Sword Sect cultivator’s handsome face and licked her lips.

...

Love between men and women is a normal need, the Sword Sect isn’t their parent, obviously wouldn’t care which loose cultivator they’re sleeping with.

But using people as a tripod furnace is not okay; that’s demon path behavior.

It’s also what the Six Sects target severely.

Recently, rumors had spread about a group of loose cultivators using enchanting fragrance to abduct female cultivators, then refining them into tripod furnaces to aid their cultivation.

A few disciples from the Sword Hall investigated for days but found no leads.

Fortunately, today they encountered Young Master Mu, who guided them with remote companionship, helping them uncover a group of lust cultivators about to commit a crime.

Though no living captives were seized, the evidence and enchanting fragrance recovered from those lust cultivators pointed to this particular lounge.

At this point, several stewards of the lounge had been detained, and the owner cut his bloodline, dying on the spot.

According to the steward’s confession, the mastermind behind this was their boss.

Everything seemed over.

But Zhang Ze thought otherwise.

Looking at the corpses in front of him, he fell into silence.

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