After reaching the Nascent Soul stage, a cultivator’s outward appearance can be altered at will, reflecting any age they desire.
Losing weight is as easy as sipping broth; unless under special circumstances, even severed limbs can regrow, so shedding a couple of pounds is a breeze.
Female cultivators, regardless of their cultivation level or stature, always appear eighteen.
At most twenty-five.
But stereotypes are stereotypes, and Zhang Ze still believes Elders should all be old n, a group of distinctively different old n, all floating around in the sky with their white beards.
This is why Zhang Ze couldn’t accept Elder Wang suddenly becoming handso and young, so he ran off.
He imdiately ran back to the Sword Pavilion to find his master.
Upon seeing the white-haired yet vigorous Li, Zhang Ze finally felt at ease.
"What’s wrong with you now?" Li Guanqi saw his troubleso disciple’s changing facial expressions, assuming he had caused trouble again.
Why say again?
"Nothing. I just wanted to ask about how Elder Wang turned into that." Zhang Ze casually found a place to sit down, drank the tea on the table in one gulp, and then asked.
"He just got a bit younger, why make such a big deal? Haven’t you seen the Sect Leader?" Li looked at his hapless disciple and sighed.
What’s all the fuss about?
Being chided by Li, Zhang Ze felt his reaction was indeed over the top.
He thought it over for a mont before realizing the key point.
Those youthful bigshots seem to all have partners.
So when couples are together, they look perfectly matched.
It seems Elder Wang t Ling Liu again and rejuvenated into a second spring, acting all carefree.
And since Aunt Niao wasn’t by Elder Wang, it seed so abrupt.
"I get it; only those with wives beco younger, but you and most other Elders are all single..."
Zhang Ze didn’t finish his sentence, swallowing the word "dog" back. But Li still flicked a Sword Qi at him, sending him downhill.
Noisy.
Having kicked out his unlucky disciple, Li tugged at his beard, feeling sowhat agitated.
He read for a while but beca increasingly annoyed, eventually tossing the book aside, gathering so Spiritual Qi at his fingertip, and conjuring a mirror from mist before him.
Li transford himself back to his younger self, gazing at the thick-browed, bright-eyed youth in the mirror he mumbled, "Too young, can’t seem to intimidate that little brat."
"Perhaps a bit older..."
Due to one agitating comnt from Zhang Ze, the Seventh Sword Pavilion often saw unfamiliar ’disciples’ appearing in the subsequent months.
These ’disciples’ started from the Divinity Transformation level, spoke with an air of old-world charm, and chatting with them required utmost caution.
For instance, a senior brother mistook one such unfamiliar face as a fellow new junior brother.
He ranted about his master for ages, promising an alliance and planning to show this junior brother so fun on their next training mission.
Then, for slandering the master face-to-face, he joyfully received a half-month of solitary confinent.
After this incident, the inner sect’s seniors and juniors decided not to let this continue. They jointly drafted a statent to present to the Pavilion Master.
The statent noted that the Elders’ behaviors seriously disrupted the friendly, helpful, and rigorously lively cultivation atmosphere among Sword Sect disciples.
Moreover, it caused an indelible adverse effect on the Sword Sect’s excellent tradition of older training the newer.
They demanded the Elders revert to their original appearances, for every day like this made it hard to speak with anyone unfamiliar.
The Pavilion Master felt the disciples made so valid points.
So, he summoned those Elders and instructed them to appear no younger than fifty, while those with families had free rein.
However, even when becoming younger, they mustn’t act like the Third Elder, who would show up at breakfast at age eighteen, lunchti at thirty, and evening at forty-five pretending as a kitchen worker.
But that’s for later.
Currently, Zhang Ze, who had been kicked down the mountain by Li, was administering dicine to Tang.
Tang was quite the genius; he got lost again.
Monts ago, Zhang Ze was standing beside a pavilion at the foot of the mountain when Tang suddenly popped out from the nearby woods, covered in leaves and with so scratches, limping as he walked.
The lone peak housing the Pavilion Master’s abode only had one path in and out. Zhang Ze couldn’t fathom how Tang managed to get lost navigating these mountain paths.
"Elder, which path did you take to get here?" Zhang Ze asked.
"You ask where the road is, I say the road is beneath my feet..." Tang enigmatically replied.
Zhang Ze didn’t reply, sensing Tang hadn’t yet exited his contrarian mindset.
But frequently getting lost was becoming a hassle, especially since Tang’s cultivation was now exhausted, making it harder to find him if he wandered off.
And appointing soone to follow Tang wasn’t a solution; first, Tang wouldn’t be comfortable, and secondly, that person might not keep up.
Zhang Ze thought for a mont, deciding to equip Tang with sothing.
A directional listening gadget? Zhang Ze pondered, feeling this wouldn’t work.
Tang did have pathfinding artifacts, yet he still got lost.
Scrolling through a few Thousand chanism Tools in his mind, Zhang Ze finally thought of sothing practically useless but perhaps suitable for Tang.
He handed Tang a closed tal lotus.
This was a distress artifact Lily made a long ti ago, but it was so idiotic and embarrassing that only three were sold, and two returned.
The remaining one hadn’t been used before the user perished.
While embarrassing, Zhang Ze felt Tang might find it useful.
"Next ti you get lost and can’t find anyone, nor explain where you are, use this, this thing..."
Zhang Ze didn’t finish before Tang, with an itchy hand, activated it.
The lotus blood, a beam of golden light shot into the sky, forming three large characters: "Help ."
Simultaneously, an array within the lotus activated, with a voice incessantly echoing around Zhang Ze and Tang.
"I’m here, I’m here, I’m here..."
It was Lily’s extrely annoying babbling voice, reportedly transmitted far with the array’s amplification.
"Ridiculous," even Tang gave it a very apt evaluation.
"How do I turn this off?" Tang tampered with the lotus petals, flipping it over but could find no switch to mute the sound.
The lotus continues transmitting Lily’s ntal pollution, accompanied by a tick-tock soundtrack.
And Zhang Ze genuinely didn’t know how to turn it off, as he hadn’t used it before.
In a mont of thought, Zhang Ze snatched the case from Tang, forcibly tearing it in half.
Yet Lily’s voice didn’t cease, still persistently echoing around Zhang Ze and Li’s ears, growing harsher due to so structural damage.
"I’m here, I’m... buzz, this..."
Zhang Ze slashed at the device with his sword, but it was ineffective. Only after smashing this junk into pieces did Lily’s nerve-wracking voice finally stop.
Zhang Ze felt embarrassed, not expecting this thing to be such a nuisance.
But Tang found so rits in the thing, staring at the pieces for a while, an idea sparked.
"Admit it, it’s idiotic, but not completely useless."
"Lead the way; let’s return to the Thousand chanism Pavilion." Squatting, Tang stood, ready to proceed with his first invention as the Supre Supre Grand Elder.
Zhang Ze, however, fell a step behind.
Because the system started buzzing again monts ago.
When Tang instructed him to lead the way, the Thousand chanism City task abruptly branched out.
[Path of the Six Sects]or[Explosive Path]
[Choose one, the result will influence Thousand chanism City’s future direction]
Zhang Ze didn’t hesitate even a second, imdiately choosing the Six Sects.
If he hesitated for even one second, it would be disrespecting Lily.
After choosing, the task interface for [Thousand chanism City] also changed.
The emblems of Dragon Tiger Mountain, Sword Sect, and Beast Taming Sect appeared below the progress bar of the Thousand chanism City task.
Below these three sect logos were three additional progress bars.
Yet annoyingly, the system still offered no explanations.
Zhang Ze sighed, ignored the system, and proceeded to lead Tang towards the Teleportation Array.
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