It probably triggered some kind of early warning; the bright dot on the Seeking Fur Technique Array flashed for a bit and then suddenly went dark.

After that, no matter how they tried to trigger it, there was no response.

Xiangxiang reacted fast and directly teleported to the spot the Array had just marked.

Before leaving, she flung Tongtong's House's internal route map right into Zhang Ze's face.

Xiangxiang hopped between various instruments and quickly arrived before a large metal gate.

The room the Array had marked was right on the other side of the door, but there was no anchor point there for Xiangxiang to jump to.

Not only that, this room had been cut out of the monitoring network by Lily a long time ago.

It had become a completely blind spot right under the lamp.

All signs showed that the evil Demon King Lily had long anticipated the matter being exposed and had made a lot of preparations in advance.

Just as Xiangxiang was about to pry the door, the space around her twisted. Zhang Ze jumped out of the vortex and placed his hand on the big door.

"Let me."

Without anyone seeing how Zhang Ze was Casting, the iron door forged from crystal-gold cold iron turned into rotten wood.

The Array carved on it was completely destroyed, and a colorless light snuffed out the energy produced when the Array exploded.

Stepping inside, Zhang Ze crushed a Thousand Mechanism Thunder that shot toward him.

Only this thunder didn't explode as Zhang Ze had expected. Instead, like a primer, it activated the trap Array in the room.

In the blink of an eye, golden light burst everywhere in the room, smoke billowed—just like a disco.

Zhang Ze only sniffed a tiny bit of that smoke, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He kind of wanted to laugh.

Not because he was mocking Lily's low tactics, but because he was poisoned.

Poisoned by the strange toxin "Fujie's Smiling Face" jointly developed at the beginning of this year by Fuji and Xiaoxue.

Even a Void Refinement Realm Cultivator can't resist it just by smelling it.

It won't kill you, but it'll seriously gross you out.

Once you're poisoned, you can't stop laughing like crazy, and your sense of taste goes offline—drinking the northwest wind still tastes like eating raw, all-natural compost poop. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

At the instant he was poisoned, Zhang Ze pinched a Taoist Technique, activated his Innate Dao Body, and reset his own state.

At the same time, he tacitly took the palm-sized Little Fuji handed over by his fashionably late Junior Sister.

He tossed Little Fuji into the room, and with a long, long inhaling sound, the toxic fog in the room was completely gone.

"Burp!"

Little Fuji let out a comfortable burp.

"Did you call everyone?" After canceling his Innate Dao Body, Zhang Ze turned his head and asked.

"I did, but they didn't all come here. Most of them went to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion and the Sword Pavilion to prevent Lily from popping up over there."

Zhang Ze: "And the traps?"

This time it was Xiangxiang who spoke.

"All the traps specially for capturing Lily have been activated. From Thousand Mechanism

Town to Qinghe, a total of seven hundred and twenty traps are all up and running."

In the split-screen projection Xiangxiang displayed, all sorts of shiny little gadgets were either tucked away in hidden corners or openly hanging on trees.

And all around these genuine, solid little gadgets, there were tracking traps everywhere.

Only after confirming that the net was fully laid did Zhang Ze finally have time to look around the room, wanting to see what big move Lily had prepared.

The room had Space

Spell applied to it and was several times larger than it originally looked. Aside from some basic research facilities and the Beast Taming Sect Arrays, the most eye-catching things were the interconnected transparent giant jars.

These jars were all Spatial Magical Artifacts as well. Within them, the miniaturized mountains and rivers thrived with life under the control of Arrays, except the creatures being raised inside were nowhere to be seen.

They'd probably run off with Lily.

Zhang Ze scanned the room once; Array Map patterns surfaced before his eyes, and he quickly found the Teleportation Array that had carried Lily away.

It was on the ceiling.

Only, the Array had already been completely destroyed and offered no clue as to where it led.

Zhang Ze secretly clicked his tongue. Looking at the layout of the room, a very bad premonition crept up his spine.

He was mainly worried about Lily.

In a sense, Lily was more or less a bit mentally unwell, an evil Demon King in a superposition of cowardly and brave states.

Call her cowardly, yet she dares to play with thunder; when she's interested in something, she'll hold on even if it blows her up.

Call her brave, and the moment something goes wrong, she retreats, shoves everyone behind her, and becomes completely unreliable.

Seeing Lily like this now, he could almost be sure she was a hundred percent in her courage mode.

Lily in courage mode has destructive power no less than a Mahayana Cultivator—and quite possibly the kind that will go down in history in a very bad way.

Especially since she currently has Tongtong, Old Thing, and Miemie—those three big treasures—by her side.

Tongtong, needless to say, is a reckless brute.

Old Thing and Miemie are pure troublemakers; Miemie is even showing signs of evolving into a full-on chaos enjoyer.

To prevent Lily from doing something that would outrage both humans and gods, they had to find her quickly.

As for what she was doing, Zhang Ze suddenly had some guesses.

"Maomao... small individuals, Lily... could it be, Big Brother?"

Zhang Ze imagined the scene and suddenly felt a chill: hundreds and thousands of fingernail-sized long-haired puppies all shouting "Big Brother"...

These are extraordinary times, so extraordinary means must be used. To stop Lily from making an irreparable mistake, Zhang Ze activated one of the ultimate trump cards of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

The Fuji Intelligence Network.

With Zhang Ze stomping three times, Fuji, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dressed in white robes, walked in from outside the door.

Without Zhang Ze needing to say anything, Fuji grabbed his hand.

In an instant, the Fujis within half of Cyan Thorn's territory linked into a single net, dragging Zhang Ze into it and sharing their thoughts and vision with him.