The Female Hero Li was thus pulled to the inner sanctum by the Junior Sister's extraordinary energy and met Zhang Ze, who had transformed into a one-legged big egg.

"Emmm..."

The Female Hero Li didn't know how to comment; all she could do was raise her hand and take a picture of Zhang Ze.

She then put this photo into a folder named 'Endangered Species of the Four Continents'.

Besides raising elephants, the Beast Taming Sect also takes on the responsibility of environmental protection.

Recording endangered Spirit Beasts is a routine task for the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect when they go out for training.

In the Female Hero Li's view, Zhang Ze clearly belonged to an endangered species.

Not only was he as rare as scorpion dung, but he could often transform into various sub-species.

He was indeed worth in-depth research.

In the past, he was still somewhat normal, whether it was the original cheat form, the Golden Core stone form, the Spirit Fusion Technique immunity form, or the Stone Man spell immunity form, he could barely be called humanoid.

But now...

Watching Zhang Ze practicing one-legged squats in front of her, the Female Hero Li thought for a moment and said, "Congratulations, you've finally stopped being a human."

"It's a surprise, a surprise, just a surprise, really, I still want to be human." Zhang Ze stopped the pointless squats.

Li Yueqi: "You're always surprised, I... forget it. What business do you have with me this time?"

She sat weakly onto a baby carriage, crossing her legs and asked.

"Here's the thing." Xiangxiang adjusted imaginary glasses and said to Li Yueqi, "Please look at the large screen."

To prevent Zhang Ze and Chen Qin from making the matter increasingly complex, she had already prepared a PPT.

The PPT provided a concise and gradual introduction to Zhang Ze's current condition and the solution to the problem.

It also gave a reasoned analysis of the cause of his evolutionary transformation.

Because Li Yueqi was known to be reliable, she added some information about Earth Sea and the Four Continents' past, supplementing the explanation of Zhang Ze's background.

"So that's the situation..."

After listening to Xiangxiang, Li Yueqi, sitting in the baby carriage, and Little Fuji on her head applauded together.

"Amazing, really amazing, as expected of you."

After duplicating the PPT and placing it into Zhang Ze's endangered species folder, she pressed a button, enlarging the seat of the baby carriage for a more comfortable sitting posture.

"So what's next? Wait for the former Saintess to return?"

"Mm." The Junior Sister nodded.

...

Soon, Miss Di Zhuomala completed the preparation for the ceremony materials under watchful eyes.

Upon returning to the innermost part of the sanctum, she met Li Yueqi.

Li Yueqi, in a red dress, sat in the baby carriage and greeted the Saintess, whom she met for the first time.

"Hi!"

After the Junior Sister's introduction, the two briefly acquainted, and the ceremony immediately began.

But before starting, they offered lots of delicious treats to Little Fuji, ensuring she stayed on one side and didn't cause trouble.

The ceremony began.

Setting up slate, applying blood and ointment, placing wine and morning mist to the east...

Di Zhuomala, in a white robe, serious-faced, began the preliminary ceremony barefoot.

Watching Lao Di's actions, Li Yueqi, visiting here for the first time, found it miraculous.

No Spiritual Qi, no Array Talisman, but miracles could be invoked.

As the ceremony progressed, golden streamers carrying earthly illusions gently floated past her.

In the golden streamers' width, she vaguely saw the shadow of Thousand Mechanism Town.

Instinctively, Li Yueqi wanted to reach out and touch, but just as she raised her hand, Di Zhuomala's voice echoed in her ear.

"Don't touch, come back, it's dangerous."

After a brief hesitation, Li Yueqi came back to her senses.

She retreated, clutching her chest, panting heavily, like a drowning person pulled ashore.

Looking around, she realized all the divine phenomena had vanished—no streamers, no earthly illusions.

"What you saw were the memories of the Holy Tree. If you fall too deep, you'll be captured by it, and once you're captured, you'll turn into an idiot."

As Lao Di spoke, she approached Li Yueqi barefoot, her tall build looking directly at Li Yueqi, applying ointment on her lips and jaw.

The Female Hero Li, touched on the lips, felt indescribably awkward.

Luckily, just as Li Yueqi was about to blush uncontrollably, Di Zhuomala withdrew her hand and returned to the center of the altar.

However, when Lao Di prepared to apply lip balm on the Junior Sister, a commotion arose from that side.

"Come on, come on, I know how to do that too, let me apply it for you, okay."

"You climb! I don't want it! Even if you're Senior Brother, it won't work."

Li Yueqi and Di Zhuomala turned to see Zhang Ze apparently preparing to remove his shoes.

While Chen Qin pressured Zhang Ze's foot with the baby carriage, preventing him from taking off his shoes.

But her expression seemed somewhat hesitant.

It was as if she wasn't saying, not possible. Instead, she appeared to say, there are too many people now; it's not possible.

Recalling their conversation, Li Yueqi gasped, thinking these two perverts were way too perverted now.

Without hesitation, the Female Hero Li took out a Taisui from her storage ring and threw it at the two.

"Act seriously, everyone is here to help you!"

The Taisui attack was effective; the two immediately quieted down.

Di Zhuomala also stepped forward, applying ointment to the Junior Sister's face in the same manner.

After everything was prepared, she had Zhang Ze stand at the altar's center, while she, Chen Qin, and Li Yueqi formed the three vertexes of a triangle, surrounding Zhang Ze.

Just stepping on this temporary altar, an indistinct pressure appeared.

Although Chen Qin and Li Yueqi were not versed in the West Continent's Dharma Method, they could also sense being observed by the Holy Tree.

At this moment, even the Junior Sister became serious and earnest, stopping her antics and waiting patiently for Lao Di's next instructions.

"You grab your right ear with your left hand, the left ear with your right hand, lift your right foot, heel against the bum... whatever, and then do ten squats on one leg."

Di Zhuomala said earnestly.

Li Yueqi & Chen Qin: "?"

Di Zhuomala: "I'm not fooling you, although I can't explain, this truly is part of the ceremony, skipping this step ensures a 100% failure."

Li Yueqi & Chen Qin: "..."

According to the quick guide to rites.

To increase the ceremony's success rate, the safest way is to replicate all the actions of the first person performing the ceremony.

Whether it seems useful or not, just replicate.

With the three girls awkwardly encircling Zhang Ze doing squats, Zhang Ze, as the ceremony's core, merely needed to stand quietly.

And as the fifth squat was completed, the pressure looming over their heads indeed increased significantly.

The Holy Tree's attention turned to this place.

Zhang Ze 'looked up' and 'met the gaze' of the Holy Tree above.

Unsure if it was an illusion, he momentarily sensed the Holy Tree's emotions.

'Hey, that's quite amusing!'

Zhang Ze, "..."

He seemed to somewhat understand the purpose of this step...

Anyway, whatever the truth of the ritual was, when the three completed ten squats, the power of the Holy Tree descended.

The ritual was thus able to continue.

Of course, the subsequent ritual steps were much more normal...

When the ritual was completed, Zhang Ze's prayers were answered.

A connection that could be described as a bridge was established, and Zhang Ze once again sensed that deep sea.

As the waves became clearer, the butt-shaped Dream Origin Pills refined by Little Fuji began to fly around Zhang Ze, soon dissolving into the Formless.

The will of the Four Continents 'begrudgingly' accepted the offering.

As the Dream Origin Pills vanished, Zhang Ze emitted a colorless light.

Within this colorless light, Zhang Ze seemed to gain an understanding, and some suspicions in his heart were confirmed.

Uncertain how much time passed, perhaps a day or just a moment, the light engulfing everything suddenly disappeared, and Zhang Ze drifted down from above.

"That felt great!"

Zhang Ze stretched lazily.

Seeing Zhang Ze was unharmed, Di Zhuomala let out a sigh of relief, looking about to collapse from exhaustion.

She waved her hand, indicating not to worry about her, then staggered off the altar, slumping into a baby carriage.

Female Hero Li contemplated for a moment, followed down the altar, and poured water for Lao Di, who lay slumped in the baby carriage.

As for Junior Sister, she was busy examining Zhang Ze, touching everywhere, testing the quality of this new senior brother.

Zhang Ze pinched Junior Sister's cheek, then picked her up by her collar and placed her aside, then looked at Xiangxiang and asked.

"What kind of clothes do you like?"

Xiangxiang, who had been quietly floating on the side, was taken aback.

But she quickly understood the meaning behind Zhang Ze's words.

"Now? Don't I need to prepare... or..."

Nervous and excited, she was somewhat incoherent.

"No need, because I have already understood everything just now." Zhang Ze flamboyantly covered his face with one hand, as if a deity of his new world.

"Really?"

"Really!"

After a brief overload, Xiangxiang calmed down, as if recalling distant memories.

Moments later her projection flickered, reverting to her appearance when she first entered White Jade County riding a cow.

"Ready?" Zhang Ze asked.

Xiangxiang nodded.

Zhang Ze took a deep breath, then raised his hand, "Witness me, Divine Techniques."

The line wasn't important, it just felt cool to Zhang Ze.

Colorless light gathered around him, enveloping Xiangxiang's projection.

"Don't forget who you are."

Zhang Ze's words echoed in Xiangxiang's ears.

When Xiangxiang opened her eyes again, familiar yet strange sensations returned to her body.

Heartbeat, breathing, the tickle of hair brushing against skin, everything was so real.

She looked down at her hand, gently clasping it, feeling the slight pain from her nails pressing against her skin.

The long-lost sense of reality.

She took a step forward, but perhaps it was because she hadn't walked in a while, her body leaned forward, unsteadily falling into Zhang Ze's arms.

Long-lost warmth.

But after holding onto him for a while, Xiangxiang suddenly felt something amiss.

She softly hummed, held Zhang Ze's shoulders to stand up, and lowered her gaze to her chest.

"Here... Was it always this big?"

After confirming again, she raised her head to look at Zhang Ze suspiciously.

Zhang Ze turned his head away, laughing, "Of course, how could I possibly remember wrong, hahaha..."

Xiangxiang tilted her head, looking at Zhang Ze's side profile, suddenly laughing, somewhat charmingly.

Ultimately, she decided not to delve further into the matter, leaned back against Zhang Ze's chest again, wrapped her arms around Zhang Ze's neck, and took a deep breath.

Soon, a click sound was heard, Zhang Ze felt like something was added around his neck.

Zhang Ze, "?"

It was Little Fuji.

Little Fuji had somehow climbed onto Zhang Ze's back and tucked a primed Talisman into Xiangxiang's hand.

The Talisman ignited, transforming into a string of gray shackles, imbued with Sister Wang's aura.

One end of the chains was locked around Zhang Ze's neck, the other clasped in Xiangxiang's hand.

"No sleeping tonight."

Xiangxiang squinted, licked Zhang Ze's neck.

Unsure if it was an illusion, Zhang Ze felt like Xiangxiang's gaze had a hint of green.

There was no response, or perhaps it was deliberately playing along.

Gray flames enveloped them both, transporting them outside the sanctuary.

In the moment of vanishing, Xiangxiang tilted her head towards Junior Sister, playfully smiling.

"Sorry, he's mine today."

...

As the flames dispersed and the two vanished, Junior Sister seemed to still not comprehend what had happened.

It was Female Hero Li who was quick-witted, she kicked Chen Qin.

"Idiot, chase them. Whatever she says goes, why are you being so obedient today."

"Oh, right! Come back! You two come back to me!"

Realizing she seemed to have been outwitted, Junior Sister immediately drew her sword and chased after them.