Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 580 - 331: Fuji Virus, Has Master Died?_3

After making preparations, the long pole in his hand began to change, gradually turning golden, becoming hollow in the middle, and forming a tube.

Zhang Ze looked at the tube in his hand and snorted, touched his waist, and took out a Gu Pill.

In an instant, the murmurs and waves from the Human Emperor Banner burst forth, but they were all blocked by the scattered pearls.

Zhang Ze exerted force and crushed the Gu Pill, and the Human Emperor Banner appeared in his hand.

Quickly, before the Human Emperor Banner could escape, he grabbed it and forcefully inserted it into the tube he had crafted.

Then, the first attempt didn't quite fit.

"Hmm? So tight?"

Zhang Ze applied more force but only managed to get the head in.

The long pole he crafted seemed to be a little tight.

"Tight is tight, the first time is always the hardest, the second time will be just right."

With a thought, an oil jug flew over from the corner, tilted its spout, and poured Spirit Treasure Divine Oil on the joint.

Zhang Ze applied force again with both hands, and the Human Emperor Banner was shoved in.

As the Human Emperor Banner was pushed into the tube, its tormenting noise finally ceased.

Feeling the peace around him, Zhang Ze sighed with emotion.

"Five years, five years, I finally got this kidney stone removed."

With the desperate effort of the Jade Book Tower, time in the Illusion Realm sped up by several times.

Five years had passed in the Illusion Realm, but only half a day had passed outside.

During these five years, Zhang Ze hadn't left White Jade County, continuously studying the Path of Artifact Refining.

And he truly learned it...

It's mainly because humans need a bit of pressure. Previously, when Zhang Ze encountered problems with artifact refining or arrays, he would stop thinking, letting his brain take a back seat.

He would always shout for Lily if he couldn't decide, and call for Tang if he still couldn't decide.

This time, with no Tang on his back and no Lily in his pocket, Zhang Ze suddenly realized he had the ability to walk independently.

This artifact refining and array work seemed not so difficult; perhaps the reason he couldn't do it before was simply due to laziness...

After holding the tube-embedded, sealed Human Emperor Banner in his hand, Zhang Ze confirmed he truly was a genius.

Then he pulled out his system, looked at the empty interface, and softly asked.

"Confess for leniency, resist for severity. What's your relationship with the Human Emperor Banner?"

He hadn't forgotten that his original intention for entering this Illusion Realm wasn't to explore his past and present lives but to uncover the origin of the system.

However, Tongzi remained silent, pretending not to hear anything.

Since Zhang Ze entered the Illusion Realm, apart from the initial two reminders to find the diary, Tongzi was practically dead, neither disturbing Zhang Ze nor responding to his requests.

Eventually, perhaps annoyed by the harassment, Tongzi's various interfaces started spinning like a disconnected device, unable to be clicked open.

Only the clock in the corner of the interface functioned properly, recording external time for him.

As if reminding Zhang Ze, you only had a very long dream, nothing has changed outside the Illusion Realm.

"Don't pretend to be a master by staying silent, I know you can hear me. Squeak once." Zhang Ze continued to inquire.

But after waiting for a long time, Tongzi still didn't respond.

Zhang Ze sighed, turned off the feigning death system, retrieved the pearls from the ground, and continued to play with the tube in his hand.

In these five years in the Illusion Realm, he had been analyzing the Human Emperor Banner, and during this process, he discovered something quite mind-blowing.

That is, many of the posthumously lost Dongqi immortal cultivation technologies might be related to the Human Emperor Banner.

Dongqi's Sword Spirit technology, the Illusion Realm of the Jade Book Tower, his Profound Identification Treasure Mirror, the iteration of space storage techniques, and many others all had intricate connections with the array runes on the surface of the Human Emperor Banner.

Deciphering the array runes on the Human Emperor Banner's surface wasn't difficult. The difficulty lay in the fact that the Broken Banner was an evil object, driving most people who touched it mad.

Even if they didn't go mad, they'd be enchanted by it, wholeheartedly wanting to become brothers with the Human Emperor Banner.

Upon discovering this, Zhang Ze laid out a rough timeline.

He had deciphered part of the Human Emperor Banner's arrays during the Ten Kingdoms era.

And after the establishment of Dongqi, he passed on these technologies.

With technologies derived from the Human Emperor Banner, Dongqi catapulted itself skyward on its own, unifying the East Continent for eons.

Until at its most glorious, an infamous last emperor arose, who single-handedly destroyed Dongqi's entire foundation, even took down a Central Continent with it.

This bizarre operation of the last emperor in the Imperial City also had intricate connections with the Human Emperor Banner.

Everything seemed like a loop...

"But if this assumption holds, then the question arises, where did I go?"

Zhang Ze, turning the tube sealed with the Human Emperor, was baffled.

Logically speaking, with such achievements, even if I didn't get granted an iron-capped, shoulder-level title, as long as the empire stands, you don't die. I'd still earn the title of the world's number one Artifact Refining Master, top Ancestral Master or something, right?

But why is there no information about me in history?

It couldn't be because I told Xiao Qingyun about the Black Tortoise Sect's little story, and when he was stirring up trouble, he also conveniently wiped me out, and launched a temporal chronicle to erase me from history...

Holy crap, it's not impossible...

But first, putting that aside, then why did I live again?

What's going on with that Ancestral Master from Dragon Tiger Mountain? Why did he steal something from a dead man like me?

And what's up with this second-hand system?

After discovering the secret of the Human Emperor Banner, I've always felt that the glitchy system trial space I'm in is quite similar to the Illusion Realm inside the Human Emperor Banner.

Just as Zhang Ze was playing with the tube containing the Human Emperor Banner, intending to interrogate the system again, the door was pushed open from outside.

The girl who had changed from Xiangfei to Xiangxiang ran in limping, braving the wind and snow, and urgently pulling Zhang Ze, "Stop playing with your tube, come with me quickly!"

Zhang Ze, "..."

Zhang Ze stood up, brushed the snow off Xiangxiang, "I'm not playing with the tube, this thing is a treasure, never mind that, what's so urgent."

Xiangxiang, "Your master is about to die!"

Zhang Ze, "?"