Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 757 - 391: Arm-Thick Arm
"Where's your hand?"
The junior sister reached out, but there was nothing there.
"It's gone. You wanted to see what was wrong with my body, right? Well, here it is." Zhang Ze casually shrugged his sleeve.
The sleeve was empty; not only his right hand but even his forearm had completely disappeared.
The junior sister lifted Zhang Ze's sleeve, finding no bloodstains or scars from healed injuries.
There was only a dull gray smooth surface.
"I'm not looking anymore, just change back, quickly..."
The junior sister held Zhang Ze's upper arm, gently shaking it, momentarily at a loss.
Facing the junior sister's request, Zhang Ze was in a bit of a dilemma.
He scratched his head with his left hand, "I can't do it, I can't change it back, it..."
Zhang Ze sensed something, "Hmm, it's completely disconnected now."
Junior sister, "?"
She was genuinely panicking.
"So from now on, you'll be like this, I—it's all my fault..."
"Don't cry, don't cry." Zhang Ze smiled and wiped the junior sister's tears with his left hand, "It's just gone temporarily, it's not like it won't grow back."
Junior sister, "Grow back? What's going on, tell me quickly!"
"That's what they call motherless children, it's a long story, let me think of a way to explain it to you." Zhang Ze looked up at the ceiling brimming with lines.
A moment later, he started another topic, "I'm immune to most divine soul-related spells and unable to perform Yang Spirit emergence or other divine soul-related techniques, you know that, right."
The junior sister nodded vigorously, she was aware of this.
During the period right after the Qinghe Association ended, almost every day someone would come to spar with Zhang Ze.
Among them was a young boy, extraordinarily gifted, who practiced the Lion's Roar Awakening Technique, capable of Qi control and soul shaking, hurting people formlessly.
This technique specifically countered those without magic resistance.
However, that day, the boy stood in a horse stance opposite Zhang Ze and shouted all morning, yet didn't even stir a single hair on Zhang Ze.
Zhang Ze's divine soul seemed welded into his body.
If it hadn't been for Tang casually finding an excuse to give the boy a way out, the poor child might have lost his voice in front of Zhang Ze.
"But what does this have to do with your hand?" The junior sister asked, feeling pity as she touched Zhang Ze's arm.
"The problem with my body lies here."
Zhang Ze pulled out a small bag of rice from the Hundred Treasures Bag and tossed it to the junior sister, "Ordinary cultivators' divine soul all reside on the Spirit Platform, left-path outer techniques may differ but mostly condense into a human form attached somewhere inside the body.
"But I'm different, I'm all mixed."
Saying this, Zhang Ze poured another bag of millet into the rice bag and shook it in front of the junior sister's confused eyes.
"Here, just like this." Zhang Ze pointed to the mixed yellow and white grains in the bag, "My divine soul and flesh are approximately in this state."
The rice represents the flesh, the millet the divine soul.
"Is this an illness?" the junior sister asked.
"Not really, while this constitution is rare, there are comparable cases, it's called a Yuan Mixed Body, a congenital Body Cultivation Holy Body."
Zhang Ze mentioned several names, but all were figures of the past.
The last known cultivator said to have a Yuan Mixed Body was from the late Dongqi period.
"Isn't that a good thing?" the junior sister asked.
"It is good, but my Yuan Mixed Body has some defects, and I can also see the Earth Sea..." Zhang Ze chuckled bitterly.
For some reason, whenever Zhang Ze attempted to stabilize his cultivation completely in the Nascent Soul Realm, he would become strongly influenced by the Earth Sea.
He would enter a state similar to 'submergence.'
Due to being mixed, Zhang Ze's flesh would also enter that state of 'submergence.'
Zhang Ze, "An accident occurred before the coffin was unveiled, my Yuan Mixed Body has flaws.
"As a result, the strength of my flesh and divine soul don't match, so when 'surfacing,' my divine soul returned, but my flesh was dissolved on the other side by the Earth Sea."
Zhang Ze sprinkled the mixed rice on the ground, forming a human shape, then pointed a finger at the spirit and shot a spiritual qi at the small arm of the figure.
The rice representing the flesh was crushed into dust, while the millet representing the soul was evenly distributed to other parts of the human form.
He is currently in a dilemma.
To completely break through to the Nascent Soul, he needs tougher flesh.
But due to defects in the Yuan Mixed Body, wanting a stronger physical strength requires first breaking through the nascent soul...
"That's the situation." Zhang Ze pointed at the dull gray surface on his arm, "And although my divine soul returned, to fully eliminate the influence and grow the hand back, it'll take at least three days."
Saying this, Zhang Ze dug out a Thousand-Machine Silver Hand from the Hundred Treasures Bag and put it on.
He moved it around, and it was quite comfortable.
Except suddenly wanting to burn a skyscraper into ashes, there were no downsides.
Chen Qin, "Is there no solution?"
The junior sister held onto the cold...well, not cold at all, because Zhang Ze thoughtfully turned on the heating mode, now the silver hand was like a warm baby.
"There are, currently two options." Zhang Ze warmed the sister's hands while speaking.
"One is to continue cultivating Spirit Fusion Technique, finding a way to stay in the Merging Spirit State without glowing, thus discarding the flesh and ignoring the Earth Sea's restrictions to continue cultivation."
Though Zhang Ze said this lightly, it's not simple at all since even the Old Ascenders couldn't consistently enter the Merging Spirit State.
Over time, a slight misstep, and it's easy to lose oneself.
"As for the second method...I think it's more reliable, that is finding a way to complete my faulty Yuan Mixed Body, allowing me to 'submerge' during the breakthrough and have my body 'swim' back."
