Chapter 1042: Chapter 503: Mr. Zhang’s Search, Hide, and Retreat

After clearing his mind, the first thing Zhang Ze did was hide.

Like a Magical Girl’s transformation, his black tight-fitting suit replaced the Sword Sect’s white robe, snugly adhering to his skin. With a stretchy sound like a snapping elastic band, Zhang Ze vanished without a trace.

Once hidden, he first checked the remaining teammates around him.

He felt for the Hundred Treasures Bag at his waist and found that the Little Earth Immortal was playing cards with Maomao. The two were playing King Fisher, and judging by the paper on their faces, they seemed evenly matched.

Then Zhang Ze took out a necklace-like Beast Taming Ring, poking his head inside to observe, and saw a bundle of Little Fuji giving a lesson with Maomao to a group of twin-tailed elves.

The class title was "Good Dogs and Good Mushrooms."

They appeared normal, unaffected, and unharmed.

The strange disconnection did not seem to affect Zhang Ze himself.

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Ze stealthily approached a stone wall.

In this canyon on the Gobi Desert, stone mountains were everywhere, all with peculiar shapes. It’s unclear how long they had been eroded by wind and sand, with many inconspicuous hiding places.

Zhang Ze took out a wooden kite from the Hundred Treasures Bag and set it to fly by raising his hand.

As the wooden kite ascended, its vision expanded, and it commenced data recording. At the same time, the small array within the wooden kite was activated.

After a rough automatic calculation, the wooden kite estimated the area’s size based on observed data.

This place seemed excessively large.

Though not precise measurements, this area’s size appeared equivalent to the Four Continents, and it was spherical.

Zhang Ze,"Huh?"

Upon discovering Baiyujing’s abnormal area, Zhang Ze continued controlling the wooden kite’s ascent.

However, as it neared the limit, the kite’s signal abruptly vanished, as if it fell into a sky barrier.

"Gosh, could the Four Continents be twins? Is this a shadow world?"

But this guess was instantly dismissed by Zhang Ze himself, as he felt something was off.

The sky seemed strange.

Zhang Ze gazed upward, staring at the sky.

Unlike the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, the sky here wasn’t an inverted sea but rather identical to that over the Four Continents, complete with clouds and a sun.

Except for that sun...

Zhang Ze focused on the sun; his cultivation endowed him with an indestructible retina, mere sunlight wouldn’t blind him.

He stared for a long time but felt a veil of mist shrouded his sight; the sun seemed fake no matter how he looked at it.

Furthermore, Zhang Ze noticed that ’sun’ remained stationary compared to Baiyujing.

It was perpetually fixed at the center of the sky, marking noon.

Too suspicious, as if it were hanging...

Zhang Ze blinked, ceased staring, and gently tapped his forehead.

With ripples spreading, Zhang Ze’s forehead glowed a colorless light, and his pupils disappeared with the light.

Emotionless, appearing divine.

As he stared anew, the sky gradually unveiled its true form.

"Indeed..." Zhang Ze murmured softly.

"What do you mean ’indeed’?"

While Zhang Ze mused, Fuji suddenly emerged.

It nudged Zhang Ze’s chest, causing the tight suit to form a tent.

Fortunately, this bundle of Fuji was small, only palm-sized, and Zhang Ze’s tight suit was superbly elastic, thus not cramped.

Feeling Fuji’s commotion, Zhang Ze ceased gazing at the sky but shrank back into his tight suit.

He pulled out a small table board from the Hundred Treasures Bag and positioned it on his chest, as a platform for Fuji to use.

Fuji ran two circles on the table, quite satisfied, yet didn’t forget Zhang Ze’s earlier statements. Fuji inquired.

"What do you mean ’indeed’? What did you discover? What’s outside? Where’s Li?"

Confronted by Fuji’s barrage of inquiries, Zhang Ze found it difficult to explain, so he took out a paper and drew a picture.

"This is the current situation."

Zhang Ze presented his carefully crafted masterpiece to Fuji.

However, Fuji glanced for a while, but still shook her head.

"Can’t discern it, what’s the pink lump?"

Zhang Ze, "Ahem, that’s not a lump, it’s the Holy Tree."

Fuji, "Then, what about the silver fuzz?"

Zhang Ze, "That’s not fuzz, it’s the Holy Tree seedling planted yesterday."

Fuji responded with an ’oh,’ "I get it, so the white lump figure is you, right?"

Zhang Ze, "..."

Through Zhang Ze’s explanation, Fuji roughly understood the picture’s meaning.

Though uncertain of this place’s existence, it somewhat resembled the Earth Core World of the Four Continents.

Containing only a red ball akin to the sun, but no actual sky.

Zhang Ze pressed his hand on Fuji’s little head; an colorless flash indicated Fuji to venture out and have a look herself.

Fuji replied with an ’oh,’ then crawled out of Zhang Ze’s tight suit sleeve.

She gazed upward initially but detected nothing unusual.

Therefore, Fuji unhappily muttered, and a ring of eyes sprouted atop her head.

With the eyes multiplying, she discerned the mist obscuring the ’sky.’

The sun-like red orb remained, but the sky transformed into another continent.

Inside the sphere, Fuji saw another continent’s mountains and seas, and some blurry cities, the distorted horizon turned into its proper form.

Looked like a giant slide, quite amusing.

However, while Fuji laughed at the Earth Core World, she unexpectedly noticed a giant water mist explode in the far distance.