Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Chapter 1151 - 540: To Get Rich, Plant Trees First

"Hey, just what the hell did you people do to our Holy Tree?"Di Zhuomala picked up the little walnut and dialed Zhang Ze’s private complaint hotline.

Even though she hadn’t seen anyone and had no evidence, her intuition told her this definitely had something to do with Zhang Ze and his crew.

"Huh?" Zhang Ze listened to the complaint on the other side, looking completely dumbfounded.

Right now he was in the Central Continent, directly under the second Holy Tree sapling he had planted earlier.

The Central Continent side was also conducting Amplification Tower experiments; unlike in the Northern Territory, things here were going very smoothly.

The intensity of the Mind Network exceeded expectations, and the passage had remained open the whole time.

During testing, Cultivators from the East Continent passed through the passage to the Holy Land, and tribal representatives from the Holy Land came to visit the East Continent.

No problems had occurred on any front.

So Zhang Ze had no idea what Lao Di was talking about.

Bracing one hand against the trunk of the hundred-meter-tall sapling, Zhang Ze took the call while banging his foot against the trunk.

"What are you talking about? We didn’t do anything. What happened over there?"

Di Zhuomala turned to look out the window, finding it a bit hard to describe.

"Uh... I don’t really know how to tell you. Anyway, the Holy Tree has some kind of issue. It... it’s feeling uncomfortable, you get me?"

"I don’t, but I can ask around for you."

He pulled together an online meeting, and Zhang Ze connected to the Northern Territory signal.

Anyone with half a brain could tell the problem was coming from that side.

"Hey, how are things on your end?"

"Over here... " Xiangxiang’s video and audio were a bit distorted, but she still quickly explained the situation.

"We had no problems building the Mind Network, but when we tried to connect the teleportation to the Holy Land, something happened. Fuji says she can’t find the way home.

"And then... then she and Dazed Girl are really going at it, saying they’re gonna ram their way back through."

Zhang Ze: "..."

He fell silent for a moment, already having a pretty good idea what was going on, then said, "Tell them to stop first."

Xiangxiang, "Oh, okay."

The Junior Sister beside her immediately caught on. Rubbing her hands together, she set off a firework in midair to signal for Fuji to stop for now.

Once Fuji and Dazed stopped brute forcing it, the Northern Territory’s Amplification Tower immediately dimmed. The surrounding barrier vanished, snow and wind fell onto Zhang Ze’s statue, melted into water, and then froze into ice again.

With the Northern Territory Amplification Tower coming to a halt, the interference on Xiangxiang’s end disappeared as well.

As for Di Zhuomala’s side, looking over her shoulder, they could clearly see the Holy Tree calming back down. It stopped changing colors and its violent shaking ceased.

Still, the way its branches were swaying ever so slightly looked extremely suspicious.

Zhang Ze wasn’t sure if he should say it out loud, but he felt like the Holy Tree seemed a bit unsatisfied, still basking in some lingering afterglow, with a "let me rest and I’ll go another round" vibe.

Forget it, definitely better left unsaid.

Zhang Ze cleared his throat lightly, forcing the nonsense back down, and his cool, aloof pretty-boy persona came back online.

"Fuji and the others probably just got lost. The connection between the Central Continent and the Holy Land wasn’t just thanks to Fuji’s greatness; the Holy Tree sapling also played a crucial role.

"Without the Holy Tree’s roots as a guide, the passage would be much harder to lock onto.

"So, I think Fuji might’ve fallen into path dependence. She stuck—cough, I mean she took the wrong route and connected to your side instead."

"After all, this place is closer to..." Zhang Ze weighed his words; he wasn’t sure whether this kind of link had anything to do with physical distance.

But in terms of outcome, the Amplification Tower in the Northern Territory was indeed closer to the Holy Tree in the West Continent.

And over at that Holy Tree, there really was a root system connected to Mountain and Sea.

It’s just that the connection there wasn’t via Teleportation Array, but an ’elevator.’

"I see... that does sound possible." After listening to Zhang Ze’s explanation, she thought it over and said.

"Why don’t we try it over here too? Is there still time?"

Although Di Zhuomala hadn’t yet seen the detailed project plan, she was somewhat in the loop about this matter.

"There’s time." This time it was Xiangxiang who spoke. "We already had an experiment lined up there. I’ve already sent people..."

Before Xiangxiang could finish, a loud "Yah-ho~" came from Lao Di’s side.

"YAH-HO!!!"

Lao Di turned around and looked back toward the terrace behind her, only to see a ridiculously cool-looking Flying Ship dive toward the Holy Tree like a meteor falling from the sky.

As it was crashing, it was accompanied by the Cat Lady Emperor’s frantic cries for help.

But nobody went to save her.

Still immersed in its afterglow and enjoying its Wise Man’s Time, the Holy Tree gently raised a storm, and in the blink of an eye swatted that Everywhere Pass Flying Ship away.

Like flicking a cockroach.

The "yah-ho" turned into a shrill "Mommy save me!" scream.

Whether it was because the Holy Tree hadn’t really put any strength into it, or because the Everywhere Pass Flying Ship was just built different, the Flying Ship piloted by the Cat Lady Emperor was not cleaved in half, and both she and all the equipment on board remained intact.

The Flying Ship stuck straight into the streets of Fucheng like a tombstone.

In the rear cockpit, a safety rope somehow got wrapped around the Cat Lady Emperor’s neck, hanging her there, swaying back and forth.

The whole video conference fell silent for a moment, until Xiangxiang’s parched voice finally broke the stillness.

"The equipment... the equipment has arrived."

Zhang Ze picked up, "I suggest you hurry up and save her. Her Majesty’s face is already turning purple."

In the end, nobody really figured out how the Cat Lady Emperor managed to turn an Everywhere Pass Flying Ship, with maxed-out safety features, into a kamikaze plane.

But she really was fast—very, very fast—getting the Amplification Tower and Fuji-edition Human Race base delivered.

After confirming that Her Majesty was fine, with only half her neck broken and five minutes needed to heal, the Holy Tree Division immediately sprang into action.