Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

While running, Lily excitedly jabbered to Zhang Ze about what she'd been up to for the past half month.

She said that we Thousand Mechanism Cultivators now have a great weapon.

She said she solved the combat difficulties of the Thousand Mechanism Cultivators.

Zhang Ze, upon hearing this, felt it was indeed a significant achievement.

Because the Thousand Mechanism Cultivators had never had a suitable way to fight. Although Lily and some art-loving Thousand Mechanism Cultivators had come up with many explosive gadgets, getting them to the enemy's face was always a problem.

After all, flying gadgets have flight speeds.

When encountering a fast-moving body technique enemy or some tough ones, there's always a hitch.

For instance, the thrown Thousand Mechanism Thunder being kicked back to them.

However, because Lily was too excited, her words became incoherent, and Zhang Ze didn't quite catch on.

He just heard Lily repeatedly mutter something about a great cannon or something like that.

"What exactly have you come up with?" Zhang Ze asked as Lily pulled him towards the back mountain.

"You'll see! It's super awesome!" Lily was still in an excited state.

Zhang Ze felt Lily was running too slowly, so he turned to pull her using the Escape Technique, arriving directly at the back mountain of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Upon arrival, Zhang Ze noticed many people gathered here; nearly all the Thousand Mechanism Cultivators of the Pavilion were present.

Fuji and Li were half-buried in the ground, looking ready to flee at any moment.

Qiao Lezhi was mingling with the Sword Sect's senior brothers and sisters, boasting about how hard she worked at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Pavilion Master Zhengyi, Zhang Ze's master, Wang, and a few idle Sword Sect Elders were also here.

Tang brought a few junior Daoists, squatting on a large blue stone, without a trace of the Sect Leader's dignity.

In the middle of the venue were Xiaoxuan and Big Head and his crew.

Judging by their determined and intelligent eyes, they were clearly in an intellectual resonance mode.

Seeing Zhang Ze arrive, Li waved at him.

"Over here!"

Lily squeezed forward with Zhang Ze, "Initially, I just came to check it out, but coincidentally, you just exited seclusion. Isn't that lucky? I wanted to surprise you."

"It's still quite the surprise now," Zhang Ze replied with a smile.

Zhang Ze was very curious about what they had come up with.

Pushing to the front, Lily signaled to Xiaoxuan in the middle of the venue.

Xiaoxuan waved in acknowledgment.

At the same time, Taoist Jin clapped his hands, and a stylish golden cannon seat flew out from his Storage Bag.

The other six Daoists made the same movements, releasing Thousand Mechanism Tools from their Storage Bags and combining them with the cannon seat under their control.

When the super cool Thousand Mechanism Cannon was assembled, Xiaoxuan stood on a pre-set Array.

She controlled the Thousand Mechanism Armor on her, with a soothing light shining from her chest, establishing a faint link with the Thousand Mechanism Cannon.

The Big Heads also stood in their positions; once they were ready, Xiaoxuan controlled the cannon to aim its muzzle skyward.

The Daoists formed hand seals, with the local Spiritual Qi converging around them.

Everything in place, she signaled to Lily's side.

Seeing Xiaoxuan's signal, Pavilion Master Zhengyi raised a hand, and a pure white Sword Qi shot to the sky, transforming into a Sword Array that protected all the spectators.

The other Sword Sect Elders also flew into the sky to assist Zhengyi in maintaining the Protective Sword Array.

Zhang Ze thought firing a cannon was no big deal, but when Xiaoxuan and the seven Big Head Taoists activated the Thousand Mechanism Cannon, he fell silent.

It was indeed necessary.

That was heavenly might.

The seven Big Head Taoists used their Divinity Transformation cultivation to transform Spiritual Qi into the Five Elements Taoist Technique in the most primitive way and injected it into the Thousand Mechanism Cannon.

A pure torrent of Taoist Art shot out, its power vastly exceeding top-grade Magical Artifacts of the same level.

Watching that beam tear through the clouds and point straight to the sky, someone subconsciously muttered.

"Heavenly opening."

Flying in the sky to maintain the Protective Sword Array, Wang sensed the power of the torrent, pondering something silently.

He suddenly whispered to Li, "If this thing hits you, could you withstand it?"

"Withstand my ass; you'd better get a Void Refinement Realm here. Even they might not withstand it if they accidentally get hit," Li Guanqi told his old friend.

...

At the pedestrian street of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, Thousand Mechanism Cultivator Xu Le was gloomily leaning against the doorframe of the Thousand Mechanism Tool repair shop, sighing.

If he hadn't lost a bet with Shi Qinghai, he wouldn't have needed to stay here and watch the shop.

"I really want to see that thing up close, so annoying," Xu Le muttered for a bit before deciding to sneak back to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion by skipping work.

Just then, a hulking man walked towards the shop, extending a large hand towards Xu Le, "The stuff you sold is broken; give me a new one."

Xu Le glanced at the Thousand Mechanism Tool in the big man's hand and immediately saw that the guy broke it himself.

Since the foundation of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, there have been countless people wanting to get free replacements or maliciously return and exchange things for new ones.

Usually, he'd just call on a passing Sword Sect disciple to solve it, but today Xu Le felt as though everyone aside from him had gone to the back mountain for the spectacle.

Xu Le sighed, intending to talk sense to the man first.

But if the man wouldn't listen, he'd use physical means to make him understand human words.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly sensed a crushing pressure coming from the direction of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

He turned to see the path-clearing Taoist torrent in the sky.

The freeloading big man saw it as well.

After that torrent disappeared, the two men were silent for a long while before Xu Le asked the big man, "What was it you said you wanted?"

The big man smiled benignly, bent over, and respectfully offered the broken Thousand Mechanism Tool with both hands, "Please help me fix this thing."

Xu Le smiled warmly as well, "No problem, but pay up first."

...

In the Cyan Thorn land, on a hilltop.

Wasp Ancestor, fleeing to Cyan Thorn land to avoid the third severe crackdown by the Beast Taming Sect this year, was lecturing his two disciples.

"In this Cyan Thorn land, recently the Demon Path is in chaos, and the renown of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion has brought many Loose Cultivators here."

"Now the situation is changing; it's a good time for us three master and disciples to fish in troubled waters."

"Today, using a secret technique for calculation, there's a great opportunity to the north that we could..."

Wasp Ancestor hadn't finished speaking when he and the two disciples saw a light pillar shoot up to the north, tearing through the clouds.

After the light beam disappeared, his disciple dryly asked, "Master, what did you say we were going to do?"

Wasp Ancestor was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Did we close the door to the Cave Mansion when we left?"

The clever disciple quickly followed up, "I think we didn't, Master."

Wasp Ancestor nodded, "Then let's go home and close the door."

Without another word, he turned around, leading his two disciples to escape homeward.

Scenes like this played out all over Cyan Thorn; most people were amazed, some were scared, while the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion was filled with cheers.

Zhang Ze looked at Lily, "You? Half a month? How did you do this?"

Zhang Ze could hardly believe that Lily and her group had actually made this happen.

He looked up at the big hole in the cloud layer.

Lily had literally blown a hole through the sky.

Lily, looking at Zhang Ze's shocked face, with a triumphant, "I'm Lily, invincible," expression, grandly gestured to everyone present before turning to Zhang Ze and said.

"Who says I did it all by myself?"

"Everyone contributed."

"Besides, it wasn't just half a month."

"It was five hundred years, five hundred years of our Thousand Mechanism Cultivators, combined with thousands of years of heritage from the Sword Sect and Dragon Tiger Mountain!"

"As for how we did it, humph, Boss, you ask me!"

"Ask me, and I'll tell you."

Lily gloated again, wagging her finger at Zhang Ze.