Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Finally, together with several Purple-robed Heavenly Masters, they inverted the entire Sword Casting Peak into the sinkhole, using the Mountain Refining Technique that was unused in Spirit Deer Valley to refine it, merging with the Earth Vein.

Directly extracting the mighty power of the Earth Vein.

Apart from sword forging and cultivation, with the help of the assembly line and Earth Vein power, they achieved automated production...

The Elders and disciples of the Sword Sect who loved sword forging also moved here.

Sword Casting Peak became Sword Casting Abyss, adding another wonder to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

The third area is the original site of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, where various research and experiments still take place. It's not that they're divided, it's just that there are too few people now, so there's no need.

However, internal planning and adjustments are also underway.

The other two areas are temporarily empty—firstly, because no ideas have been decided, and secondly, because there's no money...

Between the areas, transport is facilitated by short-distance teleportation arrays or Thousand Mechanism contraptions to help cultivators with lower cultivation levels move quickly.

Compared to the expenses on this civil engineering, the cost of various research experiments in the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion is actually about fifty-fifty...

After listening, Chen Qin and Lily began to research ways to make money.

After talking for a while, Chen Qin mentioned the Qinghe Association to Lily, and upon hearing about it, the already financially burdened Lily despaired, banging her head on the table.

"How about I take Maomao to perform on the streets?" Lily faux-cried.

"Uh..." Zhang Ze paused for a moment, then said, "Actually, there's no need to worry."

"Boss, we're out of money," Lily said.

"Not really out of money, actually. Haven't you noticed where the biggest expenses are here?" Zhang Ze pointed at the ledger.

It's at Little Dragon Tiger Mountain and Sword Casting Abyss.

These two places depleted half of the resources of the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, but in some sense, these places shouldn't have cost so much.

Although it's within the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, Dragon Tiger Mountain and the Sword Sect should contribute a little, but obviously they haven't; both spots have been fully funded by the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion.

Little Dragon Tiger Mountain is manageable—in the style of Elder Tang, spending others' money for his own pleasure isn't unheard of, and since the Taoists often reside in the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, improving the Thousand Mechanism Heart Method and analyzing arrays, giving them a small Dragon Tiger Mountain as a foothold is only reasonable.

But Pavilion Master Zhengyi's case was a bit unexpected.

Honestly, although Sword Casting Abyss is cool, impressive, and indeed useful, it's not essential.

The Thousand Mechanism Pavilion isn't far from the Sword Pavilion, and there are teleportation arrays connecting them, so it doesn't take long to get there.

Zhang Ze always felt there was something fishy about this; he planned to ask his master or the pavilion master later.

"I'll go and ask about it later," Zhang Ze said.

Lily blinked, feeling relieved. She was curious about this matter too.

Although she knew the pavilion master wouldn't harm them, and there must be a deeper intention behind it.

But Lily was timid, so she didn't dare to ask. Now that Zhang Ze was taking on this task, it was best.

"Let's not talk about this for now. How's that spatial magical artifact bomb research coming along? Was it the fireworks we saw before?"

Zhang Ze shifted the topic back, and Lily didn't find this kind of fragmented, disjointed conversation style odd.

People at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion usually spoke like this.

Starting with tonight's drinking plans, then discussing how to handle a contraption, and finally it turned into who's dating whom, only determining where to drink after a long round of chatter.

Hearing this, Lily shook her head, "That firework wasn't... not entirely, at least."

"But the aura emitted by that firework was scary," Chen Qin said.

"Yeah, but it's just scary. Those things were actually just waste residue after refining, let alone harming people—a child could easily crush them. It's even unnecessary to use them as a hidden weapon, but I plan to mix these things into lime, which should work wonders blinding people."

Lily's research on explosions hadn't made any progress.

After she completed the Thousand Mechanism Rune Array task inherited from her sect, she felt a bit of how lonely being unbeatable is.

When inadvertently brainstorming at the Beast Taming Sect, she blew up a Beast Taming Ring, and Lily thought making this bomb would be a piece of cake.

After all, she already knew the key lay in the waste residue from Dan Dan's Phosphor Mines.

But after nearly a month, Lily still had no clue.

Simply put, it was uncontrollable—let alone targeting someone, it was uncertain if it would even explode or not.

Especially after discovering they were out of money at home; before capital recirculated adequately, she was reluctant to blow up storage magical artifacts.

Although the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion could produce storage magical artifacts themselves, minimizing costs, they were still an expenditure, so Lily temporarily halted her research.

She turned to study the waste residue from Dan Dan's mines with some of the Artifact Refiners and Elders of the Sword Sect.

Lily thought the key to detonating spatial magical artifacts still lay with this waste residue.

After all, spatial magical artifacts have been around for ages, and the whole nesting-doll principle wasn't a new concept.

Over the millennia, the Four Continents have produced countless brilliant minds, and there must be quite a few like herself (with a brain disorder) who were as wise and valiant.

Yet she was the only one who discovered this phenomenon.

It seemed rather unreasonable.

The only variable, then, was the waste residue produced by the Refinement Art and Ritual of Dan Dan Mines.

The secret should reside here.

Most importantly, researching this was cheap—there was no shortage of waste material.

After all, it's free.

After shifting their research focus, Lily and her team did find something peculiar about these residues.

Under the influence of arrays, or rather stacked multiple arrays, the properties of these residues would change.

Exhibiting various magical, yet ultimately useless, characteristics.