Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 227: Building Wonders Really Costs Money
After the daytime fireworks faded away, Zhang Ze and Chen Qin also returned to Qianji Pavilion following the hustle and bustle.

But this time Zhang Ze wrongly blamed Lily.

Those fireworks were indeed fireworks, not the afterglow left in the world after the building was scrapped.

Qianji Pavilion.

"Although we have always been diligent in managing the household, you, Boss, should also understand that it is better to spend when you can save, so you see."

The sneaky dog ​​Lily came closer and handed an account book to Zhang Ze.

She was a little scared.

Recently, Qianji Pavilion has been in a state of no one taking care of it. Zhang Ze and the others are not here, and he is obsessed with bombs, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.

It was only recently that Lily took some time to check and discovered that her family’s small treasury was almost empty.

That's why he didn't answer the call when Zhang Ze contacted him before, but instead tried to make up for the shortfall by robbing Peter to pay Paul.

However, Lily waited for a long time with her neck shrunk, but did not see Zhang Ze get angry.

"Didn't I earn five spirit stones?" Zhang Ze flipped through the account book and threw it to Lily.

"Lily, is your bomb so expensive?"

Chen Qin sat aside, rubbing Maomao's head with her hands, but Maomao was not annoyed and wagged his tail contentedly.

After all, this is the breed. In Maomao's eyes, there is no bad person in the world, but there is no good dog either.

Chen Qin's words did not mean to be blaming. She was simply curious. Money was just a number to a young lady.

If you run out of money, just borrow from your family.

As for repaying the money, based on my unconditional trust in Zhang Ze and Lily, I am not worried about not being able to repay it.

After hearing Chen Qin's question, Lily shook her head.

"It doesn't really have much to do with the bomb. That's not where the money is spent. We'll talk about the bomb later."

"Does that mean we earn less?" Chen Qin asked.

"That's right. I actually earned more. Take a look." Zhang Ze handed the account book to Chen Qin.

The account book records the income of Qianji Pavilion in the past two months. If you ignore the expenditure, it is indeed a great harvest.

Just these two items, a small walnut and a cat talisman, can bring a steady stream of income to Qianji Pavilion, and the bulk of the income comes from the demon tribe in the northern border.

The monsters in the northern border all have innate holy bodies. Even the most useless monster can at least cultivate Qi by lying down for a lifetime.

Therefore, things like small walnuts and cat talismans have a usage threshold in Dongzhou, but they have no problem selling in the North. Even children can use them. They are daily necessities for the demon clan.

There is more than one way to make money in the North.

The second one came from the Shendan Gang, which still bears the name of Dandan.

This group of bored old men have expanded their charity business again. They are selling or giving away Qianji prosthetic limbs at a discount.

It’s the kind that Bai Tao’s godfather Wei Dalu brings.

After being analyzed by the Spirit Recognition Technique and assisted by the Thousand Machine Technique, Dandan's refining products can now be used by ordinary cultivators.

You don't need a particularly high level of cultivation or outstanding intelligence. As long as you can distinguish up, down, left, and right, and can count one, two, three, and four, it will be fine.

As everyone knows, the North is a bitter and cold place. Although most of the monsters do not harm people, there are still monsters that seek their own death, so there are many injured and disabled people.

Bai Tao somehow contacted the royal family of Yaodu through Zhendong Trading Company and got a big job in the name of Shendan Gang.

The royal family of the demon clan will purchase these Thousand Machine prosthetic limbs and then donate them to people in difficult circumstances in the northern border, and the Shendan Gang will be responsible for it.

As for those who are still seeking death despite missing limbs, or just want to experience how the eight-armed Nezha lives, or buy a prosthetic limb to play with at home.
Just buy it with your own money.
In short, relying on the distribution and agency sales of the Yaozu Zhendong Chamber of Commerce and the Shendan Gang, Qianji Pavilion basically makes money without doing anything.

The remaining sources of income were scattered and sporadic, all coming from Qingjing itself, the Cangshan Beast Taming Sect, the commissions from the Zhashide Auction House, and the joint sales of swords and magical instruments with the Sword Sect.
If a sect leader who is good at keeping his money takes over this huge fortune, it will probably all become his private property, and then be passed down to the next generation or exchanged for rare treasures that can help one break through the barriers of cultivation.

But the situation is different in Qianji Pavilion. First of all, there is no leader here.

Sister Mei'er, written as maid and pronounced as aunt, has long since resigned from the nominal position of the head of Qianji Pavilion.

Now that Chen Qin is sensible and obedient and no longer needs supervision or protection, Mei'er returns to the Sword Sect's headquarters and becomes the Sect Master's personal disciple.

Currently, all matters concerning Qianji Pavilion are discussed by everyone.

Then, the money is gone as it is spent.

The bulk of the work is in civil engineering.

At this time, Qianji Pavilion had changed its appearance. Unlike the old sect, its interior had become a new city.

The entire Qianji Pavilion was replanned and expanded, and it looked like Academy City when viewed from the air.

Qianji Pavilion is temporarily divided into five areas according to different functions.

Area 1, Xiaolonghu Mountain.

The Taoist priests that Old Tang brought here selected a few hills, and now they are neatly organized, just like Xiaolonghu Mountain.

There was smoke curling in the air and purple mist rising to the sky every day. Apart from the little Taoist priests coming in and out, each carrying a fire unicorn on his back, there was nothing else wrong with it.

As the mother's family, the Sword Sect is naturally not inferior to others.

The second area is the Sword Forging Abyss.

Perhaps because he had a lot of fun moving mountains, the leader of Zhengyi Pavilion came again after returning home.

He did a great job.

The Pavilion Master directly cut off the Sword Forging Peak of the Sword Pavilion at its roots.

Then he leveled three peaks on the mountain behind Qianji Pavilion, selected a precious land, and dug a cemetery a thousand meters underground, reaching the molten fire of the earth veins.

Finally, he joined forces with several purple-robed heavenly masters to turn the entire Sword Casting Peak upside down into the tiankeng, and used the mountain refining technique that was not used in Linglu Valley to refine it and integrate it with the earth veins.

Directly take the power of the earth veins.

In addition to sword-making training, with the help of the assembly line, relying on the power of the earth veins, automated production has been achieved.
The elders and disciples of the Sword Sect who liked to forge swords also moved here.

The Sword-Forging Peak became the Sword-Forging Abyss, adding another wonder to the Qianji Pavilion.

District Three is the former site of Qianji Pavilion, and various research and experiments are still carried out here. It’s not that there is no division, but there are too few people now and there is no need for it.

However, planning and adjustments are also underway internally.

The other two areas are currently vacant, one reason being that I haven't made up my mind yet, and the other is that I have no money left.
Areas are connected by short-distance teleportation arrays or thousands of mechanisms to help monks with lower cultivation levels move quickly.

Compared to the cost of this civil engineering project, the cost of various research experiments in Qianji Pavilion is actually half and half.
After listening to this, Chen Qin and Lily began to study ways to make money.

After chatting for a while, Chen Qin told Lily about the Qinghe Society. After listening to it, Lily, who was afraid of being poor, felt desperate and started banging her head on the table.

"How about I take Maomao with me to perform?" Lily said with fake tears.

"Hmm," Zhang Ze was silent for a moment, then said, "Actually, there's no need to worry."

"Boss, we are out of money." Lily said.

"It's not that we are short of money, actually. Don't you notice that the biggest expense is here?" Zhang Ze said, pointing to the account book.

It’s at Xiaolonghu Mountain and Zhujianyuan.

These two places drained half of Qianji Pavilion's wealth, but to a certain extent, these two places should not have spent so much money.

Although it was within the Qianji Pavilion, Longhu Mountain and Jianzong had to pay something, but obviously not, as both places were fully paid for by the Qianji Pavilion.

Xiaolonghu Mountain is not so bad. With Old Tang's style, it is not impossible for him to spend other people's money for his own pleasure. Moreover, the Taoist priests are stationed in Qianji Pavilion, helping to improve the Qianji Mental Method and analyzing the magic array. It is reasonable to build a Xiaolonghu Mountain for people to stay.

But the leader of Zhengyi Pavilion was a bit unexpected.

To be honest, although Zhu Jianyuan is very handsome, very cool, and really useful, he is not necessary.

Qianji Pavilion is not far from Jiange, and there is a teleportation array connecting them, so it doesn’t take much time to go back and forth.

Zhang Ze always felt that there seemed to be something fishy about this matter. He planned to go to his master or the Pavilion Master to ask about it later.

"I'll go ask what's going on later." Zhang Ze said. Lily blinked her eyes and felt relieved. She was actually curious about this too.

Although he knew that the Pavilion Master would not harm him, his actions must have a deeper meaning.

But Lily was timid, so she didn't dare to ask. Now that Zhang Ze came back to take over this job, that would naturally be the best.

"Let's not talk about that for now. How's your research on that space magic weapon bomb going? Did you see the fireworks before?"

Zhang Ze turned the topic back, and Lily didn't think there was anything wrong with this intermittent and incoherent way of communication.

This is how people in Qianji Pavilion usually speak.

We started talking about where to go for a drink tonight, then we talked about how to deal with this agency, and finally it turned to who was in a relationship. After talking for a long time, we finally decided where to go for a drink.

Lily heard this and shook her head. "That firework isn't... not all of it."

"But the smell emitted by the fireworks is very scary." Chen Qin said.

"Yeah, but that's just to scare people. Those things are actually just waste residue from refining weapons. Not to mention hurting people, even a child would crush them with a pinch. They're useless as hidden weapons. But I plan to mix these things with lime. It should be quite useful for the eyes of the barbarians."

Lily's research didn't lead to much progress in explosions.

After completing the Thousand Machine Talisman Formation, Lily's inherited mission from her master, she felt quite lonely because of being invincible.

When the Beast Taming Sect accidentally had a brilliant idea and blew up the Beast Taming Ring, Lily thought that assembling the bomb would be a piece of cake.

After all, we already know that the key is the waste slag from the Egg Mine.

But after trying for almost a month, Lily still had no idea.

Simply put, it is impossible to control it. Not to mention who to bomb, it is even unclear whether it can be bombed.

Especially after she found out that her family had no money, she was reluctant to blow up the storage magic weapon before the funds were sufficient.

Although Qianji Pavilion can produce storage magic tools by itself and minimize costs, it is still an expense, so Lily stopped temporarily.

He turned to study the waste slag from the Egg Mine, together with the weapon refiner and several elders of the Sword Sect.

Lily felt that the key to detonating the space magic weapon lay in this waste.

After all, space magic tools have existed for a long time, and the four principles of space magic tools are not a recent idea.

Over the past ten thousand years, outstanding people have emerged in the four continents, and there should be quite a few who are as wise and brave as himself (or mentally ill).

But now I am the only one who discovered this.

Obviously that doesn't make sense.

The only variable is the slag produced by the egg-refining method.

The secret should appear here.

The most important thing is that this research is cheap and there is plenty of waste material.

No money anyway.

After the research direction shifted, Lily and her friends did find this thing somewhat magical.

Under the influence of the magic circle, or multiple superimposed magic circles, the properties of these waste residues will change.

It exhibits all sorts of magical but useless properties.

For example, the previous fireworks show had three magic circles set up in the tube.

The Fire Separation Formation, the Soul-Calming Ice Heart Formation, and the Sound-Absolute Formation, three formations that seemed to have nothing to do with each other, actually produced unexpected effects.

After the waste was blown into the sky, it turned into a terrifying and powerful fireworks show.

The color of the fireworks is adjusted by the fire power of the fire array
"I knew you were coming back, so I celebrated and let them all go." Lily shrugged.

After hearing this, Zhang Ze was about to go to pay his respects to his master, but was stopped by Lily.

"Oh, there's one more thing. Although we don't understand the explosion, we found something else interesting."

After saying that, Lily stood up and asked Zhang Ze and Chen Qin to follow her.

And the place he came from was none other than the Sword Forging Abyss where he spent a lot of money.

Looking down from the edge of the pit, it is indeed spectacular, like a villain's base.

A solitary peak is inverted like a stone cone in a huge tiankeng. A towering pavilion is built on the platform at the top. It is black and gold in color, low-key and elegant.

Several massive chains bound the isolated peak, connecting it to the edge of the cenote. Strange reddish-brown plants clung to the rock faces. Among these plants lay various structures built along the rocky slopes.

It is not dark under the abyss of the giant pit. The red lava of the earth veins flows slowly. Several platforms are connected by magic circles, dividing and covering the earth veins under the giant pit.

Huge sword furnaces can be seen everywhere.

just.

"I say, why don't we add a guardrail to this sinkhole?" Zhang Ze stood at the edge of the pit and looked down.

"No need. Adding guardrails would look ugly. Boss, have you seen those magic circles on the rock wall of the tiankeng? If you jump in now, those magic circles will catch you and then slowly land on the ground." Lily said.

"Why don't you jump?" Zhang Ze asked.

"I'm not stupid. Let's go through the teleportation array." Lily said.

Under the sword-forging abyss.

Zhang Ze and Chen Qin stood on a platform. The platform was very empty. There was no sword furnace on it. Instead, there were a lot of messy things placed on it. It seemed that it was probably used by Qianji Pavilion.

A'li and Rongrong also came here, but compared with Lily's new discovery, these two divine pets were more interested in this vein of earth.

Even an ordinary Jindan cultivator would not be able to withstand the magma of this earth vein if he fell into it. In a short while, his spiritual energy would dissipate and he would turn into charcoal.

But it didn't seem to have any effect on the two of them. Ah Li came to the platform, dipped his hand into the lava, and then put it in his mouth to taste it.
"Salty." A'li commented.

Rongrong was even more invincible, jumping directly into the lava and taking a bath.
But soon A-li also jumped in, and then the battle started again, a dragon and a phoenix started a "water" fight.

Zhang Ze and his group, as well as the Sword Sect monks who were busy on the other platforms, were stunned.

"Forget it, don't worry about them. Lily, what did you send?" asked Zhang Ze, who knew what magma smelled like for the first time.

Lily kept the secret again. She walked to a Thousand Machines Magical Instrument and took out two storage rings from her pocket.

Like a magic trick, he handed the ring to Zhang Ze for inspection.

"This is an ordinary Kongna ring, take a good look."

After saying that, Lily took out two hexahedron Rubik's Cubes and showed them to Zhang Ze and Chen Qin, and then put them into two storage rings respectively.

Then he placed one of the storage rings into the Qianji magic weapon in front of him, and threw the other one to Chen Qin.

"Xiaoqin, please help me put this into that magic weapon."

After everything was ready, Lily called Chen Qin back, and then followed Lily to fiddle with the mechanism on the Thousand Machine Magical Weapon in front of her.

The storage ring on it suddenly lit up with a white light.

"Open it and take a look." Lily picked up the unlocked storage ring from the Qianji magic weapon and threw it into Zhang Ze's hands.

After taking the ring, Zhang Ze had a thought and two objects appeared in his hands.

It’s the two hexahedron Rubik’s Cubes.

Chen Qin flashed and took out another storage ring, but when he opened it, there was nothing inside.

"Impressive, right? Teleportation can be achieved between rings."

Seeing that Zhang Ze and Chen Qin were a little confused, Lily added another sentence.

"It hasn't consumed anything yet," Lily said calmly.

Zhang Ze was silent for a moment, "Don't you think this discovery is more useful than a bomb?"

"But I like explosions," Lily sighed, honestly.

(End of this chapter)