Who let him join the Sword Sect?!-Chapter 662 - 358: It’s probably normal for the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion to have a Mind Control Tower, right?

Zhang Ze never imagined that he would see such a bizarre thing.

As the flying ship transformed with clicks and clacks, a peculiar structure resembling a mind control tower stood on the earth.

The main body of the flying ship transformed into a base-like building, and on one side, a tall tower was gradually taking shape with the aid of teleportation spells and thousand mechanism devices.

Five translucent crystal pillars composed of some kind of crystal stone guarded the central golden tower, and at the tower's peak, a spiral-shaped antenna — it should be an antenna, but Zhang Ze wasn't sure.

Because this thing has an ancient style, like the Great Wild Goose Pagoda type…

In any case, no matter what it is, the pointy thing atop the tower is emitting a faint blue electric glow.

If it were just this, Zhang Ze might still accept it, but the details are just too eerie.

Seeing one part isn't so bad, but when you look at it as a whole, you realize this thing is mismatched.

Amidst the gears and mechanisms with a taste of steam technology, blue crystal tubes are glowing faintly and emitting a humming sound.

With the rotation of gears and the flashing of crystal tubes, metal pipes bearing the Sword Sect's mark delivered some blue liquid to the crystal pillars around the ancient-style mind control tower.

The blue liquid inside the pillars, more akin to slime, constantly surged, bubbled, and gurgled.

Meanwhile, one after another, brand new black humanoid thousand mechanism puppets emerged from the main base next to the mind control tower, lining up on the open ground.

These puppets resembled skinless Terminators, with the only difference being they lacked skull heads.

Their heads were smooth and looked like black boiled eggs.

These puppets along with the mind control tower seemed like a product of some third-rate designer who cobbled together all the elements he could think of to buffer his work for the boss.

Junior Sister stared blankly at this 'Mind Control Tower cum Troop Factory' for a long time before turning to Zhang Ze.

"What is this?"

Zhang Ze had a wise and contemplative expression, crafted his demeanor for quite a while, before finally turning to Sword Spirit and Lily, "What is this?"

He found some of these things vaguely familiar when taken apart, but combined together, he was clueless about their function.

Lily was fidgeting with the 'Terminator' that had walked out of the factory, muttering under her breath, seemingly inspecting its quality.

Seeing their puzzled expressions, Sword Spirit was quite satisfied and spoke, "Weren't you going to explore the realm inside Li?"

Zhang Ze and Junior Sister nodded.

Sword Spirit said, "These thousand mechanism puppets are sufficient."

After speaking, Sword Spirit reached forward and made a grasping motion, and the Terminator that Junior Sister was examining also raised its hand almost simultaneously, mimicking Sword Spirit's gesture exactly.

Throughout this process, neither the thousand mechanism puppet nor the connection between the puppet and Sword Spirit emitted even the slightest spiritual qi fluctuation that Zhang Ze could sense.

Seeing Zhang Ze's realization, Sword Spirit continued, "Li's internal realm lacks spiritual qi and forbids the use of magical artifact runes. To explore freely, either deploy someone like you with inherent mystery to manipulate the Golden Core, or rely on the Little Earth Immortal and fellow Soul Cultivators."

Lily, having completed her inspection and found no issue with the puppet, chimed in.

"But boss, there's only one of you, and you have important matters to attend to.

"And that Little Earth Immortal thing isn't trustworthy and has no capability.

"Deploying our own Soul Cultivators is risky; if something goes wrong, it's not worth it.

"Therefore, the final planned solution is to use thousand mechanism puppets for exploration."

"After this method was decided, only two issues remained. First, how to remotely control these puppets, and second, how to resolve their energy source."

As Lily spoke, she slapped the Terminator's big arm.

"So what is the energy source for this thing?" Zhang Ze examined the thousand mechanism puppet before him, suddenly thinking of a large piece.

"Could it be like the Furnace Hook Type III, using a crystal core as the energy source to boil water?"

"Yes, this thing's energy source is also from boiling water," Lily said.

Zhang Ze had mentioned boiling water to Lily long ago, but it ended without further discussion.

The reason being that spiritual qi spells were just more convenient.

Cultivators could summon wind with a wave, call rain with a gesture, and traverse hundreds or thousands of miles with a step; Taoist techniques and immortal spells moved with the mind.

Whatever problem arises, there's always a corresponding spell to solve it, and if not, you research even more potent spells.

The energy from boiling water was meaningless when compared to cultivators, who were like humanoid perpetual motion machines.

Very low cost-effectiveness.

Boilers and drums couldn't compare to arrays and talismans.

Without demand, there was no drive to continue researching it.

But now, the issue of boiling water was raised again, not because they had money to burn, but because they indeed encountered a problem that required boiling water to solve.

And that is the magic forbidden land.

The earth veins in many places have a severed spiritual qi, and are particularly sensitive; recklessly using spells inside would, at best, take oneself out in one swoop, and at worst, bring forth a great catastrophe.

For safety, they needed a source of energy independent of spiritual qi to drive the thousand mechanism magical artifacts. Hence, Lily and the others turned their attention to the low-cost-effectiveness technology of boiling water.