Elder Yu emptied a magazine, and the Songye Shu let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Its ammunition!
Stockpiled for so long!
Lin Jing also covered his forehead, it seems things shouldn't be left around in the future... A super mini storage bag would be nice, hurry up and come.
The lucky part amidst the misfortune is that Elder Yu triggered the mechanism towards the sky, although the powerful impact left the surroundings in a mess, fortunately... the courtyard is still there, it didn't blow the house up.
However, on second thought, if the house were blown away, maybe it would help them exchange for a better cave abode.
Thinking of this, Lin Jing felt regret.
"What is this thing!" Elder Yu was startled.
He looked towards Lin Jing and the painful Songye Shu.
"Elder Yu." Lin Jing paused for a moment, then said, "Why did you press it?"
"Haha." Elder Yu laughed awkwardly, not expecting such a situation.
Who would have thought you new mechanical cultivators would concoct something like this?
"You must have noticed, the structure of this Mechanical Bamboo Spear is very simple, using only some basic introductory structures. The reason why it can accumulate water vapor, shoot high-speed water streams, and explode, is due to the effects of the mechanism material Spirit Bamboo itself, and the effects of the spirit bean bombs inside the magazine."
Lin Jing said: "Elder, these mutated fierce plant spirit bean bombs are everything we own, meant for preparing for the inner sect assessment..."
"I'll compensate you." Elder Yu roughly understood, the powerful part is the spirit bean. The structure of this Mechanical Bamboo Spear isn't very complex, it's just combining mutated Spirit Bamboo and mutated spirit beans through a simple mechanism!
That said... with this thing, if there are enough so-called explosive spirit beans, even a mortal could make a low-level cultivator suffer.
This must be what Elder Mo Wuya referred to as... the Treasure Beast Divine Technique. Elder Yu realized inwardly, the Treasure Beast is indeed powerful. Such ordinary mechanism materials like Spirit Bamboo can be empowered with effects similar to the Water Arrow Technique without inscribing array patterns.
"You speak too highly, elder. Those spirit bean bombs are just improved from ordinary spirit beans, not that valuable. We can make more. Your teaching us the Mechanical Technique is already a huge favor." Lin Jing said.
The Songye Shu was stunned, no compensation anymore?
"I can't let you suffer, so let's do this. I see you've almost completed your mechanical beast prototype, I'll give this to you in advance. With the inner sect assessment approaching, make good use of it to catch up." Elder Yu thought for a moment and tossed a piece of Elder's token.
"This is my Elder's token. With this token, you can dine for free in the outer sect food hall. Additionally, with this token, you can enter the inner peak as an outer sect disciple."
After speaking, he waved his sleeve, "It seems some disciples were drawn by the noise just now, I'll go disperse them, you continue your cultivation."
"Thank you, Elder Yu." After seeing Elder Yu off, Lin Jing tossed the token to the Songye Shu, "Just some spirit beans, Elder Yu, being a Golden Core Elder, wouldn't shortchange us. Later... let's go have an extra meal at the food hall!"
The Songye Shu wiped its tears, you humans have too many little schemes. That being said... but it still lost a lot of spirit beans that it had hoarded for so long!
...
Outer Sect, Food Hall!
It's said that even the most common food here is steamed white rice made from Spirit Rice and Spirit Spring.
After getting their hands on the Elder's token and tidying up a little, Lin Jing and the Songye Shu rushed to the food hall like starving ghosts reincarnated.
"Senior Brother Lin Jing?" As Lin Jing sat in the corner of the food hall with the Songye Shu, quite a few outer sect disciples recognized them. A serving disciple earning spirit stones hurried over like they had seen an idol.
"Senior Brother Lin Jing, I'm not sure what you'd like to eat, but here's today's menu." The serving disciple enthusiastically introduced the day's offerings from the menu on the wall.
"There's 'In Heaven Wish to Be a Pair of Wings', 'Green Wilderness Goddess', 'Wealthy Beyond Measure'..."
"Junior brother, could you say something we understand?" Lin Jing politely asked.
"A pair of wood-scent roasted squabs, stir-fried fresh spirit mushrooms, glazed cashews..."
"Alright." Lin Jing listened with delight, this sounds a lot more appetizing than leaf stir-fried rice. He said, "Today's dishes, let's start with one of each."
"Ah?" The serving disciple kindly reminded, "Senior Brother, these dishes contain a lot of spiritual power, for instance, the cooking process of 'In Heaven Wish to Be a Pair of Wings' involves fragrant spirit wood and Fire Control Technique, locking the nutrients of cloud pigeons almost perfectly... A mid-stage Qi Cultivation cultivator usually feels full with just one."
"With so many dishes, it might be difficult to digest and absorb, and they're not cheap either."
"No worries, do we look normal?" Lin Jing smiled slightly, seeing this, the serving disciple thought for a moment, nodded, and ran to inform the kitchen.
Soon enough, dishes were brought up continuously, the Songye Shu took a golden Spirit Rice from Lin Jing's pocket, then... scratched it in half with its paw, each took half, to avoid swallowing an entire grain at once and looking overly scary while eating, even snatching other senior sisters' and brothers' meals.
"Gulp." Both man and pet placed half a grain of golden Spirit Rice into their mouths, as if taking medicine, washed down with a cup of Spirit Tea.
...
One hour later.
Mechanical Workshop.
"Elder Yu, it's not good!" A celestial crane flew over, the scene seemed familiar.
"What's the matter, with all the fuss?" Elder Yu walked out, looking at the crane.
"Outer sect disciples Lin Jing and Songye Shu used your Elder's token in the food hall, requesting a free meal!"
"No need to make a fuss, the token was given by me. Lin Jing's physique is special, requiring a lot of food and resources. With the inner sect assessment approaching, I'm giving them special allowances. Does any disciple have complaints about my decision, let them try winning against the Mechanical Bamboo Dragon first!"
The crane said, "Elder Yu, no outer sect disciple has complaints, not many even know about it. The culprits are the head chef Fugui'Er and his Fire Spirit Sparrow, both have been exhausted from Lin Jing's group consumption, which was too enormous. Any other day, plenty of food would be left over... today, there's nothing left."
"Rumor has it... Lin Jing even ate the meat bones..."
"The leftover food was meant for special spirit beasts who joined the sect for 'free meals and shelter'... when they find there's no food left, they might have opinions."
"The main issue is... they ate this much, and thanks to your token, didn't spend even half a Spirit Stone."
"If they eat like this daily, the food hall's budget... might face issues! Eventually, you might have to pay out of your own pocket to make up for it."
Elder Yu was stunned after hearing this.
What the heck?
"Damn it, I've been tricked." Elder Yu suddenly realized. This Longevity Body is smart at everything, how could it ever wish to suffer a loss! The sky has fallen.
"Elder, what should we do?" the celestial crane asked.
"What can we do, let them eat!" Elder Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Once they enter the inner sect... surely they won't still loaf around the outer sect food hall! I'll urge the inner sect... to hold this year's inner sect advancement assessment as soon as possible!"