What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 572 Should Be Number One Among Hundred Schools (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

As True Lord Xianyin's gaze swept across the blueprints, he noticed the extensive use of materials from the demon race.

It has the sinews and bones of an elephant demon, the internal organs of a rat demon, and the stomach of a fish demon...

The design drawings used biomimetic technology to integrate the characteristics of various demon races, creating a multi-legged, multi-armed biomimetic puppet.

The puppet has more than a dozen eyes of different shapes all over its body, observing everything around it from various angles and searching for the target item.

Watching the puppet speeding across the testing grounds, swallowing one target item after another, True Lord Xianyin exclaimed in surprise, "What a huge stomach! Is it used to store goods?"

Bloodfall True Monarch of Netherworld University smiled faintly and said, "It's biological stomach storage technology. There are a total of 50 stomach chambers designed here, each capable of storing 50 different types and states of items."

"In addition, with the muscular system that imitates the elephant demon and whale demon, it can easily support a weight of 200 tons."

On the other side, True Monarch Tianzhi said, "With such powerful performance, can the cost really be reduced to 30 spirit coins?"

Bloodfall True Monarch explained, "With the surge in the number of demon descendants, the price of demon descendant biological materials has been falling for the past two years."

"The reason why Zangxingye was designed this way is obviously because it took into account the lack of human rights and low price advantage of the demon race."

"This allows him to obtain higher performance from magical artifacts at a lower cost."

“Look at the non-biological material content in this magical artifact; it’s less than 1%.”

Xuan Yin Zhenjun had to admit that Zang Xingye's design from the Netherworld University was indeed the best design to date.

"Speed, load capacity, detection... its capabilities are very well-balanced in all aspects."

With a slight recollection, True Lord Xianyin recalled the design competition entry that Zangxingye had submitted last time.

"Yes, the design skills he demonstrated on the spot were at least 7% as good as his previous entry."

"It seems there aren't many places where you can find someone to guide you."

The more Xianyin Zhenjun thought about this, the more embarrassed he felt about Zhang Yu's upcoming work.

Zang Xingye ultimately received a high score of 420 points.

After several more weapon crafting works completed simulation tests, the work of the "Ghost Craftsman" from Tianmo University was unveiled.

As the weapon-refining simulation accelerated its completion, a swirling black cloud floated in mid-air.

As the dark clouds shifted, one could almost see countless ghosts wailing within, their faces changing from time to time to reveal expressions of terror, sorrow, and anger.

The True Lord of Strings said, "The Heavenly Demon Reincarnation Technique."

Lord Nie Lian nodded slightly and said with satisfaction, "Not bad. Ghost God Craftsmanship is quite accomplished in this area. It can temporarily refine the souls of mortals into weapon spirits for use, but the consumption is still a bit high."

"Although it is easy to obtain the souls of mortals, their quality varies greatly and cannot meet the standardization of products. This can also lead to the accelerated aging of the spirits. Most of the products in our school do not use such inferior materials."

"However, the main advantage of a mortal's soul is its low price, which is perfect for this situation."

The dark cloud suddenly surged and then plumes of mist shot out into the sky.

True Lord Xianyin could see that the black cloud designed by the ghost craftsman was composed of a large number of formless divine demon particles. These formless divine demon particles were between gaseous and liquid states and belonged to a type of puppet. They could not only change shape at will, but also separate and move independently.

Observing the changes in the dark clouds, True Lord Xianyin analyzed: "By temporarily obtaining a powerful artifact spirit through the life soul of a mortal, we can manipulate the separation and movement of the dark clouds as a central control system."

As the dark clouds continued to deform and separate, it was as if True Lord Xianyin was seeing a black army constantly sending out its men to sweep across the entire field.

Sentinels flew high into the sky to conduct reconnaissance, directing troops to avoid lightning and fire, and searching for targets.

A vanguard team was dispatched to the designated target to search for items.

A transit unit is responsible for receiving the items and transporting them to a designated location.

"It wasn't the fastest in speed or the strongest in load capacity, but thanks to its powerful intelligent system, shapeshifting ability, and short-range communication technology between its parts, it controlled the entire situation without wasting a single bit of magic power or time."

"This is doing the most work at the lowest cost."

True Monarch Xianyin sighed inwardly, "As expected of a Nascent Soul disciple who is being nurtured by the Heavenly Demon University, he truly deserves the title of first place in this year's competition."

At the same time, the entry that Guishengong had submitted last time came to mind.

Xuan Yin Zhenjun secretly estimated in his heart: "His performance on the spot is at least 8% as good as his previous entry. This guy really didn't rely on his Nascent Soul master much."

With Gui Shen Gong's work scoring a high score of 452, Zhang Yu's work finally made its debut.

Watching the humanoid figure gradually emerge under the accelerated simulated refining process, True Monarch Xianyin thought to himself, "At least it should complete the basic functions..."

A rough, humanoid figure fell to the ground with a thud, and then... began to eat dirt.

The judges were all slightly taken aback by this scene. Bloodfall True Monarch even laughed: "Is this a malfunction?"

Xuan Yin Zhenjun frowned and quickly looked at the design drawings, wanting to see if it was a malfunction.

But someone was faster than him. The True Monarch of the Heavenly Demon University said calmly, "It's not a malfunction. This puppet is designed to eat dirt."

As they were speaking, the humanoid puppet shuddered and pulled out a small puppet the size of a palm.

As soon as the little puppet landed, it darted into the nearby jungle.

Bloodfall True Monarch was startled and quickly looked at the design drawings. Then he said in surprise, "This is... a simple production line? Eating dirt and producing people? Creating small puppets by consuming different materials?"

The Marrow-Eating True Monarch from White Bone University remarked, "However, the performance of this small puppet seems a bit too weak..."

Before the True Lord of Marrow Erosion could finish speaking, as the stone was swallowed by the humanoid puppet, a small stone figure was soon pulled out.

At the same time, True Monarch Corrosion also saw the back of the design drawings, and the more he looked, the more astonished he became: "Besides the first mother machine, there are a total of eighteen types of puppets? He designed a total of eighteen types of puppets?!"

The design drawings that appeared before everyone contained design information for 18 different puppets, ranging in size from large to small, including crafting methods, required materials, and functional parameters...

At the same time, the little mudman who had just run out was seen running back with a lump of ore in his arms, and he delivered it to the mothership golem.

As the ore was swallowed, a third type of puppet was soon created.

Seeing this, True Lord Xianyin gradually understood: "This kid... after confirming the materials that could be obtained on site, he designed 18 kinds of simple puppets that could be made from the materials on site."

"The materials required for these 18 types of puppets range from simple to difficult, their performance is gradually enhanced, and their collection capabilities are also getting stronger."

As they were talking, a metal sword-shaped puppet was pulled out by the mothership.

Although it appears to fly slowly, many judges could tell that this sword-shaped puppet was indeed created using flying sword technology.

In addition, as the number of puppets produced increases, more and more materials are collected, and more and more puppets are manufactured.

Soon, puppets appeared, crawling on all fours like wild dogs; this was achieved using bionic technology.

Then the puppets combined and transformed, gaining larger sizes and higher performance; this is the transformation and assembly technology of magical artifacts.

As Zhang Yu's mothership gradually transformed from a single machine into a squad, and then into an army, True Lord Xianyin felt increasingly surprised.

What surprised him most was not the design concept, but the breadth of knowledge demonstrated in that concept.

True Lord Xianyin thought to himself, "18 types of puppets are almost equivalent to 18 technical directions, and they also cover the characteristics of many schools."

At the same time, Tianzhi Zhenjun sighed, "What profound foundation! Not only have you mastered so many weapon-refining techniques, but you can also apply them skillfully in practice. This is far beyond the level of a student."

True Monarch Xianyin smiled slightly, looked at True Monarch Shisui of White Bone University, and said, "True Monarch Shisui, what do you think?"

The Marrow-Eating True Lord was slightly taken aback. Remembering that there were many righteous gods recording the video, he immediately became serious and gave a fair and serious critique: "The technology is very solid, and the design is full of ingenuity. Using the lowest quality materials, it has achieved the performance limit that can be achieved."

There was one thing he kept to himself: with his skill level, under the same conditions, at the Foundation Establishment stage, perhaps... this was the best he could achieve.

True Monarch String Sound then looked at True Monarch Bloodfall and asked, "What do you think?"

As the puppet army gradually swept across the entire area, Bloodfall True Monarch muttered, "I didn't expect we would misjudge them this time. A senior college student with such a wide range of skills, and able to design 18 different puppets in 6 hours... truly amazing talent."

In the end, Bloodfall True Monarch suddenly laughed, because he realized that not only had he misjudged the situation, but probably even the person who set up this test hadn't expected it.

Bloodfall True Monarch thought to himself, "I didn't expect that Zhang Yu's last entry was not only written without a ghostwriter, but it probably wasn't even his full strength."

Meanwhile, on the other side, True Monarch Nie Lian said calmly, "Not only is the technology solid, but the cost reduction has also been brought to the extreme."

"These simple puppets age very quickly, and they will probably be completely unusable after this battle."

"This is an estimate of the maximum performance that materials and design can deliver."

"This young man's skill in weapon design is undoubtedly the best among all the schools."

The judges were all taken aback by these words.

A thought suddenly popped into Bloodfall True Monarch's mind: "Can a senior college student really do this just based on talent?"

"I heard that the Magnetic Pole is studying the physical remains of the Divine Lord of the Jade Nectar, and Zhang Yu is one of the testers. He had already achieved results in improving his cultivation technique before."

"His weapon-refining skills have improved by leaps and bounds... Could it be...?"

Bloodfall True Monarch was shocked: "Magnetic Pole True Monarch has achieved a breakthrough?"

As he looked through the various details in Zhang Yu's design drawings, Bloodfall True Monarch felt a growing sense of familiarity: "It's the feel of magnetic poles."

(End of this chapter)