Chapter 631: Chapter 570: Worthy of Being the Top Among a Hundred Schools
The gaze of True Monarch Xian Yin swept across the drawings, noticing the extensive use of materials from demon descendants.
There were tendons and bones of an Elephant Demon, organs of a Mouse Demon, stomach pouch of a Fish Demon...
Using bionic technology in the design drawings, various features of the demon descendants were fused together to create a multi-legged, multi-handed bionic puppet.
The puppet was covered with more than a dozen differently shaped eyes, observing everything around from all angles to locate target items.
Watching the puppet speed through the testing ground like the wind, continuously swallowing target items, True Monarch Xian Yin remarked in surprise, "What a large stomach pouch; is it used to store the goods?"
Bloodfall True Monarch from Nether University chuckled lightly and responded, "It’s biological stomach pouch storage technology. We’ve designed a total of 50 stomach chambers here, each able to store 50 different types and states of items."
"Along with the muscle system mimicking that of the Elephant Demon and Whale Demon, carrying a weight of 200 tons is no problem."
Heavenly Wisdom True Monarch on the other side commented, "With such strong performance, can the cost of this bionic puppet really be reduced to 30 spirit coins?"
Bloodfall True Monarch explained, "With the rapid increase in demon descendants, the prices of biological materials from demon descendants have been declining over the past two years."
"The reason Buried Star Refining designed it this way was obviously to take advantage of the lack of rights and low prices of demon descendants."
"This allows him to achieve higher performance magic treasures at a lower cost."
"Look at the non-biological material content of this magic treasure; it’s less than 1%."
True Monarch Xian Yin had to admit that the design by Buried Star Refining from Nether University was indeed the best design so far.
"Speed, load-bearing, detection... all aspects are very balanced."
True Monarch Xian Yin slightly recalled in his mind, remembering the contest entry submitted by this Buried Star Refining last time.
"Well, his design ability displayed on-site was at least 70% of the skill of his last contest entry."
"It seems there really aren’t many places where he needs guidance."
And the more he thought about this point, the more embarrassed True Monarch Xian Yin felt about the upcoming debut of Zhang Yu’s work.
In the end, Buried Star Refining scored a high mark of 420 points.
After several artifact refining works completed simulation tests, the work of Ghost God Craft from Sky Demon University took the stage.
With the accelerating completion of the artifact refining simulation, a mass of black cloud floating in the air appeared.
In the changes of this black cloud, it seemed one could see thousands of ghosts wailing, occasionally showing faces of fear, grievance, and anger.
True Monarch Xian Yin remarked, "Heavenly Demon reincarnation technology."
Nie Lian True Monarch nodded slightly, satisfied, "Not bad, Ghost God Craft has considerable expertise in this area, having already managed to temporarily refine the souls of ordinary people into artifact spirits, though the consumption is still somewhat high."
"Although ordinary human souls are easily obtained, their quality varies, making it impossible to meet the standardization required for products, which also tends to accelerate the aging of the artifact spirits. Most of our school’s products don’t use such inferior materials."
"But using ordinary human souls, well, their striking feature is their low price, which is perfectly suited here."
The mass of black cloud boiled, and the next moment, mist projected from it flying skyward.
True Monarch Xian Yin could tell that the black cloud designed by Ghost God Craft was composed of numerous Formless Divine Demons, a type of puppet between gaseous and liquid states, capable of shapeshifting and separating for independent action.
Watching the change in the black cloud, True Monarch Xian Yin analyzed, "Through temporarily acquiring a powerful artifact spirit using ordinary human souls as a central control system, it maneuvers the black cloud for separate actions."
Observing the continuous shape-shifting and separation of the black cloud, True Monarch Xian Yin felt as though he saw a black army scattering across the field.
Sentinels flew to high altitudes for reconnaissance, directing troops to avoid thunder fires and search for targets.
Pioneer units moved to designated targets to retrieve items.
The relay units received items, coordinating the transport to designated locations.
"It’s not the fastest in speed, nor the strongest in load capacity, but relying on its powerful intelligent system, transformation ability, and short-distance communication technology between segments, it mastered the entire field without wasting any mana or time."
"This was accomplished using the lowest cost to complete the most work."
True Monarch Xian Yin internally sighed, "No wonder he’s a focal cultivation disciple at Sky Demon University, truly deserving of first place this time."
Meanwhile, his mind recalled the previous contest entry submitted by Ghost God Craft.
True Monarch Xian Yin internally estimated, "His performance on-site was at least 80% of the skill of his last contest entry. This guy truly didn’t rely much on his Divinity Transformation mentor."
As Ghost God Craft’s work achieved a high score of 452 points, Zhang Yu’s work finally took the stage.
Seeing the human form gradually emerging under accelerated simulation refinement, True Monarch Xian Yin thought to himself, "At least complete the basic function..."
And then a crude humanoid figure fell to the ground with a thud, and... began to eat dirt.
The many judges witnessing this scene were all slightly stunned.
Bloodfall True Monarch even laughed out loud: "Is this a malfunction?"
True Monarch Xian Yin furrowed his brow and quickly looked at the design drawings, wanting to see if it was indeed a malfunction.
But someone was faster than him, as Nie Lian True Monarch from Sky Demon University calmly said, "It’s not a malfunction, this golem is specifically designed to eat dirt."
As he spoke, the humanoid golem trembled and had already pulled out a palm-sized smaller golem.
Once the small golem fell down, it burrowed into the nearby forest.
Bloodfall True Monarch was startled, then looked at the design drawings and exclaimed in surprise: "Is this a... simplified production line? Eating dirt to produce more? Creating small golems by consuming different materials?"
Beside him, Bone Marrow True Monarch from White Bone University said, "But the performance of these small golems seems to be too weak..."
Before Bone Marrow True Monarch could finish his sentence, a small stone figure had already been expelled after the humanoid golem consumed some rocks.
At the same time, Bone Marrow True Monarch looked further into the design drawings and became increasingly surprised: "Besides the first mother machine, there are eighteen types of golems? He designed a total of eighteen types of golems?!!"
Displayed before everyone were design blueprints for eighteen different kinds of golems ranging from large to small, including refining techniques, required materials, and functional parameters...
Meanwhile, the small mud golem that had just rushed out came back carrying a lump of ore, delivering it before the mother machine golem.
With the ore consumed, a third type of golem was quickly produced.
True Monarch Xian Yin gradually understood at this point: "This kid... he confirmed the materials available on-site and designed eighteen kinds of simple golems that could be refined using these on-site materials."
"The materials required for these eighteen kinds of golems range from simple to difficult, and their performance gradually strengthens, with their gathering abilities also improving."
As he spoke, a metal sword-shaped golem forged by the mother machine had already been extracted.
Although it seemed to fly rather slowly, all the judges could see that this sword-shaped golem was indeed crafted using flying sword technology.
Furthermore, as the number of golems produced increased, more materials were gathered, leading to even more golem productions.
Very soon, there emerged a golem moving on all fours, resembling a wild dog, which applied bionic magic treasure technology.
Then the golems combined and transformed among themselves, achieving larger forms and higher performance, which was a transformation and assembly technique of magic treasures.
Watching Zhang Yu’s mother machine evolve from a solitary unit into a squad, and then into an army, True Monarch Xian Yin felt increasingly surprised.
What surprised him the most wasn’t the design approach, but the breadth of knowledge reflected in it.
True Monarch Xian Yin thought to himself: "Eighteen kinds of golems, essentially eighteen technological directions, and it even encompasses features from many schools."
Meanwhile, Heavenly Wisdom True Monarch sighed from the side: "What a profound foundation, possessing so many artifact refining technologies, not only mastering them all but also adeptly applying them practically, this already exceeds student level."
True Monarch Xian Yin smiled slightly, looked at Bone Marrow True Monarch from White Bone University, and said, "Bone Marrow True Monarch, what do you think?"
Bone Marrow True Monarch was slightly startled; remembering that there were still many True Gods recording the scene nearby, he immediately became serious and earnestly gave a fair evaluation: "The technology is very solid, and the design level is full of ingenuity, achieving the performance limits with the most inferior materials."
There was something he kept to himself, which was that even at his skill level, in the same environment, in the Foundation Establishment Realm, maybe... he could at most achieve just this.
True Monarch Xian Yin then looked at Bloodfall True Monarch and asked, "What do you think?"
Bloodfall True Monarch gazed at the advancing army of golems sweeping across the field and said in a muffled voice: "I never expected we’d misjudge this time; a fifth-year student mastering such a broad range of technologies and designing eighteen kinds of golems in six hours... truly astounding."
At the end, Bloodfall True Monarch suddenly laughed because he realized not only had they misjudged, but probably those who arranged for this test above had not expected it either.
Bloodfall True Monarch thought to himself: "Who would have imagined that Zhang Yu’s previous competition entry not only had no ghostwriting but wasn’t even his full capability."
Meanwhile, on the other side, Nie Lian True Monarch calmly said, "Not only is the technology solid but the cost compression is also pushed to the extreme."
"These simple golems would likely be scrapped entirely after this round due to their rapid aging."
"This reflects the extreme estimation of the performance potential of materials and design."
"This child’s level in artifact refining design can be considered the best among all schools."
The judges who heard these words were all taken aback.
Bloodfall True Monarch suddenly got an idea: "Can a fourth-year student truly achieve this solely based on talent?"
"I’ve heard Magnetic Pole is researching Qiongjiang Divine Monarch’s Magic Remains, and Zhang Yu is one of the test personnel, having already shown cultivation technique improvements previously."
"Now his artifact refining skills are advancing by leaps and bounds... could it be..."
Bloodfall True Monarch was shocked: "Did Magnetic Pole True Monarch achieve a breakthrough?"
As he flipped through the details in Zhang Yu’s design drawings, Bloodfall True Monarch felt an increasing sense of familiarity: "It has the essence of Magnetic Pole."