Chapter 10: Craftsmanship

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the alchemy furnace in the corner.

A raging fire was burning in the alchemy furnace, and a half-human-high mechanical monkey stood in the flames, bearing the roasting at all times.

The mechanical monkey's skeleton stood straight, its whole body of bright red hair was lifelike, only the muscles were slowly degrading in the flames, flowing out from every gap.

The Molten Xian Gong hides in the volcanic magma, and Unlike Ning Zhuo needs to manipulate the Fire Explosion Monkey to carry a thousand catties of fire essence, shuttle through the heavy magma, and stick to the surface of the immortal palace to self-detonate.

But now, its muscles cannot support it.

"Cloud Pattern Soft Silver doesn't work, so change to the next one."

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the table and sat down; according to his plan, tonight he would try using oil smoke mud.

The reddish-brown oil smoke mud emitted a pungent smell.

Unlike Ning Zhuo took a small wooden hammer and began to knock on the mud.

Every time the small wooden hammer hit the mud, it would make a dull thumping sound, shaking away the dirt lumps in the mud. Whenever sparks were generated in the reddish-brown mud, the wooden hammer would emit cold air, extinguishing the sparks in time.

Unlike Ning Zhuo specially designed and developed the small wooden hammer to deal with oil smoke mud.

If the big exam examiners saw this, they would immediately set Unlike Ning Zhuo's talisman subject grade to superior.

Lower, middle, and upper grades are the most commonly used.

Superior grade is very rare, and there might not be one in a session. This means that the normal evaluation standard is already insufficient to describe the excellence of the youth cultivator!

After all the lumps in the oil smoke mud were thoroughly eliminated, a layer of fire oil had already accumulated on the surface of the red mud.

Unlike Ning Zhuo then took a square cloth made of cotton and covered it on the oil smoke mud.

As he input magic power, the array on the square cloth started, quickly absorbing the fire oil.

This square cloth was also designed by Unlike Ning Zhuo, but this time, it didn't use talismans, but arranged a micro-array.

The level of array arrangement on this square cloth was also superior.

Unlike Ning Zhuo checked carefully, confirmed that the oil smoke soil was handled properly, and began to knead.

The handled fire oil mud had excellent stickiness and was kneaded by Unlike Ning Zhuo to be flexible and delicate. Other impurities in the mud were all washed out under Unlike Ning Zhuo's magic power infusion.

Unlike Ning Zhuo dismantled one arm of the mechanical monkey, took the handled oil smoke mud, and attached it to the arm skeleton.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's ten fingers were clean and white, and under the light of the spirit lamp, his finger movements were agile and neat. He was focused and dedicated, having completely forgotten the passage of time. At this moment, the youth was full of the charm of seriousness.

The oil smoke mud was quickly kneaded into shape, and the bare arm skeleton had plump, blood-red muscles.

Unlike Ning Zhuo certainly didn't just use his hands to knead the appearance; in this process, he also constantly mobilized magic power, pouring it into the mud to perform internal combing.

Just gently cut the muscle tissue with a knife, and you could see that the inside of the red mud was also in the form of muscles.

This astonishing foundation of material shaping was enough to make the school clan elder exclaim.

If Unlike Ning Zhuo exposed this point, he would definitely be treated as the key publicity object of this session by the school clan elder. Being able to appear such an excellent refining seed was enough to prove the talent and effort of the school clan elder.

After shaping was completed, Unlike Ning Zhuo began to perform various tests on the arm.

It didn't work.

The fire resistance of oil smoke mud was excellent, but the magic power adaptation was quite terrible.

"Need to improve it."

Unlike Ning Zhuo began to recall.

"Oil smoke mud mixed with thunder sand can manufacture explosives. It is often used to blast mountains or fight against monsters."

"Oil smoke mud combined with poison can be refined into poison pills. Poison pills disintegrate, releasing fire poison smoke barriers, used to block enemies and defend."

"Oil smoke mud can also be combined with coal stone, placed in the furnace of the refining room, burning for a long time to maintain high temperature."

……

Over the years, Unlike Ning Zhuo had done his best to memorize everything, everything he could come into contact with.

During the ten-day break, he often soaked in the family's library, staying for a whole day. From morning to night, forgetting to eat and sleep.

No one knew that the plain-looking Unlike Ning Zhuo was actually a human-shaped library!

Unlike Ning Zhuo recalled everything related to oil smoke mud, but didn't find a way to improve the oil smoke mud.

"No matter, I will design the pill formula myself!"

The youth had his own pride, and his eyes flickered with confident light.

"Oil smoke mud is warm, belongs to the heart and liver meridians, and the fire oil energy can volatilize the dampness and cold evil in the bones. A small amount can treat cold-coagulated abdominal pain."

"If mixed with moonlight water in the well, the fire nature and water nature harmonize with each other, perhaps it can reduce the weight."

"If using the tail feathers of the first-flying bird as a guide medicine, refining them together... perhaps it can use the lightness of the wind nature and the scattering of the movement nature to make the main medicine oil smoke mud exert its best state."

"The willow catkins of the spirit-hidden willow might also work. Take willow catkins and oil smoke mud to refine together, the proportion can refer to light-spirit pills, clear-turbid powders, and other pill formulas; the things refined out, the weight should be greatly reduced."

……

Unlike Ning Zhuo was quick-witted, based on pharmacology, rich in logic, and quickly conceived seven pill formulas.

Based on this performance alone, let alone the superior grade in the alchemy subject. The Ning clan would definitely take action and lock Unlike Ning Zhuo firmly in the family.

Unlike Ning Zhuo began to try refining new materials.

He turned over his material library and found that he could try at least seven plans.

Moonlight water in the well?

Failed.

The stickiness of the finished mud was slightly reduced, the weight was slightly reduced, and the fire resistance was weakened a lot.

First-flying bird feathers?

Big failure.

What was obtained was no longer mud, but a pile of dust.

Unlike Ning Zhuo, however, had joy: "The wind nature of the bird feathers is too sufficient, and my understanding of this material has deepened by another layer."

The third attempt was spirit-hidden willow catkins.

The clay presented willow catkin patterns, the stickiness remained unchanged, the fire resistance was reduced less, and the weight was sharply reduced. The rest of the tests were all passed.

"Got lucky, didn't expect the third attempt to get the ideal... uh."

Unlike Ning Zhuo hadn't been happy for long before he saw the willow catkin patterns on the clay floating up by themselves, a change of clear up and turbid down, making the clay quality decay.

The form of this new clay was not stable!

Unlike Ning Zhuo tried the fourth one, big failure.

He pondered for a while, but didn't rush to continue the next plan, but buried his head in studying the spirit-hidden willow plan.

"This plan is close to success, and it has adaptability to various magic powers. All I need to do is to stabilize its form."

"What should I do?"

The old problem was solved, and a new problem arose.

Unlike Ning Zhuo didn't have the slightest discouragement, but was eager to try, thinking more focused. He immersed himself in the process of this design, and the thinking didn't make him feel dry or boring, but gave him a joy from the heart.

In this state of thinking, he felt his own existence and felt his own value.

He knew he was creating, something that didn't originally exist in the natural world!

This expectation, this sense of achievement, was something other things couldn't bring him.

For others, it is suffering; for him, it is a beautiful enjoyment, a pleasant experience in spirit.

Time passed silently, and Unlike Ning Zhuo, immersed in thinking, didn't feel it at all.

I don't know how long it had passed, but his eyes suddenly lit up.

"To solve this technical problem, I need to use a dynamic array."

However, this level of knowledge was greatly beyond the syllabus, and the Ning clan school didn't teach it.

Unlike Ning Zhuo stood up and paced back and forth in the underground workshop.

After thinking for a while, he stopped, raised his head slightly, and had a decision: "Chen Cha... known as the Living Array, the most skilled is the dynamic array, and the key is that he is also a mechanical master."

"It's time to contact him." ===== CHAPTER 11 =====