Chapter 302: This is not cheating! (Ask for monthly tickets)

Unlike Ning Zhuo calculated the Palace Examination time while focusing his attention, staring closely at each arena.

He quickly discovered that this was a quite rare opportunity!

He could stand under the arena and observe the battles between twenty cultivators in ten arenas at the same time.

The cultivators could be said to show their abilities, and the mechanism puppets created in a short time contained various ideas.

The one with the greatest momentum and the strongest combat power was the mechanism puppet of Zhu Zhu Xuanji.

It tied a red headscarf on its forehead, and Unlike Ning Zhuo privately called it the Red Turban Army.

It was clear that the Red Turban Army was a mechanism puppet built mainly with Fire Essence, and its flame offensive was extremely powerful.

Zhu Zhu Xuanji built the puppet body with charcoal-baked clay, and Fist Gold only wrapped the outside to form armor.

"The Red Turban Army must have a very excellent storage magic formation in its body, it uses too much Fire Essence."

The raging flames formed by the consumption of Fire Essence were compressed layer by layer in the Red Turban Army's body, to the point of being nearly viscous.

Flames constantly sprayed from the Red Turban Army's mouth, nose, palms, etc., forming fire dragons and fire walls, covering the entire arena with flames, aggressive, placing the enemy in a sea of fire, constantly burning.

The Red Turban Army was like a fish in water in the flames, while its enemies suffered disasters.

Unlike Ning Zhuo looked at the ten arenas and found that almost all cultivators' mechanism creatures could not resist such a fierce fire attack.

Even his Five Elements Pawn was like this.

"The only one with hope should be Zheng Hua's mechanism puppet, right?"

He privately named it the Jin Gang Guard.

Unlike Ning Zhuo observed constantly and found that the only one that could resist the fire attack was the Jin Gang Guard.

Zheng Hua himself mastered the immortal talent and could easily melt materials.

Unlike Ning Zhuo guessed that he should have fused Fist Gold and charcoal-baked clay into a new mixed material, and used it as the main body to build a burly and thick puppet.

Black gold, slightly gray metal armor, almost covered the entire puppet.

The joints used ancient wood with spiritual patterns.

The transformation of the frost flower large water drop was the same as Unlike Ning Zhuo's idea, and both were arranged with magic formations.

It was just that Zheng Hua arranged cold ice formations and healing formations in the water drop, which made the water drop repair the Jin Gang Guard's wounds; if the wound was too large, the water drop would divide a part, turn into cold ice, and perform temporary filling.

This filling function would effectively reduce the damage of the enemy's attacks on its own wounds.

The Jin Gang Guard's defense was very strong, letting opponents attack it, standing still, motionless.

Unlike Ning Zhuo looked at Ning Jiufan.

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Aside from the Red Turban Army and the Jin Gang Guards, there are the Frost Envoys crafted by Ning Jiufan.

This mechanical puppet is constructed entirely of ice blocks. On the ice blocks, dense frost patterns are distributed.

Very clearly, Ning Jiufan focused on using the Frost Pattern Large Water Droplets.

Once he froze them into ice, he immediately entered the realm of ice sculpture mechanisms, which he is most proficient in.

Because the total amount of Large Water Droplets is limited, Ning Jiufan's Frost Envoys are quite small in stature.

On its body, one can see some wooden and metal joints, armor, and other structures.

Ning Jiufan's craftsmanship is quite good; these joints and armor are small, exquisite, and gorgeous, which is very eye-catching.

The Frost Envoys can release frost arrays. Under the spread of freezing air, the enemy's movements often become increasingly sluggish until their joints and other vital points are frozen.

"If I run into these three, my Five Elements Pawns will most likely be defeated."

"Perhaps there is still a glimmer of a chance for victory on Zheng Hua's side, but there is basically no hope of winning against Zhu Zhu Xuanji or Ning Jiufan!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo compared them and was very self-aware.

Although all the Golden Core cultivators will be suppressed to the Qi Condensation stage by the Xian Gong, they have obvious advantages in control techniques, combat experience, and even magic power and spirit.

And the remaining Foundation Establishment and Qi Condensation cultivators cannot be underestimated either. With the slightest carelessness, it is very easy to capsize in the gutter.

After all, since these people could obtain the recognition of the Lava Xian Gong and enter the palace, it is evident that their attainments in mechanism arts are quite excellent!

"If we really have to count, Meng Chong's mechanism attainments should be the lowest, right?"

Unlike Ning Zhuo's gaze subconsciously shifted to one of the arenas.

The mechanical puppet manufactured by Meng Chong is very sloppy, and the structure is quite simple. However, he possesses two mechanical puppets!

His opponent at this moment only had one mechanical puppet, and upon seeing Meng Chong, they took the initiative to raise their hand and concede.

"This person is clearly a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator."

"The City Lord's Mansion has vast influence and a meticulous layout; have they already contacted him and bribed him privately?"

Unlike Ning Zhuo memorized desperately.

On the ten arenas, the twenty-plus mechanical puppets each have their own characteristics, and the cultivation techniques they employ have different emphases.

For example, Ning Jiufan's mechanical puppets focus on carving skills. Zheng Hua's Jin Gang Guards adopt many artifact refining techniques.

And these technical characteristics will often continue to be maintained in the subsequent palace examinations.

On the other hand, the design of the mechanical puppets also highlights the temperament characteristics of each cultivator.

For example, Zhu Zhu Xuanji hates evil like a foe and will always unconsciously position himself in the hunter's offensive position.

All the above intelligence is extremely valuable.

"Sun Lao Da is in some danger." Unlike Ning Zhuo felt a hidden worry.

Although Sun Lingtong has also studied mechanism classics diligently, his talent for mechanisms is not high. Compared to most cultivators, he is excellent.

But now that he is participating in the Lava Xian Gong's palace examination, compared to this group of mechanism cultivators, his performance clearly shows a weakness.

"I can just continue to use the Five Elements Pawns."

"Mechanical puppets with this kind of balanced performance often struggle in battle. This will precisely make enemies and spectators underestimate them."

"This is very favorable for me to hide my clumsiness!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo is not worried about himself, especially with the Dragon Turtle Fire Spirit leaking the questions; he is quite confident in himself.

But he is worried about Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong is bearing the name "Unlike Ning Zhuo"; if he is eliminated in this round, others will take the opportunity to discover that the "entry standard" is actually Unlike Ning Zhuo himself!

The second round of the palace examination continues.

Unlike Ning Zhuo subsequently took the stage several times; when he ran into Zhu Zhu Xuanji or Ning Jiufan, he conceded without hesitation.

Such instances of conceding are quite common and are not unique to him. This undoubtedly greatly shortened the overall duration of the competition.

Before the day was even over, the first question of the second round of the palace examination had already been completed.

Unlike Ning Zhuo let out a long breath. Throughout the overall competition, although there was rest time for every match, it was still very tiring and was a quite arduous test for his magic power, spirit, and will.

It was still through the teleportation light circle that everyone was able to quickly return to their original locations.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was summoned soon after.

Ning Jiufan said to him with full gratification: "Little Zhuo, I have been watching you."

"Although every battle was a difficult test for you, you were always full of fighting spirit and tenaciously won one bitter battle after another."

"This is very good; you are, after all, of my Ning family bloodline and have the backbone of a Northern Wind man."

Unlike Ning Zhuo took the opportunity to express his loyalty and then cheekily asked Ning Jiufan for a reward.

Ning Jiufan had begun to get used to Unlike Ning Zhuo's thick skin. His battle today only resulted in a loss to Zhu Zhu Xuanji, so he was in a good mood and directly took out the Golden Core-level mechanical ape.

This mechanical ape was what Unlike Ning Zhuo had previously lent to Ning Jiufan to use.

"I didn't expect that there would be no use for it in the second round of the palace examination."

"I'll return it to you."

"The internal mechanism parts inside are also gifted to you."

"Among them is a log-shaped alarm pillow mechanism that is suitable for your current situation."

"You can release it to guard you day and night."

"The first question of the second round of the palace examination has passed; from now on, the situation of all cultivators will be full of danger. After all, this is a struggle concerning the ownership of the Lava Xian Gong."

Unlike Ning Zhuo did not expect that the mechanical ape he had just lent out would return to his hands so soon.

He immediately thanked Ning Jiufan deeply.

After bringing back the mechanical ape, he opened the outer armor and saw a dense array of ice-carved mechanisms inside. Among them, the log-shaped alarm pillow that Ning Jiufan emphasized was quite special, as it was made of wood.

After Unlike Ning Zhuo studied it for a while, he felt its profundity.

Ning Jiufan is, after all, at the Golden Core level, and his mechanism attainments surpass Unlike Ning Zhuo's. There are many manufacturing methods that Unlike Ning Zhuo cannot achieve.

The next day, the teleportation light circle appeared, and everyone took the stage again to conduct the competition for the second question.

The content of the second question was still five portions of Five Elements materials each and one spirit stone.

Compared to the first question, the Five Elements materials were still at the Qi Condensation level, but the portions were not sufficient, which forced many previous construction plans to fail during the design phase.

Because, for any single material, the scale was not enough.

Even that spirit stone was no longer a mid-grade spirit stone, but a low-grade one. This forced all cultivators to add at least one spirit-gathering array.

The difficulty of the second question was obviously much greater than the first question.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's performance was standard, but Sun Lingtong and the others were already losing more than they were winning.

This trend was quite ominous.

Fortunately, Ning Jiufan had returned the previous Golden Core-level mechanical ape.

After the second question competition was completed, that evening, Unlike Ning Zhuo went to the intensive care ward to meet secretly with Sun Lingtong.

In front of Sun Lingtong, he summoned back Yuan Yuan Dasheng's spirituality and re-injected it into the Golden Blood War Ape.

Then, he handed the Golden Blood War Ape, Yuan Dasheng, to Sun Lingtong to use.

Yang Chanyu, who was on the side, learned of the two's next plan and couldn't help but look at the Golden Blood War Ape, Yuan Dasheng, in surprise: "You mean, this mechanism came from the trial level?!"

"Then according to the requirements in the second round of the palace examination, wouldn't we be able to use it directly? We wouldn't need to laboriously construct mechanical puppets for every arena match, right?"

Sun Lingtong rolled his eyes: "Why would you think that? Of course, we need to continue refining puppets; this way, wouldn't we have two puppets fighting just like Meng Chong?"

Yang Chanyu's expression stalled: "That is indeed the case."

Just like that, in the third day's competition, Sun Lingtong directly took out the Golden Blood War Ape, Yuan Dasheng, to use, shocking everyone else into a daze!