Chapter 562: First Among Hundred Schools

String True Lord's gaze swept across the sheets of blueprints, and he saw a large number of yao descendant materials used in them.

There were the sinews and bones of elephant yao, the internal organs of rat yao, the stomach of fish yao...

The design blueprints used bionic technology to fuse the characteristics of various yao descendants together, creating a multi-legged, multi-armed bionic puppet.

The puppet's entire body was covered with more than a dozen eye shapes of different forms, observing everything around it from all angles, searching for the target items.

Watching the puppet race forward like lightning in the testing ground, constantly swallowing target items one by one into its mouth, String True Lord exclaimed in surprise, "Such a large stomach—is it using the stomach to store cargo?"

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

"Plus the imitation of the muscle systems of elephant yao and whale yao, it can handle a load of two hundred tons without issue."

On the other side, Tianzhi True Lord said, "This bionic puppet has such strong performance; can the cost really be compressed to thirty spirit coins?"

Bloodfall True Lord explained, "With the explosive increase in the number of yao descendants, the price of yao descendant biological materials has been dropping every year for the past two years."

"The reason Zang Xingye designed it this way is obviously because he took into account the lack of rights and low-price advantage of yao descendants."

"This allows him to obtain higher magic tool performance at a lower cost."

"Look—the non-biological material content in this magic tool is less than one percent."

String True Lord had to admit that the design of Zang Xingye from Netherworld University was indeed the best design so far.

"Speed, load, detection... all aspects are very balanced."

String True Lord recalled slightly in his mind and remembered the previous contest entry submitted by this Zang Xingye.

"Hmm, his on-site design performance is at least seventy percent of his last contest entry."

"It seems he really didn't rely much on guidance from others."

And the more he thought about this, the more awkward String True Lord felt about Zhang Yu's upcoming performance.

In the end, Zang Xingye received a high score of 420.

Next, after a few more artifact refining works completed their simulation tests, the work of Ghost Divine Artisan from Demon Heaven University debuted.

With the accelerated completion of the artifact refining simulation, a mass of shifting black clouds floated in midair.

Amid the changes of the black clouds, one could seem to see thousands of ghosts wailing, occasionally transforming into terrified, sorrowful, or angry ghost faces.

String True Lord said, "Demon Heaven Reincarnation Technique."

Karma Lotus True Lord nodded slightly and said with satisfaction, "Not bad. Ghost Divine Artisan has considerable skill in this area. He can already temporarily refine the mortal souls of ordinary people into artifact spirits for use, though the consumption is still a bit high."

"Although mortal souls are easy to obtain, their quality is uneven and cannot meet product standardization; they also tend to accelerate the aging of artifact spirits. Most of our academy's products do not use such inferior materials."

"But mortal souls, well, their standout feature is their low price, and they are just right for this application."

The mass of black clouds then seethed, and a moment later, clusters of mist shot out from it toward the sky.

String True Lord could tell that the black cloud designed by Ghost Divine Artisan was composed of a large number of Formless Demon Seedlings. These Formless Demon Seedlings existed in a state between gas and liquid, a type of puppet capable of both arbitrary transformation and detached movement.

Watching the black cloud's changes, String True Lord analyzed, "By temporarily obtaining a powerful artifact spirit from mortal souls as a central control system, the black cloud can be manipulated to move in detached parts."

Watching the black cloud continuously transform and split, String True Lord felt as if he were seeing a black army constantly dispatching troops to sweep the entire field.

Sentries flew high into the sky to scout, commanding the unit to dodge thunderfire and search for targets.

Vanguard units went to designated targets to search for items.

Relay units received items and transported them uniformly to designated locations.

"Speed isn't the fastest, load isn't the strongest, but relying on a powerful intelligent system, transformation ability, and short-range communication technology between detached parts... it controls the entire field without wasting a single bit of mana or time."

"This accomplishes the maximum amount of work with the minimum cost."

String True Lord secretly sighed in his heart, "As expected of a core-cultivated Nascent Soul disciple from Demon Heaven University—the first place in this session is well deserved."

At the same time, the previous contest entry submitted by Ghost Divine Artisan appeared in his mind.

String True Lord silently estimated in his heart, "His on-site performance is at least eighty percent of his last contest entry. This guy really didn't rely much on his Nascent Soul master."

And as Ghost Divine Artisan's work scored a high 452, Zhang Yu's work finally debuted.

Watching the gradually emerging humanoid figure under accelerated simulated refining, String True Lord thought to himself, "At least it must fulfill the basic functions..."

All they saw was a crude humanoid figure fall onto the ground with a thud, and then... start eating dirt.

Watching this scene, the numerous judges were all slightly taken aback.