Xianyin Zhenjun’s gaze swept across the blueprints, and he noticed the extensive use of demon materials.

There were the sinews and bones of elephant demons, the organs of rat demons, and the stomach sacs of fish demons…

The design blueprints used biomimicry to integrate the characteristics of various demon races, creating a multi-limbed, multi-armed bionic puppet.

The puppet also had over a dozen eyes of different shapes all over its body, observing everything around it from various angles to find target items.

Watching the puppet move at lightning speed across the test field, continuously swallowing target items, Xianyin Zhenjun exclaimed, “What a large stomach sac! Is it used to store goods?”

Xuepu Zhenjun of Youming University smiled faintly and said, “It’s a biological stomach sac storage technology. There are a total of 50 stomach chambers designed here, each capable of storing 50 different types and states of items.”

“Combined with the muscle system mimicking elephant demons and whale demons, a weight of 200 tons is no problem.”

Tianzhi Zhenjun on the other side said, “This bionic puppet’s performance is so strong, can the cost really be compressed to 30 Lingbi?”

Xuepu Zhenjun explained, “With the surge in the demon population, the price of demon biological materials has been falling for the past two years.”

“Zangxingye’s design clearly considered the demon’s lack of human rights and low-price advantage.”

“This allows him to achieve higher magical artifact performance at a lower cost.”

“Look, the non-biological material content in this magical artifact is less than 1%.”

Xianyin Zhenjun had to admit that Zangxingye’s design from Youming University was indeed the best design so far.

“Speed, load-bearing, detection… all aspects of its capabilities are very balanced.”

Xianyin Zhenjun recalled Zangxingye’s previous entry in the design competition.

“Hmm, his on-site design ability is at least 70% of his previous entry.”

“It seems he didn’t need much guidance from others.”

The more he thought about this, the more awkward Xianyin Zhenjun felt about the upcoming presentation of Zhang Yu’s work.

Ultimately, Zangxingye received a high score of 420 points.

After several more artifact refining works completed their simulated tests, Guishen Gong’s work from Tianmo University appeared.

As the artifact refining simulation rapidly completed, a pulsating black cloud floated in mid-air.

As the black cloud shifted, one could vaguely see myriad ghosts wailing within it, occasionally morphing into terrifying, mournful, and angry ghostly faces.

Xianyin Zhenjun said, “Tianmo Reincarnation Technology.”

Nie Nian Zhenjun nodded slightly, satisfied, “Indeed, Guishen Gong is quite accomplished in this area. He can temporarily refine mortal souls into artifact spirits for use, although the consumption is still a bit high.”

“While mortal souls are easy to obtain, their quality varies, making them unsuitable for product standardization and prone to accelerated aging of artifact spirits. Most of our school’s products do not use such inferior materials.”

“However, mortal souls are notably cheap, making them perfectly suited here.”

The black cloud then boiled, and the next moment, wisps of mist shot out from it, flying into the sky.

Xianyin Zhenjun could tell that the black cloud designed by Guishen Gong was composed of a large number of Wuxiang Shenmozi. These Wuxiang Shenmozi were between a gaseous and liquid state, a type of puppet, capable of arbitrary deformation and independent action.

Watching the black cloud change, Xianyin Zhenjun analyzed, “By temporarily obtaining a powerful artifact spirit from mortal souls as a central control system, it manipulates the black cloud to act independently.”

As he watched the black cloud constantly deform and separate, Xianyin Zhenjun felt as if he was seeing a black army, continuously dispatching units to sweep the entire field.

Sentinels flew high into the sky for reconnaissance, commanding units to avoid lightning and fire, and searching for targets.

Vanguard units went to designated targets to search for items.

Transit units were responsible for receiving items and transporting them uniformly to designated locations.

“Its speed is not the fastest, its load-bearing capacity is not the strongest, but relying on a powerful intelligent system, along with its deformation ability and short-range communication technology between separated units… it has controlled the entire field, wasting not a single drop of magic power or time.”

“This is using the lowest cost to complete the most work.”

Xianyin Zhenjun secretly sighed, “As expected of the Huashen disciple highly cultivated by Tianmo University, he truly deserves to be this year’s top contender.”

At the same time, Guishen Gong’s previous entry in the competition came to mind.

Xianyin Zhenjun secretly estimated, “His on-site performance is at least 80% of his previous entry. This guy really didn’t rely much on his Huashen master.”

As Guishen Gong’s work received a high score of 452, Zhang Yu’s work finally appeared.

Watching the humanoid figure gradually emerge under the accelerated simulated refining, Xianyin Zhenjun thought to himself, “At least the basic functions must be completed…”

A crude humanoid figure fell to the ground with a thud, then… started eating dirt.

The many judges watching this scene were slightly stunned.

Xuepu Zhenjun even chuckled, “Is it malfunctioning?”

Xianyin Zhenjun frowned and quickly looked at the blueprints, wanting to see if it was indeed a malfunction.

But someone was faster than him. Nie Nian Zhenjun of Tianmo University said indifferently, “It’s not a malfunction; this puppet specializes in eating dirt.”

As he spoke, the humanoid puppet’s body shook, and it pulled out a palm-sized small puppet.

As soon as the small puppet landed, it burrowed into the nearby jungle.

Xuepu Zhenjun was startled and quickly looked at the blueprints, then surprisingly said, “This is a… simple production line? Eating dirt and ‘birthing’ people? By eating different materials, it manufactures small puppets?”

Chisui Zhenjun of Baigu University on the side said, “But the performance of this small puppet seems a bit too weak…”

Before Chisui Zhenjun finished speaking, as rocks were swallowed by the humanoid puppet, a small stone man was soon pulled out.

At the same time, Chisui Zhenjun also saw the later parts of the design drawing, and the more he looked, the more surprised he became: “Besides the first mother machine, there are a total of eighteen types of puppets? He designed eighteen types of puppets?!”

The design drawings displayed before everyone showed design information for 18 types of puppets, from large to small, including refining methods, required materials, and functional parameters…

Meanwhile, the little mud man who had just run off came back holding a lump of ore and delivered it to the mother machine puppet.

As the ore was swallowed, a third type of puppet was quickly manufactured.

Xianyin Zhenjun gradually understood at this point: “This kid… after confirming the materials available on-site, he designed 18 types of simple puppets that can be refined with those materials.”

“The materials required for these 18 types of puppets range from simple to difficult, their performance gradually strengthens, and their collection capabilities become increasingly powerful.”

As he spoke, a metal sword-shaped puppet had already been pulled out by the mother machine.

Although it appeared to fly slowly, the many judges could see that this sword-shaped puppet was indeed crafted using flying sword technology.

Furthermore, as the number of puppets produced increased, more and more materials were collected, and more and more puppets were manufactured.

Soon, puppets resembling wild dogs, with their limbs crawling, appeared, utilizing bionic magical artifact technology.

Then the puppets combined and transformed, gaining larger sizes and higher performance, demonstrating magical artifact transformation and assembly technology.

Watching Zhang Yu’s mother machine evolve from a single unit to a small squad, and then to an army, Xianyin Zhenjun became increasingly surprised.

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

Xianyin Zhenjun thought to himself, “18 types of puppets, almost 18 technical directions, and covering the specialties of many schools.”

At the same time, Tianzhi Zhenjun sighed from the side, “Such profound foundation. To master so many artifact refining techniques, and to apply them maturely in practice, this far exceeds a student’s level.”

Xianyin Zhenjun smiled slightly and looked at Chisui Zhenjun of Baigu University, saying, “Chisui Zhenjun, what do you think?”

Chisui Zhenjun was slightly startled, remembering the many righteous gods recording nearby. He immediately became serious and gave a fair and earnest review: “The