The first piece of information said: Ning Zhuo's mother, Meng Yaoyin, was a mechanical practitioner. Although she died very early, she left Ning Zhuo many mechanical manuals. Ning Zhuo regarded these manuals as his mother's relics and cherished them very much. When he was a child, he often fell asleep with these manuals in his arms. As he grew up, he was influenced by these manuals.
Ning Zhuo began to show a strong interest in mechanical arts when he was a child. He often went to the Salesian Garden to watch Li Leifeng's puppet shows.
The Ciyouyuan is an orphanage that takes in homeless children in Huoshixian City, and is jointly funded by the City Lord's Mansion and various wealthy families in the city.
This is a national policy of the Nandou Kingdom.
Li Leifeng is the director of the Salesian Garden. He has the spirit of thunder and is also a mechanical practitioner. The mechanical tower he built can absorb external lightning and turn it into power to maintain the operation of the mechanical tower without consuming any spiritual power. When facing the enemy, the power stored in the mechanical tower will burst out with lightning, like a whip chain, locking the enemy and constantly shocking and burning them.
"Mr. Li's puppet show is truly unique." Upon seeing this, the head of the Ning family sighed sincerely.
He has watched many puppet shows by Li Leifeng and was amazed! Perhaps influenced by Li Leifeng, Ning Zhuo has loved puppets and toys of this kind since he was a child. The puppets he often plays with are Yilun, Erlangtui and Sanmao.
When he entered the family school, he was most interested in mechanical engineering. He studied hard and asked questions, which resulted in him being unable to take care of himself, and his other subjects became worse and worse.
It was not until he was ten years old that his performance in various subjects gradually improved, and he gradually ranked in the upper middle class in the school.
The Ning family attached great importance to talismans. Ning Zhuo's uncle and aunt naturally did not want him to go astray and ruin his future, so they disciplined him strictly and smashed three large baskets of mechanical dolls alone.
Although Ning Zhuo was suppressed on the surface, he still seized every opportunity to study mechanical arts. He would even take the initiative to work as a child laborer in some mechanical workshops, even if he didn't want to be paid. For him, being able to touch mechanical creations was a happy thing.
Perhaps because of his persistence and passion, Ning Zhuo's skills in mechanical engineering have been growing.
When he was fifteen, the mechanical parrot he made was so good that it surpassed the level of all his classmates. It was accidentally seen by an elder in the school, who praised him on the spot.
However, Ning Zhuo, who was originally expected by some elders, performed poorly in the family exam.
"He is too nervous!" The head of the Ning family looked at the jade slip and sighed.
The jade slip contains the specific details of Ning Zhuo's family examination.
"Yes." Ning Xiaoren agreed, "At that time, the string got tangled accidentally, and Ning Zhuo didn't see it. When he was about to make a move, the string got tangled, leaving Ning Zhuo no room to move."
"If I were the patriarch in charge of the exam, I would definitely make an exception and allow Ning Zhuo to retake the exam."
The Ning family head shook his head: "The invigilator did not make any mistakes. According to the rules, candidates should have done more checks before taking the exam. Ning Zhuo should be held responsible for this incident."
While the father and son were discussing, a servant came to report: Feng Jiqing is here.
"Please let him in." The head of the Ning family nodded.
Feng Jiqing is a middle-aged man with squinty eyes, long green hair, a tall and thin figure, and a windmill-like knife wheel on his back.
Feng Jiqing has the wind spirit root and has some accomplishments in the mobile phone level. Although he is not an orthodox mechanical cultivator, the mechanical wind falcon he made and controlled is as fast as lightning and as powerful as a hurricane, and is very sharp.
After failing to recruit young guests, the Ning family has never stopped recruiting talents from outside.
Until recently, the Ning family kept increasing their investment and finally recruited Feng Jiqing. He is the Ning family's greatest achievement in recruiting talents from other families.
"Patriarch, Junior Patriarch." Feng Jiqing bowed and saluted, his back straight. He was at the peak of the foundation building stage, and he knew the market of the mechanical cultivators very well. He was confident of his own value, so he had a normal attitude towards the two senior members of the Ning family.
Young clan leader Ning Xiaoren smiled and said, "Master Feng, I invited you here this time because I want you to identify these two mechanical fire monkeys and evaluate the mechanical attainments of the people who created and made them."
The Ning family's head and deputy head, father and son, did not want to reveal too quickly the fact that Ning Zhuo was the inventor of the mechanical Fire Monkey.
On the one hand, Ning Xiaoren wanted to pretend to be ignorant and falsify his own image in order to make Ning Zhuo feel his "full sincerity".
On the other hand, the matter of the explosive monkey was related to Fei Si after all. If it was leaked out, it would make Fei Si embarrassed. The Ning family did not want to offend Fei Si because of this.
The latter is the immortal official who actually handles most of the daily affairs of Huoshi Immortal City. He has great power and is not easy to mess with.
The concealment of the two people inadvertently caused some misunderstandings to Feng Jiqing. He couldn't help but guess: "Could it be that the Ning family wants to hire Chen Cha with a large sum of money?"
Feng Jiqing certainly didn't want this to happen, so he remained calm and began to test the two mechanical fire monkeys.
One of the two mechanical monkeys is exquisitely made and made of solid materials, and is a previous version. The other one is crudely made and has been damaged a lot, and is a special revision made by Ning Zhuo later.
Feng Jiqing examined it and said, "The main material of the monkey skin is tinder mouse skin, woven with traditional spiritual embroidery. It's a traditional craft, so there's no need to mention it."
"It is necessary to use Tianjin as the skeleton, because Tianjin is usually the best option for setting up a storage array."
"But if it were me, I would go a step further and choose the empty lungs of the cloud whale. In this way, the array I set up would be able to store living things, while the current array can only store dead things."
"The Fire Monkey was designed to pick Fire Persimmons. Although Fire Persimmons can be considered fire spirits to some extent, they are essentially living things, the fruits of Fire Persimmon trees. Placing them in the living creature storage array space is more suitable for them and can ensure that they taste better."
Feng Jiqing only talked about the advantages of his own plan and never mentioned the rarity of empty lungs in cloud whales.
"The material used for the body of the Mechanical Fire Monkey is good." One of the biggest highlights was overshadowed by Feng Jiqing.
"There are many formations in the palm, and the way of matching is relatively new, very good." When Feng Jiqing had to praise, he would try to use fewer words to praise.
"The walking projectile in the monkey's brain is, in my opinion, the most eye-catching part of this mechanism design."
"However, although this material selection will save a lot of costs, it cannot be used unless it is the foundation-building stage, which greatly limits the number of buyers."
"If there were no such drawback, the sales of the Fire Monkey would increase several times, or even more than ten times."
"This design is flawed." Feng Jiqing concluded.
The head of the Ning family and Ning Xiaoren looked at each other. The former did not speak, while the latter asked, "Can the designer's attainments in such mechanisms be considered strong?"
Among the hundreds of arts of cultivation, mechanisms are at the bottom.
The father and son were not interested in this and as they were at the top of the family, they were either busy with affairs or engaged in intrigue all day long, making it difficult for them to control the Fire Monkey.
In fact, let alone mechanical engineering, they find it difficult to evaluate the pros and cons of even a new pill recipe.
They are not alchemists, nor do they specialize in mechanical engineering.
In ancient times, it was not so bad, there were not many foundation-building cultivators. Families were generally weaker than sects, and cultivation kingdoms were extremely rare. In the first half of the long river of history, they were almost all short-lived.
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However, as cultivation has developed to this day, the various arts of cultivation have become extensive and profound. For most cultivators, each art is like a mountain between two worlds.
Feng Jiqing pondered and said, "Chen Cha has been running the Frisbee Workshop for many years, and he finally came up with such a mechanical creation."
“It’s rare.”
"This mechanical creation is ingenious, but not very ingenious. Even if it sells well now, the persimmon picking business will definitely be bleak next year, and its uses will be narrow."
"Generally speaking, this mechanical creation is considered average, slightly above average."
"As for the person who made the mechanism, I won't say much."
The head of the Ning family and Ning Xiaoren looked at each other again.
The former thought to himself: "Feng Jiqing is a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a mid-level rating. This is a huge compliment to Ning Zhuo who is in the Qi Refining Stage."
The latter became even more determined to win over Ning Zhuo.
at the same time.
Salesian Kindergarten.
Zhu Xuanji hid his body and entered the garden.
An old man was basking in the sun in the garden. He suddenly frowned and looked at the invisible Zhu Xuanji: "Who is it?!"
Zhu Xuanji was stunned for a moment, then revealed his figure.
He pinched his fingers, his eyes flashed golden light, and launched a certain detection spell to observe the surroundings.
"I see. There is an invisible potential difference of lightning flowing in this courtyard. As long as I step in, the potential difference between the front and the back will be sensed by you."
Zhu Xuanji praised and stamped his feet.
There was an explosion under his feet, like a small thunder, blowing away a layer of soil and revealing the bricks inside. The runes on the bricks were dazzling at first glance.
These bricks are laid on the ground at short intervals, not forming a formation at all.
It was precisely because of the lack of formation that Zhu Xuanji found it difficult to grasp and be alert. This was the first time that his whereabouts had been exposed since he entered Huoshi Xiancheng.
"It turns out to be Lord Zhu Xuanji, please take a seat." The old man was still lying on the chair, not moving at all.
Zhu Xuanji had appeared in public in Huoshi Xiancheng before, and the matter had already been known to the whole city.
What’s strange is that the old man is only in the foundation-building stage, and only in the early stage of foundation-building, but facing a golden elixir like Zhu Xuanji, his attitude is very casual.
Zhu Xuanji did not feel offended at all. He walked up to the old man and said with a smile, "Senior Li Leifeng, I have heard of your great name for a long time, and I came here specially to see you."
The old man Li Leifeng snorted coldly: "It's too late for you, Zhu Shenbu."
"You said you wanted to take a look, but you actually wanted to verify whether I am the black shadow demon cultivator?"
Zhu Xuanji smiled awkwardly.
Li Leifeng sighed, "I have lived for such a long time and have seen a lot of things. Lord Zhu, please check it out."
Zhu Xuanji bowed and said, "I'm sorry."
(End of this chapter)