Ning family.

Council Hall.

The spiritual lamp emits bright light.

The Ning family's head, junior head, and a group of elders gathered here.

Several jade slips were rotated in their hands, and the jade slips recorded the entire process of the Ning family's exam.

The clan leader stroked the jade slip in his hand with his eyes slightly closed. The scenes in the jade slip emerged in his sea of ​​consciousness and replayed continuously.

Unlike previous years, this year he focused on the assessment of agency subjects.

This year, the content of the Ning family's examination in mechanical engineering was changed to controlling puppets.

The young monks infused their magic power into the puppets through the hanging threads.

Through the dual effects of divine thoughts and magic power, the puppet can generate movement and perform various actions.

However, even the best performing young monk could only successfully make the puppet walk, tumble in the air, and roll on the ground in this exam.

The overall situation is appalling.

The clan leader slowly opened his eyes, withdrew his consciousness from the jade slip, and slowly placed the jade slip on the table beside him.

"In this family exam, there are no seeds of mechanical engineers among the younger generations." The head of the Ning family sighed.

The elders of the academy felt the pressure and quickly spoke up: "Patriarch, elders, our Ning family is good at talismans. Among the hundreds of arts of cultivation, mechanical engineering is originally a niche subject. Our family has very little foundation in mechanical engineering, and the teachers who teach mechanical engineering in the academy are all half-baked. How can we cultivate the seeds of mechanical engineering?"

The head of the Ning family comforted him, "Calm down, I don't mean to blame you. It's just that the Lava Fairy Palace is a mechanical fairy city. In the past, the three masters of the sect hid it in the mountain to suppress the eruption of Huoshi Mountain. If we want to obtain the fairy treasures and mechanical inheritance of the Lava Fairy Palace, the best way is to start with the mechanical master."

"Our Ning family only discovered the Lava Fairy Palace this year. The other two families and the city lord's side had already discovered it a long time ago. They had time to secretly cultivate the mechanism seeds, but we can't."

"We are latecomers. It's too late. Only by hiring outsiders with a large sum of money to serve as our guest officials can we have a chance to compete."

The head of the Ning family took out a jade slip and said, "This contains the famous mechanical masters of Huoshi Xiancheng and the surrounding areas. Please circulate it among you."

After all the elders had read it, the Ning family leader said, "We must contact all the mechanical engineers and try our best to win them over. Especially the young man! He is the mechanical engineer in Huoshi City. He is quite powerful and should be the first target to win over."

The young clan leader said, "The identity of the young man is mysterious and he has never appeared in public. The machines he made sell very well, but they are all sold on the black market once a month."

"The black market is controlled by Sun Lingtong. He is an outer disciple of the Bukong Sect. It is difficult for us to actually contact the young man."

The head of the Ning family frowned and said, "Xiao Ren, I don't want to hear you talk about your difficulties. What I need is to solve this problem."

Young clan leader Ning Xiaoren was sweating profusely, and he quickly assured, "Yes, father. I have sent people to find a way to contact him, and there will be results soon!"

The Ning family leader then stroked his beard and said, "Okay. I will wait for the results."

…

After the meeting, the young patriarch of the Ning family immediately summoned his subordinate Ning Ze.

"Ning Ze, I supported you to be the purchasing manager of the Ning family. I asked you to contact the young guests, but you made no progress. What are you doing?!" The young patriarch frowned.

Ning Ze was a middle-aged man with a bitter look on his face. If possible, he didn't want to get involved in this kind of mission at all.

"Young Patriarch, I feel guilty about your trust. I failed to do my job well, and I really deserve to die."

"But this young man is really hard to communicate with. I have traded with him many times in the black market, and tried to persuade him to buy the Upper and Lower Ruyi Rope, but he remained unmoved. He kept silent about any topic other than trading."

"The young man is too mysterious. I have tried every possible way to find out about him, but ended up angering the black market owner, Sun Lingtong. Not only did I lose a lot of manpower, but I was also framed and had to pay a large sum of spiritual stones. So far, I have to pay for this money..."

"That's enough!" the young clan leader interrupted unhappily, "You've been tricked by someone, it's already embarrassing enough, and you still want the clan to bear the cost of your mistake?"

"This time, my clan wants to purchase eighty upper and lower Ruyi ropes. You go and do it."

Ning Ze was surprised: "Eighty? So many?!"

The young clan leader said, "You should try your best with this big business. You have come into contact with the young guest many times, but you still can't make friends with him."

"Your performance really makes me doubt your ability, Ning Ze."

Ning Ze felt the pressure and repeatedly assured himself that he would do his best.

…

Ning Ze came to the southeast area of ​​Huoshi City.

In the Fire Persimmon Fairy City, this area is where good and bad people mix together, theft is rampant, and the public security is the worst.

At the same time, this is also where the black market is located.

At one of the entrances to the black market, Ning Ze revealed a token.

A monk with a sinister look glanced at Ning Ze, carefully checked the token, threw it back to Ning Ze, and said in a cold voice: "Follow me."

He led Ning Ze into the hut behind him, then lifted the floor in the hut, revealing a hole.

He took Ning Ze into the cave, twisted and turned in the tunnel, and finally came to an underground trading space.

This place seems like a small market.

Ning Ze took a quick glance and saw the target.

"Mr. Chui Tiao Ke, we meet again." Ning Ze came in front of Chui Tiao Ke with a warm smile on his face.

The young man was an old man, with a severely hunched back, leaning on a cane, and his whole body bent like a lobster. His face was vicissitudes, his eye bags were dark purple, and his wrinkles were deep enough to trap mosquitoes. His long black hair spread from the top of his head to his shoulders and hung down to his feet, like a wide black cloak.

The young guest stood behind the cart and just glanced at Ning Ze without saying anything.

The young boy always has this attitude. Besides being helpless and blaming others, he is also accumulating anger in his heart.

He is a cultivator of the Ning family, but Chui Tiao Ke didn't give him any face! However, the young patriarch of the Ning family has always wanted to win over Chui Tiao Ke. Ning Ze felt aggrieved, but smiled: "Master Chui Tiao Ke, I brought a big deal this time."

"A total of eighty upper and lower Ruyi ropes!"

"Look, for such a big business, can you offer a more favorable price?"

"I am your old customer. If you take good care of your business, there will be more business like this in the future. Every time I buy a Ruyi rope for 200 Lingshi, the price has always been the same, which is a bit inhumane."

The young man nodded slightly, his voice hoarse and vicissitudes: "You are right."

"Then let's take 250 Spiritual Stones each."

Ning Ze was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Master Chui Tiao Ke, please don't tease me. This is not how you lower the price."

But the young guest snorted coldly: "Every time you say more nonsense, the price will be raised by fifty spirit stones."

Ning Ze stared, frozen in place for a moment.

He was so angry that he wanted to slap the old man to the ground. But he suppressed his anger and said in a muffled voice, "Okay, I'll take your price!"

"It's just that my clan wants to add some other functions to match our clan's skills. The specific modifications..."

The young man interrupted sternly: "It has not been renovated. You can buy it if you want. If you don't want to buy it, get out."

I would rather blame myself and choke.

After taking a deep breath, he smiled bitterly and nodded, agreeing to the deal.

The young man did not move at all, but several small mechanical dolls dropped from the roof of the mechanical car in front of him.

These mechanical puppets were all moved by hanging ribbons. Each one looked like a real person, laughing and humming.

They rolled, jumped, and even fought and pushed each other, and finally opened the round cover inside the machine.

They crawled into the hole under the round cover one by one, and then dragged out the upper and lower Ruyi ropes like dragging out pythons.

Ning Ze was amazed every time he saw this scene.

The ability to manipulate the mechanical hanging wires was so skillful that the puppets seemed to come truly alive.

If the young cultivator from the Ning family who is taking the exam this time has to have even one percent of this kind of control ability, his score in the mechanical engineering subject will definitely be top-notch!

"Take these puppets, for example. If the filaments are cut, they will be paralyzed in an instant."

Ning Ze handed over the spirit stone, took the Upper and Lower Ruyi Rope and left the black market. Only then did he reveal a hint of viciousness and anger.

"Little boy! I always speak to you in a gentle voice. I really give you face."

"This time, I invited the three Huang family ghosts just for you! I also carefully prepared a 'gift' for you!"

"Since you don't want to drink my toast, then drink the wine as punishment."

Ning Ze was really forced into a corner and had no choice but to take the risk.

His plan was simple: first ask the three Huang family ghosts to deal with the young guest, and then he would come out to save the situation as a gesture of goodwill. If the young guest was seriously injured, it was not ruled out that Ning Ze would force him to surrender.

In short, the first priority is to open up the situation and complete your own tasks.

As for other issues, that was the business of the rest of the Ning family! After the black market was closed, the young tourists who returned with their goods walked in the dark alleys.

suddenly.

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The God-suppressing Talisman! A talisman was instantly triggered, sealing off the surrounding space.

The little boy stood there, motionless.

“Hehehe…”

In response to the light laughter, three little ghosts emerged from the left and attacked the little guest.

The young boy was as silent as a stone, and only started to tremble when the little devil approached him.

He shook out a few mechanical birds, which shot away like lightning.

Mechanism——Thunderbird!

In the darkness, there were suddenly several flashes of lightning and bursts of lightning, but there was silence.

In an instant, the Thunder Bird killed the three little ghosts in the cave.

"How is that possible?"

"You obviously used the God Suppression Talisman, so you shouldn't be able to use your spiritual sense to control the mechanism!"

"It's strange. It's clearly a mechanical puppet, but I didn't see him use the hanging thread at all."

"No matter what, let's go together!"

The three ghosts of the Huang family jumped out and attacked at the same time, each using their own methods to besiege the little boy.

At once, more than a dozen ghosts gushed out, and there were evil spirits in all directions, with bared fangs and claws, eerie and ferocious.

The young boy stood still as a mountain, his messy black hair that reached down to his feet suddenly condensed together to form long whips.

The long black whip danced like a dragon or snake, but without a trace of wind. In the silence, there was a terrifying murderous intent.

Mechanism - a little kid fishing for a death whip!

The whip was so powerful that it seemed to be able to devour everything. Wherever it went, the soul was destroyed.

The three ghosts from the Huang family had a fierce gleam in their eyes, and were about to take the attack.

In the sea of ​​consciousness of the young boy, there is a magic seal, as huge as a treasure mountain, which is the unity of Buddha and devil, and suddenly emits a strange light.

Magical weapon——My Buddha’s Heart Demon Seal!

The three ghosts paused at the same time, revealing a fatal flaw. They retreated in panic, but it was too late.

Two screams, and the two ghosts were killed.

The eldest brother was so angry that he was about to burst into tears. He tried his best to squeeze out his Dantian to build his foundation and launched a desperate counterattack against the young guest.

The magical dagger, which was his hope for revenge, was as fast as lightning and instantly hit the center of the little boy's forehead.

bite.

There was a crisp sound of metal colliding.

The Huang family's eldest son was stunned for a moment, unable to believe it.

Puff, puff, puff.

The next moment, more than a dozen whips gathered together and pierced him from top to bottom, front to back, left to right.

The eldest son of the Huang family opened his eyes wide, his body was pierced by the whip and was hanging in the air. Blood spurted out from the wound like rain, splashing on the ground and the walls, but was covered by the thick night.

When the monks nearby heard some strange noises, they came to the alley to check it out.

"What happened?" the monk wondered.

There was not a single body or a drop of blood to be found in the alley.

Ning Ze, who had been waiting for no news for a long time, felt increasingly disappointed: "Why is there still no news? It's been so long, it should have been successful."

"The young guest is in the foundation-building stage, and the three ghosts of the Huang family are also in the foundation-building stage. Even in the Huoshi Immortal City, their combat power is suppressed. There is no reason for us to fail when three are against one." He was still comforting himself.

"I gave them the God-Suppressing Talisman and the Green Blade Mantis, their spiritual pet, which can cut through the hanging threads. With such preparations, the Mechanical Master will be severely restrained!"

"Wait a little longer."

This kind of waiting is doomed to be fruitless.

The young boy was walking in a secret passage underground.

Three long whips were raised behind him, each holding a monk's body. As he moved forward, he cast a monstrous and terrifying shadow on the wall of the secret passage.

A red light gradually appeared ahead and the temperature became scorching hot.

Turning the corner, a large alchemy furnace appeared in front of the young guest.

The furnace door opened, and the young boy threw the three corpses into it with extreme skill.

After closing the furnace door, he went to the storage room nearby.

He put the several kilograms of fire essence he purchased from the black market into the storage room.

After years of accumulation, the fire essence in the storage room has piled up into a small mountain.

"We are only short of the last ten kilograms of fire essence."

The young guest came to the teleportation room and activated the teleportation array.

The next moment, he was back in his underground workshop.

The little boy's body began to change.

The strange black hair that hung down to the ground quickly shrank, and the hunched body gradually straightened up. The old man's body under the black robe changed light and shadow, and gradually restored his original appearance.

This is a silver-gray mechanical armor.

A faint precious light shone on the surface of the armor. There were talismans and array patterns all over the armor. There was a new scar on the helmet of the armor. This was the result of the Huang family's three ghost boss's counterattack before his death.

The chest armor, abdominal armor and leg armor of the armor open symmetrically to the left and right sides.

A young man walked out from it.

The boy has a fair complexion, eyes as clear as water, and a calm and peaceful temperament.

The name of the armor is: Cang Tie Han Jia.

The boy’s surname is Ning and his given name is Zhuo.

(End of this chapter)