Darkness.

Darkness.

In the endless darkness, Ning Zhuo gradually recovered.

"What exactly happened?"

" Where is this?!"

At this moment, a message followed the thread of life and directly reached his heart." Lava Immortal Palace, mechanism inheritance, thread of soul attraction, Qi Refinement test…Leave Room No. 1 and enter Room No. 2."

Ning Zhuo's spirit suddenly roused and he understood the whole story.

" It seems that the peak of the third qi layer is the first criterion for selection."

" I've reached it, so my soul was drawn into the Lava Immortal Palace, opening the second stage of the trial."

"This is very different from the message Mother left behind!"

" Indeed, the appearance of the bell indicates that the way Qi Condensation Stage cultivators compete for the Lava Immortal Palace is completely different from the Foundation Establishment Stage, Aurous Core Stage, and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators!"

"Think about it carefully, it makes sense."

"Once a cultivator reaches Foundation Establishment, his dantian will be completely transformed and stabilized. It's extremely difficult to change cultivation techniques. It's almost impossible."

"When I was in the Qi Refinement stage, I took advantage of the fact that my dantian had not yet formed to directly change cultivation. I even cultivated the Five Elements Qi Law Art. To the Lava Immortal Palace, this is their own disciple." 3

"Compared to outsiders who cultivate other cultivation techniques, it's clear how close they are."

"It's just…"

"Leave Room 1 and enter Room 2? What should I do?"

Ning Zhuo calmed down and carefully felt in the endless darkness.

He gradually felt that his soul did not exist independently, but was residing in an object. Moreover, there was a ball of spiritual energy hidden in this object.

Ning Zhuo tried to mobilize this spiritual energy, but it was useless.

He used his brain and used the Five Elements Qi Law Art to mobilize it. Immediately, there was a reaction.

The spiritual energy was mobilized, following the circulation path of the Five Elements Qi Law Art, and began to flow slowly inside the object where the soul was lodged.

From this, Ning Zhuo gradually sensed that his soul residence was like a long square box.

"A coffin?" Ning Zhuo guessed.

" In addition, I'm very familiar with the feeling of using spiritual energy."

"It should be a spirit stone. I extracted spiritual energy from it."

"There is a limit to the spiritual energy in spirit stones. I'm using this cultivation technique to continuously consume spiritual energy."

Ning Zhuo stopped his cultivation technique and fell into hesitation.

He pondered in the dark and couldn't find any more clues.

" It seems that there is only one option…"

Ning Zhuo gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try.

He never lacked courage to take risks.

This time, he activated the Five Elements Qi Law Art with all his might, causing his spiritual energy to be consumed violently. He did not stop either.

Spiritual Qi began to escape from the long square box.

The spiritual energy that was emitted was like his tentacles, allowing Ning Zhuo to gradually sense it.

"There seems to be something in that direction." Ning Zhuo sensed something in the darkness.

Moreover, this existence seemed to be echoing him.

Ning Zhuo made a decision and pushed his spiritual energy to its maximum.

The feeling of resonance immediately intensified. In the next few breaths, the resonance increased dozens of times!

Until a mysterious hard object suddenly crashed into the long square box where Ning Zhuo's soul was lodged.

The spiritual energy scattered everywhere quickly pulled the long square box and mysterious hard object together and combined them directly.

Ning Zhuo's spiritual energy had a new destination.

Spirit power was instilled into the mysterious hard object, allowing Ning Zhuo to gradually feel the shape of this mysterious hard object.

"Like, like…an arm?"

Ning Zhuo's heart flashed like lightning as he suddenly had a guess.

He continued circulating his cultivation technique and confirmed his previous guess.

It was indeed an arm, with a palm at the front and four fingers on the palm.

In the darkness, Ning Zhuo carefully understood.

He tried waving his arm, then stretched out his palm, moved his fingers, and groped around.

He didn't have any sense of touch, but the spiritual energy that spread out began to echo other mysterious objects.

A moment later, Ning Zhuo absorbed a cube and assembled it.

The darkness that troubled him suddenly dissipated, and Ning Zhuo's vision lit up instantly.

He finally saw everything around him!

This was a huge room, and countless machine parts were stacked in the room. Torso, head, limbs, tail, horns, wings, etc.

The accessories were all wooden and brown.

And he was sitting on a hill where these machine parts were piled up.

Better watch yourself.

"My guess was correct!"

The long square box that his soul had lodged in before was a cuboid trunk part of a mechanism.

The first one to use spiritual energy to absorb it was his left arm.

The second cube was a square mechanism head.

"It's indeed a head!"

"I have a head!"

"This head is quite big."

Ning Zhuo was delighted.

There are eye-like accessories on the skull part, which allows him to see.

With the observation ability, Ning Zhuo was much more convenient.

He did the same thing and found another component in the small mountain of mechanical parts and spliced it onto himself.

By the time he climbed from the mountain of machine parts to the ground, he had both hands and feet.

"A mechanical puppet body…"

Ning Zhuo's trunk was a long square box. He had two legs, one slightly thinner and one slightly thicker, and they were not exactly the same height.

His arms were the same length, but his hands only had three fingers and four fingers.

His big head was square and out of proportion to his torso, making him look a little dull.

"With a body, although I can move freely like a human, the consumption of spiritual energy has also increased a lot."

Ning Zhuo was constantly paying attention to the spirit stones in his torso. So far, he had consumed nearly half of his spiritual power.

"There should be spirit stones stored in the other torso parts. I can take it out for future use."

However, Ning Zhuo was about to attack when new information came telling him that he was not allowed to destroy other parts.

"Then I'll splice another body together." Ning Zhuo had just made his move when another message came. The maximum number of spiritual energy components allowed was currently one.

Ning Zhuo had to stand up.

He thought of the first message-asking him to move from the first room to the second.

This was the assessment standard.

"On the surface, there is no time limit for the second round of the assessment, but it is not."

"Because there is only one spiritual energy component, and the spiritual energy in the spirit stone will continue to be depleted."

"I have to complete the first test before my spiritual energy is completely exhausted."

"I should leave this place as soon as possible."

Room 1 was spacious, with copper walls and a golden roof. The light was bright.

Ning Zhuo had already seen the only door in the room.

He limped to the door.

He came to the door, and just as his fingers touched the door, another message came through.

A spirit stone, a mechanism component ring, and a spell, Qi.

"You can only choose one of them?"