Different from Lu Yuan's fanaticism, Ding Yi still knows how much he weighs. He is young and frivolous. This is the age when dreams are made. The fantasy works of Dream City gave the young man a dreamlike longing and desire to become a hero.

, has always been a boy’s dream.

If it weren't for the books Zhang De sent to Ding Yi, and if there wasn't the interference of the Truth Society, maybe Ding Yi's dream would have continued like this. However, with these helpless experiences in life, Ding Yi has already

Much more rational.

Ding Yi is neither a so-called ideological enlightener nor an initiator of a revolutionary movement. He just wants to work hard to improve his level of cultivation, do everything possible to get rid of the shackles of the Truth Society, and do everything possible to let Ding Zhaoding, Wu Shuhui,

Ding Li, Ding Yun...they don't want to fall into the situation that may appear in Zhang Defa's book.

Ding Yi knew very well how he became a cultivator. Without the 'help' of Zong Xiao and Wang Jiansheng, he knew very well what he would be like.

He knew very well that there was an essential difference between himself and Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan looked forward to the future as a puppet master, but he did not. Puppetry was just a means for him to settle down and make a living.

The cruelty of the world of cultivation is more realistic than the mortal life of ordinary people. Ding Yi's imagination of the future is more of an escape. He is much more sober than Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan took Ding Yi to visit the two-story building on the ground. Ding Yi saw many strange puppets here and also saw several puppets. These were all real Xuan-level puppets, both in terms of movement, speech and

The real person is almost exactly the same. There are also many cultivation materials that he has never come into contact with. In a classics and album room of more than three to four hundred square meters, Ding Yi almost refused to move. This is only a building on the ground.

I know that Shenjiyuan has three floors below the ground.

The senior brothers in Iron Cast City were all very friendly to Ding Yi. Ding Yi received warm hospitality wherever he went. Most of these were spiritual-level puppet masters. They showed Ding Yi some of the precious collections of the Shenji Institute, and also

Let Ding Yi personally try out many of their latest achievements.

Lu Yuan took Ding Yi around in a big circle, but Ding Yi was still not satisfied. Two hours later, Lu Yuan took Ding Yi back to the reception room of Shenjiyuan.

Bu Ban saw Ding Yi and Lu Yuan coming in and asked: "Xiao Ding Yi, we have consulted with Vice Principal Yang. Should you start the assessment now, or take a break?"

Ding Yi took a deep breath and said: "Thank you masters for your care for me. The evaluation is the main purpose of this trip to Tiangang City. I'm ready. How about we start now."

Yang Qi nodded slightly. This time when he came to Tiangang City, Yang Qi did not expect to receive such a high standard of courtesy. Ding Yi's performance seems to be quite remarkable so far. He is neither arrogant nor humble in his dealings with others.

The behavior is also polite and generous.

So everyone moved to the Shenpuppet Hall, which was the real venue for the evaluation.

The Shenpuppet Hall is larger than the Shenjiyuan. It is a large building complex composed of more than a dozen buildings. There are nearly a thousand puppet masters of various types moving in and out of it.

Different from other people's tests, the three great masters not only waived all the fees for Ding Yi's test, but also gave Ding Yi the green light to directly take Ding Yi to the top testing center for all-round testing.

Director Hao of the test center saw this for the first time that all three elders of Iron Cast City were present, just to evaluate the qualifications of a young man. Moreover, both Councilor Zeng and Lu Yuan were personally accompanying him. What is the background of this young man? What is the background of this young man?

The person in charge couldn't help but be very curious.

He cheered up and personally conducted the test.

The first level of the test is raw material identification. Phantom Technology no longer needs to carry physical objects for evaluators to identify them one by one. It only needs to show slides. What is tested here is the evaluator’s understanding of raw materials. This is

One of the most basic disciplines of puppetry.

This world is full of strange minerals, strange flowers and plants, and strange creatures. There are hundreds of millions of species, and no one can know them all. This is not a natural history test! But as a puppet master, you need to have a considerable understanding of natural history.

and mastery. The feather-level puppet master is required to master one thousand knowledge points, and the spirit-level puppet master is required to master five thousand.

Ding Yi is talented in identifying raw materials, he has a very strong curiosity, and his strong point is his extensive knowledge and writing.

It is impossible to display 5,000 kinds of pictures one by one in the darkroom. Instead, they are divided into ten groups according to the difficulty level, with ten frames in each group, and are randomly selected for assessment.

This was no challenge to Ding Yi, and he quickly completed the identification with 100% accuracy.

"Continue to launch, and the difficulty will increase by one level." Lu Yuan ordered Director Hao who was testing.

Ding Yi had never experienced an assessment before. He did not know that his assessment had been upgraded and he was still answering in the darkroom.

Ten more sets of pictures were projected, but Ding Yi was still not troubled. The difficulty gradually increased, and it gradually reached 500,000.

Frame, Ding Yi has started to sweat on his forehead. Many rare species are gradually increasing, making identification more and more difficult. Ding Yi begins to make misjudgments. There are some species that Ding Yi has never heard of, so he skips them directly...

Ding Yi's face turned pale and he felt very uncomfortable. Natural history is the most basic subject of puppetry, and it is also the subject that he is best at. He did not expect that he would overturn in the field that he is best at. Ding Yi could not forgive himself. His eyes were filled with tears.

Tears, lips biting, heart pierced by a knife.

Ding Yi didn't even dare to raise his head to look at Yang Qi. He wished he could find a crack in the ground and crawl in. This was so embarrassing. Ding Yi thought to himself.

"Congratulations, little friend Ding Yi, you have reached Level 7 in Natural History. This is an amazing achievement." Director Hao praised sincerely.

What? He passed the test without recognizing so many frames? Ding Yi was a little puzzled, and he raised his head. He saw everyone looking at him and smiling, and he suddenly couldn't turn a corner.

Director Hao smiled and said: "The threshold for a spiritual-level puppet master is level three, and you are now level seven. This is an amazing achievement."

Lu Yuan also praised: "Junior Brother Ding, I am only at level eight and only a little better than you. You are worthy of being a figure that even I, Lu Yuan, admire. It's amazing!"

Zeng Yi smiled and said: "Look at me little guy, you think you didn't pass the test and started crying. Haha..."

Only then did Ding Yi realize that the difficulty of the assessment had been increased. No wonder he couldn't recognize many things. With his own knowledge, if Tiezhongtang and the others hadn't opened up many secret-level books to him, he might still be there.

There are more things that are unrecognizable. And Lu Yuan himself is a Xuan-level cultivator. He has much greater authority than Ding Yi and has access to many more books and classics. What's more, Lu Yuan is his age.

More than double.

Ding Yi burst into tears and laughed, it turned out that this was the case, causing himself to worry in vain.

The three masters also smiled and nodded with satisfaction.

The next level is to test Ding Yi's mastery of formations. This level not only involves identifying formations, setting up formations, changing formations, and breaking formations. It also has several levels. It also takes longer than the previous level.

Director Hao directly skipped the basic formations this time and started the evaluation from the five-element formation. Formation is the subject that Ding Yi spends the most time studying. This complex cultivation subject consumes the most energy of Ding Yi.

Although he has always had many questions about this subject that he has not yet fully understood, it is a subject that he has put a lot of effort into learning. In the end, his results came out, and he was at the advanced level of the formation spirit level. For his age

This is already a very good result for a cultivator.

But Ding Yi didn't feel any joy.

The next level of assessment is mechanism skills. This level of examination is relatively easy for Ding Yi. Use existing materials to make a timer. All parts are ready-made, and you only need to make a timer within the unit time.

Just complete the assembly.

This was the content of the Spirit Level Elementary Formation Examination. Ding Yi completed this level in one go, with almost no unnecessary movements. From thousands of deliberately misleading components, he quickly found the components of the timer.

The assessment was completed in less than ten minutes. In fact, this level mainly tests the cultivator's eyesight and familiarity with the machine tools. You must know that many components are almost the same, and the error of about one and a half millimeters is often

This will cause candidates to misjudge, and the result will be that the assessment time is lengthened...

The next step is to make a calculator. This complex hand-made machine took a lot of effort from Ding Yi. This sensitive machine that can calculate to billions of places has hundreds of gears and more than a dozen types of array plates.

There are thousands of other various components.

In fact, this piece of work is of no use. Its calculation operations are complicated, and it can only perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations. Even the calculation speed of this thing cannot keep up with the abacus. However, it is a precision machine that tests the brainpower of the maker.

.

Fortunately, the examination of mechanical skills does not test the manufacturing of precision parts. The parts are all ready-made. It only tests the candidate's spatial architecture ability among thousands of large and small miscellaneous components, selecting appropriate components.

And the understanding of precision machinery. At the very least, you need to know this thing, be familiar with it, and understand its principles and structure. This is actually beyond the initial assessment of ordinary spiritual-level mechanism skills.

Seeing Ding Yi restore the calculator, Lu Yuan showed a meaningful smile. He was indeed the little puppet master he admired. How long did it take him to restore this thing? One and a half days! At that time, he should be better than Ding Yi

How much older is B? This is really a brain-burning mechanism work.

Tian Xingkong is even more satisfied with Ding Yi's performance. Among the younger generation of cultivators, Ding Yi is undoubtedly the fastest he has seen to restore this calculator.

In fact, the main reason why Ding Yi was able to assemble it so skillfully was that Ding Yi had spent a lot of effort to memorize the formations. Those multiple formations were also brain-burning. When he was mentally weak, he once thought about himself

Design and build a super calculator,

To help him memorize and calculate arrays. Although this so-called super calculator was not developed in the end, he was familiar with calculators and couldn't be more familiar with them.

The next thing to be assembled is the spiritual pagoda. The spiritual pagoda is also known as the spiritual pagoda. This is not a simple surface building. It involves architecture, mechanics and formation layout and application. This is actually a mid-level Xuan-level building.

of the assessment.

Ding Yi ultimately failed in the assessment of making a model of the spiritual pagoda. He only built four layers, and the formation of more than five layers and more than thirteen yuan was far beyond his ability...

Tian Xingkong stopped Ding Yi from continuing his painstaking calculations, designs, and deductions.

"Very good, kid. With your current ability, you are already very rare to achieve this level. There is no shame in not being able to do it. After the unanimous judgment of our three old guys, your mechanism technique

Reached a high spiritual level."

Director Hao knew that this judgment was a bit too harsh. Logically speaking, when the mechanism skill has reached Ding Yi's level, it is appropriate to give him a preliminary Xuan level judgment. It seems that the three masters have an unusual impression of Ding Yi.

Well, this requires high standards and strict requirements, and is training Ding Yi as a puppet master.

Yang Qi finally saw the complexity of the puppet master assessment. He was in awe of this young man who had brought praise to Xuanzang Academy.

There will be evaluations on alchemy and puppet making in the afternoon, but the morning time has passed. Ding Yi is also very tired. He needs to eat something and take a rest.

Zeng Yi made careful arrangements at noon. Ding Yi and the others had a very rich lunch. In addition to the special hot pot in Tiangang City, they also arranged several medicinal meals. Zeng Yi also asked Lu Yuan to send them to Ding Yi in private.

A bottle of 'Vitality Water'. This is a high-end elixir. It has miraculous effects on eliminating fatigue, refreshing the mind, and replenishing physical energy. It is said to have a very good effect on strengthening brain development.

Yang Qi is a vegetarian, and Zeng Yi also put a lot of thought into making some vegetarian dishes that are very similar to Yang Qi's taste. The guests and the host were very happy for a while.

It seems that what Lu Yuan said is right. Councilor Tsang Yi-tsang is really a very considerate person.

After taking a short rest in the afternoon, the three great masters took Ding Yi and his group to the 'Pyramid'.

Here we need to test Ding Yi's alchemy and weapon refining abilities. This is Ding Yi's weakest link. He has always made puppets based on local materials and materials. The biggest feature of the puppets he made is

It is highly practical. Although he has also studied blacksmithing with Gu Yue for a period of time, his fire spirit qualifications are very poor. Alchemy and weapon refining have very strict requirements for fire control. This is one of Ding Yi's
To be continued...