Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

”But why is he not moving?”

Many students were amazed by No. 9ʼs toughness and Li Yaoʼs suffering.

After a moment, No. 9 moved.

His almost intact crystal suit shivered, before it collapsed slowly.

At first, he was on one of his knees. He tried to raise his right hand and give Li Yao one last shot, only to lean towards one side of his body and fall down to the ground with a cracking sound.

”Pu!”

No. 9 was ejected out of the crystal suit and tossed into the soft sand far away.

”No. 100 wins!”

”No. 9 fails. Eliminated!”

When the cold and indifferent announcement came from the voice rune array, all the students were so shocked that they seemed to be too choked to ask how it happened.

Even Long Qianyue, who had been watching the match emotionlessly, leaped from her seat in admiration.

Yuan Yeshi, whoʼd made fun of Li Yao before, was pulling his hair and trying to figure out how a newbie such as Li Yao could miraculously win the game.

In the endless desert, No. 9, or Zhou Zhenghao, the ʼsteel manʼ, was sitting on the ground completely stupefied.

He was eyeing his opponentʼs crystal suit in such a perplexed way that it might be pierced through by his look at any moment.

”Chi…”

The crystal suit opened like the blossom of a lotus. Li Yao walked out exhaustedly and staggered to Zhou Zhenghao. He sat down beside him.

His dry lips curled, forming what could almost be called a smile.

Zhou Zhenghao understood what the smile meant.

It was his opponentʼs respect for his performance in the previous battle.

Zhou Zhenghao was 28 years old, 2.1 meters tall, 175 kilograms of weight, with a square face and a beard, who had been crazy about training.

Respect or contempt from his opponent meant nothing to him.

He just wanted to know how he was beaten.

”Why?”

He looked at Li Yao and asked earnestly, ”I have almost torn you into pieces, I even cut off half of your head, why on earth could you still attack?”

Li Yao was moved by his pursuing and curious look, which was exactly the same as when he was training crazily.

He explained carefully, ”Thunder Axe Battlesuit is not a new model of the super-heavy type crystal suits. It was an extended model based on the ʼThunder Saber Battlesuitʼ, a heavy type crystal suit, with additional attack and defense modules. But its main framework has the same structure as the Thunder Saber Battlesuit.

”What you tore apart was just the attack and defense plug-ins and the plates of the Thunder Axe Battlesuit. You never really damaged the main framework.

”You did cut off half of the head. As a result, I lost most of the crystal cameras and surveillance magical equipment.

”However, the core crystal processor of the Thunder Axe Battlesuit is located at the bottom of the head. You only peeled off its shell. Its computational capability was not affected, so the suit could still function normally.”

Zhou Zhenghao was speechless for a while. Then he reluctantly added, ”Even though I failed to launch a critical attack, how did you manage to put me down in such a short time?”

”Because of the design defects of the Thunder Axe Battlesuit, or the congenital deficiencies, if you will,” Li Yao explained. ”Thunder Axe Battlesuit has too many attack and defense modules added to it. It was not perfect in the aspect of coherence of the modules. For example, there is a minuscule gap under the left arm which expands the armʼs waving range so that the power of the electromagnetic axe can be maximized.

”Besides, generally speaking, the gap is hardly possible to target.

”The gap is thinner than a hair. It seems inconceivable that the gap can be located during a fierce combat. In the meantime, the gap contributes a lot to the expansion of attack range. Therefore, the Armadominus decided to keep the gap after weighing the advantages and disadvantages.

”I was observing your strategies and habits in order to find out in which of your attacking postures would expose the gap. Then, I changed 13 different defending postures and finally managed to let you expose the gap by attracting you with my head and making you raise your axe with both of your arms.”

Zhou Zhenghao was not convinced. He said, ”Suppose you did find the gap, how could you penetrate it when your electromagnetic axes and flying swords were all gone?”

Li Yao explained patiently, ”Not all of them. When I released the flying swords, I caught one of the swords on the way and hid it in my hands. In the end, when the crucial moment came, I pushed it into the gap.