Chapter 209 - 105: Forceful Breakthrough! Century-Old Record Broken

Chapter 209: Chapter 105: Forceful Breakthrough! Century-Old Record Broken

"Oh, if it isn’t Li Hao. My apologies. I got a little carried away in the ring last time and almost beat you to death. But you seem to be alive and kicking, and you’re looking well? Good, good. That puts my mind at ease."

Lin Yi’s tone was impossibly sincere.

But to Li Hao’s ears, this casual expression of concern was the most biting sarcasm, the most direct humiliation!

His face instantly flushed crimson, and the veins on his forehead began to throb.

"Lin Yi! Cut the fake sympathy! Perfect timing! Do you dare to face me in another wagered duel? This time, it’s for one thousand points again!"

He practically roared the words through gritted teeth.

’He had to redeem himself!’

’He would reclaim his lost dignity and points with his own two hands, right here in front of everyone!’

’He would get back up right where he had fallen!’

"Alright!" Lin Yi’s eyes lit up as he agreed without a moment’s hesitation, a brilliant smile spreading across his face.

’Someone was eager to just hand him points. How could he possibly refuse such a kind offer?’

"However," he said, pointing to the entrance of a combat training room, "I need to go in and complete my assessment first. I’ll humor you when I get out."

"Fine! I’ll wait!" Li Hao sneered, crossing his arms with an air of arrogance. "You’ll be out soon enough, anyway! I’ll be waiting to collect your points!"

He had absolute confidence in his new record.

’He was certain that Lin Yi, having wasted ten precious days, could never challenge his position at the top of the leaderboard!’

’This time, his victory was assured!’

Lin Yi had no interest in wasting any more breath on such a pointless war of words.

His gaze fell upon the row of combat training rooms.

There were ten separate rooms in total, lined up in a neat row, their heavy alloy doors shut tight.

Above the doorframes, eight indicator lights glowed a glaring red, showing that the rooms were occupied by people engaged in fierce battle.

Only the two lights at the very end cast a soft green glow, indicating they were vacant.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yi walked straight toward one of the vacant, green-lit combat training rooms.

The moment he entered, his communicator received a notification.

Points -2!

It cost a surprising two points to use the combat training room for an hour.

CLICK... RUMBLE...

The heavy alloy door slowly swung shut behind him, closing with a deep, muffled THUD.

It completely sealed off all the clamor from the outside world.

Inside the combat training room, the space opened up dramatically.

He was in a massive circular chamber, a full twenty meters in diameter and over ten meters high. The walls and floor were made of a dark-silver alloy that was sound-absorbent, energy-absorbent, and incredibly durable.

It was designed to ensure that Martial Artists could unleash their full power without reservation, engaging in the most ferocious of battles.

Bright light poured down evenly from the domed ceiling, illuminating every corner.

Lin Yi’s gaze immediately locked onto the center of the room.

WHIR...

With a soft whirring of activation, a jet-black, intricately-structured humanoid figure with sharp, clean lines rose silently from beneath the floor.

Its form mimicked that of a human, but its material was clearly neither metal nor Wood. It had the cold, hard luster of metal, yet its joints revealed a resilient structure resembling wood grain. It radiated a mysterious aura, a fusion of technology and advanced martial arts.

Once it stood fully erect in the center of the arena, two points of scarlet light suddenly flared to life in its once-dim eye sockets.

It was as if a slumbering predator had opened its eyes.

Lin Yi stared at the strangely designed combat machine, momentarily taken aback. A term surfaced in his mind:

’An AI-powered intelligent combat robot?’

The so-called AI-powered intelligent combat robot.

The name alone was enough to evoke a sense of immense technology and power.

It was no exaggeration to say that in a fight between opponents of the same level, the AI-powered intelligent combat robot was an overwhelmingly dominant force.

The fundamental reason was its despair-inducing Defense Power—

Its entire body was forged from the same top-grade, high-strength alloy used to create Spiritual Weapons!

This was no robot.

It was clearly a walking, humanoid fortress of a Spiritual Weapon!

Even the most basic Tier One combat robot was sturdy enough to render an ordinary Fourth-Grade Martial Artist helpless; they could unleash their full power and still struggle to leave so much as a scratch on its alloy shell.

What was even more terrifying, its main control core program was practically a treasure trove of Martial Skills!

It could execute any combat technique programmed into it with terrifying precision, achieving the absolute ’Control Level.’ Its movements were flawless, a perfect, textbook replication.

Of course.

It was, after all, a cold, inanimate object, incapable of comprehending the profound mysteries of the Martial Arts Realm.

But even so, with its steel body and perfectly programmed combat techniques alone, it was more than enough to dominate any Martial Artist of the same tier.

It was, for all intents and purposes, an invincible existence among its peers.

However...

’An AI-powered intelligent combat robot? They still have these things in the training camp? Weren’t these things rendered obsolete scrap metal ages ago?’

Lin Yi watched the figure glinting with a cold light in the center of the arena, a flicker of surprise in his heart.

’That’s right. AI-powered intelligent robots were long obsolete!’

Their drawbacks were so enormous as to be prohibitive.

First and foremost was their staggering, sky-high price.

The manufacturing cost alone for a single, basic Tier One robot was enough to empty the coffers of a small clan, easily running into astronomical figures of over one hundred million.

Secondly, they were what could only be described as a fatal "energy black hole."

Every exertion of force, every execution of a powerful combat technique, required a massive amount of energy to support it.

A single Tier One monster Heart Core, worth one hundred thousand Huaxia Coins, would only power it for a mere half an hour!

’One hundred thousand for half an hour?’

’That wasn’t just burning money; that was like tossing gold bars into a furnace!’