“He Yu, you bastard!!” Wanrenzhan cursed.

He Yu smiled faintly. “If you’re attending class, then attend class properly. Curse again and I’ll deduct credits. You only have one point left.”

They had already entered the combat room.

He Yu was the training instructor. He controlled their credits. Since he demanded they attend class, they had no choice but to obediently come to the combat room and follow his arrangements.

The barely maintained team atmosphere from before had completely vanished.

Zhen Xing frowned. “Why? What exactly are you trying to do?”

Earlier, he had also suspected that He Yu was deliberately messing with them.

But the more one understood He Yu as a person, the more obvious it became that he never acted without purpose. On the contrary, he was cautious and extraordinarily intelligent.

Would someone like that really be willing to thoroughly offend all nine of them in this instance?

After all, even if they couldn’t kill him in this instance, there was no way they would never encounter each other again in future instances.

So why?

The viewers shared thoughts similar to Zhen Xing’s. At this point, nobody could guess what He Yu was thinking anymore.

Wanrenzhan sneered. “Heh, why else? He’s obviously just screwing with us on purpose.”

He Yu opened his notebook and uncapped his pen. “I’m serious about teaching <Basic Principles>. Since you’re here, study properly. Later on, when I’m no longer your Teacher He, even if you beg me, I won’t teach you anymore.”

“Pfft—”

Wanrenzhan burst out laughing. “Hahahaha!”

His laughter dripped with ridicule.

He Yu glanced at him as though looking at an idiot.

Wanrenzhan’s laughter abruptly stopped for no reason at all.

At that moment, the class monitor from the same <Basic Principles> course spoke sternly, “Wanrenzhan, what are you doing? Why are you disrespecting Teacher He again? Respecting teachers is our school motto. You cannot be rude to Teacher He!”

Wanrenzhan looked mockingly at the NPC student and provoked him deliberately. “I’m being rude. So what are you gonna do about it?”

Last time, this very student had criticized him too. Wanrenzhan had already found him unpleasant.

He Yu said calmly, “Wanrenzhan, say one more sentence during this class and I’ll deduct credits.”

Expressionless, he looked at Wanrenzhan quietly.

Wanrenzhan instinctively wanted to retort, but when his eyes met He Yu’s, the words suddenly wouldn’t come out.

—He was serious.

Beside him, Tang Ke lowered their voice. “Forget it. Once we clear this instance, it’ll be over.”

Wanrenzhan’s face darkened, but he said nothing.

He didn’t want to be eliminated. He also knew He Yu was serious, so he could only take the way out Tang Ke had handed him.

Still, he felt suffocated.

He Yu looked toward the class monitor and smiled faintly. “Thank you, Class Monitor.”

The class monitor scratched his head awkwardly. “It’s what I should do.”

After Wanrenzhan caused that scene, everyone else also behaved.

Still, nobody wanted to attend a <Basic Principles> practical lesson, so their gazes unconsciously drifted toward the study committee member.

Compared to the other students in class, the study committee member was unusually silent.

The class monitor tried several times to engage him, but he rejected every attempt expressionlessly, remaining cold toward everyone.

While paying attention to him, the others half-heartedly listened to He Yu speak.

He Yu said, “In the first three foundational lessons, the first class explored theoretical knowledge behind combat power. The second recorded your personal combat power attributes. The third recorded changes in combat power when using equipment.”

“Now, in the fourth class, let’s experimentally examine the use of personal combat power.”

He calmly arranged things: “All students line up. Test your individual combat power one by one. Afterward, people with identical combat power stand together.”

The students obediently followed instructions. Wanrenzhan and the others mixed among them perfunctorily.

He Yu recorded everyone’s data one by one. Another page of his notebook filled with data again—still “understandable data arranged in incomprehensible patterns.”

When it came time for paired combat, He Yu only selected two groups whose personal combat power attributes were completely identical.

Annie and Tang Ke. Gedai and Eugene.

Both pairs possessed completely identical personal combat power.

“Now, attack each other. No restrictions on methods,” He Yu instructed while holding his notebook, glasses resting on the bridge of his nose as he recorded observations.

Tang Ke froze. “No equipment?”

Combat without equipment was nearly impossible. If they fought, equipment was essential. So how were they supposed to fight if He Yu forbade equipment?

“Fight however you want. As long as you attack,” He Yu replied.

The four of them were utterly confused. Anger was already visible on Gedai’s face. None of them wanted to play this pointless game with He Yu.

“Fight. Stop only when I tell you to stop.”

He Yu’s expression was extremely serious.

Eugene gritted his teeth. “If you’re screwing with me, I’ll fucking kill you!”

Even so, he still lunged toward Gedai.

—There was no helping it. He was too curious about what He Yu was trying to do.

Eugene charged Gedai. Gedai cursed loudly, “Are you insane?! Why are you indulging his nonsense?!”

Eugene ignored him.

Gedai’s temper instantly flared. Coldly, he said, “You’ve always been lucky enough to get good equipment. Without equipment, you might not actually beat me!”

He pounced forward too, and the two began grappling violently.

Compared to Annie and Tang Ke lazily going through the motions nearby, Gedai and Eugene genuinely fought with fury. Following He Yu’s instructions completely, they used every possible method and desperately beat each other down.

—All of them possessed terrifying physical abilities. Even without equipment, the fight was spectacular.

Their fight became so intense that Annie and Tang Ke were stunned watching them. Before they realized it, the two of them had started seriously fighting too.

Zhen Xing and Cheng Zhao exchanged glances.

The two groups fought for a very long time. More than half the class passed.

Finally, Eugene pinned Gedai down and rasped hoarsely—

“Even without equipment... you still lost.”

Both of them were utterly exhausted, but Eugene had used the very last trace of strength in his body to restrain Gedai.

And so, it clearly proved once again—

The number one young fighter of Mechanical Planet was Eugene.

Gedai’s eyes were bloodshot. Losing to Eugene again filled him with rage.

Nearby, Annie had won too.

They recklessly flipped Tang Ke onto the ground and roared, “I won! I won!”

—Contestants in this competition all possessed an absolute obsession with victory.

Because once they lost, it meant death. Their glory would disappear forever.

He Yu closed his notebook and let out a long breath. “Alright. That’s enough. Your experiment is over.”

Wanrenzhan crossed his arms, frowning. “What exactly are you trying to do?”

On the floor, Eugene and Gedai had finally separated and collapsed limply. They also looked toward He Yu.

He Yu tucked the notebook beneath his arm, capped his pen, and put it away.

“The previous lessons were all practical classes. Next, I’ll teach you an expensive lesson. A lesson you’ll never be able to learn again, no matter how much you beg me in the future.”

Wanrenzhan was about to sneer again when He Yu calmly said—

“Your technological development level is extremely advanced. Combat power development is also an incredible invention.”

“It possesses epoch-making significance. It completely changed humanity.”

“But your combat power system is unreasonable. At least, from my perspective, there’s a problem.”

Wanrenzhan frowned. “What are you talking about?”

Gedai curled his lips mockingly. “Did your brain break?”

—Question the combat power system?

For thousands of years, this had been the Federation’s supreme power.

Whenever a garbage planet lacking this ability was discovered, they were effortlessly crushed.

For thousands of years, improving combat power had been every warrior’s lifelong pursuit.

Absolute combat power granted absolute status and absolute authority.

And when combat power reached an unimaginable dimension, it was called—

God.

He Yu smiled.

“My mind is perfectly clear. Don’t be surprised. Science is a process of constantly overturning and rebuilding itself.”

“You’ve spent your entire lives exposed to this combat power development theory, so naturally you don’t notice anything wrong with it. But from the perspective of an outsider, the system itself already took the wrong path at its core.”

The barrage exploded instantly—

“??? Someone’s questioning Federation combat power?!”

“Holy shit, this garbage planet native actually thinks he’s somebody.”

“He only has eight points of combat power, so now he’s just denying the whole combat power system?”

“Heh. Stop struggling. It’s useless.”

“That earlier ‘middleman profiting from price differences’ theory was already bullshit. What nonsense is he trying to spout now?”

...

He Yu said, “Equipment is exactly a middleman profiting from price differences. The way your combat power system functions is fundamentally flawed.”

“Your fighting style uses personal combat power to activate equipment combat power. Equipment occupies the dominant role.”

“But I believe equipment should instead express personal combat power. Equipment should be optional—perhaps even unnecessary.”

“In other words...”

“You can treat yourselves as equipment.”

The moment those words came out, the viewers who had heard this theory before reacted relatively calmly.

But for Wanrenzhan and the others hearing it for the first time, they burst into laughter full of ridicule.

“Equipment expressing personal combat power? You just saw it yourself. Without equipment, personal combat power can’t even be used,” Zhen Xing replied seriously.

He had been listening carefully the entire time. He was genuinely trying to analyze He Yu’s words.

He Yu shook his head. “No. You’re wrong again.”

“You absolutely used combat power. Just very little of it. And the degree of usage differed from person to person.”

He looked toward Gedai and Eugene, Annie and Tang Ke.

“Otherwise, why would two people with completely identical personal attributes still end up with a winner and loser after fighting without equipment?”

Those words stunned everyone.

They looked at the two collapsed groups on the floor.

It was true.

He Yu had specifically selected two pairs with completely identical attributes without equipment.

Combat power represented all aspects of personal attributes. Identical numbers meant identical physical attributes.

And yet, winners and losers had still been determined.

He Yu’s eyes were bright as he stared at °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° them intently.

“So, in my opinion, combat power is actually a type of energy.”

“Energy exists everywhere. That’s why it can create equipment, create potions, use equipment, and improve personal combat power attributes.”

His words completely stunned Wanrenzhan, the others, and even the viewers.

No one spoke for a long time.

After a while, Gedai finally said, “That still doesn’t prove there’s a problem with the combat power system.”

He Yu shook his head. “Failing to better grasp the core principles behind using energy is the problem.”

Wanrenzhan sneered. “And just because of your empty words, you’re claiming our combat power system is flawed? Just because those two groups produced winners and losers?”

“What if Gedai and Tang Ke simply lost psychologically because they didn’t want to fight anymore?”

He Yu nodded and looked at him. “You finally got smart for once.”

Wanrenzhan froze.

Barrage comments flooded the screen—

“???”

“He questioned He Yu, so why is He Yu praising him?!”

He Yu said calmly, “Although there are still several problems I haven’t solved yet, preventing the system I truly want to use from being implemented...”

“What I currently understand is already enough to prove it to you one more time.”

He looked directly at Wanrenzhan.

“Attack me.”

The barrage exploded—

“???”

“Has he gone insane?!”

“He’s definitely insane! Wanrenzhan’s combat power could smash forty He Yus to death with one punch!”

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