Schemes and Training

" Haaaa! " * Boooom *

There were cries of rage everywhere as there were cultivators and robots fighting each other in the open ground. Once in a while, a cultivator would successfully defeat his robot and return to the trouper city.

This was a daily occurrence ever since they entered the trouper city. Everything in trouper city required contribution points and there were many channels to get the contribution points. Exchanging books and spritual crystals were expensive while defeating the assigned training robot was cheaper way to do it.

The disciples who didn't have any sects supporting them were training hard to defeat the robots and majority of the disciples were successful in doing so at first. But as they defeated more and more robots, the new robots that were assigned to them were stronger then their cultivation.

" Hmm, Even the Rank 5 Spirit Masters are having difficulty in fighting their forth robots...maybe those from the sext can defeat the forth ones but i don't think the lone cultivators can do it...." One disciple explained to his sect brother.

" But brother, what if we use external help? can't we borrow senior brother's weapon and destroy our forth rank robots? " The senior brother shook his head as he looked at his junior " No, you can't do that. Even if you do that, additional points won't be added to your phone and you would be assigned another rank four robot. "

Such discussion were taking place everywhere. The majority of the disciples were practicing in open, while other stronger disciples who belonged to various sects were fighting in their Private places occupied by their sects. This was to assure their safety and to stop spying.

In one such tent, there was a heated discussion as the elders argued. " I say we unite and fight the Sector lord, why would he insists on this tournament? Its because he doesn't have that many peak combatants! " Other elders also replied with hostility " What about those robots! They are much stronger than our disciples and if the war breaks out, the robots who are stronger than out disciples would surely kill them all one by one...What if sector lord escapes? It'll be another nightmare like Yin-Yang elder for us! "

The elders argued back and forth as Han shuya and other leaders looked at all the elders. They were not interested about discussion in the slightest because their eyes were focused on an old woman. She was an elder of the Five Elemental Mountain. The Wind Demon Whispering Storm. She was also a Peak spirit Master and was proficient in receiving messages through other win attribute Cultivators.

Her eyes were closed at the moment as her grey and white hair swayed with gentle breeze. There was calm in the atmosphere as she slowly opened her eyes " It seems that the top brass won't be returning anytime soon....The Yin-Yang elder has opened yet another Portal and this time, it's connected to the Undead Realm..." As soon as they heard this, all of them stood up as they looked at each other. This was a crisis for the whole relam and was not a small matter.

If the Undead Realm was left unchecked, it could cause devastating disaster. Han shuya looked at the old woman as he bowed " What are the ancestor's orders? " Old woman looked at han shuya as she smiled " Your ancestor said not to worry, this is a last ditch effort of that old man who is on the verge of collapse...."

" He said that you need to secure the dragon's body in order for him to advance, focus on your current mission " Although she was from five elemental mountains, she was a neutral elder and was assigned the task of communication between the group that was chasing the Yin-Yang elder and the current leaders.

Slowly her blue robes fluttered in the wind as she looked at Han shuya and other leaders " The Yin-Yang elder would be caught in a week at most...we can make a move after that... I've also conveyed the information about the trouper city to them and they are interested in it. Do not destroy anything in this place when the fight breaks out. " She told them as the leaders and other elders nodded.

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There was a Black colored robot standing in front of ace. It was almost 2 meters tall and it had bulky arms and legs. It looked as if a small tank was made into a robot. This was a Level Five infantry robot which was capable of Fighting a Rank 1 Spirit Master. There were other versions of this and the strongest robot was a level 11 which was able to go toe to toe with a Rank 8 Spirit Master. Ace wanted to test his strength like everyone else as he decided to fight a robot himself.

Ace looked at the robot as he ordered it " Ownership Limiter Off, Martial Limiter Off, Overclock Level 10 " As soon as he gave the order, there was electricity flowing through the robot. The machines inside it's chest started roaring as it warmed up. The Mini giant of the robot looked at Ace and replied " Living Organism detected. Target is the owner. Permission to override the ownership Ownership Limiter is off. Eliminating the target " As it said the sequence of commands, it ran like a bulldozer towards ace.

The first Limiter on the robots was ownership limiter which would stop them from using lethal force against the owner, without owner's permission. The second limiter was Martial Limiter, Which allowed the robots to access central database where the movements of other martial artists were collected by Alice and made into deep learning file. Now, if the limit was removed, the robot would be able to perfectly fight like a trained martial artists. it would know how to use every cold weapon and would become a killing machine.

The third command was to overclock which would overheat the central core of the robot and make the machine run on higher capabilities at the cost of durability. Level 10 was the highest level and might melt the core after few minutes of peak operation.

The robot which was running towards ace was leaving a devastated path in it's way as it came close to ace in few seconds despite it's bulky body. Ace now tested the true magic of the Eternal Cultivation technique as he Focused his attention on the pump. Soon, the orientation of the pump changed as the gears and other components slid on top of each other as the pump was now pushing the spritual force from the tank towards the body instead of absorbing it.

Ace was able to feel the heat rising in his chest as he directed this force towards his hands. His purplish golden hands swelled as there was a tinge of purple halo around his hands. The robot did the same as it extended it's bulky metal hand which was made of Hard iron and aimed at Ace's chest.

* Bammmm!!*

as both fist collided, there was a Sonic boom and the leaves were blown away. In the split second, Ace's hand was fine but the robot's hand had a few small cracks. The steel body was stronger than humans innately but this was the first time a human fist cracked a metal fist. There wad no suspense as punches rained down in between them after that.

Some of Ace's punches connected and some of the robot's punches connected. there was no set pattern in robot's punches and on the other hand, robot was leaning Ace's fighting style. This seemed disadvantageous to Ace but there were also cracks appearing all over the robot's body and at the end, One of the Punched by ace connected squarely in the arm of the robot as the he injected the spritual force into the attack.

The attack not only cracked the armor, it even blew up the internal motor and circuits. Normally the robot would stop at this point for other participants but this one was overclocked and was going to get destroyed anyway as ace forced the pump to work faster in his abdomen. There was a huge amount of spritual force travelling in his hand which made his both arms, from shoulders to his palm swell up as he aimed his palms at the robot.

" Golden vajra Thunder Inferno! " There was crackling energy released from the palm as it took the shape of a golden orange ball with yellow rings of electricity around it. The ball flew at a breakneck speed towards the robot and although the robot defended with it's right arm, there was a huge blast that even shook all the trees in the close vincinity.

* Booom! Crash!! *

There was smoke all around the area where the robot was standing and as the smoke cleared, the robot was rooted on the ground. The hand of the robot was on it's chest but it was completely melted and even the chest was dripping with molten iron. There was no circuits left to salvage as the robot looked as if it was fried inside out. It's palm was missing and the stump of the hand was welded to the chest because of molten metal.

To Ace's surprise, it was still functioning. There was a red light in the eye socket and although the eye was broken, there was still a small LED turned on where the eye was supposed to be. This was clear indication of there being electricity in the head as ace walked closer.

the robot looked at Ace as it slowly fell down. The head had sparks for a while and after a few seconds, the LED turned off. There was no sign of activity after that. Ace looked at the remains as he kicked the head and it flew far away in the sky. Even hid kick had a huge amount of power as he knew his weakness " Hmm, i need a weapon....and a fighting technique.... I can't just throw balls of energy around, this is too inefficient..." He wasn't pleased with the consumption of the spritual force as his fighting style was more like a cultivator on steroids, he would fight like a god for a few minutes but if he ran out of stamina, he would be dead.

There won't be a chance to let his pump absorb more spritual force before fighting the enemies again. He needed a fighting style that can channel the potential of the pump into combat strength.