"Whoa?!"

"Did I just break it?"

"What's going on?"

Mu Jinyu stared at the scattered puppet debris on the ground, his expression somewhat blank, his tone filled with incredulity.

Originally seeing this combat puppet's power increase, its strength reaching the Peak of the Life and Death Realm, he almost felt a tinge of fear, nearly tempted to flee.

Yet who would've thought, the puppet turned out to be so feeble, crumbling under his Life and Death Twin Dragon Fist.

Reduced to debris scattered all over!

It seemed a bit like bluffing!

Mu Jinyu was initially prepared that the Twin Dragon Fist might be ineffective against the combat puppet, and then he'd try the Riot-Quelling Sword.

If that didn't work, he'd unfold the Corpse-Wrapping Cloth and use the Life and Death Reincarnation Diagram, to defeat the puppet like he did to Lu Kaige!

Still unsuccessful, he'd suppress its strength with the Earth Emperor's Tome and slowly deal with it.

Yet with one punch...

The combat puppet was crippled by him!

Mu Jinyu felt a bit doubtful about life...

Could it be, after eradicating that thread of golden Exotic Blood, he actually became very strong?

"Shouldn't be, something must've gone wrong somewhere, better go out and ask the mentor!"

Mu Jinyu's eyes flickered unpredictably, eventually shaking his head, thinking there's no way he became this strong, able to challenge a Peak of the Life and Death Realm combat puppet directly.

There must be a mistake.

Then, Mu Jinyu quickly walked to the activation recess and pulled out his Identity Plaque.

Although his actual combat training time inside was less than an hour.

He was still penalized fifty school credits.

And since the combat puppet was already crippled.

He saw no need to hang around until an hour later to leave.

Purely wasting time.

"Crack... crack..."

As the Identity Plaque was pulled out.

The massive stone door, immediately began to rise slowly.

Mu Jinyu, before the door rose completely, swiftly darted out.

"Mentor, mentor... something happened..."

Mu Jinyu turned past the beginner and intermediate combat training room areas, soon arriving at the mentor's location, loudly shouting.

"What's wrong, what's wrong? What happened?"

The mentor saw Mu Jinyu looking odd, immediately stood up, curiously asking.

He knew Mu Jinyu was in an advanced training room, isn't someone crippled by the combat puppet?

That would be no small matter!

Mu Jinyu hurriedly explained to the mentor: "Mentor, here's the situation, I just chose an advanced combat training room, and after the combat puppet was struck by me, it flickered with Thunder Arc all over, seemed something went wrong, and then its strength started rampaging, suddenly became Peak of the Life and Death Realm..."

"Peak of the Life and Death Realm?! Holy crap!"

Upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words, the mentor couldn't help but widen his eyes, burst into swearing.

A combat puppet with Peak of the Life and Death Realm power, wasn't something just anyone could handle!

Among Dongyue Mansion's students, probably only the top three senior students, Shi Yiran, Ning Ruofan, and Lu Kaige could struggle a bit in such a scenario.

Even if they had some strong cards, they could pull off risking wins!

But ordinary folks wouldn't be a match for combat puppets of that level.

That indeed was a big deal!

"Who got injured by the combat puppet? Quick, quick, quick, take me to see..."

Once the mentor grasped the situation, he hurriedly urged Mu Jinyu.

Although he just heard Mu Jinyu mention, it was the room he opened, typically, the one facing such danger would naturally be Mu Jinyu.

But...

Inside Dongyue Mansion, many students didn't have many credits, so they pooled together credits, then entered the training room for combat practice.

Thus, seeing Mu Jinyu unharmed, speaking with such urgency and concern.

The mentor naturally presumed Mu Jinyu and others opened an advanced combat training room together.

Then something went wrong, the other person got injured by the combat puppet, maybe even at death's door.

And Mu Jinyu saw things weren't right, seized the chance to sneak out, reporting to him.

So, he must promptly find out who was in trouble, and which room, so he could rush over to save them.

"No one got hurt... it's the combat puppet that's crippled."

Seeing the mentor urgently inquire, Mu Jinyu somewhat sheepishly scratched his head, self-reproachfully said.

"No one got hurt?!"

The mentor heard Mu Jinyu's words, went still, "No one got hurt, but instead the combat puppet got crippled?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"Phew..."

Upon learning this detail, the mentor instantly exhaled a breath of relief.

Even though the combat puppet's construction cost was hefty, if crippled, it's indeed a big loss.

But humans are surely more important than puppets!

If such a situation occurs, it's clearly much better than humans getting injured by puppets.

Hence, he felt it's acceptable.

Later, just repair the puppet, it's fine.

The mentor's expression relaxed significantly, then asked Mu Jinyu: "Hey, who else could cripple a combat puppet rampaging to Peak of the Life and Death Realm, isn't it that the person who went with you into the training room is Lu Kaige?"

"No, Lu Kaige wouldn't go into a training room with anyone else!"

"Then it should be Ning Ruofan?"

"He's approachable, it's possible, plus once he goes crazy, even scarier than Lu Kaige, crippling the puppet seems reasonable..."

The mentor formulated various self-assured analyses, clicked his tongue in praise.

Mu Jinyu was momentarily stunned hearing this, unsure why he made such assessments.

Then replied: "No, I was alone when I entered the combat training room, the one who crippled the puppet was me..."

He didn't desire to pin the blame on those two.

After all, a day ago they nearly got beaten by him, now they're heavily injured, requiring extended rest.

Many senior students were aware of this situation.

And he went and falsely accused them, dumping blame onto them, they'd be livid if they found out!

"You?!"

The mentor heard Mu Jinyu's answer, couldn't help but look at him in utter disbelief.

Then cracked a amused expression, said: "You're only at the Fifth Layer of the Void Breaking Realm, how could you cripple a combat puppet at Peak of the Life and Death Realm? Stop joking."

Mu Jinyu sighed helplessly: "I wasn't joking with you, it's meaningless..."

The mentor thought about it and agreed, skeptically examined him a few times, then said: "Alright, let's go, I'll accompany you there to see, then assess the damage on the combat puppet, see how much credits you need to compensate..."

Mu Jinyu sighed inwardly, sure it's gonna cost.

No choice, he trashed the combat puppet like that...

Then Mu Jinyu led the mentor back to his advanced combat training room early.

"Hmm?!"

The mentor followed Mu Jinyu into the advanced combat training room, gazed at the debris scattered all over, and froze.

He took a deep breath, looking at Mu Jinyu incredulously, asked with a tone like seeing a ghost: "This is the crippled combat puppet you mentioned?!"

"Goodness!"

Initially, he thought when Mu Jinyu mentioned crippling the combat puppet.

It meant the puppet malfunctioned, losing the ability to fight.

Yet its structure remained, repaired, it'd be alright.

Who would've thought, Mu Jinyu meant crippled.

Was that an entire combat puppet outright changed to heaps of debris!