This Character is Suspected of Cheating! [Unlimited Flow]

Everyone: “!!!”

He Yu was actually going to forge equipment for himself?!

Although they were disappointed that they wouldn't get equipment forged by He Yu, they quickly cheered up again and prepared to watch him forge.

The only thing He Yu lacked was combat power. Not only was his own combat power poor, but the equipment he had obtained also had almost no combat capability and was basically trash, so he was the “strongest support,” incapable of fighting alone.

No matter how beautifully he used support equipment, it couldn't conceal the fact that he couldn't fight.

But things were different now.

He was forging equipment for himself.

Would he forge himself something incredibly powerful, something like the Crescent Moon Scimitar, and directly raise his combat power?

At that thought, everyone's eyes darkened.

He Yu, with his hundred and eighty tricks, was already terrifying enough without combat power. Relying solely on schemes, he had survived everyone's attempts to kill him until now, and had caused them plenty of losses.

But in the end, he had no combat power.

Inside instances, He Yu needed cooperation. Being around him was relatively safe.

But what if he possessed powerful combat power?

Schemes plus combat power—

How the hell would anyone play against that?

They were allies now, but this was a slaughter competition. Maybe not this round, maybe not the next, maybe not the one after that...

But what about the semifinals? The finals?

They couldn't avoid fighting forever. Eventually, they would stand against each other.

He Yu...

Really was someone to fear.

Gedai looked toward Eugene beside him.

They were enemies, but they understood each other especially well. A single glance was enough to understand the other's thoughts.

Gedai: Kill He Yu!

If they were going to kill He Yu, it had to be done quickly. Once he increased his combat power, they really wouldn't be able to kill him anymore.

Eugene wavered for a second, then slightly shook his head.

Impossible.

—What a joke!

Not to mention Bo Jingshan and Zhen Xing among the contestants. No one knew what was going through those two heads, but they practically stood completely on He Yu's side.

And even if they could persuade them...

There was still the Devil Withered Vine.

With how overwhelming the Devil Withered Vine's feelings for He Yu were, if they dared kill him, they could forget about leaving Love Planet alive.

Gedai actually knew that himself, but just watching He Yu walk down the road toward “invincibility” made him extremely anxious. He pursed his lips, his brows tightly knitted.

Gedai: So we just watch?

Eugene: What else can we do? Let's watch and see.

The moment the two finished exchanging glances and withdrew their gazes, they met a pair of cold blue eyes.

There was none of the excitement and shyness those eyes showed around He Yu.

Only—

Murderous intent and indifference.

As though in the next second, he would kill them.

The two: “......”

—Fine.

Killing He Yu was completely impossible.

Not only were they worried, even Duan Yuchen, who had always wanted to learn He Yu's forging methods, frowned.

He Yu was terrifying, but he had never made them despair.

Because if the finals came and only He Yu and one other person remained, then “strongest support” He Yu would have no possibility of leaving the Top Talent Show alive.

But if He Yu's combat power wasn't inferior to theirs...

—Then that would really be hard to say.

Everyone's mood was complicated.

But He Yu ignored them completely and walked over to the forging tools.

Duan Yuchen's new forging equipment was still four fishhooks. He had probably grown accustomed to them. After the old ones were destroyed, he had simply made another set.

He Yu glanced at the fishhooks and took out the forging materials he needed.

The dull knife.

The plain, unremarkable knife.

The only two pieces of equipment He Yu possessed.

Both with 3 combat power.

Zhen Xing was puzzled.

“You're using just these two pieces of equipment to forge a weapon?”

He Yu nodded.

Duan Yuchen interjected, “They don't look impressive... what's their combat power?”

They knew the dull knife. It was the “cheap knife” that blinded everyone's eyes.

But they had never seen the other blade.

He Yu replied, “Both are 3 combat power.”

Everyone: “......”

He Yu's combat-power equipment really wasn't impressive.

Wanrenzhan's pupils shrank.

“Wait! Your equipment contributes 6 combat power, so your own combat power is...”

His voice grew softer toward the end, as though he was so stunned his words had been swallowed.

“2?”

Everyone: “!”

Holy shit, they hadn't even realized!

He Yu's 8 combat power actually depended on equipment.

—His original combat power was only 2.

Good heavens.

What had Blue Star been thinking? They had actually sent someone with 2 combat power into the competition!!

Even more infuriating—

He had made it into the top five thousand!

Gedai went into a daze.

So all this time, they had been manipulated by a sickly weakling whose own combat power was only 2?

He suddenly recalled the first time they had crossed paths during the preliminaries, when He Yu rode the giant fish...

How the hell had this guy dared wander around everywhere with only 2 combat power?!

Everyone looked dazed and absent-minded.

[Bullet Screen: “Hahahahahaha! Now you know how shocked the audience felt!”]

[Bullet Screen: “He Yu, yes, his initial combat power really was only 2!”]

[Bullet Screen: “That's right, even Federation kindergarten kids have more combat power than that. He Yu really is weak, but he climbed step by step to where he is now. You people have no idea how complicated our feelings as viewers have been!”]

[Bullet Screen: “...It's okay, they seem pretty complicated now too.”]

Yes.

Their emotions were extremely complicated.

Being around He Yu, it was easy to forget he only had 8 combat power.

Now, the lower limit had been refreshed again.

Even the 8 had been improved.

—If it were them, they probably would've died during the preliminaries.

Eight was already shocking enough.

Who would've thought there was an even more horrifying number—

Two.

After a long time, Zhen Xing suddenly said,

“He Yu, I really am starting to believe your theory that combat power isn't that important.”

It completely overturned common sense.

He Yu himself was a being that overturned common sense.

The Federation's way of thinking had always been—

Combat power was the most important thing.

Yet He Yu had shattered that belief time and time again.

Inside the selection system, they couldn't know, but outside, there were surely countless people whose worlds had been shaken.

The Federation couldn't possibly avoid researching him.

He Yu was too far beyond imagination.

Bo Jingshan's gaze darkened slightly.

...How was Blue Star doing now?

He Yu ignored their complicated emotions and simply tossed the two pieces of equipment between the fishhooks. Duan Yuchen controlled the intense flames, while He Yu watched calmly.

These weren't exceptional pieces of equipment. The plain, unremarkable knife quickly melted.

The dull knife was slightly better, but not particularly amazing material either. In less than an hour, everything had melted.

Unlike when He Yu forged the Crescent Moon Scimitar, this time he practically stood guard the entire process. Every now and then, he raised a hand and washed over the materials with energy, beginning to act during the melting process itself.

His attitude was extremely serious.

The spectators became solemn as well.

It seemed He Yu's weapon for himself...

Was very unusual.

After the materials melted, He Yu manipulated energy to fuse them together. These materials naturally absorbed energy, but He Yu controlled them so they couldn't absorb it, merely allowing the energy to wash over them.

This process consumed even more of himself than directly inputting energy.

And He Yu's physique was poor.

Very soon, his face turned pale.

But he didn't move.

Behind the lenses, his eyes remained calm and steady, maintaining the washing process.

Duan Yuchen muttered,

“He Yu... he's really serious this time.”

Siya looked at Bo Jingshan and couldn't help sowing discord.

“See? This is the attitude he has toward his own weapon, compared to the attitude he has toward someone else's.”

She clearly intended to drive a wedge between He Yu and Bo Jingshan.

Wanrenzhan sneered.

“He isn't worthy of He Yu being serious.”

Bo Jingshan held the Crescent Moon Scimitar in his arms, expressionless.

“Oh. At least He Yu put effort into my weapon.”

As for everyone else—

They could forget it.

What did seriousness matter?

He Yu had given him the incredibly powerful Crescent Moon Scimitar.

Wanrenzhan and the others could turn their eyes red with jealousy and still never get one.

Wanrenzhan: “???”

He glared viciously at Bo Jingshan.

Bo Jingshan calmly met his gaze.

Wanrenzhan ground his teeth furiously.

He swore he would definitely get He Yu to forge equipment for him.

He refused to believe he was inferior to Bo Jingshan, who came from a garbage planet!

“Buzz, buzz—”

Ahead of them, the fused materials became restless, showing faint signs of instability and possible explosion.

Everyone immediately focused.

He Yu remained calm and unhurried. Whenever the equipment became unstable, he suppressed it. If it couldn't fuse, he infused energy. Then withdrew it.

Again and again.

Continuously washing it.

The materials simply weren't that extraordinary. Though He Yu had added countless details to every step, it still finished much faster than the Crescent Moon Scimitar.

Three hours later—

A silver-white longsword appeared.

The dull knife and the plain, unremarkable knife had become one.

A longsword.

Swords like this were rarely seen in the Federation.

There were all kinds of weapons, with blades being the most common. Swords were rare, especially this sort of longsword.

He Yu had forged a sword.

The type commonly seen in cultivation novels.

Bo Jingshan raised his eyebrows slightly.

—Was he really determined to carry the cultivation system through to the end?

“Buzz—”

The longsword trembled and slowly descended into He Yu's hand.

They had often wondered what kind of weapon suited He Yu.

But whether it was a blade or something else, nothing had ever seemed appropriate.

He was slender and weak.

Yet noble and aloof.

But now, holding the sword, standing straight-backed, cold and solitary—

Everything seemed perfectly fitting.

Extremely fitting.

[Bullet Screen: “AHHHH! He Yu with a weapon is so handsome!! What kind of weapon is this? I want one!!”]

[Bullet Screen: “Oh my god, have you read the books Blue Star transmitted, <Everyday Cultivation Record> and <Conquering the Cultivation World>? Lord He looks exactly like the Immortal Sovereigns in those books! This is too beautiful!”]

[Bullet Screen: “Wuwuwu, he's so handsome, really so handsome. I want to marry him, I want him to marry me.”]

He really was beautiful.

The aloof, thin, solitary He Yu with the silver-white longsword—

Like an exiled immortal, impossible to look away from.

Wanrenzhan had already gone blank with shock.

Zhen Xing and Eugene were similarly entranced.

The blue eyes stared at He Yu in fascination. One little white flower after another bloomed at the ends of the vines, swaying gently in the breeze.

Only Duan Yuchen—

“He Yu! Test it! Hurry, test the equipment! Is it even stronger than the Crescent Moon Scimitar?”

Although he knew He Yu becoming stronger wouldn't benefit him in the slightest, the birth of powerful equipment still stirred the emotions of a blacksmith.

He Yu nodded.

“It should be tested.”

He slowly raised the sword.

His gaze was cold as he looked forward, his aura astonishing.

[Bullet Screen: “So excited!!”]

[Bullet Screen: “Am I the only one who can't bear losing the cheap knife that blinded everyone? Thinking about it, I'll miss it. That thing was actually pretty useful...”]

He Yu drew a sword flower. His sharp gaze turned, and he swung heavily.

“Ahhh—!”

Siya screamed, clutching her eyes.

Everyone else squinted painfully.

—Damn it!

The dog-eye-blinding effect was still there.

And it seemed even brighter now!!

The audience was blinded as well, tears streaming down their faces.

Yet they struggled through the pain and dizziness to keep their eyes open, determined to witness the terrifying power of this new equipment.

Gedai and the others were the same.

Physiological tears flowed uncontrollably, yet they forced their eyes open through the pain to observe.

The sword had been drawn.

Sword energy howled.

And wherever it passed—

Nothing happened.

Everyone: “?”

“Plop—”

A small sapling fell over.

The tree beside it merely swayed slightly, dropped two leaves, then stood firmly in place without moving again.

Everyone: “??”

They had seen wrong, right?

Did this thing even have 10 combat power?

With tears all over her face, Qiong looked at He Yu in confusion.

“He Yu, did you test the equipment?”

He Yu nodded and pushed up his glasses, his expression serious.

“I tested it.”

Everyone: “???”

—Tested it?

And this was the result??

This?!

This?!

They had endured dizziness and eye pain to watch this!!

At that moment, a strange thought simultaneously arose in everyone's minds.

To put it in Blue Star terms—

We already took our pants off, and this is what you show us??!