Normal combat power over a hundred? (Seeking follow-up, seeking monthly tickets!)

The person who walked into the warehouse looked strange, draped in a black hooded robe.

After pulling back the hood, half of his face was revealed to be devoid of skin, replaced instead by a silver steel alloy, with a single electronic eye glowing red as it locked onto Qin Annian and began its analysis.

"Your Life Development Power should be less than 20."

"Yet your combat power can erupt to over a hundred; you truly live up to your reputation as the Security Bureau's fist-fighting genius."

He took off his robe, revealing a bare upper body where machinery and flesh were intertwined.

"Daring to act and daring to take responsibility—to think you actually dared to come here. I respect you as a man."

The cyborg from the Cultivation Holders Association revealed a hideous grin and lunged forward:

"Therefore."

"I will shatter every bone in your body!"

Boom!

A terrifying aura erupted.

The attacker from the Cultivation Holders Association definitely had a Life Development Power exceeding 25 points, and he had undergone highly advanced implant modification surgery, making his combat power extremely formidable.

Quickly.

Ju Zi found information related to him in the database and broadcasted it to Qin Annian:

[Codename Sickle, Life Development Power 32, known base combat power 121 points.]

[A core combatant of the Cultivation Holders Association.]

[Target is extremely dangerous!]

Sickle's right hand hammered toward Qin Annian's head like a sledgehammer, laughing wildly as he said:

"If it weren't for you."

"How could the Old District have turned into this hellish state?"

"All those who have died, all those who are suffering, it is all thanks to you!"

He wanted to use these words to disturb Qin Annian's state of mind and gain the upper hand in the fight.

Bang!

Qin Annian held a short spear and thrust it forward.

Looking directly into Qin Annian's eyes, Sickle discovered that there wasn't a single ripple in the young man's gaze, which left Sickle feeling a sense of annoyance and shame at his failed provocation.

"Die!"

Facing the sharp spear blade, Sickle did not dodge or evade.

His mechanical arm was extremely sturdy; ordinary cold weapons simply could not...

Ssh!

The spear tip pierced through the fist of Sickle as easily as if it were piercing a thin sheet of paper.

Having undergone modifications, Sickle could not feel pain.

Yet, he still looked at the blue-glowing spear tip in disbelief.

"How is this possible?!"

Bang!

The next moment.

Sickle felt a strange, persistent, soft yet impossible-to-dispel force coming from the spear tip, causing his entire body to fall backward.

Seeing that he was about to be pinned to the ground by Qin Annian, Sickle let out a roar!

"Get lost!"

Click!

The locking mechanism connected to his fist snapped open, and as the mechanical structure whirred, a sharp bayonet suddenly popped out from his bare mechanical wrist.

He seized the moment when Qin Annian's old strength was spent and his new strength had yet to arise, creating a kill zone that was impossible to escape.

The blade struck toward Qin Annian's throat with incredible speed.

However.

To Sickle's disappointment, he still did not see a hint of panic on the face of the man facing imminent death, Qin Annian.

"Hm?!"

Suddenly.

Sickle's remaining eye widened as he watched Qin Annian sink his body down in an impossible posture, then assume a stance like an iron bridge.

At the critical moment, he dodged the blade that grazed the tip of his nose.

"You..."

This was his trump card.

Even veteran martial artists with seasoned combat experience and a Life Development Power higher than his own had fallen to this very strike.

Sickle had never once failed since he began using this move!

Yet, against all expectations.

He never imagined that someone as young as Qin Annian would actually be able to dodge it.

Before the shocked Sickle could finish his thought.

BOOM!

A sharp, immense force struck his jaw.

Qin Annian followed through with his left leg, kicking Sickle high into the air.

This kick could have easily killed Zhao Wang, the leader of the Iron Rod Gang, but Sickle flipped in mid-air and landed completely unharmed.

With a grim expression, he reached out with his other hand to rub his deformed chin.

"You're quite strange!"

"The combat power of that kick just now must have already exceeded one hundred, right?"

"But unfortunately, one hundred combat power is merely my baseline."

As his voice fell.

A mechanical roar suddenly erupted from within Sickle's body!

The modified organs inside him activated at full capacity, and his body temperature began to rise rapidly!

Soon.

Billows of white steam began to emanate from Sickle's body.

"I am not like that trash."

"Sixty percent of my organs have been modified; even a veteran Peace Officer with a Life Development Power exceeding 30 points is someone I could easily crush to death."

Sickle said viciously, his speed increasing until he appeared in front of Qin Annian in the blink of an eye.

Wrapped in a scorching aura, he charged forward like a steam locomotive.

"My peak combat power right now is infinitely close to two hundred points!"

A near-scream tore from Sickle's throat.

"Come!"

"Kneel and accept your death!"

Qin Annian's eyes grew increasingly bright, as if two brilliant suns were slowly rising.

"Combat power close to two hundred, is it?"

With the consciousness of a grandmaster of fist techniques, Qin Annian mobilized every muscle in his body.

In the depths of his eyes, the figure as tall as a savage bear was riddled with openings!

He clenched his hand into a fist, pulling it back toward his chest and abdomen.

WHOOSH!

A scorching, turbid breath was exhaled.

BOOM!

Immediately following.

He threw a punch!

Fast!

It was too fast!

It was so fast that even Sickle's electronic eyes could not track the trajectory of the strike.

Sickle only felt as if a cannonball were hurtling toward him at supersonic speeds!

The terrifying momentum made his entire body run cold!

An illusion?

The fleeting thought had barely surfaced.

BOOM!

Sickle felt a force so immense and irresistible that it slammed directly into the lower right side of his chest.

CREAK—SNAP—

The modified organs operating within his body suddenly seized up.

Then, his figure flew backward like a tattered rag.

"How is this possible?"

That was the only thought remaining in Sickle's mind.

Although he couldn't be considered the top combatant within the Cultivation Holders Association, he was undoubtedly the strongest among its core members!

With his combat power fully unleashed, he was capable of going toe-to-toe with martial artists whose Life Development Power reached as high as 50 points!

Even though his Life Development Power could no longer be increased significantly, his combat effectiveness could still continue to rise as his modification surgeries were perfected!

He had never feared even the veteran Peace Officers of the Security Bureau.

And precisely because of this.

Upon receiving intelligence from Zhao Wang, Sickle, who was nearby, rushed over impatiently, eager to claim the head of Qin Annian as quickly as possible.

He knew very well that the Cultivation Holders Association was finished.

Those big shots who could stand in the sunlight had already treated them as discarded pawns and dared not jump out to act as their protective umbrella any longer.

However, the Cultivation Holders Association had developed in the shadows of Taiyu City for over a hundred years and still held other trump cards in their hands.

The Cultivation Holders Association would certainly lose this war, but its members would not all be wiped out.

The survivors could easily leave Taiyu City to lie low elsewhere, changing their identities before slowly recovering their vitality.

Where there is light, there is shadow.

There were plenty of people willing to turn the Cultivation Holders Association into their own dirty hands.

As a core member of the Cultivation Holders Association, Sickle prided himself on not being abandoned by the association's leader.

By taking the head of Qin Annian, he would be able to continue receiving more advanced modification surgeries.

This war was an opportunity for him.

An opportunity!

Yet, he never expected that Qin Annian, whom he should have been able to take down easily—and even have the leisure to mock—would suddenly transform into such an inconceivable existence!

His combat power had actually skyrocketed to the point where it was on par with his own?!

"Are you human?"

"Or a monster?!"