Chapter 1 The Team Rankings

In the Xia country official live broadcast room, the host Liu Xin looked at the light screen in front of him and smiled. "The first round of the Blazing Spark Cup tournament, all sixteen matches have been completed. The virtual world has also calculated the actual combat power displayed by each team. The Liu Hai team and the Zhou Yi team are fixed as Team 1 and Team 2 respectively. The other teams are ranked according to their combat power, determining the team order."

Liu Xin looked behind him, and the ranking of the sixteen teams appeared behind him—

1: Liu Hai Old Age Team (Captain Liu Hai)

2: Lei Yunfang Team (Captain Lei Yunfang)

3: Shield Axe Team (Captain Xiong Tianshan), team combat power 18100

4: Thunder Team (Captain Gao Chong), team combat power 16980

5: Golden Peng Team (Captain Tie Lianyun), team combat power 16960

6: Zhou Yi Team (Captain Zhou Yi), team combat power 16660

7: Big Fish Team (Captain Chen Yu), team combat power 15910

8: Floating and Sinking Team (Captain Liu Jiuzhou), team combat power 15800

9: Fairy Team (Captain Zhang Qing), team combat power 15738

10: Heavenly Sound Team (Captain Zhuang Ziyu), team combat power 15635

11: Wuling Team (Captain Fang Yu), team combat power 15590

12: Pear Wood Team (Captain Xu Jingming), team combat power 15380

13: Yunshan Team (Captain Huo Qingshan), team combat power 15120

14: Jian Chun Team (Captain Qin Ge), team combat power 13860

15: Hundred Sparrow Team (Captain Qin Wen), team combat power 13872

16: Frost Whisper Team (Captain Gu Chong), team combat power 13560

"In the second round, the matches will still be head-to-tail. Team 1 will face Team 16, Team 2 will face Team 15..." Liu Xin said, "This is tomorrow's match schedule."

A match schedule also appeared on the side.

"The Zhou Yi team is ranked 6th, and the Fairy Team is ranked 9th. It's really surprising," Liu Xin said with a smile. "On the one hand, some experts are still hiding their strength, and on the other hand, the competition will become more intense as the tournament progresses. Tomorrow's tournament will definitely be even more exciting. The live broadcast of the first round of the Blazing Spark Cup tournament ends here. Next is the 'Expert Tracking' program hosted by my colleague, Sister Wan Ning."

Nowadays, the official live broadcast room of Xia country has programs 24 hours a day.

At this moment, the audience quickly left. After all, everyone was tired after watching the game for so long. Even in the later stages of the competition, the audience had dropped to 800 million. This is because the online time limit for minors under the age of 16 is 8 hours, and those children are unwilling to use all their online time to watch the matches.

"Let's go to my personal space," Xu Jingming said, getting up. The other five members of the Pear Wood Team also stood up.

"I always feel like I'm a husky mixed in with a pack of wolves?" Li Miaomiao thought to herself as she mingled among them.

...

In Xu Jingming's personal space, you could see the icy lake on the top of the snow-capped mountain through the huge glass windows. The scenery was beautiful.

The six members of the Pear Wood Team sat down on the sofa.

"When I was watching the match just now, I also took the time to carefully watch the videos of the previous matches," Xu Jingming said. "I discovered some threatening opponents."

"Are there any Tier 3 experts?" Wang Yi's eyes lit up, and she asked.

Xu Jingming waved his hand, and the ranking of the sixteen teams appeared next to him.

"I've carefully watched slow-motion replays of some key battles," Xu Jingming nodded. "I can confirm that Xiong Tianshan of the Shield Axe Team has broken through to Tier 3 in battle, but his evolutionary method has not reached the advanced level. But tomorrow, he has a certain probability of successfully breaking through his evolutionary method."

"Zhang Qing of the Fairy Team, Tie Lianyun of the Golden Peng Team, and Fang Yu of the Wuling Team, all three of them are suspected of breaking through," Xu Jingming said.

"Suspected of breaking through?" The team members all looked at Xu Jingming.

"The probability of them having already broken through is at least 80%, or maybe I'm misjudging," Xu Jingming said. "Of course, the entire tournament may still have hidden experts that I haven't noticed, but the second round of the tournament will be more intense, and their strength will eventually be exposed one by one. Our fifth match tomorrow will be against the Golden Peng Team."

September 3rd, 2:00 PM, Golden Peng Team vs Pear Wood Team.

"We only need to focus on the Golden Peng Team now!" Xu Jingming said.

"Sun Li is in the Golden Peng Team," Heng Fang said coldly. "That villain, we gave him free training for more than half a month, besieging him, and training his close-range archery. He succeeded, but he ran away before the tournament started."

"His words are like farts," Liu Chongyuan also said angrily.

"We now have a stronger Sister Yi," Yang Qingshuo said with a smile. "That Sun Li must be very unhappy."

Wang Yi smiled: "I will definitely perform well during the match."

"Sun Li is not worth mentioning," Xu Jingming said. "He is the weakest in their team. Tie Lianyun, Zhao Pan, Zhang Feng, and Zhang Cheng need to be more careful. Especially my senior brother Tie Lianyun... He was one of the three legends of the Xia country martial arts world and has won three world championships!"

Xu Jingming solemnly said, "Speaking of the World Martial Arts Tournament, he is the person from Xia country who has won the most world championships!"

Heng Fang also nodded, feeling the pressure: "Senior Brother Tie Lianyun is the most hardworking and crazy person I have ever seen. His daily training is so crazy that his shoes are worn out... So later, he simply practiced barefoot! No matter how cold the weather is, he practices barefoot all year round, and his feet have thick calluses. He practices in the morning and at night, and he will also practice when he wakes up at night. His life seems to be only about martial arts."

The junior brothers who had been in the national team felt it very strongly, and Yang Qingshuo also said: "Brother Xu practices martial arts very carefully, but Senior Brother Tie Lianyun is simply a madman."

"Precisely because of this, he has inherited the most of Master's shield and saber techniques," Xu Jingming said. "And I feel that he is suspected of having broken through! If he breaks through to Tier 3 and his evolutionary method reaches the advanced level... then we must go all out in this battle."

"Yes." Everyone present nodded.

"Zhao Pan and Zhang Feng, their strengths are no less than mine," Heng Fang nodded. "They are much younger than me, and their potential is terrifying."

"Yes."

Liu Chongyuan said, "Zhao Pan is eighteen years old this year, and Zhang Feng is twenty years old. They are both folk contestants. They have only been in the virtual world for more than a month and have reached their current strength. Their talent is truly terrifying."

Li Miaomiao said: "The Golden Peng Team chose two young people with such high talent, which also shows their ambition. They also invited Tie Pengyun to be the captain!"

"Zhang Cheng is also stronger than me in terms of shield techniques," Liu Chongyuan nodded. "He is a person who defends so well that it is almost impossible to find any flaws."

...

In the Golden Peng Team, Tie Lianyun's personal space.

This is a mountain forest. The entire mountain forest is Tie Lianyun's residential area. The six team members and the team manager are sitting on wooden chairs.

"Our opponent in the second round is the Pear Wood Team." The silver-haired youth looked at Sun Li. "Sun Li, you were originally teammates with Xu Jingming and the others. Tell us what information you know."

Sun Li nodded: "I didn't have much contact with Wang Yi. But I am very familiar with the other four. In terms of matchups, Heng Fang and Zhao Fan are comparable, so we need to be careful of his flying spear technique. Yang Qingshuo is slightly weaker than Zhang Feng. Liu Chongyuan is slightly weaker than Zhang Cheng and is more clumsy. As for the captains of the two teams, our captain is naturally much stronger than Xu Jingming."

"Yes." The silver-haired youth nodded slightly.

The short and fat Tie Lianyun sat there and said indifferently: "My junior brother Xu Jingming is suspected of breaking through to Tier 3."

Whoosh.

Everyone present looked at Tie Lianyun.

"Breaking through to Tier 3?" Zhao Fan was a somewhat naive young man, full of vigor. At this moment, he couldn't help but say, "He only used a shield in the preliminaries and the first round of the tournament. Can you be sure that he has broken through?"

"He's too steady! His shield defense is too steady, and his dodging timing is too perfect." Tie Lianyun said indifferently, "But my junior brother is known for his violent and swift style. He has never been a steady style. Only a breakthrough in combat skills can allow him to be incredibly steady in the face of all kinds of situations."

The silver-haired youth nodded solemnly: "What you said makes sense. I've observed many team members and also feel that Xu Jingming is very steady this time."

"Most importantly, he didn't even use his spear skills in the preliminaries and the first round," Tie Lianyun said calmly. "I observed him when he joined the national team. My junior brother has an amazing talent for spear skills. Considering all aspects, I judge that he has a high probability of breaking through to Tier 3."

"I can be sure that when I left the Pear Wood Team, he hadn't broken through yet," Sun Li said.

"Then he broke through after you left," Tie Lianyun said. "Alright, I'll deal with him! You guys take care of the others."

"Yes, Captain!" The other members of the team immediately responded.

The silver-haired youth looked at this scene with satisfaction. He felt that the most brilliant thing he had done was to choose Tie Lianyun as the captain. It was a pity that he couldn't invite Wang Yi, who he wanted to invite.