It's true that names remembered from a past life aren't necessarily accurate.
The reason is simple: not everyone is consistently strong.
Take Bai Ye himself. In his previous life, during the early stages of the World Battlefield, Bai Ye was a nobody among nobodies. His survival was purely a matter of luck.
After surviving the early stages through sheer luck, he managed to accumulate some capital. Like most people, Bai Ye lived a mediocre, precarious existence through the mid-early stages.
He participated in Forbidden Zones, but mostly just to get a taste of the action. Missions were practically irrelevant to Bai Ye. If he was lucky, he might occasionally pick up Forbidden Zone Mission One or Forbidden Zone Mission Two. The final Forbidden Zone Mission remained elusive.
By the mid-stages of the World Battlefield, Bai Ye's strength had slightly improved. He climbed from the bottom to the lower-middle ranks, thanks to obtaining a red-quality flying sword through a hidden mission.
But that was about it. It wasn't until the World Battlefield entered its mid-to-late stages that Bai Ye, relying on an item that could temporarily boost his combat power significantly, acquired Mechanical Reconstruction. He then relentlessly leveled up his proficiency in Mechanical Reconstruction and began frequenting the Future Technology Zone, which finally turned his fate around.
At that point, Bai Ye had reached the threshold of being considered quasi-first-class. Then, by chance, he obtained the Gacha Machine and, using a bug in the Gacha Machine, acquired the Heart of Machinery, finally soaring to become one of the few top experts.
After occupying the East Zone and monopolizing its resources, Bai Ye became known as the "Twin Whites of the East Zone," finally becoming one of the few peak powerhouses in the late stages of the World Battlefield.
Therefore, if Bai Ye were to encounter his past self at this stage...
He could beat him however he pleased, crushing him directly.
However, Prince of Vampires Hamir was an exception; he was strong from beginning to end.
First, the title "Prince of Vampires"...
Hamir was truly a vampire!
Hamir hailed from a fantasy world. He wasn't human; his race was vampire, and he was already strong upon arriving at the World Battlefield.
This was similar to many chosen ones from worlds of superpowers or immortal cultivation.
But there's a problem here. There are many types of cultivators in the immortal cultivation world: sword cultivators, dao cultivators, body cultivators, with numerous cultivation methods. Those who didn't cultivate their physical bodies were not much stronger than ordinary people. Stab them through the heart, slit their throats, and they'd still fall.
In his current life, Bai Ye had killed such cultivators as soon as he entered the World Battlefield. They could wield swords and use dao techniques, possessing formidable abilities, but their physical bodies weren't strong enough, making them vulnerable to death.
In fact, unless they were disciples of renowned sects with profound cultivation like Situ Chicheng, ordinary cultivators might not necessarily be able to defeat a machine gun.
It's just that compared to the chosen ones from most worlds, they still had an advantage, but it wasn't to the point where others had no chance of killing them.
Hamir, however, was the type who, upon entering the World Battlefield, gave other worlds' chosen ones no chance in combat.
Vampires, by nature, possessed extremely strong self-regeneration abilities. They could reattach their severed heads or heal through a pierced heart. Such beings entering the World Battlefield were a bug in the early stages of the World Battlefield.
Their only weakness was holy light items, but in the early stages of the World Battlefield, how could one obtain such specialized items?
Therefore, Hamir was strong, and had always been strong.
Until he contended with Huang Quan for control of the West Zone, and was subsequently overwhelmed by Huang Quan's undead army.
Even the strongest self-regeneration ability was useless against the dense undead army. A single spit from them could drown Hamir.
Undoubtedly, apart from Li Jiayi, Hamir Lexus was the second strongest in Bai Ye's eyes.
This was still because Bai Ye hadn't fought Hamir in this life. Otherwise, Bai Ye felt that judging by Hamir's strength in his previous life, he might not be weaker than Li Jiayi.
However, after Li Jiayi and Hamir, the skill level dropped significantly.
The remaining two names Bai Ye recognized... xxs one
Wei Zhuxie, a sword cultivator from an immortal cultivation world, rumored to be a disciple of the Qionghua sect under the Queen Mother of the West. He could be considered a legitimate disciple of the orthodox immortal cultivation world, and then...
This guy became Situ Chicheng's henchman.
In Bai Ye's previous life, Situ Chicheng was indeed very strong. In the terms of the immortal cultivation world, this was called a subordinate offering, but in reality, he was just someone who ate off Situ Chicheng.
Bai Ye knew of Wei Zhuxie not because his name sounded impressive, nor because of his strength, but purely because he followed Situ Chicheng.
His level was roughly at the boundary between quasi-first-class and first-class.
The last name Bai Ye was familiar with was Lancegard. This guy would later join the Evil Spirit Group, but he likely wasn't a member now. The Evil Spirit Group was in its early stages and its reputation wasn't established enough to recruit experts of Lancegard's caliber.
But even in its current state, the Evil Spirit Group's elite team leader, as Bai Ye remembered Lancegard, was still not comparable to Yichila, whom Bai Ye had encountered last time. Yichila, after all, would become one of the Twelve Evil Spirits of the Evil Spirit Group, considered among their most formidable members.
As for the other four, Bai Ye had never heard of them.
It wasn't too surprising, though. The selection criteria for this Wish Mission were a bit subpar.
Hunting quantity referred to the eight individuals who hunted the most creatures in dangerous areas.
One could say they had strength, as venturing into dangerous areas seven times and hunting a large number of creatures certainly required a considerable level of skill.
However, if one were to consider this as the primary standard for measuring strength, it definitely wouldn't qualify.
To put it bluntly, lurking in dangerous areas was certainly perilous, but being able to find suitable hunting grounds based on one's own strength meant the danger wasn't that great.
Therefore, a high hunting quantity didn't signify much.
In fact, if Bai Ye hadn't initiated this Wish Mission, he wouldn't have been eligible to participate.
The reason was simple: Bai Ye didn't frequent dangerous areas much; his targets were always Forbidden Zones or hidden missions.
To put it more directly, Bai Ye played the high-stakes game, while hunting in dangerous areas was the low-stakes game.
As for why the two big shots, Li Jiayi and Hamir, were among them...
Bai Ye could only say that these two guys were truly shameless, with such powerful figures going to the low-stakes game to bully newcomers, it was utterly disgraceful.
Bai Ye thought for a moment and assigned Number One to Hamir, Number Two to Li Jiayi, Number Three to Lancegard, and Number Nine to Wei Zhuxie. Bai Ye took Number Eight for himself. The remaining four individuals were Numbers Four, Five, Six, and Seven.
There was a very tricky aspect to this Wish Mission: one could only kill the pursued target. The pursued party could fight back and flee, but they couldn't directly kill the pursuer, or they would be eliminated.
Therefore, the two individuals Bai Ye considered most troublesome naturally had to be made to "love and kill" each other.
Secondly, Bai Ye felt that Li Jiayi was likely slightly stronger than Hamir, and on Bai Ye's "notepad," Li Jiayi was the type whose future was bright and who should be eliminated.
Following this order, Li Jiayi couldn't act against Bai Ye unless he dealt with Hamir first. Conversely, if Bai Ye cleared out the lesser targets ahead, he could then engage Li Jiayi.
Weighing the options, which was more difficult: killing Hamir, or killing several minor characters?
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