Chapter 7 Seventh Season

In the seventh season, Sun Xiang emerged and immediately garnered widespread attention. Although he was in a weak team like Yueyun, his performance was extremely outstanding. He shattered the rookie wall and easily claimed the title of Best Rookie.

In an instant, words of praise like genius and rising star flooded in, quickly making Sun Xiang complacent.

Among these words, many believed that if Sun Xiang hadn't been held back by his team, or if he had possessed a top-tier God-level character, then perhaps Sun Xiang's debut season would have yielded even better results, and might even have created history.

Sun Xiang greatly appreciated this sentiment. He also felt that his talent had not been fully utilized, and that he deserved a wider stage.

He needed a better team, and also a top-tier character.

The Battle God One Autumn Leaf was undoubtedly the most brilliant character in the history of Glory. Ye Qiu, known as the textbook, was also one of the top Gods in Glory history.

But Sun Xiang didn't think much of it.

He certainly knew of Ye Qiu's past glory, but from the moment he started playing Glory, all he saw was Ye Qiu and Excellent Era performing worse year after year.

So when Excellent Era extended an olive branch to him in the eighth season, Sun Xiang was overjoyed. He felt it was a match made in heaven. He needed such a team, such a character.

He came to Excellent Era, replaced Ye Qiu, and took over the Battle God One Autumn Leaf.

Sun Xiang was full of ambition. He felt that a new era was about to begin. With such a top-tier character and team, he was bound to soar.

As a result, Excellent Era was relegated that season.

There was no worse record than that. Even Yueyun that season, when Sun Xiang was on the team, had hopes of making a run for the playoffs. After Sun Xiang left, they didn't fall to such a miserable state of relegation.

What was going on?

Sun Xiang, who was only two years into his professional career, would be lying if he said he wasn't panicking.

He had a top-tier character, a team with championship-winning potential, but the final result was relegation? What went wrong? Was it his own lack of skill? No! Of course that couldn't be the reason.

At that time, Sun Xiang began to doubt himself, but he was unwilling to believe it, unwilling to seriously consider the question. He actively avoided the possibility.

He was eager to prove himself and wanted to leave Excellent Era as soon as possible, but Excellent Era's swift actions after being relegated ultimately made him place his hopes on the team.

As a result, in the finals of the Challenger League that season, Excellent Era lost to Happy, and he lost again.

He lost to Ye Xiu, lost to the guy he had squeezed out of Excellent Era, the one who had become penniless.

A top-tier character? Happy didn't have one.

A dazzling lineup? Happy didn't have one either.

Ye Xiu defeated Sun Xiang and Excellent Era with such a team. This wasn't just about winning or losing a match, or even a season. It was a destruction of Sun Xiang's values in Glory.

With a top-tier character and strong teammates, he would be able to soar.

That's what Sun Xiang had always believed.

But Happy had none of these things, and in the end, Happy won.

From Best Rookie to transferring to a top-tier powerhouse, in just a year and a half, Sun Xiang had experienced the dazzling peak of life that countless people couldn't achieve. Then, in the next year and a half, he experienced relegation and defeat in the Challenger League, failures that many professional players had never experienced.

Three years, the first three years of his professional career, Sun Xiang's experience was undeniably rich. But looking back, he realized that in those three years, not to mention the ultimate stage of the finals, he was so far away from the playoffs.

Wasn't he a genius? Wasn't he talented? Wasn't he a rising star?

Excellent Era disbanded, and Sun Xiang joined Samsara with One Autumn Leaf.

He was still wielding the top-tier character, he was surrounded by even more powerful teammates, and it was the reigning champion team of the era, having won two consecutive titles. His professional career had ushered in such a turning point amidst the darkness, even reaching a higher level.

But this time, Sun Xiang no longer had the same arrogant complacency as before. He began to seriously examine himself, and seriously study how to become stronger.

He did well. He quickly integrated into the Samsara team, and did not cause internal conflicts within Samsara due to issues such as core positions, as many commentators had predicted. He and Zhou Zekai, as a duo of close and long-range combat, ultimately won the Best Partner award without any controversy this season.

He finally corrected his attitude, and in this season's battles, he encountered Happy again, and encountered Ye Xiu again. Even once again, in the finals, they faced each other head-on. Now, they even had a map called Head-On Confrontation.

Sun Xiang wanted to win.

He wanted to win against Happy, and even more so, he wanted to win against Ye Xiu.

He admitted that it was Ye Xiu and Happy who had made him sober, but this made him even more unable to suppress his desire to defeat them. He wanted to let Happy, let Ye Xiu see that he was no longer the Sun Xiang who had been defeated by them.

So he was careful, he was cautious, he wouldn't allow himself to make any mistakes in this duel, for the victory of the Samsara team, and also to prove himself fiercely in front of the people who had defeated him.

But the result was still a very miserable defeat.

But this time, Sun Xiang didn't feel resentment, didn't feel anger, didn't look for reasons in places other than himself, as he had done before.

He began to self-reflect immediately, and realized that he might have used the wrong method.

Caution, prudence, psychological warfare—these were not his strengths, but in order to prove himself, he had chosen a fighting style that didn't suit him.

Although he desperately wanted to surpass Ye Xiu in every way, the truth was that everyone had their own strengths, and he probably didn't have the corresponding talents in these areas.

He should choose the fighting style he liked and was good at. Because on the field, what mattered was winning or losing, not surpassing anyone! Everyone only needed to surpass themselves. Following in their own footsteps, surpassing themselves step by step, was the only way to become stronger and stronger.

Ye Xiu, or anyone else, wasn't meant to be surpassed, but to be defeated!

Crushing Mountain River! (Dou Po Shan He)

The Battle Mage's level 75 ultimate skill was Sun Xiang's final choice. With the npCs' attitude towards the players unclear, he didn't act cautiously again, didn't try to figure things out carefully, because that wasn't his strength. He might not be the type of player who was good at using his brain to play the game.

He took the initiative to attack the npCs. The magical combat aura that erupted from underground from Crushing Mountain River (Dou Po Shan He) swept all the obstacles in front of him into the air.

Those who get in my way, die!

At this moment, One Autumn Leaf displayed the aura of the Battle God under Ye Xiu's control in the past.