Chapter 161 Frustration

Boom!

The knockdown judgment of Falling Phoenix Slash was truly powerful. Deception fell from mid-air, actually creating a small pit in the ground upon impact. But the bright sword light had already caught up.

Silver Light Falling Blade!

As if flying on a sword, Ice Rain, along with Yu Wenzhou, arrived in front of Deception in the blink of an eye.

Deception's hands were rapidly forming seals.

Substitution Jutsu!

Huang Shaotian could guess it. This was also one of the most annoying things about ninjas; they had such an escape technique, which could forcibly interrupt the opponent's offensive.

Fortunately, ninjutsu required hand seals, which was equivalent to chanting. Even though the ninja's chanting was entirely determined by the operator's hand speed, it at least left the opponent room to interrupt.

The hand speed was fast, but not fast enough!

Huang Shaotian's calculations were precise. The offensive he launched was planned from the start to not give Mo Fan any opportunity to use an escape technique. The brief stiffness Deception suffered after being slammed into the ground by Falling Phoenix Slash, followed by Yu Wenzhou's Silver Light Falling Blade, was enough to prevent Mo Fan from completing the Substitution Jutsu. And this kind of meticulous calculation was probably a big difference between a top-tier god and a rookie. No matter how talented a rookie was, due to the difference in experience, they probably couldn't calculate to this extent.

Got you!

Ice Rain's sword fell, and Huang Shaotian had already planned out the next offensive in his mind.

But at that instant, he saw Deception's hand seal movements.

This wasn't Substitution Jutsu!

Huang Shaotian's observation was truly sharp. He could even distinguish such rapid, small finger movements.

This was Earth Shattering Slash! (Di Xin Zhan Shou Shu)

Mo Fan actually chose to counterattack forcefully at this time, which truly surprised Huang Shaotian. He hadn't calculated this possibility because their pre-match preparations against Xingxin included observing and understanding Mo Fan, and they discovered two very obvious stylistic traits.

Patience that wouldn't lose to anyone, and absolute avoidance of risk.

Combining this with the player's background, this style wasn't hard to understand.

So at this moment, this Earth Shattering Slash was a reversal of his style. This was a very risky decision, and Huang Shaotian hadn't expected Mo Fan to make this decision.

However, he should still be able to interrupt it, right?

The hand seals for Earth Shattering Slash were slightly more complicated to perform than those for Substitution Jutsu!

Huang Shaotian thought to himself, but he already had a bad feeling.

The complexity of skill execution varied, but the player's proficiency with each skill also varied. Especially for a beginner, this was probably even more obvious. It was entirely possible for the more complicated Earth Shattering Slash to be executed faster than Substitution Jutsu.

Hit!

Silver Light Falling Blade still pierced Deception's body, but did it interrupt the hand seals?

The difference only existed for an instant, so subtle that even Huang Shaotian couldn't distinguish it. He only saw Deception being knocked to the ground by Silver Light Falling Blade, and then suddenly disappearing into the ground.

The hand seals were completed!

Huang Shaotian reacted instantly. Yu Wenzhou, who had just landed, jumped back into the air without hesitation and slashed down with his sword.

But… he missed.

Deception didn't immediately attack from the ground. At this moment, he once again displayed his extraordinary patience.

What an annoying guy!

Huang Shaotian cursed inwardly. In fact, many players who faced him had cursed him like this countless times. Partly because of his trash talk, and partly because of his fighting style. Extraordinary, and extremely annoying.

Huang Shaotian didn't know when Mo Fan planned to attack. The moment of landing was always the most dangerous, so he simply accompanied his landing with a skill that attacked the ground beneath him.

Deception still didn't attack, and Huang Shaotian expressed regret about this. This patience and forbearance were indeed commendable, but in Huang Shaotian's opinion, this time it was a bit misplaced. The best time to use Earth Shattering Slash was the moment he used it earlier. At that moment, Huang Shaotian was really a bit flustered. But now, he was completely calm, waiting for this skill to be used. At this time, did he still think he could succeed? Unless he himself disconnected.

"What a pity!" So Huang Shaotian started talking in the chat channel, even though he was underground, Mo Fan could still see the chat channel.

"You missed the best opportunity," Huang Shaotian said.

"I can now even casually walk my character out of the range that your Earth Shattering Slash can attack," Huang Shaotian said.

Range?

After using this word, Huang Shaotian suddenly paused.

Then he saw Deception's Earth Shattering Slash activate.

Not under Yu Wenzhou's feet, but in the area where he could activate it, the furthest distance from Yu Wenzhou. In this way, Deception jumped out from the ground and confronted Yu Wenzhou.

Damn it!

Huang Shaotian knew he was wrong.

The other party's Earth Shattering Slash wasn't intended as an attack at all. At that moment, it was used as a ground-burrowing escape technique. And now, wasn't his offensive interrupted? Face to face, a head-on fight? With ten percent health, Yu Wenzhou would be killed by the other party in just a few exchanges.

Looking at Deception's expressionless character face, Huang Shaotian suddenly felt like he was seeing Mo Fan's expression. While he was constantly sending messages, he was probably just expressionless, ignoring him completely!

Deception turned around and ran, once again hiding himself using the surrounding environment. The opponent only had ten percent health, but he still didn't launch a head-on attack.

But this time, he was very proactive, often throwing shurikens to harass Yu Wenzhou while hiding. Luring the opponent forward.

Huang Shaotian was dumbfounded. He, a dignified god-level player, was now… being toyed with by a rookie?

But he didn't have any good solutions. The rookie's strength was not bad, and his character only had ten percent health, so he had fallen into such an embarrassing situation.

After patiently tinkering for a while, Mo Fan finally found an opportunity that satisfied him. Deception rushed out, without hesitation putting on a domineering look as if he was bullying you for having little health.

What a bastard!

When Yu Wenzhou finally fell, Huang Shaotian couldn't even send a message, he could only slam the table and curse.

Mo Fan wins!

Although everyone had already predicted this result when Yu Wenzhou was crushed by the tree, losing fifty percent of his health and only having ten percent left, when the result actually occurred, the stadium was still filled with an uncontrollable climax.

What is a grassroots counterattack?

This was it!

And this wasn't the first time Mo Fan had done this. Last time, he even defeated Sun Xiang in a regular season match, right?

But that time, the opening advantage was very obvious. This time, however, it was one hundred percent health against eighty percent at the start, a rookie against a top-tier god. Probably not many people would care about this 20% advantage! Everyone was clearly optimistic about Huang Shaotian from the beginning.

Although there was a comical loss in the match where a large tree fell directly, crushing and causing fifty percent damage, making Huang Shaotian's mistake seem somewhat accidental, this scene was also artificially created, so it wasn't good to ignore Mo Fan. Moreover, in the direct confrontation between the two, Mo Fan didn't appear to be completely suppressed by Huang Shaotian. Compared to the last round where Ye Xiu was taken down by Huang Shaotian for more than thirty percent of his health, Mo Fan wasn't so miserable. On the contrary, he succeeded in a sneak attack at the beginning, taking away twenty percent of Yu Wenzhou's health in one wave.

"A well-deserved victory!" Pan Lin said in the broadcast, consciously reminding everyone not to underestimate the weight of this victory because of that fifty percent.

"After all, that tree was also cut down by Huang Shaotian himself…" Pan Lin said, laughing himself. No matter how you explained it, this match still couldn't avoid this comical element.

Huang Shaotian left the stage amidst laughter, ridicule, sympathy, joy, all kinds of emotions, accompanied by applause, and people calling "Huang Shao, Huang Shao," which was a truly emotionally complex treatment.

Back at the Blue Rain player area, teammates came up to shake hands and pat his shoulder to show their comfort.

"What are you doing, what are you doing? What are all these expressions? If you want to laugh, just laugh!!" Huang Shaotian said indignantly. These guys were all holding back their laughter, putting on a serious face to comfort him, but their acting was worse than the others, none of them looked genuine.

"It's really difficult!" Song Xiao was the first to laugh.

"We're now far behind in the overall score, be serious!" Huang Shaotian warned everyone with a serious and legitimate fact. In the individual competition, Blue Rain had already lost three players, including their ace player Huang Shaotian. And Xingxin had only reached the second player. And Deception still had 64% health.

"Well, the situation is now unfavorable for us, we need to play more cautiously." Captain Yu Wenzhou instructed the next player to take the stage.

"Yes!" Li Yuan saluted the captain.

Li Yuan was a newcomer who joined the Blue Rain team in the eighth season. He was a summoner player. Unlike other newcomers who were cautious when they first joined the team, Li Yuan was very active and enthusiastic to everyone, and quickly became very familiar with the Blue Rain players and even many staff members.

Although he had good interpersonal relationships, Li Yuan wasn't the kind of newcomer who immediately showed his skills. He wasn't nominated for the best newcomer award in the eighth season, and he didn't get many opportunities to play in that year. Then in the ninth season, Blue Rain had Lu Hanwen, the youngest player in history, who directly took over the position vacated by Yu Feng in the team, completely overshadowing Li Yuan, who was already in his second year.

However, Li Yuan's mentality wasn't affected by this. He didn't feel jealous of being overshadowed by the newcomer at all, and treated Lu Hanwen as warmly as he treated everyone else. And in this year, Li Yuan also got more opportunities to play and gradually found his place in the team.