Chapter 11 Teammate

"The situation is like this..." Li Miaomiao recounted the events, "So your senior brother and the others are currently lacking a teammate."

"Is Sun Li such a despicable person?" Dai Xiaoqing said angrily upon hearing this. "Senior brother and the others have practiced with him for 20 days in the virtual world! Twenty days! He suddenly quits the team? Couldn't he have waited until after the Huozhong (Fire Seed) Cup Competition to sign with another team?"

"That's just what he did; what can you do?" Li Miaomiao shook her head. "Your senior brother and the others now want to find a sharpshooter as a teammate. If that's not possible, they'll have to find another warrior. Then they'll have five warriors charging into the competition."

"It's still better to have a sharpshooter. With an enemy sharpshooter watching from the shadows, the close combatants can only display seventy percent of their strength, and they can't even afford to make any mistakes," Dai Xiaoqing mused. "Is sister-in-law trying to ask about Wang Yi's situation?"

"I heard she hasn't confirmed a team yet," Li Miaomiao said. "Do you know what she's thinking? Why hasn't she decided on a team?"

"Sister Wang Yi..."

Dai Xiaoqing pondered, "You know, she was originally a three-time Olympic archery champion, and now she's also one of the top three most popular streamers on the viewing platform! Her income from tips alone is very high, so she doesn't lack money at all."

Li Miaomiao listened, knowing that she had to understand Wang Yi's thoughts in order to decide how to invite her.

"Sister Wang Yi still has some pursuit of her dreams," Dai Xiaoqing said. "She has always wanted to pursue the strongest archery! I also often spar with her; I'm an assassin! I train my assassin abilities, and she trains her close-range archery abilities. She's still very obsessed with training her archery skills."

"Your senior brother is the same..." Li Miaomiao glanced at her friend's situation. "Look, your senior brother has run off to the Star Tower again to practice bitterly. He doesn't even want to start a live stream."

"Sister Wang Yi is quite willing to stream."

Dai Xiaoqing laughed, "Sister Wang Yi has said that when she's streaming, with everyone watching, her mental state is more focused and fervent, so she can perform even better."

"She doesn't care about money and is pursuing the strongest archery?" Li Miaomiao pondered. "Then why hasn't she settled on a team?"

"Maybe she hasn't found suitable teammates," Dai Xiaoqing said. "I'm not too clear about her detailed thoughts. How about this, I'll go and figure out what she's thinking first. Once I find out, I'll come and tell you immediately."

"Xiaoqing, thank you," Li Miaomiao said.

"Your and senior brother's affairs are my affairs. You can rest assured with my work," Dai Xiaoqing said with a smile. "I'll go find Sister Wang Yi for a spar now."

...

Third level of the Star Tower, in the rainforest.

Xu Jingming was, as usual, fighting with a pack of tigers.

"Roar~~~" Six large tigers surrounded Xu Jingming. Xu Jingming's footwork was now more perfect and agile, his spearmanship faster and more swift, and his ability to deflect force and defend was much more perfect, but he was still a bit disheveled under the siege of six tigers.

In the instant of a change of footwork, the spear thrust back, as fast as lightning, forcefully piercing into the neck of a tiger. He instantly pulled the spear back and dodged, avoiding the pounce of another tiger.

The tiger whose neck had been pierced with a bloody hole turned into an illusion and disappeared.

After one tiger died, three more tigers in the distance slowly approached, and they were even larger.

Xu Jingming fought with all his might.

After fighting for a long time.

"Poof." With one mistake, a tiger's claw scratched across Xu Jingming's back.

"This time, I killed a total of six tigers, but I still didn't qualify to have the Tiger King take action." Xu Jingming's body turned into a phantom and disappeared from the third level of the Star Tower.

At the bottom of the Star Tower.

Xu Jingming appeared here and looked up to see the huge榜单 (bǎngdān) (ranking list) in the night sky.

On the huge ranking list, there were only six names!

"The virtual world has been open for a month, and there are only six people in the world on the list," Xu Jingming said silently. "The third level of the Star Tower is too difficult. No wonder the Blue Star Alliance didn't set a time limit; the top hundred all get rewards."

Looking at the six names, Xu Jingming was filled with longing.

Global Rank 1: Liu Hai (Xia Country)

Global Rank 2: Tiger Folsom (White Eagle Federation)

Global Rank 3: Alan Yemelianenko (Rossia Country)

Global Rank 4: Tiyano Sere (Bovanna)

Global Rank 5: Lei Yunfang (Xia Country)

Global Rank 6: Quai Saint Mills (White Eagle Federation)

"These six people, the oldest is my master, Liu Hai, seventy-four years old," Xu Jingming said silently. "Except for Tiyano, the other five... are all over forty years old, and they have all achieved success long ago."

"Only Tiyano Sere is only twenty years old this year?" Xu Jingming had seen many news reports about him.

Since appearing on the Star Tower榜 (bǎng) (list), Tiyano Sere had become a celebrity. Various interviews and news reports had spread in Xia Country.

"Tiyano Sere was born in the small South African country of Bovanna. At the age of eighteen, he was discovered to have boxing talent and was brought to the White Eagle Federation. After a year of training, he was recognized as having even greater mixed martial arts talent, so he switched to mixed martial arts... After a year of mixed martial arts training, before he even officially debuted, the virtual world opened. This fighting genius has completely bloomed in the virtual world, and his growth rate is simply monstrous."

"Twenty years old, he passed the third level of the Star Tower and is ranked fourth in the world," Xu Jingming sighed.

If the other five were older.

But this monstrous genius was only twenty years old and had no professional fighting experience. And what about himself? He was already twenty-nine years old and had so much competition experience. But the other party was already ranked fourth in the world!

This made Xu Jingming feel that there was always someone better! The world was indeed full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!

"Master and the others have all publicly said that the gene evolution method must reach the high level, the combat skills must reach the third level, and after tempering, one must form their own combat system in order to pass the third level." Xu Jingming gently clicked on his personal combat power panel.

Gene Evolution Method: *Tian Mang* (Sky Python) Evolution Method (Mid-level 99%) (Practice time 703 days, unable to improve)

Body: 135

Skills: Spearmanship (Second level 99%), Footwork (Second level 93%), Shield Skill (Second level 99%)

Base Combat Power: 2025

Actual Combat Bonus: 26%

Combat Power: 2551

"My evolution method is stuck at mid-level 99%, and my spearmanship and shield skill are both stuck at second level 99%," Xu Jingming said silently. "It's been stagnant here for more than a week."

"As far as I know, only my master Liu Hai, Lei Yunfang, and Zhou Yi in the country have reached the third level in combat skills. Everyone else is stuck at the second level."

The list set by Wang Xiangunu.

Regardless of the second or third tier, their combat skills have reached the second level limit. Even if they haven't reached the second level 99%, they're at least at the second level 90%.

The second tier is strong because they have a systematic set of skills that can suppress the experts behind them.

"There are many people in the country stuck in a bottleneck. There are even more people around the world stuck at the second level limit bottleneck," Xu Jingming said silently. "Considering the global situation, the step from the second level limit to the third level... is very difficult."

"I've also asked my master!"

"According to what master said, you must reach the third level before the gene evolution method can hope to break through to the high level." Xu Jingming also had a headache.

He was stuck in a bottleneck, watching those weaker than him catch up, but he couldn't improve.

"The body is like water, the mind is integrated into every part of the body, and with a thought, the move has already arrived," Xu Jingming said softly. "But why can't I do it?"

This bottleneck trapped Xu Jingming and also trapped many top experts around the world.

Only by breaking through this bottleneck can one have a vast future! Only then will one be qualified to step into the ranks of the world's top experts!