Chapter 200 Virtual World

In the virtual world, in Li Miaomiao's直播间(zhībō jiān, livestream room).

Li Miaomiao sat and smiled, "This is my first livestream since the end of the Huozhong (Fire Seed) Cup competition. As a substitute member of the Pearwood team, and also as the team's manager, and even more so as Captain Xu Jingming's leader, feel free to ask anything you want."

"Cat is online."

"Wow, Cat is so domineering now."

"Cat, can you ask your brother-in-law to come? We want to see him too!"

"Let your brother-in-law accept our interview as well."

Countless comments appeared.

Li Miaomiao glanced at Xu Jingming's status on her friend list and said helplessly, "I'd love to invite your brother-in-law, but he's too obsessed with martial arts. Since the end of the finals, he's been in closed-door training."

"Brother-in-law is working hard."

"Brother-in-law is working hard."

"Brother-in-law is working hard."

The comments quickly became unified.

"The harder brother-in-law works, the happier Li Cat is."

"Brother-in-law is truly a hardworking old ox, and Li Cat is just lying down and winning."

"Old ox? Why do I feel like you're driving..."

Soon, the comments went off-topic again.

Seeing this, Li Miaomiao immediately changed the subject, "Regarding this Huozhong Cup competition, what does everyone want to know most about our Pearwood team? Before, we had to keep many things secret, but now a lot can be made public."

"Sister Cat, we want to know, as a key member of the team, do you get a bonus? Do you get 1%?"

...

While Li Miaomiao was chatting with her fans, Xu Jingming was in his personal space training ground, immersed in spearmanship combat.

"This is the feeling."

After all, Xu Jingming had been practicing spear since he was a child. Many basic moves had already become instinct. Now, he was deliberately guiding them, making all moves instinctive. After only three hours of deliberate practice, Xu Jingming gradually entered the zone.

"Bring me a hundred bandits with a basic combat power of 3000," Xu Jingming directly created them virtually.

Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish!

Figures, as ghostly as phantoms, surrounded and attacked Xu Jingming from all directions. There were also hidden weapons, making it indeed terrifying.

These opponents were quite strong individually, but a hundred of them working together would have caused the demise of someone at Xu Jingming and Fang Yu's level during the competition. But the current Xu Jingming had already transformed.

"Clang, clang, clang—"

Xu Jingming's spear danced, and with a slight tremor, it traced arcs, easily deflecting the hidden weapons. As he moved at high speed, the spear naturally transformed into streaks of spear shadows, and one bandit after another was struck down and turned into nothingness.

"This feeling is wonderful." Xu Jingming could even be distracted, yet his hands continued to kill without pause.

Upon seeing an enemy, he would instinctively unleash various moves.

Faced with an enemy's siege, he also instinctively knew how to respond!

At this moment, his brain cleared. His brain was high above, calmly observing the entire battle, and his body naturally moved as he wished, executing various moves. As a result, the combos became much faster.

"When the virtual world had just opened, when Master and I fought, Master emphasized controlling the enemy, responding after they acted, and executing moves as soon as he thought of them," Xu Jingming thought.

"What I've learned from Master's fighting now is controlling the overall situation with my mind! It's having no moves in mind, but instinctively executing them! The prerequisite for this fighting style is extremely high control over one's body."

Xu Jingming's current control over his body allowed him to do this. Although there were occasional lapses, he had generally reached this realm.

"Swoosh."

With a backhand sweep, the spear swept across the neck of the last bandit behind him.

All the bandits had turned into nothingness.

A hundred bandits with a basic combat power of 3000 were wiped out just like that.

Xu Jingming thought, "Before, I would have been flustered facing the siege of a hundred such experts. Now, with no moves in mind and controlling the overall situation with my mind, I can even calmly analyze how to defeat them one by one, identify the flaws of the many enemies, and naturally find ways to break through. It's as effortless as庖丁解牛(Pao Ding Jie Niu, Butcher Ding cutting up an ox)."

"It's time to challenge the Star Tower." At this moment, Xu Jingming's heart was calm and full of confidence.

His breakthrough in spearmanship during his fight with his master, and the ‘no moves in mind, controlling the overall situation with my mind’ fighting style he had mastered during the replay, had comprehensively improved his strength.

Mission Space.

"Swoosh."

A stream of light descended, landing in front of the towering Star Tower.

Xu Jingming glanced at the huge榜单(bǎng dān, ranking list) in the night sky and walked into the Star Tower, heading to the third level.

******

Star Tower, third level. In the dark, humid tropical rainforest, Xu Jingming was very familiar with the place. He went straight for the manifested tiger.

The tiger, enraged, roared and pounced, its claws about to tear the human in front of it.

"Swoosh."

Xu Jingming arrived in front of it, dodged, and thrust his spear out, piercing through the leaping tiger's neck.

In an instant, he stabbed and pulled the spear out, and Xu Jingming was already gone. The tiger fell and turned into nothingness, disappearing.

"These ordinary tigers are too big. At most, a few will attack me at the same time, which isn't as much pressure as being besieged by those bandits with a basic combat power of 3000," Xu Jingming said easily, killing the tigers one by one as he advanced. Weapons like spears were indeed much more convenient than knives and swords for dealing with tigers.

Xu Jingming was different now from how he used to be.

In the past, he was immersed in the battle, which made him very nervous. But now, his mind was detached, allowing him to control the situation more clearly, and all his moves were natural and extremely smooth.

"Roar~~~" The tiger king in the distance finally rushed out in anger, leading a group of tigers to attack.

Xu Jingming didn't blindly meet them head-on. Instead, he used his footwork, using the ordinary tigers as obstacles, trying to avoid clashing with the tiger king and continuing to slaughter the ordinary tigers.

Two minutes later, accompanied by the tiger king's angry roar, the remaining six tigers fled in panic.

Only Xu Jingming and the tiger king were left in a one-on-one battle.

"It's just the two of us left." Xu Jingming was somewhat excited. Although the tiger king's pressure was great, it was not as strong as his master Liu Hai.

"Roar~~~" The tiger king pounced, as if a small mountain was pressing down.

Xu Jingming was too familiar with the tiger king's strength, having fought it many times. Even though his strength had improved a lot, he was still suppressed by the tiger king in terms of physique, strength, speed, agility, and other aspects. He had to use his advantages in combat skills and weapons to have a chance of winning.

The tiger king's pounce was extremely agile, moving faster than Xu Jingming. Its huge paws were also terrifying weapons.

But Xu Jingming seemed to have become one with his surroundings.

"Controlling the overall situation with my mind, I can also use the surrounding environment." Xu Jingming's mind was detached from the battle, and he was extremely calm, using every environmental factor, focusing on defense, and counterattacking with a spear whenever he found an opportunity.

The spear was 2.6 meters long, at least longer than the tiger king's claws. A single thrust from his current strength would injure the tiger king.

The two sides fought fiercely!

One side was fierce, making the most of its physical advantages, being extremely agile and swift.

The other side was full of wisdom, using the environment to leave wounds on the tiger king's body.

Xu Jingming's current state of combat even allowed him to judge, "With my stamina, I can maintain peak combat for half an hour, and I won't give the tiger king any chances."

Just eight minutes later.

The tiger king, with dozens of spear wounds on its body, was seriously injured. Its claws had slowed down a lot. Xu Jingming suddenly pierced the tiger king's strong neck with a spear. After pulling the spear out, the tiger king wailed and weakly swung its claws twice, but it couldn't touch Xu Jingming at all.

Xu Jingming held his spear, calmly watching the tiger king fall and disappear into nothingness.

"Third level cleared. Preparing to enter the fourth level of the Star Tower." A beautiful voice rang in his ears.

Xu Jingming's body returned to its peak state, and the bloodstains on his armor and weapons disappeared, becoming clean and tidy.

The scene in front of him changed.

"The fourth level is here." Xu Jingming had already seen the scene of the fourth level of the Star Tower.

...

When it was determined that Xu Jingming had passed the third level, a new name appeared on the huge榜单(bǎng dān, ranking list) in the night sky outside the Star Tower.

Global Rank 1: Liu Hai (Xia Country)

Global Rank 2: Tiger Fussen (White Eagle Federation)

Global Rank 3: Alan Emelianenko (Rassia)

Global Rank 4: Tiyano Silay (Bovana)

Global Rank 5: Lei Yunfang (Xia Country)

Global Rank 6: Kui Sheng Mills (White Eagle Federation)

Global Rank 7: Reven Gullit (Roma Country)

Global Rank 8: Xu Jingming (Xia Country)

At this moment, many people around the world saw this new name when they looked up at the star榜(bǎng, list). The news immediately spread wildly at a terrifying speed, and within minutes, it had spread completely across the globe.

(End of this chapter)

This is the official end of the first chapter of the new book, and it is also the beginning of the entire novel.

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