Chapter 18 Team Ranking

The Xia Country official broadcast room's host, Liu Xin, glanced at the prompt on the screen in front of her, smiled, and looked up. "The first round of the Kindle Cup competition, all sixteen matches, have been completed. The virtual world has also deduced the actual combat power displayed by each team. The Liu Hai team and the Zhou Yi team are fixed as team number 1 and team number 2. The other teams are ranked according to their combat power."

Liu Xin looked behind her, and the ranking of the sixteen teams appeared behind her—

1st: Liu Hai Old Men's Team (Captain Liu Hai)

2nd: Lei Yunfang Team (Captain Lei Yunfang)

3rd: Shield Axe Team (Captain Xiong Tianshan), team combat power 18100

4th: Thunder Team (Captain Gao Chong), team combat power 16980

5th: Golden Peng Team (Captain Tie Lianyun), team combat power 16960

6th: Zhou Yi Team (Captain Zhou Yi), team combat power 16660

7th: Big Fish Team (Captain Chen Yu), team combat power 15910

8th: Floating Team (Captain Liu Jiuzhou), team combat power 15800

9th: Fairy Team (Captain Zhang Qing), team combat power 15738

10th: Heavenly Voice Team (Captain Zhuang Ziyu), team combat power 15635

11th: Wuling Team (Captain Fang Yu), team combat power 15590

12th: Pearwood Team (Captain Xu Jingming), team combat power 15380

13th: Yunshan Team (Captain Huo Qingshan), team combat power 15120

14th: Jian Chun Team (Captain Qin Ge), team combat power 13860

15th: Bai Que Team (Captain Qin Wen), team combat power 13872

16th: Frost Whisper Team (Captain Gu Chong), team combat power 13560

"The second round of the competition will still be a head-to-tail battle. Team number 1 will face team number 16, team number 2 will face team number 15..." Liu Xin said, "This is the schedule for tomorrow's matches."

The battle schedule also appeared on the side.

"The Zhou Yi team is ranked 6th, and the Fairy Team is ranked 9th. It's really surprising." Liu Xin smiled. "On the one hand, some experts are still hiding their strength. On the other hand, the competition becomes more intense as it progresses. Tomorrow's competition will definitely be even more exciting. The broadcast of the first round of the Kindle Cup competition ends here. Next is 'Expert Tracking', hosted by my colleague, Sister Wan Ning."

Nowadays, the Xia Country official broadcast room has programs on twenty-four hours a day.

At this moment, however, the audience quickly left. After all, everyone was tired after watching the competition for so long. Even in the later stages of the competition, the audience had dropped to 800 million. This is because the online time limit for minors under the age of 16 is 8 hours, and those children are unwilling to use all their online time to watch the battle.

"Go to my personal space." Xu Jingming got up, and the other five members of the Pearwood Team also got up.

"I always feel like I'm a husky mixed in with a pack of wolves?" Li Miaomiao thought secretly as she mingled among them.

...

Xu Jingming's personal space had a beautiful view of the snowy mountain peak's ice lake through the huge glass window.

The six members of the Pearwood Team sat down on the sofa.

"While I was watching the competition just now, I also took the time to carefully review the videos of the previous matches." Xu Jingming said, "I discovered some threatening opponents."

"Are there any Tier 3 experts?" Wang Yi's eyes lit up, and she asked.

Xu Jingming waved his hand, and the ranking of the sixteen teams appeared next to him.

"I've carefully watched some key battles in slow motion." Xu Jingming nodded. "It can be confirmed that Xiong Tianshan of the Shield Axe Team broke through to Tier 3 on the spot, but his evolutionary method has not reached a high level. But tomorrow, he has a certain probability of successfully breaking through in his evolutionary method."

"Zhang Qing of the Fairy Team, Tie Lianyun of the Golden Peng Team, and Fang Yu of the Wuling Team, all three of them are suspected of breaking through," Xu Jingming said.

"Suspected of breaking through?" The team members all looked at Xu Jingming.

"The probability that they have already broken through is at least 80%, but it's also possible that I misread it," Xu Jingming said. "Of course, the entire competition may still hide experts that I haven't noticed, but the second round of the competition will be more intense, and their strength will eventually be revealed one by one. Our fifth match tomorrow is against the Golden Peng Team."

September 3rd, 2:00 PM, Golden Peng Team vs Pearwood Team.

"We only need to focus on the Golden Peng Team now!" Xu Jingming said.

"Sun Li is in the Golden Peng Team." Heng Fang said coldly, "That villain, we gave him free sparring for more than half a month, besieging him and training his close-range archery. He succeeded, but he slipped away before the competition started."

"His words are like farts," Liu Chongyuan also said angrily.

"We now have the stronger Sister Yi." Yang Qingshuo said with a smile, "That Sun Li must be very unhappy."

Wang Yi smiled, "I will definitely perform well during the competition."

"Sun Li is not worth mentioning," Xu Jingming said. "He is the weakest in their team. Tie Lianyun, Zhao Pan, Zhang Feng, and Zhang Cheng are more worthy of our attention. Especially my senior brother Tie Lianyun... He was one of the three legends of the Xia Country martial arts world and has won three world championships!"

Xu Jingming said solemnly, "Speaking of the World Martial Arts Competition, he is the person from Xia Country who has won the most world championships!"

Heng Fang also nodded, feeling the pressure: "Senior Brother Tie Lianyun is the most hardworking and craziest person I have ever seen. He trains so frantically every day that his shoes are worn out... so later he simply practiced barefoot! No matter how cold it is, he practices barefoot all year round, and his feet have thick calluses. He practices in the morning, practices in the evening, and even practices when he wakes up at night. His life seems to be only about martial arts."

The junior brothers who had been in the national team felt this very strongly, and Yang Qingshuo also said: "Brother Xu is very dedicated to practicing martial arts, but Senior Brother Tie Lianyun is simply a madman."

"Precisely because of this, he inherited the most of Master's shield and saber techniques," Xu Jingming said. "And I feel that he is suspected of having broken through! If he breaks through to Tier 3, and his evolutionary method reaches a high level... then we must fight with all our strength in this battle."

"Yeah." Everyone present nodded.

"Zhao Pan and Zhang Feng, their strength is not inferior to mine." Heng Fang nodded, "They are much younger than me and have terrifying potential."

"That's right."

Liu Chongyuan said, "Zhao Pan is eighteen years old this year, and Zhang Feng is twenty years old. They are both folk players. They both reached their current strength in just over a month after entering the virtual world. Their talent is truly terrifying."

Li Miaomiao said, "The Golden Peng Team chose two young people with such high talent because they also have ambitions. And they invited Tie Pengyun to be the captain!"

"Zhang Cheng's shield technique is also stronger than mine." Liu Chongyuan nodded, "He is a person who is almost impossible to find flaws when defending."

...

Golden Peng Team, Tie Lianyun's personal space.

This is a mountain forest, and the entire mountain forest is Tie Lianyun's residential area. The six team members and the team manager are sitting on wooden chairs.

"Our opponent in the second round is the Pearwood Team." The silver-haired youth looked at Sun Li, "Sun Li, you were originally teammates with Xu Jingming and the others. Tell us what you know."

Sun Li nodded: "I haven't had much contact with Wang Yi. But I am very familiar with the other four. According to the matchups, Heng Fang and Zhao Fan are comparable, so we need to be careful of his flying spear technique. Yang Qingshuo is slightly weaker than Zhang Feng. Liu Chongyuan is slightly weaker than Zhang Cheng and is more clumsy. As for the captains of the two teams, our captain is naturally much stronger than Xu Jingming."

"Yeah." The silver-haired youth nodded slightly.

The short and fat Tie Lianyun sat there and said indifferently: "My junior brother Xu Jingming is suspected of breaking through to Tier 3."

Whoosh.

Everyone present looked at Tie Lianyun in unison.

"Breaking through to Tier 3?" Zhao Fan was a somewhat young man, full of vigor, and couldn't help but say at this moment, "He only used a shield in the preliminary rounds and the first round of the competition. Can you be sure that he has broken through?"

"He's too steady! His shield defense is too steady, and his timing for dodging is too perfect." Tie Lianyun said indifferently, "But my junior brother is known for his violent and swift style, and he has never been a steady type. Only a breakthrough in combat skills can allow him to be extremely steady in the face of all kinds of situations."

The silver-haired youth nodded solemnly: "What you said makes sense. I have observed many team members and also feel that Xu Jingming is very steady this time."

"Most importantly, he didn't even use his spearmanship in the preliminary rounds and the first round." Tie Lianyun said calmly, "I observed him when he joined the national team. My junior brother's spearmanship talent is very amazing. Considering all aspects, I judge that he has a high probability of breaking through to Tier 3."

"I can be sure that he hadn't broken through when I left the Pearwood Team," Sun Li said.

"Then he broke through after you left," Tie Lianyun said. "Alright, I'll deal with him! You guys take care of the others."

"Yes, Captain!" The other members of the team immediately responded.

The silver-haired youth looked at this scene with satisfaction. He felt that the most brilliant thing he had done was to choose Tie Lianyun as the captain. It's a pity that he couldn't invite Wang Yi, whom he wanted to invite.
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