Chapter 1

Xu Jingming and his four teammates transformed into five streaks of light, landing on a desolate wilderness.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming looked ahead. In the vast wilderness, a large alien army was approaching in the distance.

"Pearwood Team, during the preliminaries, your weapons and equipment are unlimited. However, your stamina consumption and injuries cannot be recovered by the system until the end of the preliminaries. Please allocate your stamina reasonably." A voice echoed in the ears of Xu Jingming and his teammates, "Five minutes from now, the orc army in front of you will launch an attack! What you need to do is to completely annihilate this orc army."

"The orc army consists of a total of one thousand orc soldiers. The number of soldiers killed by all participating teams will be published simultaneously!"

"Killing all the orc soldiers will be regarded as annihilating the orc army."

"Remember, only the thirty teams that complete this task the fastest can enter the main competition."

Xu Jingming and his teammates immediately began preparing their weapons and equipment.

"Five people against an army?" Wang Yi said, "Fortunately, weapons and equipment are unlimited, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to carry so many arrows."

"Pay attention to the rational allocation of stamina," Xu Jingming said. "Everyone should wear armor, definitely not leather armor. I can see... a lot of the orc army's cavalry carry bows and arrows."

"They are mounted archers," Yang Qingshuo nodded solemnly. "And there are also heavy cavalry. What are those army generals riding? Such large mounts!"

While selecting equipment and weapons, Xu Jingming and his teammates carefully observed the orc army in the distance.

The orcs had brown skin and ugly faces. The most numerous were infantry! There were also snow wolf light cavalry carrying bows and arrows, as well as even more terrifying heavy cavalry, and a few vaguely visible generals, all riding huge dire dragons.

At this moment, the orc army was also observing the five humans, and the generals had already begun giving orders to their subordinates.

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In the Xia Nation's official live broadcast room, the number of viewers had already exceeded 1 billion! It could be said that at this late hour, the vast majority of people in Xia Nation were watching the Xia Nation's official live broadcast.

"821 God-level teams," the host Liu Xin said, "Each God-level team needs to eliminate an orc army, and only the 30 teams that complete it the fastest can enter the main competition, and have the opportunity to face teams led by Teacher Liu Hai and Teacher Lei Yunfang."

"This preliminary round mechanism is quite interesting," Liu Hai nodded in evaluation. "The number of soldiers killed by all participating teams is published simultaneously. This means that every team can know the number of kills of other teams. Even teams that are hiding their strength... must ensure that they are in the top 30!"

"Teams outside the top thirty need to be more adventurous and fight harder. Otherwise, even if they destroy the orc army, if they are outside the top thirty, they will still be eliminated," Lei Yunfang nodded. "And it looks like this orc army is not easy to deal with."

"I can tell the two teachers," Liu Xin looked at the information in his hand and said with a smile, "The design difficulty of the orc army is such that the vast majority of God-level teams will be wiped out, with the passing rate controlled at about 10%."

"One-tenth?" Liu Hai and Lei Yunfang both nodded slightly.

"If they risk pursuing speed, the pass rate may be further reduced," Liu Xin said, "Of course, there will still be thirty teams that pass! Please believe in the virtual world system's calculation ability."

"Alright, the orc army's attack is officially beginning!" Liu Xin looked at the live scene behind him.

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In the wilderness, there was no cover.

On one side were Xu Jingming and his teammates, and on the other side was the orc army.

"Orc army attack countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6... 3, 2, 1!"

At the instant the countdown ended—

A general of the orc army, wielding his sword, pointed towards Xu Jingming and his team, issuing an order in the orc language.

Immediately, the orc infantry began to charge rumbling forward, while the snow wolf light cavalry also began to move. These light cavalry split into two groups, one on each side of Xu Jingming and his team.

"Hua!" The snow wolf light cavalry on both sides raised their bows and fired arrows simultaneously.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!

The arrows rained down!

Xu Jingming and his teammates experienced the feeling of 'arrows raining down'. At the same time, three hundred arrows fell, and Xu Jingming and his teammates were also moving, not willing to become living targets. Dozens of arrows fell in their area.

"Raise shields." Xu Jingming, Liu Chongyuan, Heng Fang, and Yang Qingshuo all raised their shields, completely blocking the top and protecting the entire team.

They heard a crackling sound, and some arrows hit the leg armor, clanging.

"Fortunately, they are all ordinary bows and arrows. If they were armor-piercing arrows shot by God-level archers, we would be in trouble," Yang Qingshuo said.

"Three hundred mounted archers, if each one was comparable to a God-level archer, maybe only the captain could resist, and we would all be finished," Heng Fang said.

"The infantry will be in front of us soon, Sister Yi, it's up to you then," Xu Jingming said.

"Don't worry," Wang Yi nodded.

The arrows suppressed them for three waves, and the orc infantry finally reached the front. The arrows from afar also stopped, otherwise, shooting arrows would involve those infantrymen.

"Here they come." Xu Jingming and Liu Chongyuan both held two shields, responsible for protecting the team, mainly protecting the marksman Wang Yi! There were too many orc soldiers, so it was more appropriate for both of them to use shields at the same time.

Heng Fang held a serpent spear, and Yang Qingshuo held a silver spear. They were responsible for killing the orc soldiers that got close.

"Roar~~"

These orc soldiers roared and rushed to the front. For a time, more than a dozen orc soldiers attacked at the same time.

Most of them were stabbing with spears! At the same time, chain hammers were thrown, and flying axes were smashed, all falling towards Xu Jingming and his teammates.

"Boom boom~~" Xu Jingming blocked and shook with his left and right shields. The orcs on the left staggered back, and the orcs on the right also fell. Liu Chongyuan's two shields were even larger, and also blocked a group of orc soldiers.

Swish swish swish swish swish!

Wang Yi began rapid-firing arrows, only drawing the bow in a semicircle before shooting, each time shooting three arrows simultaneously!

Three arrows at once! In the blink of an eye, nine arrows!

The most terrifying thing was that every arrow pierced the orc soldier's head.

Wang Yi was expressionless, each time taking and shooting an arrow had a rhythm. Only after an arrow quiver was empty, and she took another quiver from the virtual world system, would there be a slight pause interval. At other times, she was shooting arrows relentlessly.

"Sister Yi is awesome," Yang Qingshuo shouted.

"Yi-jie is great!" Heng Fang said with a smile, holding a serpent spear, while Yang Qingshuo held a long spear, responsible for killing some of the orc soldiers that rushed closer.

With Wang Yi's rapid-firing arrows slaughtering soldiers, Heng Fang and Yang Qingshuo were naturally much more relaxed. Xu Jingming and Liu Chongyuan only needed to protect their teammates.

Whoosh~~~

A large number of orc soldiers, like a tide, constantly impacted Xu Jingming's team, wave after wave constantly surging up! Wanting to completely crush Xu Jingming's team.

Xu Jingming's team was like a 'reef' under the impact of a huge wave, resisting the orcs' crazy attacks.

Xu Jingming looked up.

In the high sky, the number of soldiers killed by all the teams was displayed.

First: Zhou Yi Team (Captain Zhou Yi), number of kills 205

Second: Immortal Beauty Team (Captain Zhang Qing), number of kills 183

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Fifth: Pearwood Team (Captain Xu Jingming), number of kills 152

Sixth: Heavenly Sound Team (Captain Zhuang Ziyu), number of kills 139

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Tenth: Golden Peng Team (Captain Tie Lianyun), number of kills 123

Eleventh: Shield Axe Team (Captain Xiong Tianshan), number of kills 122

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Nineteenth: fL Team (Captain Fang Yu), number of kills 98

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Thirty-third: White Horse Team (Captain Zheng Bailong), number of kills 69

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Eight hundred and twenty-first: Happy Team (Captain Pang Yun), number of kills 12

The number of kills of all teams in the high sky kept jumping, and the team rankings were also changing. The major teams mainly focused on the top thirty.