Chapter 19 Teammates

"The situation is like this..." Li Miaomiao explained the matter. "So your shixiong and the others are now lacking a teammate."

"Is Sun Li so petty?" Dai Xiaoqing said angrily after listening. "My shixiong and the others have practiced with him in training matches for 20 days! That's 20 days in the virtual world! He suddenly quits? Couldn't he have waited until after the Huozhong Cup competition to sign with another team?"

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

"It's still better to have a marksman. With an enemy marksman watching in the shadows, melee fighters can only display 70% of their strength and can't afford to make any mistakes," Dai Xiaoqing thought. "Does Saozi want to ask about Wang Yi's situation?"

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

"Wang Yi..."

Dai Xiaoqing thought, "As you know, she was originally a three-time Olympic archery champion. Now, on the viewing platform, her popularity is among the top three streamers! Her income from tips alone is very high. She doesn't lack money at all."

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

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

"Your shixiong is the same..." Li Miaomiao glanced at her friend's status. "Look, your shixiong has run off to the Star Tower to practice hard again. He doesn't even want to stream."

"Wang Yi is quite happy to stream."

Dai Xiaoqing laughed, "Wang Yi said that when she streams, with everyone watching, her mental state is more focused and fanatical, and she performs even better."

"She doesn't care about money and pursues the strongest archery?" Li Miaomiao pondered. "Then why hasn't she joined a team?"

"Maybe she hasn't found the right teammates," Dai Xiaoqing said. "I'm not too clear on 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, I'm troubling you," Li Miaomiao said.

"Your matters and Shixiong's matters are my matters. You can rest assured when I handle things," Dai Xiaoqing said with a grin. "I'm going to find Wang Yi for a spar now."

...

Star Tower, third level, in the rainforest.

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

"Roar~~~" Six large tigers were besieging Xu Jingming. Xu Jingming's footwork was now more perfect and flexible, his spearmanship was faster and more agile, and his force-deflection defense was much more perfect, but he was still somewhat disheveled under the siege of six tigers.

In a flash of footwork, he thrust his spear backhand, as fast as lightning, directly into the neck of a tiger. He instantly pulled out his spear and dodged, avoiding the pounce of another tiger.

The tiger with a bloody hole in its neck turned into an illusion and disappeared.

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

Xu Jingming fought with all his strength.

After a long battle.

"Pfft." In one mistake, a tiger's claw slashed across Xu Jingming's back.

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

At the foot of the Star Tower.

Xu Jingming appeared here and looked up to see the huge leaderboard in the night sky.

There were only six names on the huge list!

"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 100 all get rewards."

Looking at the six names, Xu Jingming was full of desire.

Global Rank 1: Liu Hai (Xia Country)

Global Rank 2: Tiger Fosson (White Eagle Federation)

Global Rank 3: Alan Emelianenko (Raksha Country)

Global Rank 4: Tiyano Seare (Bowana)

Global Rank 5: Lei Yunfang (Xia Country)

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

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

"Only Tiyano Seare is only twenty years old this year?" Xu Jingming had read a lot of news about him.

Since appearing on the Star Tower list, Tiyano Seare had become a celebrity. Various interviews and news about him had spread throughout Xia Country.

"Tiyano Seare was born in the small South African country of Bowana. 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 deemed to have 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 blossomed in the virtual world, and his growth rate is simply monstrous."

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

While the other five people were older,

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

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

"Shifu and the others have all publicly stated that the genetic evolution method must reach a high level, the combat skills must reach the third level, and after training, a combat system of one's own must be formed to pass the third level," Xu Jingming lightly tapped on his personal combat power panel.

Genetic Evolution Method: *Tianmang* Evolution Method (Intermediate 99%) (Practice time 703 days, cannot be improved)

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 intermediate 99%, and my spearmanship and shield skills are stuck at second level 99%," Xu Jingming said silently. "It's been stuck here for more than a week."

"As far as I know, only Shifu 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.

Whether it's the second or third tier, combat skills have reached the limit of the second level. Even if they haven't reached the second level 99%, they are at least at the second level 90%.

The reason why the second tier is strong is because they have systematic ultimate techniques that can suppress the experts behind them.

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

"I also asked Shifu!"

"According to what Shifu said, one must reach the third level for the genetic evolution method to hopefully break through to a high level," Xu Jingming also had a headache.

Being stuck in a bottleneck, watching people weaker than himself catch up, while he himself couldn't improve.

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

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

Only by breaking through this bottleneck could one see a vast and limitless world! Only then would one be qualified to step into the ranks of the world's top experts!