Virtual world, Li Miaomiao's livestream room.

Li Miaomiao sat and said with a smile, "This is my first livestream since the end of the Fireseed Cup. As a substitute member of the Pearwood team, and also as the team's manager, and even more as Captain Xu Jingming's leader, feel free to ask anything you want."

"Meow Meow is live."

"Wow, Meow Meow is so domineering now."

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

"Let your brother-in-law accept our interview too."

Countless comments appeared.

Li Miaomiao glanced at Xu Jingming's status on her friend list and said helplessly, "I really want to invite your brother-in-law, but he's too obsessed with practicing martial arts. Ever since the finals ended, 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 uniform.

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

"Brother-in-law is really a hardworking old ox, and Li Meow Meow is just lying down to win."

"Old ox? I think you're driving..."

Soon the comments went off-topic again.

Seeing this, Li Miaomiao immediately changed the subject, "Regarding the Fireseed Cup, what do you want to know most about our Pearwood team? Many things that needed to be kept secret before can now be revealed."

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

...

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

"That's the feeling."

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

"Bring me a hundred bandits with a basic combat strength of 3000." Xu Jingming directly simulated them.

Swish swish swish swish swish swish!

Figures as ghostly as phantoms surrounded and attacked Xu Jingming from all directions, with hidden weapons striking, making it truly terrifying.

These opponents were strong individually, but a hundred of them working together would have killed someone at the level of Xu Jingming and Fang Yu 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 drew arcs, easily blocking the hidden weapons. While moving at high speed, the spear naturally transformed into streaks of shadows, and the bandits were killed and turned into nothing.

"This feeling is wonderful." Xu Jingming could even be distracted, yet his hands continued to kill.

Upon seeing the enemy, he instinctively unleashed various moves.

Upon seeing the surrounding enemies, he also instinctively had countermeasures!

At this time, the brain was free. From a high vantage point, the brain could calmly observe the entire battle, and the body naturally moved at will, unleashing many moves. In this way, the combos were much faster.

"When the virtual world was first opened, when Master sparred with me, he emphasized controlling the enemy, striking after the opponent moved, and the moment he thought, the move was already out," Xu Jingming thought.

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

Xu Jingming's control over his body now allowed him to do this. Although there were occasional stumbles, he had generally reached this state.

"Swoosh."

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

All the bandits had turned into nothing.

A hundred bandits with a basic combat strength of 3000 were wiped out.

Xu Jingming thought, "Before this, facing the siege of a hundred such masters, I would have been flustered. Now, with no moves in mind and the mind controlling the whole, I can even calmly analyze how to defeat them one by one, find the flaws in the many enemies, and naturally crack them. As easily as a butcher carving up an ox."

"It's time to闯星空塔 (*Chuang Xing Kong Ta* - Challenge the Star Tower)." At this moment, Xu Jingming was calm and full of confidence.

His breakthrough in spear skills during his sparring with his master, as well as his grasp of the 'no moves in mind, the mind controlling the whole' fighting style 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 ranking list in the night sky, then walked into the Star Tower, heading for the third level.

******

Star Tower, third level, a dark and humid rainforest. Xu Jingming was very familiar with it, and he went straight to the tiger that appeared.

The tiger roared in anger, even leaping up, its claws wanting to tear apart the human in front of it.

"Swoosh."

Xu Jingming arrived close, his figure flashed, and with a flick of the spear in his hand, he thrust it out, piercing through the neck of the leaping tiger.

In an instant, he thrust and pulled back his spear and left. The tiger fell to the ground, turned into nothing, and disappeared.

"These ordinary tigers are too big. At most, only a few can attack me at the same time. They are not as much pressure as the siege of those bandits with a basic combat strength of 3000." Xu Jingming was relaxed, killing one tiger after another as he advanced. Weapons like spears are indeed much more convenient than swords when dealing with tigers.

Xu Jingming was different now than he was in the past.

In the past, he was immersed in the battle, and the battle seemed very tense. But now his mind was detached, and he had a clearer grasp of the situation, with all his moves flowing naturally and smoothly.

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

Xu Jingming did not blindly meet them head-on, but first used his movement technique, using the blocking of ordinary tigers to avoid a clash with the tiger king as much as possible, and continued to slaughter the ordinary tigers first.

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, one-on-one.

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

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

Xu Jingming was too familiar with the tiger king's strength. After all, they had fought many times, and 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 advantage in combat skills and his advantage in weapons to have a chance of winning.

The tiger king pounced, extremely agile, moving faster than Xu Jingming, and its huge claws were even more terrifying weapons.

Xu Jingming seemed to be one with the surrounding environment.

"With the mind controlling the whole, the surrounding environment can also be utilized." Xu Jingming's mind was detached from the battle, extremely calm, using every environmental factor, focusing on defense, and counterattacking with a spear whenever he found an opportunity.

The spear was two meters six long, at least longer than the tiger king's claws. His current thrust was enough to injure the tiger king.

The two sides fought frantically!

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

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

Xu Jingming's current fighting state even allowed him to make a judgment: "With my stamina, I can maintain a peak level of fighting for half an hour, without giving the tiger king any chance."

Only eight minutes later.

The tiger king, with dozens of spear wounds on its body and severe injuries, became much slower. Finally, Xu Jingming thrust his spear fiercely into the tiger king's stout neck. After pulling out the spear, the tiger king let out a wail and weakly waved its claws a few times, but could not touch Xu Jingming at all.

Xu Jingming held his spear and calmly watched the tiger king fall, turning into nothing and disappearing.

"Third level passed, 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 blood stains on his armor and weapons disappeared, becoming clean again.

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 Xu Jingming was judged to have passed the third level, a new name appeared on the huge ranking list in the night sky outside the Star Tower.

Global Rank 1: Liu Hai (Xia Country)

Global Rank 2: Tiger Fosson (White Eagle Federation)

Global Rank 3: Alan Emelianenko (Rocha Country)

Global Rank 4: Tiyano Xilai (Bovana)

Global Rank 5: Lei Yunfang (Xia Country)

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

Global Rank 7: Riven Gullit (Roma Country)

Global Rank 8: Xu Jingming (Xia Country)

At this moment, when many people around the world looked up at the star chart, they saw this new name. The news immediately spread at a terrifying speed, and within a few minutes, it had spread to every corner of the globe.

(End of this chapter)

This first chapter of the new book has officially ended, and this is also the starting chapter of the entire novel.

Tomato needs to take a day off tomorrow to carefully prepare the next chapter. I hope everyone understands.

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