translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
The first match of the afternoon was held at 2:30pm, and featured Tingyu Tower’s black umbrella flow. The two experts with similar IDs from Whisper team successfully met in the final, dazzling everyone with their battle. In the end, ‘Rain Without Umbrella’ defeated their sibling, and won the championship.
This was followed by the competitions of the two major cultivation routes of Luoying Pavilion. ‘Eternal Lamp’ and ‘Morning Breeze Lingering Moon’ won the flute and guqin championship respectively, proving that their strength was indeed worthy of the title ‘great gods of Luoying Pavilion’.
The next competition was from Yongye City’s dagger flow. The championship battle would be fought between ‘Thousand Miles Ice’ from Mojue and ‘Gentle Kill’ from Huxia, both of whom were from Telecom district 1.
As an old opponent of the Dragon Song club, Huaxia club had developed comprehensively over the years, accumulating strength and experts. Although Xiao Han had never met this player ‘Gentle Kill’ before, they were definitely not weak if the club assigned them to Peerless Jianghu’s new district. Perhaps they were an outstanding player who was still active in Wulin or Miracle.
Before the match, the two players rolled the dice. Xiao Han won the privilege of choosing the map first, and directly selected the map ‘Lotus Pond’.
Lotus Pond was a typical water battle map. It had countless lotus leaves on a vast pond that functioned as floating platforms; if a player fell into the water, their movement and attack speed would be reduced accordingly. As the water was crystal clear, players could not hide underwater. However, the lotus leaves occupied a large portion of the pond’s surface, and created a dead angle directly below, which players could use.
The moment the game started, Xiao Han opened the qinggong skill ‘Darkness Valley’ to hide in the water, quickly swimming towards his opponent on the other side of the map.
Gentle Kill did not bother to open the invisibility skill, instead choosing to jump quickly across the lotus leaves in search of Thousand Miles Ice. Half a minute later, the distance between the two players had shrunk to a comfortable attacking distance. Xiao Han’s angle of view was inclined upward, and soon enough, he found a shadow flashing over his head—— now was the moment!
The invisible assassin suddenly jumped out of the water, opening the skill ‘Phantom Dreaming’!
This was the assassin’s single-control skill, which caused their opponents to hallucinate. Gentle Kill no longer saw the lotus pond map, instead seeing a bed of a hundred blossoming flowers. Realising that a negative status had been inflicted on him, Gentle Kill did not hesitate, directly opening ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to run away!
The operation and reactions of both sides were quick. The instant Thousand Miles Ice set a negative control, Gentle Kill immediately nullified it and made his escape.
In truth, Xiao Han had not intended to gain an advantage by using his control skill; instead, he wanted to test his opponent’s movement skills, and also to force Gentle Kill to use Golden Cicada Shell. Seeing his opponent react according to his predictions, Xiao Han decided to give chase—— Meteor!
This skill teleported the player behind their designated target, allowing them to complete two assassinations. Although there was a distance of ten meters between Gentle Kill and Thousand Miles Ice, with the help of this skill, Thousand Miles Ice was able to close this gap in a blink. The dagger in his hands rose and fell rapidly, stabbing his opponent in the back, and the critical hits cut Gentle Kill down to 70% blood!
Seeing his opponent’s aggressiveness, Gentle Kill decisively used the qinggong skill ‘Darkness Valley’, and jumped into the water.
……
All this happened as fast as lightning, clearly showing off both players’ fast hand speeds.
A competition between experts depended on the equipment on both sides. Given that Thousand Miles Ice’s equipment gave him an 80% increase in critical hit rate, it would be an extremely stupid decision to fight him head on. The best way, therefore, would be to timely interrupt his attacking rhythm.
Following this principle, Gentle Kill dived into the water in a timely manner, interrupting Thousand Miles Ice’s series of attacks. After swimming around for a little bit, Gentle Kill pinpointed Thousand Miles Ice’s location, then jumped up from under the lotus leaves. The dagger in his hands was thrown—— it was the triple combo of ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’!
A dense rain of daggers covered Thousand Miles Ice, causing a great deal of damage and instantly erasing the blood volume advantage.
Aware that his opponent wasn’t weak, Xiao Han narrowed his eyes, beginning to play more seriously.
By this time, both of them had around 70% blood volume, and had already used their stealth skills once. The distance between them was less than ten meters, and a head on battle could be forced. Xiao Han’s weapon dealt more damage, so he took the opportunity to open a series of combos without hesitation—— Rainbow Through The Sun! Rainbow Through The Sun!
Throwing out his daggers, Xiao Han caused a rain of daggers to fall from the sky. He successfully landed two critical hits. Instantly dropping his opponent’s blood volume to 55%!
Gentle Kill was not about to give up, however, and dodged the third attack of the Rainbow Through The Sun combo with a qinggong skill. A quick Meteor allowed him to teleport behind Thousand Miles Ice, striking the other assassin with his daggers and cutting his blood volume to 55%.
Even after this series of skills, their blood volume gap still couldn’t be pulled open.
Qin Mo felt quite surprised by this scene. He was very clear about Xiao Han’s level, yet this Huaxia expert didn’t fall behind even under Xiao Han’s aggression. It seems as though the other side’s strength was also extraordinary.
Leaping rapidly between the lotus leaves, the two assassins exchanged skills, lowering both their blood volumes to 35%.
At this moment, Xiao Han suddenly opened the sect’s big move—— Shadowless Dragon!
The black-clothed assassin standing on top of the lotus leaf instantly disappeared. Before Gentle Kill could dive underwater, Thousand Miles Ice lifted his invisible state, directly using ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’ to surround the other assassin with multiple shadows. This intense outbreak caused Gentle Kill’s blood to fall, directly reaching 10%.
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This was the most basic medium-range attack skill of the dagger flow assassins, which threw a dagger down a straight attacking path. It also had the ability to be stacked up to three times, expanding into a fan-shaped group attack skill, making it the most commonly used attack skill.
The area covered by Thousand Miles Ice’s daggers just happened to include Gentle Kill, who was currently hidden by stealth!
Forced to come out of hiding, Gentle Kill had no choice but to fight back. However, Xiao Han was not willing to give him any chances, directly using ‘Deadly Ice Silkworm’ to empty Gentle Kill’s residual blood volume.
——Thousand Miles Ice has killed Gentle Kill!
The audience was very enthusiastic about the underwater killing scene, and the members of Mojue guild couldn’t help but give god Han a loud applause.
Xiao Han’s play style was very handsome—— even though his opponent escaped into the water, he chose to give chase, and directly seckilled Gentle Kill underwater. Such a sharp and ferocious style would indeed give the opponent a lot of psychological pressure.
***
After winning the first game, Xiao Han took a minute to rest, before starting the second game.
Gentle Kill had the privilege of selecting the second game’s map, and selected ‘Swamp Valley’. This map had dim lightning, few stepping stones, and a toxic miasma hanging low over the swamp. If a player fell in, they would not be able to swim; instead, they would get poisoned, and continue to sink deeper. If they were unable to get out within five seconds, the five-layer stack of ‘poisoned’ status effects would definitely kill them.
Compared to direct deaths by falling in air combat maps, this swamp map was a ‘chronic death’ map, which reduced the chance of strangling an opponent, but also tested the player’s movement abilities.
Both players refreshed on the ‘Swamp Valley’ map. Although they could clearly see each other in their field of vision, there were only so many footholds, and they had to walk flexibly if they wanted to close the distance.
As professional players, it was almost impossible for them to slip and fall into the swamp; they needed to find a way to sink their opponent into the toxic marsh.
Assassins didn’t have the ability to fly, but they did have a control skill that could disturb their opponent’s rhythm—— Phantom Dreaming!
Sure enough, Gentle Kill chose this map for this very reason. The moment they approached each other, he suddenly leapt over the stones with his qinggong skill, using ‘Phantom Dreaming’ on Thousand Miles Ice. Xiao Han’s screen was immediately filled with many blooming flowers.
Xiao Han was now caught in a dilemma. If he opened ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to release the control, he would be forced to teleport to a designated location ten metres away. However, he could not see the surrounding environment while under the hallucination status, and the chances of teleporting into the swamp pool were high, which would poison him. On the other hand, if he didn’t use the control release skill, he would be forced to stand in place and take a wave of Gentle Kill’s outbreak.
Quickly making a decision, Xiao Han calmly used ‘Golden Cicada Shell’, teleporting ten metres in a northwest direction behind him.
While the illusion effect was removed, Thousand Miles Ice teleported onto a stone foothold—— if he had been even an inch off, he would have fallen into the swamp!
The audience was shocked. The full-screen flowering effect of the hallucination status was not much different from the full-screen darkness of the blind status. The fact that Thousand Miles Ice was able to teleport showed not only his deep understanding of the map, but also of the distance between the stone footholds!
Gentle Kill was also shocked by this; his control skill had failed to pit the opponent. Obviously, his opponent’s movement skills while blinded were first class!
This first class skill simply meant that professional players were able to rely on their experience and feeling to judge the surrounding situation, as well as their position, while blinded. Gentle Kill had chosen a very tricky map, but Thousand Miles Ice had a comprehensive understanding of the map, and was able to teleport to a tiny stone while blinded, despite there being only a small margin for error!
This was definitely the operation skills and consciousness that only top experts possessed.
Taking a deep breath, Gentle Kill chose to chase Thousand Miles Ice, continuously throwing his daggers to cause a lot of damage. However, Thousand Miles Ice fought back unceremoniously. Their blood volume was at a stalemate, with the gap being maintained within 5%; neither could pull away from the other.
Still, Gentle Kill gradually realised that he could not keep up with the other side’s rhythm, because… this person was simply too fast!
They attacked each other while darting across the stones with qinggong. Gentle Kill found it difficult to maintain a high speed; he had to watch the placement of his feet to ensure that he did not fall into the swamp. On the other hand, he also had to take into account the distance between his skills and Thousand Miles Ice’s position, and even adjust the camera perspective between actions. With so many things to do, his actions were certainly not as fast as if he had been on flat ground.
What he didn’t expect, however, was that Thousand Miles Ice could move around in the swamp as if he were on flat ground!
This person barely needed to pay attention to his positioning; every jump he made was extremely accurate, even with qinggong skills. At the same time, he could instantly adjust the camera, and follow up by launching more skills. To him, this toxic swamp of miasma seemed to be no different from the flat ground.
Gentle Kill regretted his choice of map. Not only did he fail to pit his opponent, he had also allowed himself to fall into a disadvantage.
Noticing that the other party couldn’t keep up with his rhythm, Xiao Han accelerated his hand speed even further!
Using his trademark skill, ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’, Xiao Han summoned five shadows in a row. At the same time, he controlled the shadows to surround Gentle Kill, dealing a wave of disastrous damage!
By the end of the skill, the gap between their blood volumes suddenly increased by 10%.
Thousand Miles Ice had 45% blood left, while Gentle Kill only had 35%.
This seemingly safe amount of 35% blood was actually quite dangerous in a match between experts. A complete set of outbreak from the top players could directly empty this amount of blood, taking away a head. It was especially dangerous in this sort of single-player competition, as there were no teammates to provide protection and no healer to add blood; as long as the opponent could grasp the opportunity, a win was almost guaranteed.
Thinking of this, Gentle Kill directly opened two skills, ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ and ‘Shadowless Dragon’!
The assassin suddenly teleported ten meters away from Thousand Miles Ice, and vanished from sight.
Taking advantage of his invisibility, Gentle Kill crossed the swamp and quietly positioned himself behind Thousand Miles Ice. However, Thousand Miles Ice did not remain idle, and changed his position to prevent Gentle Kill from making a series of critical strikes with the bonus from cancelling Shadowless Dragon’s invisibility effect.
Both of them were moving, but apparently, Thousand Miles Ice moved more quickly!
He went back and forth, left and right, and his usage of qinggong skills was superb. The footholds in the swamp were arranged in a disorderly manner, making it difficult for Gentle Kill to catch up with Thousand Miles Ice.
Seeing that his Shadowless Dragon skill was about to end, Gentle Kill grit his teeth, before dashing across the swamp in a straight path with qinggong—— unfortunately, there was no stone along his chosen path, causing him to fall into the swamp. However, Gentle Kill activated his qinggong skill at this exact moment, causing him to jump into the air, giving him enough time to use qinggong again to reach the nearest stone.
He had gotten poisoned from touching the swamp, no matter how briefly. Still, it didn’t matter as long as he could kill Thousand Miles Ice before he died.
Gentle Kill was overjoyed to find Thousand Miles Ice not too far in front. Lifting Shadowless Dragon’s stealth state, he made use of the three seconds’ doubled damage, immediately launching a series of outbreaks—— Rainbow Through The Sun! Meteor! Deadly Ice Silkworm!
Hit by this series of attacks, Thousand Miles Ice was immediately reduced to only 5% health! As long as the opponent hit him even once more, he would surely die.
Just as Gentle Kill became assured of his victory, Thousand Miles Ice suddenly used a familiar-looking combination of skills—— Golden Cicada Shell, Shadowless Dragon!
If you can use it, so can I!
He seemed to be mocking Gentle Kill’s carelessness by using exactly the same skills.
As a result, the residual blood Thousand Miles Ice disappeared from Gentle Kill’s field of vision. In an attempt to fish out his invisible opponent, Gentle Kill turned the camera around and threw multiple daggers, only for nothing to happen. Obviously, Thousand Miles Ice had predicted this action, and so did not choose to hide behind him.
——in fact, he was still in his original position.
That’s right; the Mojue team members who stood behind god Han to watch the game were dumbfounded!
God Han was really too cruel; he used ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ to teleport ten meters away and ‘Shadowless Dragon’ for the stealth. Naturally, Gentle Kill assumed that he was going to run away to search for an opportunity. In the end… not only did Xiao Han not run away, he even flew back with qinggong to stand directly in front of Gentle Kill.
Gentle Kill was completely fooled into thinking that the other party would sneak around to attack, so he turned around to throw a dagger. Unfortunately, Xiao Han was right in front of him.
Quirking the corner of his lips, Xiao Han decisively broke the concealment, and launched a flurry of skills—— Meteor! Deadly Ice Silkworm!
In addition to the double damage effect of Shadowless Dragon, Xiao Han managed to trigger a few critical strikes. This set of combos quickly emptied Gentle Kill’s remaining 35% blood volume.
——Thousands Miles Ice has killed Gentle Kill!
Shen He jumped up in excitement. “Ah ah ah, god Han has won! God Han is the champion! God Han is great!”
Zhu Qingyue, who was seated nearby, offered a smile. “Xiao Han is very awesome.”
Qin Mo definitely agreed, praising, “You fought handsomely.”
Standing up from his seat, Xiao Han glanced at Qin Mo. “I’ve won the championship, does the captain have any reward for me?”
“What kind of reward do you want?” Qin Mo asked.
Xiao Han stretched out his arms, and pulled Qin Mo close. “Hug me.”
Qin Mo: “…”
What sort of reward was this?!
Still, being held by this guy was quite comfortable. Smiling, Qin Mo did not resist, returning the hug instead. “Congratulations on winning the championship.”
***
At the same time, Huaxia club’s training room.
Looking at the residual blood Thousand Miles Ice, Wen Hua almost spat out a mouthful of blood. “F*ck! How could he remain in the same place after becoming invisible?”
Chu Jianxin, who had watched the battle while beside him, smiled. “Haven’t you recognised him yet?”
Wen Hua scratched his head, puzzled. “Who?”
Chu Jianxin: “Dragon Song club, Xiao Han.”
Wen Hua’s eyes widened in shock. “God Han? No way- it’s impossible, isn’t it?!”
Calmly opening the browser, Chu Jianxin searched for Xiao Han’s Weibo. “Do you remember Xiao Han’s favourite hobby?”
Next to them, Sang Jun volunteered. “His favourite hobby is to travel whenever he is on vacation, in the name of ‘getting familiar with the motherland’s mountains, rivers, and local customs’. He also likes to post photos on Weibo, and often adds some strange poems as proof that his Chinese has improved.”
Those in the professional circles thought of Xiao Han as strange, but the fans found this eccentric behaviour from their god Han cute. A picture of the moon could be accompanied by text saying: ‘When did the bright moon first appear? One raises a cup and asks the blue sky’, while a picture of the Yellow River was accompanied by “The Yellow River surged down from the sky; Up to the sea it does tumble and flow”. This mixed-race Xiao Han would travel whenever he went on vacation every year, and his habit of taking all sorts of pictures and uploading them with accompanying poems was known to everyone.
However, this holiday…
Chu Jianxin smiled. “You see, Xiao Han didn’t go anywhere this vacation. Neither has his Weibo been updated. What do you think he’s doing?”
“…” Wen Hua shuddered. “Now that captain Chu has said this, I do think that Thousand Miles Ice’s play style is quite similar to god Han’s! This trick of being invisible while remaining in place has been used by god Han many times to pit opponents while on the field!”
“En, I can’t think of any other assassin at such a level.” Chu Jianxin thought for a few moments. “Dragon Song club did state before that they would send a team to Peerless Jianghu. I have long suspected that the team captain might be Xiao Han, and judging from today’s competition, ‘Thousand Miles Ice’ is definitely him. However, I can’t recognise his partner, Ink Mark.”
Lin Yao: “……………………”
With a ‘poof’, a mouthful of coffee was coughed up, once again washing the computer screen.
Huaxia’s team members turned around immediately, only to realise that it had been the fool, Lin Yao. This was already the second time he had sprayed coffee on the computer screen.
Wen Hua pat him on the shoulder. “What are you doing? I didn’t get as agitated even though I lost the match.”
Lin Yao could only smile awkwardly at his teammates. Drying the computer screen with tissues, he thought to himself—— oh my god, if captain’s guess was right and Thousand Miles Ice really was Xiao Han, then wasn’t the little follower behind god Mo that day also god Han?!
Didn’t that basically mean that the core lineup of the Mojue team was actually… Miracle’s Twin Stars?!
Was there anything scarier than this??
Notes:
Oyen: Hello, translator here…I will go on vacation. So this is the only chapter that I will release this week and I’ll be back on March 23rd, see you friends~~~
Ah ah ah HanHan keluarga kami keyen banget! Jd keinget waktu doi main di Miracle dulu XD
Klub Huaxia semua chara baru ‘kah? Identitas HanHan keluarga kami ketebak, Lin Yao udah ketakutan duluan XD
Nggak nyangka doi malah yang tahu dulu XD
Btw, HanHan keluarga kami licik! Di manapun dan kapan pun mesti nyari kesempatan dalam kesempitan. Saya juga mau dipeyuk (っ´▽`)っ
Kak Oyen stay safe! Sedia masker dan air putih di perjalanan, bawa obat dasar buat jaga-jaga, vitamin juga. Kalau ketemu cogan salamin, jan lupa oleh-oleh waktu pulang! Canda, hehehe =3=
Xiao Han di game ini kayaknya lebih OP dibanding dia di Miracle dulu 😆, setelah 3 tahun ditgl Qin Mo lol..
Iya, karena Lin Yao uda tau identitas Ink Mark, jadi ya pasti kaget tuh
Xiao Han ga mau kalah sama Shen He, makanya minta dipeyuk juga, cemburu tingkat tinggi 😌
Yupp, makasii, ini sudah pulang sih selama di jalan juga kayak pergi perang bukan liburan jadinya, dan pulang lebih cepet dari target =w= Ga bisa salamin cogan, lagi musim virus hahaha 😂
Enjoy your vacation! Take care!
Thanks for the chapter
Yes, thank you!! I already arrived home safely now 😘
And you’re welcome!
Thank you for the chapter \ ^_^ /
You’re welcomee!! 😍
Enjoy your vacation! Give us a treat of a few more chapters! 😉
Thank you!! I will stockpile the chapters now lmao xD
And i really recommend everyone to read this book with “Rainbow Rain” by Yumemiru Adolescence as the background music! You’ll fall in love with it really quickly! 😍
It’s a good song 😍 I searched it on google, is this the song for Kimi wa petto live action drama? I think I watched it, the one with Matsumoto Jun lol.. 🤣
Hello! May I ask from which manhua, novel or donghua your profile pic from? It’s so beautiful 😍😍😍😍
haha, he finally realized who he was up against!!!! i forgot what chapter i was on and just figured it out. oyen, sorry for the wait. i’m just a bit of a dumbass. hope your vacation went well!
lol, welcome back floofy, maybe you should try novelupdates to keep track chapters? Yes, thank you, my vacation went well, with a little bit of corona danger 😂
im a cave dweller, i keep track of novels by having each one open to different tabs and reload it when i think about the novel. anything more complicated it beyond me x’D
that sounds like a worrisome vacation. hope you’re isolated well by now XD
ohh, that’s why, I also read some novels like that, open many tabs lol 😂
Hopefully, I already isolated myself for 2 weeks after that, and still doing fine 😣
it’s the best way to read what i like, bc if i don’t like it i clear up clutter by closing a tab! (tabs…. tabs everywgere… qaq)
hopefully that keeps up.
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Thank you for the chapter!
Hahahaha Lin Yao spitting all over hahaha. Thanks for the translation!
in the former generation, both qin mo and xiao han’s play was still considered as talented but premature, still has more room for improvement. now in their own generation, they’re already considered great god and feared by other players. i’m like a proud mother watching them grow up!!
Haha i was waiting to see their reaction when they find out who the little follower is lol