translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
At 8:30am the next morning, Qin Mo and Xiao Han had breakfast, then took a taxi to the competition venue. As Qin Mo’s fingers had been frozen yesterday, causing him to not play well, Xiao Han took the initiative to specially prepare a pair of gloves for him this morning. As soon as they walked out of the hotel, Xiao Han tugged the gloves onto Qin Mo’s hands, before placing them in his coat pocket.
The cold wind in Beijing in February was bitterly cold, but Qin Mo’s heart was as warm as spring. Curving his lips slightly, he followed Xiao Han and entered the car.
The match had not yet started when the both of them arrived at the venue. Both Ye Chao and Liang Ru were preparing backstage.
Seeing them, Ye Chao took the initiative to offer his greetings. “Why are the both of you here so early?”
“We came early to adjust to the environment,” Xiao Han replied.
Looking at Qin Mo’s gloved hands, Ye Chao realised something. “The reason for yesterday’s match– is it because your fingers flexibility was affected by the cold morning?”
Qin Mo didn’t expect Ye Chao’s eyes to be so sharp. He could actually guess the reason for yesterday’s defeat just from a pair of gloves. After a moment of silence, he nodded, “En.”
“Then, good luck for today.” Ye Chao smiled.
In fact, he had already guessed that Qin Mo’s retirement was probably related to his fingers. Still, he was a professional, jokes could be made, but some words couldn’t be said. It was also very unkind to expose people’s scars. So even if he saw that Qin Mo’s hand speed was wrong yesterday, he wouldn’t say it aloud.
Today’s Qin Mo looked calm and energetic. He should be confident in the match.
Patting Qin Mo’s shoulder, Ye Chao walked to the commentary platform. Greeting the Twin Stars with a smile, Liang Ru followed her partner to their assigned area.
The match officially started at 9:00am in the morning.
Today, the first match in the group A was Qin Mo VS Xu Sizhe, while the second match would be Qiu Zongping VS Lin Yao.
Qin Mo and Xu Sizhe stepped onstage one after the other. In theory, both sides should shake hands amicably before the competition. Much to the surprise of the audience, Xu Sizhe didn’t bother shaking Qin Mo’s hand, and Qin Mo also ignored him. Each of them went to their seats and sat down, which made the scene somewhat awkward.
Shen He, who was watching the game from the backstage lounge, couldn’t help complaining. “This is really letting him off too lightly! After all, he is still a newcomer. Master debuted long before him, how can he not even shake hands before the game?”
“His heart knot hasn’t yet been untied,” Xiao Han replied coldly. “He is unhappy whenever he sees Qin Mo. It’s a pity that the team members of Graceful Beauty team follow such a captain.”
It was said that the members of Graceful Beauty team were all folk experts from Netcom district 2. Obviously, they hadn’t known about Xu Sizhe’s problem with Qin Mo when they were recruited. In fact, the most important thing in a competition was to have a peaceful mind. If you played with the goal of ‘personal ambition’, your opponent could easily seize the opportunity.
Qin Mo had good luck today. He rolled 99 points directly, and had the priority to choose the map first.
——Stone Forest.
The map chosen by Qin Mo soon appeared on the big screen. This map was Xu Sizhe’s nightmare. He lost to Shen He once on this map, and later on, lost to Qiu Zongping also. Now, Qin Mo continued to choose Stone Forest, which was simply mocking him in public.
Frowning, Xu Sizhe clutched the mouse with his fingers, the veins on the back of his hand almost bursting in his rage.
On the commentary platform, Ye Chao explained. “In professional circles, many players have maps that they particularly hate. For Xu Sizhe, Stone Forest should be the map he hates most. We can see that as soon as Qin Mo selected the map, Xu Sizhe’s expression turned extremely ugly.”
Just then, the director switched the camera view to focus on the players’ seats, showing an enlarged version of Xu Sizhe’s frown on the screen. Pausing for a few moments, Ye Chao continued. “Normally, Stone Forest is a good map for summoners. The swordsman can only attack at close range, but the summoner can use his many pets to surround the opponent. However, Xu Sizhe has already lost two matches on this map. If he doesn’t adjust his mentality in time, he is likely to lose this third match as well.”
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The match started shortly. Both sides were refreshed in two corners of the map.
Qin Mo quickly rushed to the middle of the map, as did Xu Sizhe. At the precise moment when the distance between both players were close enough, Qin Mo suddenly shocked everyone with his choice of action—— Skyward Sword!
The sword in the hands of the swordsman clothed in white was pointed to the sky. At lightning speed, a group of snow-white swords gathered around him, followed by a loud “bang”. All the surrounding stones were blown to pieces, and Xu Sizhe, who was hidden behind the stones, lost 30% of his blood volume!
The big move was directly opened at the beginning of the match. Quite a few members of the audience were stunned by this fierce fighting style that simply wasn’t polite to the opponent. Even both commentators were stunned for a few seconds before they could react.
“The Ink Mark flow is really unusual,” Ye Chao joked, amused. “Qin Mo chose the Stone Forest map, but then blew up the stone pillars at the beginning. This… is really unexpected.”
“Obviously Xu Sizhe didn’t expect it either,” Liang Ru exclaimed. “While Xu Sizhe was stunned, god Mo quickly controlled him!”
——Sword Horizon, Sword Rain Remnant!
The moment Qin Mo used the big move to blow up the surrounding stone pillars, Xu Sizhe’s hiding position was exposed to him. The white swordsman didn’t hesitate to use the qinggong skill ‘Flicker’, instantly arriving before Xu Sizhe like a gust of white wind. The longsword in his hand drew a beautiful sword flower, forming a direct Heaven Sun combo.
Xu Sizhe was silenced.
A player controlled by silence couldn’t release any skills. Being inflicted with a 3-second silence status made Xu Sizhe aware of the great danger, and he immediately retreated. However, he was unable to use his qinggong skill to flee, while Qin Mo could. Naturally, his escape speed wasn’t as fast as Qin Mo’s pursuit. In less than a second, Qin Mo cut across his path to stop him. The longsword in his hands was like drifting clouds and flowing water, using three neat strikes of Sword Horizon to cut Xu Sizhe’s blood voume down to 50%.
Less than 10 seconds after the start, the opponent’s blood volume was directly cut in half by Qin Mo. This terrible explosive force caused the audience to hold their breath nervously.
Xu Sizhe’s mood was particularly agitated, and he kept staring at the silence state’s countdown.
The three-second silence finally came to an end. Xu Sizhe’s finger had long been gently placed on the qinggong skill’s key, and he pressed it immediately the moment the silence ended——
However, Qin Mo’s response was faster. At the end of the three-second silence, Qin Mo followed up with the secret book skill, ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’. Countless snow-white sword spirits fell from the sky, causing a lot of damage and inflicting another control status on Xu Sizhe at the same time.
This time, it was three seconds of dizziness.
Xu Sizhe was going crazy!
Ye Chao sighed. “God Mo taking the lead is a terrifying thing. I think the audience can understand how terrible his seamless control is, that it can control the opponent to death…”
“Cough,” Liang Ru reminded politely, “his opponent is not dead yet.”
“He is no different from a dead person.” Ye Chao replied rudely.
Audience: “…”
Indeed, Xu Sizhe was no different from a dead person at this point. Although he still had 35% of his blood, Qin Mo took advantage of the dizziness control, using the basic skill Sword Horizon and the Drifting Sword combo to reduce his blood volume to 15%.
After 3 seconds of dizziness, Xu Sizhe immediately jumped back, but Qin Mo wouldn’t give him a chance to escape. He directly opened the single-target skill, ‘Unrivalled Sword’——
The swordsman in white threw his sword straight out, stabbing the summoner’s back while he turned to escape!
—— [Ink Mark] has killed [Green Jadeite Bowl]!
As the system prompt appeared, Qin Mo calmly put his hands back, but Xu Sizhe, who was sitting opposite, gritted his teeth!
Ye Chao laughed. “It took only half a minute for god Mo to kill the crispy summoner. This is also the shortest duration for a game since the start of this official professional league. To the players of Hanhua Sword sect who want to learn the essence of Ink Mark flow, this demonstration video can be used as a tutorial.”
“Most people may not be able to learn this consciousness and reaction speed,” Liang Ru replied helplessly.
The audience excitedly brushed a row of 6666. Many people were calling Qin Mo ‘husband’, but Qin Mo, who was still on the player’s seat, looked calmly at the computer screen, as if he had just taken a sip of his morning tea.
***
Xu Sizhe had the right to choose the map for the second match. He chose the air combat map, ‘Snow Mountain Summit’.
This map was one of the mountain peaks of Kunlun Mountain, an inaccessible secret place in the game. There were five platforms on top of the towering snow mountain, namely the east, west, south, north and center. The platforms were connected by a glass plank road, with a bottomless cliff next to them. Once a player fell off, they would surely die.
Xu Sizhe’s goal for choosing this map was very clear. He wanted to use the summoners’ mechanical chariot to pit Qin Mo, and knock him off the cliff.
After the match commenced, Qin Mo refreshed in the south, while Xu Sizhe refreshed in the north. Both of them quickly walked around the platform looking for opportunities. The summoner’s attacking range was 20 meters, but the farthest attacking distance of the swordsman was only 10 meters. When it came to long-ranged combat, Xu Sizhe undoubtedly had a great advantage, and could take advantage of it to summon a mechanical chariot to hit Qin Mo!
——The opportunity had come!
Xu Sizhe’s gaze was fixed on the computer screen. At the very moment when Qin Mo used his qinggong skill to move to the west platform, he immediately summoned four mechanical chariots to Qin Mo’s front, back, left and right, sealing his position from three directions, and violently striking at him from the fourth!
This set of operations was very exquisite, and it could be seen that Xu Sizhe had some talent.
However, among the various members of the Peerless Jianghu’s professional alliance, Qin Mo’s understanding of the summoner was unmatched. Back when Xu Sizhe had started his actions, Qin Mo had already inferred his subsequent operations.
Qin Mo’s slender index finger had long been touching the LCD lightscreen. As Xu Sizhe called four mechanical chariots, his index finger slid gently, and Ink Mark suddenly sprinted sideways. The swordsman in white was as light as the wind, but sharp as the sword. Ink Mark’s body directly passed through Xu Sizhe’s summoned chariots!
Without hesitation, Ye Chao praised this wave of operations. “Cross encirclement was god Mo’s most frequently used operation. Wanting to use these four chariots to surround him? Xu Sizhe was simply hoping for too much.”
“God Mo used Drifting Sword’s penetration skill to pass through the chariots and move to Xu Sizhe’s side,” Liang Ru explained. “I have a feeling that Xu Sizhe may be out of luck…”
Both commentators already spoke very quickly, but Qin Mo’s operation was still faster. Just as Liang Ru finished her sentence, Qin Mo silenced Xu Sizhe with a ‘Heaven Sun’ combo, following up with another series of beautiful combos—— Sword Horizon, Riverbound Sword!
The snow-white sword light surged forward like the turbulent river water. Xu Sizhe was caught by this move…
And repelled ten meters backward!
Qin Mo’s calculations were very accurate. At this particular angle, repelling his opponent ten meters back in a straight line was just enough to send them to the bottom of the cliff!
With a loud scream from the character who fell off the cliff, a prompt popped up on the big screen——
[Ink Mark] has killed [Green Jadeite Bowl]!
Mojue’s fans who came to watch the match jumped up excitedly from their seats. The black fans from yesterday that mocked Qin Mo were as quiet as chickens.
Ye Chao laughed. “The second match is still over in one minute. Qin Mo and Xu Sizhe spent a total of five minutes in this match, of which two minutes were half-time breaks and one and a half minutes were pre-match preparations for the two sets of matches. The two matches combined only come up to one and a half minutes. It is estimated that no one can surpass this record…”
The audience who realised this sent ellipses all across the screen.
Wasn’t this ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ too extreme?! Did god Mo inject chicken blood today?
“If all the games are so fast, I can really relax a lot when commentating,” Ye Chao joked.
Liang Ru immediately nodded in agreement.
***
Qin Mo calmly returned to the backstage lounge, as if he hadn’t just won a match, but instead went downstairs for a cup of milk tea.
Reaching out, Xiao Han gently hugged him. “You just won the match, are you unhappy?”
Qin Mo replied, “Happy.”
“Then, why aren’t you smiling?” Xiao Han questioned.
“I’m not happy enough to smile.” Qin Mo replied.
Amused by his seriousness, Xiao Han endured the urge to rub Qin Mo’s hair, and went to pour him some coffee.
At this moment, Xu Sizhe walked into the lounge, his face pale. It was obvious that he had been hit really hard by the loss.
He didn’t pay attention to Xiao Han while passing by the coffee machine, only for Xiao Han to speak up. “You dislike Qin Mo, and think that Qin Mo is targeting you. In fact, Qin Mo doesn’t even have the energy to pay attention to you… it’s quite sad, right?”
Xu Sizhe. “…”
No matter how big the blow of losing the game was, it was not as terrible as Xiao Han’s words, which were sharp enough to kill.
He had always taken defeating Qin Mo to be his goal, but Qin Mo didn’t care about him in the slightest. To Xu Sizhe, this sentence was more embarrassing than slapping him in the face.
Raising his head, he happened to look into Xiao Han’s gaze, which was darker and more profound than the eyes of ordinary Chinese. Xiao Han looked at him with eyes that were incomparably cold, enough for him to shiver, as he whispered, “If you want to continue in the Peerless Jianghu alliance, please cease your hostility towards Qin Mo. Otherwise, I will not let you go.”
He left behind this sentence, and returned to Qin Mo with a cup of coffee in hand.
Listening to Xiao Han’s words, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on Xu Sizhe, causing him to react instantly.
Looking at the picture of Xiao Han and Qin Mo sitting together talking, Xu Sizhe suddenly realised that he actually stood against the most powerful enemy of the Peerless Jianghu professional league—— Twin Stars.
It was impossible to defeat Twin Stars with his ability.
Qin Mo’s 2-0 victory today with a record of 5 minutes was just to tell him one thing—— you’re not qualified to fight against god Mo.
Xu Shize being face slapped with reality and a little bit of unconscious dog food at the end 😆😂
They hit Xu Shize hard 🤣
Thanks for the chapter
You’re welcome~
I hope he can finally see that it’s his own lack of skill and not someone else targeting him. Having talent doesn’t guarantee success. He should work for it.
Ikr, I hope after this he learns his lesson, and then works hard to achieve success 😆
Have waited for this match!~ It was very exciting and Qin Mo was once again amazing!~ ٩(˃̶͈̀௰˂̶͈́)و And the record!!!~ I wonder if someone can break it?? Maybe Xiao Han? 〜٩( ╹▿╹ )۶〜
I hope Xu Shize won‘t be hostile against Qin Mo anymore…
Thank you for the chapter! ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
Maybe even Xiao Han can’t beat this record, Qin Mo is the best >_<
Yes, I hope so..
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I hope XSZ would learn a lesson and grow up.
Thanks for the chapter
Ikr, he really needs to grow up!
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damn that’s faster than it takes me to unlock my phone!!!!!!!
thanks for the chapter!!!
Lol, is it take you a long time to unlock your phone? 🤣
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my phone is old and particular, so my 2 choices are fingerprint unlock (usually takes 4 tries) or typing in a password. sometimes i fail to fingerprint unlock so i HAVE to use password. so the average time unlocking my phone is more than 1 minute :’D longer than it takes qin mo to win his matches
I also use a fingerprint to unlock my phone, hopefully it’s still working well, so i don’t need to use the password 😂
Lol, if it’s like that, no wonder it takes more than 1 minute 🤣
“He’s no different from a dead person”
so on point, ye chao!! and i love how he pointed out that in the 5-minute game, they spent more time for preparation and half-time breaks than the match itself lmao but seriously, xu sizhe has an actual potential, as it was also mentioned by qin mo. unfortunately, his overall attitude ruined the possibility to become a great player