translator: Ciel
Hearing his uncle’s statement of ‘still okay’ from his seat backstage, Qin Mo felt a little sympathetic towards Xiao Han. In fact, from Qin Mo’s point of view, Xiao Han played very well in this first round, decisively grabbing the opportunity in the most straightforward manner. His ability to grasp opportunities was strong, and his final blow was sure, fully demonstrating the style of a first-class assassin.
Qin Ye was too lazy to praise Xiao Han, so Ye Chao and Liang Ru offered more words of praise for the master assassin. Soon enough, the second match began, and the audience once again turned to focus on the large screen.
According to the rules, the second game was Chen Jiang’s home game, giving him the right to select the map.
Players of the long whip flow were able to tangle up their opponents and toss them away with their whips. Generally speaking, air combat maps and swamp maps thus gave them the best advantages. Chen Jiang selected a map that everyone was familiar with—— Sword Altar!
It was very convenient for him to play at moving pumice on Sword Altar. As long as he could roll up his opponent and throw him down, the spike on the ground could directly kill the opponent.
This sort of instant-death map was extremely risky, causing the matches to be correspondingly exciting as a result.
“On this map, the long whip players can control the field using their displacement skills,” Ye Chao couldn’t help saying. “God Han needs to prevent himself from being controlled, increasing the difficulty of moving.”
“Indeed,” Liang Ru echoed. “If caught by the opponent in a moment of carelessness and tossed off the pumice, it will count as a loss.”
“Xiao Han is someone who has fought in the world competition before, and winning the first game is a given. Only if he wins the second game, can it be considered a feat worthy of his reputation,” Qin Ye commented lightly.
“What if Xiao Han loses this match?” Ye Chao questioned.
Qin Ye frowned. “That only proves that his level has dropped drastically after changing projects.”
Ye Chao: “…”
Liang Ru sighed. “Your expectations for Xiao Han are really high!”
In a match between experts, winning and losing were very normal. However, Qin Ye’s words meant that Xiao Han would be unworthy of his fame if he lost an away match. However, playing an away game was actually very difficult. Generally, a match between players of the same level would see a 1:1 draw in their home and away maps, forcing a tiebreaker. But, according to Qin Ye’s standards, it was a huge loss if Xiao Han won with a score of 2:1.
What were the reasons for such strict requirements? Still, Liang Ru instinctively felt that Qin Ye must have thought highly of Xiao Han’s skills. Otherwise, he would not have expected Xiao Han to win even an away game.
The map loaded on the live screen, and both players refreshed on a pumice stone.
As the pumice stones were constantly moving, Xiao Han needed to be careful with his positioning and movements, so as to not be caught and thrown off by Chen Jiang’s whip.
The average player might have had a headache when facing the strong control skills of the long whip flow, but Xiao Han had plenty of experience in competitions, and quickly found a method that targeted this style of play—— running around while in stealth!
As soon as the match started, he entered stealth with the sect qinggong ‘Darkness Valley’, and quickly jumped over to Three Thousand Miles of River. The dagger in his hands stabbed at his opponent’s back—— Meteor, Phantom Dreaming!
The two-hit combo of Meteor caused a large amount of damage. At the same time, the illusory control skill Phantom Dreaming caused Chen Jiang to lose sight of the map.
“God Han has snatched the initiative!” Ye Chao praised.
“Assassins are able to enter stealth, making it relatively easy for them to seize the advantage,” Liang Ru explained. “God Han’s positioning is first-class, and his speed when entering stealth was extremely fast, catching his opponent off-guard!”
Chen Jiang really had been caught unawares. When they had loaded on the map at the beginning of the game, he saw the black-clothed assassin on the pumice furthest from him, all the way diagonally across the map. However, an instant was all the assassin needed to enter stealth, and in just five seconds, Xiao Han made use of the pumice stones movements and his own qinggong to circle around Chen Jiang, releasing a series of outbreak and a control skill.
—— it came too quickly！
The assassin in stealth traversed the pumice stones like flat ground, with movements as fast as the wind, coming with a speed that Chen Jiang had not expected.
Caught off-guard by the illusion control, Chen Jiang could only open the group attack of ‘Wind Dragon Dance’!
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The green whip flailed around, covering all directions with a fierce momentum!
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In case it was bait, he didn’t use a high-damage skill, and instead used a general attack. As a result, the sound of his whip making contact with his opponent once again echoed in his ears.
Even while blinded, Chen Jiang managed to counterattack by relying on his sense of hearing. Xiao Han greatly admired this beautiful operation.
Now that his location had been discovered by the opponent, and he had been inflicted with a layer of poisoning, Xiao Han wouldn’t stay to wait for his death. Right at this moment, a pumice stone passed by, and Xiao Han jumped over to it, while simultaneously throwing out his dagger—— Rainbow Through The Sun!
Using the skill ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ consecutively three times, the thrown dagger increased from one to three, before multiplying once more into a dense, fan-shaped barrage, all of which hit Three Thousand Miles of River!
Totaling the damage dealt by the original explosive combo with this long-ranged Rainbow Through The Sun, Chen Jiang had around half his blood volume left.
At this moment, the illusion control finally ended, and Chen Jiang’s vision finally became clear, but the assassin was no longer in front of him. Turning around, he saw Thousand Miles Ice on a pumice stone behind him. The pumice stone itself was moving rather quickly, and wanting to curl his whip around a moving opponent wasn’t easy. However, Chen Jiang was very clear about the various routes taken by the moving pumice stones. The angle of the shot was very tricky——
Cloud-destroying Wind!
The strongest control skill of Xuanbing Palace’s long whip flow, which could roll up the target and toss them to the designated position!
This targeted skill could not be avoided. Xiao Han happened to be in the attack range, and was unfortunately caught by the waist. Chen Jiang flicked the mouse with his right hand, tossing Thousand Miles Ice into the distance——
Seeing the black-clothed assassin about to fall off the pumice stone in the sky, the audience cried out in dismay. In that instant, however, a soft golden light surrounded the assassin, who teleported away, landed on another pumice stone in the distance.
—— Golden Cicada Shell!
The assassin’s ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ was a skill that consumed a lot of blue and had a long cooldown time. It allowed the assassin to teleport away, even if they were controlled by the opponent.
Chen Jiang threw out his long whip very quickly, but Xiao Han’s reaction was faster. The moment he had been tangled up by Chen Jiang’s whip, his finger had already been placed on the key for the skill Golden Cicada Shell in preparation for this moment. As soon as the long whip was thrown out, he immediately used the skill. In fact, he had also scouted for a suitable pumice stone he could escape to earlier.
The effects of ‘Golden Cicada Shell’ was really outstanding, and could be compared to the penetration effect of Qin Mo’s ‘Drifting Sword’ skill, which he used to pass through the ground after falling off the cliff!
“Indeed, Xiao Han is worthy of being Qin Mo’s good friend,” Ye Chao sighed. “The two of them have obviously done research on how to save themselves after falling through the air!”
Liang Ru smiled. “Indeed, Golden Cicada Shell is quite similar to Drifting Sword; both of them are skills that involve instantaneous displacement. In fact, this operation of god Han’s is exactly the same as god Mo’s, making use of the instant teleportation after he falls, cleverly using the skill to avoid getting stabbed to death by the spikes!”
“What does god Ye think?” Ye Chao questioned.
“His operation is still passable,” Qin Ye replied lightly.
Ye Chao: “…”
Liang Ru and himself praised Xiao Han for half a day, but when it came to Qin Ye, there was only a ‘still passable’.
Qin Mo felt very relieved, watching Xiao Han fight from the backstage lounge. In fact, many of their gameplay ideas had been created during his battles against Xiao Han. This was the fabled case of the strong meeting the strong, causing everyone to get stronger. The both of them learnt together every day, so their progress was correspondingly quick, and they also learnt many skills from their exchanges.
Xiao Han had indeed picked up this trick from Qin Mo, just as Qin Mo had learnt ambush tactics from Xiao Han. The both of them influenced each other and progressed together, without any distinctions between them.
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Seeing that his opponent managed to evade this strong control skill gave Chen Jiang a large surprise. Xiao Han’s reaction really was faster than a computer; if he had been slower by even 0.1 seconds, he would have been unable to find a pumice stone to land on!
After returning to the pumice, Xiao Han immediately took the initiative to attack——
The cooldown time of Xuanbing Palace’s big move ‘Cloud-Destroying Wind’ was 30 seconds. So, for the next 30 seconds, Xiao Han did not have to worry about being tossed off the pumice by Chen Jiang, and his fighting style naturally became more unrestrained.
Due to his skills being on cooldown, Chen Jiang could only fight Xiao Han head-on. Although his explosive ability was not comparable to Xiao Han’s, the poisoning effect of his weapon could make up this gap.
The poisonous green whip shot out like a snake, crackling as it danced through the air. Chen Jiang’s operation of his whip was also quite handsome—— Gale Whip, Shadowless Whip, Snowfall Whip!
Almost as if sentient, the whip in his hand hit his opponent’s chest and torso squarely on every strike, and just listening to the sound effects caused the audience to tremble in pain.
This set of attacks did a considerable amount of damage. Xiao Han lost half his blood volume in a single breath, and had three layers of poisoning stacked on him.
Immediately, Xiao Han closed in with qinggong, while Chen Jiang retreated with qinggong. Both players started a game of tug-of-war on the dangerous floating pumice stones.
Due to Chen Jiang’s farther reach and attack distance, Xiao Han was unable to catch up to him, and could only open the skill ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’, chasing him with the various shadows.
Just as the shadows were about to catch up with him, Chen Jiang turned around, using the skill ‘Stream-breaking Whip’!
This skill damaged targets within a specified range, as well as created a barrier across a straight line to block the opponent from progressing.
This was the true strength of Xuanbing Palace’s displacement control. In addition to ‘Cloud-Destroying Wind’ which could throw opponents away, ‘Stream-breaking Whip’ could forcibly generate barriers capable of blocking skills, which included healing and damage. During a team battle, the core player could be completely separated from the rest of their team at critical moments.
The green barrier would last for three seconds. Being blocked on the other end of the barrier, Xiao Han was unable to cross over, and Chen Jiang immediately took the opportunity to widen the distance with qinggong.
Using procrastination tactics to delay the time was the most sensible approach for him. Because Xiao Han had been inflicted with three layers of poison, by the time the poison status ended, Thousand Miles Ice would only have around 30% of his blood volume left. By that time, Chen Jiang’s own ‘Cloud-Destroying Wind’ skill would have finished its cooldown. He could either take the opportunity to toss Xiao Han off the pumice, or use a set of combos to empty his blood.
Seeing this, Qin Ye couldn’t help but offer a few words of praise. “Chen Jiang’s playstyle is rather clever, and he is clear on when to push forward and when to retreat. At this moment, retreating is his best option. As long as Xiao Han’s blood volume falls, he will have the opportunity to kill his opponent.”
“There are only 10 seconds left before Cloud-Destroying Wind can be used again, while Golden Cicada Shell still has 15 seconds left on its cooldown,” Ye Chao nodded. “The cooldown for Golden Cicada Shell is a little longer, and Chen Jiang can make use of this 5-second gap to toss his opponent off the pumice.”
At this time, Three Thousand Miles of River still had 40% of his health, while Thousand Miles Ice was continuously losing blood, and would soon reach about 30%. Victory seemed to be beckoning towards Chen Jiang.
A blood volume gap of 10% was not a huge issue, and could be solved with a single skill. The key was that Chen Jiang’s skills were almost off cooldown.
The moment Chen Jiang’s ‘Cloud-Destroying Wind’ came off cooldown, Xiao Han suddenly jumped several times in the opposite direction, quickly pulling away from Chen Jiang. Even if he wanted to attack, Chen Jiang was no longer able to reach him with the skill.
Ye Chao was unable to hold in his laughter. “God Han is also very clever, and has obviously calculated the cooldown time of his opponent’s skills perfectly. If you run, I will run too, just to make sure you won’t be happy!”
“En,” Qin Ye agreed. “He’s not stupid.”
To Ye Chao, this was a reasonable and calm approach. However, when it came from Qin Ye’s mouth, the evaluation somehow became a ‘not stupid’.
Naturally, Xiao Han wasn’t stupid!
It wasn’t wise to get near Chen Jiang this time. Golden Cicada Shell was still under cooldown, and if he was rolled up and tossed away by Chen Jiang’s whip, Xiao Han would be doomed.
Thus, Xiao Han also made use of the same tactics, increasing the distance while waiting for his skills to be available once again.
Only after five seconds, when Golden Cicada Shell’s cooldown had ended, did he use qinggong to fly back, once again engaging Chen Jiang in battle.
However, Chen Jiang did not continue his attempts to toss Xiao Han off the pumice—— because Chen Jiang knew very well that at Xiao Han’s level, if he could avoid the attack once, he could definitely avoid it a second time. Xiao Han’s use of Golden Cicada Shell to teleport through the air had obviously been perfected. Even if the pumice stones were moving through the air, Xiao Han could use the teleportation effect of Golden Cicada Shell to find a foothold extremely quickly.
It was simply delusional to want to toss him off the pumice stones with a whip.
As a result, Chen Jiang did not bother to try the method already deemed useless, and instead attacked his opponent directly. Thousand Miles Ice only had 30% of his blood left; if Chen Jiang succeeded, it was possible for him to kill the assassin immediately.
—— Snowfall Whip, Shadowless Whip!
The instant Xiao Han approached, the long whip in Chen Jiang’s hands shot out, attacking the assassin’s throat!
However, at that very moment, Xiao Han vanished.
—— It was the assassin’s big move, Shadowless Dragon!
Shadowless Dragon allowed the assassin to forcibly enter stealth while in combat, and doubled the damage of all skills within three seconds of exiting stealth!
Chen Jiang felt a chill go down his spine, and immediately used the big move ‘Wind Dragon Dance’, swinging his whip across the area to hit the invisible assassin!
At this moment, Thousand Miles Ice was left with 15% of his blood, and was inflicted with another three layers of poison by Chen Jiang.
Thousand Miles Ice would definitely die after 5 seconds, and Chen Jiang only needed to retreat, quietly waiting out this time. Another possible option was to use another attack skill to empty this small amount of blood, in order to win this match.
But Xiao Han wasn’t going to give him this chance.
The distance between both players was only 5 metres. Using qinggong to close the gap, Xiao Han threw out the dagger in his hands—— Rainbow Through The Sun, Meteor, Deadly Ice Silkworm!
First was the long-ranged attack of Rainbow Through The Sun, followed by the surprise attack Meteor from behind, and the Deadly Ice Silkworm skill that pierced through the opponent’s back!
Rainbow Through The Sun lowered the opponent’s blood volume, and the assassin shot past with Meteor, coincidentally avoiding Chen Jiang’s attack, Gale Whip!
This big move was as smooth as flowing water!
In the audience’s eyes, the black-clothed assassin moved like the wind, cleverly avoiding the poisonous green whip aimed at his chest as he swiftly circled behind Three Thousand Miles of River. The dagger in his hands stabbed straight down, and the explosive damage of his final skill, ‘Deadly Ice Silkworm’, instantly emptied his opponent’s health bar!
—— [Thousand Miles Ice] has killed [Three Thousand Miles of River]!
Under the effects of Shadowless Dragon, Xiao Han burst out a large wave of damage, causing the audience to stare in shock.
Three Thousand Miles of River had 40% of his health just moments ago, while Thousand Miles Ice only had 15%, and had three layers of poison stacked on him. However, the assassin had an unstoppable momentum. If he met god, he’d kill god; if he met buddha, he’d kill buddha. The moment he got close, he launched a series of sneak attacks, stabbing the opponent in the back, and the triggered criticals finished his opponent off directly!
When Three Thousand Miles of River fell, Thousand Miles Ice was only left with 10% of his blood, but in the end, it was Xiao Han who pushed forward without hesitation at a crucial moment to win the second game.
Ye Chao sighed. “Xiao Han really deserves to be a first-class assassin. Even watching his simple yet decisive outbreak is extremely scary! Despite his opponent having more blood than him, he wasn’t worried in the slightest. He made no unnecessary moves, and even his calculation of damage was extremely precise!”
“No wonder the newcomers of the Miracle league were so badly shaken when they had to face off against god Han,” Liang Ru mused. “The psychological pressure at having to confront this domineering style of play is really large.”
“Chen Jiang’s performance in this game was also very remarkable,” Ye Chao nodded. “Although his goal of punting Xiao Han off the floating pumice stones was not achieved, he adjusted his tactics quickly and advanced, and managed to push god Han into a state of residual blood in the end. It is a pity that he came up just one step short, and god Han dodged his final attack with Meteor.”
“In fact, a match between masters is sometimes a matter of one or two skills,” Liang Ru explained. “Whomever seizes the opportunity first will win. At that final moment, god Han ought to have predicted the angle of the whip attack, and used Meteor as a way to bypass it. At the same time, Deadly Ice Silkworm hit his opponent in the back, giving him a beautiful win in the second game.”
“What does god Ye think?” Ye Chao smiled.
“Not bad,” Qin Ye replied.
Ye Chao: “…”
A score of 2:0 was only ‘not bad’? Was there a difference between ‘not bad’ and ‘still okay’? Was he unwilling to spare Xiao Han a few more words of praise?
Faced with Ye Chao’s judging gaze, Qin Ye could only offer a few more sentences of explanation with great difficulty. “Xiao Han is a player who has fought against the world’s masters, and winning his home game ought to be a given. Only winning an away game will show his strength. His performance today wasn’t poor; it ought to be his normal standards, and is worthy of being one half of the ‘Twin Stars’.”
Only someone sufficiently strong had the right to stand beside his family’s Qin Xiaomo, and could share the name of ‘Twin Stars’ with him—— these were Qin Ye’s true thoughts.
Qin Ye is so stingy with his praise aiyaaa why won’t you just praise Xiao Han more, even Momo didn’t win 2:0 ah, Qin Ye, youre really too mean qwq
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Praising family member more, shunned the in law 🤣
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A vinegar jar uncle lol 😆
Thanks for the chapter!!
Lol, uncle vs hubby
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Poor Xiao Han~ 〳 •́ ﹏ •̀ 〵
Not only he has to deal with Catgod & LXF and now even Qin Ye… Since the return of Qin Mo, Xiao Han is in the position of the bottom of the food chain lol
I‘m looking forward to the match between Qin Mo and Xiao Han~! And the appearances of their masters~!
Thank you for the chapter! ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
And then the last boss will be Qin Mo’s parent 🙈
+1 their match will be good 💕💕
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Qin Ye please time more credit to our Xiao Han 😂 his comments for the match were the best lol lol
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Lol, Xiao Han is just, not bad.. 🤣
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all the praise withheld by the uncle shall be given by the nephew, that’s the rule :3
Well… I guess as a fellow assassin, Qin Ye has a high standard for assassins XD
Aaaaaaa Qin Ye is really a nephew-con hahahahaha
but him saying that xiao han is worthy of being the one half of twin stars, even though saying it in great difficulty, it’s already a huge praise, considering that he only considers that only a sufficiently strong player had the right to stand beside his nephew