translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
Su Cheng’s choice of map for the second game greatly surprised the audience—— it was ‘Moon and Star Bay’.
This was one of the game’s most scenic tourist hotspots, and was a popular location for couples to go on a date. Several leaves of duckweed were scattered across the lake, and its clear waters reflected the galaxy of stars in the sky, giving rise to a dream-like scene. However, as a game map, its key features were: firstly, movement speeds were slowed down in the water, and secondly, the distribution pattern of the duckweed across the water surface—— the distance between duckweed leaves was extremely uniform, at exactly 20 meters each.
20 metres was a distance that could not be crossed with just one qinggong-powered jump, but it fit nicely with Su Cheng and Xie Changming’s long-ranged attack and control skills.
Seeing this, Liang Ru couldn’t help but voice a thought. “Luoying Valley’s jade flute flow is good at penetrating obstacles and controlling the field. Why didn’t captain Su choose a map with more obstacles, and play using the penetration control skills?”
“Mojue has a player from Luoying Valley, Pei Yu,” Ye Chao explained. “This newcomer likes to choose maps with many walls, and controls the field with his soundwave skills. Back in the Mojue civil war, the map ‘Dragon Gate Plank Road’ was selected, but Liu Hong and Pei Yu still lost to Twin Stars. Qin Mo ought to know this sort of map very well, and Su Cheng shouldn’t want to risk using an obstacle map against Qin Mo.”
“I see,” Liang Ru realised. “It looks like he will fight with water warfare this time.”
An aquatic map was much simpler than an obstacle map. After all, the water was clear, and opponents hiding underwater could be seen at a glance, while Su Cheng could use the distance between duckweeds to attack from a distance, cooperating with Xie Changming’s remote control of the field. ‘Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank’ could be used to shoot down opponents who flew with qinggong, making it difficult for Twin Stars to close the distance.
After the game started, Qin Mo saw Su Xie in the distance. Xiao Han immediately hid himself in the water, while Qin Mo flew to the middle of the map.
There were three green duckweed leaves in the middle of the map, in the directions of north, southeast, and southwest respectively, forming an equilateral triangle. The distance between any two given duckweed leaves was exactly 20 metres.
Qin Mo landed on the duckweed leaf in the southeast, while the combination of Su Xie was on the northern duckweed. Due to the distance, Qin Mo was unable to attack the other side, but the other side was able to attack him. Immediately seizing the opportunity, Xie Changming used the instant skill ‘Broken Bridge’ to stun Qin Mo, while Su Cheng immediately strummed his guqin to unleash soundwaves——
The ensemble of guqin and flute was a combined melody by the crisp notes of the flute and the gentle hum of the guqin. While pleasant to the ears, it also caused a considerable amount of damage.
With the combination of the guqin’s ‘Autumn Moon Over the Han Palace’ and ‘Mooring on an Autumn Night’, alongside the flute’s ‘Mulberry Melody’ and ‘Gusu Trip’, Qin Mo instantly lost half his health.
According to Su Xie’s attack rhythm, Xie Changming would follow up with control, and Su Cheng would unleash a big move!
Qin Mo decisively used his secret book skill ‘Immovable Mountain’—— immunity to all attack and control skills for the next 3 seconds.
Sure enough, neither Xie Changming’s control skill ‘Spring Lake’ nor Su Cheng’s attack skill ‘A Spring Flowing Over Stones’ took effect. Qin Mo took advantage of this 3-second immunity to fly northward with qinggong, simultaneously using the penetration skill ‘Drifting Sword’ while in mid-air——
Although this distance of 20 metres could not be crossed by qinggong alone, with the penetration skill of ‘Drifting Sword’, crossing this distance was no problem at all.
Qin Mo closed in very quickly. In the blink of an eye, the swordsman in white stood before them. Caught off guard, Xie Changming, who was standing in front, was stabbed in the chest by Qin Mo’s sword!
Xie Changming immediately attempted to retreat with qinggong, but Qin Mo did not give him the chance, decisively silencing him with a Heaven Sun combo.
Su Cheng fled quickly. His attack range was further than Xie Changming’s by 2 metres, and Qin Mo’s sudden appearance in their midst did not interrupt his rhythm. Retreating with qinggong to widen the distance to 20 metres, Su Cheng used the group attack skill ‘White Snow on a Warm Spring Day’.
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Having a Xiao Han comfortably lurking around in the dark was an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
In order to avoid the chaos control of ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’, Twin Stars chose to act independently, preventing Su Cheng from being able to find a suitable opportunity.
What made him feel strange was the fact that just now, he had been standing on top of the northern duckweed leaf to release his group skills. The soundwaves shot out from his guqin covered all 360 degrees, yet Xiao Han had not appeared, proving that Xiao Han was not within his attack range. Furthermore, when he released a second group attack after retreating 20 meters, Xiao Han still failed to appear…
Could Xiao Han have remained at his original spot to conserve energy, waiting for the right opportunity?
Realising this, Su Cheng immediately called out. “A-Ming, save your skills, head south immediately!”
Su Cheng marked a set of coordinates on the map, and Xie Changming nodded. “Understood!”
The moment Qin Mo’s control ended, the audience witnessed an unexpected operation——
A huge lantern appeared on the map, illuminating the night scene. The lantern emitted a warm yellow light, teleporting to the center of the lake. As it moved, Su Cheng and Xie Changming were simultaneously teleported to the designated location.
—— Chinese Lantern at Dusk.
This extremely unpopular secret book had actually been dug up by Su Cheng.
This mechanical secret book of the Zhuge Family summoned a huge flying lantern, teleporting all teammates within its range to a designated location.
With this, Su cheng and Xie Changming teleported across half the map. At this time, Su Cheng cast the skill ‘Mooring on an Autumn Night’, which had the longest attack distance, and actually managed to hit Xiao Han, who was underwater!
Xie Changming immediately followed up with the secret book ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’—— the chaos control once again caused Qin Mo and Xiao Han to attack each other.
Seeing this, Ye Chao couldn’t help but offer praise. “Captain Su’s reverse teleportation trick is really unexpected!”
Liang Ru nodded in agreement. “If he didn’t take this opportunity to hit Xiao Han, Xiao Han would have taken advantage of his retreat to take away Xie Changming’s head with a ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Step’.”
“Indeed,” Cheng Wei mused. “Xie Changming’s blood volume has been mostly emptied by Qin Mo. Xiao Han is still in good condition right now, and can definitely kill Xie Changming in seconds.”
“This teleportation really disrupted Twin Star’s plan—— wait!” Ye Chao cried out.
Ye Chao suddenly paused. He seemed to have discovered a terrible fact; although Qin Mo and Xiao Han were attacking each other while under the effects of the chaos control, but Qin Mo’s attacks on Xiao Han—— they were all transferred to Xie Changming!
Ye Chao was extremely surprised. “That’s wrong, I spoke incorrectly just now. It’s not Su Cheng who has seen through Qin Mo; rather, it’s Qin Mo who saw through Su Cheng’s plan, and used his teleportation trick against him!”
“Xiao Han being invisible was just bait!” Liang Ru finally realised.
—— Lead Su Xie into the water, causing them to lose their 20-metre distance advantage given by the duckweed leaves.
Qin Mo and Xiao Han were indeed controlled by the chaos control secret book, but Xiao Han had already dealt with it the moment Xie Changming used his secret book. The director called up the field skill data in a small window on the lower left corner, discovering a particular line of text—— Thousand Miles Ice has used the secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’.
This secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’ had the effect of transferring the damage done to oneself onto a different target.
Xiao Han used the secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’, causing all the damage Qin Mo inflicted on Xiao Han while confused to be transferred to Xie Changming!
Earlier, Qin Mo was miserably suppressed by Su Xie in a 1V2. Now, under the effects of the chaos control, Xiao Han landed several critical attacks, and Qin Mo died at Xiao Han’s hands not long after. However, Xiao Han’s clever usage of the secret book ‘Grafting Flowers’ had subtly transformed Qin Mo’s attacks, leaving Xie Changming with 10% of his blood.
Up till now, Xiao Han had only been hit by Su Cheng’s group attack skill. At this time, he was still in an excellent condition, with 80% blood and 80% blue.
The moment the chaos control ended, Xiao Han immediately turned around. With a single skill ‘Thousand Lights Ghost Walk’, he immediately killed the residual blood Xie Changming!
Su Cheng realised that he had fallen into a trap, but even if he wanted to rescue his junior brother, it was already too late.
When he teleported them earlier, he had simply sent both himself and his junior brother right in front of Xiao Han, giving the assassin an excellent output environment.
He thought he had seen through Qin Mo’s tactics of allowing Xiao Han to hide first and harvest heads later, thinking that his unexpected teleportation would directly break Twin Stars’ rhythm, but he never expected that Xiao Han’s invisibility had been bait to induce him into a trap!
He fell for it!
After Xie Changming’s sacrifice, Su Cheng fell into the water, fighting an aquatic battle with Xiao Han. Unfortunately, he was completely suppressed underwater, and could not cast his skills at all.
Although Xiao Han had 20% less blood than he did, the assassin’s mobility underwater was much higher than Su Cheng’s own. A close-combat battle was definitely Xiao Han’s area of expertise. While Su Cheng tried to widen the distance a few times, attempting to control Xiao Han, the other would always catch up with qinggong. In the end, Su Cheng died under Xiao Han’s dagger once more.
2:0; Xie Changming was still in a daze when the score was shown on the screen.
Su Cheng smiled helplessly, typing a message in the competition room. “I greatly admire your play.”
Qin Mo replied with a smiley face to express friendship.
Feeling as though he had been slapped, Ye Chao sighed despondently. “In this battle of tactics, Qin Mo’s layout won him the victory. However, how did he manage to see through Su Cheng’s thoughts?”
Liang Ru laughed. “Every time I watch god Mo compete, I get the impression that my IQ isn’t high enough. Maybe it’s better not to guess, it’s so tiring!”
Only Qin Mo knew that the reason he was able to guess Su Cheng’s tactics was his reasoning.
Although he didn’t understand Su Cheng’s thoughts, he had researched Ye Chenxi, and knew that Ye Chenxi liked using reverse teleportation to catch his opponents off guard. In Peerless Jianghu, there just happened to be a single secret book that could teleport a group across the entire map. If Su Cheng wanted to test out his master’s tactics, then it was very likely that he would marry the teleportation with the chaos control in his game, trying to completely suppress them with continuous control.
This was also the reason why Qin Mo did not let Xiao Han join the battle, but bide his time, waiting to draw Su Cheng into taking the bait.
Of course, if his guess was wrong, he could still sacrifice himself to save Xiao Han, allowing Xiao Han to harvest heads in the later stage of the battle.
Luckily, his guess was correct.
Su Cheng was Ye Chenxi’s apprentice, but was not Ye Chenxi himself, and his understanding of this reverse teleportation style was not as thorough as Ye Chenxi’s. The biggest factor was his lack of experience in competitions, and that he underestimated Qin Mo’s ability to infer tactics and implement a counter.
Qin Mo also believed that Su Cheng’s failure to use the reverse teleportation tactics this first time, did not mean that he would continue to fail in the future. Su Cheng was a player with great potential. After a period of tempering, he would definitely join the ranks of the league’s first-class tactical masters, which was a fact that Qin Mo would not deny.
Back on the stage, Su Cheng smiled. “God Mo is indeed superior. I am convinced by my loss!”
“No need to be so polite,” Qin Mo replied. “Captain Su is already very amazing despite having just debuted, and I greatly admire your skills.”
Xie Changming scratched his head. “Are you both really going to sing praises about each other? How about you send a red packet to me instead? Don’t think I don’t know, god Mo, you’ve been lurking in the chat to snatch red packets the whole time.”
Qin Mo: “…”
Su Cheng laughed. “I wish you both all the best, and hope that you can win the championship. I won’t feel wronged in losing to the champions.”
“Thank you,” Qin Mo replied sincerely.
Playing against a powerful opponent roused Qin Mo’s fighting spirit.
He was really thankful to have a powerful teammate like Xiao Han by his side. With him, his precise layouts and difficult tactics could be realised.
Turning around, Qin Mo glanced at Xiao Han, coincidentally meeting Xiao Han’s own gaze.
—— We won again.
—— That’s right, we won again.
—— Isn’t this as it should be? Because you are here.
Their unspoken messages caused the two to share a smile, a sweet warmth suffusing their hearts.
These two are the sweetest … The ants are biting meeeehh… Oh BTW, “battle, but bide his time, “
Aww, they’re indeed sweet ~ 💕
Indeed! Nobody can predict Qin Mo’s thoughts… I thought Xiao Han would take the damage and Qin Mo would finish them off… So it was the other way around~ To think Qin Mo could see through Su Cheng‘s thoughts this deeply… How incredible! 🤩 The twin stars will definitely win the partner championship~! I am looking forward to it!
Thank you for the chapter! 🥰 ❤️❤️❤️
It because Xiao Han is his sword, that’s why Qin Mo will take the damage for Xiao Han to harvest the kill 💕 Either way, I love them~
You’re welcome~ ❤
Ahhh!!! That’s right~! It was mentioned like that before! I totally forgot…😑 Was it Xiao Han who said that ? That he is Qin Mo‘s sword~
I too love them so much~! 😍🥰💕
oof dog food. they’ve truly found ‘their person’ in each other and are fighting side by side.
And I really love the last line ❤
Ye Chenxi is such an agitating opponent to have!! And I feel like his apprentice is going to be as well in the future… Yay for Han Mo!!! Thanks for the translation!