Chapter 24

Cheng Zihao was also watching the official live stream of the Xia Kingdom.

After venting for a long time in reality, upon learning about the live stream of the first divine-level battle in the Xia Kingdom, he, who had keenly sensed a business opportunity, immediately went online and entered the live stream.

"Over 600 million viewers?" Cheng Zihao looked silently. This divine-level battle was a visual feast, making countless people's blood boil and marvel, but Cheng Zihao felt no excitement or joy, only suppression, as he had fallen from the clouds.

"Such a massive traffic, how much money would that be worth?" Cheng Zihao looked at the jumping viewer numbers, "Even after so many years, HuSha Group has never had so many viewers online at the same time."

Cheng Zimo also watched the divine-level experts in the live stream. Each of them attracted countless viewers' attention, including Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming's current brilliance made Cheng Zimo feel very uncomfortable.

He stopped thinking about it and continued to look for business opportunities: "During the live stream, you can also tip any contestant!" He lightly tapped on the tipping bar.

Among the ten divine-level experts, the top tip recipient was the Divine Archer Wang Yi. After all, she was a beauty, and the scenes of her shooting arrows to kill enemies were very cool, naturally attracting fans. The current tip amount reached over 6.52 million.

The second place was Old Master Liu Jianfeng, with a tip amount of over 5.5 million.

Female Warrior Sun Yuting, Gao Chong, Xu Jingming, and Zhang Qian all had similar tip amounts, around 3 million each.

The tip amounts for Guishuang Dao Dong Xu, Blood Axe Wang Qiao, Miaodao Woman Hero Lian Shuang, and Boxing King Wu Sai were relatively lower.

"Xu Jingming's tips are in fifth place?" Cheng Zimo looked at this professional martial arts expert he had dealt with before, and pouted, "Not bad, I guess."

"These tips, the virtual world's official side takes half!" Cheng Zihao thought, "The official side really makes money. Buying a palace above the clouds in personal space costs 10 million! These are all virtual scenes, but they can generate huge profits."

"In the future, humans will spend half of their time in the virtual world every day, and the biggest business opportunity lies here."

"But how can I tap into this business opportunity?" Cheng Zihao watched the live stream.

At this moment, the host Liu Xin, commentator Huang Yong, and Qin Yiwén were narrating the detailed process of Old Master Liu Jianfeng's assassination, and his tip amount was still increasing.

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In the small town, a fine rain was drizzling.

On the broken stone-paved street, Gao Chong, Wang Qiao, Xu Jingming, Wu Sai, and Zhang Qian all received notifications, knowing that their teammates had died.

"Ha ha ha." Gao Chong burst out laughing, "Old Master is amazing, one for two."

"Old Master is awesome." Blood Axe Wang Qiao also laughed, very happy.

They both felt much more relaxed. During the previous battle, they had to maintain the highest vigilance at all times, wary of the terrifying arrows. This was a huge drain on their mental and physical energy.

Now they were relaxed!

"Without the threat of the Divine Archer, I can play with you properly." Gao Chong looked at Wu Sai and Zhang Qian ahead.

"Jingming, don't think that just because you injured Sun Yuting, you can do anything to me." Blood Axe Wang Qiao said.

Xu Jingming looked at the twin shields in his hands. There were marks on the shields, all from the axe! Sun Yuting's sword couldn't damage these round shields.

"Bang bang." Xu Jingming casually threw away the twin shields, which fell to the ground. At the same time, he reached behind him and took out two spear shafts, which he joined and twisted, locking them firmly.

Xu Jingming held the long spear and looked at Blood Axe Wang Qiao.

"Finally using the spear!" Blood Axe Wang Qiao looked at Xu Jingming.

"Brother Wang, just using the twin shields can't deal with you." Xu Jingming smiled.

"Oh? Using the spear will do it?" Blood Axe Wang Qiao looked at this young junior, who had joined the national team at the age of eighteen. By then, Blood Axe Wang Qiao had already retired, occasionally returning to the team to spar with the juniors. However, he was very clear that this junior, Xu Jingming, had high talent, after all, he could step onto the world martial arts competition stage at the age of twenty.

"At least it increases my chances a bit." Xu Jingming said, while carefully observing the opponent. Without the Divine Archer's help, facing Blood Axe Wang Qiao one-on-one, he had to go all out. After all, the opponent had once ranked second in the world and was skilled in defense!

"Die!"

Not far away, Gao Chong was already excited!

He had no more worries, completely letting loose. He first violently swept with his spear, forcing Panda Zhang Qian to retreat continuously. Then he stepped forward and rushed to Wu Sai, thrusting his spear fiercely at Wu Sai's head.

Wu Sai raised his shield to block the spear.

"Hum."

Originally, it was a forward thrust, but Gao Chong suddenly exerted force in his waist and abdomen, turning the forward thrust into a downward slash.

"Bang!" It directly hit the top of the shield. Wu Sai felt pain in his left hand, and the shield fell to the ground, shattering the stone-paved street.

First, he smashed the shield, and the long spear, like a dragon, followed with a thrust.

Wu Sai had no time to react, and the spear pierced through his throat! Wu Sai's body became ethereal and dissipated in the small town.

"Practical combat bonus is 0%, right!" Gao Chong sneered.

Defeating an opponent with little cold weapon combat experience, Gao Chong didn't feel much sense of achievement, but this battle had been frustrating until now, and it was finally satisfying.

Zhang Qian, who had been forced back by a spear thrust, hadn't had time to catch up when he saw his teammate killed.

Too fast.

From a thrust to a slash, and then a follow-up thrust, his teammate was gone!

"It's your turn!" Gao Chong looked at Zhang Qian, "Panda, you have to make me use a few more moves, otherwise it's not exciting enough."

"I won't foolishly resist you head-on." Zhang Qian held a trident and moved nimbly.

Gao Chong grinned and charged forward.

On the other side...

Xu Jingming and Blood Axe Wang Qiao also couldn't afford to be distracted.

"Wu Sai's cold weapon experience is still too little, but it was expected." Xu Jingming stopped thinking and carefully observed Blood Axe Wang Qiao, looking for any weaknesses.

"Boom."

Xu Jingming stepped forward and charged.

"He's coming." Blood Axe Wang Qiao was extremely cautious.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh." In the moment of closing in, Xu Jingming's long spear blurred, transforming into a series of spear shadows, continuously thrusting at Wang Qiao. This was the advantage of long weapons!

Blood Axe Wang Qiao held a shield in one hand, hiding most of his body behind it, and held a large axe in the other. The axe could also serve as a partial shield. He tried to push forward, aiming to get close to Xu Jingming.

One attacked, the other defended.

The defender pushed forward with the shield! The attacker kept his distance with the long spear.

"Brother Wang can rank second in the world, his shield and axe coordination is indeed solid. And he is very familiar with my 'Phantom Thrust,' being very careful and not giving me any opportunities." Xu Jingming was patient, looking for opportunities. At their level, if anyone became impatient and exposed a weakness, the opponent would seize it immediately, and it would be over.

Laymen might not fully understand Xu Jingming's ultimate move, the 'Phantom Thrust,' but these martial arts masters had studied it countless times.

They knew that the only way to counter this move was: don't give Xu Jingming any opportunities.

"Once Xu Jingming gets an opportunity, if the 'Phantom Thrust' is unleashed, I lose." Blood Axe Wang Qiao was like a rock, withstanding Xu Jingming's relentless spear attacks, defending without any gaps.

"Bad, Panda is in trouble." Xu Jingming knew he had to take a risk.

Otherwise, if Panda Zhang Qian lost, Gao Chong and Wang Qiao would be two-on-one against him.

"Defending without any gaps, no weaknesses. Then I'll make you show a weakness!" Xu Jingming's eyes turned red, and he charged forward like a fierce beast, the long spear like the beast's horn, charging forward!

He didn't attack anywhere else, just the shield in Wang Qiao's hand!

Spear technique — Mountain Breaker!

"Boom!"

Although Blood Axe Wang Qiao was prepared, he was still forced to stagger back by the impact of this spear thrust: "What a fierce move."

As Wang Qiao lost his balance and staggered back, Xu Jingming charged forward again, like a general breaking through an army, his spear either slashing, smashing, or collapsing, each move powerful and heavy.

Slashing at the shield, sweeping the shield, collapsing the shield.

"Boom boom boom." Blood Axe Wang Qiao tried to stabilize himself and defend, but facing Xu Jingming's extremely fierce spear techniques, it was like being hit by a flood, making him feel unsteady and about to be overwhelmed: "Is my junior so fierce?"

Puff!

Blood Axe Wang Qiao noticed a shadow out of the corner of his eye: "Bad!"

The shadow flashed, grazing the shield, piercing through the light armor on Wang Qiao's body, and into his chest. Then it was pulled out! There was a hole in the chest armor, and blood gushed out.

"Phantom Thrust." Wang Qiao saw Xu Jingming, "You still found an opportunity."

His body became ethereal and dissipated.

Wang Qiao was killed.

Although Wang Qiao was wearing light armor, it couldn't withstand the fierce spear thrust! Only heavy armor could resist such a blow.

When his shield was hit by Xu Jingming and became unstable, Xu Jingming unleashed the killing move 'Phantom Thrust'! It succeeded in one move!

Xu Jingming didn't have time to relax but turned to look nearby.

Gao Chong held a long spear, eyeing Xu Jingming with a fierce gaze. Beside him, only the trident lay on the ground, and Panda Zhang Qian had already dissipated.

"You're pretty fast. I just finished off Zhang Qian, and you've already killed Wang Qiao." Gao Chong looked at Xu Jingming, grinning, "Now it's just you and me."

"Yes, just you and me." Xu Jingming also looked at the opponent.