Chapter 40

"Once you enter the main competition, there's a prize." Li Miaomiao looked in amazement, "The champion team gets a reward of 500 million Blue Star coins. The runner-up team gets 200 million Blue Star coins. Third and fourth place get 100 million Blue Star coins. The organizers of this competition are really bleeding out a lot."

"The prize money is indeed generous," Xu Jingming nodded as he looked.

Teams placing fifth to eighth receive a reward of 30 million each. Teams placing ninth to sixteenth receive 20 million each. Teams placing seventeenth to thirty-second receive 10 million each.

Li Miaomiao sighed, "After the preliminary rounds, 32 teams enter the main competition. Each team has at least six members, so at least 192 people can share the prize money. Just for the prize money, many people will participate."

"This kind of competition is also the best opportunity to hone oneself," Xu Jingming's heart was also burning with enthusiasm.

Competing with his master Liu Hai and senior Lei Yunfang, and other top experts. Plus, all kinds of experts emerging nationwide.

Just thinking about it makes the blood boil!

"Come on."

"The more experts, the more interesting it is." Xu Jingming was even more eager.

Li Miaomiao then opened the spectator platform, wanting to see the evaluations of this competition from various sides. Suddenly, she exclaimed, "Jingming, your master is live streaming."

"Master Dai?" Xu Jingming said casually.

"It's Master Liu Hai!" Li Miaomiao said.

"Impossible!" Xu Jingming didn't believe it and opened the link to check.

At that moment, a live stream was rapidly gaining popularity, ranking second on the entire spectator platform, just behind the official live stream of the Xia nation. It was Master 'Liu Hai's' live stream.

"How could Master start a live stream?" Xu Jingming was surprised, "Master is such a trouble-averse person."

He knew very well that his master was a complete martial arts enthusiast! At over seventy years old, he would seclude himself for half a year every year to study martial arts, disliking media interviews and live streams. During his seclusion, he wouldn't even see his family.

Such a person, live streaming?

"Jingming, your master is live streaming, but you haven't done it even once," Li Miaomiao said. Although some god-level matches were publicly broadcast, those were official live streams or live streams by other teammates. Xu Jingming himself had never done a live stream.

"Master's personality doesn't seem like he would do a live stream," Xu Jingming clicked into Master's live stream.

Liu Hai's live stream was rapidly gaining viewers, with over 50 million viewers and still climbing.

After all, in the past three days, Liu Hai's popularity had been extremely high, a topic of nationwide discussion!

"Wow."

Xu Jingming and Li Miaomiao sat in the stands, taking a look.

"Is it playing a video?" Xu Jingming immediately noticed. It was playing a video of the battle on the second floor of the Star Tower, with the recording time at the top: August 1, 21:05:37.

This video was a fully virtual one, making it feel like you were right there.

Liu Hai indeed disliked live streaming, so even with the high-level requirements of the Life Evolution Bureau to provide reference and learning for the public, he only released a video.

"The five-headed giant bear on the second floor of the Star Tower is gone, only the Bear King remains," Li Miaomiao observed carefully, "Let's see how Master Liu Hai deals with this Bear King."

"The Bear King is quite a tough opponent," Xu Jingming said, as he had fought it for a long time, making the Bear King bleed to death.

In the battle scene,

The massive Bear King roared and charged at Liu Hai, trampling the snow as it went.

Liu Hai, with his robust build, held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, standing still. When the Bear King charged close, Liu Hai took a step forward, and his left shield blocked the Bear King's furious charge!

"Bang." The Bear King's massive paws clearly hit the shield, but its huge body was knocked off balance, rolling to the side and even breaking a large tree.

"Little bear, come again." Liu Hai looked at the Bear King with interest, taunting it. The Bear King got up and roared, charging again.

This charge, upon hitting the shield, inexplicably sent the Bear King flying again.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In half a minute, the Bear King was thrown to the ground three times, its face swollen and bleeding, and it was starting to feel some fear. After all, its most ferocious attacks couldn't even scratch the human in front of it.

"Redirecting and borrowing force, so powerful?" Xu Jingming observed carefully, "Master's shield technique is even better than when he taught me."

Xu Jingming's eyes sparkled; he was also practicing shield techniques, but he was far from his master's level.

"I must download this video and study it repeatedly," Xu Jingming thought.

Liu Hai stepped forward, and the Bear King actually took a step back.

"Scared?" Liu Hai suddenly charged forward, and the Bear King didn't even have time to retreat. Liu Hai was already close, and a flash of the knife!

The Bear King's massive paws couldn't block it, and the knife pierced through its skull, making its body turn into a phantom.

"One strike!" Li Miaomiao exclaimed, "The Bear King is gone?"

"This is Master's true strength," Xu Jingming watched silently, "When Master spars with me, he reduces his body to my level. But after reaching the advanced stage of his evolution method, his body far surpasses mine. Combined with Master's terrifying combat skills, even the Bear King's hard skull can be split with one strike."

The battle scene moved to the third floor of the Star Tower.

Liu Hai, with one shield and one knife, looked at the large tiger appearing in the distance and walked over step by step.

"Roar!" The tiger was enraged and pounced directly.

Liu Hai watched calmly.

"Rip—"

The tiger pounced, its claws like sharp blades, tearing through the air. Liu Hai simply blocked with his left shield, and the tiger's body was knocked off balance, falling into the vine and grass.

"Strength slightly weaker than the Bear King, but the claw technique is more sharp," Liu Hai took a step forward. The tiger had just flipped out of the vines when a flash of the knife cut across its neck, and the tiger turned into a phantom and disappeared.

After killing one tiger, more tigers began to emerge from all directions, with dozens of tigers threatening him, and the Tiger King had a cold gaze.

"Interesting," Liu Hai finally became cautious.

One man, fighting a pack of tigers!

Facing the tiger pack's attack, Liu Hai held his shield and moved among the tigers. Each time the knife flashed, a tiger was killed. After slaying several tigers, the Tiger King, enraged, finally charged at Liu Hai.

"The Tiger King is really powerful," Xu Jingming observed, "Far surpassing ordinary tigers."

Liu Hai, after one exchange with the Tiger King, knew its strength and immediately avoided its sharp attacks, using the tiger pack as obstacles to hunt the weaker tigers. These weaker tigers, in turn, were used to block the Tiger King.

"Clearly a pack attack, but the weaker tigers became Master Liu Hai's helpers," Li Miaomiao exclaimed, "How strange."

"This is control," Xu Jingming said, "Making the enemy your pawn."

This is a combat technique that can be learned after reaching the 'body like water' realm.

Now, Master was demonstrating it! The ordinary tigers were completely controlled and utilized by Liu Hai.

"But Master is also very cautious; the Tiger King is too terrifying. A moment of carelessness, and Master would fail," Xu Jingming said. The battle lasted over ten minutes, and the number of tigers had been reduced to less than ten.

"Roar~~~"

The Tiger King finally roared, and the remaining eight tigers retreated.

Only the Tiger King and Liu Hai were left, one-on-one!

The battle between the Tiger King and Liu Hai was even more brutal.

"The Tiger King is so powerful, so agile, and reacts so quickly, it can even block Master's knife techniques," Xu Jingming observed. In terms of strength, speed, and agility, the Tiger King surpassed Liu Hai.

But Liu Hai's combat skills were far superior.

The coordination of shield and knife, like the yin and yang of Tai Chi, was flawless in defense and terrifying in attack.

Liu Hai abandoned attacking vital points, instead leaving wounds on the Tiger King, making it bleed continuously... After over ten minutes, as the Tiger King's strength and agility decreased, Liu Hai finally slashed across its neck!

Killing the Tiger King!

The video showed the time as August 1, 21:38:21.

"38 minutes after the Star Tower opened, Master Liu Hai cleared it," Li Miaomiao said, "In one go!"

"To clear the third floor of the Star Tower, I need a comprehensive improvement," Xu Jingming truly realized how far he was from clearing the third floor.

He also downloaded the video, which was very valuable. Master's shield techniques were worth watching repeatedly.

...

After Liu Hai publicly released the video of his Star Tower run, two hours later, the old boxing champion of the White Eagle Federation, Tiger Forsen, also released his video.

Although the virtual world had not yet unified servers across countries, the Xia nation's official live stream still broadcast the old boxing champion's video.

The old boxing champion used dual axes, perfectly integrating his past boxing techniques into the large axes. Although the battle with the tiger pack was quite dangerous, and he was heavily injured before killing the Tiger King, it still made Xu Jingming admire and respect him.

The videos of Liu Hai and Tiger Forsen were continuously spreading globally, and experts worldwide were repeatedly watching and carefully studying them.