Chapter 125: Veteran Player’s Show!

“Sigh… He is too strong. One person… has already crushed all the teams…”

“Is he going to sweep all the leaderboards this time?”

“It’s so frustrating… But… think about it, he is [One] after all…”

The Guiding Arrays destroyed in Yun Chu’s exclusive missions were also counted on the leaderboard. She was leading by a massive margin. Even the Fu Jian Squad had been mercilessly left behind. Initially, they thought they had a chance to compete. But as the gap grew wider and wider, they could only face reality. Yun Chu had steamrolled every team on the Marching Battlefield, standing proudly at the very peak!

Seeing this, Chen Huangbei took the heaviest blow. Originally, he thought he could compete with One, and that in this era, he would be the sole Overlord… But… Since One exists, why create Chen! This sense of powerlessness bred in Chen Huangbei’s heart. However, just a second later, he tossed it to the back of his mind.

“He must have just found some trick. I possess the Sacred Body, with the same bloodline purity as the Heartless Emperor, the strongest Sacred Body across all eternity. I am invincible in this era. So what if his performance is outstanding? He will ultimately become my stepping stone… I will definitely prove that the Holy Body Lineage is inferior to no one!” Chen Huangbei declared.

This blow was too great, almost affecting his Dao heart. When he first entered the Marching Battlefield, he was full of spirit and brimming with confidence. He had been ready to show off his skills and let those so-called top teams and veteran squads know his prowess. But the moment he teleported over, he was immediately killed and forced into a respawn countdown. It was beyond frustrating. During this time, hearing that the Fu Jian Squad was cutting through enemies like a hot knife through butter and crushing various geniuses along the way made him incredibly depressed. When he finally respawned, he thought that as long as he was a little more careful and started with simple missions, his speed would catch up to the Fu Jian Squad, or even surpass them. Who knew that even starting from the simplest tasks, his speed would still fall short of those veteran teams like Fu Jian’s.

Hearing that it wasn’t just him—even existences like Xiao Ting were moving at a mediocre pace and couldn’t compare to the experienced veteran teams—Chen Huangbei thought he had found the root of the problem. The reason Fu Jian and the others were so fast was not because of their overwhelming combat strength, but because of their experience. Under the exact same conditions, the Fu Jian Squad definitely couldn’t compare to him, Chen Huangbei. Thinking of this, he felt a bit better.

But right at this time, [One] appeared… [One] also had no experience. Yet he was able to steamroll his way through, successively defeating various teams and crushing the so-called veteran squads. Was this also because of rich experience? No… Absolutely not. It was because of absolute power! In the face of absolute power, all techniques seemed pale and powerless. The appearance of [One] plunged Chen Huangbei, who had finally regained his confidence, back into distress…

[One] was just too strong. Strong enough that a single person… could effortlessly shatter a Yin Demon Array. Right… He was just one person, yet he actually achieved such a feat? Chen Huangbei was questioning his very existence! In fact, was Chen Huangbei the only one driven to doubt life?

…

Finally! They had managed to accept the temporary gap between them and [One]. They regrouped, striving for second place.

“Sigh… if only we hadn’t doubted whether the Marching Battlefield was a conspiracy earlier… If we had entered the Marching Battlefield sooner, we wouldn’t be in this situation now!” The newbie players were full of regret. When they went out on missions, they would occasionally run into veteran players. And those veteran players truly taught them a lesson.

“1 to the left… 2 to the right… 3 pull the aggro… 4 prepare for the killing blow…” They spoke in professional jargon that only their teammates could understand.

“SWISH SWISH SWISH…”

Whether it was coordinated attacks, methods, or schemes… their experience was just too vast. Watching them fight the Yin Demons was simply a work of art. Some teams clearly didn’t have overwhelming strength, but sometimes, they simply didn’t even give the Yin Demons a chance to touch them.

“THUD!”

“SWISH…”

Team members charged out in batches, perfectly executing their respective tasks. In just a few strikes, they dismembered Yin Demons that were seventy or eighty feet tall. Yin Demon blood sprayed from the severed parts of the corpses… It was a shocking sight. It was baffling. The Yin Demons were killed without even touching a single shadow of a person. Meanwhile, the eyes of the veteran players remained completely calm. There wasn’t much fluctuation. Like ruthless assassins, achieving such a level felt entirely natural to them.

“Brilliant! Simply brilliant!”

Seeing this, the newbies were thrilled. So battles could be fought like this? So effortless and free-flowing? So refreshing and refined? So aesthetically pleasing? It turned out… fighting didn’t have to be like what they did, just recklessly charging head-on whenever they encountered a Yin Demon. It turned out… you could actually outplay them! A technique-focused approach… The newbie players felt as if they had discovered a whole new world. No wonder the veteran players destroyed the Arrays so quickly. No wonder they were so formidable. Astonishing! It could only be described as astonishing!

After more than two months of exploration and countless battles, the veteran players had naturally figured it out, developing all kinds of methods to hunt Yin Demons. Especially during the several times they witnessed the Fu Jian Squad in combat—that was truly awe-inspiring to behold. The Fu Jian Squad was the absolute pinnacle of technique-focused players. Their teamwork was simply impeccable. It left onlookers gasping in admiration.

As for the current situation on the battlefield… On Fu Jian’s side, they were preparing to destroy a medium-sized Yin Demon Array. This battle had attracted many players to watch quietly. After witnessing the technique-focused approach of the veteran teams, quite a few teams neglecting their own missions—or rather, teams looking to steal some tricks—had been secretly following the Fu Jian Squad to watch them fight. They wanted to learn their techniques and tactics.

“Shh… Don’t move. The target the Fu Jian Team is taking on this time is quite notable on the map. We just need to watch quietly. Don’t disturb them.”

Fu Jian didn’t forbid players from watching their team fight; as long as it didn’t interfere with their performance, anything was fine. Of course… if they did get disturbed, they would simply have to eliminate the interfering team first.

“RUMBLE…”

Fu Ling’Er was in charge of pulling aggro. Drawing their hatred, she lured the Yin Demons to attack her. But unlike other teams who pulled one or two at a time, she pulled a whole horde… A massive horde of Yin Demon monsters, densely packed together, bared their fangs and brandished their claws as they chased her from behind, wanting to tear her to pieces! It was a terrifying sight.

“RUMBLE…”

Soon, she led the monsters into the trap zone pre-designed by the Fu Jian Squad. A huge pile of Yin Demons crashed into the pit. The pit wasn’t large, but it was enough to send the Yin Demons tumbling over one another.

“Do it!”

Seeing the Yin Demons trampling over each other, Fu Jian immediately issued an order, telling his team members to finish them off.

“SWISH SWISH SWISH…”

Seven people, from all directions, cleanly and simply slit the Yin Demons’ throats. There were no wasted movements. Dozens of Yin Demons lost their lives just like that.

The Yin Demons in the back caught up, and the rest of the team instantly scattered. Fu Fengfeng’s gaze sharpened, and he grabbed his weapon, charging straight toward the Yin Demon horde. Just as everyone thought the Fu Jian Squad was trying to sacrifice Fu Fengfeng to save the rest of the team, Fu Fengfeng suddenly vanished when he was less than a meter away from the Yin Demons…

“How did he disappear?”

“A Teleportation Array! It’s a Teleportation Array! Fu Fengfeng was teleported away at the very last moment…”

“The Fu Jian Squad has always been famous for their unpredictably brilliant use of Teleportation Arrays!”

“It really is spectacular, but… fleeing like this seems to mean their mission failed!”

The people watching from the shadows whispered among themselves.

“They aren’t running… Look! They used the opening created by the majority of the enemies chasing them to attack the Array’s location!” someone said.

Everyone followed the person’s gaze and sure enough, they saw Fu Jian and the other team members charging into the Array’s location.

“That’s not right… Even though the core of the Array doesn’t have many Yin Demons left and poses no threat, the ones that were lured out will rush back as reinforcements. They simply don’t have enough time to destroy the Array!”

“Yeah, unless… the lured-out Yin Demons… don’t double back. Then they’d have a chance…”

“Huh? Wait a second… why is that horde of Yin Demons still stupidly charging this way? Why haven’t they gone back for reinforcements?”

They saw that the Yin Demons lured over by Fu Fengfeng were sprinting straight at them, showing no intention of turning back.

“Holy shit… We’ve been exposed! That horde of Yin Demons is coming right at us!”

“Damn it… We’ve been played! Fu Jian and the others purposely lured the Yin Demons over here to use us as cannon fodder to buy themselves time… They deliberately let the Yin Demons spot us!”

The onlookers were stunned. They had just been watching the show… and now they had drawn fire onto themselves. They finally seemed to understand why Fu Jian didn’t care even when he noticed them observing from the shadows. So this was his plan all along.

“What do we do?”

“What can we do? We definitely can’t outrun them, so we can only fight…” someone smiled bitterly.

“Fu Jian is too underhanded.”

“Haha… What do you mean underhanded? I, Fu Jian, do things very fairly! You’ve been following us for so long, stealing so many techniques. Why didn’t you say you were the ones being underhanded?” Fu Jian shouted loudly. “You can’t learn our skills for free! Now, it’s time for you to pay your tuition!”

Everyone: “…”

Sure enough, the Fu Jian Squad had done it on purpose.

“I was wondering how just the seven of them dared to touch this Array. It turns out they wanted to use our strength.”

“That guy…”

“Whatever, whatever. Like he said, let’s just pay the tuition! Brothers, attack!”

At this moment, there was no room to escape anyway. The Yin Demon horde and the hidden teams clashed violently. An intense battle broke out. Truth be told, having followed the Fu Jian Team for so long, they really had learned quite a few skills. Killing Yin Demons was no longer as troublesome as before.

Meanwhile, Fu Jian and his team eliminated the Yin Demons around the Array with lightning speed, destroying this considerably large Guiding Array.

“RUMBLE!”

“It’s done!” Fu Jian said. This was the largest Array they had destroyed so far.

“Thanks to those good brothers,” Fu Ling’Er chuckled, looking at the group of cultivators engaged in an arduous battle with the Yin Demons.

“Should we go help them?”

“Of course… not!”