<h4>Chapter 51</h4>
Yi Jiamu entered thebat room and waited a while for histe opponent.
Even in the interster age, there were asionalwork dys. Yi Jiamu didn’t think too much about it. Then he became stunned when he noticed the ID of the other person. He always felt that this name was familiar but he couldn’t remember where he had seen it.
Burning Wood was Sublime Star’s rival school and the tform nicknames of their yers were indeed in the statistics. However, today Jing Yao logged into a side ount he didn’t usually use. Yi Jiamu only had an impression of it after seeing it in an information booklet. This already showed that his memory was amazing.
The moment Jing Yao entered the room, he noticed Yi Jiamu’s expression of surprise. He looked at the opponent’s system face and had no memory of it at all. He couldn’t help frowning slightly. Such a reaction made it seem like the opponent knew him.
However, the ount he was currently logged into wasn’t used very often and ordinary users shouldn’t know it—unless the one in front of him was also a member of a college ability association.
Such an idea came to his mind but Jing Yao immediatelyughed and shook his head.
The next stage of thepetition was about to start soon and yers who were finalists wouldn’t waste time to practice on a side ount at such a critical moment. As for teams that didn’t make it into the final stages, they had been eliminated directly in the preliminaries and there was no need to care about them.
Jing Yao remembered his desire to start the next match quickly and immediately issued an invitation to start the match. Yi Jiamu epted it very simply.
It had been two years since Jing Yao entered the Burning Wood Abilities Association and his ability belonged to the ice type. He wanted to fight quickly so after the battle started, he didn’t hesitate tounch an offensive.
Icicles rose from the ground under Yi Jiamu’s feet and immediately attached to his limbs. If someone looked closely, they could see that the ice that touched the body was rapidly turning into water but since the subsequent freezing effect was too quick, it seemed that he was tightly confined in ce.
Yi Jiamu lowered his head to look at his body that was trapped in a crystal and his eyes brightened.
Sure enough, there was a big gap between the low level venues and the high level venues. This time, he finally encountered a rtively normal ability.
Jing Yao saw that Yi Jiamu was in a daze andpletely restrained. His lips curved up and he approached Yi Jiamu with no hesitation. His ability made the surrounding ice seem like a living thing and itpletely covered most of Yi Jiamu’s body.
At the same time, the fist that Jing Yao swung also had ice condensed on it. It approached the most vulnerable position in the icicles and wanted to defeat the enemy.
However, just as the fist was about to hit, all the icicles that formed an ice sculpture suddenly burst. An arm stretched out from among the thousands of cracked fragments and approached in an imposing manner.
The moment the two fists collided, all the ice shattered into thousands of crystal particles.
Jing Yao was blown away by a punch and he couldn’t help being stunned.
His ice type ability was absolutely top-notch when looking at the entire college league. He was even invited by a professional ice type Ability Masters Association. Yet this new ount that he despised so much made him feel aplete sense of defeat he had never felt before.
The ice kingdom that was created and belonged to him waspletely disintegrated by his opponent so lightly. Yes, disintegrated. Jing Yao might be reluctant but this was the first word that came to mind. Moreover, this disintegration was in a sh. He didn’t even have time to see his opponent’s abilities clearly. He obviously couldn’t be a neer with such strength. He was more like a mature and senior ability master.
However, if the other side was really an ability master, why chose Venue A for this new ount to challenge? Shouldn’t he choose to directly enter the S level venue?
Countless thoughts shed through his mind. Just then, an agile figure approached in a sh. Jing Yao saw the expressionless system face again and his inner emotions inevitably felt a bitplicated.
Nevertheless, he had already condensed the icicles again. He watched his opponent’s movements vigntly, ready to find an opportunity to fight back at any time. His current mentality was obviously very different from before.
Earlier, he thought the opponent was a novice who could be dealt with casually. Now the strength that had been exposed aroused Jing Yao’s fighting spirit. He was curious. What type of ability was it? Let him have a good look!
A hint of motivation shed in Jing Yao’s eyes. He locked onto his opponent in an instant, trying to see through battle. He never expected that the opponent in front of him wouldn’t even give him a chance to see the ability.
The moment Yi Jiamu got close, he directly ignored the ice ability and simply and roughly caught Jing Yao.
10 secondster, the battle was over.
Jing Yao was sent out of thebat room by the system and his entire body felt bad. A figure appeared next to him. It was his teammate Liang Qiuzhi who had left the observer stands to follow him. The two of them looked at each other and no one spoke for a moment.
Who would’ve thought that an official member of the Burning Wood Abilities Association would lose to a new ount doing the challenge mission of the A level venue. In addition, he didn’t even hold on for one minute.
After a long time, Jing Yao finally found his voice. “The new ount must belong to an S grade ability master.”
Liang Qiuzhi muttered. “Ah, um... he is a master.”
Jing Yao’s tone was slightly heavy. “I was careless just now. I exposed my ability too early and failed to grasp the situation of the opponent. That’s why... that’s what caused such a passive situation.”
Liang Qiuzhi was silent for a moment. “Then do you still want to practice?”
“I won’t practice anymore.” Jing Yao sighed and smiled helplessly. “I say, thepetition is about to start. Can’t you see that I’m trying to find reasons to restore my frustrated self-esteem? Why can’t you say something nice tofort me?”
Liang Qiuzhi thought for a moment before stating in a serious tone, “The other person is an S-grade ability master, the opponent is too strong, I don’t me you for being too weak.”
Oh, he was sorry for being too weak!
“......” Jing Yao’s mouth twitched. “Forget it. Don’t talk about this.”
Then he turned around and quickly called up the system interface. He clicked on the game information just now.
Liang Qiuzhi came over. “Are you going to review your own fiasco?”
Jing Yao resisted the urge to beat up this person and gritted his teeth. “I want to see this person’s other challenges! He just yed one match against me. If there isn’t an ident, he needs to win one or two more matches.”
He pressed the ‘special attention’ button for this person, nced at the other person’s online situation and finally showed a slightly happy expression. “Look, he is starting a new round!”
Liang Qiuzhi didn’t understand it. “Is this person rted to our next match? Why do you care about him so much?”
Jing Yao was silent for a moment. “I lost so miserably. I have to know what the other person’s ability is or else I won’t be able to easily sleep at night!”
Then he entered the spectator mode without hesitation. Liang Qiuzhi was taken aback for a moment before also following.
On the other side, Yi Jiamu had no idea that he attracted the attention of other yers. He didn’t rx after sessfully winning and continued to enter the next match.
This time, the opponent’s strength obviously wasn’t as good as Jing Yao. He might have a physical enhancement type ability but he just rushed forward brainlessly. Since his ability didn’t have any effect on Yi Jiamu, it was no different from sending him a person.
In less than half a minute, it was over. He continued to challenge the third round of the task. It was a fire ability who was resolved quickly in 40 seconds. The challenge was sessfullypleted.
Yi Jiamu confirmed his qualification for the A level venue and pursed his lips with aplicated expression on his face. He didn’t choose to continue entering the queue and returned to the initial tform.
Jing Yao and Liang Qiuzhi watched two matches in session. They only left once they saw the other person wasn’t continuing. This time, the two men’s expressions were moreplicated than before.
Liang Qiuzhi was the first to break the silence. “Ah Yao, do you think this new ount is a bit weird?”
Jing Yao gave a small nod. “It is a bit.”
Liang Qiuzhi wondered, “Is it a problem with the system?”
In thest match, they clearly saw the opponent’s fire attack hit. However, the new ount didn’t seem to feel it at all and his offensive movements weren’t blocked.
Still, how could it be a system bug? Everyone knew thisbat tform was jointly developed by the Interster Ability Masters Association and so far, it had been running with no ws apart from the devastating entire tform failure incident after being attacked by hackers.
Or was this ount using a cheat?
Jing Yao thought about it before deciding. “Report it.”
***
Yi Jiamu was sorting out the data.
Gu Yesheng came back and happened to see the child’s serious back. He came up curiously. “Why did youe back so soon? How were your matches?”
He nced at the A level venue qualification on Yi Jiamu’s profile and was a bit surprised. “You entered the A venue so soon?”
Yi Jiamu nced back at him, voice dull. “If I knew this, I wouldn’t have chosen the A level venue for the challenge mission.”
Gu Yesheng asked, “Why?”
Yi Jiamu thought for a moment. “It’s too weak.”
Based on this voice, there seemed to be some grievances.
He thought that there would be some references after entering the A level venue. He didn’t think it would be a near crushing situation. It was really boring.
Gu Yesheng saw Yi Jiamu’s demeanor and couldn’t help wanting tough. “The strength of the A level venus isn’t weak. It is just that the next stage of thepetition is starting in two days and fewer masters are logging in. Just wait until the top six is finished. Don’t worry.”
Just then, a message arrived on Yi Jiamu’s panel.
Gu Yesheng took a look and couldn’t help blinking. “What have you done? Someone actually reported you?”
The tform’s reports all used real-name systems and the reported person would receive a notice. If the report was true, it would be handled ordingly. However, if it was unfounded then the reporter would be punished. This was why people usually didn’t take the risk of making a report unless there was a ‘deep hatred.’
Yi Jiamu was somewhat surprised when he saw the notice. He passed on all the match information he had justpiled to Gu Yesheng. “I don’t know who it is. Look, the matches I yed just now are all here.”
Gu Yesheng casually looked through it and couldn’t help being happy when he saw a familiar ID. “You actually fought Jing Yao?”
Yi Jiamu wasn’t a stranger to the name ‘Jing Yao’ and finally reacted. No wonder why he always felt that the opponent in the first match looked familiar. Yi Jiamu asked, “Jing Yao, is he a member of Burning Wood?”
Gu Yesheng nodded. “That’s him.”
Yi Jiamu looked up. “I won against him. Does this prove that I am actually qualified to participate in the Abilities League?”
Gu Yesheng saw this expression of anticipation and smiled. “In my heart, you have always been qualified.”
Yi Jiamu’s eyes lit up at the affirmation.
Gu Yesheng was hit with a critical attack. He finally remembered business and immediately threw away JIng Yao’s matter. He opened his system panel and happily passed a piece of data to Yi Jiamu. “By the way, I have made many sets of appearances for you! Come on, try them on and see if you like them!”
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