Chapter 21

The Starry Sky Fighting Network is divided into more than a dozen combat modes such as thousand-person battle royale, star realm survival, rank match, match match, and personal duel.

Like thousand-person battle royale and star realm survival, they are usually matched in teams of 3-10 people; besides testing individual strength, they test team cooperation even more, and the popularity is very high.

Many martial arts streamers have been mixing in these two combat modes all year round.

If they cooperate well, they can fully achieve winning against the strong with the weak.

Li Yuan, Yan Zhou, Zhou Qi, and the others often team up to participate during their leisure time, and then get slaughtered...

However, martial arts masters who are truly determined to pursue the limits of life and hone their martial arts skills.

Focus more on "rank matches."

Both sides have identical physical fitness, randomly combined cold weapon pairings... what they compete in are both sides' martial arts skills and combat awareness.

The purest martial arts combat.

Only the winner lives.

Since the second year of high school, besides his cultivation in reality, Li Yuan’s one day off every week, summer vacation, winter vacation... were almost all spent on rank matches.

The main thing was to hone his martial arts skills through virtual duels that were close to actual combat.

...Rank match combat space, a huge ring, no one watching.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Li Yuan and a fiery red figure appeared out of thin air on both sides of the ring at the same time.

"Li Yuan?"

"Lin Luanyue, you are also in rank matching?" The two stared at each other, both caught off guard.

Neither side expected that less than two minutes after the duel ended, they would be matched again.

Too rare.

Whether it’s rank match or match match, they are matched with masters of the same rank globally.

How many Gold rank masters are there globally?

At least tens of millions.

Both sides were silenced, three seconds later.

"I won't admit defeat."

Lin Luanyue spoke first, her eyes fixed on Li Yuan, saying coldly: "Your martial arts skills are slightly stronger than mine, but it doesn't mean I will definitely lose."

"Mm-hmm, you’re right." Li Yuan nodded.

42 seconds later.

On the ring.

"Pfft!"

The long spear was like a dragon, Li Yuan burst out suddenly again, and the fierce long spear pierced through Lin Luanyue’s chest again.

"You..." Lin Luanyue endured the severe pain of her body being pierced by the big spear, and just managed to shout one word.

Her whole person turned into nothingness.

"You’re quite smart, not attacking actively, always probing." Li Yuan retracted his spear and shook his head lightly: "It’s a pity, I only sold a flaw, and you fell for it again."

"You want to win against me too much."

"The more you want to win, the easier it is to lose." Li Yuan muttered to himself: "Always keep your mentality stable."

"Stable as an old dog, only then can you move forward."

At this time.

Li Yuan had already received a system reminder: "Congratulations on winning this Gold rank match, Defender·Source, your points +10!"

"Her rank points are higher than mine."

"So the system judged that I got a point bonus for winning?" Li Yuan thought to himself.

Winning a battle and getting 10 points is considered very high.

"Continue matching." Li Yuan’s consciousness moved.

In another personal space.

"So annoying!!"

"Damn Li Yuan, he must have done it on purpose, ah ah ah!!"

Lin Luanyue, who was standing alone in the starry sky scene with red hair, finally couldn't help but explode, gritting her teeth and talking to herself: "I curse you for not being able to marry a wife in this life."

Losing, Lin Luanyue didn't care.

She didn't know how many times she had lost in rank matches.

If she had just lost to Li Yuan twice, she wouldn't be so angry.

Since she made the appointment to fight, she was already mentally prepared to lose.

The key.

Was the way she lost.

Twice, both were pierced through the chest by a long spear; was it a coincidence once, and still a coincidence twice?

"Calm down! Lin Luanyue, you must be calm." Lin Luanyue took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down: "Martial arts cultivation, first of all, be calm, don't panic when things happen."

Suddenly.

Drip—communication call.

Looking at the name displayed on the communication projection.

"Second brother?" Lin Luanyue hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Xiao Qing, connect."

Buzz~ The projection changed, and a young man appeared in the picture, wearing a blue martial arts uniform, quite handsome.

The young man’s appearance was somewhat similar to Lin Luanyue’s.

"Little sister." The young man laughed.

"Second brother." Lin Luanyue suppressed the irritability in her heart and revealed a trace of a smile: "Why did you suddenly send me a message."

"Why? Can’t I contact you?" The young man laughed.

"Humph!"

Lin Luanyue couldn't help but hum: "Second brother, calculate it yourself, how long has it been since you contacted me."

The young man laughed dotingly and said: "I heard from Xiao Qiang that you lost a duel with a classmate on the Starry Sky Fighting Network, so I came to care about you immediately."

"Gu Qianghan, that big mouth." Lin Luanyue frowned: "I’ll go to school tomorrow to teach him a lesson."

"Xiao Qiang is also worried about you, that’s why he told me." The young man laughed: "You are also an older sister, don't bully him too much."

"I know—" Lin Luanyue elongated her tone.

But she was calculating in her heart how to fix Gu Qianghan when she went to school tomorrow.

"I watched your battle video." The young man said seriously: "It’s normal for you to lose; besides the weapon disadvantage, that boy’s spear technique level is also much higher than yours, I estimate it should have reached the middle of the third stage."

"Middle of the third stage?" Lin Luanyue was slightly surprised; she knew the division of martial arts skill stages.

Lin Luanyue could feel that Li Yuan’s martial arts skills were higher, but she didn't expect it to be so much stronger than her own.

"His footwork should also be at the third stage level; I’m afraid he has hope of being listed on the 'Blue Star Youth List'." The young man said: "Enough for special admission standards."

"Blue Star Youth List?" Lin Luanyue was even more surprised.

With her family’s vision, she naturally understood the significance of this list.

"How is his physical fitness?" The young man asked casually.

"Average, I guess around level 6, he hasn't awakened martial arts spirituality yet." Lin Luanyue shook her head.

She also knew a little about Li Yuan’s situation.

"Hasn't awakened martial arts spirituality?" The young man was stunned and shook his head: "A bit of a pity."

The young man also just asked casually, not really caring.

To him, whether Li Yuan was good or bad didn't matter.

"Little sister, your sword technique should have just broken through to the third stage." The young man laughed: "In a normal confrontation, you would find it hard to win against that boy even a hundred times."

Lin Luanyue bit her lower lip involuntarily.

She was unwilling in her heart, but she also knew her second brother’s vision, which was only higher than Teacher Xu Bo’s.

"Having such a martial arts skill genius as your classmate is a good thing." The young man laughed: "It can be considered a warning to you, so you don't think you are the number one in the middle school grade all day long and become arrogant."

"I don't." Lin Luanyue frowned: "Second brother, are you here to comfort me, or to teach me a lesson?"

"Haha, okay."

"Second brother’s fault, I won't teach you a lesson." The young man laughed: "You hone your sword technique well, there is still half a year, strive to charge into the Blue Star Youth List."

"With this qualification, when you enter Starry Sky University, you will be valued more, and Dad can also apply to the family to mobilize more resources for you." The young man said.

"Mm, I know." Lin Luanyue nodded.

She was not young anymore, about to become an adult, and knew very well how the family operated.

There are too many children; only if you are excellent enough can you get the family’s resources for cultivation.

Otherwise, even if you become an adult, you will only get 50,000 Blue Star coins a month as living expenses.

You don't need to think about anything else.

"The week after next, Big Brother and I will come back from the Flower Flag Country and come specifically to see you." The young man laughed.

"Are your things resolved? Is Dad coming?" Lin Luanyue was quite pleasantly surprised.

"Dad is going to the Ross Country, the military still has things to do." The young man shook his head.

"Oh!" Lin Luanyue pursed her lips, quite disappointed.

Not long after.

Lin Luanyue closed the call with her second brother.

"Middle of the third stage spear techniques, third stage footwork?" Lin Luanyue muttered to herself: "This Li Yuan, his progress is really fast."

She remembered very clearly.

In the first year, there was no such person as Li Yuan in the grade rankings; the other party rose abruptly from the second year.

In just one year, he charged into the top thirty in the grade in the second-year final exam, and his martial arts skill score even surpassed hers.

In fact, losing one individual first place had a negligible impact on Lin Luanyue.

But it also made her remember the name Li Yuan.

"In that exam, my skill score was only a few points less, which shows the gap wasn't big." Lin Luanyue gritted her teeth: "Now, his martial arts skills are so much stronger than mine?"

Lin Luanyue didn't quite understand.

Clearly, she had received excellent martial arts education since she was a child, had specialized sword technique teachers to guide her, and her own cultivation was diligent enough... yet she was still quickly caught up and surpassed by the other party.

"Perhaps."

"Just like what Dad said, there are always some geniuses in the world." Lin Luanyue shook her head secretly: "It’s a pity, without awakening martial arts spirituality, it’s too difficult to achieve great success in martial arts."

She was angry on the surface, feeling that Li Yuan was deliberate in the two duels.

But deep down, Lin Luanyue felt some pity for Li Yuan.

"Continue."

"According to the 'Heart Spirit Method' cultivation Dad helped me with, I can conduct about forty rank matches at once." Lin Luanyue continued to match.

Ordinary people play electronic games, and their heads hurt after a long time.

The virtual combat of the Starry Sky Fighting Network puts a much greater burden on the spirit and consciousness.

Especially once you get hurt and fail, that kind of intense pain is extremely stimulating to the spirit.

Therefore, virtual duels cannot be sustained indefinitely.

Night, nine o'clock.

Virtual network, Starry Sky Fighting Network, in Li Yuan’s personal space.

"Finally, almost there." Li Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes sweeping over his rank match panel:

Rank Match: Gold rank.

Points: 496 (1000 points required to participate in the promotion match)

Two o'clock in the afternoon to nine o'clock in the evening.

Seven hours, Li Yuan basically didn't stop, fighting 192 battles in a row.

Won 120 games, lost 72 games.

And piled up the points from 112 points to 496 points.

Only one last winning game remained from 500 points.

(End of chapter)