Chapter 592

Zhao Chi saw Lu Yi sitting up above and gave a thumbs-up: "Impressive!"

Cao Feng sat beside Lu Yi.

He glanced sideways at Zhao Chi, but when he saw Zhao Chi looking back, he turned his head away instead.

Shi Juan sat beside Cao Feng, not looking at Zhao Chi, and kept saying something to Cao Feng.

In a corner nearby, Zhao Chi spotted Lang Hu.

Lang Hu gave him a slight nod, then vanished.

He must have gone to another battlefield.

He turned his head to look beside him.

The Xiao family members were staring at him with iron-blue faces.

Including two Xiao family elders.

When they caught Zhao Chi's gaze, they snorted and switched battlefields.

Xiao Luan said: "Zhao Chi, don't get cocky. Just you wait—don't let me run into you!"

With that, he vanished too.

When did I ever get cocky?

Zhao Chi was speechless and clicked to return.

In an instant, everyone was back in the territory.

【Calculating the first round…】

【You have earned a total of 88 points, currently ranked 12th in points】

Zhao Chi glanced at it and closed it.

These points aren't that important.

If you can defeat your opponents, you can completely ignore these points.

Only 9th and 10th place need this points ranking.

These points aren't shown for the contestants, but for the audience.

For betting purposes.

Among the audience, there are quite a few professionals, but the majority are unprofessional ordinary people.

When ordinary people bet, they basically just follow others' bets.

Or they look at this kind of points ranking.

Points are the most intuitive—whoever has more points is stronger.

Very reasonable logic.

Zhao Chi's army didn't even exert full effort in the last match.

Deliberately held back some strength.

If fighting at full strength, the ranking should have advanced a few more places.

But that doesn't matter.

Gu Qing said: "My lord, should we hold back even more next time? This time nobody went all out, and as a result not a single one died."

Tang Ruan laughed: "That big skeleton was really strong—it hit me hard."

Although she said that, she was still grinning happily.

It seems that getting hurt or feeling uncomfortable in the virtual space can also activate Tang Ruan's talent.

The effect is still ongoing.

But speaking of which, Xiao Rui's strength is indeed quite good.

If he hadn't run into Zhao Chi, his strength would definitely have qualified him to pass the first few rounds at the very least.

Setting everything else aside, just the fact that his skeletons self-detonate after death—that's definitely the result of genetic improvement.

Normally, when a skeleton dies, it only leaves a pile of broken bones behind.

How could it possibly blast out bone spikes all over the sky?

Although Zhao Chi's female soldiers didn't take much damage, those bone spikes can pierce through leather armor.

It's essentially like a bunch of small crossbow bolts firing wildly—very fast, very scattered angles, very hard to block them all.

Kind of like a weakened version of a fragmentation grenade.

Although each individual bone spike does limited damage, a massive volley of bone spikes is an area attack.

Stacked together, the power is absolutely not low.

Turning the originally harmless death into this kind of explosion can effectively wound enemies, and even intimidate them.

Making enemies hesitate when they attack.

Unfortunately, Xiao Rui ran into Zhao Chi.

He ran into the fearless Taoyuan humans.

Although they're also afraid of pain, they won't cower from fear of pain, and won't hesitate at all.

Even if stabbed by bone spikes, they still endure the pain and keep hacking away.

This kind of improvement is quite good.

And it belongs to racial improvement.

That must have been derived from decomposing racial bloodlines.

Racial bloodlines are worth their weight in gold.

Moreover, improvement isn't necessarily 100% successful.

Just from this point alone, he's already more impressive than many commoners.

also surpassed quite a few scions of other families.

Worthy of the Xiao family — willing to pour resources into a disciple like this.

Their strength is truly formidable.

Beyond all that, there are also spiritual techniques.

There's no need to mention body piloting techniques — basic spiritual techniques, many people know them.

But Xiao Rui's "Wailing Ghost Scream" is not commonly seen.

Although it can be dispelled by spiritual techniques like the Cleansing Body Technique, it is still an exceptionally fine spiritual technique.

Moreover, as spiritual pressure grows, its effect strengthens — it may not be completely dispelled.

As for his ten Skeleton Mages and the extra Hero Commission, there's no need to mention those.

【Matching in progress for the second round】

【Match complete!】

【Number】 41

【Time】 10:30

【Duration】 30 minutes

【Battlefield】 Battlefield 1

【Opponent】 Qi Yu of Brook Village

Qi Yu?

Another one from Brook Village?

How did I get matched against someone from the same village in a row?

The Qi family and the Xiao family are on good terms.

It's a strong alliance between two powers.

They are in a competitive relationship with the Zhao family and the Liu family.

This result isn't bad either — first fight the Xiao family, then fight the Qi family.

【The Xiao family of Brook Village has filed a cheating complaint; please proceed to the "Review Room" for re-examination】

Just as he was thinking this, a notification like that suddenly came through the system.

Zhao Chi looked on in astonishment.

Wait… this…

A cheating complaint?

The Xiao family thinks I cheated?

Zhao Chi was utterly speechless.