Chapter 132: People from the Provincial Capital, the Resentment of Hundreds of Thousands

Chen Zhenyao saw the betting ratio displayed in the live stream room and thought it was a mistake in his operation that had caused a bug.

But before he could even begin to investigate, a barrage of comments suddenly appeared in the live stream!

"+1, I'm also from Shengcheng. I didn't come here with any other intention, I just want to tell you all: don't use some Ye Bai to try and latch onto our Shengcheng's Xuanyuan Mu!"

"People of Jiangcheng, listen well. You'd better recognize your place. Looking at the entire Jiangnan Prefecture, you are a city that can only rank in the middle-to-lower tier! So, anyone coming out of your Jiangcheng is nothing!"

"Haha, 45% of people think Ye Bai can take first place in the entire Jiangnan Prefecture? Laughable, absolutely laughable!"

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"I'm from Haicheng. I came here to tell you all that a mere Ye Bai has no qualifications to compete with our Haicheng's Shangguan Yijian!"

"Go take a piss and look at your own reflections. Do you even understand the true weight of King-level Prodigies like Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian?"

"You don't actually not know, do you? The reason your Ye Bai was able to take first place for a short time last time was because the so-called Beast Tide was deliberately triggered by your Jiangcheng's top brass?"

Following that, more comments appeared on the screen all at once!

A full several hundred thousand messages instantly filled every viewer's screen!

It turned out that the reason over three million viewers flooded into the Jiangcheng Military Department's live stream the moment it opened wasn't just because Ye Bai had become even more famous in Jiangcheng after ten days of fermentation.

It was also because, long before the Ranking Tournament began, hundreds of thousands of people from Shengcheng and Haicheng had switched their location settings, waiting for the Jiangcheng Military Department to start broadcasting!

And the matter goes back to the last Ranking Tournament.

At that time, Ye Bai's points suddenly began to skyrocket, quickly surpassing Shangguan Yijian and Xuanyuan Mu to sit high at first place on the entire Jiangnan Prefecture Leaderboard.

"What's the deal with this Ye Bai? Which city is he from? Why have I never heard of him before?"

"How could his point acquisition speed be so high, actually surpassing Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian? I must be dreaming, right?!"

……

"Just checked, this Ye Bai is a student in this year's Genius Camp in Jiangcheng..."

"Jiangcheng? Is that the same Jiangcheng that ranked last in the Ladder Tournament ten years ago, and while its population isn't small, its overall strength is almost at the bottom of the entire Jiangnan Prefecture? Are you kidding me? They can cultivate a prodigy that surpasses Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian?"

"I don't want to admit it either, but this seems to be the truth..."

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"Has Jiangcheng's luck finally turned around? To actually produce such a monster..."

These were some of the comments from the Shengcheng and Haicheng Military Department live streams at the time.

Because of Ye Bai's terrifying point acquisition speed, it wasn't just the people of Jiangcheng who were shocked; in reality, many, many people in the other cities of Jiangnan Prefecture were also stunned!

The shock lasted until the end of the Ranking Tournament.

Even though Ye Bai ended the Ranking Tournament halfway through, his final ranking in the entire Jiangnan Prefecture stopped at third!

"Jiangcheng's Ye Bai... if he hadn't ended the competition halfway, wouldn't he have been first this time?

It might have even been a landslide victory; Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian would only be fit to look up at his shadow..."

"How could Jiangcheng cultivate such a monster this year!"

However.

It was shortly after the Ranking Tournament ended.

Shangguan Yijian posted this on his personal account on the Martial Artist Association app:

"Heh, Jiangcheng's Ye Bai? Don't worry everyone, he could only show off in the first Ranking Tournament. Whether it's the upcoming second Ranking Tournament or the final Ladder Tournament, it is impossible for him to have such eye-catching performances again."

"Because I just found out clearly: the reason Ye Bai was able to have such a terrifying point acquisition speed was because an accident occurred during Jiangcheng's Ranking Tournament, a Beast Tide broke out, and Ye Bai's talent just happened to be particularly suited for such a war of attrition, which is why he was able to kill a massive amount of Alien Beasts."

"And to tell you the truth, I know this Ye Bai, because I spent some time in Jiangcheng with my parents when I was a child.

Let's put it this way: this Ye Bai is very ordinary. His performance today is just good luck—he awakened an A-grade Martial Arts Talent and just happened to run into a Beast Tide!"

Shangguan Yijian also knew that during the first Ranking Tournament, there was a period where Ye Bai's points had surpassed his!

So he investigated, and after getting the answer, he felt genuine disdain!

"I am destined to be number one in the entire Jiangnan Prefecture!"

Even Xuanyuan Mu soon posted a message.

It was only a short sentence, but it indicated that he knew what had happened in Jiangcheng and didn't consider Ye Bai a rival at all!

"So that's how it is..."

"I was just saying, how could a mere Jiangcheng cultivate a prodigy that surpasses Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian?"

"Our Jiangnan Prefecture hasn't produced a King-level Prodigy in ten years; producing two at once this year is already the limit!"

The people of Shengcheng and Haicheng, seeing the statements from their respective city's First Genius, naturally chose to believe them immediately.

"You say, could the sudden outbreak of the Beast Tide in the Jiangcheng Ranking Tournament not be an accident? Could it be that Jiangcheng's top brass, knowing Ye Bai's Martial Arts Talent beforehand, arranged it on purpose?

Was their goal to build hype for Ye Bai? To step on Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian? They might even be trying to use this Ranking Tournament to strike at the Martial Dao hearts of Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian!"

And then, as they discussed it, conspiracy theories emerged.

Plus, some people switched their location settings and checked the Jiangcheng forums.

They discovered that the posts on the forum were indeed all uniformly praising Ye Bai!

"This is too hateful, how could they think of such despicable methods?"

"No, I can't stand it!

I'm going to go to Jiangcheng and post right now!"

"What's the use of posting? That's the home turf of the Jiangcheng people! Can you, by yourself, out-argue millions of people?"

"Wait for the next Ranking Tournament. We'll call on more people, and when the time comes, we'll all go to Jiangcheng's live stream room together to expose that so-called Ye Bai's true strength!

Tell everyone in Jiangcheng that Ye Bai is not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian!"

"By the way, we can also supervise Jiangcheng's top brass. If they use the excuse of an accident to trigger a Beast Tide again like in the first Ranking Tournament, we'll report them!"

Finally, these people discussed.

And that is how, today, just as the Jiangcheng Military Department opened the betting, the ratio was unexpectedly skewed.

Dense barrages of comments popped up, Taunting Ye Bai and looking down on everyone in Jiangcheng!

These people were just worrying about not finding an opportunity to attack.

The betting game proposed by Huang Weiguo and Chen Zhenyao gave them the chance!

"People from Shengcheng and Haicheng..."

"How could this be?"

How could Chen Zhenyao have expected such an accident?

For a moment, they were at a loss for what to do.

"I star your stars, what do you mean we are using Ye Bai to clout-chase your Xuanyuan Mu and Shangguan Yijian?

What do you mean the Beast Tide was intentionally incited by our Jiangcheng high-level officials?"

"One or two hundred years ago, women had bound feet; now that one or two hundred years have passed, you lot with bound brains have popped up, right?"

A user with the ID "Fatty" appeared again.

Directly starting to curse!

Bombarding the hundreds of thousands of people from the two major cities!

And then, it completely ignited a flame war...