[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league":3,"chapter-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-26":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in S3, Training the Entire League",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292496,4484,"Chapter 26","reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-26",26,"\u003Cp>The honor of being the first King doesn’t affect Jiang Ming’s promotion campaign for topping the national rankings, but if he could get it all, that would be even better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first match around 2 p.m. went smoothly; many night-owl grindmasters had probably already fallen asleep, and those who wanted to sabotage Jiang Ming never expected he and YY would settle things so quickly and begin their climb-to-top live stream that afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【666, one hundred wins clicked!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Strongest King, Strongest King, go for it, Ming! Ming’s army is the best.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【F***, streaming at noon? Lao Jiang, you’re the one, bro, I’m with you in spirit, but don’t play games with me.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【To be fair, JM is a night-activity streamer with the added bonus of being a college student—his schedule is terrifyingly regular.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Up there, does the college student eat your rice? Our schedule is perfectly regular, thank you very much.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【JM, get in line fast—other pro players’ streams all seem to be online, ready to ambush you.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ambush me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming frowned at the chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under YY’s big push, the pro players and high-ranked players from other platforms couldn’t possibly have remained silent, but he hadn’t expected them to react so fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, from a pro player’s perspective, letting him loudly snatch the first King in Division One and livestream his ascent would be a serious loss of face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bro Ming, we’re queuing too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Better if we queue with Ming. F***, if they want to ambush our boss, they better ask us first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On WeChat, several members of his own NXG team sent messages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Riot launched Season 3 and updated the ranks, Jiang Ming had assigned everyone the mandatory task of climbing to Division One King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hard requirement—must be completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, to secure better terms for the upcoming exclusive livestream contract with YY’s newly restructured Tiger TV team; second, for external promotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want NXG’s players to be introduced on livestreams during the LPL regular season as “Diamond player from some region.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A high-rank player isn’t necessarily a pro, but a player who can’t even climb the ranks definitely can’t become a pro.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That famous nonsense about rank being useless? Just listen to it and forget it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>GodV, the Diamond II emperor who crushed the second-ranked player in Korea with his left hand, did so because he had real skill—not because Diamond II could crush Korea’s second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“YY platform makes bold claims: Can a casual King outmatch pro players?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who will claim the title of China’s first King—and China’s strongest player?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pro players announce ambush on JM; countless casual Kings join the challenge queue.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Newly launched Shark Live platform announces huge reward for climbing to top; the title of ‘Strongest King in LOL’ sparks fan frenzy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Online, industry insiders marveled at YY’s sensitivity to traffic trends while also being stunned by the decisiveness of their leadership.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Investing so many promotional resources on a single streamer—even at the cost of squeezing traffic from other platform streamers—can they even break even?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the various doubts about Jiang Ming’s skill weren’t baseless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The discussion spread from the WE forum; WE fans thought it absurd to promote a casual streamer as China’s top mid-laner, especially since he’d never faced their beloved world-class card master. Disgruntled WE fans began leaving comments on pro players’ social media and livestreams, aiming to undermine the claim that JM was China’s strongest mid-laner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the casual Kings who joined later, some wanted to crush JM to gain fame, others were pure bounty hunters, or simply chasing personal rank gains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got in!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, countless players gathered in Jiang Ming’s livestream; when he entered the draft mode room, their spirits lifted instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry, check who else is in the match—streamers or pros!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, PDD and gogoing are in too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let me check—Changzhu, Smile, UZI all got in. Holy shit, are they all in one game?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NXG basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who got in?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, it’s all pro team members—they really came to ambush our boss.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, doesn’t it feel like the game company rigged this? What are the odds? Boss is one win away from King, and now everyone shows up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s normal—there are only so many high-rank players; matching together has high probability.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t anyone from us get in?” AD Xu Tao sighed; he had WE’s entire team’s livestreams open, hoping to face off against the top AD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I queued with Ming!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, jungler Shi Zhenyu pulled off his headphones and spoke to his teammate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? Really?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Awesome, Stone! If you pull off this escort, promotion and raise are right in front of you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others lost interest in queuing—some dragged over chairs behind the jungler, others found his ID and waited to OB once he entered the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jungler getting in helped Ming far more than any of them entering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, the opposing mid and jungle were exactly WE’s duo: Ming Kai and Ruofeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(gogoing: Hey JM!)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(tabe: Queued with JM? Lucky, Doggy! After the game, can JM add us as friends?)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(JM: Hey both, I’ll add you.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Classic plot.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the chatbox with all those familiar IDs, Jiang Ming shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from his own NXG jungler Stone, the top laner was OMG’s gogoing, and the bottom lane was Royal’s UZI + tabe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the enemy side, from audience feedback, the top laner was IG’s PDD, and the other four were all from WE.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Truly—an all-star match.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming felt a headache coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he worried WE’s four-man squad plus PDD’s ultimate combo couldn’t be beaten—his own top, mid, and jungle were all strong players; even if the other two were casuals, as long as the jungler was his own man, winning this crucial game wasn’t a big problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that after this game, he’d likely earn the early hatred of WE’s fanatics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the most terrifying group in the 2013 LPL, they’d even forced players to form anti-pressure forums just to resist them—clearly formidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ban Zed. Ban JM’s Zed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the red side, Smile typed quickly in chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an AD player, he knew better than anyone how dangerous a skilled assassin could be to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruofeng on the first pick had no objection—he himself wanted to play his favorite card master, and Zed was a mandatory ban for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew his own limits; after practicing for a while, he still hadn’t grasped the assassin’s essence, and he hadn’t been fooled by a few fan compliments into thinking he was invincible.\u003C\u002Fp>",1085,"2026-06-20T04:16:26.320Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ad26cb5ca98f31e0f86d4298c169cc186b0f0d4e985221c36e390d53959ea8a1","reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-27","reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-25",190,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-cover.jpg"]