Chapter 591 - 245: Reaching the Pinnacle Again, World-Class Elite
Chapter 591: Chapter 245: Reaching the Pinnacle Again, World-Class Elite
Lin Ye made up his mind and launched the program.
[Neural-Link Module Initializing...]
[Synchronizing Data...]
[Welcome back!]
The next moment, Lin Ye’s consciousness appeared in the main lobby of Martial Arts Peak.
He selected the personal training room.
The scene changed, and he found himself in a completely white virtual training room.
’Switch phase transition to P4.’
Then,
He activated Dragon Descendant Incarnation!
In the virtual world, his body perfectly replicated his half-dragon form, down to the last detail.
The Martial Arts Peak system was still able to perfectly recognize and simulate his abilities.
Lin Ye nodded in satisfaction, exited the training space, and returned to the Battle Hall.
He tapped the matchmaking button.
He hadn’t been online in a long time, so his rank had dropped from the top few dozen of the New Star Sequence to outside the top two hundred.
The upside, however, was that matchmaking was now significantly faster.
Almost the instant he hit the button, a notification popped up.
[Match Successful!]
[Entering Battle Arena... 3... 2... 1!]
...
「Three seconds later.」
Lin Ye was back in the Battle Hall.
A look of resignation was on his face.
His last opponent had been an agility-type Martial Artist specializing in assassination.
The moment the countdown ended, his opponent had entered stealth, looking for an opening.
However, under the True Vision granted by his Dragon Descendant Incarnation, his opponent’s petty tricks were as obvious as a firefly in the dead of night.
He couldn’t even be bothered to move.
He simply unleashed the full might of the aura that came from his Ancient Dragon Blood.
And then...
...there was no ’and then.’
The genius Martial Artist, ranked somewhere in the one-hundreds on the New Star Sequence, didn’t even get close before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he started foaming at the mouth.
The system declared the match over.
Lin Ye hit match again.
[Match Successful!]
...
「Two seconds later.」
Another win.
Lin Ye sighed.
’This New Star Sequence...’
’For me to be here... it’s basically smurfing.’
Lin Ye canceled matchmaking, opened his friends list, found a specific ID, and sent a message.
...
「Meanwhile, in Yanjing.」
Dong Dongchen yawned, climbing sleepily out of bed.
Sporting a messy bedhead, he fumbled to turn on the livestreaming equipment on his nightstand.
His sleep schedule had been completely flipped recently.
He would stream and mess around with his viewers until dawn, then sleep like the dead all day.
But just a moment ago, the personal terminal he kept by his pillow had started vibrating like it was possessed.
It was a flood of unusual activity alerts from the Starfire Live Platform.
He wasn’t even live, but the number of viewers in his channel had skyrocketed past a hundred thousand in a short time, and the chat was being flooded with tens of thousands of comments per minute.
"What the hell is going on...?"
Dong Dongchen muttered, opening his stream’s dashboard.
The first thing he saw was an overwhelming torrent of chat messages.
"Lazy-ass streamer! Stop sleeping, you moron, and get up!"
"Something huge is happening and you don’t even know it!"
"Holy crap, you’re getting hit with a tidal wave of traffic and you’re not even here to ride it! You deserve to stay a small-time streamer!"
"Chen, wake up! Your daddy’s online!"
As far as he could see, it was all people yelling at him to go live, while also calling him lazy.
Utterly bewildered, Dong Dongchen casually started the stream.
The moment the camera turned on, the rapidly scrolling chat suddenly froze for a second.
Then, the entire screen was flooded with question marks.
"??????"
"Holy shit, he actually went live?"
"Guys, flaming him actually worked! Everybody, take notes!"
"LMAO, look at Chen’s dark circles and that greasy-ass hair. He must’ve just been dragged out of bed, right?"
"This streamer’s look is the definition of authentic."
Dong Dongchen gave a weak wave to the camera and yawned. "Alright, alright, stop flaming me, guys. Give a man a break. What the hell happened? I just woke up."
Just as he finished speaking, a glittering, diamond member special effect comment slowly scrolled across the top of the screen.
"Stop sleeping. The national champion is online smurfing. He just blasted his way from the two-hundreds all the way to rank one. You missed the whole thing."
Seeing that comment, Dong Dongchen jolted.
All his sleepiness vanished in an instant.
He was wide awake.
"Holy shit!"
Dong Dongchen cried out, scrambling to put on his neural-link device and log in to Martial Arts Peak as fast as he could.
The first thing he did was open his ’Favorites’ list.
The ID "Goblin Soldiers" was lit up, showing its status as online.
And right next to the ID was his rank—
[Martial Arts New Star Sequence (Great Xia District): Rank 1]
"I... what did I miss!"
Dong Dongchen wrung his hands and sighed, beating his chest in despair, looking as if he’d just lost a hundred million.
He knew better than anyone just how insane Lin Ye’s popularity was right now.
The national martial exam champion who made history, an officially recognized once-in-a-century prodigy, a key talent being cultivated by the military... any one of those titles was enough to blow up the entire internet.
And now, this legend had silently smashed his way to the top of the New Star Sequence?
’If I had streamed that... I can’t even imagine. I really can’t.’
Just as Dong Dongchen was drowning in regret, the golden comment appeared again.
"Don’t feel too bad. Even if you had been live, you wouldn’t have seen a thing."
"Every single one of his matches was over in less than five seconds."
"And for all of his opponents, without exception, the system’s official reason for defeat was... Spirit collapse. They were scared to death."
Dong Dongchen froze.
’Scared to death?’
’What the hell kind of ruling is that?’
Full of questions, he pulled up Lin Ye’s match history.