Chapter 88
The reason why the Thunder God ranks first is entirely due to its dazzling combat style.
Summoning thunder, controlling thunder, transforming into thunder, especially the transformation of thunder, has garnered countless fans.
This resulted in higher popularity than Fang Qing, securing the top spot in this ranking.
Of course, this kind of folk ranking does not hold much authority.
It's only based on the past records of the top ten evolvers and their current popularity.
Nevertheless, the ranking of the top ten evolvers also reflects to some extent the outcome of the final decisive battle.
First of all, there are the top three, whether it's the Thunder God, Fang Qing, or even that Yang Wei.
In any case, the strength of these three evolvers is clearly a level above the other seven.
Almost everyone believes that the champion will emerge from these three individuals.
As for which one it will be, only time will tell after the battles.
In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the organizers of the arena matches have not allowed these three evolvers to encounter each other so far.
Yang Wei is an exception, having been overwhelmed by the Thunder God before awakening his sixth-rank bloodline.
However, once the sixth-rank bloodline is awakened, it's hard to say who will win.
Bloodline-type evolvers are indeed constrained by their own bloodlines, but once they awaken a certain powerful bloodline, they can almost crush opponents of the same rank in the early stages.
The day before the global competition.
In the virtual world.
The organizers of the arena matches found Lin Yuan.
"Mr. Lin Yuan, hello, I am an assistant of the current arena match organizers." A woman with soft features and lilac-colored pupils smiled and said.
"Hello."
Lin Yuan nodded.
"We need you to record a video, mainly expressing your thoughts on the upcoming top ten competition."
The female assistant paused for a moment and continued, "Of course, Mr. Lin Yuan, if you don't know what to say, we can provide a script for you to read from."
After saying this, the female assistant took out a stack of documents.
Lin Yuan took it and casually glanced at it, immediately understanding that these scripts were mainly for declaring war on the other nine evolvers.
Although it's almost certain that the top three of this year's arena matches will be Fang Qing, the Thunder God, and Yang Wei.
Regardless, one must not lose momentum.
Even if one fails to reach the top three, there are still fourth to tenth places.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com
Such pre-match interviews are meant to provoke, stimulating other participants and the audience.
"I'll just speak for myself."
After reading the interview script, Lin Yuan felt that none of them suited him.
"If Mr. Lin Yuan has his own ideas, there's no need to read from the script," the female assistant said softly. Having worked for more than one arena match, she knew that some evolver participants often felt nervous or emotional before the competition, hence the thoughtful preparation of scripts.
"Then I'll go."
"Lastly, I hope Mr. Lin Yuan can achieve a good ranking."
The female assistant smiled and disappeared on the spot.
That evening.
Lin Yuan continued his usual practice.
At this moment, the intelligent assistant reminded Lin Yuan that the income division of the martial arts evolution pathway had been settled.
"Let's see how much money."
Lin Yuan became interested.
The income division is settled once a year.
Up to today, Lin Yuan has settled once.
However, that time, he just barely made it into the top hundred in the martial arts evolution pathway, and the time wasn't long, so the final income division was only a little less than ten million.
From the last settlement to this settlement, the martial arts evolution pathway has been in the top ten for almost a year, attracting many citizens to practice.
"1.5 billion and 36 million?"
Lin Yuan was slightly surprised to see the final income division.
This is just the net income, if you add the official's seventy percent share and corresponding taxes, wouldn't the total sales reach nearly a ten billion?
[Evolution Pathway: Martial Arts]
[Number of people practicing the Pre-Natal Chapter: Seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-three]
[Number of people practicing the Master Chapter: Two]
[Number of people practicing the Grandmaster Chapter: Zero]
"Someone has already practiced to the Master realm?"
Lin Yuan glanced at the relevant data of the martial arts evolution pathway.
These data are from the official records of the Cosmic Human Alliance and the Unified Registry of Evolvers Association.
There may be some errors, such as evolvers practicing to the Grandmaster realm but not registering.
But it shouldn't be many, someone like Lin Yuan, whose strength has surged significantly every eight months, is extremely rare.
"This data is not right."
Lin Yuan looked at the sales figures of various ranks of the martial arts evolution pathway again.
"More than two hundred copies of the Third-Rank Chapter sold?"
Lin Yuan was somewhat surprised.
The current martial arts evolution pathway is divided into the First-Rank Chapter, Second-Rank Chapter, and Third-Rank Chapter.
Lin Yuan priced these three stages as follows:
First-Rank Chapter: Ten thousand.
Second-Rank Chapter: Five hundred thousand.
Third-Rank Chapter: Five million.
And it hasn't been long since Lin Yuan uploaded the Third-Rank Chapter of the martial arts evolution pathway.
Yet it has already sold over two hundred copies? You should know that, at a price of five million each, two hundred copies amount to over 1 billion.
Even after deducting the seventy percent taken by the authorities and taxes, there's still three or four hundred millions left.
This is not a small sum.
"It should be a chain reaction caused by the martial arts evolution pathway reaching the top."
In an instant, everything in Yang Wei's perception, such as trees, rocks, and so on, became illusory.
Only the blue crystals emitted unusual colors.
"There's a crystal there."
Yang Wei 'saw' a blue crystal and flew directly towards it.
Over the huge arena.
The male host was quickly commentating.
"Look at our contestant Fang Qing, who has released the 'Ancient God' phantom directly, enhancing his perception, and has already found six blue crystals."
The male host praised and then switched the perspective to Thunder God.
"My god, Thunder God has actually awakened the embryonic form of his domain. It should be the embryonic form of the Thunder Domain. Using this embryonic form of the domain to find blue crystals, he indeed has an advantage over other contestants."
"Now our Thunder God contestant has found eleven crystals."
"Yang Wei's method of finding crystals is interesting. Can he directly know where the crystals are? Did he use some kind of pupil-related bloodline talent?"
The male host and the female host kept switching between the ten perspectives, commenting one by one.
Finally.
The male host switched to Lin Yuan's perspective.
"Our contestant Lin Yuan is resting?"
The male host was a bit stunned.
In the first nine perspectives, all the contestants were frantically searching for crystals.
But when it came to Lin Yuan, he was lying on a giant rock with his eyes closed as if resting?
And this scene was also seen by many viewers.
In Lin Yuan's perspective, he was leisurely lying on the giant rock.
It formed a strong contrast with the other contestants who were searching for crystals.
"No way, could it be that he has already given up struggling?"
"Right, Lin Yuan has mastered the embryonic form of the domain. In theory, he should be good at finding crystals, but finding them and keeping them are two different things."
"With Lin Yuan's strength, even if he finds the crystal, when he encounters powerful contestants like Thunder God and Fang Qing later, he will still have to obediently hand them over."
Countless viewers were discussing, mostly thinking that Lin Yuan had started to play poorly. After all, even if he didn't get one crystal, he would still be the tenth globally.
"It seems that our contestant Lin Yuan is very good at choosing."
The male host pondered for a while and finally came up with a better word.
Next, the male host switched perspectives again.
The passive attitude of competition like Lin Yuan's is not supported by the official arena, as it lacks excitement.
Even if there is no hope, one must struggle a bit, so as to stimulate more discussions.
On a certain giant rock on the island.
Lin Yuan opened his eyes and looked around.
"It's about time."
Lin Yuan thought to himself.
The rules of this scoring match were to find one hundred blue crystals scattered throughout the entire island.
These blue crystals could be hidden anywhere on the island.
Even if Lin Yuan wanted to find them, it would take some time.
It would be better to wait until the other nine evolvers had collected most of them and then go 'pick peaches' himself.
After all, the rules of the competition did not prohibit snatching, and even encouraged combat.
"Let's see who's nearby."
Lin Yuan's thoughts moved slightly, and his Tai Chi domain quickly spread.
One mile, ten miles, twenty miles, thirty miles.
"There are three."
Lin Yuan opened his eyes, and his figure disappeared from the spot.
"The tenth blue crystal."
Yang Wei maintained the bloodline talent 'Insightful Eyes,' and his efficiency in finding blue crystals was very fast. It didn't take long for him to find the tenth crystal.
It's worth noting that there were only a hundred crystals on the entire island.
"Another one?"
Yang Wei looked around, his eyes brightening, and he was about to move forward.
Just then.
A terrifying pressure descended.
"This?"
Yang Wei's expression showed fear.
Immediately, everything turned black, and he became nothingness.
The next moment.
Yang Wei appeared in the rest area of the arena.
"Me?"
A look of disbelief appeared on Yang Wei's face.
"Am I dead?"
Yang Wei's mind was a mess.
Until this moment, he still didn't know how he died?
You should know that even if he encountered the strongest Thunder God, Fang Qing, he still had the confidence to fight for a while. Even if he lost, it would be a close defeat.
To be directly killed like this was too unbelievable.
At the same time.
In the high sky of the huge arena.
The screen belonging to Yang Wei's perspective suddenly went 'black'.
The nearly ten billion viewers watching Yang Wei's perspective suddenly felt lost and exploded with discussion.
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