Chapter 7038 Taking Over

Chapter 7038 Taking Over
The overall team points rankings are pretty much as expected. All the teams that were supposed to be on the list are on it. Even Chen Xi's team managed to get seventh place. This ranking isn't too high, but in such an absurd team competition, getting seventh place is already quite impressive.

However, most teams' total scores were somewhat unsatisfactory because too many people didn't focus on scoring points after entering the team and instead just played around.

Take the Victims and Victims Team as an example. Just looking at the composition and strength of this team, well, if they were to fight the team with the number one team on the leaderboard, it would be uncertain who would win or lose. But the team is full of fun-loving people.

Needless to say, Zhang Yong was a complete slacker. He didn't fight monsters properly and just played around for the first three stages. Then, on a whim, he started slaughtering monsters. Later, he encountered Zhang Huang and Guang Yuan, and the three of them were basically carried away together.

Then there are Su Zong and Hou Zhong. From the moment they entered the small world, they have been entangled with Ma Ye and Han Duan. The problem is that Ma Ye and Han Duan initially had a grudge against Ma Ye, but later they were purely chasing after Su Zong because of his high score. In other words, even when the members of the General's Sixth Team were just loafing around, they were still paying attention to the leaderboard. They hadn't neglected their primary duties!
But what were Su Zong and Hou Zhong doing? They were just messing around. These two were definitely top-tier experts, with extremely strong survivability and the ability to fly. They each earned 20,000 points and then left the stage!

It can be said that in the entire victim team, only Nanxi and Yinzhi were working hard to accumulate points. The problem is that this is a six-person team, but four people were just messing around, while the two gods were working hard to accumulate points. It's already good enough that they can get fourth place. How many more points do they want?

Similarly, there's Zhao Zhen's team. Of the members of Zhao Zhen's team, only Yang Tuo joined Zhao Zhen in the end. So we know what happened to the others. People like Lao Liu, Xu Yuan, Ke Ke, and Wang Ba didn't join Zhao Zhen in the end. Which of these people is weak?
Although their average combat strength was indeed inferior to that of the victims' team members, to be honest, each of these people had a special skill and was a top-notch individual, yet they were all just slacking off.

Before entering, he confidently assured everyone that he would succeed, but once inside, he simply coasted along. In the end, it was really just Zhao Zhen doing his best to beat up all the opponents. Incidentally, the reason Zhao Zhen's team managed to get into the top five was entirely due to Zhao Zhen racking up kills.

The remaining three, Lao Liu, Xu Yuan, and Ke Ke, didn't get many points. On the contrary, Wang Ba, as equipment, followed a group of big shots and got a lot of points. Moreover, he survived to the end and also got points from survival, which can be said to have helped the Yanzhou team.

As for Yang Tuo, this top-notch healer, would he get into a fight? He only came to participate in the competition because of Zhao Zhen. He was there to protect Zhao Zhen and provide him with treatment throughout the competition. However, he was carried away shortly after reuniting with Zhao Zhen. He basically relied on Zhao Zhen's low-level super-fast regeneration to heal himself.

Then there's Sun Er, a key player in Lu Bu's team. Before leaving the game, he was basically AFK and didn't actively earn points. Now he's being criticized by Lu Bu because of his ranking.

After all, they ate a lot of rice from Lü Bu, but they didn't manage to get Lü Bu into the top ten. You have to know that the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry Regiment that Lü Bu formed was considered a favorite to win the championship. Moreover, judging from the peak performance of Sun Er and Wei Shuang, they were second only to Jiang Guang, who completely self-destructed at the end of the series.

They didn't make it into the top ten!

The fact that Lü Bu could save face has resulted in the two newly appointed Marquises of Guannei now being criticized and denounced by Lü Bu.

Similarly, there's Zhao Yun's team. Huang Tao, who joined on his own, was AFK the whole time. Fortunately, he could share the points, so it wasn't too bad. But the team leader, Zhang Liang, was looking for Zena from the moment he entered. Moreover, Zhang Liang, who has friends all over the world and is extremely popular, basically doesn't fight his own brothers. In the end, he met a suitable opponent, namely Kuyel from Kushan, and they perished together!
Zhao Yun was speechless, but fortunately Huang Tao survived to the finale and received a lot of points, at least better than Lu Bu's team, making it into the top eight.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei's team and Xu Chu's team, which everyone initially thought had little hope, achieved amazing team scores. There was no way around it; unlike other teams that had many unmanageable troublemakers, these people all listened to their leader's commands and worked hard to score points.

Even though Zhang Fei lost two men early on, and the strongest one, Jiang Bin, was killed by Zhao Zhen, they were all working hard to earn points before they fell.

As for Xu Chu's team, apart from Mu Yan making a mistake, the rest can basically be assumed to have survived to the end. It can only be said that when the stats are high, the survival rate is indeed absurd. For example, Er Xiong and Tao Tong's group were badly beaten, but they actually survived until Jiang Guang went berserk.

In short, the biggest problem with this grand martial arts exercise is that many teams are not lacking in strength, but rather have too many people who are just looking for fun. Many veterans who were all talk and no action before going in turned out to be just looking for fun, and there were more than one or two of them secretly taking advantage of their teammates.

Especially these guys who ripped off their teammates, who even had the audacity to say that they had been holding a grudge for a while and this time they finally found an opportunity to vent.

"Zhongkang, your team is indeed very well assembled, actually making it into the top five." Liu Bei patted Xu Chu's hand and said with some admiration. He had previously thought that Xu Chu's muscle-bound team was doomed to fail, but most of the team actually made it to the end.

"Hahaha." Xu Chu scratched the back of his head, quite happy. He decided to treat his team to ten more big meals later. He didn't have any secret medicine, so he would keep it simple: whatever he, Xu Chu, ate, his teammates would eat too!
"Hanmou, what a team you have!" Liu Bei sighed at Qu Qi. Actually, he wanted to apologize on behalf of the old men. Qu Qi's subordinate team, the Canghou Rice Team, was undoubtedly strong, but could you imagine that the person with the highest score in this team was Hou Jing, who was just coasting along?

Hou Jing is an archer, and she has been floating in the water since she entered the small world. She floated until the shrinking circle pulled her onto land, and then Hou Jing got the highest score!
What the other five things were doing left Liu Bei speechless.

Hearing Liu Bei's words, Zhang Huang, Guang Yuan, Wang Mao, Ba Xiu, and Huang Xiu were all a little embarrassed. Before entering the small world, he had vowed to kill everyone, but after entering the small world, he felt embarrassed to bully the young people. Except for some of the most shameless and ignorant ones who were killed by the brothers, the others were basically given minor punishments as a warning, and they did not go too far.

The only big spender Zhang Huang ever ripped off was Zhang Yong, for 10,000 points...

Wang Mao also managed to accumulate around ten thousand points in bits and pieces.

Ba Xiu and Huang Xiu were the unfortunate ones. One fought Jiang Guang head-on, and the other fought Zhang Han head-on. The former was killed, and the latter was also killed by Jiang Guang...

There was nothing we could do. Without the Thousand-Year Defense activated, Jiang Guang's overwhelming force that broke through the boundary was simply unstoppable, and the body exploded directly. There was really no way to counter it.

"It's alright, they all performed very well," Cookie said with a smile, not feeling ashamed at all. He knew that these people were all over seventy years old, and it was already quite good that they could perform so well in the small world martial arts competition. Points and rankings were not important to Cookie. He participated for fun, and many of his team members survived to the end. Those who were eliminated were the toughest guys before they were eliminated. Cookie was actually quite satisfied.

"The team formed by the Cui, Yang, and Wang families performed quite well, actually making it into the top ten," Liu Bei said with a smile to Chen Xi after awarding the team's prize.

"It was mainly thanks to Wang Shi's last move that we made it into the top ten," Chen Xi said with a smile. "I didn't expect the ceiling for the Warm-Nourish Collapse technique to be so high."

"That's not the upper limit of nurturing and disintegrating, that's the upper limit of the king who has mastered nurturing and disintegrating. You can't mistake an individual's upper limit for the upper limit of their talent." Huangfu Song said in a rather pleasant mood. Although the team name was a bit presumptuous, Huangfu Song was still in a good mood after winning the championship.

"Old Wu, your team isn't very good. How come you only have this many points?" Han Xin teased Wu Qi. "Your Chu Palace team is quite strong, but you're not very lucky."

Wu Qi glared at Han Xin with annoyance. Before entering the small world, no one could have imagined that the Demon God would separate from the will of the Oath after entering. This unexpected event caused a series of problems. By the time the Chu Palace team members had barely managed to resolve the issue...

Well, half of the Chu Palace team members didn't even have a chance to solve this problem before they ran into a tough opponent.

They came from Iberia in Rome, and the chieftains from the Huns. What a load of crap! It's not that the Chu Palace team under Wu Qi wasn't strong, but these guys were just utterly inhuman.

The remaining three members of the Chu Palace team who went to deal with the demon god, after barely defeating the demon god who was exactly the same strength as themselves, entered the shrinking circle phase like Erxiong and his group of unlucky kids. Then they encountered He Zhen, Slavnis, and Hou Jing respectively.

To be fair, if they had encountered any other kind of thing, the Chu Palace team members wouldn't have been killed so quickly. But they were dealing with these three. All three possessed special moves that could quickly kill demon gods. He Zhen's Eighteen Slashes directly carried the demon god away. Slavnis was equipped with divine gear at the time, and he could easily take anything away.

Hou Jing goes without saying. With Soul Stealing, even if a demon god is completely separated from his body, he has the support of twenty-four internal deities and accumulated defenses on the outside. He can still pierce through a demon god with a single arrow. Isn't the biggest weakness of a demon god that he basically has no willpower to break through limits? Hou Jing's Soul Stealing is just one arrow to those who have no willpower to break through limits.

But thinking about it, it's normal. Once you've made it to the shrinking circle, there aren't any normal opponents left. Even if you don't encounter these few monsters, you'll encounter other monsters. When you're nearing the end, relying on unconventional tactics will basically only lead to your death.

“Letting these top veterans use their power without regard for life or death has an extremely terrifying upper limit, especially for some veterans whose will has been pushed to its limit, who are directly heading towards self-destruction. The limits they can unleash are simply too exaggerated.” Sun Wu shook his head repeatedly. He understood Wu Qi’s predicament. After all, the will of living people fluctuates too much, especially in the final stage. Every veteran who entered the circle, even if it was not a normal breakthrough of will, at least had their will strength explode to this level during the battle.

For veterans at this level, no matter how difficult the demon god is, it's not that big of a deal. After all, at this level, even a normal attack with its own inherent will can break through the demon god's will defense. Just go for it and kill it!

“The veterans of this era truly have a solid foundation,” Wu Qi sighed softly, then looked at Chen Xi with some admiration. Unlike the three men around him, Chen Xi had actually served as prime minister and presided over reforms, so he knew very well how difficult it was to bring the country to this state. However, what Wu Qi found absurd was that Chen Xi, a reformist, could reap greater benefits than he, a reformist himself. This was truly outrageous!
"Don't look at me like that," Chen Xi said with a light laugh. "Productivity is different now. In your time, an acre of land only yielded about 90 catties, but nowadays, an acre of land can yield more than 200 or even 300 catties. This can provide a higher ratio of soldiers to civilians, and also allow for more intensive training without worrying about food."

"In an era when 'Tailao' could be eaten as a meal," Han Xin said with a slightly flippant tone. Bai Qi had taught him this saying. Han Xin hadn't actually realized before that the hot pot he ate was actually 'Tailao,' since it was indeed a beef broth with three kinds of sacrificial animals!
"Indeed, every era has its powerful figures." Wu Qi stood up with emotion, gave Chen Xi a formal bow, and thus completely acknowledged Chen Xi.

Then, in front of everyone present, he turned into light and said, "The reason I was willing to take over the body of Yinghuo after my death was because I couldn't let go of those remaining demons and gods. I was worried that after my death, these things would have endless poisonous effects, so I never died. In fact, my earlier efforts to awaken my own consciousness were just to deal with these demons and gods. Since there is a person like you in this era, then I can take a rest. Lord Chen, are you willing to take on the trouble left behind by your predecessor?"

"I don't want to!" Chen Xi said irritably.

Upon hearing this, Wu Qi, who was about to transform into light, was forcibly pulled back, and even looked somewhat embarrassed. He truly felt that since there were such powerful juniors in this era, then he should leave everything to them to solve.

It wasn't that he believed in the wisdom of later generations, but rather that he had personally witnessed how this powerful descendant could truly solve these problems. Therefore, he decided not to disrupt the balance between life and death. It was better for the dead to peacefully slumber, which is why Wu Qi made the choice to disappear in a flash of light.

"Cough cough cough." Wu Qi was so embarrassed that he didn't know how to respond.

"Whoever's fault it is, they should clean it up themselves!" Chen Xi said irritably. What do you mean by believing in the wisdom of future generations? I thought you were a strategist and should leave some benefits for future generations, but not only did you not leave any benefits, you also created a demon god for them. Holy crap!
"No, the reason I can maintain my sense of self here is only due to special circumstances. Under normal circumstances, Marquis Huaiyin knows best that I have no sense of self at all, and I myself do not want to awaken." Wu Qi said with some weariness, "Besides, believing in future generations is a kind of wisdom. I think Sun Tou's descendants are indeed very capable and can solve this problem. Goodbye!"

After saying that, Wu Qi vanished in a flash of light without any regard for propriety.

“Since Xiao Wu has left, I won’t keep him here either. This problem wasn’t originally mine; it’s Wu Zixu’s problem. I’ve been suppressing it for him for seven hundred years. Now that this era can resolve it, I don’t need to suppress it any longer. You can go to Yunmengze and resolve it when you have time.” Sun Wu said to Chen Xi with a few light laughs after seeing Wu Qi leave.

Of course, calling him "Little Wu" was purely to take advantage of Wu Qi, but Wu Qi had already gone to the Ruins of Return to eternal sleep, so naturally he couldn't hear it and didn't react.

"Hey, isn't that going too far!" Chen Xi grabbed Sun Wu. They've already let Wu Zi go, are they going to let Sun Zi go too? He's a military strategist!

“I also think Wu Zi is right. We should trust the wisdom of future generations. Besides, what the Chen family likes most is to surpass their ancestors. I think you have completely surpassed your predecessors now, so I won’t get in your way anymore.” Sun Wu smiled and disappeared into light as Chen Xi grabbed his arm.

"The oath I left behind should last for about ten years. When you have time, take care of things over there too. For the past few hundred years, I've been cleaning up Wu Zixu's messes! I need to rest too." After Sun Wu turned into light, he left only a few echoes before disappearing completely.

"You two aren't leaving too, are you?" Chen Xi asked Bai Qi and Han Xin with great concern. Why were Sun Wu and Wu Qi leaving so suddenly? Without even having a meal.

"Where are we going?" Bai Qi and Han Xin exchanged glances. "We're not like those two. We have legitimate identities. They're the ones who face discrimination in this world because they have self-awareness, especially after a certain Legalist school specifically strengthened the boundary between life and death, making the discrimination even more intense."

"For them, the willingness to live in a somewhat muddled way was simply because they didn't want to pass on the troubles they left behind to their successors. But now that a successor can solve this problem, they naturally don't want to live in such a near-ignorant state as before." Han Xin had an expression that said, "I completely understand those two great men."

"Is that so?" Chen Xi asked Bai Qi. Sometimes, Chen Xi did not trust Han Xin's words.

"More or less," Bai Qi said after thinking for a moment.

"What do you mean 'almost'? This is like sitting at home and getting blamed out of nowhere!" Chen Xi said with a dark face. "Those are tens of thousands of demon gods, and they're all in the Yunmeng region. You want me to deal with them? I'm truly speechless!"

He doesn't seem to be in good shape, oh dear.