Before the Evil Dragon Woke Up

The "Explosive Rocket" item, upon hitting a target, will cause the target to spin three times in the air.

That's a two-second hard crowd control! The whole place erupted when Little Yao Xi pulled out that thing.

"Yes, yes, yes! Absolutely right!"

"Aim! Don't miss, please!"

"Bomb him! Bomb him!"

"We can't let Yang One-Blade take first place again!"

"Little Yao Xi, you won! I'll buy you snacks! Ah! I'll give you anything you want!"

Players are going crazy! Just how powerful is Yang Shan?

He triggered Global Announcement and can't even get into the top five trending topics on the forum!

Their combat strength is so great that it's impossible to estimate.

This guy's playing with a Sugar Bean Little Dolls has legs longer than everyone else's! Even if he's a vegetable and never goes offline 24/7, this is just too outrageous! Battle Through the Heavens is already in its third version, and a year and a half has passed in the game! Players are gradually becoming numb.

Forget it, let's pretend this person doesn't exist and continue playing the game.

But then one day, a brave warrior, braving the fierce winds and snow, slowly climbed towards the mountaintop, trying to pull the person at the summit down! What does this mean? It means that other players may not be so far from being as powerful as Yang Shan! Yang Shan is not invincible! Now that someone can defeat Yang Shan in the alchemy game, perhaps someone will one day be able to break the legend of "Yang One-Blade" in a direct battle!

What's more, this hero is actually an adorable little girl who is loved by men, women, young and old alike!

Who wouldn't cheer for her?

Go! Win this game!

Let Yang One-Blade eat the exhaust fumes behind him!

I wonder how many players have already started recording.

Yang One-Blade's classic moment of losing his first match is definitely worth treasuring!

Little Yao Xi is now 70 meters from the finish line, Yang Shan is 50 meters away.

Moreover, Yang Shan's Nitrogen Acceleration effect has long since expired.

Yang Shan could only watch helplessly as Little Yao Xi's cannon fired miniature rockets that spewed flames and rushed towards him.

With a loud bang, Yang Shan's car was blown to pieces.

Xiao Aotian, standing behind, couldn't help but cheer. "Nice! Well done, little girl!"

Little Yao Xi had even started cheering. "Yay! Speed up, speed up, charge!"

Yang Shan smiled wryly, "No, Little Yao Xi, who exactly is your boss?"

Little Yao Xi: "Uncle, I'm leaving now, bye-bye!"

As Yang Shan's Flamboyant Red Kart landed, Little Yao Xi had already left him a good ten meters behind.

But Little Yao Xi has no more items to use.

Yang Shan's go-kart performance is superior to Little Yao Xi's, and his straight-line acceleration is also Little Yao Xi! The outcome is still uncertain! floor the accelerator!

Charge! Thirty meters, twenty meters! The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

The Flamboyant Red Kart, like a shark in the deep sea, opened its blood-red maw and slowly devoured Little Yao Xi's advantages.

"Oh no, oh no, it's all bad!"

Little Yao Xi kept complaining, but she didn't have a better solution.

"Go, pink little car! Go, you can do it!"

Children's world is different from adults'; they stubbornly believe that many non-living beings also possess consciousness and can understand what they are saying.

The last ten meters! Yang Shan's car was now right behind Little Yao Xi's car! All the players stood up.

They didn't speak again, their eyes fixed on the finish line! Fireworks burst in the sky, announcing that someone had already crossed the finish line.

The two were too close.

It is difficult to judge with the naked eye alone.

Tian Yao Company thoughtfully turned on the virtual screen and displayed a picture of the moment when they crossed the finish line.

Yang Shan's Flamboyant Red Kart's front end was positioned next to the front wheel of Little Yao Xi's pink go-kart.

The crowd cheered!

We won!

"We won!"

"Little sister, you're awesome! You're so great!"

"Yang One-Blade has finally lost!"

"Hey, grandpa! Stop fishing in the Novice Realm! I'm sending you a video, you know what? Yang One-Blade lost! He lost!"

Some wealthy individuals extravagantly bought an excessive number of fireworks from the system's store and distributed them to the audience around them for free.

Then the spectators lit their fireworks and sprayed them into the sky! Spray as much as you want! Absolutely environmentally friendly!

"Yay! Yay! Yay!"

Little Yao Xi was also incredibly excited. After jumping off the car, she spread her arms wide, hugged her beloved Pink Little Car, and gave it a big kiss. "Pink toy car, you're amazing!"

Yang Shan was initially somewhat depressed.

He truly encountered too many obstacles along the way.

Many players even spontaneously threw the items they had at him.

Despite his superior skills and excellent handling of all situations, he still lost.

But seeing Little Yao Xi's happy expression, Yang Shan felt relieved.

If you lose, you lose. No one wins their whole life.

Yang Shan walked up to Little Yao Xi and said, "Little Yao Xi, congratulations."

Little Yao Xi frantically flashed a peace sign at Yang Shan: "Uncle, you lost! Where's the pink Cauldron?"

Yang Shan said helplessly, "Little Yao Xi, I only lost one round."

Little Yao Xi then remembered:

"Oh no! I forgot, I thought I was the champion!"

Yang Shan didn't know if Little Yao Xi could win the final championship.

But Yang Shan knew that from this moment on, Little Yao Xi had become a "little idol" in the hearts of many players.

To date, he is the only player to have managed to take first place from "Yang One-Blade".

A ten-year-old girl.

Yang Shan: "By the way, Little Yao Xi, we made a bet, but have you forgotten what will happen if you lose?"

"That's right! Grandpa said that we should be fair to people and to things."

Little Yao Xi scratched her little head, then clapped her hands:

"Got it!"

"If I don't win the championship, I'll call you Handsome Uncle from now on!"

Yang Shan smiled and said, "Alright, it's settled then."

The difference between "middle-aged man" and "Handsome Uncle" is only one word, but their meanings are worlds apart.

Especially when children compliment someone on their looks, most people don't think the children are flattering them.

"Rounded up, that's like saying I'm so handsome that even kids would think I'm good-looking!"

Yang Shan felt that this title was more valuable than a top-grade piece of equipment.

Equipment can be updated and iterated.

Being handsome lasts a lifetime!

During their fifteen-minute break, Yang Shan and Little Yao Xi refilled their juice glasses with the juice they had bought earlier and continued chatting.

Dealing with three- or four-year-old children is the most challenging.

However, when Yang Shan is with ten-year-old children, especially a shy but well-behaved little girl like Little Yao Xi, he feels like he has returned to his childhood.

Well, men are boys until they die.

With the break time almost over, Little Yao Xi said confidently, "Uncle, I'm sure I'll beat you in the third round too!"

Yang Shan: "Oh, you're very confident. Don't cry if you lose later."

Yang Shan knew what the third round of the finals was.

Although Little Yao Xi has an exceptionally high talent for playing mini-games.

But Yang Shan was confident that Little Yao Xi would never be able to beat him in the third round! Not to mention the current Little Yao Xi.

Even if he brought back the legendary Seven-Rank Alchemist from his past life, who was practically a cheat code in every mini-game, Yang Shan wouldn't back down from this challenge! Because the final mini-game in the final round was:

Fruit Cutting!

The gameplay is very simple: players use their weapons to slash at the fruits that come flying at them.

Note the key word: surroundings!

In theory, fruit could appear anywhere except under your feet!

Extremely difficult!

This stage, or rather the final round of the entire Alchemist Convention, is actually laying the groundwork for the subsequent Alchemy Department.

Starting from the sixth grade, elixirs can trigger certain extraordinary phenomena in nature.

Grade Seven Pill can generate pill lightning.

Eighth Grade Pill can even produce multicolored pill lightning! As the value of pills rises dramatically, the related medicinal materials also become more precious.

Many high-quality medicinal herbs can have remarkable effects even when swallowed directly.

For example, the main ingredient of the Grade Seven Pill "Transformation Pill," "Transformation Grass," can be directly consumed by magical beasts, giving them a certain chance to transform into human form. This allows the magical beast to possess a powerful physique while also acquiring some of the cultivation talents belonging to the human race! However, the medicinal material is hard to find, greatly increasing the cost of failed alchemy attempts.

Therefore, starting from the sixth rank, the player's alchemy mode will change to: if the mini-game is completed, the alchemy will definitely be successful! However, the higher the grade of the alchemy, the higher the difficulty of the mini-game.

At that time, players will be able to adjust the game difficulty based on their Alchemist level, flames, Cauldron, and Soul Strength, just like in this final round.

The reason for using the "success rate" model before the Sixth Grade Pill is mainly to allow players a long period of training so that they can smoothly transition to the "game completion" mode.

There are so many types of potion-making mini-games.

If this "game-like" approach is adopted from the beginning, then the production and difficulty of medicinal herbs will be very difficult to consider.

If the difficulty is too easy and players succeed every time, then in order to control the production of pills, the medicinal materials must be limited.

However, with the limited availability of medicinal herbs, players will have less practice to do.

If the difficulty is high, and alchemy keeps failing, many players will experience several unsuccessful attempts at alchemy from the very beginning.

This is a huge blow to players' confidence and could even become a reason for them to quit the game.

The "success rate" mode allows players plenty of time to play all the mini-games.

Furthermore, Tian Yao Company secretly added a hidden "guarantee" that if there are too many failures, success will inevitably follow, and it is very likely that success will come one after another.

The rebound from rock bottom got players completely hooked!

Once players smoothly transition from the "success rate" mode to the "game completion" mode, even if the difficulty increases and players fail to refine pills multiple times, they can continue training by continuously refining large quantities of low-level pills.

This allows players to maintain a "I'll definitely beat this game once I've mastered it" spirit, never giving up! Therefore, it serves as the final stage of this Alchemist Convention finals.

This "Fruit Cutting" mini-game has a difficulty level that's reached "Top Grade 7"! That's the kind of difficulty you'd face when refining a Top Grade 7 pill!

Moreover, in this level, all players will truly be on the same starting line! Regardless of whether it's fire, Cauldron, or Soul Strength.

All increases have been cancelled!

It's a contest to see who can cut the most fruit! As soon as the rules were announced, the audience had already started discussing it.

Everyone could see the boost Yang Shan received in the first two stages.

Without these increases, how would Yang Shan perform?

Enter the game.

Yang Shan then selected the game scene he wanted: the desert!

The desert is barren, and the view is unobstructed.

Any fruit can be spotted immediately.

There were no other players around to interfere.

As for weapon selection, Yang Shan naturally used knives! And he held one in each hand!

Looking at the countdown, Yang Shan took a deep breath.

He can lose in other games.

But playing with knives.

He won't! Countdown to zero.

It's here!

Human perspectives are limited.

However, in Battle Through the Heavens the Heavens, determining direction doesn't necessarily require using your eyes.

Later!

Yang Shan turned around and slashed fiercely with his right hand holding the knife.

A watermelon the size of a washbasin was cut in half.

Left!

Yang Shan is not left-handed, but his control over the knife with his right hand is perfect.

That left hand deserves a 95! That's the result of fifteen years of diligent skill practice in my previous life's game!

Skill? Practice makes perfect!

The fruit is arriving faster and faster.

Yang Shan had never experienced the difficulty of refining Grade Seven Pill in his previous life.

But even just relying on his own control over the knife is enough to deal with it! At this moment, the number of viewers who brought up Yang Shan's game screen is more than a million.

Since this level is a single-player mode, viewers can simultaneously view the screens of multiple contestants.

These viewers clearly noticed that Yang Shan Yang Shan's attack speed was much faster than other players! There was even a wave where twelve different kinds of fruit attacked Yang Shan simultaneously from different angles.

But Yang Shan stood upright on his left foot, pushed off with his right foot, and spun around 360 degrees.

The two knives danced wildly.

Of the twelve fruits, Yang Shan cut off eleven.

Only one hit him!

It's important to know that at the same time, all other participants were facing the same situation.

Some were flustered and clumsy, while others missed out on even more fruit because they were greedy.

Some just wave their arms randomly, hoping for the best.

Even Xiao Aotian only managed to hit four of them.

Little Yao Xi hit six of them.

The difference is too obvious!

"How can he be so strong?"

"Doesn't this level offer no boosts whatsoever?"

"How can he still be so strong?"

"This is unscientific! These fruits are so fast, I think it would be lucky if I could land one cut out of ten!"

"Is Yang One-Blade some kind of ancient martial arts inheritor in real life?"

"This swordsmanship is really not flashy at all; every strike is aimed at accuracy and efficiency."

"The accuracy is incredible, is it really possible for a human to do that?"

Are there any Wuying-level athletes who trained in swordsmanship? Could you please explain?

"What a coincidence, that's me. But I practice boxing. I just asked a friend, and he said that if he's in good shape, he should be able to do it too, but probably not as well. Oh, by the way, my friend uses a sword and is a three-time national champion in the swordsmanship category."

"Brother, what you're saying is a bit too outrageous."

If in the second round, Little Yao Xi became the dragon-slaying hero.

In this third round, the audience's perception of Yang Shan changed again.

Little Yao Xi may have simply taken advantage of the dragon's sleep and slashed it once.

The dragon is still the same evil dragon!

The final level only has three minutes of gameplay time.

Many players' hit rate begins to decline after one minute.

Concentrating intensely is very mentally taxing; when your brain is tired, your reaction time slows down.

But Yang Shan was different; he was already used to it! When the game ended, the scores for the third level, "Fruit Cutting," were displayed in front of all the players.

Within three minutes, 233 fruits were thrown.

First place: Yang Shan!

Number of hits: 230!

Only three were missed.

Second place went to Little Yao Xi, who demonstrated exceptional gaming talent.

But her hit count was 172!

Tian Yao Company used the most direct numerical comparison to help Yang Shan slap other players in the face!

So you're saying the difference is small, right?

If you're so good, then you do it! This is the third stage of the final round of the Alchemist Convention.

Yang Shan's scores were as follows:

First, second, first!

Moreover, it was only because many players worked together to "target" the opponent in the second round that they failed to take first place.

Four words to describe it: Terrifying!