Liu Wei hurriedly tried to stop the impulsive Zongshi.
"Hey, hey, hey, Brother Zongshi, there's no need. You really don't have to take it that far. I know you're seething with anger, but it's far too reckless to stake your Overlord spot on a contest with Exalted Emperor. Calm down first."
Zongshi revealed his obsessive side and said through gritted teeth, "Anyone who dares humiliate me, whoever he is, I'll fight him to the bitter end, even if it costs me everything."
Many viewers in the livestream suddenly felt that Zongshi was a stranger to them.
Just then, the text chat scrolled.
[All] (Dolia): Sigh, turn a deaf ear to your elders and trouble is right before your eyes. Zongshi, I just spoke with Exalted Emperor. He agreed to settle the outcome with you in a solo. He's only giving your Luna three minutes to farm.
Zongshi understood that Huahai had intervened and pleaded his case, so he replied, "Thank you for your help, Master Huahai."
Zongshi's Luna began farming gold like mad, stripping the jungle of every resource and clearing the minion waves in all three lanes along the way. In just three minutes, she had caught up to Jing's gold.
At 6:30 into the game, Zongshi's Luna arrived at the dragon pit in the upper half of the map. Exalted Emperor's Jing had already been waiting in front of it for some time.
"Exalted Emperor, the biggest mistake you've ever made in your life was telling me I wasn't qualified." Fire burned in Zongshi's eyes as he tapped the recall button. "I'll show you the miserable fate that awaits anyone who insults me."
Exalted Emperor's Jing recalled in response.
The solo battle began in an instant.
Zongshi sent Luna charging forward, his brain racing. How would Exalted Emperor's Jing deal with him? The tried-and-true Strangulation Technique, or the Z-Shaped Jitter with its one hundred percent success rate?
Or perhaps Z-Shaped Jitter plus Strangulation Technique?
Countermeasures kept appearing in his mind.
No matter how Exalted Emperor's Jing met his attack, he was absolutely confident.
"In the name of the moon!"
When they were less than a hundred yards apart, Zongshi's Luna raised her hand and unleashed her first skill, Crescent Slash, sending a pale white crescent shooting forward.
At the same time, Exalted Emperor Jing moved! Her first skill sent her charging forward and split off a mirror image; her ultimate carried her forward again and opened the Mirror Realm.
It wasn't the Strangulation Technique.
It wasn't the Z-Shaped Jitter.
It was the old version of Jing's mystical technique-the Flying Thunder God.
"Flying Thunder God?"
Zongshi sneered. "Then you've chosen the path to your own death!"
Luna's Infinite Moonlight Combo was arguably the perfect counter to Jing's Flying Thunder God, and his hand speed was more than enough to chain her marks seamlessly and keep up with Jing's swaps!
But the next second.
Zongshi's eyes widened.
Because another mirror image had appeared inside the Mirror Realm!
"This is bad!"
Zongshi's heart jolted, and his expression changed drastically. "It's the Double-Shadow Flying Thunder God!"
The Double-Shadow Flying Thunder God was an advanced version of the ordinary Flying Thunder God. It used extreme hand speed to glitch out an extra mirror image, allowing the original to swap positions in a triangle within the Mirror Realm.
Just like Kongkong'er with his ultimate activated, if your eyes weren't fast enough, you simply couldn't find the original!
"No, that's not it!"
Zongshi's eyes nearly split as he watched Jing begin swapping positions with the Flying Thunder God. Utter terror instantly spread across his face, because yet another mirror image had suddenly appeared within the Mirror Realm!
"It's... the Triple-Shadow Flying Thunder God!"
The Triple-Shadow Flying Thunder God was the ultimate move developed in early 2024 by the expert Jing streamer [Jidong]. It was the hardest move on the old version of Jing, existing only in theory in the training camp. It was impossible to pull off in an actual match!
"Triple-Shadow... Flying Thunder God?"
Liu Wei, who was watching beside him, also went pale with shock. He had never imagined that Exalted Emperor could pull off a combo that existed only in theory in an actual solo match!
Genius was no longer enough to describe him. He was a complete monster!
"Brother Zongshi is going to lose!"
Su Hang's livestream.
Su Hang's hands were moving so fast they left afterimages. On the game screen, Jing's original and three mirror images swapped positions at extreme speed. Countless shattered blue mirror shards, like an exploding meteor shower, pierced through Luna's body from every direction.
Luna's health bar fell rapidly, as though it were made of paper.
"Boss Exalted Emperor's swaps are going to blind my titanium-alloy dog eyes!"
"Fast! So fast! Too fast! I can't even tell where the original Jing is inside the Mirror Realm anymore."
"So this is the Triple-Shadow Flying Thunder God that only exists in theory? Battle qi turned into a horse-terrifying indeed!"
Five seconds later, Luna was critically low on health. At that moment, he no longer cared about maintaining the image of an expert. He broke his ultimate chain and fled in panic, hoping to kite until his ultimate came off cooldown.
But Su Hang gave his opponent no chance at all. He decisively flew out of the Mirror Realm and unleashed his second skill, which had just come off cooldown.
Luna's health bar hit zero. She was well and truly dead.
"I did give you a chance."
Su Hang glanced at Zongshi's Luna's corpse. "But you didn't know how to appreciate it. You can't blame anyone else for that."
There was no question about Zongshi's skill with Luna.
Unfortunately for him, when the Dao rose one foot, the devil rose ten. Su Hang's game skills just happened to be a little better than Zongshi's, so his victory in the solo was only natural.
But then again, back in the ancient seasons, quite a few players had challenged him to solos, and so far, not a single one had managed to beat him!
"Report, report! Zongshi burst into tears on stream and went offline on the spot! Looks like his Dao heart collapsed."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, that's brutal. But it's understandable. Zongshi has always called himself the number-one jungler on the national server, and now our great Exalted Emperor has smashed him. You could say everything he had to be proud of has been utterly shattered."
"A genius's solid mental fortitude can indeed withstand a blow, but if the blow is too great, like the dimensionality-reduction strike on the level of talent that Zongshi just suffered, I'm afraid he'll never recover!"
"One can survive a calamity sent by heaven, but not one brought upon oneself!"
Su Hang glanced at the bullet comments and shook his head. He could only say that his opponent had brought it on himself. But then again, from season S1 to the current season, S40, he had beaten many players into shutting themselves away.
Among the many players he had beaten into shutting themselves away, Zongshi's game skills were above average. He barely counted as a top expert.
Back in the match.
Although the solo at the dragon pit had ended in victory for Su Hang's Jing.
The other side showed no sign of surrendering.
Su Hang didn't pursue the matter. He could take control of the dragon, destroy towers, and pick up a couple more rounds of kills for a top rating.
At twelve minutes into the match.
Su Hang took down the Black Panther Tyrant and led his teammates into the enemy crystal, claiming a triple kill and winning the match. His final record was 10/0/7.
He returned to the results screen.
As expected, he was MVP. Jing received a top rating of 14.5, and he gained three stars at once.
Su Hang picked up his cola and took a sip. "That was fairly easy."
The game's promotion CG for the Mighty King rank played. A silver dragon soared into the heavens, breaking through layers of dark clouds before finally transforming into a Holy Lord statue and descending.
Mighty King, three stars!
Celebratory bullet comments streamed across the public screen.
And just then.
Su Hang's game account received a friend request.