Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

Speed ​​is key to victory in the efficiency battle.

Therefore, Tan Yue naturally carried out Zhang Chaoqiang's instructions thoroughly, so much so that when the start was announced, she had already skillfully extracted and synthesized the monster crystal core.

During this period, although she still had a considerable gap to close with those high-level synthesizers, she was able to advance to the top 61 in this competition through her own efforts…

Isn't this also a breakthrough in facing oneself?

Tan Yue's goal this time is not ambitious; she only wants to be among the middle level of the 122 people in total. That is, if she achieves a top 61 ranking in all three events, then she will have achieved her goal.

Her hand speed was incredibly fast, but there were some things to note. Due to her carelessness, Tan Yue didn't arrange things meticulously, resulting in only speed being visible in her work.

Among the sixty contestants, Tan Yue's performance efficiency ranks in the lower middle range for the time being.

As the representative contestant of Zhongzhou City, Gu Yizheng was able to synthesize nearly five artificial crystal cores within an hour.

Meanwhile, Wu Ma Mengchao from Xinyun City and Dang Zhenpeng from Jiangnan City were able to synthesize more than four artificial synthetic crystal cores of the same level.

Next up is Yang Yunqing, whose concentration ability is second only to Gu Yizheng and Zhang Chaoqiang, but whose overall efficiency is not as good as Wuma Mengchao and Dang Zhenpeng. Therefore, Yang Yunqing's final result was only close to four.

In other words, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Yang Yunqing would likely not be able to successfully synthesize all four artificial crystal cores within an hour.

At this moment, he was not particularly anxious, nor was he planning to push himself further at his original speed to see if he could break through his limits.

After all, this isn't the finals, so there's no need to go all out. They shouldn't be the ones giving it their all; the ones to worry about are the mid-to-lower-tier competitors.

As spiritual energy converged and intertwined, Tan Yue gradually mastered the most crucial elements, coupled with the synthesis training that Zhang Chaoqiang usually provided her with.

This also gives her a synthesis rate of nearly two artificial crystal nuclei per hour.

Sometimes, promotion is not as easy as you imagine. In addition, Tan Yue and Zhang Chaoqiang are the same age, so it is already quite good that they have reached the middle level of these people.

Ultimately, under Zhang Chaoqiang's watchful eye, Tan Yue's score remained at two artificial crystal cores.

This result placed him 46th out of 60 competitors in the competition.

Regardless, Tan Yue at least avoided being eliminated in the first round, and her performance is already worthy of recognition from Lao Chen and Zhang Chaoqiang.

After the afternoon matches concluded, the second day of 1v1 team battles finally began…

The order of the draw is based on the first letter of the surnames.

It has to be said that this round of draws was a rollercoaster of emotions for most people, even more thrilling than the actual competition at times…

Because everyone is afraid of drawing Zhang Chaoqiang!

Chapter 249 Confrontation

The truly thrilling part wasn't during the match itself, but rather the draw for the competition slots the day after the match.

This is what truly determines the final results for the contestants.

Of course, this one-on-one interaction inherently offers a multitude of possibilities.

In addition, Reshe is currently giving his introductions, and the one-on-one draw is fair and transparent. However, based on today's situation, the top ten players will not be matched up against each other.

This is to prevent players who are already strong enough and can achieve good results from having too little room for error and from facing players who can achieve high rankings too early.

Therefore, all the other top ten contestants, excluding Gu Yizheng, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This means that the heavy burden on their hearts can now be completely lifted off their shoulders.

Wu Ma Mengchao from Xinyun City, Dang Zhenpeng from Jiangnan City, Yang Yunqing from Yangyun City, and Xiang Yunlian from Jingran City…

These contestants, who were basically firmly in the top ten, let out a long breath and couldn't help but look at Gu Yizheng on the field.

While they were secretly worried about clashing with Zhang Chaoqiang ahead of time, which would cause their original top ten rankings to vanish like bubbles, only Gu Yizheng seemed calm and composed.

He showed absolutely no sign of worry.

"Gu Yizheng truly lives up to his name. Not only is he incredibly strong, but his composure is also exceptional. After all, he was able to maintain his calm demeanor even under these circumstances..."

Yang Yunqing and the others present believed that they could not be as calm as Gu Yizheng in the face of these things.

Yang Yunqing and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but compared to before, an even more ominous premonition arose among the others.

To be honest, those who are outside the top ten, or even the top eight, are basically just cannon fodder.

Ultimately, the outcome of the game is not particularly significant.

The stage has front, back, left, right, and center positions.

The lights are always focused on the area in the front half of the stage, which is about half a meter behind the curtain line.

Only a handful of people can stand in the center of the stage; among these dozens of people, they are an extremely small minority.

Those contestants who come out in the top ten or so are young geniuses; others won't pay much attention to them.

Snoring...

Others are just afraid of being drawn against opponents like Zhang Chaoqiang or Gu Yizheng.

However, two of them harbored an inexplicable fear of Zhang Chaoqiang…

Gao Guojun and Xiao Xia, who were ranked among the top 20 in overall strength, were sweating bullets on the field.

Even Gao Guojun, Xiao Xia's family elders, and the officials from Tongxin City, which they represented, all wore awkward expressions.

What they really wanted was to avoid drawing Zhang Chaoqiang, that "jinx," who became the common target in the minds of over thirty people...

As for the other spectators and the families of the other contestants, aside from being a little nervous about drawing lots for their own younger family members' competitions, they were, of course, fully aware of the situation...

Gao Guojun and Xiao Xia were both afraid of who they would draw.

As is well known, in the week before the Synthesis Competition opened, Zhang Chaoqiang and his companion, along with the deceased Tie Daren, formed a grudge.

In order to test Zhang Chaoqiang's martial arts skills on the spot, they did not hesitate to make Zhang Chaoqiang's parents, Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei the targets of their attack, forcing Zhang Chaoqiang to take action!

Shen Qiangwei and Zhang Huolong were completely unaware of this matter, but that didn't mean Zhang Chaoqiang would forget it or the good deed they had done...

Therefore, in this one-on-one competition within the same synthetic space, if Zhang Chaoqiang were to clash with either Gao Guojun or Xiao Xia, a bloody battle would likely ensue.

This situation was absolutely unavoidable!

Of course, this is what these bystanders think.

In fact, it was indeed Zhang Chaoqiang's own condition.

After the host announced the competition format, he secretly hoped that he would be matched with either Gao Guojun or Xiao Xia.

If it were any other contestant, it would be far too boring…

Soon, under the arrangement of the host, Reischer...

Chen Zhong was the first contestant to enter the draw. Although his overall performance wasn't particularly good, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to get into the top 30.

He also desperately hoped that he wouldn't encounter any players whose overall strength ranked within the top thirty...

On the screen, several contestants' names flash by every second.

Five seconds later.

On the screen, Chen Zhong's opponent is shown as...

Wuma Mengchao!

Good heavens, what you don't want, happens to be what you want. This is truly a cruel twist of fate.

What happened next completely baffled Chen Zhong.

They were drawn into the top ten, or even the top five, of the competition in one go?

This left him completely at a loss, leaving him with no choice but to bite the bullet and proceed, even though the outcome was obvious.

Seeing his good fortune, everyone felt very relieved.

Thinking to myself, I've finally reduced one of my potential opponents from the draw...

This reduces the chances of selecting a formidable opponent, which is exactly what they want to achieve.

Second place, Dian Wei!

Dian Wei, whose overall strength ranked around twenty-one, ultimately eliminated one of the top twenty contestants from the competition.

As a result, time began to speed up. Interestingly, Zhang Chaoqiang was already prepared to be beaten.

Because his surname, as the first letter, is the last letter in the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet.

Therefore, according to the alphabetical order, he can only ever be drawn by others, and he will never have the right to draw.

Two minutes later, Gu Yizheng, as the third contestant to enter the arena, was among the thirty-two participants when he touched the virtual display screen…

The rapidly spinning names made them swallow hard.

In this situation, when each name still on the field is mentioned only briefly, with each name appearing for a mere 0.2 seconds, it's enough for many people in the audience to see their name simultaneously…

Thus, they were filled with dread, fearing that Gu Yizheng might successfully select them...

Ultimately, the person Gu Yizheng drew was somewhat unexpected...

That's right, it's Gao Guojun on the field!

Seeing this, King Gao didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed.

The reason for my happiness is simple: I didn't draw Zhang Chaoqiang. You know, if I had been in the synthesis space with Zhang Chaoqiang, who knows what he might have done...

He was no match for his opponent to begin with, and if Zhang Chaoqiang attacked him during the match, there would be no way to stop him, because the synthetic space was completely sealed.

People outside can only observe, but cannot perceive or detect in greater detail and depth.

Under these circumstances, if Zhang Chaoqiang were to resort to any underhanded tactics, then Zhang Chaoqiang, whom Xu Shanji himself valued and wanted to invite to become his last disciple…

Basically, whatever he says goes...

Instead, he became one of the few people without any powerful backing.

But instead of Zhang Chaoqiang, you run into Gu Yizheng, who's ranked second. What's going on?

"Alas, there's no other way," Gao Guojun sighed, thinking to himself, "Failure is better than death..."

The synthetic space can be completely different from reality. In reality, Zhang Chaoqiang would probably still have to consider other orders and wouldn't take action against those who don't accept his challenge.

However, a closed synthesis space is probably quite different.

Therefore, although King Gao felt regret, he also had a sense of having escaped death to some extent...

When he looked at Xiao Xia, she didn't seem to have much energy to respond.