After seeing Fang Qi’s formidable strength with his own eyes, how could he maintain such a calm expression? What sort of cards did he have in his hands? Would he be able to defeat Fang Qi?
Jing Chanyu couldn’t believe that was possible. Maybe Lin Ming was only a person who was unwilling to admit defeat. He might reach the top, but if he did, he would inevitably clash with the direct disciples of the Seven Profound Valleys!
“Are you okay?” Lin Ming could imagine what Jing Chanyu was feeling at this time. She had desperately gone all out, and yet she had still suffered so miserably. As a proud woman of Grace Venerate Nation, the damage to Jing Chanyu’s self-esteem could be imagined.
Jing Chanyu stubbornly nodded her head.
Lin Ming smiled and turned to leave. He only came to express his polite condolences to someone who was once his opponent.
At this moment, Jing Chanyu suddenly said, “Lin Ming!”
“Mm? What’s the matter?” Lin Ming turned his head. To his surprise, he could hear that Jing Chanyu sounded somewhat excited.
Jing Chanyu hesitated, nipped her red lips and asked, “You… can you win?”
Lin Ming was slightly stunned. Suddenly, he brilliantly smiled and nodded, “I can!”
He hadn’t even asked who he needed to win against.
“I meant to ask if you could defeat Fang Qi.”
“It’s all the same!”
Jing Chanyu was shocked speechless. Even she didn’t expect such an absurd dialogue between them. If they were heard by the disciples of the Seven Profound Valleys, they would probably laugh until they were rolling on the ground.
She had asked if Lin Ming could win, not if he could defeat Fang Qi.
Yet Lin Ming hadn’t even asked any questions. Even after she pointed out Fang Qi, his reply had still been – “It’s all the same!”
This answer was filled with a complete and absolute confidence. It implied that Fang Qi was merely one of the opponents that he would defeat, and that he would be ‘first’!
What did Lin Ming want to do? Did he not want to struggle for the top five, but the top three?
Thinking this, Jing Chanyu gasped. She didn’t know why, but she had a gut instinct that trusted in Lin Ming. Perhaps it was because of his confidence, or maybe it was because of Jing Chanyu’s own sentinel emotions, but regardless of whatever the reason was, Lin Ming was now the only contestant of the 36 countries who remained undefeated.
Grace Venerate Nation could only come so far, Jing Chanyu’s older brother had also lost. Jing Chanyu guessed that she and her twin would end up in the final rankings between 20 and 40. The only one that could go on to represent the 36 countries was one person, Lin Ming!
“Lin Ming, you have to win!” Jing Chanyu slowly said, stressing every syllable.
“Mm. At the very least, I will defeat Fang Qi.”
Lin Ming wasn’t blindly arrogant, rampant, or stupid. If even someone as proud as Fang Qi admitted that the other seven direct disciples were superior to him, that meant that the disparity between them was very big.
Facing opponents like them, he feared that his matches would not be so easy!
After he parted ways with Jing Chanyu, it was already time for lunch. Now that every other group stage match had been basically settled, the only ones to enter into the first tier from the 36 countries were Jing Chanyu and Lin Ming.
Jing Chanyu’s older brother Jing Chanshi was off by one point, and barely missed making the first tier.
As for Ling Sen, in his eight matches he had won two and lost six. He finally entered into the third tier.