Chapter 340: The Target of the Conspiracy!
In the round of 20 to 10, no one expected that a main carry who had never appeared before would effortlessly achieve a four-win streak. She clearly could have finished with a full five-win sweep, yet after securing four consecutive victories, she chose to step down.
“It seems the main carry from Lian City Academy wants to demonstrate her dominance in team battles.”
The commentators interpreted her deliberate restraint this way.
[This is ridiculous… absolutely ridiculous. Is Dingchan really that weak?]
[Aren’t they? I always feel like Dingchan has been fighting uphill battles, constantly the underdog, walking the dark horse path.]
[That’s true, but they’ve never been crushed this completely in 1v1 before.]
[Are all Lian City teams this arrogant?]
[I think they’ll pay for that arrogance. Dingchan has never lost when fighting from behind—their team battles are always full of surprises.]
[Funny thing is, have you ever seen Lian City lose?]
Lian City’s move instantly ignited public opinion. Xu Zhi, too, found it somewhat puzzling. They clearly had the ability to finish with a full sweep—so why hold back?
Had they been instructed to?
They wanted a team battle with Dingchan.
Thinking it through, Dingchan had always been mediocre in 1v1, only truly shining in team fights.
“Is there something about their team battles…?”
What exactly was Lian City’s Council plotting?
Soon, the team battle began. Realizing that Lian City—and perhaps more than just Lian City—might be scheming something behind the scenes in this league, Xu Zhi decided to watch the match carefully.
The Council Academy’s main carry was named Chu Minghe. Just from her surname, it was easy to guess she might share some blood relation with Chu Xiaoyue. Yet Chu Xiaoyue refused to speak about it, and no one was tactless enough to press further.
Judging purely by appearance, however, the two bore no resemblance at all.
As for why Chu Xiaoyue chose Light Institute instead of Council Academy, there was likely another story behind it—but Xu Zhi wasn’t interested.
Before Chu Minghe appeared, Lian City Academy was merely a standard powerhouse team—solid but unremarkable, even slightly weaker among the elites. But once she stepped onto the stage, everything changed.
“Her first extraordinary ability—its trigger is eye contact.”
After several 1v1 matches, Light Institute’s analysts had already determined the activation condition of Chu Minghe’s ability. Dingchan had clearly realized this as well. From the very start of the team battle, every member avoided making eye contact with her.
But it made no difference.
Because her third ability almost perfectly solved that limitation.
During the team battle, she activated it.
It was… a domain-type ability.
A massive moth-like shadow seemed to appear in the sky. Then, a pale gray zone spread across the arena. Within it, Dingchan’s members felt as though they were surrounded by countless moths. The gray haze came from the powder shed by their wings—hallucinogenic, toxic—
—and within this domain, they could not escape the moth’s gaze. No matter where they looked, they were effectively making eye contact with Chu Minghe.
Looking at the gray, powder-filled domain on the battlefield, Xu Zhi couldn’t help but sigh, “How enviable…”
She wanted an ability this overpowered too.
Even though she already had some rather “broken” abilities, the more the better.
Once Chu Minghe’s domain manifested, the situation began to resemble Dingchan’s familiar pattern—enduring pressure. But this time, the pressure was far greater. Within minutes, Dingchan’s members seemed mentally disoriented, unable to distinguish friend from foe. Even the commentators began to believe Dingchan might not survive this round—
—when suddenly, something changed.
The first-year student Xu Zhi had been watching closely… broke through on the spot.
A collective “What?” echoed from countless viewers.
Even Xi Min couldn’t help but murmur in shock, “…That’s impossible.”
Not a question—a statement.
Once an extraordinary reached the stage of longevity, advancement required entering the Great Dream. As their consciousness ascended to the Mansus, their awareness of the surrounding environment would drastically weaken. Advancement was never instantaneous—it required a prolonged process.
Breaking through mid-battle was impossible—unless one had taken forbidden drugs or used taboo rituals.
“This person… has a problem.”
Nearly everyone who witnessed this scene came to the same conclusion.
“Maybe he was in mortal danger and couldn’t keep hiding it?”
“But there’s a Life Reversal Array here—what’s he afraid of?”
“Because he’s hiding something! Who knows what he is—what if the array doesn’t work on him?”
“First Minjiang, now Dingchan? Didn’t they strengthen inspections? What exactly are they inspecting?”
“Forget the teams—the organizers themselves should be investigated!”
If this were a novel, it would have been an exhilarating moment—a team on the brink, a breakthrough at death’s door, turning the tide.
But in reality, such a thing should never happen.
And if it did, it meant one thing—
something was seriously wrong with that extraordinary.
Standing at the center of the arena, Chu Minghe finally showed a serious expression. She declared loudly:
“So you really do have a problem. I deliberately didn’t end the match in 1v1 because I sensed something was off. I don’t know what method you used to deceive the organizers, but I will never allow you to rely on such twisted means to reach the top twenty and walk away! That would be an insult to the league!”
Xu Zhi felt a bit awkward.
Because she could tell—this was acting.
And not very good acting at that.
But that wasn’t important.
What mattered was that, with a single statement, Chu Minghe had claimed the moral high ground—and subtly accused the league’s oversight of failure.
If one said this line was improvised, Xu Zhi wouldn’t believe it. It was clearly prepared in advance.
With that thought, she immediately opened her wrist device and checked the trending topics.
As expected, explosive headlines had already surged to the top. The official livestream was flooded, with endless comments demanding punishment for Dingchan’s alleged cheating.
And when Xu Zhi saw those trending topics, even she couldn’t hide her surprise.
She now understood what Lian City was trying to do.
But she hadn’t expected—
their ambition to be this great.
[Lian City stands for justice! Detecting anomalies in Dingchan, they forced them to reveal themselves in team battle]
[League oversight failure! Organizers negligent—can fairness still be trusted?!]
[The Oath Circuit suspected compromised—are the Executors aware?!]
[Frequent league incidents—linked to the Executors’ long absence?!]
[Are the Executors backing the organizers—or is it all just deception?]
The spearhead of this entire scheme…
was aimed directly at the Executors.
How dare the Lian City Council go this far?
