I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 746: Chapter Forty: Information

“Do you think the martial arts tournament is being conducted fairly?” Xiao Ziyu couldn’t help but ask after hearing what Tang Luo had to say.

“I’m not sure about what’s coming next, but isn’t the first stage fair enough?” Tang Luo looked at the three disgruntled faces and commented lightly, “There are a hundred competition platforms with a hundred martial artists of your age. If you have the strength, you’re free to take a hundred tokens, doesn’t that count as fair?”

“What about the privileged sons of wealthy families, who play the system to their advantage? They could potentially be less talented than us, but they are able to target the weakest challengers to accumulate tokens. Whereas, we have to fight the stronger ones. Is that fair?” Cui Haoran retorted.

“They are not compromising the fairness of the competition. The number of tokens one acquires ultimately relies on their capabilities.” Tang Luo responded calmly, “Even if they have family members who train on Martial Saint Mountain providing them with everyone’s ranking and even revealing their opponents’ weaknesses, they still have to win themselves the tokens under the highest principle of the game. Each of us could theoretically challenge and win at each of the hundred platforms. The number of tokens one ends up with will be the best representation of their abilities. You cannot defeat higher-ranking outer-sect disciples based on this information, or lose to weaker challengers. The convenience that children of wealthy families get is to mark out the weakest few. But how many tokens they can take in the end still depends on their individual strength.”

Glancing at the silent Cui Haoran and Li Xuanba, Tang Luo advised, “Instead of complaining endlessly, you should rest well and prepare for tomorrow’s battles. Both of you can’t possibly want to enter the next round with just a single token?”

“Ahhh…” Cui Haoran slumped onto the bed with a sigh, “Although, Captain, you make sense, I’m still unhappy. Although I may not be very strong, I surely wouldn’t lose to all of the Martial Saint Mountain’s outer-sect disciples. At the very least, I could defeat the last few ranked, but if I can’t encounter them, I might end up with just one token.”

Of the five of them, one from team Longxi was seriously injured without winning a single token. Xiao Ziyu earned nine tokens and the other three each got one. Unlike Tang Luo’s confidence, Cui Haoran and Li Xuanba were worried about their future. After all, one couldn’t judge a challenger’s strength from their appearance. Even though they’ve been trying to avoid those relying on their bloodline power, they’ve encountered numerous formidable opponents.

The agony of being crushed purely based on martial arts skills, not relying on bloodline power, can mentally destroy any martial artist. Usually, after a single battle, both men would need a considerable amount of time to recover, which is why they only managed to challenge a few platforms throughout the day.

After all, not every individual is as uniquely blessed as Xiao Ziyu. At the Mortal Realm stage, possessing powerful bloodline abilities definitely inspires envy in others.

Seeing the two men slump in despair again, Tang Luo couldn’t help but comfort them, “If you’re just trying to find the lowest-ranked players to earn points, even if you don’t have relatives training on Martial Saint Mountain, it’s doable.”

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Cui Haoran jumped off the bed like a gust of wind and landed on a chair across Tang Luo, barely containing his excitement, “Captain, can you get a list?”

“What do you think I was doing all day?” Tang Luo proudly pulled out three sets of documents from his arms and distributed them among his three teammates, “This contains information on all the standing champions, including their cultivation, techniques, strengths, weaknesses, and bloodline abilities. I’ve marked the weakest ones. Follow this order to earn points tomorrow; this should be enough to amass a sufficient number of tokens for the next round.”

Cui Haoran would never have expected happiness to strike this abruptly. Looking at the extremely detailed information at hand, he asked in disbelief, “Did you put all of this together today?”

If it wasn’t for the fact that only five of them climbed the mountain, he would have suspected that Tang Luo brought a whole team of martial arts researchers with him. The document thoroughly analyzed every champion’s martial skills. Just a glance allowed Cui Haoran a clear understanding of whom he could defeat and whom he could not. It was simply incredible.

“Our captain is awesome!” Li Xuanba couldn’t help but blurt out a coarse remark, as he was too excited.

After all, he had not known Tang Luo for long and wouldn’t blindly trust the information provided. Hence, he verified the details using his own knowledge of the people he fought that day. This verification made him feel like he had struck gold.

He finally understood why he had lost the day’s battles. Thinking he was smart, he had chosen martial artists without bloodline powers for a drawn-out battle, hoping to leverage his Xuanhuang Body. However, he wasn’t ready for the challengers who turned out to be strong martial artists with great power, whose bodily strength was in no way inferior to his. On the contrary, some others relying on bloodline powers and Spirit Art seemed fierce, but they couldn’t really harm him as they had overly focused on harnessing these powers leaving them underdeveloped in other areas.

The information was like a guiding light. After flipping through just two pages, Li Xuanba had planned whom to challenge tomorrow. He was simply overjoyed.

Compared to the two men who were ecstatic, Xiao Ziyu quickly went through the information on the nine challengers he had faced that day, cross-referencing it with the information provided by Tang Luo.

“What a… remarkable understanding of martial arts.” After a while, Xiao Ziyu put down the documents and couldn’t help but praise Tang Luo.

Being powerful doesn’t mean one has a deep understanding of martial arts, since most strong individuals are heavily reliant on a single martial arts skill. That’s because focusing on mastering a single technique often yields more results.

Therefore, people who research martial arts are usually not highly powerful individuals. They are distracted by many different types of martial arts; they seem to know a little bit of everything, but don’t excel in any particular area. That’s why the researchers who devote their time studying martial arts are not generally the main contributors to a family’s martial power.

And yet there’s Tang Luo, who seems to challenge that notion. He was just observing from the side, but the information he put together was even more detailed than Xiao Ziyu, who was on the battle stage.

Such a formidable fighting ability, along with this kind of terrifying insight, no wonder he was able to seriously injure the 28th champion.

“Alright, now that you all have the information, tomorrow’s goal for team Longxi is to score as many points as possible,” Tang Luo clapped his hands, pulling the attention of his teammates towards him, “Rest well tonight and get ready for tomorrow’s competition.”

“Yes, captain!”

“Captain is awesome!”

The three of them, holding the documents, left beaming with excitement, their initial despondency completely dissipated. They held their heads high, fueled with an energy that made them feel they could take on ten opponents.