Just when Lin Yuan thought his identity had been exposed, he suddenly recalled that he had not worn the silver mask Genius turned into with Tool Transformation.
Moreover, the vendors outside the Radiance Palace sold the same silver masks.
Even if he had really worn the silver mask and walked toward the auditorium, the audience wouldn’t be surprised!
When Lin Yuan turned his gaze to the other spectators in the Radiance Palace, he immediately realized that he had thought too highly of himself.
The spectators were all staring intently at a single position on the ground.
Following their stares, Lin Yuan saw a shadow make its way down to the dueling ground one step at a time.
The person who was walking toward the dueling ground was wearing a silver mask on his face.
Lin Yuan looked toward the figure, and his eyes instantly narrowed.
The figure’s clothes were the same as the ones Chu Ci had worn to the conference hall that morning.
Logically speaking, with 20,000 spectators, it would not be that unusual for two people to be wearing the same clothes.
However, Chu Ci’s outfit was not one that could be bought on the market.
It had been made by Wen Yu using the entire fish skin of a Platinum Unicorn Starlight Fish.
The Unicorn Starlight Fish’s fish skin was an extremely rare and precious material.
Under the light, the light golden fish skin would shimmer like stars.
Because the outfit was a custom-made piece, it was impossible that someone else would have the same one.
At that moment, Lin Yuan heard someone shouting “Black!” amidst the noise.
A loud and clear male voice came from the dueling ground.
“Congratulations to this lucky spectator for being chosen by the Dragon Gate Guild Club’s representative, Chen Hongfeng!
“Chen Hongfeng is a member of the Dragon Gate Guild Club’s reserve team. In the eighth-finals and the quarterfinals, he entered the main team as a reserve player and helped it to achieve outstanding results.
“This lucky spectator, would you like to challenge Chen Hongfeng and prove your strength or have a guidance battle with Chen Hongfeng personally teaching you combat skills?”
Lin Yuan immediately knew that it belonged to Allstar Match’s host and commentator upon hearing this voice.
Although Lin Yuan seldom kept up to date with the Radiance Federation’s well-known hosts and commentators, he was no stranger to this person.
As long as star teams were competing in an S Tournament or large-scale event, this mustached man would be standing in the middle as a commentator.
As he continued to track the silver-masked figure, Lin Yuan confirmed that it was Chu Ci.
Immediately afterward, he heard Chu Ci’s voice ring out.
“I choose to challenge him, obviously.”
Chu Ci’s words got the audience riled up again.
“A challenger! And it’s a girl! Maybe she’ll be so scared by Chen Hongfeng’s Smooth-Toothed Elephant Lizard that she’ll start crying!”
“Unbelievable! A woman is wearing my husband’s mask! Chen Hongfeng, I order you to beat her mercilessly!”
“I didn’t think that anyone would dare to have a challenge this year. Good thing this woman is up against the Dragon Gate Guild Club and not the Savage Snake Guild Club.”
Upon hearing the eagerness and fighting spirit in Chu Ci’s words, Lin Yuan couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.
A real-life battle like this where two feys collided was not as simple as one on Star Web. It was very easy for one to get hurt.
Even if one won the competition, the winner would eventually have to pay a big price under the loser’s full counterattack.
After scanning the audience in the Radiance Palace, Lin Yuan turned his gaze to the young girl standing resolutely in the middle of the dueling ground.
The feeling that his sister had truly grown up snuck up on him spontaneously.
Lin Yuan felt proud but faintly melancholic at the same time.
Gold would always emit a glow. Through her own efforts and Lin Yuan’s resources, Chu Ci had long become more than just a piece of gold. She was a bright pearl that had been kept in a box, reining in its brilliance.
This contest was the moment for Chu Ci, the pearl in the box, to shine with a brilliance that enveloped rivers and mountains.
Lin Yuan had battled Chen Hongfeng a few months ago and understood the latter’s strength.
If Chen Hongfeng’s two feys still retained their previous standard, he was likely to be terribly defeated by his chosen challenger.
Chu Ci’s words caused the host, Huo Zeyuan, to freeze. He hadn’t expected the first chosen spectator to choose to challenge Chen Hongfeng.
Moreover, it was at a point when the Dragon Gate Guild Club had just defeated the Rhine Guild Club in the Allstar Match.
Huo Zeyuan hurriedly continued. “The first lucky spectator has chosen the challenge. Her courage is commendable and worthy of encouragement. Since Chen Hongfeng’s handpicked spectator has chosen a challenge, he must show mercy!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Hongfeng nodded and said in a deep voice, “I will fight the challenge as a guidance battle.”
His words immediately caused cheers, mingled with a few sparse exclamations.
“Why do I get a bad feeling from Huo Zeyuan saying that Chen Hongfeng should show mercy?”
“Don’t tell me Huo Zeyuan is trying to mess with the Dragon Gate Guild Club?”
“The Rhine Guild Club lost recently because of Huo Zeyuan’s words!”
Lin Yuan took in the words of the spectators around him and thought, If Chen Hongfeng underestimates his challenger, Chu Ci may teach him a lesson.
Regarding the famous host, Huo Zeyuan’s words could be seen as an important factor that contributed to his popularity as a commentator.
In the past few years’ S Tournaments, countless evenly-matched competitors had lost because of Huo Zeyuan’s comments.
Lin Yuan had already arrived at his seat. Just after sitting down, he heard Liu Jie’s voice murmur, “If Chen Hongfeng dares to hurt Chu Ci, I will speak to Long Tao myself. Chen Hongfeng had the nerve to say that he would fight it as a guidance battle! He’s even more pretentious than that old Long Tao!”
As he mumbled to himself, Liu Jie saw that Lin Yuan had returned.
Liu Jie quickly handed a bento to Lin Yuan and gave the rest of it to the Mother of Bloodbath.
“Lin Yuan, did everything go smoothly?”
Lin Yuan nodded.
“Very smoothly. Big Brother Liu, did anything exciting happen during the performance duel just now?”
Upon hearing this, Liu Jie’s expression instantly grew earnest.
“The Dragon Gate Guild Club’s Fang Duoduo revealed his hidden prowess.
“Fang Duoduo is very similar to Long Tao. The latter’s main fey, Sea King Chalk Mosasaurus, is not hidden. Fang Duoduo’s main fey has also always been the Platinum II/Fantasy II Rapids Fear Ray.
“However, Fang Duoduo had also secretly cultivated a Platinum VI/Fantasy II Turbo Helicoprion.
“By revealing his prowess at this time, Fang Duoduo is likely to strike upward when he ranks in the Radiance Hundred Sequence this year.
“Based on the strength that he just demonstrated, Fang Duoduo’s rank could increase from #43 to within the top 30.”
Lin Yuan noticed that when Liu Jie spoke about Fang Duoduo, the latter’s expression was not solemn even though it was serious.
It seemed that after the Insect Queen had absorbed the Blade Queen Bee’s psychotoxin and completed its mutation, Liu Jie no longer viewed Fang Duoduo’s exposed strength as a threat.