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“Hello, everyone. This is the special program, Focus News, brought to you by the Federation’s Information Martial Arts World Channel. I’m your host, Diana.”
“The main content of today’s program is still the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition that was held yesterday. After a day of intense competition, the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition has already entered an even more intense stage. The standards of the martial artists who appear are
getting higher and higher, and the competition is also getting more and more exciting.”
“Today, we still invited the two guests from yesterday. They are the famous martial artists of the federation—the second-stage Heaven Control Realm Martial Artist, Rengal, and the famous martial arts expert, Miss Tang Xiaoyou.”
The camera turned to the two guests sitting on either side of Diana.
Unlike yesterday, the two of them did not have such relaxed expressions, especially Tang Xiaoyou who had a serious expression as if she was facing a major problem.
After a simple greeting, Diana rushed to ask Rengal, “Mr. Rengal, the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition carried out three rounds of elimination yesterday. What do you think about this?”
Rengal pondered for a moment and shook his head.
“To be honest, I actually did not pay much attention to the competition yesterday. After all, it was only the first three rounds. The standards were too low. There were even many fellows who did not know martial arts. It was really unbearable to watch.”
Such a straightforward answer stunned Diana. Surprise flashed across her face, but she hid it with a smile.
“This… Mr. Rengal is a powerful second-stage Heaven Control Realm Martial Artist after all. It’s understandable that he feels that these competitions are low in standards. However, Mr. Rengal, according to the information revealed by the organizing committee, there are several Void Break Realm experts
participating in the adult group. What do you think of their competition?”
“If a Void Break Martial Artist were to fight, then the competition would be a little interesting, However, I think the competition’s organizing committee is not that stupid to let such a rare expert encounter each other so early. Therefore, I think that there will at least be a sufficiently exciting competition
when we enter the final stage,” Rengal replied.
After saying this, Rengal turned his gaze to Tang Xiaoyou.
In the program yesterday, Tang Xiaoyou could almost be said to have deliberately gone against him. Almost without him saying a word, Tang Xiaoyou wanted to refute him.
Why was this fellow so silent today?
Diana clearly noticed this situation. She nodded and echoed Rengal before turning to look at Tang Xiaoyou.
“Miss Tang Xiaoyou, what do you think of the competition yesterday?”
‘Tang Xiaoyou still had a dark expression. She did not answer this question immediately. Instead, she opened her personal terminal and pulled out a diagram on the virtual screen.
“What’s this?” asked Diana curiously.
“This is the statistics of the martial artists participating in this martial arts competition.” Tang Xiaoyou pointed at the largest blue pattern on the map, “The blue color represents the martial artists participating in our Earth Federation. The other colors represent the martial artists from other countries
participating.”
“Yes, according to the data revealed by the organizing committee, not only did this West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition attract a large number of martial artists from the Earth Federation to participate, it also attracted many martial artists from the surrounding countries to participate. It can be
said to be a rare martial arts event in recent years.”
Diana clearly had a detailed investigation of the West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition, so she immediately replied with certainty.
“Idon’t think this is a grand event for our Earth Federation.” Tang Xiaoyou had a serious expression as she pointed at the map and continued to explain, “This is the statistical map I carried out before the first round. It can be seen that the blue color representing our Earth Federation occupies the
majority.”
“This is very normal. After all, this is a martial arts competition held by our Earth Federation,” said Diana.
“But what happened next is abnormal,” Tang Xiaoyou replied coldly. With a move of her finger, the diagram on the virtual screen changed to another. “This is the statistics I did after the first round of the competition. Do you see any problems?”
Diana and Rengal glanced over and immediately saw the obvious difference.
Compared to the first diagram, the range of blue on this diagram was clearly much smaller.
“What you mean is that… after the first round of the eliminations, the proportion of martial artists in the Earth Federation has decreased greatly?” As the host, Diana had to directly ask this question.
“Yes.” Tang Xiaoyou nodded.
Rengal sneered from the side, “What’s so strange about that? Because the martial artists of the Earth Federation are close and there are no restrictions, those of any level have all come to participate in the competition. Eliminating these guys in the first round of the competition is also beneficial to the
excitement of the entire competition.”
Tang Xiaoyou glanced at Rengal and ignored his retort. With a move of her hand, the diagram on the virtual screen changed again.
“This is my statistics after the second round of the elimination rounds. Everyone can see that compared to the first round, the proportion of blue representing the Earth Federation has clearly decreased greatly.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the map on the virtual screen changed again.
“This is the situation after the third round of the elimination rounds. Clearly, the ratio has decreased greatly agai
“Lhave more detailed data here. Before the first round of the competition, the ratio of martial artists of the Earth Federation to all participating martial artists was as high as 87.49%. After the first round, it fell to 74.12%. After the second round, it fell to 62.94%. As for after the third round… there’s only
49.17% left, not even half anymore.”
Looking at such a straightforward map and hearing such detailed data, even if Rengal had some opinions about Tang Xiaoyou, he could not refute her.
Diana frowned slightly and was about to speak when Tang Xiaoyou took out another diagram.
“However, compared to the overall situation of this competition, I’m more worried about the other groups below the age of 20.”
“This is the map of the nationality of participating martial artists below the age of 20 after the third round of eliminations. Can you see how many are left representing our Earth’s Federation martial artists? It’s only 28.21%! It’s not even a third!”
“I’s shocking! The grouping below the age of 20 represents the future of our regional Federation’s martial artists. However, in this West Cloud Planet’s martial arts competition, the young martial artists who can pass the first three rounds of the competition from our Earth Federation actually don’t even
make up a third of the overall participants! What does this mean? It means the degeneration of our Earth Federation’s young martial artists! It means the decline of the Earth Federation’s martial arts!”
Towards the end, Tang Xiaoyou already had a pained expression.
Rengal frowned, “You’re exaggerating too much. It’s only a martial arts competition held by West Cloud Planet. Many of the young genius martial artists of our Earth Federation are unwilling to participate, which is why this situation is happening.”
“Then why don’t you say that the young genius martial artists of other countries are unwilling to come?” Tang Xiaoyou asked bluntly, “No matter what, this situation represents a painful fact. That is that our Earth Federation’s current martial arts foundation has already reached an extremely dangerous
level. It’s already much worse than the other countries around us. We have to pay attention to it!”
“Regarding this, the federation has actually made a move.” In order to prevent the two of them from arguing again, Diana hurriedly interrupted, “The ‘Foundation Martial Skill Promotion Act’ that the federation has recently pushed proves that the federation has already noticed this problem.”
Rengal and Tang Xiaoyou looked at Diana and frowned.
The Foundation Martial Skill Promotion Act that the federation government had recently pushed caused a huge controversy within the federation because it touched the interests of the various martial arts families in the federation, causing them to rebound.
Because of this act, just on West Cloud Planet, which was holding the martial arts competition this time, a powerful protest sounded.
Now that Diana had taken the initiative to mention it in this program, was she not worried that it would cause any problems?
However, on second thought, Diana was not one of those rookie hosts. She had probably raised this bill on purpose.
The two of them tacitly did not answer this topic. After a moment of silence, Tang Xiaoyou said, “What I’m worried about now is that if the martial arts competition held by West Cloud Planet ends up with martial artists from other countries winning the championship, then this competition will probably
become the laughing stock of other countries. Especially in the competitions below the age of 20, I’m very uncertain.”
Rengal sneered, “As martial artists, strength speaks for itself. If the Federation martial artists participating in this competition can’t even win the championship of their own territory, then the ones who are embarrassed are themselves!”
Diana smiled, “I can understand Miss Tang Xiaoyou’s worry, but let’s wait and see the results.. Let’s connect to the reporters ahead and see how the situation is