Chapter 652: Chapter 475: Once Blood Boiled

Ever since the first Space Gate, the ’Land of Chaos’, merged in Shangjing, the world has been plunged into a state of tension and anxiety.

This anxiety gradually transformed into fear.

The forcible merging of a Space Gate means that the Alien Race has run out of patience.

This is a signal.

A signal of the impending invasion of the Divine Martial Continent!

This is far more chilling than the appearance of a hundred new Space Gates.

Although the Land of Chaos was forcibly closed and the Alien Race suffered heavy losses, no one believes the invasion will stop.

In the past six months, the Alien Race has been relatively inactive, a calm before the storm.

Soon, there will definitely be a second Space Gate merging, possibly appearing in other countries.

With a second, there will be a third, a fourth.

Once a Space Gate successfully merges, it will usher in a full-scale war between the two worlds.

The current situation is dire, and if war breaks out, the real decider of victory won’t be weapons, nor the number of Martial Artists and Demon Spirit Masters.

It will be high-end combat strength.

This strength represents Emperors and Kings.

Emperors cannot be cultivated, thus the King Plan was conceived.

This is the first plan introduced by the World Alliance in response to the impending war.

And it’s the most important plan.

The goal is to gather resources from around the world to cultivate a batch of Kings.

Of course, the plan also serves to divert people’s attention.

Undoubtedly, this has been very successful.

People’s attention has indeed been diverted, and the emotions of anxiety and fear have been temporarily forgotten.

Since the World Alliance announced the start time and basic rules of the King Plan a month ago, people around the world have gone crazy for it.

This time, Hua Country has 68 slots for participants, much fewer than anticipated, but still the most among all countries.

Three slots more than India, which is second.

And each participant can bring two helpers.

According to the rules set by the World Alliance, the number of participants each country can have is not directly related to the country’s strength.

This time, following a principle of absolute fairness, the number of participants is only related to resources.

The more resources a country offers, the more participants it can have.

Moreover, this King Plan is not entirely based on nations.

Any conglomerate or group, if they can provide rare resources, like a precious Earth Chart Demon Spirit, can also obtain participant slots.

This is allowed by the rules.

The more resources, the better for enhancing participants’ strength, and no one will have objections or consider it unfair.

After all, this is an elimination competition.

Without strength, one cannot make it to the end, nor become a King.

As for how participants are selected, the World Alliance has no requirement; it’s entirely up to each country to set their own rules.

However, there are generally two methods, strength and popularity.

Hua Country follows this method too, with 34 slots each.

The first method: Strength reigns supreme.

It focuses on absolute strength, determining the slot allocation through combat.

The second method: Popularity vote.

Through online voting, those with the most votes receive slots.

This method is based on popularity.

Of course, popularity is also comprised of strength and potential.

The weak cannot possibly have high popularity.

Moreover, every citizen over the age of 14, using ID information verification, has one vote.

The vote can be cast for any contestant and can be changed, but only once.

The popularity vote started first and lasts for a month, with just one week remaining.

Jiang City, morning.

People step out of their homes to go to work.

Those who live nearby walk, while those farther away use transportation, but no matter the method, their ears are filled with discussions about the King Plan and commentary about certain strong individuals.

Posters about the King Plan can be seen everywhere on streets and alleys, at bus stop signs, and light curtains in large malls are dominated by Glory Players.

Even though it’s still early morning, the explosive music is already playing, instantly putting people in an excited state.

As early as when the King Plan was announced half a year ago, this preemptive hype and star-making storm began.

Those truly eligible to secure participant slots have become the focus of discussion and controversy.

Jiangxin Middle School.

Students gather together, eating breakfast while enthusiastically discussing.

From the moment they meet, they excitedly talk about their favorite contestants.

"Did you watch the match yesterday? Chen Hu was just too fierce, Zhou Weibing was directly taken down."

"How could I not watch it? But yesterday it was a 5-on-5 team battle, after all. Zhou Weibing is a Control Type, mainly supporting teammates, getting taken down by a Warrior up close is quite normal, isn’t it?"

"Being taken down is excusable? Having such low popularity is excusable?"

"Do you want to spar?"

"Practice? Bring it on! You think I’m really scared of you?"

"Zhao Zhou is still fierce, truly worthy of being a previous All-Star Player."

"The former captain of the Thunder Team, how could he not be fierce! I just checked, his votes have already reached 1.27 million, ranking 11th on the popularity chart, surpassing a million is enough to secure a spot in advance."

The students passionately discussed their admired contestants, and when things got heated, if neither side backed down, they would resolve it with force.

Therefore, it wasn’t uncommon to see students fighting all around campus, occasionally spotting a few with swollen, bruised faces.

To this scene, the passing teachers were long used to it and didn’t even bother to intervene.

It wasn’t just students; even the topics they discussed were the same.

An old fat man lamented, "When it comes to combat style, Ye Xing is the most explosive, but unfortunately, he’s a bit too young, having just stepped into the Grandmaster Realm. If the King Becoming project was held a few years later, given his popularity, he would certainly secure a spot."

"The student slot he definitely can’t achieve, but the two assistant slots are still hopeful. Xie Yixiao also managed to ingratiate himself with Zhang Junhao, and although assistant resources aren’t as good as students’, the benefits aren’t that far off."

"It’s been three months without any news from Lin Feng’s team. I wonder what they’ve been up to!"

"Probably still locking down the Space Gate. Their track records can’t be compared with those few stars."

"True, but strength is the key! After all, this is a competition among top experts from around the world, with an astounding elimination rate. Ultimately, it’s all about strength."

When it comes to popularity in Jiang City, naturally Yun Tianqi, Lin Feng, Yun Kai, and Ye Qiu are the most popular!

But unfortunately, they are all too young.

Although Yun Tianqi can’t secure a student slot, as an All-Star Player, his strength is somewhat weaker and doesn’t have such an advantage, but his popularity is very high, fully capable of becoming someone’s assistant like Xie Yixiao.

Given his popularity, many strong people would be willing.

If an assistant has enough popularity, they can also garner votes for those with potential to secure a spot.

This is a kind of popularity-binding.

However, with only a week left in the voting, Yun Tianqi has obviously given up.

Guanglin.

Red Cloud University.

Since the Red Cloud Team won the National College Glory League Championship, the Jianghu Martial Arts Club has become the number one club at Red Cloud University.

The Student Union is already in name only.

When Lin Feng’s team locked down the Space Gate, the Jianghu Martial Arts Club had already grown, and now a third of the shops in Red Cloud’s business district are connected with the club.

In just the business district alone, the monthly revenue exceeds three billion.

Moreover, leveraging Lin Feng’s team’s immense popularity and the relationships of the club members, their business has expanded into various industries in Guanglin.

Facing the Martial Arts Club created by Lin Feng and Yun Kai, even the major conglomerates in Guanglin had to show some respect.

As such, although founded only three years ago, the Jianghu Martial Arts Club has shown tendencies of developing into a conglomerate.

A company was even established in the core area of Guanglin, but even so, Gao Hai and Yang Fan still preferred to stay in the Martial Arts Club.

At this moment, the two were listening to employees reporting on the work.

Over the three years, as the Martial Arts Club grew, the two matured significantly, donned suits, looked very professional, and their faces no longer showed any of the initial naivety.

"The Xin’s Conglomerate terminated the cooperation without giving a reason, and this time their attitude seemed a bit impatient!"

Listening to the report from a subordinate, Gao Hai put down his teacup and frowned slightly.

The Xin’s Conglomerate.

One of the top ten conglomerates in Guanglin.

The ’Liyang’ Space Gate that Lin Feng’s team previously locked down was a task entrusted by this conglomerate.

Because Lin Feng’s team locked down that Space Gate, the Xin’s Conglomerate made a fortune, with a conservative estimate of twenty billion in revenue; back then, they even proactively approached us for collaboration.

Their attitude back then was quite fawning. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Who would have thought they would suddenly turn hostile and terminate the contract.

"Businessmen indeed, turn face when there’s no gain."

Yang Fan chuckled, a tone of disdain in his voice.

Lin Feng’s team has been missing for three months without any news, and the previously locked Space Gate has been reclaimed by the Alien Race.

With them gone for so long, negative rumors have started to surface, and the change in attitude without potential profit seems natural.

But to initially proactively seek cooperation, sign a contract, and now unilaterally terminate it seems somewhat unscrupulous.

"A bunch of short-sighted fools."

Yang Fan didn’t pay much attention to it.

The business did indeed suffer over the past three months, but the impact wasn’t substantial; there aren’t many who would burn bridges for short-term interests.

"Still no news from Brother Feng?"

"None yet."

"The slot competition is almost over, just one week left," Yang Fan said helplessly, with a hint of worry in his tone.

In the eyes of others, this King Becoming project has nothing to do with Lin Feng and his team, but only the two of them knew Lin Feng was very interested in the ’King Becoming project’.

He had mentioned it to them a few times.

Although they didn’t know where Lin Feng’s confidence came from, they held high hopes for it.

Knowing Lin, if it was something completely irrelevant to him, no matter the temptation, Lin Feng wouldn’t show interest.

Lin Feng was good at creating miracles, perhaps another miracle this time?

While the two were chatting, Yang Fan’s phone vibrated violently, emitting the sound of a yellow oriole. Upon hearing this sound, he shivered slightly and his expression instantly became excited.

This was a ringtone he had specially set for Lin Feng.

He quickly took out his phone to check.

It was a message.

The content of the message was simple, only a dozen words, but it made him show an incredulous look.

At this moment, it was as if he was brought back to three years ago, back when he posted on the Martial Artist forum about Ye Qiu, igniting nationwide excitement.