Chapter 177 Crushing

Countless viewers faced the pitch-black livestream, yet still relished the scene of Xu Jingming effortlessly slaying on the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower.

"Too strong."

"How much stronger is Xu Jingming compared to half a month ago? Killing the Ape-Monkey King is so easy?"

"And listening to his explanation of shield techniques and spear techniques, it all seems so simple."

The strong inspire instinctive trust!

Xu Jingming's sense of effortless dominance while clearing the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower easily conquered the hearts of many.

"I'm going to study his courses carefully. I don't ask for much; I'd be satisfied with one-tenth of his strength." After watching the livestream, countless viewers immediately flooded the martial arts hall to learn Xu Jingming's martial arts courses.

In the stands, Miyagawa Meixin sat in silence.

"I estimated that I would be able to kill the Ape-Monkey King in ten days to half a month," Miyagawa Meixin thought. "I thought I was improving quickly, but Senior Tiger Fussen broke through yesterday. Today, Xu Jingming killed the Ape-Monkey King even more effortlessly."

"I thought the gap between Xu Jingming and I could be narrowed, but now it seems the gap might be even greater!"

Miyagawa Meixin got up and returned to his personal space training ground.

...

"Although I am confident that I can pass the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower within three days," Akinov, currently the number one expert in Rakshasa, sat silently in the stands, "the gap between me and the three strongest in the world is still very large."

"But I believe I will catch up with them." Akinov got up and left.

...

"This kid is growing too fast." Liu Hai clicked his tongue. "If I fight him now, I have no confidence at all. I might be defeated by him."

"I have to work hard. I am also a two-time Starry Sky List champion, and his master!" Liu Hai continued to work hard.

Although the outside world felt that Liu Hai was invincible and very strong.

But Liu Hai himself felt a strong sense of urgency. Whether it was Tiano or his own disciple Xu Jingming, their speed of progress was too fast.

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Fang Yu, still trapped at the third-tier limit, was in the quiet room of his real home, sitting cross-legged alone.

"I have listened to the courses of Liu Hai, Tiano, and Xu Jingming, and only Xu Jingming talked about heart refining." Fang Yu thought, "According to Xu Jingming, heart refining can greatly improve the neural network. With strong neural signals, you can naturally mobilize the body at a deeper level. This... maybe that's the difference between me and them."

"I received the complete seventh-tier inheritance gifted by the country, which also includes a complete heart-refining method, but I have been stuck in a bottleneck for many days. I became suspicious and reduced the daily heart-refining time."

"According to Xu Jingming, you should practice for at least three to five hours a day, or even 12 hours."

"Then, starting today, I will practice for 12 hours every day."

Fang Yu knew how to learn since he was a child. When he was young, he learned from the elders. Now, he is learning from 'Xu Jingming', because among the three strongest in the world... only Xu Jingming talked about the essence of martial arts and gave a clear direction.

The explanations of Liu Hai and Tiano were meaningless to Fang Yu, who had already reached the third-tier limit.

Before, he even doubted the heart-refining method.

After all, he couldn't see any progress! And he always felt that 'heart refining' was mysterious and abstruse. Xu Jingming's 'neural network' explanation made him feel that the heart-refining method could also be understood.

"Huff."

Fang Yu practiced the evolution method. His only goal was to improve and enhance his neural network.

In fact, 'heart refining' is a difficult thing. After all, you have to stay still for a long time and require enough mental peace... If there is progress, it's okay, but if there is no progress, many people will have all kinds of thoughts, too many thoughts, doubts, confusion, and even feel tormented...

In fact, Xu Jingming's 'neural network' explanation is still very superficial, and it is Xu Jingming's experience at his current level.

But it did give Fang Yu a 'convincing' goal! The seventh-tier inheritance's heart-refining method is too profound, and Fang Yu's values ​​are difficult to fully agree with. Instead, he agreed with Xu Jingming's superficial explanation.

With inner conviction and a direction, his heart was settled.

Fang Yu practiced heart refining for a full 12 hours before being awakened by the alarm clock.

"Feels pretty good." After waking up, Fang Yu only felt energetic, and his mind was ethereal and comfortable. This was an incredibly wonderful state.

"Heart refining, I have found the direction, so I will practice like this." Fang Yu smiled. At this moment, he was very grateful to Xu Jingming, and he vaguely regarded Xu Jingming as a teacher. Since he was a child, he had been learning from teachers!

When he became the strongest and had no teacher, he became confused and didn't know how to move forward. Even with the seventh-tier inheritance in front of him, he couldn't study it thoroughly.

Time passed.

Experts were growing.

Akinov, Haru Singh, Miyagawa Meixin, Zhao Fan, and Merritt successively passed the fourth floor of the Starry Sky Tower in the following half month.

Fang Yu also finally broke through to the fourth-tier level half a month later, but he was obviously far behind the world's top level.

...

December 1st.

"Dad." Pang Yun came to his father's personal space and handed him a document, "I have analyzed Cheng Zihao's behavior in the past year! And also predicted his future fate."

Pang Ze smiled and took it, looking at it with anticipation.

Pang Yun waited on the side.

"There are many problems with your analysis." Pang Ze shook his head gently. "You're looking at it too superficially. But your conclusion is correct. Cheng Zihao will go bankrupt!"

"If the full score is 100, I'll give you 50." Pang Ze said, "The process is full of errors, but the conclusion is correct, so there are 50 points."

"Only 50 points? Failing grade?" Pang Yun was a little unconvinced. "Dad, tell me where my analysis is not good enough."

"It's like doing a problem. If the process is wrong, even if the answer is correct, you usually don't get any points." Pang Ze looked at his son with a smile. "Giving you 50 points is considered good."

"As for where it's not good enough?"

Pang Ze shook his head. "Don't worry, look ahead first. Look at Cheng Zihao's fate in reality. It will be clear within a month. After it's completely clear, I'll explain it to you."

"Oh." Pang Yun nodded.

"Okay, you've finished the first file." With a wave of his hand, another file appeared next to Pang Ze, and he handed it to his son, "This is Fang Yu's file."

"Fang Yu?" Pang Ze took it.

"All the detailed information about Fang Yu from childhood to yesterday is recorded." Pang Ze looked at his son with a smile. "I want you to analyze carefully Fang Yu's past successes and failures, and the reasons behind them. Also... predict Fang Yu's future fate."

"Okay."

Pang Yun took the file with anticipation. Analyzing a person's life, life seemed to become clear in front of him, and he could predict what results many behaviors would have. He liked this feeling. When analyzing Cheng Zihao's life, he fell in love with this feeling.

"Go." Pang Ze looked at his son's fighting spirit and couldn't help but be happy. It seemed that his son was still interested in this.

After all, he was his own son, and he had talent in this area.

Pang Yun left.

"My path, this is just the first step of enlightenment. Even if you don't learn it to the end, at least your own life can be very good." Although Pang Ze had expectations for his son, reason told him that it was too difficult for his son to grow to his level.

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Virtual World, personal space.

Cheng Zihao sat in the immortal residence, looking at the swirling clouds and mist, his expression indifferent.

Suddenly, a communication request came.

"Hmm?" Cheng Zihao glanced at it. Although he was in a bad mood, he still forced a smile and connected the communication.

A middle-aged man's figure appeared on the other side of the communication. The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Young Master Cheng, I heard that the company's net loss in November reached 2.2 billion?"

"Mr. Wang, your news is so well-informed?" Cheng Zihao said with a smile.

"You have to give me the financial report for the previous month at the beginning of each month. It's the 5th of this month, and your financial report hasn't come yet, so I knew something was wrong." The middle-aged man said coldly, "Young Master Cheng, with a loss of 2.2 billion, do you have any explanation?"

"You also know that at the beginning of the month, the Blue Star Alliance allowed experts on the Starry Sky List to livestream globally. Those experts have a lot of popularity, especially Liu Hai, Tiano, and Xu Jingming. Each livestream devours nearly half of the traffic of the entire viewing platform. Plus other experts' livestreams... the livestreaming market is really miserable now." Cheng Zihao said, "In the early days of opening the virtual world, in order to occupy the market, we had to spend money and sign a lot of big streamers. Many contract salaries have to be paid every month. November was a sudden situation, so the losses were very large."

"You have been losing money for the past few months." The middle-aged man said.

"Spending money to occupy the market." Cheng Zihao said, "If you don't spend money now, you won't be able to buy the market even if you spend ten times the money in the future."

"But your market share hasn't increased at all, but has shrunk." The middle-aged man shook his head gently. He talked to Cheng Zihao to see Cheng Zihao's explanation.

If he could convince him, he could give Cheng Zihao another chance.

But now it seemed that Cheng Zihao would only make excuses!

"I'm notifying you."

The middle-aged man said, "You have to return the 5 billion loan and interest that I lent to your company within ten days."

"The loan and interest can be returned at any time." Cheng Zihao said with a smile, "There is no need to be so anxious. As agreed, you can convert the debt into equity at any time. How about lowering the 'stock price' for debt-to-equity conversion?"

"No need."

The middle-aged man said, "You only need to pay back the money. If you don't pay it back within ten days, see you in court! If your assets are frozen at that time, don't blame me." With that, the communication was cut off.

"I fuck your mother, all you vampires only add flowers to the brocade, and won't help in the snow! You give me a knife in the snow and kick me when I'm down." Cheng Zihao cursed angrily.

The company borrowed money in the first place.

The huge loan also had the power of 'debt-to-equity conversion'. Now the other party doesn't care about the company's shares, and only asks for repayment of the debt.

How could the company's cash flow withstand it?

"Boss." Another communication came.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Zihao looked over.

"Young Master Qu has sued us." Zhou Feng said helplessly, "They are asking us to repurchase his shares according to the contract, and you are personally liable with unlimited joint liability."

"Where do I have the money to repurchase!" Cheng Zihao gritted his teeth, "They are all a bunch of vampires, bastards, bastards!"

Covering his head, Cheng Zihao closed the communication, not wanting to talk to anyone.