125: Chapter 124 The Final Adjustments to the Food God Shrine

(The timeline for the battle in the previous chapter was ten minutes, not fifteen. I missed the edit because of the pre-written drafts. Even though I found it and fixed it later, some of you still read the fifteen-minute version. I am very sorry!!!)

The live stream held its breath.

This was the ultimate tactic of the Wall of Despair—the sea gods horn to lock positions, the water wall to trap enemies, and main battery bombardment to cover the area.

It didn't need precise hits; as long as the opponent's evasion range was restricted, a barrage of attacks would cover everything.

Regardless of how lucky you were, energy shockwaves that filled every inch of space within the area would wear down your health bar. Where could you hide?

Everyone was waiting for the energy cannons to light up.

And then—

The energy furnace of the Renaissance let out a dull "hum."

The lights went out.

All the lights.

The turrets stopped rotating. The buzzing of the power core suddenly vanished. From bow to stern, on the three-hundred-meter giant ship, every indicator light, every control panel, every energy conduit—everything went dark.

Dead silence.

The entire sea area fell into an eerie quiet.

Zheng Yuanshan stood on the bridge, staring at the pitch-black control console in front of him, and was silent for three seconds.

Then he lowered his head and slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, a bitter smile actually appeared at the corners of the elderly man's mouth.

"...What a Little Luck Technique."

The live stream exploded.

Not with cheers, but with a frenzy following collective speechlessness.

"The Renaissance... crashed?"

"Am I seeing this right? A three-hundred-meter Gold Tier super luxury warship? The ultimate weapon of the Yanhuang Civilization?"

"It crashed. At the crucial moment of the finals. One second before firing the Judgment of Heaven."

"Luck... you call this luck? This is rewriting fate!!"

"Who dares to say that the Little Luck Technique is just a support talent now? This is a curse! This is the ultimate curse on the opponent!"

"A Gold Tier talent can make a Gold Tier warship crash? I used to think that Gold and Gold should be equal, but now I think I was wrong."

"That's not right—the Renaissance is Gold Tier, and the Little Luck Technique is also Gold Tier. In the same grade, a support talent took down an entire warship?"

"Look at it from another angle. The warship is dead, but the talent is alive. No matter how strong an inanimate object is, there is always a chance of failure. The Little Luck Technique didn't defeat the Renaissance; it just turned the probability of a small glitch in the Renaissance's key energy transport System into one hundred percent."

"Terrifying to think about."

"Extremely terrifying."

The Renaissance's crash lasted for three minutes.

Three minutes later, the energy furnace restarted, the lights came on, and the System recovered.

But three minutes was enough. The binding duration of Zhang Haotian's incomplete sea gods horn was three minutes, and the water wall also began to collapse during this time. By the time the Renaissance resumed operation, Captain Ye Shuang's team had already broken free and put distance between them again.

The second lock-on. The second siege. The second charging of the Judgment of Heaven.

The Renaissance crashed again.

This time, the live stream didn't even bother to send barrage comments.

Everyone typed three words—

"It happened again."

The fifteenth minute.

The referee blew the final whistle.

The half-hour time limit had been reached.

Health bars of both sides: Full.

Captain Ye Shuang's team had zero damage. The Wall of Despair team had zero damage.

A draw?

Silence lasted between the two teams for about ten seconds.

Then Zheng Yuanshan moved.

He walked down from the bridge, his steps steady, the sound of his leather boots on the deck echoing beat by beat, like a heartbeat.

He walked to the bow.

He looked at the five people in Captain Ye Shuang's team, then at the two referees.

Finally, he raised the Silver Grade loudspeaker to his mouth.

"Captain Ye Shuang."

Captain Ye Shuang's body tensed up.

"What you displayed today is more valuable than victory."

His gaze swept over Captain Ye Shuang, Fang Rui, Chen Yong, paused for a beat on Yang Yue, and finally landed on Yang Hang's face.

"Your shortcoming is on the offensive end; everyone has seen this.

But your defense—or rather, the defense constructed by little brother Yang Hang's Little Luck Technique—has been proven unbreakable in today's tryouts. At the very least, it is something that the current Yanhuang Survivors cannot break, so I am confident that survivors from other civilizations cannot break it either."

He spoke very slowly.

"A Gold Tier warship cannot hit you. Seven seed teams cannot hit you. What does this mean?"

Captain Ye Shuang shook her head and didn't respond.

"It means that in the Faction Sequence Battle, as long as your offensive end is reinforced, you will be a team that no one wants to encounter."

Captain Ye Shuang's breathing quickened slightly.

"So—" Zheng Yuanshan's tone remained unchanged, "this old man has a proposal."

The barrage in the live stream held its breath at this moment.

"Let's call this match a draw. Both teams are champions. Captain Ye Shuang, are you willing to accept this result?"

"I, as the Chief, can make the decision. The champion teams will still receive one Gold Tier reinforcement opportunity each. For the entire Yanhuang Civilization, the Revival Society is willing to bear this cost!"

...

The finals of the Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference ended in a draw. Since there were only fifty minutes left until 12:00 PM and the Faction Sequence Battle was about to open, the Revival Society quickly cleaned up the aftermath of this Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference.

They held a closing ceremony, sent back those who needed to return, and kept those who needed to handle award matters for the time being. Of the one thousand Yanhuang Survivors summoned this time, the Revival Society did not let a single person leave empty-handed. Even those whose performance in the tryouts was not outstanding still obtained at least some karma points or gifts of Revival Society specialties.

The Revival Society was wealthy and powerful, so they didn't care about such small things. Then, specialized analysis teams urgently analyzed the top sixteen contestants and used the Karma reinforcement realm to strengthen them based on their compatibility.

The fourteen Silver Grade reinforcement teams were processed quickly. The Gold Tier reinforcements for the Lucky Team and the Wall of Despair were naturally handled with extreme caution. After nearly half an hour of adaptation, the Gold Tier reward matching for everyone's talents, weapons, or skills was completed.

This fulfillment was displayed throughout the entire process in the live stream, and the Revival Society was widely praised.

Yang Yue received a skill book for the "Thunderbolt Seven Spears," which was reinforced to Gold Tier.

The prototype of this skill book was a Rotten Wood Class skill book called "Extreme Speed Seven Spears."

It was directionally reinforced by the Revival Society at a cost of over 1.2 million, using Silver Grade sea beasts containing lightning attributes and some Ore with sharp attributes as auxiliary materials.

It possessed both lightning manipulation and sharpness characteristics.

Combining water control and lightning further strengthened control and damage, and made up for Yang Yue's weakness in close combat.

The Revival Society's analysis team also intended to take the opportunity to equip Yang Yue with a Silver Grade defensive skill book and armor to make her balanced in both offense and defense.

But who knew that Yang Yue already had them? Not only did she have a defensive talent ability, but she also had a movement-type talent ability.

Even the shoes on her feet were Silver Grade, which was even more luxurious than some of the core elite combat configurations of the Revival Society, which directly caused their jaws to drop.

Yang Hang's Gold Tier reinforcement was simple and brutal. With the Little Luck Technique he had already demonstrated, he was an unreachable end of the world to others, so survival was not an issue.

In the end, the Revival Society's analysis team rummaged through their inventory and equipped Yang Hang with an ultimate offensive Gold Tier pistol with a focus on critical hit rate—the Eye of the Greedy Wolf.

As a Gold Tier weapon, the Eye of the Greedy Wolf came with a lock-on tracking function. Its base attack power was average, and its consumption was average, but it could trigger a critical attack of up to 10,000 percent, although an ordinary person would almost never be able to trigger this probability in their lifetime.

Although the Eye of the Greedy Wolf did not have the self-devouring and sustainable evolution capabilities like Jackson's wings of freedom.

Even if an ordinary person got their hands on it, they could barely fire a few shots at a super high-level sea beast, and then they would have to rely on luck and wait for death. Even relying on their own abilities, a Silver Grade survivor would likely be exhausted after killing a few high-level sea beasts.

But with continuous recovery methods, the Eye of the Greedy Wolf was definitely one of the most suitable weapons for Yang Hang, who used the Little Luck Technique.

When they finally separated, Yang Yue's eyes were red with reluctance. She hugged Yang Hang for a long time and refused to let go. It wasn't until Yang Hang promised again and again that he would find a way to meet up with them soon that he finally coaxed his sister.

After Yang Hang returned to his super luxury Houseboat, he specifically found a few high-level sea beasts and a two-hundred-meter super high-level overlord-class sea beast to test the gun and played with it for a while.

In short, the effect was not bad. Without triggering a critical hit, he could easily solve a high-level sea beast with one shot. Triggering the top-level critical hit directly solved that super high-level overlord-class sea beast. It could be said that while its original quality was not outstanding among Gold Tier items, with the blessing of its extreme attribute burst rate, it had a performance that was vaguely of medium-to-high quality.

It was not bad, but it was useless to Yang Hang. A shot at himself wouldn't even break his defense; a casual punch from him was stronger than this maximum burst.

He thought about finding an opportunity to fix its burst rate and then use it to protect his mother.

However, he still had to find a suitable reason for this, otherwise his mother would definitely not accept it easily.

After Yang Hang had experienced the shooting addiction of the Eye of the Greedy Wolf enough, he casually threw it in the corner of his five-hundred-square-meter bedroom and began to ponder the details of the afternoon opening of the food god shrine.