165: Yu Ji

"So he uses a sword?" Listening Wind mused.

Furball chattered, "It seems Wandering God is completely tied to Ye Bai now!"

"The art style of this animation clearly shows it's Ye Bai's work. And he loves writing these kinds of poems that we don't understand, but they still feel really cool."

Star Chaser - Player Name looked at him, "Your focus is really out of the ordinary."

RE chuckled.

He was CY's support, and the only one who hadn't won a championship or runner-up award.

In fact, he had only reached the top eight.

However, after arriving at the club, the first thing the coach told them was, "Past honors are fleeting. We should look to the future and hope everyone works together to win the next KPL championship!"

The coach probably said that to prevent them from getting too arrogant, as they had just won the championship and runner-up, which is when people are most conceited.

And it was the first season, which made it even easier for them to think they were the best in the world.

As for why Li Ce was able to acquire the champion and runner-up players, it was purely due to his good foresight and luck.

Everyone started bidding and signing players from the beginning; no one knew what results they would achieve in the end.

After all, no matter what, a club couldn't wait until after the players finished their matches to sign them.

If they waited that long, all the players would have been snatched up by other clubs.

Li Ce initially wanted to sign Prologue, but unfortunately, Prologue had no intention of joining a club at the time, so he approached other players from Team Monday.

After the competition ended, he approached Prologue again.

This time, Prologue did have the idea of signing with a club.

However, he didn't want to give up his studies, so he had to attend school and train simultaneously, taking leave if he needed to play in a match.

For him, this meant dedicating less time but putting in many times more effort, both in his studies and in competitions.

In the end, he gave up on signing Prologue.

Although this kid was a prodigy, doing things this way could easily lead to him failing at both.

If news broke about a 13-year-old genius whose studies suffered for gaming, it would definitely cause trouble.

Li Ce wasn't afraid of trouble; he was afraid of Prologue becoming negative news for Zhong Yan.

The two of them were now a pure community of interests, completely bound together.

Moreover, the most important thing was that the league's new rules stipulated that players' ages could not be below 16.

This meant Prologue would have to wait another three years to compete.

In those three years, things might have changed completely.

"How about it?" ER looked at Dream Injury.

This was an assassin hero, so he definitely had to ask the jungler's opinion.

Dream Injury: "Can't tell. We'll have to wait until it's released and buy it to see."

"Damn it, if he shows it like this, no one knows what skills the hero has."

Furball: "That's right, Monkey King was so powerful in journey to the west, called Great Sage, Equal to Heaven, but in King of Glory, if you don't play him well, he's just a monkey."

"Let's look at the next one."

Next was King of Lanling.

The scene opened on a brutal battlefield, accompanied by the stirring 'King of Lanling's Battle Song'.

Smoke and flames rose everywhere, an army was heavily besieged, and the situation was critical.

The enemy was the fierce Northern Zhou cavalry.

A general wearing a ferocious fanged mask slowly emerged from the formation.

He rode on horseback, his eyes calmly observing the battlefield through the mask.

At this moment, the narration sounded, "In that era of war and chaos, he was the guardian god of the Northern Qi Empire. Because his appearance was too handsome to intimidate the enemy, he always wore a fierce mask when going to battle."

Battle erupted!

King of Lanling personally led five hundred cavalry, like a sharp dagger piercing the enemy's heart.

"His illustrious military achievements shook all four directions. Among them, the Great Victory at Mang Mountain, where he triumphed with fewer numbers, made his name go down in history. The 'King of Lanling's Battle Song' composed for him is still sung today, praising his bravery."

He led by example, unstoppable and invincible.

Ultimately, he broke through the encirclement and rescued the besieged army.

Amidst the cheers of the soldiers, he slowly reached out to remove his mask, and it was at this moment that the screen went black.

A line of golden subtitles appeared on the screen—

King of Lanling / Gao Changgong.

"Wow," this time it was Star Chaser - Player Name's turn to exclaim, "Why didn't he show his face! Damn it!"

"But his physique is really good! Big pecs!"

To help players become more familiar with the heroes, Ye Bai directly used the King of Glory character designs when making the animations.

This also prevented players from watching the animation and then not recognizing the hero when it launched.

That would be awkward.

"How handsome do you think he is, to be described as 'too handsome to intimidate enemies'," Furball said, taking out a mirror and looking into it?

"Well, he should be at least half as handsome as me."

Everyone: Ugh!

King of Lanling's story was brief, and unlike Li Bai, it didn't have so many poems they couldn't understand.

After watching it, at most they just thought King of Lanling was handsome.

Also, the 'King of Lanling's Battle Song' was quite pleasant to listen to, with a strangely tense and exciting feeling.

Perhaps they could listen to it while playing King of Glory.

Next was Yu Ji, a hero they had heard of before because she was in Xiang Yu's background story.

The scene opened inside a Chu army tent, where a night banquet was underway.

And subtitles appeared at this moment—

Yu Ji during the late Qin and early Han dynasties.

A woman of captivating beauty and graceful figure was dancing elegantly; she was Yu Ji.

And seated at the head of the table was the hero capable of lifting tripods and swallowing mountains and rivers—the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, Xiang Yu.

Their gazes met, filled with deep affection and unspoken understanding.

The narration appeared at this moment, "She was the beauty who accompanied a tragic hero; her fate was tightly intertwined with Hegemon-King Xiang Yu."

"She is Yu Ji."

"Legend has it that Yu Ji possessed captivating beauty and exceptional talent. The Records of the Grand Historian once noted, 'There was a beauty named Yu.'"

Accompanying the narration, the scene shifted to the Battle of Gaixia, where the Chu army was heavily besieged by the Han army on all sides.

Late at night, Chu songs echoed from all directions, and the morale of the Chu army collapsed.

Xiang Yu drank wine and sang sadly in his tent, "My strength uproots mountains, my spirit dominates the world; but the times are against me, and my steed, Zhui, cannot advance..."

At this moment, Yu Ji, with a sorrowful and resolute expression, performed her last dance for Xiang Yu.

Then she drew Xiang Yu's sword, the sword light glinting, reflecting her resolute and tragically beautiful face.

The narration also sounded at this moment, "To relieve the Hegemon-King's worries and encourage him to break through and survive, she resolutely chose to commit suicide with a sword."

The sword fell.

Yu Ji collapsed into Xiang Yu's arms, her life fading away.

Xiang Yu held her, letting out a heart-wrenching roar of grief.

The scene froze at that resolute and tragically beautiful moment before Yu Ji's suicide, with the background of a tattered military tent and a night filled with despair.

Subtitles appeared—Farewell My Concubine - Yu Ji.

And finally, two voices sounded, like two stones falling into water in the black screen.

"Yu Ji, do you have any regrets?"

"This concubine follows the Great King, without regret in life or death..."

The video finished playing, and Dream Injury sighed, "Alas, it turns out to be a tragic story."

"I seriously suspect these videos were all made by Ye Bai. He hasn't been filming TV shows or making animations lately, just busy giving us 'knives' in King of Glory, huh?"