Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

Therefore, it was not surprising that Wu Yunma Chao was recognized by all the viewers present or online as being superior to Gu Yizheng, who was still in the process of synthesizing, and Zhang Chaoqiang, who had already completed his synthesis, among the three contestants who were synthesizing third-order artificial crystal cores.

It has more shortcomings.

So it seems that Zhang Chaoqiang was the first to emerge from this competition, but his result will at least remain in second place.

This was basically what Zhang Chaoqiang had calculated.

Second place definitely has its own advantages.

During this stage, Zhang Chaoqiang, who was in second place, was able to ensure that his ranking was not too far behind others in the third event.

This established their first-place ranking, and the final ranking will not be affected by any other clues.

This is the most important point.

Therefore, winning first place in all three projects, showcasing his abilities and making a name for himself in a national synthesis competition, are not absolute or necessary for Zhang Chaoqiang.

He believes these things are basically meaningless.

Restraining oneself during a major competition might be a good option.

So he managed to stay at this level with great precision.

Zhang Chaoqiang, who has now left the competition area, sat down next to his parents, Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei.

Originally a contestant, he became a spectator more than an hour later.

Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei were still confused, because in the first two matches, Zhang Chaoqiang had exhausted all his strength, energy, and stamina, so in this last match, he suffered a so-called Waterloo.

Subconsciously, the two of them assumed that Zhang Chaoqiang had fallen to the last place of 8th among the 8 finalists.

They were happily comforting Zhang Chaoqiang, but they didn't notice that Tan Yue, sitting next to Lao Chen, was laughing out loud at the scene.

Even Tan Yue was basically able to know and make a judgment.

Zhang Chaoqiang's performance this time basically secures him a top-three or even top-two finish.

Meanwhile, Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei were still calculating Zhang Chaoqiang's overall performance.

He seemed to ignore all the gazes directed at Zhang Chaoqiang, those gazes filled with doubt and surprise.

They were not asked to pay any attention to them.

In the first two events, Zhang Chaoqiang basically won first place.

After the third round, even though they were in 8th place, Zhang Huolong and Shen Qiangwei both believed that the probability of winning first place was still high.

There is still a very good chance.

Zhang Chaoqiang had gotten used to their various comical antics and didn't offer much explanation or elaboration.

It was just a pity for the audience members who kept casting their eyes in this direction; they really couldn't understand Zhang Chaoqiang, who seemed to be full of energy.

He didn't seem to be in a state of exhaustion that prevented him from completing the next part of the competition.

So much so that almost everyone turned this feeling into doubt, believing that Zhang Chaoqiang had no intention of continuing.

Given his position and overall performance, he is undoubtedly the champion of the competition, and there is basically no need for him to show off his skills in front of so many spectators. Hiding his strength is probably his main plan.

As time went by and this situation changed, many contestants with second-order artificial crystal cores emerged from the synthesis space. They were all surprised when they saw Zhang Chaoqiang's name.

Chapter 279 Slow

After two hours, some contestants who were working on the second-order artificial crystal core synthesis process finally completed their tasks one after another.

They then emerged from their respective synthesis spaces. The contestants who had completed their synthesis tasks would be scored and ranked based on the quality of their final crystal cores.

If both second-order artificial crystal nuclei are in the same stage, that is, in the third stage or the second stage of second-order artificial crystal nuclei.

Therefore, their evaluation criteria should be divided into different levels and stages, and should be based on the concentration, quality, and degree of damage to the microstructure of each artificial crystal nucleus.

Of the eight contestants present, five chose the second-order artificial crystal nucleus.

Basically, they can complete the third part of a second-order artificial crystal core. In other words, after completing the third stage, they can truly synthesize a second-order artificial crystal core.

In this process, the time they spent was much longer than the time Zhang Chaoqiang spent in the third-tier amount synthesis battle.

The five contestants who competed in creating second-order artificial crystal cores were assessed by Lei She and the staff, and it was determined that two contestants had perfectly synthesized a second-order artificial crystal core.

The second-order artificial crystal nuclei they synthesized achieved almost perfect quality because they could see that the microstructure within the artificial crystal nuclei synthesis embryo was basically undamaged.

In other words, they are very good at purifying and compressing spiritual energy...

The microstructure inside the artificial crystal core embryo was perfectly protected, and it was precisely this that enabled them to achieve the perfect second-order artificial crystal core quality. Overall, these two contestants should be considered as fourth and fifth place.

The other three contestants, whose quality within the second-order artificial crystal cores was ultimately one excellent and two medium.

The superior one is one whose microstructure, while mostly intact, still retains a certain degree of damage.

These are all because the manipulation of spiritual energy was somewhat imperfect in the second stage, resulting in damage to the microstructure.

Since all five contestants chose essentially the same concentration, the only true judging criterion was the perfection of the crystal nucleus.

In other words, the quality of this crystal core is crucial. If its microstructure is damaged, the spiritual energy stored within it will dissipate due to various circumstances.

These clever storage spaces can be understood as artificial crystal nuclei synthesized into embryos.

If the microstructure of this storage space is damaged, the impact on them will be enormous, directly dissipating the spiritual energy within the microstructure.

Under these conditions, the spiritual power contained in this artificial crystal core will be far less than that of other artificial crystal cores.

Under such circumstances, there is indeed a very clear difference in skill level, except for this player who is in excellent form...

There are also two people in the intermediate rating stage.

However, for those at a medium level, under the same concentration, the effect of compressing the spiritual energy into the so-called artificial crystal core synthetic embryo during the entire process of encapsulation was far from ideal.

The situation they achieved was that those microstructures, within the scope of the second-stage synthesis, were compared to the one that achieved a superior state.

The resulting damage is even more severe, and this type of damage is no longer limited to simple microstructural damage.

At this scoring stage, their microstructure can indeed be described as poor.

After all, people have different abilities and varying levels of skill.

Excluding the middle stage, although he is already considered very strong among the other contestants, he is undoubtedly at the bottom of the rankings among the finalists.

Basically, about two hours later, around 11 a.m., their arrival caused the first change in the situation on the field, a change that occurred within the normal trend.

Currently, only Gu Yizheng and Wu Yunma Chao are in the synthesis space. The other six people, Zhang Chaoqiang and the six contestants who selected the second-order artificial crystal core for synthesis, have also come out of the synthesis space.

The first thing the five contestants who chose the second-order artificial crystal core did when they appeared on the scene from the synthesis space was not anything else, but to quickly check the current personal situation of Gu Yizheng and Zhang Chaoqiang.

Because they knew that at this stage, Gu Yizheng and Zhang Chaoqiang were definitely the best in the overall competition, leading the pack with first and second place respectively. They knew what level and stage they were at...

This is not only what most of the audience on the field want to know, but also what the contestants themselves are very curious about: what kind of strength and situation does Zhang Chaoqiang and Gu Yizheng possess in their combined state?

As this phase progressed, the five contestants noticed that Zhang Chaoqiang was not present in the synthetic space that should have been there, and they immediately felt strange.

He then quickly turned his attention to the audience seats.

When they saw Zhang Chaoqiang leisurely sitting in his seat watching their synchronized movements and performance from the audience, their expressions were undoubtedly very moved and surprised.

Of course, this does not mean that they already know Zhang Chaoqiang's synthesis results.

However, their gazes were drawn to Zhang Chaoqiang because of their confusion.

Their first thought was that Zhang Chaoqiang had already finished his match, but that shouldn't be the case.

Based on Zhang Chaoqiang's actual strength, what he should be synthesizing is definitely a third-order artificial crystal core.

However, the synthesis of a third-order artificial crystal core would not be something he could do with such a nonchalant expression.

And it looks like he's been sitting in the audience for quite some time.

This process and these stages reveal that Zhang Chaoqiang completed his synthesis competition task much earlier than them.

However, in such a situation, Zhao Chaoqiang completed his synthesis task so quickly.

This also caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the five contestants present.

Generally speaking, the synthesis of third-order artificial crystal nuclei is extremely difficult, taking far more than two hours.

At this stage, in contrast, Wu Yun, Ma Chao, and Gu Yizheng on the field have already progressed to the second stage, but they are only limited to the progress of the first pure spiritual energy compression in the second stage. Below this progress...

Gu Yizheng was far from even halfway to completing a third-order artificial crystal core, and Wu Yun and Ma Chao beside him were even further behind.

His situation was several times more awkward than Zhang Chaoqiang's.

He hasn't even completed half of the first phase yet.

If Zhang Chaoqiang had chosen the same third-order artificial crystal core as them, then in terms of speed, it would definitely not be enough to completely synthesize a whole third-order artificial crystal core. So there might only be two possibilities.

The first possibility is that he failed halfway through; the second possibility is that the artificial crystal core he chose was not the so-called third-order, but second-order, and with the combination of second-order artificial crystal cores…

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

In the end, Zhang Chaoqiang was indeed able to achieve a level of combined ability and performance that far surpassed those of the other five players.

However, another crucial issue arose: given Zhang Chaoqiang's strength, it was impossible for him to choose a mere second-tier artificial crystal core, as this would not be in line with his personal capabilities.

Therefore, they attributed the cause of this situation to the first possibility.

The failure only occurred in the third-order artificial crystal core, which fits the current situation.

However, after understanding the whole story, they were greatly surprised and puzzled.

Because Zhang Chaoqiang had already completed the first and second stages almost an hour earlier, which was unprecedented.

In other words, he completed the first two stages of the third-order crystal core in just one hour, which is almost one-third faster than the second-order artificial crystal core.

At this speed, Zhang Chaoqiang inexplicably abandoned his continued synthesis, thus escaping the synthesis space of the competition arena.

Upon learning this news, they completely overturned both of their previous assumptions.

During the nine-day competition, they were constantly relegated to being mere foils to Zhang Chaoqiang and Gu Yizheng.

After a long period of competing together, the people who could best appreciate their strength were none other than their fellow competitors, especially Zhang Chaoqiang.

They simply couldn't believe that Zhang Chaoqiang could synthesize those artificial crystal cores in just over an hour.

The entire process of synthesizing the three crystal cores would be impossible to continue.

In this situation, at least, these contestants would not believe it at all.

Zhang Chaoqiang's strength, as demonstrated in previous matches, goes far beyond what he has shown.