The World Competition was imminent, and almost every country had invited other national teams to participate in pre-World Competition exchange matches.
Generally speaking, the purpose of the exchange matches was to adjust the participating players' conditions, build confidence, or stimulate their fighting spirit through appropriate setbacks.
Therefore, the basic strength gap between the two sides in the exchange matches wasn't too large.
The China-Japan exchange match was the same, with the main Elves of the players from both sides basically at the nearly-top to top-level stage.
But...
This time, the China-Japan exchange match turned out a little unexpected because of Fang Yuan.
The Team 2 of Japan, which had their morale shattered by Fang Yuan, and with the defeat of the Longzaki Heavenly King being taken down in a one-vs-three battle, they didn't know what to feel anymore.
The next morning, the seven members of the Japanese exchange team rejected the retention by the China Association and chose to return to their country directly.
As for what awaited them after returning home, that was something Fang Yuan couldn't know.
That day.
The Domed Arena continued with the final selection challenge matches.
The five players who broke through the selection began to look for their targets based on their own fighting style and main attributes, and the targets were naturally Mu Fan, Tang Xinlan, and Zheng Hongyi.
As for Shang Ren and Fang Yuan, who possessed top-level combat power, definitely no one would challenge them.
However, it's a pity.
Although Mu Fan, Tang Xinlan, and Zheng Hongyi seemed like easy targets, it was only relatively speaking.
Compared to these second-string reserves, their strength was still formidable.
So after two days of challenge matches, all five challengers were defeated.
Thus, the ten members of the China Team for the World Competition were finally officially determined.
Team 1, captain Jiang Li, members Su Shu, Yun Kai, Xu Haoran, Xie Qingyi.
Team 2, captain Fang Yuan, members Shang Ren, Tang Xinlan, Zheng Hongyi, Mu Fan.
Among the ten people, seven possessed top-level combat power, and it was likely that each person had more than one top-level Elf. Compared with previous years, the overall strength of the China Team had significantly improved this time.
This showed that the Trainer Domain was actively developing upwards.
Fang Yuan estimated that, after the advent of the Mega Evolution system, if the Earth's Trainer Domain evolved for another decade, it might keep pace with the anime.
The top combat power of each country was held by young people, after all, the physical strength and response of the younger generation couldn't be compared with the older generation.
As far as Fang Yuan knew, old man Kong Hai's spiritual power level had clearly started to decline rapidly with age.
And Su Shu was still in a period of rapid growth. At this rate, it was only a matter of time before Su Shu surpassed Kong Hai.
Of course, Fang Yuan was comparing with young powerhouses like "Rang," "Da Wu," "Mikkeli," "Hirona."
As for characters like "Red" and "Green" from the original series, Fang Yuan thought it was better not to mention them.
Becoming the strongest in the region at just over ten years old, that would just make Fang Yuan lose face.
......
Before the exchange matches, the five second-string members participated in a meeting where they were informed of the China-Japan exchange match.
After the final selection ended and the list was officially confirmed, the five again participated in a meeting.
And this time, the meeting was hosted by only one person, Yun Kai.
At the meeting table, Yun Kai notified the five second-string members of the next most important thing.
"In a week, Jiang Li, Su Shu, Xu Haoran, and Xie Qingyi will also come to the Road of Champions."
"At that time, Team 1 and Team 2 will undergo a period of collective special training before the World Competition."
Yun Kai spoke with authority. In this exchange match, only Fang Yuan and Shang Ren had shown acceptable performances.
The other three still had significant room for improvement.
The best way to better train the second-string members was naturally to bring over all the Four Heavenly Kings and Champion from Team 1 and rigorously train the second-string members.
Gathering young people together for special training would better inspire the weaker ones to become stronger.
"Collective special training? There will be battles, right?"
"If I defeat a King in battle, does that mean I can move up to Team 1?" Upon hearing Yun Kai mention collective special training, Shang Ren daydreamed aloud.
Wow...
Fang Yuan, Tang Xinlan, Zheng Hongyi, Mu Fan all took a glance at Shang Ren—this guy was dreaming of peaches.
"This guy, hasn't been driven crazy by Fang Yuan, has he?" Yun Kai glanced at him, thinking to himself.
Fang Yuan had been the captain of Team 2 from the beginning. Originally, a few people wanted to challenge Fang Yuan, like Shang Ren, Tang Xinlan, Zheng Hongyi, Mu Fan—none of whom were not eager for Fang Yuan's position as captain.
However, after seeing Fang Yuan's battle with the Dragon King, the four of them had completely lost the will to challenge.
If Fang Yuan couldn't be bothered to battle and directly sent out his strongest combat power, defeating them in a one-vs-six, how boring would that be?
Shang Ren... naturally didn't challenge either.
Without even challenging Fang Yuan, he was thinking of directly bypassing Team 2 to go challenge Team 1—Yun Kai was speechless, wondering what he was thinking.
It was clear he thought some people on Team 1 were easier to bully than Fang Yuan.
"I advise you to give up on that idea," Yun Kai said.
Judging from the strength Shang Ren had shown during the exchange match, he indeed had an edge over the average second-string member.
But compared to Team 1, it was simply not enough.
Shang Ren fell silent; he did have that idea, which had landed on Xie Qingyi.
The fact that Xie Qingyi was able to defeat him before was largely due to the crucial role of top-level combat power.
Now, he also had top-level combat power, maybe he could try? After all, not only is the threshold from Master Level to top-level a barrier, every step above top-level is a hurdle that requires years of diligent cultivation, special training, and experience.