"Is Guan Wen's film, as many online have questioned, merely a piece that relies on editing to deceive the audience, or does he truly possess formidable talent? The truth will be revealed in a few minutes."
As the live stream footage was broadcast to various live streaming rooms, the number of comments increased rapidly.
"This guy is a fraud, and today marks the beginning of his exposure!"
The vast majority of viewers in the live chat thought Guan Wen was a fraud.
Although many people were from Linqing Prefecture and watched Guan Wen's match that day, Linqing Prefecture was just one prefecture, while the number of spectators from other parts of Yan Kingdom was obviously much larger. More importantly, they could not accept that Guan Wen, a guy from a small place, had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was some kind of so-called super genius who could crush someone like Ye Haochen.
Furthermore, prior to this duel, the content creator "Squirrel" on S-Station had already released a video providing solid evidence. This video garnered a significant number of views and shares among viewers and fans. The vast majority of people believed Squirrel's claim that the video had been edited, modified, and had its audio muted, and that Lin Qingzhou's promotional video was fake. This incident intensified public suspicion about whether Guan Wen was a true genius, ultimately leading most viewers to believe that Guan Wen had colluded with members of Lin Qingzhou's Superpower Alliance, resulting in a fabricated story of a super genius emerging out of nowhere.
"That damned liar dared to deceive the Superpower Alliance and the entire nation's audience. I hope Ye Haochen can teach him a lesson, preferably by breaking both his legs and feet so that he can never cultivate again, as a punishment to serve as a warning!"
"To be honest, I don't know whose interests Ye Haochen has threatened recently. There are always random challengers all over Yan Country, who claim to be the number one genius and want to replace Ye Haochen's position. It's really ridiculous."
"What's even more outrageous is that these guys from Linqing Prefecture have somehow found some Tom, Dick, or Harry who thinks they can surpass Ye Haochen. They're absolutely insane."
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Online viewers' attitudes toward Guan Wen have shifted from skepticism to hatred and abuse.
Those following the news online almost unanimously felt that Guan Wen was in an extremely unfavorable situation. Everyone was questioning him, cursing him, and even thinking that he should be investigated by the high school league and that this damn guy should disappear forever.
At Han Wei's home in Tiannan City, Han Wei was also watching the live broadcast online. However, after seeing many comments online, she was quite angry. In her opinion, Guan Wen was already an idol-like figure, and his strength was obvious to all. After all, he had passed the 79th floor of the Battle Tower not long after the start of the semester. With such strength, even if he was not as good as Ye Haochen, he was at least not too far behind him.
However, these uninformed people online, along with Ye Haochen's fans, hurled insults at her, and everything they said turned out to be extremely unreliable. How could she not feel angry? She immediately started typing and arguing with the netizens online.
Cui Hong was also watching the live stream at home, while browsing forums and online communities. He was very unhappy to see so many people slandering Guan Wen. Guan Wen was so strong, much stronger than these people on the internet. What right did they have to question Guan Wen?
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Almost everyone who was close to Guan Wen supported him, after all, they had witnessed Guan Wen grow up little by little at Maple Leaf Middle School, from an unknown nobody to a super genius who amazed everyone and was able to pass through the 79th floor of the Power Tower.
Many of them had even witnessed Guan Wen's performance in the regional league in Linqing Prefecture firsthand, so how could they not know what kind of strength Guan Wen possessed? Even if he was at his worst, he couldn't possibly be as incompetent as people on the internet were saying.
While the online community was embroiled in heated arguments and everyone was questioning and criticizing Guan Wen, the audience at the scene was also discussing the matter.
Before the match even started, everyone was talking about how Ye Haochen would defeat Guan Wen.
"I heard that Ye Haochen is already a level 31 ability user, and he has two abilities, both at level 31. Given his habits, the fact that he keeps both abilities at the same level means he must have some special techniques. Otherwise, he could have easily raised his main ability to a much higher level first!"
"Reaching level 40 shouldn't be a problem for him now."
"Ye Haochen definitely has a killer move, so we don't need to worry about him. On the contrary, that kid named Guan Wen and his Tiannan City team should worry about how to clean up the mess after they've been exposed."
"I really can't believe how stupid these people are. They know perfectly well that this kind of thing can't be kept secret forever, but they still insist on spreading it around and trying to take advantage of our Ye Haochen. It's disgusting."
"If this kind of person had any brains, they would cultivate diligently instead of cooperating with the people of Linqing Prefecture and engaging in false propaganda."
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The audience members seated at the scene consisted of students from the First Elite High School and Ye Haochen's fans, so they naturally supported Ye Haochen unconditionally.
The vast majority of these people believed the online arguments that Guan Wen was a big fraud. In their view, if Guan Wen claimed to be the number one genius in Linqing Prefecture, they might not care at all, and might even gradually come to believe that he was indeed a rare genius, and that he might even have a chance to compete with Ye Haochen in the future.
But who would have thought that this guy would try to scam Ye Haochen right away, wanting to become famous quickly? How could that not arouse their resentment?
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The scene was noisy. Guan Wen and his group went to the preparation room of the dueling arena to begin their preparations.
Although this is a less rigorous invitational tournament, they still need to abide by the rules.
Meanwhile, more and more people gathered inside and outside the arena, and even the gates of the First Elite High School were forced to be closed by the gatekeepers because there were just too many spectators and media crowding in. In addition to the major media outlets of the high school league, there were also a considerable number of independent media, such as various content creators from S-site who came to film videos after hearing the news.
Those content creators gained a lot of views and likes because of the videos posted by the squirrel. They realized that this was a huge hot topic and would attract a lot of traffic in the future, so they wanted to take advantage of the invitational tournament to shoot some videos.
After entering the campus, they swarmed around the dueling arena, set up their cameras, and began filming.
Most of the content produced by these content creators is simply following the trend of Squirrel, which means questioning Guan Wen's abilities and hurling insults and abuse at him in their videos.
"Hello everyone, I'm here today to film 'Guan Wen's True Colors Revealed' for you."
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