There are too many negative comments about Chen Xiao on the Internet.

Chen Qianlin's younger brother lost fifty games in a row in his individual competitions after his debut in the fifth season.

Not only is the boy slow to react, but he always fails at critical moments. Moreover, his brother was so badly betrayed by Sanctuary, yet he was still an idiot and signed a contract with Sanctuary to debut. Both Lin Shen's fans and Tang Muzhou's fans look down on him and think he is bringing shame to Lin Shen.

The match between Tang Muzhou and Chen Xiao, in which Tang Muzhou completely defeated Chen Xiao with a score of 2:0, made all the fans of the Wood Department lean towards Tang Muzhou, believing that Tang Muzhou was the hope of the Wood Department. As for Lin Shen's younger brother Chen Xiao? Get out as far away from him as possible.

At that time, Chen Xiao’s personal homepage was full of comments scolding him to “get out of the alliance”, some of which were particularly harsh. Chen Xiao did not respond at all. He actually left the alliance silently and disappeared for five whole years.

Now that he has returned to the league and made it to the semi-finals of the Grandmasters, his former haters came to watch the show after hearing the news, and some even maliciously spammed the live broadcast room with comments like, "I came to see how Chen Xiao loses." "After five years, will his attitude towards losing games change?" "This guy actually had the nerve to come back, I really admire his cheekiness!"

But most rational passers-by think that five years is enough to change a person, and Chen Xiao should be given another chance. He didn't make any big mistakes back then, he just signed with the Holy Land, and maybe he was cheated by the Holy Land. Losing dozens of games is nothing, who hasn't lost before?

Now that he has let go of the past and mustered up the courage to come back, he should start all over again.

The rational passers-by and the haters argued in the live broadcast room for several minutes. The verbal war intensified, and the two commentators had to quickly change the topic, saying: "Today's quarter-finals is quite a coincidence. Chen Xiao used a wood-type plant card. Grass and Wood Congsheng, the newcomer whose real name is Zhao Congsheng, happened to be from Fenghua Club and also used a wood-type plant card!"

"In a Wood vs. Wood duel, there is no need to consider the pros and cons of the decks. The difference between the decks of both sides will not be too big. The key is still to look at the details."

"Zhao Congsheng's cards were all made by Tang Shen, and Chen Xiao's deck, based on my observations during the group stage of the top 32, is made up of dark plant cards. The card maker's logo has been deliberately hidden. These plant cards should all be original cards."

"My dear audience, the competition is about to begin. Who will make it to the semi-finals in this wood-type civil war? We have seen the results of the voting channel. Zhao Congsheng's support rate is as high as 70%, while Chen Xiao's support rate is currently only 30%. It doesn't look optimistic, but I believe that Chen Xiao will definitely surprise everyone when he returns after five years!"

At eight o'clock, the competition begins.

The first game was played by Zhao Congsheng at home, and he chose a forest trap map.

Both parties announced their decks. Zhao Congsheng's open deck was a common wood plant deck, including two single attack cards, Wisteria and Iris, a team defense card, Banyan Tree, and two control cards, Epiphyllum and White Poppy.

Chen Xiao's five cards are Thousand-leaf Alpine Pine, Black Rose, Black Mage, Dark Ice, and Perilla frutescens. Surprisingly, they are all black and dark purple plants. This dark plant style, which is different from Tang Muzhou's plant card painting style, also makes the audience's eyes light up.

During the countdown, the two commentators quickly analyzed the decks of both players: "Zhao Congsheng's deck is still mainly based on field control. Epiphyllum's Illusion and White Poppy's Mass Chaos are two large mass controls that are difficult to deal with. After mass controlling the opponent, he will use single attack cards to kill the opponent's core cards. This should be Zhao Congsheng's idea."

"Chen Xiao's style is exactly the opposite. His Chiba Takayama Pine, Black Rose, and Black Mage are all group attack cards. Is he going for the explosive route?"

On the field, Chen Xiao replaced a hidden card when he saw his opponent's deck.

Behind the scenes, Yu Ke stroked his chin and speculated, "Could Brother Chen's hidden card be Lin Daiyu? A flower that can defeat the opponent in seconds?"

Xie Mingzhe shook his head; "I don't think it's that simple."

Xie Mingzhe had a hunch that with Chen Xiao's pride, when he took off his vest for the first time and revealed his identity as "Chen Xiao", many people would definitely pay attention to this game, including his old club, the Sanctuary Club. Therefore, it is more likely that he will use the dark plant cards he made in his entire deck, and only in this way can he truly prove his strength.

Using Lin Daiyu is indeed simple and crude, but there will definitely be many haters who say that winning the game is Lin Daiyu's credit. In addition to Lin Daiyu's instant death judgment, Xie Mingzhe believes that Brother Chen will definitely have a better solution to deal with the opponent's flower cards.

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As the map loads, the game officially begins.

Zhao Congsheng played very cautiously. After the game started, he immediately activated the illusion of Epiphyllum, and used the time of illusion to control the field to summon three single critical hit cards in succession, focusing fire on Chen Xiao's most powerful group attack card, Chiba Takayama Matsu.

This giant pine tree has dark black needles that look like they were poisoned. When the skill "Pine Waves and Ten Thousand Valleys" is activated, the pine needles will sweep 360 degrees, causing huge wood damage to surrounding targets, and inflicting a "stab wound" bleeding effect.

For this card, Chen Xiao only made one skill, "Pine and Green Valleys", so the output is super high, even higher than Tang Muzhou's Millennium Sacred Tree, which is considered the strongest group attack card of the wood element.

If he allowed it to unleash its skills, Zhao Congsheng was afraid that he wouldn't be able to handle it.

However, Chen Xiao had already predicted his opponent's thinking. At the moment when Zhao Congsheng's night-blooming cereus bloomed, Chen Xiao immediately summoned the Perilla frutescens - a rare plant with purple-black leaves that can release a special fragrance to attract bees and butterflies around.

Based on this principle, Chen Xiao designed it as a range taunt card, forcibly absorbing all damage within the range.

The advantage of the Perilla card is that even if you are in a hallucination state and cannot see the surrounding situation clearly, as long as the skill is released, it can successfully absorb all damage within a range of 30 meters.

Chen Xiao had memorized the positions of his own cards long ago, and he summoned Zi Su directly in the middle of the cards. In this way, Zhao Congsheng's first wave of concentrated fire would be absorbed by the taunt card, and his plan to kill Chen Xiao's key card instantly would completely fail.

Zhao Congsheng gritted his teeth and ordered his cards to retreat.

Sure enough, the moment the illusion ended, Chen Xiao launched a full-scale counterattack!

The black pine needles of the alpine pine were sweeping wildly around like dense hidden weapons. Seeing this, Zhao Congsheng summoned the white poppy without hesitation, wanting to start a group chaos - as long as the chaos was started, the pine needles of the alpine pine would sweep onto the teammates. A pine needle sweep attack that lasted for 5 seconds was enough to destroy all of Chen Xiao's own cards!

However, at the moment when Zhao Congsheng was in chaos, everyone saw a uniquely shaped plant suddenly appear in the middle of the field - the black mirror plant, a plant that is completely black and shaped like a lotus. This is a mutation of the succulent plant "Mirror Plant". It is said that if the mirror plant is exposed to the sun for three days at a high temperature of over 38 degrees after being exposed to the rain, it will turn into a completely black black mirror plant and will not die.

The plant card made by Chen Xiao was inspired by his brother's botanical notes. He designed a skill for the Black Mirror - mirror image.

Black Mirror can release a mirror image at a designated location that lasts for 3 seconds. While the mirror image exists, all cards within a 30-meter range of our side will generate virtual phantoms, and the opponent's control and domination skills will all act on the phantom without affecting the original body.

This skill is similar to the 3-second control and damage immunity, but it is also visually confusing. After the mirror image appears, our cards adjust their positions, and the opponent will not be able to distinguish between the real and the fake.

Once the mirror skill is activated, the entire arena is covered with dark plants.

Thousand-leaf alpine pine, black rose, black wizard, dark ice, perilla, the illusion created by large areas of black and dark purple plants made Zhao Congsheng's scalp tingle.

Almost at the same time, Chen Xiao activated Dark Ice's powerful control - group freezing!

Zhao Congsheng's plant card was counter-controlled and could not move. Fortunately, there was a control-release card in Zhao Congsheng's hidden card. He summoned it immediately, but it was too late because Chen Xiao was faster than him.

Taking advantage of this critical moment to regain the rhythm, Chen Xiao launched two large group attacks in succession——

Kiss of the Rose, a sky full of black rose petals swept over like a whirlwind of roses, combined with a large area of ​​pine needles from the alpine pine, instantly reducing the health of all of Zhao Congsheng's plants to less than half.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Xiao summoned another hidden card, Canna.

The stems and leaves of this plant are still completely black, and the leaves are like black bananas, only the petals are scarlet, as if they are dripping blood - Canna's skill is to aim at a designated single target and quickly suck blood, while ignoring the opponent's defense.

All of Zhao Congsheng's cards were destroyed by the two large group attacks. Canna targeted the opponent's card with the highest health, and a wave of bloodsucking reduced its health to about 5%, a value below 1000, leaving only a trace of health.

Zhao Congsheng was horrified and immediately activated the banyan tree shield to protect the entire group from damage.

However, before his shield could be deployed, Chen Xiao released the Black Mage, the harvesting card.

The skill mechanism of this card is very special. Chen Xiao has maximized its single-target output, but there is a description in the skill design: Inflict single-target damage to the designated target. If the damage overflows, the overflow damage will be converted into group damage at a ratio of 80%!

At this moment, the Black Mage was aiming at the opponent's low-health card with only 800 health points left.

The basic attack of a full-level Black Mage is over 80,000. After killing the opponent's card with 800 health points, the overflow data is converted into a group attack, which causes terrible damage.

The Black Mage moved, and a black mist drifted across the field. All of Zhao Congsheng's low-health cards were instantly destroyed!

Looking at the dead plants scattered all over the ground, Zhao Congsheng was stunned.

The audience at the scene also dropped their jaws in amazement.

This is too... too violent!

Chen Xiao completely relied on group attacks to lay the foundation, and he seized the opportunity to kill the opponent's 7 cards in one breath!

In most games, you lose a card, I lose a card, and both sides slowly drag on. It's rare to see a cleanup like Chen Xiao's, and it looks really exciting. Even the commentator was so excited that his voice trembled: "A group attack that kills the whole group in seconds, Chen Xiao's play is really violent!"

"I didn't expect him to have this style. He is different from his brother Chen Qianlin and Tang Muzhou..."

"The dark plants are so violent that they make everyone's scalp numb. Let's check the on-site video playback. The card-making logos of these seven cards are not hidden today. We can see that the logos on the back of the cards are all the word "Xiao". It seems that these dark plants are all the work of Chen Xiao!"

"The skill designs of his dark plant cards are very unique. The mirror image of the mirror, the bloodsucking of the canna, the transformation of the single attack of the black wizard into a group attack, and the flexible petal sweep of the black rose that can attack alone or a group are really eye-opening!"

"Yes, Chen Xiao is undoubtedly an outstanding original poker player!"

After winning the first game, Chen Xiao continued his momentum in the second game and defeated Zhao Congsheng with the same violent method, advancing to the semi-finals with a score of 2:0.

There was thunderous applause at the competition, and many players who liked plant cards even stood up and applauded excitedly.

Chen Xiao, this dark plant, looks particularly handsome. The key is that he is handsome and his fighting style is very violent. He can kill the opponent in one wave. This scene is really exciting.

All the haters who had just scolded Chen Xiao for coming to embarrass him shut up.

Many people turned from haters to fans and followed Chen Xiao's personal homepage, leaving comments such as: "You are indeed different from the Chen Xiao of five years ago. You played well today." "Dark plants and cards are quite interesting!" "It seems that you have changed a lot in the past five years. I have decided to turn from haters to fans. Let's see how you perform in the new season. Come on!"

The two commentators had no prejudice against Chen Xiao, and since he had performed well in today's match, they naturally couldn't help but praise him a little more: "After five years, Chen Xiao has returned to the league. He is no longer the rookie Chen Xiao who lost 50 games in a row!"

"I remember that when Chen Xiao left, he was scolded by many people, and there were also a lot of black fans who told him to get out of the alliance and get as far away as possible. He was able to withstand the pressure of public opinion and stand up again. Such perseverance and courage are worthy of our admiration!"

"Let us welcome Chen Xiao's return with warm applause!!"

The audience burst into applause.

Chen Xiao couldn't help but burst into tears as he listened to the prolonged applause.

He remembered that every time he performed on the big stage, he was cursed and sneered at.

This was the first time he received applause in five years.

In the field of competition, being a rookie is the original sin, and rookies can only endure being scolded.

Chen Xiao used to be what netizens called a "rookie", but now Chen Xiao has already transformed - he has become a strong player who can create an original dark plant deck!

For him, the Masters is just the first step towards entering the league.

Chen Xiao held back his tears, walked over politely and shook hands with his opponent, then bowed deeply to the audience, turned around and walked off the stage.

The man's back was straight and firm. Yu Ke, who was watching the game in the backstage, had tears in his eyes, but Xie Mingzhe kept smiling and clapping - Brother Chen is back, handsome Brother Chen, the big brother of our Nirvana team, has finally proved himself!

Chen Qianlin, who was watching the game, couldn't help but smile slightly on his usually cold face. This was the brother he was familiar with, proud, confident, and determined.

However, the people in the Sanctuary Club were not very happy.

Shao Bo's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, even uglier than if he had been robbed of 100 million yuan.

"Impossible... How is this possible..." Shao Bo muttered to himself, totally unable to believe that the young man who just walked off the big stage in such a handsome manner was the same Chen Xiao, the man he had terminated his contract with a few months ago because he thought he had "no talent for competition at all".

The author has something to say:

Chen Xiao is very strong, and Tang Muzhou has always felt that his talent is not inferior to his own. His strength has not been written directly before. Chen Xiao's exposure is a key plot, so it must be written in detail. This is a multiplayer game, and Pipizhe cannot support the Nirvana Club alone. If I skip the important role of his teammate, it would be perfunctory.