Before entering the Peak Tournament, there is a setting where you can check “Proficient Heroes.” This allows your teammates to see your commonly played heroes and lane preferences, so they won’t ban your heroes during the BP phase.

However, Ye Shaoyang was too eager to play the Peak Tournament earlier and forgot about this. As a result, all three of his national server heroes were banned.

The Peak Tournament features cross-server random matchmaking. All players are anonymous, and even their avatars are a unified game icon.

People playing the Peak Tournament only see their teammates as Player 1 to Player 5; it’s impossible to tell who is who. Therefore, no one would have recognized him as the streamer Xiao Bai and specifically targeted him.

During this time slot, the Peak Tournament had just opened, and there were millions of “Player 5s” nationwide. This game was a pure misunderstanding. He had often experienced having his proficient heroes banned by teammates in the past.

To prevent his teammates from stealing the mid-lane role again, Ye Shaoyang hastily typed: “I play mid. Could you let me have the mid-lane? I’m not very familiar with other roles.”

[Player 1]: You’re kidding me, brother? You only know how to play one role and you came to play the Peak Tournament.

[Player 2]: I’m so done with these newbies who only know how to play mages!

[Player 3]: Could you go practice heroes in regular matches instead of coming to the Peak Tournament to ruin it for others?

[Player 3]: Only know how to play mid? You’re in the 5th slot, don’t you know how to fill?

In most situations, the 5th slot player truly has no human rights. After the first four teammates choose their heroes, you can only fill a role based on the composition—unless you are so awesome that your teammates are willing to yield the position to you.

Ye Shaoyang swiftly sent out his hero match history.

[Player 5]: Hero [Abyssal Lord], Win Rate 88%, Hero Power 12,000, Rank National No. 1

[Player 5]: Hero [Illusionist], Win Rate 85%, Hero Power 12,000, Rank National No. 1

[Player 5]: Hero [Frost Goddess], Win Rate 86%, Hero Power 12,000, Rank National No. 1

[Player 5]: All banned by you guys T_T

Teammates: “………………”

Holy shit, this is a big shot. No, a giant shot.

National Rank One! Out of all players nationwide who play these heroes, his hero power and rating are the highest!

The tone of the team chat immediately did a 180-degree turn.

[Player 1]: Brother, if you’re this awesome, you should’ve said so earlier~

[Player 1]: You can have all the farm, all the kills, you can have anything!

[Player 3]: I’m ready to be carried. Brother 5, carry me to victory! Sending Brother 5 a loving mwah.

[Player 2]: Which idiot banned Brother 5’s Frost Goddess? Oh, it was me.

[Player 2]: I’m sorry T_T

[Player 2]: I got frozen five times in a row by a Frost Goddess in my last ranked match. It was too annoying, so I just banned her out of habit.

[Player 5]: It’s fine, I can play other heroes too.

[Player 5]: Please let me have the mid-lane, thank you ^_^

This person was not only incredibly skilled but also very polite. Who would have the nerve to deny him the mid-lane?

Player 5—no, he should be called “Brother 5″—wasn’t just a thick thigh to hug; he was a golden thigh from the National Rank One!

The BP phase ended, and the teammates quickly selected their composition.

With the 5th slot picking last, everyone tacitly left the mid-lane role for him.

Ye Shaoyang looked at the team’s composition: Top laner [Paladin] was a very tanky meat shield; Jungler [King of Fighters] had crowd control and damage but was heavily gold-reliant, needing items to burst people down; Marksman was the common [Holy Spirit Archer], also a late-game hero; Support [Forest Messenger] was a healer.

Overall, the composition leaned towards being clunky. Both the jungler and marksman were late-game heroes. They had no damage points in the early game; hitting the enemy would be like scratching an itch. If they were targeted early on, they could easily lose before even dragging the game to the mid-stage.

The most critical issue was picking a “bury-your-head-in-farming” hero like [King of Fighters]—who could kill several squishies with a single combo in the late game but was just a little brother in the early game. The jungle could collapse far too easily.

The reason they were able to drag things out to the late game and win through macro in his last Kings tier promotion match was because the support [Blessed Priest] could provide team-wide acceleration. If they couldn’t win the fight, they could run away; they had strong mobility.

But with today’s composition, if you can’t win the fight, you can’t run away either!

Ye Shaoyang rapidly swapped between heroes in the 5th slot as he thought.

Flame Goddess was a positional warfare hero, not suited for this composition.

Storm Goddess was for team crowd control and would blow people far away, conflicting with [Paladin]’s taunt and pull skills.

Thunder Goddess needed support coordination for team fights.

Ocean Goddess utilized a slow-down style, which was also a soft crowd-control approach…

Ye Shaoyang locked in [Goddess of Destiny · Angelia].

Seeing this hero appear, the viewers in the stream were all surprised—

[Xiao Bai also knows how to play the Goddess of Destiny? The mechanics for this hero are extremely difficult!]

[Haha, Goddess of Destiny is also called Goddess of Fortune-Telling. Whether you win or not all depends on fortune-telling!]

[I can’t even understand this hero’s skill mechanics. Two states, the skills change when cast, and you have to build up an energy bar. Oh my god.]

[I usually walk far around heroes with five-star difficulty like this; I’m too hand-handicapped~]

[I don’t get Goddess of Destiny either. You rarely see her in ranked. The streamer actually plays her?]

At the same time, in the stream of Mumu on the Whale Platform.

She frowned as she looked at her teammates’ composition and said, “This composition is too weak in the early game. [Paladin] is a tank, the damage is very low. The jungler King of Fighters and marksman Holy Spirit are both geared towards the late game…”

Just then, Player 5 locked in the Goddess of Destiny.

Mumu’s eyes lit up: “If the mid-laner picks Goddess of Destiny, we can actually fight in the early game!”

Ye Shaoyang didn’t look at the bullet screen while playing matches and minimized the chat window out of habit.

What he didn’t expect was that the stream chat was currently flooded with white text—

[Holy crap, what kind of luck is this? Player 4 seems to be Mumu!]

[I have two streams open watching the Peak Tournament. Player 4 is Mumu, and Player 5 is Xiao Bai!]

[Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, your support is Sister Mu, the top female streamer of Whale Platform!]

[With Sister Mu here, I feel like this game is in the bag!]

Mumu’s stream chat was also being spammed. She froze for a moment, opened the in-game chat, and only then saw the previous conversation log.

When she played support in the past, she often got flamed by teammates, so she simply checked “Block all in-game text chat” in the settings. Therefore, she hadn’t seen the conversation earlier.

National Rank One Illusionist, National Rank One Abyssal Lord…

Was this Player 5 the Xiao Bai who had caused a controversy in the streamer group?

Both sides finished selecting their heroes, and the match loaded.

Everyone discovered that Xiao Bai’s [Goddess of Destiny] proficiency was actually a white slate—100 proficiency points, barely meeting the standard to play ranked. This was usually grinded out in bot matches.

Having such low proficiency meant that he hadn’t even played a single ranked match with the Goddess of Destiny!

[Xiao Bai, are you fucking practicing heroes in the Peak Tournament??]

[The streamer has floated away again, this time floating out of the stratosphere and out of the Earth~]

[Your teammates are all at max golden proficiency, and you’re mixed in with a white slate hero, as if you’re here to be a joke.]

[Hahaha, although your Abyssal Lord is National Rank One, the green proficiency of your Goddess of Destiny… the teammates’ mood right now must be like a roller coaster!]

Ye Shaoyang’s [Goddess of Destiny] was indeed at green proficiency, having never been used in a ranked match. But he had practiced her for a long time in the training camp, and he was already thoroughly familiar with all her skill combos and item builds.

Since he dared to bring her out in the Peak Tournament, he had the confidence to play her well.

He never trolled his teammates.

At this moment, many viewers in Mumu’s stream were also spamming the chat—

[Taking a green proficiency hero to practice in the Peak Tournament?]

[You’re kidding, Sister Mu ran into a troll in her very first Peak Tournament match?]

Mumu smiled and said, “Green proficiency could also be an alt account. The Goddess of Destiny he picked fits quite well with our composition. [Goddess of Destiny] is a mage without a mana bar. Her damage relies on levels, and she doesn’t require many items. The [King of Fighters] jungler desperately needs mana. This way, he won’t conflict with the jungler, and he can even help defend the jungle.”

The netizens finally understood:

[Sister Mu truly deserves to be a guest commentator for the official league.]

[So, Player 5’s game sense is passable? At least he knows how to pick heroes to coordinate.]

[Player 5 is also a streamer named Xiao Bai, a new streamer on Whale.]

[Is that so? Gonna go follow him and watch both streams at the same time. Good luck, Sister Mu!]

The two streamers happened to be matched as teammates. Qin Rui noticed that the viewership in Xiao Bai’s stream suddenly surged. During the 8 PM golden peak hour, the popularity was originally around 800,000, but it instantly broke through 1.6 million, doubling outright.

What was going on? Qin Rui’s jaw almost dropped in shock. He hastily opened the bullet screen and found that many people had come over from Mumu to dual-watch the Peak Tournament—Mumu, real name Yao Mu, the top female game streamer on the Whale Platform. The last time he went to the Star City Esports Center to watch a match, he even saw her working as a host.

Qin Rui immediately opened Mumu’s stream and found her popularity value as high as 10 million.

Who knows how the Whale Platform calculated popularity values; there was definitely a lot of padding. But even removing the padding, there were probably at least 5 million viewers watching Mumu’s stream, right? This showed just how terrifying this streamer’s fan base was.

Qin Rui said excitedly, “Brother, your teammate Player 4 in this match is the streamer Mumu!”

Ye Shaoyang raised an eyebrow in surprise, “Is that so? What a coincidence.”

He remembered that the streamer Mumu was a professional support player with a very good temper. Even when cursed at by anti-fans, she wouldn’t argue, maintaining a calm attitude of “I’ll play my game, you curse yours.”

The game interface quickly loaded.

Someone on the enemy team typed in the all-chat: “A white slate hero appearing in the Peak Tournament, commendable courage!”

Ye Shaoyang sent a smiley face over: “Hello, I’m practicing a hero, please go easy on me ^_^”

Enemy player: “…”

The allied players were quite calm.

After all, Ye Shaoyang had sent three national server match histories to stabilize morale before the game started.

Player 1 typed: “Can everyone turn on voice chat?”

Others quickly agreed: “Do I have the honor of hearing the National Rank One little brother’s voice?”

Ye Shaoyang turned on voice chat and said, “Hello everyone. Jungler, starting blue or red?”

The speaker icon above Player 2 lit up: “Let’s start blue. My hero really needs mana.”

Player 4’s voice also came through: “I’ll set up vision first to help guard the blue zone, then head to the bot lane at 1 minute. Marksman, be careful, don’t overextend and get caught.”

Player 3: “Roger. Our support is actually a girl?”

Number 4 had a very gentle female voice, identical to the one Ye Shaoyang had heard when watching the match at the esports center.

Ye Shaoyang said, “Mid-lane will help guard blue.”

He pinged a mark at the Blue Buff area in the game.

The jungler player was very worried about his Blue Buff being invaded. The [King of Fighters] hero heavily relied on the Blue Buff; having mana could reduce his skill cooldowns and greatly increase his jungling efficiency. A late-game King of Fighters could one-punch kids, but many times… they lost before even reaching the late game T_T

Teammates needed the awareness to help him guard the jungle and let him farm up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, in ranked matches, he often encountered teammates who only cared about clearing their own minion waves, completely ignoring the fact that his jungle was being invaded inside out, and then flaming the jungler for being trash when they lost. Playing jungle was truly hard!

The teammates in this match were simply god-tier teammates.

The support actively shadowed the jungle, and the mid-laner also offered to defend the jungle. The jungler player was so moved that he sent a row of crying emojis. The three quickly arrived at the Blue Buff area and hid in the bush.

At 30 seconds, the jungle buffs refreshed.

The enemy indeed came to invade the blue.

The ones who came were also the jungler, support, and mid-laner. The jungle entered a 3v3 tempo right at the start.

Ye Shaoyang decisively spoke up: “We can’t win this, let’s retreat.”

If the enemy only brought two people, they could try to fight back, but in a 3v3 they were at a disadvantage because King of Fighters’ early game damage was pitifully low, and Goddess of Destiny couldn’t switch between her dual forms before reaching level 6.

Mumu said, “Jungler, go steal their blue. I’ll stall for time. After you clear the blue, quickly clear our own red.”

Jungler player: “Roger!”

He immediately turned and ran, flanking around the river to steal the enemy’s Blue Buff.

The support [Forest Messenger] has a crowd control skill called “Vine Growth.” Although it’s a soft CC, if placed well, it can lock down an entire enemy group!

The moment the three enemies stepped into the jungle, Mumu predicted their pathing and suddenly placed a green vine right in their way. The vine rapidly grew, rooting the three of them in place in the blink of an eye.

Ye Shaoyang immediately followed up with damage, unleashing a combo and running away.

Seeing only two people in the jungle, the enemy began to chase and attack them. After chasing for a bit, both of them were at low health. Mumu turned back and used another vine root to trap them, then retreated downwards, while Ye Shaoyang Flashed back under his tower to clear the wave. The enemy failed to catch up and began sieging the Blue Buff.

During the time they stalled, the allied jungler happened to steal the enemy’s Blue Buff.

Was the jungle defended? No, their Blue Buff was ultimately stolen by the enemy, and both the support and mid-laner were brought down to critical health. However, since the jungler secured the enemy’s blue, it wasn’t a loss.

Ye Shaoyang returned to the lane at half health, and the player laning against him felt a surge of joy.

A piece of fat meat, a piece of fat meat delivered right to the mouth!

A white slate practicing a hero, wandering in front of them at half health—definitely here to deliver warmth!

The enemy player stared intently at the computer screen, planning to burst down the Goddess of Destiny with a single combo.

However, Ye Shaoyang’s positioning was far too wretched, and the crowd control skills simply couldn’t touch him.

He was like an agile snake, constantly moving in S-shapes and weaving around in the mid-lane, dazzling the eye. After the enemy player missed 3 crowd control skills in a row, they were surprised to find that in their attempt to kill the Goddess of Destiny, they had actually missed several minions—a massive loss!

The result of missing those minions was that Ye Shaoyang reached level 6 before them and learned his ultimate.

Then, he immediately counter-attacked!

Before they could even see how the [Goddess of Destiny] was being operated, a dazzling array of talismans descended from the sky, and the enemy player was instantly bursted down by a combo.

—First Blood!

The Goddess of Destiny secured first blood.

Enemy player: “…I thought you were practicing a hero?”

Ye Shaoyang: “I practice relatively fast ^_^”

Enemy player 5: “I believe you, my ass!”

Not long after, the allied jungler roamed down to the bot lane and squatted there, waiting for an opportunity.

Ye Shaoyang said in the voice chat, “Hold on, I’m coming to support right now.”

He gave the enemy mid-laner fake vision.

The so-called fake vision was like a feint in a basketball game, used to confuse the opponent. From the enemy’s perspective, he was heading toward the top lane, but in reality, Ye Shaoyang flanked back from the bush and maneuvered through the allied jungle to the bot lane.

This would cause the enemy jungler to make an erroneous judgment.

Squatting in the bot lane, Ye Shaoyang pinged an [Initiate Attack] signal.

Forest Messenger immediately moved up and dropped an AoE crowd control.

In the next moment, countless talismans shot out from the bush like a torrential downpour—

Black talismans pierced through the enemies’ bodies instantly like sharp swords!

Red talismans scattered like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, smashing onto the two enemy players.

White talismans followed up perfectly; just as the two players, previously rooted and unable to move, regained mobility, they were sealed once again by the Goddess of Destiny’s white talismans. The flawless “seamless chain CC” left the enemies wanting to cry but lacking tears!

Following closely, golden talismans descended from the sky, instantly cleaving through both of their skulls.

The netizens simply couldn’t understand this magnificent series of operations.

All they knew was that the Goddess of Destiny’s dazzling combo reduced the enemies to a sliver of health.

Ye Shaoyang said, “Jungler, take the kills.”

The jungler player hastily activated his ultimate and charged in, one-punching the marksman’s head and casually delivering another punch to the support, securing a Double Kill.

The young man’s excited voice came through the earpiece: “Thank you, big boss, for letting me get the double kill!”

Yes, Ye Shaoyang was yielding the kills to his jungler teammate.

Because the [King of Fighters] hero heavily relies on equipment. He must have sufficient economic support to buy a few good items to dish out better damage in the late game. Meanwhile, the [Goddess of Destiny] is not item-reliant; her damage output relies more on her level. The higher the hero’s level, the higher the magic damage scaling.

Ye Shaoyang smiled and said, “No problem. Take the kills and farm up as quickly as possible. I’ll help you guard the jungle.”

Jungler player: “…”

What a god-tier teammate!

Any jungler encountering a mid-laner who yields kills and even helps defend the jungle would simply want to marry them, alright?!

At this moment, Mumu, who heard the conversation, frowned in confusion.

The content discussed in the streamer group today surfaced in her mind—

[Just an ignorant rookie who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth.]

[He really has no bottom line when it comes to hyping himself.]

[Stepping on others to climb up, even broadcasting a cat on stream.]

No matter how you looked at it, those remarks reeked of sourness.

She had previously seen the new streamer rankings on the homepage and clicked into Xiao Bai’s stream for a look, only thinking the cat was very cute at the time.

Having interacted with him personally today, she discovered that Xiao Bai was not the kind of highly utilitarian streamer who would resort to any means for popularity.

Most game streamers would frantically get kills during their streams, taking the kills to show off how awesome they were.

—But Xiao Bai just yielded the double kill to a teammate.

Because the teammate needed the economy more than he did.

Xiao Bai’s vision and open-mindedness were vastly underestimated by them.

The jungler [King of Fighters], who originally could only stand tall in the late game, managed to complete his core items around the 10-minute mark thanks to Ye Shaoyang yielding kills multiple times, and even yielding mid-lane farm. He didn’t let Ye Shaoyang down either, roaming the entire map, one-punching squishies, and rapidly helping the allied team establish an advantage.

With all 5 people working together harmoniously, they won this match very easily.

Furthermore, this feeling of everyone coordinating together to win the match was exhilarating!

The jungler player took the most kills and secured the MVP for this match, with Ye Shaoyang taking second in ratings.

He didn’t care much; second place also added quite a bit of hero power.

As the match ended, Ye Shaoyang received a verification message: “Player Mumu requests to add you as a friend.”

The Peak Tournament uses an anonymity system, hiding all player information. Even after the match ends, you can’t search for your teammates. This is the reason why the “Peak Tournament” environment is much better than ranked. The fact that Mumu added him as a friend could only mean she knew Player 5 was the streamer Xiao Bai and had found a way to look up his player ID.

Ye Shaoyang knew that his frantic push for national server badges would definitely offend a large number of streamers. Wouldn’t it be better to make one or two friends in the streamer circle rather than opposing the entire streamer community?

After all, he was going to be a pro player in the future. Offending too many people would result in his team being brutally smeared.

Thinking of this, Ye Shaoyang accepted her friend request and proactively sent a message: “Hello, Sister Mu ^_^”

Mumu: “Hello, Xiao Bai. Let’s play ranked together when we have time, I’ll be your support.”