ARML CH84

That night, the official Weibo of the [Gods’ War China Region Professional League] posted a match update: “Season 10 Regular Season Round 1 · Week 1, Group B, Tianhuan Team vs NTG Team, score 2:0. The first pentakill of the S10 season has been born, please click: [Highlight Video Compilation]”

Today was Thursday, and combined with the fact that it was a Group B match, the number of spectators going to the venue and watching the live stream was actually less than 20%, utterly incomparable to the Group S matches during weekend prime time.

However, the official Weibo’s daily match broadcasts and highlight compilations had vastly more viewers. After all, it was only a 2-minute kill compilation; stopping by to take a look wouldn’t take much time.

The official Weibo of the [Gods’ War China Region Professional League] had 150 million followers. The moment this kill compilation was released, the view count instantly broke past a million, and the comments began to surge.

[Holy shit? Is this Tianhuan’s new Omega mid-laner?]

[A pentakill on [Abyssal Lord], that’s explosively cool!] [

I can’t believe it, a pentakill drops right in the first match of Group B, and it was achieved by an Omega little brother [Stunned.jpg]]

[I clicked in wanting to see how Tianhuan lost, and the result is Tianhuan won? And even got a pentakill?]

Fans who were disappointed with Tianhuan a while ago and temporarily didn’t want to watch matches couldn’t resist clicking in when they saw the 2:0 match result, only to…

Collectively have their attention captivated by Tianhuan’s new mid-laner.

A solo kill on the enemy mid-laner right at the start; roaming to the bottom lane to secure a double kill; and straight-up grabbing a pentakill during the Baron team fight!

This was the tempo of becoming famous in a single battle!

[Ahhh, I regret not watching this match! Official account, hurry up and release the full VOD replay!]

[Right now I only want to @Tianhuan Esports Club, quickly hand over little brother Lieyang’s Weibo!]

[Tianhuan Lieyang, I searched for it but couldn’t find his Weibo?]

[Could it be that he’s too shy to open a Weibo? Quickly get him to open one!]

At this moment, everyone from Tianhuan was still happily enjoying hotpot at a restaurant in Glacier City.

Tang Can’s phone suddenly rang.

The girl in charge of Tianhuan’s Weibo promotions yelled anxiously: “Sister Can, is Xiao Ye around? The league just posted a video compilation of his pentakill, and a massive wave of netizens followed the trail to the Tianhuan Club’s official Weibo. Our official Weibo is about to get blasted apart by the netizens! Everyone is demanding we hand over the Omega little brother’s Weibo, or else they’ll knife us.”

“…” Tang Can looked at Ye Shaoyang, who was seriously eating a meatball with his head down, and handed the phone to him: “It’s the girl from the PR department. Shaoyang, you take the call and communicate with her.”

Ye Shaoyang took the phone, wiped his mouth, and smiled: “Hello, what’s the matter?”

“Xiao Ye, I just looked at your personal Weibo; it’s still [Streamer Xiao Bai]. Our official Weibo is also going to post a promotional poster for Tianhuan’s first win, and we’ll be @-ing all the team members then. We can’t possibly leave you out, right?”

The girl from the PR department yelled anxiously: “The boss just called me and said you got a pentakill in your debut, which counts as becoming famous in a single battle. Now is the best time for promotion! Can you cooperate and change your name as soon as possible?”

The loud voice of the PR department girl was heard by everyone present.

Ye Shaoyang looked at the coach. Lin Feng smiled and said, “Change it. Anyway, once you brought out [Abyssal Lord], your secret identity couldn’t be kept. I guess Beimu and Jingzhe have already figured it out, but the other teams and netizens still don’t know.”

“Okay, I’ll change the name right now.” Ye Shaoyang said to the person on the phone, “However, my Weibo isn’t verified yet.”

“Don’t worry, right after you change it, we’ll directly contact Weibo customer service, submit your information, and have them give you the official verification badge as soon as possible.”

“Mm, thank you for your hard work.”

Ye Shaoyang hung up the phone, immediately logged into Weibo, and changed [Streamer Xiao Bai] to [Tianhuan Lieyang]. In his personal bio section, he wrote: Former Whale Platform streamer Xiao Bai, current Tianhuan team mid-laner player.

His avatar remained the beautiful little white cat he raised.

The PR department moved very quickly, directly connecting with official customer service to submit Ye Shaoyang’s detailed information, confirming that this Weibo indeed belonged to Ye Shaoyang himself.

Within half an hour, a shiny golden “Yellow V Verification” badge appeared next to Ye Shaoyang’s Weibo name.

Streamer Xiao Bai had taken a leave of absence from his stream for the past few days, and the netizens following him hadn’t seen him in a while. A few netizens happened to swipe to his Weibo homepage, only to find…

Are my eyes playing tricks on me?

The Weibo name had changed, and it even had an official verification badge, turning into a Tianhuan pro player?

A massive row of question marks populated the comments.

[What’s the situation???] [Did I see that wrong? This avatar is clearly Xiao Bai the cat, how did the name become Tianhuan Lieyang?] [Holy shit, brothers and sisters quickly look at the personal bio, our Xiao Bai went to play professionally.] [Fuck fuck fuck, my streamer has made it big!] [Wow, has our Xiao Bai become a pro player?] [Wait, Omega? I just went to search, it seems Tianhuan Lieyang is the Tianhuan team’s new Omega mid-laner?] [Cat confusion.jpg]

At first, not many people discovered the fact that Ye Shaoyang had changed his name.

But he had many fan group chats, and Xiao Rui was the admin for all of them. People were discussing it in the groups, and some couldn’t resist @-ing Xiao Rui: “Ruirui, what’s going on? Why did Xiao Bai’s Weibo change its name?”

Xiao Rui proudly declared: “It is exactly what you are seeing. My brother is now a pro player, Tianhuan’s new mid-laner! He even got a pentakill in his debut today! Please click: [Video Link]”

The group members completely exploded!

The result of over a dozen groups exploding simultaneously was that thousands of comments instantly flooded under Streamer Xiao Bai’s latest Weibo post.

At 10:00 PM sharp, everyone from Tianhuan finished eating hotpot and returned to the hotel.

The [Tianhuan Esports Club] official Weibo, which had been threatened with knives many times, finally squeezed out a promotional post—

“Congratulations to the Tianhuan team for securing the first victory of the S10 season, and congratulations to Lieyang for securing the first pentakill of the S10 season. Everyone did a great job! @Tianhuan_Zhuhuo @Tianhuan_Shuoyue @Tianhuan_Lieyang @Tianhuan_Fanxing @Tianhuan_Jiangshui”

Tianhuan’s Anti-fans/Haters: “???”

Hold on, pentakill?

A bunch of anti-fans hurriedly clicked into the video compilation, and then they saw the new mid-laner they had been cursing at for days slicing through the enemy like melons and vegetables, completely wiping them out in team fights.

Many die-hard fans of Tianhuan were so excited they shed tears, and some even started writing short essays to encourage everyone.

[I’ve been a fan of Tianhuan for 5 years, I knew Tianhuan wasn’t the kind of weakling to let others bully them. There must have been a reason for their loss in the pre-season. After watching the match today, the stone in my heart has finally dropped. Go S10!] [Water and Fire are incompatible, Sun Moon and Stars. Seeing this neat set of family names makes me want to laugh every time.] [The new mid-laner is not bad, where did Tianhuan discover this treasure? Little brother is so handsome!] [Where are the people who previously questioned Tianhuan signing an Omega as a mere decoration? Does your face hurt?] [There were even people saying the Omega player got signed into Tianhuan relying on nepotism. Only those with dark minds spout conspiracy theories all day. What’s wrong with Omegas? I love a vicious Omega mid-laner!] [Sisters charge, hurry up and go to the little brother’s Weibo to be the first batch of fans!] [Upstairs, take me with you! I’m going to follow the handsome little brother and become Yangyang’s number one fan!]

A crowd of people rushed to the [Tianhuan Lieyang] Weibo.

And then…

They were collectively dumbfounded.

Why the fuck does this Tianhuan Lieyang have 5 million followers!

Weren’t we promised a rookie?

They originally wanted to be his number one fan, but the result turned out to be number 5 million and 1?

The fans rushing over from the Tianhuan official Weibo were utterly bewildered. They thought they had discovered a rookie, and before clicking into the [Tianhuan Lieyang] Weibo, everyone was prepared for the rookie to have less than 100 followers.

The result was being scared silly by over 5 million followers.

The people who originally followed Streamer Xiao Bai were also frightened by this display, as a crowd from the esports circle suddenly rushed in like a passing army. Closely following that, people who paid attention to both the streamer and esports circles began popularizing the history of Streamer Xiao Bai. Some began making video compilations of Streamer Xiao Bai earning his national server badges, and some even opened a Super Topic for Ye Shaoyang.

#Tianhuan Lieyang# Super Topic Square: Welcome to follow Streamer Xiao Bai/Tianhuan Lieyang^_^

This signature symbol made the water friends feel extremely close.

And the new fans following him, upon learning of his past experiences, were all left speechless.

Classic clips such as— After winning the match against Brother Yu: I let you win ^_^ After being cursed by an amateur and then taking MVP: Is this all? And various flashy routines, such as: My [Illusionist] plays jungle; [Frost Goddess] pushing to national rank in one week; [Goddess of Destiny] mechanical tutorial; I want to get 8 national server badges.

The fans who just followed him were incredibly excited, howling and screaming in the Super Topic Square.

[This Omega has too much personality hahahaha, I let you win ^^] [I’ve fallen in love with his emoticon ^^] [Awesome awesome! A streamer with 8 national server badges. Fuck, I originally thought he was a soft and cute Omega support, but it turns out he’s a Great Demon King mid-laner!] [Xiao Bai curses people without using dirty words, I’ve learned a lot of material for cursing people from him ^_^]

#Tianhuan Lieyang Pentakill# was directly pushed onto the trending searches by the retweets and comments of a massive number of netizens.

Getting a pentakill and ascending to godhood in the very first debut match, happily snatching a trending search—this was truly a rarity among pro players. Many people believed that a new star of the S10 season was about to be born, while others couldn’t help but sigh emotionally that back in the S6 year, Chi Shuo also ascended to godhood with a pentakill, using the [Bloodstained Assassin].

Since then, Chi Shuo’s signature hero [Bloodstained Assassin] became a permanent resident of the ban list; many coaches didn’t dare let it through.

Then, would Ye Shaoyang’s [Abyssal Lord] also become a permanent resident of the ban list?

If they played Tianhuan, the ban slots wouldn’t be enough!

Ye Shaoyang opened his phone, retweeted the Tianhuan official Weibo’s message, and stated: “Thank you all for your attention. I used to be the Whale Platform streamer Xiao Bai, and was later discovered by Captain Chi and Coach Lin, signing on to become a pro player. From now on, I will continue playing games as a pro player, and work hard to improve myself ^_^”

The fans all activated their complaining modes— “8 national server badges aren’t enough, are you going to improve to 18 national server badges? ^_^”

“This mom fan is so happy! We’ll be able to watch our Xiao Bai play matches often from now on!”

“The legendary streamer who was so ugly he couldn’t show his face and could only show a cat, is actually a handsome little brother [Starstruck.jpg]”

“The facts prove: The matches really weren’t played by my cat!”

The fans who had followed Ye Shaoyang all the way from his days as a newbie streamer up to today indeed felt a lot of emotions.

Especially those old fans who started following him four months ago during his “[Abyssal Lord] pushing for national rank” phase. Clicking into the video compilation and seeing the footage of Ye Shaoyang’s handsome pentakill, they were so excited they wished they could shed a few tears.

Many people learned how to play [Abyssal Lord] from Streamer Xiao Bai. His shadow-shift swapping methods, item build logic, and mechanical tricks for solo kills and team fights truly helped many netizens improve their game sense and rank. Later on, he consecutively obtained the national server badges for the [Illusionist] and the six great Goddesses, teaching while playing ranked matches. It could be said that he was the most professional educational streamer on the Whale Platform.

Among his fans, although there were Bronze tier newbies just watching for the fun of it, the majority reached Diamond, King, and even obtained good results in the peak matches.

The power of these fans was exceptionally terrifying.

Some people didn’t pay attention to the professional league, only burying their heads in ranked play. Now that they knew Xiao Bai had become a pro player, out of affection for him, they casually went to the Tianhuan Esports official Weibo and clicked follow.

They didn’t know Tianhuan’s history, nor did they know how miserably Tianhuan had been cursed recently.

They only knew—our Xiao Bai became a player for Tianhuan, so let’s support Tianhuan while we’re at it!

Ye Shaoyang’s Weibo “Tianhuan Lieyang” gained millions of followers overnight.

The Tianhuan Esports official Weibo also benefited, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers!

Even teammates like Qu Jiang, Qin Yizhu, and Cheng Xing were casually followed by Xiao Bai’s fans.

The chain reaction caused by Ye Shaoyang’s debut pentakill fame allowed the Tianhuan team, which had recently been shrouded in dark clouds, to fight a beautiful turnaround battle. The comment section was filled with joy, many old fans returned, and everyone was full of expectations for the brand-new Tianhuan this season.

Of course, there were also some people being sarcastically cynical—

“Getting a pentakill in Group B makes you guys so cocky. When you go to Group S in the future, won’t you just get beaten into a pulp!”

“Is it because they couldn’t win in Group S that they ran to Group B to stomp noobs? Really, thanks on behalf of the Group B teams.”

These comments were quickly drowned out by the fans’ cheers and encouragement.

At the same time, in the professional league [Gods’ War Super Gods] group chat.

[Reporter Zhao]: @Tianhuan_Shuoyue, your Omega mid-laner really is Streamer Xiao Bai! [Reporter Zhao]: He’s a good seedling I discovered, I discovered him!! [Tianhuan_Shuoyue]: Thank you, Reporter Zhao, for sharing the video in the group.

Zhao Xin’an almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

This message alarmed the players who originally weren’t paying attention to this matter, and everyone began popping up.

[Old Xu]: Holy shit, pentakill! Chi Shuo, your rookie is very awesome! [Rain]: The mechanics are very flashy~ [Zhouzhou]: Watched the match, indeed played well. [I Am Very Fang]: Pull him into the group, Chi Shuo. Don’t hide him away like a treasure. [Tianhuan_Shuoyue]: If I pull him in, you guys have no objections? [Zhao Xinping]: No objections. [Old Xu]: No objections! Also, pull in the international friend from Beimu, the ethnic Chinese guy. Can he read Chinese? If not, I can translate online!

A moment later, two system messages appeared in the group— [Tianhuan_Shuoyue] invited [Xiao Bai 233] to join the group chat. [Reporter Zhao] invited [Sean] to join the group chat.

With the two mid-laners entering the group, everyone applauded to show their welcome.

Ye Shaoyang quickly changed his name to [Tianhuan Lieyang], and closely followed up by typing a line of text.

[Tianhuan Lieyang]: Hello everyone ^_^

This smiling face symbol gave people a complex feeling.

Sean also followed suit and typed.

[Beimu Sean]: Hello everyone! [Cracked.jpg]

This [Cracked] emoticon pack was Zhao Xin’an’s most commonly used one, and Sean had clearly learned it from him. However, the international friend didn’t know that emoticon packs had to be used depending on the occasion. Greeting everyone upon first meeting, why are you cracking apart?

One ^_^ brimming with a mocking tone, plus an inexplicable [Cracked]. The two newly added mid-lane players left the entire group not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

The upcoming S10 was going to be lively!