It seems I'll have to pick up the pace.
Shifeng pondered after hearing Shiuse Qiangwei's words.
He was very familiar with the Blackwater Consortium's strength. After all, he had personally witnessed the Guild's rise in the past.
Even though Blackwater had joined God's Domain a long time ago, it had still developed into a colossus. Just from this alone, one could see how frightening the Blackwater Consortium's potential was.
Now, the Blackwater Consortium's experts had caught up to God's Domain's mainstream standards. Otherwise, the Blackwater Consortium wouldn't have been able to contend with the other Super Guilds in the Steel Empire.
Of course, if the Blackwater Consortium were to face the distant Steel Empire's Blackwater Consortium, the Ling YI Society wouldn't have much to fear. After all, he had heard from Youlan that Blackwater had only recently occupied the Steel Empire and had only just begun its expansion. Although the Guild had plenty of experts and funds, it didn't have a foundation as deep as super-first-rate Guilds and Super Guilds. Dealing with small Guilds in other kingdoms and empires wouldn't be a problem.
However, the Blackwater Consortium was still far from enough to deal with the Ling Yi Society.
However, if the Blackwater Consortium joined forces with the local Sky Burial Society, the situation would be very different.
This was especially true now that they were competing with the Sky Burial Society in a war of attrition. The Blackwater Consortium would only need to provide a large number of experts to the Sky Burial Society.
Currently, when players leveled up, they generally traveled to distant locations. Moreover, they were scattered across many different maps. Even if Shi Feng used the Seven Luminaries Ring's Space Teleportation, it would take him a lot of time to travel back and forth. The things he could do were also very limited.
"How much time did they give us to consider?" Shifeng could not help but ask.
"One day … However, I got hot-headed and rejected their offer …" Shiuse Qiangwei said softly.
"You rejected them?" Shifeng stared at Shiuse Qiangwei in disbelief. "You really rejected them?"
"Mhm." Shiuse Qiangwei nodded silently. He knew that he had caused trouble this time.
Rejecting the Blackwater Consortium's offer was tantamount to exposing the Ling YI Society to enemies from both sides.
"Hahaha! Good! You rejected them well! " Shifeng could not help but laugh when he saw Shiuse Qiangwei's guilty expression. "Although the Ling Yi Society isn't very powerful, we're not afraid of trouble.. if they want to try...."
"Guild Leader …" When Shiuse Qiangwei's words, he felt both to and and to say, to encourage him, he felt..
"Alright, it's no big deal. This isn't the first time we've clashed with superpowers," Shi Feng said, shrugging. Chuckling nonchalantly, he continued, "However, we need to be careful this time. Pay attention to their movements at all times. Also, we need to hasten our Guild members' Tier 2 Promotion Quests as much as possible. Also, we need to hasten the leveling speed of our Guild members so that they can become a part of the Guild's combat power sooner."
.. "" Mhm. I'll have the Guild distribute some top-tier equipment, Magic Scrolls, and advanced potions to the Guild's members. As for the Guild's internal members, I'll help them level up with Summer, "Shiuse Qiangwei said, nodding.
Following which, Shifeng informed Shiuse Qiangwei of the locations where he could grind levels quickly. This way, Shiuse Qiangwei could train the Guild's internal members more quickly.
Currently, the Guild's internal members were considerably strong. Their only weakness was their low levels. Once they reached a certain level, the Guild would gain another batch of expert players.
After dealing with Shiuse Qiangwei's request, Shifeng did not stop training the Guild's internal members. On the contrary, he sped up the training process and provided guidance to talented members. He even used the ten black cards he had obtained from the Secret Pavilion to train You Ziping and the others.
In this manner, Shifeng guided You Ziping and the others during the day and grinded in the Divine Shrine at night.
To other players in the World Summit, their biggest problem was their Stamina and Concentration recovery. However, Shifeng possessed Life Essence. Hence, their Stamina and Concentration recovery was extraordinary.
Only, as the Divine Shrines became more difficult, the time it took to raid them also increased. In the beginning, they only needed 30 minutes to raid the Divine Shrines. As time passed, Divine Providence's Cooldown gradually increased to two hours, then three hours …
After grinding for four consecutive days, Shifeng finally defeated the Great Lord ranked Realm Lord of the 29th Divine Shrine.
Originally, Shifeng had hoped to earn more points as they progressed. However, the Divine Shrine's rules did not apply that way. After reaching the tenth floor, players would earn the same number of points every five floors. However, the difficulty of each floor increased. By the time they reached the 29th floor, they had only accumulated 86,360 points.
They were still over 10,000 points away from obtaining the cheapest Bloodline.
Although the difference in GPs was significant, they had obtained plenty of Mana Crystal Fragments. When the High Lord and Great Lord ranked Bosses died, they would drop at least one Mana Crystal Fragment, while some would drop up to three Mana Crystal Fragments. In total, they had obtained 43 fragments.
They had also collected six Conqueror's Armor Forging Designs. They only needed three more to complete the Conqueror's Armor Forging Design.
They had also obtained over a hundred pieces of Level 50 to Level 55 weapons and equipment, ranging from Bronze to Secret-Silver rank. Although these weapons and equipment were not top-tier, they were still valuable Level 50 equipment at this stage of the game.
During this time, the White Tiger Dojo had finally paid for the 50 bottles of S-rank Nutrient Fluids and 20 million Credits. Shifeng then assigned Jian Ying to manage the 500 disciples the White Tiger Dojo had brought. These disciples either fought in Ling Yi City's Battle Arena or in Stone Forest Town's advanced combat rooms to improve their Skill Completion Rates. Normally, they would head out to the fields to level up and complete quests.
However, during this time, the number of team battles the Ling YI Society had fought in the fields had also increased. As a result, the Guild's daily expenses had also increased. Even with the income from Ling Yi City, Shiuse Qiangwei was starting to feel overwhelmed.
Compensating the Guild was only a small matter. More importantly, they had lost far too many top-tier weapons and equipment. Meanwhile, only a few teams in the Guild could acquire such weapons and equipment.
Although Shiuse Qiangwei and the others had led their teams into battle, the Level 45 top-tier weapons and equipment they had recovered were far fewer than the Guild's losses.
"Guild Leader, at this rate, I'm afraid that we'll run out of Level 45 top-tier equipment in our Guild Warehouse. Many of the neighboring large Guilds are already clearing Level 50 Team Dungeons faster than we are," Shi Feng said helplessly. "Moreover, based on our current information, Blackwater has dispatched over 4,000 experts. Including the Sky Burial Society's experts, we'll be at a disadvantage if we have to face field teams."
If Shifeng were here, they might've been able to intercept Heaven's Burial and Blackwater a few more times with the Teleportation Gate, more or less making up for the Guild's losses.
Currently, there were battles everywhere in the fields. Unless they stopped grinding or questing, however, with Tier 2 experts like herself, there was a limit to what they could do.
Moreover, Level 45 top-tier equipment was the foundation for exploring Level 50 Team Dungeons. If the Guild's Warehouse did not have enough top-tier equipment to trade for, the Guild's members would be useless. If this situation persisted, the Guild's members would lose interest in earning GCPs.
"Have A Melancholy Smile and the others focus on producing Level 45 equipment. Don't sell the Level 45 Secret-Silver and Fine-Gold Equipment to the public for now. Use it to fuel the Guild Warehouse. If worse comes to worst, borrow some Level 45 top-tier equipment from Gentle Snow," Shifeng said after giving the matter some thought.
Shi Feng had never thought that Blackwater would be so ruthless as to dispatch over 4,000 experts to deal with the Ling YI Society. Moreover, this wasn't even Blackwater's full strength. Blackwater's foundation had truly exceeded his expectations.
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